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It's verdict with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you, and the White House has got a new official song they're playing apparently when people come in the door Center, I can just see like the secret Service, like you know you're walking through. You got to hand them your phone, like welcome to the White House. We've got a great party for you tonight. How they get Hunter Biden to come over so often work in the business deals, Well,
you can't make it up. We've got problems with cocaine at the White House, and now we're being told that Congress may get some answers fill it's in on that.
Well, I got to say, so far, all we've gotten from the Biden White House is a lot of malarkey.
And cocaine.
Well there is that, you know. I don't know if Cornpop was a cocaine dealer. But let me make.
A serious point.
We are just a few days out from a bag of cocaine being found in the West Wing of the White House, and the corporate media has altogether dropped. This story doesn't exist anymore. Can you imagine how the corporate media would have lost their mind if a bag of cocaine were found in the Trump White House like we would have had every night, round the clock coverage. And by the way, the claim from the White House, oh we don't know who did it. Look, the White House
has records of every person who enters the building. They know what time that person enters the building. They know what time that person leaves at any given time of day. You know exactly who is in the building, what entrance they came in or out. Of All of that has
kept their Secret Service agents everywhere, their cameras. And yet the reason that the Biden White House wants to tell us they can't figure out whose cocaine it is is because any answer to that question is politically damaging and this administration's approaches to hell with the rule of law. It's politics, politics, all politics, all the time.
Yeah.
It brings us into the other big story, And this is one that a lot of people are paying attention to, and that is the House Oversight Committee put out a tweet and they said part of the Biden family cover up. They said, quote for those keeping score at home today. The US Attorney David Weiss confirmed the October seventh meeting happened. The whistleblower Gary Shapleie's October seventh meeting rap email says Weiss David Whis's claim quote he did not have the
authority to bring charges against Hunter Biden. Mister Shapleie's boss confirmed the accuracy of those notes in a follow up email, and David Weiss is now changing his tune about having the authority to bring charges and is quibbling about what type of authority set is he sought out instead. Now we talked about this in the last podcast. Senator Weiss was saying, well, I didn't say actually I wanted special
prosecutor setus. He tried to change it a little bit, and now Weiss is acknowledging the Gary Shapley as a whistleblower. Weiss also acknowledged that the fd DESH one zero two three form alleging that the then Vice president Joe Biden and Hunter Biden received five million dollars each as part of a bribery scheme with a Barisma executive is part of a quote ongoing investigation. So when you see this all of a sudden backpedaling from Weiss, I see it
as clearly we know what team he's on. He's on Team Biden, and this whole idea that he's some great guy that we're supposed to be excited about because Donald Trump appointed him. We know that was crap. We know the two liberal senders had to say he was okay to get the job, otherwise he would have never gotten that job. And now we're seeing his true colors come out.
You know, I got to say, the most amazing word in all of that tweet that you just read is the word each, which is that the FD ten twenty three form alleges that then VP Biden and Hunter received five million dollars each as a part of a bribery scheme with a Bearisma executive. So let's be clear. The bidens, if they're for sale, it's not cheap. It's not five million dollars to buy the bidens. It's ten. It's five for Hunter and five for the big guy. That is astonishing. And listen.
Every day.
The facts implicating Joe Biden in personal corruption and the facts implicating Merrick Garland in corruption, in politicization, and in cover up, they get worse.
So we have now.
That the two I R S whistleblowers, Gary Shapley and the other unnamed individual who all we know about him is his own self description that he's a gay Democrat with a man for a husband, and presumably that means he does not have a political acts to grind with Joe Biden, but rather is coming forward because he is dismayed about the corruption he observed. We now have essentially a third whistleblower, which is that mister Chapleigh's boss has
confirmed the accuracy of Chapley's notes in a follow up email. Now, mind you, Chaplee's boss is not willingly a whistleblower, but he inadvertently confirmed in writing what Shapley is saying. And listen, when you're dealing with allegations of criminality, you need to approach them with skepticism. And so as I'm sitting here today, I don't know for a fact that the allegations these whistleblowers have put forward are true. They may not be. I will say the indicia on the front end are
highly credible. There are no indications that these individuals had a political motive. There are no indications that they had a grudge, There are no indication that they're trying to pursue an agenda. These are career IRS employees who are stating that they were outraged by what they saw, and all of the objective indicators are confirming that claim. That being said, what needs to happen is the House of Representatives needs to bring both irs whistleblowers under oath to
testify before the House. The House needs to bring David Weiss, the US Attorney under oath to testify before the House. And the House needs to bring Merrick Garland, the US Attorney General, under oath to testify. Now, I don't know if and when that's going to happen. My understanding is Abby Lowell, who is the attorney representing Hunter. Biden is trying to do everything possible to discourage, to threaten, to
intimidate the whistleblowers, to prevent them from testifying publicly. The Biden administration is desperate to prevent David Weiss or Merrick Garland from testifying on these issues if they follow past patterns. If and when Merrick Garland testifies, and he's going to have to testify Congress Hill Stonewall, that's been the approach
of DJ and the FBI. But I will say every day, as the evidence keeps coming out and it keeps getting worse, the merits of what I said on this podcast now over a week ago, that the Department of Justice needs to appoint a special counsel to investigate Merrick Garland for lying under oath to Congress in response to my questioning in the Senate Judiciary Committee, and to obstruction of justice, engaging as a political operative to block investigation into Hunter
Biden and even more critically into Joe Biden to protect the big guy. That point that there needs to be a special counsel, you and I on Verdict called for that, and within hours of our calling for it on Verdict, Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House, likewise called for the Department of Justice to appoint a special counsel. At the end of the day, Ben the Attorney General is not above the law, and that's what he's trying to be.
He's trying to behave as if the criminal laws don't apply to him, that he can commit felonies, that they could be serious allegations of felonies by the Attorney General, and no one investigates because he's above the law. That is not the way our system works.
How it's supposed to work, and that's why I think so many people are so upset about this.
This comes on top of another big issue.
Biden's Department of Justice indicted a whistleblower, a guy who full disclosure. I think anybody that's doing business with Hunter Biden with shady and corrupt as hell in scumbags. I don't think this guy's any different than any of the other business partners that Hunter Biden had, because you have to be at the bottom of the barrel to do this type of career option and bribery and money laundering, et cetera. But you got this guy gal Leff too.
Maybe he was a smart enough guy to say, Hey, I'm going to keep intel on the Bidens if they ever crossed me, they ever try to screw me over uh. This This reminds me a lot center of the the idea that maybe the FBI has tapes where there were conversations between Joe Biden and Hunter Biden that were kept by someone else they were doing deals with that dealt with maybe some of those payments coming in.
But Gallaloff is a guy who is.
Now under indictment from Biden's d o J after he put out a video. And this is a guy that's now been charged with Faarah violations. He worked with CEF E, the same company that Hunter Biden James Biden partnered with, and the President played golf with him and had multiple meetings at the White House with them, allowed them to
come in the White House countless times. And this is the company that bankrolled millions of dollars of Biden's five million here, the other five million here, and countless other paychecks in between. They've now charged this guy, doctor Galoff, for failing to register as a foreign agent of CEFE Energy Company, the same company for which Hunter Biden worked for and made even more money than this doctor. And yet now luff a guy who's a fugitive, a guy
that maybe should be charged with crimes. I don't think he's probably a good guy at all, But the fact that he gets charged from Biden's to doj and they've never charged Hunter Biden or James Biden with the same damn crime that they're accusing this guy of committing with the same exact company, working in the same area with the Bidens.
How angry are you over that?
Well?
I am angry about the overall pattern of double standards and corruption both from President Joe Biden and his family and also the cover up from the DJ and the FB with regard to this particular individual, I think we need to be very careful and listen on this podcast, we have tried to be very measured even with the irs whistleblowers who the objective indissia are. They suggest that they have a high level of credibility, but I've tried to be clear and to say I don't know if
they're telling the truth. They might not be. We need to investigate further with this individual, Guluft, who is an Israeli professor, a dual Israeli American citizen. I think we need to look at what he's alleging, but I also think we need to be very very cautious with his
testimony the indictment. So he's been indicted in a comprehensive indictment that describes Guluft as operating as an agent at best of China and at worst, someone who is actively helping China develop assets in the United States, and it in particular alleges that he recruited Bill Clinton's CIA director James Woolsey to put his name on articles written by Luft which portrayed China favorably, and that he assisted Woolsey with efforts to get placed in the Biden administration in
a political role, either as Secretary of DHS or Secretary of Defense or Director of National Intelligence. Luft also discussed, according to the indictment, with the Chinese, how to get Woolsey quote educated in our narrative so the other side, the USA doesn't shape his views. Those are serious allegations. I don't know if they're true. I don't know what evidence the Department of Justice has.
And it is.
True that this indictment happened after Luft created an eighteen minute video alleging corruption from Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. So it is conceivable that this indictment is retaliation for those allegations. That being said, for that to be so, the government would also have to fabricate enormous amounts of false emails and calls and texts and bank statements to make this case against Loft. And so I want to caution.
I want to caution conservatives. I want to caution people who care about integrity in our government that you may want to believe Luff's allegations, but recognize that it seems just about everyone Hunter Biden did business with was a crook.
Well, and that's what we were talking about a moment ago and even before the show, is the fact that, hey, this guy may be just as shady as Hunter Biden, and the federal government knew it, and they didn't charge him with these crimes until after he spoke out, and then he speaks out, all right, now we're coming after you. But the blaring double standard with Hunter Biden is the
part that I think so many Americans are furious about it. So, Okay, this guy does it, and maybe he should have been charged three, four, five years ago with these crimes that they just charge him with now.
But it's the fact the timing of it.
Centers looks like it's just straight up trying to silence anyone that comes out and says anything about what you've done. And if he did commit these crimes four or five, six, seven years ago, why didn't they charge him earlier than after he puts out his eighteen minute video also exposing his friends the Bidens.
Well, look, maybe that's right. It's also possible he put out the eighteen minute video because he knew he was about to get indicted and was trying to create a defense for himself. And so when someone is facing a serious indictment, you have to be cautious about their activity.
Now that being said, it is striking that right at the heart of the charges against this individual is the fact that he had ongoing business relationships with CFC, the Chinese company that is alleged to have been bribing and paying off Hunter Biden and Joe Biden. And so at some level if mister Lufto, I don't know, I have no interactions with him at all, So I don't know if he's a crook or not. But if he was involved in crooked deals with CFC, as the indictment ledges,
that raises a very significant question. Well, gosh, who else was engaged in business deals with this same Chinese company? And if luff Go was corrupt, how much more so for the millions of dollars that flowed to Hunter Biden and Joe Biden and the extended Biden family. And so what I would say, I'm going to give a word of caution, don't get too invested in the allegations of
this one individual, because they need to be investigated. We don't know if they're true, but they are part of the broader mosaic and when overlapped with the allegations from whistleblower after whistleblower after whistleblower, many of whom are career government employees with no political acts to grind. The cumulative mountain of evidence against Joe Biden and the entire family is growing by the day.
Yeah.
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ongoing investigation. According to House Oversight Committee Republicans who reviewed the bureau's FD one zero two three form, an FBI informant claims to possess two pieces of evidence that show that President Joe Biden and Hunter Biden received five million each after Joe Biden threatened to withhold a to Ukraine until a prosecutor was fired.
A source familiar.
With the FBI's informant document confirmed that Hunter and Joe Biden allegedly coerced the Barsma executive into paying them the ten million in bribes. Now, the FBI in format also claims the but if this individual kept these seventeen audio recordings of his conversations with Hunter and Joe Biden as an insurance policy, Chuck Grassley. We played that audio a couple of shows ago where he talked about that from
the four of the Senate. Now you put all that together with now the DOJ and them and refuting with the irs. Whistleblowers are saying, Lindsey Graham, you're colleague going to send it. He put it this way when he was asked, hey, do you trust the DOJY now seeing these two stories come together, here's what he had to say.
So this is an important moment here. Here's what I can tell you without any doubt when it comes to the Department of Justice. I don't trust them. They got to come forward under oath and testify. So here's what the whistleblower has said. The group of whistleblowers that Hunter Biden got the benefit of the doubt, unlike anybody they've ever seen, and they've been there for decades that every time there was a question, it wound up being in
Hunter Biden's favor. They claimed that mister Weiss, the US attorney from Delaware, sought special council status and was denied that status, and that he wanted to bring charges in DC in California but he was told no.
So what did I do?
I wrote mister Weiss and said, what's the deal here? Did you ask for special council status? He told me in the letter he had a discussion about it, but he was sure that he could get it if he needed it, And he never really answered the question. The second thing that he said in the letter back to me was he never went to d C or California for more serious charges. He was never rebuffed by those jurisdictions. But here's the big one. I asked him about the
ten twenty three Remember the ten twenty three report. If it had not been for Center Brassley, we would never known that there was an accusation that Hunter and Joe Biden both were involved in a bribery scandal involving Barisma, the giant gas company in Ukraine.
When ten twenty.
Three investigative report was found by Senator Grassley, it was redacted. He got through redactions lifted and we now know a credible source for the FBI, literally on their payroll, claims that there were conversations up to fifteen between hundred and Joe Biden regarding a gas company official in the Ukraine.
Here's what mister Wise said.
I cannot tell you about that accusation because it's part of a criminal investigation. That's one of two things that they're still looking at Hunter Biden for additional charges. What I don't believe that they don't want to tell me what happened to the ten twenty three investigation. And I can tell your audience you're all going to know what happened. Did they sweep it under the rug that they investigate
and find out it was fraudulent. I want to know what happened to the accusations regarding Hunter Biden, Joe Biden taking bribes in Ukraine.
I did not get that answer in this letter.
I'm not going to stop until I found out to find out how that accusation were disposed of.
Senator you hear Lindsay there.
This infuriates me the fact that we can't even get now a straight story from David Weiss. And are they still investigating the president's son or could they have thought, hey, we're going to stop it. We'll give them these couple of charges we know about. The plea deal go through and we're done. And now are they having to backtrack because all this is coming out.
Well, I don't believe they're still investigating Hunter Biden. I think they're trying to sweep it all under the rug. I think this is a sweetheart deal. This is designed to make all of the allegations go away. That's why Democrats in the corporate media repeatedly said when the Plea deal was announced, this resolves everything. Everything's done. We're finished with this. Oh and by the way, Hunter spends no jail time and nothing implicates Joe Biden at all. That's
what this is designed to do. I don't think it's going to succeed. But listen that clip from Hannity last night where Lindsey said, I mean it is significant that Lindsay and Lindsay is a friend, we have served together, we're on judiciary together, Lindsay is the ranking member. He is the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee. It's a big deal for the ranking member of Judiciary to say I don't trust the Department of Justice. That has
not happened many times in our nation's history. Usually the Department of Justice has enough credibility that the minority party trusts the Department of Justice at least to some extent.
That is an incredible commentary on just how politicized the Biden Department of Justice is and and Lindsay is right also in what he says that David Weiss inadvertently confirms where when he was asked about the FD ten twenty three alleging bribery from that Joe Biden and Hunter Biden both received bribe from senior executives at Barisma, he said, I can't answer because it's part of an ongoing criminal investigation.
Now that is implicitly a confirmation. Now it's a confirmation that I suspect is less than fully honest because they're not, I believe, actively investigating it anymore. They may never have investigated it, but I don't think they're actively investigating it anymore. And it's an example of how the Biden DOJ and the Biden FBI use the words active investigation as a shield to prevent any oversight into their misconduct, which is, if you ask them, what evidence do you have of
criminal conduct? They say active investigation. If you asked him, what did you do to investigate that evidence? They say active investigation? If you ask him, what's the status? Are you going to indict any when they say active investigation? And you know what they don't do. They don't actually follow through and investigate and prosecute the massive evidence of actual corruption by the President of the United States Joe Biden and even more so Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland.
The evidence keeps suggesting is actively obstructing that investigation.
Jake Tapper a great example, a guy I had to work with against my will for seven years as I was a commentator fighting the good fight over at CNN. He's now saying that he quote insists that he won't shy away from covering the Hunter Biden scandal after avoiding the Hunter Biden laptop scandal in twenty twenty. Now, he was a guy that has a lot of weight in the DC office. I know this because I was working there at the time and he made it clear early on, you're not to talk about Hunter Biden.
You're not to talk about the laptop.
We had directives come down from CNN from the very top telling us we were not to mention the story about the laptop, anything on the laptop or Hunter Biden when we were there. That's part of the reason why
I left. But Jake Tapper is now acting like he's mister journalist playing journalists now, saying during an interview on a podcast, he was asked about the recent plea agreement with President Biden's son that he reached the DOJ over his tax crimes, and critics have panned this plea obviously a sweetheart deal, particularly in the wake of the explosive IRS whistle or allegations that prosecutors were blocked from bringing heavier charges and investigators were told not to look into
potential financial ties directly between Hunter Biden and his father, the President, Joe Biden. His response, I think we cover it. We have been covering it, and we need to cover it. Then he goes on to give the liberal media's line. Look, I mean Hunter Biden is who he is. It's pretty clear who he is. Tapper continued in addition to being an addict. Right, so there's the alibi that every all you should feel bad for me. He's an addict, he's a guy who ethically has there have been questions raised
about his behavior, and I think it's worth covering. Well, then why the hell didn't he cover the actual laptop which it was not hard to verify it was authentic. If he actually meant this, then he would have done his damn job for years when that was going on.
You have a long history with Jake Tapper? So do I I know Jake well. Jake and I met twenty four years ago in nineteen ninety nine when I was a young staffer working on the George W. Bush campaign. I was domestic policy advisor on the campaign and Jake Tapper was a CUB reporter, a young young reporter. He was on the campaign plane, he was on the road covering the campaign, and so I met him then. Long before he worked at CNN, he worked at salon, the left wing website.
Uh.
He has since gone to CNN Rosen Risen to become their their their their top political reporter and their their Sunday show anchor. And look, I have conflicting feelings on Jake Tapper because I think Jake Tapper, unlike many in the media, actually has some tiny inkling, some little voice buried deep in his soul that wants to be a real journalist. There were times when when he actually did try to be a real journalist. I used to go
on CNN all the time. I used to go on CNN when I started in the Senate, I was on the CNN once a week, uh, and it used to be possible to get Look, they were always hostile lefties, but it used to be possible to get a reasonable interview from CNN even while they're being hostile. What happened to Jake Tapper is Donald Trump broke him. He's emblematic, and we've talked a lot on this podcast about how
Trump broke the media across the board. They hate Trump so much that they abandoned their objective of being journalists. There is no one for whom this is more true than Jake Tapper, and I actually, in significant ways feel sorry for Jake because some of these other hacks have never been journalists. They've always been political hacks, and so they don't feel any guilt about it. I actually believe there's a tiny still voice in Jake that is crying
out for the journalist he used to be. That he's just given given away because CNN decided to be rabidly partisan in an anti Trump hate station, and he saluted, put on his captain's hat and said, let's go. So what's happening now? Now he's saying on this podcast this week that well, we CNN should cover the allegations of criminality concerning Hunter Biden. Now, mind you, he didn't say
cover the allegations concerning Joe Biden. So he's still trying to cabinet to the son Hunter, who he quickly notes is an addict. And gosh, isn't that a shame? But let's be clear. What Tapper's behavior were was in October of twenty twenty, which is when the Hunter Biden laptop story broke. Do you know in the entire month how many times Jake Tapper mentioned Hunter Biden's laptop on either of his two CNN programs?
Yeah, he had too, by the way, And I know this answer, Sinater, because I was there. I'm gonna well, I'm gonna guess I'm pretty sure it's zero times.
Because they refused to cover the story.
Zero, nada, nyit nada kaka, Sorry, I read out a language, and so I just went back to what they were really doing. And by the way, part of the reason they wouldn't cover it is because, well, it was the month before presidential election, and covering it might actually hurt Joe Biden help Donald Trump. And to be clear, CNN is not a news organization. It is a political organization, and so they don't want to do anything to harm
their political objectives. But it's also worth noting that they and Big Tech were responding to the FBI, who was actively asking Big Tech suppress the Hunter Biden story because they had claimed they had pre warned Big Tech that the Russians would engage in a hack and leak operation. Now here's the amazing thing. The FBI had in its physical possession Hunter Biden's laptop since December of twenty nineteen,
so a year earlier. So they knew, or they should have known, for a fact, that it was real, that it was authentic, that it was not a Russian counter fit laptop. But the partisans at the FBI worked with the partisans at Big Tech, worked with the partisans at the corporate media to cover up the story, and so as we sit here today, I gotta say it is significant. We talked about this a week or two ago on the pod. CBS is the first major corporate media outlet
to begin covering these allegations. CBS had Gary Shapley, one of the two IRS whistleblowers, for a two minute interview. Now, yeah, two minutes is not saturation coverage, but it's not nothing. They actually acknowledged it existed, and we talked about how, wow, they're cracks in the facade. Jake Tapper saying CNN ought to cover this. That's another crack in the facade. That is significant if you now, let's see if Jake Tapper and CNN actually do cover it, as compared to telling
a podcast host, yeah, we ought to actually cover news. Boy, that it's amazing that that is newsworthy someone who claims to be a journalist saying they should cover breaking news about multiple whistleblowers coming forth with evidence of corruption by the President of the United States and the Attorney General of the United States. And by the way, that's not just about the sun who, as Tapper says, is an addict. It is about the highest level of government speak truth
to power, which the corporate media never does. But all that being said, CBS is starting to crack. Now, CNN is starting to crack. That's significant, And as the evidence grows, we're going to see more of this.
Yeah, you're absolutely right.
It's going to be interesting to see how it continues to how they fall over themselves to not cover these types of things, the media, especially going to this presidential election year.
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It's amazing how this didn't make headlines and being sarcastic obviously, but now as we get closer to a presidential election year, we're being told, apparently that the White House is all on board now with this idea of filling in parts of the border wall, filling in the gaps, the same border wall that Biden canceled, calling it Trump's wall, and now we're being told that, well, Biden saying, Okay, maybe we should fill in those gaps because illegal immigration is so out of control.
This is just hypocrisy.
One oh one, Well, you're exactly right. And we now have media reports that say the Department of Homeland Security is halfway through filling in one hundred and twenty nine gaps,
so a lot of gaps in border wall projects. After Joe Biden had abruptly halted the remaining three hundred miles of Trump era wall construction within days of taking office in January twenty twenty one, dozens of gaps have been filled across Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas, where more than four hundred and fifty miles of eighteen foot and thirty foot slatted steel wall was installed by Trump. But despite such efforts, much of the two thousand mile border
is still open. Biden promised in an interview with NPR in August of twenty twenty that quote, there will not be another foot of wall constructed on my administration.
Now.
That promise he has broken, but he's broken it quietly.
You know.
There was not a major announcement. There wasn't a White House speech. There wasn't a speech from the administration saying we were wrong. Trump was right, the Republicans were right, we need to build a wall. None of that. They're just quietly doing that. And here's some border stats from May of twenty twenty three, CBP reported two hundred and four thousand, five hundred and sixty one alien encounters along the southwest border just in May of twenty twenty three.
That's a thirteen percent increase from May a year ago. Thirty five three hundred and seventeen aliens were encountered at ports of entry. That's a seventeen seventeen percent of the total encounters in May. This is a twenty percent increase from just a month ago in April of twenty twenty three, and it is a massive thirty four percent increase from
January of twenty twenty three. So far in fiscal year twenty twenty three, CBP has arrested twenty thousand, nine hundred and twenty three aliens with criminal conviction, So these are aliens that have different criminal convictions, including four hundred and forty two known gang members. One hundred and thirty four
of those were MS thirteen members. And in just the first eight months of the fiscal year, one hundred and twenty five people whose names appear on the terrorist watch list were stopped trying to cross our southern border, surpassing the last fiscal years in tighter tire total of ninety eight, So one hundred and twenty five this year, ninety eight last year, and back when Republicans were in charge, those
numbers were something like four and six. They were in the single digits as compared to hundreds of terrorists crossing the border illegally and coming here, presumably to threaten the lives and security of Americans.
Wait, when you hear this happen, and the fact that the White House doesn't publicize it, you don't have the borders are going down there? The Vice President of the United States of America.
Wait, do we how the borders are? Yeah? Who would that be?
Yeah?
Right, that woman who's never really seen the border. Yes, she's the one that's in charge of the border.
So I have a serious question. Sure, is Kamala Harris actually in witness protection? Because I have to admit, Look, look, I work in politics. My job is to go to the US capital work in the Senate. Okay, I was going to say, I can't recall the last time I saw Kamala. That's not true. I last saw her when India's Prime Minister Mody spoke a couple of weeks ago on the floor of the House and I was chatting with Kamala as we walked over, because she was sitting
there for that. But other than sitting there where her entire job was to sit there and smile and try to avoid cackling uncontrollably. Other than that, I genuinely cannot remember a single damn thing she's done in the last three months. Can you seriously no, I can't.
I mean, it's it's the weirdest dynamic at the White House. You have a president that keeps a schedule maybe noon before, and then you have a vice president that I don't even think the White House wants to use her at this point.
Look, I actually wonder if she's living as an accountant in Nebraska under an assumed name, because they've they've told her that please stay away from TV cameras because you're really hurting the administration. Anytime you open your mouth.
Well, the cackle does kill it. Right, Let's let's just be clear about that. You look at it, this White House and they're moving into this presidential.
By the way, I got another question, Ben, I'm ready, has anyone ever taken kamalus cackle and Hillary Clinton's cackle and like overlaid them and set them to music. You can do something with that, Like if you combine the two like this sort of overlapping cackles, it would be really something.
Somebody could do that as a beat and probably get it to number one with the right lyrics, right just because people be like, Yeah, I know those two people. I can put those two together this White House center. If they're gonna do this right before the election, what does that tell us about what else they may change going into the presidential I mean, if they're willing to start building the border wall but not tell you about it. And the media, by the way, is not covering this
at all. And I think that's something else that should really frustrate people, is the fact that the media this is a big story. This is one they should be covering because, as you mentioned the very beginning, it's a flip flop. It's a huge policy flip flop from Joe Biden who said there won't be another inch of this border wall that's gonna be built. Now he's actually building it.
Well, we ought to have an honest conversation. Is a wall a good idea or a bad idea?
Now?
I can tell you when you talk to border patrol agents and I spend a lot of time on the southern border. I have spoken with hundreds and hundreds of border patrol agents. Every single one I've asked, and it has been large, large numbers over more than a decade have said, of course, we need a ball now. A wall is not a magic wand it's not a panacea.
Doesn't fix everything. And part of the reason a wall doesn't fix everything is there's an old adage, if you build a ten foot wall, someone will come with an eleven foot ladder, and that's actually right. That they see where the wall is constructed, that people bring ladders, they find ways to get over it. The reason a wall is beneficial is that what is critical if you're trying to stop illegal immigration is time between detection and apprehension.
That when you see someone crossing, you want to get boots on the ground, you want to get border patrol agents there to stop them, apprehend them and deport them. And what a wall does is slows it down. And it's particularly in important in urban environments, in places where when they cross the border they can disappear into a
populated area quickly. There's some areas, for example, in very rural and rugged areas of West Texas, where a wall doesn't do much good where it's such rough terrain that when you cross the border you've got miles and miles of desert, and so a wall is not really significantly slowing you down from the natural terrain barriers. But when you're crossing in an urban area where you've got a few hundred yards and you're suddenly in the middle of a city in Texas and can disappear, a wall is
really important to slow you down. But a wall alone doesn't fix the problem because it takes number one, border patrol agents on the ground to apprehend people, but number two, it takes a president and administration willing to deport them. And the single biggest cause of our open border crisis
is Joe Biden refuses to follow the law and deport people. Instead, he lets them go, He follows catch and release, and until he changes that, he can build all the wall he wants, it's not going to fix the problem.
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back to this. It's going to brief Congress obviously on this cocaine at the White House over under that we get any real answers from them, or do you think this has unfortunately now lost cause like the cover up's been done. Will never know who the person is that brought this cocaine into the White House publicly. I think they already know privately who it is. But will we ever know if this is a staff member or a high ranking official we'll have Well that we ever get that answer.
Well, I don't know. I think if we ever get it, it will be dependent on the House of Representatives to press for answers on this and to vigorously question the Secret Service. The Senate's not going to do that because Senate Democrats don't care they don't care. If if the President of the United States, they don't care, if the President's son, they don't care. If the entire senior staff are actively on drugs. How do I know they don't care because they won't hold a hearing on it, they won't ask.
A question about it.
It does doesn't matter to them. It's all politics. So it's got to be the House that presses for accountability. And the question is is the Secret Service going to stonewall the same way the Biden Department of Justice and the Biden FBI. Has I suspect the answer is yes, But I hope you know, you know, some small part of me is an idealist that hopes there's someone in the federal government willing to actually honorably serve and not just be a political hack. And so maybe the Secret
Service will do the right thing. But what I suspect is the Biden administration has made the decision. We don't want to know the answer that they are. They are Jack Nicholson and a few good men. You can't handle
the truth. That's their view is importantly, Joe Biden can't handle the truth because the truth is it is going to be someone on the Biden administration staff, possibly the senior staff who's using drugs, and you know, the Biden administration sent out a press spokesperson this week to say, we drug test our employees. We take drug policies very seriously, and there will be consequences if we find out who did this.
I got to.
Say, based on their pattern of stonewelling and cover up, I find that very very hard to believe. But I also find it hard to believe they cannot figure out who did this. So if they don't figure it out, it's because they don't want to know.
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