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It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you, and we've got a lot to get you updated on, including new info on the Biden crime family of money flowing directly yet again to the President of the United States of America. Also, Senator Ted Cruz's book Unwoke is coming out. You're gonna want to get your hands on it. We're gonna chat about that. And the FBI Director Ray had new shocking testimony about an open southern border and
what it means when it comes to terrorism. But first, Senator, let's talk about this new intel. Joe Biden received forty thousand dollars in what James Comer is calling laundered China money from the account of his brother James Biden and his sister in law, Sarah Biden, in the form of another personal check directly tying the Biden crime family businesses to the President of the United States of America. I'm not surprised by this. I'm glad we're starting to see
the money flowing. We all knew it was there, and now we have proof.
Well, we're about to see the Biden White House defense shift yet again. Remember the story is shifted repeatedly. At first, Joe Biden said he'd never talked to his son Hunter about any of his business deals. Then after that was proven to be a blatant lie, he said he wasn't
involved in any of the deals. Then after that was demonstrated to be false, much of the Democrat talking point shifted to Okay, Hunter as crooked as the day is long, but there's no direct evidence of Joe's involvement in the corruption. Now that is proving more and more untenable, as we're seeing a paper trail of cash flowing to Joe Biden, and with everything else going on, it's easy to forget
about this story. But at the end of the day, having a president of the United States whose family had a family business of making millions of dollars selling favors from Joe Biden, that remains a serious issue of corruption, and I think the evidence keeps getting worse.
Yeah, James Comer put together a basically a video that explained this money trail, and it's important for people to hear it because as we've had James on the show for a two part series, he does an excellent job of checking and information and then connecting the dots. He put this out to the House Oversight Committee, and I want people to hear what he had to say.
Remember when Joe Biden told the American people that his son didn't make any money in China.
My son has not made money in terms of this thing about what are you talking about China?
Well, not only did he lie about his son Hunter making money in China, but it also turns out that forty thousand dollars in laundered China money landed in Joe Biden's bank account in the form of a personal check, and the Oversight Committee has it. Here's how Joe Biden benefited from his family shady deal with CEFC, a Chinese
communist party link company. It all began with a shakedown in the summer of twenty seventeen, when Hunter Biden sent a message to his CEFC associate demanding a ten million dollar capital payment. As Hunter Biden extorted this associate, Hunter claimed he was sitting with his father and that the Biden network would turn on his associate if he didn't pony up the money.
The extortion scheme worked.
Days later, five million dollars flowed in from a Chinese affiliate of CEFC. Over the following three weeks, Biden family members made a series of complicated financial transactions to hide the source of the China money. Here's how that happened. First, Northern International Capital, a Chinese company associated with CEFC, wired five million dollars to Hudson West three, a joint venture
established by Hunter byd and a CEFC associate. Then Hudson West III sent four hundred thousand dollars to an entity owned and controlled by Hunter Biden. Next, Hunter Biden wired one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to Lion Hall Group, a company owned by James and Sarah Biden. Sarah Biden then withdrew fifty thousand dollars in cash from Lion Hall Group. Later the same day, she deposited it into her and
James Biden's personal checking account. A few days later, Sarah Biden cut a check to Joe Biden for forty thousand dollars. The memo line of the check said loan repayment. Like the payment to Joe from AmeriCorps funds, it's certainly plausible that this payment were James and Sarah used funds from China,
was indeed a loan payment to Joe. But even if this forty thousand dollars check was a loan repayment from James Biden, it still shows how Joe benefited from his family cashing in on his name with money from China. No less, without his family peddling his name and his son threatening a CEFC associate with consequences that he said Joe Biden knew about, James wouldn't have had the money to write the forty thousand dollars check to his brother Joe.
It's also worth remembering that Biden family efforts to secure millions from this Chinese company began when Joe Biden was still vice president. In taking funds sourced to a CCP link company that wanted to advance China's interest, Joe Biden exposed himself to future blackmail and put America's interests behind his own desire for money. The House Oversight Committee will continue to follow the money and hold President Biden accountable for his corruption.
You hear him lay that out, and he does it with it with such just here are the facts, here are the dots, and why on earth did the Biden crime family knowingly and willingly do business with Chinese Communist Party tied entities is one of the best aspects of what he just put together there, because no one in their right mind that was putting America first would open themselves up to even the possibility of being compromised by
the Communists in China. And yet that's exactly who the Bidens would seek out to do business with.
Look, every step of that chain of money stinks. He starts with a five million dollar wire from a Chinese company to a Hunter Biden China joint venture. Five million dollars that came on August eighth of twenty seventeen. Now, listen, do you know anyone who gets five million dollars from Chinese Compani's wired to them? That's bizarre. Hunter Biden provides no services. He doesn't have talent. When is the last time someone says, I got five million dollars, I need
me a crackhead, let me give it to him. No, the reason the five million dollars was sent. The only value Hunter has is favors from Daddy. And it's important to note that this payment came immediately after the whatsapped threatening text where Hunter said I'm sitting here next to my father, where it was explicitly tied. That's direct evidence of Joe Biden's involvement. But from there, so the five
million dollar wire went on August eighth, twenty seventeen. The next wire, the four hundred thousand dollars wire, went on August eighth of twenty seventeen. So same day five million comes in from China, four hundred thousand gets wired to a Hunter Biden entity, and then from there one hundred and fifty thousand gets wired to James and Sarah Biden to an entity they control. What date is that August fourteenth, So six days later, one hundred and fifty thousand on
August twenty eighth, what does Sarah do? She takes out fifty thousand dollars in cash. Ben, have you ever withdrawn fifty thousand dollars in cash? I haven't.
No.
Never in my life have I've withdrawn fifty thousand in.
Cash like I've pulled dollars. You're trying to hide where that money is going.
I pulled out one thousand dollars before, but fifty grand, like, give me the cash. And then what does she do? She takes out fifty grand on August twenty eighth. She deposited in her personal checking account, and then on September third, she writes a forty thousand dollars check to Joseph Robinette
Biden Junior, now the President of the United States. Like that, every step of that stinks, And all of the Biden White House defenders want you to ignore the money trail from communist China and the question you ought to ask, what possibly could Hunter Biden do that was worth five million dollars And the only answer is provide favors from Daddy, because he did not have the capacity to provide that much value to anyone otherwise.
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President of the United States of America. Hunter Biden has now come out whining about the media attention, and he says, disinformation against his daddy.
I'll let you take it from there.
Well, Hunter Biden wrote an op ed in USA Today where he said he is unhappy with denigrating media attention and the investigation into Joe Biden's involvement in his family's business. And you know, I understand you're unhappy about it. You
ought to be unhappy about it. You ought to be even more unhappy about the corruption that you were intimately involved in, that your uncle was intimately involved in, that that nine or twelve we don't even know how many, but a bunch of Biden family members that think how strange this is. Listen, you know you have every member of your family getting paid thousands or millions of dollars from Chinese communists, from Russian oligarchs, from Ukrainian oligarchs. Like
it stinks to high heaven. And so I don't doubt that Hunter is unhappy with the media attention. There is an easy examp, an easy solution to that, which is, don't engage in in corrupt bribery schemes with your father.
Yeah, and the fact that they gave him this space to write this op ed to me was also laughable. They're like, oh, sure, come on out here. Tell us how you and your father have been victimized by your own corruption and the tens of millions of dollars have gone into your bank accounts.
Look, this is a ton of money. We also have another story that broke. The New York Times reported quote President Biden Center received up to eighty two thousand pages of private emails while serving as Barack Obama's vice president, The National Archives disclosed late Monday as part of a lawsuit brought by a conservative organization. It is unclear what topics are covered in most of the emails, or who
else has looped in on the messages. However, at least ten missives were sent between May eighteenth and June fifteenth, twenty sixteen, and c seed first son Hunter Biden, with one on May twenty sixth, notifying Hunter of a scheduled phone call the next day between the Vice president that would be Daddy Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. The first son's abandoned laptop shows.
You look at that, and then you add it with these eighty two thousand pages of Biden emails you and you think about how much intel we now have about what they were doing behind the scenes. How can anyone at this point say that this was not pay to play straight up buy influence and pedal influence with the United States government for favors. You're buying favors from the government with Biden holding significant offices.
And this is an important point Ben nobody had paused did an alternative theory of what Hunter Biden had that was valuable enough to be worth tens of millions of dollars. Hunter Biden doesn't have skills. It's not like he's an inventor.
It's not like he you know, I mean, he is unfortunately a lawyer with little to no legal experience, with no experience in oil and gas, no experience in global politics, no experience in China, no experience in Ukraine, no experience in Russia, and with serious and persistent substance abuse problems. There is no other human being on planet Earth that fits that profile that gets paid even one million dollars,
much less tens and tens of millions of dollars. The only possible thing Hunter Biden had to sell is favors from Daddy. And to be clear, his text message made very clear that's what he was selling. If you don't pay me the money, my father is going to exact retribution on you.
Let's talk about these eighty two thousand pages of Biden emails. And President Biden senter received up to eighty two thousand pages worth of private emails was serving as Barack Obama's vice president. The na's archives that disclosed us earlier this week as part of this lawsuit that.
You mentioned a moment ago.
But there are multiple aliases now that this president used. Why would a president have this many burner email accounts and yet send such important information to his son, to his brother, to family members from all of these email addresses. It doesn't make sense unless you're trying to give out information to them hoping that no one would have ever been able to track this down or know you even had these email accounts, so that they wouldn't even know what to ask for.
Look, it is very weird that there are to pull email addresses that Joe Biden used that were fake, that were burner email addresses, and no one has had a good explanation for why you have so many email addresses. So, for example, we've mentioned Robinware four five six at gmail dot com. We've mentioned Jrbware at gmail dot com, and we've mentioned Robert dot l dot Peters at PCI gov.
But in addition to that, there's been reporting that Joe Biden also used an email address axa uk s at at T dot BlackBerry dot net and sixty seven Stingray at GMx dot com. And beyond that that, I have also heard reports, this is not confirmed, that he may have used champ four at at T dot BlackBerry dot net. Now let's talk about the OX one. That is an unusual an unusual phrase, Well, what is it? What is ox?
Ox is the mascot of Archmere Academy, which is the private Roman Catholic college preparatory school in Delaware that Joe Biden attended and Hunter Biden attended, and the OX alias got an email on May tenth, twenty eleven, from his niece, Cassie Owens, who was serving as a special assistance for the US China Strategic and Economic Dialogue at the Treasury Department. Just days before she left Treasury, Owens emailed, quote Uncle
Joe at aux at BlackBerry dot net. And here's the text of the email, quote, Uncle Joe just got home from work and couldn't wait to send you an email. Today was truly a memorable day for me. I kept thinking about Mom. Mom. Can you imagine her seeing us huddled up backstage together? She would have loved it. It chokes me up. I have so much to learn. Sitting back there with you was very, very humbly. I was just blown away. You always make time to talk to
me always, but today was really incredible. I still can't believe you took the time to discuss the issues with you. Joe Biden then forwarded that email to Hunter Biden, to Bo Biden, and to Valerie Biden Owens, who's Joe Biden's sister. Now, look, it is weird, Ben for the sitting vice president of the United States to have what are we up to? Five six fake and bogus email addresses? Why do you have fake and bogus email addresses? Why do you have but burner phones?
Well?
I gotta ask you this question because I saw on TV today there was some commentator that said, well, look, you don't understand when you're a government official, if you're an elected official, you have many have at least a half dozen email accounts.
I don't know anyone in formal operating procedure. Nope, that that is a very weird thing. I literally do not know anyone in politics or government who has anything like that. You know, one of the addresses he used, and this is report of the New York Post, Joe Biden wrote to his son Hunter and others close to him using the pseudonym Peter Henderson, who is Peter Henderson, a fictional Soviet Union era spy and several Tom Clancy novels who
infiltrated the US government. Those messages are contained on Hunter's laptop and show the then Vice president using that name in October twenty sixteenth, while forwarding a YouTube video to his son Hunter, his brother Jim, his daughter in La Halle, as well as his sister and political strategist Valerie Biden owens,
Now that is that's weird. Look, most people in government, you'll have an official email, and you'll typically have a personal email, and sometimes, if you're around long enough, maybe you'll replace one personal email with a second personal email. That much is not weird. But Joe Biden appears to have been using four or five six emails, all at the same time, and all of them on the face of it are designed to conceal what he was communicating and what he was saying.
I want to move to another issue center, and it's one that deals with energy independence. It also deals with what we're witnessing now in Iran. The amount of money that Iran is making right now from oil is upwards that I've been seeing some numbers that are billion dollars a day is what they're selling. These numbers are staggering. There are many that are screaming right now and they're saying, hey,
this shouldn't be happening. There are sanctions that should just be enforced, not needing to pass new sanctions to stop this country this sponsoring terrorism, especially against Israel with Hamas Hezbla, they've helped ISIS and al Qaida. They are openly saying they want death to America and death to Israel and to wipe us off the face of the earth. And yet we're not enforcing these this all at the same time while we are hurting this country from a lack
of energy independence, which makes them richer. When we stop doing things here and we go into this green alternative energy, it's just making them richer, which means they can sponsor more terrorist activities around the world, and it's something that you've really dived into in this book that comes out on Tuesday that people need to get their hands on. Your new book, Unwoke, is going to be out on
Tuesday next week. You can pre order it now. But this is something you've been talking about, the Democrat's obsession with green alternive energy and how it's actually helping the most dangerous people in terrists in the world by having this policy.
Well, so, Iran right now is selling two million barrels of oil a day, so they're not making billions per day right now. Today, the price of a barrel of oil is about eighty two dollars a barrel. That means Iran is making about one hundred and sixty million dollars a day from selling oil, and the bulk of that they're selling to communist China. We assume China is actually
paying less than that. So let's say they're making one hundred and forty to one hundred and fifty million dollars a day, although we don't know what price China is paying them two million barrels a day. What that is produced for the Ayatola over the last three years is about eighty billion dollars. That is funding Iran, which is the world's late largest state sponsor of terrorism. It is funding Hamas. It is fun the death squads that are
murdering Israelis and murdering Americans. It is funding the rockets that are raining down from the sky and murdering Israelis. It is funding the drones that Iran is providing to Russia that Russia is using to attack and kill Ukrainian soldiers. So while Biden is giving billions to Ukraine, he's also giving billions to Iran and funding both sides of the war. Now that makes no sense at all, but the point you made, and this is something that I emphasize in
this new book. The new book, as you said, is called Unwoke, How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America. And the book walks through all of the institutions in our nation that have been seized by the radical left, and it lays out how they were seized, why it happens, It tells stories, but it also lays out a strategy
to defeat them. And the final chapter is on China, and it describes how China is a central nexus that links them all and one of the points that I make in the book, and this is a point that is rarely understood, and it has to do with science and the Green New Deal, which is right now today. The United States is the world's leader in oil production and natural gas production. America produces roughly twenty percent of all the oil and gas produced worldwide, and we are
a net energy exporter. We produce more than we consume, so that is incredibly valuable to have energy independence. What do the Democrats want us to do? They want to shift our energy usage entirely to energy produced by wind and solar. And who controls wind and solar and the answer to that is communist China. So here are some
of the stats. China controls refining capacity for seventy three percent of the world's cobalt, for forty percent of the copper, for fifty nine percent of the lithium, for sixty eight percent of the nickel, and for eighty three percent of rare earth minerals. And every one of those is necessary
for wind and solar power. And when it comes to finished products that the Democrats want to produce all of our domestic energy, China is responsible for eighty percent of global solar panels manufacturing for seventy percent of global wind turbine manufacturing and seventy seven percent of global lithium ion battery manufacturing. So every time you hear a Democrat, every time you hear the corporate media say we must move from oil and gas to wind and solar, understand what
they're saying. We need to shift our entire economy from an energy source that America controls and that we are dominant globally in to an energy source that China controls and that they are dominant globally, and we should give communist China the power at any moment they want to cripple our economy and shut down our ability to access energy. That makes no sense. And I got to say in the national energy debates, we have very very few people are making what I think is this very important point.
When you were.
Writing this book, and I encourage you to go ahead and pre order it now it comes on Tuesday, you wanted to look at these issues and bring them to light. Obviously, as we're going into this very important election cycle it's the presidential elections now, because this is really about the future of this country.
Well, it is look our country is in crisis. I wrote this book because lots of people are saying, what the hell happened? How did we wake up and find every major institution. Look, you look at our universities and you see these rabid anti Semitic protests, anti Israel protests, And what's happened is the viciously left with Marxist forces have taken over many of our universities. You look at K through twelve education, at the garbage being taught to
our kids, critical race theory and radical transgender theory. You look at how journalism has been broken. You look at how government has been broken. You look at big tech, you look at big business, you look at entertainment movies. This book, every one of the chapters in this book focuses on a different institution. The radical left has taken over, and I explain how it happened. And look. One of the things that I try to do in this book, this is not an academic book. This is not an
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his testimony that he delivered. It is some shocking testimony. Here is part of what he had to say before Congress.
But as I said a few moments ago, on top of the homegrown violent extremists and domestic violent extremist threat. We also cannot and do not discount the possibility that HAMAS or another foreign terrorist organization may exploit the current conflict to conduct attacks here on our own soil.
I mean, sinat you hear Christopher Ray saying this. It's something that unfortunately we've talked about so much. You've got an open border, You've got these types of people that get into this country, and the threats are real.
Look, the threats are incredibly real. I've said multiple times, I think the risks, the likelihood of a major terrorist attack on US soil is higher today than it has been any point since September eleventh. And you know, as I hear Chris Ray saying that, listen, As you know I know Chris Ray quite well. For years, he has been annoyingly and counterfactually and bizarrely saying the greatest threat we have is from homegrown terrorists, and they're from white supremacists.
They're from Nazis and clansmen. And listen, Nazis and klansmen are idiots, They're bigoted, morons, they're bad people. No dispute there. But the last I check, we don't have this rising wave of clansmen look like they're not Nazis that are
suddenly attacking America. And frankly, the FBI focusing on that over and over again, it fit into the political narrative that left wanted, and it utterly discarded global jihadists who have pledged to murder as many Americans as they have they can, and who we're actively trying to do so.
And and so my reaction the fact that Chris Ray said there's a real risk right now that Hamas terrorists may quote conduct attacks here on our own soil, my reaction is, holy crap, What is he know now that has suddenly forced him to say that publicly that he's like, oh, oh, this might happen really soon. And I at least want something on the record so that they can't claim I was blindsided by it. It's obvious our southern border is wide open, there's a major risk of terrorists coming across.
But the fact that Chris Ray said that right now worries me enormously. I don't know any classified information that he might have that says that they know of Hamas terrorists in the United States, but the fact that he's saying that, I think.
Is very worrying.
Yeah, it is, and it's obviously an issue that this administration refused to deal with with an open border and terrorists coming across the border as well.
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