Welcome. It is a verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you, Senator, We've got a lot to talk about, including Christopher Ray being grilled in front of the House side of Congress and there was some very awkward responses from him. We're going to break all that down for everybody listening. Plus, we don't just have cocaine at the White House. We've got other illegal drugs that have now been disclosed. But don't worry, we're never going to find
any of these people. Apparently. We'll give you an up down that. But before we get to that, Senator, there's a big victory that took place in the Foreign Relations Committee that's going to have a huge impact on commerce not just in this country, but specifically as well with Texas. Talk about this victory and what it means, Well, that's exactly right.
It was a massive victory that we won yesterday for the state of Texas before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and it concerns commerce and trade with Mexico. So tech this engages in a massive amount of trade with the nation of Mexico. About eight hundred billion dollars a year is the value of the goods and services that travel north and south across the border to Mexico, and much of that travels over bridges that cross the Rio Grande.
And that you have trucks and cars that are driving across the Rio grand either north from Mexico to Texas or south from Texas to Mexico. And that there's an enormous amount of whether it's agricultural trade and commerce or manufacturing trade and commerce or auto parts. Uh, it's just a massive volume.
Uh.
The Biden administration bizarrely has been doing everything it can to slow walk new bridges across the Rio grand new bridges to Mexico, and in particular in South Texas, there are four bridges that are that that that are trying to be either built or expanded, bridges that would allow more traffic, more trucks, more cars to travel, and more commerce to travel, and the Biden administration has been putting
unnecessary bureaucratic roadblocks in the way of doing so. In particular, if you want to build a bridge anywhere in the state of Texas, anywhere in another state, you can do so and you don't need a special permit from the White House. If you want to build a bridge across an interstate border. There's a federal law that says you have to get a permit from the President of the
United States because it's crossing a border. Now, the process used to be, and this is what the Trump White House did, that the President would grant that permit for a new bridge or an expansion of a bridge across the border, and the president would grant that permit conditional on completing the environmental review that is required for every bridge that's.
Built in this country.
Anywhere you're building a bridge, you have to do under a statute called NIPA, an environmental review. And so the way President Trump would do this, he'd approve the bridge, but you'd still have to complete the environmental review on the back end before you built the bridge. Biden came into office and he implemented a new rule that made no sense whatsoever. And his new rule was that the presidential permit would not be issued until all of the
environmental review was completed. And the problem is that actually delays these bridges by years, two to three years. It
pushes them back. And there's an even bigger problem, which is that the groups that are building these bridges are having a difficult time getting financing because the financing doesn't want to commit until after the presidential permit is granted, and the presidential permit won't be granted until after the environmental review is complete, and so it's delaying the projects dramatically.
This makes zero and so for months I have been working leaning on the Biden administration to change this policy. I have raised this directly and repeatedly with the White House. I've raised this directly and repeatedly with the Department of State. I've raised this directly and repeatedly with the Secretary of Transportation.
And I worked to bring together a bipartisan coalition in South Texas and in particular to get every member of Congress from South Texas, both Democrats and Republicans, all united behind this issue, behind building the bridges. And so I drafted a letter to Secretary of State Tony Blinken, and it was signed by all four of the Rio Grand Valley congressmen. It was signed by Vicente Gonzalez, a Democrat. It was signed by Monica Delacruz, a Republican. It was
signed by Henry Quayar, a Democrat. It was signed by Tony Gonzalez, a Republican. And so all four of them signed my letter, and John Cornan signed the letter, and so we had complete bipartisan agreement. And even so the Biden administration continued to slow walk these bridges. Well, yesterday in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, I filed an amendment to the Department of State Authorization, and the amendment would
dramatically streamline the approval of these bridges. And in particular, it directs the White House and it directs the State Department not to delay the presidential permit until after the deeper review is concluded, and so it forces them to decide and issue the presidential permit and then move forward and the environmental review occurs as it does ordinarily for any other bridge. Well, it was initially a battle, and it went round and round and round, and there were
initially Democrats who were fighting me on this. And yet yesterday afternoon I ended up getting the support of both Democrats and Republicans on the committee and it was voted into the bill. So the amendment is now adopted with
big bipartisan support. And the next step is that the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are trying to attach the entire bill the Senate the State Authorization Bill to the National Defense Authorization Act, which is right now moving in the Senate Armed Services Committee. The reason for that is is every year Congress passes the NDAA, the National Defense Authorization Act, and it is often a vehicle for passing legislation because it's considered must
pass legislation. And so we ended up with a big, big victory that for two and a half years, the Biden administration had been stiff arming Texas and hurting the people of South Texas, and we got this amendment adopted, which if it goes forward and gets signed into law, and I think it will be, it will speed up these bridges by several years. Man, that's good for South Texas in terms of jobs. That has the potential to produce thousands of high paying jobs. It's good for Texas farmers,
it's good for Texas ranchers. It's good for Texas small businesses and manufacturers. And I'll tell you the amazing thing, not only is this good for jobs and commerce and farmers and manufacturing, it's also very good for the environment. Because right now, let's take the city of Laredo. Laredo is the single largest land port in the United States. A massive amount of commerce flows through Laredo each and
every day. Right now, if you go down to the bridge in Laredo, it's a massive bridge, and there are one hundreds, sometimes thousands of eighteen wheelers backed up waiting to cross the bridge, and they can sit there two, three, four, five hours just sitting there, spewing out pollution, just sitting there doing nothing. One of the bridges that's going to be expanded is that big, that main bridge that the proposal is to add eight new lanes to that bridge.
Doing that will dramatically speed up commerce across that bridge, and that's good for the environment. No one wants hundreds or thousands of eighteen wheelers sitting there idling and just spewing pollution into the air. And so this is good all around. The Biden administration's policy made no sense. But I'll tell you it was a hard fought battle and one that I was really pleased to see a lot
of allies came together. The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce came and supported my amendment, supported my effort, and it was a big win. And Senate Foreign Relations.
You mentioned that this was bipartisan as well. At the end and did that shocked the White House how bipartisan this became, as you mentioned there at the end, because this what was I mean, the politics behind this was this just a stiket to Texas, a border state, and that's that's the reason why they made the change the beginning. Obviously you said it didn't make sense why they did this, but what was their reason for doing it? Was it
solely political? And then when it became bipartisan, that's how you're gonna overcome it.
You know.
I actually think it was more mundane than that. I had a former boss who used to say, never blame on malice. What can be explained with incompetence. I think there's a lot of wisdom to this. What I think happened is I think there was some twenty six year old knucklehead, either at the Department of State or the White House, who just is a green New Deal zealot and they said, no, we're not approving anything till all
the environmental review has done. And it just was sort of a knee jerk no no, no. But it never made any sense. And I have to tell you when I explained it to people, you know, Pete Boodajetge sat in my office when I explained it to him. His reaction was, that doesn't make any sense at all. Now the Department of Transportation doesn't have a formal role in this process, but he offered his help to try to
get it fixed. And so what I decided to do, and what I explained to the White House, what I explained to the State Department is I said, this is a massive priority for me, because this is a massive priority for Texas. And I said, I'm a big believer in carrot and stick, and so I'm going to continue ratcheting up the pressure and I'm going to ratchet it up higher and higher and higher, and I'm going to make it more and more unpleasant until you change these policies.
And that's the one thing the Biden administration responds to. And so in particular, I had placed a hold on a number of State Department nominees and I said, I'm not going to let these go through unlessen until you fix these this problem and stop putting idiotic roadblocks in
the way of these these four bridges in Texas. Part of the way we got this done yesterday is the State Department desperately wanted these holds lifted, and State asked, well, gosh, if we agree to go along with this, will you lift the holds?
And I said, sure, of course.
The whole point of the holds is to get you to change the policy, and so State at the end of the day was willing willing to go along with it, which in turn is what led the Democrats on the committee to agree to it as well. Is that State wanted me to end the holds that I had put in place in order to incentivize them to do the right thing for the state of Texas.
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dot com slash vertict. Senator, you mentioned this is obviously a big win for Texas, but the amount of commerce that you're talking about that's going to be moving with this expansion in these bridges. That's not just going to affect Texas. That's also going to affect all these trucks are going all over the country as well and getting things there quicker.
So that's exactly right. It affects the entire country. And whether when you go to the grocery store and say you buy fresh fruits and vegetables, many of those fruits and vegetables are grown in Mexico, and so speeding up the travel reduces the cost. It means you'll pay less than you would have otherwise at the grocery store. If you're buying a new car, many automobiles, there's significant auto parts that are assembled in Mexico. A lot of parts are built in Texas, a lot of them are built
in Mexico. And there's actually a trade that goes back and forth, sometimes two, three, four times where a component will be built partially in Texas and then ship to Mexico and more of it will be built there, and then it'll ship back to Texas and more of it's built there, and it goes back and forth. And so every time you're crossing the border, the delay drives up the cost, and so if you're buying a car or truck,
speeding this up lowers the costs that you're paying. But there's an even broader benefit to that, and there is a national security benefit. Particularly post COVID. Many of us rightly have focused on the need to decouple from China, and in particular to move more and more manufacturing out of China and to move it closer to America. Either bring it home and bring manufacturing here to the United States, or at a minimum, bring it to allies that are
not controlled by communist China. And a lot of that manufacturing is moving to Mexico. That's a good thing. Decoupling from China, and so expanding the ability to have trade and commerce crossing our southern border helps us dlink and decouple from China. That's unambiguously good for the entire country.
I want to also move on to another big issue that we teased earlier, and that was the Christopher Ray testifying before Congress. There's been a lot of fallout from this. You've seen a lot of the clips, and before we get into some of those, center, give me your overall take on Christopher Ray. Did he stabilize the ship or did it actually make things worse for his standing and
the defense or lack thereof. I would say, if some of the decisions they've made on sced of one to ten, what grade would you have given him before Congress?
Well, let me focus less on his grade before Congress and let me focus more on his grade in the job. And in terms of the job, I'd give him an F minus because he has utterly failed to correct the rabid partisanship and the deep politicization of the FBI. He has been at the helm when the FBI has behaved like the DNC's political stormtroopers, and it's done enormous damage. And he's also been at the helm when the FBI stonewalled, which they have done to Congress over and over and over again.
Jim Jordan talked about some of that stonewalling when he was kind of laying out just how much the FBI has fallen under his direction. And here's part of the reminder the American people about what's happened with the politicalization of the FBI and the.
Dj Americans have seen the FBI's Richmond Field office put together a memorandum saying pro life Catholics are extremist. They've seen twenty FBI agents SWAT team members show up the home of Mark Halk and arrest him in front of his wife and seven children, even though he had indicated he'd be happy to turn himself in.
And what was he arrested for?
Him and his twelve year old son were praying outside an abortion facility. Some guys start screaming in his son's face, and he did what, frankly, any dad would do, defended his child. What's interesting is the National School Board Association apologized for the letter, but the Attorney General refuses to rescind his directive. The FBI did resin thank goodness to Richmond Catholic memorandum, but they refuse to tell Congress who
wrote it and who approved it. And mister Halk, mister Halck, when he got his day in court, he was acquitted by a jury of his peers.
American speech is censored.
Parents are called terrorists, Catholics are called radicals. And I haven't even talked about the spying that took place of a presidential care campaign, of the rating of a former president's home.
You listen to that list, it is stunning to think that this is happening in the United States of America.
It is, and as you know, the entirety of that list is laid out in detail in my most recent book, in the book Justice Corrupted, How the Left has weaponized the legal system. The book starts with the sexual assault in Louden County, Virginia of the teenage girl by a boy dressed in a skirt in the girl's bathroom, and the school board covering it up, lying about it, and ultimately having the father of the girl arrested because he
dared speak up for his daughter. And that incident was one of the incidents that prompted the letter from the National Association of school Boards to President Biden that resulted in Merrick Garland five days later issuing a memoai directive to the FBI to go after parents, to target them, essentially, to treat them as domestic terrorists if they dare speak up at school board meetings. That memo was disgraceful. It's
a perfect example of weaponization. And what has happened is is and like the Mark Hawk example is another one I discussed at great length Mark Hawk, it is a disparate standard of justice to send more than a dozen agents with machine guns drawn at the crack of dawn to arrest someone at their home in front of their crying children. But this administration, if you were pro life, if you dare speak up in defensive life, you have to worry about the stormtroopers showing up at your front door.
And by the way, when they tried mister Hawk, the jury threw the case out within minutes. They thought the case was ridiculous, that he was defending his twelve year old son, and and and he was charged with basically pushing a guy who was screaming at his son. Uh and and that merited sending in the stormtroopers. It is an absolute double standard. And I have to say the FBI has been willing to be complicit in this, and then after it happens, the FBI engages in stonewalling what
you don't see Chris Ray doing. Let's take the memo from the Richmond Field Office targeting Catholics and laying out a strategy of let's send undercover agents into Catholic churches to spy on churches, and let's see if we can recruit the clergy to spy on the members of the parish. It's absolutely shameful and disgraceful. And as Jim Jordan noted, the FBI rescinded it when it became public. They realized
it was indefensible. But we don't know who wrote it, we don't know who approved it, we don't know who thought it was a good idea to target Catholics. And the problem with Chris Ray is any time he's given a choice between defending the rapidly partisan left wing extremists who are in the senior career leadership at the FBI or standing with the American people, he chooses the partisans who are corrupting the FBI.
You mentioned one thing, and I want to clarify on this point because I think for many Americans they hear the defense from Ray. Well, we rescinded it. If they wouldn't have been caught in public, and this wouldn't have been made public to memo, I think it would probably still be going on today, and there's a very good chance there where they would have found people to spy on their own parishioners.
And you know what they are doing. They're still going after parents who speak up at school boards. There are multiple parents across the country who went to express their free speech rights. And to be clear, nobody has a right to engage in violence. If you threaten someone with violence, if you engage in violence, you should be prosecuted. But
everyone has a right to peaceful speech. And multiple parents who go to a school board and speak up because they're upset about some policy at the school board, whether it was COVID policies or vaccine mandates, or whether it was teaching critical race theory, or whether as it was in loud In County, turning a blind eye to sexual
assaults against the children in their care. Multiple parents have had the g men show up at their door to intimidate them and interview them just because they exercised their First Amendment rights. And they're doing that even after they got caught. That's how brazen it is.
It's also not just that one issue that you describe, but there's also the other issue of why are you not looking into the crimes that have been uh potentially committed by the bidens. Matt Gates called him out for that, Chrisopher Ray, and here's what he said.
I'm sitting here with my father, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows, and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father. Sounds like a shakedown, doesn't a director.
I'm not going to get into commenting on that.
You you seem deeply uncurious about it, don't you almost suspiciously uncurious? Are you protecting the Bidens?
Absolutely not the FBI.
You wan't to answer the question about whether that's a shakedown, and everybody knows why you won't answer it because to the millions of people who will see this, they know it is, and your inability to acknowledge that is deeply revealing about you.
But when he says it's deeply revealing, it's deeply revealing about how much she's willing to protect people that screw up and make big mistakes, right, I mean, I mean that's part of this here is if you talk to people in law enforcement, especially people that are in investigative positions, they tell you that finding what we just found there, seeing what they what they've seen, is that moment where you go, this is why I signed up for this, Senator,
because now I'm going to deal with this corruption and get rid of it. And instead it seems like they say every time they find the corruption, they help them cover it up.
No, that's exactly right. And look, this is in a context where we now know that a confidential informant approached the FBI with evidence that Joe Biden as vice president had personally received a five million dollar bribe from a foreign national, and the FBI covered up, refused to acknowledge the form they prepared with that complaint, refused to describe
any investigation they engaged in it. We subsequently learned that there were allegedly seventeen voice recordings of conversations between that Ukrainian oligarch, and fifteen of them with Hunter Biden, two of them with Joe Biden. As you know, as we've talked about on this podcast, I questioned the Deputy Director of the FBI, Chris Ray's deputy, and asked him, will you hand over the FBI form detailing the allegations from the confidential informant.
He refused to do so.
I said, will you confirm the existence of the seventeen voice recordings?
He refused to do so.
I asked him, does the FBI have possession of the seventeen voice recordings. He refused to answer. I asked him, will the FBI give those seventeen voice recordings to the Senate Judiciary Committee. He refused to commit to doing so. And there is just a brazen defiance. There's an attitude at the FBI. We don't work for you, we don't work for anybody. We do what we want, and we answer to nobody. And the deputy director I was questioning him,
had just this contempt. How dare you ask me those questions? I decide what to investigate, and nobody gets to second guess it. And it's a contempt. It's not ultimately a contempt for me or for the Senate or for Congress. It's a contempt for the American people because when Congress andregauges an oversight, we're fulfilling our constitutional responsibility, and we're doing so. When I ask those questions, I am doing
so on behalf of thirty million Texans. I'm doing so because I believe Texans would want me to ask those questions and get to the bottom of it. And I hear that from Texans frequently, that they are grateful that I engage in that oversight. But when the FBI has this sneering condescension that I'm not going to answer that. And in the instance where Matt Gates was asking him about that WhatsApp can communication between Hunter, Biden and and that the Chinese communist official, that is one of the
most damning communications I've ever heard. Of course, it's a shakedown. It's not transparent, it's not subtle. It is about as
blatant as shakedown as possible. The only conceivable defense is either that that that the communication was false, although at this point Hunter and his lawyer have basically implicitly admitted that it's true, or that Hunter was lying, that that Joe Biden was not sitting next to him, and and and that even though Hunter was threatening uh, the the retribution from Joe Biden that that that that he was
not telling the truth. That is a possible defense for Joe Biden, although it's not a defense for Hunter but the FBI. And remember, by the way, you gotta also look at this in the context of the two I R. S. Whistleblowers that allege that in the entire course of this investigation, the Department of Justice politically interfered with the investigation and said do not ask any questions about Joe Biden. Do not ask any questions about the big guy.
Do not.
They refuse to allow GPS uh GPS to be looked at to determine was Joe Biden sitting next to Hunter Biden when that communication was sent? They could confirm that. But but the allegation from from the the the I R S whistleblowers are that that the DOJ didn't want to know if Joe Biden was sitting right next to Hunter Biden when he said I'm sitting next to my father.
And so in that context, Chris Ray's refusal to answer is stonewalling, and it's ultimately stonewalling the American people, which does an enormous disservice to the FBI and to the rule of law.
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There was also something else that was interesting, and that was the FBI director was asked a very answering question by the Republican congresswoman from Wyoming, Harriet Hagman, and this is what she asked him. And this snarky response from Chris Ray may have been one of the biggest backfires because it was also something that he really should have never said, regardless of what his answer was going to be. Here it is.
Twitter files, Missouri versus Biden, disclosures, the Durham investigation and report, and exposure and collapse of the Russian Russian collusion hoax. The American people fully understand that there is a two tier justice system that has been weaponized to persecute people based on their political beliefs, and that you have pursued been weapony, that you have personally worked to weaponize the
FBI against conservatives. I asked mister Durham about this, to which he answered, I don't think that things can go too much further with the view that law enforcement, particularly the FBI or Department of Justice, runs a two tiered system of justice. The nation can't stand under those circumstances. Director Ray, what are you prepared to do to reform federal law enforcement in a manner which earns back the trust of the American people.
Well, first off, I would disagree with your characterization of the FBI and certainly your description of my own approach, The idea that I'm biased against conservatives seems someone insane to me, given my own personal background.
Someone insane to me, Senator. This on top of the fact that a new polls come out saying that just thirty seven percent of Americans have a favorable view of the FBI right now, meaning overwhelmingly the majority of Americans do not trust or have faith in the FBI under Director ray Well.
I have to say I understand both sides of that conversation. So, Harriet Hageman is a friend of mine. I supported her enthusiastically when she ran against Liz Cheney in the primary and beat her in the primary in Wyoming, and I supported her in the general election, raised a bunch of money for Harriet. She is a smart, serious conservative constitutional litigator and lawyer. And so her question was carefully constructed, and it relied on a number of very specific data points,
all of which Chris ray Utter ignores. So he doesn't actually address the substance of what she says. Instead, he says the idea that he is biased against conservatives, he thinks is quote somewhat insane. Now, you and I have talked in this podcast. It's easy for people at home watching everything happening at the FBI to think that Chris Ray is some wild eyed liberal. And I've said before I don't think that's accurate. I've known Chris Ray for twenty five years. He is not a wild eyed liberal.
He's not even a Democrat. He is a Republican. He's been a Republican his whole life. He has been in law enforcement much of his life. As far as I know, he still considers himself a Republican. So the problem is not that he came into the office with an ideological hatred for conservatives. By the way, Merrick Garland he has that Merrick Garland is a partisan, but Chris Ray is not. And remember it was Donald Trump who appointed Chris Ray
as director of the FBI. Chris's problem is different, which is that he is temperamentally he is a company man. It's just his instinct. And so when he became director of the FBI, he instantly went native. And so in every dispute he looks to the senior career officials at the FBI and he says, my responsibility as director is to have their backs. Now, that is often a good instinct in a leader that if you're in an institution, you want to support your people, you want to have
your people's backs. That is a good instinct in a leader, unless your people are actively undermining the integrity of the institution you serve. And the problem with Chris Ray he seems to have an absolute blind spot that he does not understand that many of these career bureaucrats at the FBI are hard vicious partisans. And because he doesn't perceive that, he's not willing to rein them in and in any battle. He takes the side of the hard vicious partisan and
he defends them, and he's stone walls. Chris Ray could choose to answer these questions, he doesn't want to. And there's a second component, which is he does not have the humility that a senior government official should have a recognition that he is accountable. He believes, I Chris Ray am in charge of the FBI, and I think he believes in his heart they are not biased or weaponized. And I just think he's utterly blind to what his underlings are doing. It's why he doesn't engage in the
substance of any of the points. And by the way. I have had literally screaming arguments with Chris Ray as Director, where I've said, you are not defending the FBI. When you defend these wild eyed partisans, you are hurting the FBI. You are hurting the integrity of the institution you lead. I hear from and I've told him this. Your agents who come and tell me that they're embarrassed to be FBI agents because under your leadership. And it started before
Chris Ray, it started Jim Comey was much worse. But Chris Ray wasn't willing to clean house. He wasn't willing to throw the partisans out, and he's not willing to go forward and say, you know what, the American people deserve transparency here on the investigation of Hunter Biden and
Joe Biden. Right now, the irs whistleblowers are alleging that DOJ engaged in a cover up, that the Attorney General lied under oath to Congress responding to my questioning in the Senate Judiciary Committee, and that the Attorney General likely committed obstruction of justice. Those are very serious charges. You know who has a lot of information on whether that's true.
The FBI they were side by side at all of this investigation, and Chris Ray feels no obligation to come forward and be candid with the American people and answer those questions. And look, I get often law enforcement. It's a standard response in law enforcement if you ask about an investigation for law enforcement to say I can't come in on a pending investigation. That's true in the run
of the mill case. In this instance, when you're dealing with serious allegation of corruption, a bribery of multiple felonies by the President of the United States and by the Attorney General of the United States, I think the FBI has a bigger obligation, and that's to the American people to say, here's what we know. And in that regard, Chris Ray has failed utterly.
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and they said they actually feel good about this. Representative Raskin said this about the investigation into the cocaine who brought the White House, and of course we called it here on Verdict Center. We're never going to find out who brought it in. They're saying they couldn't figure it out.
I'm satisfied that the Secret Service and the White House are on top of it. I was reading a book about Lincoln recently, and anybody in Washington could just walk right into Lincoln's White House, go directly in and try to find the president and talk to them. And obviously we're in a very different security environment than that. But I don't know how many people would want to go to the White House if they were going to be administering a drug test on the way in, which is
what some of my colleagues have suggested. You know, some people are saying everybody should be drug tested on the way into the White House, and you know, these are the same people who are opposed to COVID nineteen tests. So I don't see a lot of coherence in the criticism.
That's one how the statement center your reaction.
Well, I think it's rather hysterical to see a Democrat congressman saying, gosh, you know, Democrats would be really afraid to go to the White House that we had.
To get drug tested.
I mean, look, you got to get drug tested to get hired as a truck driver, You got to get drug tested to get hired as a fork left operator. There are a lot of jobs at America you got to get drug tested for. In fact, when I speak to small business owners in Texas, they say one of the challenges of hiring new employees is finding people who can pass the drug test. Well, that's one thing if you're dealing with with with ordinary citizens. But you would think a member of Congress should be held to a
higher standard. And yet he's saying, gosh, you know, we don't want to go to the White House with drug tests. Look, this is a white House that applies no ethical standards to itself. This is a white House that covers up serious allegations of criminality by the President of the United States, including bribery. This is a white House that covers up serious allegations of criminality by the president's adult son, Hunter Biden.
This is a White House that sends a press secretary out every day to brazenly lied to the American people.
This is a white house.
As you noted, if they said they multiple times found marijuana in the White House, and they're like, oh, oh, well, no big deal. They just confiscated the marijuana, threw it away, but didn't bother naming whose it was, didn't apparently seem to have any concern on figuring out whose it was, because you know, I mean, you know, who hasn't smoked pot in the White House. This is a White House.
Look this cocaine story. If this cocaine story happened when Donald Trump was president, the media would be losing their minds. Democrats would be losing their minds. And yet because it's under Joe Biden. Listen, this was cocaine that was left in a working entrance to the White House where they have a log of every person who walked through that door in the exact time they walk through that door.
Just yesterday, the Secret Service announced, oh, we've done our investigation and guess what, we can't figure out who did it. And let's be clear, this podcast predicted that right after the cocaine was found. We said on this podcast, here's going to be the result. They're going to announce we don't know, Well, what do you know? That's exactly what they announced. And the reason they announced that they don't want to know because whoever it is, it's somebody embarrassing.
Well, and you go back to the Secret Service now confirming they found marijuana not once, but twice in the White House in twenty twenty two alone, long before cocaine was located in the West Wing the Secret.
Service year, not a long time ago, last year.
Yeah, and the Secret Service revealed the information of Congress like, oh, yeah, by the way, and this classified briefing on this investigation into the cocaine found the way, yeah, we've also found some other drugs. We found weed a few times last year. This is not normal behavior. Yet they're acting like it is.
Well, this White House believes they are immune from scrutiny. It really is stunning. By the way, look, I'll give another example. So there was a really interesting column that Maureen Dowd wrote in the New York Times. Mariene Dowd, of course, is a left wing columnist. She is a hard partisan Democrat. And the title of her column was
It's seven grandchildren, mister President. And that, of course is because Hunter Biden has an illegitimate child, a little girl, Navy Joan, who Hunter Biden has gone to court to stop her from using the name Biden, this little four year old, she doesn't get to use the name Biden because he's unhappy about the circumstances in which he fathered a child. Now ed beat dads are not honorable people. When you run away from your kid, that's not honorable,
that's not right, that is frankly shameful. But Joe Biden consistently refers to his six grandchildren. In fact, every Christmas he puts up six stockings. But as Maureen Down pointed out, you don't have six grandchildren, you have seven. And the fact that Joe Biden won't even acknowledge that she exists. And by the way, we're not speculating that she's a grandchild. They did a paternity test and concluded yep, Hunter is daddy. And and by the way, look, look, people have children,
and they have children out of wedlock. That is not you know, that happens in the world. It shouldn't, but we live in reality. The question is if that happens, how does someone behave do they behave honorably? Do they provide for the kid? And and Hunter literally said, here, you can have a couple of my paintings, Like, holy crap,
that's dad of the year stuff. You're shaken down Communist China and Ukraine for millions of dollars, and you're giving your daughter that you deny your name to a couple of your idiotic paintings that you're trying to grift money off of.
And you can't have my last name. You can't have my last same at the same time.
You can't have my last name. And the fact that Marine Dawd made that point is a big deal. That the New York Times is starting to turn on him, that's a big deal. But still most of the corporate media won't ask Joe Biden, why are you denying this four year old child and refusing to acknowledge that she's yours, your your grandchild.
Great point. The media, by the way, wanting to cover this up. They're now saying that if you care about cocaine in the White House, you are a conspiracy theorist Chuck Todd Meet the Press now on MSNBC. This is what he had to say about the Secret Service ending the White House cocaine investigation.
People, what do you since Congress? You know, we know there's a few members of Congress they are going to try to use this as a hobby horse, what do you sense? What could they do here? Enforcing more focus on this.
I think one of the questions was, if this can get through, is there a vulnerability in some other way? And people I've been talking to say, when it comes to agents that might have been a powdery substance that could be used in a weapon form, that they have mechanisms to test for that, that they don't test for contraband they don't test for illegal drugs that don't pose a threat to the president or others inside the White House. It certainly is not a good look, and no one feels good about that.
I was just going to say, I'm guessing the White House doesn't like that. There's no answer there.
Oh, it's unsatisfying because it only feeds the beast, the conspiratorial beast.
Yes, yes, that we know of like trying to.
Destroy our And to answer that, family members typically don't use this entrance, not that they couldn't, but they typically don't and they're not asked to put their stuff on copy.
And this is yes, nice to see.
You silly, right, Senator, It's just silly. I got the conspiracy theorist there. There's real cocaine found we find out more drugs are in the White House from marijuana as well. But your conspiracy theorists, if you want answers, so.
It's it is, of course not a conspiracy. It is a fact that a bag of cocaine was found in the West Wing of the White House. I agree with the comment there, and we've talked about this on the pod. I think it's unlikely that it was Hunter Biden's cocaine because the entrance where it was found is the working entrance that the staff goes in and out of. It's not an entrance that I think Hunter was likely to use. So I find it more plausible that it is a staff member who works in the West Wing of the
White House. It could very well be a senior staff member of the Biden White House. Now, if a senior staff member the Biden White House is bringing cocaine in, that's a big damn deal. If they are a drug addict while being a senior White House official, that is a very serious problem. And the reason that we predicted
right at the outset we will never know. The Secret Service will announce we can't figure out who it is is because they recognize it's embarrassing as hell and a real problem if senior White House aids are drug addicts. Chuck Todd dismisses it all as conspiracy theory. I'll tell you this, Chuck wouldn't think that if this were the Trump White House. If this were a Trump White House, he would be lighting his hair on fire.
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