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All right, we begin this morning in Washington.
Yep.
In a few hours, the House Rules Committee will meet to try and formalize an impeachment inquiry into President Biden.
What the impeachment inquiry means, the full House could vote on that as soon as tomorrow.
Well, that falls on the same day that lawmakers are demanding that Hunter Biden testify behind closed doors.
Alexandra Hawke knows it all.
She's in Washington with the latest.
Hey, Alex.
Hey, good morning.
Maybe not all of it, but there are a lot of pieces at play here.
The impeachment inquiry, as for that, the White House is trying to put to use past statements made by Republicans who feel that there isn't enough evidence to impeach the president.
Some have changed their minds on that in recent weeks.
But the way that this timeline breaks down is that today the House Rules Committee is going to consider the resolution that would authorize the impeachment inquiry.
Tomorrow, House Republicans are expected to vote to approve it.
Mind you, this isn't a vote for impeachment just to allow for the inquiry and more investigative power into that.
Tomorrow is the same day that the president's son has been subpoenaed to appear for a deposition.
So then if the inquiry is approved, the articles of impeachment could be drafted in the The White House saying this, quote, And sources tell Fox News Digital that House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Democrat Jamie Raskin has been meeting informally with House Republicans,
hoping to convince them to abandon this impeachment effort.
As for Hunter Biden, well, he may have been subpoenaed to interview privately tomorrow, but he's only agreed to testify publicly.
House Republicans have rejected that, and if he does not show, the president's son could be held in contempt of Congress.
That would not be a light addition to his current legal troubles.
That includes the nine...
New tax charges filed against him by special counsel David Weiss.
Three of those are felonies.
He's accused of evading about $1.4 million in taxes.
Weiss says that Hunter instead spent millions on cash withdrawals, payments to various women, and an overall lavish lifestyle.
guys.
joe biden
You want to have some ice cream with my friend and me?
unidentified
Get lost, please, Paul.
First, you get the money.
Then you get the ice cream.
When you get the ice cream, then you sniff the girls.
That's a good one, Jerry.
benny johnson
I hope we tweeted it.
Oh, man, it's good to be back.
It's Tuesday, December 12th, 2023.
And the House is moving forward with Joe Biden's impeachment.
If you formalize an impeachment inquiry, that means you have massive, unlimited power in Congress.
So this is a very good thing.
Trump beats Biden by 10 points in battleground state?
Are we looking at a suppression poll?
Or is something worse going on right now when it comes to the Democrat Party?
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joins the show after announcing his investigation into media matters.
My name is Benny Johnson, and this is The Benny Show.
We are so back.
We are so back.
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Okay.
Here we go!
Let's get started.
Who is not excited about the future?
Well, Hunter Biden and Joe Biden.
The Speaker of the House has announced that the evidence against the Bidens will no longer be ignored.
What does that mean about Kevin McCarthy?
That means Kevin McCarthy was ignoring it.
And that the impeachment inquiry will be pursued.
Now, Republicans are such...
Silk stocking, fancy pants.
Such country club Republicans.
Oh, we're going to start the impeachment inquiry.
You see, we're going to have to follow all the rules.
The left is communists!
They don't follow any rules!
They're communists using fascistic tactics against us.
They've studied history.
Learn what time it is.
Maybe it's time to, like, scream this stuff from the rooftop and go in hard in the paint.
Ladies and gentlemen, people are going about the very polite, the inquisitor nature of Congress, and they're going to do things very formally, very formally.
Unlike the left, who's like, oh, how about this?
If we don't like Donald Trump in the White House, we'll burn it to the ground.
This is how the left functions.
We'll light it on fire!
This is what they actually did.
The first day that Donald Trump was president.
First day!
We don't have this lined up in the clip, but I'm just like, again, the first day Donald Trump was president, Madonna says, let's go blow up the White House.
She said it on camera to tens of thousands of screaming, raving, lunatic women high on Ozempic and whatever uppers or downers happen to be rattling around the bottom of their purses with their boring, purposeless, barren lives.
And so it's called the Women's March.
And Madonna is sitting there screaming, let's go blow up the White House.
Understand the leftist mind.
This is what they are thinking.
If it's not giving us direct power, then we can just blow it up.
That's what she said.
People cheered.
She didn't go to jail.
She didn't go to prison.
I never heard anybody on January 6th say that.
Madonna didn't go to jail.
But here we are, ladies and gentlemen.
Okay.
Well, what does the house effectively...
What are they saying?
There's a brand new...
Oh, you got the clip?
Man, the team is sharp!
Our team is sharp.
Okay, let's go with Madonna blowing up the White House.
Why not?
Why not?
Here you go.
unidentified
Yes!
I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.
benny johnson
All the seals at SeaWorld clapped for their sardines.
Please give me another Xanax.
I need to deal with the stress of having Donald Trump as president.
It's so bad.
It's so bad.
Unemployment is at record lows.
Black unemployment is at record lows.
Everyone can afford a house.
Gas is at a dollar.
It's so bad.
Inflation is below the Fed rate, the far-targeted Fed rate.
There's peace around the world.
Israel isn't at war.
China isn't at war.
North Korea is welcoming Donald Trump to come hang out.
It's so terrible, I can't deal with it.
Russia hasn't invaded anyone.
It's so bad!
We gotta get Trump out of there so everyone's life gets miserable.
unidentified
Really.
benny johnson
It really is a broken break.
And I think that it's all breaking down.
I really do.
I think we're actually winning.
For the first time in my lifetime.
Here we go.
The Oversight Committee investigation of Joe Biden.
What have they found?
Since January, we've obtained and reviewed thousands of pages of financial records, text messages, emails, and witness testimony to reveal that President Biden is corrupt.
Here is our biggest revelations.
We identified 20 shell companies created by the Biden family, most of which were created when Joe Biden was vice president.
Look at all those shell companies.
This is not a legitimate business, okay?
Obviously.
The Bidens and their associates raked in $24 million from China, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Romania between 2015 and 2019.
$24 million?
I mean, those are like NFL contract.
That's like NFL contract money.
Look at the Biden family business.
Devin Archer told us that Biden was the brand.
Here's the actual testimony from Devin Archer.
Devin Archer, former Hunter Biden business partner, revealed to us that Joe Biden spoke to his son's associates by speakerphone over 20 times and dined with foreign oligarchs and Burisma executives.
Under threat of contempt of Congress, FBI Director Wray allowed our members to review the FD-1023, which alleged that Vice President Biden was involved in a $5 million bribery extortion scandal.
Joe Biden's Delaware home address was listed at the beneficiary address for two wires from China totaling $250,000.
We revealed that Joe Biden received $200,000 checks that was funneled from the Biden influence peddling schemes directly from Communist China.
Why do you think Joe Biden let the Chinese fly a little spy balloon over America?
Well, the money's in the bank account.
Proof's in the pudding.
And I think Joe Biden eats a lot of pudding.
We also revealed how Joe Biden received $40,000 from China.
We received a 2018 email where bank flagged serious concerns about China money and Hunter Biden receiving $40,000, which ultimately landed in Joe Biden's bank account.
Documents from the brave IRS whistleblowers reveal that Joe Biden attended meetings with China Oil.
CEFC is the acronym.
And, well...
Joe Biden extorted China.
We discovered a monthly payment made to Joe Biden from Hunter Biden's business accounts.
Same company that referenced Hunter Biden's recent indictment.
Call, uh, represent Comer, call the National Archives to provide emails where the Bidens used aliases.
There are tens of thousands of them.
Why would you use an alias?
Innocent people don't use aliases.
You ever call your mom or dad and say, hello, it's code name Piggle Worm.
No, you don't do that.
Hi.
It's Mr. McSniffums.
It's Pete O 'Pete.
Like, you don't say- you don't use aliases!
If you know, you know.
Our investigation shows that the investigators wanted to look into Joe Biden, but were thwarted at every turn by the Department of Justice and the Department of Justice cover-up, but the cover-up is now officially ending.
We'll get to that in just a moment.
We discovered major holes in the Biden camp's narratives regarding the classified documents found at the Penn Biden Center.
The evidence we have uncovered so far reveals how Joe Biden knew, participated, and benefited from his family cashing in on the Biden name around the world, and we continue to follow the facts.
Okay.
Ladies and gentlemen, what happens next?
Well, what happens next is that Hunter Biden was indicted.
Now, we've covered this on Friday.
We covered this when it broke on Thursday.
Hunter Biden got indicted, caught a case, nine charges of taxes, you know, tax felonies in California.
They filed this in California.
Really interesting that they would file it in California.
Who's governor of California?
Who do they want to replace Joe Biden on the ticket?
Really?
It's hard math.
I don't know.
There's too many variables.
I can't quite figure it out.
I'm going to need a...
What's the thing where you push the little balls around on the scale?
I can't remember.
I'm going to need one of those things.
I've got to figure it out.
Where's my supercomputer?
Where's my calculator?
Can't figure it out.
Who's governor of California?
Who wants to be president?
Who do they need to replace Joe Biden?
I don't know.
Why would they file all these charges in California?
And why are they filing them?
Now, Hunter Biden has been a tax criminal for a long time.
For a long time.
But they're filing them right at the eve of an election cycle, right when Joe Biden is the most vulnerable, based on the polls that we'll get to in just a moment.
And it does make you wonder.
It does make you think.
Byron Donalds, one of our favorite members of Congress, was thinking, and he had this to say about Hunter Biden's tax charges.
maria bartiromo
So in terms of that deposition behind closed doors scheduled for Thursday, do these new charges, this indictment against Hunter Biden, does that mean that he won't show up on Thursday to go under oath for you and your colleagues?
byron donalds
Well, listen, he's been threatening not to go under oath for weeks now.
So the fact that he's now been indicted should not encumber our ability in the House to be able to have, number one, a closed door session first, to have written testimony under oath, and then for him to be able to move towards an open hearing.
But what Hunter Biden wants to do is to use the open hearing aspects of congressional hearings to put on a show, to put on a spectacle without actually having a deposition of his words under oath before he reaches an open session.
So we're not going to let that happen.
He needs to sit for the for the closed door deposition first.
Every witness we bring to Capitol Hill has to do the same thing he is.
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, I've been told...
By my executive producer that it is called an abacus and that I'm stupid.
And I should know these things, but I don't because, well, I didn't use abacuses in school.
Did you?
I'm not sure.
Rolls-Royce is over here saying, this was before my time.
Like, I don't know when abacuses went out of style.
Maybe they haven't.
Let me know in the comment section.
I've been told this.
I need an abacus, okay, to do all the math, to figure out why would a state run by Gavin Newsom be charging Joe Biden and his son?
Hmm, interesting.
Byron Donald says this is a tactic, and they ain't gonna let this slip.
Really interesting stuff, because if you read the actual charging documents, hot damn, man, the gloves are off on the Biden.
I mean, I don't know, unless I'm missing something here.
The gloves seem like they're finally off of the Bidens.
The charging documents are brutal.
I mean, Hunter Biden's such a scumbag.
He was like lying to the mother of his children, being like, I can't afford alimony.
Meanwhile, he's spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on hookers.
And he's saying, I can't afford alimony for our children.
Oh, there's no more money left.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars on hookers.
In the year 2019, the year that Joe Biden announced he's running for president, Hunter Biden spent $300,000 on hookers.
It's 2019 or 2018.
That's like the median price of a home in America.
That's how much Hunter Biden was spending on...
On, like, buying women.
unidentified
Remember, the party of women!
benny johnson
Got it?
Also, how many of them were sex trafficked?
How much of this was trafficking from, like, Ukraine or Mexican cartels or whatever?
Those are some interesting questions.
Those are some important questions.
Maybe someday we'll have the balls to ask them.
If Hunter Biden doesn't show up for his deposition, which is supposed to be tomorrow, Byron Donalds!
Who could ask him about sex trafficking?
I really hope so.
Marjorie Taylor Greene certainly has been on that case.
Byron Donald says that they will hold Hunter Biden in contempt.
This is exactly what they did with Steve Bannon.
Steve Bannon is facing a couple months in jail over a contempt charge from Congress.
Let's go!
maria bartiromo
Committee Chairman James Comer, as well as Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, say that they will hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress if he does not deliver and come through on Thursday for that closed door testimony.
What does that mean exactly?
Contempt of Congress.
So, is he really going to be afraid of that?
byron donalds
Well, first of all, that is absolutely what should happen.
He should be held in contempt if he ignores a congressional subpoena.
That's number one.
Number two, look, this guy, Hunter Biden, he thinks nothing can touch him because his daddy's been protecting him for years right now.
What we understand right now, Maria, is that if it wasn't for a federal judge actually looking at the first plea deal that David Weiss put together when he wasn't a special counsel, by the way, that plea deal was a joke.
They were going to hide all these tax charges under this under this gun charge, which, by the way, didn't even follow through with what it needed to do.
They were going to hide the Farrah violations under the gun charge.
And so the only reason this is coming forward is because of House Republicans continuing this investigation.
If Hunter Biden thinks he's going to run and hide now because his last name is Biden and his daddy is president, he's got another thing coming.
benny johnson
So, we've been banging the drum on them finally filing charges against Hunter Biden.
This is not because suddenly the better angels of the federal government decided that they would be moral and just and treat everyone equally.
There's something at play here.
I want to be smart, and I want this audience to be smart.
We owe it to you to try and discern why are they doing this right now to Hunter Biden?
Now, the quick takeaway is that you charge him with everything, you get Joe Biden to pardon him, and then Joe Biden drops out.
Who thinks that this is going to happen?
Joe Biden drops out and says, I would never be a president.
I could never run for president because of criminals in my family and because of federal charges, right?
I won't do that to the country.
I'm a better man.
And then he looks over at Donald Trump and says, every presidential candidate that's facing federal charges should drop out.
I believe that that has a high probability of happening.
Byron Donald's there saying that what may be happening here is they're trying to protect Hunter Biden.
He's saying, effectively, that Hunter Biden is facing these rounds of indictments and that this is supposed to stop the depositions from the House that they're actually scared of.
But they're finally dropping the shoe on Hunter Biden in order to get the House to back off.
The timing is suspect, says Byron Donalds.
Let's take a step back.
His attorney said that the reason he got indicted is because his last name is Biden.
No, the only reason that took so long for him to get indicted is because his last name is Biden, and House Republicans uncovered the web of corruption around the Bidens that the feds were trying to hide.
Moving over to the Federalist, let's be clear, this is about Joe Biden, not Hunter Biden.
When James Comer wandered on CNN why Special Counsel David Weiss had indicted Hunter Biden on nine tax-related charges to protect him from having to be deposed, the House Oversight Committee, Jake Stafford, snarkily responded, yes, that's a classic rubric.
They indicted him to protect him.
Got it.
Jake Tapper is such a boot-licking lackey for the regime.
If he is saying things like that, you know there's something at play here.
I want to be smart.
I don't want to take the red meat.
Right?
They throw you this red meat.
Look!
We've set up a special council on Joe Biden and classified documents.
Aren't you happy, Republicans?
No!
We're not happy!
Until you put him in prison for the crimes.
unidentified
We're not happy.
benny johnson
Like, they do these kind of things as a smokescreen.
To get us all to slobber over the piece of red meat that's in our bowl.
We're not going to do it.
We're not going to do it.
We're going to be smart.
Here we go.
From the Federalist.
Yes, indicting a person on lesser charges can often protect him from serious ones.
It happens all the time.
In this case, though...
Him isn't Hunter, it's Joe.
Weiss failed to indict Hunter for failing to register as a foreign agent or failing to pay taxes on the millions that flowed from those arrangements.
Why?
Probably because any investigation into Hunter's $170 million foreign influence peddling business, which Weiss had scrupulously avoided, leads to the President of the United States answering a lot of awkward queries as his connection to Hunter Biden and his disreputable business and their authoritarian regime clients.
There is no Hunter Biden case without Joe.
There is no Biden Inc.
without Joe Biden.
You've seen plenty about Hunter Biden's moral character, and you can see it in these charges.
This man is a sick, perverted, degenerate, womanizer, abuser, demonically possessed, creepy individual.
Again, you see him openly lying to the mother of his children, trying to not pay alimony while he's spending an entire mortgage on hookers.
Hunter's laptop.
A 30-year mortgage, not an annualized payment, a 30-year mortgage on hookers.
Again, I think we have the chart, right?
Where it like breaks down the amount that Hunter spent on hookers.
I think Zero had your liquidity had that chart, ALX.
Can we grab that?
I think it's important to note.
Meanwhile, he's lying to the mother of his children.
I can't afford any money for my kids.
They're a sick family.
Hunter's laptop, one that the New York Post got his hands on.
Tapper and others attempted to cover it up.
It was crammed with texts and emails from the son referencing his dad's role in securing the payments and tax cuts from the business.
None of that is mentioned in the numerous witnesses that have come forward to contend that the big guy has played part in the outfit, or checks that ended up being written to Joe, or a genuine investigation into the 20-plus shell companies that James Biden, Joe's brother, ran under Joe's command.
Weiss conveniently allowed some of these interactions and infractions to pass the statute of limitations, but some have not.
Hunter pulled in a million dollars a year from Burisma in 2017 while Joe was forging American policy in the nation, Ukraine.
It's a weird happenstance, the massive conflict of interest in the setting of Vice President's son.
Oh, and this is so, this is so beautiful.
This is so beautiful.
How does this all work?
I got it.
I got it.
Hunter Biden hooker payments, not seasonally adjusted.
Can we make that a little bigger?
$385,000 in the year that Joe Biden was planning his presidential run.
That's how much Hunter Biden spent in hookers.
It's almost like he knew he couldn't do it when daddy was running for president.
The other thing that was very interesting about this filing, there's a lot of really sick stuff in this charge against Hunter Biden, is that Burisma...
Paid Hunter Biden a million dollars a year when Joe was VP.
Then when Trump got into office, they cut that in half.
As soon as Trump's sworn in, they cut it in half to $500,000.
And then they reduce it to zero dollars by 2019.
How much of a smoking gun do you need?
We're coughing because the gun is smoking so much in the room.
God, it's so corrupt.
It's so corrupt.
It really does make your blood boil.
And then you have these...
Clips, these flashback clips of Joe Biden doing this little thing to the camera.
Being like, there's not a single bit of evidence against my son that my son is corrupt.
This is all you need to know what sick liars these people are.
Remember, the first sin was a lie.
The first sin on earth was a lie.
Eat of the knowledge of good and evil, eat the apple.
It's a lie.
This is the first sin, the original sin, was lying.
It'll make you really smart.
You'll be like God.
Don't trust liars.
When people lie to you, they disrespect you.
When people lie to you about little things, they'll lie to you about big things.
This seems like a really big thing that Joe Biden was lying about, especially since he knew that it's all, all of this, all of this was true.
The kid's laptop, the business deals.
Watch this clip.
It'll make your skin crawl.
unidentified
You think that everything that happened was kosher?
joe biden
You know there's not one single bit of evidence, not one little tiny bit, to say anything done was wrong.
You know that.
But you keep asking me these questions.
It's okay.
You're doing what you have to do.
But I'm not worried about it.
Look, the American public knows me.
benny johnson
Oh, okay.
Well...
The American public knows me.
What Joe Biden is saying there effectively is that there is a super state that has been created around him like a phalanx using the corporate press and our intelligence agencies that effectively use Joe Biden as a Muppet and they protect him at all costs.
So why are they going after him now?
This is not because they found their better angels.
And I have to check myself because when these charges first hit, I was like boom clapping.
But I gotta, like, step back and say, what's really happening here?
Trump-appointed judge will oversee Hunter Biden's tax evasion case.
Uh-oh.
First son faces 17 years in jail for a four-year $1.4 million tax evasion scheme and accused of spending millions on drugs, hookers, and fast cars instead.
The charges are pretty brutal, okay?
I gotta tell you, like, reading the document, they went hard against Hunter Biden.
And now they're putting it in front of a judge named Mark Skarsky, who's appointed by Trump.
They're forcing Joe out.
I mean, that's part of this, at the very least.
They're forcing Joe out.
And they have an ace in the hole.
Because what they have is these massive federal charges that are far worse than the tax charges called FARA charges, Foreign Agent Registration Act, that essentially mean that the entire Biden family name is destroyed forever.
Right?
So once you catch a FARA charge, Once you're seen as a foreign agent of another country, which is, of course, what the Bidens were, of multiple countries, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia, China, once you're seen as a foreign agent, once you violate that, then your family is destroyed.
Then you have nothing left.
You have no future, right?
This is the case that they really don't want to catch, and this is what the government's holding over their heads.
Drop out, Joe.
Drop out, Joe.
Otherwise, we've got Farah around the corner.
It's not far away.
Okay.
unidentified
Go.
jim jordan
Now, you mentioned there could be more charges.
What makes you think that?
unidentified
It's just my reading of the document in the first page.
I think the language is that they describe him as a lobbyist.
Lobbyists have to register under what's called FERA, the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which is a government way of saying that if you're working on behalf...
Of foreign interests, you have to tell the U.S. government.
In this case, the indictment spends a lot of time talking about Hunter Biden's business deals with the Ukraine energy firm Burisma.
It also talks about his work with a Chinese energy firm, CEFC, and it also talks about his work with Romania.
And that, to me, seems to leave the door open to potential fear of violations.
I would add that there has been some reporting, subpoenas have been issued for his business partner, the president's brother, James Biden, and that would go to the idea of Farah, you know, working together, lobbying on behalf of foreign interests.
Now, we say all of that, but their position has been that they— He accepts responsibility for this period in his life, but they've in no way admitted that they have been lobbying on behalf of those entities.
benny johnson
Am I saying it wrong?
They're saying Farrah.
I say Farrah.
Potato, potato.
It's the same thing.
The Bidens are corrupt and deserve to be impeached.
That is exactly what members of Congress are saying.
Byron Donald saying the impeachment articles are already being drafted, saying that they got him.
They got the case.
Now, they should impeach him.
The tactical thing to do here would be to impeach Joe Biden, knowing that the Senate would never convict.
You gotta do the thing.
Remember what they did?
Remember what they did with the impeachment of Donald Trump?
unidentified
They walk the articles over.
benny johnson
It's an overly dramatic thing where they're all macabre and they're walking the articles through the Senate, through the House, right?
They marched them over to the Senate.
Hope Republicans don't do that.
But they should file an article.
They should do the impeachment articles.
They should.
Apparently they got them all lined up already.
How are they going to do this when they only have like a two-seat majority?
I don't know.
But here's hoping.
maria bartiromo
Where do you see this going, Congressman?
byron donalds
Well, what I see happening is that over the next month or two, we're going to finish our investigation.
I do believe at that point it's going to be crystal clear that there are articles of impeachment that should be drafted for Joe Biden because, number one, he accepted bribes through his family from foreign nations, especially China and others.
Number two, he knew that his brother and his son were violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
I believe he's a co-conspirator in that because if you knowingly understand that your family's getting money from overseas and you don't tell them to register as foreign agents or foreign lobbyists or whatever, however you want to define it, that's a violation of federal law.
I believe that's enough to draft articles of impeachment against Joe Biden, and I believe that is going to happen.
benny johnson
So, Byron Donald, smart man, is saying, and he's on these committees, in front of the show, is saying they already have the articles of impeachment drafted, right?
These are formalities, and they're going to begin this trial at the worst possible time for Joe Biden.
Democrats know that they're in a really tough spot right now.
They're not in a great spot right now.
Joe Biden...
As being asked about this at the White House, just that alone is enough to make them quite nervous that Joe Biden is going to have to continue to answer questions on the record about this inside a little hermetically sealed bubble that they got him in.
Here's how it went when Joe Biden was asked about the charges against his son.
steven nelson
President Biden on Ukraine and also China, there is polling by the Associated Press that shows that almost 70% of Americans, including 40% of Democrats, I believe that you acted either illegally or unethically in regards to your family's business interests.
Can you explain to the Americans-- to Americans amid this impeachment inquiry why you interacted with so many of your son and brother's foreign business associates?
joe biden
I'm not going to comment on that.
I did not.
And it's just a bunch of lies.
steven nelson
You didn't interact with many of your business associates?
joe biden
I did not.
There's lies.
unidentified
Do you think there is any Democrat who could defeat Donald Trump other than you?
joe biden
Probably 50 of them.
unidentified
You do believe that there are?
joe biden
I'm not the only one to beat him, but I will defeat him.
unidentified
Who else do you think could defeat Donald Trump, Mr. President?
benny johnson
Who else do you think could?
There are 50 people who could defeat Donald Trump.
Oh, baby.
We'll get to polling here in just one second.
But let's start with the first part of that.
Lie from Joe Biden at the White House.
I never interacted with my kid.
Okay, so I could play you no shortage of clips from experts, from Congress, Jim Jordan, James Comer.
I got miles of them.
But to make it more painful for Joe Biden, how about I play this?
How about I play you a clip from CNN that says you're a liar?
unidentified
Liar!
Go.
Despite his denials, a CNN review of the laptop data, as well as other public material, shows that Joe Biden did interact with some of his son's associates while serving as vice president, though it's unclear exactly what was discussed.
One example, the Republican site, Miguel Aleman Magnani, a Mexican businessman and son of the former president who Hunter was trying to woo.
In 2014, Aleman Magnani and his dad were photographed at the White House with then-Vice President Biden.
In a later email, Hunter Biden reminds Aleman Magnani of the favors he's done for him.
We have been talking about business deals and partnerships for seven years.
I have brought every single person you have ever asked me to bring to the effing White House and the Vice President's House and the inauguration.
Hunter Biden bluntly acknowledged the power of the Biden name in a memoir, writing that the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which put him on its board, considered my last name gold.
I don't think that there's a lot of things that would have happened in my life that if my last name wasn't by.
benny johnson
How do you like CNN, the CNN reporter saying effing White House?
How do you like that?
Man, when CNN cracks open the Hunter Biden laptop and starts reading it on air, starts fact-checking Joe Biden, you know there's crisis.
It's crisis inside the regime.
Now, they're going to be voting.
This is what you're going to see in the news cycle.
Republicans, hopefully, Republicans formalize the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, right?
They have a vote, and the Republicans vote for it, and it moves forward, okay?
So that's hopefully what you're going to see.
Jim Jordan is, of course, our favorite little bulldog inside of the Congress, our favorite little grappler, the scrapper from the state of Ohio, and Jim Jordan explains why this is important.
We want you to be smart.
Jim Jordan is explaining why he must have this vote.
Give Jim Jordan what he wants.
Leave Jim Jordan alone!
Give the man what he wants.
Go.
jim jordan
And it's why we want to move forward with this impeachment inquiry vote where the full House goes on record.
A majority of the House of Representatives says, yes, we're in official impeachment inquiry phase of our oversight responsibilities because we think we'll be able to get additional emails better from the administration.
We'll have a better chance of getting them if we have to go to court.
And we'll get to have in for depositions these people we're talking with.
We think they're going to come in, but they'll come in sooner.
They'll come in faster if, in fact, we have an official vote to pass that on Wednesday.
benny johnson
So there we go.
It just gives them more teeth.
Clamp down.
Ah, dog.
Got a bone.
Get a bite.
Got a bone.
Bulldogs.
Now, James Comer was on the show last week.
James Jordan was on the show the week before.
We will continue the drumbeat.
We will be probably heading back up to Washington, D.C. to cover this, do live streams inside of congressional offices.
We're out here.
We are out here.
We're going to show you.
We will show you.
The truth.
And we'll bring on the people and we'll explain what's actually happening.
We are truth seekers on this show, so you want to stay tuned.
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What a nice little Christmas gift.
Ladies and gentlemen, go now.
What a nice little Christmas gift to look at the polling across the nation.
Holy moly!
These polls are unbelievable.
Trump beats Biden by 10 points in battleground Michigan and sees a surge of support in residents who didn't vote in 2020.
Remember, in that clip, Joe Biden told two lies.
The first lie is that he never communicated with his son's business dealings.
The second lie is that, oh, I'm going to beat Donald Trump, and I know 50 other people that could beat Donald Trump.
Really, Joe?
Interesting.
And interesting that he says that because, well, that does indeed seem like what they're trying to do here.
Here's a real clear politics average.
Again, it is astonishing, jaw-dropping, to be quite honest with you, to see Donald Trump.
Let me help you read this poll, because we do this all day.
Let me help you read this.
What this means is that Donald Trump is gaining support.
Joe Biden isn't necessarily losing a ton of support here.
He's sort of like sticking along a median.
There's going to be just this rigid group of lobotomized people that really like Joe Biden.
Again, they clap like seals when Madonna says, let's blow up the White House.
unidentified
This is...
benny johnson
Donald Trump gaining new voters, gaining support, gobbling up new support, convincing people that life was better under Trump.
It is a magnificent thing to see, and CNN is crying over it.
Ladies and gentlemen, get out your salt shakers.
Royce, let's get our salt shakers out.
We got a clip of CNN weeping, crying on air.
The salt, it must flow.
The salt must flow.
CNN on air reading the latest polls of Donald Trump, which is the best polling that Donald Trump has ever had in his political career, which, by the way, has spanned a decade because Donald Trump's been playing footsie with running for president since, like, the 80s.
Oprah asked Donald Trump to run for president in the 80s.
Oh, boy.
Oprah.
unidentified
Are you happy about that now?
benny johnson
Get out your salt shakers.
Our salt that lib moment of the day.
CNN sobbing on air, reading the latest polls.
unidentified
Transcription by CastingWords 5 a.m. here in Washington, where we have new CNN poll numbers this morning in two critical battleground states.
The news is not great for President Biden and his campaign.
The numbers show Donald Trump leading in both Georgia and Michigan.
In Georgia, a state Biden carried by a very narrow margin in 2020.
Registered voters say they prefer Trump over Biden by 5%.
In Michigan, which Trump won in 2016 but Biden carried in 2020, our poll now showing Trump 10 points up.
Note that a full 10% of those polled in each state say that they wouldn't support either candidate.
Trump's margin over Biden is significantly boosted in both states by people who say they did not vote in 2020.
These less engaged voters favored Trump by 26 points in Georgia and 40 points in Michigan.
benny johnson
40 points?
40 points?
unidentified
Jeez!
benny johnson
Do you believe it?
Do you believe it?
Here's just a quick cruise through the headlines right now.
Biden's 2024 re-election hopes look more bleak as another nationwide poll shows him losing to Robert Kennedy Jr., who's running as an independent.
Holy smokes!
Six in ten Americans want a third choice.
Holy cannoli.
A new Reuters-Ipsos poll, like many other polls in the past month, found Donald Trump in the lead, showing even more worrisome for Democrats as polls show independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy takes votes away from Biden.
Hot diggity damn.
New poll shows Trump beating Biden in 2024 with cash-strapped voters feeling hurt by Joe Biden's policies, concerned that the 81-year-old's capacity to hold office is dwindling.
Yep.
Donald Trump could beat Joe Biden in next year's presidential race.
New poll suggests President Biden's approval ratings has sagged, leaving him four points behind former President Trump in the new Wall Street Journal survey.
The hypothetical ballot match has Trump at 47% and Joe Biden at 43%.
Again, it is shocking to see these are the suppression polls.
And I know I say it a lot, but suppression poll is, what would happen if you picked up your phone and it's like, hi, I'm from CNN.
Can you please tell me your deepest, darkest secrets?
Would you answer honestly?
No, you click, right?
He's like, no!
I'm like, right?
Fake news, click!
That's what I mean by suppression polls.
The polling is broken because the media is broken and we no longer trust the media.
And people don't tell them the truth.
So these polls over-index Democrats and Joe Biden is still losing in a landslide.
Well, I should have just kept reading the headline.
Would have worked perfectly.
Ladies and gentlemen, big headlines out today.
Media Matters Hardest Hit.
There is an incredible new Headline out from the great state of Missouri, one of our favorite attorney generals in this great country, Attorney General Andrew Bailey.
Breaking news, we have reason to believe that Media Matters used fraud to solicit donations from Missourians in order to bully advertisers into pulling out of X, the last platform dedicated to free speech in America.
We have launched an official investigation into Media Matters.
The Attorney General continues.
His rampage in this great state of Missouri for free speech and for accountability inside of government.
This was the headline all day yesterday.
Attorney General Andrew Bailey of Missouri joins the program now.
unidentified
Thank you.
Thank you.
benny johnson
you you Mr. Attorney General, thank you so much for being on the program again.
Please explain what your announcement will be doing to Media Matters.
Where will this investigation lead?
andrew bailey
Well, thanks for having me on and covering this really important story.
Let me start by saying I believe in the right to free speech as a foundational principle of our republic.
And that right to free speech is under attack by radical progressive tyrants who will lie, cheat, and steal to take that freedom away from Americans.
And what we see here, the allegation is that Media Matters, a radical progressive advocacy group, has solicited...
Contributions, donations from Missourians in a scheme to defraud advertisers on Twitter, to get those advertisers to pull out of Twitter in an attempt to emphasize controversial speech and bully Twitter and its advertisers in order to not only rip off Missourians, but to destroy the last platform dedicated to free speech in America.
So we've launched an investigation.
If Media Matters didn't like the speech on X, they should have offered counter speech, not rip off Missourians in an attempt to manipulate the marketplace and shut down the last platform dedicated to free speech.
benny johnson
Now, when you say manipulate Missourians, can you unpack that, please?
andrew bailey
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, there's concern here, really, three concerns.
Number one, we know Media Matters is built on lies.
Again, this is a radical progressive advocacy group that is masquerading as a news organization.
No one should buy that.
But the alleged lies here are that, number one, they solicited donations from Missourians in a fraudulent scheme to take that money and then convert it into a coordinated market-manipulative attack on Twitter.
But then secondly, that the manipulations of the algorithms on Twitter themselves are in fact lies.
The whole goal for Media Matters was to juxtapose controversial speech next to images of these major advertisers in order to bully those advertisers into pulling out of Twitter so that Twitter, excuse me, X, would collapse.
We cannot let that happen.
We've got to protect Missourians.
benny johnson
Can you unpack how the manipulation...
Your office perceives this manipulation to have occurred via Media Matters.
andrew bailey
Yeah, certainly.
Well, we know from the Elon Musk's lawsuit that was filed against Media Matters that Media Matters is alleged to have used at least four independent and unique steps to manipulate the feeds in order to juxtapose these images.
In one instance, there are over 500 million users on Twitter.
And so in one instance, the odds of the images occurring next to...
The advertisers was only 2 out of 500 million.
Now, let's put that in context for a second.
The odds of winning the Powerball just recently were like 1 in 292 million.
So the odds were even less favorable that you would ever see this controversial speech next to these advertisers.
So clearly, the four steps that Media Matters took, and by the way, it was four steps, but one of the steps, they had to take an endless number of times in order to contrive and stage this fraudulent scheme to juxtapose these images.
So in fact, it was not Twitter who was...
controversial speech.
Why would they do that?
The only explanation can be because they wanted to manipulate the marketplace and drive these advertisers away from Twitter in a coordinated attack because they don't like Twitter because they can't control it.
benny johnson
And by the way, you name-dropped Elon Musk.
Elon Musk, recently on a space, was speaking about his lawsuit against Media Matters.
I guess we'll let the man speak for himself.
I'd like to get your reaction to this.
elon musk
So, I just generally am against evil propaganda machines, and so we are suing them in every country that they operate.
And we will pursue not just the organization, but anyone funding that organization.
I want to be clear about that.
Anyone funding that organization, we will pursue them.
So, Media Matters is an evil propaganda machine.
They can go to hell.
benny johnson
They can go to hell.
Evil propaganda machine, Mr. Attorney General.
Do you think your findings will substantiate this?
andrew bailey
Yeah, we believe so.
Look, again, there are grave concerns here about how Media Matters was soliciting funds from everyday Missourians.
How did they tell these Missourians that those funds would be used?
Again, this is a radical progressive group.
It's an advocacy group, not a news organization.
And when people in Missouri were sending their money to Media Matters, did they know that it would be used in a conspiracy to manipulate the marketplace to attack advertisers on Twitter?
And if not, then we've got a real problem here.
And again, state statute protects Missourians from that kind of fraud.
We're going to enforce state law, but the net result is a benefit to all Americans if we can protect the last platform dedicated to free speech in America.
And you've covered this issue throughout your time, but I want to just point out there are really three strategic fronts in the fight for the soul of America today.
Number one, the weaponization of government, where we see Biden and his cronies weaponizing the apparatus of government to go after political opponents like President Donald Trump.
That's unfair.
It's not right.
It undermines the rule of law, and it runs afoul of the founding principles of this nation.
Number two, the border.
If we don't have a border, we don't have a country.
President Biden has flung open the border to allow anyone in, and it's an invasion of our country at this point, and it's making Missouri communities less safe.
But finally, number three, the last strategic front in the war for America's soul is the right to free speech.
Are we going to be allowed to say, think and hear what we please?
Are we going to be bullied by progressive radical tyrants who want to take that freedom away from us?
This is a new front in the in the war for free speech.
And Missouri was first out of the gate and proud to be leading this fight.
benny johnson
Yes, indeed.
I suppose I do have a final follow-up here, and it is a question I've asked before.
Because you listen to the base, the voters, the audience on this show, and you've been on it multiple times, and the audience loves you.
You listen to what the Republican voters want, which is accountability, right?
Which is not cruelty or targeting, but accountability for evil and accountability for crimes.
And then the prosecution of those crimes, the prosecution of those crimes, not persecution, in order to find a just result.
And that will then stop criminals.
If you lock up a couple people, it stops criminals from continuing that process.
Donald Trump locked up Hillary Clinton.
Because you'd be in jail.
Like, that would have probably stopped quite a few shenanigans that occurred during the Trump administration.
I certainly believe that.
What I'm trying to ask here is, why are not more attorney generals, Republican attorney generals, and there's got to be dozens of them around the country.
There are dozens of them around the country.
Why are they not pursuing this as well?
Do you encourage, do you call on your fellow Republican attorney generals to grow a spine and a ball, a set of balls, and to actually go forth and to prosecute evil?
andrew bailey
Yeah, I think it's imperative that state attorneys general, especially like-minded attorneys general, join me in this fight for the soul of America, the right to preserve free speech, a foundational principle of our republic.
I would say that for far too long, conservative leaders have complained about this very issue, that we're being canceled, that the politically correct culture is silencing our voices, that we're being labeled as hate mongers for just...
Speaking opinions, and at the end of the day, the First Amendment has to mean something.
And here in Missouri, we're taking action.
This is the show-me state.
People demand results, and results matter.
And so we are putting lead on target and taking the fight to the enemies of freedom, and we're going to continue to protect Missourians and use the tools in our arsenal, state statute applied appropriately, as a means of accomplishing that objective.
And I would encourage all state attorneys general to do the same.
benny johnson
Yes, you defrauded Missourians, so here, now we're going to investigate you.
Stop it with the performative mewling.
We're being canceled.
The corporate media won't report on it.
Like, well, okay, build your own corporate media.
Sue!
Like, stop just allowing this to happen.
Stop just, like, sitting around like a poor dog and, like, allowing somebody to hit you.
Like, fight back!
And we're honored that you do so.
Thank you, Mr. Attorney General.
Godspeed.
andrew bailey
Hey, thank you for having me on.
All the best to you.
unidentified
God.
benny johnson
Godspeed and Merry Christmas!
Godspeed and Merry Christmas, sir!
And he starts saying Merry Christmas.
We're going to say Merry Christmas again.
One of my favorite, one of my absolute favorite all-time things that Donald Trump did.
It seems like a small thing.
It didn't have any policy, like, hard policy implications, I guess.
But it had big-time cultural implications.
Donald Trump saying, we're going to say Merry Christmas again.
We're going to say Merry Christmas again.
We've gotten eight years of happy holidays.
And now we're going to say Merry Christmas.
Was that photo of Donald Trump pointing at the Merry Christmas, the big red Merry Christmas sign?
Yeah, baby.
Can we put that one up?
That's a good one.
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Ladies and gentlemen, do we have the photo of Donald Trump pointing at Mary Chris?
There it is.
unidentified
Okay.
benny johnson
One of my all-time...
One of my all-time favorites.
Yes.
Yes!
We say, we say Merry Christmas.
Hey, hey, communist.
We say Merry Christmas.
Somebody who's, like, some little gremlin who's gobbling, like, who's begging for more gold, more American gold, into his failed war effort is Zelensky.
You're going to see a lot of headlines today about Zelensky begging for $44 billion in U.S. slush fund.
Corruption so that he can retire in the Azores on a private island after losing this war.
It is a humiliation.
We will, of course, be asking Tucker Carlson tonight about this.
Tucker Carlson, one of the few truth-tellers about what was actually going on in Ukraine.
Call your representatives saying no more money to Ukraine.
Republicans, rhino Republicans, are trying to be like, we'll tie it to border funding.
They suddenly care about the border, right?
Now that we're threatening their precious...
Ukraine money.
Now they suddenly care about the border.
Republicans haven't done jack for the southern border.
And now that Ukraine money is on the line, oh, but the border, yes, we care!
Shut up.
Not another penny for Ukraine.
Not now, not ever.
Not now, not ever.
The entire thing was simply a bailout for our professional political class.
It was all a fraud.
Ukraine has lost the war.
And now Zelensky is suing for peace in Switzerland.
So, at the World Economic Forum.
Of course!
Globalism is collapsing!
And we're here for it.
We're going to help take a sledgehammer to these monsters.
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We'll have Tucker Carlson tonight.
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We're going to steer the conversation towards what the brigade wants to talk about.
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We will look through them.
What do you want to have answered by Tucker Carlson?
What do you want Tucker Carlson to answer?
What is the point of what we're doing here?
The point of what we're doing here is to be a vector of power for you.
Is to have power, to give you power at a say in what's going on.
This is not a linear...
Like, terrestrial one-way conversation.
We put your comments up on screen during this show.
We're going to do a lot more of that.
And we also take your questions and then ask powerful people your questions.
Please join the Brigade today to support us, to keep us free, to keep this show independent so that we can book whoever we want, ask whatever questions we want.
It's, like, critically important, quite frankly, in a world of cancellation and censorship to have this.
And to have the Brigade at our backs, and we just gotta say Merry Christmas to you.
We love you.
We thank you.
The Brigade is just such an incredible group of patriots.
We will be taking your questions today for Tucker Carlson, and we will surface them tonight when we have Tucker Carlson live up, and then we'll have more reporting in the morning about...
What happened during the space?
We think it's going to be a wild one.
Again, some very, very special guests.
And we have something very special for you at the very end of the show here, which is our verse of the day as ever.
1 Corinthians 16, 13. Be on your guard.
Stand firm in the faith.
Be courageous.
Be strong.
We feel strong right now, ladies and gentlemen, as we fight and as we win and as we stand victorious, upright, as God designed us, we march forward.
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