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June 7, 2024 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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Hunter Trial NIGHTMARE For Biden! Baby Mama Goes Public, DESTROYS Joe: 'Never Met Granddaughter'🚨
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unidentified
And prosecutors are expected to conclude their case today after President Biden addresses if he will pardon his son if convicted.
jesse watters
Brooke Singman here with all the details.
brooke singman
The prosecution has two witnesses left before they're expected to conclude their case.
Then it's up to the defense to present any of their witnesses.
One name being floated here is James Biden, Hunter's uncle, who assisted him through his rehab stints.
Just this week, House Republicans issued criminal referrals to the DOJ for both James and Hunter Biden for allegedly lying to Congress in their depositions earlier this year as part of the impeachment inquiry of President Biden.
But the president made it very clear on where he stands on a pardon for his son if he's...
unidentified
As we sit here in Normandy, your son Hunter is on trial.
And I know that you cannot speak about an ongoing federal prosecution.
But let me ask you, will you accept the jury's outcome, their verdict, no matter what it is?
Yes.
jesse watters
And have you ruled out a pardon for your son?
unidentified
Yes.
brooke singman
Hallie Biden, the widow of Hunter's brother, Beau Biden, and Hunter's former lover, testified yesterday, indicating she thought Hunter may have been on drugs around the time of the gun purchase.
Hallie's saying she and Hunter were romantically involved from late 2015 through 2016.
She said Hunter gave her crack cocaine in June 2018 during a trip to Los Angeles.
That's when her struggle with drugs began.
She also says in October 2018, while cleaning out Hunter's car, she found remnants of crack cocaine and...
Surveillance video captured Hallie Biden disposing of the firearm outside of a grocery store.
The weapon was later found in a bag with cocaine residue by Edward Banner, who also testified and placed it into a sock before handing it to police.
Prosecutors then pulled the actual gun out in court, and Hallie said it looked very similar to the gun she had tossed into the trash can.
The weapon was found in a bag with cocaine residue.
Today, the prosecution is expected to call two final witnesses, an FBI chemist and a DEA drug expert.
The First Lady will be back in Wilmington, Delaware today, but it's not confirmed if she will be in court.
unidentified
You can look in a jewelry box.
A jewelry box of this nature.
Maybe a simple jewelry box.
But if you look through it closely, you don't know what your child may be hiding.
For instance, a gun.
Behind a picture frame, you can find bullets.
You should always, when your child brings in his popular knapsack with many different locations, look through it to see something as simple as a crack pipe.
Something simple as a baby doll could be a place where you can secrete or hide drugs.
Like a pillow like this with a button is a perfect invitation to hide something.
I've felt something bumpy.
I will reach in, see what it is.
Just look and see what's inside your bookcases.
It could be more than just books.
Perfect place to hide cocaine.
donald j trump
Come see me in the White House.
Thank you.
benny johnson
you you you you See me at the White House, says Joe Biden to Eric Adams, actually, in that famous video clip.
Because Joe Biden has some cocaine to hide at the White House.
Joe Biden has so many little baggies of cocaine.
We always talk about the cocaine at the White House as a joke, because I guess we are living inside of clown world right now.
But it's important to remember...
Ladies and gentlemen, that there were three baggies of cocaine found at the White House in different rooms.
Who's stashing bags of cocaine and for what purpose in different rooms right before the 4th of July holiday?
It's like somebody was getting their stashes on.
And most importantly, not trying to go on a rant here.
We have a whole show for that.
But they have the DNA tests.
In Quantico, Virginia, where the FBI's laboratory is, they have DNA samples of whose cocaine it is.
Do you know that?
I mean, it's just worth taking a second here and saying the federal government knows whose cocaine was in the White House.
There's DNA samples from in the baggies.
From all over it.
They're hiding it from you.
And who are they protecting?
And why?
And this is why we have to vote Donald Trump into office.
We have to release this information to the American people.
We don't live in a republic if we don't.
We live in something else.
If we, the American people, don't have the right to know who's doing coke, who's doing, like, massive, ripping massive lines off the bust of Teddy Roosevelt in the green room of the White House, on our tax dollar, in our home, the home of the people's house?
Like, then we don't have a republic, right?
Like, what do we have here?
It's not a republic.
It's something.
We gotta know.
We gotta know.
And then we should prosecute those people.
We should prosecute them today, Friday, June 7th, 2024.
Joe Biden said he will not pardon his son if his son is found guilty of gun crimes in a scowling, glaring, weird old Muppet Man moment.
Ladies and gentlemen, footage released of Haley Biden throwing Hunter's gun in a trash can.
So they did it.
There's more evidence now to put Hunter Biden in prison for the rest of his life than there has ever been to put Donald Trump in jail for a single scintilla of a second.
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All right, ladies and gentlemen, the Hunter Biden trial is back at it.
And the defense, sorry, correction, the defense, which kicks up and kicks off next week, the defense of Hunter Biden, if there is such a thing, I don't think there is, the prosecution of Hunter Biden may rest today.
May well rest today, which many are saying is a very, very good sign that they have been able to effectively – oh, they did rest, says executive producer ALX.
OK, so the defense has rested literally minutes ago at time of recording.
And so the prosecution and Hunter Biden trial rest its case.
There we go.
Pinned just minutes ago as we were going live.
Federal prosecutors wrapped up their gun case against Hunter Biden on Friday.
They called two final witnesses in their efforts to prove that the president's son lied on a mandatory gun purchase form.
He said was not illegally used or addicted to drugs.
The witnesses were an FBI forensic chemist, Jason Brewer, who tested a residue found on the leather pouch that contained Hunter Biden's gun.
It came back positive for cocaine.
Though the amount was minimal, he told jurors, oh, okay, well, is there a minimal amount of cocaine?
Are you allowed, like, a minimal amount of cocaine?
If the cops go search your car?
If your wife catches you in the garage with a, like, are you allowed a, I don't get, you're either on cocaine or you're not.
The federal NICS form.
And I love my firearms.
Are you with me?
I love my firearms.
I filled out a bunch of these forms.
There's probably a lot of federal forms that I don't know much about.
But these ones I do.
And the form itself doesn't say, are you on just a little cocaine?
If you're on a little cocaine, you can buy the firearm.
The form is very explicit.
Are you on any cocaine?
There it is, ladies and gentlemen.
There it is.
Perfect timing.
There's the actual question itself.
Are you on any mainline narcotic?
That's what the forum says.
Not, are you on just a little bit?
No, no, no, no, no.
It says, are you on any of these substances?
And Hunter Biden said no.
And so the FBI forensic chemists, those same FBI forensic chemists that live in Quantico, Virginia, that have the DNA sample from the little baggie of cocaine that was found at the White House, those guys, yeah, they say that the cocaine that was found on Hunter Biden's gun, which, by the way, like, let's take a step back.
Like, I try and keep my firearms meticulous and clean, and I clean them regularly, and I...
I mean, I don't know.
What's the right way to say it?
They shouldn't be dirty.
You shouldn't have them.
If you take them out to the range, you get some dust and stuff up at them.
That kind of stuff can actually lead to a terminal malfunction in the firearm when you need it.
So, what kind of a person are you if you're sprinkling cocaine on your gun?
Take a step back.
What kind of a person are you if you're sprinkling cocaine on anything?
It's like a Dave Chappelle episode.
It was like, sprinkle some crack on him!
unidentified
Right?
benny johnson
It's like a joke.
It's like, cops sprinkle crack on the guy, and then we framed him for a crime.
How much cocaine are you doing?
If you're kind of, like, getting it everywhere.
This is like the cooking scene, like the chef in The Little Mermaid, right?
unidentified
You know, pow, pow.
benny johnson
Baking powder everywhere?
Cocaine just everywhere?
All over your gun?
How much cocaine are you doing if it's sprinkled all over everything?
I guess the question is, what didn't have cocaine residue on it in Hunter Biden's life?
A Drug Enforcement Administration agent also testified about text messages Hunter Biden sent to alleged dealers.
Oh, man.
Okay.
Their testimony capped a week that has been largely dedicated to highlighting the seriousness of Hunter Biden's drug problem, though highly personal and often revealing testimony.
Defense attorneys may now call witnesses.
Got it.
Okay, ladies and gentlemen.
There's our update.
And of course, you know, all the news is showing sort of a crazy reveal of how...
This family truly is.
You know, how truly sunken are these people?
Well, here we go.
Let's just scroll right down to the next one there, Klein.
Jill Biden arrives at court in Delaware after a 3,500-mile dash from France.
First Lady is making a whirlwind trip.
She was in France for the D-Day events where Joe Biden...
Dropped the first bombs on Normandy in 80 years.
If you know, you know.
It's a Babylon Bee headline.
Joe Biden apparently caught with his pants down yesterday.
A super creepy moment where he just popped a squat on the stage in the middle of the D-Day ceremony.
Nobody was quite sure what the hell was going on.
Today, she's in court in Delaware.
On Saturday, she'll be back in France for a state dinner.
In all, she'll be making a 7,000-mile round trip to spend one day in court.
These are the people that talk about how we have to cut down on jet travel.
How we just stop all jet travel because of the environment.
Jill Biden is going to light the corpses of all of Jurassic Park on fire Get her Alice Cooper ass back into the courthouse for what exactly?
That's the question here.
What is Jill Biden doing as like this sort of looming maniacal presence in this courtroom?
What are they doing?
I'll tell you exactly what they're doing.
It's a mafia tactic.
You ever seen The Godfather 2?
It's a mafia tactic.
This is a crime family tactic.
This is what experts and people who've spoken to us, when we asked about this, like, this is a strange, this is a very strange thing.
What's going on here?
Well, Jill Biden is effectively acting as a member of the first family, right?
First lady, as a presence with the Secret Service, right?
And all the security now that's required when a member of the first family is in a room.
Jill Biden is there as an ever-present force saying, we are in control of this country.
Remember that if you rule against Hunter Biden, you rule against us.
This is why this trip is so important.
This is why they're sending Jill Biden back into the courthouse.
It is a tour de force.
It is a manipulation technique.
And it is a leverage technique for a crime family.
That's what's going on here.
This is what's going on here.
So Jill, the babysitter, continues as the babysitter, ladies and gentlemen, of Hunter Biden, even though he's 55 years old.
Incredible.
So we now look to the presumably what the defense could possibly be of Hunter Biden in the court.
What did we miss on Thursday, ladies and gentlemen, as we spent the day, I think very rightfully so, describing what was going on in France, what Joe Biden was doing to humiliate and desecrate the living memories of the Americans, living and dead, who gave their lives there.
On day four of Hunter Biden's federal gun trial...
It's centered on how Haley Biden found his firearm and threw it out in a nearby grocery store, how the police tracked the weapon down after it was found by a retiree.
Video also showed of Haley disposing the gun.
We'll show you that video in just a second.
Haley, who is the widow of Hunter Biden's dead brother, testified Thursday about her romantic relationship with Hunter, the couple's drug use, and finding the gun.
Once Haley Biden...
Left the stand, a trio of witnesses testified about the series of events that led police to recovering the ditched weapon.
They include a Delaware police officer, Joshua Marley, who responded to Haley Biden's call notifying the police that she had thrown away a gun in a nearby grocery store.
Marley testified that he reviewed security video and searched the trash cans in the store.
He didn't find the weapon.
He interviewed Hunter Biden as part of the case.
The former state trooper, Millard Greer, Who described tracking down the man and collected recyclables from the store and found the gun.
When Greer approached the man, he handed over the weapon, ammunition, and a speed loader, all of which Hunter Biden purchased.
The 80-year-old who found the gun, Edward Banner, who said he'd been collecting recyclables from the trash can since he retired, how he recovered the weapon.
He also testified that no one in his home uses cocaine.
This was relevant because the prosecutors say the FBI investigators found cocaine residue on the pouch of the gun.
Whew, man.
Alright.
So, ladies and gentlemen, we begin with some of our breaking news from the trial.
Joe Biden being interviewed yesterday in a very grouchy, very frowny, very grumpy way being asked whether he's going to pardon his son.
Let's go.
unidentified
As we sit here in Normandy, your son Hunter is on trial.
And I know that you cannot speak about an ongoing federal prosecution.
But let me ask you, will you accept the jury's outcome, their verdict, no matter what it is?
Yes.
benny johnson
And have you ruled out a pardon for your son?
unidentified
Yes.
Yes.
benny johnson
There's a puppet.
It's like a comedian.
That has, like, a puppet of an old man.
I can't remember.
What's this guy's name?
Jeff something?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, Jeff with a D. And he has, like, the puppet.
And it's Joe Biden.
And Jerry, I'm going to need a...
Yeah, Jeff Durham.
A Dunham.
I'm going to need, like, a side-by-side of Joe Biden in that interview with the puppet.
Because it's the same thing.
It's the same thing.
And we've called Joe Biden a puppet.
And it's nice to just prove these things every once in a while.
It's nice to just, like...
Sort of be able to like put a pin in it and be like, oh yeah, he's like a literal puppet.
He's like the puppet on stage.
Wish Joe Biden's being trotted out today.
It's number seven.
All right.
So this was maybe the reason Joe Biden was frowning.
I do want to give you sort of a reminder that Joe Biden either crapped himself on stage or was just having extra dementia that day as he reached for a chair that wasn't there and made a strange squatting noise.
Squatting noise.
Squatting position, right?
Joe Biden getting into position.
Joe Biden covering her mouth like in horror.
So Joe Biden meets the president of France, says hello, goes back, gets into squatting position, okay?
And then Jill has to like cover her face and be like...
unidentified
Right?
benny johnson
There you go.
And then now Jill's right back to babysitting a Biden across the ocean.
And again, global warming is real, okay?
Reminder, global warming is real, okay?
So how much of a crime family operation is this?
Witness intimidation is something that is regular and prevalent in a situation like this.
You would assume that the family members would be using their leverage and manipulation.
to try and coerce specific types of testimony to go easy on Hunter Biden, and that's exactly what happened.
Apparently, Joe Biden visited Haley Biden just days ago.
Here we go.
jesse watters
Haley Biden took the stand.
She's Beau's widow, who Hunter had an affair with and got her hooked on crack.
Key witness in the case.
She's the one who tossed Hunter's revolver in the trash can.
Joe Biden paid her a visit before she testified.
unidentified
Did he get what he wanted?
benny johnson
So why would this be even be allowed?
Like Jill Biden to be there as an intimidation witness in the court?
Joe Biden to be able to go like person to person in these witnesses?
Aren't there rules against stuff like this?
I don't know.
I'm no lawyer.
Haley Biden did testify, though, all day yesterday.
She testified that Hunter Biden got her addicted to crack.
So not a great guy.
unidentified
Hallie Biden was on for several hours today.
She was off the stand by the afternoon.
And tomorrow, the prosecution only has two more witnesses before the defense takes over this case.
So it's possible we could have a verdict by early next week because the defense will put on some case.
We just don't know what yet.
That's Hallie Biden walking confidently out of the courthouse this afternoon.
The sister-in-law of Hunter Biden, but as you mentioned, also the ex of Hunter Biden.
She was married to Hunter's brother, the late Beau Biden, who died in 2015.
she and Beau have two children.
After he died, she and Hunter were in a romantic relationship in the middle of his drug addiction, an addiction that eventually became her addiction, she says.
She testified that sometimes she met with Hunter while he met with drug dealers.
She told jurors in 2018 she visited Hunter at a hotel in Los Angeles and she began using crack herself.
Hallie called this time in her life terrible.
She said she was embarrassed and ashamed.
it.
benny johnson
A reminder that...
Your first lady has a post-up on X right before the 2020 election to talk about putting decency back in the White House.
Now, last time I checked, and I'm not, you know, I'm not 100% on all of these details, but last time I checked, none of the Trump kids have been caught doing crack.
While sleeping with their dead sibling's widow, getting them addicted to crack, and then committing numerous federal felonies, including but not limited to sprinkling cocaine on your gun that you illegally purchased.
It may just be me, Joe Biden.
Decency is on the ballot.
Just a reminder.
Decency is on the ballot.
Okay?
Yeah.
Judge a man by his children.
Really, it's a very, very sharp and easy way.
It's a very quick life hack way to figure out who's lying, right?
Judge a tree by his fruit, says Jesus Christ.
Okay.
So Hallie Biden, Haley Biden, Hallie Biden.
The widow of one Biden son, the lover of the other Biden son, the crack addict mom, and she's like a mother of two children.
You get the mom of two children, the single mother of two, the widow of two children addicted to crack.
You're a great person, really.
What a great family, in fact.
How did Joe Biden allow all of this to happen?
Oh, who knows?
Maybe he was approved.
Maybe he approved of it.
Maybe he was...
Maybe it's too busy reading Ashley's diary.
Remember the good old times.
We're not sure.
But we do know that there is for sure video of Hallie Biden taking the firearm and throwing it into the dumpster.
And it was played for the jury.
The number of federal crimes here that are being committed are hard to really enumerate.
But, you know, we'll just begin by saying don't do this ever, right?
You, if you do what Halle Biden's about to do on camera and just throw a gun into a dumpster, you will never, ever see the light of day again.
You will be in jail forever.
Like, don't do it, okay?
But here's a practice and privilege.
From the Bidens.
Let's go.
unidentified
In late October 2018, and this is the month when the alleged crime happened, Jesse, she says that she saw a hunter.
She went to clean out his car to see if there were any remnants of alcohol or drugs, and she found a gun.
This is surveillance video of her allegedly throwing out that gun in a trash can near a local grocery store here in Wilmington.
A man later found it.
He was looking for cans to recycle in the trash can, and he kept it in a sock until he turned it over to police.
Hunter allegedly lied on a gun form on October 12, 2018.
Days later, a flurry of text messages between Hunter and Hallie.
Halley texting Hunter, police coming to talk to me now.
I'll take full blame.
I don't want to live like this anymore.
This is too much for me to handle.
Hunter replied, the expletive FBI, Halley, it's hard to believe anyone is that stupid.
That was just one of several text messages between the two in October 2018.
And that's the month when this alleged crime happened.
I'm sorry.
Thank you.
benny johnson
So, great people.
Smart people.
Important for you to know that these are the individuals running your government.
Your government operates on a basis of institutional trust.
Do you trust the FBI?
Do you trust the justice system?
Do you trust the office of the presidency of the United States?
Do you trust your elections?
Do you trust your FDA?
Do you trust the CDC?
Do you trust the NAID?
That's, of course, the infectious.
National Institute of Infectious Diseases that Dr. Fauci ran.
Your answer to all of those questions were probably no, no, no, no, no, no, no, and hell no on HockeySick.
And that's just fine.
Those institutions have not earned your trust because trust is something, of course, that is earned, not given.
But also they have...
Done everything they can to possibly betray your trust.
Now, when you have somebody like Hunter Biden, who's talking in that text message about the FBI coming after him, and then nothing happens to Hunter Biden, even though they broke, he and his dead brother's widow that he was banging broke innumerable laws, and nobody goes to prison, and nobody goes to jail, nobody gets charged with anything.
By the way, this was 2018.
This was all happening under a Trump justice system.
Now, this isn't a knock at Trump.
Trump is a very, very busy guy.
It's not like this was the number one thing Trump was following.
This was probably kept from Donald Trump.
Donald Trump's justice system and the FBI was so corrupted, even under a Republican president, that they were able to stop charges from being brought against these people.
When you, again, would spend the rest of your life, they would throw away the key.
They'd melt the key down.
Make a little necklace out of it.
Send it to you in prison.
And say you're done, right?
You're done.
You're a legally obtained firearm.
You sprinkle a bunch of crack and coke on it.
Film yourself doing the crack and coke.
Throw it into a dumpster next to a school.
Blame a bunch of Mexicans on it, which they did.
Lie to the police.
Lie to the FBI.
You're...
Dude, you're in jail forever.
The Bidens didn't even see charges until nearly...
Eight years later.
You know, the year of 2024.
So what's going on here?
And why haven't these people been charged?
And it leads us to, like, another big question about their next star witness, which is Jim Biden.
You know, the more you read through Hunter Biden's laptop, you realize that Jim Biden was kind of like the...
Firm hand behind a lot of these business deals.
And it wasn't that firm.
You know, Jim Biden is a true criminal.
But there's only so many hours in a day and you have to have somebody who's actually like pushing this stuff.
And it was Jim Biden who was the one who was really driving these operations.
Jim Biden, for instance, is somebody who was driving a huge Medicaid and Medicare fraudulence Ponzi scheme.
Here in the state of Florida that ended up with a bunch of hospitals closing down, got him federally investigated, pushing a bunch of little children and grannies in the red state of Florida to the curb, defrauding foreign investors.
All of this happened right here on the red state, on the red soil of Florida.
Now, where the hell is Ashley Moody?
Marco Rubio will be joining us soon.
I'm going to ask this question.
Where's Ashley Moody, our secretary, our attorney general here?
Or better yet, where's the district attorneys in the state of Florida opening up investigations into Jim Biden?
These are crimes that he did on our soil.
And I won't stop.
We won't stop asking this question until Jim Biden is dragged into a hot, swampy courthouse in the middle, in the center of Florida.
In a Trump-plus-50 county with a Trump-donating judge staring down a jury filled with people waving little American flags with buffalo horns on and MAGA hats, right?
And a huge dip in, a zin, right?
And every one of them sitting back listening to Jim Biden explain why he defrauded and shut down their local hospital.
And stole their money and destroyed their healthcare system.
And then Jim Biden needs to be charged and spend the rest of his life in prison in a hothouse jail cell with no air conditioning in a very mosquito-infested part of the Everglades.
Can you tell I've thought about this?
This needs to be then a message to the Bidens and to every Democrat.
That we're going to play by the same rules.
Nonetheless, I'm going to continue to push for that.
This audience, I read the comments.
Read them right now.
The audience seems to like this plan.
We have some considerable sway in the state of Florida.
A lot of powerful people coming on this program.
And we're going to continue to push for that result.
Why not do it?
Your balls fall off, as the Joker would say.
You can figure out a way.
Charge him.
Bring the charges now.
Do it.
Jim Biden, apparently, we know where he's going to be.
He's going to be testifying in Delaware.
unidentified
Also to note that James Biden, the president's brother, also known as Jim Biden, Hunter's uncle, who did some business deals with Hunter, he is expected at some point to be called as a defense witness, maybe even as soon as tomorrow.
We just don't have the list from the defense quite yet.
They will announce tomorrow, though.
Jesse.
benny johnson
So what's the plan?
To defend Hunter Biden, how do you defend the guy?
You have the DNA, the crack residue, the video evidence.
You have the police reports, Hunter Biden blaming the Mexicans.
We keep saying that.
We're not trying to be pejorative here.
We're not trying to smear the guy.
According to the police report, he literally says, oh, look, there's some Mexicans.
It was probably them.
He did it in the police report.
It's been published.
Hunter Biden, like, saw...
It's incredible.
According to the police report, he says, probably some illegals.
There it is, highlighted right there.
Probably some illegals.
Maybe it was them that did it, Copper.
Look, two Mexicans.
Aren't they scary?
Look!
Go get them.
Go!
Okay.
unidentified
Haley, grab the crack pipe and run.
benny johnson
That's what he did.
So what exactly is the defense for this guy?
Uh...
Let's have a listen.
Here's some insight into what we may hear today into next week.
unidentified
For C coming, they apparently will rest their case maybe as early as tomorrow.
miranda devine
That's just the prosecution.
And then Abby Lowell will get stuck into creating the sob story about Hunter Biden and his drug addiction and his family tragedies.
Look, I think it could work with the jury.
They only need one to hang the jury.
And Abby Lowell has this very complicated theory.
That says that Hunter Biden, in his mind, did not regard himself as an addict in that moment that he signed the gun form.
benny johnson
Cool.
unidentified
Cool.
benny johnson
So my wife's family's from Delaware, and they've been in Delaware for a very long time.
It's like three, four, five generations.
And so what exactly do the people of Delaware think about this?
Are they convinced, you know, Joe Biden has ruled over that state like a little Kim Jong-un tin pot dictator and the Biden crime family is trying desperately to maintain their relevance.
It was supposed to be Beau Biden who took over the reins, right, and continued to rule with the iron fist.
And Beau Biden tragically died, not in Iraq, but he did die of a brain tumor.
We only say that not as a knock.
I'm not trying to be, like, mean or anything.
It's just that Joe Biden regularly commits stolen valor is what it's called.
Stolen valor.
So when somebody who didn't serve in the military wears a uniform right, tries to, like, get extra money or something.
Somebody, like, tries to claim that they served and they didn't.
Or tries to, like, claim that they were injured or something and that injury never happened and pull at the heartstrings.
This is what Joe Biden does.
He does stolen valor with his son.
Beau Biden, saying that he was killed in Iraq when he wasn't killed in Iraq.
And so it's important to, like, separate that because that's a pretty serious issue for people.
And you should never, ever commit stolen valor.
You should never do that.
It's a repulsive thing.
What do the people of Delaware think about the Bidens and this trial?
Are they happy about it?
Are they excited?
About what's going on?
Jesse Waters went to the streets of Wilmington, a city in total decay and decline and collapse, and asked.
And here's what he found.
unidentified
Where's Hunter?
I don't know where Hunter is.
I don't know.
He's drinking.
He's over by the beer.
donald j trump
Down the street.
unidentified
In court.
If you were on the Hunter Biden jury, would you find him innocent or guilty?
donald j trump
Guilty.
unidentified
Guilty for lying.
I don't like nobody that lied.
marco rubio
I don't think it's a big deal, really.
unidentified
Did he kill anyone?
No.
He's innocent.
Guilty, but I guess if they pay me enough, he's innocent.
marco rubio
Hunter's in court for lying on a gun form.
donald j trump
If you lied on a gun form, what would happen to you?
unidentified
I would be in jail pronto.
I'm going to jail.
He's in jail.
Locked up.
I would go to jail.
I don't know.
I never lied on a gun form.
donald j trump
You'd be in jail.
benny johnson
But Hunter said he didn't want the gun.
marco rubio
When he went into the store, the salesman forced him to buy it.
Do you believe that?
unidentified
Could you imagine me saying that?
I got a gun unconsensually.
When you catch me with my hand in the cookie jar, I gotta tell you something.
lunden roberts
They try to get their money.
marco rubio
When was the last time someone forced you to buy something?
lunden roberts
Earlier with my spring rolls.
unidentified
Show me the money!
Okay.
benny johnson
Ha ha ha ha ha So, one, massive fan of...
Jesse Waters' Man on the Street segments.
This is how Jesse Waters got his start at Fox.
He was the Man on the Street guy for Bill O 'Reilly.
So it's a very interesting career trajectory for Jesse Waters.
We're a fan of his show and obviously a fan of his segments there.
Very entertaining.
Well done.
So the people of Delaware really don't have time for this drama.
Delaware is a state that is in financial collapse.
And has some deep crises that they are experiencing right now.
And so this distraction and this proof that you pretty much live inside of an oligarchy or kleptocracy with the Bidens at the top, this trial is just effectively demonstrating all of that.
And also demonstrating kind of the banality of the Biden family and how cruel that they are.
Not just to the people of Delaware, but to the people who are affected by their lives.
Remember, like, the excuse for Hunter Biden in front of federal authorities was, hey, look, there's some Mexicans.
It was probably them.
That was the excuse.
That's in the police report.
Yeah, sir, but the crack on the gun matches your DNA.
Oh, yeah, but it was probably the Mexicans, right?
Got it?
Got it, boys?
Let's just do it old school, right?
This is what's in the report.
First time Hunter Biden did that, by the way, Hunter Biden blamed Africans for getting him kicked out of the Navy with crack.
If you're a listener of this show regularly, you'll know this, but these are the little things that only we read through and investigate and actually pick up.
Hunter Biden, when he was kicked out of the Navy for crack cocaine, blamed it officially on two Africans.
That he bummed a cigarette from.
Yeah, it's a great family.
Great family.
Hunter Biden was on crack when he impregnated a stripper and then had a daughter with that stripper.
For the first five years of that daughter's life, that young little girl's life, her name is London Roberts.
She, correction, her name is Navy Joan Roberts.
Her mother is London.
Joe Biden refused to acknowledge, Joe and Jill Biden refused to acknowledge.
The existence.
Her existence at all.
Never spoke with her.
Never communicated with her.
Never talked with her.
And would hang stockings by the White House fireplace for the dog, for the German shepherds, who are ravenous, who bite every single person they see.
Again, the dog is the reflection of the owner.
Look at the children.
Look at the animals.
How do the animals behave?
How do your animals behave?
How do your children behave?
That's like a really good reflection of who you are.
Okay?
That's just a good...
So Joe Biden's dogs are out here like velociraptors, like sinking their teeth into just absolutely anything that moves.
And Joe Biden's kids are getting their dead brother's widows addicted to crack.
Right?
Lying about it?
Sprinkling Coke on their guns.
And then Joe Biden himself is reflecting the timber of his personality by never speaking with his biological granddaughter.
Well, now that mother, London Roberts, is doing a bit of a publicity tour.
She's written a book.
That book will be out later in the summer.
And she gave her first exclusive interview to Piers Morgan.
This is the woman who had sued, had to sue Hunter Biden and take him to court in order
And this is also, and most importantly, the person who would be able to generally explain Have you ever heard from either President Biden or the First Lady?
piers morgan
Directly?
lunden roberts
No.
piers morgan
phone call or a letter or anything?
unidentified
No.
piers morgan
Do you find that surprising?
lunden roberts
No, I don't, really.
I just feel like that's something that, you know, they've waited for Hunter to step up before they step into.
piers morgan
Would you like the president, and if he's watching this interview, what would you say to President Biden about potentially meeting Navy at some stage?
lunden roberts
That door is always open.
Always has been, always will be.
I know that there's been a lot of toxic legal action that's been around Navy and litigation.
And I feel like that door is open and, you know, that that toxic litigation is gone and I hope never has to come back.
And to be on the same playing field moving forward.
benny johnson
So.
Ciao.
So, Joe Biden never even called.
Got it?
Never even called.
A stocking for the ravenous, bloodthirsty German shepherds hung over the hearth in the White House, but not for the daughter, their biological granddaughter.
Is that enough to, like, show you?
Is that enough to show you the actual moral timber of these people?
Is this enough?
Have you guys seen this?
We did ask for it earlier in the program, and I would deign...
To not show you this incredible side-by-side here of Joe Biden as the puppet from Jeffrey Dunham and his comedy routine.
It's just perfect.
It's just perfect.
The puppet's name is Walter, okay?
And it's just incredible.
If Joe Biden put on a bow tie, it'd just be a pure ringer.
Look at that.
This is amazing.
No Photoshop.
That's just a direct shot from the interview that we played you earlier.
Wow.
Wow.
I mean, way to go, ladies and gentlemen.
It's something that I suppose would be the expression of Joe Biden, were Joe Biden, to fully comprehend how bad Bad he is doing right now in the polls.
Fully comprehend the backfire that is occurring across the country.
And perhaps this is the expression that Joe Biden had when he looked at the recent reporting that my next guest was just delivered a vice presidential paperwork vetting from the Trump campaign.
Stop beat around the bush or not.
Talk about the elephant in the room, ladies and gentlemen.
The elephant on the ticket, the GOP ticket, will be Donald Trump at the top.
Will the next name followed be Marco Rubio?
Well, that, ladies and gentlemen, will be our first question to Senator Marco Rubio, who joins us live now.
unidentified
Thank you.
Thank you.
benny johnson
you you Senator, how are you today?
Thank you so much for joining our program.
Congratulations.
It's been a big week.
marco rubio
Well, I mean, every week's a big week these days in our country, unfortunately, in some cases.
But yeah, let's see what next week brings.
benny johnson
Yeah, that's right.
unidentified
Okay.
benny johnson
So, I want to begin by saying, you know, your name, again, hit the news feeds.
It's been a regular occurrence for the last couple months.
A lot of little birdies coming on our program, talking you up.
And I just, I suppose, want to get your response to the news about you being vetted this week.
Any updates there?
marco rubio
Yeah, I don't have any update on that.
I mean, I keep reading these articles.
I imagine, you know, between now and the day that President Trump picks somebody, you'll see more and more of these.
But I've been through this once before, back in 2012.
So I would just tell you the best.
The advice I can give everybody is there's going to be a vice presidential pick.
It's going to be made by one person on the planet.
His name is Donald J. Trump.
And I would leave it to them to sort of make any comments.
And if it isn't coming from them directly, I wouldn't believe it.
It's not like the mainstream media in America or NBC News or anybody else has special connections or insight into that campaign.
So, look, they're going to make a great choice.
I think the more important thing that I point to is if you look at the list of people.
Who is that comparable list in the Democrat Party, right?
They don't have one.
I mean, you just think about, there's eight people out there that you would look at and say, oh, yeah, they could be president.
They could be vice president.
You know, that's the number one qualification for it.
I mean, the Democrats, if, you know, if Joe Biden were to somehow try to sit in some imaginary chair, hypothetically, and fall and not be able to be president, who would take the place on the ballot people keep talking about?
Is it Kamala Harris?
Gavin Newsom, who's destroyed a once great state?
I mean, who is the and we've got like 12 people out there that could serve in that role as vice president.
So I think it's a blessing as a Republican.
So many good people.
But I leave it to the Trump.
I'm not trying to be evasive.
It's just that it's their process and it's their decision.
So I'll let them talk about that.
benny johnson
Of course, to be quite frank, Senator, we get tired of asking the questions because we know there is one man who makes this decision and it'll be made around convention time is what we've been told.
And so you're just – especially with the news cycle this week, you're just – you're deigned to ask about it.
And I guess the other question that regularly comes up would be a constitutional one about residency and how would that work.
But apparently your office has an answer on that.
marco rubio
Well, no, I mean, the answer, you know, is...
Basically, Florida, for example, if he picked two people from Florida because he's a Florida resident, Florida's electors would not be able to vote two people from Florida.
Dick Cheney had that issue because he lived in Texas, and so he moved to Wyoming.
Hillary Clinton moved to New York.
She never even lived in New York to be senator there.
Politicians have been doing that for time and time.
It's actually a relic.
I probably know more about this just because I haven't asked about it so many times than I ever thought I would know.
But the key to that is that basically somebody on January 7th or whatever the day is in 2025, some Democrat could stand up and challenge the electors from Florida unless one of those two people would probably.
But I guarantee you there will be challenges when Donald Trump wins and it won't just be on that.
I mean, there are some Democrats already openly saying that he's an insurrectionist and he shouldn't be allowed to stand for office and those votes should be disqualified.
Same people trying to get him kicked off the ballot in a couple of states.
So I think that's a resolvable issue, but I don't think that's going to be a factor in who he picks.
And like I said, I don't know who he's going to pick.
I don't think anybody on earth knows who he's going to pick except him.
It's his decision to make, and he'll make a good one.
I'm pretty sure that because he's got a lot of good people to pick from.
benny johnson
That's right.
You bring up such an interesting point about there being no bench on the left.
And just since we're on this topic, and I want to move to a bunch of other news, but since we're on this topic, there doesn't seem to be anybody that really piques any interest or even has any type of intellectual stimulation going on on the left.
However, were this picked to be you, you would have to sit across from somebody in a vice presidential debate who would potentially say a comment.
kamala harris
When we talk about our children, I know for this group, we all believe that when we talk about the children of the community, they are the children of the community.
benny johnson
They are the children of the community, Marco.
I think that's a profound statement.
It's about as profound as this.
Just one final nugget of wisdom that you may hear at a vice presidential debate right across from you.
kamala harris
We all watched the television coverage.
Of just yesterday.
That's on top of everything else that we know and don't know yet based on what we've just been able to see.
And because we've seen it or not doesn't mean it hasn't happened.
But just limited to what we have seen.
benny johnson
So how would you, Senator, be able to, you know, rock on tour with such wit?
marco rubio
It'll be hard to address what's been addressed and which has been said and has been said now, whether it's been said or not.
You know, it'll be difficult to address the unaddressable in an addressable way.
And we'll have to work on that, I guess.
andrew mccabe
Is that pretty good?
benny johnson
Yeah, I feel like it'd be a very Austin Powers mind explosion.
Because if you hit Kamala Harris with a rhetorical flourish like that, I think the circus would all fry.
I think we'd...
Yeah.
marco rubio
People would just say, okay, switch the channel.
But I think your broader point about the bench, look, we've always had people in America that want to higher taxes, more government.
I mean, that's the traditional 80s, even 90s liberalism versus conservatism.
And that's an ideological debate, and it happens all over the world, and it's happened in this country.
But what's happened over the last 20 or 30 years, I always assumed, right, up until very recently, that everybody agreed this was a great and fantastic country.
Our history isn't perfect.
It's just better than anybody else's.
It's extraordinary.
There's no comparison to America and the history of mankind.
5,500 years of recorded human history.
Nothing like it when you add it all together.
It's very special.
And I assumed everybody sort of agreed on that premise.
And yes, there were some...
Marxists on the far left that argued America was this terrible place that needed to be rebuilt and destroyed and rebuilt.
But that was on the fringes.
I think what perhaps we didn't all...
It took me, to my surprise, time to fully realize is how embedded in the mainstream that fringe idea had become.
Not always openly, but how...
And so what happens is that that's now become...
Maybe not.
I don't think it's the majority of Democratic voters, but I think it's certainly the majority of people with power and influence in the Democratic Party, seeing it play out, whether it's in Hamas or everything else.
And so if you want to rise in Democratic politics, you must come from that line of thinking or at least be acceptable to them.
And I think that knocks out a lot of people that could potentially be a candidate that appeals to the broader group of Americans that have things like common sense and love America.
And so I think it's really become very difficult for someone in the Democratic Party to rise unless they come from that universe.
In the case of Joe Biden, that's not been his history.
But I think actually Joe Biden is the perfect president for people that view America as evil and needs to be dismantled.
Because he has no political base, and clearly he's in rapid decline, so it's perfect for them.
Because then, you know, the less powerful, the less on top of it the president is, the more the people underneath him.
At the career bureaucracy and staff and everybody else is making the decisions, the more powerful they become.
And so he's had to populate his White House and his administration with people from this fringe that now become the mainstream on the left.
And to them, he's perfect.
He's the perfect cutout.
I mean, because they don't have to worry about a president saying, hey, guys, maybe this goes too far.
He's just going to read whatever index card they hand him right down to the instructions like.
benny johnson
It does, whenever we do debate shows, it does cause us to pause and reset the table.
And we just did this last night with a Piers Morgan hit with a bunch of, you know, panel libs.
Like, this isn't normal, actually.
And what's the idea that you're going to put a...
President, leading presidential candidate in prison five months before the election.
That's no tradition that anybody shares in this country for 250 years.
Not Republican, Democrat, Green Party or Independent.
Nobody's ever done that.
And that's actually a tradition that's totally foreign to our system, which is Stalinism.
And Marxism, where you lock up your political opponents out of sheer brunt force of power and your inability or lack of desire to allow the will of the people.
And you and your family have a history with that in Cuba.
And so many people in the state of Florida and potentially around the country.
I have a history with that style of totalitarianism and Stalinism.
And I have a two-part question for you.
One, how would you reach those people?
Because those people don't want that system here.
I think that's a very clear binary, Senator.
You speak with any immigrant, whether it's first or third generation, they don't want that system to come to America, yet here we are.
And then two, how do you encourage your Republican colleagues to stop having these Like, good faith, these good faith arguments on the merits of this.
Because there is, like, a moment where you kind of pull the switch and you're like, no.
What you've done is not American.
marco rubio
Yeah, so these are political trials, right?
And so when you come from countries, you were born in a country, raised in a country, flooded country that had political trials.
You recognize them.
You recognize them before the people in politics recognize it.
So I don't think we need to reach them as much as we just need to be there for them to reach us, because I think people have come to that conclusion.
It is them.
It is from them that I have gotten this idea that this is comparable, not just to what you saw in Cuba after Fidel Castro took over, what you saw in the Soviet Union for a long time, but what you see in many other parts of the world where political trials are normal, they're accepted.
I mean, one of the reasons, I say this to you, someone who's very involved in, for example, the Western Hemisphere, one of the reasons why so many of the people who get elected president in these countries...
Do everything possible to stay in power.
Like, for example, try to change the Constitution so they can run for re-election.
It's because they know that once you're out of power, what usually happens to former presidents in those countries or the other side takes over is not that you go open a library or go on a speaking tour.
It's that you could get put on trial and go to jail.
So they don't want to leave power.
So political show trials are very common in dysfunctional republics and democracies around the world.
And people who come from those countries recognize it and they don't like it.
And there's no other way to describe what's happened here.
In terms of what you just said about this is not being normal.
Look, we can talk about them crossing the line, but I think we have to understand at the core of it.
When Obama gets elected in 2008, re-elected in 2012, these people who want to dismantle the country, they legitimately believe that this whole notion that America is exceptional and great is a myth.
It's a myth.
In fact, America needs to be fundamentally dismantled and rebuilt into something else.
Those people believed.
That finally, they had the majority they needed in American politics to put their plans in action.
And they begin waging war on every aspect of our traditional life.
And then Donald Trump happens.
And they go into complete meltdown mode.
And you can see it almost from the minute he takes office.
I remember, you know, right after he's elected, I mean, there's these women that look like, you know, time travelers from the 60s, images of them in the streets screaming, you know, men.
Walking around with these weird signs saying obnoxious things and so forth.
It seemed almost unnatural.
You could tell almost from the beginning there was something else behind it.
And what was behind it is Donald Trump interrupted and stood in the way of what they thought was now an inevitable and irreversible permanent change in our demographics, in our politics, and therefore in our direction.
And now they will do anything.
There is nothing they will not do to keep him.
From running for office.
And what they're counting on is Republicans who basically want to continue to be considered good, you know, decent people, normal Republicans, as they like to say.
There are a lot of people that want to keep that membership card to that club, you know, and that's what they're counting on.
But the bottom line here is, and I think the president said it really well the other night.
I think it was Sean Hannity's show asked him, do you plan to go after them?
He says, no, I don't.
This has to stop.
I think that's exactly the right answer.
This has to stop.
They are the ones.
That have unleashed lawsuits to bankrupt him, four indictments to try to put him away, forced him to stand trial before a judge that donated money to Joe Biden into a stop Republican, stop Trump effort.
I mean, that is a de facto you must get off the case almost anywhere.
This guy is not one case, but multiple cases involving Trump and Warren, you know, and then give these ridiculous jury instructions.
So we can get into the micro of how unfair that trial was.
But I think if you step back and look at the big picture, from going to court to getting him kicked off the ballots.
Getting him, you know, indicted four times, suing him, impeaching him twice, the hopes about him having been coordinating with the Kremlin to become an illegitimate president that took over.
You just go back onto the court, it's unprecedented.
No political figure in American history has ever faced that barrage of using the Congress, the courts, the media to target them and to prevent them, to prevent Americans from being able to elect them.
So there's a final question here.
benny johnson
There does seem to be real good momentum heading into the general election.
I think that Donald Trump's going to do excellent in the CNN debate.
I think that things are going to solidify.
I think that Donald Trump could win 100 electoral votes.
There needs, however, to be some type of reckoning with the...
Lies that have been told to the American public just this week.
We saw the FBI come forward and say, yeah, of course, Hunter Biden's laptop's real.
Yet the intelligence community got 51 experts coordinated by our secretary of state to say it's not and to lie to us.
And many would call that election meddling in 2020, an election rigging.
But that was done through the intel agencies.
And you are a leader on the intelligence select committee in the Senate.
And there's been so many circumstances like that.
There's so many examples of the intelligence agencies being weaponized against us, the American people.
Could you speak to the broader...
Could you just speak quickly to what can and should happen in the lead-up to the election, and then perhaps afterwards for reform?
marco rubio
Okay, and it's actually worse than that, okay?
Actually, the intelligence community, the actual official intelligence community at that time was run by John Reckman.
And they basically came out and said, I don't know what these people are talking about.
The media and the public largely ignored them and instead relied on 50 former intelligence officials who basically take the fact that they were once in government.
and then use that and the fact that they still have clearances which in my mind need to be revoked because to me what they did was abuse those uh clearances to basically imply I mean the worst thing you can say is imply to people I know something I can't tell you but believe me it's really bad okay it's the worst thing you can do because you can't defend yourself against it that's what these guys did they have 50 former intelligence officials not current so you couldn't fire them who basically used the credibility or the standing that that former title gave them to say to the American people This stuff
looks classic disinformation, Russian disinformation.
This laptop must be fake.
There's a great video out.
I think it was released a couple of days ago that goes through a bunch of this.
The worst part about it, however, is that on the basis of these formers, despite the official DNI, the one who was in office at the time saying this is not true, the media, Twitter, Facebook and others as well, decided to block the story out.
To the extent they talked about it, it was disinformation.
And in many cases, if you posted or reposted the New York Post story, they would shut down your account or they would block these viewers from seeing it.
So there was an active effort to keep that information from becoming widespread in the minds of Americans.
And to the extent that it leaked out, it was defined on the basis of these experts.
So it's even worse because they basically said, we believe the former, not the current, because the current work for Trump and they're liars.
I make this point everywhere.
I don't know, you know, because what...
Unfortunately, in America, people have a First Amendment right to say things that aren't true in the political sphere.
They do it all the time.
But I did this in a public hearing the other day.
I do it all the time in our closed hearings.
I tell the intelligence agencies repeatedly, the biggest threat to our intelligence agencies is the loss of credibility in the minds of a substantial percentage of Americans because of the actions of people that leave the agencies, go out and become political activists by abusing their title.
Clapper, Brandon.
You know, all these guys that are there and then they leave and lower level people and then they abuse it.
They go out and abuse it.
And so now everybody, you know, believes.
And you know what's really unfair to as well?
These people, operators that are out there all over the world working at these agencies and embassies and tough places doing work.
They don't care about any of this.
This is not their thing.
They're out there, like in many cases, frustrated.
They're not allowed to do more by, you know, they want to protect us against our enemies.
But there's another group of people that sort of rise to the leadership of these agencies, in many cases appointed, they're not even career, who are thinking to themselves, I need to be popular among the right group of people so that when I leave, I'll get put on a corporate board.
I'll be asked to be on the faculty somewhere and teach.
I can monetize my years in service.
And one of the things that gets you entry into that club nowadays is to be anti-Trump and to say he's going to be a dictator, he's a threat, he's a Russian asset.
So it's very damaging.
Very, very damaging what they did, apart from being outrageous.
And yes, I think that collusion between these formers who are liars and the media to keep that story from the American people in the month preceding the election interfered and influenced the outcome of the election.
If that story had been widespread, I think you could argue thousands and thousands of people would have voted very differently.
The election may not even have been very close, but we'll never know because they worked to keep that from them.
benny johnson
We really hope that there's nothing getting cooked up for the next five months.
It seems like all the trend lines are going in your direction.
And I guess as a closing note here, do you see the problems with America as spiritual?
Do you see it more as spiritual than political?
marco rubio
I think, well, I don't know what you mean by spiritual.
I think what you're saying is, I think at the core, you know, people are going to, let me separate it this way.
There are a lot of people that are going to vote.
Because life was better under Trump.
They may love the way he used to speak.
They may not like some of the things he says.
But they say to themselves, when he was president, I had more money left over at the end of the month.
The world and our country was safer.
And America was respected, you know, around the world.
And today, all three of those things have been in rapid decline.
I think that's at the central core of how many people are going to vote.
I think at the core of the election is the bigger question about our identity as a nation.
Are we truly, as some of these people argue, this inherently evil country founded on racism and genocide and bigotry and xenophobia?
Or are we this greatest nation in the history of the world that's worth not just preserving, but expanding to even higher greatness and to continue the work of progress, which has been the American experiment?
That's the core issue of our campaign.
Now, embedded in this challenge is...
That because of some of this craziness and lack of common sense, we have some deep cultural problems in our country, which government can't solve.
I mean, without strong families, without strong communities, without a clear sense of right and wrong and good and bad, we got big problems.
You can make something illegal, but unless it's instilled at a young age.
And so when you see things like, you know, we have big problems in this country, but America remains by all historical comparisons.
A pretty prosperous and free place for the average everyday person.
We have 13 or 14-year-olds who are living in the freest, most prosperous nation in the history of the world.
They don't have bombs being dropped over their head.
And they're committing suicide and have rates of mental health crisis at record levels.
We've got to get to the bottom of that.
You know, we have kids that are growing up, not coming out of poverty, coming out of middle-class, even upper-class homes, who they see somebody being assaulted, and the first thing they do is take a video of it and laugh, not, like, interfere and say, no, you know, we can't do this.
I mean, it's just thing after thing that's happening and you realize that there's a deep rock going on at the core of our culture because we have destroyed, we have undermined, we have demonized many of the institutions that 5,500 years of human history taught us work.
Family is important.
Morality is important.
We're not going to tell you what faith to belong to, but a faith that teaches you that human life has dignity and that you should respect other people and to care for the poor and the less fortunate and be compassionate and be forgiving and love your neighbor like yourself.
These are positive.
Why wouldn't we want movements like that influencing our culture and society?
And instead, we've demonized them.
So there's a lot to unpack there, and much of it is not the work of government, but it certainly sets the tone for some of this.
And when government is waging war on those institutions, it makes it harder to cure that disease.
benny johnson
What a perfect answer.
It rings like a bell.
Senator, thank you so much for your time on this program.
Thank you so much for your stalwart defense of American principles and for your vision of this country that so many have seemingly lost.
And I think it'll be very inspiring next couple months.
And we look forward to seeing you at convention.
marco rubio
Thank you.
Good talking to you.
benny johnson
Godspeed, Senator.
unidentified
Thank you.
you you All right, baby.
benny johnson
Wow.
Okay, man.
What a incredible moment.
I was really blown away by that last answer.
Sometimes you're doing an interview and you're like, you know what?
They get asked a lot of policy questions.
What about the border?
What about the actual real problems in this place?
What about the spiritual rot at the center of this country?
What about people who wake up with no light in their eyes and with no spark in their soul?
What about the...
Strange vibe shift that's happened in this place.
It's such a different country than I grew up in in the 80s and 90s.
What happened?
How did we become so nihilistic?
And suddenly nobody trusts any institution.
And it's worth asking those more human and profound questions about the bedrock of civilization and what creates a society if we wish to actually solve The problems that face us, which are spiritual in nature, far before they are of a modern political stripe.
Far before you can look at any type of, like, you know, political or policy prescription on this stuff, you have to look at the deep root causes of why.
Why is there such a collapse in this nation right now?
And if you wish to actually solve it.
I think, ladies and gentlemen, a revival is at hand.
It's been amazing to see.
It's been remarkable to be able to have conversations like that and to push for what will hopefully be a nation-saving revival beginning in November 4, 2024 and saving this country for my children and for yours, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaking of saving this country, Donald Trump raises $12 million in America's most liberal city.
How much money would Joe Biden raise in Tuscaloosa, Alabama?
How much money would Joe Biden raise in a dark red city?
Probably not a lot.
Yet, here's Donald Trump in San Francisco, of all places, last night raising $12 million.
Pretty unbelievable.
Amazing.
Former President Donald Trump raised $12 million in a high-profile tech fundraiser hosted by one of our buddies, David Sachs, right in downtown San Francisco.
The sold-out event drew significant attention and was attended by some of the biggest names in the tech industry.
Top tickets went for $300 a person, $500 per couple.
VIP tickets were $50,000.
And members of the host committee, sources told Reuters, the fundraiser...
Was held at the mansion of venture capitalist David Sachs and his wife, Jacqueline, Pacific Heights neighborhood in the city, according to the invitation seen by the news agency.
There were a bunch of protesters, but apparently there were actually more pro-Trump.
This is amazing.
There were apparently more pro-Trump protesters there, like outnumbered five to one, than there were psychotic libs.
Now, these things typically, it's, you know, it's frowned upon.
To be recording the whole time and have your phone out.
So we have very limited video from inside of the event.
Our executive producer, the great ALX, of course, would be able to have...
Oh, there we go.
Okay.
This is good.
unidentified
Okay.
benny johnson
This might work.
Would be able to definitely strip mine the internet, field strip the internet if we had anything really raw or amazing from inside of the event yesterday.
We have some photographs, but we do have some interesting...
Some interesting activity outside of the event yesterday.
Why don't we pop this up?
Here is downtown San Francisco.
Look at this.
Would you look at this?
Downtown San Francisco.
These are the people who showed up.
I know exactly where that is.
I know exactly where this is in San Francisco.
It's a big Golden Gate Bridge Park.
Look at this.
Downtown San Francisco.
I've not seen this footage.
This is remarkable.
Look at all the Trump fans in downtown San Francisco.
Stop saying it.
But wow.
Just wow.
I am blown away.
You were talking about a Democrat district that is like cripplingly blue that votes Nancy Pelosi in to insider trade.
Their future is away.
People who don't have really any potential to do anything other than instructively and reflexively vote Democrat.
I mean, this is the look.
This is what the streets look like.
And there's a Trump parade, even if it's like a miniature one.
In downtown San Francisco, there's like MAGA faithful.
And I say miniature.
I mean, I'm just saying that there are normally tens of thousands, but there's hundreds of people with Trump flags in San Francisco.
Man, mind blown.
What a world that we're living in.
Swing state polling coming in very strong for Donald Trump.
Check it out.
madeleine rivera
These polls were done in Arizona, Florida, Virginia, and Nevada.
The numbers indicate an erosion of support for the president among key groups.
Take Virginia, which is not typically considered a battleground state.
Yet the president and former President Trump are in a dead heat there with 48 percent each.
The president is still winning black voters in Virginia by 48 points in this new survey, but that's nowhere near where he was in 2020 when he won blacks by 81 points.
In Florida, where reports show Republican voters outpace Democrats by 900,000, Trump leads Biden 50 to 46 percent.
In Nevada, President Biden is behind former President Trump 45 to 50 percent.
Notably, the president is up by just one point among union households, traditionally a key Democratic voting bloc.
This is a group, by the way, he won by 15 points four years ago.
And in Arizona, Trump once again is ahead of the president 51 to 46 percent.
Voters in the Grand Canyon state see Trump as the better option.
benny johnson
Oh, yeah, baby.
Okay, Donald Trump, neck and neck in Virginia.
Dude, have you seen this polling?
This is incredible.
This polling shows that Virginia is now a toss-up.
Virginia is now in the toss-up category.
This should be a strong blue state.
Virginia is probably in the toss-up category because of...
The recent election integrity measures that they've taken, most likely.
Because they now have good fair elections in Virginia under the leadership of Glenn Youngkin, who's done a very fine job there.
Look at that map.
What an incredible...
The map's just being totally and completely expanded.
How fraudulent these systems are, too.
Look at Illinois.
How fraudulent these systems are.
There should be a rule where you just have to...
unidentified
These blue cities get...
benny johnson
Broken off or broken up in a different way.
They should do...
They should do like the electoral college.
They should do an electoral college style for states like this so that you can't have...
Like Illinois, look at...
Everything's red.
Then there's like one blue state.
20 points goes straight to the Democrat column because of a single hellscape city in Chicago.
A single county, actually.
Cook County is the...
That one county wins it for Joe Biden.
Just dumps 20 votes into the Democrat column.
You want to talk about rigged systems.
There's your rigged system right there.
How many of those people are actually voting?
Right?
Really makes you want to.
How many of those people knew that they voted?
Yeah.
So what happens next, ladies and gentlemen?
Donald Trump did a big-time interview last night.
He dropped it with Dr. Phil.
And Donald Trump was asked about prosecutions and persecutions and his own Prosecution.
We have no video footage of Donald Trump at the David Sachs events, but we do have the video footage of Dr. Phil interviewing Donald Trump.
And this specific answer is really ping-pong-balling around the internet.
Would you actually lock up Hillary Clinton?
Would you actually jail Hillary Clinton?
Oh, it's from Newsmax.
All right, ALX telling us.
Newsmax.
Okay, Donald Trump's been doing...
Sorry.
Sorry, ALX.
He's been doing so many interviews, he's been doing a lot of interviews.
So after getting out of court, Donald Trump's been doing a lot of interviews.
He also spoke at a massive Turning Point Action event yesterday in Phoenix on his way to San Francisco.
Dude's been doing a ton of interviews, so my apologies to you.
Hard for me to keep him straight.
Thank you, executive producer, ALX, for the check.
Here's on Newsmax.
Would you actually put Hillary Clinton in jail?
You promised to do that.
We know she's a criminal.
What happens next?
Donald Trump making a lot of news for this one.
Let's go.
donald j trump
But, you know, it's a very terrible thing.
It's a terrible precedent for our country.
Does that mean the next president does it to them?
That's really the question.
You know, I said on a recent show that I did, a good show, good people, you would like these people, even though they're competitors.
But I was talking about, you know, when I mentioned Hillary's name, they all screamed, lock her up, lock her up.
And everybody got a kick out of it and all.
But I watched, I was at UFC the other night, as you saw, Greg, and I saw fighters that hated each other with a passion like you've never seen.
For three months, they're just going crazy about how much they hate.
And then the fight's over, and they're hugging and they're kissing in the middle of the ring.
And I said, wouldn't it really be bad, you know, with, like, as an example, Hillary, with the hammering of her cell phones and all of the things she did, but wouldn't it be terrible to throw the president's wife and the former secretary of state, think of it, the former secretary of state, but the president's wife into jail?
Wouldn't that be a terrible thing?
But they want to do it.
So, you know, it's a terrible, terrible path that they're leading us to.
And it's very possible that it's going to have to happen to them.
But I personally thought, and I really did, you know, I got a lot of credit from a lot of people.
And some people said I should have done it.
But, you know, it would have been very easy to do it.
But I thought it would be a terrible precedent for our country.
unidentified
Thank you.
benny johnson
We did an interview the other night, and...
It was Piers Morgan.
And he's like, he thought he got me.
You know, I gotcha, Benny.
And he plays this clip.
You know, because I call all these people Stalinists.
And I say, you know, you want to lock up your political enemies?
You're all Stalinists.
You're not Democrats, actually.
Like, Alan Dershowitz, the Democrat.
Like, you're a Stalinist.
You're something totally wholly foreign to this nation.
And it's evil.
And I guess good on you for admitting who you are.
And Piers Morgan.
Who I like.
But he's like, oh, I got you, buddy.
unidentified
Ho, ho.
Let me play you this little clip of Donald Trump saying lock her up.
benny johnson
Right?
I'm so good at my British accent.
And he plays this clip and it's like Trump saying lock her up.
And where's this argument coming from?
Like how low functioning, low wavelength is this argument?
Where Donald Trump, when he had no power and was just a candidate.
Would allow, lock her up chants at his rally or say because you'd be in jail to Hillary Clinton to her face.
And then when Donald Trump has all the power of the state and federal law enforcement at his back, he decides that it'd be best for the country to not begin that perpetual cycle of revenge and violence.
Like, that actually is the wise king.
That's actually the wise leader.
My staff's calling me Mrs. Doubtfire now because of my terrible British accent.
I'm glad I don't have a good British accent.
I don't care.
Go celebrate 4th of July right now.
Don't care.
Don't want a British accent.
When Donald Trump had the power to put Hillary in prison, he didn't use it.
That's the wise king.
That's restraint.
Because there's always that instinct, right?
Banal human instinct to do that.
When Joe Biden gets unified control of government and Democrats get unified control of government, they are throwing MAGA people in prison day and night, putting Donald Trump in prison as fast as they possibly can.
The man spent 77 years on this earth with not a single indictment against him.
And then suddenly he decides to run for president again, and then he has 94 different charges.
Yeah, got it.
So who's the tyrant?
Again, like, show me the fruit of the tree, says Christ.
Show me the actions.
There's actually a parable about two different sons and the father needed work done in the field.
And the first son said he's going to do it, but didn't do it.
And the second son says, no, I don't want to do that.
But he gets up and ends up working the field anyway.
And it's like, which son did the will of the father?
And the response is, of course, the...
It doesn't matter what you say.
It matters what you do.
These Stalinists are actually locking up their political enemies.
And it's, I mean, we should pay them back, right?
Like, we should elect Donald Trump.
We should prove that this tactic doesn't work here.
Otherwise, I think we can expect this tactic to accelerate, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaking of something that is accelerating, I'm not sure if you've checked the stock market recently, but it's broken.
The stock market this week, a bunch of stocks went completely flat, a bunch of stocks have been halted, and there's shenanigans going on.
Shenanigans.
They're entertaining, but it's shenanigans.
I would vie for far more consistency, given the fact that I have little children and I simply want...
I want security.
And that's why I invest in gold, ladies and gentlemen.
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We are entering some very tumultuous waters.
America, Joe Biden's authorizing American weapons to strike inside of Russia.
Not at the height of the Cold War would we have ever allowed this.
This is suicidal.
And this is something that's happening from a suicidal or totally disconnected generation.
It's why people are buying gold so fast, because commodities are the things that you need to hold on to in times of war.
And people see that right now.
And there's chaos and uncertainty in every single market, except for the gold market, which has gone up at a steadier and more solid pace than ever in history.
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So, ladies and gentlemen, we have a salt that lib.
We haven't done one of these in a hot minute here.
We're going to salt what is Andrew McCabe, right?
ALX?
I'm going to salt Andrew McCabe.
Let's do it.
So, Andrew McCabe whining and crying that there is going to be so many intelligence experts that are so many people from the intel community that will flee the country when Trump is elected.
Well, what does that tell you?
Are these people actually patriots?
Are they just doing their job?
Are they serving their democratically elected leader?
Here we go, ladies and gentlemen.
The former assistant director of the FBI saying that the intel community intends on fleeing the country when Trump is elected.
Again, what does that tell you about them?
Salt this lib.
unidentified
*outro music*
And he tells you that he's going to do something or he says something to that effect.
You should take that very seriously.
And look, am I concerned?
I'm concerned for myself.
I'm concerned for my family.
I'm concerned for many of us who have spoken the truth about the danger that he is.
jesse watters
And the architects of the Russia hoax rushed to the cameras to say the FBI is scared.
andrew mccabe
It's terrifying.
It's frightening.
I have a lot of conversations with former colleagues, people who are or were in the intelligence and law enforcement community and may have worked in the Obama administration and other places.
And people are really trying to assess, like, what is life going to be like if Donald Trump wins a second term?
And on a very personal level, I mean, these are torturous discussions with their family members about whether or not they have to leave the country to avoid being unconstitutionally and illegally detained.
jesse watters
Crooked FBI officials are considering leaving the country if Trump's elected?
Let's get out the vote, people!
This guy tried to stage a coup, got fired for lying, and he wants to be a hero so badly he's pretending he's gonna seek asylum somewhere overseas?
He's not going anywhere!
He's just trying to scare the public into thinking the FBI won't be able to protect them.
benny johnson
Yeah, or rig the election.
So, let's prevent that, ladies and gentlemen, together.
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Ask Benny from Denise Daniels.
Will you hang your American flag upside down as a sign of distress for your country until Trump is back in office?
I would rather the appeal to heaven flag.
I'd rather the appeal to heaven flag, and I've been actually wanting to get like a come and take it, a Gadsden, a Gadsden flag, come take it flag, an appeal to heaven flag, and sort of like cycle them out front of my home.
I live in a very American flag-waving neighborhood, and I think that some people might not actually see the...
Some people may not actually see the symbol as what I mean it for.
And so I think I'm going to go – I think, Denise, I'm going to go hard in on the Revolutionary War iconography of the appeal to heaven or like a come and take it, I think maybe a Gadsden flag too.
So this is what the appeal to heaven flag looks like.
This is the sort of – Subtext here is Samuel Alito getting on the naughty list because he flew his flag upside down when his childless lib millennial neighbors who were living in their parents' basement started getting into fights with his wife.
It's such a despicable story.
I don't have time to get into it right now.
But yeah, totally.
You'll find something like this outside of my house.
Right now we do, of course, have our American flag up and always will have our American flag up.
We have a Betsy Ross flag in the studio here, as you can see right behind us every single day.
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Michelle Corley asks, how can the case be found guilty?
There is no crime.
The judge's instructions assumes the crime was committed, so pick one.
It's a dirty, illegal, unconstitutional.
What's next?
President Trump has no crimes in any case.
Where is SCOTUS and our representatives in D.C.?
Our representatives in D.C. I think have been doing as commendable work as they possibly can given the circumstances.
The trick here, the wrench here, is that this was done in a state court.
And so there are limiting principles and separations for good reason.
For that to happen.
And I think the legal argument, and I've actually asked a number of our guests about this, but the legal argument here, Michelle, would be since Donald Trump is running for federal office, and since the underlying crime was allegedly federal here, then wouldn't the Supreme Court be able to see that as an open door?
To come in and fix this ruling against Trump.
And that's actually a really great legal theory to push forward to get this taken out of state court where they can sort of like keep it in the backwaters, right, of New York and bump it up federally where you have a much cleaner system and you have a lot more rules, a lot more rigor.
But it's why they tried all these little states.
It's why they're going all these little state courts.
And it's why they're doing it in all these little state courts because...
Based on federalism and the structure of the country and not wanting to have such a broadly oppressive federal diktat on so many issues in our lives, they kind of like sit back and let every state make their own rules.
And the rules in the state of New York, well, are that the judges have to recuse themselves.
There are no boards to oversee these things.
That's patently insane.
That should be patently insane.
You know, that you have to effectively exhaust your appeals process there, but even through that exhaustion, it's going to take you a while to get into the federal system, right?
Because you have to have an in, and that would be the in, that Donald Trump is running for federal office, and they're going to, like, abridge the rights of somebody running for federal office, and therefore the Supreme Court would have supremacy on that question, right?
So hopefully that's the way it goes.
But we'll see, Michelle.
Thank you for your question.
God bless you.
Brenda Anderson asks, Trump should announce a VP pick before they force Nikki Haley in.
They should also move the RNC date to before Trump's sentencing date.
Maybe the 4th of July would be appropriate.
I would love that.
We're very close with the planners of the RNC convention.
The problem is that these things are so complicated and really get run up to the wire on every single convention.
And they're very shambolic and so many moving pieces.
The idea of moving the convention physically up is impossible.
I mean, I'm sorry.
I just, I'm not here to give hopium or copium.
Brenda, it's just impossible right now because there's so, so many intricate pieces at work.
I mean, you're shutting down effectively a large city in America, which would be Minneapolis.
You're like, you're shutting the whole city down, right?
You're like stopping.
Everything in the city.
And the room blocks and everything.
I'm just saying.
You could do a digital convention.
You could do it digitally, right?
You could elect Trump.
You could, like, elect Trump and have him do that digitally.
And I've seen that.
I've seen that pushed, potentially.
Did I say Minneapolis?
Did I say Minneapolis?
Ugh, gross.
No, it's not in Minneapolis.
It's in Milwaukee.
But, yeah, ladies and gentlemen, we're...
We're still recovering, okay?
We had the fever earlier in the week.
We're still recovering.
So, anyway, I mean, listen, if it was in Minneapolis, I wouldn't be going.
I've got to tell you.
I wouldn't be going.
No way.
I don't want to go.
I don't want to go to a convention in Minneapolis.
I think it was.
Was it in Minneapolis in 2008?
Can somebody check that with me?
Was the GOP convention in Minneapolis in 2008?
Oh, baby.
Wow.
I think it was, actually.
St. Paul.
Well, there you go.
So the GOP convention was in Minnesota?
How dumb is our RNC?
How stupid is our RNC?
It was in Minnesota?
Like, did they win?
Did the GOP win Minnesota?
I mean, presumably that's why we do a convention there, right?
Like, push in that state?
So Milwaukee makes sense for Wisconsin?
Jamie.
She does spectacular graphic design for us at our company.
She lives in Milwaukee, and she's got a lot of really neat things cooking, but she's telling me that Milwaukee is way better than Minneapolis.
She's lived in both cities, and that Milwaukee is far superior to Minneapolis.
I cannot believe it, man.
Yeah.
So the GOP nominated John McCain and Sarah Palin in...
And Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Talk about doomed, baby.
Talk about doomed.
Okay, so yeah.
Brenda, the one thing I do agree with you on is that there is a secret little...
There is totally a secret plan to get Nikki Haley as the VP.
You're totally right.
And ALX is saying it wasn't even close in the Minnesota election.
Okay, so doing the event in Minneapolis didn't really pay off.
Isn't that amazing?
The GOP does some giant, big, dumb, expensive thing, and it literally gets us less votes.
Look at these numbers.
unidentified
54 to 43. Jeez.
benny johnson
12-point blowout for John McCain.
What an embarrassment.
Yeah.
Okay.
Alright.
Did Trump do better?
Wow!
Yeah!
Trump did way better!
Trump was polling within the...
Trump was within the margin of fraud.
46 to 44. And we know, based on James O 'Keefe videos, there's a...
Enormous amount of fraud that takes place in Minnesota, thanks to mail-in balloting and to closed communities there, where you just pay for ballots.
I wonder, how does Ilhan Omar get elected to Congress every single year?
How's that possible?
What's going on there?
How's Ilhan Omar get back to Congress?
She's like dumb and corrupt and she married her brother and nobody seems to like her.
She gets booed on stage in her home district.
Just like AOC.
Like, how does that happen?
Oh, okay.
Yeah, got it.
Maybe they have the whole system wired for people like that.
Look at Trump, though.
Man, Donald Trump, within a point, within a point of Hillary Clinton?
Yep.
Okay.
Got it.
Dude, seriously.
Did Donald Trump win Minnesota in 2016?
That's a great question.
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Our verse of the day.
Let's kick the weekend off.
Write, for whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life will find it.
Matthew 16, 25. A consummate verse about the purpose of life on this planet.
The purpose of this life.
Is to effectively, like, not lose it, like, as in jump off a bridge, but to lose it in the sense that, like, you are giving over everything to God.
And you are saying, nope, actually, like, I didn't create life.
I'm not the creator.
I'm one link in a very long chain.
I'm not the end of the chain.
And I'm going to give acknowledgement.
An honor to my Lord, Savior, and Creator, Jesus Christ.
And that's how you actually live.
That's how you actually gain life.
And that's how you gain purpose.
And so many other things get added unto that.
But having that realization, having that flip switched, is something that happens to you in these profound moments.
And it makes your life so much better.
It just really creates such a better life for you.
I cannot encourage you enough, ladies and gentlemen.
Read your Bible.
Read it like a simple Christian.
Just accept the words in there.
Just believe the words in your Bible.
That's it.
And then you'll go live a very fulfilled and purpose-filled life.
And all the nihilism and annoyance and fear that is projected from this current modern day.
Tire fire, dumpster fire that we live in.
That stuff won't affect you.
And you can bound into your weekend confident and powerful and ready and at peace.
That's what's most important of all.
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