Trump Counterattacks as Schiff Collapses (Ep 1083)
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There's breaking news this morning.
Adam Schiff is losing his mind.
All right, folks, I've got a lot for you.
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Okay, so what do we have this morning?
As the impeachment farce, or as President Trump called it in a tweet this morning, the kangaroo court continues.
Adam Schiff's case is entirely, completely falling apart.
So I have a twofer to start the show, then I've got to get to the NBA stuff, Elizabeth Warren and some things that happened there, and a bigger narrative going on.
So it's a lot to get to today, so just hang with me.
But first, this is going to be a two-part narrative.
Number one, their impeachment Inquiry is entirely falling apart.
Every avenue the liberals and their media friends on their impeachment try, everywhere as they snake through this serpentine, is being closed off by President Trump because there's nothing there.
There's nothing to hide because nothing happened.
So President Trump continues to close them off.
So that's going to be part one.
Part two, ladies and gentlemen, is going to be critical.
The Adam Schiff setup is now becoming obvious.
I promise this is going to blow your mind.
We've got another shockingly good connection to the Atlantic Council that appears yet again.
All right, let's get right to it.
Yeah, let's get right to this.
So Adam Schiff, right before we came on the air, gave this press conference.
It was all over the place on cable news.
Gordon Sondland, who was President Trump's ambassador to the European Union and was the point man on this deal with the Ukraine that the Democrats are alleging there was a quid pro quo, right?
The Democrats' impeachment inquiries based on this nonsense narrative that Trump threatened to withhold military aid if the Ukrainians didn't investigate his political opponents.
We know that's nonsense, but Sondland was the key point man for Ukraine, Gordon Sondland.
The Trump's ambassador to the EU.
Copy?
Copy.
Sondland was flying in this morning to give testimony, coming in from Brussels, to give testimony at Capitol Hill, and an hour before, the Trump team says, nope, no thanks, you're not going to testify, no thank you.
Schiff is freaking out.
Just play this quick clip of Schiff.
I'm going to tell you why this matters in a minute.
We know from those text messages that diplomatic personnel raised a concern with him that military assistance was being withheld to secure help from Ukraine in the president's re-election campaign.
We know that Ambassador Sondland had at least one discussion with a fellow diplomat on that very subject.
No, we don't know any of that.
was being withheld. We know Master Sondland was a key player in efforts to...
No, we don't know any of that. Actually, Ambassador Sondland's texts say the exact opposite.
Remember the quid pro quo that Schiff believes happened.
It's nonsense.
It's made up.
This is a fabrication, a fairy tale, an Aesop's fable.
Is it Trump withheld military aid unless the Ukrainians investigated Joe Biden?
Not true.
It's false.
Sondland's text messages say the opposite.
Now, why is he freaking out Schiff over Sondland being pulled?
And most importantly, Why did Trump this morning and his administration, the White House, give the command after letting Sondland fly all the way over here at the last minute?
Uh, no thanks.
You're not gonna go up there.
Why?
Okay.
Let's go to story number one and I'm gonna piece this together for you.
Fox News has a story about Trump.
Trump to send Pelosi a letter daring her to hold an impeachment inquiry vote.
What does that have to do with this, folks?
I don't know.
I'm sorry if this gets a little complicated.
All right, dude.
Listen, not everything Trump does is four-dimensional chess.
We don't need to be golden calf worshippers here.
That's not what we do.
But a lot of times what he does, sometimes it is, and the media misses the story.
Adam Schiff and Pelosi a week ago, Joe, gave a press conference.
And in lieu of a formal impeachment vote, there hasn't been a vote on the floor.
We discussed this yesterday.
Does everybody understand that?
Correct.
Precedent.
And I would argue the Constitution demands that the House of Representatives Not Pelosi.
Take a vote.
That is the specific wording of the Constitution.
The House of Representatives shall have the sole power to impeach.
It doesn't say the House of Representatives.
It doesn't say the Speaker.
It doesn't say Adam Schiff.
Meaning a vote should be taken by any sane person's reading of the Constitution.
You got it?
Yep.
I would argue in a lot of legal...
I'm not suggesting I'm a legal scholar, folks, but, you know, again, you don't have any plain person with an intellect can read the text of the Constitution and come to the same conclusion.
House of Representatives obviously means a collective body's collective will, meaning a vote.
The Constitution argues that there must be a vote in order to forward an impeachment charge for the Senate for a trial.
Pelosi doesn't want to do it.
Why does she not want to do it?
Because ladies and gentlemen, I'm not sure she has the votes right now.
Despite all this bluster from Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, and Nancy Pelosi, AOC plus three, I'm not sure they have the votes.
I think a lot of red district, Trump district, Democrat congressmen and women who won seats in Trump districts are terrified right now of having to go on the record and say, aye, to an impeachment charge in the House.
They don't want to vote.
How does this get to Sondland?
Why is Sondland, the European, our ambassador to the EU, how's he involved in this?
All right, bro.
Wait, wait, wait.
Okay.
All right.
Knows Pelosi's in trouble here.
Knows that this case is collapsing.
We've discussed it all week.
The quid pro quo?
Nope.
We have the transcript now.
The ICIG report?
They changed paperwork.
They're now backdating forms.
This whole thing is collapsing.
It turns out the whistleblower is a Democrat who contacted Adam Schiff in violation of procedure.
Didn't contact the Republicans on the Senate committee.
The whole case is collapsing.
Trump district Democrats in the Congress who would have to vote are now panicking.
I think Pelosi realizes she doesn't have the votes.
Things could change.
She may.
But I don't think she has them now.
And the president, in a touche 4D chess, is like, hey, Nance, you need to take a vote.
I'm daring you to take a vote in an impeachment inquiry now.
I'm daring you to do it.
Pelosi has not responded.
She still refuses to take a vote.
Now, how does this tie into the press conference I just teased last week?
Well, at the presser last week, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff said something interesting, Joe.
They said, well, any efforts, any efforts to obstruct our proceeding here, to not have witnesses testify, like what happened this morning, Anything will be perceived as obstruction, and those will be the articles of impeachment we forward.
In other words, we will vote on articles of impeachment on an obstruction charge if you refuse to let someone testify, and you're gonna be in a lot of trouble, Nixon.
But Schiff said, "Just like Nixon, you are going to be in a lot of trouble."
So, the Wall Street Journal points out, what did Trump do this morning?
Pulled Sondland out.
Let's him fly all the way over.
Gets Adam Schiff all excited.
Pelosi all excited.
And at the last minute, directs Gordon Sondland not to appear.
Brilliant!
He waits.
Here's the bear.
Imagine a bear in front of him.
For those of you watching on the YouTube.
Here's his eyes.
Then the bear's doing this, like the Three Stooges.
Remember?
Yes.
The bear... He lets the guy... Yeah?
Oh, I'm sorry.
Hold on.
It's pretty funny.
He lets the guy fly all the way over here from Brussels, Sondland, and waits till an hour before they're all ready to go.
And in a...
I mean, you want to talk about a troll move.
Jeez.
He says, no, no, we're not going to do that today.
Schiff jumps in front of the cameras and then just did what we just played for you.
Oh, this is consensus obstruction.
His texts, we need his texts.
That's not what his texts say, ladies and gentlemen.
It's not what his texts say at all.
So what's going on here?
Again, let me sum this up because I want to get to part two of this because it's critical.
Trump knows now he has them.
Their case is entirely collapsing.
I got some video from Katherine Harrods next too showing you how another angle of this case they tried.
It's all being closed off.
It's like the Maze Runner movies.
It keeps changing.
Because Trump keeps touche-ing them.
They let him come all the way over, they poked a bear at the last minute.
Why?
They are daring Pelosi to put this on the floor.
Right now.
Because, ladies and gentlemen, if this impeachment vote on the floor happens and fails, again, things may change, but if it fails, Joe, can you imagine?
The facepalm, the epic facepalm, this would be to the broken Democrat Party right now.
The facepalm would be enormous.
Now, having said that...
Even if these articles of impeachment, he's, you understand what I'm getting at, right?
Schiff has gone on the record and said, if you refuse to allow someone to testify, we are moving forward with Nixonian obstruction charges and we will impeach you.
Yeah.
Trump waits to the last second, pulls this guy out, says, no, he's not testifying.
Now you go.
And they won't.
Because they're afraid.
They're afraid they don't have the votes.
Having said that, Joe, even if they take a vote and they do get an impeachment article forwarded to the Senate, this will still collapse epically in their face because of this Washington Times article and what Trump knows he has.
Trump knows they did nothing wrong in Ukraine.
He's not worried.
But we don't know that about Joey B. Joe Biden.
Remember, Stephen Dine in Washington Times, today's article will be in the show notes.
Biden and his son could be forced to testify in a Trump impeachment trial.
Ladies and gentlemen, I can make this strong case to you.
Impeachment's never a good thing, let me be clear on that.
But I'll tell you this, even if there is an impeachment charge, which Trump is poking them to do right now, he knows they're in deep trouble on a floor vote.
Even if it does pass by one or two votes, this impeachment trial, if it starts in the Senate, who runs the Senate right now?
Oh yeah, the Republicans and Mitch McConnell.
Ladies and gentlemen, they will both, it is a trial.
It is effectively a political trial, but a trial nonetheless presided over by the Chief Justice John Roberts of the Supreme Court.
Right.
Both sides, ladies and gentlemen, get subpoena power.
Can you imagine the Republican rebuttal when Joe Biden and Hunter are up on the stand testifying about their involvement in Ukraine?
I could see one of the Senate lawyers now, one of the people representing the Senate as a lawyer, Playing the Lindsey Graham role back in the Clinton days.
Hey Joe, what skills exactly did your son Hunter have when he got that $83,000 a month job in Ukraine as you were negotiating natural gas deals and he was working with Burisma and the natural gas company?
What skills did he have in the recent?
Ahhhh!
[Groaning]
Nobody knows!
It's like Ren and Stimpy and the Land of the Left Sides.
Where they go, nobody knows.
Nobody knows.
Nobody knows what skills he has because he doesn't have any.
Can you imagine this backfiring spectacularly?
So, Again, in an act of 4D chess.
I'm going to sum this up because I want to move on.
The case is falling apart.
I have this labeled this segment.
The case is falling apart and the empire strikes back.
Except it's Trump this time and the sequel is better.
One of the few sci-fi sequels that was ever any good.
Maybe Aliens was better than the original one too.
Trump knows what's going on.
He knows they have nothing, nothing of substance.
The Democrats know they have nothing of substance.
The Democrats were hoping for a rapid-fire impeachment.
That's now dead because of the expose on the whistleblower's contact with Adam Schiff that's making this look like a partisan hit job.
Copy?
They wanted to sprint to the finish line.
Someone tripped them up by exposing the fact that the alleged whistleblower was doing a behind-the-scenes deal and is a Democrat with Adam Schiff.
That stopped all their political momentum.
Remember, they needed the political winds to change and the public, and specifically Republicans, to see this as a legitimate inquiry.
It's now been exposed as partisan bias.
Because of that, Pelosi and Schiff know they can't take a floor vote.
They know this.
They are in deep, deep trouble.
In order to not take a floor vote, they are now trying to again build the political case by subpoenaing all these witnesses who keep turning on them, Volker and others, and telling an opposite story.
No quid pro quo.
Trump now sensing they're in political trouble, remember impeachment is a political trial, is poking them and daring them to take a vote on the floor by at the last minute pulling the rug out from under them after Sondland comes over and saying, you said you were gonna make sure you move forward with obstruction if I didn't let these people testify.
He's not testifying.
Ball's in your court.
You go.
Your turn now.
It's like a game of horse.
I just hit my three-pointer.
Backwards.
You go.
They don't want to.
Now, folks, why is Schiff panicking?
Oh, this is gonna get good.
Don't!
Don't you go anywhere for this one.
I was watching a thing about Macho Mania.
Don't!
Don't!
No!
Love Macho Mania.
Don't!
No!
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Don't go anywhere.
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What are they hiding?
Ladies and gentlemen, as I said to you before, and I don't mean to make this overly complicated, there's a setup.
This was a setup from the start.
The Democrats did have some political momentum, of course, Joe, last week because of a compliant lapdog sycophantic bootlicking media that went with their fake quid pro quo story.
It was fake.
We have the transcript.
There was no deal.
OK, so you can say that all you want.
It's irrelevant.
You're just making things up at that point.
That's not what happened.
And by the way, Sondland's tweets, texts that they're talking about, Schiff's talking about, say the exact opposite.
I had a screenshot up of one of these.
I think it's from the Wall Street Journal.
But Sondland's tweets, the ambassador to the EU, about this alleged deal that the whistleblower was blowing the whistle on, Sondland's texts, he keeps saying tweets, texts, say the exact opposite.
They say, as he's talking to Bill Taylor, Bill Taylor, another.
He used to be the charge in Ukraine.
He's a US diplomat over in Ukraine.
Taylor and Sondland are arguing back and forth.
Sondland's crystal clear.
There's no quid pro quo.
So anybody on TV, any liberal talking head on TV, on any cable news channel that says, well, we want Sondland's text, ask him.
Well, what about the text where he tells Bill Taylor, another diplomat in Ukraine working for the United States, there is absolutely no quid pro quo.
What about that one?
Does that matter?
Of course it doesn't because it defeats your narrative.
How do we know this was a setup?
Well, this is where things get really, really special, folks.
Put up that Red State article if you don't mind, Paula.
This is just an absolutely delicious angle here.
Wait, what?
Ladies and gentlemen, this is not a joke.
Trip was paid for by the group funded by Hunter Biden's old firm.
Wait, what?
From the people...
This...
Ladies and gentlemen, it's not a joke.
Adam Schiff's staffer, a guy by the name of Thomas Eager, as Breitbart notes, took a trip
to Ukraine between August 24th and 31st.
Wow!
Right in the window where all of this stuff starts to break because this guy's talking to Adam Schiff.
He took the trip with other congressional staffers after the whistleblower complaint was filed.
Rep Adam Schiff approved his staffers' travel as his signature is on the travel request.
The trip was paid for by the Atlantic Council!
No way!
No way!
The verdict is in.
This thing stinks.
That's it!
Pee you!
Yeah.
Huge.
Pepe Le Pew.
This is awful.
So let me get this straight.
Adam Schiff's staffer, Schiff is crystal clear on television in September, crystal clear, that there's been no contact with the whistleblower.
He knows nothing about this complaint.
The whistleblower is so concerned about a fake quid pro quo that didn't happen, which we now know because Trump released a transcript.
Schiff says he knows nothing about it until September.
But in August, August 24th to the 31st, his staffer is on a trip, paid for in Ukraine, by the Atlantic Council.
Before we get to the Atlantic Council and their connections to what Adam Schiff may be suspiciously hiding, Let's just readdress this August 28th tweet.
Let me read this one for you.
This one's just extra special, folks.
So this is an August 28th tweet by Adam Schiff, who's, again, claiming he doesn't know anything about this.
Because he claims he hasn't heard about the whistleblower complaint until September.
August 28th, September.
August 28th, September.
Okay.
August 28th.
This tweet sounds awfully like the whistleblower complaint.
Trump is withholding vital military aid to Ukraine while his personal lawyer seeks help from the Ukraine government to investigate his political opponent.
It doesn't take a stable genius to see the magnitude of this conflict or how destructive it is to our national security.
Conveniently, who is he responding to in that tweet, which is just incredible?
Natasha Bertrand, one of the lead collusion hoaxers in the media, who he's like subtweeting.
I thought you didn't know about the Ukrainian complaint.
Or the military aid you allege was withheld when it wasn't.
I thought you didn't know about it.
It's August 28th, how do you know about it in September?
What is this, Back to the Future?
Are you Biff from Back to the Future?
You got the sport almanac guide?
You making bets to make millions of bucks?
How'd you know that?
How did you know that while your staffer was on a paid trip to Ukraine at the Atlantic Council, and there's suspicions Bill Taylor, the guy who was texting Gordon Sondland about, hey, this looks like a quid pro quo, while Sondland's telling him there's no quid pro quo.
Was Taylor there?
Was Taylor part of this?
Now the Atlantic Council is paying for Schiff's staffer to go to Ukraine?
Right in the same time period, Schiff is tweeting about a quid pro quo with Ukraine and a Trump team that he says he doesn't know about?
Let's check out the Atlantic Council and who they've been involved with, for those of you who just tuned into the show for the first time.
Oh, Atlantic Council and Burisma signed a cooperation agreement.
Thursday, January 19, 2017.
Look at that picture.
Isn't that great?
Yeah.
Isn't that special?
Burisma.
You know, Burisma, yeah.
Atlantic Council is paying for Schiff's guy to go to Ukraine, right as Schiff is clearly getting information about a whistleblower complaint about a fake quid pro quo that happened on a phone call the whistleblower didn't even listen to.
Oh, Burisma.
That's right.
Burisma, the ones working with Hunter Biden.
Yeah, we have that bright part about Hunter Biden.
Yeah, that Burisma.
The same Burisma, that's right, that was paying Hunter Biden, was it $83,000 a month?
Despite the fact that he had absolutely no skills.
Now let's tie this back to story one.
Do you see why an impeachment vote at this point, despite the fact that It's not good to be impeached.
Do you see how politically, though, in a trial, this will absolutely explode collectively in the faces of the Democrats?
You want Hunter Biden on the stand explaining this away?
You want Joe Biden explaining this away?
How the company, now let's go to it backwards, Burisma pays Hunter Biden $83,000 a month.
Starts in 2014, right after Biden goes to Ukraine, right?
Hunter Biden has no experience in Ukraine or natural gas.
Joe Biden is the point man in the region discussing natural gas as his son is profiting heavily off natural gas in Ukraine.
He has no skills.
The company who hires him, Burisma, Then in 2017, partners with the Atlantic Council.
The Atlantic Council stocked full of anti-Trumpers who is knee-deep in all of this.
Remember CrowdStrike?
The company that analyzed the server and showed there was Russian hacking into the server?
Yeah, the CTO there sat in the Atlantic Council board too.
The Atlantic Council partners up with the company paying Hunter Biden.
The Atlantic Council, then just recently, pays for a trip for Adam Schiff's staffer, Thomas Eager, to go over there to Ukraine right at the time where Schiff is tweeting about this Ukraine deal he thinks is impeachable.
Because someone listened in on a phone call.
Folks, this was a pre-planned hit the whole time.
Are we kidding?
The fingerprints are all over this.
What was Bill Taylor's role here?
Who took over for Marie Yovanovitch when she left as her ambassador to Ukraine?
Bill Taylor, who there are strong suspicions, does not like Trump at all.
Why is he texting Gordon Sondland, the point man for Trump with Ukraine?
One of them.
He's our ambassador to the EU.
Why is he texting Sondland?
Hey, this looks like a quid pro quo, man.
Doesn't it?
Joe, let's do it.
Doesn't this look like a quid pro quo?
Now Sondland, who's actually talking to Trump, says there is absolutely no quid pro quo.
Folks, this reeks of a setup.
What was Taylor's role in this?
Was Taylor there at that Atlantic Council meeting?
Here's the question.
And I don't say anything until we can definitively show it.
That's why I'm holding back a little bit, despite some of my sources and you know who you are.
I appreciate it, but I have to... Precision matters.
We've never been called out on our books on anything and I'm not going to start now.
Was Bill Taylor at that Atlantic Council meeting?
There's some indications he may have been.
Did Bill Taylor Speak with Adam Schiff's staffer, who's there because of the Atlantic Council, the company tied to the whole, the company burisma that's being investigated.
And if that was the case, what was said?
If there's a trial in the Senate, I want Schiff's staffer, Tom Eager, on the stand.
I want Taylor, too.
I want to know exactly, under oath, what was said, if you met with him.
Did someone on Schiff's staff suggest to you, We got a spy in the White House who heard Trump's call, and we're going to lie about it, say there was a quid pro quo.
I think you need to text Gordon Sondland and others and say, hey, this smells like a quid pro quo to me.
The problem is Sondland didn't play ball because it wasn't true.
And Trump touchéed them all by releasing the transcript.
Again, which I still think long term was a bad move.
Short term, there's no question it works for him.
Now we have the transcript.
Their entire case is collapsing.
Joe, does that make sense?
Oh, nicely tied together there, Dano.
Nice job, brother.
Yes, sir.
I think we're going to see a whole lot more and hear from Bill Taylor.
Hey, Bill, did someone tell you to text Gordon Sondland?
Hey, look, we got a quid pro quo.
We're getting word from a spy in the White House about a quid pro quo.
Text Gordon Sondland.
Now, why else is this trouble?
Schiffstaffer, Hunter, these people all know each other.
This is all one big cabal of idiots.
Katherine Harridge last night brings up another interesting point.
Again, how every avenue is closing off for them on impeachment now because everything they say turns out not to be true.
I want you to pay particular attention right here to the end of this clip with Katherine Harridge from Fox, who does some fine work.
Where she talks about the actual whistleblower, Deep Stater, and the whistleblower's interpretation of the transcript.
In other words, Joe, is it a direct or a non-direct transcript?
Okay?
Listen closely.
Check this out.
The first whistleblower wrote a two-page, single-spaced memo to themselves, documenting second-hand information from a White House official, quote, The following is a record of a conversation I had this afternoon with a White House official about the telephone call yesterday morning between President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky.
Using dramatic language and tone, which is worth contrasting with the publicly released transcript from the White House, the whistleblower writes, quote, The official described the July 25th call as crazy, frightening, Oh!
and completely lacking in substance related to national security.
Oh!
And there's a key section about this transcript of the call.
Some critics initially called it a summary or notes.
But in the memo, the first whistleblower suggests it is a complete record that the standard
practice is for, quote, the White House Situation Room to produce a word for word transcript
that memorializes the call.
Oh.
Oh.
OK.
So we just heard a few days ago from the liberal media lunatics and their Democrat sycophant
acolytes that Joe, when Trump released the transcript, which nobody thought he would
do of the call.
Right.
We heard, okay, well, there's really no evidence of a quid pro quo in there, but that's because Joe, it's not a direct transcript.
Ah.
That's not exactly what the whistleblower said.
The whistleblower, him or herself, said it was a direct transcript.
What's going on?
They're done.
Their goose is cooked.
Ladies and gentlemen, they never expected the president to release the transcript.
What does that mean?
They thought they were going to be able to lie endlessly about what was in the call to Ukraine and continue to insist Trump was trading a favor, investigate Biden, for military aid.
That's not in the call!
And when it subsequently didn't turn up in the call because Trump released it, and again, a short-term success for him, Unquestionably.
Then they just started making things up.
No, no, it's in the text with Gordon Sondland.
Then we see the text.
No quid pro quo.
No, no, no.
It's really in the transcript, but the transcript isn't word for word.
The whistleblower said it's word for word.
They don't have anything.
They've got nothing.
Every avenue is closing off.
Now, Pun intended.
What was their Trump card?
Well, at least someone in Ukraine, the president or someone else will insist that even though there was no direct quid pro quo, Joe, they felt pressure to investigate Biden about this military aid, right?
Trump pressured us.
It's an indirect quid pro quo.
Well, as Matt Palumbo writes at Pongino.com, another excellent piece in our show notes today, that's not working out either.
Avenue number 6722, closed, detour, go in the other direction.
By Matt Palumbo, Pongino.com.
Ukraine's president, again, confirms he wasn't pressured by Trump.
Let's check this quote.
You understand every avenue has been closed off.
Check this out.
Quote from the Ukrainian president.
I was never pressured and there were no conditions being imposed to realize a summit with Trump or agree to arms sales in return.
Ukrainian prosecutors will deal with any requests from their U.S.
counterparts to cooperate investigations, quote, in accordance with our laws.
If they are made based on international laws, Zelensky said, folks, there's nothing there.
Now, where have we seen this model before?
Leak to the press!
About salacious collusion deals, promises, favors.
Favor to help the Russians in turn.
Russians give them Hillary's emails.
Favor to help the Ukrainians if the Ukrainians investigate Biden.
Where have we seen this?
On the collusion hoax!
The exact same thing!
Surreptitious leaks to the media about hysterical things that turn out later to be not true.
Now, we get that.
That's not news.
You're like, okay, of course that was their blueprint.
But what's fascinating about this?
Both times...
Trump has touchéed them, Joe.
What does he do the first time?
Through his DNI, his former DNI, he declassifies the FISA document.
Remember what the Democrats were saying in the collusion hoax?
They leaked these stories.
Trump definitely colluded with the Russians.
And Joe, there's evidence in the FISA paperwork, Joe, but it's classified and you can't see it.
But it's there, buddy.
It's there.
Remember that?
Oh yeah.
It's definitely there.
Yeah.
Brian Stelter calling Mark Levin a conspiracy theorist.
There was no FISA.
You guys are all crazy.
Mark's like, no, there's a FISA, all right.
Yeah.
But you guys can't see it.
But the evidence Trump colluded is there.
What does Trump do?
He goes, um, I'm going to declassify that FISA.
Everybody starts reading the FISA.
They're like, where's the evidence?
This is the dossier.
Then what happens?
Then what happens, Joe?
Some of you are forgetting this because so much has happened.
It's all in Spygate and Exonerated, my second book.
Please read them both.
It's a compendium.
It's a big account of this whole story.
Then when Trump declassifies the FISA, touche!
What did they say?
It was not based on the dossier in the Pfizer, Joe.
It was based on Papadopoulos and the Australian downers.
Yeah, that was it.
Where did that story come from?
They lie.
All that came from nowhere.
And then all of a sudden, everybody's like, really?
Because you met overseas with steel in London before the Papadopoulos tip allegedly came into you.
How does that work out?
These people are liars.
They are lying.
The same model's being used now.
Leaked to the press.
Collusion, leaked to the press this time.
A promise was made.
They didn't think the Pfizer would make it to the public eye.
They thought they could lie about it forever.
No, no, it's in the Pfizer.
It's there.
Now it's in the phone call.
It's there.
Trump, okay, here's the phone call.
Uh, no, no, that's not a direct transcript.
That's not it.
The whistleblower.
That's a direct transcript.
Oh, no, no.
Gordon Sondland.
There's texts out there.
Yeah, the texts say there's no quid pro quo.
People are disgusting liars.
You disgust me.
I'm talking about, not all of the media, because some people are actually reporting on this.
Like I said, shockingly, Politico, Ukraine efforts to sabotage Trump backfired.
Politico actually did homework on this.
But to the liberal media types, carrying water for the Democrats to avoid telling the story of what happened here.
It's gross.
This was a setup.
This was a pre-planned hit, folks.
They are covering up this deal in Ukraine by Biden and his son and the Ukrainian efforts to sabotage the 2016 election in conjunction with Democrat operatives.
There's no question that happened.
They waited for this Trump call on July 25th to Ukraine.
They were waiting with notepads.
Yes, sir.
As the call happened, they immediately rushed to Adam Schiff and others.
Hey, we got the call.
And I think it's bad enough that if we leak to the media there was a promise we can get this guy impeached.
Don't worry, we can just lie about it.
The media will suck it up.
Was there a promise in the call?
Well, not really.
It's a direct transcript.
But it's bad enough, we think, that if we leak it to the media, these idiots will run with it, which they dutifully did.
And Trump cuts them all off.
Cuts them all off by releasing the transcript.
And now pulling Sondland at the last minute and daring them to take a vote on impeachment.
Touché, as Samuel L. Jackson would say, mm-mm, mm-mm-mm.
You know what I'm saying.
Mm-hmm.
Got to leave that one out of the show.
Mm-hmm.
I'm almost certain that we would have to beep that, but you know what I'm saying.
Say what again?
Say- [Laughter]
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Again.
They'll always win.
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Oh, yeah.
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So we had this big, uh, controversy yesterday with the NBA.
I'm going to tie two stories to you together.
What I, what I like to do here.
Um, and they may seem unrelated, but they're not.
So Elizabeth Warren, who is now appearing to be the Democrat front runner folks, just one comment, by the way, in the 2020 election, they're in a lot of trouble right now.
A lot of trouble.
Their impeachment case is falling apart.
They're going to have to take a vote.
If the vote fails, it'll be the biggest political facepalm in human history.
If the Senate trial fails, it'll be the second biggest.
But their three polling leaders Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Elizabeth Warren all have baggage that is not going away.
And let me be clear before I say this, and I mean this sincerely, I am not making light of Bernie Sanders' health situation at all.
That's not funny, I don't get into that stuff, I don't play that game.
That's really gross when people do that.
Bernie Sanders, one of their leading frontrunners, has significant health problems, just reporting the facts.
He had a heart attack.
I wish him well.
I don't agree with his politics, but I'm not making light of it.
It's just a fact.
One of their leading people in the polls is having significant health issues.
Their other frontrunner, Biden, as I just told you, is involved knee-deep in an international scandal of colossal proportions with a company that's associated with the Atlantic Council that keeps rearing its head at every single angle of an anti-Trump plot.
Now we get to Liz Warren, who is now creeping up in the polls as the other two collapse.
Elizabeth Warren's creeping up in the polls, and we now have this story surface of Elizabeth Warren who claims she was fired from a teaching position because she was pregnant years ago when she was rearing, obviously, a young child.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, that story Doesn't seem to be working out for her.
Paul, can I go out of order a little bit here?
Can we play the video?
Can you cue that up?
This is a hat tip, by the way.
Students for Trump.
This is Elizabeth Warren, and I want you to be clear on this.
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For those of you listening on audio, I just want you to be clear.
This is a dual panel here.
It's Elizabeth Warren debating herself.
You're gonna hear two different tones.
One is her speaking now about how she was fired for being pregnant, and the second tone is her in 2007 explaining why she really left the same job she claimed she was fired for being pregnant.
Hat tip student for Trump for putting this montage together.
Check this out, it's about a minute long.
My first teaching position was as a special needs teacher.
There we go!
I worked, it was in a public school system, but I worked with the children with disabilities.
I loved that job.
But by the end of the first school year, I was quite visibly pregnant.
And I was pregnant with my first baby.
So I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years.
And I was really casting about, thinking, what am I going to do?
And my husband's view of it was, stay home.
And the principal didn't invite me back for the next school year.
And I did that for a year.
And then that summer, I actually didn't have the education courses, so I was on an emergency certificate, it was called.
And I went back to graduate school and took a couple of courses in education and said, I don't think this is going to work out for me.
And the principal didn't invite me back for the next school year.
And the principal didn't invite me back for the next school year.
I actually didn't have the education courses, so I was on an emergency certificate.
I don't think this is going to work out for me.
That wasn't like a blip in the so that's how they did it.
That's how they cut it, for those of you listening on audio.
Do you see?
She's making it up again!
Folks!
Elizabeth Warren, she just is incapable of telling the truth.
Joe, let me ask you, this is not a trick question.
Right?
If you were writing an autobiography, Joe Armacost, my story, who do you think, if there was one person on the planet, you included, who do you think knows the most about Joe Armacost's life?
Not a trick.
Take a few seconds to think about that.
The answer would be me, Dan.
Me!
Joe Armacost, thank you!
It's pretty hard to screw up your own autobiography.
You were there, okay?
You were there.
This isn't like Julian Jaynes and the breakdown of the bicameral mind.
You were there.
Your brain She keeps lying!
Um, I grew up and my ma and pa had to elope because my grandmother's uncle was an Indian and they didn't like it and they were bigots and everybody's like, wait, what?
But we had high cheekbones and pa said we were, we were Iroquois or what?
And you're like, what are you talking about?
She just makes this stuff up.
Now, this story, as I said last night on Hannity, What's particularly pernicious about this story Warren's putting out there, again, is Joe, it's not that other people are making up stories about her.
I gotcha.
She's making up stories about other people.
Let me give you a quick example of what I mean by this.
Alright.
I used to get this a lot and it was very frustrating.
I resigned from the Secret Service to run for office.
It's not a mystery, folks.
Right.
It's nothing of Joe.
I mean, if anyone lived through it with me, it was Joe.
It's when I met Joe.
Yeah, you were on, yeah.
So liberals who lie all the time.
There was this, remember this, Paul?
Like, oh, he was fired.
Okay, whatever.
So people were making up stuff about me.
It was very easy to refute.
I just put my departure paperwork from the Secret Service on my Tumblr and Facebook.
You know, I had the highest rating as an agent.
And I took out everybody's name, obviously.
But you can check it.
I just FOIA-ed it.
I have nothing to hide.
I was not fired.
I left.
I wanted to run for office.
It's very simple.
There's no surreptitious story there.
Please, look at it.
Liberals, go do your thing.
It's easy to refute.
In other words, no one's making up stories about her.
She's making up stories about herself.
She's making up stories.
And by making up stories by herself, this is the bad part of it.
She is impugning and slandering other people.
She's not an Indian, okay?
Suggesting her family was full of bigots and they were Indian bigots is not true.
It's not true.
She's just making it up.
Her family... Her family has to be disgusted by this.
This woman is a pathological liar.
I was fired.
I was fired from my job because I was visibly pregnant.
The Washington Free Beacon went out and got the paperwork.
She was not fired.
She was offered a new contract.
She didn't want it.
But Joe, she slanders the principal.
Yeah, that's terrible.
And the principal fired me because... Right?
That's terrible.
I mean, it is terrible.
You're darn right.
Now people are going to find out who this principal was.
Who did nothing wrong.
They offered her a contract.
She turned it down.
And she goes, because she's a pathological liar with no character.
Ma and Pa were, everybody was a bigot.
The principal was a misogynistic pig.
And he did, she says in that speech, you can rewind it and listen.
The principal did what every principal did, you misogynistic pig males.
Fired me because I was pregnant or didn't offer me a job.
That's just not what happened.
You liar!
They are in a world of trouble, Joe.
Oh, yeah.
The Democrats.
You think?
Yeah.
Now, I wanted to tee that up first.
I kind of did it out of order.
Sorry, Paula.
I give her the show in order and I screw everything up by going out of order.
But I wanted to get that out of the way to show you what kind of a person you're dealing with here.
This is a person with very low character.
A pathological liar!
How does this tie to the NBA story and what's going on with business now?
That's why this show is different, right?
So I want you to see this Wall Street Journal story from a few days ago.
It's an editorial.
It was in their opinion column.
Elizabeth Warren is now doubling down on business in America, you know, woke capitalism, right?
The title by the editorial board is King Warren of the Roundtable.
The senator orders the stakeholder CEOs to endorse her agenda.
What's going on here?
How does this tie into what happened with the NBA in China yesterday?
This gets ugly.
Folks, American businesses are becoming woke.
In other words, catering and kissing the collective butts of social justice warriors out there, liberals, who, why is this happening?
Well, I discussed it a little bit last night on Hannity, too.
Having lost the national election badly to President Trump, having lost the Senate, barely retaining the House, Losing the courts now.
The Supreme Court.
I'm going to get to the Supreme Court this week too, so it's going to be a stacked lineup.
They got a stacked Supreme Court.
Look at that, stacked.
They have a stacked dock at this court.
They've now lost in the courts too, repeatedly.
All of their avenues, just like the impeachment to socialism, all the impeachment avenues being closed off, Joe.
All of their avenues to big government socialism and a takeover of the U.S.
economic system are failing.
They lost nationally.
They lost on the tax code.
They're losing in economics.
Obamacare is falling apart.
They were hoping to do it through judicial fiat.
They're losing because Trump's appointing conservative judges.
Their last avenue here, and I've covered this on the show before, is corporate activism.
Well, if we can't win nationally in elections, and if we can't win through the courts, at a minimum we can pressure corporations to do things on the environment, And on healthcare, and on socialism, that we can't get past legislatively.
You tracking?
Yeah, yeah.
So corporations who refuse to man up are afraid of this.
And they're becoming woke, trying to kiss the butts of these liberals, thinking, oh, they won't come for me, Joe.
They won't come for me.
If we acknowledge that we're concerned about stakeholders and not shareholders, they'll leave us alone.
They will not leave you alone.
How does this relate to the Warren piece?
Well, these companies got together, some of America's biggest companies, Joe, at a business roundtable and decided they were going to reform what their goals are.
And their goals now are to appease stakeholders.
No, no, no.
That's not how free markets work, Joe.
You are there to operate on behalf of your shareholders.
People who own the company, who work their butts off to pay into a pension fund that invests in you, you're not there to appease stakeholders.
What's the difference?
Shareholders own the company.
Stakeholders, as this business roundtable got together, wow, we're here for the stakeholders.
Stakeholders are everyone.
Corporate pressure campaigns, liberal social justice warriors, environmental groups, you're not here for them.
You are there because shareholders invested their hard-earned money in your company.
That's not a license to randomly pollute the environment, to break the law, to crap on people.
It's just a simple fact that conduct your business ethically, but conduct it to enrich, hopefully, the people who worked hard to give you money.
That's what the shareholders are.
We're not here for stakeholders.
No, fiduciary duty, man.
Yeah, exactly.
Yes, Joe.
22-year-old, you know, post-grad students in third-world basket weaving?
Bingo.
They don't know squat about your company.
So what did Elizabeth Warren do?
Oh, she got wind of this little business roundtable edict.
We're here for the stakeholders now.
And what does she do?
Instead of celebrating them, she releases this statement covered by the journal.
Now, Joe, she expects them.
Listen to this.
If you, this is all from Elizabeth Warren's campaign.
And the other 181 corporate executives who signed the Business Roundtable's new statement on the purpose of a corporation plan to live up to the promises you made.
I expect, this is Elizabeth Warren, that you will endorse and wholeheartedly support the reforms laid out in the Accountable Capitalism Act to meet the principles you endorse.
I have attached a copy of the bill.
By the way, that's the one where the government gets control of just about every business in America that has to be federally charted.
That's Elizabeth Warren's bill.
Oh, you thought she was going to leave you alone after your little woke capitalism?
We're here for the stakeholders now!
Good luck with that.
You have one, one path to freedom and success.
That is economic freedom and liberty.
And that is not on the liberal side.
So how does this tie into the China story?
They all want to be woke now, Joe.
They want to be woke.
They want to appease the environmental groups, the social justice warriors in the country.
Yeah.
But that's fascinating.
You had a woke capitalism group in the NBA too.
So we have the story of the Daily Signal being the show notes today.
So Houston Rockets general manager, right?
In one of the NBA teams.
Tweets out support of the Hong Kong protesters.
I support them too.
Well, what does he do?
This is by Jared Stepman, Daily Signal, the NBA shameful hypocrisy in China.
He has to delete the tweet.
China immediately, acting in a tyrannical fashion, cuts ties with the Houston Rockets, dumps games from their Chinese television thing.
We're done with this guy.
Now, instead of the NBA coming out right away and supporting him, you have all these sycophantic, butt-kissing players in front of the camera.
We love China.
Listen, I love the Chinese people.
I think a lot of them would be warriors for truth, too, if we actually would support them.
Yeah.
But now we're supporting tyrannical socialism in the world's biggest surveillance state, too?
Modern business?
You see the hypocrisy here, Joe?
Yeah.
American businesses, they're all woke.
They're in it for the stakeholders at home, for the social justice causes.
They're in it for the environmental stuff here.
But when it comes to China, some of these same businesses... Oh, shh, shh.
Not over there.
Matter of fact, the NBA.
Everybody shut up about China.
The same NBA, by the way, that decided it was going to pull its all-star game out of North Carolina unless they did something about a bill that was working its way through their Senate, HB2.
Right, right.
Here we go.
Reuters.
NBA returns all-star game to North Carolina if the transgender law lifted.
The NBA.
Same NBA.
Doesn't want to speak out against Uyghur concentration camps in China.
The same NBA, by the way, that won't call owners owners.
They refuse to do that.
Story from TMZ.
We're not using the term owner.
They're sensitive to it.
Yeah, they're not sensitive to concentration camps in China, Joe.
None of that stuff.
But don't call an NBA owner an owner.
Don't you dare.
Owner.
Pathetic.
Pathetic.
Listen, let me be clear on my position here.
I have no problem...
With companies engaged in their economic self-interest doing business in China.
But don't be frauds, okay?
Let's not be fake phonies here, and all of a sudden, your big-time, woke social justice worries when it comes to crapping all over US companies and actual shareholders who own your business, but then when it comes to some of the same injustices overseas, oh, everybody be quiet, we got a buck to be made.
Frauds.
Frauds.
Every last one of you did it.
And you think Elizabeth Warren's gonna be your savior?
Good luck.
Pfft.
Disgrace.
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