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| QR codes? How convenient! | ||
| Until they decide to shut off your access and prevent you from buying anything. | ||
| A viral video posted on Twitter shows a man entering an Aldi supermarket in London, only to see barriers denying his entry if he doesn't have the app and the QR code on his phone. | ||
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So look at this. | |
| You're in London, you're on a business trip, you're staying in Greenwich, and you want to buy some food. | ||
| So you're going to the local oldies, like this one, and you think, I'm going to go in here and buy some food so I can feed myself. | ||
| And then you approach the barrier and look. | ||
| You can't even get in the shop without having a QR code to scan here. | ||
| Or to scan here. | ||
| And then you can go and buy things. | ||
| What if you forget your phone? | ||
| What if you don't have a smartphone? | ||
| What if you don't want to download the tracking app? | ||
| Sorry, no food for you. | ||
| What about old people? Many of them don't even know how to use a smartphone, never mind a QR code. | ||
| Guess they're gonna have to starve too. | ||
| And what's next? The digital tattoo on your arm, the microchip in your head. | ||
| I haven't seen this level of social credit score tyranny in communist China, and they're the masters of it. | ||
| Of course, while for the moment this is just a minor inconvenience, you can just go to another shop. | ||
| Try paying for something with cash in London, they'll look at you like you're from another planet. | ||
| They basically killed off cash in the space of a decade. | ||
| So how long until this is mandatory? | ||
| And the elephant in the living room, of course, is the wet dream of all s**t lib technocrats. | ||
| Tying these permission slip QR codes to a single data profile that's linked to your National ID social credit score account. | ||
| Oh, you're not up to date on your jabs. | ||
| You didn't get the 59th booster. | ||
| Sorry, no entry for you. | ||
| Disrespected someone's pronouns on Twitter. | ||
| Yes, you'll have to skip dinner tonight. | ||
| You appeared in a photo on Instagram with a friend whose social credit score has slipped below 100. | ||
| Oh, better start posting some rainbow flags or something to compensate because you're going hungry. | ||
| Some dude got locked out of his smart home by Amazon because a ring doorbell mistakenly thought it heard him utter a racial slur when no one was even in at the time. | ||
| I mean, you'd be a Luddite. | ||
| to suggest that this kind of technology isn't helpful to some extent. | ||
| But when it's being weaponised as a tool to shut people out of basic society and commerce, it's gone too far. | ||
| And it's time to roll it back before we all end up in a Black Mirror-style dystopia from which there's no way out. | ||
| Contact Aldi on Twitter and let them know that if this isn't revoked immediately, you'll never go anywhere near one of their stores ever again. | ||
| Tragedy in Nottingham as two students... | ||
| All right, folks, that is the latest from Paul Joseph Watson. | ||
| He's been sort of killing it recently, doing incredible stuff. | ||
| Of course, you can find and share all of that at band.video. | ||
| Welcome to the show. This is the American Journal. | ||
| We have so very much to discuss today. | ||
| We're going to be talking a lot about the accusations into the Joe Biden bribery scandal and... | ||
| There's actually been some really sort of fascinating exchanges on the floor of the Senate. | ||
| I have the full exchange between Dick Durbin, Senator Kennedy, Senator Grassley and Senator Graham, Lindsey Graham. | ||
| I don't... I don't know. | ||
| I don't know. I don't know what to think about it. | ||
| I kind of just want to play the full 24 minutes, but obviously we're not going to have time for that. | ||
| So we'll show you some excerpts from it. | ||
| But a very interesting exchange where I almost, I get close to actually having some respect for the politeness of politics. | ||
| That's usually so frustrating. | ||
| Where everything's framed as, look, hey, Joe Biden is a wonderful man who's a genius and my best friend, but I think maybe we need to answer some of these questions. | ||
| You can actually kind of see the value of... | ||
| All of this parliamentary gamesmanship going on. | ||
| It really is fascinating, and it's also fascinating to see how the Democrats have absolutely nothing. | ||
| They have no leg to stand on. | ||
| They have no reason to oppose the things that they're opposing. | ||
| And it really becomes obvious when you see this exchange where Dick Durbin, basically the only argument he has is, well, but this happened during Trump's administration, so therefore... | ||
| We should just drop it and stop talking about it. | ||
| And it's just the most pathetic excuse to not, you know, actually perform oversight over the FBI. So we'll get into that a lot, probably in the first hour. | ||
| But there's a lot of news to cover, so stay with us. | ||
| The American Journal. | ||
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It'll be a good Friday. It's Friday, June 16th, year of our law in 2023. | |
| And you're listening to The American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| Watch it live right now at band.video. | ||
| Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Welcome to The American Journal. It's Friday, casual Friday here at InfoWars. | ||
| Lots of news to cover. | ||
| RFK Jr. | ||
| went on the Joe Rogan podcast. | ||
| I mean, the whole thing is bombshell, but we'll show you some choice clips from that as they talk about everything from the military-industrial complex, the CIA being just the worst. | ||
| Just the worst. Not just in terms of, like... | ||
| They're bad for a minute. They're bad for the world. | ||
| They have been bad for the world. | ||
| They've been behind so much of just the tragedy and strife and chaos over the last 50 years. | ||
| So we'll show you some clips from that. | ||
| And I mean, they get into all sorts of wonderful stuff. | ||
| So we'll talk about that for sure. | ||
| But really, we have a lot of kind of good news, kind of weird news. | ||
| Lots of stuff to talk about. | ||
| So let's just get into it, shall we? | ||
| Here it is, your daily dispatch. | ||
| All right, here it is, folks, your daily dispatch for Friday, the 16th of June, 2023. | ||
| From zerohedge.com, GOP, where did Joe Biden's $10 million windfall in 2017 actually come from? | ||
| President Joe Biden reported earning $15.6 million in 2017, of which more than $10 million was listed as income from Joe's memoir and $3 million listed as income from Jill Biden's book. | ||
| In light of recent revelations from whistleblowers, including the fact that the FBI hid evidence that the owner of Burisma made 17 blackmail tapes of the Bidens who were allegedly paid $10 million, $5 million to Hunter and $5 million to Joe, Republican lawmakers want to take a closer look at Biden's tax return, according to Breitbart. | ||
| Before the 2020 election, USA Today published a fact check article where they tried to support the claims that the Bidens earned $15.6 million from speaking fees and book deals from 2017 to 2019. | ||
| And then more than $10 million of that total income was profits from Biden's memoir and Joe Biden's book. | ||
| But a closer inspection raises serious questions over whether over where the Biden's income actually originated. | ||
| Maybe a lab in Beijing? | ||
| Zero Hedge asks. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| Another twist to this, I actually had this story yesterday, but I didn't really... | ||
| I still don't know if I totally trust it, but it's getting a lot of traction online today, so I figured we'd cover it and look into it. | ||
| It's from the peoplesvoice.tv. | ||
| Again, I'm not familiar with this site, so take this for what it's worth. | ||
| Burisma Energy accountant who blew the whistle on Biden bribery scheme found dead. | ||
| The chief accountant in Ukraine's Burisma Energy, who offered to provide U.S. authorities with damning evidence regarding financial crimes involving Joe and Hunter Biden, has been found dead before she could testify. | ||
| The Burisma whistleblower, who's been identified as the wife of former Burisma owner Mikula Lyssen, who also died in suspicious circumstances during the years of the Obama administration, when Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter were active in Ukraine. | ||
| Giuliani discussed the fate of the now-deceased whistleblower during an interview on Newsmax Saturday Report with Rita Cosby. | ||
| According to Giuliani, who first brought to light Hunter Biden's notorious laptop from hell, the whistleblower was the chief accountant at Burisma, the notoriously corrupt Ukrainian energy company. | ||
| Do we need to start racking up the Biden death count like we do with the Clinton bite death count? | ||
| When in reality, they are all just various... | ||
| Facets of the CIA death count, as it's my contention that basically every president since Reagan has been just a CIA handpicked appointee, more or less. | ||
| I mean, you got George Bush Sr., who was, of course, at the CIA, head of the CIA, for a while before being placed as Ronald Reagan's vice president, only have Ronald Reagan nearly assassinated a few months into his administration, | ||
| so... You know, when you're talking about the Clintons or the Bidens or the Obamas, I mean, these are people that have been intimately involved in the CIA since long before they reach presidential status. | ||
| Again, when you talk about the Clinton death count, not that the Clintons are killing people, it's that the Clintons are in the CIA. The CIA are killing people. | ||
| Clintons aren't protecting themselves. | ||
| The CIA are protecting their assets, the Clintons. | ||
| That's my interpretation of it anyway. | ||
| Meanwhile, we have another similar story to the Daniel Penny affair. | ||
| Man charged in fatal stabbing of New York City subway rider. | ||
| A man was arrested on manslaughter charge in connection with the fatal stabbing of New York City subway rider who allegedly punched his girlfriend and harassed other passengers. | ||
| The altercation occurred just after 8 p.m. | ||
| Tuesday on a northbound J train as it approached Marcy Avenue and Broadway. | ||
| New York police said the victim, identified as DeVictor Oredrago, 36 of Brooklyn was taken to the hospital with a stab wound in the chest. | ||
| He was pronounced dead at the hospital. | ||
| A toxicology report will be included once it has been finished. | ||
| He was allegedly harassing people on the train and acting belligerently and erratically, law enforcement sources told NBC New York. | ||
| A police official told one station one of the people he harassed was the girlfriend of the suspect, Jordan Williams, 20, of Queens. | ||
| A source told NBC News that this guy punched Williams' girlfriend. | ||
| So we can look into this a little bit more, but obviously very different than the Daniel Penny affair. | ||
| Apparently there is cell phone footage of this most recent one, but I'm not going to jump to any conclusions because it's a little different just from the bare facts. | ||
| One, you've got Daniel Penny putting a guy in a headlock to try to restrain him. | ||
| The guy ends up dying somehow, but... | ||
| I mean, it's not usually a deadly move. | ||
| It's unfortunate that it happened that way, but a little bit different than stabbing someone in the chest. | ||
| So I think I'll hold off a little bit on my read of this situation until we get all the facts in. | ||
| But don't expect for a single second that we'll see Al Sharpton speaking at this new conference. | ||
| I guess victim, this new victim's funeral. | ||
| There's not going to be, you know, massive outcry. | ||
| The person who's accused of stabbing him is already out, right? | ||
| He got booked and then out on bail. | ||
| Daniel Penny's still in jail. | ||
| But since the current suspect, the guy who stabbed the guy in the chest, is black, there's not going to be a national outrage over this. | ||
| There's not going to be a big... | ||
| Hollabaloo, because they don't actually care about Jordan Neely. | ||
| They care about framing white people as evil. | ||
| If they care about using that event to try to perpetuate their anti-white agenda, and that's the only reason. | ||
| So now there's another guy, another maybe perhaps homeless guy, I mean, almost exactly the same situation, but nobody in Washington, D.C. cares even the slightest. | ||
| I haven't seen anything from AOC or anybody else because, in this case, the murderer is black. | ||
| So, you know, their principles coming to light. | ||
| Just being shown as to what they are. | ||
| Just a facade. | ||
| Just a pure deception to trick decent people and to use decent people's emotions to manipulate them. | ||
| That's all it is. | ||
| Speaking of manipulating vulnerable people, The Intercept has this story. | ||
| The FBI groomed a 16-year-old with brain development issues to become a terrorist. | ||
| Last week, the Department of Justice announced the arrest of a teenager in Massachusetts on allegations of providing financial support to the Islamic State group. | ||
| A flurry of reports picked up on the arrest of Mateo Ventura, an 18-year-old resident of the sleepy town of Wakefield, echoing government claims that an international terrorist financier and ISIS supporter had just been busted in the United States. | ||
| The DOJ's own press release on the case likewise trumpeted Ventura's arrest as knowingly concealing the source of material support or resources that he intended to go to a foreign terrorist organization. | ||
| Except the only terrorist he's accused of ever being in contact with was an undercover FBI agent who befriended him online as a 16-year-old. | ||
| And apparently this guy has some form of mental illness. | ||
| He's got brain development issues of some sort. | ||
| So there you go. The FBI doing the important work of brainwashing, tricking, and entrapping mentally deficient children. | ||
| Fantastic. Finally, we have this. | ||
| UK Defense Ministry to deploy Google AI despite warnings of, quote, scary risks. | ||
| The Ministry of Defense has secured a deal with Google to use artificial intelligence despite the government's AI Task Force advisor warning just a week ago that the technology could threaten the human race. | ||
| Well, it could result in the end of the human race. | ||
| You could be releasing Skynet here. | ||
| We also don't have any control or oversight into, you know, internal Google. | ||
| So you're partnering with this very despotic private company to provide AI services that are untested and might destroy the world. | ||
| But hey, do it anyway, because who cares, right? | ||
| I guess. What's the argument? | ||
| Who knows? Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| This is the American Journal, Infowars.com. | ||
| Infowarsstore.com is where you go to support us. | ||
| I hope that you can do that for us. | ||
| I hope you can find it in your heart to keep us on the air and fighting back against this corruption. | ||
| There's a lot of reasons to be hopeful these days, not the least of which... | ||
| Seems to be that against all of their inclinations, the Republican Party is almost being forced, just from sheer overwhelming demand by their constituents, to actually hold the FBI and typically untouchable, | ||
| according to the blue-blood Republicans, military-industrial-complex-spy-state You know, deep state apparatuses, forcing them to look into them, forcing them to ask questions about them, and forcing them to actually perform their oversight duties. | ||
| You can almost see this in the clips that we're about to play. | ||
| The full video of this exchange is about 24 minutes long. | ||
| It happened yesterday. | ||
| It was between Lindsey Graham, Senator Lindsey Graham, Senator Dick Durbin, Senator Kennedy, and Senator Grassley. | ||
| So you've got three Republicans, and then the chair of the committee is Democrat Dick Durbin. | ||
| And they're basically making the argument about the 1023, the document that... | ||
| The FBI said they didn't have and then revealed that they did have and then they redacted it. | ||
| They didn't realize that Chuck Grassley had already seen the unredacted version. | ||
| So this has all come to light and the Republicans are asking, very politely, to have some insight into what exactly happened here. | ||
| Was this legitimate evidence that's been covered up? | ||
| Was it false evidence that can be safely ignored? | ||
| And so I want to play some clips from this exchange. | ||
| And we'll comment on it. | ||
| And it starts with Lindsey Graham sort of laying it down. | ||
| And, you know, to me, the whole fake niceness, glad-handing. | ||
| I mean, I've been in some of these rooms where you just hear the Democrats just spewing the most vile, vicious lies you could possibly imagine. | ||
| And you're sitting there like, you know, like when Owen stands up and just starts yelling at Jerry Nadler, like it's hard not to do that. | ||
| When you're in these rooms, it's really hard because the guy's right there. | ||
| He's in the room with you and he's sitting there going, conservatives or the internet are terrorists and we should round them up. | ||
| And you're just like, he's right there. | ||
| He's just saying this to me, right to my face. | ||
| It's hard. It's hard not to want to stand up and do something. | ||
| Then it's almost even more infuriating when it's the Republican terms and they're just like, thank you for that, sir. | ||
| Very wise. And then they go into their thing and it's like, it's infuriating, this politeness that they, show of politeness that they put on. | ||
| I was watching this clip and I was, I had to Stop myself from being lulled by this attitude because you actually see how it can be fairly effective in this clip, I think, where, you know, what they're demanding is very reasonable and by presenting it in this almost overly polite way, It really leaves the Democrats with no way out of it. | ||
| They can't go, ah, you're just crazy. | ||
| This is a conspiracy. | ||
| You were just out to get Biden. | ||
| When you layer your request on Biden information by talking about how great Biden is, I don't know. | ||
| It's a little bit more convincing. | ||
| But either way, I mean, we are just watching a show here, right? | ||
| It's a play they're putting on. | ||
| To the extent that they're literally all reading from scripts. | ||
| It's pretty interesting. They're having conversation, but they're also clearly reading off of the papers in front of them. | ||
| A little odd. So we are watching just a little kabuki theater play out. | ||
| Lindsey Graham sort of starts the whole process. | ||
| Grassley chimes in. | ||
| We'll show you Lindsey Graham's sort of opening statement here. | ||
| And then they go back and forth, sort of saying the same thing back and forth. | ||
| And then Senator Kennedy interjects, and it gets really fun. | ||
| So we'll go to that longer clip in this next segment. | ||
| But first, let's hear Lindsey Graham very politely, very... | ||
| With a lot of... | ||
| Senatorial dignity lay out the case as to why the House Oversight Committee should actually perform oversight over the FBI. Here is Lindsey Graham yesterday. | ||
| Chairman, I know we all have other things to do. | ||
| So let me just give you my thoughts about the information discovered by Senator Grassley. | ||
| I have known President Biden probably for 25 years. | ||
| I like him. I respect him. | ||
| I disagree with him more times than not. | ||
| But if you ask me, is Joe Biden the type of guy that would take a $5 million bribe, my answer is, based on my experience, no. | ||
| But we have a situation here where in June of 2020, I believe it was, the FBI recorded information about a confidential informant that was on the payroll and Suggesting there was an interaction between Hunter Biden and Vice President Biden during his vice presidency with officials in Ukraine, maybe Burisma officials, that they're tapes. | ||
| And I can't walk down the hall without somebody asking me. | ||
| I don't know. Here's what I do know. | ||
| The Steele dossier was told to us to be true, and it was a lie. | ||
| Hunter Biden laptop, we were told was a fake, seems to be accurate. | ||
| I don't know what to tell you, but I do know this. | ||
| We have an obligation to answer these questions. | ||
| This is not a Fox News story. | ||
| This comes from the FBI itself. | ||
| Now, whether or not this is gossip and hearsay and a bunch of junk like the Steele dossier was, I don't know. | ||
| I don't know who the source was. | ||
| I don't know what they heard. | ||
| I don't know what the people are claiming to have. | ||
| But I do know this. | ||
| It's not a laughing matter on our side. | ||
| The trust of the intelligence community and the investigative agencies in this country regarding political matters is almost zero on our side. | ||
| So here's what I would hope we could do. | ||
| I'll turn it over to Senator Grassley in a second. | ||
| Let's find out what the hell happened. | ||
| Mr. Raskin, Congressman Raskin, suggests that the Attorney General Barr closed his out. | ||
| That's not true. That's just not true. | ||
| He's selling things that are not true. | ||
| This was apparently handed over to Mr. | ||
| Brady. A U.S. attorney who was supposed to look at it and see whether or not it was disinformation by Russia and apparently concluded it was not. | ||
| Then it was given to Mr. Weiss, the U.S. attorney, looking at all this stuff. | ||
| And I guess here's what I'm saying. | ||
| If it was dismissed as not being credible, I think the public needs to know what led to that. | ||
| If it's part of an ongoing investigation, we need to back off because... | ||
| We can't interfere in an investigation. | ||
| But if there's no there there, in the view of the intelligence community, the FBI, I want to know how they concluded that. | ||
| What did they do? | ||
| And if it is being looked at seriously, then we'll let the system work. | ||
| So that's basically the argument. | ||
| They're basically saying, look, this 1023 existed. | ||
| It was given to Bill Barr. | ||
| Bill Barr gave it to this other guy to vet it. | ||
| That guy apparently gave it to another U.S. attorney, Weiss, who has been investigating Hunter Biden for a long time. | ||
| And the Republicans are basically just saying, look, we just want to know where it's at now. | ||
| And you can see Lindsey Graham sort of giving himself an out. | ||
| And he actually repeats that a couple times in the exchange where he's going, if you just say you're investigating it, then we'll back off. | ||
| Just say it's an open investigation, and then I'll have an excuse to not follow this more. | ||
| Welcome back, folks. This scandal about Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, and the fact that it's taken this long to even come to light, sort of shameful. | ||
| Generally known about this, not about the 1023 necessarily, but the involvement of Hunter Biden in Burisma and with Joe Biden and the bribes. | ||
| And we've known about this since at least the Hunter laptop came out, if not years before that. | ||
| But it's like a boulder rolling down a hill. | ||
| It's picking up speed as it goes. | ||
| And it looks like the Republicans for once are sort of At least in the case of Lindsey Graham, begrudgingly doing their job in performing oversight. | ||
| Now where this exchange and where the demands of the Republicans sort of fall short is if you imagine... | ||
| If it was the Democrats, right? | ||
| There wouldn't be any concern about decorum. | ||
| They would be saying it for what it is. | ||
| They'd be saying this FBI is completely corrupt. | ||
| This is a political witch hunt. | ||
| They're covering for Joe Biden. | ||
| We demand that they release this. | ||
| No holds barred. | ||
| Like it would just be treated with the intensity that it deserves. | ||
| I mean, they treat things that are completely false, baseless, total nonsense with the intensity that this deserves. | ||
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| And this is real. | ||
| This is actually substantial. | ||
| And so the Republicans are demanding this 1023 form. | ||
| They're demanding to know what happened to it, where it's gone. | ||
| Apparently it was given to Bill Barr. | ||
| Bill Barr gave it to some other guy to vet it. | ||
| That guy, if it was legit, was supposed to give it to Wise, this DA, or this person investigating the Hunter Biden scandal. | ||
| Apparently he's been investigating Hunter for four years or something, and it's like... | ||
| Does he have anything yet? | ||
| Four years. This guy, his one job for four years has been to investigate Hunter Biden. | ||
| It's like, have you seen his laptop? | ||
| You could charge 15 crimes after looking at his laptop for 45 minutes. | ||
| Like, you don't need four years, but whatever. | ||
| That's fine. That's fine. | ||
| So... They're demanding response from the FBI in a very polite and senatorial way. | ||
| And the only response that the Democrats have to this is, well, it happened during Trump. | ||
| We'll just play the video because Dick Durbin's response is so illuminating. | ||
| Dick Durbin's response in this video is so... | ||
| Bizarre. It's interesting. | ||
| And I think he doesn't... | ||
| I think he sort of realizes what he's saying halfway through saying it, but he basically is like, oh, if what you're saying is true, you're talking about a giant conspiracy? | ||
| And he's like, ah, but never mind. | ||
| Don't forget I said that. | ||
| It's hilarious. It's actually very good. | ||
| So you've got Lindsey Graham demanding this. | ||
| Dick Durbin is just like, hey, trust the FBI. Let's just keep trusting the FBI. Just completely ignoring the last year of just overt, like several years of just continual subversion by the FBI. Just knowingly providing false material, launching investigations off of, you know, Hillary Clinton's opposition research. | ||
| They don't remember any of that, apparently. | ||
| They are still in the 1950s when the FBI could do no wrong and wore fancy fedoras. | ||
| That's how they seem to be treating the FBI. So they sort of go back and forth, and then Senator Kennedy interjects, and his interjection really gets things going. | ||
| I think he's exactly right in what he's saying, and then Dick Durbin's response is, We'll start playing this clip again. | ||
| We'll see how long we can get into it and we'll comment on the other side. | ||
| But just prior to this clip that we're about to play, Lindsey Graham basically makes the argument, makes the statement like, us on this side of the aisle don't have trust in the system anymore. | ||
| For very good reason. We shouldn't have trust in the system. | ||
| The system has been proven to be untrustworthy. | ||
| Obviously we don't trust it. And so that's what Senator Kennedy here is referencing in his first statement is, Senator Lindsey Graham talking about... | ||
| And basically, Lindsey Graham is saying, look, my constituents don't trust the FBI, and you have to give me something so I can go back to my constituents and say, don't worry. | ||
| I've looked into it, and everything is kosher. | ||
| And so, you know, he keeps saying... | ||
| He keeps being like, if... | ||
| The FBI comes back and says, this is an open investigation. | ||
| We'll back off. We'll back off. | ||
| We won't do anything. We'll stop mentioning it. | ||
| Just tell us it's being investigated. | ||
| Just tell us it's being investigated, and then we'll back off. | ||
| Like, give me an excuse to not pursue this, and I won't pursue it. | ||
| But right now, I got a lot of pressure from my constituents to seem like I'm doing something about this. | ||
| So it's all kind of ham-handed and ham-fisted and... | ||
| Double-sided here. But anyway, let's go to this clip and we'll probably continue it on the other side of the break, but let's get to as much of this as we can. | ||
| Here's Senator Kennedy interjecting and backing up his colleagues Grassley and Graham. | ||
| I know Senator Graham didn't mean this, but I believe in the system. | ||
| But the American people right now are skeptical about the system. | ||
| And I happen to believe that the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history. | ||
| And most of the people there just get up every day and do their job in a bipartisan manner, a nonpartisan manner. | ||
| But what Senator Graham and Senator Grassley are asking in light of history, in light of the context, is not unreasonable. | ||
| There's no question that for at least a period of time, there were people in charge of the FBI who acted on their political beliefs. | ||
| And I'm not talking about former Director Hoover. | ||
| I'm talking about Mr. | ||
| Ray's predecessor. The director of the FBI at that time decided that he was going to investigate not one, but both presidential candidates. | ||
| With respect to one, he decided to proceed. | ||
| With respect to one of those candidates, he decided to proceed on the basis Of information that we now know was manufactured by that candidate's opponent, which we call opposition research. | ||
| In terms of the second presidential candidate, Secretary Clinton, she was investigated. | ||
| A reasonable person can debate whether or not she should have been. | ||
| But the FBI director at that time called not one, but two press conferences to talk about the investigation. | ||
| And after he concluded it, he then opened it back up. | ||
| And then he called a second press conference. | ||
| It might have cost Secretary Clinton the election. | ||
| Now, the American people have seen all this. | ||
| And in many cases in government and democracy, it's not the substance, it's the perception. | ||
| And I don't know in this instance, now that the question has been raised, why FBI Director Wray and our Attorney General can't answer Senator Graham's and Senator Grassley's question and put this to rest. | ||
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Senator, I'm just thinking about the timeline. | |
| This form, FD-1023, one specific one we're talking about here, came up during the Trump administration. | ||
| The FBI received this information during the Trump administration. | ||
| And for whatever it was worth, it was communicated to President Trump's Attorney General, Bill Barr. | ||
| As well as the FBI, they were in on the conversation as well. | ||
| Think about the timeline of when it occurred. | ||
| What was happening in America during that timeline? | ||
| We were just about to vote on the reelection of President Trump. | ||
| And whether the American people would have him for another term. | ||
| And now his attorney general has this information. | ||
| We'll pick this up on the other side and continue the rest of Dick Durbin's response. | ||
| But that's literally all they have. | ||
| Literally, they're just like, but this came up during Trump's administration. | ||
| Like, that even matters. | ||
| Like, the FBI wasn't subverting Trump openly the entire time he was in office. | ||
| All right, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| We're going to hopefully finish out, continue talking about and finish talking about this exchange that happened yesterday. | ||
| Dick Durbin playing defense for the FBI, politicized Gestapo against Chuck Grassley, Lindsey Graham, and Senator Kennedy. | ||
| So we'll go back to Dick Durbin's statement here. | ||
| The leap in logic that's going on here is sort of something to behold. | ||
| The only thing he has is to say that this evidence came up while Trump was in office. | ||
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That's all he's got. | |
| I guess the insinuation here is that they're going with the perception of That they've been able to get out to the American people through the media that Trump was some sort of dictator I mean anybody who watched the Trump presidency Without a predetermined assumption about Trump was a dictator and everybody was bowing to him and serving him. | ||
| He was subverted at every pass. | ||
| The people that he appointed and was advised to appoint as being patriotic and loyal, every single one of them stabbed him in the back. | ||
| I mean, Bill Barr is the one who shut down investigations into the voter fraud in 2020. | ||
| He provided cover for all of Trump's enemies. | ||
| Like, when you understand the actual dynamics at play here are the permanent FBI deep state bureaucrat class versus the populist elected leader. | ||
| And, like, it was just obvious, I mean, throughout all of Trump's administration, the FBI was routinely screwing with him. | ||
| And, I mean, they don't even mention the fact that Comey was leaking things to the press, leaking things to the media. | ||
| Trump eventually had to fire Comey, and they even went after him for that. | ||
| I mean, at no point in the Trump administration was the FBI or even the DOJ as a whole, like, in the control of Trump. | ||
| But I guess if you can convince people that it was and then say, well, this was during the Trump administration, and since he didn't do anything with it, therefore there's nothing to see here. | ||
| That's basically the argument he's making. | ||
| It makes no sense. It's totally baseless. | ||
| And you can see as he starts to sort of play this out, he kind of accidentally admits, like, okay, if... | ||
| If the timeline as we know it is true, then we're talking about, in his words, a massive conspiracy here. | ||
| It's actually crazy. Dick Durbin literally calls what's going on a massive conspiracy. | ||
| And you can see in the response, Senator Kennedy sort of catches on to this and brings it up. | ||
| So we'll go back to Dick Durbin's response here. | ||
| He's the chairman of this particular committee. | ||
| He's taking... They're basically debating whether or not this should be pursued. | ||
| At the end of the day, my argument, if I was up here, it would be, we know the FBI is politicized. | ||
| We know the FBI is going after not only regular Republicans, like Catholic people that protest abortion clinics, but everybody on January 6th. | ||
| I mean, the egregious misbehavior of this FBI is unquestionable at this point, and An existential threat to our republic and if we want to preserve the republic it's not that we want to have over it is an obligation to have oversight over the FBI it's an obligation to bring them to heel because they are an incredibly dangerous rogue intelligence agency that is pursuing cases purely off of politics This cannot stand. | ||
| They should have a much firmer line here. | ||
| But to be fair, these are all squishy bags of flesh here that haven't stood up for anything in their lives. | ||
| So the fact that they're actually pushing back on this is something, I guess. | ||
| At least we have that going for us. | ||
| So we'll go back now. | ||
| This is, again, Dick Durbin's response. | ||
| And then we'll hear Kennedy's rebuttal to the response. | ||
| Here is Dick Durbin. | ||
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And now his Attorney General has this information, which some have alleged shows a $5 million bribe to the President of the United States, Joe Biden. | |
| Attorney General Barr has this information before the election, and we didn't hear about it? | ||
| Uh, yes. What does that tell you? | ||
| Was it a cover-up by Barr? | ||
| Yes. For what purpose? | ||
| To get Trump out. This has now become a sinister conspiracy. | ||
| Yeah, you're right. But I think the timeline argues that it isn't. | ||
| That there was disclosure, and obviously lack of credibility in this FD 1023. | ||
| So, again, let's... Meanwhile, David Wise is still hot on the case. | ||
| Oh, he's hot on the case. | ||
| He's hot on the trail of Hunter Biden. | ||
| He's in his hot tub with a snorkel spying on Hunter Biden as he smokes meth in some isolation tank. | ||
| He's hot on the trail, these people. | ||
| But I guess his argument is that he's like, okay, they had this information before the election, but we didn't hear about it. | ||
| So what is this, a sinister conspiracy? | ||
| Yeah, no, it's literally, yes, you are... | ||
| Yes, you're dealing with a sinister conspiracy in our intelligence agencies, and you're the Congress, and you should unravel this sinister conspiracy, sir. | ||
| But, and we'll go back to Kennedy's response here. | ||
| I love that. He's like, what, so Bill Barr covers it up like this, some sort of sinister conspiracy? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Yes, yes, yes, it is a sinister conspiracy. | ||
| Yes, Bill Barr was covering it up. | ||
| He was doing it to get Trump out because he was a snake the entire time. | ||
| He's a traitor. | ||
| He's a backstabber. He's a scumbag. | ||
| We're all learning this. You should, too. | ||
| But I guess his argument is that because Bill Barr didn't use this information politically, basically saying, so the Trump administration, which wasn't the Trump administration, it was the FBI during the Trump administration, which was always against Trump, always subverting Trump, withheld information from Trump that he could have used and was actually necessary to fulfill his obligations as president of the United States. | ||
| They thought they knew better and would withhold stuff from him. | ||
| This is just a common thing that they were doing constantly. | ||
| Everybody knows this. But his assumption is that here they're given this golden ticket. | ||
| They're given this bombshell information that would have guaranteed a Trump victory if it had been exposed. | ||
| So because it wasn't exposed, it's therefore not credible. | ||
| Because this bombshell information that would have decided the 2020 election was in the possession of Bill Barr in 2020, but it wasn't released to the press, it's therefore not credible? | ||
| I guess they're just so used to the Comey style, just like politicize everything, leak information to the press, even if it's unverified, to go after your political opponents. | ||
| Charge your political opponents with crimes based off of fabricated evidence. | ||
| That's the way they do things. | ||
| And so they're just like, because the Republicans didn't do things that way, then we can therefore ignore this evidence? | ||
| It makes no sense. It makes no sense. | ||
| It is completely baseless. | ||
| His objection every single time is without merit. | ||
| So why don't you let the investigation go forward? | ||
| Let's go back to this video and we'll finish it out here before the end of the segment. | ||
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Years ago, in Delaware, as the U.S. Attorney of Hunter Biden, he supposedly, from what I'm told here, was given the same information. | |
| Nothing happened. | ||
| Maybe that means it's not credible. | ||
| Maybe that means that these reasonable Republican leaders under President Trump decided it was not credible to pursue it. | ||
| But now it's back again, coincidentally with the week when the former president's appearing before a judge in Florida. | ||
| Now he's the one suggesting a sinister conspiracy. | ||
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I think, I'd like to have the question answered that Senator Graham asked, but I think the circumstances suggest that if there was a smoking gun here, Some members of the Trump administration would have brought it forward long before now. | |
| Mr. Chairman, there's a lot of wisdom in your words. | ||
| But once again, you have to consider this in context. | ||
| You correctly described a 1023. | ||
| When Senator Grassley first raised this issue, after the whistleblower came to him, The FBI wouldn't even acknowledge there was a 1023. | ||
| Then the story changed. | ||
| There was a 1023, but you can't see it. | ||
| Then the story changed. | ||
| Okay, you can see the 1023, but we're going to heavily redact it. | ||
| I suppose they didn't know Senator Grassley had seen the original document, but he knew what they redacted, which were the allegations about the tapes. | ||
| Consider the context. | ||
| I'm not going to go back through what I just said, but the American people are looking at all of this, and they just want an answer. | ||
| I agree with you. | ||
| We don't need a conspiracy theory. | ||
| Let's end the conspiracy. | ||
| But for the life of me, I can't understand why our Attorney General and our FBI Director can't come in front of the Judiciary Committee, in front of God and country, and answer Chuck and Lindsey's question. | ||
| And if they say, we're investigating this, Then we back off. | ||
| If they say there was nothing to it, perhaps we should ask, okay, can you explain why? | ||
| And that's the whole argument. | ||
| That's the whole argument. What's unreasonable about that, given our history over the past five years? | ||
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Senator, if I might say, this may be a headline in the Daily Conehead. | |
| Okay, whatever. Then they banter back and forth like old men. | ||
| But he's exactly right. | ||
| And again, so when Dick Durbin is like, they didn't think it was credible. | ||
| That doesn't change the request, where they're like, okay, if it's not credible, tell us why you came to that conclusion. | ||
| Perfectly reasonable. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Second hour of the American Journal has begun. | ||
| I haven't even mentioned yet, we have a guest in the third hour, Matt McCaw, spokesperson for the Greater Idaho Movement, who has just achieved some pretty major victories in their attempt to secede from Oregon and join Idaho to escape the tyranny of Portland. | ||
| Very excited to talk to him. We'll open up the phone lines for your calls this hour. | ||
| But I want to go down to a clip from the Joe Rogan experience with RFK Jr. | ||
| Yesterday, here is a little conversation they have about vaccines and about people's unwillingness to question vaccines. | ||
| And I think it really speaks to everything we talk about here, that once people accept something like maybe vaccines aren't safe and effective, maybe they're not trustworthy, that opens up a whole world of uncertainty for them. | ||
| And so they sort of block themselves off from actually accepting that and And actually believing that, because then they have to believe a whole bunch of other stuff. | ||
| Then a lot of the other things they believe collapses. | ||
| And so, again, I think it's not just about vaccines. | ||
| It's about sort of everything. But here's a very, very small portion of the bombshell interview between RFK Jr. | ||
| and Joe Rogan. You consider yourself a liberal in most, you know, as do I. What it means to be a liberal has changed in a lot of ways. | ||
| And it's not about the social issues as much as it is about this subscribing to whatever the orthodoxy or whatever the ideology preaches. | ||
| And it seems like when it comes to things like vaccines, that is something you never question. | ||
| And this is the name that shall not be uttered. | ||
| Yeah. Yeah, and when you start questioning things, people get angry at you, they don't want to hear it, they don't want to talk about it, unless they know someone has been injured. | ||
| And when that happens, generally, people have an open mind and they start to change. | ||
| And I think so many people know so many people that have been injured now They're a little more critical. | ||
| It's unclear to me how an orthodoxy unravels. | ||
| Yeah. You know, because, I mean, Mark Twain said it. | ||
| I think it was Mark Twain, yeah, said it. | ||
| It's easier to fool somebody than to persuade. | ||
| It's easier to fool a man than to persuade him that he's been fooled. | ||
| Once they swallow, they don't want to relinquish it because... | ||
| Ego. Yeah, ego, where it just threatens their worldview. | ||
| And there are so many things that are threatening about believing the counter-narrative that you and I now are seeing. | ||
| Because then, can I trust my doctor? | ||
| Can I trust, you know, the authorities? | ||
| Can I trust my country and all of that? | ||
| And it's really the entire cosmology around which we've kind of, you know, weaved and constructed our lives. | ||
| The whole foundations are, you have to start questioning everything and most people don't want to do that. | ||
| It's just, it's, you know, I think it's terrifying and I understand that. | ||
| You know, I see it in my family. | ||
| Yeah. It's certainly bizarre. | ||
| It's bizarre to witness. | ||
| It's bizarre to witness because I've witnessed it with people that I... I was a fan of intellectually, and then all of a sudden I'm seeing them buy into this, and then I see these telltale signs of them not willing to adjust with new data, with new information, and understanding that they've been duped and still digging their heels in, because they've already defended themselves once, so now they defend themselves, and now they double down. | ||
| You can watch many of these clips and really the full thing at Infowars.com. | ||
| RFK Jr. joins Rogan to discuss vaccine-induced autism, athletes dying suddenly, plandemic, and more. | ||
| Really, could you ask for a better pairing? | ||
| This is how you inject this reality into the masses. | ||
| Get RFK Jr. | ||
| on Joe Rogan to thoroughly discuss the implications of Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| The second hour of American Journal has begun. | ||
| We're going to open up the phone lines for your calls right now. | ||
| We're going to get into a whole bunch of other stories. | ||
| So anything you want to call about, feel free. | ||
| And if you want to go to the substack where we post all the videos or all the... | ||
| Well, we do post all the videos, but also all the articles that we cover every day. | ||
| And see if there's something on there that you think needs to be brought onto the air. | ||
| Then that's what we'll do because we have so much to cover and not infinite time. | ||
| So let's... See if we can't pick out the most important stuff. | ||
| The number to dial is 1-877-789-2539. | ||
| That's 1-877-789-2539. | ||
| Give us a call here at the American Journal. | ||
| Maybe we'll keep talking a little bit about that. | ||
| Yeah, we'll keep talking a little bit about the Biden corruption thing because there's a bunch of headlines that... | ||
| Have come out recently that really put the whole thing in a new sinister light. | ||
| The sinister conspiracy, to use Dick Durbin's words. | ||
| Burisma energy accountant who blew the whistle on Biden bribery scheme has been found dead, apparently. | ||
| The chief accountant at Ukraine's Burisma Energy, who offered to provide U.S. authorities with damning evidence regarding financial crimes involving Joe and Hunter Biden, has been found dead before she could testify. | ||
| The Burisma whistleblower, who's been identified as the wife of the former Burisma owner, Mikola Lyssen, also died in suspicious circumstances during the year, who also died. | ||
| So the husband also died. Now the wife has mysteriously died. | ||
| The husband died during the Obama administration when Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter were active in Ukraine. | ||
| Giuliani discussed the fate of the now deceased whistleblower during an interview on Newsmax's Saturday report with Rita Cosby. | ||
| According to Giuliani, who first brought light to Hunter Biden's notorious laptop from hell, the whistleblower was the chief accountant at Burisma, the notoriously corrupt Ukrainian energy company. | ||
| During Joe Biden's tenure as vice president under Obama, Burisma compensated Hunter with tens of thousands of dollars per month for his position on the company's board, despite his complete lack of experience in the energy sector. | ||
| During that period, then Vice President Biden withheld U.S. assistance to Ukraine as means of pressuring the government to dismiss Viktor Shokin, a senior prosecutor who was investigating Burisma and its owner for fraudulent activities. | ||
| Giuliani had previously served as President Trump's attorney, says the whistleblower offered to give a U.S. attorney highly compromising financial information about the Bidens. | ||
| However, Giuliani says U.S. authorities did everything they could to ignore her, bouncing her case around various offices in an attempt to make her go away. | ||
| He revealed the Pittsburgh Attorney General had initially been investigating the case, but the investigation was later transferred to the U.S. Attorney's office in Delaware under former U.S. Attorney Bill Barr. | ||
| And I guess that would be the... | ||
| So she apparently died under suspicious circumstances. |
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