Dave Smith and Robbie the Fire Bernstein dissect Hunter Biden's indictment, mocking his press conference admissions of mistakes while highlighting his Georgetown and Yale credentials alongside $1.7 million in Burisma cash withdrawals. They refute claims that Republicans stole his laptop, noting it was forfeited at a repair shop, and expose alleged corruption where Joe Biden received a cut from the Ukrainian energy firm. The hosts argue this setup pressures President Biden toward impeachment before a potential pardon for his son, suggesting the political landscape is engineered to protect the establishment narrative despite evidence of financial impropriety. [Automatically generated summary]
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New Year State Rollback00:02:51
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All right.
So there's a few things I want to get into.
I want to start with this wonderful Vivek Ramaswamy moment that's been going around.
I will say, however you feel about Vivek, and I would say probably me and you would have a few fairly important policy points that we disagree with him on, but a vast array of policy points that we really agree with him on.
But you just got to be thankful that this guy's running because he keeps creating these great moments.
And it seems like with Donald Trump constantly being in court and not choosing not to do all these debates, that we wouldn't be getting these moments if Vivek wasn't in the race.
Defending Vivek Ramaswamy00:07:45
You know what I mean?
Yeah, he's tearing it up and they try and cut him off, but he's become world class at talking over people.
Yeah, he sure has.
Anyway, so he did a CNN town hall yesterday, and this is the clip that's going the most viral out of all of it.
Let's take a look and enjoy.
You said at the debate last week, you used the phrase inside job to describe what happened on January 6th.
The next day, Capitol rioter Alan Hostler highlighted your comments at his sentencing.
He is going to prison for 11 years.
Hostiter threatened members of Congress.
He brought a hatchet, knives, pepper spray, sun batons, tactical gear to the U.S. Capitol.
Are you concerned that a convicted felon like that is now promoting your comments in court?
So here's my concern, Abby.
And I want to tell you guys where I'm at.
If you had told me, it's close to three years ago that January 6th, 2021 happened.
If you had told me three years ago, back when I was a biotech CEO, not steeped in this world, I was just consuming passive media, but was focused on my world of developing medicines.
If you had told me that January 6th was in any way an inside job, the subject of government entrapment, I would have told you that was crazy talk.
Fringe conspiracy theory nonsense.
I can tell you now, having gone somewhat deep in this, it's not.
I mean, the reality is this.
We do have a government.
First of all, we have technology that has lied to us systematically over the last several years about the origin of COVID-19, about the Hunter Biden laptop that we were told was false by 51 CIA experts and otherwise before we now know that it was true.
You can go straight down the list, the Trump-Russia disinformation collusion hoax, all of it.
Now we come to January 6th.
The reality is we know that there were federal law enforcement agents in that field.
We don't know how many.
I think it's changed.
If I may finish this answer, I'm going to go ahead and interrupt you here because the establishment doesn't approve of this message.
I know that there were federal agents.
We're going to be able to talk about this.
You're saying that there were federal agents.
This is important to talk about.
You were saying there were federal agents in the pattern on January 6th.
There is no evidence that there were federal agents in the crowd on January 6th.
So why before Congress, when pressed on what the number was, they didn't say there were none.
They just couldn't say there were no.
No problem.
You're saying that there is no, that you have not seen any evidence of the people.
We've seen multiple informants suggesting that there were.
We know people were FBI informants who were asking.
Is there any evidence?
May I just finish this?
But let me clarify.
I know it's very uncomfortable for you.
I'm going to clarify my question.
I know this is uncomfortable to people, but we have to do the truth.
I'm going to clarify my question because I want to make sure that you understand what ML.
I understand this deeply.
And I told you, I was there three years ago.
Where is the evidence?
Yes.
Where is the evidence that the government had applied an inside job?
But no, no, I'm going to say an inside job because I'm not going to violence on January 6th.
I'm not going to let you put words in my mouth.
I'm going to put my words in my mouth.
And I'm going to tell you what I mean by that.
I'm not going to let you get evidence that the government was involved in planning or executing January 6th for the first time.
So I'm going to give you hard facts.
And if I may, Abby, I know this is going to be a little uncomfortable, but we're going to go through this and you can push back on it.
And I'm going to give the evidence.
And you can push back on that.
And let's do this fairly.
Why did they suppress footage of now what's been released, 200 hours of footage of shooting rubber bullets into that crowd, shooting tear gas into that crowd?
You didn't see that before.
You saw what the response was to that.
Now you see footage coming out of actually rolling out the red carpet for Capitol Police allowing in right through the front.
The vast majority of that kind of evidence shouldn't have been released.
The footage shows police officers being over riders.
I'm going to give you some hard facts.
So here's what entrapment is.
I'm not cherry picking.
Let me finish, Abby.
I'm not cherry picking.
Two examples.
And contrary.
To the country's cherry picked.
You know who cherry picked the government?
That is what happened.
The government cherry picked 12 hours of footage when there was 200 hours of footage.
Cherry picking was the government, not me.
Released the whole thing.
And let me just finish one thing, too, because this is super important as a topic.
So when you, I think this is a single issue of our time, when I want to keep.
I want to be really clear on this because it's the same issue in the same FBI, same even part of the FBI, three people who were in an alleged plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer were acquitted at the end of trial because it was entrapment, that is, government agents put them up to do something they otherwise wouldn't have done.
They gave them credit cards with spending limits of up to five thousand dollars, encouraged them to buy munitions, plan something they weren't otherwise willing to plan.
So much so and I want people at home to know this, especially CNN viewers to know this is that one of the jurors went to those defendants and apologized afterwards, gave him a hug, apologized seeing what the government had put a poor guy up to who had to go to some Mexican restaurant across the street to get hot water.
These people were exploited with credit cards up to five thousand dollars, FBI agents putting them up to a kidnapping plot.
That we were told was true, but was entrapment.
Same thing with the Capital Police people Letting Ramaswami many of those people say, mr Hamaswami look, the government cannot put you up to something and then charge.
That's wrong.
I don't want to have to the left, I don't.
I don't want to have.
The thing that I find most interesting about this is that it's this woman, verse Vivek, and the audience you know what i'm saying like they're trying, he's powering through her interruptions and the audience is so with him.
And so just imagine being in this situation where you're like, you're the host, here's the candidate and here's the audience who wants to hear what he has to say, and your job is to just what I?
I mean she literally results to like uh, like a third grader going nana nana boo boo, like i'm just gonna talk over you and not allow you to get this out, and she does this thing where she's slowly just repeating the same thing over and over again.
It's clear, it's just a tactic to break you up it's.
It's really wild to see because even like in our world of, let's say, the whatever this is like mid-size podcast world you know what I mean like, we're not like.
We're not like one of the shows that don't have an audience, we're not like one of these, like gigantic, huge shows, but we're, like you know, like a mid-size podcast and you'll go on other podcasts sometimes rob, like you'll go on on the podcast scene and they'll interview you or whatever.
And if anyone ever did that to you, like in our world, like I, literally you were trying to talk and they just disagreed with you, so they just go, i'm gonna slow down my tone and speak over you the whole time so that the audience can't hear you.
I'm gonna be like, but where's the evidence for that?
But where's the evidence for that?
But where's the like?
Literally, this is what she's doing, just saying the same sentence over and over so that you can't get your point across.
I've never had an experience like that and if I did, I would.
I would really be taken aback by being like wow, that's so lame of you, like how childish is this.
Like you, if you want to argue with me about it fine, but like I get to say my thing and then you get to say your thing.
And but that's CNN.
That's what's where CNN is at.
She asked him the question.
She tried to, and you could almost see it in her where she asked the question.
Hey, you said january 6th was an inside job.
How can you defend saying that this guy is is, you know, using your words in his court defense?
How can you defend that?
And he's like okay well, here's why.
And starts going into it.
And you could tell she's like ah, he's got an answer for this and he seems really confident about his answer and that's it.
She's like, i'm not going to allow it to be said clearly, it'll be said while i'm talking over him and then that's just her decision for the rest of the segment.
Keep interrupting, keep interjecting.
Ground News Sources Matter00:02:58
It's really, it's uh remarkably infantile.
That's the censorship regime.
Is that?
You know?
You can't let people even get this information, because they might look into it and their minds might expand to what our government is capable of.
Uh, the other times that i've seen this is at the end of uh Biden interviews, when the press is there, and then someone in the room literally just okay, that's it, thanks for coming, thanks for coming.
Everybody out.
That was so nice you guys, good to have you here and just over talking, any possibility of questions?
Uh, in this format it's remarkably uncomfortable.
I don't know why.
They're both have seats there and they're just standing awkwardly.
Good point.
Why do they do that?
What it's that?
That in itself.
I know that's not the most important thing here, but why the hell did they do this thing where you have to like stand uncomfortably and like be here and like it's just there's something so inorganic about like um and, by the way, I don't know if this, there's little details to this because, like we do stand-up comedy right, there's nothing like uncomfortable about standing up while everyone else is sitting down and you talk to them, but there's something really uncomfortable about two people standing up having a conversation, but in front of this audience, and it's just very bizarre.
Like have a seat and everybody could just be more comfortable.
We're at podiums.
I guess podiums make sense, but yeah, this is it's just weird.
Yeah, it's just so weird, but it's also to your point is so bizarre that, when it's just a one-on-one conversation with an audience, that you would ever use this tactic of just trying to talk over the other person.
Oh, it's very uncomfortable.
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Now, the other thing here that, of course, jumps out at you, and this is kind of really the most important part of all of it, is that it just kind of reveals the game.
Why is it that she can't allow him to say what he wants to say?
Well, like, cause you just said, Rob, like, oh, people might hear an alternative view, you know?
And like, look, I don't know.
I will say I do think Vivek slightly overstated his case.
And I think if she was being honest, she could have maybe like taken him to task for that.
Like he said, we know there were federal agents in that crowd.
I don't know that we know that.
We know that the Justice Department is unwilling to say there weren't any.
That's, you know what I mean?
Like, that seems odd.
We know the stuff about Ray Epps, you know, getting like a slap on the wrist when it seems like these other guys are getting 15 year sentences.
Why wouldn't the guy who was actually inciting them to go in, you know, that seems strange?
We know what he was talking about, that there were police who were opening the door and rolling out the red carpet for them to come on in.
And then they turn around and get prosecuted for that.
I think that's a very damning point for the federal government.
But then he's making this case where he's like, well, look, they do these entrapment things all the time.
Look at the Governor Whitmore thing.
And then, and by the way, there's 25 other examples he could have used.
This is what the FBI does.
They entrap people and then prosecute them, right?
Or then the Justice Department recommends they're prosecuted.
And so and so when he makes this case, the really compelling case that she doesn't want heard is like, well, look, they lied to you about all of this stuff.
They constantly lie to you.
They constantly do these entrapment things.
And now we have January 6th.
And yet it looks an awful lot like one, which I think I think that would be the more, you know, like that would be a more precise way to make the argument.
But why is it that she doesn't want this to get out?
Because her mission is not to get his point of view out there and then maybe grill it and then maybe illuminate the issue.
What is her goal here?
It's to protect the FBI.
That's what she's trying to do.
She's trying to not let you think that maybe the FBI are the bad guys here.
And that's the whole essence of the issue.
That's the whole essence is that that's really the role of CNN.
The role of CNN is to protect the powerful, not to, you know, any of these like lofty democratic, you know, claims of their goal is to illuminate the issues so you can make an informed decision when it's time to cast your ballot.
It's nothing like that.
It's just to make sure that this shit that's not allowed to be said doesn't be said.
And the thing is that if she wanted, if she actually had pushback to give Vivek on any of his claims, she could have maybe made him look foolish, but she doesn't really have any.
And so instead she just made him look great because what it just looks like to everyone, there's a reason why Vivek is sharing this clip and all his supporters are sharing it because it just makes it look like, look, he's here trying to tell the truth and she won't even allow him to say it because she knows she can't have her listeners hear this.
I think censorship in the name of truth gets exposed pretty quickly.
Like if you're in, if you're in the media, you're supposed to be sharing truth.
And so when people are just sharing different opinions or asking questions and you instantly have to over talk them, it's hard to pretend like you're interested in truth because even truth allows for open-ended questions.
This is almost as bad of a moment as when Dr. Gupta went on Rogan, where, you know, it doesn't, it doesn't take too many clarifying questions for these people just to fold and for you to see that they have absolutely nothing because they need full censorship or it doesn't work.
So I'm going to guess that they're not going to invite Vivek on to CNN all that more often because they're realizing that, you know, I guess he's figured out the tools for not just stopping talking when they start yelling over and letting them recontrol the narrative, which forces them to play this exact game of just not letting you get a word in and it doesn't look good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, I agree.
No, it's funny when you, as you bring up Gupta, man, I mean, that was one of the moments of the of the whole pandemic.
You know, if there were like 15 or 20 moments, that would be one of them for me that I'd point to and be like, wow, it's really unbelievable how Rogan just asked him the simplest follow-up questions and he just collapsed into himself.
And it's because he's been going on CNN every day selling this vaccine and no one, it's almost like an agreement there.
No one will ask the obvious follow-up questions.
And there were, there were so many obvious ones.
Like the one that Rogan hit him with was he was like, oh, are you going to get the vaccine?
And he was like, well, no, I just had COVID and beat it.
So why would I get the vaccine?
I have natural immunity.
And Gupta's just like, wow.
Yeah.
I mean, you got, you got some natural immunity, probably.
Yeah.
All right.
You know, just had no answer.
And no one's ever asked him that.
It's like there were these obvious questions.
Like they'd be like, oh, you have to have a vaccine to go into restaurants and bars and shit like that.
And like no one on CNN all day long, they'd spend 12 hours talking about it.
And no one would ever just go, well, why do the vaccinated people need to be protected from the unvaccinated people?
Aren't they protected by the vaccine?
And you just know, I've done a million panels on CNN and Fox News and all this shit.
You just know if someone was right in there asking that, no one would have an answer to it.
Cause I asked this question on Fox News panels and no one ever had an answer to it because there is no answer to that.
There is no answer.
It's like this basic thing.
If the vaccine is so good that we must mandate it, are you telling me it doesn't give the vaccinated protection?
No one's got an answer for it because there is no answer.
And likewise, you know, if when you just, it just makes the corporate press look so bad when you rattle off, you know, it's like this thing where there are when you rattle off like weapons of mass destruction,
Hunter Biden's laptop, lab leak origin, you know, like all this different stuff like that just like, okay, Russia Gate, lie, Or even if you want to say not lying, the story that you guys all got wrong, you got it all wrong.
And there were people lying.
You know what I mean?
Like even if you were just an honest, useful idiot or something like that.
But you rattle it all off and it just makes them look so bad.
And then they have to sit there and take you saying all of that, have no response to any of that, but just go, yeah, but I think you're lying about this thing.
But this thing is a conspiracy.
I know you're not, but what am I?
It's just like, it's unbelievable.
And then those same people will, you know, will say, well, there's a problem with like this misinformation out there.
There's a problem with conspiracy theories out there.
And they're so appalled by it.
They're so, how dare you say January 6th was an inside job.
And then by the way, I'm not going to address any of what you just said about, you know, Hunter Biden or any of that.
I think her boldest claim was because the overwhelming amount of footage was of people attacking cop yeah, the overwhelming whelming amount of footage that we saw.
That's that's a very unqualified statement.
And then, well, I also think there's like what, what was the numbers?
Do you remember like when they would say the amount of hours of footage that they released of Tucker Carlson?
I believe the number that comes to mind is 40,000 hours of footage.
Yes.
So there, and this was the one that was released just to the speaker of house or whether it was Tucker Carlson or whatever.
But it's supposed to be getting rolled out, but as far as I know, it hasn't happened.
It's interesting.
But so when you have this, these ridiculous numbers, and when they say that, understand that because they're saying, you know, from every different angle of the thing.
So it's all these.
So for her to just make the claim that the overwhelming majority of the film was violent.
All right.
Have you gone through all of this footage?
There seems to be a lot.
It's like you're just asserting something that seems highly unlikely.
And it is, again, like this is a constant theme that comes up all the time, where the kind of progressive establishment types are always accusing you of doing what they're doing, which is a surprisingly effective technique because it weirdly puts you on the back foot.
Well, now you first have to deny that you're not doing that and then be like, wait, wait a minute.
You know, you're doing that.
You know, it's like a really weird thing.
Like it's not, there's a difference.
Like if someone punched you in the face and you go, yo, you just punched me in the face and they go, no, I didn't.
That's like one type of lie.
But if someone punched you in the face and you go, yo, you just punched me in the face and they go, you just punched me in the face.
It's very like disorienting in a way.
You know what I mean?
Like you're like, wait, what?
I punched you in the, what are you talking?
Like you're sitting there with a sore chin and like your hands in your pockets and you're like, well, I didn't punch you in the face.
But that when she goes, she goes, oh, you're cherry picking.
Like, but we, we're just asking to see all of the footage.
We're cherry picking.
You, you guys are the ones who cherry picked.
You had all of the footage and shows that we would all see on loop all of the violent footage.
There's, there's no violent footage that's come out since all of this that's like, oh, I hadn't seen that.
Those were all the images I saw the day of, and at least in the following weeks and the following months.
But the footage that's come out that I hadn't seen originally was all the peaceful footage.
But then they accuse you of cherry picking if you bring up any of the peaceful footage or any of the footage where guys who ended up getting convicted, going to jail, are having the Capitol Police guide them around and help open doors for them and shit.
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Taking Advantage of Privilege00:15:37
There's something I can't quite put my finger on it, but the question of have you seen any evidence of it?
It's, you know, if a cop comes to my car and says, hey, I want to search your car and I say no, that's not proof of the fact that there's something that I'm hiding in my car.
I'm exerting my right and I have no reason to make it easier for a cop to try and find a reason for me to be in trouble.
When it comes to this one, it's kind of the wrong question because yes, I guess there's no direct evidence, but there's some very strong questions as to why they can't release all the footage or why can't they answer a question as to whether or not there were agent provocateurs that day?
Why was there scaffolding there?
Why was there no military support brought in?
Why was the head of security?
Wasn't there some article?
Oh, yeah, that was the interview that Tucker couldn't air while he was on Fox.
And then he did a new interview with like the old head of security who was talking about all-police.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The failures that day and that he had escalated the need for, I think, more support.
I don't remember it that clearly, but it's in a way, it's a it's a misleading question because I guess the answer is, well, they haven't given us the, they're not providing the information for there to be evidence, but I'm suggesting that they are conducting a cover-up.
Well, look, Rob, I mean, throughout the last 20-something years, since the rise of the war on terrorism and the security state and, you know, every last violation of everybody's privacy rights, what the feds have said to us over and over again is if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide.
That's been their own.
But I guess in this case, they've got a record of lying.
And so like, why can't I have my search warrant?
This guy's a known drug criminal.
So there's actually a good reason to search his car.
I guess that's kind of the...
Everything is flipped on its head here, right?
Because it's everything's upside down.
If you're claiming to live in a free society, then individuals have privacy rights, but government doesn't have privacy.
That's government hiding things is secrecy.
Free people hiding things is privacy.
And it's totally different.
And so the feds will look at us and make a mockery of privacy and go, if you've done nothing wrong, you should have nothing to hide.
Yet what would be so much more reasonable would be for the American people to look at the feds and go, hey, if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide.
You don't get to hide shit from us.
Like you're supposed to be serving us, right?
Isn't that hypothetically what this whole thing is supposed to be?
So you're almost saying government withholding evidence would be indicative of guilt.
Yes, yes.
I think it's not the same as individuals.
I think that like, look, there's a, like Tucker Carlson was talking about this the other night on Twitter spaces that he did.
It was really great.
But he was saying, look, there's over a billion classified documents.
It's over a billion.
And nobody, he goes, nobody in Washington, D.C. can argue to you with a straight face that that's because those all really need to be classified.
This is ridiculous.
It's all just like protecting themselves.
That's all of this stuff.
Like, how can they justify that the Kennedy documents are still secret?
Like what?
Is there something that could give an advantage to the Soviet Union in there?
Are there any of the conflicts that we had in the year 1963 still relevant at all today?
The Soviet Union's gone.
Fidel Castro's dead, right?
Like there's nothing that they could even pretend.
But they still just won't let us know what happened.
So yeah, does that is that evidence of guilt?
I kind of think so.
Yeah.
Either way.
Okay, so I mentioned Hunter and Vivek mentioned Hunter Biden there.
So that's the next thing we got to address is there's been a Hunter sighting and it comes in a, it comes at an interesting time.
So basically right around the same time, the House officially voted to open an impeachment inquiry.
For people who don't know, this is the first step in impeaching a president.
The House opened an impeachment inquiry.
They subpoenaed Hunter Biden and Hunter Biden gave a speech.
This is not something we've seen a lot of.
There's been a lot of talk of Hunter Biden over the last three years or so, maybe a little bit more than three years.
A lot of brilliant artists are recluses, though.
And you're throwing millions of dollars on your painting.
Sometimes you just want to focus on what you love and embrace your personal process.
It's hard for the non-artistic types such as ourselves to understand the great artists when it comes to a hunter or an adolph.
These are the people who have to really, they have got to live in their art.
Especially when you're struggling with addiction and recovery and you don't want to be in the public eye and addressing such scrutiny as, you know, the stressful relationship you might have had to make doing.
I'm trying to take my emotions and put them on the canvas.
You know, in this case, it's blowing $1.7 million on hookers.
That's my, that's the emotion I'm feeling.
You ever spent 1.7 on hookers?
No.
Okay.
So you don't know what it's like.
Now let me put you in this.
His art does kind of look like splatter art.
Listen, I got to put this emotion on the canvas.
And then I have a wealthy Democratic donor who's very interested in buying it from me.
I need more hookers and crack.
Okay.
Anyway, Hunter Biden has been the center, obviously, of a lot of controversy over the last few years.
He has not spoken that much.
He gave that one interview, which was kind of damning.
But there hasn't been that much of him aside from that.
So this was a little press conference that Hunter Biden gave.
It's pretty remarkable.
Let's listen to it.
Biden's having a press conference.
Any legitimate questions Chairman Comer and the House Oversight Committee may have for me?
I'm here today to make sure that the House Committee's illegitimate investigations of my family do not proceed on distortions, manipulated evidence, and lies.
And I'm here today to acknowledge that I've made mistakes in my life and wasted opportunities and privileges I was afforded.
For that, I'm responsible.
Just pause it already for a second.
I'm accountable.
It's just so great that what he says about after like attacking the Republicans, he goes, and look, I've made mistakes.
I've wasted opportunities and privileges.
And you're like, what, you think that's your mistake?
That you've wasted opportunities?
I thought the mistake was that you took advantage in a totally corrupt way of your like opportunities and your privileges.
You're telling me Hunter might be sitting here saying, I could have made more.
There were other offers on the table.
Hookers, I didn't bang.
Blow, I didn't snort.
Think about all that.
Yeah, I didn't even pick up on that.
How great of a twist it is for him to say that I, you, no, you did the best job of taking advantage of your privilege and opportunities.
You managed to make millions of dollars while partying and doing crack.
So no one's ever taken more advantage.
Michael Jordan, the greatest of all time.
You were a crackhead who was raking in millions of dollars.
Talking about taking advantage of your opportunities and privileges.
Or are there elites out there doing things way worse that we don't know about that someone else?
Yeah, you don't even know what the Bush's daughters are up to.
Have you seen those Obama girls?
You know how much they write off on their taxes?
All right.
Let's get it.
I did have two other tips.
One is I got to do some crack because I want that Steve-O raspy voice.
It really, it's got a good sound.
It would be handsome on you.
Yeah.
I'll be honest.
You got to do a little bit of crack.
Not too much crack, Rob.
Well, the other thing is sharp.
The other thing that's nice about doing drugs is you always have a plausible deniability of that you don't remember and that you made mistakes in the past and that this is getting in the way of your healing process.
You're like, excuse me, I have a disease.
So if you can't, please be respectful.
If you can't respect my healing, that was the old me and I'm involved in healing and this really gets in the way of my healing here.
All right, let's keep playing.
But I'm also here today to correct how the MAGA right has betrayed me for their political purposes.
I am first and foremost a son, a father, a brother, and a husband from a loving and supportive family.
Can you pause again?
And husband to others and wife.
Yeah, I'm also, I mean, if you want to go technical, I'm a brother-in-law slash husband.
I'm also, that's my daughter niece over there.
And yeah, I'm a dad and a dad again, and then a dad to another one that I don't talk to, but I was forced to make payments from.
And then I'm some other kids.
I'm a son.
I'm a dad.
I'm a brother.
I'm a dad, kind of.
I'm a brother slash husband.
There's a lot of weird stuff going on, but I got it.
Sorry, guys.
There's going to be about 12 minutes of titles that I got to put you through here.
Let's keep it.
Proud to have earned degrees from Georgetown University and Yet Law School.
I'm proud of my legal career.
University is my dad's business.
A lot of money to get me into.
I'm proud of my time serving on a dozen different boards of directors.
And I can't brag about that.
For six years, MAGA Republicans, including members of House committees who are in a closed-door session right now, have impugned my character, invaded my privacy, attacked my wife, my children, my family, and my friends.
They've ridiculed my struggle with addiction.
They've belittled my recovery.
And they have tried to dehumanize me, all to embarrass and damage my father.
All right, let's pause it right here.
So isn't this, I mean, Rob, as our people would say, the chutzpah is just unbelievable.
So this is your whole after one little, one little throwaway line about, also, you know, I did some things wrong.
I could have taken advantage of my opportunities better.
But then he brags about his resume that he's so proud of.
Like, hey, I got into Ivy League schools.
Yeah, we all know that a senator's kid getting into Ivy League schools suggests nothing but meritocracy, right?
So like, yeah, you're bragging.
He brags about the boards of directors that he's on.
Now, again, if you guys want to go through this, they're all clearly because he's a senator, then vice president's son.
That's why he's on these boards.
So it's just like, so, and then to just go off on what a victim he is, you know, there's, I've, I've been the victim of these horrible attacks.
You know, I, I, I'm clearly a victim, the, the son of a senator, vice president, president, obviously, one of the least privileged members of society.
Um, I made millions of dollars trading in my father's last name.
Um, but I, you know, I'm, I'm even more of a victim than that because I also blew all of the money on drugs and hookers.
So that's like that just shows you what a disease I have.
I'm in recovery here, sir.
So you have no idea what it's like for me to be attacked for my blatant corruption.
Try to put yourself in that situation, okay?
It's very hard.
You're basically like, I don't know, you're basically like a kid trapped in a war zone.
Basically, the same thing.
I respect the balls on this guy to not show up to a congressional hearing and instead be like, you know what, just set up a podium outside and then stand up the podium and go, how dare they look into me while I'm healing and recovering.
And my God, I'm a respected board member of these companies.
You know what gives you this kind of balls?
Crack.
This is just a commercial for crack.
Yeah, this is literally like you want to know how to have balls in your life.
It's having that energy of I run companies.
Jesus.
All right, here, let's keep playing because it just gets better and better.
Who has devoted his entire public life to service for six years?
I have been the target of the unrelenting Trump attack machine shouting, where's Hunter?
Well, here's my answer.
I am here.
Pause it.
Even the way I for six years, Donald Trump's been saying, where's Hunter?
Well, guess what, Donald Trump?
Six years later, I'm right here.
As soon as they opened an impeachment inquiry into my father, I'm right here.
And I've been here the whole time.
Like, all right, dude, that's a long six years to wait before answering that question.
How is that supposed to sound like, oh, in your face?
Also, the, I'm right here outside the congressional hearing.
I'm refusing to sit down for it to showcase my willingness to shit with open honesty to showcase, you know, me as a businessman.
You can't imagine that this was like written down and anyone, like, there wasn't some lawyer or someone, an advisor who was like, seriously?
You're going to get right?
You can do this with a straight face.
All right.
If you get, if you think you can deliver it with a straight face, go ahead.
All right.
Let's keep playing.
Let me state as clearly as I can.
My father was not financially involved in my business, not as a practicing lawyer, not as a board member of Burisma, not in my partnership with a Chinese private businessman, not in my investments at home nor abroad, and certainly not as an artist.
It's just great that it's unbelievable that he's forced, even in this self-righteous little speech, to run off the greatest hits.
It doesn't matter what you put around it.
It's just so obvious what that sounds like once you start saying it.
He wasn't involved in this Ukrainian energy company that I happen to be raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars a month from, you know, the place where we're fighting a war in right now.
Yeah, I was involved.
I had serious financial interests there in the years leading up to the war.
The Chinese government that I was making tons of money off, he wasn't involved in that.
And the fact that I just started painting and then Democratic donors wanted to buy my paintings for obscene amounts of money.
My dad wasn't a part of that.
Okay.
Still sounds like you're corrupt as shit, but all right.
Let's keep playing.
And people also, they picked up on the new qualifier of not financially involved.
So what does that mean?
He didn't have a direct financial interest, but you're making payments after the fact.
Or what?
So then what was his level of involvement?
So he's part of showcasing the brand, I think it was, as Devin Archer said, and then getting payouts later.
Like you're already introducing a very significant kicker as to, well, how are you defining financial involvement?
And that's separate from what Biden had initially said, which was, I have no knowledge or whatever.
John Kander Wallet Caveats00:03:40
No, it was, I have no knowledge of any of my son's business dealings.
Right.
So that is your, that's a good point.
That's a different, a different claim.
All right, let's keep playing.
My parents were there for me.
They literally saved my life.
They helped me in ways that I will never be able to repay.
And of course, they would never expect me to.
And in the depths of my addiction, I was extremely irresponsible with my finances.
But to suggest that is grounds for an impeachment inquiry is beyond the absurd.
It's shameless.
There's no evidence to support the allegations that my father was financially involved in my business because it did not happen.
James Comer, Jim Jordan, Jason Smith, and their colleagues have distorted the facts by cherry-picking lines from a bank statement, manipulating texts I sent, editing the testimony of my friends and former business partners.
Just pause again, I'm sorry.
And misstating.
I just love the way he goes.
From a bank statement?
Like, you can't get information from a bank statement.
It's like he's talking about like they got the information from a Snickers wrapper.
The fact that they cherry-pick some information off a bank statement, the place where a single line could actually tell you quite a bit.
And he's been charged.
Like it's as if this is just all like, you know, so utterly ridiculous.
Not only has he been charged, but just to be clear from what we know of this, there's been several whistleblowers who said that they were told while they were at the IRS to like ignore all this stuff or they weren't given stuff that they wanted from the feds.
Then he's charged and a lawyer reaches a sweetheart plea deal with him.
It was so ridiculous that the judge rejected it and was like, no, no, no, guys, this is like crazy.
We can't just let him off for all of this.
And now he's being charged.
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Biden Laptop Acknowledgement00:11:37
All right, let's get back into the show.
Anyway, let's keep playing.
And misstating personal information that was stolen from me.
There is no fairness or decency in what these Republicans are doing.
All right, let's let's pause it here because I think there was a pretty stunning admission in there, which was the, I believe, the first time it's actually been admitted that that was his laptop.
Right?
He said they're manipulating personal information that was stolen from me.
What else is he referring to?
Now, I'll give a couple caveats to this.
Number one, the laptop was not stolen from him.
So I don't know what, but I don't know what else he could be referring to.
But his laptop wasn't stolen.
I'll give him, listen, give him the benefit of the doubt.
He was on a lot of crack in those days.
But Hunter Biden left his laptop at a laptop repair shop and didn't come to pick it up.
And you sign an agreement when you're there that you forfeit it after a certain amount of time.
So it was forfeited.
It wasn't his anymore.
He didn't, nothing was ever stolen from him.
However, it's a pretty big deal if he's acknowledging that that laptop was in fact his.
I mean, obviously we all know this, but I have been told, Rob, that it had all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation.
So now you have this guy when people are asking, where's Hunter?
Well, six years later, I guess he's popping up to let us know what we may have wanted to ask him in 2020 in October and say, hey, is this your laptop?
He didn't want to pop up to say anything about that then, but I guess now he's willing to acknowledge it.
But again, it's not, oh, hey, I like was unwilling to say anything when the entire story was told wrong.
All of these feds and spies totally lied to you and said they thought that this was Russian misinformation.
For another year after that, they tried to keep this lie going.
But now I'm coming to you and letting you know, yeah, guys, it was me.
I lied.
I fucked up.
Instead, he's going, they manipulated information they stole from me, which isn't even true.
It wasn't stolen from him.
But you just, look, the level of privilege to sit here and complain.
It'd be one thing if he was coming out and going like, I'm a bad guy.
I'm corrupt, but I should suffer for that, not my father, or something like that.
You know what I mean?
But he's literally sitting there and going like, oh, how dare you all be looking into my things like this?
Pretty outrageous.
Now, let's play a couple more minutes and then we'll move on.
They have lied over and over about every aspect of my personal and professional life.
So much so that their lies have become the false facts believed by too many people.
No matter how many times it is debunked, they continue to insist that my father's support of Ukraine against Russia is the result of a non-existent bribe.
They displayed naked photos of me during an oversight hearing.
And they have taken the light of my dad's love, the light of my dad's love for me, and presented it as darkness.
They have no shame.
These same committee chairmen have engaged in unprecedented political interference in what would have already been a five-year investigation of me.
Yet, here I am, Mr. Chairman, taking up your offer when you said we can bring these people in for depositions or committee hearings, whichever they choose.
Well, I've chosen.
I am here to testify at a public hearing today to answer any of the committee's legitimate questions.
Republicans do not want an open process where Americans can see their tactics, expose their baseless inquiry, or hear what I have to say.
What are they afraid of?
I'm here.
I'm ready.
Just to be clear, if you see what he did at the end, Hunter might have being a politician in his future.
He might be cut out for this.
He lies like his pops.
The light and the darkness themes and the right here, Buster.
Yeah.
Hurry his dad.
It's very like Biden, yes, but without the dementia.
So keep your eye on this kid.
He could be going places.
He's got the corruption down.
So they asked him to testify or they subpoenaed him to testify privately and publicly.
And the private testimonies are usually much longer and much more in depth.
And it's much more of a situation where like it's not just members of Congress, but there's also like law, law enforcement there and stuff like that.
And you're under oath.
And so they keep you there for like nine, 12 hours asking you questions.
He spins it as going, I'm willing to do this, but we're going to do this out in the open.
I'll do the public one, but not this private, more in-depth one.
So that's basically what he's saying he's agreed to and what he won't do.
The truth is, I don't think he really has the option to not do either, to not do both, to not do whatever he's subpoenaed for.
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
But yeah, so that was Hunter Biden emerging from the shadows to blame all of the Republicans for looking into his blatant corruption.
And by the way, just to be clear about this, when he says there's no evidence that my dad was involved at all, that is just not true.
That is just not true.
It was when I was on with those, I can't remember their names.
I was on with those Twitter brothers who are like progressives.
Me and Clint did like a Twitter spaces with them on Josie's thing.
But I remember one of them said to me, he said that.
He goes, there's no evidence that Joe Biden was involved in Hunter Biden's business dealings at all.
And I was like, well, that's just not true.
I mean, I know that's the line that gets repeated, but there is evidence.
And I said, there's Bobolinski who literally said that Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, he was with all of them.
They all discussed the business together and that Joe Biden was getting a cut.
This was Hunter Biden's business partner whose testimony was that he Joe Biden was involved and he was getting a cut.
And he went to me, he went, yeah, but that's just hearsay.
And I was like, wait, no, it's not.
That's not what hearsay is.
That's what's known as eyewitness testimony.
He's not claiming he heard someone else say that they saw Joe Biden there.
He's saying he's testifying that he saw Joe Biden, that he was in on this and that he was getting a cut, that he was the big guy they were referring to.
So it's just not true that there's no evidence of that.
But look, even if you want to claim that Bobolinski's lying, whatever else, him jumping on the phone was just to say hi to everybody, but whatever.
Let's say that that's the truth.
Still, no one can really deny how corrupt Hunter Biden is and what he was involved in here.
Nobody can look you in the eyes and tell you that they actually think that a Ukrainian energy company just thought that somebody who didn't speak Ukrainian and had no industry experience in the energy sector needed to be on their board and collect a giant check.
That they thought that no one can tell you that that was anything other than trading in his father's name.
Now, you could make the argument that Joe Biden wasn't involved and that they may have thought they were buying favor with the Biden administration, but they weren't getting any or at the time, the Obama administration.
Also, by the way, if you look at Burisma, Hunter Biden's salary got cut in half as soon as Donald Trump came in.
Because it seems like he wasn't quite as valuable to them at that point.
Regardless, this is why the Chinese were working with him.
This is why democratic donors buy his art.
It's not because it's just so great.
It's clearly corrupt.
So at the very least, if no one can really mount a defense against why Hunter Biden isn't a corrupt guy himself, forget whether Joe Biden was involved.
Forget whether this is reasonable to launch an impeachment inquiry.
How the hell does that guy get to stand up and lecture everybody else when we all know he's guilty as sin?
Isn't that just insane?
I'll tell you, though.
It's hard for it to not make you kind of root for Hunter Biden in a way.
Like you're just like, God damn, dude, really?
I mean, look, I don't know.
We've talked about this before.
There were a lot of accusations of like him doing pedo stuff.
I'm not going to look through files looking for those images because I don't want to see them and I don't want that in my web search history.
But that aside, if that's not true, you just got to kind of admire Hunter Biden.
I mean, what is this dude?
It's just this crackhead spending $1.7 million.
By the way, this is so the $1.7 million.
Did you see that aspect of that?
I've referred to this a few times.
So, and this is something that they'll have to look in, but evidently Hunter Biden had $1.7 million in cash withdrawals.
So like ATM withdraws or whatever, or going up to a bank teller of up to $1.7 million.
And the response basically has been like, yeah, that's when he was doing drugs and all this stuff.
And you're like, yo, $1.7 million is a lot of money to spend.
And then it does make you wonder like, where did all this cash go?
Who knows who he was paying off or who he was giving it to?
Anyway, that's where we are with Hunter.
The impeachment inquiry is going forward.
And if nothing else, this is going to be quite a show.
I guess the final thing to say before we wrap up is that, look, obviously we have speculated and pretty much everybody in the world of political commentators has speculated about whether or not Joe Biden is going to be the nominee, even though he says he definitely will be.
I will say we're getting pretty late in the game, but if they were going to make a move, it does seem like they're laying the groundwork for it here, where, you know, charges are brought against Hunter Biden, impeachment pressure is put on Biden.
Perhaps Biden, it goes his final moment in office is pardoning his son and then announcing that he won't be seeking reelection.
We'll see, but it does seem like there's a path now for that to happen, whereas there wasn't as clear of a path before.
All right, we're going to wrap on that note.
We'll catch you guys next time for a brand new episode.