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Debt Ceiling Battle - January 25th, Hour 1

President Joe Biden made waves today when he said he "would not negotiate on the debt ceiling."  President Biden is playing politics with our future... again.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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There are two areas I just want to call your attention to.
The White House desperately wants to get off the topic of Joe Biden, top secret, classified information.
Now find it found in five separate locations.
Probably they did backflips yesterday that Mike Pence watching the news voluntarily just started searching all of his different places, found a couple of documents.
I'd be shocked if there was any more with uh from him.
Um, but um because he would do a thorough search and then did the right thing, followed the law, et cetera, et cetera.
They're just dying.
And one way they're trying to distract you, we, the American people, is on the issue of the debt ceiling.
And what they're saying, now it's interesting.
If you go back in time and you look at Joe Biden and his history and the things that he said, uh, he praised the debt ceiling talks as vice president, said it was a great honor to negotiate with the GOP.
You know, that's that's past Joe Biden.
We'll play this tonight for you.
How can you pop how can you explain this?
How can you explain the fact that grown men and women are unwilling to budge by taking an absolute position?
My way or no way, that's not governing.
Well, Joe Biden's the one that is now saying that he won't negotiate on the debt ceiling because he's making a calculated guess that the Republicans will not unite 22, or we have one injured Republican, 221, that they're not going to be united on their strategy for the debt ceiling.
I personally would like to tie it to the reckless spending.
And and I don't know if that's like the uh the spending reduction act and sequestration.
I don't know, whatever form it comes down in, I want to see some restraints on government.
But back in 2011, Biden repeatedly acknowledged the importance of negotiating a debt limit increase, realizing, quote, it's in everyone's interest to politically cooperate.
These are all comments of Joe Biden.
You know, he said during the debt limit negotiations in 2011.
He was the lead negotiator.
You know, and now it's my way or the highway.
Biden who expressed how pleased and thankful he was to be negotiating with the new Republican majority at the time, said it was important to understand where the other guys coming from.
A few months later, Biden admitted it was a mistake to make certain compromises and what he called the normal process.
So uh what changed with Joe?
Why all of a sudden it goes from being a great honor?
Oh no, we can't, we can't, no negotiations.
Now, you're gonna hear now the the reason they want to talk about this now.
This is not anything that is urgent.
It is January by every estimate when the when the Treasury Department, etc.
When they exhaust every possible outcome, then you're gonna be hearing a lot of, oh, we can't default as a country.
The full faith and credit of the United States is on the line.
They'll probably push this to the limit.
I'm fine with that too.
But Republicans have got to stand strong.
Republicans have got to be united.
This is what a small majority means for them.
If they stay united.
Now, Democrats are counting on them, not uniting.
There's a great piece by Betsy McCoy today about Americans need a debt limit fight.
We need a debt limit fight.
And she points out, you know, most people don't stay up at night.
Oh, the debt limit.
Oh, gosh, what are you gonna have to worry about the debt limit?
Um, in a lot of ways, you should be worried about it.
You know, if you look at, you know, what it means to the country, you know, when you have debt this high, what happens?
We're seeing it happening.
You know, it pushes the economy into decline, inflation is soaring, jobs become scarcer.
We're beginning to see that.
The housing market is crashing.
You know, if we just look at the debt, America's headed off the cliff, she's absolutely right.
National debt is now the highest since World War II and forecast to break uh that record soon.
In 2022, last year alone, night it hit ninety-eight percent of our gross domestic uh product.
Now, by the way, and Betsy McCoy, she's a great researcher.
She points out that that United States is in the company of countries and nations like Mozambique, Angola, Portugal, Greece.
Do we really want our kids?
Do we really want to rob them blind by spending ourselves into oblivion?
You know, over the last 50 years, the GDP, the debt to GDP ratio is averaged 46%.
We're at now over double that.
And and Joe Biden just keeps adding to it.
You know, Biden saying that, you know, it's it's insanity on his part calling Republicans physically demented from Joe Biden?
Really?
Okay.
Points out the New York Times, uh, Paul Krugman calling the House Republicans quid pro quo economic terrorism.
No, it's actually their job.
Their job is one of the responsibilities of Congress, they have the power of the purse.
They have the power to subpoena, they have the power of the purse.
We know what the subpoenas are going out, we know where the investigations are going to happen.
We've talked at length about those.
Uh, however, you know, if you look at our what our nation is now facing with the debt crisis and the amount of tax revenues that will be consumed simply paying off interest, the CBO is predicting that over the next ten years interest costs will triple, so in a decade, interest outlays will exceed defense spending.
That's insanity.
That's suicide of a nation.
This brings us, you know, America will become a third world nation.
It will destroy our economy.
You know, the government borrows more uh money, you know.
How do they possibly bring up a debt like this and not and we don't pay a price?
It's simple math.
She uh referred to Betsy McCoy did in her column about Harvard's uh Carmen Reinhardt and Kenneth Rogoff analyzing 44 countries and a landmark analysis for the American Economic Review, finding that when a nation's debt exceeds ninety percent of GDP, a benchmark that we have now already passed, the economy falters.
Thirty-six other studies she points out confirm excessive government borrowing sabotages economic growth in spite of what they're telling you.
You know, in December, as a last hurrah, you know, what do we get from these idiot Republicans that went along with this insane omnibus with 7,200 earmarks?
No, the debt ceiling matters.
However, for the Democrats right now, it's just a perfect distraction.
Because they don't want to point out that the same guy that was all gung-ho, his own executive branch, his department of justice, that's in the executive branch, his FBI, same under the same umbrella.
Christopher Ray, Merrick Garland bragging about rating Mar-a-Lago and how they made the call.
What is that?
Why didn't Jokus home get raided?
Who's next?
Now, by the way, um, and here's another distraction.
Why is it all of a sudden?
Now, I have been making the case, and I said it at the time that if the United States is gonna help Ukraine uh after they were invaded, a sovereign country was invaded.
I said the bulk of help needs to come from Western Europe.
I said, not one single American boot on the ground.
I said if they're going to help, they've got all of these countries need to fight to win the war.
It was Boris Johnson who finally this weekend, the only politician anywhere.
Well, he's not working now as a politician, but who said we're not fighting to win this war.
I've been telling you that for months.
We are throwing billions and billions of dollars down the drain.
And Zelinski now just had to fire a number of top officials because they were stealing the money that that was being sent to Ukraine.
Now we have the Biden administration.
You know, rather than unleashing America's energy superiority, which would be the biggest help to Western Europe we could ever give them.
Well, now he wants to up the ante and send battle tanks to Ukraine.
Well, they don't fight wars to win wars anymore.
So I'm out.
You've already we why are we paying more money than Western European countries and NATO countries?
Just like why do we fund the bulk of the UN seven billion dollars?
Why are we paying for the WEF, you know, a global globalist organization that doesn't want us to eat meat, but every member flying in on their private jet lecturing us?
We don't need your lectures, and we don't need to fund you.
Why we viewed why why do we pay the bulk of money?
Why did Joe Biden get back in the the Paris climate accords that doesn't recognize that doesn't obligate China and India at the same financial level as the U.S. because they they categorize them as developing nations?
How stupid are we?
$7 billion to the UN?
Why?
Who needs it?
They they're anti-American, they're they've historically been rapidly anti-Semitic.
At what point do we say stop stealing from the American taxpayer?
You know, I'm looking at this, you know, instead of bankrupting Vladimir Putin.
Now look, I've said from the beginning the the best the ideal situation is that the people around Putin take Putin out.
That would be the ideal scenario.
Putin apparently is so paranoid in his, you know, hidden bunker somewhere.
You know, he's put anti-missile defense systems up, you know, because he's so paranoid that he's going to get killed.
People around him have been uh discovered missing or dropping like flies or you know, never to be seen or heard from again.
He's targeting civilians.
I mean, we see what's going on here, and then we find out Ukraine is wasting money that is given them, then we find out that our Western European and NATO allies, you know, we're paying the bulk of money for all of this, and they're not fighting a war to win a war.
Well, why would we get in another quagmire?
What do we want another 20 years in in Europe now?
No, thank you.
No, thank you.
Because Europe can't decide that they want to defeat Putin or they're intimidated by Putin.
Europe, the same Europe that was stupid enough to give in to their own climate alarmist cult and become fully completely dependent, their economies fully completely dependent on Vladimir Putin for all of their energy needs.
And now America's so stupid, we're about to make the same mistake as they have made here.
This is a form of insanity.
You know, as and you know, as socialism has failed around the world, now the White House is unveiling new tenant policies amid soaring rental costs.
It's called supply and demand.
They want a rent renter's bill of rights while not binding.
Why are they writing anything that's not binding?
That doesn't make sense, does it?
Then of course, I told you about the other day they want nationwide rent control.
So we won't have free markets in the country anymore.
Well, two each according to his need, from each according to his ability.
Goldman Sachs predicting that the four specific U.S. cities will suffer a 2008 crash in home values.
I don't even know if you really want me to tell you.
I wouldn't want to know.
But I'll tell you.
San Jose, California, San Diego, California, Austin, Texas, Phoenix, Arizona, likely to see noticeable increases before the drastic decreases of 25%.
Similar decreases like we saw in the recession of 2008.
You know, Biden claims he's stopping Republicans from wrecking the economy.
I have no intention of letting Republicans wreck our economy.
Why?
Because they want fiscal responsibility and they want to stop this this insanity of robbing from future generations and just keep raising the debt limit and keep spending more and more and more money.
By the way, I told you gas prices now, yep, they just went up another 35 cents a gallon.
Of course, the media mob won't tell you.
They only tell you when the prices go down, which we told you would go down, because Biden has rated the strategic petroleum reserve, and Biden and his administration have doubled down on their commitment to sell from our strategic petroleum reserves, which is supposed to be for national emergencies to China.
Tell me how that makes sense.
Anyway, a lot to get to today.
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I noticed Breitbart picked up on it.
Vice President is really quiet about Joe's classified document scandal, causing some, at least some Republicans to believe Harris could be uh angling among others to push Biden out of the way, maybe to have a shot at the Oval Office herself.
Um Harris has delivered several public statements since the scandal was leaked on to the press January 9th.
She's neither supported Biden or condemned any wrongdoing.
Her public her public comments literally uh have uh been somewhat puzzling, largely remaining on script, ranging from global warming, etc.
etc., etc.
She ignores a question about it.
Listen to this.
If you ever take classified documents home as a senator.
Now we get a lot of, you know, can you read into this?
I have found the timing of this odd.
It's just my gut.
I have no reason behind it except that I've been doing this for so long that it just seems odd.
And the depth of it seems even more odd.
And the fact that, you know, we're also getting exposing here the double standard in our justice system, just as that investigation begins under Jim Jordan in the Judiciary Committee is pretty amazing.
Uh Obama won't say if he's searching for classified documents.
White House won't say if Biden is okay with the search of the University of Delaware, their document trove.
National Archives has been silent as the disparity between its handling of Biden and Trump documents is fueling questions.
And uh here's one question for you before we go to break.
When Biden was a senator, he said he's one of the poorest members of Congress.
Well, his fortunes have turned around a lot.
2016, vice president, middle class Joe.
He said his net worth was between 291,000 and 1 million dollars in assets, income outside the vice presidential salary.
Um, how is it Biden and his wife earned more than 11 million dollars and ranked in 4.6 million the following year?
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Um, let me just go over a couple more issues with the documents.
We've spent a lot of time on this, and I just think that's that some of the issues involving this is really amazing.
But anyway, it is interesting to look that Joe Biden referred to himself as one of the poorest members of Congress, and well, his fortunes have changed dramatically.
Um, and you know, you see that in 2016, the last year's vice president, middle class Joe, reported his ink his net worth of 291,000 to a million dollars in assets and income outside his vice presidential salary of 230,700 a year.
He claimed also between 700,000 780,000 and 1.6 million in liabilities, according to that personal financial disclosure form.
In other words, he might have been underwater when he left the vice presidency.
But his fortunes changed precipitately dramatically between 2017 and 2020.
With the help, obviously of Hunter and his brother James, according to a congressional report.
And the year after he left office, Biden and his wife earned more than 11 million dollars.
And they raked in 4.6 million the following year, according to Forbes.
Now, I don't know if that includes half of Hunter's income.
Remember, he winds on the laptop about half his salary going to Pops.
I don't know if that includes the repairs that Hunter was complaining about that he had to pay for on Joe's homes.
I don't know if that includes the 10% set aside for the big guy.
Maybe maybe that money's not in his name.
I don't know.
I have no idea.
It's going to be very interesting.
You got these tandem investigations.
You got uh Jim Comer and the whole House Oversight Committee, uh, and he's looking into the Biden family syndicate, and we know the big lie that Joe Biden never ever spoke to Hunter or any family member about their foreign business dealings, and we have all the evidence to prove it to the contrary.
Articles in front of me.
New photos show Joe Biden lied about uh knowledge of Hunter's business dealing.
He maintained repeatedly, never discussed any kind of foreign business dealings.
Well, Joe invited Hunter's foreign associates to breakfast meetings at his vice presidential residence and to his office in the White House, according to the Hunter Biden laptop.
Then, of course, the trip on Air Force II to places like China.
Among more than a hundred events scheduled in Hunter's diary at the VP residence at the Naval Observatory, there are meetings which appear to overlap Hunter's business interests.
Uh Breakfast with Dad, Naval Observatory, one such meeting recorded 8 30 a.m., November 19, 2015.
Five photos date stamped on that date, taken at 1003 a.m. and 1004 a.m. appear on the laptop.
It shows Joe Biden posing with four of Hunter's business associates, including a Mexican billionaire, Carlos Slim, and some others.
And there's more examples.
We have, you know, we've chronicled at least, I think, I think they said 14.
Don't hold me to that number.
Um, and that's all going to be investigated.
You know, we got we got big problems.
And the money that Hunter's doing business with, the countries that he's doing business with, the money that he's making from these countries, these are not exactly our friends.
Our number one geopolitical foe is China.
Our number two geopolitical foe is Russia.
And yet, you know, it's it's pretty unbelievable.
That's why this whole story about this former FBI agent, Charles McConaughey, you know, being arrested for working with this Russian oligarch.
We've mentioned his name before, Oleg uh Oleg uh Derespaka is his name.
And turns out he was the one who's investigating, you know, Donald Trump, the Russian hoax that was phony, and meanwhile, this guy is being charged with the very thing that he was supposed to quote be investigating with Trump.
By the way, both the Justice Department, National Archives are ignoring House Republicans and their request for classified documents.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer requested on January 10th records detailing the National Archives interactions with President Biden's lawyers and Justice Department, setting deadlines for January 24th.
The deadline comes and goes, no response from the archives.
Okay, now there's going to be an investigation into the archives and whether they've been politicized.
We know the FBI's been politicized.
You know, look at the look at the Hunter Biden laptop in 2020.
And then look at the Twitter uh site integrity chief at the time, a guy by the name of Roth, Mr. Roth.
And he's testified in this case out of Missouri that, yeah, the FBI, they met weekly, and they were warning them again and again about potential misinformation on their platforms in the lead up to the 2020 election from hostile foreign actors, and such information may even involve Hunter Biden.
He testified to that fact.
Um, you know, Rand Paul said this, because we had the same thing in 2020.
We've gone over it many, many times, the dirty dossier.
They were warned not to use it.
Uh, We know they offered a million dollars before they used it to Christopher Steele.
He couldn't verify it.
He couldn't collect his million dollars because it was unverifiable, but they used it anyway.
They used it for an entire year, even after they spoke to the source.
They still were using it.
They ended up hiring the source and then charging the source.
You just can't make this up.
Now, Comer also pointed out, this was on Bright Bart that Hunter apparently sold at least five paintings for $75,000.
Remember, they wouldn't tell we, the American people, who the buyers were.
Anonymous buyers.
The price tag of Hunter's pieces are up to $500,000.
Now, I don't know, portraits of a crack addict.
I mean, we're not looking at Picasso here.
Well, obviously that would be much more.
Why would anyone pay Hunter Biden portraits of a crack addict, top dollar for artwork that is arguably worthless?
You know, this is an insane amount of money.
And they won't tell us who paid for this.
Laptop emails show that Joe Biden's assistant shared classified information with Hunter.
Now, this was in where did I see this today?
In the Daily Mail.
They put out a report in terms of they said if James Comer wants smoking gun proof that Joe Biden was sharing classified material with the national security risk, his son Hunter.
Well, if you look at the report, that's the story I told you about.
You know, for example, the email, June 7th, 2015, to Hunter Biden, written by Kathy Chung, who was then Vice President Joe Biden's executive assistant per Hunter's recommendation.
The email reveals Joe Biden's personal mobile number and three private email addresses, as well as the names of his Secret Service agents, and included the cell phone numbers for former President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and almost every member of former President Barack Obama's cabinet.
And the list goes on.
And by the way, uh let's not forget some of Hunter's Chinese business partners were according to Hunter himself connected to Chinese intelligence.
So do you think Hunter's Chinese, you know, spy business partners found it valuable to have access to the personal cell phone numbers of every top official in the Obama administration?
Because according to the National Archives and Records Administration website, information regarding any White House telecommunications data would be classified.
National Archives, basic laws and authorities.
This order prescribes a uniform system for classifying, safeguarding, declassifying national security information, including information related to defense against transnational terrorism.
The section 4.1 general restrictions and access, Section F says consistent with the law, directives, and regulation, an agency head or senior agency official shall establish uniform procedures to ensure that automated information systems,
including networks, telecommunication systems that collect, create, communicate, compute, disseminate, process, or store classified information, have controls that one, prevent access by unauthorized persons, and two, ensure the integrity of the information.
Now, unless the Obama administration authorized Hunter Biden to have access to the secret cell phone numbers of every top official in Washington, they have a major problem here.
Let's see what uh Congressman Jim Comer comes up with, because that's going to be pretty interesting.
White House Biden Gates spokesman in Sam Stonewalling.
Apparently he was on with Joe and Mika, liberal Joe this morning.
Poor liberal Joe.
What happened to Joe?
I used to know Joe Scarborough.
I actually liked him at the time.
I don't know what's happened to him.
Poor Joe.
Anyway, if you just if you're just heard Congressman Schiff, it's kind of unusual to leave a skiff anything that is classified.
See, this has happened a lot of times.
Sandy Burglar shoving it up and down his pants, shoving it in his socks, shoving it down his backside, but that that's sloppy.
That's what the excuse was back then.
So we got to watch what's going on with the distractions that are happening.
Later in the program, I will tell you this.
So Hakeem Jeffries goes to McCarthy And he goes forward and appoints both Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell to the House Intelligence Committee.
Later on a play, it's like a three-minute exchange.
That's long for us to play.
But I'll play it sometime in the next hour.
Because I mean, McCarthy just ripped it to shreds.
There was nothing left for the media to ask.
And they went in there wanting to have a fight on this issue with McCarthy.
Oh, what about George Santos?
By the way, my Congressman, how lucky am I?
He said, well, Schiff lied.
Swalwell lied.
And Santos is not on the intelligence committee either, nor will he be.
Gotta give a props to Josh Hawley.
He introduced the Pelosi Act to bar lawmakers from trading stocks or profiting while in office.
They'll always find a way around that, so it seems.
GOP would stick Congress members with veterans' health care plans to call attention to the failing VA.
I think that is a genius.
It's the only way.
Let Congress have, you know, let them get treated the way we treat our veterans.
It's unbelievable.
What about all the veterans that were thrown out of the service because they refused the vaccine mandate?
What about all those guys?
Now they, if they did six of seven years when they signed up but got didn't finish the seventh, they want their sight bonus back.
It's unbelievable.
By the way, apparently the L word liberal seems to be shedding its stigma according to one report in the Hill.
But they're not liberal isn't liberal anymore.
It is full-on radical, climate alarmist cultism, socialism.
It's not liberal.
I don't recognize this version of liberalism.
I don't think most people do either.
And I think most people have a hard time understanding it.
By the way, back to the shift, Swalwell, Omar...
They have now vowed to stick together.
What do you mean stick together?
You're still not getting on the Intel committee.
McCarthy has promised to keep Omar off the foreign affairs committee, where she previously served.
Throughout this journey of vengeance, the three of us have chosen to stick together because this isn't about any individual committee assignment.
Swalwell said.
Well, Swalwell was hanging out with a Chinese spy and wouldn't answer basic questions about what the nature of their relationship was, whether or not there's compromising materials on potentially on Swalwell, or what the relationship was.
You know what's sad when we see this?
It was a big front page New York Post article today.
The Bronx is turning.
Fed up with New York City crime, shop owners have to hire private guards to fight back because these businesses are being robbed blind and they otherwise won't be able to stay in business.
By the way, security is not inexpensive.
I've had to hire security in my life.
It's not cheap.
It's very expensive.
By the way, they're worth every penny of it.
You know, but with that said, just it just isn't cheap.
Linda, if we get time for the woke segment of our program today, one North Carolina teacher instructs kindergartners in radical gender theory.
I mean, you can't make this up.
Yeah, Florida teacher resigns after Sheriff reveals her explicit video chats with inmate boyfriend during school day.
Texas high school teacher, youth pastor among nearly 50 arrested in a prostitution sting.
Great.
Critics of have you heard the term?
I've never heard it.
Transmasculine before?
I have never heard that.
Critics of trans masculine people with pervix language censored by the Washington Health Department report.
I honestly and truly, I'm I don't want to say things about people that they don't like or they're uncomfortable with.
I'll call you whatever you want.
But I can't keep up with all this.
Wisconsin school district putting students through a week-long gender identity lessons created by LGBT activists, non-binary teacher boasting on changing students' genders without parents knowing they need protection.
A California teacher, ninth grade history teacher.
Wow.
Why did they feel so compelled that they think they know better than parents?
When do we get to the point where strangers feel that they have a right to contradict your values and indoctrinate kids into their values?
How did it get this bad?
You know, and then the obsession of bringing, you know, all of these drag queens into public schools.
How about we do reading, writing, math, science, history, computers?
You want to do this crap after school and have families opt in, they can opt in all they want.
Most of us will probably decide to opt out.
Why don't we take a look at what China's teaching their kids?
We'd be very curious to learn about that.
Yeah.
Reading, writing, math, science, history, distorted, of course, and computers.
That's why they're crushing us.
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The borders become a disaster.
We now got new numbers that the gotta numbers are much higher than that we had been reported before.
The gataways now are 1.2 million since Biden has been president.
That raises the number of illegal immigrants to a whopping over five plus million illegal immigrants.
Never mind the people.
You know, we got what last year alone, 100 on the terrorist watch list.
God only knows how many people on the terrorist watch list actually are on the gotta way list, which was significant.
Anyway, we'll check in with them on that.
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