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Would we find any classified documents there?
No, you wouldn't.
And it is a real problem that these documents are somewhere they shouldn't be.
That's how carefully we review these documents.
To think that any of them ended up in boxes in storage one place or the other is just unacceptable.
Any specifics to the Department of Justice?
Any specifics to this particular legal matter?
I would refer you to the Department of Justice.
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If you want to be a part of the program today, yesterday we were highlighting an exchange with Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the media mob as to why he says no to Swalwell with his girlfriend Fang Fang and the congenital liar Adam Schiff being on the House Intel Committee.
This is what he said.
You just raised a question.
I'm going to be very clear with you.
The Intel Committee is different.
You know why?
Because what happens in the Intel Committee, you don't know.
What happens in the Intel Committee of the secrets are going on in the world?
Other members of Congress don't know.
What did Adam Schiff do as the chairman of the Intel Committee?
What Adam Schiff did, use his power as a chairman and lie to the American public.
Even the Inspector General said it.
But I will not be like Democrats and play politics with thieves, where they removed Republicans from committees and all committees.
So yes, he can serve on a committee, but he will not serve on Intel because it goes to the national security of America.
And I will always put them first.
All right?
And if you want to talk about Swalwell, let's talk about Swalwell because you have not had the briefing that I had.
I had the briefing and Nancy Pelosi had the briefing from the FBI.
The FBI never came before this Congress to tell the leadership of this Congress that Eric Swalwell had a problem with the Chinese spy until he served on Intel.
So it wasn't just us who were concerned about.
The FBI was concerned about putting a member of Congress on the Intel committee that has the rights to see things that others don't because of his knowledge and relationship with the Chinese spy.
Ouch.
And then the issue, well, he said that Congressman Santos, he's not on the Intel Committee either.
Anyway, former Speaker of the House, Newt Kingrich, is with us.
I actually thought that was maybe the best moment in Kevin McCarthy's life yesterday.
Well, I thought it was clear the way he came back at the reporter and that he was not going to be bullied.
And I think in that sense, I just had some friends actually a few minutes ago say to me how impressed they were that he sort of took control of the press conference, went straight at him.
And of course, he has the great advantage that all the facts are on his side.
You know, Schiff is a congenital liar.
The idea that Swalwell would be allowed to be on the intelligence committee, having had that relationship with the Chinese communist woman, is just nuts.
But then, on the other hand, you have a Democratic Party which thinks it's fine for Hunter Biden to be hanging out with secret documents while fixing his dad's Corvette.
I mean, this is a party totally out of touch with reality.
Let me ask you, Merrick Corlin and Chris Ray held a joint presser earlier today, but they refused to answer any questions about the Biden document and top secret classified information scandal.
But they did leak to reporters that, well, if Joe Biden didn't cooperate, then they would have gone for a subpoena.
The same people that were bragging, both of them, that they personally authorized the raid at Mar-a-Lago.
But here's the problem as I see it, Mr. Speaker.
Correct me if I'm wrong, is we know that the FBI had already been in the room at Mar-a-Lago where the classified information was stored.
They had unfettered access.
They saw it with their own eyes.
They didn't take it when they were voluntarily allowed there and had the access.
They never asked for it.
They only asked that a padlock be put on the door after the fact.
That was complied with.
And then they just raided Mar-a-Lago.
They've yet to even search Biden's Rehoboth Beach House.
And I think the double standard is very obvious here.
On top of that, you know, well, they're saying, well, Joe Biden cooperated.
We know that my sources are telling me Donald Trump has also, after the raid, hired a private company to go through all of his properties, room by room, every crevice, every inch of the property, to make sure that there weren't other remaining documents that might have gotten put into boxes that he didn't himself look at, and offered the DOJ and the FBI an opportunity to go along with them, and they declined.
So that, again, is a double standard.
I mean, first of all, I think that to suggest we're dealing with a double standard is to underestimate how corrupt the system is.
They have a single standard.
Does it help the left?
If it helps the left, they cover up, they ignore, they avoid.
If it hurts the conservative movement, they do everything they can to make it painful and to make it embarrassing.
So it's a very single standard.
What you have is a corrupt attorney general, a corrupt head of the FBI, a corrupt senior FBI community.
And let me give you an example.
They talk about exploring things.
There are 1,875 boxes of documents at the University of Delaware in a Biden center which have not been gone through at all.
To the best of my knowledge, they have not gone through any of Hunter Biden's residents or residences.
In the case of the Delaware Biden Center, we know less, we know nothing, zero, about who has funded it, how much money is involved, where it came from, or who it's been paid to.
In the case of the UPenn, the Biden Center, which had the various secret documents, we know the Chinese Communists put in a minimum of $51 million at the University of Pennsylvania.
All of it is secret.
And by the way, that center employed the current Secretary of State.
And that center hosted a conference for congressional staff on how to work with the Chinese communists.
So, I mean, I take all this as a very serious problem in national security, far beyond just the politics of what happened in Vera Longo and what's happened with Biden at a family level.
What you have is a corrupt family deliberately hiding from the American people.
We have no idea how many different documents there are, who got them.
The document, the secret documents that were at the Biden Penn Center, where the Chinese had given so much money, we have no idea who saw those documents or why they happened to be there.
I mean, what was the purpose of those documents being there?
And the other thing, Sean, that I think is fascinating is who told the lawyers where to look?
How were these lawyers able to go find these things?
I mean, somebody knew a lot more than we've been told so far.
And our understanding is aides were also looking, people that didn't have top security clearances.
As it relates to the documents, in my opinion, and I think I'm pretty, I'm going to be proven right on this, I think it's going to end up being a wash.
I don't think there's going to be any fallout from it.
If it didn't happen to Hillary Clinton, then no prosecutor would ever prosecute with James Comey in July of 2016.
She was far worse than anybody in terms of the recklessness.
And they even acknowledged at the time that it's likely foreign hostile regimes had access to her servers that had top secret and classified information on it.
But I do believe that the big issue for the Biden family is going to be money.
And that is the money that they got from China, the $1.5 billion deal with the Bank of China, the $5 million interest-free forgivable loan, the $100,000 shopping spree.
I do believe Ukraine will come into play.
Joe Biden never talked to his son about his foreign business dealings.
We now know that's a lie.
He leveraged a billion taxpayer dollars to get a prosecutor fired in six hours, a prosecutor that was investigating his son that told Good Morning America he had zero experience, but was paid millions.
I think all of this now is going to become a very serious problem for Team Biden.
Oh, look, I think it's an enormous problem.
And I think as the country comes to understand that you had literally over $51 million of Chinese communist money going into the University of Pennsylvania.
And by the way, two of the top officials of the University of Pennsylvania are now the ambassador to Germany and the ambassador to Canada.
By the way, that number went up at $67 million.
I did not realize it.
I will correct it from here on out.
$67 million.
Now, and remember what I just said, we know zero about the University of Delaware and where their money came from.
And one of my goals this week is to get Chairman Jim Jordan and the Judiciary Committee to subpoena all the records of Penn and all the records of the University of Delaware because we have a national security reason for wanting to know who was funneling money to a vice president of the United States as he was about to run for president of the United States.
I mean, this is way beyond are they sloppy?
Did they cooperate?
I tell people, not only do people not see the forest or the trees, we get sucked down into looking at the leaf, this individual leaf, that individual leaf.
But the forest is pretty obvious.
The forest is a Biden criminal family which routinely exploited his public position for money on the grand scale and which had relationships with Russia, Ukraine, and communist China.
And I think all of that raises very deep, very serious questions.
Oh, and there's a lot of them.
Let me play something of Joe Biden early on when Ukraine was invaded by Putin and Russia about what he said regarding World War III and the escalation of conflicts there.
Listen.
The idea that we're going to send in offensive equipment and have planes and tanks and trains going in with American pilots and American crews, just understand.
Don't kid yourself, no matter what you all say.
That's called World War III.
Today, I'm announcing that the United States will be sending 31 Abram tanks to Ukraine.
They've done some dumb things.
They'll do dumb things again.
Anyway, somebody tweeted it out and sent it to me.
I think it was Laura Logan who tweeted it originally.
But my point is he said, if we send in offensive equipment, they're now sending in offensive equipment.
Now, between that and the debt ceiling, which I want to talk to you about, I think partly it's a distraction from this mess that they've created for themselves and these committees.
But my question is, I am angry as an American citizen to see billions of dollars going into Ukraine.
Some of the money clearly was stolen as two top aides to Zelensky have been pushed aside.
And my question is, how involved do we want to be?
Because I don't see Europe contributing their fair share, and it's right in their backyard.
And I'm tired of America bearing the weight of this conflict when it should be Western Europe doing it.
Well, I mean, let me say, first of all, I think it is a mess.
I think it'll remain a mess.
I think the Europeans have gradually moved in the right direction.
I think there'll be probably over 200 German Leopard II tanks going into Ukraine.
And I think in that sense, the American tanks are almost a symbolic gesture.
In fact, one person said they probably would take a year to get them over there because of the incompetence of our own bureaucracies.
But I do think we have a challenge because I think if Russia wins this war, they will then be on the Polish border and they will be emboldened, I think, on the three Baltic states, which are a part of Estonia, Latin, Lithuania, which are a part of NATO.
And I think there's a, you know, you don't quite know where it goes next.
I am for doing what it takes to win in Ukraine, which doesn't mean I think we ought to throw money away.
And it doesn't mean that I think that we ought to give up the pressure of our European allies to also participate.
But I do think that finding a way to get enough weapons to them, the Ukrainians have proven pretty decisively for a year now, they're prepared to die for their country.
And I think it's fairly disgraceful that both the Europeans and the Americans have been so slow.
It seems like they're not fighting to win it.
But I'm almost out of time.
I've got to ask you real quick.
What should be the one thing that all 222 Republicans in the House agree on with this debt ceiling fight?
Democrats not negotiating.
They're thinking Republicans won't unite.
Real quick, your thoughts.
No, I think Republicans on Unite can clearly say we want a responsible debt ceiling and a responsible debt ceiling starts moving us towards a balanced budget.
And we'll be glad to pass a responsible debt ceiling and we'll be glad to negotiate with Joe Biden about it.
But he's not going to get an irresponsible debt ceiling out of the house that refuses to start dealing with the deficit and with the scale to which that increases inflation and it increases interest payments of our children and grandchildren.
All right, we'll leave it right there.
Speaker Gingrich, always great to have you, sir.
We appreciate it.
As always, blazing here.
We'll hit them when we get back.
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If you want to be a part of the program, by the way, things we're waiting for: a videotape of Paul Pelosi's attack of the police cam.
If you're not aware of the murder that took place, it looks like at least they're being charged with murder.
Five cops are being charged with murder in Memphis.
That videotape, I think we expect tomorrow night to be released.
I'm told it's an hour long, and I'm told apparently it's very, very brutal.
I don't know if that's the case, but I know that certainly it didn't end the right way.
But when you have five cops and one defendant, how did this guy end up dead?
It's going to raise a lot.
Here we go again.
It's going to raise a lot of questions.
Anyway, we'll watch him for those two tapes to be released.
When they are, we'll let you know.
Congressman Jimenez will join us coming up at the top of the arrow.
Your calls are next, 800-941-Sean.
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When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
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This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
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Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
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When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Napok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is fiasco, Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Anyway, so he asks a judicial nominee, Charnel Julkugren of Spokane County Superior Court in Washington State.
He starts asking basic questions.
You know, a judge about our Constitution that she can't answer.
Listen.
Judge, on the far end, tell me what Article 5 of the Constitution does.
Article 5 is not coming to mind at the moment.
Okay.
How about Article 2?
Neither is Article 2.
Okay.
Do you know what perposivism is?
In my 12 years as an assistant attorney general and my nine years serving as a judge, I was not faced with that precise question.
We are the highest trial court in Washington State, so I'm frequently faced with issues that I'm not familiar with, and I thoroughly review the law, our research, and apply the law to the facts presented to me.
Well, you're going to be faced with it if you're confirmed.
I can assure you of that.
Judge, on the far end, can you tell me what the independent state legislature theory is?
I'm just asking you, not your opinion of what is it before the Supreme Court now.
In my 12 years as a Washington State Assistant Attorney General and that particular doctrine was not presented to me.
You can't make this up.
You really can't.
You know what this means, Linda?
You can be a judge.
I am ready.
I have some things I'd like to change immediately.
I have a better, I have a better analogy.
You know what?
You could be?
You could be an NFL referee.
Okay, take it easy because that I learned.
I'm learning a thing or two.
I know it was a big Scincy game this weekend.
Big Scincy game Since he beat last week, you know?
The other team that they played against the one they played against.
No, it was.
Have you figured out what crossing the plane means yet?
You run across the field to what to Katie, stop healthy.
Stop.
Stop.
I can tell.
What do you do?
Stop, Katie.
That's no help allowed.
Thank you.
Just say you don't know, just like the judge.
Okay.
In all the years you've been a producer, you've never had a screen.
In all my years of being on the planet, I have not come into contact with the phrase crossing the plane.
I have crossed the street.
I have crossed the highway.
I've crossed the plane.
You've never crossed the plane.
It's a score.
It's a score.
I'm on a tarmac and I cross in front of a plane.
That's what I'm saying.
I try not to cross in front of the plane because I don't want to get hit.
Well, if it's not movie, you can cross in front of the plane.
How many points do you get?
No, don't do this.
Let's bash the judge because that's who we're talking about.
Let's focus on her.
But it is the equivalent of you having a high-level position in the NFL.
Listen.
It is the exact same thing, and you know nothing about football.
By the way, you have how many master's degrees?
It's not.
That's not the point.
The point is that, you know, I don't have an MBA in the NFL.
You know, this woman is being, you know, nominated to become a judge.
Jason's laughing at me.
Is that a stupid thing to say?
You said NBA and NFL.
You're like, you don't even realize that you just named two different sports associations.
I said MBA.
Oh, NBA.
It sounded like you said NBA.
No, Masters of Business Administration because he keeps talking about my degrees.
And I do not have one in sports of any kind, I assure you.
However, I make awesome spinach dip and I am there for all the parties and I cheer all the teams.
I make awesome spinach dip.
There you go.
That's your contribution.
Do you make chicken wings?
I make chicken wings.
I make buffalo chicken wings.
I bet your chicken wings suck.
I'll tell you.
Oh, my God.
They do not suck.
I bet they totally suck.
I bet you do you air fry them?
No, you don't air fry chicken wings.
What am I, an animal?
That's not how I cook chicken wings.
How do you cook it?
You make a buffalo wing sauce in the sauce can.
You take them out.
You put them on the grill or you put them in the broiler and then you put them in the sauce and they're wonderful.
I actually like mine plain and seasoned with a special hand.
You know what that sounds like?
That sounds terrible.
So it turns out that you actually suck at this.
And then you make them really moist by spraying it with avocado oil.
You should be happy.
I like something green.
It's called avocado oil.
It comes from a green, whatever it is.
Is that how you say it?
Avocado?
Avocado.
Very weird.
Avocado.
I don't know.
I've lost control.
Wait, wait, can we just talk about how you would even say her last name?
I think it's hysterical.
He's like, Judge on the end.
This is her last name.
Judge on the end.
I mean, it's hysterical.
I mean, I think it's probably been butchering her name because her last name is very hard.
But it's embarrassing.
I mean, this is your profession.
Like, you're a determined.
I don't have a senator in New York, so maybe I'll adopt Senator Kennedy.
Maybe he'll accept me as like his constituent and take my calls.
Oh, my God.
That'd be hysterical.
My congressman is Santos.
God help me.
Oh, Lord.
No good.
What a mess that is.
Thank you.
All right.
Reena is in New York.
Reena, how are you?
Glad you called.
Thank you, Sean.
Longtime listener, longtime viewer.
It's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
The honor is all mine.
Glad you checked in.
I wanted to just talk with you a little bit.
You had a liberal caller last night towards the end of your show.
Yeah, Sam.
He was on the radio show yesterday.
Great conversation.
But I have to do something I've never done in my life.
I'm a longtime Republican, always vote the party conservative.
I have to agree with him.
And I feel terrible saying this, but we need to move on.
We need to start talking about things that actually matter to the American public.
Nothing is going to happen to Joe Biden.
Yes, he's a liar.
Yes, he's compromised.
Yes, his son is a criminal.
Yes, I agree with everything.
But the Republicans are not ever going to do anything about it.
No, I disagree.
I think it's way bigger than Hunter at all.
I think, as Jim Comer has said, this is an investigation into the president of the United States and whether there's been influence peddling.
When we get to the money aspect, let's see how much Joe might have benefited from all of those business deals.
And if he did, he will be impeached.
Ask you this, Sean.
With the power that the Biden family has, the Democratic Party has, they're in cahoots with the FBI.
They're in cahoots with the media.
This is all a huge, this is not even a swamp.
is a quagmire this is so well what do you want the republicans to do They are one half of one branch of government right now.
And so the only powers they really have are the power of the purse.
And I believe they will be united in the fight against the debt ceiling.
I think that'll happen.
And I think they're united on their agenda.
And then they have the power of subpoena.
And that is an oversight check and balance that is critical to this republic.
Agreed with you.
Agree.
I agree completely.
But I really think that we need to start talking about things that matter, prices, schools.
I mean, there are things that are really, really making an impact or should be making a greater impact.
Right, but they could pass legislation all day in the House, which they will do to show a distinction and a difference and put the Democrats on record that they are still beholden to the teachers' unions and against any real reform for education.
They're more interested.
It seems like more people are interested in CRT, transgender education, drag queens showing up in school than they are about reading, writing, math, science, history.
In the meantime, Asia and Europe are teaching STEM, and they're kicking our butts because that's correct.
And we spend more money per student per capita than they do, and we have the worst results.
You're right.
who can't read this is these are things that are really really that's why that's why a check and balance for the next two years is critical And then beyond that, I'm hoping that the country wises up, and that will include Republicans changing their entire outlook on how they view elections.
And that means they have to get in the ballot harvesting business as allowed by law in 49 states.
And they have to adopt early voting and mail-in voting in the hopes that one day, hopefully, we'll switch back to same-day voting, paper ballots with voter ID, signature verification, et cetera.
But right now, they got to fight with the system.
Democrats are outthinking Republicans on elections, and it's obvious now.
Right, right.
And it's clear as a bell because every time that there's a close election where the votes need to be recounted and it takes a few days, oddly enough, it's always a Democrat who comes out ahead.
That's strange.
Never works in advantage of, you know, in the advantage of a Republican.
No, never will either until we Republicans have got to change their outlook on elections.
It's not only about better ideas, kissing babies, shaking hands, doing selfies, press avails, town halls and rallies.
It's also about the ballot business.
And, you know, only one state requires the individual themselves to hand in their ballot.
That's Alabama.
All these swing states, Republicans better get in the Democratic game.
Democratic candidate is tied.
They don't even debate anymore, a lot of them.
And they end up winning because they have millions, hundreds of millions of negative ads.
And they are in the ballot harvesting business.
Ballot harvesting is alive and well in many states in this country.
And it's legal.
I'm not telling Republicans to do anything illegal.
I'm saying to match what the Democrats are doing legally and do it better than them.
We can't start every election day down, you know, 300, 700, a million votes and expect to win.
You just can't.
We put ourselves at a decided disadvantage.
That has to change.
Anyway, I could talk to you all day.
God bless you.
I appreciate all your, appreciate you being out there.
Quick break right back.
We'll continue straight to the phones.
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Tammy is in North Carolina.
I'm sorry, South Carolina.
Hey, Tammy, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
We talked last year about the small farmers, farmers and small farmers in general.
You're talking about farmers.
That's right.
You're a farmer, right?
Farmers.
Yeah.
Now, what do you farm again?
Big legs.
We farm everything.
We have two fields that we plant to our personal use.
We don't sell any of this.
We have chickens and we have pigs and we raise our own eggs.
I mean, we have our own eggs.
That's the reason I called you.
I heard you talking about eggs were like $10 a dozen in New York.
They're not far behind you here in South Carolina, but I don't think people...
How much can I buy eggs for you, a dozen from you for?
I sell them for $350 if you bring your brain.
I ought to order a ton because I eat, like today, for example, I had four egg whites, onions, and a little bit of chopped meat.
That was my breakfast after I worked out.
And just so happens, we went to buy feed today.
We bought 800 pounds of chicken feed and hog feed.
And it was like $60 more than it was last month that we went and bought feed.
By the way, and the margins for farmers, people need to understand most farmers are not getting rich.
They're struggling.
Fertilizer costs of what?
Twice what you paid a couple of years ago, right?
Probably three times what this year.
I haven't checked on fertilizer, but I guarantee you they're up higher.
We haven't even checked on seed, but we are going to have, we decided we were going to have a garden.
We weren't going to because it's just so hard.
Last year, our garden failed because it was so hot.
So I have a garden in my backyard, man.
You'll be surprised to know.
You know what happens to me every year?
The deer that are in the neighborhood feast on it.
And I'm sick and tired of the deer stealing my food.
Same here.
Deer, rabbits, bears, grass.
I don't have pears that I know of.
I do have foxes and possum and what else?
Raccoons everywhere.
I can't stand raccoons.
Yeah, those two.
They're terrible here, too.
But, you know, this is the first time I've really been really, really concerned because if feed costs keep going up like that and fertilizer keeps going up, gas keeps going up, diesel keeps going up.
Well, let me first, let me say a couple things to you.
It is terrible.
You have no choice but to pass the costs on to consumers.
You need to raise the price of your eggs.
I'm just telling you, you got to sell it at market rates.
And whatever the market is where you are in South Carolina, if it's seven bucks a dozen, you need to raise your prices to compensate for all this extra money you're putting out because of Biden's failed policies.
And then the other last thing I want to say to you is thank you.
You know, we go to this store, we take for granted that all this food is available and our shelves are full, usually, and it's only because of people like you.
And you sustain us, and you're so good at what you do.
Our farmers have perfected farming.
And I just find it one of the most noble professions out there.
And thank you.
Oh, you're welcome.
And don't forget the truckers, because without the truckers, the farmers wouldn't have any getting their food.
We love our truckers, too.
We love all you guys.
I appreciate more than ever all that you do every day.
You know, look, I'm complaining about the cost of eggs, but so is everyone else.
I can afford it.
But you know what?
Why am I paying three times what I was paying?
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