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Congresswoman Boebert - February 9th, Hour 3
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If you want to be a part of the program, we'll be joined in a second by Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, who's with us.
I mean, she just ripped into former Twitter employees for shadow banning her account.
I mean, remember, we have the two hearings, one that took place yesterday.
A lot of that was about the FBI, their coordination with big tech in the lead up to the 2020 election.
Yes, and the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
They were prepped by the FBI to do it.
I mean, it's pretty unbelievable when you look at everything that came out yesterday.
And then leading into today's hearings, and that is the weaponization of the DOJ and the FBI and how they've been politicized.
And this is just the beginning of what's going to be a long process of one FBI whistleblower after another saying, yeah, the agency has lost its way.
And the result ought to be, in my view, I can tell you ahead of time, is that it is a total top-down restructuring of the FBI and the Department of Justice.
But I don't want to get ahead of ourselves.
Anyway, it's about two minutes.
This is Lauren Boebert ripping into these Twitter employees yesterday.
Mr. Roth, Ms. Gaddy, did either of you approve the shadow banning of my account at Lauren Boebert?
Yes or no?
No, I did not.
Not to the best of my recollection.
Well, let me refresh your memory because on March 12th, 2021, and Mr. Roth, I know you looked at it because fascist Twitter 1.0 had a public interest exceptions policy, which means for members of Congress to be shadow banned, it had to go before you, Mr. Roth.
So I'll ask again, did you shadow ban my account?
Yes or no?
Again, not to the best of my recollection.
So the answer is, Mr. Roth, yes, you did.
I found out last night from Twitter staff that you suppressed my account for this tweet.
It's a freaking joke about Hillary Clinton being angry that she couldn't rig her election.
It's a joke.
But in response, being the sinister overlords that you all are, you placed a 90-day account filter so I could not be found.
And now we see here that Twitter staff said the visibility filter on my account excluded me from top searches, prevented notifications for non-followers, and much more.
This is considered an aggressive visibility filter.
You silenced members of Congress from communicating with their constituents.
You silenced me from communicating with the American people over a freaking joke.
Now, who the hell do you think that you are?
Election interference?
Yeah, I would say that that was taking place because of you four sitting here.
The Hunter Biden laptop story was suppressed.
A sitting member of Congress was suppressed.
A sitting president was banned from Twitter.
You know, I bet that Putin is sitting in the Kremlin wishing he had as much election intervention interference as you four here today.
We've heard about threats to democracy.
Well, what about shutting down a duly elected member of Congress?
This is fundamental to our nation's governance.
And you all attacked that very foundation.
230 protections?
Well, those are for publishers, not for editors.
And it's clear you were not acting as publishers.
You were acting as editors.
Anyway, joining us now, Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Bobert.
Remind me never to piss you off because you went after them pretty hard.
Good job yesterday.
How are you?
I am doing great, Sean.
Thank you so much.
And, you know, this does piss me off because millions of Americans were silenced.
Look, Sean, I have the ability to reach out to Elon and to his staff to see exactly what happened, to see exactly why my account wasn't growing, why it wasn't getting the numbers that it once was.
But what about the millions of Americans who have no idea?
Look, President Trump, we know that he was permanently banned.
That was for everyone to see.
But when they come through with their visibility filters, when they shadow ban people, you don't even know that it's happening.
You don't know why it's happening.
And millions of Americans have been silenced without even knowing what they did wrong for questioning governance, for government, for questioning policy, for questioning the CDC, for questioning vaccines, for COVID, for shutdowns, for lockdowns, for elections, and so much more.
This Twitter hearing was all about the Hunter Biden laptop story and the suppression of that.
And we have AOC calling that a hiccup in the media, a 24-hour hiccup.
She called the Hunter Biden laptop half-truth, which maybe we should give her some credit for admitting that at least there's some truth in it, because before it was all Russian disinformation.
But this is a problem.
When they are working, colluding with the federal government to suppress and censor free speech in America, this is a problem.
And I'm so glad, Sean, that we have this majority in the House of Representatives.
We have the gavel.
We are able to conduct actual oversight and get answers to the American people about what's been going on with big tech behind the scenes.
I want to know, and I'll go back to James Comer's opening statement, that the FBI advised senior Twitter executives to question the validity of the Hunter Biden story.
Now, I had on this program at the time, he was the Attorney General of Missouri.
He's now a senator from Missouri, Eric Schmidt.
And at that point in time, he had either a deposition, I believe it was a deposition, with Yoel Roth, at the time, Twitter integrity site head.
And the question came up as it relates to the dealings that Yoel Roth had with the FBI and very specifically, whether or not beyond saying that they may be a victim of a misinformation campaign leading up to the 2020 presidential election,
but very specifically, he was asked if he had any recollections of the FBI telling him that, in fact, yes, they mentioned Hunter Biden by name as one of the people that may be a victim of the disinformation campaign.
Now, here's the problem I have with that, Congresswoman.
And just stay with me here.
The FBI had this Hunter Biden laptop since December of 2019.
So they had plenty of time to validate it or say it was fake, whatever.
But yet you have the FBI now meeting weekly with every big tech company, telling them that they might be a victim of disinformation, specifically, according to Mr. Roth at the time, saying that the FBI even mentioned it might be about Hunter, but the FBI had the laptop from hell, but they also knew Rudy Giuliani had the laptop from hell.
So they knew the likelihood of it coming out before Election Day was probably very high.
And yet, so they're specifically warning Twitter about the possibility that there might be a disinformation campaign on Hunter.
Meanwhile, they had every opportunity to authenticate that laptop in the interim.
Right.
And they didn't do that until CBS came out with a story when Republicans were named the majority of the House of Representatives.
And that's when CBS finally came out and said, hey, look, this is real.
They waited all of this time and pushed this Russian hoax theory that this was disinformation this entire time until they realized there was going to be actual oversight taking place in the House of Representatives, and we were going to expose the truth.
The FBI is in bed with big tech, and I expressed that in the hearing to Jim Baker, who is a former FBI agent working for Twitter.
And he's not the only one.
We know of at least nine FBI agents that were working for Twitter before Elon Musk bought a crime scene, as Thomas Massey, my good friend and co-chair of the Second Amendment Caucus says.
He got rid of all of them.
But we have former federal agents working for Twitter and communicating with their former colleagues and their new colleagues and trying to suppress this story, which interfered with the 2020 election.
Polls have shown us if the American people knew the truth, knew that this was authentic and it was not Russian disinformation, then that would have changed the outcome of the 2020 election.
And it's not just the Hunter Biden laptop being suppressed, but it's also members of Congress who are not able to communicate with the American people about what was going on, the work that we were doing.
We were not able to effectively campaign even for our elections because we ourselves were under these visibility filters and being shadow banned.
So even we as duly elected members of Congress could not communicate to people.
The American people, they were even suppressed from sharing this story about the Hunter Biden laptop from hell in their DMs, in their direct messages.
These are private messages to other Twitter users, and they were prevented from even sharing the story there.
The question now is, and we're getting into the weaponization of the FBI and that big question today, and a lot is coming out here.
I don't know if you've been following all of these hearings, but we're really finding out that the FBI, in fact, had their thumb on the scale in a lot of big ways.
Did you see the testimony earlier from Senator Ron Johnson and the testimony of Senator Charles Grassley?
Because I thought it was devastating in terms of the FBI and Democrats and the foreign business dealings of the Biden family syndicate.
So I know of some of the prep that was going into that.
I've not seen those hearings specifically just yet.
I will follow up on those.
But it's very obvious that the FBI did have their thumb on that scale.
And this is a problem.
And this is why we have to gut the FBI.
This is why we have to clean house at the Department of Injustice.
These are Biden's bureaucrats that are working for him, not the American people.
They want to raise taxes on the American people, cause skyrocketing inflation, and hurt the American people.
Why?
To fund more bureaucrats that are going to further destroy their lives.
And this is what we are going to work to root out in the next two years.
Sean, this next two years, there's not going to be a lot of legislation that passes all the way through the House, the Senate, and gets signed in the White House.
But we are going to have two years of exposure, exposing the truth, exposing the lies that have been told to the American people, how they have been gaslit, and this amazing grip that has been going on with the federal government to collude with these big tech companies and push true disinformation and even hide real information that the American people need to be aware of.
They worked to suppress that so that information would not get to them.
And what?
And they were called conspiracy theorists if they did talk about it or even labeled as domestic terrorists for speaking in opposition to what is going on.
And so I'm so excited that we and the Oversight Committee and the weaponization of the federal government committee, we get to get to the bottom of this and expose this to the American people.
So maybe we have a fair chance for truth and justice in these 2024 elections that are coming up that are so important for our nation.
All right, quick break more with Congresswoman Lauren Boebert on the other side.
Then your calls, 800-941-Sean as we continue.
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We've been in political media for a long time.
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Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hammond.
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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All right, we continue with Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is with us.
Let me switch gears, Congresswoman, if I may.
And you heard Biden at the State of the Union address the other night saying that the Republicans want to hold the economy hostage.
And he's talking about raising the debt ceiling.
I remind people in 2011, Joe Biden said it can't be my way or the highway that there's got to be negotiation.
And meanwhile, as president, he has steadfastly said he won't negotiate with Kevin McCarthy and the Republicans.
Here's my question.
I believe that there's been a calculation made by the Democratic Party and the president.
They don't think that the majority, 222 Republicans in the House, are going to agree on a single ask or ask in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.
And they feel if they can divide, they will conquer and there'll be no concessions.
My hope is, is that all 222 of you will agree on a plan that shows fiscal responsibility because we have $31 trillion in debt.
We've robbed enough money from our kids and grandkids and that there will be nobody, no defectors that would sign on to a debt ceiling increase unless fiscal responsibility is associated with it.
I don't care if it's the Deficit Reduction Act or something similar as we had in 2011 that included sequestration.
That doesn't matter to me.
But I want to know if there's going to be unity.
Do you believe you will unite as a caucus?
I do.
You know, I don't think it's going to be a single issue, but there's going to be some negotiation for sure.
Unlike Joe Biden saying that there will be no negotiation and then attacking Republicans saying that we're coming out against Social Security and Medicare, cutting those things.
He is the one on the record saying that he would absolutely go after Social Security and Medicare.
As a senator, he said that.
And we could play the clip.
But right now, there are at least 222 ideas of what we can negotiate on.
And we do need to continue our work to getting down to what is our final ask.
What is our final demand in this negotiation?
And I do believe that all of us Republicans will be able to get to a strong point and have these concessions to have fiscal responsibility when it comes to the debt ceiling.
Well, if you guys agree, listen, any of the Republican programs I'll support, I've heard about 15 of them, but not everybody's going to get his way.
But I will say this: once all 222 agree with you, you've got to lock yourselves in cement and not budge because they're going to claim the full faith and credit and trust that the U.S. government is in play, blah, blah, blah.
Nope.
If they want to raise the debt ceiling, they've got to show some fiscal responsibility.
Congresswoman, we always love having you.
Congresswoman Lauren.
By the way, you know, people still ask me if we're friends.
I'm like, yeah, we never got mad at each other.
Do you get that question too?
We've always been friends, John.
And, you know, that's what I love about our side, our party.
We can have disagreements and still be friends.
We could come together.
Well, it's just funny to me.
I mean, I wanted you guys to have resolved this before January 3rd.
It was four days.
Who gives a rip?
It worked out in the end.
And I think everybody's, you know, happier for it.
Amazing job.
We appreciate you being with us.
Anyway, let's get to our busy phones here.
Jeff is in San Diego, California.
What's going on, Jeff?
Love it out there in San Diego.
How are you?
Well, fine, Sean.
Thank you for listening to me.
I've noticed that on some of your shows that a lot of people say corporations do not pay taxes.
And that's kind of a misnomer.
They pay an awful lot of taxes.
Accounting-wise, they actually get taxed twice.
And these facts that are thrown out that are kind of a misnomer.
They're actually playing into the hands of the woke left wing.
Well, maybe you're misunderstanding what I'm saying.
Let me see if this clarifies it for you.
Yes, corporations, they'll put on their taxes.
They'll be paying.
The money will come from them and will go to the IRS.
That money will happen.
However, like we just had Joe Biden as of January 1st, tens of billions of dollars in new taxes impacting people making under $400,000 a year, billion-dollar tax increases on oil and gas and coal and even our pensions and savings, retirement savings, and $225 billion in new taxes on corporations on top of the taxes he already put on corporations.
What I mean by that is that corporations are not going to sacrifice their bottom line because of new taxes.
So this is what they do.
Remember, we had the supply chain crisis, and remember price of everything was going through the roof.
You know what a lot of corporations did, right?
You know, that they would reduce the size of their packages so their profit margin remained the same.
When they get new taxes, they might do something like that, or they would increase the cost of what it is they sell, the goods or services they provide.
And yeah, they'd pay the taxes, but they would charge more and get that money back from we the people.
So sure, on an accounting form, it'll look like they're paying the taxes, but they're charging us more to compensate for it.
Well, and that is true.
However, all businesses do that.
There's no alternative to it.
Right.
So what I'm saying is factually accurate.
And that is the corporations are not going to pay these new taxes.
We will.
Oh, okay.
I'll go with that, but would I?
I'm arguing against an accountant and I did okay.
I'm very happy about that.
No, what I'm saying is that when the presentation is made, it comes out.
Corporations pay no taxes.
Stop.
And then the rest of it comes out.
And what happens is that most people just get that one sound bite.
And I believe it.
It just gets passed on to we the people.
That's the bottom line.
They're not raising.
The corporations are not going to sacrifice their bottom line.
They're in business to make money.
They have shareholders, many of them.
And if the government raises taxes, they're going to pass it on to us one way or the other.
So the government acts like we're going after big oil.
We're going after big pharma.
We're going after big, big, big, whatever.
We're going after the rich people.
They just, you know, it's just a lie.
That's correct.
It's a huge lie.
And that's the reason I wanted to bring that up because, you know what, I agree with you wholeheartedly.
I appreciate what you're doing.
And you're definitely an excellent American.
Well, I appreciate you very kind.
I'll give you one other example.
Like this billionaire tax proposal by Biden.
The argument that they're making is that billionaires pay 8%, only 8% of their income in taxes.
Here's what they're factoring in, and this would be called, in your world, an accounting gimmick.
So they will count invested monies in the stock market that they have not realized as any gain.
In other words, they invested the money.
It's sitting there.
Stocks go up, stocks go down.
And when they pay taxes, it'll be if they sell the stock, at that point, they would pay what's called the capital gains tax, correct?
Correct.
Okay.
So what they're doing to get to that 8% figure is they are counting all of that money that is in the stock market as, quote, not be as money that people didn't pay taxes on.
Well, the taxes aren't due on that money yet.
So when you get to the real figure, it's about 20, 25% of billionaires' incomes that goes to taxes.
And which, by the way, is in line with many other Americans based on legal deductions.
By the way, they create the deductions.
Now, I can tell you with my own accounting, I look at my tax thing, and I can't make heads or tail out of any of it.
So I actually have not only an accountant, then I have an auditor, accounting firm go over the tax work of my accountant.
Then it goes to my lawyer and his people check it because I can't sign a document unless I'm triply sure that it's as accurate based on the law as possible.
And I pay my fair share.
Trust me, if you look at my bottom line, what I pay, you would say, yep, he's not cheating on his taxes.
He's paying.
Well, that's right.
And most corporations do that.
They double check and check.
Actually, the tax is almost paid daily.
Yeah, I mean, it's sad.
By the way, I don't envy your work.
I admire the fact that you can do something that I could never do in a million years.
So I appreciate people like you out there.
Okay.
Well, we appreciate you too, Sean.
All right.
God bless you, my friend.
Have a great day out there in California.
San Diego is beautiful.
I wouldn't want to live there only because Gavin Newsom's the governor and he's turned the place into a complete Adam Schiff hole, but that's a different story.
Neil is in Arizona.
Neil, how are you?
Glad you called.
Good, Sean.
How are you?
I'm good, sir.
What's going on?
Hey, I'm just wondering about the farmers.
You know, I have not heard of any fundraisers or anything for like feed and seed and maybe fertilizer.
Is anything going on with helping the farmers out?
We're going to need food.
All the farmers that have called this program and that have been warning us, this audience, about a coming food shortage because they can't afford the tripling in price of the fertilizer.
They can't afford the doubling of the price of seed.
They can't afford the equipment, you know, replacement costs that are out there or repair costs if they can even get a repair item that they need for their tractor or whatever piece of heavy equipment that they have.
So the answer is none that I am aware of.
Remember years ago, I think it was Willie Nelson used to do farm aid.
And, you know, I thought it was a great thing to help American farmers.
And maybe it's time to bring that back because you know what?
Our farmers, when they're hurting, we're all going to pay a price.
We've gotten way too used to going into our grocery store and seeing the shelves stocked to the brim and full.
And everything you'd ever want or need is in your grocery store.
I did go to my grocery store during the supply chain shortage and I saw a lot of empty shelves.
I just happen to eat meat, more meat and eggs, and mostly keto-friendly paleo diet.
So, but I'll tell you, I don't like paying twice what I used to pay, and that's what I pay now.
Although sweet baby James and my sister have been living with me, they basically have become squatters at my house while they've been waiting for their house to close.
And they got their CO the other day, are you guys ever leaving my house or is this going to be in perpetuity?
But they've been with me for like, what, eight months now?
So I haven't been shopping as often because my sister does it regularly.
James doesn't go shopping.
I dragged him there once and he was like, can we leave now?
And I happen to like shopping.
I meet everybody.
I say hi to everybody.
And then I get the infamous question every time.
Now, maybe you can help me out with this.
Why do people say when they see me in the store, what are you doing here?
Why are you here?
And I'm like, obviously, I like to eat.
I mean, don't you think that's an odd question to ask somebody?
Yes, it is.
And they must think I have people for this sort of thing.
Well, right now, I have my sister and sweet baby.
Although he couldn't shop his way out of anything, I mean, he would buy expired milk.
He'd buy expired meat.
He wouldn't even look at these things.
Like, for example, when I buy my meat, I usually like look underneath the shelf and I look all the way in the back.
And the sell-buy date, usually, let's say it was, you know, February 10th.
Now it'll be February 17th.
So the meat will stay fresher in my refrigerator longer.
So I buy that one.
That makes sense.
Yep.
Yes, sir.
All right, buddy.
Good idea.
Let's see if something emerges.
If it does, we'll promote it.
I'll tell you that.
Anyway, 800-941, Sean, our number.
You want to be a part of the program, George in Florida.
Hey, George, Free State of Florida.
What's going on?
Hey, Sean.
Thanks for taking my call.
I called you about five months ago and asked you what the impact of Elon Musk buying Twitter was.
And I thought it was going to be a game changer.
And you said, well, Elon's a smart guy.
And if he does everything he said he's going to do, it was going to be good.
But you're just going to wait and see.
And that's been a long five months, Sean.
He exposed Twitter.
I've got the Twitter files and everything that's happening for Congress is probably the catalyst is what he has done.
And I think I'm fascinated with Elon Musk.
I tend to doubt that he agrees with me or, you know, I know he knows who I am because I once exchanged a couple of quick texts with him and tried to invite him on the show only because I view him as a modern day innovator.
I mean, you know, everything he does with space.
I'm fascinated with Tesla, the company.
I'm not that interested in electric cars, but one of my friends has one and loves it.
But him as an innovator, I mean, this guy is off the charts smart.
And I just like to talk to smart people.
So I tried, I said, I'd give you an hour and I don't want to talk about politics.
I want to talk about your innovation.
And then he stopped talking to me.
So that was the end of that interview.
I took that as a no.
Yeah, I think he's a grand strategist, and he's just like you and me, where he wants something better for his family.
And he just knows if he has the means to do something, and he took that up.
And he, you know, what we feel, I feel like sometimes we're like slowly boiled frogs in a pot.
But if you go back to 2016 and 17, the reason why Trump won the election, because he was able to talk over the heads of the media directly to the people.
And what happened after that is the other side started to immerse themselves in the unelected bureaucracy because what we had back there with the big tech, it wasn't as regulated.
And we were able to have a platform.
And they basically understood that.
And so they basically, we've been slowly going back to a monopoly of the legacy media.
And that has making a lot of conservatives retreat because they have nowhere to tell their stories.
I don't think conservatism is in retreat.
I don't.
I do think the march towards radical socialism is on the march and it's real.
I think more people have bought into the lies of socialism.
It's happened all throughout history.
Whatever name, form, manifestation it ever takes on, it always ends the same way.
I wrote a whole chapter in Live Free or Die About It, Socialism's History of Failure.
And it always ends up with unfulfilled promises, more poverty, and a loss of freedoms.
And that's what's going to happen here.
Now, the question that I can't answer is whether or not enough Americans buy into this garbage.
And if they do, then we're screwed because the damage they're doing now, I mean, it's almost getting to the point where we're talking about irreparable harm now to the country.
And that frightens me.
I'll give you the last 30 seconds.
Okay, no, that's why we need a full-fledged alternative to the legacy media.
By coincidence, six years ago today, I talked to Rush Limbaugh.
He said, having an alternative media, what it does is awaken people who are not fairly represented by the news.
And that is a threat to the far left.
Listen, there are many of us that are having that impact.
Nobody to the extent Rush ever had.
I mean, he's the GOAT, right?
But we all have to step up and fill a void because no one person could fill his shoes.
I mean, he was that important to the education of the country and conservatism.
However, we do have options against the legacy media.
This show is part of it.
Talk radio in general is part of it.
Fox News is part of it.
Not everybody on Fox agrees with Sean Hannity, trust me.
But at least I have my show and nobody tells me what to say or do.
You know, so, And even, you know, and conservatives do need to do one thing too.
If we agree 80, 90% of the time, we're not enemies.
We're fighting for the same things.
Anyway, I wish I had more time.
George, Florida, thank you, my friend.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Explosive hearings today in the House Judiciary Committee.
Both Jim Jordan and Matt Gates on that committee will join us.
We'll get legal analysis from Judge Janine.
Also, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, clearly the star on Tuesday night.
We'll check in with her.
Jimmy Phela, Degan McDowell, and Joe Concha.
Nine Eastern, I promise all the highlights you probably missed today in these hearings that were explosive.
And we'll put it in its proper context.
Nine Eastern tonight, Hannity on Fox.
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