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Florida AG Ashley Moody - June 23rd, Hour 2
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Merrick Garland grilled on Capitol Hill today.
Now he said something that we just know is not true.
And he's he said this before, and that is that the Delaware prosecutor, David Weiss, was given complete authority to make all decisions in the Hunter Biden case on his own.
And he said Dever David Weiss never asked for a special counsel.
Well, that's contradicted by IRS whistleblower testimony and and others, and he has more power than a special counsel.
That's not true either.
And he said that he'd support David Weiss testifying about Hunter's case when he deems it appropriate.
Meaning, don't talk about it now.
And claim that nothing could be further from the truth that the DOJ and the FBI are corrupt.
I beg to differ, Merrick.
Uh it's time for you to go.
Uh I could not be more proud of uh to work with them.
Okay.
I could not be more embarrassed for our country uh as we leave a constitutional republic and become a banana republic because of the uh how politics is infected both the FBI and the whole entire DOJ, on top of everything else with the weaponization of our justice system.
Anyway, here's Merrick Garland uh saying all these things from earlier today.
You said previously you've stayed out of the Hunter Biden investigation.
It's been on David Weiss to figure that out.
Can you once and for all shed a little light if there seems to be a little confusion on what's going on here?
I'd be happy to.
As I said at the outset, uh Mr. Weiss, who was appointed by President Trump as the US attorney in Delaware and assigned this matter during the previous administration, would be permitted to continue his investigation and to make a decision to prosecute any way in which he wanted to, and in any district in which he wanted to.
Mr. Weiss has since sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee confirming that he had that authority.
I don't know how it would be possible for anybody to block him from bringing a prosecution, given that he has this authority.
He was never told no.
I would say he was given complete authority to make all decisions on his own.
One of the uh allegations that the IRS supervisors apparently made uh was uh involved the fact that Mr. Weiss reportedly wanted to uh uh have powers you've conferred on special counsels.
Was that request ever made?
And if so, uh did you why did you reject it?
It was not.
The only person with authority to make somebody a special counsel or refuse to make somebody a special counsel is the attorney general.
Mr. Weiss never made that request to me.
Do you think in just to follow that?
Do you think that uh special counsel can you explain the rationale for not appointing special counsel in this case?
Sir Weiss had in fact more authority than a special counsel would have.
He has complete yes, he had and has complete authority, as I said, to bring a case anywhere he wants in his discretion.
But on these specific allegations that these whistleblowers are brought forward, um there's very detailed um allegations.
Would you authorize him to answer to some of the more specific allegations that these IRS whistle whistleblowers have come forward with?
I would support uh Mr. Weiss um uh explaining or testifying on these matters when he deems it appropriate.
Do the American people have cause to be concerned about the integrity of the components of this Justice Department and what do you have to say about how you're acting?
I certainly uh understand that some have chosen to attack the integrity of the Justice Department as components and its employees by claiming that we do not treat like cases alike.
Uh this constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy and essential to the safety of the American people.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
All right, joining us now to weigh in, Horace Cooper, legal commentator, co-chair of the Black Leadership Network Project 21.
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Welcome both of you back to the program.
Good to be here.
All right, Greg, start with you.
You and I got into this last night.
David, what Merrick Garland is saying about David Weiss is factually inaccurate.
It is.
And it also constitutes perjury.
Merrick Garland, the Attorney General, should promptly resign in disgrace and apologize for deceiving everybody.
But it's not just perjury.
He obstructed justice.
I mean, this is a guy who ran a political interference racket to protect the president's son and indeed his boss, Joe Biden.
You know, this kind of preferential treatment absolutely shreds equal justice under law.
It makes a mockery of our justice system.
And you know, as the New York Post put it today, uh, the Biden cover-up has now been uncovered, and Merrick Garland was at the center of it.
You know, when you when you look at all of this, and and we've gone through this in great specificity and detail the last couple of days, Horace.
I mean, you know, Hunter Biden sitting there with his father, you know, threatening a Chinese business partner, and I'm sitting here with my father and would like to understand why the commitment made is not been fulfilled, and I'll make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to hold the grudge that you will regret not following my direction.
I'm sitting here waiting for the call with my father.
Uh with my father, the guy that promised America over and over again.
He never had a single conversation with Hunter over his farm business dealings, that guy.
Yeah, our attorney general um cannot hide behind not being properly briefed.
Cannot hide behind not being a competent administrator.
When he comes before uh the Hill to give testimony, it's his job.
It's his responsibility to be truthful.
Now, the FBI is admitting that they knew in 2019 that the Hunter Biden laptop was not Russian interference or some sort of propaganda created.
They knew what it was, they remain silent.
Our attorney general cannot say that he's acted dispassionately and neutrally when in fact the evidence is obvious that he has not acted dispassionately.
He could have stood up and said he was ordering Christopher Ray to turn over documents so that they could be in compliance.
The truth of the matter is, just as Greg has just outlined, he has played interference or defense for this administration.
That is not what they promised, and that is not his job.
He cannot continue in good faith in this role without us understanding why it's okay for him to make falsehoods, misrepresentations, yes, even obstruction of justice with his responses.
Oh, Greg, I get you I agree with all of that, but you know what?
He just sits there and arrogantly says he's innocent and he's innocent and he's innocent when we know he's anything but innocent.
You mean Joe Biden?
Uh no, I mean I mean the attorney general.
Oh, Merrick Garland.
Merrick Garland's word uh isn't worth the paper upon which it's written.
Uh time and again, he's lied.
Uh he's lied under oath.
That's perjury.
He's misrepresented.
Uh, you know, what he knows and what Joe Biden did and what his uh son did and what his uh U.S. attorney in Delaware did.
Uh, I mean, just take for the example that he told Congress, again, under oath, that uh David Weiss, the U.S. attorney in Delaware, had complete authority nationwide to bring any charges he wants.
And of course, we now know from the whistleblowers that he tried to bring additional charges against Hunter Biden in the state of California for T cheating on taxes.
In Washington, D.C. for tax fraud, and two different Biden appointed U.S. attorney stepped in and blocked it, which again belies what uh Merrick Garland told Congress.
Again.
All right, quick break, we'll come right back, we'll continue.
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Look at what we know here.
We now have photos that place Hunter Biden at Joe Biden's house on the day that he was warning and threatening like uh I want to say to all of you tonight that I stand up for my son Hunter under every circumstance.
Uh he thinks he's, you know, Vito Corleone here.
And photos place Hunter at Joe's house.
House Republicans moved to block security clearances, by the way, for the Intel officials that lied about the laptop.
But James Cor Comer said the Biden wire transfers, you know, reminds him of organized crime activity.
And the DOJ in the Hunter Biden probe is now barring investigators from asking questions about the big guy.
Well, that doesn't sound uh in sync with what we heard from the attorney general today.
Never mind the fact that we learned today that Hunter Hunter took uh tax deductions for a sex club membership and hooker payments, the sex club that he got kicked out of for groping and grabbing people and and just genuinely being a jackass.
Pretty hard to get kicked out of a sex club, I've got to imagine.
Horace.
Yeah.
Um, again, um we see the double standard.
Uh, when you look around and see other individuals who have had million dollar payments to the IRS that did not occur according to IRS terms, those people were not allowed to just get a slap on the wrist and uh let's just keep on going.
This administration.
You can compare Merrick Garland with Bill Barr.
You can like Bill Barr, you can dislike Bill Barr.
What you can't say is that he doesn't stand up directly and take responsibility for the decisions that have been made.
Merrick Garland continues to hide behind uh things are happening that he doesn't fully understand.
Or that's the implication.
The truth of the matter is it's the attorney general that heads the Department of Justice.
If he puts in writing as part of his state testimony, and he says orally that he has ensured that the uh Mr. Weiss had the full authority, even though that's not true, that is a lie.
That is perjury, and that leads to the uh inability of Congress to be able to carry out their responsibilities.
There is no doubt.
Well, you know, put all these three things together, Horace and and Greg.
I'll put I'll put it out to both of you.
The ten twenty-three form by a credible uh source deemed credible by the FBI that paid this guy hundreds of thousands of dollars about uh a a direct example of Joe Biden taking actions as vice president in exchange for family money.
Uh then we have the unexplained seventeen million, eight point three of which goes to Hunter Biden coming from Ukraine, Romania, China, as was revealed this week.
Uh then you you can add to that the Durham report.
Operation Crossfire Hurricane never should have been open.
The dossier, there wasn't a single thing they could corroborate, but you they used it for FISA applications.
Nobody gets held accountable.
Now all these things that we're discussing.
I mean, if this does not show a rot deep inside the the the very core, the heart of justice in America, the Justice Department, I don't know what does, guys, and if we don't change it, this is a banana republic.
Well, I agree it's a banana republic now, and uh, you know, Joe Biden and Merrick Garland and Christopher Ray have have made it so uh to together.
You know, they they're the Carleone family, and you know, Merrick Garland's Tom Hagen, the conciliary, uh, you know, doing whatever uh the Godfather uh wants and needs, even acting on his own.
Uh look at what the uh you know committee oversight committee has discovered so far a month ago, they were talking about ten million dollars in influence pedaling schemes.
Now it's up to 17,000.
I guarantee you that China alone was thirty-one million dollars.
Add in about 40 million from Russia, and then Romania and Ukraine.
Uh you know, in a town like Washington where influence pedaling is endemic, uh, the Bidens have taken it to dizzying heights.
Joe Biden cannot stand for re-election.
In my judgment, he is finished.
The American public knows it.
Uh look at the polling data.
They know that Hunter Biden committed serious felonies, and a majority believe that Joe Biden was intimately involved, indeed.
He was the cornerstone.
Let's give you the final word, Horace Cooper.
Wesley Snipes is convicted of three misdemeanor counts.
Not two, but three, but he has to go to prison for his failure.
Three years in prison.
This Justice Department does not ensure that all Americans are equal before the law.
What about Kodak Black on the gun charge?
Forty-six months.
They didn't get a deferral program.
Why can't we have the Janet Reno model if you're talking about Merrick Garland?
Why can't we see what Greg has just outlined?
A series of improprieties, I I would say crimes that have occurred.
She announced that the Clinton administration would be investigated by a special counsel.
This attorney general puts his head in the sand.
But the problem is worse than that, he then lies about putting his head in the sand and lies about what's going on.
That is just something that cannot continue if we're to have trust in our criminal justice system in America.
All right, Greg Jarrett and Horace Cooper.
Thank you both.
Appreciate it.
Pretty sad Supreme Court ruling today.
I I understand the legal arguments behind it.
It was an eight-one decision giving the Biden administration frankly a big victory.
And it results though in a in a pretty big blow to local communities that now have to keep convicted felon illegal immigrants.
Right, on the surface it makes no sense, does it?
Now anyway, they found that uh handed the Biden administration a victory in this immigration case ruling that GOP led states don't have the standing to challenge a policy narrowing federal immigration enforcement.
Again, an 8-1 decision, the U.S. v.
Texas.
And anyway, if you look at the crux of this, they found Republican states didn't have the standing to challenge ICE and their priorities for arrests and deportations.
And in some, quote, states have brought an extraordinarily unusual lawsuit.
They want the federal court to order the executive branch to alter its arrest policies so as to make more arrests.
Federal courts have not traditionally entered this kind of lawsuit.
Indeed, the states cite no precedent for a lawsuit like this.
The opinion of Justice Kavanaugh, Sam Alito was the sole dissenting justice in this case.
And the case involved issuing new enforcement guidelines by the Department of Homeland Security.
Here's the problem.
Not only is Joe Biden and his administration not enforcing the laws, not holding people accountable, they're aiding and abetting in the law breaking.
point I would think that any American that's impacted by all of this would have standing.
Anyway maybe my my legal mind and my legal thinking is wrong on this Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody I wanted to get your take on it.
How are you?
Oh, great to be with you, Sean.
And you're correct.
This is one of the most devastating, tragic opinions we've seen thus far.
And this was one of the first things that Florida brought suit on, one of the first policies Biden did that basically wrecked our immigration integrity and enforcement, in which he basically said, I don't care if you're a dangerous felon, we're not going to deport you.
And unless you're one of these specific targeted people, Meaning, Sheriff, you have to
release them back into the community once they have served their Senate or you can't detain them anymore in the states we're not going to deport them for you and we know what the law says but we're choosing to not focus on that and this is really really a frustrating opinion like you said Sean they kept saying this is you know an unprecedented situation where you would see a lawsuit like this well we're living in unprecedented time.
You've never seen a president ignore so many of the mandates under immigration law.
In fact when Congress came out and said in these certain instances you shall deport and detain criminal illegal aliens Bill Clinton was president.
Even Clinton said you need to deport these dangerous felons.
So under Biden and now with the approval of the Supreme Court if he doesn't want to deport sentinel traffickers or folks burglarizing people or serious felon offenders they don't have to.
Well look at how how out there they went on this DHS Secretary Mayorca said in a memo you know the fact that an individual is a removable non citizen therefore should not alone be the basis of an enforcement action against them.
Well that me why not that's that that would be enforcing the laws of the land if you don't like the laws uh you would have to go to that other branch of government the legislative branch and get the laws changed and he went on to say we will use our discretion and focus our enforcement resources in a more targeted way and justice in our country's well being require it.
Um no I think the laws should be applied equally across the board and if you don't abide by the laws and you enter this country illegally uh how the Supreme Court doesn't stand up for the rule of law here is a little mind numbing to me.
You're correct and this is a bigger picture, right?
We're seeing this so many times in executive branches all over the nation where you're getting prosecutors and executive leaders saying we don't like the laws like my Yorkists have said, I don't like that law that says that I have to deport those here illegally committing crimes against Americans.
I don't like that law, so I'm just not going to do it.
You have prosecutors, soros, radical prosecutors all over the nation saying you can't interfere with my executive authority and I don't like those laws, so I'm not going to prosecute them.
So I think that this opinion is incredibly dangerous because we have not seen the likes that we're seeing now of executive leaders saying, Nope, don't like the laws.
I'm going to decide what the law is.
And so I think what's going to have to happen, and I have said this for a long time, and actually working with Congressman Posey, we have proposed a bill in Congress that says, look, if this if the AG declares that there is a a crisis,
an immigration crisis, and the resources are not being dedicated by the federal government, state officials should be able to do the job of the federal government and and detain uh and arrest folks here as necessary for their security.
And I think what Congress is gonna have to do, as the as the ruling lays out, Congress can say, okay, states can bring suit.
They can show injury in fact.
They may have per se standing.
Congress is gonna have to roll up its sleeves and come up with an ingenuity way to make sure the states can provide for the security of their communities.
Because I think don't don't the states now to me that would give them especially if you believe in federalism, the the right uh to come up with their own own laws that that say that they have the right to deport people uh out of their state that are not in the country legally or not in the state legally.
Well, they would have to be given obviously the structure would have to give them uh and assign them the authority specifically for arrest.
Obviously, the federal government and many Supreme Court rulings have said that it is their purview, they oversee and have the authority to govern immigration nationalization, but there have been ways in the past where states um have been given some of that authority and and been able to help.
And so I think Congress is gonna just have to come up and say, okay, we're not we've never seen anything like this.
If the states want to step up and offer resources and offer manpower and offer their help, what could be the legal mechanism to do that?
Because, you know, if you get someone like a Biden in Majorcus in office, you're jeopardizing the security and safety of our communities and states.
And so it's an it's an interesting balance.
I think that Congress will have to come in and really roll up their sleeves.
But we've been trying to uh be helpful uh with our with our litigation and with our expertise as we've developed it since Biden's been in office and making those recommendations.
But this really is, as you said, it is really a devastating blow uh to the rule of law and our ability to protect our states and communities.
All right, different topic, different question.
Uh are you getting involved in the Republican presidential primary or are you staying on the sidelines?
Well, as you know, I have worked incredibly close uh with Ron DeSantis, who is our governor here.
I've uh admired so much how he digs in and and um really tackle some of the challenging issues we faced here in Florida.
So, like you like yesterday we stood up and announced a new lawsuit going after the the agencies that accredit universities for for playing a hand and trying to develop standards that's never been done, and we've done that here in Florida under the leadership of of DeSantis.
But as you know, I have been um very much standing up for the rule of law and those that are gonna dig their heels in and support the men and women of law enforcement and protect the nation's security.
So I'll keep I'll keep uh promoting that and those that those will that will stand strong in that regard as we move forward.
You're in good company.
Reagan wouldn't endorse in primaries either.
I don't blame you.
Um but uh I understand your position.
It's not easy, is it?
Uh no, and I've I've supported and said that I think Ron DeSantis is doing a great job, and and I think he would.
He has a lot of energy and uh and a lot to to say regarding the direction of this country.
And I and I think Americans should really just pay attention to what everybody is saying and what they're promising to do, because that's what it's about after you get decisions like this one we're talking about, right?
All right, uh Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, we always appreciate you being with us.
Thank you.
Of course, great to be with you, Sean.
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Uh Michelle in Pennsylvania.
Hey, Michelle, how are you?
Glad you called.
Happy Friday.
Thank you, Sean.
Glad to be on your show.
I just have one question for you.
Maybe I missed this, you know, somewhere down the line.
If Rudy Giuliani has a copy of the Hunter laptop, why do they not just release it?
I'm not saying to release the photos in the in the vulgar things, but why can't they just release all of the information in the laptop so that it's all out there?
No more guessing.
Well, we we know that the New York Post has a copy.
Uh Emma Joe Morris broke the story, the big story in the New York Post um in the day in the weeks leading up to the 2020 election, and Miranda Devine, you know, wrote a great best selling book on it.
Um there were people that had it.
Um believe it or not, at one point I was offered a copy by one of my sources.
And my lawyers absolutely said no way, based on what we were being told could be on it.
Do you realize if there was illegal material on there uh let's say of a sexual nature with a with a minor, and I had that in my possession, even though I'm I'm working in in as a working member of the press as a talk show host, that I could be held accountable for that?
Right, you have to disclose it.
No, it's not even disclosing it.
Just having it in my possession could make me a criminal.
Oh, gotcha.
And uh Linda, you remember that you know, that back and forth that went on forever.
Yeah, no, it was uh it was pretty scary.
I mean, they wanted to meet up with us, they had a copy of it, you know, and it was more than one source that had it.
Yeah, I mean, I I had multiple avenues, and and believe me, I spent a lot of time, you know, trying to convince my attorneys there's got to be a way to do this and do it in a way that protects me, but that they didn't feel they could.
And they and honestly, they had to factor in another thing, and that was I'm not gonna be treated the same as anybody else in the media.
And that was their biggest concern.
Um, and believe me, from my standpoint, I wanted it all.
Uh and but with that said, I still got briefed on people that did have it, uh, and and we were way ahead of the curve because I I was in direct contact with people that had it and saw it, and that there's a lot in it.
A lot still we have coming out that we hadn't known before.
It's crazy.
But isn't there things in there, Sean, since you said you've you've seen it.
Isn't there things in there?
No, I've I've actually never seen it.
I've only gone by the reporting of others.
Okay.
I you so I mean, you know, un understand the position a man.
I represent, you know, if you work for a company, you have a fiduciary responsibility to the company.
Uh and I, you know, there were a lot of things in play here.
And so, you know, the the general consensus was, well, okay, Fox in a way has it because they own the New York Post.
So, you know, we use that as our one of our top resources and and others without giving away sources and methods.
Make sense?
Really frustrating as yes, as a suburban housewives, I I've said by the way, I've said this fifteen times before.
I've never hid this from anybody.
Oh, I know, Sean.
I know.
I I listen to your show all you know during the day, and I also watch your your show at night.
So I've heard it before.
I just don't understand.
It just seems like little bits.
Every time somebody says something like with this whistleblower, all of a sudden we can pull stuff out of the laptop.
And it's just like, why couldn't we pull that out before?
Or why can't we?
I've asked the say you're asking a great question that I've asked many times.
How come we keep getting new tidbits out of this thing?
I I would have thought that we've exhausted every single ounce of material on this thing, and uh and yet still more information comes out.
You're asking a great question.
And I think that's why people don't really believe what's what's being said is because if it was the Democrats that had this laptop, if it was Don Jr. or you know, one of the Trump kids, it would be all out there.
It would be everywhere, but only because somebody says something or or proves something, in this case a whistleblower.
Oh, well, we could pull this out now, or we can pull that out now.
Well, remember when they raided Rudy Giuliani's office, the only one computer and the only one thing they wouldn't take is the Hunter Biden one.
Now that's pretty interesting.
Right.
It's unreal.
Anyway, good call, Michelle.
We really appreciate it.
And uh You raise a lot of really really good questions and points here.
And you know, we we always try our hardest.
We really do.
Um, and I wouldn't say it was a war.
Let's just say it was a contentious internal debate.
Uh, because I I really wanted to get a copy and I wanted to go be able to go through it thoroughly and report on it because that's a big part of what we do is as members of the press, as a talk show host.
We do investigative reporting, we do regular reporting, straight reporting, we do opinion.
We don't hide who we are, we do culture, we do sports, we're like the entire newspaper.
And it was it was very, very complicated legally.
And you know, and then I was given very specific case precedence that showed me uh you don't think this can happen to you?
Read this case, and I'd read it and I'd be like, oh my gosh.
Wow.
You know, at some point you you just have to listen to your lawyers whether you want to or not.
Uh Linda loves when I listen to my lawyers.
Do you actually my favorite thing?
I do.
Well, you agreed with the decision in the end.
You agree with that.
No, this was a listen, this was a difficult decision.
And I think what's I think the saddest part, I know we gotta go to break.
The saddest part about all of this is that the politics were more important than being uh the rule of law.
Well, the politics and the fact that our we uh justice systems weaponized that they would have treated me differently than anybody else.
There's a lot of people getting hurt on that laptop.
That's all I can say.
Exactly.
That's that that is a good point, too, that people don't know about yet.
They will.
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