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If you want to be a part of the program, Charles Grassley, you know, created a political earthquake yesterday in Washington, disclosing that Burisma executives who allegedly paid Biden, and this goes into that whole 1023 form that we've been talking at length about with Congressman Jim Comer and others.
But anyway, this Burisma executives who allegedly paid both Hunter and Joe Biden a significant amount of money, as declared by this source in this 1023 form, a source, by the way, that's highly credible, credible by the FBI standards, considering they paid the guy over a couple of hundred thousand dollars.
Let me play part of Chuck Grassley from yesterday talking about it.
The 1023 produced to the House committees redacted reference that the Foreign National who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden allegedly has audio recordings of his conversation with them.
17 such recordings.
According to the 1023, the Foreign National possesses 15 audio recordings of phone calls between him and Hunter Biden.
According to the 1023, the Foreign National possesses two audio recordings of phone calls between him and then Vice President Joe Biden.
These recordings were allegedly kept as a sort of insurance policy for the Foreign National in case that he got into a tight spot.
All right, joining us now is Congresswoman, Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is with us.
Congresswoman, welcome back to the program.
How are you?
Hi, Sean.
I'm great to be here with you today.
Thank you so much for having me on.
Let's talk about what we know about this, what Grassley's suggesting here, and the mysterious reluctance, resistance by the FBI in terms of oversight and their willingness to work with James Comer's committee, which almost led to the contempt of Congress charge against Ray.
Yes, well, Sean, I'm still pushing for these contempt of charges to take place because the FBI came to us a few weeks ago and they didn't even, they denied that these FD 1023s even existed.
And then whenever Chairman Comer threatened the contempt of Congress, said that we were having a markup in committee and we were going to send that to the House floor for a vote, he said, wait, wait, wait.
We'll let committee members read this unclassified document that we are just now letting you know that we have.
And also, if you want, we have more FD 1023s as well that you can also view.
And so I told the chairman, hold him in contempt anyway, or tell him, no, release this to the American people.
You are paid by the taxpayers.
Release this unclassified document for all to see what the sitting president of the United States has been engaged in for years in this bribery scheme involving his son Hunter.
And also now that we know about these other SD23s, we want those released as well, or you will be held in contempt of Congress.
And now, as everyone has heard, Senator Grassley is saying that there are 17 recordings that was redacted from that document, that SD 1023, two of those recordings being with Joe Biden as a sitting Vice President of the United States.
This is these three-letter agencies doing what they do best.
They are trying to prop up the Bidens and protect them.
And this is something that we have to do here in Congress to hold him accountable for that.
And I believe that it's contempt.
And if we don't get to it with contempt right now, you can bet in the appropriations process that there will be some defunding of particular bureaucrats like Christopher Wray and others using the Holman rule.
Okay, so I think all of that's a good idea.
And I certainly believe that the FBI's desire to have a building twice the size of the Pentagon is not going to be money well spent.
I think the organization clearly needs, especially in light of what we know, their involvement in the 2016 presidential election and the dirty dossier and the FISA applications.
Then, of course, the FBI pre-bunking, the Hunter Biden laptop story meeting weekly with big tech in the lead up to the 2020 election.
Now we see that the FBI up to its eyeballs and in this whole instance and arrest of Donald Trump, you know, now arranged today in Miami.
Clearly, that's another issue where, what, we have the DOJ now involved in three separate and continuous presidential elections.
At what time does this end and how far removed from their original mission are we going to allow them to go?
Yes.
Well, first of all, we will not be funding their new headquarters.
We're not spending hundreds of millions of dollars to provide them with a new facility to interfere in elections and be the Democrats' police force to go after political opponents.
Merritt Garland's DOJ and Christopher Wray's FBI are woke and weaponized.
And just as they're indicting Trump yet again for allegedly mishandling classified documents, they completely ignored Trader Joe and his mishandling of classified documents left right there in his garage next to his Corvette.
And then also we have numerous other locations where documents were found, classified documents.
And so I would just say for the Democrats, for a party that's so caught up in equality, the Democrats clearly don't care about equal justice under the law.
Sean, this is America, the greatest nation in the world, and we shouldn't have a double standard for people based on their political beliefs or party affiliation.
These three-letter agencies, these three-letter federal agencies are being used to, as I said, prop up Biden's thinking poll numbers and bring President Trump down, as clearly he is the frontrunner for the primary in the upcoming election.
And unfortunately for them, it's not working because President Trump's support is gaining more momentum with every attack that they use against him.
Even Jill Biden was saying that she was shocked that people didn't care about this because we see that it is a witch hunt.
It's nothing more than that, this political witch hunt.
And the American people have the right to know that the political interference by the left is taxpayer funded.
And that's why we in Congress need to do our job to get this agency in check, whether that's using the Holman rule and completely defunding some of these individual bureaucrats or the appropriations process to defund programs within agencies that are woke and weaponized against the American people and even their political opponents.
Now, the House Oversight Committee led by James Comer is doing a lot of work following the money.
It's been a heavy lift not only to get this document from Director Wray, but it's been a heavy lift to get SARS reports, suspicious activity reports from banking and financial institutions.
It's been a heavy lift on the other side of this as well in terms of getting the number of family LLCs.
He now believes that nine Biden family members, including grandchildren, were paid significant amounts of money.
Have we been able to prove that?
That is what we are seeing from all of these bank documents, Sean.
I serve on the oversight committee with Chairman Comer, and we are seeing just thousands of pages of bank documents pointing to nine Biden family members who have received, from what we could see, at least $10 million.
And we believe there are still more bank accounts out there that we have not yet reviewed.
And we see 20 different shell companies with our foreign adversaries to cover this money scheme up and this money laundering scheme up.
And, you know, it's interesting, Sean, the Biden family does not have a family business.
Even in the FD23s that we were just talking about, in that document, this foreign national was quoted saying, we know Hunter Biden is not smart.
He's stupid.
His dad will take care of it.
You know, so they are even recognizing there's not a Biden family business.
There's not something that they specialize in other than crime and corruption, bribery, and money laundering.
So they knew how to get to the most powerful office in the world, and that was through the vice president and his son.
So when we trace this money, can you find any services provided by any Biden family member to these countries that are paying massive amounts of money?
So that's not something that's clear.
I mean, it just seems like these fake shell companies that have been formed, these LLCs, to just launder the money through.
And we're seeing $10 million flow through to the Biden family, at least nine family members.
And now we're entering a phase where we will start hauling people in for depositions.
We have enough of the bank records and other financials to where we can finally ask some very specific questions pertaining to where they have hid their money and their bribes.
You know, even the recording that Grassley referred to yesterday was redacted in this FD 1023, and the FBI gave that to us for us to read, this unclassified document with this redaction.
That's a pretty big, important point that's redacted.
Do we know for sure that this money was transferred?
Do we know what specific action is being referred to when they talk about specific actions taken in exchange for this money?
And the actual figure is $5 million to Hunter and $5 million to Joe.
Have we been able to trace that money?
So what I've seen just in this document alone, I haven't seen bank records related to this, but this is a document that's put together by a human source at the FBI, a human informant, not a Republican, not a Democrat.
And he's said to be this person.
I guess I assume he's a he.
I shouldn't assume Ginger's though.
This informant has, he is the most respected and reliable informant that the FBI has, and they fear for the safety of his life.
So we are unable to talk to him directly.
But in this document that he created, this FD 1023, the foreign national is suggested to not give Joe Biden $5 million as a bribe.
He's highly recommending that that transaction not take place.
and the foreign national, he responded, it's too late.
Then there was also a follow-up quote, correct me if I'm mistaken, that it would take people 10 years to be able to track down this money.
Is that true?
That is exactly correct.
That's what he said.
It would take 10 years to track this down.
And he also casually said, you know, if you pay one Biden $5 million, you have to pay another Biden $5 million.
Boy, it's a nice racket if you can get a part of this.
What is the reaction on Capitol Hill to everything that's been unfolding all day down in Miami?
Everyone that I have spoken to just believes that this is a very dark time for our nation to have a former president indicted for something like this mishandling of documents with the National Archives when we have had Hillary Clinton delete 33,000 emails and take a hammer to her phone and use bleach bit to clear her private servers.
You know, when we have Joe Biden just casually holding classified documents that he received as a senator and vice president in his garage, a garage where his son was paying tens of thousands of dollars per month to lease that home.
And then obviously there's other classified documents that Joe Biden's people have released.
His attorneys have released back to the National Archives saying, whoops, we had these in different states, different area codes.
And there have been no charges for any of them.
This is a sham political witch hunt.
The FBI hid the story of the Hunter Biden laptop from hell.
There have been no charges for Hunter Biden and all of the disgusting, foul things that are on his laptop and even the connection between him and his father for foreign nationals to gain political access to our nation's most highest office.
All right, quick break more with Congresswoman Lauren Boebert of Colorado on the other side.
Then your calls 800-941-Sean.
It's been a busy news day.
Quick break, right back.
We'll continue.
All right, we continue with Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert.
Let me ask you one last question while I have you.
There had been a group of conservatives not happy with the deal struck between Kevin McCarthy and the president as it relates to raising the debt ceiling.
And there's kind of been a stop work, I guess, action in place that seems to be coming to an end, I hear.
I would say it's coming to a pause.
We're working on negotiating with the speaker.
I was one of the members who voted against that procedural vote to kind of halt the floor.
And we held the floor for several days while we were working this out.
But Sean, we had an agreement in the beginning of the year that any debt ceiling bill that came to the floor, any funding that went forward out of this Congress, it would be at fiscal 2022 levels.
And this was a terrible deal.
It wasn't a one-year debt ceiling.
It was a two-year debt ceiling.
And it's uncapped at current spending levels, which are $6 trillion currently.
And it's uncapped.
So it could potentially even be more than that.
You know, a lot of the great regulatory reform that we could have got or at least attempted to get with an open rule allowing members to make amendments to the bill were voluntarily thrown to the road.
And so we were very upset at the way that negotiation took place with just a few people of our conference in closed-door meetings without communicating with the rest of us.
And I really feel like it was a $6 trillion sellout, and we cannot afford.
Well, I told Kevin not to do that.
I said he needed to keep his entire coalition informed, his entire caucus informed.
And so I share a lot of your frustration on it.
But all right, Congresswoman, got to let you run.
Congresswoman Lauren Bobert of Colorado, thank you.
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You know, when I see really good governors doing really great jobs and really making an impact in their states, you know what?
It gives me some hope because, you know, the states are where, you know, things are happening for people that actually work in their everyday lives.
And we've got a lot of great governors around the country, and they're having a huge impact.
Obviously, we got Florida, we got Texas, we got South Carolina.
You know, Governor Yunkin, I think, is doing a good job in Virginia.
Not exactly an easy place for a Republican to win to begin with.
But there are others too.
And they don't get a lot of headlines and a lot of press.
But I did take note of what was going on in South Dakota, where our friend Christy Noam, the governor there, is promoting a nationwide workforce and recruitment.
One of the things that they've included in this, which I think is absolutely brilliant, is they are growing their apprenticeship programs and they accept most out-of-state professional licenses.
The state's doing so well with no income tax that they want more and more people to move to South Dakota.
Let me play these two ads.
South Dakota's hiring as the first state to bounce back from the pandemic.
We've got one of the nation's strongest economies and more jobs than we can fill.
That's why I'm pitching in.
The average starting salary for an apprentice is $77,000 a year without paying a penny in personal state income tax.
Plus, we honor apprenticeships from other states.
Hey, aren't you Governor Noam?
Yes, head on a lousy plumber.
South Dakota, Freedom Works Here.
We stayed open for business during the pandemic, and now businesses are growing so fast, our workforce can't keep up.
That's why I'm lending a hand.
We have 25,000 open positions.
Here in South Dakota, you'll never pay a penny in personal state income tax.
And we accept most out-of-state professional licenses.
Hey, aren't you Governor Noam?
Yes, I am.
It's my first day.
South Dakota, Freedom Works Here.
Now, when you start comparing and contrasting, there's a lot of news out about how bad blue states are doing.
I'll give you a quick couple of headlines here.
Look at this.
The LA Times has an article.
Four in 10 California residents now considering packing up and leaving.
I brought this up with Gavin Newsom.
He didn't seem too bothered by it.
He's the first governor in the history of that state to ever lose population, and he's losing nearly 800 people a day.
That's a big deal.
I gave him a long list of well-known companies that are moving their corporate headquarters out of California.
And then I brought up the homeless issues and social issues and high taxes, the highest in the country, income tax at 13.3%.
Well, that's only for rich people.
Okay, but that's an awful lot of money you're taking from people.
And all those rich people seem to be leaving and their corporate headquarters are certainly leaving.
You have more U-Haul trucks that left California than any other state last year.
Can you imagine when I was a contractor and I started out, I got paid, I think, $5 an hour as a carpenter's apprentice.
And then I eventually just started my own painting business, learned to hang paper, went to school at night to build houses.
And, you know, I did that for 10 years of my life.
I wish I could have made $77,000 a year starting as an apprentice.
Anyway, Governor Christy Noam is back with us.
Governor, great to have you back.
This is a great idea.
You know, it's really working fantastic, Sean.
We've only been doing this national campaign for the last 48 hours.
And we've got over 500 people that have completely gone through the process of going to that website, Freedom Works here.
They've signed up, filled out a form.
They're now connected to our white glove service, which is helping them find communities and not just the jobs that they want, but also the schools that fit their kids, helping them find houses.
And they're so excited to be coming to South Dakota.
And that's what I think is absolutely fantastic.
The top three states that are reaching out to us are California, like you mentioned.
Also, Florida is one of them, and New York.
But overwhelmingly, people are coming from those states and saying, absolutely, I want to come.
I've got some questions.
And our economy has grown so much in South Dakota and that we just don't have enough people here.
We have the lowest unemployment rate in the nation, in the history of the nation.
And we need more people who want to live somewhere they can be free.
And we will help them find the perfect community and job of their dreams and get them.
If they're not trained, we'll get them trained on the job while they earn a living.
But if they are trained and they want to participate in an apprenticeship program or if they have a license they want recognized, we'll do it and we'll get them right to work.
It's an awesome program.
It is very reminiscent to a program we actually started organically on this program.
And when North Dakota and the Bachenfields were doing so well, all of a sudden we started to take note and I got in touch with some of the business owners.
They were paying to train truck drivers, housing these people, and starting salaries were $100,000 a year.
And what I said on the air one day, I just said, you know, if I was making $50,000 in my state, I think I'd pack up and I'd move to North Dakota and I'd take one of those driving jobs and double my income.
And by the way, that didn't include all the overtime you can take.
Long story short, Governor, we partnered with many businesses and on a weekly basis, we would put another new business on that had job openings for people that didn't even have experience that would be making six-figure salaries.
I mean, that's pretty much what you're offering here.
For an apprentice, $77,000 a year, that is incredible.
It's incredible, and it comes with full benefits.
So they're getting health insurance.
They might have a pension that comes with that.
We're getting them trained at no cost.
They're getting a free education.
They're going to end up being plumbers or electricians.
We have almost 100 teachers just in the last several weeks that have signed up.
People that will be trained to be a teacher while they're in the classroom teaching the kids.
So it's a very unique model of a way to give them the hands-on experience that they need along with the classes that they need to complete that degree program and do it in a way that meets our workforce needs as well.
And these are people that just understand the value of work.
There are people across this country that are frustrated with the situation their family is living in.
And to know that they can come here and they can live in a state where we don't have an income tax, we don't have a personal property tax.
All we have is a 4.2% sales tax, and that's it.
And they can keep their money in their pocket and then launch a career for free.
They're pretty excited about it.
And that's why we're doing this national campaign and we're pushing it out to people.
And I'm excited at the response we've gotten just in the first couple of days here.
Well, I just want to know if you're really that good a plumber.
And if you are, I wonder if you have some spare time the next time you're in New York to stop by my house.
You'll have to wait till you see the welder ad because I'm not a good plumber and I might be an even worse welder.
But I tell you what, a dentist thing, I almost, you know, I've got a little bit of a feel for that.
I maybe could try that one.
So funny story, but a true story.
Now, not funny for me, but so I was a carpenter's apprentice, as I said.
I was getting five bucks an hour.
I was working my ass off.
And anyway, I fell off a roof.
This was in Rhode Island in the middle of winter.
And at that point in my life, I was living paycheck to paycheck.
I fell off the roof, three stories, frozen ground, hit the ground, and my elbow, you know, from my elbow down, it was totally disconnected from the rest of my arm.
I broke my radial head, busted up all my teeth in the process.
And not only did I not have benefits or health insurance, they didn't even want to pay workers comp.
And, you know, I didn't even have any money for a doctor.
Doctor wanted an operator, said, I can't afford it.
I'll paint your office when I'm feeling better.
And that's what I did.
Oh, my goodness.
Well, you're lucky that you're alive after that kind of a fall.
That's crazy.
And that's the thing.
But there was good news.
I hit the ground and I instantly became a conservative.
I bet you did.
Oh, I love it.
Well, you know, honestly, that's the thing is one incident like that can change somebody's life forever.
And, you know, they don't have to live that way.
They don't have to live somewhere where they don't have the kind of certainty that a career can give them.
And they don't have to live with $300,000 in school debt in order to have the potential to earn a good wage.
And they don't have to live in a lawless community that doesn't, you know, understand law and order and where the government's taking half their money.
So there is a way of life that's very different.
Overwhelmingly, people have found that out about South Dakota.
I'd encourage everybody to go to freedomworkshere.com and they will experience all that South Dakota has to offer.
And, you know, people that move here, I meet them every single day just say, I love it here.
I had no idea life could be so good.
And we've been a little bit of a secret gem in this country.
I'm glad people are finding out our story because I'm convinced the state that has the workers in the future is the state that's going to win this economic stability and long-term longevity of keeping taxes low.
So I'm going to keep the pedal to the metal and keep pushing South Dakota because we are a wonderful state and everybody should get the chance to live like we do.
Well, the reason I got to know your state as a wonderful state is both my son and daughter were athletes.
And we often went, I think for a period of time, we went once a year to South Dakota.
And we obviously would go see the presidents carved into stone at Mount Rushmore.
And it was just majestic, to be honest.
It's just beautiful.
And the landscape is phenomenal.
And the lifestyle is phenomenal.
And you don't have a lot of smash and grab robberies in South Dakota.
We do not have them.
Nope.
The state definitely loves our law enforcement.
And we make sure that everybody here is following the law and taking care of their neighbors.
That's the interesting thing.
When all those riots and violence were breaking out in 2020 and we saw what was going on, that just wasn't our story in South Dakota.
As soon as somebody threw the first water bottle in our state, we went in and shut it down.
So we understand that.
And most of the time it's citizens taking care of their neighbors, too, which I think is fantastic.
No, and I mean, those are the people in your state, and it speaks volumes about the people in South Dakota, and it's beautiful.
All right, we continue now with South Dakota Governor Christy Noam.
She now has launched her nationwide workforce recruitment program.
I love the part also because it's very difficult.
I have friends that are lawyers, people.
My three sisters all became nurses.
And it's a big deal when you go from one state to another in terms of having an out-of-state license even accepted, even on a temporary basis.
They almost send you back to school.
And it's like, I already went to nursing school.
I already have 10 years' experience in an emergency room as an emergency room nurse.
I know my job.
And a lot of states don't do that.
No, they don't.
And that's been a game changer for us.
We've done these kind of reforms the last several years.
Started with our military men and women and their spouses because we've all know the challenges that they have when they get, you know, stationed somewhere different and their whole spouse has to change what state they're operating in their profession.
And we've done it now universally for virtually every single license in the state.
And it's just from realtors to doctors to nurses to whatever you could potentially need a license for, even nail technicians, whatever it is.
Their license is recognized as soon as they hit our state and they can get right to work.
And Sean, that's what I think has been lost in this country is the value of a work ethic.
And we have forgotten that work is good for you, that it's we were created to serve each other and to have a purpose.
And it's better for us physically, for us mentally, and spiritually to get up every day and to have a purpose and to go have a job.
And in South Dakota, we understand that and we're talking about it all the time.
I think it's time the rest of the country wake up to the fact that not only is it good to earn a living, but it's also better for you physically.
Your family will do better mentally.
You'll be a part of a community and that that all in all truly does lead to the American dream.
You got to have a purpose when you wake up every morning or else, you know what?
That's where trouble kicks in.
Where are you on this presidential primary race?
Oh, man.
Well, I think it's going to be a roller coaster, don't you?
I mean, I just think, you know, we've got...
Welcome to my world.
Try to thread my needles.
Yeah, you know, right now, there's nobody in that race that can win except Trump.
And so I'd like to know what the reason is they're running, you know, and know that they really, truly do have a vision for the country.
I think some of these people that keep jumping in are coming in just to attack and attack.
And I'd rather have people that run for president that actually want to be the president to do something good.
So, you know, I think that it's going to be.
I won't put Chris Christie on for that reason.
I think he's just a blowhard.
You know, this guy left office with a 14% approval rating?
14%.
Yeah, it's crazy to me.
And it's not helpful to, he thinks it's helpful to the public to find out.
We all know what Trump is and who he is.
I know all the good stuff that happened in my state because he let me do my job.
Every day I woke up grateful I had a president that let me do my job as governor.
If Biden had been president during the pandemic, he would have crushed me and crushed my state.
So that's what I think is overwhelmingly positive is that his policies worked for us and South Dakota had opportunity because of it.
And, you know, honestly, whoever this presidential race, I'm sure there's more people that'll get in.
Maybe even who ends up being the president isn't in the race yet.
But we'll pay attention and we'll see.
I think it's just going to be an interesting one.
People always talk about trends in presidential races.
This might be the one that breaks all those trends.
I hope you're right.
I got to tell you something.
We can't take four more years of this corpse being our president.
He doesn't even know today's Friday.
Anyway, Governor, great, great program.
We're actually going to put it up on our website, Hannity.com, your workforce recruitment program.
I think it deserves attention.
And anybody, if you're finding yourself in a position, you want to change your life and have opportunity and make better money and have a better lifestyle, you might want to look at South Dakota.
Governor, we love having you.
Thank you.
Incredible.
Thank you, Sean.
I appreciate all the help.
You bet.
Have a great day.
You too.
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