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John Solomon will join us in a moment.
Our top story, obviously, is James Comer releasing what is the third bank memo detailing payments to the Bidens.
Kind of amazing considering he's now traced over $20 million in funds from Russia and China and Ukraine and Kazakhstan and Romania all to Biden-tied entities.
Now, one thing, the Democrats, the media, they've been trying to ignore this.
Now, remember the one big lie as a candidate.
And then we're going to show you, play for you Joe Biden as president.
As a candidate, he repeated over and over and over again that he never one time ever spoke to his son Hunter or his brother or anybody for that matter about foreign business dealings.
This is him as candidate, Joe.
How many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings?
I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealers.
I have never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else anything having to do with their businesses, period.
And what I will do is the same thing we did in our administration.
There will be an absolute wall between personal and private and the government.
Do you stand by your statement that you did not discuss any of your son's overseas business deals?
I stand by that statement.
Wow.
Okay.
Here's Joe Biden as your president.
I did not know he was on the board of that company.
I've never discussed my business or their business, my sons or daughters.
I never discussed a single thing with my son about anything having to do with Ukraine.
I have never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else anything having to do with their businesses.
Period.
All right.
John Solomon joins us now.
He had a great, great investigative piece breaking down Jim Comer, Oversight Committee Chair, and his third bank memo detailing these payments.
You know, that is part of the big lie that Joe Biden has told.
Those words are coming back to haunt him.
Now, factor that into what we learned from this third memo.
I want to get your take on it.
We've been pretty much talking about it all day, to be honest, John.
But, you know, I just, you've been so deep in the weeds and breaking story after story on this and way ahead of the curve.
I think you could probably explain it better than anybody.
Well, listen, I think there's two things here.
First, the total size of foreign influence money that comes into the Biden Inc.
conglomerate of companies just keeps going up, right?
It was $4,5 million several months ago, got up to $10, $12 million.
Now it's $20 million, and I suspect that number will go up a little bit more.
You get a sense of the total investment and who was investing.
And there's a pattern to the investment.
You look at the people that Hunter Biden and his team were dealing with.
They were foreign oligarchs in countries where we have a lot of heartburn.
And the oligarchs themselves had a lot of trouble.
You have Mikolo Zolchevsky, a Ukraine oligarch whose energy company is deemed corrupt and under a corruption investigation in Ukraine.
You've got another guy in Romania, Papo Vichu, who has a corruption issue there.
He's flowing money into Hunter Biden and his team.
You've got a Russian oligarch, Elena Badarina.
Her husband is a former Moscow mayor.
There was a lot of concern about him.
A U.S. Ambassador, Russia once said that her husband ran a pyramid of corruption.
You've got some Kazakh oligarchs who are tied to a former prime minister who just recently got sent to prison for serious crimes.
So there's a targeting of a certain type of oligarch, and each of them are paying millions into this pot that Hunter Biden and his friends draw money down from.
And now in this new memo, we get a third part of the pattern, which is right after some of these oligarchs like Yelena Badarina, like the Burisma holding executive named Vadim Pazarski, they put millions in, and very soon after, they get an audience with President Joe Biden, then Vice President Joe Biden.
How soon thereafter in each case, John?
Yeah.
Well, let's go.
Badarina is about two months.
She puts about $3.5 million into a Rosemont Seneca account in February of 14, and she's at the dinner in April 14.
And there's some really fun emails we're going to make public on your TV show tonight that shows sort of the effort to get her into that dinner with Joe Biden.
She's sort of a controversial figure at that moment.
And it's at a time where Ukraine and Russia relations are going south.
That's another important thing.
So a Russian getting next to the vice president was a big deal.
In the case of Kennis Rakashev, who is a Kazakh businessman in the energy business, another one of the oligarchs, he drops $142,300 into a Hunter Biden account.
The very next day that money is taken out and it buys Hunter Biden, get a load of this, a $142,000 luxury sports carb.
That is the same month, literally in the exact same month that Roshikov and Amasimov, the guy who was the prime minister of Kazakhstan, now a guy in prison, that they get their audience with Vice President Joe Biden.
So the timing is very close in some of these circumstances.
It's another part of the pattern that this was a pay-to-play influence peddling scheme.
That's exactly what James Comer said today in releasing this document.
It's really clear now that when you paid money, you got access to Joe Biden.
You got access to the brand, which Devin Archer gave us all a couple of weeks ago.
You know, when you put all of this together, let me go back to the Elena Battarina Cafe Milano meeting and the money, the $3.5 million that followed.
Didn't Devin Archer confirm $120 million investment from her into their real estate business and holdings?
Yep.
Yes, she was.
There was another one.
It was called Rosemont Real Estate.
It is another one in this empire.
Now, Hunter Biden doesn't seem to have a lot to do with the real estate holdings, but he clearly had something to do with the connection of companies that gets the first $3.5 million.
But you're right, these companies, these business partners, they were getting big dollars from these foreign figures.
And Elena Bottorina has never been accused of anything wrong herself, but she clearly had a problem in the U.S. banking industry.
She couldn't get her money into the United States.
And that was something that Hunter Biden and Devin Archer were doing.
Some of the banks had flagged her.
Her husband, the former mayor of Moscow, had much more significant concerns.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia once called him a corrupt figure of running a pyramid of corruption.
You know, these Russian oligarchs clearly have red flags against them, and there's no prohibition by Joe Biden's son or his family, his partner, to deal with them.
At the time Hunter Biden gets hired by Burisma, it is clear that Burisma has corruption issues.
And that the State Department, Joe Biden's State Department, considered them corrupt.
Same thing when you get to Papovicu, the Romanian oligarch.
He's actually specifically approaching Hunter Biden because he's got a corruption issue.
He's hoping Hunter Biden and his family can make that issue go away in Romania.
This is the type of people that Hunter Biden was doing business with and that Joe Biden felt comfortable getting on phones with, having a dinner with.
That is, I think, the picture now that we have very clear.
And it's a picture we were told wasn't true.
It was a conspiracy theory back in 2019 and 2020.
It's very real today.
All right.
So let's go back to when Hunter got his sweetheart plea deal and the Delaware judge dug deep into the weeds in that agreement and discovered that Hunter would no longer be able, should this deal be agreed to by her and signed off on by her, that Hunter would not be able to be charged for any other actions that he may have taken that were illegal during the same time period.
Now, we learn that he was also an addict at this point in his life.
I believe this was during the time when he was a crack addict, when all these deals were going on.
And one has to ask the question, well, was he the brand?
Because, you know, we now have checks, Chronicle going back and forth to hookers with Russian email addresses.
We've talked about that in the past.
I even mentioned it yesterday, a Washington Examiner 2022 report about that issue.
But so Hunter, what was he offering?
What services was he providing in exchange for all of these deals?
Never mind that he admitted he had no experience in Ukraine, energy, oil, et cetera.
Okay, but this report released today talks about $6.5 million tied to Burisma Holdings and its owner, Zolachevsky.
And at a time when the energy company was begging Hunter, we need DC help.
That wasn't Hunter help.
That was the Joe Biden help.
That help, we believe, was confirmed in the 1023 report, where actions eventually taken by then Vice President Biden to leverage a billion dollars to fire Victor Chokin, the prosecutor investigating Burisma and Hunter.
And as a result of that, Hunter continued to be enriched for something he had no experience in.
What experience did he have?
What did they expect in exchange for tens and tens of millions of dollars?
Apparently, according to Devin Archer, because it's Devin Archer's word, they were trying to buy protection, particularly Burisma.
No one would mess with them, is what Devin Archer said, if the Biden family name was associated.
And you have some very clear stuff.
When you take the FD 1023, the FBI informant report, where an FBI informant has direct contact with Mr. Zolchewski and Vadim Pazarski, they had a very low regard for Hunter Biden.
They felt coerced into hiring him, but they felt like they needed to do it.
Remember, Zolchewski's quoted in the FBI document as saying, he's dumber than my dog.
So they weren't paying him for skills, right?
And by the way, Hunter Biden couldn't answer the question in the ABC News interview what his skills were.
They were hiring him for the name because they thought the name would buy protection.
That's what Devin Archer's very own testimony is.
They were buying a name, a brand, and Joe Biden, as Devin Archer said, was the more valuable part of the package.
Hunter Biden was just the guy that collected the money.
Joe Biden brought the weight.
And I think you look at this now, and it's a very unseemly operation.
And there's no way that Joe Biden doesn't know what's going on.
He's showing up at the dinners.
He's getting on the phone calls.
Next week, you're going to see his intervention in some of the policy decisions that benefited one of Hunter Biden's clients.
This is not a blind operation.
The two were a package, and they knew they were a package.
And I think as we get more into this, it raises some serious questions.
Devin Archer said, hey, I considered Hunter Biden to be a lobbyist.
Well, then, that raises a question.
Why didn't he file under the Foreign Agent Registration Act Ferris?
Something that Republicans like Paul Manafort have been prosecuted for.
And then there's a second part of it.
If the timing of these monies to a family member was designed to buy the influence of the government official that they were related to, does that kick in questions about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act?
A second issue that you now hear people like Jim Jordan, James Comer, and legal experts, Greg Jarrett, and others.
They're all raising that.
The evidence is now pointing to much more serious legal issues than we ever knew of when we started on this journey back in 19.
But if you take actions as vice president and your family is enriched, doesn't that fall under a bribery statute?
That's exactly what Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is.
It's the foreign bribery statute.
By the way, the Obama administration resurrected that and championed that.
They wanted to make it more strong.
Isn't it ironic now that under Barack Obama's watch, Joe Biden and his son had an operation going on where the son was getting rich and dad was giving access to those who were making his son rich?
I think we look back in history, the very thing that Obama wanted to enforce, he actually was allowing to go on in his administration under the cover of the Biden family.
So much more we're going to learn.
By the way, we're at the beginning of another very turbulent period of new revelations.
I think we're going to learn a lot.
And some of those revelations, I think, are going to call into question the storylines that we were force-fed during the 2019 impeachment and certainly the 2020 election.
All right, quick break.
Right back.
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In just a second, we'll talk to the heir of the Anheuser-Busch Corporation.
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And Bud Light's parent company is selling off eight beer brands amid this Dylan Mulvaney controversy.
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I was fearful this would happen.
I was fearful that because of some marketing guru, Gen X expert, whoever it happened to be, I have no idea who's responsible for this, or maybe upper management at Anheuser-Busch.
My fear, and I stated this, and some people said, Hannity, you're not getting it.
I said, I think that I am not going to hold the workers responsible for what dopey management people decided to do in terms of getting involved in politics.
In this case, the Dylan Mulvaney, trans activist, influencer, controversy, and this is what happened at the time.
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Unbelievable.
Now, Billy Bush is an heir to the Anheuser-Busch family and saying his ancestors would be rolling over their grave over this, you know, Dylan Mulvaney stunt.
Listen, I think my family, my ancestors would have rolling over in their grave.
They were very patriotic.
They loved this country and what it stood for.
They believed that transgender gays, that sort of thing was all a very personal issue.
They love this country because it is a free country and people are allowed to do what they want, but it was never meant to be on a beer can and never meant to be pushed in people's faces.
Wow.
Powerful statement.
Billy Bush joins us now.
How are you, sir?
I'm great, John.
How you doing?
I'm good.
I'm sure you probably in the beginning were maybe a little bit conflicted on the issue of speaking out publicly about this, but obviously you feel very passionately about this because, as you say, your ancestors built this empire, you know, incredible empire that America loves.
I mean, who doesn't love the Kleisdell ads that you put out and the pro-Americana ads that Anheuser-Busch has put out over the years and Budweiser and Bud Light.
And they went in a very different direction here.
Why do you think they did that?
And how would you rate their handling of all this?
Because I think their handling has been awful.
Yeah, I think they did it because it's a very liberal.
I didn't realize TMZ was as liberal as they are.
I think the two gentlemen that spoke with me, that interviewed me, you know, they told me they're both gay, they're both liberal.
You know, that's cool.
That's what's great about this country.
People can make their own choices, be who they want to be.
And so I'm not against that at all.
But they try to make it sound like I was prejudiced and I was against transgenders and gay people and that anybody who is boycotting Bud Light right now has a prejudice problem.
And I told them, no, I don't agree with that at all.
I said, I'm looking back at my ancestors, and it's in our book, Family Reigns, and that's really what I thought we were going to talk about on TMZ that day, the book that I just came out with Family Reigns, The Heartbreaking Fall, or excuse me.
No, it's called Family Reigns, The Extraordinary Rise and Epic Fall of an American Dynasty.
And that's the perfect title.
You're right.
Yes.
And so that's what I thought we were going to talk about.
But of course, it went in that direction.
And, you know, looking back at it now, and I really didn't have a chance to rehearse or think about it that much, but I meant what I said.
My family, my ancestors worked very hard.
They loved this country.
They honored this country.
The last thing they would do is advertise in such a political, the political arena that we're in right now with all, as polarized as this country is, the last thing they would have done was to get in to that kind of advertising and try to push an agenda, a political agenda down the beer drinker's throat.
And, you know, that's not the beer drinker that Bud Light has anyway.
So why even go there?
And it just didn't make any sense to me.
And that's what I tried to explain to those two guys.
You know, I thought Clay Travis was on the show this week, and he's the founder of Outkick.
I thought he had a good line, and he quoted Michael Jordan.
And Michael Jordan had a great line as it relates to, you know, why he doesn't get involved in politics.
He says, well, Republicans buy sneakers too.
And Air Jordan's a great sneaker.
I mean, everybody loves him.
And that's why it's been so successful over the many years.
And I think that was such a good point that business is business and keep the politics out of it.
You know, I feared from the beginning, and I just stated this, I feared when I saw what was happening and I saw the decline in sales and I saw week over week and then it became month over month, I spoke out and I said, my fear here is that if this continues, that it's not going to be the people responsible for this bad decision that are held accountable.
That it's going to be the guys that have the trucking routes, the guys that work in the beer factories, the guys that work on the loading docks.
Because, you know, I would imagine a career at Anheuser-Busch is a high-paying career job with great benefits.
Am I wrong?
No, it's a great job.
You know, when my family ran the company, people were very, very proud to work there.
And that's completely changed now.
And the unfortunate thing about it is, like you're saying, is that people are going to start losing their jobs.
The wholesalers are being affected.
Those are the distributors that distribute to the accounts out there.
They're being affected.
They're going to have to lay off people.
The company is laying off people.
As you know, they're selling off brands.
So it's affecting a lot of people in a negative way just because the management, the executives at Anheuser-Busch really misjudged.
They really didn't know who their core audience is.
And they didn't take the time to look at that.
And you're right.
They're hiring these Gen Zs or Gen X's out of college.
I think they're a lot of, you know, they learn this woke culture.
They get educated that way.
They become very liberal.
And they think they understand who the beer drinker is, and they have obviously no idea.
They've never sold a case of beer in their life.
I suggest they get on a beer truck, go out there, deliver beer to account, get to know the people that drink the beer, and then decide how to advertise to them.
But don't come out of these woke schools with these liberal agendas and think you know what you're doing because you don't.
That's not America.
And of course, we're dealing with a company that isn't American.
They're from Belgium and Brazil.
And, you know, these guys have historically been the bean counters.
They've been financial guys that know banking really well.
They know how to lower expenses and do things like that, but they never knew anything about the beer business.
So it's kind of difficult to see all this going down now.
You know, my family, Sean, worked extremely hard and they loved America.
They honored this country.
They wanted to bring people together.
And they died for this company and for this country.
And to see it now going the wrong way is really tough.
It really is.
It's tough.
And, of course, you know, they've got our name on the company still.
And I get feedback from people, why are you letting this happen?
I don't have anything to do with it, but our name's still there.
So that's what we're dealing with.
You know, the sad thing is, I wish I was wrong, Billy.
I hate to see career jobs go away and people's lives now thrown into utter turmoil.
You know, people that have mortgages and rents to pay and college tuition to pay and car payments to pay.
You know, I wonder what they're going to do when they are laid off because I'm sure they were counting on their jobs and probably, as you rightly say, were proud to work for this company.
And, you know, in my whole life, Billy, I've never supported or called for anybody to be canceled, anybody to be fired, or I don't support boycotts.
But when I saw this happening, and by the way, people are free to do all of those things.
People ask for my firing every day, my cancellation every day.
People have boycotted me repeatedly throughout my career.
And, you know, the idea that now they're firing people, they're selling off eight beer brands as a result of this.
And by the way, I have nothing against Modelo and nothing against our neighbor Mexico.
I really don't.
I wish they'd do more on the immigration issue.
But putting that aside, I don't know.
You know, I'm a kind of America first guy.
I want an American beer company to be number one.
Is that so wrong?
That's not wrong at all.
And lo and behold, and you got to come to the Midwest sometime.
We're opening up a brewery here in St. Louis.
We're keeping the tradition going in the family.
It's called Bush Family Brewing and Distilling.
We're opening up our farm to the public.
We're going to have our brewery there.
We're coming out with several brands.
We've already had a couple of them in the marketplace, the Adolphus Filsner and the Gussie Bavarian.
So we're naming some of the brands after family members who did so much for the company back in the day.
Can you make a version of Bud Light and call it Billy Bush Light?
I'd buy that beer.
Are you not drinking any of the alcohol at all?
i've kind of cut back when i've been dieting but um you know that diet is coming to an end because i'm sick of it um but uh have an adult as light or a no but i drink i do drink light beer i did i did I do drink Bud Light.
I drink Coors Light now.
Well, that's amazing.
You know, the thing about it is, Sean, is that it's going to be difficult for Bud Light to come back because light beers are, there's not a big difference in their taste.
And really, you kept the consumer by your traditional values, by how you marketed the beer, where the beer came from.
Your father drank it.
Your grandfather drank it.
And that's why Bud Light has been the number one beer all these years.
I think Billy Bush Light Beer, Hannity as a partner, is a perfect relationship.
Let's do it.
That would be amazing.
I think times are ripe for something like that.
You know what?
I think that's a great idea.
And, you know, I only want to, I would invest in that in a heartbeat.
I think it would do well.
Look, I really do.
For the people that are getting laid off, my advice to you is call Course.
Call Molson Course, call Miller Light and some of these other companies.
You have a level of professionalism that they need now because their sales have exploded as a result of this, right?
Oh, their sales are doing great.
But I would say call Billy Bush.
Yingling.
Or Yingling.
Yeah, Billy Bush.
We can talk about that in a second.
But call Yingling.
It's the oldest beer company in the country.
They're expanding.
They just expanded into Missouri, so we can get it here now in St. Louis.
And their sales are doing great.
So I'm sure they're going to be looking for people to help them with their sales and with their company's growth.
And you know what?
I'm looking for people too.
So we'll be open to it.
And hopefully we can.
Do you have a website if people want to reach out to you and maybe apply for a job from you?
We sure do.
It's Bush Family Brewing and Distilling.
We're just in the process of upgrading our website now.
We're going to be open to the public at the end of the month.
And so anybody that wants to learn more about it or understand what's going on, please go right to that website at Bush Family Brewing and Distilling.
Sounds to me, Billy Bush, like you're going to be a direct competitor of Budweiser.
Am I hearing you right?
No, we definitely are going to be.
So yes, we're so happy to be able to keep that tradition going.
In the book, I write about how incredible American history is alongside the beer business, what my family went through to build this empire, what it was like growing up and the experiences I had, both good and bad, growing up, watching my father during the time of Anna Bush's greatest growth be so successful and build the company as he led the company during those days.
And so it's a tradition, a beer tradition that I want to keep going.
My family wants to keep going.
So we're starting this brewing company.
We appreciate you being with us.
Wish you all the best.
And people want that website.
We'll give a link on Hannity.com.
Thank you.
Wonderful.
Thank you very much.
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All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
James Comer with his big bombshell release today, the third bank memo detailing payments to the Bidens from Russia.
Let's see, China and Kazakhstan and Ukraine and Romania and Mexico.
Wow.
Pretty amazing.
Also, John Solomon with the latest updates, developments on this.
Jim Jordan will update us on his investigation in the Judiciary Committee.
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