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So much evidence has emerged as it relates to Joe Biden, his relationship with his son, the lies that he's told, suspicious activity reports, shell corporations, nine Biden family members paid.
A lot of the money coming from our top geopolitical foes, but but Joe didn't do anything.
Let's see, uh 20 phone calls at least that we know of, multiple meetings at Cafe Milano with you know oligarchs like the former First Lady of Moscow, who did three and a half million dollars in business with Hunter.
And on top of that, what a hundred and twenty million did Devin Archer say invested in their real estate ventures.
Anyway, Congresswoman Nancy May, South Carolina is with us.
Congresswoman, how are you?
Good afternoon, Sean.
Thanks for having me this afternoon.
My first question is how is it possible that an eighty million dollar jet was lost in your district in F-35 for some 28 hours yesterday?
How does that happen?
That is the $80 million question, Sean, this afternoon, with very little information coming from the Pentagon.
I actually was briefed by the Pentagon yesterday, and guess what?
They sent people over who had no answers to any relevant questions about the jet's disappearance.
And we had our military branches, we had the Pentagon asking the public for help to find a jet and turn it in.
Uh it was a huge embarrassment to the Pentagon, and to this day today, they still not are not answering our questions.
Pretty pretty unbelievable, isn't it?
Um let me turn before I get to this issue of the Biden family syndicate, as I call it.
Or if you're in Fulton County, Georgia, you probably understand the word enterprise a lot.
Um Joe Biden said he asked Congress for an additional, you know, funds to increase the World Bank funding by 25 billion dollars.
We just we we just now hit a record 33 trillion dollars in debt, two mil two trillion this year alone under Joe Biden's reckless spending.
And I just want to play this for you and get your reaction to it on top of the monies that uh that many people want for Ukraine.
I got into this with Sean Penn last night.
I said conservative support for the war in Ukraine has dissipated because Europe's not stepping up and doing their fair share, as usual.
And number two, uh Joe Biden, you know, vetoed the the MiG jets from the very beginning, which was the biggest indicator that if our if if our involvement is not to win a war, then why involve ourselves at all?
Under the new president of the World Bank.
Change is already taking root.
Last month, I asked the United States Congress for additional funds to expand World Bank financing by 25 billion dollars.
And the G20.
We rallied the major economies of the world to mobilize even more funding.
Collectively, we can deliver a transformational boost to World Bank lending.
Five hundred million in Ukraine for green energy.
Uh he also said it's critical we work with China on the climate crisis.
China doesn't care about the climate Crisis.
Let's play it.
But we also stand ready to work together with China on issues where progress hinges on our common efforts.
Nowhere.
Is that more critical than accelerating the climate crisis?
Yeah, and then of course, well, Joe is basically unilaterally disarmed, which is why we're uh now at the mercy of many countries that hate us, OPEC nations, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, even Iran now with this idiotic deal.
Congresswoman, uh, I don't like the way this uh if you look at all the monies we're paying for these globalist organizations, the WHO, the WEF, you know, uh billions of dollars to the UN and all this green energy money around the world that they're throwing at everybody, now offering five hundred million to Ukraine, which is asinine.
Um Americans have had it.
And closing up to China, and I hate to ask what the heck shared vision means, but I think we can all agree it is not twenty twenty vision.
I mean, this guy is unbelievable.
And he you know, you leave we leave out that just a few days ago he he gave away six billion dollars to Iran on nine eleven, no less.
Uh I mean, the guy is totally out of control, and I want to know why he's cozying up to China in the way that he's doing, and this is not some free-for-all giveaway, and I hope that none of this is in the continuing resolution because that's gotta stop.
But it is insane to me that we just allow this sort of thing to go on over and over and over again, and we're not looking out for the American people, we're looking out for every other country but our own.
And it it's just totally untenable and it's un-American.
Where do you stand on that continuing resolution?
Um my understanding is the Freedom Caucus partnered with the more moderate wing of the Republican Party, and and they came up with a deal.
I have Matt Gates debating Chip Roy on it, l uh coming up in a in a little bit.
Where do you stand on it?
Uh I look forward to hearing that debate, and in fact, you know, I empathize with Matt Gates on this issue.
I've been a strong fiscal hawk since I got here, and we cannot continue the same thing that the left has done year over year.
We we made but promise to the American people we would put a budget together that we would do these appropriations bills, and here we are doing the same thing that's always been done.
We are extending Joe Biden's priorities by doing a continuing resolution.
And I uh, you know, I quite frankly I don't trust anybody up here to tell me the truth or tell me what's gonna happen, honestly, over the next couple of weeks.
Because I feel like we've been misled.
I think American people have this been misled.
I talked about this during the debt ceiling deal.
I said this was not going to go down the way the American people were told, and on top of that, there will be supplemental spending bills for Ukraine and for defense and all these other things that we simply cannot afford.
And I'm not interested in playing a shell game with your tax dollars over the next thirty days.
Either we get smart about spending and take responsibility for years past and the thirty-three trillion dollars in debt that we have on the table, or we just do things like everybody else has always done, and then America loses when we do that.
So Joe Biden's excuse on his relationship with his son and his foreign business dealings started with repeatedly as a candidate and president, saying that he never once spoke to his son Hunter, his brother or anybody for that matter about their foreign business deals.
That evolved into he's never been in business uh with his son, which now is uh evolved into the the new goalpost today that uh that this the his son did not share his business or his profits with his father, according to his attorney, uh marking what I believe is a very notable shift in the narrative.
Uh I d I don't know how they then answer what's on Hunter Biden's laptop.
You know, what what's the next evolution in this lie?
All lies.
And every time the hunter's attorneys have been asked questions, they have not told the truth.
Do we know that Joe Biden, every time the media, which is hardly any, but every time he's been asked a question, he's told lies about this.
And the mainstream media and the left just want to sweep this under the rug and say all of this is normal.
And I've seen the SARS reports, and I know the amount of money that we're talking about are astronomical sums of money.
And this isn't just about Hunter Biden, this is about Joe Biden.
And we had a meeting earlier today, uh, earlier this week with Oversight Committee.
We're gonna have a hearing a week from Thursday, but it's not just bank records we have to go get.
I want I want to see credit card statements, how much cash was taken out.
How did all of this happen?
The evidence is everywhere.
The media wants to deny it.
But as you said, Sean, it's in text messages, it's in emails, it's in denters, it's in phone calls, it's in it's on airplanes.
It's everywhere we look, there is evidence of corruption.
And I believe Joe Biden will go down as the most corrupt president in U.S. history.
You said that in spite of the number that we have now, which is more than twenty million dollars funneled into this complex web of shell corporations.
You know, you referenced the hundred and seventy suspicious activity reports uh flagged uh by banks to the Treasury Department's criminal division.
Uh and all the money uh James Comer is talking to spoken at length about the nine Biden family members that got uh some of this money.
Uh uh I I'd like to know uh what Hunter Hunter admits he has no experience, and he's admitting that he was addicted to drugs at the time.
I'm glad he cleaned his act up, if in fact that's true.
Um however, uh what did they what did the grandkids do for the money, Congresswoman?
Right, and I've seen bank accounts of Joe Biden grandchildren with money from communist China.
A lot of money.
And the not the 20 million, I don't I don't think scratches the surface.
I mean, at the end of the day, we know that the Biden family got a third cut of everything, and the amount of money overall are astronomical sun sums.
And so I'm very much looking forward to subpoenaing everyone in the Biden Biden family.
Joe Biden has a lot to answer for, but we got to get all those bank records, all the credit card statements, everything we can to show the American people.
This is this is your president, and do you want them to be president in the future?
And I think the overwhelming majority of people will say absolutely not.
He sold his country out for a large sum of money.
What about the FBI informant in the 1023 form?
Uh, you know, a trusted FBI informant, you know, speaking and quoting the CEO of Maris Barisma.
I didn't want to have to pay the Bidens, but I gave five million to this Biden and five billion of that Biden.
Uh and it'll take you ten years to find that money.
Are you getting any closer to discovering how that money was funneled to the Bidens?
Was it funneled to the Bidens?
Not fast enough.
This thing feels like it's moving at a snail's pace, but we have to go overseas to look at some of those bank accounts and those bank records, which takes more time than I have patience for.
But at the end of the day, I believe we will be able to have all the records to back up these accusations.
And not even it's just not even the 1023 form.
We have more whistleblowers that have come forward.
There are whistleblowers on the Ways and Means Committee that I hope they'll have a vote in executive committee session this week to be able to reveal that information to the public so that the whistleblowers don't get charged with a felony or revealing information.
But every time we look under a rock here, it's extraordinary the extent that the DOJ, the FBI, the IRS, Joe Biden, his family, and their attorneys have gone to block any effort to investigate the corruption in their family.
Well, Joe Biden famously claimed that his son has not made money from China.
We know that's untrue.
Uh and we also know from the uh from a lot of the evidence that has come out so far.
Uh, you know, what what about the WhatsApp message?
I'm sitting here with my father.
We'd like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled.
Say sending this to a Chinese businessman, we believe from the Chinese oil conglomerate, the CEFC, correct me if I'm wrong, that it has the direct links to the common communist party, and then says, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold the grudge that you will regret not following my direction, and then another five million dollars wired to a company of of hunters.
Is that true?
Yes, and what's that message is right there.
We're talking about mafia level tactics.
We're talking about bribery.
And anyone that denies it or says this is just normal business, it's not.
I mean, we're I mean, I don't even care about the Hunter gun charge.
What I care about is the bribery, the corruption, operating as a foreign agent to get dollars in the door for access to his father, selling access to his father because none of this happens without Joe Biden.
It's obscene.
It's so obscene, and if I I wish I could share the amount of money we're talking about, but uh the American people, Republicans and Democrats.
You're you're on record saying it's you believe north of fifty million dollars.
Yes, a hundred percent.
I do believe that.
Is that for the enterprise or for the Bidens?
Oh, that would be for the Bidens.
That does not include the enterprise.
That was that that is much a much larger figure.
I mean, the amount of money just in one SARS report was astronomical, and then there were 170 of those.
Uh the prostitution ring alone was worth uh was a multi-million dollar enterprise.
And again, you know, I'm called crazy for bringing that up, but come to find out, uh, you know, they were trying to write off the expenses for all these prostitutes on Hunter Biden's tax return.
I mean, you cannot make this stuff up.
All right, quick break more with South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mays on the other side.
Uh, our debate with Matt Gates and Chip Roy over the deal struck with the Freedom Caucus and more moderates in the House.
Uh, we'll talk about that, the details of it, and much more as we continue.
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Do you see discrepancies when you look at one, Joe Biden's lifestyle?
How to how do you buy a beach house on a senator's salary and then have other homes and have a stingray corvette next to your uh classified and top secret documents in your garage.
Uh, do you see any evidence that their lifestyle and the money that they spent is indicative of way more than they reported to the IRS?
And and why isn't a fairer charge been filed against uh Hunter Biden?
Exactly.
No, exactly.
I mean, Joe Biden is not an entrepreneur.
Joe Biden is not a businessman, and neither is his son.
And I believe looking at their lifestyle, the way that they lived, and knowing how far a congressional salary goes, it does not go that far unless you're selling out your country in the way that Joe Biden did.
He had no other experience, no other, was not an entrepreneur, wasn't doing anything that would warrant that kind of lifestyle, and it's evidence as everywhere.
And we have to get Joe Biden's bank records, which is why I supported the impeachment inquiry, because that gives us much greater expansion of subpoena power to be able to go after his financial records.
We've got to get those and share them with the American people so they can see for it with themselves.
All right, Nancy Mace, we really appreciate your time.
Thank you for being with us.
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By the way, I am looking forward, Linda, to the debate with Matt Gates and Chip Roy.
Uh we'll see uh, you know, how this unfolds in the next 11 days.
Uh the one thing that I would say is, you know, that these guys should have been working in July and August.
That that I've been saying privately and publicly.
Uh, this is the on this is the ongoing problem with our side of the aisle.
You know what I mean?
Uh you know, it's okay to have differing opinions.
It is, and that's part of what makes America great, individuality.
But the issue is that Democrats don't seem to have the same issues that we have, you know, and that's why they hold all the cards.
I'm gonna run through a list of quick stories and I'll get you a quick reaction, okay?
Leo 2.0 Tyrrell was at a Starbucks.
He's waiting in line.
A guy walks and starts stealing from the store.
He grabs the guy's bag, took the items away from him, said, I'm calling the police.
The guy said, I don't care.
Police won't show up, which he's probably right about.
And he took action, he said, I couldn't sit there, stand there, and you know, most people wouldn't do this today.
I get I I love Leo.
He's he's a rock star.
He is, and the sad part is that if he was anybody else, they probably would have given him a hard time.
But because he has the power of the pulpit, he can actually speak and give that, you know, that perception.
Well, I'm surprised they didn't arrest him.
You know, and by the way, I I would not blame any one of our listeners that saw this going on and just, you know what?
I don't need to get shot here.
You know, I would tell I I've actually had these conversations with convenience store workers.
Don't die over some guy wanting to steal crap from a convenience store.
Just get out of the way and let them do what they want to do.
That's my advice to them.
I disagree with you.
Oh, you we want the guy, uh some 21-year-old kid behind the counter to get shot because he's fighting a guy.
I want everybody to have a burner.
B U-R-N-A.
I like it.
I want them to, and I want them to have a less lethal, a non-lethal, self-defense firearm that they can protect themselves.
I think the problem is is that the court there's no accountability.
I don't blame people for not getting involved in this because most people don't think like we do.
They just don't.
Most people don't have the ability to defend themselves.
Now, this dovetails perfectly into the what's going on in Chicago.
Because a lot of their supermarket chains, they'll they have to leave.
They've had to shut down because of all the shoplifting.
All right.
So now this, you know, new mayor, Brandon Johnson has the answer.
So they're gonna run government run supermarkets.
And you know, I support and endorse this idea.
You're probably surprised.
You want to know why support it?
Yes, you're dying to know.
I do know.
I support it because let them discover how it feels to not be able to make money because of all the people robbing you blind.
Let them feel it themselves.
That's what I think.
Yeah, but they won't feel it because if it's a city store, then it's gonna be funded by the very tax dollars from the very people who are trying to get the dang food.
That's the problem.
So this attack against so MBC Chucky Todd got fired as a host to meet the press.
He was god awful.
There's never been a good Sunday morning host, to be honest, since since Tim Russett.
You know I love Tim Russet.
I love the guy.
He's a great and he was a Democrat.
But he was he was friends with you, and he was a more even minded doc guy.
You know, it was the days of the Reagan Democrats and the Kennedy Republicans.
We were raising money for a charity one day.
He said, Don't tell anybody, writes me a check for 10 grand.
You know, I mean, that's the kind of guy it was.
Chucky Todd was awful, he's out.
Uh Kristen Welker took uh the his uh his place, and she's literally getting blasted.
LA Times, Deadly Beast, the hard-hitting news show, The View for just daring to give Trump a platform.
This is dangerous journalism.
You're letting him speak.
I actually feel sorry for her.
But now maybe she'll understand, you know, what it means to be part of the liberal media.
Uh question.
Oh, go ahead.
No, I mean, I think in c in defense of Kristen Walker, words I never thought I would say.
You know, these people that are on these other networks that you know live and die by being loved and adored and all this nonsense, they've lost their path in telling the truth.
The idea that you cannot interview somebody because people might not like this person or that person, you know, it's like it's like when you interview Gavin Newsom.
I don't like Gavin Newsom, but you want to interview the other side.
Go ahead.
I mean, I just don't understand why that has to become this sort of like, okay, we're gonna ostracize her because you talk to somebody we don't like.
This you know, people need to grow up.
Do you know who uh Marin Morris is?
Not until you asked me about her the other day.
I never heard of her.
Never okay.
I love what?
I love Christian contemporary music, I love country music, those are my two favorite genres.
I'll still like old rock and even 70s tunes.
All that I kind of can listen to anything.
Okay.
I never heard of her as a country music artist.
Did you?
Because now she's quitting the genre due to the effect of the Trump ears.
You know what this sounds like to me?
Somebody that I didn't know trying to get publicity.
Well, she's doing a good job, it's working.
You know, she's acting like she cares about a certain, you know, uh, community that has, you know, the era of the media and the public right now, and okay, fine.
So go go play music for that community then if you don't want to play for the community you're in.
Whatever.
Crime is so bad in DC that Congress is distributing tips to avoid being carjacked in the Capitol.
You just can't make this Adam shift up.
You really care.
Well, there was an article out the it was this morning that we've gone up over a half million dollars in security costs for our elected officials in DC.
Oh, yeah, no, they have their own security, like the squatters.
There's all the defund dismantled Nobel law politicians, they usually have their own private security paid for by the taxpayers.
Uh the criminals killed us, local restaurant closing out in Oakland, California.
Yep.
Uh they were laughing.
A woman viciously beaten in a Seattle area gas station.
We showed this video on Hannity last night.
Out in California, the LA County Sheriff, Robert Luna, a very emotional press conference to announce the suspect arrested in the ambush killing of a 30-year-old deputy uh by the name of Ryan uh Klinkenbroomer, And they never gave our deputy a chance.
I mean, it just makes me sick what's going on.
And you know what?
We're putting up with it.
Context to that.
The guy is sitting in his patrol car.
He's sitting there.
No, he's a sitting doc.
He didn't have an interaction, not in the middle of arresting anybody.
He's just sitting there.
And he's murdered in cold blood.
And you know what's funny?
We gave more attention to what happened on the subway with Daniel Penny than we did to any of these police officers.
this poor woman that was attacked in this convenience store.
More people would be able to identify Daniel Penny uh or Jose Alba than this this sheriff deputy it's sad.
Let me get to our phones.
Uh let's say hi it's Dick in West Virginia.
What's up sir?
How are you?
Thanks for taking my call Sean first time caller and longtime listener.
And my question that I have, it seems at this point in time that Donald Trump will be our Republican nominee and Joe Biden is going to be our Democratic nominee.
And that's if he makes it to the end of his term.
So my question is, I think that you're going to have your diehard Trump fans and you're also going to have your diehard Biden fans.
So what do you think as far as the independents?
Do you feel like they've had enough of the current administration?
that if Trump was the nominee that they would vote for Trump versus Jay Biden.
We have to assume that Donald Trump is going to be tried and convicted in at least a couple of these venues that I don't believe in get a fair trial in that would be New York that would be DC that would be Fulton County Georgia.
OK, you have to assume that now you're asking a question.
Well, you know, if you have the candidate that's got, you know, full on massive, you know, cognitive decline and it's getting progressively worse, whose policies is not one thing you can cite that is that has worked for the American people versus it's never happened before.
A guy that has been convicted of a felony, because remember, the trials will take place in the election year in some of these venues.
The appeals where I would argue Donald Trump has a way better chance of prevailing.
That won't happen till.
after the election how convenient for them why didn't they charge him earlier um I think you can make an argument that they designed it that way.
So you have somebody that's in a a cognitive mess that doesn't know what day of the week it is that can't cite a single policy that's been successful and beneficial for we the people that'll hide in the basement with the help of the media mob versus a guy that for the first time ever was just convicted of a felony I I I don't know how independents will react to that.
I don't I think it's completely unfair I don't think I don't think we have equal justice or equal application of our laws we see that with Hunter Biden.
You know we're hearing it from all these whistleblowers but if you're asking me on this date September 1920 where we'll be a year from now I have no clue.
And anybody tells you that they do they don't so you know assuming it's Biden versus Trump I don't know.
I don't know the answer.
Have a have a you know pain is a great awakener have the American people awaken to the pain of Biden's uh energy policies border policies defunders mantle policies you know if they are they awakening to the fact that our stature around the world is deteriorated to a point I never thought we'd see before you know as president Donald Trump did a great job.
Well will people be will independence be able to overlook that I don't know the answer to the question.
Yeah me there's that's why I was asking you.
Yeah I I wish I had a crystal ball I'll tell you that.
Yeah.
Well the only other thing I wanted to add was I need you to stop taking on Linda because I'll stop I agree with her.
I think that people should get a burner and I think that you should take her up on her offer so that way you can actually have it tested out and she can see how it actually works.
Okay.
Let me tell you what's gonna happen if I I took her up on her offer and she gets to fire the burner at me which they haven't even told the audience about that that's not what he's saying just yet we're we we could just do towag practice.
Two get pra say it again Twog get practice no I'm not talking to you.
I'm gonna let the the listeners going to defend me now.
Okay, so my point is um I've I'm a very responsible gun owner.
One of the first rules in gun safety, and this would apply to a burner for in my mind.
And that is you never point it at somebody unless you have an intention of using it, ever.
But we could do target practice and show the audience how wonderful it does.
I mean, I did one of those very quickly when they were here, and it was pretty phenomenal.
And you were like 10 feet away, and you did hit the target, but you're supposed to shoot for upper body mass, correct?
Mm-hmm.
And where did you hit?
In the no-no spot.
In the no-no spot.
Okay.
So I'll tell you what, that perp is going down.
Am I wrong?
You gotta be better than the no-no spot.
You gotta be better than that.
It's only supposed to disable the person.
So if I'm gonna disable him and he goes down to his knees or she goes down, I'm just saying.
I've been singing your praises because of Mantis X, and you've become a better shot.
I am just telling you, that's not where you're supposed to hit the person, the perpetrator.
I would have hit the neighbor's no-no spot.
You know, now I'm gonna hit the perp spot, so it's good.
I I can sit out my backyard.
I got a tree, I'll mark off 40 feet, and I'll hit the same spot.
I'll cluster, you know, you know, six burner shots in a row.
I mean, this is not gonna be a contest, number one.
Number two, um, I what?
Right, but if I'm in that bodega or whatever the case may be, and there's drama going down, that guy's not gonna be 40 feet from me.
That guy's gonna be five feet from me.
Listen, you can actually it it if you hit near the person and it opens the projectile with tear gas and pepper spray.
Let me tell you something.
It's gonna have the effect.
Anyway, last word, we'll give it to you, Dick.
I just want to say thank you for taking my call.
And um, I agree with you, because I actually am going to look into the burner, and I've actually been looking at your videos.
And they're pretty impressive, aren't they?
It's pretty cool.
I mean, to watch these guys like tearing up these big strong guys, it's hilarious.
Yep.
But yeah, I'm gonna definitely be looking into that and um see what we can do with it and see if I'm interested in moving forward with that.
So I'm like you know, average gun and enthusiast and I listen, I have both options available.
Let me put it, and I have a third option.
Uh you know, uh I train, you know, with situational self-defense four or five days a week, an hour and a half a day.
So you know what?
I have experience.
Uh I'd rather run from a battle than ever have to engage anybody ever.
That's that's that's my first line of defense.
I even if I look like a coward on video, I would try and run away.
Because I don't ever want to hurt another person, even though they're a perpetrator.
I just don't.
Anyway, uh 800-941 Sean are numbers.
We continue.
Uh, we have Chip Froy Matt Gates at the top of the hour, uh talking about Republican strategies going forward on the issue of the budget, whether there'll be a government shutdown, and much more as we continue.
We'll be right back.
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