Biden and Classified Documents - February 8th, Hour 1
Sean covers the latest news that President Biden may have kept more sensitive classified documents. The Attorney General has ruled that President Biden should not be prosecuted. So, if you're a Republican you should be prosecuted but if you're a Democrat, you're fine to have classified documents.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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We got breaking news all over the place.
We had the Supreme Court arguments on whether Colorado and the Supreme Court decision out there can disqualify Donald Trump from even being on the ballot.
this coming from the same Democratic left wing jurists in this case, the Democratic what secretary of state, I guess, and, and main, you know, unilaterally making a decision whether a candidate can or cannot be put on the So much of what happened today in the Supreme Court was was mind-numbing to me because it was almost as if that the justices were telling both sides what their arguments ought to be.
It got very interesting.
If you've never listened to a case before the Supreme Court being argued, it is well worth your time.
And it's it's fascinating because you got nine justices up there and they're firing out questions uh to attorneys before they can even get two words out of uh answering the last question.
And you really got to be on your toes.
And uh we'll check in with Jay Sekulo.
He's he's argued before the Supreme Court has been a part of twenty some odd cases.
I I think he argued somewhere near 17 himself.
Not an easy environment, but intellectually very stimulating.
Uh we'll get to all of that in a second.
I can tell you that even the New York Times acknowledges that Trump is going to win this.
Uh I think it's gonna end up being nine-zero.
We'll see.
Then we're gonna watch if the Supreme Court takes up the appeals court decision on immunity.
I think they should.
I think they almost have to, and the application of immunity, but anyway, so we'll get Jay's take on that.
Uh and other breaking news.
Uh, you might have forgotten that there was a special counsel by the name of Robert Herr.
Uh that was appointed to look into Joe Biden and his handling of classified documents while out of office.
Remember, there were four separate locations, one, of course, in that very secure locked garage at all times that we know isn't locked at all at at all times where his precious Corvette is.
You know, we had classified materials just hanging out there at a time when we know that his son was admittedly, you know, addicted to drugs.
Uh, then you got the U Penn Biden Center, then you got the University of Delaware, Biden Center, then you got the home, the beach home, I guess, or what one of the homes in Delaware.
They had documents for separate locations.
Anyway, here we are.
It's like Hillary Clinton 2.0.
We conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter.
Hear said.
Uh, and you know, summarizing his report, we we would conclude the same even if there was no policy against charging a sitting president.
Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained uh and disclosed classified Information after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.
Let me say that again.
Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified information after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.
Four separate locations.
Now, they actually, as part of this, and I'm looking at it right here in front of me.
Uh what do I see?
Oh, I see pictures.
Let's see.
Joe Biden, classified documents.
They found it looks like a basement, maybe a garage.
There are golf clubs behind it.
Not sure what room this is.
It could be the garage, could be the basement, one of these rooms.
That was one location.
Another location.
I again I can't even pinpoint where this is.
It looks like a garage floor to me.
It looks like there's oil stains on the floor, probably from the Corvette.
Uh, and you know, more just laying around.
A garage box with classified Afghanistan documents are encountered by the FBI at December 21st, 2022.
That was where that one was from.
I don't know where the rest of them.
They didn't give uh specific locations, but um I'm looking at it now.
I'm trying to go this literally is just the document just came out seconds before we came on the air.
But anyway, their investigation uncovered evidence that he but Joe Biden willfully, willfully, willfully retained and disclosed classified information after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.
These materials included Mark classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, no notebooks containing Mr. Biden's handwritten entries about issues of national security and foreign policy implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods.
The FBI recovered these materials from garage offices and a basement den in Biden's Wilmington, Delaware home.
However, for the reasons summarized above, we conclude that evidence does not establish Mr. Biden guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
And the prosecution of Mr. Biden is also unwarranted based on our consideration of aggravating and mitigating factors set forth in the Department of Justice's principles of federal prosecution.
In other words, let me tell you what under Merrick Garland this means.
That means if you're a Republican, you're going to get raided and you're going to get charged.
If you're a Democrat, nothing happens.
Anyway, for these reasons, we declined prosecution of Mr. Biden, the report goes on.
Ian Sams, this hack of a spokesperson for the White House counsel's office, said that the president's legal team had completed a review of the report, and in keeping with his commitment of cooperation and transparency, yeah, tell that to Jim Jordan, James Comer, and Jason Smith.
They're not cooperating.
Anyway, the president would not assert executive privilege over any portion of the report.
Merrick Garland early this week was informed lawmakers that her concluded the investigation.
This here we go again.
If you look at these boxes included in the report, which the Bidens didn't want out.
And I could tell you my suspicion is now proven correct.
Because people would conclude it looks just like the pictures that they took of Mar-a-Lago and boxes of information in it.
Except in that one case, they actually laid it out so people could read it, would seem to want to prejudice people in the country and come to a conclusion.
But if this sounds eerily similar, a dual system of justice, we don't have equal application or equal justice under the law.
You know, just think back to that July 2016, James Comey press conference outlining how much top secret classified information that they found regarding Hillary Clinton, how they believe that her servers were probably hacked in real time by foreign entities, but then concluding that no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute.
And also, that doesn't even include the 33,000 deleted subpoenaed emails when she used bleach bit and an ash acid washed her her hard drive.
It's unbelievable.
Anyway, let's let's say let's take you back in time.
Let's listen.
From the group of 30,000 emails returned to the State Department in 2014.
One hundred and ten emails in fifty-two email chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received.
Eight of those chains contained information that was top secret.
Thirty-six of those chains contained secret information at the time, and eight contained confidential information at the time.
Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.
Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.
So Joe gets off, Hillary gets off, and Mar-a-Lago gets raided.
And it's you know, how is that possible?
How is that justice?
How do you even look yourself in the face if you're Merrick Garland and with a straight face say, well, no, Donald Trump deserved to be rated uh and Mar-a-Lago deserved to be rated, but not Joe's home.
Remember, they gave him a heads up when they were going into one of his other homes.
He had a heads up on everything.
They had an opportunity to actually sift through the information.
It's unreal.
It really is.
So, you know, the this if this doesn't prove to the doubters out there that that Donald Trump is singled out, and we have one system of justice for conservatives, one system of justice for liberals.
You know, look at, for example, January 6th prosecutions.
Okay, people broke the law, they're being held accountable.
What about the five hundred and seventy-four riots in the summer of 2020 that killed dozens of Americans, injured thousands of cops, caused billions in property damage, with all the videotape evidence you could ever want?
And and yet there was no congressional investigation, no January 6th committee, no summer of 2020 rioting committee.
That didn't happen with a predetermined outcome, you know, keeping away key facts like, oh, well, well, let's talk to the the Capitol Police Chief that was begging for the National Guard for days.
Let's not let's not make that part of the report.
Uh let's not make part of the report that Donald Trump said these words, you know, some of you will now march to the Capitol so your voices will be heard.
Voices, not your actions will be seen.
And you know, add to that, you know, the fact that, you know, why did Muriel Bowser turn down the the guard?
Why did Donald Trump in front of multiple witnesses ask about bringing up the guard in the days leading up to January 6th, and we've got that all on tape, and we played it to you.
Why can't Kamala Harris what it's it's okay to tweet out a bail fund after the Minneapolis police precinct is burned to the ground?
You just gotta be kidding me.
I mean, th this just proves everything that Jim Jordan committees been saying and looking into.
This is what the weaponization of our legal system means.
This is what a dual justice system looks like.
This is this is like our our constitution being shredded before our eyes if if you don't impartially administer justice.
Justice was supposed to be blind, it's not supposed to be political.
Now we're criminalizing political differences.
Now now we're looking for ways to even keep people's names off the ballot and and using the j their determination, not a court's determination.
You know, Donald Trump's never been charged with insurrection, let alone found guilty of insurrection.
But I'll guarantee you after listening to the Supreme Court arguments today, that's not even going to be the issue that they that that that they even breach in this case.
My guess is that it's it's simply going to come down to the statutory language that excludes the president and the what the term elected officer means.
And the president why does the elected officer of the United States have a far different oath than that of a president of the United States?
There's a ton of arguments you can make here on on this, but you know, it was just fascinating.
We'll get to this when we get back on the other side.
But if you don't see this as the grave injustice it is, if you don't see the double standard at play here, if you don't see the danger in a weaponized justice system, I mean, I don't care who it is, if they didn't charge Donald Trump or raid Donald Trump's home, then I could say, okay, at least they're consistent in their application of justice.
But I can't say that.
Because Hillary Clinton, top secret, classified information found on a server, likely compromised by some of our top geopolitical foes, the lesions of 33,000 emails we never got a hold of.
Uh, and of course the destruction of devices.
I don't where I grew up, I don't know, the word obstruction just pops into my head for some reason.
I'm not sure why.
Because that's exactly what it sounds like.
And imagine if Donald Trump had done any of this.
Why did Mar-Lago get raided?
It looks exactly the same.
It's the same situation.
No wonder Biden didn't want those pictures out.
Anyway, we got a lot of stuff to talk about.
Uh we'll get to this uh these Supreme Court oral arguments in a minute.
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Oh, by the way, so we find out uh Joe Biden.
Remember earlier this week, he talked about Fran I had a conversation with Francois Mitterrand.
Uh it was a bad day.
Uh he'd been dead since ninety-six.
Now, yesterday, Biden twice referred to the late Chancellor Hermer uh Helmut Cole instead of former Chancellor uh Angela Mark Merkel while detailing a 2021 conversation at campaign events.
I mean, you that that's not on tape, but this is insane.
Now here's Corrine Jean-Pierre trying to say, well, people just make mistakes about people all the time, even Sean Hannity does.
Listen.
As it relates to the names and um and what he was trying to, you know, what he was trying to uh to say.
Look, many people, uh elected officials, many people, um, you know, uh they tend they can they can mismisspeak sometimes, right?
And look, I let me give you a couple of examples.
Uh you know, on Sunday, Speaker Johnson said Iran instead of Israel.
This happens.
And Joe uh Joe is not here.
There are many times I call Joe from USA Today, Michael.
I'm sure he doesn't appreciate that.
He does.
Um, but and also Sean Hannity himself has said uh Jason Chavez when he met Matt Gates.
I mean, it happens, it really happens.
Sean Hannity himself doesn't sound like this from this week.
Listen.
There is some movement, and I don't want to I don't want to be choose my words.
There's some movement.
There's been a response from the uh there's been a response from the opposition.
But um yes, I'm sorry.
From Hamas.
But it seems to be uh a little over the top.
We're not sure where it is.
There's this continuing negotiation right now.
Oh, really?
You're gonna compare me to that?
Uh nice try, Karin Jean Pierre.
All right, we're digging deep.
By the way, they actually said in this report that Biden would likely present himself to a jury as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.
They act it's in this report.
Um I'm going through it as we speak.
We'll get to that in the Supreme Court argument straight ahead.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
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If you want to be a part of the program, uh I can't believe Karin Jean-Pierre is trying to compare Biden mixing up, oh, let's see, talking to dead people like Helmut Cole and Francois Mitterrand uh twice in a week and not rem remembering Hamas and stuttering and stammering and you know, mumbling and bumbling, etc.
Somehow comparable to me mixing up the name of Jason Chavez and Matt Gates, which I have no recollection of anyway, but putting all of that fun stuff aside.
Um I'm now digging into this report, and it is actually part of this is you can't even believe it.
This is basically more a report on how awful Joe Biden's cognitive state is than anything else.
I mean, why the special counsel chose to actually admit that he concluding no criminal charges warranted in this manner, quote, Biden would likely present himself to a jury as a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.
And it even gets, you know, on top of admitting that Joe willfully retained disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency, willfully and and uh when he was a private citizen.
Those materials included Mark classified documents about foreign policy in Afghanistan, no books containing Biden's handwritten, you know, entries about issues of national security, foreign policy, implicating, you know, sensitive intelligence sources and methods.
And according to the report, Biden retained materials documenting his opposition to the troop surge uh to Afghanistan in 2009, including a handwritten memo he sent to Obama over the 2009 Thanksgiving holiday related to Mark classified documents.
They discovered all of these materials in either his garage or his home office or any one of the other two locations.
I mean, but this is all stuff you can't make up.
You know, but now think about this.
Because of this, we have a special counsel writing in the report that he concludes it would be difficult to convince a jury that they could should convict him by then former president well into his eighties, um, and a serious felony, by the way, that requires a mental state of willingness, willfulness, meaning it's almost like it's it's almost like they're saying this guy's all checked out.
He really was not not he's not somebody we can hold responsible for his own behavior.
Actually, Cheryl Akison, somebody sweet baby James just handed me this, put out this uh this ex comment.
It's if ever caught doing something, note to self, illegal, I'll appear confused, forgetful, and also very well meaning, and I'll have my attorney swear I meant no harm, and Pinky promise that they have conducted a thorough search and turned over all the evidence against me.
And she's right.
She said, Well, that should be good.
You know, how is it?
Mr. Biden's memory was significantly limited both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017 and in his interview with our office in 2023.
I mean, so they are chronicling his his cognitive decline, which I think has gotten significantly worse.
But think about how profound this is.
We have considered that at a trial, Biden would present himself to a jury as he did during our interview of him as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with poor memory.
Mr. Biden's memory also appeared to have significant limitations, both at the time that he spoke to, I guess this agent and whatever, or I guess the author in 2017, as evidenced by their recorded conversations, and today as evidenced by his recorded conversations and interviews with our office.
Mr. Biden's recorded conversations with this author from 2017 are often painfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries.
He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended.
You know, if it was 2013, when when did I stop being vice president?
He actually they quote him saying that, and forgetting on the second day of the interview uh when his term began in 2009.
Am I still vice president?
I mean, you can't make this up.
Uh that his memory significantly limited both to in interviews with a ghostwriter and with their office.
I mean, is this real I uh what?
I guess the greater punishment is telling the truth that Joe Biden is a cognitive complete utter mess.
Because that that's pretty much what they're saying here.
I I can't even believe what I'm reading here.
I really can't.
If I'm ever caught doing something illegal, I will appear confused, forgetful, and also well meaning, and I'll have my attorney swear I never meant any harm and a pinky promise that we conducted a thorough investigation and search and turned over all the evidence against me.
Well, uh Stephen Miller highlighted a part, which I think was interesting.
In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden's memory was worse.
He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended, if if it was twenty thirteen, when did I stop being vice president?
And forgetting on the second day of the interview, when his first term began, 2009.
Now, he didn't remember even within several years when his son Bo died, and his memory appeared hazy when the describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him, among other things, he mistakenly had a real difference of opinion with uh General Earl Eichenberry when in fact it was that general who was an ally of Mr. Biden cited approvingly in a Thanksgiving memo to Barack Obama.
I mean, how much more of this are we gonna just look at and just turn our heads away?
Because this is insanity.
If he's too feeble to prosecute, he's too feeble to run this country.
What the hell is going on here?
You know, in our interview with Mr. Biden, his memory was worse.
He didn't remember these things.
You got to be kidding me.
Wow, and I had so much to say.
I guess we can do this at the top of the hour with Jay Seculo about the Supreme Court case going on today, but you know, most notably after being give being given multiple chances to return classified documents and avoid prosecution, Mr. Trump allegedly did the opposite, her wrote.
According to the indictment, he not only refused to return the documents for many months, but he also obstructed justice by enlisting others to destroy evidence and then lie about it.
In contrast, Mr. Biden turned inclassified documents to the National Archives and Department of Justice, consented to the search of multiple locations, including his homes, sat for a voluntary interview, and in ways uh other ways cooperated with the investigation.
Well, I hate to correct the record here, but I shall uh there was no opportunity for Donald Trump, you know, to have the negotiations that they're talking about.
Now, here's what we also know.
When it came to Mar-a-Lago, the FBI before the raid went into the room where the documents were.
They went in there.
They saw everything that was in there.
Nobody and nothing would have prevented them from taking that with them.
They were they were given unfettered access.
Their only request after seeing it was for them to put an extra lock on that particular door, which was complied with.
I mean, you're gonna say this is equal justice under the law.
I don't think this is equal justice under the law.
I don't think anybody with a you know mind, the thinking mind could actually believe this.
You look at the pictures.
This is, I guess, is why we heard earlier in the week the Biden people were worried about the pictures that would be included in the report.
You know, anyway, so okay, so they're not gonna charge him because he would present himself in all likelihood to a jury as a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly more elderly man with a poor memory.
What did I say yesterday?
What have I been saying?
I said if you have ever been to a target or super, you know, uh Walmart, whatever it happens to be, oftentimes you are greeted when you walk in the door.
They're they are officially, I think, called greeters.
They tend to be older people, seemingly retired, that you know, want to well, you know, enjoy working.
They want the extra money, maybe.
I don't know.
But they're the nicest people in the world.
They really are, and they're very helpful.
And when I go to a store, I'm one of these people that doesn't like to shop and waste time.
I like to go in, head for the department that I'm looking for, get what I want, and get out.
Unless I'm food shopping, then I like to browse a little bit more.
See what is available that I can't eat.
So, you know, Joe Biden, I said, I don't think he could be a Walmart or target greeter, because your your cognitive skills would necessitate for that job the ability to remember where all the departments are.
If this guy can't remember the years that he was vice president when he ended being vice president, when he became vice president, if he can't remember that, this this is and I talk to people that have met with Biden.
Yes, I have I have spies even in the Biden White House.
I wouldn't call them spies, that's the wrong word.
Sources, people that tell me things.
Uh, As a member of the media, they're called, you know, they're called sources.
And I don't disclose sources.
But I've had people tell me, Sean, everything you're saying is far worse than what you even see.
I'm like, what do you mean?
Everybody around here knows that this guy is checked out.
That's why they're controlling his schedule.
That's why he's not going to be at the Super Bowl, you know, giving an interview.
That's why, you know, we rarely see him.
That's why, you know, Van Jones says that he should hide and let others do the campaigning for him.
That's why Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are teaming up to do an event to save Joe, because they know Joe can't do it on his own.
And Kamala Harris with a 28% approval rating, she can't help him out much either.
So now we have Biden twice in a week referencing meeting and having discussions with dead people.
Now maybe he was given a gift that I don't know about.
Maybe he's he has this ability to speak to ghosts and spirits.
I don't know.
But what he said yesterday, one of these fundraisers, twice referring to the late German chancellor, Helmut Cole, instead of the real Chancellor at the time, Angela Merkel, while detailing a 2021 conversation.
It was the second time this week that he had now recalled speaking with a European leader that was dead when he started talking about it.
And I and I asked, I told Francois Mitterron.
I'm like, no, you didn't.
He's been dead since 1996.
But don't worry, that's just like Sean Hannity mixing up the words Matt Gates and Jason Chaffetz.
You know, or Biden referring to Hamas as uh the the the uh the opposition until somebody in the media shouted out, you mean Hamas?
Yeah, that's right.
Oh, thank you.
Uh Hamas.
I mean, all these, you know, let me play this Hamas cut again, and then I'm gonna play the piano music cut, because this is how bad it is, and this is what this report is detailing here.
Maybe in a weird way, although I I just despise you know the the just the lack of equal justice.
I despise it.
It is corrupt, it is extraordinarily dangerous for our republic.
It really is for the rule of law in our constitution.
But maybe it's more damning laying out that this guy is being propped up by everybody around him.
Anyway, listen to Joe.
There is some movement, and I don't want to I don't want to.
I mean choose my words.
There's some movement.
There's been a response from the uh there's been a response from the opposition.
But um yes, I'm sorry.
From Hamas.
But it seems to be uh a little over the top.
We're not sure where it is.
There's continuing negotiation right now.
the political coverage that look Um of the political players and some of the let me ask rhetorical question.
No, anyway.
That's your president.
We've been saying it more than anyone else.
Well, even Sean Hannity mixed up Jason Chafitz and uh Matt Gates.
Okay, I don't sound like that.
And if I do, I hope the people in my life that love me will actually say, I think it's time to hang it up, uh, dad or Sean or uh my friend or whatever.
Somebody.
Somebody would have enough courage to do that.
You know, speaking with dead chancellors and speaking with dead presidents.
This cannot be ignored, this decline.
This it just can't.
Um the Supreme Court arguments that took place today.
Now, this is has to do with the the issue of the president being taken off these ballots was fascinating in so many different ways.
You know, to watch like Amy Coney Barrett and Sam Alito challenging Trump's attorney, you know, on the issue that Congress can't add dis add qualification to disqualify presidents from a ballot.
Maybe Katanji Brown Jackson might have been the most interesting uh i in challenging the Trump attorney, you know, on issues of insurrection, why it wasn't an insurrection, and over distinctions in the Constitution on the basis of such.
Um, I found that exchange interesting.
Elena Kagan, I mean, just laid out asking the Colorado lawyer why should a single state decide who gets to be president.
Uh, I got the impression you should never go by in a Supreme Court argument case.
I got the impression nine-zero.
But I may be wrong on that.
We'll ask Jay Sekulo at the top of the hour, Chief Counsel, American Center for Law and Justice.
All right.
When we come back, the Supreme Court arguments that took place earlier today about states kicking Trump off the ballot.
We'll have more on Robert Hur's, well, basic takedown of Joe's cognitive decline uh and much, much more.
And you'll meet a mom who lost her daughter to an illegal immigrant, MS-13 gang member supported opposed uh supportedly.