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Interesting new uh developments.
Uh we won't know a lot more until tonight.
Uh, but Jim Biden, the brother of Joe Biden, is and has been uh being deposed uh before the various committees, the House Oversight Committee, uh House Oversight and Accountability Committee and the House Judiciary Committee.
And uh apparently, according to my sources, and yes, we practice journalism, and yes, I'm a member of the press, and yes, we do investigative reporting, and yes, uh we give opinion, but we're honest about it, unlike the other liars and frauds and the mob and the media, uh, we we give opinion.
They they do, but they never admit it or acknowledge it and claim I'm journalist.
No, you're not.
You're a left-wing political hack with an agenda, but you can't be honest about your agenda.
Just be honest.
People will respect you more.
Uh, and we do, you know, other things, sports culture, you name it, we talk about it all.
Anyway, so brother Jim of Joe Biden goes before the these two committees today.
Uh, I have gotten some insight as to a little bit of what's been going on, and basically the long and short of it is Jim is coming off as a very old person.
A very old person with faulty memory issues.
I'm like, of course he's gonna have faulty memory issues.
Of course he's gonna claim he's old.
Uh gives this whole, you know, diatribe.
He had a statement that he released, and you know, I'm being interviewed by the House of Representatives Oversight and Judiciary Committees as part of their purported, not purported, inquiry to determine whether it's sufficient evidence to impeach my brother.
And let me digress for a second.
I know there are some people saying, Hannity, what about people like Ken Buck out in out in Colorado, the Republican that wouldn't even vote for the impeachment of Mayorcus and some of the others.
I don't know what Mike Gallagher is thinking.
I don't know what Tom McClintock is thinking, but i i you you gotta do things in life because they're the right thing to do sometimes and not worry about what the outcome is going to be.
And I think this is one of those moments.
And he goes on to say, I've had a long career and in business ventures.
Joe Biden has never had any involvement or any direct or indirect financial interest in those activities, none.
Well, the House Oversight Committee takes issue with a lot of this.
Now it goes on to talk about his background, how much he loves his brother, how he helped his brother first get elected to the Senate.
It talks about his background, his career, spanning industries, insurance, financial services, hospitality, energy, health care, affordable housing, etc.
etc.
Uh and it goes on and on.
And then he gives a little bit of an explanation about the LLCs, and he takes uh issue with the fact that you know some people have claimed it's a show company.
Well, that's what House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has said over and over again.
Nor is it a holding company.
Rather, it is what I understand to be a typical corporate structure used by many people who are consultants or otherwise self-employed.
Not only does an LLC provide certain legal advantages, but a corporate name can also add some gravitas to a business operation.
Okay, but this is the problem, and what James Comer has said in many interviews with with us, including on this program, is that they don't appear to have served any other business function.
Yes, LLCs are real.
I own LLCs, and in my LLCs, actually there's real money invested in real businesses with with all of the legal, you know, characterizations as one might have.
Now, if an LLC, as James James Comer is claiming, uh only seems to be used as a means of funneling money from one account to another account into the oh let's say bank account of a grandchild, one has to wonder what did the grandchild do to earn that money.
And then the issue, of course, the biggest issue Is about uh Joe Biden himself.
Because Joe Biden, we know is a liar.
Joe Biden lied repeatedly.
He lied as a candidate, and he has since lied as president.
That he never talked to his son, his brother, or anybody for that matter, about their foreign business dealings.
Okay, now we're getting to the heart of the matter.
And then in fact, Devin Archer blows blows this case wide open.
Well, in fact, he did lie about this issue, and he can recall twenty separate examples.
Twenty, where Hunter Biden was with foreign business associates, and yes, uh that he was on the calls and that Joe Biden was the brand, as also corroborated by the testimony of Tony Bobelinski, the big guy, money set aside for him, and that yes, he was he met had meetings with Joe Biden that he was a part of.
Now all these people lying, I guess that's gonna be up one day to a court for a court to decide or somebody to decide.
And I know that with a limited majority in the House, some people are upset.
Republicans may get all this information that is quite damning that would have resulted in 15 Trump impeachments, and it points out the double standard.
Anyway, here's here's an example.
How involved were you in your son's Chinese shakedown text message?
Were you sitting there?
Were you no?
The only thing I can do is make up things about my family.
It's not gonna go very far.
There's this testimony now where one of your son's former business associates is claiming that you were on speaker phone a lot with them talking business.
Is that what you've never talked business in England?
And I know I know you'd have a lousy question.
Well, what do you it's why is that a lousy question?
Because 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 with their business, period.
And what I will do is the same thing we did in our administration.
There'll be an absolute wall between personal and private uh and and the government.
Do you stand by your statement that you did not discuss any of your son's overseas business dealers?
I stand by that statement.
So it's been reported in you have said that there were occasions when uh Joe Biden would call in with clients present on a speaker phone.
Right.
How how many times do you think that happened?
I mean, over a 10-year partnership, I would um you know the number I'm going with is 20.
That's probably the the the amount that I'll kind of record.
Yeah, a lot.
Joe Biden, then the sitting vice president, knew that there were Hunter's business associates in the room.
Yeah, I think I can I could definitively say at particular dinners or meetings, he knew there were business associates, and he, you know, we'd or if I was there, I was a business associate too.
Um so I think uh or if you know any of the other colleagues from the DC office or the New York office were there.
So yeah, at times there were from the you know, to be, you know, completely clear on the calls.
I don't know if it was an orchestrated call in or not.
It certainly was powerful, though, because you know, if you're sitting with a foreign business person and you hear the vice president's voice, that's prize enough.
I mean, that's that's that's pretty impactful stuff for anyone who's that's pretty impactful.
Biden was the brand, Devin Archer further went on to say in all of this, and again, a lot of that corroborated by Tony Bobolinski, who himself met with Biden, discussed these issues according to his testimony, and and we're gonna have a lot of this made public again over time.
So, how is it that the media in this country, the mob, because they have a mob mentality, right now the mob mentality is to protect Joe Biden.
The irony is is the New York Times is is even saying that the White House is very upset.
They're upset with even their allies and the media mob.
The left wing media in this country has been nothing but an extension of what is the Biden press office.
That's all they have been.
They're not doing investigative reporting.
You know, what do they know about?
Well, if you he never met with his foreign business partners, then then how do you explain the Russian oligarch Elena Baterina And others meeting with Joe Biden and having dinner at Cafe Milano.
I've never been there.
Sounds like a very fancy place.
Sounds like it might be fun to visit.
No, I've never been there.
But why was why was Joe Biden meeting with foreign business partners of Hunter?
Then of course that the two big issues.
Let's stay with the fundamentals here and not expand out because we're we have issues involving Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Romania, Mexico, Ukraine, all of them.
And we have now they've been able to, according to James Comer, find 20 million dollars plus in business.
They haven't even gotten to the bottom of all this because in large part, a lot of the information that they have subpoenaed and requested has not been turned over.
I can't wait till tonight because on Hannity, we're gonna have Jim Jordan and James Comer on the program, and we're gonna learn a lot more about James Biden's testimony.
I mean, it almost sounds, I call it a syndicate.
It almost sounds like everybody's all of a sudden gonna have amnesia.
Reminds me of all these like mob leaders that you know would show up in court in their pajamas and act like they didn't know what time of day it was, where they were, why they were there, and and it was an act.
Uh so everyone's gonna have faulty memories now.
But we do have enough evidence, Joe Biden in his own words bragging that he leveraged a billion dollars in taxpayer money to get a prosecutor fired, who in fact was investigating Barisma Holdings, an energy conglomerate in Ukraine, and that is as a result of his firing and insistence that this guy get fired or you don't get a billion dollars.
Well, Hunter continue to get paid.
Now, why is that important?
Hunter on Good Morning America admits he has no no background or experience in energy or Ukraine.
Well, why are you paying that guy millions of dollars?
Would any of you out there like that kind of gig?
I would imagine you probably would.
Or Layden Baterina's 3.5 million deal with with Hunter and and his businesses, according to Devin's testimony, Devin Archer, what, a hundred million more invested in a real estate venture?
Really?
Or the fact if you look at the timeline as has been confirmed to to this program on this program on television by James Comer, October of 2015, becomes official Obama administration administration policy to in fact give a billion in loan guarantees.
They felt that Ukraine had made enough progress on issues that of concern like previous corruption and that it was Joe's job.
He was in charge of Ukraine, and five days before he goes to leverage that billion dollars, lo and behold, Comer and his committee discovered that there was a phone call with Barisma executives, Joe Biden, who never once spoke to Hunter and his foreign business partners when they were in Dubai together, and it was five days later that he leveraged the billion.
That was a billion dollars that had already been approved with multiple agencies, a multi-agency conclusion that they they were gonna give the billion in loan guarantees.
That was their official policy.
It doesn't erase Hunter's laptop from hell.
It doesn't erase the WhatsApp message.
I'm sitting here with my father, and we're wondering why you haven't kept your commitment.
And between everybody he knows, my ability to hold the grudge.
That I'll say this to everybody in this room.
I had nothing to do with Hunter's business dealings.
That just kills my throat when I do it.
I don't know why.
And lo and behold, you know, a few days later, according to James Comer's committee, they found five million dollars from the CEFC.
What is the CEFC?
Well, that is the Chinese energy conglomerate.
Again, no experience in energy.
It's not like he acquired it.
So at a time when Hunter is addicted to hard drugs, admittedly, admits he has no experience.
Now he's getting paid millions of millions of dollars from countries like China and Russia and Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Romania, Mexico.
But don't worry, none of this is anything to do with anybody.
You know, uh James Biden says in recent years I I have seen Mr. Bobalinsky in the news and his appearances have only strengthened my early observations about his honest or character and motivations.
In my opinion, it is clear Mr. Bobolinsky was angry about not being included in the Hudson West 3D.
Oh, that's what we're gonna do.
We're just gonna trash, we're gonna trash the witnesses.
Let's see what Tony Bobelinski thinks of that and how he's gonna react.
Anyway, so we're gonna see over time.
But know this, going into all this, is he lied.
You know, how much money did they make from selling access to Joe the brand?
You know, what did the Biden family?
What did they do?
What services did they offer?
How much money did Joe get?
According to Hunter's laptop, you know, he was tired of giving half of his income to Pops and asking people what account should I pay my father's home repairs from?
How many business associates ultimately did Joe speak to and meet with?
How would the transfer of the business?
What are the grandchildren do for this?
Do they know that Hunter was addicted to crack cocaine at the time while selling access to Joe?
You know, what was the first year that you gave money to Joe Biden?
What about all these loans?
Can you bring us the official loan agreement so we can take a look at it?
You know, is Joe the big guy?
You know, it's just there's so many questions.
And I'm not really worried so much about the outcome.
Well, now you see that the FBI informant, well, the Christopher Steele was a trusted FBI informant.
The 1023 form, that was a part of it, not the biggest part.
It's interesting where this is coming from.
It's all being orchestrated by radical leftists that left high-ranking physicians at the most radical left-wing organizations to run defense for Joe Biden.
I mean, that's going to be amazing to reveal at some point, too.
Well, more on this tonight when we find out what Jim Biden said before the judiciary and the oversight committee tonight, uh, is they both will join us.
Um I'm getting very pissed off at this narrative that Democrats, well, a couple of narratives they want to push.
Number one is that Republicans that it's their problem.
They're responsible because I've done everything I could do, and I I don't know what else I can do.
Joe Biden is actually out there peddling.
And along with Alejandro Mayorchis in terms of their open border policies.
Uh, we've gone over this again and again, and I can't stand the lying about it and the idea that they're trying to project out an outright falsehood and lie.
Joe Biden doesn't need any congressional effort at all as it relates to the border.
He can, with a stroke of a pen, he could fix the issues at our border by reinstating the policies that work.
Now, this dovetails into this new narrative, and that all has to do with the funding for Ukraine.
And I have great sympathy for the Ukrainian people.
And I'll I'll take it a step further.
I think they have fought valiantly.
I mean, the country sadly, because of uh a maniacal, you know, thug, brutal, murdering dictator by the name of Vladimir Putin.
That's what he is, you know, decided to invade a sovereign country.
Rather than if he thought that he had rights to the Donbas region, whatever it happened to be, they annexed Crimea, what, 2014, Donbass, they think it's theirs.
They think the whole country is theirs.
They've tried to get the entire country, including Kiev.
But I'm just tired of this narrative that any Republican that said, no, we've got to secure our borders first, and we've got to get our budget in balance first, is somehow labeled in the mob, the media, as responsible for what Vladimir Putin is doing.
Because I don't know many conservatives that don't see Putin for who he is.
People are smart, they understand what happened with Ukraine.
It's not that complicated.
We know that he invaded an innocent country.
My deepest sympathies, I'm I'm a little furious, as per usual, that the continent of Europe, they they want the United States to end up funding the war effort, and and they frankly have not done enough in my opinion in terms of their own contributions to this conflict when they're the ones that are in the most danger if if Putin is successful.
But with all that said, America did, in fact, already give $75 billion.
Now, I understand that they're running out of weaponry.
I understand that Putin wants that to happen.
I understand all of that.
All of that could probably be resolved tomorrow if Democrats would simply agree to bring back the stay in Mexico policy, continue building the border wall, and if they're going to spend more money,
they have to find some areas in our budget to cut because we cannot sustain the current trajectory we are on economically, which is $34 trillion in debt, soon to be $48 billion in debt.
We'll get into some of the latest you know economic news, but the the this very soon interest now is going to surpass uh the entire budget of our defense department if this if this crazy spending continues.
Now people are seem to want to use this as some type of political narrative with the death of Alexi uh Novelny.
I mean, I feel terrible for this guy.
Do I think Putin killed him?
Absolutely, I think he did.
Has he killed other political opposition leaders?
Yes, he has.
You know, after falling ill by the poisoning uh in 2020 on a flight to Moscow.
Well, Novel Navalny uh literally was rushed to a hospital in Germany where his wife, you know, hugged him and he later defiantly returned to Russia only to be put in jail.
His demise was sudden, mysterious.
Uh my understanding is prison video cameras, they just happened to be disconnected beforehand.
Wow, didn't the same thing happen with Jeffrey Epstein?
It's amazing how prison cameras break at just the most inappropriate times.
The time of death is suspiciously murky.
His body apparently showed damning evidence of bruises and convulsions.
Uh he was allegedly poisoned by Putin before, as I just mentioned.
And Navalny uh also had appeared fine on camera only a day before he was killed, and state media suggested a blood clot is another red flag.
And we don't know where the body is.
His corpse was transported from the penal c colony where he had been serving as you know, decades long prisoner.
Uh and and apparently his lawyer and mother were barred from viewing his body there, prompting supporters to accuse the Kremlin of a cover-up.
Well, that would be a likely conclusion, knowing what you're dealing with and knowing a history of you know, poisoning and and killing and murder that Putin is involved in.
I mean, that's just who he is.
Now, you know, a couple of things that America needs to start thinking about as it relates to foreign aid.
Because we can't afford it.
That's just the let's cut to the chase here.
You know, I've got economic numbers here, and none of them are good, and we can't afford new economic data now has analysts backing off the soft landing predictions that they were they were making, with you know, inflation now up 300% from this time last year.
That's a pretty good indicator that we're not having a soft landing.
You know, economists now are cutting their projections for first quarter gross domestic product.
Goldman Sachs shifted the forecast, you know, from two nine to two, three percent.
The Atlanta Fed, they they moved it down from uh down two two nine from three, four percent.
Goldman now projects uh core personal consumption expenditures, excluding, you know, the very volatile food and and energy categories increasing uh again.
That's more inflation, although Joe Biden is now trying to blame trying to blame manufacturers and businesses.
They're charging too much, they're overcharging.
No, that's not the reason.
By the way, your IRS is warning your refunds will be much lower this year.
What a shock.
But interest costs on the national debt is now on a on a trajectory to exceed defense spending this year alone.
And the Fed and their interest rate hikes have made the federal debt that much more costly.
I don't know why they didn't give 30 year fixed rate mortgages when when Trump was president.
That might have been smarter.
You know, the U.S. government's mounting debt, you know, now they're predicting it's gonna be forty-eight trillion.
Well, you how do we recover from that?
And on top of this, now we have something that's almost guaranteed to kill the economy, and that is all right, six trillion in in taxes on the November ballot because four trillion dollars in tax cuts, the Trump tax cuts will expire in 2025, and Biden's been adding two trillion in additional burdens and expenditures.
We in other words, we can't afford all of this.
One of the smartest things and proposals, and I remember this long before Donald Trump ever announced that he was going to run for president, and we had long conversations.
I was I was doing my own vetting of him.
I was very dubious if he was a conservative.
We had these long conversations, and he was so passionate about well, one of the things we could have done if we weren't so stupid, meaning as policy, country, if we're going to be involved in liberating Iraq, and they have all of this money, it's called oil.
Why don't they pay us back that way?
Now, one thing that I think we're if any foreign aid, if you're gonna have it, and even in the case of our closest ally, Israel, Israel right now needs the weaponry, and you could give it to them as a loan, and and they could pay it back over time or pay it back, you know, in terms of energy production and all sorts of rules.
But we don't we don't think outside the box that way.
And this is the same with Ukraine.
But for Republicans to say that they want the border secure first, does not make them a Putin puppet.
And that's been the narrative that people are putting out there.
And that is absolutely fundamental.
It's just a lie at its core, as so many other lies are told on a daily basis that never get called out.
You know, but with all that said, you can't get away from the fact that Joe Biden owns the disastrous border policies of his, the disastrous economic condition we're in.
I don't know if you saw him yesterday.
You know that he started using the small stairs to get up Air Force One, the back of the plane, not the front of the plane, because he just doesn't, you know, they don't have any confidence that he can even get up the plane anymore, just like they didn't have confidence he could do a simple Super Bowl interview, which is like the easiest interview any president would ever do.
Uh there's a report in the New York Times that the Secret Service has now apparently created a new position on the presidential travel team, and that is a special agent in charge of catching Joe Biden before he falls.
You know, the way he walks to the presidential aircraft is apparently subject, according to the New York Times, to careful management.
And the president started taking a short flight of stairs directly into the belly of Air Force One after he tripped and fell again and again and again, and then tripped and fell over the sandbag at the commencement uh ceremony that past year.
What was that?
I think that was at the Naval.
No, it was the Air Force Academy.
No, it was the Naval Academy.
And a recent recent poll by MBC News shows half a Democratic voters say that they have concerns about his health.
And apparently that is frustrating the Biden, you know, White House that people see what they see.
What do you want us to unsee it and act like you know the mob and the media?
It's unreal.
Also, you were I know you were very busy yesterday.
But Ethan.
Nobody has any idea how busy I was.
No idea.
I did it.
I did a 10-hour shoot yesterday in well, it's a long story.
In the desert.
I'll announce it at the right time.
But I think you could say the desert.
By the way, people think I'm off, and our friend Mark Simone filled in it.
I'm very I'm always grateful to Mark.
He's such a good guy.
Actually, Mark made a big announcement.
And he said our friend Sean Hannity is not here today.
And the reason that he is not here today is because he's taking a well-deserved day working somewhere else.
Is that what he meant?
He made it very clear to the audience that you were not here, but you were working somewhere else.
So everybody knew that you weren't out, you know, golfing or having like the time of your life that you're actually working and you didn't work on the city.
I haven't picked up a golf club.
I played Like three times in five years.
Oh, my friend, when are you going to play golf again?
I'm like, I don't have time.
I work all the time.
But that was nice of Marvel.
I did make it on TV last night.
I don't know if you noticed.
I saw.
I did see that.
I was like, oh my God.
I'm like, that's impressive.
But I will explain in due time what yesterday was about.
It's actually pretty cool.
But I will say, so Ethan and I were in the studio yesterday, and we were looking, and Ethan goes, he goes, Look, look, there's the stair man.
And I go, What's that?
He goes, you know the guy.
He watches the stairs.
I'm like, you gotta be kidding me.
He goes, No, they hired this guy.
And that's what he does.
So we that's fascinating.
We were but we're watching him.
It's very funny when you watch him because you realize how important his job is.
And even with him there, even with him there, he tripped twice up the steps, the short steps, not the big steps, the short steps.
Short steps.
He tripped.
Yeah, and he still can't do it.
And I'm like, uh-huh.
Commander in chief my ass.
Okay.
By the way, everybody wants these sneakers.
I've had people asking me to get them sneakers of Donald Trump.
Oh, the gold sneak.
We talked about that too.
We were saying the what was it, Ethan?
45,000 on eBay.
I saw that.
I saw it.
Can you believe that?
No.
No.
But I have a guy.
I have one of my producers on TV.
Uh, you know who Robert.
I'll just give out his first.
He is a oh my God, he's a sneaker freak.
And I'm like, well, and they're actually pretty cool.
You know who else loves them?
Is Charles Pay.
And I'm like, I do love sneakers too.
They are very cool.
But I mean, I wouldn't pay 45,000 for shoes, period.
Oh, okay.
Nobody in their right mind would pay 45.
But I think they went for a thousand dollars retail, but I mean No, they were like 399.
Yeah, they're three, four hundred bucks.
You know, I uh I'll ask if there's gonna be another run, but I I I can't get special consideration.
You kidding?
I'd be put in jail for the rest of my life.
Listen, I think if you start sporting some uh some gold trumpies, I I think you're gonna get a lot of attention.
That's all I'm gonna say.
And you love sneakers, you know.
It could be a good look for you.
Yeah, I've just I've I've kind of changed a little bit.
I use I they're kind of like sneakers, but they look like shoes.
Those sneakers, yeah.
I've always loved them my whole life.
Starting when I got my first pair of Converse.
Oh, yeah, by the way, the New York uh PD riots uh cops were called to quell the immigrant, um, illegal immigrant melee at Randall's Island.
So it's uh, you know, Donald Trump gets, you know, all these fines, but if you beat the hell out of cops, nothing happens to you.
You get out of jail in s in mere minutes, no bail.
You get to flip the bird to New York on your way to California to the sanctuary state where you get free health care.
Uh but yeah, he did slip on the baby stairs.
Uh Trump did in his interview with Laura Ingram last night confirm a list of names floated to be on the vice presidential short short list.
And uh anyway, uh and it includes Tim Scott, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Governor Ron DeSantis, which I'm glad to hear.
I did not like those two fighting.
Because they were friends.
I mean, I used I asked him one time, I said, What happened?
And I don't know, it sounds like maybe they worked out their differences.
I hope so.
I'll cut I think we have Governor DeSantis on tonight.
If he does, I'm gonna ask.
Uh, anyway, 800 941 Sean is on number.
You want to be a part of the program.
We do have all things simple man Bill O'Reilly coming up.
We'll talk to him, America, and we'll talk to uh President Trump's attorney on their appeal in that massive, you know, civil case in New York, which they absolutely must appeal because Mar-a Lago is not worth 18 million dollars.
Closer to a billion.
I know that's insane, but it's just a fact.
Go look at real estate, Oceanfront, intercoastal real estate in Palm Beach.
It'll blow your mind.
It's crazy.
All right, well, when we come back, all things simple man Bill O'Reilly and Donald Trump's attorney, Alina Haba, straight ahead.
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