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Congressman Comer - February 22nd, Hour 3
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Now, after the interview with James Biden yesterday, I did have a chance to interview James Comer, the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, and Jim Jordan of the House Judiciary Committee, and Jason Smith of the House Ways and Means Committee.
And here's that interview.
How would you characterize James Comer, the appearance by Jim Biden today?
Did you get answers that you were looking for?
Well, we got him on the record for a lot of things.
You know, it was just striking some of the answers to some of the questions.
For example, he didn't realize that CEFC was affiliated with the Chinese government, even though every big company in China is affiliated with the Chinese government.
We realize that he, even though he and Hunter Biden took in millions and millions of dollars from this Chinese Communist Party-backed entity called CEFC, he never provided any meaningful services back to CEFC.
We learned that while Joe Biden was vice president, there was another diamond that was gifted to Hunter Biden.
So he actually got two diamonds from the Chinese, one while Joe Biden was vice president, one immediately after Joe Biden was vice president.
So there were a lot of questions that we had.
Jim Biden gave us a lot of answers.
And now it's a matter of our next deposition with Hunter Biden.
We're going to try to figure out if, in fact, Jim Biden was telling the truth.
Let's get your take.
Jim Jordan, you were there today.
Yeah, Jim Biden and Hunter Biden kicked the rest of their business partners out of the deal with CEFC.
And CEFC is willing to do it because of the brand.
Remember, it's the money, the business, the brand.
They were willing to go into business with Jim Biden, Jim Biden, who had numerous failed business adventures, Jim Biden, who owed multiple people hundreds of thousands of dollars.
They're willing to go into business just with Hunter, just with Jim, because of the power of the brand, the influence with Joe Biden that that would entail.
The Chinese energy company does that.
And Sean, you're exactly right.
Through it all, there are four fundamental facts that will never change.
Hunter Biden gets put on the board of Burisma.
Hunter Biden gets paid a bunch of money to do that.
Second, he's not qualified to be on the board.
He said so himself.
Third, he asked for help from this prosecutor who was applying the pressure to Burisma.
And fourth, Joe Biden goes over there and conditions the release of $1 billion American tax dollars on the firing of the prosecutor who was applying the pressure to the company Hunter Biden sat on the board of and made a million bucks a year.
That is an official action by a public official to benefit his family.
And then, of course, there's the cover-up that happens at the Department of Justice that two brave whistleblowers came to Jason Smith and told us about.
That is the bulk of this story, and that is what we make sure we got to make sure the American people understand.
Jason Smith, let's get your take on the, well, I guess, questioning of Jim Biden today.
Sean, all James Biden was doing today was protecting the family brand.
Proven at every step.
That's what they do best.
They protect the brand.
They sell access to the brand around the world.
And I would remind the viewers: the brand is President Joe Biden.
We have numerous WhatsApp messages and emails provided to us by the IRS whistleblowers that show James Biden was intimately involved, along with Hunter, Tony Bobolinski, Rob Walker, and others in selling access to his brothers to foreigners.
We even have an email, Sean, provided to us from the whistleblowers that James Biden is on showing those same business partners discussing the profits of a Chinese business deal, which included 20 held for James and 10 for the big guy.
So, for James to sit there today and say his brother had no involvement in these business dealings and no knowledge is complete hogwash, Sean.
Let me ask you, James Comer.
He went into the LLCs in his opening statement in great specificity.
You've had an opportunity.
You're very familiar with these LLCs.
You were the first to point them out right here on this program.
Were these LLCs used for any other legitimate business?
Like, for example, I have an LLC, an LLC, for example.
I put money in.
I invest money in the hope that maybe I might get a return on the other side of it, but real money, real business activity.
What were these LLCs used for?
Do you see any real business activity?
What services did they provide?
And what did the grand?
I'm dying to know what the grandchildren, what did they, what services did they provide to get paid by these entities?
Well, we asked Jim Biden what exactly his various LLCs did, and he said they were consulting.
He was a consultant.
What were you consulting?
Well, he was consulting with American political leaders like Gavin Newsome, and he even mentioned Rick Scott, which we never could understand when he was consulting with Rick Scott.
But 99% of the people that he was consulting with were Democrat political leaders around the country, and he was introducing the owners of CEFC to the American political establishment of the Democrat Party.
Now, that's called lobbying.
That's what a lobbyist does.
And when you're doing that for a foreign entity, that's called a foreign agent.
Jim Biden's never in his life been a Richard lobbyist, much less Richard as a foreign agent, but that's what it appears his businesses did.
Now, what he tried to say about all the millions he took from this Chinese Communist Party-backed CEFC was he and Hunter scouted out and looked for investments for the Chinese government.
Which, number one, we shouldn't have anyone affiliated with the President of the United States trying to help China get their foot in the door in our American economy, but that's what they were doing.
But then we asked the question, okay, which investments did you find for the Chinese Communist Party-backed CEFC?
And he said, well, we never could find any.
So they were just getting paid from the Chinese government for the Biden brand.
And that's what this whole scheme's about.
It's an influence peddling scheme, and they were doing it with our adversaries around the world.
I think the transcribed interview today with Jim Biden proved that.
All right, let me ask you, Jason Smith, because a lot of this revolves around a lot of money.
James Comer has identified over $20 million worth.
There are a lot of people within the committee that have told me, and right here on this program, they believe the money might even go north of $50 million when all is said and done, when you find it all.
But we got to start right at the big lie.
The big lie was I never once spoke to my son or my brother or anybody for that matter about their foreign business dealings.
Okay, then can you explain why Joe Biden was meeting with, for example, Elena Batarena, the Russian oligarch, former First Lady of Moscow at Cafe Milano and other foreign business partners?
Can you explain the 20 phone calls that Devin Archer testified to, that Tony Bobolinski clearly confirmed, I guess, in his deposition?
Can you explain why that big lie does not send off sirens around the country in terms of the media coverage of something like this?
Because you know if the last name was Trump, it'd be very different.
Well, that's exactly right.
The fact that the last name's Biden, they've been able to sell millions of dollars worth of access.
That's why Joe Biden had dinner with Hunter Biden's business associates.
That is why there's been numerous phone calls with Hunter Biden and James Biden's business associates is because the Biden family has received multi-millions, tens of millions of dollars.
People should be completely outraged that they have a president of the United States based on the facts that we have, Sean, that will probably go down as the most corrupt and compromised president in America's history.
Let me ask you, James Comer, because the two big, I think, more flagrant examples both have to do in the energy sector, one with Ukraine and Burisma, the other with CEFC and with China.
Can you confirm, for example, in the case of Burisma James Comer, that in fact, in October of 2015, that it became official Obama administration policy that Ukraine had made so much progress in regards to corruption that they deserved a billion in loan guarantees?
That was in October 2015, by December of 2015, five days before Joe went to Ukraine and leveraged that billion, that Joe Biden got a phone call from his son Hunter in Dubai with Burisma executives at a time they were saying they had a DC problem.
Five days later, that Joe goes, leverages the billion, and son of a B, they fired the prosecutor that Burisma wanted fired.
And as a result of that action as vice president, Hunter continued to get paid while addicted to drugs with no experience.
Is that an accurate timeline?
100%.
We know that that was their policy because that was the policy of the John Kerry State Department.
Okay.
And so you know that was the policy, and you know that that phone call happened.
You have no doubt about that phone call.
Yes.
All right.
Jim George, let me turn to you.
Yeah, Deb.
All right, go ahead.
I was going to say, Devin Archer.
Devin Archer said Hunter Biden called after he got the request from the executives from Burisma.
Hunter Biden called D.C.
He also said Hunter Biden called his dad.
He gave two answers in that deposition.
Victoria Newland at the State Department, six months before that, said, Victor Shokin, the prosecutor, you're doing a great job.
Keep up the good work.
Two months before Joe Biden goes to Ukraine, the Interagency Policy Committee says we think they should get the $1 billion loan guarantee.
But Joe Biden changes right when he goes.
He makes the change.
The only thing that could have prompted that change is the call he got from his son.
Well, let me ask you, Jim Jordan, to follow up on this issue of whether or not Joe Biden benefited from all of this.
As it relates to the CEFC, it seems that Hunter Biden implicates his father a lot.
I'm sitting here with my father between everybody he knows, my ability to hold the grudge.
You're going to regret not following through.
Five days later, did they not get $5 million to send to one of those LLCs or shell companies?
Is that true?
Is that confirmed?
That is exactly what happened.
And then a few months before that, when they're trying to close the deal with CEFC, Hunter Biden's been working on it for months.
There's a dinner at the Four Seasons in Washington, D.C.
It's the eight executives from CEFC, Chinese individuals there with Hunter Biden, his business associates.
Excuse me, Joe Biden makes a drop-in, stops in at the lunch, does a brief little talk to all the folks, and then leaves.
And a few weeks later, $3 million comes in and the agreement gets finalized.
So that's the pattern, whether it's a phone call, whether it's a dinner, whether it's a drop-by, whether it's sitting beside Hunter Biden when he's doing a WhatsApp message to the Chinese, the heads of the CEFC.
There's always that element there.
That's the brand.
That's the money, the business, the brand, how this thing operated.
Let me ask you, Jason Smith, can you identify any services that any of the Bidens actually performed to get these tens of millions of dollars?
Anything that you know that they did for these countries that would have warranted that kind of payment?
All that they did was provide access to the brand, which is President Joe Biden.
That is what they were paying for, and that's all that they delivered.
All right.
Let me ask all three of you a final question here, and it has to do with the FD 1023 form and this FBI informant that was arrested.
Now, there's another name that I think you all recall, and his name was Christopher Steele.
And Christopher Steele was the one that had put together the Hillary Clinton bought and paid for dirty Russian dossier, money she funneled through a law group to hire an op research firm that hired Christopher Steele.
He turned out not to be credible.
By the way, they were warned about that in August of 2016 before the 2016 election by Bruce Orr, that it was political, don't trust it, but they did it anyway.
My question is now, we have a guy that worked for the FBI yet again, another source that turns out to not be credible.
And I'd like to know what is wrong with the FBI.
My understanding is this guy was working for the FBI as an informant for 14 years with even having authority to break the law to get to the bottom of crimes.
I'd like to understand why the FBI keeps hiring informants that they then tell us years and years later are not credible, not when it actually matters.
Can you explain that, James Comer?
Well, look, with respect to the informant, all I knew about the informant was what Christopher Wray told me.
He said he was one of the highest paid, most trusted informants in the Bureau, in the entire Bureau, and they had used him for over a decade, and they had successfully used him in prosecuting some criminals.
He wasn't a factor in the investigation because we didn't even know who he was.
We just knew that there was a 1023 that alleged Joe Biden took a bribe, which was consistent with what we found in Romania and China, with how the bribe was allegedly dispersed through the different shell companies in the different major camps.
So obviously we wanted to investigate it, but we never knew who the informant was.
All we knew was what Christopher Wray said.
Now we see that the FBI arrested him for lying.
It doesn't make sense.
It's not the same treatment that we saw when the FBI figured out that the steel dossier was fictitious.
Interview with James Comer of the Oversight Committee, Jim Jordan of Judiciary, and Jason Smith of House Ways and Means Committee.
We'll take a break.
We'll come back.
Your calls are up next, 800-941-Sean as we continue.
All right, quick break right back.
Your call straight ahead, 800-941-Sean.
You know, I was talking with Greg Jarrett, you know, over at, I don't know what happened to Joe Scarborough.
I have no idea.
But I don't hate him.
I just know that, you know, that's not the guy that I once knew in terms of his political views.
But, you know, you can hear the emergence in this exchange from this morning of what Greg and I were talking about.
It's like, oh, this is going to be Russia hoax 2.0.
This guy, the one informant was a source that the FBI paid since 2010.
Really?
Aren't you upset about that?
It's not the whole case, as I've been explaining today.
Anyway, it's for kicks and giggles.
Let's play it.
So, Ken, the revelation of a Russian-linked informant here comes nearly four years after many in the American intelligence committee warned Moscow was behind many of the allegations being levied at the Biden family.
The story centered around a laptop repairman who came into possession of emails allegedly showing corruption by then candidate Joe Biden.
What we didn't know at the time, since has been alleged now by the Justice Department, is that both Giuliani and suspected informant Alexander Smirnoff, the man we're talking about here, had contacts in the same circle of Russian intelligence agents.
So, Ken, you've been looking into the details of this story.
What else can you tell us?
So, Willie, those 51 former intelligence officials, they paid a steep price for signing that letter.
The House Republicans conducted an investigation.
They brought some of them in to testify under oath.
The Republicans said this was election interference.
This was a bogus attempt to suppress a legitimate story.
And as it turns out, they were right.
Not in the sense they said that the laptop was part of a Russian information operation or had all the hallmarks of a Russian information operation.
They didn't say that the contents of the laptop were made up.
And obviously, we know that they weren't.
Many of them have been now corroborated.
What they said was they were suspicious about why that story was emerging in the middle of an election campaign and whether Russian intelligence was flogging it or was somehow amplifying it.
And now they've been proven correct in the sense that we now know that Russian intelligence, at least according to the statements of this informant, bolstered somewhat by this indictment, were feeding him information, false information.
I mean, you just, you can see now the emergence of Russia hoax number two, but it doesn't negate all the other points that I've been making throughout the show today.
All right, I can keep going, but I won't.
I want to make sure that we get your calls in here.
Todd is in Tennessee.
Todd, hi, how are you?
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Sean, good afternoon.
Thanks for taking my call.
Last time I got through to a radio host, do you know who it was?
I'm guessing Rush.
Oh, it's Neil Bortz.
Let me tell you, Bortz is, I still communicate with Bortz.
Bortz is living the life.
He's got the Borts bus and he travels the country and I like him a lot.
He's a good guy.
Yeah, he was quite the talk show host back in the day in Atlanta.
But, you know, I want to make a comment first because it's relevant to a different topic they actually called into, and it's about our veterans.
My son's a veteran, and I was driving up from Memphis yesterday to Harlan, Kentucky.
If you know anything about Kentucky, you know where Harlan is.
Coal mining city.
But anyway, he's gotten in some trouble up here.
He's a disabled vet.
He has mental health issues.
I tell you, Sean, and I've heard Marsha Blackburn talk about this, trying to get our veterans help, right?
And a parent trying to talk to medical facilities.
HIPAA is a hindrance because you cannot have a conversation with these people openly about what's going on with your own child to try to get them help.
And it's just a shame.
You know, obviously with someone with mental health conditions, can't really articulate their situation well enough.
And I hope there's something that, Sean, you're aware of or that Marsha is doing to try to get that roadblock out of the way so that parents can help their children that are struggling.
Let me tell you something.
It is sad.
And what I try to tell people, if they'll take my advice, is I know the promises of everything is going to be free and we're all going to be equal and we're going to have, you know, equal redistribution of wealth.
All these lofty promises.
Well, let's look quickly, just a quick synopsis of the government and their track record in terms of promises that they make and promises that they never keep and promises that are never fulfilled.
I mean, we know Social Security and we know Medicare.
They're headed for insolvency.
And there's going to have to be something that happens at some point.
We know with $34 trillion, now CBO number is headed to $48 trillion.
We're going to spend more on interest on our debt than national defense this year.
That's how bad this has gotten.
And it's only going to get worse with the reckless spending of liberal Democrats and radical socialists.
And I urge people to be self-sufficient because these promises are phony.
And that is the failure of socialism and redistributionism, collectivism, Marxism, whatever manifestation it takes on.
The promises are great.
The promises are never fulfilled.
And people end up in more poverty in the end because they believe the false promises.
And then it's a matter of calculating how much freedom you give up in the name of false security.
That's how it always ends.
That's sad.
Yep.
What did Ronald Reagan say?
One of the most scariest nine words.
I'm with the government.
I'm here to help.
The system's broken without a doubt.
But it's sad to see how our veterans are treated, Sean.
And particularly now we're hearing, and Marsha Blackburn has talked about this, that we have illegal aliens, and that's what they are, coming in this country that are getting services through the VA now.
And the VA has hundreds of thousands, probably millions of backlogged medical cases to deal with.
And they're getting preferential treatment over our vets.
But HIPAA gets in the way, Sean, of helping.
I wanted to say, too, I agreed with what you said yesterday about Hezer Bush.
Okay.
You saw the bigger picture there, and you don't want to hurt those individuals, right, that work for that company.
And I get that.
But Linda said something else that was profound yesterday, and that we're in a spiritual battle in this country, and anyone doesn't realize that is just being deceived.
And it is scary times.
But what I want to talk about, and it's interesting, Greg Jarrett was on the call today because you were talking about exactly what I wanted to talk about, and that's his laptop.
Because the MEBA laptop has that incriminating evidence, at least by association.
Does Comerce Committee have that?
No, it's actually direct incrimination.
Half the income to POPs implicating his father in numerous ways.
We've discussed all of that.
Does Comerce Committee have that laptop so they can see that evidence?
Of course they do.
Or, you know, talking with the financial head, Eric Sherwin, who also, I believe, gave a deposition.
Well, which account should we use to pay off dad's home repairs on this repair and that repair and this one and that one?
And, well, that implicates him.
You know, implicates his father all over the place here.
You're a businessman, Sean.
You're a professional, but you are also a face.
That's why Berner uses you and other companies use you, okay?
And by the way, I have Berner's products, all right?
They're great.
But here's the thing: I worked for a communication company in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
One time, Johnny Ianis came to that facility.
You know who Johnny Ianis was, right?
Of course, Indiana Colts, one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time.
They called him the general.
He commanded a presence when he walked in that room.
He had this aur about him.
My hair stood on the back of my neck when he walked in.
I turned around and I recognized immediately.
You know, he was there only by face to get that deal.
I did not.
It's the same thing.
Thing with Joe Biden, right?
He's just a face.
If he's just mentioned or he's on the call, he doesn't have to say anything at all.
And that closes the deal.
And he is a closer.
Anyone that doesn't see that is, again, just not wise to the world.
But the other thing I wanted to mention, and you confirmed that, that they do have that laptop.
They can see that evidence.
I have a question for you.
Trump's going to get the nomination.
I have no doubt.
Nikki Haley's a spoiler.
What happens is, God forbid, God forbid, but people are talking about it, Sean.
What happens if something happens to Trump?
Who gets the nomination if he has not announced who his vice president is going to be?
Well, I mean, you think he should announce it now?
Is that what you want?
Yes.
Absolutely.
I think he'll do it at the right time.
I mean, I don't think it matters if he does it now.
I mean, he could even go as far as to do a little bit of what he did in 2016, give a list of people that he'd put on the Supreme Court.
He could tell us what people he'd want and what positions in his cabinet.
Anyway, let me move on.
I've got to get other calls in.
Good call, Todd.
We love Tennessee.
800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, let us say hi to Wendy in Colorado.
Wendy, hi.
How are you?
Glad you called.
Thank you so much.
It's such a pleasure and such an honor to speak to you.
Let me just tell you, I think President Trump should pick you as a running mate.
Well, slow down.
Wendy, you must not like me.
Why would you wish that on anybody?
I don't know, man.
Running for these offices, it is like, wow.
I mean, they just want, well, they want to destroy me anyway.
I can tell you for most of my career, there have been efforts to get me canceled, fired, boycotted.
I've been through all of it.
And I don't come on the air and whine about it, but I mean, that is an everyday reality for me and for a lot of people that do what I do.
Well, I think you're terrific.
And I just want to say I don't understand.
I really, really don't understand how the judge can be picked to do and to conduct that hearing on Donald Trump when he's biased.
And he knew he was guilty before he even walked in, before he opened his mouth, before his attorney.
No, he had already declared on summary judgment that Trump was guilty.
They already decided that part.
This was all the penalty phase.
That was never, there was no jury to, you know, to even offer to team Trump.
That was decided by this radical leftist judge from day one, the guy who's just a real estate genius that continued the valuation of Mar-a-Lago at $18 million.
I just urge people, if you're interested in what real values of beachfront intercoastal property is in Palm Beach, it'll shock you.
It shocks me.
It's unbelievable.
Well, the real estate nowadays is just unbelievable.
And I can't even imagine how high it is there.
And I just, I get so floored and so angry and so upset by all of this.
You know, I know I hate to say this, but you know, this kind of reminds me like when my brother passed away, I told my mother, I said, Mom, I wish there was something that you could give me to make me go to sleep for five years.
And she said, you can't say that.
You can't say that.
You'll miss everything.
And I said, some things I don't want.
I don't want to be a part of it.
I don't want to witness it.
This is just unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
I mean, listen, let me talk to you because I have a limited period of time.
And I know I've had loved ones that I've lost in my life.
And I think about them every day.
And everybody on this program has probably had the same experience.
Look, one of the things that really sustains me in life is my faith.
And I believe that there is a living God.
I am a Christian.
I believe in the promise of Jesus Christ and our Savior.
And I believe in an afterlife.
Let not your heart be troubled.
You know, for where I am, there you shall also be.
And I go and I prepare a place for you.
And then it says, for where I am, there you shall also be.
In my father's house are many mansions.
I believe that.
I know you miss your brother, but I believe you'll see him again.
Okay?
Just one last thing.
I'm so ashamed to be a Coloradoan.
I just can't believe Colorado is doing what they did to Donald Trump.
I mean, I'm so ashamed to say that I'm from here.
He's going to win that case.
Have faith.
He's going to win that one.
I don't know if he'll win the immunity one, but, you know, I hear in your voice, you're very troubled in terms of you're worried about and concerned about our future.
And so am I.
I don't disagree with you.
Listen, we're praying for you and your family, but remember, there's always hope.
There always is.
The American people are good people.
And I put my faith in that.
And I put my faith in God, our Creator.
We'll continue.
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All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News channel.
We'll have more fallout from the disastrous deposition of Joe Biden's brother, James.
We'll get reaction on the disaster on the border, the economy.
Stephen Miller, Tommy Laron, Jason Chaffetz, Judge Janine tonight, Charles Payne, and Riley Gaines.
Just set your DVR at 9 Eastern.
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