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If you want to be a part of the program, there has been a lot of, well, I guess worn leather, if you will, from our friend John Solomon, founder and editor-in-chief, justthenews.com, as he has now broken three big exclusives in just the last week.
One, Jim Jordan is asking the Department of Justice watchdog to investigate whether the FBI is purging agents if they have conservative views.
It's a follow-up to a story that John broke just about a week or two ago.
Issued number two, a Biden advisor had contact with Parisma during the height of the corruption probe.
We now have emails that back this up, and that the FBI knew since 2016 that Hunter Biden's team nearly scored $120 million in a Ukrainian deal while Joe Biden was vice president.
Well, that's new.
Anyway, justenews.com, founder, editor-in-chief, investigative reporter John Solomon is with us.
How are you, sir?
Well, good to be with you today.
Let's work our way back in the order in which you broke these stories, and let's go to the first one where the FBI knew since 2016 that Hunter's team scored nearly $120 million Ukrainian deal while Joe was the vice president.
Okay, now that the laptop has finally, four years later, been verified by the government, as they are the ones that introduced it into evidence in the case against Hunter Biden.
I think all of this now is basically evidence against Joe Biden.
You know, with this upcoming debate, one week from today, I'm pretty sure that Joe's going to say, you're a convicted felon.
Maybe we should have a drinking game based on how many times he says it.
But I would say based on the laptop that we now know and frankly knew a long time ago was very real.
You reported the FBI knew about it as early as March of 2020 for sure.
They had verified it and that's why they were pre-bunking it with big tech.
But, putting that aside, the FBI learned tell, tell us what they learned as far back as 2016 about Hunter, his partners and how they set up a new tax venture in another country, a third-party country that would be uh, that would be capitalized by a whopping 120 million dollar investment from the controversial owner of this energy giant Burisma, Holdings out of Ukraine, where Hunter sat on the board.
even though he admitted he had no experience and was addicted to crack cocaine at that time.
Yeah, listen, I think you summarize it perfectly.
Hunter Biden gets put on this board at a time when the owner and the company are deemed corrupt by the State Department, and the owner is being pursued by the Serious Fraud Office in Great Britain on a fraud case that was actually assisted by the FBI.
The State Department, the FBI, British fraud authorities all believe this company was corrupt.
And as a result, they started pursuing them, and Hunter Biden just magically appears on the board right at the moment that all of these allegations are surfacing.
And the fraud case dies down for a while.
And Hunter Biden is looking, along with his business partners, Devin Archer and others, to score big, bigger than just the million dollars a year he was getting to be on the board.
And they put together this concept.
They're going to open a company in Liechtenstein, which is a tax-friendly country.
And the owner of Burisma, Mikola Zolchewski, is going to capitalize it with $120 million.
Just think about that.
Hunter Biden's on the board.
He's supposed to be providing fiduciary responsibility for Burisma.
And he's working with the owner to move money to another one of his companies in another country where he's going to be a significant beneficiary along with his other business partners.
That alone raises questions.
But then when you think of the fact that this is all going on while Joe Biden's administration is dealing with this corruption issue involving Burisma, and Joe Biden is the point man for Ukraine anti-corruption efforts, it looks all the more untoward.
We didn't know about this $120 million deal back when impeachment occurred, back when I broke the first stories in 2019.
It was sitting in the 3.39 million pages of documents that the FBI, SEC, and IRS gathered from Hunter Biden and his business partners during a 2016 securities investigation.
We now have access.
How is it that we didn't have access to this prior to this point?
I mean, you know, here we are eight years later, John.
Well, listen, the president, President Trump should have had access because these were exculpatory documents for his impeachment.
They didn't get these documents.
Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassy had a Senate investigation going on it.
They didn't get these documents.
I put in lots of FOIAs over the years to many agencies.
I didn't get these documents.
However, we got them because Devin Archer, one of the defendants in that securities case, gave them to Congress recently.
It's the full production of everything the United States government got from Hunter Biden and his various business partners.
There is a rich Trevor Chove, and there's something interesting here.
There's a lot of emails and correspondence that are in these documents certified by the government that aren't on Hunter Biden's laptop, which raises the question, why aren't they?
We'll have to find out over time.
But there is a body of new evidence that really puts into focus how much the government agencies, the deep state people call them, knew about what was going on in Hunter Biden world and how it potentially affected Joe Biden's duties.
Well, certainly they didn't have any intention of bringing it to the American people, just like Joe Biden was allowed to get away with lies about the Hunter Biden laptop not being real, and the FBI knew damn well it was real.
In the summer of 2020, leading up to the election in the fall of 2020, we know that the FBI, even though they had verified the authenticity of Hunter's laptop, they were out there meeting weekly with all these big tech companies and warning them they may be victims of a disinformation campaign.
And that disinformation campaign may be about Joe Biden.
It may be about Hunter Biden.
Anyway, fast forward, the New York Post breaks the story that Hunter Biden laptop, all of this, and they allowed the president to go out and lie, then candidate Joe Biden to go out there and lie and say it's false.
They allowed Hunter to say it's false.
And when they got specific questions, meaning the FBI from Twitter, from Facebook, I believe, those two big tech companies in particular, is this what you were warning us about or is this real?
They knew they could have verified it was real.
They refused to answer the question.
That's right.
And the result of that was they censored the story, and you couldn't even send a private message with a link to the New York Post article.
You're right.
And listen, it wasn't that hard for me.
You remember I came on your show very early and told you that the FBI had already authenticated this laptop.
I actually had the ODNI, John Ratkoff, the director of national intelligence thing.
There's no reason to believe that this laptop had anything to do with Russia or a foreign intelligence operation.
It was very easy for me.
I got the FBI's signature handwriting expert to go look at the documents on the things.
Those are definitely Hunter Biden's signature.
We can compare to the guy that made scores of cases for the FBI.
I was able to corroborate it in real time.
And the real question is, how come none of those 51 could do the same work before they, intelligence agents, before experts before they wrote that letter?
Because they didn't care.
All they knew is they got a request from Wink and Tony Blinken, who organized them and said, we need you to say this to help Joe Biden get elected because this has the potential of destroying his candidacy.
That's right.
Isn't that what really it's that simple, isn't it?
It is.
It is that simple.
PACK Journalism.
And as a result, the American public were misled in 2019.
They were misled during the impeachment proceedings.
They were misled in 2020 with the laptop going into the election.
And for most of the last four years, they've been misled again.
And you're starting to see some revisionist history.
The Washington Post recently changed some of its fact checks about Ukraine and Biden, but only because now they've been forced to acknowledge that all these documents that the State Department gave to me, that the FBI gave to me, that Devin Archer gave to Congress, that they're real.
And the story was exactly what we said it was back in 2019.
All right, quick break.
More with investigative reporter, editor-in-chief, justthenews.com.
John Solomon, your calls on the other side.
All right, we continue with editor-in-chief, founder, investigative reporter, justthenews.com.
John Solomon is with us.
Let's go to issue number two, and that is that Joe Biden had an advisor that had contact with Burisma during the height of the corruption probe, according to new emails that you were able to find.
And I got to give you a lot of credit.
I mean, between your FOIA requests, your contacts, I mean, you're really pounding the pavement and demanding answers.
The sad part is that the government takes years oftentimes to get back to you.
So these are stories you rightly point out.
We should have known that would have been evidence in the Ukrainian impeachment hoax against Donald Trump.
This would be evidence against Joe Biden.
Certainly, the American people had a right to know that the laptop was very real and verified by the FBI prior to voting in 2020, but they wouldn't give that information away because they wanted to protect Joe Biden.
They allowed 51 former Intel agents to flat out lie, and they knew it was a lie.
Yeah, you are exactly right.
I mean, listen, these things happened, and people say, well, what's the consequence of having a biased intelligence community or a biased law enforcement community or just some leaders in it that are biased or able to keep the truth from the American people?
What is we go to elections misinformed?
And I think that that's what we're learning about 2020.
People made a decision in 2020 based on information that wasn't complete, in some cases, untrue.
This new story is very important.
It has relevance right now.
Yes, it's very old.
But the man who was involved in this effort in 2014 is currently Joe Biden's, one of his most important emissaries to the Middle East.
The Middle East is a flame-right name.
His name is Amos Hotchstein.
Back in 2014, right after Hunter Biden got on the board, right after Burisma found out it was in under corruption investigation, something that the State Department and the FBI supported alongside of the British Serious Fraud Office, Hunter Biden's team,
including his law firm, his business partners, and a lobbyist that had been hired by Burisma, arranged a meeting for Amos Hotchstein, then the head of sort of one of the top energy experts in the Obama-Biden State Department, to sit down and meet with one of the Burisma officials.
Now, you can't tell from the meetings whether that meeting actually occurred.
It was scheduled.
You could see it on a schedule.
You could see people talking about it.
But you can see that they clearly had a contact with Hotstein because they're talking about the information Hotstein gave them and who they can work with.
So at a moment when the State Department thought Burisma was corrupt, at a moment when the FBI was assisting Great Britain to bring a fraud case against this company, this gentleman, Mr. Hotchstein, makes a contact and has some contact with these guys and is giving them some information that they seem is valuable.
They're passing it on.
And by the way, Hunter Biden's directly in the know on this.
In fact, at one point, he instructs his assistant, hey, get that private number or that number, that direct number I have for Amos Hochstein and get it to my business partners with Burisma.
So Hunter is directly involved in this.
It's shocking.
Just think about that.
Imagine if a company under investigation that Donald Trump Jr.
was working for got access at the State Department during an investigation, people would be up in arms.
But this happened.
And what's more interesting is that Amos Hochstein was once asked about, hey, is there any chance you had contact with Burisma back in 2014?
He did the, I don't remember, it's possible I could have, but I don't know, can't tell.
But he said, I will tell you this, at the time, I believe that Burisma was corrupt and that it needed to be prosecuted.
Now, think about that.
He told that to the Senate in 2020 without acknowledging that there had been this contact that you now see in the documents.
So a person who knows Burisma is corrupt still has contact with him.
What's up with that?
These are questions I think the House impeachment inquiry still needs to answer.
Well, I mean, it's pretty amazing, and it's sad that it takes this long.
I will tell you this, now that the laptop is completely verified, then I think this is a game changer.
I think now everything has to be reexamined.
We only have two minutes left.
Let's talk very quickly about your report about Jim Jordan asking the DOJ watchdog group, and that's Michael Horowitz, the Inspector General, to investigate whether the FBI has been purging agents that have conservative views.
We had talked about this story when you broke it at first, and now it's taken on a new development.
Yeah, this is very important.
Just think about this.
In order to get a security credit, at least this one employee, his colleagues are being saying, does he vocalize support for Trump?
Does he oppose the vaccines or have concern about the vaccines?
Did he attend a Second Amendment rally?
All three of those things are protected by the First Amendment.
You don't give up your First Amendment when you work for the FBI.
You still have it.
You still have those rights.
Well, today, Jim Jordan said, hey, this is deeply concerning.
And he asked Michael Horowitz to begin an investigation.
And then he wrote a second letter to the director of the FBI, a director who's repeatedly said, we don't play politics at the FBI to say, what is going on here?
And he made this very important declaration.
I think everybody has to see where I think where Congress is headed on this.
He said to the director himself, the FBI appears to be purging itself of employees who do not share its preferred political views.
That is a powerful allegation from one of the most important people in Congress, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
This is a question the FBI is going to be forced to answer in the next couple of weeks.
Well, great work.
Editor-in-Chief, founder, and investigative reporter John Solomon.
Keep pounding the pavement, sir.
You're doing great work, and we appreciate you being with us.
Thanks, Sean.
Great to be with you.
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The Committee on House Administration and their chairman, Brian Style, who will join us in a minute, has now had to issue 15 subpoenas to 15 Biden administration cabinet officials for documents related to the Biden administration and their executive order on promoting what they call access to voting.
Now, Biden's executive order 14019, it directs federal agencies to promote access to voting through the use of federal agency resources.
Now, evidence is already showing that the executive order partners federal employees with partisan advocates to register voters ahead of the election, which, as you know, is only 100 and what, 37 days away, or only 88 days away from early voting.
And the committee on the House administration began an investigation into this executive order.
And Congressman Brian Stile is at the front of it.
He's from Wisconsin's first district.
And he has said about this executive order is another attempt by the Biden administration to tilt the scales ahead of 2024.
I will continue to work to provide transparency and accountability on this administration's latest scheme as Congress did not appropriate taxpayer funds for partisan activities, nor would they.
Anyway, Congressman Brian Stiles, Wisconsin's first district, is with us now.
Congressman, this to me is really, really important because what we're looking at here and what it sounds like to me, correct me if I'm wrong, is that the administration wants to use all the resources of the federal government to stack the deck in their favor and register Democrats in the lead up to this 2024 presidential election.
Congress needs to appropriate funding for such a thing.
And so far, they've gotten away with it.
And we're 88 days away from early voting starting in Pennsylvania.
And then all the other states roll out immediately thereafter.
We share the same concern here, Sean, and this is why I've subpoenaed 15 Biden administration agency officials to get their strategic plan.
We need to shine a light on exactly what this administration is doing.
And they're working to tilt the scales using your taxpayer dollars.
We already have evidence where the Department of Education is allowing workforce dollars to go towards registering students on liberal college campuses.
We've seen the Small Business Administration partner with the state of Michigan.
And under this executive order, each agency is required to put forward a strategic plan.
That's what I am trying to get my hands on.
We've subpoenaed these agencies.
We are forcing them to get it to us by next week.
And then we're going to call them out for engaging in partisan politics because they are not allowed to utilize your taxpayer dollars for partisan purposes.
And we know that's what this administration is trying to do.
It certainly seems like it.
And so what has been the response and what is the timeframe under which you're giving these cabinet officials time to appear before your committee and stop this before the election?
The administration officials have until next week to provide us these strategic plans before we take further court action to force them to turn this over.
There's no excuse that these administration officials, such as Secretary Pete Boutigej, won't turn over their strategic plan as to how they're implementing Biden's executive order.
They're refusing to do it.
That should give pause to every American that did.
Oh, so they have refused to cooperate with a legitimate congressional subpoena.
Isn't that why Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon didn't get held in contempt for stuff like this?
They have until next week to actually comply, but we have been asking for these documents prior to that.
They should have already provided them to us.
And the fact that they're not willing to immediately provide a strategic plan that's paid for with your tax dollars gives me great pause, and we're going to continue to force them to provide this because the American people deserve to know how your taxpayer dollars are being weaponized to drive out a partisan get out the vote effort by the Biden administration.
It's pretty unbelievable.
Is there anything that people listening to this show can do to offer you support, or we just have to sit and wait until to see whether they comply or not?
Well, raising awareness of this is essential.
People should be reaching out to their own member of Congress, encouraging them to force this administration to turn over the strategic plan.
This is concerning for all of us at a period of time where we want our elections to be secure.
The election process is always going to be partisan, but the operations of our elections, the administration of our elections, should be a nonpartisan affair.
And the fact that the Biden administration is working to tilt the scales in this manner is incredibly concerning.
It's important we're shining a light on this because we have to force the Biden administration to turn this over.
So basically, it's a voter mobilization scheme that's organized with taxpayer dollars by the Biden administration.
I doubt they're going to put as much effort into registering and getting voters out that are Republican and conservative as they will Democrats.
Well, you're exactly right.
And that's why each agency's strategic plan that lays out exactly what they're doing was what we're trying to get so we can shine light on it.
We have a pretty good understanding when the Department of Education put forward their work study plan that they're working to turn out voters on liberal college campuses.
When you look at the Small Business Administration engaging in a contract with the state of Michigan, it's not hard to understand why the administration is more interested in Michigan than another state.
The key focus here is the Biden administration is using the taxpayer dollars.
All indications are for clear partisan purposes, and they're refusing to provide us their strategic plan that they're required to produce under this executive order.
And that's giving everybody pause because this administration time and again has shown they are not concerned with the letter of the law and they're willing to do anything to drive forward their partisan agenda.
Well, we know for a fact there's nobody in this radicalized government that is ever going to make any outreach to any Republican or conservative voters.
So they're going to use taxpayer dollars to benefit themselves if this is allowed to continue.
Do you believe you'll have enough time to not only get their plan, but to also get them before Congress and stop this?
I mean, is this something you can take to the courts right now?
100% we have an opportunity to stop this.
This is where getting these plans and executing on our subpoena is essential.
We'll get that next week, hopefully.
Yeah, they're rewriting the plans now to accommodate what they think that you want to hear is what I would bet.
I'm incredibly concerned about everything this administration is doing.
But if we can show, which I believe we will, that they're engaged in partisan activities, we will have an opportunity to go to the court, get an injunction, and get this stopped.
Appreciate your hard work here, Congressman.
We're going to stay on top of this story.
Please update us as necessary.
Congressman Brian Stile of Wisconsin.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate you always being with us.
Thanks for having me on.
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Steve is in Michigan.
Steve, hi, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
My pleasure speaking with you, longtime listener, first-time caller.
Calling you.
Thank you.
And here she is at birthplace of the Republican Party.
And listening to you on WKHM 9:70 a.m.
Now, I'd like your thoughts on this.
Biden is not going to be our presidential candidate for the Democrat Party.
He's going to fall on his face on this debate on a week from yesterday.
And based on what you and Mr. O'Reilly were talking about yesterday, I think the Democrat Party is going to sneak in our governor, Gretchen Whitner, to be their candidate.
And I'd like your thoughts on that.
I think she would be the most likely person to replace Joe if that were to happen, or at least the favorite in terms of what the Democratic establishment would want to do.
I think the mechanics, if you will, the inner workings of the DNC are very different than the base of the Democratic Party.
And I think they'd have a hard time leapfrogging over Vice President Harris to do that.
But I think that's definitely on the table.
I don't think she's a particularly strong candidate myself, but I mean, anything can happen.
I mean, honestly, I watched Joe Biden, and I just think at any moment he could just fall over and that's it.
And it's sad to watch and see.
And I often wonder why the people around him that are supposed to love him the most are allowing him to do this.
But apparently they don't have any problems with it.
But it's bad for the country.
His policies are disastrous.
It's bad for the world because every hostile actor is taking full advantage of America abdicating its role on the world stage as the leader of the free world.
And that we're paying a very dear price in every way imaginable.
You know, that's why I'm hoping and praying in 137 days, early voting starts in 88 days, that people are going to start paying attention and that people will realize that the consequences are severe if this guy ever got elected to another term or if frankly any Democrat because the whole party's been radicalized.
Anyway, we'll see.
We'll watch.
Steve, thank you in Michigan.
Appreciate it.
Let's say hi to Pete in Oregon.
Pete, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
I'm doing great, Sean.
Thank you for asking, and I really enjoy your show.
Been listening to you a long time.
Thank you, my friend.
I'm glad you're out there.
What's going on in Oregon?
Well, I just wanted to give you kind of a perspective from a lot of background in dementia and Alzheimer's.
I went through it with my father, and just to see them the way they decline day by day, week by week.
And just looking at Joe Biden over the last five years, there is absolutely not a doubt in my mind that is what's happening with him and why his family would put him out there on a daily basis.
They ought to be really ashamed of themselves.
Look, to me, it's obvious.
It's transparent.
I think that this attempt to refer to all of Joe's mishaps as deep fake gaffes and don't believe your lying eyes and so on and so forth, I think it's a desperate attempt on their part.
And it's just another outright lie.
I mean, they're very good at lying.
Inflation was supposed to be transitory.
The border was closed and the border was secure.
Biden even saying the same thing.
I secured the border.
He said it this week.
Every other issue that, you know, our cities are safe and secure.
They're not.
It's just, it's been a disaster.
And I really am, look, and I say that, and I've come under some pretty heavy criticism, is that I'm expecting a very different Joe Biden at the debate one week from today.
Now, how do I juxtapose those two positions?
It's simple.
The guy that we saw at the State of the Union was jacked up.
I don't know what it was.
Was it Red Bull?
Was it extra strength eccron that has caffeine in it?
Was it a caffeine pill?
They actually have caffeine pills you can buy.
I have no idea.
Was it something else?
I don't know.
But the guy that we saw at the State of the Union, we'd never seen before, and we haven't seen since.
And that makes that kind of draws the conclusion in my mind is the reason we don't see it more often is because whatever hyper-caffeinated Red Bull they're giving Joe Biden probably isn't healthy for him, or else we'd probably see it a lot more often, wouldn't we?
I think so.
But I will say this.
I have to agree with your previous caller.
I think they are going to pull him right before or at convention and just set him aside and say, hey, Joe, look, you did a great job, but we got to move on.
And I can't guess who they would put in there.
I don't know about Whitner.
I know you think that might be the most possible person to go in there, but they don't have really anybody on deck, so to speak, for that position.
I can't think of one Democratic candidate that would, I think they'd get destroyed by Trump.
I think the obvious choice would be Vice President Harris, which would be a disaster if they look outside of that.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm totally blinded by the time that I spent with Gavin Newsom and the number of times that I went in and pressed him hard on the issue of whether he would be willing to be the candidate if they came to him and him saying outright no that it would be Vice President Harris.
The only other person that I really can think of that they might go to would be Gretchen Whitmer.
And however, with all that said, unless, you know, barring an unmitigated disaster or Joe falling on his face, he could be one fall away from losing the nomination.
I think that as of now, he's the guy, and I think they'll stick with him.
And I think they've convinced himself he's sufficiently close enough in the polls that they can pull this off.
And look, I wish the polls weren't as close as they are.
But I think people need to look at it, take it seriously, and vote as if the future of the country depends on it because it does.
There's a lot hanging in the balance.
This is not just a tipping point.
This is an inflection point for the country and maybe a point of no return.
I really don't know the answer.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, my friend.
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All right, we'll take a quick break.
We'll come right back.
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He's the Kansas Attorney General and much more straight ahead.
You want smart political talk without the meltdowns?
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I'm Carol Markowitz, and I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
We've been around the block in media, and we're doing things differently.
Normally is about real conversations.
Thoughtful, try to be funny, grounded, and no panic.
We'll keep you informed and entertained without ruining your day.
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