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June 30, 2017 - InfoWars Special Reports
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John Podesta Attacks Infowars
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And you could keep saying that they gave me stock, but they didn't.
I'm just following all the widely reported information here, John.
There's also Hillary Clinton, obviously.
Maybe you're looking at widely reported information from Infowars, but it is not true. but it is not true.
John Podesta is back in the news.
This is kind of a story that's been simmering for the last few days.
A few days ago, Daily Caller put out a story.
Exclusive John Podesta may have violated federal law by not disclosing 75,000 stock shares.
And where were these stock shares from?
Russia?
Let's see.
Oh, he had 75,000 shares of stock from a Kremlin finance company when he joined the Obama White House in 2014, the Daily Caller News Foundation investigative group said.
And they're saying he had to fill out the Schedule Form 278, Schedule B. I guess when you become a bureaucrat, when you start sucking off the government tit, you have to basically...
Disclose all your financial...
Anything above $1,000 in value, you have to disclose, especially if it's a Kremlin-backed company.
So what does he do before he gets into the Obama White House, though?
He divests all these stocks and puts them in these other groups that he creates, and then there was like 40,000 shares or something unaccounted for that apparently, allegedly, according to Daily Caller, wasn't mentioned in the...
The schedule form that he was supposed to fill out.
He didn't know.
He didn't know, as we say.
And his law firm, let's see, what's his lawyer's name?
Mark Elias sent a letter to the Daily Caller, except it didn't go to the Daily Caller because he put the wrong address on it.
He put 1950 17th Street Northwest when it's actually 1050 17th Street Northwest.
So the cease and desist did not make it to the Daily Caller.
And in fact, the Daily Caller is having fun with it on Twitter going, wrong address, dude.
It didn't even go there.
And in that, he said, the article is, as you know, entirely false.
In January 14, Mr. Podesta executed an agreement transferring his interest of the 75,000 common shares in jewel global earnings to an entity not owned by Mr. Podesta, his wife, or any dependent children, which I don't think he has any dependent children.
Anyway, Washington Post also reported on this.
John Podesta's lawyer demands daily call over track lies about financial disclosure.
So it's interesting to see how this is going to play out.
But here we have a clip from a few days ago.
But wait, didn't you point out earlier how it wasn't that they were, that they, he didn't dispute the fact that he had these Kremlin-backed shares and that he sat on the board with all of these Kremlin-based CEOs as well.
Lawyer admits it right here.
I mean, that's okay.
That's not the problem.
The problem is that, oh, well, I didn't have those shares.
We're going to split hairs and talk about, you know, Schedule B's and Form 278 and Line F and different.
Different things in this form, but not about whether or not he had the shares, whether or not he could have been on the payroll.
Or compromised by the Russians.
Of the Russians.
Yeah, he has been very silent.
Because apparently it was about $35 million, a billion rubles that they invested into one of his companies.
So that's a lot of money.
$35 million is a lot to invest.
That's a lot of money.
You know, maybe we should have an investigation since we're investigating people looking into Russia.
Why don't we investigate Podesta?
And his Russian ties.
So let's go, we have three clips here from, this is Peter Schweitzer, who's the author of Clinton Cash.
And it starts off first with Podesta talking about how important it is to investigate people who have ties with Russia, unless you're John Podesta.
Russian interference in this election, I think, should be of utmost concern to all Americans.
Really?
Well, what about your connection to the Kremlin cash, Mr. Podesta?
Joining us right now from Tallahassee is Peter Schweizer.
He's the author of Clinton Cash, President of the Government Accountability Institute.
Peter, good morning to you.
Good morning, Steve.
So tell us about John Podesta and his connection to a Kremlin-backed company.
Well, in 2011, John Podesta joins the board of this very small energy company called Joule Energy, based out of Massachusetts.
About two months after he joins the board, a Russian entity called Rusnano puts a billion rubles, which is about $35 million, into John Podesta's company.
Now, what is Rusnano?
Rusnano is not a private company, Steve.
It is a fund directly funded by the Kremlin.
In fact, the Russian science minister called Russnano Putin's child.
So you have the Russian government investing in one of John Podesta's business in 2011 while he is an advisor to Hillary Clinton at the State Department.
Did he advise her to sell her uranium?
So it had nothing to do with joining Obama's team, which is what this letter is all about.
It has to do with when he was an advisor to Clinton in the State Department.
Oh, so he was getting $35 million from Putin's child.
Podesta receives $35 million from Putin's child and no one cares.
I mean, this guy does.
as Peter Schweitzer does. - The Russian election probe heating up in the House.
Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, met with a House panel probing how Russia's interference in the 2016 election earlier this week occurred.
One focus of the investigation, the hacking of Podesta's own personal email account and the release of his emails by WikiLeaks during the campaign.
In recent days, President Trump has accused former President Obama of doing too little to address Russian cyber activity while he was still in the White House.
Joining me right now is the former chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, John Podesta.
John, thanks so much for joining us this morning.
Good to have you on the program.
Good morning, Maria.
Good to be back.
So you met with the Senate Intelligence Panel as part of this investigation.
What can you tell us about that meeting?
Well, they wanted to know essentially what had happened to me and what the effect of...
I was on the campaign, the Russian interference in our democratic process, and they're probing what actually happened, whether there was collusion, and what are we going to do about it.
They asked me not to get into specific questions that they asked me and my specific answers, but in general terms, they're taking a bipartisan look at this stage.
You know, they had trouble in that committee when...
Their chairman, Devin Nunes, was kind of working with the White House to try to both cover sort of for whatever had happened in the Trump White House and the Trump campaign, and particularly the Mike Flynn matter.
But I think they're back on track with the bipartisan investigation, so they're members from both sides, and they asked...
Probing questions about what had happened during the campaign.
Do you find it odd that there's been so much attention on the Trump campaign and the Trump associates and potential collusion with Russians when in fact it's really the Democrats who have deeper and stronger ties to Russia?
I mean, John, I've got to ask you about your own situation, your ties to Russian entities.
You joined the board of a small energy company in 2011. Two months later, a Russian entity directly funded by the Kremlin invested $35 million in the company.
You were given...
75,000 shares in a Russian company, which you failed to disclose when you became an Obama associate.
Maria, that's not true.
I fully disclosed and was completely compliant with, and by the way, I divested before I went into the White House.
But where did you divest it, John?
A lot of people feel like you divested it to your adult children.
I divested it consistent with the advice that I was given by the White House Counsel's Office, and I was fully compliant and fully transparent about what I had done.
And so the fact that you're picking through my emails that were stolen by the Russians and released by WikiLeaks, and creating a story which is not true, is...
So you weren't given 75,000 shares of stock in a Russian company?
You were not given 75,000 shares?
I didn't have any stock in any Russian company.
So go back and get your facts straight, Maria.
That's not true, John.
We know that you own 75,000 shares.
You're on the board of Jolie.
It's not a Russian company.
It's backed by the Kremlin.
It's backed by the Kremlin.
I didn't own any shares in that company, Maria.
When you stepped off the board, you were given 75,000 shares from Jolie.
No, that is not true.
How many shares were you given, John?
Maria, I didn't have any shares in any Russian company.
I was on the board of an American company that did business here and only here.
The Russian company had a small investment in that company.
Well, it's widely reported that it's backed by the Kremlin.
It's been widely reported that that company's been backed by the Kremlin and they gave you 75,000 shares that you had to disclose when you went into the Obama administration.
Maria, you can keep leveling this charge.
It is not true.
They didn't give me anything.
They had a small investment in a company I was on the board of.
It was a clean energy company that was trying to deal with the issue of trying to produce energy, liquid fuel.
From a biotechnology process.
It was based in Boston.
Russian company had a very small investment in it, and you could keep saying that they gave me stock, but they didn't.
I'm just following all the widely reported information here, John.
There's also Hillary Clinton, obviously.
Maybe you're looking at widely reported information from Infowars, but it is not true.
No, I'm not.
This is Politico.
This is the New York Times.
This is the Wall Street Journal.
No, it's not.
That's what I'm looking at, John.
No, it's not, Maria.
Then there's Hillary Clinton.
Then there's Hillary Clinton, of course we know, who got $100 million from Russian companies after she allowed that Russian company to acquire 20% of the U.S.'s uranium.
So the point I'm making here, John, is that there's much deeper ties to Russia on the Democratic side than there are on the Republican side.
And it's just a head-scratcher that this has been taking all the oxygen out of the room over Trump, when in fact it's been your team that has been in bed with the Russians.
You know, Fox can do whatever it wants to do.
The truth is that Vladimir Putin, at his direction, according to 17 US intelligence agencies, interfered with the US election to help elect Donald Trump.
Why was that?
That was because Donald Trump had adopted...
Vladimir Putin's foreign policy lock, stop and barrel.
He was out on the campaign trail saying that NATO was obsolete.
He was trying to make excuses for their intervention in Ukraine.
He was talking about eliminating sanctions on Russia because of their intervention and their takeover of Crimea.
And so, you know, you could blow a lot of smoke, Maria, but the truth is Vladimir Putin...
Interfered in the US election, and I'm surprised you're not concerned about that, that the Russians would hack, whether it's Republicans or Democrats, that they would hack into Commit crimes in the United States and then work with WikiLeaks to damage our campaign.
Actually, I am concerned about it.
I am concerned about it, John.
Well, I'm glad to hear that.
It doesn't sound like it this morning.
But I know that Russia meddling goes back decades.
And I know that when we go to Russia, when Condi Rice used to go to Russia, they would put her in the same exact hotel room in the same place every year when she would go there so that they could spy on her.
The same thing happened in China.
And I know that the U.S. does the same thing.
So this is not a news story.
But the whole...
The idea that there was any collusion with Trump is, that's where the narrative and the charade is.
Because everybody knows Russia's trying to undermine the U.S., has been for years.
That's not a new story.
The story that the Democrats have been writing and this Trump collusion is simply not true, and we have no evidence of it.
Well, look, I mean, you know, you're talking to the wrong guy.
You should be talking to his people about whether they colluded.
Oh, we have.
Mike Flynn was the national...
You know, was his national security advisor.
He had to leave because he lied about his contacts with the Russians within a month of the campaign.
When Sally Yates, the acting attorney general, told the White House counsel that Mr. Flynn had been compromised, they did exactly nothing until The Washington Post broke the story.
So there's a lot to investigate here, and I'm glad that the House Intelligence Committee has gotten back on track with a bipartisan investigation.
Senate Intelligence Committee is doing the same thing.
Mr. Mueller's doing the same thing.
same thing we'll see where it all ends *BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM* This is your day!
I'm speaking to the American people.
It is time for you to act.
It is time for you to let us know where you stand.
I've seen a poll that indicates that a majority now of those who are being polled are four.
impeachment.
After the hounds of globalist corporatic hell blindingly unleashed the special counsel investigation led by former FBI director Robert Mueller, new evidence regarding the manufactured Russia-Trump dossier by Democratic bed partner Fusion GPS and the reports that the Obama administration were new evidence regarding the manufactured Russia-Trump dossier by Democratic bed partner Fusion GPS and the reports that the Obama administration were slow to even pursue the evidence of a cyber attack are turning the spotlight on the puppeteers of the entire charade, begging the question,
shouldn't the special counsel focus their efforts on the organizers of the false hysteria that has brought the Trump presidency's initiatives to a slow crawl and The president and the entire administration were dealing with an unprecedented incidence of the weaponization of the fruits of Russian cyber activity and I think they were trying to make the best judgments they could on behalf of the American people.
So President President Obama knows all of this.
He has purported activities going on, right?
And does nothing about it.
Zero.
Why does he do nothing about it?
He does nothing about it because he thinks Hillary Clinton is going to be the president of the United States.
Surprise!
The president is now Donald Trump.
So now we have a special counsel investigating the so-called Russian probe and the Russian hijacking of the election, the Russian hacking into the election, when we know the administration previously had all the information and did nothing about it.
So here's my question that I would ask John Podesta and I'd ask anybody else.
Why do we have a special counsel dealing with the Russia hacking when they had that evidence and did nothing?
Why don't we have a special counsel reviewing why President Obama did nothing after he assured the American people, he gets intelligence briefings, but then assures the American people that Russia did not interfere with the election.
He does that in October.
There's no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that You could even rig America's elections, in part because they're so decentralized and the numbers of votes involved.
There's no evidence that that has happened in the past or that there are instances in which that will happen this time.
And so I'd invite Mr. Trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes.
And if he got the most votes, then it would be my expectation of Hillary Clinton to offer a gracious concession speech and pledge to work with him in order to make sure that the American people benefit from an effective government.
Of course, former President Obama is nowhere to be found.
He and his family are too busy jet-setting the globe from one elitist paradise to the other.
An unprecedented display of hubris and decadence that is even embarrassing his liberal base.
I tell you who I would argue at the moment should kick back a little less.
And this might be controversial.
I'm a little sick of seeing photos of President Obama on vacation with Richard Branson.
Just tone it down with the kite surfing pictures.
I'm glad he's having a nice time.
America is on fire.
I know that people accused him of being out of touch with the American people during his presidency.
I'm not sure he's ever been more out of touch than he is right now.
The time has come to wrestle the narrative from the swamp creatures and their minions that have held on to it for dear life, because they know full well that their clandestine political careers depend on the truth, never seeing the light of day.
John Bowne for InfoWars.com.
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