October 25, 2020 • 37 mins
Vice President Joe Biden leveraged his political relationships with other countries to financially benefit his son Hunter Biden and other members of his family. Companies and individuals in Ukraine, Russia and China all gave millions to Hunter Biden’s company in the United States. Newt’s guest is journalist John Solomon from Just the News.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On this episode of News who are every single solitary
serious investigator have said, there's absolutely zero basis to the
accusation that I acted anyway inappropriately or that my son did.
Every major national, international, and local news operations looked into
it has said it's a lie. So it's not by
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a sintil of evidence pointed out anything wrong. It's not
a conflicatedence. There's been no indication of any conflict of
interest from Ukraine or anywhere else. I'm going to I'm
not gonna respond to that. I mean, come on, you know,
there's not one single bit of evidence, not one little
tiny bit is this anything done was wrong? You know that?
Come on, man, Oh this is new due to the virus.
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I'm recording from home, so you may notice a difference
in audio quality. One of the great investigative reporters of
our time is John Solomon, who has a series of
ground baking XP Day is going back I think for
a decade or more, and this year he has really
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been in the hunt and his unearthed story after story,
leading the pack and in some cases being out there
as an individual pioneer on his own because, as you know,
a large part of the pack is so anti Trump.
They don't want to be led to stories that don't
fit their thing. John, let me just first of all,
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congratulate you on what you've done in creating a brand
new news service and the kind of things that day
after day you're breaking ground that nobody else is doing. Well.
Thank you, dude. That means a lot. I wish there
was a pack. There's very few people that have the
curiosity to look at the Biden family, corruption in the
Biden family, cashing in on his public service. There's a
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few of us out there, Peter Schwitzer, Shamus Bruner, myself.
There's much more work to be done between now an
election day. Well, can you share with us, just as
a general review before we get to the most recent
things you've discovered, your sense of the system that they
had built and the degree to which had genuinely enriched
the Biden family. It's a pretty simple system. It's as
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old fashioned as corruption in Chicago or in any other
city where there's machine politics everywhere. Joe Biden had a
foreign policy responsibility China, Russia, Ukraine. You see his son,
sometimes his brother and other family members following behind in
the vapor trail of his jet collecting money and the
Baris Mahan in Ukraine. Baris Maholdings is just a really
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great example. When you get to the granular details of
what went on there, you realize how audacious the shakedown was.
Because Joe Biden comes in on April of twenty fourteen
to Ukraine on one of his first visits after President
Obama says you're in charge of Ukraine policy. This is
after the Maydon Revolution when the Russian leading leader of
Ukraine was ousted, and the first speech that Joe Biden
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gives in April, when he's on the ground, he's alongside
the Prime Ministry, says, you know what Ukraine needs to do.
They need to create a new natural gas system that
will make themselves dependent on natural gas and not have
to take Russian gas anymore. Now, on the premise of it,
it's not a bad foreign policy. Energy and dependence is
a great way to free Eastern Europe from Moscow's influence.
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Within a few days, what happens from that speech, Hunter
Biden's business partner Devin Archer and Hunter Biden get added
to the board of the largest natural gas company in
the country. They don't have any natural gas experience, and
that natural gas company is undergoing at that very moment
two criminal investigations that you can't be more overt in
calling for something to happen and then have your family
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come in and cash in on it. And that happens
time and time again. Vice President goes to China. There's
Hunter on the jet introducing his father to one of
the business partners, and then they start a ambitious plan
for a billion and a half dollar hedge fund. Everywhere
the Vice president had a foreign responsibility was going Hunter,
Biden and the other family members had a bag out
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there to cash on their own businesses. In the case
of Urisma and Ukraine. There's this famous video of Biden
talking to a New York foreign policy group and saying,
you know, I told him they didn't fire the guy.
I had a billion dollars in foreign eight in my
pocket and it was going to stay in my clocket
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unless they fired him. So they said they had. They
were walking out to Prescount and said, Noah, I said,
I'm not going to We're not going to give you
the billion dollars. They said, you have no authority, You're
not the president. The president said, I said, call him.
I said, I'm telling you're not getting the billion dollars.
I said, you're not getting the billion. I'm gonna be
leaving here. And I think it was about six hours.
I looked at Sam leaving in six hours. If the
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prosecutors not fired, you're not getting the money. Oh, son
of a bitch got fired, and they put in place
someone who was solid. This was during the praide when
everybody was upset about Donald Trump taking a phone call
from Ukraine and I said, here, you've got Biden on
video proudly boasting that he'd gotten the leading prosecutor in
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Ukraine fired. And they seem impervious to confusion or shame.
They have a party line they're going to follow and
they just stick to it, hoping that they'll where you all.
But yeah, it wasn't it pretty clear that there was
enormously to Hunters advantage. Absolutely so, when you look at
the time frame after Joe gives that speech in Ukraine
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has send Lands on the board, they start building up
this company Burrisman, even though it's corrupt. What's going on
behind the scenes is the Obama Biden State Department thinks,
oh my god, this is terrible. Joe Biden is preaching
Antikruft and his son is collecting millions of dollars from
a corrupt company. They're undercutting our foreign policy in Ukraine.
Those are not my words. Those are the sworn testimony
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of people like George Kenton, Marie Ivanovitch, and other State
Department officials that worked for Obama and Biden. By the
time twenty sixteen rolls around and the election is there,
one of the investigations in Ukraine had been shut down
in twenty fifteen after a seven million dollar bribe was paid.
That's not my allegation, that's in the State Department documents.
So there were two simultaneous investigations going on. One gets
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closed down after Bresma pays a seven million dollar bribe.
Hunter Biden's on the board the moment that bribe occurs.
But there's a second persistent investigation that won't go away.
It's the Ukrainian government's own investigation by what's known as
the Prosecutor General's Office. And as the twenty sixteen election
is approaching, that investigation is escalating. They turn evidence over
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to the basically the FBI of Ukraine asset to get going.
They do an asset forfeit your seizure of Hunter Biden's boss, Mikolazochevsky,
the oligarch that owns Burris Mum, and the case is
escalating at that very point. You can see Buriesmus's panic.
How do we know that they went to the State
Department saying, you've got to stop this Hunter Biden's on
the board, you have to stop this investigation. Well that
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didn't happen, and so Joe Biden steps into the void.
In March of twenty sixteen, as that investigation is escalating,
Joe Biden just happens to fire the prosecutor, Victor Shokin,
who was overseeing that case. He does it by telling
the president, if you don't fire that guy, we're going
to withhold the billion dollars it would have bankrupt Ukraine.
A billion dollars is a lifeline to Ukraine at this point.
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Now Joe Biden will say I fired that guy for
reasons other than my son. Well, whether it was for
any reason it helped your son's company, it's exactly what
they wanted to have happened at that very moment, and
it's a creation of a conflict of interest. We're supposed
to be when you're in government free of conflicts of interest.
Joe Biden couldn't be more conflicted in Ukraine. And that
isn't my words, those are the words of the impeachment
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witnesses like George Kent and Maria Ivanovitch, who said there
was definitely a conflict of interest. Joe Biden was undercutting
our efforts to bring anti corruption policy to Ukraine. So
before we jump to China, which is the really big story,
what do you make of this three and a half
million dollar check from the richest woman in Russia that
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will just popped up on my screen? Was kind of like,
what where did that come from? Yeah, this is story
we broke about three weeks ago. We got this information
because the Senate committees run by Charles Grassley and Ron
Johnson got what are known as suspicious activity reports. This
is when a financial institution says, some money just moved
through our accounts and we think that there's something wrong
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about it. And we now know from the good work
that Senators Johnson and Grassie did that there was millions
of dollars flowing into Hunter Biden's accounts that got flagged
by the Obama Treasury Department as suspicious. They filed these reports. Well,
one of them is a three point five million dollar
check that comes into one of Hunter Biden's companies in
February of twenty fourteen. It comes from Yelena Battarina. She
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was the wife of the Moscow mayor. She became Russian's
first female billionaire an olaguard, and under a law that
was passed in Congress, she was identified as one of
the people in Russia who allegedly got her wealth through
corruption and corrupt means. So she's been flagged in the
United States for a long time. Hunter Biden gets the
three point five million dollars coming into his company's account.
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It's flagged for two reasons. One the source everybody knows
Elena about Arena has some questions around her business and
her ethics. The second part is it comes two weeks
before Vladimir Putin sends troops into Ukraine and invades the
Crimean region of Ukraine. And the appearance issue that the
security concerns that somehow Russia was trying to compromise Joe
Biden's son just before Russia was going to take this
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audacious action and move into Crimea really set off alarm
bells in the National security apparatus the Treasury Department, and
the three point five million is only a portion of
the money we now know that Elena about Arena gave
to a Hunter Biden his business partner, Devon Archer. There's
a document that the FBI seized from Devon Archer, who,
by the way, the business partner of Hunter Biden, has
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been convicted as a felon a fraud and is awaiting
sentencing to go to prison. So Joe Biden's son was
in business with a felon. But in those documents that
the FBI sees from Hunter Biden's company, there is a
set of board minutes in which Devin Archer reveals one
of their companies had gotten two hundred million dollars from
Ulana Battery and not three point five million, which is
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one of the transactions that are flagged. The total size
of the relationship, according to him, Hunter Biden's own business
partner in these minutes was about two hundred million dollars
in loans and gifts and transactions. He's in business with
the corrupt oligarch in Ukraine. He's in business with a
questionable oligarch in Russia. At a very sensitive time in
US Russian relations, and he's really in business with the
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Chinese Communist Party. Yeah, and apparently a whole new set
of information came out involving even more activity with the
Chinese in the last day or so. It's almost like
you can't keep up with it. It's a multifaceted relationship,
it really was. And again the apparents issue. What bigger
conflict can you have but to put Hunter Biden on
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air force to fly over on an official trip of
the Vice president and shake them down for a business
relationship that, at least in discussion, was one point five
billion in size. The audacity of this it sort of
rivals what the Clintons did with the Clinton Foundation. The
difference there as the Clinton Foundation was allegedly a charity
and so most of the money went to charitable causes,
at least by design. Here it's going into the back
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pocket of Hunter Biden and the family members. And it
wasn't a secret. I've interviewed a lot of officials in
these countries Ukraine, Russia, China over the last six months,
and what they've told me, we thought the Bidens were
just pretty clear. It was a pay to play relationship.
If you wanted Joe to be friendly, you greased the
palm of Hunter Biden. And that's the impression we left
in these countries. Imagine what we should be thinking about
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in the greatest country of all America, that that's what
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That's nuts, Inner Circle dot com. How can Joe Biden,
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as recently as the debate of Trump say I never
knew anything about it. It's an implausible answer based on
what I know. Let's just take him one example of
something that he keeps saying, I didn't know anything about Barisma.
It wasn't on my radar when I fired the prosecutor.
I didn't know he was investigating my son's company. Well,
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we now know from the records that I've gotten from
the State Department under foy him and from public records
that are out there from other sources. Joe Biden knew
in December twenty fifteen that there was an active investigation
into Bars and Hunter Biden. He knew it because the
New York Times came to them and told him that,
And the New York Times got a statement back from
the Biden Vice President's office saying that they understood this,
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but this was Hunter's problem, not the vice president. So
the vice president at first hand knowledge that his son's
company was under investigation by the very prosecutor that he
would later go and try to fire just a few
months later, and he fires that prosecutor. He forces the
firing of that prosecutor at a time where you now
see Barisma all over the State Department, pressuring the State Department,
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you got to stop this, you got to stop this.
In one of the memos I obtained recently, the lawyers
for Barrisma are in the United States, a company called
Blue Star Strategies, big Democratic firm. They go to the
State Department and they're not even subtle about why they
think that the encruption allegations have to be stopped in
the track. They say to the State Department, Hunter Biden's
on the board, you got to deal with this. You
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can't let him get embarrassed. And at that point, when
the State Department isn't willing to intervene and stop the
investigation or stop calling Bresma corrupt, Joe Biden steps into
action himself and fires his prosecutor. He says he had
different motives. At the end of the day, for a
conflict of interest, it doesn't matter if your motives are
good and bad. Once you know that prosecutor is involved,
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you should step aside. From any decisions. He didn't. He
stepped into the void. He stepped into an ethical conflict
of interest, and I think at the end of the day,
he shamed his country and his family in doing so.
Maurusma sort of understandable single company path of corruption, but
China seems to me there are so many different trails,
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so many different components, and if you believe the numbers,
they're clearly in the billion dollars plus range. I mean,
how's that possible. Well, China has a lot of money,
and China needed something from the Obama Biden administration. This
gets lost. This is a story I wrote a few
months ago, and I think the president then reacted to
it and is starting to take some action. But if
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you look at the time frame where Hunter Biden starts
to get in business with the Chinese companies, and Chinese
companies tied both to the PLA, the People's Liberation Army,
the military of Communist China, and some are companies tied
to Communist Party members in China. So he's working with
the people that don't love America and China. The Chinese
who were looking for something very important. They were growing,
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but they don't have great capital markets like the amazing
Dow Jones and capital markets we have in the United States.
They needed access to our markets to capitalize the growth
in China, and they couldn't get in because there was
this little hiccup called Sarbanes Oxy, which says, if you're
going to come onto the American markets, you have to
oblige by our accounting rooms. You can't defraud investors. There
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has to be transparency. It's a law that was passed
and it's been all American companies that compete on our
markets for capital have to comply with these very stringent
accounting things. Well, what remarkably is going on is as
Hunter Biden is inserting himself into the country, the Chinese
get the ultimate gift from the Obama Biden administration, and
that is a waiver. In twenty thirteen, there's a special
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body associated with the Securities and Exchange Commission and they
give a waiver and say, okay, China, guess what. We're
going to let you come into the capital markets here.
But you don't have to comply with Sarbanzoxy. You can
do some things, but we know you'd like to be
private in China. We're going to give you a pass
on that, and they set out some requirements I would
say lip service requirements to the accounting principles, but they
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basically excluded China. And then China comes into these markets
with affengeance in twenty thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, sex billions
of dollars of capital out into their own country without
having to comply with these rules. And then I took
a look and started to go through, well, what were
they supposed to comply with? And it turns out they
didn't even comply with the very light requirements of this
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very special deal that China got. So that's when Hunter
Biden is cashing in. And the more that that ruling
took effect, the more China started to penetrate our markets,
the more the deal started to flow in to Hunter
Biden and his companies and Devin Archer's companies. The timing
between those two decisions, Hunter Biden's decision to go get
Chinese business and Joe Biden's administration's decision to give the
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Chinese an extraordinary waiver, they gave the Chinese an incredible advantage.
Those two are tied together, at least in the timeline
that we've built, and that should trouble us all when
they talk about, like the Chinese, we're going to give
him a billion five to invest. He would then get
an override, which as I understand, it would be about
thirty million dollars a year for managing all this. That's
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sort of a standard fee. But hey, he doesn't know
anything of investing anything, and b do we see a
lifestyle comparable to the sheer cash flow? The amount of
money from Russia, Ukraine and China is so great, and
these guys could have paved all of Delaware and Gold
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if you take the amount of money flowing and if
it really is two hundred million coming in for Lane
about Arena, if it's really one point five billion, And
by Hunter Biden's own lawyer's comments, he owned ten percent
of that one point five billion dollar fund, So you
can start to do the math. That's a big number.
He flipped several companies at some point, I hope we
get a chance to talk about Hennegis, a Michigan autoparts company.
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Great story about how the Biden family flipped that to
Chinese control. There's all of these transactions going on, and
there's large amounts of money. We had an opportunity about
twelve months ago to get some visibility into hunter Biden's
wealth when a woman claimed that he had fathered her
son and she went to court an oppaternity suit trying
to get access to his records, and then he refused
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to comply, and then they settled out of court. So
we lost that extraordinary opportunity to see what hunter Biden
might have in his bankroll where it might have gone.
And I think one of the great questions that you
always ask, and it's a simple question, but the Vice
President has never asked it, is, at any time did
hunter Biden make money that he then gave to you
in some retirement account, some other account. That question has
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not been asked or answered in an appropriate way. It's
a fair question to ask, and listen if it didn' happen,
Joe Biden say, never got any of that money. I
don't have any secret offshore accounts. I don't have anything
like this. We don't know what hunter Biden did with
his money. Did he lose it in other investments, did
he bank it away in some Cayman island his account?
Did he blow it away on a lavish lifestyle? Because
we know he had a drug addiction and from the records,
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the Senate had apparently some engagement with prostitution rings. You
can lose a lot of money quickly that way. We
don't have complete visibility into it. But when you take
the sheer numbers, this business game of following behind the
Vice president's jet and going into China, Kazakhstan, Russia and
Ukraine and making money. Big dollars were exchanged. Just in Barisma.
We can see four million dollars coming in between fourteen
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and twenty sixteen. That's records at the FBI sees that
we can see the bank accounts. I see many other
multimillion dollar transactions and those accounts coming in from other countries.
Hunter Biden and his business partner, particularly Devin Archer, we're
moving in tens of millions of dollars a year. How
much of it they still have or where it is
is still a mystery to us. So now I go back,
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as you mentioned the photo company in Michigan, walk us
through that because I know if President Trump's talked about
it and one of his trips to machine. So we
had this story about three four weeks ago in just
the News and Shamus Bruner, who works for Peter Schweitzer
and I worked on this for a while. It's a
really remarkable story. So there's an all American autoparts manufacturer
in Michigan called Hennegus. It's been around for forty fifty years.
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It feeds the Gms and the Fords of the world,
and it's iconic. It's a big employer in Michigan. And
as it grew, it diversified and some of its business
moved into the military side of business. And so they
started to create very specialized windshields that can be put
in American fighter jets and they stand vibration so they
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don't break it at hypersonic speeds, and they they don't rattle,
they don't cause fog. There's some unique what we call
du yields technology which is protected by the US law.
And so Hunter Biden's hedge fund comes in there, they
buy a percentage of it. Then they flip it to
a Chinese company. Now who is that Chinese company. It's
called Avic. Avic is basically the Boeing or McDonald douglass
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of China. It makes all of the military aircraft for
as military and Hunter Biden gets this company, he flips
it into this other company AVIC. And there's a process
we've heard this name before called CIPHIUS, the Committee on
Foreign Investment in the United States. It's ten cabinet members
get together and they review any sensitive technology or any
sensitive asset in America that a foreign country may be
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seeking to bide. CIPHIUS has got to take a look
at the Hennegis transaction in China. Why because it has
this very sensitive military aircraft capability and they rubber stamp
it again and China ends up with this iconic American
company with good, very important fighter jet windows shield technology.
And what do we find out? What turns out At
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the time CIPHIUS made that decision, Avic, a Chinese company,
had been sanctioned five times already by the United States
for bad behavior, including proliferating weapons to America's enemies, and
one of its subsidiaries, literally just a few months before
Hunter Biden pulls off this transaction, it had just been
flagged as wrongly helping the Chinese military and violation of
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US law. So it's flagged. And then since that time,
AVIC has been repeatedly identified by the Pentagon as a
threat to American national security. Somehow, the Syphius overlooked all
of that history and allowed Hunter Biden to make a
big money selling an iconic American auto parts and aircraft
parts maker to the Chinese Communist Party at a time
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when we're being warned by the Director of National Intelligence
that the Chinese are stealing about five hundred billion dollars
a year untellectual property. Why do you think the Obama administration,
not just Biden, but the administration was so endlessly lacks
about protecting America. That's a great question. In my book,
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I spend a lot of time talking about what's the
most concerning thing. And I think if you look at
the last half century of American foreign policy, there's been
two approaches. The Reagan approach, which is peace sue strength,
which is we don't give into our enemies, we defeat
them and hopefully peacefully by remaining strong and not giving
into the will. And then I think Donald Trump is
an inheritor and maybe a reviver of the peace to
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strength approach to the foreign policy. In the case of
the Obama administration, they pursued a strategy of appeasement, which is,
we don't want you Iran to keep making those weapons,
so we'll give you billions of dollars and try to
pay you not to make those weapons. Russia, we want
you to become our friend, even though all of our
intelligence tells us you're never going to be our friend.
So we're going to give you billions of dollars of
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uranium contracts that make American utilities reliant on Russian uranium
for decades to come. We're going to give you twenty
percent of the ore under our ground. We're going to
help you create a rival to our silicon valley called Skolkov,
and you're going to like us because we do that well.
We learned that didn't work out well because as soon
as Amerputin got everything he wanted, he invaded Ukraine and
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turned the entire narrative around on us. And yet the
Obama administration once again engaged in impeasement with China. There
have been warning flags for years by the admirals in
the Pacific Fleet saying China is not our friend. They're
growing in military strength, they have ill intentions in the
South China sees. And yet what is the Joe Biden
Obama administration to They're constantly giving away favors to China
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and more importantly preaching a very deceptive line, which is
China is not dangerous, a prosperous China is good for America.
They're not really a harm. They're not really stealing our ip.
Let's be good to them. The more we give them
access to our markets, the more democratic they're going to be.
I don't think you could tell the eagers in China
the China has become any more democrat, with the concentration
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camps that they're put into, the human rights people that
are being tortured, Hong Kong losing all of its freedoms.
Joe Biden was the architect of all the foreign policy
Barack Obama didn't care about foreign policy. Joe Biden was
the foreign policy guide. And he got it wrong on Russia.
He got it wrong on China, and he got it
wrong on Ukraine, and he got it wrong on Iran,
and he got it wrong even on Osama Bin Laden.
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And now he wants to run that foreign policy back
in America again. Remember that former SUTURE Defense Bob Gates
said that in fifty years Biden had been on the
wrong side of every major decision in national sit He
wrote that in his memoir, And I think that Peo
will show that to be true a little bit sobering
when you look at it. So now this most recent
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thing is like a novel. You can't make this stuff up.
This guy in Delaware as a computer that was brought
in to be fixed, and the guy who brought it
in apparently forgot it, and so the guy finally gets
around to looking at it and realizes it has all
this stuff about Hunter Biden's corrupt behavior. And it turns
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out the guy who owns the little computer store and
say Trump's supporter and tried apparently for five or six
months to get somebody to look at it, and finally
got it to Rudy Giuliani, who understood instantly why it
mattered and began to break in the New York Post,
at which point, just to make everything wilder, Twitter decides
to block the New York Post, and apparently, as of
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the time you and I are talking, they have blocked
the official Trump campaign site. You've got the Hunter Biden corruption,
You've got Silicon Value going crazy and thinking that they
can dictate to the whole rest of the country, and
all of this is kind of swirling. What do you
make of all this? I was thinking about this late
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last night after just a crazy day of developments. And
what irony is there that a story about a corrupt
oligarch in Ukraine enriching the vice president's son gets thwarted
by a new generation of oligarchs in America who believe
they can control thought, mind, speech, and conversation and political
dialogue through their social media and search platforms. It's all, says, though,
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we've become the oligarchs, and the Ukrainians and Russians are
laughing at us because we've allowed the same system of
multi billionaires, all with a singular philosophy, this left leaning philosophy,
to control using our public resources. Right, all that stuff
moves across the Internet. That's our sky, our land that
these wires and cables and beams run through to pick
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winners and losers and try to turn America into a
single state aligned with the media, the social media companies,
and the Democratic Party. It's almost a travesty. But one
of the great things I know is those very wealthy
people often underestimate the extraordinary cognizance of the American people,
And I think the American people are a lot wiser.
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They see what's going on. They're frustrated, by this one
sided debate and all of the crying wolf and all
the silly things that the Democrats have done the last
four years. And I suspect we may not measure this
in polling before election date, but some of this stuff
is probably boomerang as we speak, people saying this is
just so rigged, you know what. I'm fed up with this,
and so I think it could have a profound effect
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on the final days of the election. I mean, the
last twenty four hours feel like we live in commonist China. Yeah.
Twitter stops the New York Post, which was founded by
Alexander Hamilton. Then they stop the President's press secretary, right,
they stop apparently the Republican House Judiciary Committee. They've now
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stopped the presidential campaign. I mean, this is a level
of interference that you literally the kind of censorship you'd
associate with its a tolitary and state, except as being
done by a handful of people in Silicon Valley. And
it turns out the key players on the political side,
every one of them is a liberal Democrat. I mean
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literally worked for Democrats, not just in terms of the
value system. Don't you think at some point that probably
leads to a real explosive desire for reform. It's been
obvious for four years we needed this reform, and I
think the President has tried to deliver as much as
he can against all the obstacles that have been thrown
against him. But right now today, the Federal Trade Commission
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could intervene and say what we're witnessing right now is
a restraint of interstate commerce. Facebook makes lots of money
between the states exchanging these ideas, and when they restrain
my publications or the New York Post Publication's ability to
share current information, they're engaging potentially in a violation of
the interstate commerce clause. I think there are other things
that the Trump administration could do. The Justice Department could do. Sadly,
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this administration hasn't always used the greatest tools it has
to fight some of this. But there are some good lawyers,
some good trade experts at tomorrow could put an end
to this by going to the court saying this amounted
to an infringement of interstate commerce. We're not going to
let it happen. Whining on Twitter and complaining is one
way to go about it, but it doesn't affect change.
Right now, the President has the most powerful tool the
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executive branch. He should use it for the American people. Now,
I noticed that yesterday Justice Tarmas said it's quite clear
that Section two thirty was written before you had these
kinds of giants, and that he personally would love to
see the case come before the Supreme Court to review
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whether or not, in fact they were truly protected by
Section two thirty, which of course would be an enormous
financial threat to all three of the major players. And
I thought it was interesting that he was sending that signal.
I think this is going to build. It's only been
less than twenty four hours that we've realized how really
ruthless and dishonest they are becoming. In terms of staying
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with the scandal. Is there more stuff out there? Are
we at the tip of the iceberg? What's your sense?
So one of the things that I've been working on,
and I think could be the most important final stage
of understanding the breath of the Biden scandal, is that
I don't think those stars reports that were sent to
the Treasury Department were done willingly. Somebody in the financial
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community probably stood up and said, hey, there's something fishy
going on here, and you banking institutions are hiding it.
I suspect there may be some whistleblowers or some other
actions that we don't yet see that caused all of
those suspicious activity reports to be flagged all at once,
and that's where I'm focusing a lot of my reporting.
I think that there is a strong possibility that something
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prompt at the Treasury Department to start looking at all
this money that hunter Biden was going. And then the
question is, if you see a large money laundering scandal,
which normally that's what stars are used for, what happened?
Why did we only take a very narrow case and
look at hunter Biden's business partner on one transaction involving
one Indian tribe and try to convict him. Did anyone
look at the broader question of was the president sun compromised?
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Was US policy compromised? Was there a much larger inappropriate
flow of money coming into Hunter Biden that put our
national security, our financial institutions into risk. I think that's
the big storyline that yet been cracked. It's the question
that the Senate report raised a few weeks ago. I've
been working on that and I'm beginning to get some
sense that there may be one or two big revelations
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here that we don't yet know about, a whistleblower or
some other mechanism that triggered all this attention to Hunter
Biden's foreign cash flow. And you've taken the huge undertaking
and launching an entire new news service. Could you explain
what you've done and how they can interact with it.
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On this episode of News who are every single solitary
serious investigator have said, there's absolutely zero basis to the
accusation that I acted anyway inappropriately or that my son did.
Every major national, international, and local news operations looked into
it has said it's a lie. So it's not by
(00:21):
a sintil of evidence pointed out anything wrong. It's not
a conflicatedence. There's been no indication of any conflict of
interest from Ukraine or anywhere else. I'm going to I'm
not gonna respond to that. I mean, come on, you know,
there's not one single bit of evidence, not one little
tiny bit is this anything done was wrong? You know that?
Come on, man, Oh this is new due to the virus.
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I'm recording from home, so you may notice a difference
in audio quality. One of the great investigative reporters of
our time is John Solomon, who has a series of
ground baking XP Day is going back I think for
a decade or more, and this year he has really
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been in the hunt and his unearthed story after story,
leading the pack and in some cases being out there
as an individual pioneer on his own because, as you know,
a large part of the pack is so anti Trump.
They don't want to be led to stories that don't
fit their thing. John, let me just first of all,
(01:30):
congratulate you on what you've done in creating a brand
new news service and the kind of things that day
after day you're breaking ground that nobody else is doing. Well.
Thank you, dude. That means a lot. I wish there
was a pack. There's very few people that have the
curiosity to look at the Biden family, corruption in the
Biden family, cashing in on his public service. There's a
(01:51):
few of us out there, Peter Schwitzer, Shamus Bruner, myself.
There's much more work to be done between now an
election day. Well, can you share with us, just as
a general review before we get to the most recent
things you've discovered, your sense of the system that they
had built and the degree to which had genuinely enriched
the Biden family. It's a pretty simple system. It's as
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old fashioned as corruption in Chicago or in any other
city where there's machine politics everywhere. Joe Biden had a
foreign policy responsibility China, Russia, Ukraine. You see his son,
sometimes his brother and other family members following behind in
the vapor trail of his jet collecting money and the
Baris Mahan in Ukraine. Baris Maholdings is just a really
(02:34):
great example. When you get to the granular details of
what went on there, you realize how audacious the shakedown was.
Because Joe Biden comes in on April of twenty fourteen
to Ukraine on one of his first visits after President
Obama says you're in charge of Ukraine policy. This is
after the Maydon Revolution when the Russian leading leader of
Ukraine was ousted, and the first speech that Joe Biden
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gives in April, when he's on the ground, he's alongside
the Prime Ministry, says, you know what Ukraine needs to do.
They need to create a new natural gas system that
will make themselves dependent on natural gas and not have
to take Russian gas anymore. Now, on the premise of it,
it's not a bad foreign policy. Energy and dependence is
a great way to free Eastern Europe from Moscow's influence.
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Within a few days, what happens from that speech, Hunter
Biden's business partner Devin Archer and Hunter Biden get added
to the board of the largest natural gas company in
the country. They don't have any natural gas experience, and
that natural gas company is undergoing at that very moment
two criminal investigations that you can't be more overt in
calling for something to happen and then have your family
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come in and cash in on it. And that happens
time and time again. Vice President goes to China. There's
Hunter on the jet introducing his father to one of
the business partners, and then they start a ambitious plan
for a billion and a half dollar hedge fund. Everywhere
the Vice president had a foreign responsibility was going Hunter,
Biden and the other family members had a bag out
(03:59):
there to cash on their own businesses. In the case
of Urisma and Ukraine. There's this famous video of Biden
talking to a New York foreign policy group and saying,
you know, I told him they didn't fire the guy.
I had a billion dollars in foreign eight in my
pocket and it was going to stay in my clocket
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unless they fired him. So they said they had. They
were walking out to Prescount and said, Noah, I said,
I'm not going to We're not going to give you
the billion dollars. They said, you have no authority, You're
not the president. The president said, I said, call him.
I said, I'm telling you're not getting the billion dollars.
I said, you're not getting the billion. I'm gonna be
leaving here. And I think it was about six hours.
I looked at Sam leaving in six hours. If the
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prosecutors not fired, you're not getting the money. Oh, son
of a bitch got fired, and they put in place
someone who was solid. This was during the praide when
everybody was upset about Donald Trump taking a phone call
from Ukraine and I said, here, you've got Biden on
video proudly boasting that he'd gotten the leading prosecutor in
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Ukraine fired. And they seem impervious to confusion or shame.
They have a party line they're going to follow and
they just stick to it, hoping that they'll where you all.
But yeah, it wasn't it pretty clear that there was
enormously to Hunters advantage. Absolutely so, when you look at
the time frame after Joe gives that speech in Ukraine
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has send Lands on the board, they start building up
this company Burrisman, even though it's corrupt. What's going on
behind the scenes is the Obama Biden State Department thinks,
oh my god, this is terrible. Joe Biden is preaching
Antikruft and his son is collecting millions of dollars from
a corrupt company. They're undercutting our foreign policy in Ukraine.
Those are not my words. Those are the sworn testimony
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of people like George Kenton, Marie Ivanovitch, and other State
Department officials that worked for Obama and Biden. By the
time twenty sixteen rolls around and the election is there,
one of the investigations in Ukraine had been shut down
in twenty fifteen after a seven million dollar bribe was paid.
That's not my allegation, that's in the State Department documents.
So there were two simultaneous investigations going on. One gets
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closed down after Bresma pays a seven million dollar bribe.
Hunter Biden's on the board the moment that bribe occurs.
But there's a second persistent investigation that won't go away.
It's the Ukrainian government's own investigation by what's known as
the Prosecutor General's Office. And as the twenty sixteen election
is approaching, that investigation is escalating. They turn evidence over
(06:32):
to the basically the FBI of Ukraine asset to get going.
They do an asset forfeit your seizure of Hunter Biden's boss, Mikolazochevsky,
the oligarch that owns Burris Mum, and the case is
escalating at that very point. You can see Buriesmus's panic.
How do we know that they went to the State
Department saying, you've got to stop this Hunter Biden's on
the board, you have to stop this investigation. Well that
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didn't happen, and so Joe Biden steps into the void.
In March of twenty sixteen, as that investigation is escalating,
Joe Biden just happens to fire the prosecutor, Victor Shokin,
who was overseeing that case. He does it by telling
the president, if you don't fire that guy, we're going
to withhold the billion dollars it would have bankrupt Ukraine.
A billion dollars is a lifeline to Ukraine at this point.
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Now Joe Biden will say I fired that guy for
reasons other than my son. Well, whether it was for
any reason it helped your son's company, it's exactly what
they wanted to have happened at that very moment, and
it's a creation of a conflict of interest. We're supposed
to be when you're in government free of conflicts of interest.
Joe Biden couldn't be more conflicted in Ukraine. And that
isn't my words, those are the words of the impeachment
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witnesses like George Kent and Maria Ivanovitch, who said there
was definitely a conflict of interest. Joe Biden was undercutting
our efforts to bring anti corruption policy to Ukraine. So
before we jump to China, which is the really big story,
what do you make of this three and a half
million dollar check from the richest woman in Russia that
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will just popped up on my screen? Was kind of like,
what where did that come from? Yeah, this is story
we broke about three weeks ago. We got this information
because the Senate committees run by Charles Grassley and Ron
Johnson got what are known as suspicious activity reports. This
is when a financial institution says, some money just moved
through our accounts and we think that there's something wrong
(08:20):
about it. And we now know from the good work
that Senators Johnson and Grassie did that there was millions
of dollars flowing into Hunter Biden's accounts that got flagged
by the Obama Treasury Department as suspicious. They filed these reports. Well,
one of them is a three point five million dollar
check that comes into one of Hunter Biden's companies in
February of twenty fourteen. It comes from Yelena Battarina. She
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was the wife of the Moscow mayor. She became Russian's
first female billionaire an olaguard, and under a law that
was passed in Congress, she was identified as one of
the people in Russia who allegedly got her wealth through
corruption and corrupt means. So she's been flagged in the
United States for a long time. Hunter Biden gets the
three point five million dollars coming into his company's account.
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It's flagged for two reasons. One the source everybody knows
Elena about Arena has some questions around her business and
her ethics. The second part is it comes two weeks
before Vladimir Putin sends troops into Ukraine and invades the
Crimean region of Ukraine. And the appearance issue that the
security concerns that somehow Russia was trying to compromise Joe
Biden's son just before Russia was going to take this
(09:28):
audacious action and move into Crimea really set off alarm
bells in the National security apparatus the Treasury Department, and
the three point five million is only a portion of
the money we now know that Elena about Arena gave
to a Hunter Biden his business partner, Devon Archer. There's
a document that the FBI seized from Devon Archer, who,
by the way, the business partner of Hunter Biden, has
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been convicted as a felon a fraud and is awaiting
sentencing to go to prison. So Joe Biden's son was
in business with a felon. But in those documents that
the FBI sees from Hunter Biden's company, there is a
set of board minutes in which Devin Archer reveals one
of their companies had gotten two hundred million dollars from
Ulana Battery and not three point five million, which is
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one of the transactions that are flagged. The total size
of the relationship, according to him, Hunter Biden's own business
partner in these minutes was about two hundred million dollars
in loans and gifts and transactions. He's in business with
the corrupt oligarch in Ukraine. He's in business with a
questionable oligarch in Russia. At a very sensitive time in
US Russian relations, and he's really in business with the
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Chinese Communist Party. Yeah, and apparently a whole new set
of information came out involving even more activity with the
Chinese in the last day or so. It's almost like
you can't keep up with it. It's a multifaceted relationship,
it really was. And again the apparents issue. What bigger
conflict can you have but to put Hunter Biden on
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air force to fly over on an official trip of
the Vice president and shake them down for a business
relationship that, at least in discussion, was one point five
billion in size. The audacity of this it sort of
rivals what the Clintons did with the Clinton Foundation. The
difference there as the Clinton Foundation was allegedly a charity
and so most of the money went to charitable causes,
at least by design. Here it's going into the back
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pocket of Hunter Biden and the family members. And it
wasn't a secret. I've interviewed a lot of officials in
these countries Ukraine, Russia, China over the last six months,
and what they've told me, we thought the Bidens were
just pretty clear. It was a pay to play relationship.
If you wanted Joe to be friendly, you greased the
palm of Hunter Biden. And that's the impression we left
in these countries. Imagine what we should be thinking about
(11:38):
in the greatest country of all America, that that's what
our elected leaders were doing during that time frame. Hi,
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That's nuts, Inner Circle dot com. How can Joe Biden,
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as recently as the debate of Trump say I never
knew anything about it. It's an implausible answer based on
what I know. Let's just take him one example of
something that he keeps saying, I didn't know anything about Barisma.
It wasn't on my radar when I fired the prosecutor.
I didn't know he was investigating my son's company. Well,
(13:36):
we now know from the records that I've gotten from
the State Department under foy him and from public records
that are out there from other sources. Joe Biden knew
in December twenty fifteen that there was an active investigation
into Bars and Hunter Biden. He knew it because the
New York Times came to them and told him that,
And the New York Times got a statement back from
the Biden Vice President's office saying that they understood this,
(14:00):
but this was Hunter's problem, not the vice president. So
the vice president at first hand knowledge that his son's
company was under investigation by the very prosecutor that he
would later go and try to fire just a few
months later, and he fires that prosecutor. He forces the
firing of that prosecutor at a time where you now
see Barisma all over the State Department, pressuring the State Department,
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you got to stop this, you got to stop this.
In one of the memos I obtained recently, the lawyers
for Barrisma are in the United States, a company called
Blue Star Strategies, big Democratic firm. They go to the
State Department and they're not even subtle about why they
think that the encruption allegations have to be stopped in
the track. They say to the State Department, Hunter Biden's
on the board, you got to deal with this. You
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can't let him get embarrassed. And at that point, when
the State Department isn't willing to intervene and stop the
investigation or stop calling Bresma corrupt, Joe Biden steps into
action himself and fires his prosecutor. He says he had
different motives. At the end of the day, for a
conflict of interest, it doesn't matter if your motives are
good and bad. Once you know that prosecutor is involved,
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you should step aside. From any decisions. He didn't. He
stepped into the void. He stepped into an ethical conflict
of interest, and I think at the end of the day,
he shamed his country and his family in doing so.
Maurusma sort of understandable single company path of corruption, but
China seems to me there are so many different trails,
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so many different components, and if you believe the numbers,
they're clearly in the billion dollars plus range. I mean,
how's that possible. Well, China has a lot of money,
and China needed something from the Obama Biden administration. This
gets lost. This is a story I wrote a few
months ago, and I think the president then reacted to
it and is starting to take some action. But if
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you look at the time frame where Hunter Biden starts
to get in business with the Chinese companies, and Chinese
companies tied both to the PLA, the People's Liberation Army,
the military of Communist China, and some are companies tied
to Communist Party members in China. So he's working with
the people that don't love America and China. The Chinese
who were looking for something very important. They were growing,
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but they don't have great capital markets like the amazing
Dow Jones and capital markets we have in the United States.
They needed access to our markets to capitalize the growth
in China, and they couldn't get in because there was
this little hiccup called Sarbanes Oxy, which says, if you're
going to come onto the American markets, you have to
oblige by our accounting rooms. You can't defraud investors. There
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has to be transparency. It's a law that was passed
and it's been all American companies that compete on our
markets for capital have to comply with these very stringent
accounting things. Well, what remarkably is going on is as
Hunter Biden is inserting himself into the country, the Chinese
get the ultimate gift from the Obama Biden administration, and
that is a waiver. In twenty thirteen, there's a special
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body associated with the Securities and Exchange Commission and they
give a waiver and say, okay, China, guess what. We're
going to let you come into the capital markets here.
But you don't have to comply with Sarbanzoxy. You can
do some things, but we know you'd like to be
private in China. We're going to give you a pass
on that, and they set out some requirements I would
say lip service requirements to the accounting principles, but they
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basically excluded China. And then China comes into these markets
with affengeance in twenty thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, sex billions
of dollars of capital out into their own country without
having to comply with these rules. And then I took
a look and started to go through, well, what were
they supposed to comply with? And it turns out they
didn't even comply with the very light requirements of this
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very special deal that China got. So that's when Hunter
Biden is cashing in. And the more that that ruling
took effect, the more China started to penetrate our markets,
the more the deal started to flow in to Hunter
Biden and his companies and Devin Archer's companies. The timing
between those two decisions, Hunter Biden's decision to go get
Chinese business and Joe Biden's administration's decision to give the
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Chinese an extraordinary waiver, they gave the Chinese an incredible advantage.
Those two are tied together, at least in the timeline
that we've built, and that should trouble us all when
they talk about, like the Chinese, we're going to give
him a billion five to invest. He would then get
an override, which as I understand, it would be about
thirty million dollars a year for managing all this. That's
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sort of a standard fee. But hey, he doesn't know
anything of investing anything, and b do we see a
lifestyle comparable to the sheer cash flow? The amount of
money from Russia, Ukraine and China is so great, and
these guys could have paved all of Delaware and Gold
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if you take the amount of money flowing and if
it really is two hundred million coming in for Lane
about Arena, if it's really one point five billion, And
by Hunter Biden's own lawyer's comments, he owned ten percent
of that one point five billion dollar fund, So you
can start to do the math. That's a big number.
He flipped several companies at some point, I hope we
get a chance to talk about Hennegis, a Michigan autoparts company.
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Great story about how the Biden family flipped that to
Chinese control. There's all of these transactions going on, and
there's large amounts of money. We had an opportunity about
twelve months ago to get some visibility into hunter Biden's
wealth when a woman claimed that he had fathered her
son and she went to court an oppaternity suit trying
to get access to his records, and then he refused
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to comply, and then they settled out of court. So
we lost that extraordinary opportunity to see what hunter Biden
might have in his bankroll where it might have gone.
And I think one of the great questions that you
always ask, and it's a simple question, but the Vice
President has never asked it, is, at any time did
hunter Biden make money that he then gave to you
in some retirement account, some other account. That question has
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not been asked or answered in an appropriate way. It's
a fair question to ask, and listen if it didn' happen,
Joe Biden say, never got any of that money. I
don't have any secret offshore accounts. I don't have anything
like this. We don't know what hunter Biden did with
his money. Did he lose it in other investments, did
he bank it away in some Cayman island his account?
Did he blow it away on a lavish lifestyle? Because
we know he had a drug addiction and from the records,
(20:05):
the Senate had apparently some engagement with prostitution rings. You
can lose a lot of money quickly that way. We
don't have complete visibility into it. But when you take
the sheer numbers, this business game of following behind the
Vice president's jet and going into China, Kazakhstan, Russia and
Ukraine and making money. Big dollars were exchanged. Just in Barisma.
We can see four million dollars coming in between fourteen
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and twenty sixteen. That's records at the FBI sees that
we can see the bank accounts. I see many other
multimillion dollar transactions and those accounts coming in from other countries.
Hunter Biden and his business partner, particularly Devin Archer, we're
moving in tens of millions of dollars a year. How
much of it they still have or where it is
is still a mystery to us. So now I go back,
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as you mentioned the photo company in Michigan, walk us
through that because I know if President Trump's talked about
it and one of his trips to machine. So we
had this story about three four weeks ago in just
the News and Shamus Bruner, who works for Peter Schweitzer
and I worked on this for a while. It's a
really remarkable story. So there's an all American autoparts manufacturer
in Michigan called Hennegus. It's been around for forty fifty years.
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It feeds the Gms and the Fords of the world,
and it's iconic. It's a big employer in Michigan. And
as it grew, it diversified and some of its business
moved into the military side of business. And so they
started to create very specialized windshields that can be put
in American fighter jets and they stand vibration so they
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don't break it at hypersonic speeds, and they they don't rattle,
they don't cause fog. There's some unique what we call
du yields technology which is protected by the US law.
And so Hunter Biden's hedge fund comes in there, they
buy a percentage of it. Then they flip it to
a Chinese company. Now who is that Chinese company. It's
called Avic. Avic is basically the Boeing or McDonald douglass
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of China. It makes all of the military aircraft for
as military and Hunter Biden gets this company, he flips
it into this other company AVIC. And there's a process
we've heard this name before called CIPHIUS, the Committee on
Foreign Investment in the United States. It's ten cabinet members
get together and they review any sensitive technology or any
sensitive asset in America that a foreign country may be
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seeking to bide. CIPHIUS has got to take a look
at the Hennegis transaction in China. Why because it has
this very sensitive military aircraft capability and they rubber stamp
it again and China ends up with this iconic American
company with good, very important fighter jet windows shield technology.
And what do we find out? What turns out At
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the time CIPHIUS made that decision, Avic, a Chinese company,
had been sanctioned five times already by the United States
for bad behavior, including proliferating weapons to America's enemies, and
one of its subsidiaries, literally just a few months before
Hunter Biden pulls off this transaction, it had just been
flagged as wrongly helping the Chinese military and violation of
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US law. So it's flagged. And then since that time,
AVIC has been repeatedly identified by the Pentagon as a
threat to American national security. Somehow, the Syphius overlooked all
of that history and allowed Hunter Biden to make a
big money selling an iconic American auto parts and aircraft
parts maker to the Chinese Communist Party at a time
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when we're being warned by the Director of National Intelligence
that the Chinese are stealing about five hundred billion dollars
a year untellectual property. Why do you think the Obama administration,
not just Biden, but the administration was so endlessly lacks
about protecting America. That's a great question. In my book,
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I spend a lot of time talking about what's the
most concerning thing. And I think if you look at
the last half century of American foreign policy, there's been
two approaches. The Reagan approach, which is peace sue strength,
which is we don't give into our enemies, we defeat
them and hopefully peacefully by remaining strong and not giving
into the will. And then I think Donald Trump is
an inheritor and maybe a reviver of the peace to
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strength approach to the foreign policy. In the case of
the Obama administration, they pursued a strategy of appeasement, which is,
we don't want you Iran to keep making those weapons,
so we'll give you billions of dollars and try to
pay you not to make those weapons. Russia, we want
you to become our friend, even though all of our
intelligence tells us you're never going to be our friend.
So we're going to give you billions of dollars of
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uranium contracts that make American utilities reliant on Russian uranium
for decades to come. We're going to give you twenty
percent of the ore under our ground. We're going to
help you create a rival to our silicon valley called Skolkov,
and you're going to like us because we do that well.
We learned that didn't work out well because as soon
as Amerputin got everything he wanted, he invaded Ukraine and
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turned the entire narrative around on us. And yet the
Obama administration once again engaged in impeasement with China. There
have been warning flags for years by the admirals in
the Pacific Fleet saying China is not our friend. They're
growing in military strength, they have ill intentions in the
South China sees. And yet what is the Joe Biden
Obama administration to They're constantly giving away favors to China
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and more importantly preaching a very deceptive line, which is
China is not dangerous, a prosperous China is good for America.
They're not really a harm. They're not really stealing our ip.
Let's be good to them. The more we give them
access to our markets, the more democratic they're going to be.
I don't think you could tell the eagers in China
the China has become any more democrat, with the concentration
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camps that they're put into, the human rights people that
are being tortured, Hong Kong losing all of its freedoms.
Joe Biden was the architect of all the foreign policy
Barack Obama didn't care about foreign policy. Joe Biden was
the foreign policy guide. And he got it wrong on Russia.
He got it wrong on China, and he got it
wrong on Ukraine, and he got it wrong on Iran,
and he got it wrong even on Osama Bin Laden.
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And now he wants to run that foreign policy back
in America again. Remember that former SUTURE Defense Bob Gates
said that in fifty years Biden had been on the
wrong side of every major decision in national sit He
wrote that in his memoir, And I think that Peo
will show that to be true a little bit sobering
when you look at it. So now this most recent
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thing is like a novel. You can't make this stuff up.
This guy in Delaware as a computer that was brought
in to be fixed, and the guy who brought it
in apparently forgot it, and so the guy finally gets
around to looking at it and realizes it has all
this stuff about Hunter Biden's corrupt behavior. And it turns
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out the guy who owns the little computer store and
say Trump's supporter and tried apparently for five or six
months to get somebody to look at it, and finally
got it to Rudy Giuliani, who understood instantly why it
mattered and began to break in the New York Post,
at which point, just to make everything wilder, Twitter decides
to block the New York Post, and apparently, as of
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the time you and I are talking, they have blocked
the official Trump campaign site. You've got the Hunter Biden corruption,
You've got Silicon Value going crazy and thinking that they
can dictate to the whole rest of the country, and
all of this is kind of swirling. What do you
make of all this? I was thinking about this late
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last night after just a crazy day of developments. And
what irony is there that a story about a corrupt
oligarch in Ukraine enriching the vice president's son gets thwarted
by a new generation of oligarchs in America who believe
they can control thought, mind, speech, and conversation and political
dialogue through their social media and search platforms. It's all, says, though,
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we've become the oligarchs, and the Ukrainians and Russians are
laughing at us because we've allowed the same system of
multi billionaires, all with a singular philosophy, this left leaning philosophy,
to control using our public resources. Right, all that stuff
moves across the Internet. That's our sky, our land that
these wires and cables and beams run through to pick
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winners and losers and try to turn America into a
single state aligned with the media, the social media companies,
and the Democratic Party. It's almost a travesty. But one
of the great things I know is those very wealthy
people often underestimate the extraordinary cognizance of the American people,
And I think the American people are a lot wiser.
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They see what's going on. They're frustrated, by this one
sided debate and all of the crying wolf and all
the silly things that the Democrats have done the last
four years. And I suspect we may not measure this
in polling before election date, but some of this stuff
is probably boomerang as we speak, people saying this is
just so rigged, you know what. I'm fed up with this,
and so I think it could have a profound effect
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on the final days of the election. I mean, the
last twenty four hours feel like we live in commonist China. Yeah.
Twitter stops the New York Post, which was founded by
Alexander Hamilton. Then they stop the President's press secretary, right,
they stop apparently the Republican House Judiciary Committee. They've now
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stopped the presidential campaign. I mean, this is a level
of interference that you literally the kind of censorship you'd
associate with its a tolitary and state, except as being
done by a handful of people in Silicon Valley. And
it turns out the key players on the political side,
every one of them is a liberal Democrat. I mean
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literally worked for Democrats, not just in terms of the
value system. Don't you think at some point that probably
leads to a real explosive desire for reform. It's been
obvious for four years we needed this reform, and I
think the President has tried to deliver as much as
he can against all the obstacles that have been thrown
against him. But right now today, the Federal Trade Commission
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could intervene and say what we're witnessing right now is
a restraint of interstate commerce. Facebook makes lots of money
between the states exchanging these ideas, and when they restrain
my publications or the New York Post Publication's ability to
share current information, they're engaging potentially in a violation of
the interstate commerce clause. I think there are other things
that the Trump administration could do. The Justice Department could do. Sadly,
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this administration hasn't always used the greatest tools it has
to fight some of this. But there are some good lawyers,
some good trade experts at tomorrow could put an end
to this by going to the court saying this amounted
to an infringement of interstate commerce. We're not going to
let it happen. Whining on Twitter and complaining is one
way to go about it, but it doesn't affect change.
Right now, the President has the most powerful tool the
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executive branch. He should use it for the American people. Now,
I noticed that yesterday Justice Tarmas said it's quite clear
that Section two thirty was written before you had these
kinds of giants, and that he personally would love to
see the case come before the Supreme Court to review
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whether or not, in fact they were truly protected by
Section two thirty, which of course would be an enormous
financial threat to all three of the major players. And
I thought it was interesting that he was sending that signal.
I think this is going to build. It's only been
less than twenty four hours that we've realized how really
ruthless and dishonest they are becoming. In terms of staying
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with the scandal. Is there more stuff out there? Are
we at the tip of the iceberg? What's your sense?
So one of the things that I've been working on,
and I think could be the most important final stage
of understanding the breath of the Biden scandal, is that
I don't think those stars reports that were sent to
the Treasury Department were done willingly. Somebody in the financial
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community probably stood up and said, hey, there's something fishy
going on here, and you banking institutions are hiding it.
I suspect there may be some whistleblowers or some other
actions that we don't yet see that caused all of
those suspicious activity reports to be flagged all at once,
and that's where I'm focusing a lot of my reporting.
I think that there is a strong possibility that something
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prompt at the Treasury Department to start looking at all
this money that hunter Biden was going. And then the
question is, if you see a large money laundering scandal,
which normally that's what stars are used for, what happened?
Why did we only take a very narrow case and
look at hunter Biden's business partner on one transaction involving
one Indian tribe and try to convict him. Did anyone
look at the broader question of was the president sun compromised?
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Was US policy compromised? Was there a much larger inappropriate
flow of money coming into Hunter Biden that put our
national security, our financial institutions into risk. I think that's
the big storyline that yet been cracked. It's the question
that the Senate report raised a few weeks ago. I've
been working on that and I'm beginning to get some
sense that there may be one or two big revelations
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here that we don't yet know about, a whistleblower or
some other mechanism that triggered all this attention to Hunter
Biden's foreign cash flow. And you've taken the huge undertaking
and launching an entire new news service. Could you explain
what you've done and how they can interact with it.
It's a remarkable project of your part. Thank you. We
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created a thing called Just the News, and we try
to live up to no opinion. We're not trying to
change anyone's mind. We're trying to give you straight, factual
stories every day. And one of the things that I
think ails my industry today is an arrogance that because
we report it, you must believe it, and how dare
you challenge us? You see how defensive reporters get. I
wanted to change that culture and say, listen, the readers
should make up their minds. So what we do with
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every story we write we write fifty to seventy stories
a day now is we have a tool called digging.
We write our story on one side, you click another button.
You can see all the documents, all the notes, all
the interviews, all the video, all the audio that we
used to build this story, so that you don't have
to take my word for it. I want you to
look at the materrors yourself. And so our greatest bond
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to our readers is we're going to be transparent with you.
We're going to write stories, We're gonna stay neutral, no
opinion pieces on our site, and when we do do
a new story, we're going to open up our notebook
to you so you can take a look. And that's
really what's created the bond between us and our readers.
We have ten to fifteen million monthly readers right now,
we have a million podcast listeners, and we have about
five million video viewers right now a month, and we're
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about six months old. So the reaction to what we've
been trying to do is been great. I call it
a back to the future project. I want to do
journalism the way it was done twenty years ago or
thirty years ago when I came into the profession, but
deliver it in all the new fangled ways that the
internet and YouTube and podcast give us. But our promise
to our readers is we're never going to engage in
opinion and we're always going to be transparent with you.
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Don't take our word for it. Click on Hunter Biden's documents,
click on Vice President Joe Biden's emails, his speeches. We
make that all available. We're not trying to indoctrinate you,
were just trying to inform you. So people can go
to just the News dot Com. That's the News dot
Com is our website. We have seven podcasts now weekly.
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You can get those on Apple or all the other platforms.
And then we just announced a television partnership with Real
America's Voice. And what's interesting about Real America's Voice, it's
sort of the Fox News for the cable cutters generation.
Fox News is an amazing place. I've worked there. I
love the people there, but there's a whole generation of
people that don't tune into it. They consider that Mom
and Pops cable network. There's all these people thirty forty
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fifteen somethings that are watching TV digital direct, and Real
America's Voice has become like the Fox News for the
cable cutter generation. It's doing millions of minutes a day
of people watching on devices like Roku and Pluto and
their xboxes and their game boxes. And so we've created
three original shows a day. There. We'll probably be doing more,
but we're trying to do some news for people who
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don't have the benefit or don't choose to subscribe to
cable anymore. That's great. We'll have all that on our
showpage so people can find you. This has been really helpful.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. To my guest John Solomon.
You can read more about Biden's relationship with the Chinese
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Commonist Party and get a link to John's book Fallout,
Nuclear Bribes, Russian Spies and the Washington lies that enriched
the Clinton and Biden dynasties on our show page at
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