May 29, 2025 • 33 mins
1. Immigration and Border Security
- The episode opens with a discussion on illegal immigration, celebrating the shutdown of certain southern border crossings.
- It criticizes the Biden administration, alleging intentional lax border policies to alter the country’s demographics.
- A specific case is highlighted involving an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who allegedly threatened to assassinate former President Donald Trump. The individual reportedly had a long criminal history and had crossed the border multiple times.
2. Visa Restrictions and Free Speech
- Senator Marco Rubio is cited as announcing visa bans on foreign officials who censor Americans or U.S. companies.
- The commentary frames this as a defense of American free speech against foreign interference, particularly from countries like China, Russia, and members of the EU.
3. Allegations of Executive Overreach via Autopen
- A watchdog group questions whether former President Joe Biden knowingly signed several climate-related executive orders.
- The use of an autopen (a device that replicates a signature) is scrutinized, with claims that Biden may not have been aware of the orders being signed in his name.
- The podcast references a book titled Original Sin and includes commentary from media figures like Jake Tapper and Megyn Kelly, criticizing the media’s handling of Biden’s cognitive health and transparency.
4. Media Criticism
- The text is highly critical of mainstream media, particularly CNN’s Jake Tapper, accusing him of covering up Biden’s cognitive decline and later profiting from it through a book.
- It includes a transcript of a pointed interview between Tapper and Kelly, where she challenges his past reporting and perceived complicity.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I want to go back to a big story We've
been covering it here for a while, and that is
the illegal immigration issue in America. There is great news
that we have in essence shut down the border and
the illegal crossings at the southern border.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
There was a.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Story about one of the overflow areas. They've actually shut
down one of the areas that was just getting hammered
with illegal immigrants under Biden administration.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
We know that they did it on purpose.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
We know they wanted to front America with massive amounts
of illegal aliens and they wanted to fundamentally change his country.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
The Biden Heris team.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Obama was a part of this as well, and whoever
the hell was running the country, because it wasn't Joe Biden, right,
all these dictators that were in charge of America. But
shutting down the border is one very important part of
the problem. But we still have a problem that's literally
tens of millions of problems deep, and that is the
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illegal immigrants who are in this country now, and how
do we continue to remove them quickly?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Now I give you an example.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Of the threat that these illegal immigrants have towards this country.
Ice has just announced that they have arrested an illegal
alien from Mexico for an alleged threat on President Donald
Trump's life, another assassination attempt. Now, before I get into
(01:28):
these stories, I'd like to change gears for a minute
and talk to you about Israel.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
What we are seeing right now is truly disturbing.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Anti Semitism is actually on the rise around the world,
and sadly, it's happening right here in America as well.
Jewish schools are being targeted, synagogues are threatened, families. Jewish
families are living in fear, and it's something we hope
to never see again in our lifetime. But the reality is,
this is what is happening now, and it's time for
us to stand up and not be silent and take
(01:57):
a stand, to stand with those in Israel, those that
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The illegal alien has been taken into County by Immigration
and Customs Enforcement ICE after he threatened to assassinate President
(03:09):
Donald Trump. On Wednesday, the Department of Home in Security
Secretary Christy Noam revealed the ICE agents had arrested a
fifty four year old illegal alien of Mexico on May
the twenty second, after he threatened to kill Donald J.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Trump. The day before his arrest, ICE.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Officials said the man handed an intelligence officer a handwritten
note in which he promised to assassinate Trump at one
of his rallies before self deporting from the United States,
saying quote, we are tired of this present messing with
us Mexicans. We have done more for this country than
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you white people. The note from the illegal immigrant reads saying, quote,
my family and I think it's time for Donald J.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Trump to get what he has coming to him.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I will self deport myself back to Mexico, but not
before I use my thirty yard six to shoot.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Your precious present in the head.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I will see him at one of his big rallies,
the man emphasized in his own writing. Now, thanks to
are ice officers, this illegal alien who threatened to assassinate
President Trump is behind bars. Christy Noms said in his statement,
this threat comes not even a year, by the way,
after President Trump was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, and then
(04:32):
we and then less than two weeks after the former
FBI director James Comey called for President trump'ssassination as well.
Christine Noms said, quote, all politicians and members of the
media should take notice of these repeated attempts on President
Trump's life and tone down their rhetoric. I will continue
to take all measures necessary to ensure the protection of
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President Trump, Nomes said in her statement. Now, this illegal
immigrant that's been arrested has illegally crossed the the US
Mexico border at least nine different times between nineteen ninety
eight and two thousand and five.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
ICE officials have.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Confirmed the illegal alien has extensive criminal history as well,
including felony hit and run, criminal damage to property, and
disorderly conduct with a domestic abuse modifier. The illegal immigrant,
we now are being told will remain in ICE custody
at the Dodge County Jail in Wisconsin pending his deportation
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to Mexico. Now you talk about how this back and
forth and how many times you can come across the
southern border, it's truly incredible that it can happen so often.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
By so many of these individuals.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Because it is an open border issue, and you have
to stop this, right like, you absolutely have to stop
this from happening. And this also goes to another issue,
and it deals also with the issue of immigrants coming
into this country. Marco Rubio has issued now a visa
ban for foreign officials who are censoring Americans and again,
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this is about going back into offense and to saying, look,
we're not putting up with this crap anymore. Whether it's
legal immigrants, whether it's countries that hate us, whether it's
foreign students that are coming to America that hate America
and are chanting death to America or death to Israel,
or they're anti Semites, and now you can add.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
To that list.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
The Secretary of State Marco Rubio announcing that the Trump
administration will impose visa restrictions on foreign officials engaging in
censorship of American citizens and attempting to regulate American companies abroad.
Rubio said the State Department quote would begin banning foreign
officials from securing visas to travel to the United States
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of America if they engage in censorship of Americans.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Free speeches among the most cherished rights we enjoy as Americans,
Rubio said in a statement. He went on to say,
this that's right, legally enshrined in our constitution, has set
us apart as a beacon of freedom around the world.
Even as we take action to reject censorship at home,
we see troubling instances of foreign governments and foreign.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Officials picking up the slack.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
In some instances, foreign officials have taken flagrant censorship actions
against US tech companies as well as US citizens and residents,
when they have no authority to do so. Rubio said, today,
I'm announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply
to foreign nationals who are responsible for censorship of protected
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expression in the United States. It is unacceptable for foreign
officials to issue or threaten arrest warrants on US citizens
or US residents for social media posts on American platform
while physically present on US soil. It is similarly unacceptable.
He went on to say for foreign officials to demand
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that American tech platforms adopt global content moderation policies or
engage in censorship activity that reaches beyond their authority and
into the United States of America, saying, quote, we will
not tolerate encroachment upon American sovereignty, especially when such encroachments
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undermine the exercise of our fundamental right to free speech.
He said, for too long, Americans have been fined, have
been harassed, and even charged by foreign authorities for exercising
their free speech rights, and that's why he said today
I'm announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply
to the foreign officials in persons who are complicit in
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censoring Americans.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
This move also comes as the European Union approve the
Digital Services Act.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Does that do?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
It's designed to censor certain discussions on social media and
elsewhere online, while countries like China, Venezuela, Russia, Iran and
Cuba continue censorship campaigns to cripple oppositions to their governments.
Now in February, jd Vance also sounded the alarm as
(09:23):
the Vice President, warning that the European Union was abandoning
shared democratic values by adopting the online censorship policy. Here
is jdie Vance saying this and Munich at the Security
conference not afraid of who he may offend.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
I will admit that sometimes the loudest voices for censorship
have come not from within Europe, but from within my
own country, where the prior administration threatened and bullied social
media companies to censors so called misinformation. Misinformation like, for example,
the idea that coronavirus had likely leaped leaked from a
(10:01):
laboratory in China. Our own government encouraged private companies to
silence people who dared to utter what turned out to
be an obvious truth. So I come here today not
just with an observation, but with an offer. And just
as the Biden administration seemed desperate to silence people for
speaking their minds, so the Trump administration will do precisely
(10:25):
the opposite. And I hope that we can work together
on that. In Washington, there is a new sheriff in town,
and under Donald Trump's leadership, we may disagree with your views,
but we will fight to defend your right to.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Offer it in the public square. Agree or disagree.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Now we're at the point, of course, that the situation
has gotten so bad that this December, Romania straight up
canceled the results of a presidential election based on the
flimsy suspicions of an intelligence agency and enormous pressure from
its continental neighbors. Now, as I I understand it, the
argument was that Russian disinformation had infected the Romanian elections.
(11:07):
But I'd ask my European friends to have some perspective.
You can believe it's wrong for Russia to buy social
media advertisements to influence your elections, We certainly do. You
can condemn it on the world stage, even but if
your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand
dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country. Then it
(11:28):
wasn't very strong to begin with. Now, the good news
is that I happen to think your democracies are substantially
less brittle than many people apparently fear, and I really
do believe that allowing our citizens to speak their mind
will make them stronger.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Still, you can.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Hear the Vice President saying the same thing that the
president's talking about, saying it's time for us to defend
and protect free speech while also making sure that online
people aren't silenced and punished from governments or organizations around
the world.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
And if you do.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Come after Americans, we'll get ready because your visas are
going to be canceled.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I want to deal.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
With some other breaking news as well, and it's one
that's pretty shocking. There is a watchdog group that has
found quote no evidence that Joe Biden knew of the
crucial climate executive orders that he was signing. They're now
demanding answers on who was actually in charge and who
(12:34):
was using the auto pen power. The Future is now
calling Congress to investigate the validity of former President Joe
Biden's signatures. Now, a pro energy group is renewing their
call now for this investigation into over half a dozen
Biden administration executive actions specifically related to climate that it
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believes should be deemed no roll and void due to
them being signed by an autopin without any public comment
at all from the former President Joe Biden, confirming his
knowledge of even what was happening. Power of the Future
is a nonprofit organization that advocates for American energy jobs.
(13:19):
They reviewed eight by an executive orders that it says
were significant shifts in domestic energy policy, and they said
it found no evidence of the present speaking about any
of these eight publicly, raising major concerns that the orders
were signed by autopin and that he was not even
aware that they were going to become executive action, saying, quote, these.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Are not obscure bureaucratic memos.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
These were fundamental shifts in American energy policy, yet not
once did Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Speak about them publicly.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
That's what Daniel Turner, the founder executive director of Power
for the Future said in an interview now. The executive
orders review viewed by Power of the Future included an
Arctic drilling ban in twenty twenty three, also a twenty
twenty one executive order committing the federal government to quote
net zero admissions by twenty fifty and an executive order
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mandating quote clean energy AI centers, and an offshore drilling
ban executive order that Joe Biden in theory signed before
leaving office in twenty twenty five. They said, finding no
evidence of Biden publicly speaking about the executive orders on climate,
They then sent a letter this week to THEDJ, the EPA,
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DI and DOE, along with the House and Senate Oversight committees,
calling for an investigation to determine who made these decisions,
who drafted the executive orders, and ultimately who signed them,
since they believe it clearly wasn't Joe Biden quote. In
light of the growing evidence that actions purportedly taken by
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the former president may not have been approved or signed
by him, but instead by a small group of advisors
in his name without his knowledge, or over his signature
using an auto pen, the need for Congressional access to
information has grown in importance with these revelations. The letter
to the GOP House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer states
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saying quote, Congress deserves to know how or whether these
executive actions were authorized, and whether the former president was
aware of such orders before they were implemented by the
federal bureaucracy. Were these actions taken on behalf of the
president and purporting to excuse authority undertaken with the president's
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knowledge an approach question mark. It appears incumbent upon Congress
to inquire about all parties involved in these actions, who instructed.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Them to do, what, and when. Now.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
The President's auto pen has been a topic of conversation
in Republican circles in recent weeks and months, as questions
continue about Biden's mental acuity during his presidency, particularly the
last few days when they've come under scrutiny after the
release of Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's book Original Sin.
(16:19):
One of the things that is very clear is now
those of the White House are concerned that the President
of United States of America may have been hijacked by
a group of individuals who had no authority or power
to do what they were doing. I want you to
take a listen to this. As Representative Jim Jordan's shared
his concerns about Biden's alleged auto pen use and who
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was actually behind it.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Chris apparent to blow the lid off the biggest political
cover up in American history, as more troubling information emerges
about former President Joe Biden's mental decline. Now, according to
a brand new bombshell book, The One Insider, made it
clear that there were account of five people running the
country and Biden was.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Not one of them.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
So the question is obvious who was running the show? Well,
according to one cabinet secretary, it was Biden's aide who
held all the power. Now that book's co author is
actually calling out the undemocratic Biden white house.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
These aides were not even Senate confirmed aids. These are
a white House aids. These were unelected people. And one
of the things that really think comes out and are
reporting here is that if you believe, and I think
a lot of these people do sincerely believe that Donald
Trump was and is an essential threat to democracy, you
can rationalize anything, including sometimes doing undemocratic things, which I
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think is what this person is talking about.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Heard a lot of that in my conversations with Lindy
Lee maytime. Congress is also investigating that cover up. The
Senate in fact, wants to talk with twenty eight top
level Biden officials, while the House has had to be
looking into unauthorized yous of the auto pen by Joe Biden.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
When you sign a document that has legal implications, it
has to be signed perfectly. It can't be signed by
an autoped So I think that if we can understand
more about the autopen and whether or not Joe Biden
authorized it, I think this could lead to a lot
of those executive orders being kicked out in court.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
James Comer speaking there with Jesse Waters. Meantime, House Republicans
are also demanding to hear from Biden's doctor and four
other White House officials in an effort to uncover the truth.
So joining us now is the Judiciary Committee chair and
Ohio Congressman, the Great Jim Jordan Congressman. Listen, this is
a simple question for you, What, if anything, can we
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expect to happen in the wake of these House investigations
into the Biden cover up and the autopen use.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Well, I don't know if there's an easy answer. I mean,
we'll see. I think Chairman Comer will probably lead this investigation.
We can look at the folks who were supposedly making
the one thing we know for sure wasn't Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
So we can talk to these folks.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
My guess is they'll try to assert some legit in
fact we ever.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Bring them in.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
But you're I think it's right that in your lead
there you talk about it's supposed to be people who
put their name on the ballot, who are elected by we,
the people who make the decision. It's not supposed to
be other folks who aren't elected or in this case
aren't even confirmed by the United States Senate. So we'll
dig into this. But I think the real culprit, of course,
is the media. And you mentioned that, but I mean
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Jake Tapper made money telling us everything was fine. Now
he's making more money writing the book telling us, no,
it wasn't fine. I think that's the real concern here,
is what the mainstream media got away with, or what
they thought they were getting away with.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
The good news is the.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
American people figured it out on November fifth and made
sure President Trump was our next president.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
They sure did. Congressman, I want to stick on the
topic of Biden's autopen use. You know, specifically, we're hearing
that he used the autopend to sign executive orders right
issuing part ins. Senator Roger Marshall last night told us
that could be a huge problem.
Speaker 9 (19:56):
They didn't think we understood, They didn't think we knew
what was going on, but we and we're I'm especially
especially concerned about the people that he pardoned. And he
was pardoning these folks even though they hadn't been convicted
of a crime. It just doesn't add up.
Speaker 8 (20:09):
Congressman, on that note, do you think those pardons are
executive orders? Are those void invalid?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I think what you have to demonstrate is that the
folks who actually signed him, or whoever did or whether
it was the outo pin or what that, somehow Joe
Biden didn't really give it the okay. Now, I think
if you get him in, they'll probably say, well, my
boss told me it was fine, or we heard that
the president said it was fine.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
We got okay from whoever.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Whoever we worked for there in the way. I soon
they'll do some kind of some kind of rational, some
kind of answer like that. But again, you got to
work through this all. What if we bring these folks in,
you have to ask him. You may have to even
subpoena and then at some point when they come in,
will they assert some kind of privilege, executive privilege, that's all.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
That's all part of it. We'll just have to see.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
But as I said, I think I think the Oversight
Committee under Chairman Comer on the House side will probably
will probably lead this investigation.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
All right, So let's go back to legal nature of
this and get down to the brass tax of this
subject of an autopen number one, it's a device that
physically holds a pen in his programmed to replicate a
person's signature. The Justice Department's Office of Legal Council determined
in two thousand and five that the President's permitted to
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use an autopen to sign bills into law, and the
US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a
ruling in February that said the absence of a writing
does not equate to proof that a commutation did not
occur quote unquote.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
In March, President Trump claimed that Biden's pardons of lawmakers
who served on the House Select Committee to investigate the
January sixth Capitol Riot and others are quote void, alleging
that they had been signed via an autopen and that
Biden did not even know about them. Now, despite Trump's
concern over the validia Biden's pardons due to the alleged
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use of an autopen conscial scholar have said, well, this
is going to be a tough one in court and
a very high barred across to be able to get
this undone. Jonathan Turley put it this way on Fox, saying, quote,
presidents are allowed to use the autopen and courts will
not presume a dead hand conspiracy. Now Power the Future's
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letter references House Speaker Mike Johnson, who in January shared
that Biden during a meeting appeared to forget that he
signed an order to pause liquid national gas exports. A
report published by an arm of the Heritage Foundation also
claimed that the majority of official documents signed by Biden
were allegedly an auto pen signature, and there's a very
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good chance the president didn't know what was going.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
On at all.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
During the Biden administration, hundreds of billions of dollars were
funneled towards pet green projects, while the American fossil fuels
industry was punished, and there is no evidence that Biden
ordered it, directed it, or even was aware it was
happened in his name. That is another big question that's
now being asked.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
So do we deserve to know, yes, who.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Was signing the executive orders behind closed doors?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
It's a great question.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
We're people paying for access, and the autopin scandal is
evidence that many of these executive orders, many of them
green executive orders, could number one very well be invalid,
and the American people deserve to know. It should be
thoroughly investigated by the Department of Justice.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I think it's clear that's.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
The violation to trust the American people, and it could
have been a great fraud done on the American people
in the name of the President when he didn't even
know it was actually happening. Jake Tapper set down with
Megan Kelly to talk about this new book, and let
me just tell you, it was hysterical to watch him
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squirm when Meghan Kelly nailed him to the wall about
his participation and complicity in the Biden cover up. The
same guy now making money off of a book about
the big lie, right, this massive lie that was told,
And it's like, dude, you are literally a part of it.
You shut down people when they brought up the cognitive
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decline of Joe Biden, and you're now trying to act
like you're a truth teller after the guy's already out
of office. I'm going to play for you longer segments
because I want you to hear this conversation and I
want you to understand something about Jake. And I think
this is the part that you that I do want
you to have context for as you're listening.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Jake Tapper is extremely sanctimonious.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
When I worked with him for seven years at CNN,
he thinks he's some sort of God's gift to journalism,
that he's above reproach, he's better than everybody else, and
when he gets nailed on these issues, he's like, well,
I've already I've already asked for I've already apologized for this,
I've already talked to Laura Trump for the way that
I talked to her on my show, and I'm here
trying to get out the facts now with my book
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Original Sins like it is just like I could throw
up over the self righteousness in this interview, but I
want you to hear it because this is how the
media gets away with it. They rewrite history of what
they actually did. For years as a state sponsored media
individual and they.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Sold you any lie.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
The White House seed them to sell, and then when
the House comes crashing down, they're like, let's do real
reporting now. So with that being set, take a listen
to Megan Kelly Jake Tapper talking on this issue.
Speaker 10 (25:34):
Jake, the criticism has been that you're complaining about a
cover up about Joe Biden's mental acuity that failed that
right wing pundits saw, the right wing in general saw,
that independent media saw and reported on, and that was
no mystery even to left wing and so called mainstream
reporters who were not fooled but chose wilful blindness instead
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of honest reporting, and that you were part of it.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
How do you respond.
Speaker 11 (26:04):
It's a tough and fair question. I would say that
Alex and I after election day interviewed more than two
hundred people, two hundred mostly Democratic insiders, and all these
interviews where almost all of these interviews were after the election,
and they justified to themselves what they had done in
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terms of misrepresenting how the president was not just to
me and Alex and other reporters, but also just to
each other and to the world and to Democrats.
Speaker 12 (26:38):
Into the cabinet, etc.
Speaker 11 (26:39):
By saying that there was this existential threat of Donald Trump,
and only Joe Biden could beat Donald Trump, and that
justified everything in their minds. After that existential threat was over,
because the election was over and Donald Trump one, they were.
Speaker 12 (26:51):
We found Alex and myself.
Speaker 11 (26:54):
Remarkably willing to talk to us, either off the record
or on background or in some cases on the record
about what they saw. One of the things that emerged
was that there were two bidens. One was the fine Biden, serviceable, adequate,
and the other one was.
Speaker 12 (27:12):
As a non functioning Biden.
Speaker 11 (27:13):
And that's the one we saw the night of the debate,
and that's the one we saw some clips up here
and there that you just showed. And that non functioning Biden,
the one that lost his train of thought in a
significant way, not in the way just that every human
loses their train of thought, but in a way that
shows that he's having trouble articulating his very views. And
the one who forgot the name of close aids, who
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was not able to come up with George Clooney's name,
didn't seem to recognize him. All that sort of thing,
that non functioning Biden was, according to our reporting, showed
up as far back as twenty fifteen after the death
of Bow, where one top aid said that that tragedy,
the loss of Bow, was like watching somebody poor water sand.
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That was the effect on his psyche. And there were
other moments twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen. You hear some the
her report. One of the reasons he came to that
conclusion was because of the recordings they heard of Joe
Biden in twenty seventeen talking to his ghostwriter, in which
he was similarly inclined. Obviously, in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty,
there were other moments like that. Most of his campaign
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staff and others would say, like, he's look, he's seventy eight,
he's seventy nine, he has senior moments, but he's fine,
he's fine, he's fine.
Speaker 12 (28:26):
Well, he wasn't fine.
Speaker 11 (28:28):
And throughout his presidency, that non functioning Biden would show
up more and more and more, and he was worse
and worse and worse, really deteriorating tremendously. The next time
there was a really horrible family incident, which was when
Hunter Biden's plea deal fell apart in the summer of
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twenty twenty three, and then obviously in June he was convicted,
and the thought the fear of losing his son, not
to jail, but maybe to another to a real laps
to an overdose, to suicide. Who knows, it was a
very real fear, and the threat of losing a third
child really just diminished him tremendously, according to top aides.
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So all of which is to say that this was
a deterioration, was a this was a progression. And look,
knowing what I know now, obviously I feel tremendous humility
about my coverage that Laura Trump interviewed, for example, et cetera.
She saw something, She saw something that I did not
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see at the time, one hundred percent, and I own
that I did ask Joe Biden, by.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
The way, just pause there. This is the sanctimonious Jake
Tapper that is just exhausting to me. He's like, she
saw something that at the time that I did not see.
What are you joking? Everybody saw it, You just didn't
want to believe it.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
In fact, I don't.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
There's one thing about Jake Tapper that I want to
be queer about. Actually think Jake Tapper is extremely smart.
I think he's a really good at lying to you
about this one. And the idea that he didn't see
the cognitive decline, it would mean that he's an incredibly
stupid person, because only a dumb person would not be
able to see it. He saw it, but he didn't
want Donald Trump to win, and so he decided I'm
(30:18):
going to look the other way. And now he's like, well,
she saw something that I didn't see. Are you kidding me? Like, like,
give me a break, Like that is that is total crap.
Jake Tapper, by the way, way too sanctimonious to actually
believe this, And this is his out right Well, it
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wasn't that I was covering it up. It's just that
I didn't see it, right, It was just that I
didn't notice it.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Part No, you noticed it. I don't believe that you didn't.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I think you're lying to us, and now you're trying
to profit and make a and sell books off of
a lie that you were a part of.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Keep listening.
Speaker 12 (30:59):
To be transparent about his health records.
Speaker 11 (31:01):
In an interview in twenty twenty, I did ask him
about the fact that voters but then he was he
thought that he was not transparent at all.
Speaker 10 (31:07):
Now, he promised you that he would be transparent about
his health records, and then he wasn't. And when you
sat with him again at all, including one month, including
one month after the Jackie Willorski thing, you didn't ask
him about it. You didn't follow up on the fact
that he was falling up the stairs, that he was
losing his train of thought regularly, that he was slurring,
that he was incomprehensible, that he was getting lost on
the White House lawn. You sat right across from him,
(31:29):
and you asked none of that, notwithstanding the fact that
he had promised you he would be fully transparent about
his health issues.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
By the way, this is Megan Kelly, which he just
says exactly what I was saying, like, you had an
opportunity after you saw this, and you still didn't do
jack crap about it. You saw it all and you
chose not to do it, and then listen to this
BS answer from Jake.
Speaker 12 (31:51):
That's true.
Speaker 11 (31:53):
But I did ask him about his age and the
fact that the American people had concluded that even though
he said whenever anybody brought up the subject to his age,
watched me and I said, yes, they're watching you, and
they are concerned that you are too old for this job.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
You know as well as I do that.
Speaker 10 (32:09):
There's a way of you can say, hey, there's this
poll on your age, or you could say you just
forgot that Jackie Woolarski was dead. You asked where she
was moments after watching a videotape tribute to her. You
lowered the flags at the White House after she died.
This happened thirteen days before you sat with him. There
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is a way of pressing a man like that on
the actual infirmities to bring it home to him and
to the audience. And you didn't do.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
It, and you didn't do it, And she's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
And that's exactly why Jake Tapper deserves this type of
criticism for again now making money off of a book
that he is saying, oh, well, I didn't see it beforehand.
You didn't see it beforehand? Like, what the hell are
you talking about? You didn't see it before No, I
just didn't see it. I just didn't see it at all.
I had no idea this was going on. And she
saw it before I saw it, referring to Laura Trump,
(33:04):
and so you know, I called and apologize to her.
So everything's good. Now, Everything's totally fine now. Nothing to
see here, nothing wrong here? Are you kidding? Make sure
you share this podcast with your family and friends, put
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appreciate you listening every day.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
We'll see you back here tomorrow.
I want to go back to a big story We've
been covering it here for a while, and that is
the illegal immigration issue in America. There is great news
that we have in essence shut down the border and
the illegal crossings at the southern border.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
There was a.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Story about one of the overflow areas. They've actually shut
down one of the areas that was just getting hammered
with illegal immigrants under Biden administration.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
We know that they did it on purpose.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
We know they wanted to front America with massive amounts
of illegal aliens and they wanted to fundamentally change his country.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
The Biden Heris team.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Obama was a part of this as well, and whoever
the hell was running the country, because it wasn't Joe Biden, right,
all these dictators that were in charge of America. But
shutting down the border is one very important part of
the problem. But we still have a problem that's literally
tens of millions of problems deep, and that is the
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illegal immigrants who are in this country now, and how
do we continue to remove them quickly?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Now I give you an example.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Of the threat that these illegal immigrants have towards this country.
Ice has just announced that they have arrested an illegal
alien from Mexico for an alleged threat on President Donald
Trump's life, another assassination attempt. Now, before I get into
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these stories, I'd like to change gears for a minute
and talk to you about Israel.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
What we are seeing right now is truly disturbing.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Anti Semitism is actually on the rise around the world,
and sadly, it's happening right here in America as well.
Jewish schools are being targeted, synagogues are threatened, families. Jewish
families are living in fear, and it's something we hope
to never see again in our lifetime. But the reality is,
this is what is happening now, and it's time for
us to stand up and not be silent and take
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a stand, to stand with those in Israel, those that
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The illegal alien has been taken into County by Immigration
and Customs Enforcement ICE after he threatened to assassinate President
(03:09):
Donald Trump. On Wednesday, the Department of Home in Security
Secretary Christy Noam revealed the ICE agents had arrested a
fifty four year old illegal alien of Mexico on May
the twenty second, after he threatened to kill Donald J.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Trump. The day before his arrest, ICE.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Officials said the man handed an intelligence officer a handwritten
note in which he promised to assassinate Trump at one
of his rallies before self deporting from the United States,
saying quote, we are tired of this present messing with
us Mexicans. We have done more for this country than
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you white people. The note from the illegal immigrant reads saying, quote,
my family and I think it's time for Donald J.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Trump to get what he has coming to him.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I will self deport myself back to Mexico, but not
before I use my thirty yard six to shoot.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Your precious present in the head.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I will see him at one of his big rallies,
the man emphasized in his own writing. Now, thanks to
are ice officers, this illegal alien who threatened to assassinate
President Trump is behind bars. Christy Noms said in his statement,
this threat comes not even a year, by the way,
after President Trump was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, and then
(04:32):
we and then less than two weeks after the former
FBI director James Comey called for President trump'ssassination as well.
Christine Noms said, quote, all politicians and members of the
media should take notice of these repeated attempts on President
Trump's life and tone down their rhetoric. I will continue
to take all measures necessary to ensure the protection of
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President Trump, Nomes said in her statement. Now, this illegal
immigrant that's been arrested has illegally crossed the the US
Mexico border at least nine different times between nineteen ninety
eight and two thousand and five.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
ICE officials have.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Confirmed the illegal alien has extensive criminal history as well,
including felony hit and run, criminal damage to property, and
disorderly conduct with a domestic abuse modifier. The illegal immigrant,
we now are being told will remain in ICE custody
at the Dodge County Jail in Wisconsin pending his deportation
(05:35):
to Mexico. Now you talk about how this back and
forth and how many times you can come across the
southern border, it's truly incredible that it can happen so often.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
By so many of these individuals.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Because it is an open border issue, and you have
to stop this, right like, you absolutely have to stop
this from happening. And this also goes to another issue,
and it deals also with the issue of immigrants coming
into this country. Marco Rubio has issued now a visa
ban for foreign officials who are censoring Americans and again,
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this is about going back into offense and to saying, look,
we're not putting up with this crap anymore. Whether it's
legal immigrants, whether it's countries that hate us, whether it's
foreign students that are coming to America that hate America
and are chanting death to America or death to Israel,
or they're anti Semites, and now you can add.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
To that list.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
The Secretary of State Marco Rubio announcing that the Trump
administration will impose visa restrictions on foreign officials engaging in
censorship of American citizens and attempting to regulate American companies abroad.
Rubio said the State Department quote would begin banning foreign
officials from securing visas to travel to the United States
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of America if they engage in censorship of Americans.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Free speeches among the most cherished rights we enjoy as Americans,
Rubio said in a statement. He went on to say,
this that's right, legally enshrined in our constitution, has set
us apart as a beacon of freedom around the world.
Even as we take action to reject censorship at home,
we see troubling instances of foreign governments and foreign.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Officials picking up the slack.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
In some instances, foreign officials have taken flagrant censorship actions
against US tech companies as well as US citizens and residents,
when they have no authority to do so. Rubio said, today,
I'm announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply
to foreign nationals who are responsible for censorship of protected
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expression in the United States. It is unacceptable for foreign
officials to issue or threaten arrest warrants on US citizens
or US residents for social media posts on American platform
while physically present on US soil. It is similarly unacceptable.
He went on to say for foreign officials to demand
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that American tech platforms adopt global content moderation policies or
engage in censorship activity that reaches beyond their authority and
into the United States of America, saying, quote, we will
not tolerate encroachment upon American sovereignty, especially when such encroachments
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undermine the exercise of our fundamental right to free speech.
He said, for too long, Americans have been fined, have
been harassed, and even charged by foreign authorities for exercising
their free speech rights, and that's why he said today
I'm announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply
to the foreign officials in persons who are complicit in
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censoring Americans.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
This move also comes as the European Union approve the
Digital Services Act.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Does that do?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
It's designed to censor certain discussions on social media and
elsewhere online, while countries like China, Venezuela, Russia, Iran and
Cuba continue censorship campaigns to cripple oppositions to their governments.
Now in February, jd Vance also sounded the alarm as
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the Vice President, warning that the European Union was abandoning
shared democratic values by adopting the online censorship policy. Here
is jdie Vance saying this and Munich at the Security
conference not afraid of who he may offend.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
I will admit that sometimes the loudest voices for censorship
have come not from within Europe, but from within my
own country, where the prior administration threatened and bullied social
media companies to censors so called misinformation. Misinformation like, for example,
the idea that coronavirus had likely leaped leaked from a
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laboratory in China. Our own government encouraged private companies to
silence people who dared to utter what turned out to
be an obvious truth. So I come here today not
just with an observation, but with an offer. And just
as the Biden administration seemed desperate to silence people for
speaking their minds, so the Trump administration will do precisely
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the opposite. And I hope that we can work together
on that. In Washington, there is a new sheriff in town,
and under Donald Trump's leadership, we may disagree with your views,
but we will fight to defend your right to.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Offer it in the public square. Agree or disagree.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Now we're at the point, of course, that the situation
has gotten so bad that this December, Romania straight up
canceled the results of a presidential election based on the
flimsy suspicions of an intelligence agency and enormous pressure from
its continental neighbors. Now, as I I understand it, the
argument was that Russian disinformation had infected the Romanian elections.
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But I'd ask my European friends to have some perspective.
You can believe it's wrong for Russia to buy social
media advertisements to influence your elections, We certainly do. You
can condemn it on the world stage, even but if
your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand
dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country. Then it
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wasn't very strong to begin with. Now, the good news
is that I happen to think your democracies are substantially
less brittle than many people apparently fear, and I really
do believe that allowing our citizens to speak their mind
will make them stronger.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Still, you can.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Hear the Vice President saying the same thing that the
president's talking about, saying it's time for us to defend
and protect free speech while also making sure that online
people aren't silenced and punished from governments or organizations around
the world.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
And if you do.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Come after Americans, we'll get ready because your visas are
going to be canceled.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I want to deal.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
With some other breaking news as well, and it's one
that's pretty shocking. There is a watchdog group that has
found quote no evidence that Joe Biden knew of the
crucial climate executive orders that he was signing. They're now
demanding answers on who was actually in charge and who
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was using the auto pen power. The Future is now
calling Congress to investigate the validity of former President Joe
Biden's signatures. Now, a pro energy group is renewing their
call now for this investigation into over half a dozen
Biden administration executive actions specifically related to climate that it
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believes should be deemed no roll and void due to
them being signed by an autopin without any public comment
at all from the former President Joe Biden, confirming his
knowledge of even what was happening. Power of the Future
is a nonprofit organization that advocates for American energy jobs.
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They reviewed eight by an executive orders that it says
were significant shifts in domestic energy policy, and they said
it found no evidence of the present speaking about any
of these eight publicly, raising major concerns that the orders
were signed by autopin and that he was not even
aware that they were going to become executive action, saying, quote, these.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Are not obscure bureaucratic memos.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
These were fundamental shifts in American energy policy, yet not
once did Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Speak about them publicly.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
That's what Daniel Turner, the founder executive director of Power
for the Future said in an interview now. The executive
orders review viewed by Power of the Future included an
Arctic drilling ban in twenty twenty three, also a twenty
twenty one executive order committing the federal government to quote
net zero admissions by twenty fifty and an executive order
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mandating quote clean energy AI centers, and an offshore drilling
ban executive order that Joe Biden in theory signed before
leaving office in twenty twenty five. They said, finding no
evidence of Biden publicly speaking about the executive orders on climate,
They then sent a letter this week to THEDJ, the EPA,
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DI and DOE, along with the House and Senate Oversight committees,
calling for an investigation to determine who made these decisions,
who drafted the executive orders, and ultimately who signed them,
since they believe it clearly wasn't Joe Biden quote. In
light of the growing evidence that actions purportedly taken by
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the former president may not have been approved or signed
by him, but instead by a small group of advisors
in his name without his knowledge, or over his signature
using an auto pen, the need for Congressional access to
information has grown in importance with these revelations. The letter
to the GOP House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer states
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saying quote, Congress deserves to know how or whether these
executive actions were authorized, and whether the former president was
aware of such orders before they were implemented by the
federal bureaucracy. Were these actions taken on behalf of the
president and purporting to excuse authority undertaken with the president's
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knowledge an approach question mark. It appears incumbent upon Congress
to inquire about all parties involved in these actions, who instructed.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Them to do, what, and when. Now.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
The President's auto pen has been a topic of conversation
in Republican circles in recent weeks and months, as questions
continue about Biden's mental acuity during his presidency, particularly the
last few days when they've come under scrutiny after the
release of Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's book Original Sin.
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One of the things that is very clear is now
those of the White House are concerned that the President
of United States of America may have been hijacked by
a group of individuals who had no authority or power
to do what they were doing. I want you to
take a listen to this. As Representative Jim Jordan's shared
his concerns about Biden's alleged auto pen use and who
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was actually behind it.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Chris apparent to blow the lid off the biggest political
cover up in American history, as more troubling information emerges
about former President Joe Biden's mental decline. Now, according to
a brand new bombshell book, The One Insider, made it
clear that there were account of five people running the
country and Biden was.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Not one of them.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
So the question is obvious who was running the show? Well,
according to one cabinet secretary, it was Biden's aide who
held all the power. Now that book's co author is
actually calling out the undemocratic Biden white house.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
These aides were not even Senate confirmed aids. These are
a white House aids. These were unelected people. And one
of the things that really think comes out and are
reporting here is that if you believe, and I think
a lot of these people do sincerely believe that Donald
Trump was and is an essential threat to democracy, you
can rationalize anything, including sometimes doing undemocratic things, which I
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think is what this person is talking about.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Heard a lot of that in my conversations with Lindy
Lee maytime. Congress is also investigating that cover up. The
Senate in fact, wants to talk with twenty eight top
level Biden officials, while the House has had to be
looking into unauthorized yous of the auto pen by Joe Biden.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
When you sign a document that has legal implications, it
has to be signed perfectly. It can't be signed by
an autoped So I think that if we can understand
more about the autopen and whether or not Joe Biden
authorized it, I think this could lead to a lot
of those executive orders being kicked out in court.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
James Comer speaking there with Jesse Waters. Meantime, House Republicans
are also demanding to hear from Biden's doctor and four
other White House officials in an effort to uncover the truth.
So joining us now is the Judiciary Committee chair and
Ohio Congressman, the Great Jim Jordan Congressman. Listen, this is
a simple question for you, What, if anything, can we
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expect to happen in the wake of these House investigations
into the Biden cover up and the autopen use.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Well, I don't know if there's an easy answer. I mean,
we'll see. I think Chairman Comer will probably lead this investigation.
We can look at the folks who were supposedly making
the one thing we know for sure wasn't Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
So we can talk to these folks.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
My guess is they'll try to assert some legit in
fact we ever.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Bring them in.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
But you're I think it's right that in your lead
there you talk about it's supposed to be people who
put their name on the ballot, who are elected by we,
the people who make the decision. It's not supposed to
be other folks who aren't elected or in this case
aren't even confirmed by the United States Senate. So we'll
dig into this. But I think the real culprit, of course,
is the media. And you mentioned that, but I mean
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Jake Tapper made money telling us everything was fine. Now
he's making more money writing the book telling us, no,
it wasn't fine. I think that's the real concern here,
is what the mainstream media got away with, or what
they thought they were getting away with.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
The good news is the.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
American people figured it out on November fifth and made
sure President Trump was our next president.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
They sure did. Congressman, I want to stick on the
topic of Biden's autopen use. You know, specifically, we're hearing
that he used the autopend to sign executive orders right
issuing part ins. Senator Roger Marshall last night told us
that could be a huge problem.
Speaker 9 (19:56):
They didn't think we understood, They didn't think we knew
what was going on, but we and we're I'm especially
especially concerned about the people that he pardoned. And he
was pardoning these folks even though they hadn't been convicted
of a crime. It just doesn't add up.
Speaker 8 (20:09):
Congressman, on that note, do you think those pardons are
executive orders? Are those void invalid?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I think what you have to demonstrate is that the
folks who actually signed him, or whoever did or whether
it was the outo pin or what that, somehow Joe
Biden didn't really give it the okay. Now, I think
if you get him in, they'll probably say, well, my
boss told me it was fine, or we heard that
the president said it was fine.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
We got okay from whoever.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Whoever we worked for there in the way. I soon
they'll do some kind of some kind of rational, some
kind of answer like that. But again, you got to
work through this all. What if we bring these folks in,
you have to ask him. You may have to even
subpoena and then at some point when they come in,
will they assert some kind of privilege, executive privilege, that's all.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
That's all part of it. We'll just have to see.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
But as I said, I think I think the Oversight
Committee under Chairman Comer on the House side will probably
will probably lead this investigation.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
All right, So let's go back to legal nature of
this and get down to the brass tax of this
subject of an autopen number one, it's a device that
physically holds a pen in his programmed to replicate a
person's signature. The Justice Department's Office of Legal Council determined
in two thousand and five that the President's permitted to
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use an autopen to sign bills into law, and the
US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a
ruling in February that said the absence of a writing
does not equate to proof that a commutation did not
occur quote unquote.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
In March, President Trump claimed that Biden's pardons of lawmakers
who served on the House Select Committee to investigate the
January sixth Capitol Riot and others are quote void, alleging
that they had been signed via an autopen and that
Biden did not even know about them. Now, despite Trump's
concern over the validia Biden's pardons due to the alleged
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use of an autopen conscial scholar have said, well, this
is going to be a tough one in court and
a very high barred across to be able to get
this undone. Jonathan Turley put it this way on Fox, saying, quote,
presidents are allowed to use the autopen and courts will
not presume a dead hand conspiracy. Now Power the Future's
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letter references House Speaker Mike Johnson, who in January shared
that Biden during a meeting appeared to forget that he
signed an order to pause liquid national gas exports. A
report published by an arm of the Heritage Foundation also
claimed that the majority of official documents signed by Biden
were allegedly an auto pen signature, and there's a very
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good chance the president didn't know what was going.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
On at all.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
During the Biden administration, hundreds of billions of dollars were
funneled towards pet green projects, while the American fossil fuels
industry was punished, and there is no evidence that Biden
ordered it, directed it, or even was aware it was
happened in his name. That is another big question that's
now being asked.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
So do we deserve to know, yes, who.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Was signing the executive orders behind closed doors?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
It's a great question.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
We're people paying for access, and the autopin scandal is
evidence that many of these executive orders, many of them
green executive orders, could number one very well be invalid,
and the American people deserve to know. It should be
thoroughly investigated by the Department of Justice.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I think it's clear that's.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
The violation to trust the American people, and it could
have been a great fraud done on the American people
in the name of the President when he didn't even
know it was actually happening. Jake Tapper set down with
Megan Kelly to talk about this new book, and let
me just tell you, it was hysterical to watch him
(23:57):
squirm when Meghan Kelly nailed him to the wall about
his participation and complicity in the Biden cover up. The
same guy now making money off of a book about
the big lie, right, this massive lie that was told,
And it's like, dude, you are literally a part of it.
You shut down people when they brought up the cognitive
(24:20):
decline of Joe Biden, and you're now trying to act
like you're a truth teller after the guy's already out
of office. I'm going to play for you longer segments
because I want you to hear this conversation and I
want you to understand something about Jake. And I think
this is the part that you that I do want
you to have context for as you're listening.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Jake Tapper is extremely sanctimonious.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
When I worked with him for seven years at CNN,
he thinks he's some sort of God's gift to journalism,
that he's above reproach, he's better than everybody else, and
when he gets nailed on these issues, he's like, well,
I've already I've already asked for I've already apologized for this,
I've already talked to Laura Trump for the way that
I talked to her on my show, and I'm here
trying to get out the facts now with my book
(25:02):
Original Sins like it is just like I could throw
up over the self righteousness in this interview, but I
want you to hear it because this is how the
media gets away with it. They rewrite history of what
they actually did. For years as a state sponsored media
individual and they.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Sold you any lie.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
The White House seed them to sell, and then when
the House comes crashing down, they're like, let's do real
reporting now. So with that being set, take a listen
to Megan Kelly Jake Tapper talking on this issue.
Speaker 10 (25:34):
Jake, the criticism has been that you're complaining about a
cover up about Joe Biden's mental acuity that failed that
right wing pundits saw, the right wing in general saw,
that independent media saw and reported on, and that was
no mystery even to left wing and so called mainstream
reporters who were not fooled but chose wilful blindness instead
(25:58):
of honest reporting, and that you were part of it.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
How do you respond.
Speaker 11 (26:04):
It's a tough and fair question. I would say that
Alex and I after election day interviewed more than two
hundred people, two hundred mostly Democratic insiders, and all these
interviews where almost all of these interviews were after the election,
and they justified to themselves what they had done in
(26:27):
terms of misrepresenting how the president was not just to
me and Alex and other reporters, but also just to
each other and to the world and to Democrats.
Speaker 12 (26:38):
Into the cabinet, etc.
Speaker 11 (26:39):
By saying that there was this existential threat of Donald Trump,
and only Joe Biden could beat Donald Trump, and that
justified everything in their minds. After that existential threat was over,
because the election was over and Donald Trump one, they were.
Speaker 12 (26:51):
We found Alex and myself.
Speaker 11 (26:54):
Remarkably willing to talk to us, either off the record
or on background or in some cases on the record
about what they saw. One of the things that emerged
was that there were two bidens. One was the fine Biden, serviceable, adequate,
and the other one was.
Speaker 12 (27:12):
As a non functioning Biden.
Speaker 11 (27:13):
And that's the one we saw the night of the debate,
and that's the one we saw some clips up here
and there that you just showed. And that non functioning Biden,
the one that lost his train of thought in a
significant way, not in the way just that every human
loses their train of thought, but in a way that
shows that he's having trouble articulating his very views. And
the one who forgot the name of close aids, who
(27:37):
was not able to come up with George Clooney's name,
didn't seem to recognize him. All that sort of thing,
that non functioning Biden was, according to our reporting, showed
up as far back as twenty fifteen after the death
of Bow, where one top aid said that that tragedy,
the loss of Bow, was like watching somebody poor water sand.
(28:00):
That was the effect on his psyche. And there were
other moments twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen. You hear some the
her report. One of the reasons he came to that
conclusion was because of the recordings they heard of Joe
Biden in twenty seventeen talking to his ghostwriter, in which
he was similarly inclined. Obviously, in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty,
there were other moments like that. Most of his campaign
(28:20):
staff and others would say, like, he's look, he's seventy eight,
he's seventy nine, he has senior moments, but he's fine,
he's fine, he's fine.
Speaker 12 (28:26):
Well, he wasn't fine.
Speaker 11 (28:28):
And throughout his presidency, that non functioning Biden would show
up more and more and more, and he was worse
and worse and worse, really deteriorating tremendously. The next time
there was a really horrible family incident, which was when
Hunter Biden's plea deal fell apart in the summer of
(28:50):
twenty twenty three, and then obviously in June he was convicted,
and the thought the fear of losing his son, not
to jail, but maybe to another to a real laps
to an overdose, to suicide. Who knows, it was a
very real fear, and the threat of losing a third
child really just diminished him tremendously, according to top aides.
(29:12):
So all of which is to say that this was
a deterioration, was a this was a progression. And look,
knowing what I know now, obviously I feel tremendous humility
about my coverage that Laura Trump interviewed, for example, et cetera.
She saw something, She saw something that I did not
(29:34):
see at the time, one hundred percent, and I own
that I did ask Joe Biden, by.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
The way, just pause there. This is the sanctimonious Jake
Tapper that is just exhausting to me. He's like, she
saw something that at the time that I did not see.
What are you joking? Everybody saw it, You just didn't
want to believe it.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
In fact, I don't.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
There's one thing about Jake Tapper that I want to
be queer about. Actually think Jake Tapper is extremely smart.
I think he's a really good at lying to you
about this one. And the idea that he didn't see
the cognitive decline, it would mean that he's an incredibly
stupid person, because only a dumb person would not be
able to see it. He saw it, but he didn't
want Donald Trump to win, and so he decided I'm
(30:18):
going to look the other way. And now he's like, well,
she saw something that I didn't see. Are you kidding me? Like, like,
give me a break, Like that is that is total crap.
Jake Tapper, by the way, way too sanctimonious to actually
believe this, And this is his out right Well, it
(30:38):
wasn't that I was covering it up. It's just that
I didn't see it, right, It was just that I
didn't notice it.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Part No, you noticed it. I don't believe that you didn't.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I think you're lying to us, and now you're trying
to profit and make a and sell books off of
a lie that you were a part of.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Keep listening.
Speaker 12 (30:59):
To be transparent about his health records.
Speaker 11 (31:01):
In an interview in twenty twenty, I did ask him
about the fact that voters but then he was he
thought that he was not transparent at all.
Speaker 10 (31:07):
Now, he promised you that he would be transparent about
his health records, and then he wasn't. And when you
sat with him again at all, including one month, including
one month after the Jackie Willorski thing, you didn't ask
him about it. You didn't follow up on the fact
that he was falling up the stairs, that he was
losing his train of thought regularly, that he was slurring,
that he was incomprehensible, that he was getting lost on
the White House lawn. You sat right across from him,
(31:29):
and you asked none of that, notwithstanding the fact that
he had promised you he would be fully transparent about
his health issues.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
By the way, this is Megan Kelly, which he just
says exactly what I was saying, like, you had an
opportunity after you saw this, and you still didn't do
jack crap about it. You saw it all and you
chose not to do it, and then listen to this
BS answer from Jake.
Speaker 12 (31:51):
That's true.
Speaker 11 (31:53):
But I did ask him about his age and the
fact that the American people had concluded that even though
he said whenever anybody brought up the subject to his age,
watched me and I said, yes, they're watching you, and
they are concerned that you are too old for this job.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
You know as well as I do that.
Speaker 10 (32:09):
There's a way of you can say, hey, there's this
poll on your age, or you could say you just
forgot that Jackie Woolarski was dead. You asked where she
was moments after watching a videotape tribute to her. You
lowered the flags at the White House after she died.
This happened thirteen days before you sat with him. There
(32:32):
is a way of pressing a man like that on
the actual infirmities to bring it home to him and
to the audience. And you didn't do.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
It, and you didn't do it, And she's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
And that's exactly why Jake Tapper deserves this type of
criticism for again now making money off of a book
that he is saying, oh, well, I didn't see it beforehand.
You didn't see it beforehand? Like, what the hell are
you talking about? You didn't see it before No, I
just didn't see it. I just didn't see it at all.
I had no idea this was going on. And she
saw it before I saw it, referring to Laura Trump,
(33:04):
and so you know, I called and apologize to her.
So everything's good. Now, Everything's totally fine now. Nothing to
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Speaker 2 (33:20):
We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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