Pres. Biden REFUSES to SANCTION Russian Oligarchs connected to Hunter plus Michelle Obama in 2024?!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
White House Press secretary has refused to say whether Biden
why he has not sanctioned Russian billionaires connected to Hunter
Biden and Joe Biden and their corrupt business dealings. She says, oh,
you got to ask the family about that. I'm the
White House now, the President to America has a power
to sanction. He's not sanctioned specifically two different Russian oligarchs,

(00:23):
billionaires that have done business with Hunter Biden. Regarding Russia's sanctions,
I'm wondering if you could share the reason why President
Biden hasn't sanctioned the Russian billionaires Vladimir yet to Shankov
and to Gilda about to Arena. How is he handling
the conflict of interests they're giving. His son was a
business associated these two people, and can you confirm that,

(00:43):
as sitting vice president he dined with Batterina into or shouts.
I'm just not speaking to anything that's related to his
son from here. If you want to have if you
want to ask questions about Hunter Biden specifically, I would
refer you to his family and as it relates to
any sanctions, I'm not speaking to individual individual person's life
from Russian all right, so Russian billionaires who shopped for

(01:06):
US property with Hunter Biden, we now know dined also
with Joe Biden in Georgetown, it is official, have dodged
these sanctions. These two Russian billionaires who managed to dodge
every round of view sanctions over Moscow's year old invasion
of Ukraine. They even went property shopping, we are now told,

(01:27):
with Hunter Biden, and then dined with a then sitting
Vice President Joe Biden and discussed favors they might swap.
Sources are now confirming to The New York Post new
details of Joe and Hunter Biden's association with these two billionaires,
fleshed out tantalizing clues from the first son's abandoned laptop.

(01:49):
The sources that spoke with The New York Post this
week confirmed after the duo was yet again spared and
a fresh batch of sanctions announced by the Treasury Department
on Friday that did not include these two oligarchs. Quote.
I think it's very fish, he said one source who
had firsthand knowledge of the business relationship between Hunter Biden

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and the billionaires, who is sanctioned by the way by
the UK and Australian governments, but not by the US.
So these two individuals have been sanctioned already by the
UK and by Australia because they're that high up on
the list of Russian oligarchs and then that closely tied
to the Kremlin and to Vladimir Putin. I think it
should be said, I think he should be sanctioned. Is

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when a former US ambassador to Russia under President Barack
Obama actually said in an interview this past week to
The New York Post. Estimated worth by Forbes to be
at one point seven billion, the former ambassador Russia under
President Barack Obama said, quote, I don't understand why he
has not been sanctioned. I can tell exactly why, because

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they were doing business with the Biden crime family. One
of these Russian billionaires has an empire until recently included
Russian rocket and radar maker RTI, as well as a
drone maker, and even admitted last year that he met
with Hunter Biden for breakfast at the Rich Carlton in
Manhattan on March fourteenth of twenty twelve, but quote denied

(03:18):
any further contact. However, we know that to lie, because
there are emails and multiple calendar entries from Hunter Biden's
former laptop that showed that they were set to meet
again on January the twenty seventh, twenty thirteen, for dinner
at DC's Cafe Milano, before looking at a commercial real

(03:38):
estate development the next day near Dulles International Airport in
Northern Virginia. I asked, why are you doing this on
the front end before I understood what they were going
that they were going to buy some real estate, the
source says to the Post, why are you even doing this?
Why would you be paying the son of the vice
president to meet at a public restaurant in New York City?

(03:58):
Question mark a minute very clear to me that you know,
I think it would be good to have a good
relationship with this guy. Maybe he can do a favor
for us, and we can do a favor for him.
The source continued. It was a complete quid pro quo
that he was going for. I told him that it's
not the way it works in America, the source says,
but he basically laughed at me and told me I

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was so naive. The source recalled the Russian oligarch, whose
holdings also include Russia's largest cell phone provider, MTS, which
faced a long running investigation to nearly one billion in
bribes paid to Uzbekistani officials between two thousand and four
and two and twelve MTS, which was listened on the

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New York Soccer has Change before trading it in its shares,
was suspended in July of last year. Ultimately settled the
case with a Trump Justice Department in twenty nineteen, agreen
to pay an eight hundred and fifty million dollars fine.
A different source meanwhile told the Post he vividly recalled Batterina,
this is the other Russian olig oligark number two and

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her husband ex Moscow Mayer, who doesn't get that job
unless Vladimir Putin gives it to you, looking like quote
an odd couple at a now infamous intimate dinner with
Hunter and his father, the then Vice president. We know
that meal actually happened. It's long been uncertain whether Batterina,

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estimated by Forbes to be worth one point four million,
and her husband attended a dinner in twenty fifteen, also
at Cafe Milano, the same Georgetown restaurant where Hunter and
the other Russian oligarch set a date more than two
years prior. They could have played themselves on Saturday Night Live,
said the source who attended the dinner and was able

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to identify the couple in part because he met with
that one Russian oligarch who died in twenty nineteen on
several other occasions. Another source previously told the Post that
a pairing matching Batterina and her husband's general appears were
in the restaurant meeting with Hunter Biden. The husband, who
was Moscow's mayor for eighteen years until twenty ten, looked

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a lot older than bat Arena, twenty seven years her
husband's junior, who went overboard on her appearance and ended
up resembling resembling Jennifer Coolidge's comic portrayal of an insecure
woman and HBO's The White Lotus. By the way, amazing,
isn't it that this all comes down to like that

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it was an odd dinner because there was then the
Prime Minister and then the mayor and then his wife,
and it was not a big table, and then there
was somebody there from some food charity making a pitch
for support. They added, I mean it was. It was
a little odd, the whole thing. Nevertheless, get the deal
done at all costs, right. Nevertheless, get the deal done

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no matter what. In an email at the time from
Hunter Biden's laptop, Hunter wrote that the meal would be ostentagious.
It would be about his role as chairman of the
World Food Program. Would be the alibi. His father, who
was then the sitting Vice President, arrived at the dinner

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and state for about forty minutes, the second source told
the Post, even sitting down to eat and then posing
for a photo with the entire group. The gathering also
featured an executive at Ukrainian energy company Listen Carefully Barisma,
which as you know, paid Hunter up to one million
per year beginning in twenty fourteen while his VP dad

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controlled the Obama administration's Ukrainian policy. After the dinner, Hunter
Biden received an email the next day to thank him
for giving an opportunity to meet your father, forming the
basis of the post. First October twenty twenty bombshell from
Hunter Biden's laptop, Joe Biden called the report a false
Russian plant at the time, and social media platforms and

(08:00):
Twitter of it as you know, and Facebook censored it.
Bad Arena would have been familiar with Hunter Biden, having
met him and then in his then business partner Devin
Archer for a drink. We know in April of twenty
fourteen at a well known place that Russian oligarch's hang
out overlooking Italy's Lake Como. On the same trip, Hunter

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also met with a Ukrainian Russian oligarch, owner of Barisma
and now you know how much money he was making
two months earlier. Just so you know, on February of
the fourteenth, twenty fourteen, we know for a fact that
bad Arena wired three point five million to the bank
account of Rosemont Seneca Thornton, an investment fund associated with

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Archer and with Hunter Biden. Senator Ron Johnson, a Republican
from Wisconsin who co authored a September twenty twenty report
by gop led Senate committees revealed the Wire, told the
Post quote, it's clear that Hunter Biden's questionable business dealings
with individuals from Russian and China have compromised President Biden

(09:05):
and continue to raise conflicts of interest concerns. That is here,
it is but with Hunter Biden and Russian oligarchs, it
is truly shocking here that this is happening, and the
fact that no one seems to be caring about it,
which is pretty absurd. And the Russian oligar garks that

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have been financially doing business with the Biden crime family
no problems here, none at all, like zero. I am
shocked that, let me rephrase this, I'm not shocked that
they were doing this. I am shocked that they're refusing

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to silence, are refusing to put sanctions on these individuals
at this point. And it goes back to the point
I was saying before. It is very clear that the
Biden crime family is completely compromised. I mean, it is
abundantly clear that they are compromised right now. Why would
you not sanction these individuals? Senator Johnson, Republican Wisconsin, who

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co authored that September twenty twenty report by gop led
Senate committees revealing the wire transfer between the Russian oligarch
and Hunter Biden's company, told the Post it's clear that
Hunter Biden's questionable business dealings with individuals from Russian trying
to have compromised President Biden. Our work on this matter
remains ongoing, and we will continue to provide the American

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people with transparency and evidence of the Biden's extensive financial
connections with four nationals with questionable backgrounds. Senator Marsha Blackburn
said yesterday, quote, it's extremely concerning that Biden linked Russian
nationals are avoiding sanctions. If this happened under a Republican
White House of mainstream media would be up in arms.

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Added Blackburn, the latest report is further proof of the
deep level of corruption occurring within the Hunter Biden and
Biden inc. And this White House House Oversight Committee Chairman
Representive James Comer, Republican from Kentucky, said this it's alarming
that Hunter Biden's Russian oligarch pals are missing from the
Treasury Department's public sanctions list of Russian in season oligarchs.

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What we do know is one of the two Russian
oligarchs contacted by The Post through the Press Department, declined
to comment, including about whether he bought property and cooperation
with Hunter Biden. The Post first source said he had
heard second hand that three properties may have been purchased
in the US as part of the partnership. Bat Arena,

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whose US investments may have reached an eye popping nine figures,
was contacted through her be Open think tank, but did
not immediately respond to questions nor did an attorney for Hunter,
Biden or spokesperson for the White House respond. Yesterday, a
Post reporter asked Biden on the White House lawn for
an explanation of the non sanctions the non sanctioning of

(12:06):
his son's Russian Oligard associates, but Biden didn't reply, and
it's unclear if he heard the question as he walked
to Marine one helicopter by now, Allies previously sought to
downplay his association, by the way, with Bad Arena and
the three point five million dollar wire transfer. An anonymous
source told The Washington Post last year that Devin Archer

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was supposed to dissolve the corporate entity that received the funds,
but secretly kept it in existence for his own use. However,
emails from Hunter's laptop show he was actively engaged in
courting Bad Arena. About a month after the wire transfer,
Archer wrote to Hunter to say he was with Yelena,

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and in April twenty six, twenty fourteen, email from Hunter
to Archer also said, quote, we should ask Yelena to
fund a short term development team to scope projects. After
an attempted real estate deal in Manhattan fell through. The
Biden campaign just say, you know. In twenty twenty, vaguely

(13:08):
denied that the April twenty fifteen Cafe Milano meet up
even occurred, saying, quote, we have received Joe Biden's official
schedules from the time, and no meeting, as alleged by
the New York Posts ever took place after Biden won
the presidency. That's what the WFP's usay's former president, Rick

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Leach told The Washington Post that Joe Biden did attend,
but only briefly to meet with Greek Orthodox leaders. So
he wasn't there than he was there, but he wasn't
there to meet with the Russian oligark. But he did
dine with the Russian oligark, but it wasn't for the
Russian oligark. That's the story you're supposed to believe, all right.
So there is a new possible front runner in the

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Democratic Party for the presidency, and his name is not
Joe Biden. It's not even a dude. It's a check.
Who am I talking about? Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama has
done something that was very interesting. She has stopped short
of endorsing President Biden and his reelection bid. Why I

(14:13):
think it's pretty clear. Actually, I think it's really clear
she's now thinking about running for president. Otherwise, why would
a former first ladies stop short of endorsing the current president?
Nights it's America and a guy that helped them win
not one, but two elections. This was talked about last

(14:36):
night and Fox News Channel with Jesse Waters talking about
the fact that Michelle literally stopped short of endorsing President
Biden for reelection. Take a listen that with China's president
is Jijing ping for the first time since taking office,
and it was a chance for Biden to confront Gie
on what he's done to us. The fentanyl flooding into
our towns, the virus unreleased onto our shores, the those

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things don't really seem important to the president. Joe was
there for one thing, and one thing only, to talk
about the climate. The world expects. I believe China and
the United States to play key roles in addressing global challenges,
from climate changes to food insecurity, food insecurity, what happened

(15:22):
to COVID and fentanyl? Biden camp Pandel and being tough
on China right. I spent more time with Shijip than
any world leader had by the time we left office.
This is a guy who has doesn't have a democratic
with a small d bone in his body. This is
a guy who was a thug. We got to make
it clear they must play by the rules period. Pumping

(15:44):
millions of dollars in fentnyl pills into the country isn't
playing by the rules. Unleashing a virus and then covering
it up isn't playing by the rules. Biden forgot his promise.
He always does, but the press isn't even allowed to
ask him about it. Dozens of reporters traveled with him
halfway around the world, and only four were allowed to
ask questions. I'm told there are going to be four questioners,

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but I'm not going to do ten questions from each questioner.
All right, let's make that clear to the outset here.
Biden was given a prepared list of approved questioners. Somehow,
our very own stupid son of a bitch, Peter Ducey,
didn't make the cut. But when it came time for
Joe to read from the note card, he had a
little trouble. I can't how Joe reading this Reuters and

(16:32):
the tangent about both. The whole world was watching, and
he can't read from a piece of paper. This is
why we're nervous. This guy's supposed to be president for
the next two years, and some Democrats want to see
another four. I mean, I don't see how that's possible,
but I mean, even Joe's old friend Michelle Obama isn't
ready to enduse Biden just yet. Do you hope that

(16:55):
President Biden will run again in twenty twenty four? You know,
I I will have to see. Monica Crowley is a
former Assistant Treasury Secretary and host of the Monica Crowley
pol Have you ever seen Michelle that tongue touch? I've
never seen her speechless like that before. Jesse, Look, I

(17:19):
think after the mid term election results, here a lot
of Democrats who have come out publicly, like Missus Pelosi
and said, oh, sure, Joe's gonna run again in twenty
twenty four. We're all behind him. They're placating him. Okay.
The only person who thinks Joe Biden is going to
run for reelection is Joe Biden, Okay, because he's not
all there, right, he can't even read Missus Obama. And

(17:41):
you and I've talked about this before. You know, there
might be some other Democratic challengers Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom,
Missus Clinton. But the one that really the dog that
hasn't barked is Missus Obama. She's got this new book out.
She is like everywhere. There's a great new documentary out
called Michelle Obama twenty twenty four that lays all of
this out. She is actually following the path of her husband.

(18:05):
Stop Clinton, You're not serious. I don't know what I'm
saying is nobody has really focused on her as a
potential Democratic candidate. But I think you know she's sort
of laying the groundwork with this book tour. She's stargeting women. Well,
I don't know about this. She's got a voting rights

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group that she was running with Stacey Abrams. I'm telling
you she could. Could she confront on Fentnol and COVID?
Could she do that? Because Joe is just out to lunch. Well, look,
Joe Biden is really compromised by the CCP. He and
his family, including Hunter and his brother and Joe Biden

(18:45):
have gotten tens of millions of dollars from the CCP
and related enterprises. So the idea that the American commander
in chief is going to be tough on China when
the Chinese essentially own him, literally own him. Forget it.
A million Americans dead from COVID, hundreds of thousands dead
from fentnol. And you remember how seriously he took COVID

(19:09):
every death. I mean he mourned every death. He carried
the piece of paper. Remember the little piece of paper
he used to come out and read how many deaths
there were at the time. You're saying that thing came
from China. And he doesn't care anymore because he's gotten
money from Beijing. He doesn't raise it with them. And
the question every American needs to ask is is the
President of the United States serving America's interests or his own?

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And isn't Because the Chinese have so much compromat on
Joe Biden and because they have paid the Biden family
so much money, this is why he remained soft on China.
That is a legitimate question for every American to ask. Well,
I heard that the press has to submit their questions beforehand.
One of the believe it was an African reporter. She

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got really angry at Pierre because she never gets called on,
and she blew the whistle and she said listen, these
things are sent in advance, he gets the questions in advance.
The people are pre selected. Is anybody ever going to
ask him? Do you think your family's financial situation is
affecting your policy towards China? Well, and not just that,

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I mean, obviously China is our premier enemy, right, our
premier foreign enemy. And so this is a legitimate question
that needs to be asked. Nobody has asked it yet.
But consider the other big hot spot in the world, Ukraine.
The Biden crime family is completely compromised on Ukraine. So again,
it's the President of the United States representing all of
us in America's interests or is he representing his own

(20:38):
interests and that of his family? Maybe, Peter Doocey, you'll
get to ask that one of these press conferences, I hope.
So we'll hold our breath, all right, Thanks Monica, you bet.
I think she's actually right. I've known Monica for a
long time. I think this is exactly what they're thinking
about here, that if you're Michelle Obama, you're doing all

(20:59):
the right things, and you're looking for a lane, You're
looking for an avenue, you're looking for an opportunity, That's
clearly what this is about, is that opportunity. Michelle Obama,
it looks to be making moves quite possibly to run
for president of the United States of America. Is this

(21:22):
something that she did by accident? No, Michelle Obama, just
say you know, it was actually a very very very
smart person. I want you to understand that, Like, she's
not an idiot. Sometimes I think we conflate our our
lack of respect for a person politically and what they do,
what they believe in, as saying, oh, well, they're stupid.

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I don't do that. I think you have to look
at your adversaries and understand what you're up against. Like
I don't think that China, by the way, and Giping
is a is an idiot. I also don't think the
Vladimir Putin's an idiot, right, I don't think that Kim
Jong ung is an idiot. There are things that I
can't stand about them, but I respect them as an adversary.
You look at Michelle Obama and how she's throwing this down,

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and they are now Democrats that are actually saying we
should look to Obama, Michelle should Biden or Harris declined
to run and then there's others have said maybe maybe
there should just run her anyway. Democrats sound say Michelle
Obama has the quote it factor that could maybe beat
Donald Trump in twenty twenty four. Well, Democratic leaders are

(22:32):
publicly rallying behind Joe Biden to be their guy for
the twenty four presidential election. Behind the scene, Democratic donors
are terrified and played to that audio, by the way,
yesterday of him talking about having a surgery and they
cut his head, his brain alp or his head off.
A couple of times. He said that publicly yesterday. The

(22:54):
guy clearly doesn't have what it takes to be president.
I would refer to what they're doing to him now
as elder abuse. No different than elder abuse. That's my opinion.
But what I do know from all this is that
it's clear that there is massive cognitive decline and Democrats
know it. They see it. Whether the media admits it,
whether the media will talk about it is irrelevant. In

(23:16):
my opinion. I really do believe that this is a
issue of the media is saying, are the Democrats going,
all right, we know it's bad, we just got to
figure out how bad it is, right Like, we know
that this present clearly, cognitively is just not there. But

(23:37):
do we have another option? If it's Michelle Obama, that's
an option I guess they like. Yesterday, it happened again,
Joe Biden tripped going up the stairs on Air Force One.
Reporters called it a quote. They're now categorizing it as
a quote quick trip, not kidding quick the Air Force

(23:59):
One that he touched down not even four hours ago.
A quick trip, but as you said, very impactful. Yeah,
it's just a quick trip. Yeah, he tripped up the
stairs again. Now he's fallen twice that we know about.
Now he's tripping as he's holding onto the rail. This
is happening more and more often. Biden also claimed again

(24:23):
yesterday a lie that he's been fact check on. But
I think it's because he gets lost in his speeches
so he goes back to lines that he can remember
that he claims that he cut the deficit in this country.
That's a lie. I did all we did and all
the stuff you guys wanted to be doing some more,
and we still cut the deficit in the last two
years by one point seven trillion dollars. That didn't happen,

(24:44):
By the way, The fact checkers A fact checked him
on it and said it didn't happen. Everybody knows it's
a lie, and he keeps going back to these stories
and these lines here right there are there. I think
that this is a real possibility. That's my opinion, I
really do. I think there's a very good chance here

(25:05):
that she, Michelle Obama is going to really look at this.
And I think the Democratic parties trying to figure out
could she be the silver the bullet they need to
get their mojo back something else had happened. The White Owl, says,
is refusing to say even whether Biden is sanctioned Russian
billionaire for what's happening in Russia with all the corruption.

(25:28):
Take a listen regarding Russia's sanctions. I'm wondering if you
could share the reason why President Biden hasn't sanctioned the
Russian billionaires Vladimir yet to Shakov and Ula about Arna.
How is he handling the conflict of interest they're giving
His son was a business associated these two people, and
can you confirm that as sitting vice president he dined

(25:49):
with Batterina and George Stat. I'm just not speaking to
anything that's related to his son. From here. If you
want to have if you want to ask a questions
about Hunter Biden specifically, I would refer you to his
family as it released to any sanctions. I'm not speaking
to individual individual persons from Russia. Think about that response.
We have found out yesterday in a major move, that

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the White House has not sanctioned the Russian billionaires that
his son was doing business with a bunch of other
ones we've done, not this one, right, not this one.
A bunch of other ones we've done, not this one.
We have a president that won't even call out Mexico
for the abduction of four American citizens, quite possibly the
murdering of two in broad daylight as we saw their

(26:34):
lifeless bodies being drug into the back of pickup trucks.
We have a present that still hasn't spoken out about
that defending the Americans in Mexico. And we have now
a president that can't even sanction the people that he
wants or needs to sanction if they have business deals
with his son, some of them he ate with in Georgetown,

(26:58):
and the White House says, I don't have to answer
that question. I'm not going to answer that question. I
don't need to answer that question. The arrogance factor here
is truly at an all time high from him, Like
the arrogance factor here is incredible this White House, I
don't have to answer that question. I know these billionaires

(27:19):
did business with Hunter Biden, I know he'd dine with him.
But if it's about Hunter Biden, we don't answer that
question regarding Russia's sanctions. I'm wondering if you could share
the reason why President Biden hasn't sanctioned the Russian billionaires.
Vladim your yet to Shankof and to guild of about Terna.
How is he handling the conflict of interest they're giving

(27:40):
his son business associated these two people, And can you
confirm that as sitting vice president he dined with Batterina
and George stat I'm just not speaking to anything that's
related to his son from here. If you want to
have if you want to ask questions about Hunter Biden specifically,
I would refer you to his family. By the way,
we're not asking questions about Hunter Biden. We're asking questions

(28:00):
about the president not sanctioning to people as the president.
That's the part that they're missing here. I want to
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