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the origins

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of this laptop scandal which starts with

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hunter biden apparently taking his

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laptop for a simple repair on april 12th

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of 2019

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to a local repair shop in delaware as

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absurd as that

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sounds but that's the beginning right

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yep

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that is and um do we know anything about

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this repair shop or the owner of the

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repair shop

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obviously he's been in the media

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spotlight he's come forward

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the media has made much of the fact that

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he's a conservative but he's a supporter

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of president trump

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and so they've tried to claim that this

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is some sort of setup they've tried to

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claim that this is russian

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disinformation

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none of that makes any particular sense

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because the crucial thing here is

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that the owner actually uh threw an

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intermediary turned over the laptop to

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the fbi

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um last year so if yes so i want to i

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want to kind of walk through it

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step by step uh because it it is such a

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bizarre story

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and such an amazing story and the other

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element of the story is the fact that

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nobody's covering the story

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right i mean it's just uh incredible i

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mean this would be a ratings grabber

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you would think you would think that uh

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media channels would be all over this

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thing and yet of course they're not

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um but so so he drops it off

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and then much have been noted about the

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fact that it was left for

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45 days so that would put us into late

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may of last year uh and then i've got in

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my notes here

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that the owner called the fbi in

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september

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so um what is it about him leaving it

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for 45 days what happened after 45 days

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because i don't have him calling

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the fbi until september so just back

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track a little bit we don't know for

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sure that hunter biden dropped it off

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but the laptop had the bill biden

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foundation sticker

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now beau biden is hunter by his brother

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he's deceased um joe biden has pretty

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much been running on that i haven't done

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something

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now hunter biden uh foundation while at

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the same time having a romance with um

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his brother's widow which is a tad

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creepy and this is actually going to

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come into play with the newest

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revelations

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coming from giuliani but anyway so this

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laptop has a um

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foundation sticker on it the owner is

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partially blind so

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he's not able to confirm entirely um who

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dropped it off

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but at some point uh you know it is a

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laptop repair shop

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you're dropping off something you're

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doing you're expect to be paid for it

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and sorry wasn't there's a hunter biden

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signature on on something what what is

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so there does seem to be a hunter biden

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signature on it but the owner said that

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he can't confirm who actually dropped it

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okay but but but someone signed the name

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on the receipt yes i mean there is

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paperwork there's a paper

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trail there okay so then uh what is it

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about this 45 what happened after 45

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so uh if you don't pick it up uh you the

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owner did a certain amount of work on it

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if you don't pick it up you don't

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actually pay your bill

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repair shop i mean that's pretty

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standard you bring in your car you never

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pick it up

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you never pay your bill at some point

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the um shop is just going to

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take possession of it and celebrate have

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you have you seen has there been an

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extensive on-camera interview with the

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uh there have been a number of

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interviews mostly ocoee uh they've kind

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of tried to barrage him with questions

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uh and again i mean this guy's a repair

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shop owner he's running a small hole in

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the wall computer repair shop

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he never expected to be at the center

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he's awalded by all this media attention

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uh he's partially disabled so uh i mean

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beyond that he's kind of overwhelmed by

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it and this is the story

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do you know the answer to this was he

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something registered with him to contact

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the fbi so i'm just curious do we think

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that he was seeing some of these

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interesting materials through the course

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or it was after the 45 days when he said

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oh well this guy's not picking

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up picking it up so i'm gonna start

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noodling around in his computer

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uh so again from his account seemingly

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you've got stuff there you're going to

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figure out how to resell it use so he

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takes a look at it he browses through it

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the normal response at that point is

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basically delete everything uh

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but he comes across stuff that he finds

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troubling uh he

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this happened on in april the laptop was

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dropped off in april

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september so we've had more than 40 days

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but he doesn't entirely know what to do

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with it because this is not quite

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normative and yet it does happen

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i've been do a long time ago this is

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i've encountered also uh something

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people just have problematic materials

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the material and that's something we're

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uh finding out it's something we're

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going to find out a bit more of today

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and as the story

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unfolds what in particular if we know

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did he see that caused him hmm caused

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him to think hmm i should call the fbi

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um but and this is really the most

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that will definitely trigger a response

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there are pictures of of underage girls

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um so is it just your belief that that

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that seems to be the center of the issue

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uh again the

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repairman hasn't uh clarified this he

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said that it's disturbing

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and but and just to stay on that because

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i was going to get to that minute anyway

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uh on the underage girls do we happen to

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as opposed to internet porn so we don't

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they don't seem to have copies of it

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exposes you to all sorts of legal risks

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um so we don't actually know but there

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uh by hunter biden so uh that

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uh conclude that it would be i mean if

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hunter to hand this laptop to someone

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the anthony weiner case which is really

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rather similar to this one in a number

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uh we get people behaving stupidly all

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the time and again

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without thinking twice about it

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yeah okay now uh so we contact the fbi

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follow up on that in a second but also

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so we don't have an exact timeline on

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when he uh actually got in touch with

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giuliani this seems to have been later

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there's an anonymous intermediary who

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dealt with the fbi beforehand uh but

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giuliani seemed to have gotten hold of

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it uh closer

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this year seemingly we don't have a

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fixed timeline

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and i think you said this we have

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confirmed to the owner acknowledges

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when politically he's to the right or

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he's a conservative or he's a trump

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supporter i mean

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he does acknowledge that yeah he's a

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conservative but

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if you think about just in terms of the

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election people have changed their minds

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there had been a year for him to have

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changed his mind

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set up that was a pretty big gamble

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right yeah i mean the idea this was a

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russian setup

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is seems like a real long shot but and i

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know that's you you

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pointed that out very well in in your

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piece uh

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so and we'll get to that also so uh so

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anyway so the fbi gets it

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perhaps he contacted the fbi in

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september but and then the fbi

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they made contact in september though

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the fbi uh issued subpoena and actually

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took the laptop in december okay so how

285
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do we get

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from december the fbi

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taking the laptop giuliani being

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contacted some more time around that

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same time i think don't we think

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giuliani was aware of it during that

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time too

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again we don't have an exact time on

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giuliani still kind of uh feeding our

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material and breadcrumbs and okay

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so so that that's 10 months ago

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or 11 months ago um what's happened in

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those intervening 11 months and how come

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this story has just come to light now so

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the fbi seemed to have just taken it and

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sat

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on it uh which is for all sorts of

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problematics i mean you have two

303
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possibilities here one there's actually

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no problematic material the fbi reviews

305
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it and says

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okay sorry we don't actually have

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anything to do with this ah here's your

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laptop bag

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uh two there are pro there's problematic

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material at this point it does not take

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a year to deal with something like this

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so obviously people are suspicious

313
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they're concerned they're wondering

314
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why has the fbi been sitting on this for

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a year and

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do we know whether one of the things the

317
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fbi was looking into

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was not just the underage girls well but

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the

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international dealings that are

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referenced in some of the emails

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so that's a valid question and the fbi

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has been uh

324
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quite on it the only statement the fbi

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has issued on in all this time is

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basically

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perhaps is there a way the statement i'm

328
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paraphrasing a bit but that's pretty

329
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much

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uh their response uh so to senator

331
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johnson

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okay and what is it that caused it to

333
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come to light within the last week or so

334
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so uh giuliani brought it forward uh he

335
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brought it to the new york post new york

336
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post uh ran the story

337
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the story immediately ran into social

338
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media censorship and this is kind of

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where we are now

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so so it's pretty much confirmed that

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giuliani

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turned over the materials to the new

343
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york post um

344
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why why do you think the new york post

345
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by the way

346
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uh that's an interesting question but

347
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giuliani is a new york guy obviously

348
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he was the mayor of new york city at

349
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close ties to the new york post

350
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i was seemingly offered the fox news but

351
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fox news was going back and forth on

352
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this

353
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uh and there are very few other options

354
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nobody in the mainstream media

355
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even wants to report on it now they

356
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certainly would not have wanted to run

357
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uh yeah makes sense i mean you know my

358
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reaction i know new york post

359
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you know can some people consider a bit

360
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of a rag but i mean bottom line

361
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new york post doesn't put something on

362
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the front page

363
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without vetting it to some extent

364
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i mean what they put out there is the

365
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contents of the laptop so people can

366
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just kind of look at it themselves there

367
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are pictures of hunter biden

368
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there are texts in their emails you can

369
00:11:49,269 --> 00:11:46,160
only vet that to some degree but

370
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it's there it is what it is uh you hear

371
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about the fact that

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supposedly hunter biden's lawyer has

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written a letter

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to i don't know whom uh requesting the

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laptop back

376
00:12:02,790 --> 00:12:00,639
when was that tell us about that letter

377
00:12:04,790 --> 00:12:02,800
when was that sent so once the story

378
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actually went public uh a letter was

379
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sent from lawyer asking for the return

380
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of the laptop and all materials

381
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um the law is on the computer repair

382
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owner's side

383
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uh sorry hunter a lawyer for hunter

384
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biden

385
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yes sent a letter to whom to the

386
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computer repair shop

387
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but we're but it's now in the possession

388
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of the fbi

389
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uh so seemingly uh the uh laptop itself

390
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the physical laptop

391
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is in the possession of the fbi but the

392
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contents of it were backed up

393
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otherwise this entire process could not

394
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have even begun

395
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before handing it over to the fbi

396
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otherwise it's quite likely

397
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none of this would have ever seen the

398
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light of day uh because if you actually

399
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just go back a minute uh

400
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to the hillary clinton era the fbi

401
00:12:55,269 --> 00:12:52,800
actually destroyed devices

402
00:12:55,829 --> 00:12:55,279
uh from the clinton team after the

403
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interview

404
00:13:00,870 --> 00:12:58,480
so that material was permanently lost i

405
00:13:03,030 --> 00:13:00,880
suspect that would have happened here

406
00:13:05,670 --> 00:13:03,040
and having computer repair shop

407
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expertise as you do

408
00:13:09,430 --> 00:13:07,200
going back to you know the ownership

409
00:13:10,790 --> 00:13:09,440
issue is there a

410
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kind of a standard agreement that you

411
00:13:14,710 --> 00:13:12,480
sign when you turn the thing in that you

412
00:13:16,310 --> 00:13:14,720
actually lose ownership of your laptop

413
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after a certain amount of time

414
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i know if it's standard but seemingly

415
00:13:21,269 --> 00:13:19,440
under delaware wall this is what

416
00:13:25,030 --> 00:13:21,279
happened now the complicated part would

417
00:13:27,190 --> 00:13:25,040
be whether the contents of the drive

418
00:13:29,269 --> 00:13:27,200
also actually passed possession and

419
00:13:31,910 --> 00:13:29,279
would uh not run into copyright issues

420
00:13:33,190 --> 00:13:31,920
i suspect legally that might be a uh

421
00:13:34,389 --> 00:13:33,200
throwing your issue i'm not familiar

422
00:13:36,550 --> 00:13:34,399
with delaware law

423
00:13:38,629 --> 00:13:36,560
uh but it's potentially uh hunter biden

424
00:13:40,069 --> 00:13:38,639
could pursue a copyright case

425
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but that would require admitting that

426
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the pictures are his

427
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[Music]

428
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so i was just going to tick through what

429
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we

430
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think are the most notable things that

431
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have been found

432
00:13:55,110 --> 00:13:53,040
so far and i helped prepare for this

433
00:13:57,189 --> 00:13:55,120
interview just by having uh

434
00:13:58,790 --> 00:13:57,199
cable news on this morning and of course

435
00:14:01,990 --> 00:13:58,800
flipping back and forth between

436
00:14:03,269 --> 00:14:02,000
fox news and cnn which

437
00:14:05,350 --> 00:14:03,279
hopefully we'll have time to get to that

438
00:14:06,870 --> 00:14:05,360
a bit just you know the

439
00:14:08,389 --> 00:14:06,880
situation we've got with the media these

440
00:14:10,629 --> 00:14:08,399
days i mean i couldn't find

441
00:14:11,990 --> 00:14:10,639
anything on cnn about it it's just not

442
00:14:13,910 --> 00:14:12,000
being reported

443
00:14:15,670 --> 00:14:13,920
whatsoever i guess they used to report

444
00:14:17,030 --> 00:14:15,680
on it when they it was a this russian

445
00:14:19,110 --> 00:14:17,040
disinformation campaign

446
00:14:21,430 --> 00:14:19,120
you heard that reporting but but now

447
00:14:23,590 --> 00:14:21,440
you're not hearing any reporting on cnn

448
00:14:25,590 --> 00:14:23,600
and yet foxes it's the lead story every

449
00:14:27,430 --> 00:14:25,600
hour on fox

450
00:14:29,110 --> 00:14:27,440
i mean that kind of reflects the extent

451
00:14:31,110 --> 00:14:29,120
to which the media is partisan to which

452
00:14:32,470 --> 00:14:31,120
the media has a pretty blatantly

453
00:14:34,870 --> 00:14:32,480
straightforward agenda

454
00:14:36,949 --> 00:14:34,880
uh fox is obviously pro-trump the rest

455
00:14:38,310 --> 00:14:36,959
of the media is obviously pro-biden

456
00:14:40,870 --> 00:14:38,320
and they're bearing the story to an

457
00:14:43,350 --> 00:14:40,880
unprecedented degree now this is part of

458
00:14:45,590 --> 00:14:43,360
what happened in 2016.

459
00:14:46,870 --> 00:14:45,600
the democrats blamed their defeat in

460
00:14:48,790 --> 00:14:46,880
part on the media's willingness to

461
00:14:50,470 --> 00:14:48,800
report on hillary's emails

462
00:14:52,230 --> 00:14:50,480
um and on social media's willingness to

463
00:14:53,590 --> 00:14:52,240
tolerate those stories so they've spent

464
00:14:56,230 --> 00:14:53,600
four years preparing for this

465
00:14:57,030 --> 00:14:56,240
and their plan a is to bury any such

466
00:15:00,710 --> 00:14:57,040
material

467
00:15:02,790 --> 00:15:00,720
immediately disavow it and then

468
00:15:04,790 --> 00:15:02,800
quite effectively uh twitter and

469
00:15:05,110 --> 00:15:04,800
facebook have suppressed the reach of

470
00:15:07,430 --> 00:15:05,120
the

471
00:15:08,790 --> 00:15:07,440
uh new york post story on hunter biden

472
00:15:10,710 --> 00:15:08,800
uh they've amped up

473
00:15:12,550 --> 00:15:10,720
the media claims that it's a

474
00:15:14,310 --> 00:15:12,560
disinformation that it's unverified

475
00:15:15,829 --> 00:15:14,320
and the media is very quickly buried in

476
00:15:17,430 --> 00:15:15,839
the only thing they will report on is

477
00:15:18,389 --> 00:15:17,440
that it is on verifying that it is a

478
00:15:21,430 --> 00:15:18,399
russian

479
00:15:21,910 --> 00:15:21,440
disinformation operation okay so and

480
00:15:23,350 --> 00:15:21,920
then

481
00:15:25,110 --> 00:15:23,360
the question is okay is there really

482
00:15:27,670 --> 00:15:25,120
anything of import there

483
00:15:29,030 --> 00:15:27,680
is this really just about a son that we

484
00:15:31,350 --> 00:15:29,040
already know he's got

485
00:15:33,189 --> 00:15:31,360
a uh a son who's who's had addiction

486
00:15:37,189 --> 00:15:33,199
issues and all kinds of

487
00:15:40,550 --> 00:15:37,199
uh other related problems and etc

488
00:15:42,389 --> 00:15:40,560
or is this really reflect on the former

489
00:15:44,150 --> 00:15:42,399
vice president himself and candidate for

490
00:15:45,990 --> 00:15:44,160
for president so let's let's tick

491
00:15:47,269 --> 00:15:46,000
through what i found to be the most

492
00:15:48,470 --> 00:15:47,279
significant stuff that everybody's

493
00:15:50,150 --> 00:15:48,480
reporting and then maybe i'm missing

494
00:15:53,509 --> 00:15:50,160
some things that you're aware of so

495
00:15:55,990 --> 00:15:53,519
there's the burisma issue where

496
00:15:57,829 --> 00:15:56,000
it appears from an email going back to i

497
00:15:59,910 --> 00:15:57,839
think 15 or 16

498
00:16:01,509 --> 00:15:59,920
it looks pretty much confirmed that in

499
00:16:03,590 --> 00:16:01,519
fact uh

500
00:16:05,350 --> 00:16:03,600
in response to a request from the sun

501
00:16:08,230 --> 00:16:05,360
biden met with

502
00:16:09,829 --> 00:16:08,240
a or multiple burisma officials while he

503
00:16:12,150 --> 00:16:09,839
was vice president

504
00:16:13,749 --> 00:16:12,160
as a favor to the sun who was serving on

505
00:16:15,910 --> 00:16:13,759
the board in response to the request

506
00:16:17,990 --> 00:16:15,920
from brisbane officials despite the fact

507
00:16:19,350 --> 00:16:18,000
that biden is on record probably

508
00:16:22,710 --> 00:16:19,360
multiple times

509
00:16:24,710 --> 00:16:22,720
being very clear never met with them

510
00:16:25,749 --> 00:16:24,720
never even discussed parisian with my

511
00:16:28,949 --> 00:16:25,759
son i don't

512
00:16:29,509 --> 00:16:28,959
talk business with my son that's a good

513
00:16:32,470 --> 00:16:29,519
summary

514
00:16:33,910 --> 00:16:32,480
so uh it is pretty clear that um biden

515
00:16:35,269 --> 00:16:33,920
used this influence in that regard that

516
00:16:37,110 --> 00:16:35,279
there were meetings and you've got

517
00:16:38,710 --> 00:16:37,120
emails that are increasingly coming out

518
00:16:41,670 --> 00:16:38,720
from multiple sources now

519
00:16:42,949 --> 00:16:41,680
uh boasting about the ability to get uh

520
00:16:44,870 --> 00:16:42,959
connections to the white house

521
00:16:47,350 --> 00:16:44,880
none of this is really a surprise it's

522
00:16:48,230 --> 00:16:47,360
just biden and democrats in the media

523
00:16:50,470 --> 00:16:48,240
have denied it

524
00:16:52,389 --> 00:16:50,480
uh we've seen this before uh the entire

525
00:16:53,189 --> 00:16:52,399
biden family has been finding ways to

526
00:16:57,189 --> 00:16:53,199
cash in

527
00:16:59,350 --> 00:16:57,199
uh but it gets close to

528
00:17:00,310 --> 00:16:59,360
what biden specifically used his

529
00:17:02,389 --> 00:17:00,320
influence

530
00:17:04,710 --> 00:17:02,399
as vice president because there's a big

531
00:17:07,750 --> 00:17:04,720
difference between just actually access

532
00:17:09,510 --> 00:17:07,760
and action so uh we've gone we're going

533
00:17:13,270 --> 00:17:09,520
from access to action that the

534
00:17:16,870 --> 00:17:13,280
big catch is the action

535
00:17:18,470 --> 00:17:16,880
yeah but i mean even just simply having

536
00:17:21,590 --> 00:17:18,480
the meeting

537
00:17:23,829 --> 00:17:21,600
that he had um you know absent

538
00:17:25,350 --> 00:17:23,839
acting inappropriately at the meeting

539
00:17:28,789 --> 00:17:25,360
improperly at the meeting

540
00:17:31,110 --> 00:17:28,799
i don't think there's anything illegal

541
00:17:32,710 --> 00:17:31,120
about biden meeting with him even

542
00:17:35,590 --> 00:17:32,720
understanding that his son

543
00:17:37,270 --> 00:17:35,600
uh is on the board um really the only

544
00:17:39,270 --> 00:17:37,280
issue that i see and i'm curious your

545
00:17:39,590 --> 00:17:39,280
thoughts is the fact that biden denied

546
00:17:43,750 --> 00:17:39,600
it

547
00:17:45,590 --> 00:17:43,760
there are a lot of things you can do as

548
00:17:47,190 --> 00:17:45,600
a politician that are illegal but are

549
00:17:49,029 --> 00:17:47,200
still blatantly corrupt

550
00:17:50,870 --> 00:17:49,039
uh part of this is really a public

551
00:17:52,390 --> 00:17:50,880
perception issue nobody seriously

552
00:17:54,710 --> 00:17:52,400
expects that um

553
00:17:56,150 --> 00:17:54,720
vine is going to fade that uh by seniors

554
00:17:57,909 --> 00:17:56,160
going to face legal issues in this

555
00:18:00,870 --> 00:17:57,919
regard it's quite unlikely

556
00:18:01,590 --> 00:18:00,880
uh but it shows that um he did abuse

557
00:18:04,150 --> 00:18:01,600
this power

558
00:18:07,590 --> 00:18:04,160
that he uh i mean in some ways this is

559
00:18:13,669 --> 00:18:07,600
not really a new development

560
00:18:15,270 --> 00:18:13,679
sorry about that um joe biden and the

561
00:18:17,990 --> 00:18:15,280
etar biden family have found various

562
00:18:21,110 --> 00:18:18,000
ways to benefit uh biden's brother

563
00:18:22,789 --> 00:18:21,120
um biden's daughter um various

564
00:18:24,630 --> 00:18:22,799
extended members of his family have very

565
00:18:25,270 --> 00:18:24,640
much found ways to benefit from that

566
00:18:26,870 --> 00:18:25,280
access

567
00:18:28,870 --> 00:18:26,880
and it's not necessarily ego a lot of

568
00:18:30,630 --> 00:18:28,880
the things that people in dc do

569
00:18:32,870 --> 00:18:30,640
that are blatantly corrupt are not

570
00:18:34,390 --> 00:18:32,880
illegal um the denial as you mentioned

571
00:18:35,750 --> 00:18:34,400
is obviously a serious problem because

572
00:18:36,630 --> 00:18:35,760
he's on the campaign trail and he's

573
00:18:37,990 --> 00:18:36,640
lying about it

574
00:18:40,789 --> 00:18:38,000
but he's also been called lying about

575
00:18:43,190 --> 00:18:40,799
other things on the campaign show he's

576
00:18:44,950 --> 00:18:43,200
not actually going to ban fracking after

577
00:18:45,669 --> 00:18:44,960
uh insisting you'll find out that he's

578
00:18:48,710 --> 00:18:45,679
going to

579
00:18:49,990 --> 00:18:48,720
wipe out fracking what about um sticking

580
00:18:51,110 --> 00:18:50,000
on the issue of legality i mean i don't

581
00:18:52,310 --> 00:18:51,120
know if you know the answer to this or

582
00:18:53,510 --> 00:18:52,320
not but

583
00:18:55,590 --> 00:18:53,520
you know everybody can understand

584
00:18:57,350 --> 00:18:55,600
conflicts of interest and

585
00:18:59,909 --> 00:18:57,360
i know there's got to be lots of rules

586
00:19:03,590 --> 00:18:59,919
and laws regarding conflicts of interest

587
00:19:04,710 --> 00:19:03,600
the fact that biden was working on the

588
00:19:08,070 --> 00:19:04,720
issue

589
00:19:10,230 --> 00:19:08,080
of this ukrainian prosecutor right

590
00:19:11,270 --> 00:19:10,240
and proudly announced that he managed to

591
00:19:14,390 --> 00:19:11,280
get the guy

592
00:19:15,909 --> 00:19:14,400
uh fired uh i believe is what happened

593
00:19:18,549 --> 00:19:15,919
or or the guy resigned

594
00:19:20,150 --> 00:19:18,559
um that's a clear conflict because the

595
00:19:22,150 --> 00:19:20,160
guy is investigating burisma

596
00:19:23,909 --> 00:19:22,160
his son is on the board and biden is

597
00:19:25,510 --> 00:19:23,919
working on behalf of the u.s government

598
00:19:25,909 --> 00:19:25,520
regardless of the fact that apparently

599
00:19:27,350 --> 00:19:25,919
there was

600
00:19:29,190 --> 00:19:27,360
other governments that also wanted this

601
00:19:32,870 --> 00:19:29,200
guy removed bottom line

602
00:19:34,470 --> 00:19:32,880
that's an obvious conflict and that

603
00:19:35,830 --> 00:19:34,480
could be illegal i would think i mean

604
00:19:37,510 --> 00:19:35,840
it's such an obvious conflict there must

605
00:19:41,029 --> 00:19:37,520
be conflict of interest laws

606
00:19:43,110 --> 00:19:41,039
that would require a politician to

607
00:19:45,350 --> 00:19:43,120
step away from that situation so

608
00:19:47,909 --> 00:19:45,360
conflict of interest is an ethical issue

609
00:19:49,430 --> 00:19:47,919
and dc is not that big on ethics the

610
00:19:51,110 --> 00:19:49,440
legal question really would

611
00:19:52,710 --> 00:19:51,120
hinge on the question of coordination

612
00:19:54,230 --> 00:19:52,720
are there emails are there texts are

613
00:19:56,230 --> 00:19:54,240
there messages being ex

614
00:19:57,669 --> 00:19:56,240
exchanged between buying between his

615
00:19:59,590 --> 00:19:57,679
chief of staff um

616
00:20:01,510 --> 00:19:59,600
between hunter biden between members of

617
00:20:02,470 --> 00:20:01,520
hunter bind's entourage which actually

618
00:20:04,070 --> 00:20:02,480
arranged things

619
00:20:05,590 --> 00:20:04,080
if they're that stupid then they can

620
00:20:07,270 --> 00:20:05,600
actually have walked into territory that

621
00:20:08,870 --> 00:20:07,280
would uh land them in prison

622
00:20:10,390 --> 00:20:08,880
but it takes a lot of effort to prove

623
00:20:12,390 --> 00:20:10,400
something like that really the question

624
00:20:13,830 --> 00:20:12,400
is we're in the final uh stretch of an

625
00:20:17,110 --> 00:20:13,840
election the question is

626
00:20:19,830 --> 00:20:17,120
uh can uh president trump can

627
00:20:20,950 --> 00:20:19,840
his associates make the case that uh

628
00:20:24,310 --> 00:20:20,960
biden is corrupt

629
00:20:25,909 --> 00:20:24,320
using this new information well and and

630
00:20:27,830 --> 00:20:25,919
why was he

631
00:20:29,350 --> 00:20:27,840
lying about it now he may continue to

632
00:20:30,390 --> 00:20:29,360
deny that the meeting took place all

633
00:20:33,510 --> 00:20:30,400
you've got is an

634
00:20:35,270 --> 00:20:33,520
email where the guy's thinking

635
00:20:37,909 --> 00:20:35,280
thanking hunter for putting together the

636
00:20:41,190 --> 00:20:37,919
meeting um that seems pretty

637
00:20:44,470 --> 00:20:41,200
uh you know pretty good evidence but

638
00:20:46,549 --> 00:20:44,480
then again it's it's uh

639
00:20:48,070 --> 00:20:46,559
not firsthand evidence necessarily so

640
00:20:49,270 --> 00:20:48,080
biden can still deny it i don't care

641
00:20:50,549 --> 00:20:49,280
what the guy wrote i didn't meet with

642
00:20:52,549 --> 00:20:50,559
him

643
00:20:53,990 --> 00:20:52,559
i'm sure he'll take that approach that's

644
00:20:55,830 --> 00:20:54,000
a question of what people are going to

645
00:20:56,230 --> 00:20:55,840
believe the more the story continues the

646
00:20:58,870 --> 00:20:56,240
more

647
00:21:00,710 --> 00:20:58,880
materials are coming out and giuliani

648
00:21:02,549 --> 00:21:00,720
team is clearly intent on feeding things

649
00:21:03,909 --> 00:21:02,559
out step by step the drip drip scan

650
00:21:06,149 --> 00:21:03,919
though process

651
00:21:07,430 --> 00:21:06,159
uh the more this actually consumes air

652
00:21:09,190 --> 00:21:07,440
time the more the public actually

653
00:21:11,190 --> 00:21:09,200
develops suspicions about biden

654
00:21:12,789 --> 00:21:11,200
that's really the money insurance so

655
00:21:13,350 --> 00:21:12,799
then the next email you keep hearing

656
00:21:15,990 --> 00:21:13,360
about

657
00:21:17,350 --> 00:21:16,000
is uh from 2017 which of course is

658
00:21:18,710 --> 00:21:17,360
important because that means biden's no

659
00:21:20,470 --> 00:21:18,720
longer in office

660
00:21:21,750 --> 00:21:20,480
and it's hunter trying to put together a

661
00:21:25,190 --> 00:21:21,760
deal with a

662
00:21:25,990 --> 00:21:25,200
large chinese corporation um i think

663
00:21:28,149 --> 00:21:26,000
it's large

664
00:21:30,070 --> 00:21:28,159
you could correct me on that but bottom

665
00:21:31,909 --> 00:21:30,080
line as a part of this deal

666
00:21:33,350 --> 00:21:31,919
it looks like joe biden would get 10

667
00:21:36,630 --> 00:21:33,360
percent equity

668
00:21:39,830 --> 00:21:36,640
in this new entity that they're creating

669
00:21:42,149 --> 00:21:39,840
um is that

670
00:21:43,430 --> 00:21:42,159
really that problematic why should

671
00:21:46,950 --> 00:21:43,440
people be so

672
00:21:48,710 --> 00:21:46,960
bothered by that email with joe biden

673
00:21:51,350 --> 00:21:48,720
no longer in office possibly having an

674
00:21:53,510 --> 00:21:51,360
equity stake in a new business

675
00:21:56,230 --> 00:21:53,520
assuming that uh it is referring to

676
00:21:58,070 --> 00:21:56,240
actually joe biden which is an argument

677
00:22:00,310 --> 00:21:58,080
which is a subject of debate it is a

678
00:22:02,470 --> 00:22:00,320
huge problem because first of all every

679
00:22:05,190 --> 00:22:02,480
chinese uh business particularly this

680
00:22:06,710 --> 00:22:05,200
one has ties to the communist party

681
00:22:08,070 --> 00:22:06,720
uh you don't do business in china

682
00:22:08,710 --> 00:22:08,080
without going through the communist

683
00:22:10,470 --> 00:22:08,720
party

684
00:22:12,470 --> 00:22:10,480
uh the only reason for doing this kind

685
00:22:14,470 --> 00:22:12,480
of business with joe biden would be

686
00:22:15,909 --> 00:22:14,480
because they expect him to become the

687
00:22:18,070 --> 00:22:15,919
president of the united states they

688
00:22:19,830 --> 00:22:18,080
expect him to continue um

689
00:22:21,669 --> 00:22:19,840
holding a position i mean this is the

690
00:22:22,710 --> 00:22:21,679
same thing we had with the clintons uh

691
00:22:23,510 --> 00:22:22,720
back in the day and the clinton

692
00:22:25,990 --> 00:22:23,520
foundation

693
00:22:27,190 --> 00:22:26,000
uh the amount of money being donated to

694
00:22:29,029 --> 00:22:27,200
the clinton foundation

695
00:22:30,470 --> 00:22:29,039
completely went off the cliff once

696
00:22:32,149 --> 00:22:30,480
hillary clinton lost the election was

697
00:22:34,070 --> 00:22:32,159
clear she was no longer going to be

698
00:22:35,510 --> 00:22:34,080
any kind in any kind of leadership

699
00:22:37,029 --> 00:22:35,520
position within the government

700
00:22:38,549 --> 00:22:37,039
meanwhile a ton of money was pouring

701
00:22:41,590 --> 00:22:38,559
into the clinton foundation

702
00:22:43,430 --> 00:22:41,600
uh before 2016. so people are actually

703
00:22:44,549 --> 00:22:43,440
getting on board with politicians for a

704
00:22:45,830 --> 00:22:44,559
very particular reason

705
00:22:47,510 --> 00:22:45,840
because they expect these people to

706
00:22:49,190 --> 00:22:47,520
actually be able to do favors for them

707
00:22:50,630 --> 00:22:49,200
now foreign country frankly one that is

708
00:22:52,789 --> 00:22:50,640
an enemy of the united states

709
00:22:53,990 --> 00:22:52,799
um and personnel who are members of the

710
00:22:55,190 --> 00:22:54,000
communist party were members of the

711
00:22:57,430 --> 00:22:55,200
communist elite

712
00:22:58,789 --> 00:22:57,440
uh if they actually were giving joe

713
00:23:00,470 --> 00:22:58,799
biden a share in the state owned

714
00:23:03,350 --> 00:23:00,480
company uh that would be hugely

715
00:23:08,230 --> 00:23:06,390
do you think in 2017 that

716
00:23:10,390 --> 00:23:08,240
biden was thinking that he was going to

717
00:23:12,070 --> 00:23:10,400
run for president i i kind of

718
00:23:13,830 --> 00:23:12,080
wonder whether he was thinking about

719
00:23:17,270 --> 00:23:13,840
that at that time or not

720
00:23:17,990 --> 00:23:17,280
and maybe maybe if he was truly thinking

721
00:23:19,830 --> 00:23:18,000
of it

722
00:23:20,950 --> 00:23:19,840
well maybe my theory is correct that he

723
00:23:21,750 --> 00:23:20,960
wasn't really thinking about it and

724
00:23:23,830 --> 00:23:21,760
hence

725
00:23:25,430 --> 00:23:23,840
those kind of deals were okay and now

726
00:23:27,190 --> 00:23:25,440
they're not okay now that it turns out

727
00:23:29,750 --> 00:23:27,200
he's running for president

728
00:23:32,230 --> 00:23:29,760
well uh biden very much wanted to run in

729
00:23:33,830 --> 00:23:32,240
2016 the problem with hillary clinton

730
00:23:35,430 --> 00:23:33,840
and we had the surreal spectacle of

731
00:23:36,870 --> 00:23:35,440
actually obama doing an event with

732
00:23:38,310 --> 00:23:36,880
spidey in the rose garden

733
00:23:40,070 --> 00:23:38,320
where joe biden announced that he was

734
00:23:41,029 --> 00:23:40,080
not going to run it was a very very

735
00:23:42,710 --> 00:23:41,039
surreal scene

736
00:23:44,230 --> 00:23:42,720
and it was very clearly an attempt by

737
00:23:47,110 --> 00:23:44,240
obama to uh

738
00:23:48,470 --> 00:23:47,120
combine down and reassure him uh the

739
00:23:50,149 --> 00:23:48,480
momentarily lost by

740
00:23:51,510 --> 00:23:50,159
very much wanted to be back in there

741
00:23:54,149 --> 00:23:51,520
again uh

742
00:23:55,190 --> 00:23:54,159
his people began um building up the

743
00:23:56,870 --> 00:23:55,200
infrastructure

744
00:23:58,149 --> 00:23:56,880
because there's a reason that biden

745
00:23:59,269 --> 00:23:58,159
actually won and burst through the

746
00:24:01,029 --> 00:23:59,279
democrat primaries

747
00:24:02,710 --> 00:24:01,039
uh he did begin building the machine

748
00:24:03,669 --> 00:24:02,720
fairly early you had a bunch of these

749
00:24:06,149 --> 00:24:03,679
candidates who

750
00:24:07,990 --> 00:24:06,159
actually waited way too long some waited

751
00:24:09,430 --> 00:24:08,000
ridiculously long amount of times

752
00:24:11,430 --> 00:24:09,440
i had people jumping in the middle of

753
00:24:12,870 --> 00:24:11,440
the primaries uh by these people had

754
00:24:14,549 --> 00:24:12,880
been planning this for a while

755
00:24:16,789 --> 00:24:14,559
he's got a team of people who are loyal

756
00:24:17,990 --> 00:24:16,799
to him uh he reinforced them with some

757
00:24:20,230 --> 00:24:18,000
of hillary's people

758
00:24:21,590 --> 00:24:20,240
and he became the favorite candidate now

759
00:24:23,110 --> 00:24:21,600
the favorite candidate doesn't always

760
00:24:24,630 --> 00:24:23,120
win i mean we can look back

761
00:24:26,549 --> 00:24:24,640
at jeff bush who was the favorite

762
00:24:27,750 --> 00:24:26,559
candidate who had the machine and he

763
00:24:29,430 --> 00:24:27,760
very much lost

764
00:24:31,269 --> 00:24:29,440
uh hillary clinton however pulled it

765
00:24:32,710 --> 00:24:31,279
through in 2016 and biden

766
00:24:35,510 --> 00:24:32,720
very predictably pulled it through and

767
00:24:38,230 --> 00:24:35,520
20 um in 2020 again

768
00:24:39,909 --> 00:24:38,240
what what did you make of obama being so

769
00:24:42,950 --> 00:24:39,919
slow

770
00:24:44,950 --> 00:24:42,960
to endorse biden

771
00:24:46,470 --> 00:24:44,960
it's pretty clear about that obama has

772
00:24:48,310 --> 00:24:46,480
spoken about it

773
00:24:49,830 --> 00:24:48,320
uh confidentially he doesn't think that

774
00:24:51,190 --> 00:24:49,840
biden can go all the way

775
00:24:53,190 --> 00:24:51,200
he doesn't think that biden is actually

776
00:24:55,029 --> 00:24:53,200
good in the campaign trail and

777
00:24:56,710 --> 00:24:55,039
you know he obviously has a point if

778
00:24:58,630 --> 00:24:56,720
there were if we weren't in the middle

779
00:25:00,070 --> 00:24:58,640
of a pandemic lockdown

780
00:25:01,830 --> 00:25:00,080
if the economy hadn't created if we

781
00:25:04,549 --> 00:25:01,840
hadn't had massive race riots

782
00:25:05,909 --> 00:25:04,559
but would not remotely be a contender so

783
00:25:09,029 --> 00:25:05,919
back to that email

784
00:25:09,750 --> 00:25:09,039
um i don't think you know assuming the

785
00:25:11,110 --> 00:25:09,760
10

786
00:25:12,789 --> 00:25:11,120
is intended i think they call him the

787
00:25:13,269 --> 00:25:12,799
big guy and everybody's assuming that

788
00:25:15,750 --> 00:25:13,279
that's

789
00:25:16,470 --> 00:25:15,760
joe biden um but he's not cc'd on the

790
00:25:18,390 --> 00:25:16,480
email

791
00:25:20,390 --> 00:25:18,400
so frankly we don't really even know

792
00:25:23,190 --> 00:25:20,400
whether biden was even aware

793
00:25:23,590 --> 00:25:23,200
that his son was cooking up this deal a

794
00:25:25,029 --> 00:25:23,600
b

795
00:25:27,350 --> 00:25:25,039
whether the deal actually happened or

796
00:25:28,950 --> 00:25:27,360
not yeah so these are things these are

797
00:25:29,909 --> 00:25:28,960
still question marks these are big

798
00:25:31,590 --> 00:25:29,919
question marks

799
00:25:33,029 --> 00:25:31,600
it's doubtful that biden himself would

800
00:25:35,269 --> 00:25:33,039
have been cc'd on the email

801
00:25:36,549 --> 00:25:35,279
are people like his chief of staff um

802
00:25:38,070 --> 00:25:36,559
some of those who are close to him

803
00:25:39,669 --> 00:25:38,080
actually our key members of his

804
00:25:41,029 --> 00:25:39,679
potential transition team

805
00:25:42,710 --> 00:25:41,039
would be potentially involved in

806
00:25:43,990 --> 00:25:42,720
something like that if the investigation

807
00:25:45,990 --> 00:25:44,000
actually takes off

808
00:25:47,510 --> 00:25:46,000
then they start looking at their emails

809
00:25:48,630 --> 00:25:47,520
uh but joe biden isn't the guy who's

810
00:25:51,909 --> 00:25:48,640
going to be

811
00:25:53,990 --> 00:25:51,919
emailing details of deals back and forth

812
00:25:55,510 --> 00:25:54,000
but if you actually have enough grounds

813
00:25:58,230 --> 00:25:55,520
for the investigation you can actually

814
00:26:00,870 --> 00:25:58,240
start looking into these things

815
00:26:02,230 --> 00:26:00,880
what did you make of the email which was

816
00:26:06,149 --> 00:26:02,240
a little confusing to me

817
00:26:07,110 --> 00:26:06,159
i think it was from hunter biden to his

818
00:26:09,350 --> 00:26:07,120
daughter

819
00:26:10,549 --> 00:26:09,360
but said something about giving half

820
00:26:12,870 --> 00:26:10,559
your salary to pop

821
00:26:13,990 --> 00:26:12,880
or or something did that involve joe

822
00:26:15,669 --> 00:26:14,000
biden at all or

823
00:26:17,029 --> 00:26:15,679
you know the email i'm talking about i

824
00:26:17,750 --> 00:26:17,039
know the email again it's kind of

825
00:26:20,630 --> 00:26:17,760
because they're not

826
00:26:22,230 --> 00:26:20,640
actually coming out and saying things uh

827
00:26:24,070 --> 00:26:22,240
it's hard to know but people are

828
00:26:26,950 --> 00:26:24,080
speculating that it does actually refer

829
00:26:29,190 --> 00:26:26,960
to joe biden because seemingly

830
00:26:29,990 --> 00:26:29,200
uh who else could he refer to but again

831
00:26:32,789 --> 00:26:30,000
just like the

832
00:26:35,269 --> 00:26:32,799
mentioning the big guy it's you're

833
00:26:37,110 --> 00:26:35,279
you're guessing to some degree

834
00:26:40,390 --> 00:26:37,120
but it would seem to indicate that

835
00:26:43,269 --> 00:26:40,400
hunter has been sharing

836
00:26:44,710 --> 00:26:43,279
fees with his dad that's strongly

837
00:26:46,149 --> 00:26:44,720
suggestive of that which would not be

838
00:26:47,269 --> 00:26:46,159
surprising and that actually would be

839
00:26:48,870 --> 00:26:47,279
illegal

840
00:26:50,950 --> 00:26:48,880
yeah yeah then i think we got something

841
00:26:52,390 --> 00:26:50,960
illegal because presumably

842
00:26:54,230 --> 00:26:52,400
yeah assuming it was taking place while

843
00:26:57,510 --> 00:26:54,240
he was uh

844
00:26:59,110 --> 00:26:57,520
vp uh even if he was out of office and

845
00:27:00,630 --> 00:26:59,120
it was unreported that would still be

846
00:27:01,990 --> 00:27:00,640
wire fraud it would be a whole bunch of

847
00:27:04,549 --> 00:27:02,000
things

848
00:27:05,350 --> 00:27:04,559
um then i think this one just came out

849
00:27:07,909 --> 00:27:05,360
today

850
00:27:08,549 --> 00:27:07,919
um a picture or maybe it was yesterday a

851
00:27:11,190 --> 00:27:08,559
picture with

852
00:27:12,950 --> 00:27:11,200
between joe biden hunter biden and some

853
00:27:15,430 --> 00:27:12,960
kazakhstani

854
00:27:16,549 --> 00:27:15,440
official or oligarch tell us about that

855
00:27:18,950 --> 00:27:16,559
picture

856
00:27:20,389 --> 00:27:18,960
so again you've got uh the biden family

857
00:27:22,310 --> 00:27:20,399
doing business in some of these shady

858
00:27:24,549 --> 00:27:22,320
areas and hunter biden very quickly

859
00:27:26,310 --> 00:27:24,559
trading on joe biden to get there

860
00:27:27,990 --> 00:27:26,320
and again you've got an actual picture

861
00:27:30,470 --> 00:27:28,000
now that's undeniable

862
00:27:32,070 --> 00:27:30,480
of joe biden meeting with hunter biden's

863
00:27:32,630 --> 00:27:32,080
business partners in this case in this

864
00:27:34,710 --> 00:27:32,640
case

865
00:27:36,389 --> 00:27:34,720
kazakh oligarchs again very corrupt

866
00:27:37,990 --> 00:27:36,399
country um

867
00:27:40,230 --> 00:27:38,000
used to be within the former soviet

868
00:27:41,669 --> 00:27:40,240
sphere and it's a place you want to go

869
00:27:42,950 --> 00:27:41,679
do business if you're doing something

870
00:27:45,269 --> 00:27:42,960
shady

871
00:27:46,149 --> 00:27:45,279
it's it's just so ridiculous this this

872
00:27:48,710 --> 00:27:46,159
coming by

873
00:27:49,430 --> 00:27:48,720
i don't talk business with my son i mean

874
00:27:52,630 --> 00:27:49,440
if that was

875
00:27:53,190 --> 00:27:52,640
true you're an idiot because he is your

876
00:27:55,269 --> 00:27:53,200
son

877
00:27:57,510 --> 00:27:55,279
your vice president of the united states

878
00:27:59,510 --> 00:27:57,520
and you ought to be concerned about what

879
00:28:02,070 --> 00:27:59,520
business your son is up to

880
00:28:03,590 --> 00:28:02,080
yeah i mean this was all very well known

881
00:28:04,549 --> 00:28:03,600
uh biden's denial is completely

882
00:28:07,029 --> 00:28:04,559
implausible

883
00:28:08,950 --> 00:28:07,039
uh hunter biden and kerry's son uh were

884
00:28:10,310 --> 00:28:08,960
doing major deals around the world while

885
00:28:12,630 --> 00:28:10,320
their father was

886
00:28:13,750 --> 00:28:12,640
um while their fathers held cabinet

887
00:28:16,389 --> 00:28:13,760
positions and

888
00:28:17,830 --> 00:28:16,399
uh in hunter biden's case was the vice

889
00:28:19,590 --> 00:28:17,840
president of the united states

890
00:28:21,190 --> 00:28:19,600
it's obviously ridiculous to think that

891
00:28:22,870 --> 00:28:21,200
these kids who were

892
00:28:24,549 --> 00:28:22,880
utterly incompetent who produced

893
00:28:26,310 --> 00:28:24,559
absolutely nothing were getting these

894
00:28:27,510 --> 00:28:26,320
ridiculous salaries and these ridiculous

895
00:28:28,870 --> 00:28:27,520
business opportunities

896
00:28:30,310 --> 00:28:28,880
because they were so talented on their

897
00:28:31,510 --> 00:28:30,320
own the only reason they were getting

898
00:28:34,630 --> 00:28:31,520
their foot in the door

899
00:28:36,149 --> 00:28:34,640
in china and kazakhstan um and any part

900
00:28:37,909 --> 00:28:36,159
of the former soviet union and the

901
00:28:39,909 --> 00:28:37,919
former warsaw attack areas

902
00:28:40,789 --> 00:28:39,919
was because these uh this is how

903
00:28:41,830 --> 00:28:40,799
business was done over there

904
00:28:43,269 --> 00:28:41,840
unfortunately

905
00:28:47,029 --> 00:28:43,279
that's how business is done here they've

906
00:28:49,590 --> 00:28:47,039
got oligarchies we've got oligarchies

907
00:28:50,710 --> 00:28:49,600
yeah and you know part of me wonders

908
00:28:53,269 --> 00:28:50,720
whether

909
00:28:54,630 --> 00:28:53,279
this will become a bigger story after

910
00:28:57,909 --> 00:28:54,640
the election

911
00:28:59,590 --> 00:28:57,919
um and that even democrats may embrace

912
00:29:03,190 --> 00:28:59,600
the story depending on

913
00:29:05,269 --> 00:29:03,200
which direction it goes but ultimately

914
00:29:07,750 --> 00:29:05,279
could be a way for kamala harris

915
00:29:09,269 --> 00:29:07,760
to become our next president well we're

916
00:29:11,430 --> 00:29:09,279
already looking at unprecedented

917
00:29:13,029 --> 00:29:11,440
corruption if joe biden wins i mean for

918
00:29:15,750 --> 00:29:13,039
example you've got his son-in-law ron

919
00:29:17,590 --> 00:29:15,760
kline who was at the same time advising

920
00:29:19,590 --> 00:29:17,600
biden on the chronovirus response

921
00:29:21,590 --> 00:29:19,600
and at the same time making inve private

922
00:29:22,549 --> 00:29:21,600
equity investments in uh coronavirus

923
00:29:23,990 --> 00:29:22,559
companies

924
00:29:26,149 --> 00:29:24,000
uh but this is just how the binding

925
00:29:28,149 --> 00:29:26,159
family does business uh biden's brother

926
00:29:29,590 --> 00:29:28,159
i got multi-billion dollar contracts to

927
00:29:31,110 --> 00:29:29,600
build houses in iraq what was his

928
00:29:32,950 --> 00:29:31,120
experience building houses

929
00:29:34,310 --> 00:29:32,960
none zero this is just how the blind

930
00:29:36,870 --> 00:29:34,320
family does things and

931
00:29:38,470 --> 00:29:36,880
uh put joe biden at the top uh every

932
00:29:40,070 --> 00:29:38,480
single member of the buying family no

933
00:29:41,990 --> 00:29:40,080
matter how distant distantly related

934
00:29:43,590 --> 00:29:42,000
is going to come in and is going to grab

935
00:29:46,230 --> 00:29:43,600
their own chair

936
00:29:47,750 --> 00:29:46,240
and how uncommon do you think this is

937
00:29:48,549 --> 00:29:47,760
because this sounds like kind of

938
00:29:51,909 --> 00:29:48,559
standard

939
00:29:55,830 --> 00:29:51,919
washington type corruption that

940
00:29:59,350 --> 00:29:55,840
exists i mean we think roughly

941
00:30:01,990 --> 00:29:59,360
20 percent of senators and congressmen

942
00:30:04,310 --> 00:30:02,000
and administration officials have family

943
00:30:06,230 --> 00:30:04,320
members doing these kind of deals

944
00:30:08,070 --> 00:30:06,240
it's widespread but there are kind of

945
00:30:09,590 --> 00:30:08,080
different levels of corruption

946
00:30:11,269 --> 00:30:09,600
are there people who are actually queen

947
00:30:11,669 --> 00:30:11,279
and they're a minority are there people

948
00:30:15,430 --> 00:30:11,679
who

949
00:30:17,110 --> 00:30:15,440
just completely out of control

950
00:30:19,029 --> 00:30:17,120
and when it comes to this kind of thing

951
00:30:20,230 --> 00:30:19,039
the out of control category the clintons

952
00:30:22,710 --> 00:30:20,240
were in that category they could

953
00:30:24,950 --> 00:30:22,720
absolutely not pass up a single dime

954
00:30:27,029 --> 00:30:24,960
um harry reid was in that category

955
00:30:27,669 --> 00:30:27,039
former senate uh democrat majority

956
00:30:29,510 --> 00:30:27,679
leader

957
00:30:31,269 --> 00:30:29,520
and by the family is very much in that

958
00:30:32,310 --> 00:30:31,279
category um these are people who

959
00:30:34,830 --> 00:30:32,320
absolutely will

960
00:30:37,269 --> 00:30:34,840
go for any opportunity no matter how

961
00:30:39,510 --> 00:30:37,279
shitty

962
00:30:40,310 --> 00:30:39,520
okay uh well before i was gonna then get

963
00:30:42,710 --> 00:30:40,320
back to some of the

964
00:30:44,230 --> 00:30:42,720
the hunter related materials because i

965
00:30:45,590 --> 00:30:44,240
even though they're kind of

966
00:30:47,669 --> 00:30:45,600
salacious i think still think they're

967
00:30:48,950 --> 00:30:47,679
relevant uh but before i do that am i

968
00:30:51,350 --> 00:30:48,960
missing any other

969
00:30:53,430 --> 00:30:51,360
important pieces of information that

970
00:30:56,070 --> 00:30:53,440
have been found that directly relate to

971
00:30:56,710 --> 00:30:56,080
to joe biden so stuff is still coming

972
00:30:58,310 --> 00:30:56,720
out uh

973
00:31:00,149 --> 00:30:58,320
i think we're gonna know a lot more

974
00:31:01,350 --> 00:31:00,159
tonight than we know right now

975
00:31:04,070 --> 00:31:01,360
uh but i think that's a pretty good

976
00:31:07,750 --> 00:31:04,080
summary so um

977
00:31:10,070 --> 00:31:07,760
all right so back to hunter then um

978
00:31:11,830 --> 00:31:10,080
there's there's an email about a a crack

979
00:31:14,870 --> 00:31:11,840
pipe and a 14 year old

980
00:31:16,789 --> 00:31:14,880
um and it seemed to me that it's his

981
00:31:18,470 --> 00:31:16,799
wife or ex-wife

982
00:31:19,830 --> 00:31:18,480
making this allegation and it almost

983
00:31:21,350 --> 00:31:19,840
seemed to me that

984
00:31:23,029 --> 00:31:21,360
oh he's pointing this out i think it was

985
00:31:26,310 --> 00:31:23,039
in an email to his father

986
00:31:27,909 --> 00:31:26,320
joe but um that his wife was

987
00:31:29,830 --> 00:31:27,919
maybe just kind of blackmailing with

988
00:31:31,269 --> 00:31:29,840
with this or or bringing us the

989
00:31:32,470 --> 00:31:31,279
attention of some marriage counselor or

990
00:31:34,470 --> 00:31:32,480
something

991
00:31:36,149 --> 00:31:34,480
it seems like this was his brother's

992
00:31:37,509 --> 00:31:36,159
wife or rather his brother's widow so as

993
00:31:38,950 --> 00:31:37,519
mentioned earlier he was running the

994
00:31:41,269 --> 00:31:38,960
beau biden foundation

995
00:31:42,389 --> 00:31:41,279
uh bobine was his brother uh beau biden

996
00:31:43,750 --> 00:31:42,399
uh died

997
00:31:46,630 --> 00:31:43,760
uh for a while hunter biden was

998
00:31:49,830 --> 00:31:46,640
romancing the widow um

999
00:31:52,630 --> 00:31:49,840
whether you see it as creepy or moving

1000
00:31:53,430 --> 00:31:52,640
just kind of as a subjective uh but this

1001
00:31:55,190 --> 00:31:53,440
uh

1002
00:31:56,549 --> 00:31:55,200
discussion puts a whole other spin on it

1003
00:31:58,630 --> 00:31:56,559
so seemingly

1004
00:31:59,590 --> 00:31:58,640
he was behaving inappropriately with an

1005
00:32:01,830 --> 00:31:59,600
underage girl

1006
00:32:04,230 --> 00:32:01,840
some people have speculated that uh this

1007
00:32:07,350 --> 00:32:04,240
would actually be his niece

1008
00:32:10,950 --> 00:32:07,360
and it was so it was beau biden's

1009
00:32:14,310 --> 00:32:10,960
widow who was making this allegation

1010
00:32:16,549 --> 00:32:14,320
seemingly mm-hmm um

1011
00:32:17,669 --> 00:32:16,559
and on blacked out so we're kind of

1012
00:32:19,830 --> 00:32:17,679
speculating

1013
00:32:20,870 --> 00:32:19,840
and and and how does crack pipe fit into

1014
00:32:22,630 --> 00:32:20,880
all this

1015
00:32:23,990 --> 00:32:22,640
so we do one of the photos that the new

1016
00:32:25,750 --> 00:32:24,000
york post published that's made its

1017
00:32:27,750 --> 00:32:25,760
round the seemingly hunter by

1018
00:32:29,509 --> 00:32:27,760
with a crack pipe so this would seem to

1019
00:32:31,269 --> 00:32:29,519
be a reference to um

1020
00:32:33,110 --> 00:32:31,279
problematic behavior by him we know uh

1021
00:32:33,830 --> 00:32:33,120
he had a serious drug problem it seems

1022
00:32:35,509 --> 00:32:33,840
to have been

1023
00:32:37,190 --> 00:32:35,519
even more serious than we thought and it

1024
00:32:38,710 --> 00:32:37,200
seems to according to this

1025
00:32:40,789 --> 00:32:38,720
have led to an appropriate behavior with

1026
00:32:44,789 --> 00:32:40,799
an underage girl

1027
00:32:47,350 --> 00:32:44,799
and what is his current marital status

1028
00:32:48,070 --> 00:32:47,360
uh he's been sued for child support by a

1029
00:32:51,430 --> 00:32:48,080
stripper in

1030
00:32:53,110 --> 00:32:51,440
arkansas who had his uh baby allegedly

1031
00:32:55,509 --> 00:32:53,120
uh but i think that's as close to

1032
00:32:58,870 --> 00:32:55,519
marriage as he's gotten

1033
00:33:01,909 --> 00:32:58,880
but he has a grown daughter

1034
00:33:03,269 --> 00:33:01,919
yes and and that's from that was also

1035
00:33:05,430 --> 00:33:03,279
out of wedlock then i guess

1036
00:33:06,710 --> 00:33:05,440
that's a previous marriage well previous

1037
00:33:07,350 --> 00:33:06,720
marriage okay so he has been married

1038
00:33:10,549 --> 00:33:07,360
before

1039
00:33:14,230 --> 00:33:10,559
he had one kid then he has a fling

1040
00:33:16,789 --> 00:33:14,240
with bo's widow um

1041
00:33:18,310 --> 00:33:16,799
but that they're no longer together uh

1042
00:33:20,070 --> 00:33:18,320
they're not

1043
00:33:22,789 --> 00:33:20,080
giving away this cast white and why they

1044
00:33:26,310 --> 00:33:22,799
might not have been together

1045
00:33:27,029 --> 00:33:26,320
and uh and i guess he lives in delaware

1046
00:33:29,110 --> 00:33:27,039
hence

1047
00:33:30,630 --> 00:33:29,120
why it was dropped off in delaware oh

1048
00:33:31,269 --> 00:33:30,640
the biden family is based out of

1049
00:33:33,990 --> 00:33:31,279
delaware

1050
00:33:36,149 --> 00:33:34,000
it seems like uh hunter biden has had

1051
00:33:38,389 --> 00:33:36,159
places in different parts of the country

1052
00:33:39,750 --> 00:33:38,399
uh but at that point uh it seems like he

1053
00:33:41,509 --> 00:33:39,760
would have been in delaware certainly

1054
00:33:43,190 --> 00:33:41,519
the beau buying foundation is registered

1055
00:33:45,190 --> 00:33:43,200
in delaware

1056
00:33:46,470 --> 00:33:45,200
okay let's get to a little bit of a

1057
00:33:48,070 --> 00:33:46,480
couple of things you're covering in in

1058
00:33:49,430 --> 00:33:48,080
the article well your article seemed to

1059
00:33:52,950 --> 00:33:49,440
me was was a lot about

1060
00:33:55,269 --> 00:33:52,960
the allegation that this is uh you know

1061
00:33:56,630 --> 00:33:55,279
russian propaganda and russian

1062
00:33:58,389 --> 00:33:56,640
disinformation

1063
00:33:59,830 --> 00:33:58,399
and you do a great job of discrediting

1064
00:34:01,669 --> 00:33:59,840
that at this point i'm not sure we need

1065
00:34:03,350 --> 00:34:01,679
to talk too much more about that because

1066
00:34:04,789 --> 00:34:03,360
no one seems to be asserting that

1067
00:34:06,950 --> 00:34:04,799
anymore but i don't know if you want to

1068
00:34:08,470 --> 00:34:06,960
put a

1069
00:34:10,790 --> 00:34:08,480
kind of dot the i across the t on that

1070
00:34:11,909 --> 00:34:10,800
one the representative adam schiff did

1071
00:34:14,470 --> 00:34:11,919
insist that it was russian

1072
00:34:17,430 --> 00:34:14,480
disinformation we had a letter from

1073
00:34:18,950 --> 00:34:17,440
uh 15 national security professionals

1074
00:34:20,550 --> 00:34:18,960
most of whom were obama administration

1075
00:34:22,149 --> 00:34:20,560
veterans uh claiming there was

1076
00:34:23,510 --> 00:34:22,159
that it had the earmarks of russian

1077
00:34:24,950 --> 00:34:23,520
misinformation which is not the same

1078
00:34:26,230 --> 00:34:24,960
thing as saying that it is russian

1079
00:34:28,869 --> 00:34:26,240
misinformation

1080
00:34:31,030 --> 00:34:28,879
um anyway the uh director of national

1081
00:34:32,550 --> 00:34:31,040
intelligence uh radkov came forward to

1082
00:34:34,149 --> 00:34:32,560
say that they were not investigating

1083
00:34:35,589 --> 00:34:34,159
this as russian disinformation

1084
00:34:36,950 --> 00:34:35,599
uh the media was claiming that they had

1085
00:34:38,470 --> 00:34:36,960
a congressional source who was telling

1086
00:34:39,909 --> 00:34:38,480
them the fbi was investigating it

1087
00:34:41,109 --> 00:34:39,919
the fbi has denied that they're

1088
00:34:42,389 --> 00:34:41,119
investigating it as russian

1089
00:34:43,909 --> 00:34:42,399
misinformation so

1090
00:34:45,349 --> 00:34:43,919
the story isn't going anywhere but at

1091
00:34:47,190 --> 00:34:45,359
the same time the media will kind of

1092
00:34:49,109 --> 00:34:47,200
keep up the russian disinformation thing

1093
00:34:52,389 --> 00:34:49,119
anyway

1094
00:34:54,550 --> 00:34:52,399
the uh twitter blocked this

1095
00:34:55,750 --> 00:34:54,560
story from the new york post and am i

1096
00:34:57,750 --> 00:34:55,760
correct that they also

1097
00:34:59,109 --> 00:34:57,760
blocked the entire account of the new

1098
00:35:00,630 --> 00:34:59,119
york post new york post couldn't post

1099
00:35:02,790 --> 00:35:00,640
anything on twitter

1100
00:35:04,630 --> 00:35:02,800
both facebook and twitter took measures

1101
00:35:05,109 --> 00:35:04,640
uh facebook throttled the reach of the

1102
00:35:07,109 --> 00:35:05,119
story

1103
00:35:09,109 --> 00:35:07,119
twitter went very aggressive uh they

1104
00:35:10,870 --> 00:35:09,119
actually suspended accounts um they

1105
00:35:11,910 --> 00:35:10,880
bought people from tweeting including

1106
00:35:14,630 --> 00:35:11,920
nerd post

1107
00:35:15,109 --> 00:35:14,640
um for that matter they hit a lot of

1108
00:35:16,390 --> 00:35:15,119
high

1109
00:35:18,390 --> 00:35:16,400
uh profile people including

1110
00:35:19,990 --> 00:35:18,400
administration people so they've been

1111
00:35:21,589 --> 00:35:20,000
very aggressively trying to censor the

1112
00:35:22,870 --> 00:35:21,599
story they can't actually explain why

1113
00:35:24,310 --> 00:35:22,880
they're censoring the story

1114
00:35:26,790 --> 00:35:24,320
they've gone from one excuse to another

1115
00:35:28,470 --> 00:35:26,800
excuse but yes the nerd post which is a

1116
00:35:30,550 --> 00:35:28,480
major newspaper is locked out of its

1117
00:35:31,030 --> 00:35:30,560
twitter account because it refuses to

1118
00:35:33,829 --> 00:35:31,040
delete

1119
00:35:34,870 --> 00:35:33,839
links to the story so as we speak that's

1120
00:35:37,190 --> 00:35:34,880
the current state

1121
00:35:39,030 --> 00:35:37,200
that uh the new york post is locked out

1122
00:35:43,270 --> 00:35:39,040
of its twitter account

1123
00:35:47,670 --> 00:35:45,510
and has twitter come forward yet with an

1124
00:35:49,829 --> 00:35:47,680
explanation as to

1125
00:35:51,270 --> 00:35:49,839
why they've had four or five

1126
00:35:53,349 --> 00:35:51,280
explanations um

1127
00:35:55,270 --> 00:35:53,359
they could their final explanation was

1128
00:35:56,390 --> 00:35:55,280
that it's in violation of their hack

1129
00:35:57,750 --> 00:35:56,400
materials policy

1130
00:35:59,670 --> 00:35:57,760
the problem is that they have hacked

1131
00:36:00,790 --> 00:35:59,680
materials um being deployed especially

1132
00:36:03,109 --> 00:36:00,800
by the media all the time

1133
00:36:04,630 --> 00:36:03,119
the media has had no problems with uh

1134
00:36:05,829 --> 00:36:04,640
using hacked materials they've done it

1135
00:36:07,510 --> 00:36:05,839
on a regular basis

1136
00:36:09,190 --> 00:36:07,520
and now suddenly twitter decided that

1137
00:36:10,069 --> 00:36:09,200
it's inappropriate this is a very last

1138
00:36:11,270 --> 00:36:10,079
minute decision

1139
00:36:12,870 --> 00:36:11,280
and apparently the only time it's

1140
00:36:15,190 --> 00:36:12,880
inappropriate is when joe biden is

1141
00:36:17,589 --> 00:36:15,200
affected by it

1142
00:36:19,030 --> 00:36:17,599
what about google slash youtube have

1143
00:36:20,310 --> 00:36:19,040
they as far as we know

1144
00:36:21,430 --> 00:36:20,320
i mean sometimes what they do is very

1145
00:36:22,710 --> 00:36:21,440
hidden so you don't know what they're

1146
00:36:24,470 --> 00:36:22,720
doing but do we know if they're doing

1147
00:36:26,470 --> 00:36:24,480
any throttling

1148
00:36:28,069 --> 00:36:26,480
so google and youtube uh google hasn't

1149
00:36:28,950 --> 00:36:28,079
made an official announcement in the

1150
00:36:31,190 --> 00:36:28,960
same way

1151
00:36:32,069 --> 00:36:31,200
uh they tend to like facebook uh

1152
00:36:34,470 --> 00:36:32,079
throttle uh

1153
00:36:35,750 --> 00:36:34,480
limit access uh shadow band people use

1154
00:36:37,829 --> 00:36:35,760
different terms for it

1155
00:36:39,190 --> 00:36:37,839
uh they do it more inconspicuously and

1156
00:36:42,550 --> 00:36:39,200
really twitter's more

1157
00:36:43,990 --> 00:36:42,560
overt um attack i gave the story legs it

1158
00:36:44,950 --> 00:36:44,000
gave it more publicity whereas

1159
00:36:47,349 --> 00:36:44,960
facebook's more

1160
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:47,359
covert approach i was far more effective

1161
00:36:51,270 --> 00:36:49,770
in limiting the reach of the story

1162
00:36:53,510 --> 00:36:51,280
[Music]

1163
00:36:54,950 --> 00:36:53,520
so i do you follow much mean in fact i

1164
00:36:56,630 --> 00:36:54,960
think it just came up they're already i

1165
00:36:57,910 --> 00:36:56,640
forget who was suggesting an amendment

1166
00:37:00,230 --> 00:36:57,920
to this law but

1167
00:37:00,950 --> 00:37:00,240
it's this um law that gives some

1168
00:37:04,310 --> 00:37:00,960
indemnity

1169
00:37:06,630 --> 00:37:04,320
to the social media companies for i

1170
00:37:08,150 --> 00:37:06,640
assume defamation so it protects them

1171
00:37:09,750 --> 00:37:08,160
against defamation claims

1172
00:37:11,270 --> 00:37:09,760
because merely because somebody posts

1173
00:37:13,190 --> 00:37:11,280
something on their

1174
00:37:15,190 --> 00:37:13,200
site which first of all might write

1175
00:37:16,390 --> 00:37:15,200
about that so there was something

1176
00:37:17,829 --> 00:37:16,400
during the clinton administration that

1177
00:37:19,990 --> 00:37:17,839
was passed called the communications

1178
00:37:21,910 --> 00:37:20,000
decency act or cda

1179
00:37:23,430 --> 00:37:21,920
this was an attempt to actually remove

1180
00:37:24,069 --> 00:37:23,440
pornography and decent material from the

1181
00:37:26,630 --> 00:37:24,079
internet

1182
00:37:28,550 --> 00:37:26,640
uh obviously it never actually really

1183
00:37:30,870 --> 00:37:28,560
functioned as far as the law went

1184
00:37:32,550 --> 00:37:30,880
it was struck down pretty quickly uh but

1185
00:37:35,109 --> 00:37:32,560
section 230 of this and we're talking

1186
00:37:37,349 --> 00:37:35,119
really huge bills the section 230 of it

1187
00:37:38,870 --> 00:37:37,359
was kept alive and section 230 was snuck

1188
00:37:40,310 --> 00:37:38,880
in by special interest which is what

1189
00:37:40,950 --> 00:37:40,320
they do there's a bill there's a big

1190
00:37:42,950 --> 00:37:40,960
bill

1191
00:37:44,069 --> 00:37:42,960
um it's thousands of pages you don't

1192
00:37:45,670 --> 00:37:44,079
actually work through it

1193
00:37:47,670 --> 00:37:45,680
and somewhere in there is something

1194
00:37:49,270 --> 00:37:47,680
that's buried that is going to have a

1195
00:37:51,109 --> 00:37:49,280
huge impact for a particular industry

1196
00:37:53,670 --> 00:37:51,119
that's the case with suction 230

1197
00:37:54,310 --> 00:37:53,680
which basically said that um just

1198
00:37:57,349 --> 00:37:54,320
because

1199
00:37:58,790 --> 00:37:57,359
uh a major platform will run it it

1200
00:38:00,310 --> 00:37:58,800
doesn't actually mean anything they have

1201
00:38:01,750 --> 00:38:00,320
protection in this regard

1202
00:38:04,069 --> 00:38:01,760
um as long as they're not the ones

1203
00:38:06,550 --> 00:38:04,079
actually publishing it themselves

1204
00:38:07,430 --> 00:38:06,560
and all things are kind of subject to

1205
00:38:10,630 --> 00:38:07,440
some debate

1206
00:38:13,670 --> 00:38:10,640
so a lot of the opposition to these uh

1207
00:38:15,990 --> 00:38:13,680
big really huge um big tech monopolies

1208
00:38:16,790 --> 00:38:16,000
has focused on removing section 230

1209
00:38:18,870 --> 00:38:16,800
protections

1210
00:38:20,550 --> 00:38:18,880
especially as these um so-called

1211
00:38:21,829 --> 00:38:20,560
platforms start making editorial

1212
00:38:24,470 --> 00:38:21,839
decisions and really

1213
00:38:26,390 --> 00:38:24,480
function more uh like media outlets

1214
00:38:28,230 --> 00:38:26,400
rather than just providing a platform

1215
00:38:30,310 --> 00:38:28,240
for people to use

1216
00:38:31,270 --> 00:38:30,320
good thanks for that explanation so yeah

1217
00:38:34,630 --> 00:38:31,280
let's talk about that

1218
00:38:38,230 --> 00:38:34,640
just a bit in my personal view i love

1219
00:38:39,030 --> 00:38:38,240
230. um i i think that they should have

1220
00:38:40,550 --> 00:38:39,040
protection

1221
00:38:42,310 --> 00:38:40,560
against claims for defamation zone

1222
00:38:43,510 --> 00:38:42,320
because i think they should just be

1223
00:38:45,990 --> 00:38:43,520
platforms

1224
00:38:47,670 --> 00:38:46,000
things go up there if somebody posts

1225
00:38:49,510 --> 00:38:47,680
something that's defamatory you can go

1226
00:38:50,550 --> 00:38:49,520
after the person who posted and said the

1227
00:38:52,950 --> 00:38:50,560
defamatory

1228
00:38:54,630 --> 00:38:52,960
thing and that allows the ultimate

1229
00:38:56,710 --> 00:38:54,640
freedom of speech

1230
00:38:58,150 --> 00:38:56,720
however if they're going to start

1231
00:39:01,589 --> 00:38:58,160
selectively

1232
00:39:04,790 --> 00:39:01,599
editing as you state then that does

1233
00:39:05,910 --> 00:39:04,800
change the game but and it's in i guess

1234
00:39:08,310 --> 00:39:05,920
it's why

1235
00:39:10,230 --> 00:39:08,320
facebook you know they should not be

1236
00:39:12,470 --> 00:39:10,240
editing they should be enjoying

1237
00:39:13,589 --> 00:39:12,480
the privileges of this section 230

1238
00:39:15,910 --> 00:39:13,599
exemption

1239
00:39:16,710 --> 00:39:15,920
that allows them to have anything be up

1240
00:39:19,910 --> 00:39:16,720
there

1241
00:39:21,829 --> 00:39:19,920
and not face liability and

1242
00:39:23,349 --> 00:39:21,839
that made it nice and easy for them sit

1243
00:39:25,990 --> 00:39:23,359
back let people put stuff

1244
00:39:26,710 --> 00:39:26,000
up there and don't worry about censoring

1245
00:39:28,710 --> 00:39:26,720
or

1246
00:39:30,390 --> 00:39:28,720
editing it but they're really stepping

1247
00:39:33,829 --> 00:39:30,400
into it now

1248
00:39:35,910 --> 00:39:33,839
by doing that and and that probably

1249
00:39:39,270 --> 00:39:35,920
should be an exception to 230 said

1250
00:39:41,670 --> 00:39:39,280
yeah you have uh indemnity unless

1251
00:39:43,030 --> 00:39:41,680
you start editing and then you lose the

1252
00:39:44,550 --> 00:39:43,040
indemnity

1253
00:39:47,829 --> 00:39:44,560
so part of it is that the internet in

1254
00:39:49,349 --> 00:39:47,839
1998 or even 2008 looked very different

1255
00:39:51,190 --> 00:39:49,359
than it does now

1256
00:39:52,470 --> 00:39:51,200
you had a whole large variety of

1257
00:39:54,870 --> 00:39:52,480
companies and you had a lot of free

1258
00:39:56,470 --> 00:39:54,880
speech and you had this kind of healthy

1259
00:39:58,390 --> 00:39:56,480
vigorous climate there are multiple

1260
00:39:59,589 --> 00:39:58,400
search engines in multiple sites and

1261
00:40:01,750 --> 00:39:59,599
multiple forums

1262
00:40:03,910 --> 00:40:01,760
uh increasingly everything is solidified

1263
00:40:04,950 --> 00:40:03,920
around about a dozen companies someone's

1264
00:40:08,470 --> 00:40:04,960
names you know

1265
00:40:10,150 --> 00:40:08,480
like amazon facebook google and some

1266
00:40:12,069 --> 00:40:10,160
uh whose names you don't necessarily

1267
00:40:12,710 --> 00:40:12,079
know but these companies essentially

1268
00:40:19,670 --> 00:40:12,720
control

1269
00:40:21,190 --> 00:40:19,680
of search traffic in the united states

1270
00:40:22,950 --> 00:40:21,200
facebook controls about 80

1271
00:40:24,309 --> 00:40:22,960
of social media these are effectively

1272
00:40:26,550 --> 00:40:24,319
functionally monopolies

1273
00:40:28,470 --> 00:40:26,560
so the game changed very much um these

1274
00:40:29,030 --> 00:40:28,480
provisions were meant to really protect

1275
00:40:30,710 --> 00:40:29,040
um

1276
00:40:32,390 --> 00:40:30,720
a kind of open internet but the internet

1277
00:40:34,230 --> 00:40:32,400
is not open anymore it's very much

1278
00:40:35,670 --> 00:40:34,240
closed it's very much under control of a

1279
00:40:36,550 --> 00:40:35,680
small number of companies who are

1280
00:40:39,670 --> 00:40:36,560
gatekeepers

1281
00:40:40,790 --> 00:40:39,680
how we can cut people off now in 2016 as

1282
00:40:43,109 --> 00:40:40,800
i mentioned before the meeting the

1283
00:40:45,990 --> 00:40:43,119
democrats largely blamed their loss

1284
00:40:48,150 --> 00:40:46,000
on the freedom uh uh for people to just

1285
00:40:50,150 --> 00:40:48,160
discuss things on facebook

1286
00:40:52,069 --> 00:40:50,160
and they've been pressuring very hard uh

1287
00:40:54,230 --> 00:40:52,079
for there to be censorship

1288
00:40:55,990 --> 00:40:54,240
so basically you have both republicans

1289
00:40:58,630 --> 00:40:56,000
and democrats pressuring

1290
00:41:00,390 --> 00:40:58,640
um companies like facebook democrats

1291
00:41:01,430 --> 00:41:00,400
want more censorship republicans want

1292
00:41:03,349 --> 00:41:01,440
less censorship

1293
00:41:04,790 --> 00:41:03,359
uh mark zuckerberg is kind of playing

1294
00:41:06,309 --> 00:41:04,800
both sides he's trying to give both

1295
00:41:07,030 --> 00:41:06,319
sides what they want which of course is

1296
00:41:08,470 --> 00:41:07,040
impossible

1297
00:41:09,990 --> 00:41:08,480
because if you have one group of people

1298
00:41:11,190 --> 00:41:10,000
saying we need you to censor more and we

1299
00:41:12,630 --> 00:41:11,200
have another group of people saying when

1300
00:41:14,790 --> 00:41:12,640
you need to censor less

1301
00:41:16,550 --> 00:41:14,800
how do you split that difference yeah

1302
00:41:17,750 --> 00:41:16,560
and you know if this 230 does get

1303
00:41:19,510 --> 00:41:17,760
amended to take away

1304
00:41:21,589 --> 00:41:19,520
indemnity i you know i don't like that

1305
00:41:23,190 --> 00:41:21,599
because it's just going to cause these

1306
00:41:24,790 --> 00:41:23,200
companies to edit

1307
00:41:26,309 --> 00:41:24,800
even more because they're going to have

1308
00:41:27,670 --> 00:41:26,319
additional reason now that hey we've got

1309
00:41:30,710 --> 00:41:27,680
fear of liability

1310
00:41:32,630 --> 00:41:30,720
so we got to be very cautious and

1311
00:41:34,150 --> 00:41:32,640
they're going to have tons of editors

1312
00:41:36,069 --> 00:41:34,160
and we know that most of those editors

1313
00:41:38,309 --> 00:41:36,079
are going to lean left so 90

1314
00:41:39,349 --> 00:41:38,319
of the stuff edited out is going to be

1315
00:41:42,710 --> 00:41:39,359
material uh

1316
00:41:44,470 --> 00:41:42,720
that's you know conservative yeah

1317
00:41:46,069 --> 00:41:44,480
that's correct i completely agree with

1318
00:41:46,550 --> 00:41:46,079
that some conservatives have embraced

1319
00:41:48,710 --> 00:41:46,560
the whole

1320
00:41:50,230 --> 00:41:48,720
section 230 position i think it's

1321
00:41:51,510 --> 00:41:50,240
dangerous uh for the reason you

1322
00:41:52,870 --> 00:41:51,520
mentioned and also because if you

1323
00:41:54,470 --> 00:41:52,880
actually start having

1324
00:41:56,230 --> 00:41:54,480
a fairness doctrine for the internet

1325
00:41:57,190 --> 00:41:56,240
with some sort of government body

1326
00:41:58,790 --> 00:41:57,200
regulating it

1327
00:42:00,309 --> 00:41:58,800
that's going to push it obviously much

1328
00:42:02,150 --> 00:42:00,319
much further to the left

1329
00:42:03,589 --> 00:42:02,160
again i think what's really needed is to

1330
00:42:05,030 --> 00:42:03,599
turn back the clock on the internet at

1331
00:42:06,150 --> 00:42:05,040
least to some degree break up some of

1332
00:42:07,750 --> 00:42:06,160
these big monopolies

1333
00:42:09,190 --> 00:42:07,760
that just have way too much power

1334
00:42:11,030 --> 00:42:09,200
because if you have a company that

1335
00:42:11,910 --> 00:42:11,040
controls eighty percent eighty percent

1336
00:42:13,510 --> 00:42:11,920
of what people see

1337
00:42:15,430 --> 00:42:13,520
then everybody's gonna be trying to use

1338
00:42:17,030 --> 00:42:15,440
it for political gain if you have

1339
00:42:20,150 --> 00:42:17,040
companies that have 10 12

1340
00:42:20,710 --> 00:42:20,160
18 uh they're not targets in the same

1341
00:42:22,309 --> 00:42:20,720
way it's

1342
00:42:23,750 --> 00:42:22,319
more democratized it's a more open

1343
00:42:25,430 --> 00:42:23,760
internet if you have

1344
00:42:28,069 --> 00:42:25,440
this kind of consolidation of power

1345
00:42:29,829 --> 00:42:28,079
everybody's going to want to control it

1346
00:42:31,589 --> 00:42:29,839
yeah well we saw the first case on that

1347
00:42:33,829 --> 00:42:31,599
right google got sued yesterday for

1348
00:42:34,790 --> 00:42:33,839
anti-trust violations um

1349
00:42:36,630 --> 00:42:34,800
essentially because of what you just

1350
00:42:37,750 --> 00:42:36,640
stated right that because they've got 88

1351
00:42:40,069 --> 00:42:37,760
of the searches

1352
00:42:41,589 --> 00:42:40,079
yeah that is uh this has been a long

1353
00:42:42,870 --> 00:42:41,599
time coming it should have happened

1354
00:42:45,670 --> 00:42:42,880
quite a while back

1355
00:42:47,270 --> 00:42:45,680
uh the scale of google as a monopoly is

1356
00:42:48,230 --> 00:42:47,280
incredible you have multiple state

1357
00:42:49,670 --> 00:42:48,240
attorney generals

1358
00:42:51,030 --> 00:42:49,680
you have the justice department all

1359
00:42:52,150 --> 00:42:51,040
suing you'll go on this is really

1360
00:42:52,550 --> 00:42:52,160
something that should have happened back

1361
00:42:54,790 --> 00:42:52,560
in the

1362
00:42:56,790 --> 00:42:54,800
demonstration uh when google became this

1363
00:42:58,550 --> 00:42:56,800
kind of monopoly it's been uh

1364
00:43:00,630 --> 00:42:58,560
sitting for too long with no action

1365
00:43:01,270 --> 00:43:00,640
taken and this is really important

1366
00:43:03,109 --> 00:43:01,280
because

1367
00:43:04,710 --> 00:43:03,119
the internet really flows through two

1368
00:43:06,870 --> 00:43:04,720
means people find things

1369
00:43:08,470 --> 00:43:06,880
through either search or through social

1370
00:43:09,829 --> 00:43:08,480
media this is how people among other

1371
00:43:11,589 --> 00:43:09,839
things get their news so people are

1372
00:43:12,950 --> 00:43:11,599
either using google or using facebook to

1373
00:43:15,109 --> 00:43:12,960
find out what's going on

1374
00:43:17,109 --> 00:43:15,119
uh take down both of those monopolies

1375
00:43:19,109 --> 00:43:17,119
break them up into smaller companies

1376
00:43:20,630 --> 00:43:19,119
and we have a more open internet we have

1377
00:43:23,030 --> 00:43:20,640
one that's less

1378
00:43:24,340 --> 00:43:23,040
explosive less violent uh less about

1379
00:43:25,670 --> 00:43:24,350
power grabs

1380
00:43:27,349 --> 00:43:25,680
[Music]

1381
00:43:29,190 --> 00:43:27,359
yeah i mean it's weird on the one hand

1382
00:43:32,150 --> 00:43:29,200
the internet it's hard to think

1383
00:43:34,150 --> 00:43:32,160
that a monopoly could even exist in the

1384
00:43:35,430 --> 00:43:34,160
days of the internet now because we do

1385
00:43:38,470 --> 00:43:35,440
have at our fingertips

1386
00:43:41,030 --> 00:43:38,480
access to so much right so that kind of

1387
00:43:44,470 --> 00:43:41,040
argues against there being monopoly but

1388
00:43:46,870 --> 00:43:44,480
if your access to things starts by going

1389
00:43:48,309 --> 00:43:46,880
searching for things and all those

1390
00:43:51,030 --> 00:43:48,319
searches are going through

1391
00:43:52,870 --> 00:43:51,040
google then i guess that's a problem

1392
00:43:54,150 --> 00:43:52,880
when people actually are out to find out

1393
00:43:54,870 --> 00:43:54,160
something what did they do well let me

1394
00:43:56,710 --> 00:43:54,880
google it

1395
00:43:58,630 --> 00:43:56,720
that kind of says it all and people will

1396
00:44:00,950 --> 00:43:58,640
cite uh alternative what they call

1397
00:44:02,630 --> 00:44:00,960
alternative search engines like duck.go

1398
00:44:04,630 --> 00:44:02,640
uh but those are just you really using

1399
00:44:05,829 --> 00:44:04,640
the google index they're just scraping

1400
00:44:07,430 --> 00:44:05,839
google for the most part

1401
00:44:09,990 --> 00:44:07,440
so you're just getting google's results

1402
00:44:11,670 --> 00:44:10,000
but with an a with an anonymous overlay

1403
00:44:13,109 --> 00:44:11,680
which is good for privacy but doesn't

1404
00:44:14,950 --> 00:44:13,119
solve the fundamental problem

1405
00:44:16,950 --> 00:44:14,960
they're really only two major search

1406
00:44:18,790 --> 00:44:16,960
engines google and bing both of those

1407
00:44:20,710 --> 00:44:18,800
are owned by big tech companies and bing

1408
00:44:22,309 --> 00:44:20,720
has a fraction of the market share

1409
00:44:23,910 --> 00:44:22,319
so it's not healthy for a country when

1410
00:44:26,069 --> 00:44:23,920
the marketplace of ideas is controlled

1411
00:44:28,630 --> 00:44:26,079
by a handful of companies

1412
00:44:29,910 --> 00:44:28,640
uh how do you evaluate amazon on that

1413
00:44:32,150 --> 00:44:29,920
scale

1414
00:44:34,950 --> 00:44:32,160
amazon effectively is eating up retail

1415
00:44:36,309 --> 00:44:34,960
it's eating up retail on a massive level

1416
00:44:38,309 --> 00:44:36,319
and what it's really doing because

1417
00:44:39,990 --> 00:44:38,319
increasingly what you see um on amazon

1418
00:44:42,390 --> 00:44:40,000
is third-party sellers so

1419
00:44:44,069 --> 00:44:42,400
uh majority of actual products uh on

1420
00:44:46,309 --> 00:44:44,079
amazon are going to third-party sellers

1421
00:44:47,829 --> 00:44:46,319
a majority of amazon third-party sellers

1422
00:44:49,829 --> 00:44:47,839
are china-based sellers so here what

1423
00:44:51,670 --> 00:44:49,839
amazon has become as a fulfillment

1424
00:44:52,870 --> 00:44:51,680
platform for chinese sellers

1425
00:44:55,109 --> 00:44:52,880
moving products to the united states

1426
00:44:57,510 --> 00:44:55,119
many of these products are counterfeit

1427
00:44:58,630 --> 00:44:57,520
um there's very little action from

1428
00:45:00,790 --> 00:44:58,640
amazon about that i mean

1429
00:45:02,950 --> 00:45:00,800
we all shopped at amazon we've all

1430
00:45:05,190 --> 00:45:02,960
gotten products that don't look right

1431
00:45:06,710 --> 00:45:05,200
uh counterfeiting is a huge issue that's

1432
00:45:08,790 --> 00:45:06,720
one of the things that congress has held

1433
00:45:10,309 --> 00:45:08,800
hearings about but it needs major action

1434
00:45:12,069 --> 00:45:10,319
because at this point american retail is

1435
00:45:12,790 --> 00:45:12,079
being white catholics replacing it is

1436
00:45:15,910 --> 00:45:12,800
basically

1437
00:45:17,190 --> 00:45:15,920
a front page for alibaba yeah well it's

1438
00:45:19,430 --> 00:45:17,200
that and it's also

1439
00:45:20,550 --> 00:45:19,440
amazon making products itself now so it

1440
00:45:22,309 --> 00:45:20,560
sees all the data

1441
00:45:24,069 --> 00:45:22,319
it knows what's making money and what's

1442
00:45:26,790 --> 00:45:24,079
not so it goes into those

1443
00:45:28,390 --> 00:45:26,800
you know it knocks off products that are

1444
00:45:29,910 --> 00:45:28,400
doing well on its site and puts them

1445
00:45:31,990 --> 00:45:29,920
under the amazon brand probably makes

1446
00:45:34,870 --> 00:45:32,000
them in china

1447
00:45:35,270 --> 00:45:34,880
that's pretty anti-competitive yes and

1448
00:45:37,030 --> 00:45:35,280
then

1449
00:45:39,270 --> 00:45:37,040
the last thing i said by amazon is the

1450
00:45:41,670 --> 00:45:39,280
banning of books talk about censorship

1451
00:45:43,109 --> 00:45:41,680
i mean there's a i'm aware of a few

1452
00:45:45,430 --> 00:45:43,119
books that have been

1453
00:45:46,390 --> 00:45:45,440
banned from amazon and it's absolutely

1454
00:45:48,230 --> 00:45:46,400
for absurd

1455
00:45:50,790 --> 00:45:48,240
reasons that they're politically correct

1456
00:45:52,390 --> 00:45:50,800
reasons and when you actually buy an

1457
00:45:52,950 --> 00:45:52,400
ebook from amazon you put it on your

1458
00:45:54,230 --> 00:45:52,960
kindle

1459
00:45:55,990 --> 00:45:54,240
and this is an incredible form of

1460
00:45:57,829 --> 00:45:56,000
censorship amazon can decide to

1461
00:45:58,390 --> 00:45:57,839
retroactively remove the book from your

1462
00:45:59,670 --> 00:45:58,400
kindle

1463
00:46:02,309 --> 00:45:59,680
which means you don't actually own the

1464
00:46:03,670 --> 00:46:02,319
books you buy yeah

1465
00:46:05,190 --> 00:46:03,680
uh all right well i probably need to let

1466
00:46:06,630 --> 00:46:05,200
you go but but there was a quote i do

1467
00:46:08,230 --> 00:46:06,640
have to ask you about that was in your

1468
00:46:10,870 --> 00:46:08,240
your article about this hunter biden

1469
00:46:12,710 --> 00:46:10,880
thing and i never read this quote and

1470
00:46:14,390 --> 00:46:12,720
i want you to give it some context for

1471
00:46:17,270 --> 00:46:14,400
me this quote from putin

1472
00:46:18,309 --> 00:46:17,280
about the democratic party this is this

1473
00:46:19,190 --> 00:46:18,319
is a real quote do you know what i'm

1474
00:46:20,150 --> 00:46:19,200
talking i'm going to read it but you

1475
00:46:22,309 --> 00:46:20,160
know

1476
00:46:24,390 --> 00:46:22,319
okay so it says the democratic party in

1477
00:46:24,950 --> 00:46:24,400
america is traditionally closer to the

1478
00:46:27,349 --> 00:46:24,960
so-called

1479
00:46:28,790 --> 00:46:27,359
liberal values closer to social

1480
00:46:31,190 --> 00:46:28,800
democratic ideas

1481
00:46:32,710 --> 00:46:31,200
and it was from the social democratic

1482
00:46:35,829 --> 00:46:32,720
environment

1483
00:46:38,550 --> 00:46:35,839
that the communist party evolved

1484
00:46:40,790 --> 00:46:38,560
uh this can be seen as an ideological

1485
00:46:43,349 --> 00:46:40,800
basis for developing contacts with the

1486
00:46:45,109 --> 00:46:43,359
democratic representative

1487
00:46:46,790 --> 00:46:45,119
so what was the context in which he made

1488
00:46:48,390 --> 00:46:46,800
this these comments and

1489
00:46:49,910 --> 00:46:48,400
what do you make of it so he was doing

1490
00:46:51,510 --> 00:46:49,920
an interview with a domestic outlet in

1491
00:46:53,270 --> 00:46:51,520
domestic outlets from russia or

1492
00:46:55,270 --> 00:46:53,280
straight-up regime propaganda

1493
00:46:56,950 --> 00:46:55,280
and it's pretty clear that contrary to

1494
00:46:58,710 --> 00:46:56,960
what the media in this country is saying

1495
00:47:00,630 --> 00:46:58,720
putin is actually seemingly preparing

1496
00:47:03,270 --> 00:47:00,640
for a blind victory and preparing to

1497
00:47:03,910 --> 00:47:03,280
um make some sort of uh arrangement with

1498
00:47:06,390 --> 00:47:03,920
pai

1499
00:47:07,670 --> 00:47:06,400
and notably actually uh when it came to

1500
00:47:09,430 --> 00:47:07,680
the star treaty

1501
00:47:11,030 --> 00:47:09,440
uh the trump administration was holding

1502
00:47:13,030 --> 00:47:11,040
out for a one-year extension with an

1503
00:47:14,630 --> 00:47:13,040
end to russian nuclear development well

1504
00:47:15,750 --> 00:47:14,640
biden was prepared to give them a

1505
00:47:18,870 --> 00:47:15,760
five-year extension

1506
00:47:20,390 --> 00:47:18,880
with no preconditions whatsoever

1507
00:47:21,829 --> 00:47:20,400
so uh as far as the russians are

1508
00:47:22,470 --> 00:47:21,839
concerned buy would be a pretty good

1509
00:47:24,069 --> 00:47:22,480
deal

1510
00:47:25,670 --> 00:47:24,079
thank you again to daniel greenfield for

1511
00:47:27,510 --> 00:47:25,680
his great reporting on this you can go

1512
00:47:29,109 --> 00:47:27,520
to his personal website you can also go

1513
00:47:31,829 --> 00:47:29,119
to the front page to see his

1514
00:47:33,990 --> 00:47:31,839
work also if you're watching the debate

1515
00:47:36,630 --> 00:47:34,000
tonight we hope that this gives you good

1516
00:47:38,230 --> 00:47:36,640
background information to see if this is

1517
00:47:39,910 --> 00:47:38,240
addressed in the debate hopefully the

1518
00:47:42,230 --> 00:47:39,920
moderator is going to be

1519
00:47:43,990 --> 00:47:42,240
bringing this issue up and now you've

1520
00:47:44,790 --> 00:47:44,000
got great background information to

1521
00:47:46,230 --> 00:47:44,800
assess

1522
00:47:47,990 --> 00:47:46,240
what the candidates have to say about

1523
00:47:49,910 --> 00:47:48,000
this thank you to our producer michael

1524
00:47:51,190 --> 00:47:49,920
parker thank you to our intern jake wall

1525
00:47:52,790 --> 00:47:51,200
thank you all for listening we'll be

1526
00:47:58,309 --> 00:47:52,800
back soon with another episode of the

1527
00:48:01,510 --> 00:47:59,750
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1528
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1529
00:48:07,270 --> 00:48:05,040
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1530
00:48:08,069 --> 00:48:07,280
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