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Hour 1 Segment 1
Heres some breaking news, not phony breaking news. Real breaking news.
CBS News Attorney General Merrick Garland has assigned the U.S. attorney
in Chicago to review classified documents found at the PEN Bidens
Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington. Two sources
with knowledge of the inquiry told CBS News the roughly ten documents
are from Joe Bidens vice presidential office at the center. The sources
said CBS News has learned the FBI is also involved in the U.S.
attorneys inquiry. The classified material was identified by personal
lawyers for Mr. Biden on November 2nd, just before the midterm
elections, Richard Silber, special counsel to the president, confirmed.
Of course, they kept their mouth shut until after the documents were
discovered, when Mr. Bidens personal attorneys, quote, were packing
files housed in a locked closet to prepare to vacate office space at the
PEN Biden Center in Washington, DC, unquote, Sabur said in a statement
to CBC News. The documents were contained in a folder that was in a box
with other unclassified papers, the sources said. The sources revealed
neither what the classified documents contain nor their level of
classification. A source familiar told CBC News the documents did not
contain nuclear secrets. Oh, well, I guess thats okay. And where you
have ten classified documents, America, you have unclassified documents,
too. As Ive said repeatedly, there is no damn way in hell that
presidents and vice presidents and attorneys general and secretaries of
state havent taken documents with them. The discovery of these
documents was made by the presidents attorneys, Sabur said. The
documents were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the
archives. So hes trying to make a distinction. Does it matter? Since
that discovery, the presidents personal attorneys have cooperated with
the archives and the Department of Justice in a process to ensure that
any Obama-Biden administration records are properly in the possession of
the archives. But theyre not, are they, For many, many years. A source
familiar with the matter said Representatives from the National Archives
then notified the Department of Justice. Garland assigned U.S. attorney
for the Northern District of Illinois, John Walsh, to find out how the
classified material ended up in the Penn Bidens center. The review is
considered a preliminary step in. The attorney general will determine
whether further investigation is necessary, including potentially
appointing a special counsel. You know, the special counsel would be
issues are piling up, ladies and gentlemen. Last was nominated to be the
U.S. attorney by former President Donald Trump, and hes one of the only
two current Trump era U.S. attorneys still serving. The other is
Delaware. U.S. Attorney David Vise is leading an investigation into the
presidents son, Hunter Biden lost recently brief. The attorney general
will eventually submit a final report to Garland. The review is expected
to conclude soon. The Biden Pen Centers, a think tank about a mile from
the White House in Washington. Its affiliated with the University of
Pennsylvania, named for the sitting president Presidential Records Act,
they write. Requires all presidential and vice presidential documents to
be turned over to the National Archives. There are special protocols to
keep classified information secure. Biden learned about the presence of
the information when his lawyer reported them to the White House
counsels office in November. A source familiar said the president is
unaware of their contents. The documents are believed to be currently in
a secure location in Washington. Look how they twist the reporting. Did
they say the documents that Trump had were in a secure location in Mar a
Lago? No. In a think tank. Why are they considered to be in a secure
location? Are they in a vault? What? How is it? Secure. Currently Biden
Pen Center and the University of Pennsylvania did not respond to
requests for comment. The National Archives declined to comment.
Attorneys assigned to oversee Bidens vice presidential records did not
reply to voice messages in an email seeking comment. They get to figure
out what their what their story is going to be. The unprecedented search
followed more than a year tussling. With the Trump people, of course.
How much you want to bet Obama has documents, including classified
documents? We know he has a lot of documents. How much you want to bet
George W Bush does? How much you want to bet Al Gore does, and Dick
Cheney, how much you want to bet? How about you, Bill Barr? Not saying
you do, but nows the time to come clean if you do. What about Eric
Holder? What about Hillary Clinton? That she retain any of those before
she destroyed them? I hope you were able to watch last night, Life,
Liberty and Levin. You had the incoming chair of the House Oversight
Committee. Really good guys. It turns out James Comer, Jamie Comer, they
call. Is a big fan of this show and big fan of the TV show, he told me.
Anyway. One of the things I asked him is about the National Archives.
Youre going to dig into this. And they said absolutely. All the texts,
all the emails and all the rest. Im very impressed with this guy. As a
matter of fact, now. I want to get into something else. Those of you who
are loyal listeners, I dropped as many hints as I possibly could last
week, Thursday, and especially Friday. About the events on Capitol Hill.
I wasnt bloviating behind the microphone about good and bad and good
and evil. And here we. One one way. One way. We want a big one. Yes. Who
are all these rhinos? Even some of our own. This is the greatest event
since Ronald Reagan won the presidency for conservatives. All right. Let
me start at the beginning. Actually, Im going to take an early break
now so we dont have an early interruption. Im going to give you
information. You do not have that I said, some of which I would reveal
when this was over. And its over. And unfortunately been getting the
usual pablum, Im sure. One host after another sounds almost identical,
whether on radio or TV. It its pretty. Pretty superficial case to be
made the 20 year great in the other two or not. Conservative
conservatives one. No, there is good that came out of this, but I want
to give you all the facts so you can draw your own conclusions. Those of
you who are like Marxists. You just want to set up a firing squad and
start shooting. You dont need to listen anymore. You got plenty of host
you can listen to. Theres plenty of propaganda and demagogues with
microphones or with cameras. Go ahead. But if youre smart and youre
intelligent and youre a real constitutional conservative, stick with
me. Ill be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 2
Its a lot breaking today, but I want to I want to hit this. July 28,
2015. H.R. Resolution 385 by Mr. Meadows. Mark Meadows, Congressman from
North Carolina at the time, submitted the following resolution, which
was referred to the Committee on Rules. This is very important,
declaring the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives vacant,
whereas the Speaker of the House of Representative for the 114th
Congress has endeavored to consolidate power and centralize decision
making, bypassing the majority of the 435 members of Congress and the
people they represent. Whereas the Speaker has, through inaction, caused
the power of Congress to atrophy, thereby making Congress subservient to
the executive and judicial branches, diminishing the voice of the
American people. Whereas the Speaker uses the power of the office to
punish members who vote according to their conscience instead of the
will of the Speaker. Whereas the speaker has intentionally provided for
voice votes on consequential and controversial legislation to be taken
without notice and with few members present. Whereas the Speaker just
uses the legislative calendar to create crises for the American people
in order to compel members to vote for legislation. Whereas the Speaker
does not comply with the spirit of the rules of the House of
Representatives, which provides that members shall have three days to
review legislation before voting. Whereas the Speaker continues to
direct the Rules Committee to limit meaningful amendments, to limit
debate on the House floor, and to subvert a straightforward legislative
process. Whereas the House of Representatives to function effectively in
the service of all citizens of this country, requires the service of a
speaker who will endeavor to follow an orderly and inclusive process
without imposing his or her or her will upon majority a member thereof.
Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Office of Speaker of the House
of Representatives is hereby declared to be vacant. This was the
resolution that Mark Meadows put in place. Under a rule that had not
really been effectively applied in about 100 years. It was tried against
Gingrich once, but it didnt work. One of the people who draft this
resolution was me. Ive never told you that. One of the people who
edited this resolution after it was finally drafted was me. I never told
you that. If you listen to a number of the points that are raised in
this resolution that resulted in John Boehner resigning. It addresses a
number of the points. But the new rules that have been adopted post
Pelosi by the Republicans are going to be adopted, I guess, this evening
in the House. The rules that youve heard, talked about and read on TV
and on radio. 90% of those rules were agreed to two months ago. Which is
one of the reasons I kept telling you that a majority of the Freedom
Caucus was not going along with the other 20. The vast majority of those
rules, 90%. Had already been agreed to. And there were some at the end
that were adopted to refine things and add some things. No question
about it. But this is why there was some fury on the floor of the House.
And anger. It wasnt just 20 great patriots standing up and all of a
sudden going against an unmovable 200 members. Most of those 200 members
thought they already had a package. This is what I was trying to tell
you, but I couldnt tell you. About the the 20 and the differences among
them, some very principled who felt they needed to go further. Some
wanting special committee assignments in power and some who just hated
McCarthy. The last six who. What a president hated. McCarthy who took a
call from Donald Trump the time to cut it out. One of the people who
wrote me, a person whose name I will now reveal for her sake. Was never
debating me about rules. She wrote me a nasty email saying, Well, now
McCarthy is yours. So what do you mean McCarthy is mine? Because I
wouldnt throw in first with the five. They had to change the 20 their
strategy. The original strategy was no McCarthy period. Anti McCarthy
like Never Trumpers. They were never McCarthy. But they werent getting
anywhere with that. They were advised. That use a rule of attrition.
That was the model they wanted to try. But they werent getting anywhere
big, so they put up first and they got ten votes. Biggs is not popular
even among conservatives. And hes despised by the Convention of States
movement. Five and a half million active members. And when they threw
up, Byron Donalds, whos a friend of mine who I adore. Byron Donalds had
just voted for McCarthy. Now theyre throwing up Jim Jordan, who wants
nothing to do with it. Hes trying to negotiate an endless thing. Then,
of course, Donald Trump and I dont need to go through all this with
you. They simply couldnt take out McCarthy with another candidate. So
they went back to the rules. They went back to the rules and they made
demands. This guy wants to sit on this committee. This guy wants to sit
on that committee. And there were some other demands. That that caused a
battle like the vacating of the chair like this. And they insisted on
this. And the issue wasnt whether to protect McCarthy or not. With one
member being able to have a vote of a majority. To vacate the chair. The
issue is whether or not the Republicans would be strong enough if a
handful of them could hold the sword of Damocles over another speakers
head. It had nothing to do with McCarthy and a number of the
conservative members, including from the Freedom Caucus, said, Were
going to have difficulty getting anything done here. Its very close.
Some of the issues were going to duke out. We could lose moderates,
liberals, They could join with the Democrats. It could get awfully messy
here regardless of who the speaker is. Speaker could be the late, great
Ronald Reagan. It wouldnt matter. So that was a principled debate. And
they decided to give in. That was one of the sticking points. But when
we come back, I want to go through some of these rules that they
adopted. And I want you to know, to my knowledge, which one of these
were already agreed to by the entire. Republican caucus. And by the way,
two months ago, Biden and the Justice Department knew about classified
information that the vice president had given to his think tank. So they
covered it up for two months, including through the election.
Hour 1 Segment 3
The Jefferson motion youve heard a lot of references by my buddy Chip
Roy and others to Thomas Jefferson and the rules that he had written
when he was vice president in 1801 that were adopted by Congress. The
Rules of Order, Roberts Rules, I guess he adjusted them and they
mentioned in there a Jeffersonian motion to vacate the chair, which
would just need a single congressman to raise it, not to remove the
speaker, but to raise it for the rest of the body. The vote. What he did
is he updated the original rules. He was always working on them. He was
a perfectionist. From 1801, he put out a second edition in 1812 when he
said he was going to continue to update it as time went on. And in 1837,
the Congress of the United States adopted it. That rule hadnt been used
for 100 years. It was used in the last century, as youve heard over and
over again, and it was used by Mark Meadows. There were enough people
who wanted to support it that it concerned Boehner. And he just stepped
down. And then we got Paul Ryan. And so they wanted to go back to that,
vacate the chair where one person can vote. And I already told you about
it. This was not an issue over McCarthy. This was an issue period. They
wanted to be able to vacate the chair if necessary. And so a compromise
was offered. I believe it was, Jordan said. Okay, five. And they said
no. So ultimately he agreed to the one. But the concern, including among
very solid conservatives, is the Democrats can pull that to over and
over and over again. One call for a vote on the speaker. And our
argument was we got a lot to do here. Weve got to unite. We got the
Biden crime family. Weve got the border. Weve got this. Weve got
that. We cant be voting all the time on whether to remove the speaker.
So thats to be seen. If that happens, I dont think it will, but thats
to be seen. So that was an issue. This church style committee. Some of
these folks are saying it wouldnt have happened. But for now, I know
thats not true because two months ago, Jim Jordan was on this show. I
brought up a church style committee. He said, were going to do
something, whether its a commission, a subcommittee, a separate
committee. Remember this, Mr. Producer? Were were going to centralize
our resources and have the best staff and all the rest that can do this.
So this was already agreed to. It was already agreed to. Oh, no, no, no.
You dont understand. All the powers would be spread among other
committees. No, no, no. The centralization and focus was already agreed
to by all the Republicans. A vote on a balanced budget amendment that
was wholly that had already been agreed to a vote on term limits. That
had already been agreed to. Itll go nowhere, by the way, for the
reasons I said. I dont like the shiny object efforts. You cant change
the Constitution with a statute. You couldnt limit the presidency to
two terms or ten total years like we did without an amendment. And
thats the way it works. Bills presented to Congress will be single
subject, not omnibus, with all the attendant earmarks that had been
agreed to a 72 hour minimum period to read them that have been agreed
to. What else? COVID mandates will be ended that have been agreed to.
Getting rid of the masks that have been agreed to. Ending proxy voting
that have been agreed to. These are common sense things. And they all
agreed. No. And most of the rest. Some of the issues with respect to are
using 2022 budget cap. I understand that did surprise some of the
members because what happened is several months ago they had a meeting
of all these Republicans and they got together and oh, McCarthy and I
have not talked. This is not from McCarthy. This is from conservatives.
And they went through all the issues. They thought they had agreement on
all the issues. And they said to some of them, okay, what else is there
that you want us to discuss? What else is there that we might be able to
resolve? And they didnt have anything else at the time. They didnt
have anything else at the time. So as the effort to prevent McCarthy.
Per say the attrition model was not working. Then they pushed additional
issues and this is why some of their members were losing their temper.
Im just pointing this out. Now you know more than anybody else about
what was taking place. Thats all I know. And Ive checked that my
sources are good sources. Its not like some anonymous source or
something like that. And I called several of them to people who you
admire and respect. But this is why. 60 pages. Ask yourself, why would
60? They keep saying the Freedom Caucus wanted this. No, no. 60% of the
Freedom Caucus did not join in on this. 60%. Why wouldnt Jordan join
in? Now you know why, Jim Banks. Now you know why Marjorie Taylor
GREENE, who I dont even know now you know why. And I can go through the
whole list. There were far more. Solid conservatives, then 20. Who were
voting for McCarthy, not because McCarthy is some great conservative
icon, but for all the reasons I just told you. So to circle back when
this person, this woman wrote me and said, okay, McCarthys years,
thats the game. And thats what a lot of talk show hosts are worried
about, that McCarthy will screw up and they can say that they were on
the good side. I dont have to play games with you. I trust my audience.
I know what you think. As a general matter. You want us to take this
country back? Im not interested in games. And youre not interested in
game. I dont like Donald Trumps a rhino either, do you? Well, why was
he involved in this? Because he knew. He understood to. He certainly
did. In the final six votes. Whereby individuals who were never going to
support McCarthy. And you might say, Good, I dont trust McCarthy. Its
not the point. They didnt have anybody else. All the rules were already
agreed to. Now what? Now what Dont you want to confront the enemy.
Dont you want to deal with the border? Dont you want to deal with
these climate change frauds? Now what? And I believe thats what led
President Trump to finally say to them, lets get this over with. And
thats why those of you who watched most of you probably didnt on the
floor of the House, a very quick reverse. A very quick reverse in terms
of motion to adjourn. And if Donald Trump hadnt stepped in, I ask you,
how would this have ended? I would have ended. Youve got people on TV
and radio telling you this is how it works. This is a great thing that
took place and so forth and so on. They dont know anything that I know.
Ive already told you things that they dont know. And that said have. I
will lead the fight. For conservative agenda. We will continue to lead
the fight. For the conservative agenda. But Im not going to follow
Representative Goode. It took $2 million from McCarthy and then refused
to support him. I said, Thats fine, but if you want to be a man of
character and consistent and give the $2 million back. Or Lauren Boebert
took almost $1.9 million. She won by less than 600 votes. She was on
this program twice. We endorsed her. I like her. My wife likes her. We
met her the first time. She decided to run and we got behind her. But
dont take nearly $1.9 million and then do what you did. Give the money
back. In the third of the six bigs. What he did is simply unacceptable.
He claims to be the big conservative, and yet he was the one guy that
blocked the vote on convention of states in the state Senate in Arizona,
killed it until he left. When they passed it, he was the obstacle. Now,
if hes sitting in Congress, if hes speaker, God forbid, and that
application ever comes to the House and the Senate, what would. Do
there. So he cant be trusted. Thats three of the six. Gates was
furious with McCarthy. Because of other reasons. He didnt think he
defended him strongly enough when he was when allegations were made
against him, among other things. So Im not following these guys off the
edge of the earth. Theyre not Mr. and Mrs. Conservative to me. Theyre
conservative, but theyre certainly no better. Certainly no better than
Jordan or Banks or whomever. So this has been my thinking all along.
Just stick with me, folks. I know what Im doing. I know why Im doing
it. There are people who want to make names for themselves, not
columnists. Little green guys. Whove done nothing for the conservative
movement, who really know nothing about the conservative movement, are
still debating on whether or not the conservatives are national
populists. I call them capos the couple. Wannabes. But wannabes are just
that want to be. They follow the crowd. Another young lady who I respect
a lot. She wrote a piece about how this is the biggest event since I
forget what she said, the conservative movement and since whatever. No,
its not. Most of these rules were already in the works. Now, heres
where we kick in. Those of us who have a little experience and
knowledge. Nows the time to watch what they do. What are they going to
do? Theyve just told us they now have the power to do X, Y, Z. Ive got
all the audio. We have it all inventoried. And now its up to you and me
to hold them to account, whomever they are. Whether its Kevin McCarthy
or Matt Gaetz. And one other thing that had not been agreed to prior to
this was this massive cut in defense spending. And its a sticking point
with many conservatives who are not isolationists, pacifists who are not
part of the dispute noise with their hemorrhoids. Its not because they
want to give Ukraine $1,000,000,000,000. Its because they see that
communist China is a massive threat, that theyre building nukes and
conventional weaponry is like nothing weve seen before since the Third
Reich. And they were communist. Chinas doing is more than sabre
rattling. They are preparing for war. And they understand, as many of
you understand and I understand you dont effectively slash your defense
budget and even in part disarm. When you see whats out there. Thats
what made Churchill such a great leader. Because he spoke out when
Britain was sleeping and that Britain was convincing itself. The Nazi
ism was not going to be a problem for them, even after a few countries
were gobbled up. Pretty. Pretty idiotic. Pretty insane, if you ask me.
To start slashing your defense budget. In the face of enemy. Enemy like
this. I understand this is what the left believes. This is what McGovern
used to believe. This is what Obama used to believe or does. This is
what Kerry believes and all the rest. But Ill be damned if Im
following them, too. And just remember, it was under Donald Trump where
the biggest increase in defense spending in modern times. So you sell
out. Is he a warmonger? How ridiculous. Neocon. And how about Reagan?
Same thing. These are our greatest modern presidents. So that would
bother me too. Spending does need to be slashed, but the massive amount
of new spending thats taken place, 6.1 trillion more hasnt been for
defense. Proportionally, its been for domestic spending. Ill be right
back.
Hour 1 Segment 4
I want to get back to this document issue with Biden next hour. It needs
to be more fully addressed because youre going to have all kinds of
spin by the Democrats. Well, soon as they found them, they offered them.
And we were asked three times and, you know, is in a secure location. I
dont care about any of that. And I want to know why a U.S. attorney, I
dont care if he was nominated by Trump or not, is investigating this. I
want to know why there isnt right now. An FBI SWAT team at this think
tank gathering all the information. Why is it this has gone on for two
months? Apparently, this this was first learned on November 2nd and it
was covered up from the voters. Its been covered up. From the American
people for two months. More than two months. And its basically a leak
to CBS News, as best as I understand it. Thats going to wrap it up
quickly. Ladies and gentlemen, the U.S. attorney in Chicago. Its going
to give the information quickly so Merrick Garland can make decisions.
You believe this? So I want to explore this further next hour. So when
we come back. Were going to go over this in more detail and explore
apparently the violations of federal law by Biden and his team. And why
is it that there wasnt a SWAT team sent to that think tank in
Washington, D.C., very close to FBI headquarters? Why is that? Well,
because he wasnt asked twice or thrice. I dont care. Ill be right
back.