1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on. Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron. 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,640 Go to thepeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,839 your support. Before I get to the House Oversight Committee report, 10 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,200 let me just clear out a couple of these Twitter 11 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:39,079 messages from the last well last two hours. Is going 12 00:00:39,119 --> 00:00:42,399 over the shutdown and the impact on the food stamp 13 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:45,399 budget and how people who are on food stamps are 14 00:00:45,399 --> 00:00:49,679 now at risk of not getting their food stamps. This 15 00:00:50,359 --> 00:00:53,759 tweet from app patriot Girl who says the welfare state 16 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,320 is designed to make people dependent so the Democrats can 17 00:00:57,399 --> 00:01:01,200 maintain power. They're willing to sacrifice their own peap for leverage. Indeed, 18 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:04,079 that's why I called it the Hamas strategy. Democrats are 19 00:01:04,079 --> 00:01:09,280 fully employing Hamas's strategy here, using them as a human shield. 20 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:11,959 If you will no wonder they align with Hamas, Yes, 21 00:01:12,879 --> 00:01:17,480 I will like that tweet, Communist America, says William Sarah says, 22 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:25,239 sacrificing their own people. Melissa says, if Social Security is taxed, 23 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:31,079 why isn't Snap taxed. That's a good question. Yeah, I'm 24 00:01:31,159 --> 00:01:35,280 not considered that before the first segment of the Second 25 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:37,840 Hour today was one of the very best summary about 26 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:40,920 this Democrat impasse regarding the passing of the Clean cr 27 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:43,959 Your explanation needs to be repeated by every Republican and 28 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:50,439 libertarian so everyone understands communism. That's from Dad. Thanks Dad. 29 00:01:51,079 --> 00:01:54,319 This is exactly why Lyndon Johnson passed the Great American 30 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:59,359 Society Act in nineteen sixty eight. I see a couple 31 00:01:59,359 --> 00:02:02,879 of references to that, yet Lbj's Great Society. That was 32 00:02:02,879 --> 00:02:06,079 the point. You hook people onto the public dole and 33 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:09,840 then their voters for life, and if you're not getting 34 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:13,439 your way, you will then starve them in order to 35 00:02:13,439 --> 00:02:16,080 make people feel bad for them so you can get 36 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:19,159 policy victories that you could not otherwise achieve. That's the 37 00:02:19,159 --> 00:02:22,840 Democrat strategy. It was the strategy of Hamas, still is 38 00:02:23,199 --> 00:02:26,639 the strategy of Hamas as well. That's why they are 39 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:33,960 fully embracing Hamas. The Democrat Party fully embracing hamas so. 40 00:02:34,199 --> 00:02:38,360 The House Oversight Committee published its final report on its 41 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:43,680 investigation into the use by the Biden administration of the 42 00:02:43,719 --> 00:02:48,919 auto pen, and I have read through the executive's summary 43 00:02:49,159 --> 00:02:53,919 of the report and they conclude that at least some 44 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:58,680 of the President's orders were invalid and they're calling on 45 00:02:58,719 --> 00:03:02,759 the Justice Department to investigate. They took three months to 46 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:07,240 go over the information, read through the emails, read through 47 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:12,039 the reports, also to depose a bunch of people, some 48 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:16,319 of whom took the fifth and refused to cooperate. James Comer, 49 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:20,639 the chair of the Oversight Committee, conducted fourteen depositions and 50 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:25,319 transcribed interviews with senior White House staff. Biden White House staff, 51 00:03:25,479 --> 00:03:29,759 including two chiefs of staff, his personal physician, along with 52 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:37,319 senior advisors, the personal physician for the president, as well 53 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:41,639 as the chief of staff for Jill Biden sorry sorry, 54 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:47,199 doctor Jill Biden. They each invoked their Fifth Amendment right 55 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:52,280 against self incrimination. The Oversight Committee concluded that senior Biden 56 00:03:52,479 --> 00:03:56,599 White House staff illegally exercised the President's authority on his 57 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:59,560 behalf by directing the use of the auto pen, and 58 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:05,599 failed to document the office's decision making processes. So that is, 59 00:04:05,639 --> 00:04:10,719 by the way, from Stephen Richards writing at justthnews dot com. 60 00:04:11,319 --> 00:04:16,120 That is the website started by John Solomon. So from 61 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:18,680 the executive summary here, in case you have not had 62 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:21,560 a chance nor intended to read it, I will give 63 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:28,240 you portions of the executive summary. They've investigated. The committee 64 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:31,920 has investigated the circumstances surrounding Joe Biden's diminishing mental and 65 00:04:31,959 --> 00:04:36,519 physical capabilities and the implications of that decline. And then 66 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:39,600 they've got a little footnote on that sentence. Okay, it's 67 00:04:39,639 --> 00:04:42,240 the first sentence of the executive summary, and the footnote 68 00:04:42,439 --> 00:04:47,000 here reads and you'll forgive me here because it's very small. 69 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:50,079 It's at the bottom of the page. During this investigation, 70 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:55,399 Democratic members and staff have attempted to minimize or outrighte deny, 71 00:04:56,399 --> 00:04:59,879 and have attempted to cajole witnesses to minimize or outr 72 00:05:00,399 --> 00:05:05,560 deny what is now reported as fact President Biden is 73 00:05:05,759 --> 00:05:10,879 in mental decline. This report will not spend words grappling 74 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:15,279 with whether a reported established fact is anything other than 75 00:05:15,319 --> 00:05:19,240 a fact and an obvious one. President Biden's cognitive decline 76 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:22,120 was apparent to any person who watched him interact with 77 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:26,720 the press, the public, or world leaders for years as president. 78 00:05:27,199 --> 00:05:30,399 Assertions made to the contrary are nothing less than gaslighting. 79 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:34,160 Instead of debating the obvious and in so doing implicitly 80 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:38,279 legitimizing voices that seek to rewrite history, this report will 81 00:05:38,319 --> 00:05:43,120 instead provide findings regarding the extent of President Biden's decline 82 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:48,319 and the repercussions and ramifications of that reality. So when 83 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:53,040 I first read that, I thought, I kind of feel 84 00:05:53,079 --> 00:05:56,839 like you should make the case. But upon further reflection, 85 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:00,560 now I'm thinking, you just don't even concede, like, just 86 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:05,519 don't even entertain it. So, like I can understand why 87 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:07,160 we're not even going to argue with you on this. 88 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:10,040 You want to argue that he wasn't in decline, and 89 00:06:10,079 --> 00:06:12,920 that just makes you look stupid. So we're not going 90 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,600 to argue with you on this. We're going to talk 91 00:06:15,639 --> 00:06:20,519 about and look at the extent of the decline and 92 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:25,839 the repercussions that it had. They go on to say 93 00:06:26,759 --> 00:06:30,519 in this summary. Even more troubling than the president experiencing 94 00:06:30,519 --> 00:06:34,600 a decline in mental acuity was President Biden's inner circle 95 00:06:34,639 --> 00:06:38,240 of loyalists attempting to mislead the nation to ignore what 96 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:42,519 people's eyes plainly showed them. Throughout President Biden's term, people 97 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:47,079 increasingly questioned if he was, or questioned if the slurring 98 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:53,240 of words, mistaking of names, visible disorientation, confusion, and dependence 99 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:56,480 on aids for basic direction, all of which the public 100 00:06:56,480 --> 00:07:00,560 witnessed live could indicate anything but the serious cogniti decline 101 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:04,800 of President Biden. The Committee has investigated whether senior White 102 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:08,560 House officials possibly exercised the authority of the former president 103 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:12,560 or intentionally concealed Biden's rapidly worsening mental and physical state. 104 00:07:12,839 --> 00:07:16,519 The Committee has found evidence to indicate they did both. 105 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:21,480 That they did both. They exercised the authority of the 106 00:07:21,519 --> 00:07:26,319 former president and intentionally concealed as decline. They did both. 107 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:30,560 The Biden autopen presidency ranks among the greatest scandals in 108 00:07:30,639 --> 00:07:35,800 US history. I agree, but I also throw in there 109 00:07:36,079 --> 00:07:42,759 the media's complicitness complicity. Complicity. Yes, as President Biden declined, 110 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:47,480 his staff abused the autopen, along with a lax chain 111 00:07:47,519 --> 00:07:51,920 of command policy, to affect executive actions that lack any 112 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,439 documentation of whether they were in fact authorized. This is 113 00:07:56,439 --> 00:08:01,920 the trust us defense that the White House officials tried 114 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:05,040 to make in their depositions, which is we didn't take 115 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:09,360 any notes. We don't have any contemporaneous notes like right 116 00:08:09,439 --> 00:08:12,879 after the meeting with Biden, Like we didn't take notes 117 00:08:12,959 --> 00:08:16,759 during the meeting. We didn't take any notes after the meeting. No, no, no, 118 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:18,759 we didn't do any of that. But you just have 119 00:08:18,839 --> 00:08:21,439 to trust us that by the time, like a month later, 120 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:26,040 that we wrote down this stuff that we're not lying 121 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:29,639 now and on stuff that we never wrote down. You 122 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,360 have to believe us now that we're telling you the 123 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:35,399 truth about what actually happened in that meeting that we 124 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:38,519 did not take any notes on and we have no 125 00:08:38,639 --> 00:08:44,759 records of anymore. Just sorry about that. While President Biden 126 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:47,799 became progressively less able to do his job, when every 127 00:08:47,799 --> 00:08:50,679 measure should have been taken a document and if ever questioned, 128 00:08:50,759 --> 00:08:55,399 prove that Biden had made these final decisions, Instead, the 129 00:08:54,799 --> 00:09:00,440 White House staff took shortcuts and ad hoc actions to 130 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:03,759 keep the Biden presidency afloat right. And that's the key 131 00:09:03,799 --> 00:09:06,720 here too, is that when you know the president is 132 00:09:06,759 --> 00:09:09,360 in decline like this and it's getting harder and harder 133 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:12,360 and harder for him to make decisions and such, you 134 00:09:12,399 --> 00:09:17,600 would think that you would take more efforts, right, you 135 00:09:17,639 --> 00:09:20,080 would make more of an effort to document these things 136 00:09:20,399 --> 00:09:25,320 to cover your took us. 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I'm sure it's just a coincidence that 161 00:10:53,279 --> 00:10:57,240 a nice text made it through and not a mean one. 162 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:04,720 The executives here from the House Oversight Committee regarding the 163 00:11:04,759 --> 00:11:08,080 auto pen scandal, the committee found there was, in fact 164 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:11,159 a cover up of the president's cognitive decline, and there's 165 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:15,120 no record demonstrating President Biden himself made all of the 166 00:11:15,159 --> 00:11:19,759 executive decisions that have been attributed to him. That's the uh, 167 00:11:20,799 --> 00:11:27,759 that's the big takeaway. They say, these advisors continue to 168 00:11:27,919 --> 00:11:32,039 hold these beliefs today, denying that Biden's cognitive impairment was 169 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:37,759 ever even a concern for voters. That's what they continue 170 00:11:37,799 --> 00:11:41,320 to say. They quote a whole bunch of these advisors 171 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:44,279 like Ron Klain, Kate Bettingfield. And then there was this 172 00:11:44,399 --> 00:11:50,559 little nugat when asked directly on a podcast if President 173 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:56,159 Biden had dementia. White House Press Secretary Carin Jean Pierre replied, quote, 174 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:59,480 I can't even believe you are asking me this question, 175 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:03,759 that that is an incredibly offensive question, then rejected the 176 00:12:03,799 --> 00:12:07,000 premise of the question and hung up, abruptly ending the 177 00:12:07,039 --> 00:12:11,879 interview after just one hundred and fifty seconds. And that 178 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:15,279 was actually not a podcast. Now they may have heard 179 00:12:15,279 --> 00:12:18,279 it on a podcast. I don't know which podcast. It 180 00:12:18,279 --> 00:12:20,080 could have been mine because I played the audio, But 181 00:12:20,159 --> 00:12:24,039 it was originally audio that was captured by WBT news 182 00:12:24,039 --> 00:12:28,120 director Mark Garrison who got an interview with Corine Jean 183 00:12:28,159 --> 00:12:35,399 Pierre and asked her flat out and she said that 184 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,799 does he have dementia? And then she says that's incredibly 185 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:45,639 offensive and then and then ended the interview. So that 186 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:49,039 made it that made it to the congressional hearing or 187 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:53,159 a report. Rather central to this scheme was the former 188 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:58,159 president's longtime physician, doctor Kevin O'Connor, who recklessly never conducted 189 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,720 a cognitive exam of the president. Doctor O'Connor invoked his 190 00:13:01,759 --> 00:13:04,519 Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination when the committee asked 191 00:13:04,519 --> 00:13:07,480 if he was told to lie about Biden's health and 192 00:13:07,519 --> 00:13:12,279 whether Biden was fit to be president. The committee recommends 193 00:13:12,519 --> 00:13:15,919 that the district of Columbia Board of Medicine review the 194 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:21,279 actions taken by doctor O'Connor for any potential wrongdoing, including 195 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:24,960 whether he produced false or misleading medical reports to the 196 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,279 American public. So sounds like they're going to try to 197 00:13:28,399 --> 00:13:30,879 make this or they're turning it over to the medical 198 00:13:30,919 --> 00:13:35,320 Board to try to take his license or enact some 199 00:13:35,399 --> 00:13:39,919 sort of sanction against this guy for what he did. Now, 200 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:45,440 I doubt that'll happen because it's Washington, DC, and I 201 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:50,159 suspect that there will be the same sort of bias 202 00:13:50,879 --> 00:13:55,360 infecting the Medical Board there that infects basically everything in Washington, 203 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:59,399 d C. From juries to the bar so and I 204 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:03,879 mean the the legal bar, not the pubs, because I 205 00:14:03,919 --> 00:14:06,320 think Republicans have like a bar that they go to. 206 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:11,440 Doctor O'Connor, who had business dealings with and financial connections 207 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:14,799 to the Biden family, is not the only participant in 208 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:17,279 this scheme with an incentive to cover up the truth. 209 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:22,879 Mike donnellan senior advisor to President Biden, was responsible for 210 00:14:22,879 --> 00:14:26,799 getting accurate polling data to the president, Which is kind 211 00:14:26,799 --> 00:14:34,200 of funny because I remember doing the story oh gosh, 212 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:38,720 probably what three years ago, when I forget what publication 213 00:14:38,879 --> 00:14:43,519 did it. But the story was that the Biden camp 214 00:14:43,639 --> 00:14:48,240 was not giving Joe Biden the accurate data or accurate 215 00:14:48,279 --> 00:14:51,080 polling data. They were not showing him the polls that 216 00:14:51,159 --> 00:14:53,639 were bad for him, but any poll that came along, 217 00:14:53,759 --> 00:14:57,279 no matter how suspect the source was, they would show 218 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:59,960 him that. And that's why he would get on stage 219 00:15:00,279 --> 00:15:03,279 or do like the like two interviews that he did 220 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:05,679 during his entire administration. He would get on there and 221 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:11,080 he would be like, my boy, say my god. And 222 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:14,120 that was largely interpreted to mean that he thought his 223 00:15:14,159 --> 00:15:16,399 polling was fantastic and he was gonna win. I think 224 00:15:16,399 --> 00:15:19,159 he still believes it to this day that he was 225 00:15:19,159 --> 00:15:21,120 going to win, that he could have won, he should 226 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:24,519 have won, but for some reason, they pushed him out 227 00:15:24,559 --> 00:15:27,480 and we may never know why. Because he had a cold. 228 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:30,919 I think, right, he had a cold. Wasn't that the story? 229 00:15:32,799 --> 00:15:36,080 Or he was jet legged? Because it changed? Yeah, the 230 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:39,639 story changed. I forget what. I forget what final version 231 00:15:39,639 --> 00:15:42,399 they went with on that why he was why he 232 00:15:42,519 --> 00:15:46,799 was so terrible during that debate performance that he was 233 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:49,440 it was the pain meds or is the cold medicine? 234 00:15:49,559 --> 00:15:52,320 Or is he was jet legged? But that never really 235 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:56,159 made sense because he had returned from overseas like ten 236 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:58,440 days prior to the debate or something like that. So 237 00:15:59,039 --> 00:16:01,080 I'm not really sure why I thought that one would fly. 238 00:16:02,039 --> 00:16:05,399 But this guy, Mike Donaldan, his job was to get 239 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:09,720 quote accurate polling to the president. Donalin told the committee 240 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:12,519 that he stood to make a total of eight million 241 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:17,639 dollars by keeping Biden in the presidential race and getting 242 00:16:17,679 --> 00:16:22,080 him re elected. And there is a video clip of 243 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:27,320 this part of the deposition. I would play it, but 244 00:16:27,519 --> 00:16:30,559 it's it runs a little over two minutes, and about 245 00:16:30,759 --> 00:16:33,559 one minute and fifty seconds of it is dead air 246 00:16:34,639 --> 00:16:41,960 because he struggles to figure out a way to explain 247 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:45,679 why he has no financial motive in keeping Biden on 248 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:50,039 the ticket, and he just couldn't. He could not conjure 249 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:55,200 up an explanation because there is none there, There isn't 250 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:58,879 any There isn't any explanation other than like he's going 251 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,759 to get He got four million dollars for his services, 252 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:04,400 and if he got Biden to win again, he would 253 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:08,559 get another four million. So he was invested. He had 254 00:17:08,559 --> 00:17:13,480 a financial incentive to ensure that Biden got on the 255 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:18,759 got you know, renominated and re elected, which means what. 256 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:22,839 You've got a four million dollar payout hanging out there 257 00:17:23,079 --> 00:17:27,319 while you're advising the president, and you see he's in 258 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:32,000 mental decline. Do you think that that might, I don't know, 259 00:17:33,079 --> 00:17:37,519 cloud your judgment a little bit. You got four million 260 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:41,480 dollars sitting there, and all you got to do is 261 00:17:41,599 --> 00:17:45,279 get this guy across the finish line. But you know 262 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:48,039 he doesn't have it in him anymore. You know that 263 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:52,920 he's he's sucking wind here and you can't let anybody see. 264 00:17:53,519 --> 00:17:56,839 So now you have an incentive to shield him from 265 00:17:56,880 --> 00:18:03,759 the public and to participate in the cover up. The 266 00:18:03,799 --> 00:18:08,519 committee found these incentives, among others, motivated the inner Circle 267 00:18:08,599 --> 00:18:11,759 to conceal the president's decline while running the government in 268 00:18:11,759 --> 00:18:15,480 his stead. Anita Dunn, longtime political operative and Biden aid, 269 00:18:15,519 --> 00:18:17,960 who served as a senior advisor to the former president, 270 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,440 told the committee that the former president's senior advisers reached 271 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:26,920 a consensus that President Biden should not undergo a cognitive exam, 272 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:30,440 despite persistent calls from the public to do so. This 273 00:18:30,559 --> 00:18:34,880 revelation that the president's political advisors interfered with his healthcare 274 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:38,359 to fuel a cover up of his condition was corroborated 275 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:43,880 by Biden's second chief of staff, Jeff Zeinz. Why are 276 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:51,200 his political advisers saying no cognitive exam right because they 277 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:55,079 know he won't pass, so better to not do it 278 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:00,799 this way. You have plausible deniability. And why wouldlical advisors 279 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:05,400 make that recommendation? But for politics, all right? If you're 280 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:07,200 listening to this show, you know I try to keep 281 00:19:07,279 --> 00:19:08,960 up with all sorts of current events, and I know 282 00:19:09,039 --> 00:19:11,440 you do too, And you've probably heard me say get 283 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:15,440 your news from multiple sources. Why well, because it's how 284 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:18,079 you detect media bias, which is why I've been so 285 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:21,759 impressed with ground News. It's an app, and it's a 286 00:19:21,799 --> 00:19:24,640 website and it combines news from around the world in 287 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:28,000 one place so you can compare coverage and verify information. 288 00:19:28,279 --> 00:19:31,480 You can check it out at check dot ground, dot 289 00:19:31,599 --> 00:19:34,759 news slash Pete. I put the link in the podcast 290 00:19:34,759 --> 00:19:37,799 description too. I started using ground News a few months 291 00:19:37,799 --> 00:19:40,400 ago and more recently chose to work with them as 292 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,640 an affiliate because it lets me see clearly how stories 293 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:46,920 get covered and by whom. The blind spot feature shows 294 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:49,759 you which stories get ignored by the left and the right. 295 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:54,640 See for yourself. Check dot ground, dot news slash Pete. 296 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:57,400 Subscribe through that link and you'll get fifteen percent off 297 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:01,119 any subscription. I use the Vantage plan to unlimited access 298 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:04,759 to every feature. Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, 299 00:20:04,799 --> 00:20:07,160 but it also supports ground news as they make the 300 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:12,680 media landscape more transparent. On the text line, Allen says 301 00:20:13,559 --> 00:20:16,799 during that debate, at the point where Trump said I 302 00:20:16,839 --> 00:20:19,200 don't know what he said, I don't believe he does either, 303 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:23,960 at that point Biden was done. I completely agree that 304 00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:26,400 was it. People can talk about, Oh, you know, he 305 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:30,079 kind of got into a stride, you know, like an 306 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:32,720 hour into the two hour debate, but by then it 307 00:20:32,759 --> 00:20:38,079 was too late. He came out of the gate looking confused. 308 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:46,359 And maybe they mistimed whatever the medical or pharmaceutical cocktail 309 00:20:46,599 --> 00:20:48,519 was that they had them all jacked up on, like 310 00:20:48,599 --> 00:20:52,319 preading his own or whatever I've heard people suggest, and 311 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:55,519 maybe they just mistimed it. They wanted to make sure 312 00:20:55,559 --> 00:20:58,160 that he could make it through the end of the debate. 313 00:20:58,319 --> 00:21:01,440 And by the way, I'm like, just be clear, I'm 314 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:09,039 not mocking Joe Biden for suffering cognitive decline like that's 315 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:13,519 I never have. I mock the people around him, and 316 00:21:13,599 --> 00:21:17,839 I criticized the people around him, who kept him in 317 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:23,759 that position, and who covered up his decline for whatever reason. 318 00:21:23,839 --> 00:21:26,160 It doesn't matter whether you think, well, Joe would want us, 319 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,000 you know, to do this for him, for America, you know, 320 00:21:29,079 --> 00:21:32,279 for the people or whatever. I don't care. I don't 321 00:21:32,559 --> 00:21:35,680 None of that matters to me. Like this guy was 322 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:40,640 in charge of the nuclear codes. So no, no, you 323 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:42,680 don't get to you don't get to say that this 324 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:47,319 was some selfless act of service. No, no, none of 325 00:21:47,319 --> 00:21:50,920 that matters. The guy was holding the most powerful position 326 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:56,160 in American politics and government and indeed the world, and 327 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:59,640 he was in cognitive decline. We could all see it. 328 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:04,640 We could all see it, and then you gaslit us. Now, 329 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:08,960 a Biden's spokesperson is quoted here. This is from the 330 00:22:09,079 --> 00:22:15,200 article in the Hill dot com. A Biden spokesperson that 331 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,759 they don't name. So I don't think you can be 332 00:22:17,839 --> 00:22:20,759 a spokesperson, Like, why do you get identified as a 333 00:22:20,799 --> 00:22:26,920 spokesperson when you are not named in the story. I 334 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,880 don't get that, But it's the Hill. So a Biden 335 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,640 spokesperson said the GOP report failed to provide evidence to 336 00:22:33,759 --> 00:22:39,319 back the claims. Quote. This investigation into baseless claims has 337 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:43,039 confirmed what has been clear from the start. President Biden 338 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:47,079 made the decisions of his presidency. There was no conspiracy, 339 00:22:47,279 --> 00:22:52,559 no cover up, and no wrongdoing. So you haven't read 340 00:22:52,559 --> 00:22:56,359 the report because it literally says all of those things 341 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,400 did happen. There was a conspiracy. In fact, here we 342 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:03,440 go the cover up. This is from the report. The 343 00:23:03,599 --> 00:23:08,319 cover up was facilitated by extremely loyal senior staff, including 344 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:12,720 Annie Thomasini, deputy chief of staff to Biden, Anthony Bernaal, 345 00:23:13,759 --> 00:23:16,319 chief of staff to First Lady Jill Biden. Both of 346 00:23:16,319 --> 00:23:22,319 them pleaded the fifth as well as the doctor O'Connor. 347 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,839 Like it says right there that there was a cover up, 348 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:28,839 it's not saying there was no cover up. The report 349 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,279 clearly says there was a cover up. But then, of 350 00:23:32,319 --> 00:23:36,559 course the pivot happens from the spokesperson Congressional Republicans should 351 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:40,960 stop focusing on political retribution and instead work to end 352 00:23:41,039 --> 00:23:45,920 the government shutdown. There you go, right, focus on the shutdown. Well, see, 353 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:50,319 here's the thing though. One of the key points here 354 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:58,039 in the report is the signing of the pardons and 355 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:04,519 the grants of clemency to hundreds think actually over one 356 00:24:04,599 --> 00:24:10,400 thousand people. Entire categories of people, right, did you get 357 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:14,559 busted for crack cocaine, you get a pardon, you get clemency, whatever, 358 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:19,519 And it now raises the question of whether or not 359 00:24:19,799 --> 00:24:24,720 all of those pardons were legitimate. See, so this isn't 360 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:31,039 about political retribution. This is about whether or not the 361 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:34,599 things that were done were legal and whether or not 362 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:39,480 they are now void. So no, I'm not going to 363 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,599 only focus on the thing you want me to focus 364 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:44,960 on instead of the thing that you know makes you 365 00:24:45,039 --> 00:24:47,799 look bad or may open you up or your friends 366 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:54,599 up to criminal charges. But that's just me. I can 367 00:24:54,599 --> 00:24:57,920 focus on more than one thing in the news. It's 368 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:02,079 a gift, what can I say. The committee's investigation, according 369 00:25:02,079 --> 00:25:05,680 to the report, revealed that Biden officials at the behest 370 00:25:05,799 --> 00:25:09,119 of the inner circle went to great lengths to prop 371 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,359 up the former president as he began losing the ability 372 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:17,559 to independently function in office. These steps ranged from addressing 373 00:25:17,599 --> 00:25:23,400 President Biden's makeup clothing schedule, the number of steps that 374 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,160 he could walk or climb, remember he had to take 375 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,599 the short stairs into Air Force one, the amount of 376 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:33,839 time that the president needed to read and to spend 377 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:39,119 with his family. Working to meticulously stage manage him, limiting 378 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,599 the number of the events he participated in, lightening the 379 00:25:42,599 --> 00:25:47,519 president's workload, making it difficult even for senior Democrats to 380 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:52,519 access the president, keeping cabinet meetings to a minimum, eliciting 381 00:25:52,599 --> 00:25:55,000 direction from Hollywood on the state of the Union and 382 00:25:55,079 --> 00:25:59,799 other events, and using teleprompters even at small intimate gatherings. 383 00:26:01,039 --> 00:26:03,559 And by the way, all of those examples have footnotes 384 00:26:04,759 --> 00:26:09,680 based on transcribed interviews with the various aids. The investigation 385 00:26:09,839 --> 00:26:13,759 revealed holes in the chain of custody of the President's 386 00:26:13,799 --> 00:26:17,119 decision binder. I did not know there was a decision binder, 387 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,319 but apparently there is, and it contains decision memos to 388 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:23,319 be signed or initialed by the President when he is 389 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:28,680 approving or disapproving executive actions. And there was a chain 390 00:26:28,759 --> 00:26:32,480 of command problem, or sorry, chain of custody problem. In 391 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:36,720 other words, the binder didn't go where it was supposed 392 00:26:36,759 --> 00:26:39,680 to go in the order in which it was supposed 393 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:44,519 to go. Also, numerous instances in which the president's approval 394 00:26:44,519 --> 00:26:47,480 for an executive action or the Chief of staff's approval 395 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:53,079 of signature by auto pen was not memorialized. So all 396 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,240 of that stuff is supposed to be recorded. In fact, 397 00:26:55,279 --> 00:26:57,359 there's a person whose job it is to do that 398 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:02,240 to write everything down, and these things were not written down, 399 00:27:03,079 --> 00:27:06,640 and that's why you got Biden world people saying, oh, well, 400 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:08,599 you know there's no evidence of that. Yeah, because you 401 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:11,240 didn't write any of the notes. And by the way, 402 00:27:11,799 --> 00:27:18,039 in court, when people it's called spoilation of or spoliation, 403 00:27:18,799 --> 00:27:26,680 spoilation of evidence. When people destroy evidence, hide evidence right, 404 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:33,359 or don't collect it right, judges can direct juries to 405 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:37,680 say that that can be weighed against the defendant as 406 00:27:37,839 --> 00:27:42,920 evidence of guilt. That they knew if this evidence were 407 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:47,359 ever discovered that it would incriminate them, which is why 408 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:52,480 they took steps to quote spoil it so it could 409 00:27:52,519 --> 00:27:59,119 not be found. So the failure of your employee, whose 410 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:02,640 sole job it is to record these things, the failure 411 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:06,680 of that person to record all of the things, could 412 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:10,880 be viewed as incriminating as I view it, because it's 413 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,599 pretty clear that's exactly why they didn't have her there 414 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:15,720 to record anything, because she would have been like, oh, 415 00:28:15,759 --> 00:28:17,599 the president's not even here, and you guys are right 416 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,160 making all these decisions. But that's just me. Here's a 417 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,039 great idea. 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He's a you know pundit if you will. 446 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:15,279 He now has his own radio show and he's having 447 00:30:15,319 --> 00:30:19,319 a discussion about this auto pen story. And here is 448 00:30:19,519 --> 00:30:23,880 that auto Here is this exchange. The host is Casey Hunt. 449 00:30:24,279 --> 00:30:28,519 Speaker 2: Edition of auto pens has existed in every presidential administration. 450 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:33,440 Speaker 1: Hang on, this is Elliott Williams, a legal analyst US parties. 451 00:30:33,799 --> 00:30:35,799 Speaker 2: I had an auto pen when I worked at ICE. 452 00:30:36,359 --> 00:30:40,400 Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Elliot Williams important enough to have autopen. 453 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:44,119 Speaker 2: Impressed I'm important, case but no it h and so 454 00:30:44,319 --> 00:30:45,440 it's a common product. 455 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,119 Speaker 3: Allow people to use the name Elliott Williams. Without your 456 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,319 knowledge of the document or what was on the page. 457 00:30:51,359 --> 00:30:52,039 Speaker 2: I don't recall. 458 00:30:53,039 --> 00:30:55,359 Speaker 3: I'm asking you, if you were a government official and 459 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,440 you had an autopen, which you did, would you let 460 00:30:57,519 --> 00:31:00,039 some staffer sign pages in your name without. 461 00:31:00,079 --> 00:31:02,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, here's the question. Here's the question. Was my authority 462 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:04,599 delegated to that person? And I think they do have 463 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,680 the authority to do so laws and regulation and I'm serious, Scott, 464 00:31:07,759 --> 00:31:08,839 laws and regulation, the. 465 00:31:08,799 --> 00:31:12,319 Speaker 3: Authority to delegate pardons and executive orders. The President of 466 00:31:12,359 --> 00:31:15,960 the United States can say you, unelected staff or can 467 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,680 go sign my name on a document that I've never 468 00:31:18,759 --> 00:31:20,720 seen for a decision that I've never made. 469 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:25,359 Speaker 2: Quite often, the United States Code delegates authority, so through 470 00:31:25,359 --> 00:31:27,400 the President of the United States, through the Attorney General, 471 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,279 whatever else X person can carry out a function. And 472 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,799 certainly that could be the case now. Donald Trump, for instance, 473 00:31:33,799 --> 00:31:36,160 in his first term, pardoned like sixteen hundred people, and 474 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:37,839 I have a hard time believing that he was aware 475 00:31:37,839 --> 00:31:40,480 of every single person that he was pardoning. One could 476 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:44,039 make a challenge every president does this. Now, if it's 477 00:31:44,079 --> 00:31:47,000 a call on if it's a question about Biden's fitness 478 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,839 for office, did he know what? Of course, raise that question. 479 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:53,480 But I just one. Given how vast the pardon power is, 480 00:31:53,519 --> 00:31:56,400 and too given how comprehensive the use of autopens are 481 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,200 across administrations, I have a hard time knowing bodgal challenge. 482 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,319 Speaker 3: Nobody can be delegated the pardon power. It is a 483 00:32:02,359 --> 00:32:04,759 constitutional power, yes, And I don't really think you can 484 00:32:04,839 --> 00:32:07,960 delegate the executive order power because the executive has to 485 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:08,519 make sense. 486 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,200 Speaker 1: Work, all right, So there you go. That's Scott Jennings. 487 00:32:11,599 --> 00:32:15,839 Here's the problem with the Elliott's position from the report. 488 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:19,559 Testimony before the committee confirmed that the pardons signed on 489 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:23,359 January nineteenth, so like right before Biden walked out the door, 490 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,200 included pardons from members of his family. They were apparently 491 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:30,079 the result of an in person meeting in the final 492 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:34,640 hours of the presidency for which there is no documentation. 493 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,839 Instead of actual documentation, the decision to grant these pardons 494 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:44,720 was allegedly communicated second hand to a Zeints aid named 495 00:32:44,799 --> 00:32:49,039 Rosa Pohe, who then called Zeints who verbally authorized the 496 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,200 use of the autopen from home. Zeints did not even 497 00:32:52,279 --> 00:32:55,480 know who actually used the autopen to apply this signature. 498 00:32:55,519 --> 00:32:58,400 After his aid, using his email account with his permission, 499 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:02,200 communicated that the autop and was authorized for the clemency actions. 500 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:08,000 Nobody knows who gave the order. Nobody knows Zience did 501 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,480 so without confirming with President Biden that he had in 502 00:33:11,519 --> 00:33:15,319 fact granted these pardons after repeatedly telling the American people 503 00:33:15,359 --> 00:33:17,319 he would not pardon his son, let alone the five 504 00:33:17,359 --> 00:33:19,799 other members of the Biden family in the waning hours 505 00:33:19,839 --> 00:33:26,240 of his presidency, and there's no documentation of the only 506 00:33:26,319 --> 00:33:30,200 meeting where this was supposedly discussed with the President. I'm 507 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:34,839 not buying it, all right, that'll do it for this episode. 508 00:33:34,839 --> 00:33:36,920 Thank you so much for listening. I could not do 509 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,119 the show without your support and the support of the 510 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,200 businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, 511 00:33:42,319 --> 00:33:44,440 please support them too and tell them you heard it here. 512 00:33:44,559 --> 00:33:47,079 You can also become a patron at my Patreon page 513 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:50,759 or go to thepetecallanershow dot com. Again, thank you so 514 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:59,160 much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.