Speaker 1: Well, it is official.
Speaker 2: Hunter Biden is going to sit for a closed door
Speaker 2: deposition that along with five other associates. This story happening
Speaker 2: as Kevin Morris, the sugar daddy for Hunter Biden, claims
Speaker 2: he has no ulterior motive in giving millions and millions
Speaker 2: of dollars to Hunter Biden. We know that Kevin Morris
Speaker 2: paid Hunter Biden's irs debts and reportedly has lent him
Speaker 2: four point nine million for housing, car payments, and quote
Speaker 2: legal fees. This also happening at the same time that
Speaker 2: Biden's Department of Justice finally confirmed something we already knew
Speaker 2: that Hunter Biden's laptop was in fact real.
Speaker 1: You don't say.
Speaker 2: Now, let's get into this bigger issue about Hunter Biden
Speaker 2: in theory has agreed to sit for closed door depositions
Speaker 2: along with five different associates.
Speaker 1: He will sit for the closed.
Speaker 2: Door interview tentatively on February twenty eighth, along with five
Speaker 2: Biden family associates at various dates that is with the
Speaker 2: House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Comer and Judiciary Committee Chairman
Speaker 2: Jim Jordan announced on Thursday. The announcement came as a
Speaker 2: surprise to some Republicans because last week the Chairman went
Speaker 2: through procedural hurdles to prepare for a House vote to
Speaker 2: hold Hunter in contempt of Congress for failing to sit
Speaker 2: for the depositions. Well, Hunter proposed last week to sit
Speaker 2: for the deposition if Congress reissued a subpoena arguing that
Speaker 2: the prior subpoenas are legally invalid because the impeachment inquiry
Speaker 2: did not yet exist when the subpoenas were issued. Now,
Speaker 2: this is a whole bunch of to do about semantics,
Speaker 2: and I couldn't agree more with Senator Ted Cruz, who
Speaker 2: I co host Verdict with Ted Cruz's podcast with him
Speaker 2: when he said, look, if they want to play the game,
Speaker 2: play the game with them. If they want you to
Speaker 2: re issue the subpoenas, then reissue the damn subpoenas. Who
Speaker 2: cares as long as you get him under oath. The
Speaker 2: Republican chairman initially accepted the offer, but warned the House
Speaker 2: would move forward with contempt proceedings for this week. The
Speaker 2: Chairman dean Hunter's offer to be another delay tactic. Hunter's
Speaker 2: offer also appear to be a public relations ploy to
Speaker 2: provide the Attorney General Merrick Garland with a reason not
Speaker 2: to prosecute him upon a successful contempt vote. So, after
Speaker 2: wrangling with Hunter's lawyers, James Comer and Jim Jordan changed
Speaker 2: their strategy.
Speaker 1: They did not schedule a.
Speaker 2: Vote to hold Hunter in contempt of Congress and agreed
Speaker 2: to a deposition. Hunter Biden quote will appear before our
Speaker 2: committee for a deposition on February the twenty eight, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. That's what the chairman said in a statement
Speaker 2: obtained by Breitbart News. His deposition will come after several
Speaker 2: interviews with Biden family members as well as associates. What
Speaker 2: is this week going to look like for him? Well,
Speaker 2: this is what we know tentatively associates and the dates
Speaker 2: that they are to speak with the impeachment inquiry. Are
Speaker 2: this the week of January the twenty second. Look at
Speaker 2: your calendar, that would be this coming week. I'm top
Speaker 2: CEFE China Energy official Yan will be first up. Also,
Speaker 2: we're being told this coming week that Rob Walker, the
Speaker 2: acting surrogate for Hunter around the world, that's how he
Speaker 2: was described by the Biden crime family, will be sitting
Speaker 2: for a deposition. Then the next week, the week of
Speaker 2: January the twenty ninth, the money man, Eric Squern, the
Speaker 2: family's top financial lieutenant, will also be sitting for depositions.
Speaker 2: And then the week of July the twenty ninth. That
Speaker 2: same week, later in the week, Joey Langston, a close associate,
Speaker 2: will sit. Then you move to February the fifth. That
Speaker 2: week Tony Babolenski. Tony is the whistlebler that came forward
Speaker 2: just days before the presidential election, right before the lies
Speaker 2: were in full swing. Actually I should say right after
Speaker 2: the lies were in full swing by the Biden crime
Speaker 2: family to cover up the Hunter Biden laptop. Tony Bobolinski
Speaker 2: is the former associate who confirm the infamous message about
Speaker 2: a stake of ten percent quote unquote held for h
Speaker 2: for the Big Guy, referring to Joe Biden as the
Speaker 2: big guy.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Hunter is a material witness in the House impeachment inquiry
Speaker 2: into the President Joe Biden for obviously influenced pedaling and
Speaker 2: taking bribes. How some investigators launched the probe into the
Speaker 2: Biden family in November of twenty twenty two, and they
Speaker 2: revealed that Joe Biden in fact did receive money directly
Speaker 2: from James Biden and directly from Hunter Biden, something the
Speaker 2: White House and Joe Biden said never happened. They also
Speaker 2: showed that nine additional Biden family members also received major
Speaker 2: payments in the tune of millions of dollars when you
Speaker 2: add them all up from the family's foreign business ventures,
Speaker 2: including two of Joe Biden's grandchildren that were paid. Now
Speaker 2: more evidence against Joe Biden has also continued to come
Speaker 2: out major problems, including now lies about Hunter Biden's artwork
Speaker 2: and the fact that seventy plus percent of all the
Speaker 2: people that were buying Hunter Biden's artwork, he knew who
Speaker 2: they were when they were buying that artwork. That is
Speaker 2: also going to be part of the investigation, is what
Speaker 2: we've been told. Now, there's also something else that I
Speaker 2: want to bring to your attention, and that is what
Speaker 2: the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, is doing. Mike
Speaker 2: Johnson is now pointing to six points of evidence that
Speaker 2: support Joe biden impeachment inquiry, and the House that has
Speaker 2: voted on formally opening the impeachment inquiry in to President
Speaker 2: Joe Biden will enable them to enforce subpoenas and empower
Speaker 2: the gathering of evidence about whether the President is compromised
Speaker 2: and quote trade official acts for four dollars. That's what
Speaker 2: the House Speaker said as he wrote an op ed
Speaker 2: in the USA Today. Johnson's op eds at the stage
Speaker 2: for the full House to get behind this idea, at
Speaker 2: least the Republicans, and he made it very clear saying
Speaker 2: this in that op ed. Number one, Biden family members
Speaker 2: and Biden business linked entities received more than fifteen million
Speaker 2: dollars from individuals in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Romania and China.
Speaker 2: Number two Joe Biden spoke with Hunter Biden's business associates
Speaker 2: at least twenty two times. Twenty two times, folks. He
Speaker 2: lied about that as well. Number three Joe Biden lied
Speaker 2: about his involvement in the business, and we now have
Speaker 2: transactions and facts to also back that up. And four
Speaker 2: Joe Biden received direct monthly payments from Hunter Biden's Owasco
Speaker 2: PC business account, which received payments directly from Chinese State
Speaker 2: Link companies from the Chinese Communist Party, as well as
Speaker 2: other foreign nationals and companies. Number five investigators flagged the
Speaker 2: Justice Departments deviations in the five year investigation into Hunter Biden,
Speaker 2: and finally number six, an FBI FD DASH ten twenty three.
Speaker 2: You've heard me talk about this before. A form alleged
Speaker 2: that Joe Biden accepted a five million dollar bride while
Speaker 2: he was the sitting Vice president of the United States
Speaker 2: of America. Johnson also said this the House will likely
Speaker 2: need to go to court to enforce its subpoenas and
Speaker 2: open a formal inquiry backed by a vote of the
Speaker 2: full body, puts us in the strongest legal position to
Speaker 2: gather the evidence to provide transparency to the American people.
Speaker 2: He said, the American people have a right to know
Speaker 2: whether the president through his family trade official acts for
Speaker 2: foign dollars, whether the President is compromised, and whether Joe
Speaker 2: Biden abused his power as president to impede or obstruct
Speaker 2: the investigation into Hunter Biden. As we have done alllong,
Speaker 2: House Republicans will continue to follow the facts where they lead.
Speaker 2: The House investigators are making it very clear that they
Speaker 2: clearly have the facts to show that Joe Biden received
Speaker 2: millions of dollars and receive direct payments from James and
Speaker 2: Hunter Biden. They also show that nine additional family members,
Speaker 2: as I mentioned a moment ago, receive payments that also
Speaker 2: goes against what the Biden White House has been saying.
Speaker 2: And there is yet again even more evidence coming out now,
Speaker 2: as Politico is saying and unnamed Republicans are now saying,
Speaker 2: there is even new evidence of wrongdoing against the president
Speaker 2: of the United States of America. Let me read you
Speaker 2: the last from this DOJ filing where they're having to
Speaker 2: admit they're not going to have a press conference over this.
Speaker 2: They're not going to have to answer questions from the
Speaker 2: press over this. They're not going to have a bunch
Speaker 2: of people yelling and shouting why did you lie to
Speaker 2: the American people?
Speaker 1: Want?
Speaker 2: Did it take you four years to come clean on this?
Speaker 2: What else have you lied to us about? If you're
Speaker 2: willing to lie to us about this, They're not going
Speaker 2: to have any of that. You're not going to have
Speaker 2: some massive press conference standing room only at the DOJ
Speaker 2: because the media was in on this as well.
Speaker 1: You'll have one or two yell and that's it. Listen
Speaker 1: to these lines.
Speaker 2: Investigators also later came into possession of the defendant's Apple
Speaker 2: MacBook Pro, which he had left at the computer store.
Speaker 2: A search warrant was also obtained for his laptop, and
Speaker 2: the results of the search were largely duplicive information information
Speaker 2: investigators had already obtained from Apple. There it is, they
Speaker 2: already obtained this information.
Speaker 1: It just matched up.
Speaker 2: They weren't learning anything new. The DOJ's acknowledgment that Hunter
Speaker 2: Biden's laptop was quote left at the computer store and
Speaker 2: contained the duplicate information investigators had already obtained from Apple
Speaker 2: further vindicates the whistleblowers. Let's go back to them for
Speaker 2: a second. The Irs whistleblowers came forward, risked their careers,
Speaker 2: some of them Liberals, and said this state thanks to
Speaker 2: high Heaven. And they went to Congress and the Republicans
Speaker 2: regained control of the House and said, we want you
Speaker 2: to know the truth.
Speaker 1: Those Irs whistleblowers were brave.
Speaker 2: Those Irs whistleblowers came forward and told you there was
Speaker 2: a full blown cover up and there was no reason,
Speaker 2: by the way to not believe every word they said,
Speaker 2: especially now knowing what we know. These Irs whistleblowers, who
Speaker 2: were also relentlessly smeared by the same media that covered
Speaker 2: up this story for just speaking up and telling the truth.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Any mention of the evidence the Irs whistleblowers or otherwise
Speaker 2: that the then president of Kennet Biden and his family
Speaker 2: were involved in an international influence peddling scheme. Was nuked
Speaker 2: by big tech. You couldn't post it, shunned in, silenced
Speaker 2: by the corporate media, you couldn't talk about it, and
Speaker 2: skewered by democrats. It's still treated as false by many
Speaker 2: top media and demo credit figures who refused to allow
Speaker 2: it to be discussed on their shows. President Joe Biden,
Speaker 2: by the way, was one of the biggest liars to
Speaker 2: your face. Joe Biden was the biggest laptop denier. He
Speaker 2: repeatedly insisted from twenty twenty debate stage and the campaign
Speaker 2: trail that the laptop was a Russian plant meant to
Speaker 2: harm his election chances. Full stop. So you had Joe Biden,
Speaker 2: Hunter Biden, the entire Biden apparatus. You had the biggest
Speaker 2: big tech companies. You had the FBI and the IRS
Speaker 2: knew this was a lie, that the laptop was real.
Speaker 1: It wasn't fake.
Speaker 2: You had fifty one of the top intelligence officials in
Speaker 2: the country lie to you as well, telling you it
Speaker 2: was a lie. In Russian disinformation, the markings of Russian disinformation.
Speaker 2: They knew it was real, and they continued to tout
Speaker 2: it well into the Democrat's first term in office, not
Speaker 2: just after the win.
Speaker 1: Let me go back to the race. I want to
Speaker 1: play this for you.
Speaker 2: I'm going to throw it back to when Biden calls
Speaker 2: the true hunter Biden laptop story Russian disinformation, a smear campaign,
Speaker 2: and a bunch of garbage. We now know that while
Speaker 2: he was saying this, he knew that there was an
Speaker 2: all out campaign colluded with the CIA, the FBI, and
Speaker 2: the DOJ to win an election. The Biden campaign knew
Speaker 2: what they were saying. The Biden campaign knew what they
Speaker 2: were doing. The Biden campaign, they absolutely when they were
Speaker 2: staying there on that debate stage with Donald Trump, knew
Speaker 2: that everybody was behind them and this was how they were.
Speaker 1: Going to cover it up.
Speaker 2: His campaign colluded with the CIA to fix an American election.
Speaker 2: To win an American election, the Biden campaign pressured them
Speaker 2: and pressured the then acting at CIA director to make
Speaker 2: up a phony letter with fifty Intel experts to falsely
Speaker 2: claim that the Biden laptop story was rushing to information.
Speaker 2: Remember the person who got that letter together, who helped
Speaker 2: author that letter right to get all these people on
Speaker 2: the same page with someone that worked for the Biden campaign.
Speaker 2: You know, Democrats talk about election interference and having integrity
Speaker 2: in elections, and they claim that Donald Trump tried to
Speaker 2: overthrow an election. Remember that they charged them with these
Speaker 2: crimes and places like Georgia where the prosecutor got a
Speaker 2: special prosecutor who she's apparently sleeping with and paying in
Speaker 2: millions of dollars. Remember that, Yeah, that's happening right now.
Speaker 2: But go back to Joe Biden's words, and I'm going
Speaker 2: to play this for you. This is back the last
Speaker 2: president of debate before he won election. And also, while
Speaker 2: you're listening to this side note, listen to the way
Speaker 2: he talked then compared to now. Listen to the cognitive
Speaker 2: decline of Joe Biden in real time, comparing him to
Speaker 2: where he was and how much he has fallen cognitively
Speaker 2: in the last four years.
Speaker 3: Fifty former national intelligence folks who said that what this
Speaker 3: he's accusing me of is a Russian plant. They have
Speaker 3: said that this has all the four five former heads
Speaker 3: of the CIA, both parties say what he's saying is
Speaker 3: a bunch of garbage. This is classic Trump, we have
Speaker 3: four days left, and all of a sudden, there's a laptop.
Speaker 3: There's overwhelming evidence that from the intelligence community that the
Speaker 3: Russians are engaged the.
Speaker 1: Story from the fall of Altri.
Speaker 3: Sibuder said, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1: I know you'd ask it. I have no response.
Speaker 3: It's the last effort in this desperate campaign to smear
Speaker 3: me and my family. The vast majority of the intelligence
Speaker 3: people have come out and said, there's no basis at all.
Speaker 2: There's no basis at all, no basis at all. There's
Speaker 2: the President of the United States of America lying to
Speaker 2: your face, and everybody around him lying to your face.
Speaker 2: Former CIA chief admits he was pressured by the Biden
Speaker 2: campaign to orchestrate the letter claiming that Hunter's laptop was
Speaker 2: in fact Russian disinformation. We now have that in writing.
Speaker 2: Let me to remind you of that part of this story.
Speaker 2: The former CIA chief admits he was pressured by the
Speaker 2: Biden campaign to orchestrate a letter claiming that the Hunter
Speaker 2: Byden laptop was Russian dis info. According to this new
Speaker 2: bombshell testimony, the former acting CIA director Mike Morrell says
Speaker 2: that he was told by the Biden campaign to squash
Speaker 2: the Hunter Biden laptop story in October of twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: with pressure from the Biden Morell then orchestrate the infamous
Speaker 2: letter from fifty intel agencies claiming that the story was
Speaker 2: nothing more than Russian disinformation. Let me read from you
Speaker 2: this bombshell story from the New York Post, the same
Speaker 2: New York Post that broke the laptop story, the same
Speaker 2: New York Post. Okay, this story was not allowed to
Speaker 2: be shared on social media, and if you did, your
Speaker 2: account would be suspended. Joe Biden's presidential campaign prompted former
Speaker 2: acting CIA Director Mike Morell to help Biden quote unquote
Speaker 2: by organizing fifty colleagues a sign a letter in October
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty falsely claiming that damning emails from Hunter
Speaker 2: Biden's laptop published by The Post were Russian disinformation. In
Speaker 2: a private sworn testimony, Morell told the House Judiciary Committee
Speaker 2: that Anthony Blincoln, so now our secretary of State. You
Speaker 2: want to trust anything he's saying about what's happening in
Speaker 2: the war over in Ukraine, or anything he's saying about
Speaker 2: what's happening with Hamas and Israel. The now Secretary of
Speaker 2: State was the senior campaign official who reached out to
Speaker 2: him honor before October seventeenth, twenty twenty three, days after
Speaker 2: the Post published an email from the laptop suggesting Hunter
Speaker 2: had introduced his Ukrainian business partner to his father, then
Speaker 2: Vice President Biden. Morell, identified as a potential CIA director
Speaker 2: under Biden, said he organized the letter to help Vice
Speaker 2: President Biden because I wanted him to win the election.
Speaker 2: Let me read that again his exact quote. He said,
Speaker 2: he organized the letter quote to help Vice President Biden
Speaker 2: because I wanted to win. I wanted him to win
Speaker 2: the election. Prior to Secretary's Blincoln's call, you did not
Speaker 2: have intent to write the statement. Morell's response, I did
Speaker 2: not question, so his call triggered that intent Morele Yes. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Jim Jordan then says, you wanted to help the vice president?
Speaker 1: Why? Very simple response here, Why why'd you do it? Morell?
Speaker 2: Because I wanted him to win the election. Keep in mind,
Speaker 2: with everything I've just told you that the left wing
Speaker 2: media ran with this letter from all these Intel officials
Speaker 2: that Morell put together as quote unquote proof that this
Speaker 2: was Russian collusion. Let me just also go through the
Speaker 2: timeline of just how shocking. This scheme was to lie
Speaker 2: and influence the election on information they knew was actually real.
Speaker 2: At ten fifty three pm the night of the call,
Speaker 2: Anthony Blincoln emailed Morell a USA Today article claiming that
Speaker 2: the FBI was examining whether Hunter's laptop was part of
Speaker 2: a disinformation campaign. At the bottom of b Lincoln's email
Speaker 2: was a signature block of Andrew Bates. Who's Andrew Bates,
Speaker 2: then director of rapid Response for the Biden campaign. So
Speaker 2: this was all about lying to you, Morell said he
Speaker 2: did quote a little bit of my own research quote unquote,
Speaker 2: and then reached out to retired CIA senior operations officer
Speaker 2: for assistance in compiling the letter to credit the Post reporting.
Speaker 2: Over the next two days, Morele gathered signatures from fifty
Speaker 2: one former intelligence officials, including himself and four other former
Speaker 2: CIA directors, including John Brennan and Liam Panetta. Morell testified
Speaker 2: that he sent an email telling Nick Shapiro, former deputy
Speaker 2: chief of staff, to Brennan, that the Biden campaign wanted
Speaker 2: this statement to go to a particular reporter at the
Speaker 2: Washington Post and that he should send the statement to
Speaker 2: the campaign as well. So and I'm even trying to
Speaker 2: get my head around how massive this is.
Speaker 1: So let's just connect these dots again.
Speaker 2: You have the former acting CIA director Mike Morell, who
Speaker 2: I guess just says I can alter and change elections,
Speaker 2: not just in this country but anywhere in the world.
Speaker 2: I can frame people for anything I want to. I'm
Speaker 2: the most powerful man in the world. I can decide who.
Speaker 1: The president is.
Speaker 2: And what I can do is I can I can
Speaker 2: then go because I was being told by the Biden
Speaker 2: campaign to squashed the hundred bydon laptop story, and I said,
Speaker 2: this is what I do for a living. I'm good
Speaker 2: at this, Sure, let's do it. So what did he do?
Speaker 2: He didn't tell the truth. He said that got you.
Speaker 2: Morell organized and signed the fifty Intel experts and then
Speaker 2: he lied to you, and every one of them has
Speaker 2: signed it, lied to you, and it was all done
Speaker 2: from the campaign of the President of the United States
Speaker 2: of America Joe Biden. Morell told the House Judiciary Committee
Speaker 2: had no intent on writing this statement until the Biden
Speaker 2: campaign instructed him to do so.
Speaker 1: And what do he do?
Speaker 2: He said, how, Hi, do I need to jump, which
Speaker 2: he then compiled because he wanted to help Vice President
Speaker 2: Biden because he.
Speaker 1: Wanted him to win the election. His words.
Speaker 2: Some would argue that this is like, I don't know, treason,
Speaker 2: but I'm sure no one will care it, right because
Speaker 2: it's just it's not that big of a deal.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: You remember when Donald Trump said We've got to drain
Speaker 2: the swamp, and this was in twenty fifteen, going into sixteen.
Speaker 2: This is election interference at the h highest level. That's
Speaker 2: what this is. This is election interference at a level
Speaker 2: that we've never seen. Now, now I'm going to hit
Speaker 2: pause on this story for just a moment because I
Speaker 2: want to also, actually I take that back.
Speaker 1: I want you to hear something else.
Speaker 2: That's a lie from James Comber that we just found
Speaker 2: out about as well, and this just tells you how
Speaker 2: much they're having to lie to try to save this presidency.
Speaker 2: Representative Comber came out and talked about this new report
Speaker 2: that Hunter Biden in fact knew at least seventy percent
Speaker 2: of his art buyers. It's another major lie that Joe
Speaker 2: Biden has told. Remember Joe Biden said that they were
Speaker 2: not going to know who was buying the art, when
Speaker 2: in reality they knew exactly who was buying the damn art.
Speaker 2: And we also have now found out he wasn't selling
Speaker 2: any artwork until Daddy became president.
Speaker 1: It's called money laundering. Listen, let me.
Speaker 4: Ask you about the other two issues, the stories that
Speaker 4: John Solomon was reporting on. One is the art dealer
Speaker 4: and the testimony that was given. Were we not told
Speaker 4: that they had an ethics agreement that Hunter would not
Speaker 4: know the people that purchased his art. Now we know
Speaker 4: that Joe Biden, the big guy himself, was speaking to
Speaker 4: the art dealer directly. That was testimony apparently that you received.
Speaker 4: And you know, what do you have to say about
Speaker 4: the cocaine that the FBI knew about in twenty eighteen
Speaker 4: as it relates to his gun holster. We have only
Speaker 4: about a minute left.
Speaker 5: This is another major lie that Joe Bidens told the
Speaker 5: American people. The White House said they had an agreement
Speaker 5: in place to provide maximum ethics. We really thought they
Speaker 5: probably had something in place. It probably wasn't worth the
Speaker 5: paper that it was written on. But we were shocked
Speaker 5: to learn from George Burgess in the Transcrib interview that
Speaker 5: he's never even heard from anyone from the White House.
Speaker 5: He didn't know anything about an ethics agreement. He had
Speaker 5: never even seen in the news where there was an
Speaker 5: ethics agreement. So you know, again, another live about Joe Biden,
Speaker 5: another Live of the White House. Nothing is painting out
Speaker 5: that Joe Biden said with respect to his family shady
Speaker 5: business teams. We're going to bring unter Biden in. We're
Speaker 5: going to get answers from all of these people.
Speaker 2: Notice comer says, We're going to get answers from all
Speaker 2: these people.
Speaker 1: At the very end there he is. The question is
Speaker 1: will the media cover it?
Speaker 2: And I can answer that question for you know, and
Speaker 2: if there's any other bombshells, they'll come up with new
Speaker 2: lies to cover for them. Now, I'm going to move
Speaker 2: to another story for a moment that's really important, and
Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about this story a lot more
Speaker 2: in our next show, but I need to bring it
Speaker 2: up now because I need every one of you to
Speaker 2: share this on social media, and I need you to
Speaker 2: share our podcast on social media so people can hear
Speaker 2: what I just said and also what I'm about to
Speaker 2: tell you. Jim Jordan last night put out a tweet
Speaker 2: and this is a different story, but it's very much
Speaker 2: related and Here's what he said, quote, we now know
Speaker 2: the federal government flagged terms. Okay, the federal government flaged
Speaker 2: terms like MAGA and trump. Who do they flag them for?
Speaker 2: To financial institutions? If Americans completed transactions using those terms,
Speaker 2: that's not all that was flagged. You want to know
Speaker 2: what else they flagged? If you bought a religious text
Speaker 2: like a Bible, or even shopped at bass pro shops.
Speaker 2: This letter, dated January seventeenth, says, Dear mister Bischoff, the
Speaker 2: Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the
Speaker 2: Weaponization of the Federal Government are conducting oversight a federal
Speaker 2: law enforcement receipt of information about American citizens without legal
Speaker 2: process and its engagement with the private sector. Upon documents
Speaker 2: obtained by the Committee and the Select Committee, we believe
Speaker 2: that you, as the former director of the Office of
Speaker 2: Stakeholder Integration and Engagement in the Strategic Operations Division of
Speaker 2: the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network also known as fin c IN,
Speaker 2: possesses information necessary for our oversight. We asked that you
Speaker 2: appear for a transcribed interview. The Committee and the Select
Speaker 2: Committee have obtained documents, and this is what you need
Speaker 2: to share, folks, because if you don't do it. No
Speaker 2: one will know this happened. The Committee and Select Committee
Speaker 2: have obtained documents indicating that following January sixth, twenty twenty one,
Speaker 2: fence In distributed materials to financial institutions that, among other things,
Speaker 2: outlined the typologies of various persons of interest and provided
Speaker 2: financial institutions with suggested search terms and merchant category codes
Speaker 2: known as MCC's for identifying transactions on behalf of federal
Speaker 2: law enforcement. These materials included a document recommending the use
Speaker 2: of generic terms like trump and MAGA to search Zell
Speaker 2: payment messages, as well as prior Fence and Analysis of
Speaker 2: Loan Actors SLASH homegrown violent extremism indicators. According to this analysis,
Speaker 2: Fence and Warren financial institutions of extremism indicators that included
Speaker 2: transportation charges such as a bus ticket, then you're treated
Speaker 2: like a terrorist. Rental cars around DC during that time
Speaker 2: that would now you're like a terrorist. Or a plane
Speaker 2: ticket to go anywhere around Washington, d C. You would
Speaker 2: be treated like a you guessed it, tarrist for travel
Speaker 2: to areas with no apparent purpose or The document says,
Speaker 2: the purchase of books, including religious texts that would be
Speaker 2: the Bible and subscriptions to other media containing extremist views.
Speaker 2: In other words, fencen urged large financial institutions to comb
Speaker 2: through the private transactions of their customers for suspicious charges
Speaker 2: on the basis of protected political and religious expression. We
Speaker 2: then found out this as Jim Jordan put it out there.
Speaker 2: In addition, the Committee and Select Subcommittee have obtained documents
Speaker 2: showing that Fence and distributed slides prepared by a financial
Speaker 2: institution explaining how other financial institutions can use MCC codes
Speaker 2: to detect customers whose transactions may reflect potential active shooters
Speaker 2: and who may include dangerous international terrorists, domestic terrorists, homegrown
Speaker 2: violent extremists, slone wolves. For example, the slides instruct financial
Speaker 2: institutions to query for transactions using certain MCC codes such
Speaker 2: as thirty four eighty four that would be small arms,
Speaker 2: fifty ninety one, sporting and recreational goods and supplies, and
Speaker 2: keywords listen carefully, Cabellas, Dick Sporting Goods, among several others.
Speaker 2: You go out and buy a Bible or go to
Speaker 2: Dick Sporting Goods or Cabella's or Best Pro and they
Speaker 2: were saying, treat them like they are a possible domestic terrorist.
Speaker 2: I'm going to have a lot more on this story
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