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It is a Verdict with Ted Cruz Weekend Review, Ben Ferguson with you, and these are the big stories that you may have missed that we talked about this week story number one this weekend you may have missed. It is shocking to see just how anti semitic the staff if the White House has become and they got called out for it and kind of had to apologize. It also is contradicting what the President said, So are they going to get away with it? I'll have that for you in a moment. Plus, the FBI, we've now found out, had at least forty sources that were giving them information on Biden crime family activities. What do they do after the information was coming in for these informants, They shut down the investigations as fast as they possibly could, covering for the Biden family. And finally, why would the President of the United States of America pay millions of dollars in cash for his beach house. Well, that's exactly what he did when interest rates were close to the lowest they've been in our lifetime. So was he trying to make money disappear? It is the Weekend Review with Ted Cruz and it starts right now, Senator, I want to play for you quickly. The White House and the White House got themselves in some trouble because the President has mostly been saying the right things, but the White House and the staffers completely different story. Take a list in the White House Press briefing level of concern.
Right now about potential rise of anti Semitism in line of everything that's going.
On in Israel. So a couple of things.
Look, we have not seen any credible threats. I know there's been always questions about credible threats, and so just want to make sure that that's out there. But look, Muslim and those perceived to be Muslim have endured a disproportionate number of hate fueled attacks. And certainly President Biden understands that many of our Muslim Arab Arab Americans and Palastine American loved ones and neighbors are worried about the hate being directed at their communities. And that is something you heard the President speak to in his in his address just last last Thursday. And so one of the things that the President has done is directed his team, Homeland Security team to prioritize prevention and disruption of any emerging threats that could harm the Jewish, the Muslim, ab Americans, are any other communities. And that is something that the President has sought to do and since day one, as you know, the President ran on you know, bringing community, protecting communities obviously, but bringing people together, the soul, protecting the soul of the nation.
Uh.
And so that is something that the President.
Takes very very seriously.
Uh. And you know, we're going to continue to denounce any sort of hate towards any American here. And so that's what we're going to continue to be steadfast on. Again. He has he has advised directed his Homeland Security team to make sure that they're on top of this now.
Center.
The part about this that's so appable is the White House Press Secretary has now come out and said, quote, she misheard the anti semitism question only because of the massive backlash from that answer.
Well, it really is striking that the White House Press Secretary is unwilling to stand up and clearly and unequivocally condemn anti semitism. Say, anti Semitism is wrong, it is evil. It is a unique evil that has existed on this face of this planet for thousands of years, and we are completely opposed to it. Moreover, we will ensure that that law enforcement resources are there to protect Jewish Americans. I'll tell you, Jewish communities across this country have a level of concern and a level of fear, unlike any time I've ever seen, as the anti Semitism on college campuses that there was a Jewish student at Columbia was beaten with a stick. In recent and days, the threats of violence on campuses because the anti Israel, the jew hating far left is so extreme that there is a real threat of violence against the American Jewish community and for that matter, of the Jewish community worldwide, in Europe and elsewhere. And I got to say her answer to that was striking in that the Babylon Bee, which does a fabulous job as a humor and satire site, they had an article that they hadn't published, but they tweeted it out today and they said, it's hard to stay ahead of reality. At the Babylon Be. We had this written up last night, only to wake up and see the White House doing exactly this before we had a chance to publish. And here was the fake satirical headline that they had written and they were getting ready to publish when Kareem John Pierre beat them to the punch. The fake headline read in strong response to rising hate crimes against Jews, Democrats denounces phobia. That's exactly what she did. Yeah, and it's then I tweeted out, no longer satire, just sad because their view listen when it comes to the anti Semitic bigots, to when it comes to the squad, when it comes to the thirty five student groups at Harvard and the radicals running our college campuses, the Biden White House, and I would have to assume, including Kareem John Pierre, side with the radicals against the people of Israel and against even American Jews. Their answer, they say, we've seen no credible threat of anti Semitism in America. Really, well, where the hell have you been if you haven't seen any, because I got to tell you, the Jewish community is feeling it acutely, and we've seen multiple horrific acts of violence directed against Jews, directed against synagogues, including mass murders in the United States, and for the White House to say they see no credible threat is truly absurd.
Yeah.
I was talking literally today to a dear friend of mine is Jewish and that works very close to Times Square in a largely Jewish community, and he said they had been told by local law enforcement to really be on high alert and be careful, and even it recommended they travel together in groups, not be isolated alone, and to be careful at their places of business. That is what he said to me today. And yet the White House is acting like none of that's happening at all.
It is sad, and today's Democrat Party is captive to the far left. And I will say I've had conversations with multiple people on the left who are not deeply political, who are shocked at the open anti Semitism that is arising on the far left. It's been there for a long time, but if you're not paying close attention, it takes something like the events of the last couple of weeks to really bring into stark relief. And I hope this is opening some eyes now.
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Well, that's exactly right. The evidence against Joe Biden and the Biden crime family has extended for a long time. According to the Fox News reporting, the confidential human sources providing criminal information to the FBI relating to Joe Biden, James Biden, and Hunter Biden. Those confidential human sources were managed by multiple FBI field offices across the nation, including the FBI's Seattle field office. But and this is something also that my colleague Chuck Grassley has learned and reported. An FBI task force within the Washington Field Office sought to and in some cases, successfully, shut down reporting and information from those sources by falsely discrediting the information as foreign disinformation. That effort caused investigative activities to cease. So understand, they're getting confidential human source after confidential human source after confidential human source saying these guys are crooks, these guys are selling favors from Joe Biden to foreign nationals, to foreign oligarchs, to corrupt Ukrainians, to corrupt Russians, to corrupt Chinese, to foreigners. And the response of the top brass that the FBI is nope, nope, we don't want that, shut it down. Don't talk about this. This is foreign disinformation. The disinformation was coming, all right, but sadly it was from the FBI.
And Center, your colleague grassy alleges. In essence, Look, the FBI and the DOJ were in essence part of a cover up here. They sought to shut down the investigations into the Biden while knowing that the FBI received this criminal information from over forty confidential sources.
Now, to be clear, forty sources.
Center is a hell of a lot of confidential source is when you're talking about people that are telling you about a legal activity they believe they're witnessing on Hunter Biden, on James Biden, on Joe Biden, and then they're like, hey, yeah, we know about this, we just want to shut it down.
That's not normal.
So that's exactly right. The only thing that I disagree with you is you said that Grassley alleged this is in essence a cover up. No, he didn't say in essence a cover up. He alleged it was flat out a cover up. Let me quote from Chuck Grassley quote. Based on the information provided to my office over a period of years by multiple credible whistleblowers, there appears to be an effort within the Justice Department and FBI to shut down investigative activity related to the Biden family. Such decisions point to a significant political bias infecting the decision making of not only the Attorney General and FBI Director, but also line agents and prosecutors. And I got to say, the politicization of the FBI, particularly under Joe Biden, and the politicization of DOJ is one of the worst and most damaging legacies of this administration.
Put your lawyer heat on for a second. Explain this terminology used. It says the confidential human sources quote provided criminal information to the FBI relating to Joe Biden, James Biden, Hunter Biden. Those confidential human sources were managed by multiple FBI field offices across the nation, including the FBI's Seattle Field office. So when they use words like provided criminal information, what does that mean?
That means you've got individuals informants who are coming forward saying, hey, I have an evidence of a crime, evidence of a crime committed by Joe Biden or Hunter Biden or James Biden. Now, some of them may not have been telling the truth, some of them may not have been pointing to actual crimes. But when you have forty different sources coming up saying I've got evidence of a crime.
That's unusual. That doesn't happen.
You know, ordinary public servants don't live a life where you have forty people coming forward saying, hey, I've got evidence of a crime. And by the way, they're millions of dollars flooding into them from communist China and Ukraine and Russia and everywhere else like that. That is not typical. Look, I serve in the United States Senate, my colleagues are not getting millions of dollars from communist China or Russia or Ukraine. That is exceedingly unusual. And to have forty different sources coming forward, a normal law enforcement process would say, Hey, this is really concerning. We need to investigate this. What's going on? And what Grassley is alleging is that the evidence is the FBI Field Office in DC shut it down and said nope, ixnay on the Idenbay investigation, a like they just did not want to look into crimes committed by Joe Biden.
And I got to say that.
Well, and they also used the words they wanted to shut down or they did. The Washington field office in some cases successfully shut down reporting. So they were saying, see no evil, hear no evil. If you have something that deals with the Biden last name, we don't even want you to report it much. Let's give us the information that we would receive. We don't even want it to come in the door.
Well, and this is part of this is the consequence of the whole Russia Russia, Russia nonsense. And we saw for years the FBI and doj wage war on Donald Trump, alleging Russia, Russia, Russia, and we now know the vast majority of that was nonsense. It was made up, It was fabricated. Included actually an Assistant General counsel at the FBI literally fabricating an email, creating a false email and submitting it to a federal court, which is a felony because they hated Donald Trump so much that they wanted to go after him. But the danger of the Russia Russia, Russia narrative is when you had the Hunter Biden laptop, the FBI could just say, well, this is Russia disinformation. Never mind that at this point Hunter Biden's lawyers have essentially admitted, yes, it is his laptop. By alleging all evidence of criminality as Russian disinformation, they convinced law enforcement to ignore what is enormous evidence of corrupt conduct by Hunter Biden, James Biden, and Joe Biden.
In one of those critical FD ten twenty three's we talked extensively on verdict about was first reported earlier this year. It was that form that included the reporting from a quote highly credible, confidential human source who alleged a criminal bribery scheme between then Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, and the founder and the CEO of the Ukrainian natural gas firm Barisma, where we know that Hunter Biden was on the board. If if that's one example of what we were getting from these forty plus informants, what other intel do we not have? And is there a way to go to the FBI and for you guys in said to even get it.
Well, we don't know. There should be, but unfortunately, this FBI and this DOJ believes that they are not accountable to the United States Congress. They're not accountable to the American people. So when you ask them, their standard answer is piss off, go jump in a lake. We will not answer your questions. And there's an arrogance, there's a contempt.
Look.
We had and we talked about this in a previous pod a deputy director of the FBI, where I was questioning him and as I asked questions, he said, well, I don't want to answer that, he said. I asked, why not, because I don't want to? Like, who the hell, what do you mean you don't want to This is not just a chat at a coffeehouse. Damn it, You're giving testimony in front of the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate, and you have an obligation. You're giving testimony on behalf of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But there is a hubris on the part of these individuals, these partisans who are at the senior career positions that they believe how dare you question what we're doing? And I got to say, Look, I'm an alumnus of deal Jay, I respect and revere the institution, and they have corrupted it to a point that it is heartbreaking, and it is dangerous for the rule of law, and it's dangerous for liberty in the United States.
Last question for you, next time the Attorney General Merrick Garland comes before Congress, what question should he be asked about?
This a lot, But I will say, even to our beloved listeners at Verdict, I'm not going to give a preview of the questions I'm going to ask. Well, we'll we'll figure that out probably the day before, in the day that Merrick Garland arrives. It will be time sensitive, but it will be driven by all of these issues because I view my responsibility. Listen when I'm sitting there. It's not just me asking questions. You know, I'm elected to represent thirty million Texans, and so I'm trying to do my very best to ask questions on behalf of thirty million Texans, to ask questions that Texans have a right to know. And sometimes I do it well. Sometimes I do it less than well. That's the blessing and curse of being human. But I'm trying to fulfill my responsibility to the people of Texas of defending the constitution and the rule of law. So you can be assured the next time Merrick Garland testified in the Senate Judiciary Committee, We're going to be talking about it on Verdict afterwards, and I'm going to do my very best to ask the questions that thirty million Texans want asked.
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If you're an accountant. What do I mean by that?
Well, we're now learning that there were some issues where their taxes and money that's missing. In twenty seventeen, the first year Joe Biden was out of office after thirty six years in the Senate and eight more as Vice President, the couple cleared an income of eleven million and a further four point five eight million in twenty eighteen. Here's the problem. Between seventeen and nineteen, Joe Biden, the first Lady, reported sixteen point five million in gross income on their federal tax returns. That's what was released by the Biden campaign. An analysis published last year shows a five point two million dollar discrepancy between his IRS filings and his Office of Government Ethics disclosures for that same time period. That you combine this now and you look at the Office of Government Ethics filing for the same period, and Joe only reported nine point six million income for himself and his wife. Well, here's something else that's interesting. We now have an official check for two hundred thousand dollars that was written from his brother and his wife to Joe Biden on the same exact day that money was transferred in from a shady business des So we now have missing money and a lot of cash going to president and him paying two plus million dollars in cash for a house, and millions missing from his from his filings. Well, if you start adding the money up, you can see where the money went. It may have quite possibly just gone directly to his favorite place to hang out on the weekends at Beach House.
More and more news keeps coming out that is damning of Joe Biden and that ties him personally to the corruption of his entire family. His family had a business and the business was selling favors from Joe Biden, and it was a very lucrative business. That it was a business that produced tens of millions of dollars. We know about the WhatsApp that that that Hunter sent, and I'll remind you what it says. I'm going to read from it quote, I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight, and ze if I get a caller text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zang or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows, and my ability to forever hold a grudge, that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father now. That was sent on July thirtieth, twenty seventeen. The month before June of twenty seventeen, it's now being reported that Joe Biden purchased his six bedroom Rohoboth Beach Beach House for two million, seven hundred and forty four thousand and one dollar in cash. Now, I don't know about you, but most people don't have three million dollars in cash just laying around. But if you're busy shaking down the Chinese communists for millions of dollars, and if you're busy shaking down Ukrainian oligarchs for millions of dollars, has a way of producing millions of dollars of cash laying around. And I'll point out also that we do not know from GPS data whether or not Hunter Biden was in fact sitting next to Joe Biden when he sent that text. We would if the Biden DOJ had allowed the investigators to examine that GPS data, But explicitly, according to the IRS whistleblowers, the Biden DOJ said, no, you are not allowed to check on GPS whether Hunter was telling the truth, whether he's physically sitting next to Joe Biden. Because as we've talked about at great length, it seems there's no higher priority for the Biden DOJ than protecting the Biden White House from any account, accountability, or culpability for his criminal conduct. But we do know that there's a photo of Hunter Biden outside of his father's Delaware home on the exact day that he sent the text to his Chinese business partner, So that certainly suggests there's a lot of smoke there, and the corporate media has no interest in examining the fire that produced that smoke.
James Comer is a guy that we've had on this show before, and he is a pretty mild guy. I don't know the single instance where I can say he was on the record is overstating something and having to walk it back. With this investigation, he's very very methodical, very cool, calm and collected. He has been telegraphing that this is just the tip of the iceberg and more direct links of cash to the Biden president. The President Biden, right, Joe Biden from this family business is going to be coming out this week. I think it's going to shock everybody.
Well, we already have a check that Joe Biden brother, James Biden, wrote to Joe and it is a check for two hundred thousand dollars from his brother in twenty eighteen, and it is the same day that a distressed rural hospital operator wired two hundred thousand dollars to James Biden and his wife Sarah Biden to their bank account and.
And by the way, in their bankruptcy filing, they said they were hiring Biden's for political influence. They were solely hiring them because they thought they could bring an investor in from overseas and have political influence over their coming to maybe help them when they were in financial distress. That's in their actual documents from their bankruptcy filing.
That know one the media is covering as well. Well.
The Daily Caller has covered And here's what they said. They said quote. In twenty eighteen, James Biden received six hundred thousand dollars in loans from AmeriCorps, a financial distressed and failing rural hospital operator. According to bankruptcy court documents, James Biden received those loans quote based upon representations that his last name Biden could open doors and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections. Now you might say, Okay, that's James, that's the brother. He's just selling influence and access. Well, except for the fact that he wrote a two hundred thousand dollars check and in fact, the Daily Caller continues quote on March first, twenty eighteen, AmeriCorps wired a two hundred thousand dollars loan into James and Sarah Biden's personal bank account, not their business bank account. And then on that very day, James Biden wrote a two hundred thousand dollars check from the same personal bank account to Joe Biden. So it's very hard for Joe Biden to claim he has nothing to do with it when the check is made out to Joe Biden for that exact amount.
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