>> Trace: WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF
STAFF RON KLAIN SAYING 2021 WAS
NOT SUCH A BAD YEAR ARGUING THE
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS MORE
HONEST, COMPETENT AND MOSTLY
SCANDAL-FREE.
FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR JONATHAN
TURLEY SAID THIS IS SIMPLY NOT
TRUE.
HERE IS WHAT HE WROTE ON
foxnews.com QUOTING MEDIA AND
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION COVER UP
THE THREE SCANDALS.
SCANDAL-FREE YEAR.
IF THERE IS NO COVERAGE, THERE
IS NO SCANDAL.
PROFESSOR TURLEY JOINS US NOW
AND A PROFESSOR AT GEORGE
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY.
THE THREE SCANDALS ON THE
SCREEN.
ONE YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE
HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP, BIDEN
FAMILY INFLUENCE MEDDLING AND
THE ASHLEY BIDEN DIARY AND
WRITE QUOTING HERE, ASK
YOURSELF WHAT THE MEDIA WOULD
HAVE DONE WITH A DIARY FROM
IVANKA TRUMP WITH THESE
ALLEGATIONS AND FOREIGN
INFLUENCE PEDDLING BY THE TRUMP
CHILDREN?
I THINK IT WOULD BE THE
HEADLINE OF THE RACHEL MADDOW
SHOW.
>> WE DON’T HAVE TO WONDER,
TRACE.
BECAUSE ALL LAST YEAR THE MEDIA
WAS PURSUING EVERY POSSIBLE
FOREIGN PEDDLING THEORY, ANY
INFLUENCE THROUGH THE CHILDREN
OF DONALD TRUMP.
AND I ACTUALLY HAD NO OBJECTION
TO THAT.
IT WAS A LEGITIMATE INTEREST
INTO WHETHER A FOREIGN
COUNTRIES OR COMPANIES WERE
INFLUENCINGING THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH THEIR FAMILY.
WHAT I OBJECT TO IS THE INVERSE
OF WHAT WE’VE SEEN WITH THE
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION.
STARTING WITH THE HUNTER BIDEN
LAPTOP OF COURSE YOU HAD
TWITTER AND OTHER COMPANIES
BANNING ANYONE WHO EVEN TALKED
ABOUT THE LAPTOP.
EVEN THOUGH THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN
NEVER DENIED IT WAS HUNTER
BIDEN’S LAPTOP.
THEY JUST WOULDN’T CONFIRM IT.
PEOPLE MENTIONED IN THE EMAILS
CONFIRMED THEIR AUTHENTICITY.
THE MEDIA HAD THIS BLACKOUT ON
IT.
THEN AFTER IT WAS ACKNOWLEDGED
THAT THIS IS HIS LAPTOP, AT
LEAST MOST PEOPLE CONCLUDE IT
IS HIS LAPTOP, THE MEDIA STILL
REALLY DIDN’T PURSUE THE
INFLUENCE PEDDLING SCHEMES THAT
CAME OUT OF THESE EMAILS.
THE BIDEN FAMILY HAS A LONG
HISTORY OF INFLUENCE PEDDLING.
IT INCLUDES NOT JUST HUNTER
BIDEN BUT HIS UNCLE.
WHAT IS TROUBLING IS THAT THOSE
EMAILS IMPLICATE THE PRESIDENT.
THEY HAVE VARIOUS CODE NAMES
FOR THE PRESIDENT LIKE CELTIC
OR THE BIG GUY.
BUT THEY REFER TO ACCOUNTS
BEING NIXED IN TERMS OF ASSETS
BETWEEN SOME OF THESE VERY
DUBIOUS CONTRACTS AND PAYMENTS
OF THE PRESIDENT’S BILLS AND
YET THE MEDIA IS JUST
UNINTERESTED.
THE CONCERN IS THAT THIS
CREATES A DEFACTO STATE MEDIA.
THAT THERE AREN’T ANY SCANDALS
IF NOBODY COVERS THEM.
>> THE HILL OP-ED LET’S BE
HONEST, 2021 WASN’T ALL BAD.
THE BIDEN TEAM IS MORE HONEST
ALSO MORE COMPETENT.
I DON’T THINK WE TALK ABOUT
THINGS LIKE THE PRESIDENT
SAYING BUILD BACK BETTER IS
TOTALLY PAID FOR BUT IT IS
INTERESTING BECAUSE IT GOES
BACK TO AN OP-ED YOU RECENTLY
WROTE ABOUT THE PRESIDENT
HAVING THIS TENDENCY TO INDICT
PEOPLE TO CONVICT PEOPLE
WITHOUT DUE PROCESS LIKE THE
BORDER PATROL AGENTS WHO HE
SAID WHIPPED THE HAITIAN
IMMIGRANTS AND, YOU KNOW, IT
GOES ON FROM THERE TO KYLE
RITTENHOUSE.
>> RIGHT.
I THINK THERE IS REALLY
TROUBLING ASPECTS TO HOW THE
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION HAS DEALT
WITH THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND
OTHER AGENCIES ON LEGAL MATTERS.
AGAIN, THE MEDIA IS LARGELY
SILENT ON THESE ISSUES.
IN TERMS OF THOSE AGENTS, THEY
REMAIN ON ADMINISTRATIVE DUTY.
DECLARED GUILTY BY THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
BEFORE AN INVESTIGATION.
THEY SAID THERE WOULD BE A
QUICK INVESTIGATION.
WE HAVEN’T HEARD A THING ABOUT
IT EVEN THOUGH WE HEARD IT WAS
COMPLETED.
THIS IS PART AND PARCEL TO WHAT
IS NOT BEING COVERED BY THE
MEDIA.
IT IS NOT GOOD, BY THE WAY, FOR
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION
BECAUSE THEY DON’T HAVE
PUSHBACK OR THAT PRESSURE TO DO
BETTER.
A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THIS IS "THE
NEW YORK TIMES." "THE NEW YORK
TIMES" RAN THE LEGAL MEMORANDA
OF PROJECT VERITAS, A
CONSERVATIVE PUBLICATION.
THEY RAN THAT EVEN THOUGH IT
WAS CLEARLY STOLEN OR OBTAINED
WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION.
PROJECT VERITAS WAS PUT UNDER
INVESTIGATION BY THE F.B.I. AND
IS CONTINUING UNDER THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION AS TO HOW THEY
MIGHT HAVE GOTTEN ACCESS TO
ASHLEY BIDEN’S DIARY.
THE ENTIRE F.B.I. SEEMS
DEDICATED TO PURSUING HOW THIS
DIARY WENT MISSING.
"THE NEW YORK TIMES" COULD BE
RAIDED ON THE SAME GROUNDS.
THEY RAIDED PROJECT VERITAS’S
PUBLISHER BECAUSE HE HAD ACCESS
TO THIS DIARY.
I ASSUME THEY WON’T RAID THE
PUBLISHER OF THE "NEW YORK
TIMES." THAT’S THE ISSUE.
THERE IS AN INCONSISTENT
STANDARD THAT SEEMS TO BE
APPLIED HERE.