>> WE WILL HAVE A DIFFERENT
FUTURE, A BRIGHTER FUTURE,
ROOTED IN DEMOCRACY AND
PRINCIPLE, HOPE AND A LIGHT.
FOR GOD’S SAKE, THIS MAN CANNOT
REMAIN IN POWER.
>> THERE IT IS, JOE BIDEN
SPARKING HE GLOBAL BACKLASH WITH
THAT REMARK ABOUT PUTIN’S
REGIME, SENDING THE WHITE HOUSE
INTO IMMEDIATE DAMAGE CONTROL.
>> CLARIFYING QUOTE, THE
PRESIDENT’S POINT WAS THAT PUTIN
CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO EXERCISE
POWERS OVER HIS NEIGHBORS OR THE
REGION, HE WAS NOT DISCUSSING
PUTIN’S POWER IN RUSSIA OR
REGIME CHANGE.
RIGHT.
HERE TO REACT, RETIRED U.S. ARMY
CAPTAIN, CONGRESSMAN DARRELL
ISSA.
CONGRESSMAN, GREAT TO SEE YOU
THIS YOU MORNING.
WE’VE TALKED AT LENGTH ABOUT
WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED THERE
IN THAT MOMENT.
CAN YOU HELP SHINE LIGHT ON WHAT
YOU THINK THE RAMIFICATIONS ARE,
MAYBE IN RUSSIA, HOW WILL THAT
COMMENT LAND?
>> WELL, I’M SURE IN RUSSIA THEY
WERE ASKING WHO HAS THE FOOTBALL
AT THIS TIME, IF THAT MAN IS
SAYING THAT.
YOU KNOW, PRESIDENTS ARE HELD TO
A VERY HIGH STANDARD OF ACCURACY
WHEN THEY SAY THINGS,
PARTICULARLY IN A PREPARED
SPEECH.
AND IN THIS CASE, THIS WAS
SUPPOSED TO BE A PREPARED SPEECH
THAT CERTAINLY WAS NOT IN THE
SPEECH, NO SPEECH WRITER WOULD
USE TERMS LIKE THAT FOR THE SAME
REASON AS WHEN THE PRESIDENT WAS
ASKED ABOUT CHEMICAL WEAPONS AND
HE SAID WE WOULD RESPOND IN
KIND.
WE HAVE BANNED CHEMICAL WEAPONS,
WOULD NOT USE THEM AND ANY
RESPONSE WOULD BE BASED ON THE
ILLEGAL USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS
BY PUTIN WHICH HE’S ALREADY
DONE.
HE USED THESE PHOSPHORUS BURNING
AGENTS THAT MOST CIVILIZED
COUNTRIES WOULDN’T USE ANY
LONGER.
SO WHAT’S HAPPENING IN RUSSIA,
IN RUSSIA THEY KNOW THEY HAVE A
PRESIDENT WHO IS AS INCONSISTENT
IN WHAT HE SAYS HE’S GOING TO DO
AS HE WAS IN THAT 65 MINUTE
SPEECH OR CONVERSATION IN WHICH
HE TOLD PUTIN HOW TERRIBLE THE
SANCTIONS WOULD BE AND THEN
PUTIN INVADED ANYWAY, FEELING
THAT IT WASN’T THAT TERRIBLE.
>> I WONDER HOW SERIOUSLY
VLADIMIR PUTIN AND THOSE IN
RUSSIA TAKE JOE BIDEN’S COMMENTS
OR DO THEY DISCOUNT THEM AS ALSO
THE OFF-THE-CUFF, UNPLANNED
RAMBLINGS SO MANY HERE AT HOME
DO AS WELL?
I WANT TO TAKE SOME TIME,
CONGRESSMAN, I WANT TO GET TO
THIS TOPIC WITH YOU.
YOU HAVE SENT A LETTER TO SOME
OF THE CEOS OF BIG TECH
COMPANIES, SAYING PRESERVE YOUR
RECORDS, WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT
WENT ON IN THE FALL OF 2020 WHEN
IT CAME TO SUPPRESSING THE
HUNTER BIDEN STORY AS WELL AS
YOUR COLLEAGUE, CONGRESSWOMAN
ELISE STEFANIK SAID THIS, WE
WILL SUBPOENA HUNTER BIDEN, IT
SHOULD CONSIDER EVERY AMERICAN
THAT THEY DID THEY THIS, IT CAME
AT THE COST OF OUR NATIONAL
SECURITY.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
SHOULD REPUBLICANS TAKE BACK
CONGRESS, WHAT CAN YOU DO TO
FIND ACCOUNTABILITY ON THIS
STORY?
>> WELL, ONE OF THE REASONS I
SENT THE PRESERVATION LETTERS IS
THAT THOSE NOTICES, IF YOU THEN
DESTROY EVIDENCE, ARE IN FACT
EVADING CONGRESS AND SUPPRESSING
EVIDENCE.
WE’VE HAD THAT IN THE PAST,
OBVIOUSLY WE HAD THAT WITH
HILLARY CLINTON, HER ATTEMPT TO
DESTROY ALL THE EVIDENCE OF HER
ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES.
BUT THE OTHER PART OF IT IS THAT
BECAUSE THIS INVOLVES SO MANY
COMPANIES SUCH AS FACEBOOK,
TWITTER AND SO ON, THEY TOOK
DOWN THE NEW YORK POST, THERE
WAS CLEARLY A CONSPIRACY TO, IF
YOU WILL, COVER UP THE
WRONG-DOING OF THE PRESIDENT AND
HIS FAMILY JUST BEFORE AN
ELECTION THAT HE HAD TO WIN AND
DID WIN.
SO THE INVESTIGATION IS CLEARLY
WARRANTED, NOT JUST BECAUSE
HUNTER BIDEN SEEMS TO BE A PETTY
CRIMINAL, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF
HIS FATHER’S MONEY AND PERHAPS A
SHARING MONEY WITH HIS FATHER,
IT’S BECAUSE IF WE HAVE THIS
KIND OF COORDINATED EFFORT JUST
BEFORE AN ELECTION, WHAT WE HAVE
IS AMERICAN COLLUSION TO AFFECT
THE OUTPUT OF AN ELECTION.
THAT CAN’T HAPPEN.
WE’VE GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR
PRESS IS FREE AND FAIR AND RIGHT
NOW WHEN IT COMES TO NEW MEDIA,
FREE AND FAIR DOESN’T EXIST.
WHEN IT COMES TO ONE OF THE
OLDEST NEWSPAPERS IN AMERICA,
THE NEW YORK POST, WAS FOUNDED
IN 1801, THEY WERE SUPPRESSED
AND THAT’S SOMETHING THAT EVERY
AMERICAN SHOULD BE CONCERNED
ABOUT AND THE JUDICIARY
COMMITTEE AND OTHER COMMITTEES
OF CONGRESS ARE GOING TO HAVE TO
INVESTIGATE IT THOROUGHLY.
>> I AM TEMPTED TO EXPLAIN IT
POTENTIALLY AS HIDE MIND GROUP
THINK, THEY ALL ACTED IN CONCERT
SO QUICKLY BUT TO YOUR POINT,
THEY ALL SAID THE EXACT SAME
THING AS WELL, THEY QUOTED
RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION, THE SAME
THING OUR INTELLIGENCE, MANY
WITHIN THE INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY WERE SAYING AS WELL,
LEADING YOU I WOULD HOPE TO THE
EXACT TYPE OF INVESTIGATION THAT
YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.
WHERE WAS THE COORDINATION
COMING FROM?
I WOULD LOVE TO COME ON.
IF YOU HAVING VERY QUICK, I
WOULD LOVE TO HEAR IT.
>> CLAPPER AND BRENNAN RECEIVED
THE SAME LETTERS.
THEY WERE CLEARLY PART OF THE
COORDINATED EFFORTS FOR THE
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY TO TELL
PEOPLE THERE WAS NO THERE,
THERE, WHEN THERE’S WAS A THERE,
THERE.
>> CAN’T WAIT TO FIND OUT THE