-The president of the United States
stole classified documents, which were then
copied onto a private laptop
while he and a close family member made money
off their dealings with a foreign government.
Wow, this is a damning story
for President Biden and his son, Hunter.
Oh, what's that?
It's about Donald Trump and Jared Kushner?
Well, no, just thank God you told me, alright?
Because the next cue card says, "I'm sorry,
Marjorie Taylor Greene, you were right,
and you deserve my utmost admiration and respect."
You know what, Wally?
Can you get rid of that cue card?
-Yeah, sure thing, Seth.
[ Laughter ]
-That was aggressive, Wally.
You could have just thrown it out.
-Sorry, Seth.
I bet a lot of money on the Eagles last week.
Luckily, I just made it all back by appearing on camera.
-Okay.
Gotcha.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Do you want a minute to catch your breath?
Too bad!
For more on this, is time for "A Closer Look."
♪♪
Before we get to the investigation of Trump's
stolen classified documents,
there was big news in another Trump investigation,
the one looking into
potential election interference in Georgia.
The district attorney
has already said charges could be imminent.
And last year, she informed ex-Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani,
that he was a target of the investigation.
Well, today, a judge released parts of the grand jury's report
from that investigation, which revealed
that the jurors found evidence of possible crimes
and even recommended indictments.
-Breaking news from Georgia, moments ago,
a judge in Fulton County, Georgia,
released parts of a report
submitted by a special grand jury
investigating efforts by Trump and his allies
to overturn his 2020 election loss.
-In it, the grand jurors write that they believe
that at least one witness
may have perjured him or herself,
and they encourage the D.A.
to seek appropriate remedy there,
presumably in the form of an indictment.
-Now, we don't know who they're talking about
and we can't guess, but when I saw that news,
this is the face I made.
[ Laughter ]
We'll have to wait for the rest of the grand jury report
and the DA's final decision
before we can draw any more conclusions.
But oddly, that's not the investigation
Republicans are interested in right now.
Instead, they've been laser focused on basically one thing,
and that's Hunter Biden's laptop.
It's been a nonstop obsession on right wing media,
and the new Republican majority even held a hearing about it
as one of their first acts in power.
-Big media suppressed the truth
about the Hunter Biden laptop story.
-He may have collaborated with the U.S. intelligence community
regarding stories that y'all didn't want the public to see.
So, namely, what we refer to as the Hunter Biden laptop story.
-We're gonna go into Hunter Biden's laptop.
-There's a lot in that laptop.
-FBI subpoenaed Hunter Biden's laptop...
-Regarding Hunter Biden's laptop...
-Hunter Biden's laptop. -Hunter Biden's laptop.
-Hunter Biden laptop. -Hunter Biden laptop.
-The laptop from Hell, right?
-I haven't seen anyone this obsessed with a laptop
since my childhood friend found porn
on his dad's Toshiba T1100.
[ Laughter ]
We burned the hell out of our thighs,
but it was worth it.
Very steamy.
Also very slow.
"Did someone order...
a pizza?"
[ Laughter ]
Seriously, the last time a bunch of people
freaked out this much over a computer
was when Bill Gates launched Windows 95.
Took 25 years,
but Bill Gates finally got off the hook
as world's worst dancer.
Dude looks like he's trying to wriggle his way
out of a straitjacket.
"I'm not crazy. I just gotta boogie."
Also, why does Trump call it "the laptop from Hell"?
He's never used a computer in his life.
For Trump, any laptop would be the laptop from Hell.
If he ever saw Jason,
he'd probably hear the Apple startup chime.
[ Startup chime ]
Republicans have been so obsessed
with this laptop that Congressman Matt Gaetz
hijacked a congressional oversight hearing last year
that was supposed to be about cybersecurity
to relentlessly grill a dude from the FBI
about the location of the laptop.
-I want to know where Hunter Biden's laptop is.
Where is it?
-Sir, I don't know that answer.
-You're telling me right here
is that as the assistant director of FBI Cyber,
you don't know where this is
after it was turned over to you three years ago?
-Yes, sir. That's an accurate statement.
-Have you assessed whether or not the Hunter Biden laptop
gives Russia the ability to harm our country?
-Sir, again, we can do this back and forth
for the next couple of minutes.
I don't have any information about the Hunter Biden laptop.
-Do you even know who has it?
Do you know who we should put in that chair
to ask these questions to?
-No, sir. I don't know who has it.
-Well, could you find out and tell us?
-Sir, I'd be happy to take your request back to our office.
-Gosh, I mean, will you advocate for that briefing?
As -- You will?
-I will be happy to take your request
back to FBI headquarters.
-Well, will -- Do you believe that that is a briefing
that the Congress is worthy of having, I guess?
-Sir, I am not going to answer that question.
I'm here to talk in --
The invitation says "oversight of the FBI cyber division."
-I've never seen a congressional witness
refer to that invitation like that before.
It's like when you get invited to your weird aunt's wedding,
only to realize she's marrying the cat.
"Oh, [bleep].
Let me look at the invite. Yeah.
No, it says right here 'Mr. Whiskers.'
That's not --
That's never been a person's last name.'
And the GOP's obsession with Hunter's laptop
has only gotten more intense
with the revelation that Joe Biden
had some classified documents from his time in the Senate
and as vice president at his home and private office.
Even after Biden turned over the documents
and welcomed multiple FBI searches of his properties,
Republicans still want to know if Hunter Biden
specifically had access to any of those documents.
-Think about from his own family,
where Hunter Biden is involved.
-Hunter's proximity, easy access to classified material
is a little bit more than concerning.
-Are we sure Hunter didn't get a look at these documents
or sell them to his business partners in China or Ukraine?
-It looks like Hunter Biden was peddling
classified documents for cash.
-Hunter Biden had classified information in his possession.
-The FBI needs to search the residences of Hunter Biden
and any business offices of Hunter Biden
to determine if there are classified materials there.
-And I'm sure when the FBI got Ted Cruz's request, they said...
-I'd be happy to take your request back to our office.
[ Laughter ]
-But clearly,
based on the Republican obsession with Hunter's laptop,
they're afraid classified documents could have been copied
to a computer, where they would be vulnerable
to espionage or influence peddling.
And that fear turned out to be totally justified --
just not in the way they were expecting.
-More classified documents found at
former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home.
Multiple sources telling CNN that Trump's lawyers
turned over these documents to federal prosecutors
after they were found searching through boxes at Mar-a-Lago.
Now, apparently the documents were also copied
onto the laptop of a Trump aide.
-Oh, my God.
Classified documents were found on a laptop.
That can only mean one thing.
It's...
[ Voice echoing ] ...the laptop from Hell!
[ Lightning crack ]
[ Evil cackling ]
-AOL Soundbite: You've got mail.
[ Laughter ]
-That's right.
After two years of nonstop obsessing over Biden's laptop,
someone on Donald Trump's team reportedly had a laptop
with classified documents on it.
But here's the thing -- say what you will about Republicans,
they are consistent in their outrage.
So here's a long montage we put together
where Republicans express concern over
who had access to these documents.
-♪ Never gonna give you up ♪
-That's right, we did a Rick Roll!
A meme so old, I first saw it...
[ Applause ]
I first saw that on my friend's dad's Toshiba.
[ Laughter ]
He called me recently, by the way.
He said he wanted his hair back.
[ Light laughter ]
So Trump has now turned over more classified documents
he apparently withheld from the feds.
Now, you might recall
he recently defended the discovery
of some empty classified folders as a "cool keepsake."
But a lawyer for Trump went on CNN this week
with an even dumber explanation for why
Trump had this stuff in his possession.
-Now, you also turned over an empty folder marked
"classified" to investigators.
Where was this folder and why was it turned over?
-It's a folder, a manila folder that says
"classified evening summary" on it.
And it was in the president's bedroom.
He has one of those landline telephones next to his bed
and it has a blue light on it, and it keeps him up at night.
So he took the manila folder and he put it over it
so that it would keep the light down
so he could sleep at night.
They demanded it back,
and so now the president has to find a different way
to keep the blue light out of his eyes.
[ Laughter ]
-Well, best of luck to him.
That's right,
Trump claims he kept an empty classified folder
as a way to cover a blue light on the phone
next to his bed so he could sleep.
The guy's supposed to be a billionaire real estate mogul,
and he lives like a hungover private detective
from the '70s.
Just drinking [bleep] beer
in a trailer on the beach with a gross, old dog.
"Come on, Honcho. Bedtime.
Now where's that sleeping folder?"
What other federal documents is he using
to fix [bleep] at his house?
Did he patch up the screen door on his patio
with a copy of the Declaration of Independence?
Oh, I'm sorry, I don't buy that
he couldn't sleep with a blue light next to him.
This is a man who stared directly at the sun
during an eclipse.
I doubt a blue light
from a phone can pierce his retinas.
Also, I simply do not believe
he sleeps in pitch black darkness.
He's definitely one of those old guys who's got the TV
blasting all night with his iPhone
right next to his face at maximum brightness.
When Trump walks into his bedroom at night,
I bet it's like Kramer walking into his apartment
when the chicken place opened next door.
[ Loud humming ]
Now, as we've discussed many times on this show,
it's one thing to have classified documents
in your possession and return them when asked.
That's what Biden and Mike Pence did,
and it's not that big a deal.
But Trump repeatedly lied,
defied a subpoena, refused to give them back,
and instructed aides and lawyers to say
he'd returned them all when he hadn't.
That's why he's being investigated
for obstruction of justice.
And now the investigation has reportedly gotten so serious,
the special counsel leading the investigation is trying
to force one of Trump's lawyers to testify again by suggesting
Trump may have used that lawyer to commit a crime.
-We're learning that prosecutors who were investigating
Trump's handling of classified documents
are now seeking to compel one of his attorneys to come back
and testify before the grand jury again.
That attorney is Evan Corcoran.
He's already testified before the grand jury
for about 4 hours or so, I'm told.
But they actually want him to come back.
And this time, they are trying to overcome
that attorney-client privilege
that protects what he and Trump have talked about privately.
And in doing so, they have written to the judge
alleging that they believe
Trump used Evan Corcoran in furtherance of a crime or fraud.
And that's a big deal -- prosecutors are basically
saying that attorney-client privilege
shouldn't apply, because the attorney in this case
may have helped Trump commit a crime.
But I mean, come on, that's ridiculous.
When has one of Trump's lawyers ever helped him
do anything suspicious?
Oh, right, I forgot Rudy,
the guy who looks like he just walked into
Donald Trump's bedroom and was blinded by the blue phone light.
"Whoa!
Boss, we need to cover that!
How about we steal the Mona Lisa from the Louvre?
Oh, looks like she's smiling, eh, boss?"
"So what?" you might say.
So he has some classified documents and empty folders.
Republicans say the difference is that Hunter Biden
traded on his name and connections to make money,
and surely no one in the Trump family
ever did anything like that.
What? Oh, they did?
Dudes, come on! Again! Thank God you said something.
The next card says,
"And that's why I'm endorsing Matt Gaetz as the next president
of the United States, because he's right.
And also, dudes with large foreheads
should stick together."
Wally, you can get rid of that card, too.
-Sure, Seth.
-You're not going to rip that one?
-Nah, I'm gonna take it home.
Need something to cover the blue light on my phone.
-Okay.
Oh, so now we're letting Wally do callbacks?
Okay.
[ Laughter ]
Anyway, turns out -- and wait for this, shocker --
the Trump family was allegedly trading its name
and connections in a corrupt deal with the Saudi government.
-According to a new Washington Post exposé,
"The day after leaving the White House,
Kushner created a company that he transformed months
later into a private equity firm
with $2 billion from a sovereign wealth fund
chaired by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman."
And ask for his father-in-law,
"A year after his presidency,
Trump's golf courses began hosting tournaments
for the Saudi fund-backed LIV Golf.
Separately, the former president's family company,
the Trump Organization,
secured an agreement with a Saudi real estate company
that plans to build a Trump hotel
as part of a $4 billion golf resort in Oman."
-Corruption aside, that sounds like one of the worst vacations
I could possibly think of.
"Hey, honey, I know you wanted
to go to Paris this year, but great news.
I got two tickets to the Trump golf course in Oman.
We're going in June. It's gonna be 120 degrees.
Better get your --
Honey, you're not saying anything.
Do you want to go?"
-I'm not gonna answer that question.
[ Laughter ]
-Also, Kushner reportedly started this fund the day
after he left the White House.
I'm sorry, it doesn't get any more corrupt than that.
He got $2 billion from the Saudis,
who he did official business with
when he was in the White House.
And curiously, Republicans don't seem too concerned.
The only way we can get them interested
is if we take this "Closer Look" and email a link to Joe Biden,
asking him to forward it to his son
so that the evidence can be found on --
-Hunter Biden's laptop.
-This week alone, we found out from both the special counsel
investigating Trump's handling of classified documents
and the grand jury looking into
election interference in Georgia
that there may be evidence of crimes,
but Republicans remain obsessed with one dude's laptop.
I have no idea if Trump will ever get indicted,
but if the cops do show up at his house,
I hope he has some folders around to --
-Keep the blue light out of his eyes.
This has been "A Closer Look."
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