a journalist from the atlantic says they
dismissed the hunter biden story because
it wasn't interesting enough roll tape
do you think the media acted
inappropriately when they instantly
dismissed hunter biden's laptop as
russian disinformation my problem with
hunter biden's laptop is i think totally
irrelevant i mean it's not whether it's
disinformation or i mean i don't think
the
hunter biden's
business relationships have anything to
do with who should be president united
states so
i didn't i don't find it to be
interesting okay didn't find it to be
interesting cabot phillips joins us not
interesting enough
i i find that astonishing i mean that
just that just doesn't fly for me how
about you
well isn't it convenient how the things
that are determined to be interesting or
not are often based on who they might
help or hurt we now have email proof
that their first strategy was saying
well we're going to discount these these
emails we're going to discount
everything on this laptop that just
can't be true now that it's been proven
true they say well it may have been true
but the fact is it just wasn't
interesting enough to dig into we now
have email proof that shows hunter biden
complaining that half of his salary went
to his father which is patently legal
you cannot be subsidizing your
politician family members we have other
email proof that's showing hey this
chinese business deal that hunter biden
secured by the way he secured that deal
10 days after hunter biden had gone to a
trip with uh in shanghai with joe biden
that deal that he secured there's an
email now from joe by or hunter byn's
business partner saying we're gonna save
ten percent for the big guy i think
average journalists the real journalists
that want to uncover the truth will be
saying who's the big guy here are
politicians being subsidized by their
family members that are securing corrupt
deals overseas but the journalists don't
care about that because they care about
the narrative they care about who can be
helped who can be hurt by their stories
and i think the hunter buying scandal
it's far from over they're going to be
more details that come out but
ultimately what they're doing here is
showing their hand they're showing the
things they're interested in reporting
on and it's based on who it's going to
hurt and we know if it hurts democrats
they're not going to dig into it the
mainstream media is not going to get its
reputation back not there is much of a
reputation in the first place now change
the subject again the house
right now i believe holding a hearing
to examine stock trading reforms for
members of congress okay let's get the
big picture here do you think that
members of congress should be allowed to
trade stocks
absolutely not this is the equivalent of
allowing nba players to bet on their
games except in this case it's not even
letting players bet on the games it's
referees getting to bet on the games
because they're the ones setting the
rules our politicians are setting the
rules of our economy and they have a
direct say in the outcome but now they
can pick and choose winners and losers
in the stock market just to give you
some context here stuart the average u.s
senator beats the market each year by 11
in their individual trades and some
examples of some of those trades seem to
show inside trading nancy pelosi she and
her husband last year bought over 3
million dollars of microsoft stock and
wouldn't you know it 12 days later
microsoft announced a 22 billion dollar
contract that they'd scored with the
department of defense nancy pelosi is up
160
on that trade since it went through then
there was another member kathy manning a
democrat in the house she bought 30 000
of lockheed martin stock 12 days later
they announced a 10 billion deal to
modernize the f-22 she sits on the house
committee on uh house subcommittee on
foreign affairs but there are republican
members doing this too house member pat
fallon he sold 250 000 of microsoft
stock under two weeks before their
billion dollar deal fell through he sits
on the committee that oversees
uh defense software contracts so these
members are profiting off of the inside
information they have awfully difficult
though to tell all members of congress
you can't hold stocks or bonds it's very
difficult to do that you would be
denying a great deal of talent from
congress
the solution here though is not saying
they can't hold stocks but forcing them
into blind trust forcing them into some
kind of general mutual fund where
they're not buying individual stocks now
that is different and that would be in
to my mind that's successful hey kevin
great show thanks for being with us
we'll see you again soon