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Boy, podcast today is fantastic.

So much to talk about.

We start with new

information about Nancy Pelosi's son being involved in Ukraine.

We also have an update on what's happening with these Christians and the Yazidis

in Syria that are being bombed and killed.

One family that the Nazarene Fund worked to save from ISIS.

Their house was bombed yesterday.

The whole family almost died.

We'll give you that.

But the money today is on two interviews.

One, Peter Schweitzer.

Peter is being trashed by Joe Biden in a letter to the New York Times where he says, New York Times, you're becoming fake news and conspiracy theorists.

Because of an article that Peter Schweitzer wrote, an opinion piece yesterday, we have him on.

Also, John Solomon, the guy who knows everything about the Ukraine scandal.

I had, I think, 16 really important questions for him that I wanted cleared up, and we raced through it to get those answers.

And there were bombshells that he dropped.

You don't want to miss this episode, Critical John Solomon, Peter Schweitzer, and we begin with Nancy Pelosi's son in Ukraine.

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Ukrainian MP

Andrey Durkov

revealed yesterday that former Vice President Joe Biden received $900,000 from the Burisma Group for lobbying activities, citing materials related to an investigation.

Now, before you get excited, I want you to know

that

we have not personally translated the documents.

There are several documents.

We have only one of them, and it's all in Ukrainian.

We are having it translated during the show today,

which is our first opportunity to have it translated.

I am reporting on someone else's information.

We have not confirmed this yet.

This is

Ukraine's Verkhanova Rada member

who is citing the investigation materials.

He has publicized the documents which he said describe the mechanism of getting money to Biden Sr.

at a press conference at Interfact Ukraine's press center in Kyiv on Wednesday.

This was the transfer of Barisma Group's funds for lobbying activities, as investigators believe personally, to Joe Biden through a lobbying company.

Funds in the amount of $900,000 were transferred to a U.S.-based

company, Rosemont Seneca Partners, which, according to open sources, in particular the New York Times, is affiliated with Joe Biden.

Well,

it's his son, Biden.

The payment reference was payment for consultive services.

Durach

also publicized sums of money transferred to Burisma Group representatives, including Joe Biden's son.

According to the document,

Barisma paid no less than $16.5 million

to Devon Archer and Hunter Biden,

who joined as board of directors in 2014.

Using political and economic levelers of influencing Ukrainian authorities and manipulating the issue of providing financial aid to Ukraine, Joe Biden actively assisted closing criminal cases to the activity of a former Ukrainian ecology minister, who is the founder and owner of the Burisma Group.

Biden's fifth visit to Kyiv on December 7th, a date which will still live in infamy, was devoted to making a decision on the resignation of the prosecutor general Viktor Shokin over the case of Zelevsky and Barisma.

Loan guarantees worth more than $1 billion that the United States was to give Ukraine was the point of pressure.

Biden himself admitted exerting pressure in his speech.

According to Interfax, that is the group in the journalistic group in Ukraine, the timeline of events proves that the U.S.

linked the Zelensky case to the loan guarantees.

We know this.

After the decree dismissing Shokin was published on April 3rd, the governments of the United States and Ukraine signed a loan guarantee worth $1 billion.

In this case, there are facts that should be subject to investigation, he said.

The agency has powers to investigate them.

The U.S.

Department of Justice,

if the Ukrainian Prosecutor General signs documents and sends them to the U.S.

Department of Justice without any request, he will accomplish his mission.

Considering international corruption in public is a way out for President Zelensky, I am certain that he is not involved in international corruption.

The problem with this story is we don't know who to trust

because

everybody has lost credibility in Ukraine.

Everyone in the entire country.

No, I'm serious.

It just seems like every time you bring up anything, there's always going to be a corruption allegation because it seems like everyone in the country has committed some sort of corruption crime.

Well,

there is Victor.

You remember Victor?

He's the guy with the dog.

Oh, yeah.

Cute dog.

Cute dog.

The dog committed a corruption crime.

Yeah, but not Victor.

But Victor's clean, we think.

No,

here's the thing.

Let's just change countries here for a second and put it in our part of the world.

Ukraine is a very small country in the grand scheme of things.

It doesn't have a large GDP.

In fact, look at their GDP and see if you can compare it to states.

See what state

Ukraine is like.

So it's a small place.

Yeah, it's medium.

I would say it's medium, right?

I mean.

Texas is bigger.

California is bigger.

New York will be bigger.

Florida probably will be bigger.

I mean,

it's a state.

Yeah, obviously part of the Soviet Union

for a very long time.

Yeah.

It's where you can go to, if you want to go see the fallout of a nuclear disaster.

I want to go.

I really want to go.

I do, too.

That's the place to go.

Right.

In Ukraine.

Right.

Let's see.

Ukraine.

So if we could compare it to a country in our hemisphere, imagine if the Republicans all of a sudden had

their family members.

By the way, have you heard the latest on Nancy Pelosi's son?

He was also now the, I think he was the COO of a oil company in Ukraine.

It's so weird.

You know, I don't think of Ukraine as a as a as Disneyland where you send your children, but everyone in the Democratic Party seems to be sending their children over there.

Okay, so I think of it as a place where a hostile sequel would occur.

And instead,

people just keep sending their kids over there.

Right.

So if a bunch of Republicans sent their families down to, let's say, Brazil

and they were all running, you know,

I don't know, swimwear stuff in Brazil, we wouldn't necessarily think anything.

However, if the Republicans all sent their kids and

the DNC set up shop there and they were working through the embassy and all these things were going and the country was Colombia.

We might all say,

you know, George Bush's kids set up a farm there.

I'm wondering what they're farming in Colombia.

I wonder what kind of leaves they're picking down there.

I wonder if this is a front for drug lords.

I wonder if they're getting kickbacks from any drug lords and they're living high

off the hog in Colombia.

Wouldn't we be asking those questions?

This is as corrupt as Colombia.

And

all of

our Democratic

friends seem to have some pretty great deals.

Now, the latest on Pelosi is that her son, and there's videotapes showing it where he's proudly talking about his company.

It appears as though he was made COO of this company, but this company apparently

was started by two criminals that couldn't own a company in Ukraine.

They were no longer allowed.

They were so corrupt.

They were no longer allowed to have a business.

And so Nancy Pelosi's son appears to have been kind of a beard for this company.

Now you would think again that if you were going to send your kids over there, you would warn your kids: hey, kids, this is really corrupt.

I mean, you could easily fall into those Colombian drug lords.

So if you go to Colombia, don't get in bed with drug lords.

But both Joe Biden,

John Kerry,

and a third now, Nancy Pelosi, sent their kids over there,

and they all happen to fall in a play with drug lords.

Darn it.

They're all in bed with oligarchs and criminals.

Hmm.

It's just so weird.

I mean, you think, really, really weird.

Why would you

go there?

It doesn't seem like there's like tons of direct flights.

It's just not like a place you just to.

Yeah, people don't even know if it's Kiev or Kiev.

They can't even figure it out.

Right.

They keep sending people there.

Right.

They're sending people there.

By the way, this is the place that Russia was trying to take back, and Russia had troops shooting people in the main square just at the same time.

Everybody's like, hey, kids, why don't you go start a business in Ukraine?

That doesn't make any sense.

So there's 233 countries or states in the world.

Ukraine, 33rd in population, 44 million people.

How many, what's the GDP?

GDP.

You look that up.

Give me one minute.

I'll come right back.

Look at the GDP.

This is not a significant country.

I mean,

it plays a role because of its former Soviet status, but

it's not like,

why did they send so much over there?

And I'm not talking about, you know, should we defend them or help them?

I mean, they sent their, Obama sent his personal attorney over there.

Hillary Clinton sent her

personal strategist, her chief strategist.

Obama had his chief pollster.

Bernie Sanders sent his chief pollster over there.

Nancy Pelosi sent her son.

Joe Biden sent his son.

John Kerry sent his son.

Yeah.

192 countries ranked by GDP.

Ukraine at 132.

Hello?

And especially when you consider it's what, 40?

What did I say, 40?

33.

33 in population?

Yeah.

That's, yeah, it doesn't seem like the monetary paradise you'd want.

No, it's really not.

It's really not.

While you're sending your son off to war, the Congress, the Democrats, seem to be sending their kids off to oligarchs.

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Peter Schweitzer, I'm trying to take you serious, Peter, but it's so hard.

Oh, is it great to be out with you, Glenn?

Thanks for having me.

I guess we're conspiring in front of your audience.

Oh, yeah, no,

we're going to swear everybody to secrecy here.

No matter what you hear in the next few minutes, you didn't hear us.

We're not really talking to each other.

Peter,

first of all, let me start with this.

Last week, in something completely outrageous, they started saying that you were ripping portions of your book right off of Wikipedia.

And the charges were so crazy because they were saying,

what was the one example, Stu, that we were talking about just yesterday?

They're talking about the mayor of Chicago who had a press conference when he sobbed, and then they take part of your sentence that also used the word sobbed, and they're like, well, he copied the word sobbed from Wikipedia.

No, that's actually a word other people use.

Yeah.

It was crazy.

And the problem is, guys, that if we had used the word cried, I'm sure somebody else had described or published an article saying he cried.

Yeah, I I mean, this is what's really happened is about two weeks ago, the New York Times had a news piece on this.

The Biden campaign has avoided trying to deal with Ukraine and China.

You've talked about it and reported on it extensively.

I did in Secret Empires.

Their strategy was to ignore it.

The problem is that it's really captured the interest of the American people.

So they've gone on the attack, and their approach is still not to deal with the evidence, it's to attack the messenger.

So they have tried these scurrilous attacks.

The bottom line is they don't work.

People are interested in this material.

And as we've talked about before, Glenn, this is all follow the money.

There's no conspiracy we're alleging here.

There's no theory here.

We have the money.

We have the trips on Air Force Two.

We have the Joe Biden policies.

We have the Joe Biden favors.

Now the people have to look at the material and decide one of two things, Glenn.

This is all just a crazy coincidence, right?

That Hunter got these deals that he didn't deserve and that Joe Biden did what he did.

It's all just a coincidence, or

there is corruption at the highest levels here.

And I think most people that look at this, the vast majority of people, say there's something amiss.

And the Biden team, I think, is in panic.

So I agree with you, and

I think the whole DNC is in panic right now.

Yesterday, it came out that Nancy Pelosi's son was hired as, I think, COO of this oil company over in Ukraine.

And you know why they went to Pelosi's family because she loves oil companies.

Just loves them.

But he was actually a beard for a company, for two owners of this company that

were

known oligarchs, known

scam artists and criminals.

They were not supposed to be able to open their own company.

And so he was running it kind of as a beard.

Well, I think she's panicked too.

I think they're all panicking.

No, you're exactly right, Glenn.

I mean, if you look, I was listening to you earlier, and you were talking about the Clintons, and, you know, the foreign country that donated more to the Clinton Foundation than anybody else was Ukraine.

Joe Biden's son gets this sweetheart oil deal in Ukraine.

Nancy Pelosi's son is involved with this deal in Ukraine.

John Kerry's son.

Well, and here's the thing, Glenn, is so, you know, we're all used to seeing all these stories about how corrupt Ukraine is, and it repels us.

The problem is it has the opposite effect on our political elites, because they see it as an opportunity to self-enrich.

They see it as an opportunity for a quick payday in a way they could not get it in the United States, they could not get it in Japan or England because it wouldn't be tolerated.

And this is the problem.

China, the same way.

They're magnets for our political elite because they can do things and get away with things they can't in other parts of the world.

And, you know, as I talked about in the New York Times piece, this is a bipartisan problem.

But I got to tell you, and I think the evidence is clear, nobody has done this more systematically than Joe Biden when he was vice president.

His son had deals in China, he had deals in Ukraine.

We know that in a money he was drawing cash from, Hunter Biden, there was money coming from Kazakhstan, there was money from anonymous LLCs, from Swiss bank accounts.

So there's a bigger, bigger story here.

And what the Bidens want to do is attack me or attack the New York Times.

John Solomon.

Yes, John Solomon, absolutely excellent reporter, excellent reporter.

I deal with reporters from all kinds of mainstream media outlets, and they all know John Solomon and trust John Solomon.

Then how come they're allowing

even the New York Times to smear John Solomon?

John worked for the New York Times.

He worked for the Washington Post.

He worked for Associated Press.

He has outed people on both sides of the aisle.

He's won all kinds of awards.

How come his colleagues aren't standing up and going, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

John Solomon is not that guy.

Yeah, no, it's a great question.

Look, I think that the New York Times, there are all kinds of things going on there.

I deal with some reporters there, and they are top-flight reporters.

But there are problems with other reporters and with some of the editors.

In the case of my piece that ran ran yesterday, this may surprise a lot of people, but it was actually solicited by the New York Times.

They came to me and said, would you write a piece relating to the Secret Empire's book?

You and I have talked about it many times, Glenn.

Would you write a piece in the New York Times book talking about the Bidens, give another example from the other side, and propose a solution?

So they approached me, and, you know, everything that we do is fact-checked internally.

But when you submit a piece like that to the New York Times, they fact-check it.

It went through fact-check.

Everything was fine.

So, you know, my experience is there are Times reporters that are really trying to cover this stuff.

There are other Times reporters, it's like any news organization, who are going to be more lazy or they're going to do somebody's bidding.

And that's what I think you're seeing.

And what the Biden letter from the campaign is intended to do is to try to basically push the management of the New York Times to silence these people that want to cover this story.

That's clearly what their intention is.

Not to mention intimidate other publications from allowing your work to be seen as well.

Exactly.

And I will say too, you mentioned you put some, they asked for someone from the other side, which you supplied, which was a person inside the Trump administration, along with Mitch McConnell and his wife Elaine Chow.

And so

you went into this.

Even in the story they're complaining about, you went after both sides here.

And your point being that this is not illegal, and that's the thing that needs to change.

Exactly.

I mean it was funny.

So another one of the hit pieces against me was Jane Mayer of The New Yorker,

which again has all this ridiculous stuff in it.

But one of the things she puts in there is that Schweitzer writes this book, Secret Empires, and really what he is is just an opposition researcher.

And I'm sitting there thinking, I'm thinking, man, I must be a really stupid one because I go after Republicans as well.

So who actually am I doing opposition research on?

And what I would say is I'm doing opposition research on corruption, corruption and that tends to be establishment political figures from both sides of the aisle

and and you're exactly right this is a problem that doesn't have a deer r after its name it has human after this name it goes to the basic roots you guys talk about this on the radio all the time it goes to that basic part of the corruptible nature of man and power its ability to corrupt people and that's what we're seeing here and they don't want people discussing it i can't believe that the the uber left is not joined this parade on Ukraine because this takes down

the Democratic

leadership,

the guys who are in this institution forever.

It takes apart the Democratic National Committee.

It takes apart all of it.

And I can't believe that they're not grabbing onto this saying,

this is why you need to vote differently because these guys are corrupt.

Why aren't they doing that?

Great question, Glenn.

I remember in 2016, you know, when I did Clinton Cash and you and I talked about it, and it got a lot of media attention, New York Times, et cetera, you know, Bernie Sanders was reluctant for some reason to

criticize Hillary Clinton on this corruption.

But if you followed his hardcore supporters on social media or on websites, they were all over this material because they get it.

I think what you're seeing with a lot of the candidates right now is they're jockeying, they're trying to figure out strategically what's going to benefit them the most, whereas their basis supporters, if you're an Elizabeth Warren supporter or Bernie Sanders supporter, a lot of them are true believers.

And I think they are outraged and they are starting to speak up about this.

And I think the Biden approach of just saying this is going to go away if we just give it time is not true.

I think the reporting continues, the momentum on reporting continues,

and that's not going to go away.

And he's going to have to address this.

And the only way he's going to be able to address this, I think, is to lay out precisely what went on.

And he's just not going to do that.

He's been

in a safe Senate seat for since 1972.

Then he was vice president.

He's not used to being held into account.

He never really had a serious challenger in Delaware.

And so it's just running contrary to his nature to say, I've got to go out and be honest and address this.

He hasn't had to do that in more than 40 years.

So let me ask you about this.

There is a new

allegation that came out from Ukraine yesterday

by a guy named Andriy Durkak.

He is a Ukrainian MP,

and he said that he has documents, and we're having one of these documents, the only one that's been released, translated.

Even the press that has printed these documents has not translated for some reason.

We have it in translation.

I hope to have it by the end of the show, but I think it's going to be this afternoon before we get it.

But he says these documents show that Joe Biden,

not only his son got a piece of $16.5 million,

but Joe Biden himself was paid $900,000 for

his work for Burisma on behalf of Burisma.

Have you ever heard that he got paid directly?

I mean, this is hard to believe because that's

that is illegal.

It is, and I think it would be, you know, extremely reckless.

I mean, look, Glenn, this is the reason I think that President Trump was actually, it was very appropriate for him to say the U.S.

Department of Justice should work with Ukrainians to investigate this.

The challenge in Ukraine is.

Who do you trust?

Yes, it's extremely corrupt.

I don't really know this political figure.

I don't know if those documents are accurate.

I think exactly the way that you laid it out is perfect.

You've got to be kind of skeptical and say this is hard to believe.

But this is why you need people over there.

The notion that somehow the Ukrainians should investigate this themselves to me is ludicrous.

They're just not going to be able to do it.

And that's why we need people over there.

Are these documents genuine?

Are they real?

Are they made up?

There's so much political theater in Ukraine that I think we need to be skeptical until we have actual people go over there.

John Solomon's been trying to do this.

Go over there who are professionals who know this and say, look, I'm using various tests, and these documents appear to be genuine.

So I think your tone and approach on this, Glenn, is exactly right.

Yeah, it's one of those things where when something is too good to be true,

it usually is.

All right, Peter, thank you so much.

Thank you for all of the work that you've done.

I'd love to bring you down for a podcast where we could spend 90 minutes on what you know and take us through all of that.

But I thank you so much for everything that you've done and keep your chin up.

I know what it's like to be called a conspiracy theorist and to have all of your good work just thrown out and ridiculed by those in power.

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Rudy Atala, he is the chief operating officer of the Nazarene Fund.

He is

a guy, he's he's a native of Beirut, Lebanon, fluent in Arabic and French.

He has had over 20 years in the United States Air Force,

special operations to intelligence and counterterrorism.

He has consulted presidents, and we are thrilled that he has been our COO and he's the guy who is sending these rescue missions and putting them together and rescuing these people.

Rudy, welcome to the program.

Good morning.

Thank you, Glenn.

Thank you so much.

You bet.

I don't want to get into the politics of this because I know it's split and we may even disagree on the politics of it.

I just want to talk about the human cost and what is going to happen and what

our responsibility, I believe, for the people who choose to help their, you know, be a good Samaritan and help the people,

what we can do.

First, let's start with something I received last night.

These horrific pictures of these people that were in what looked like even the hallway of a hospital

trying to be

cleaned up after a bombing.

I was told both of them were dead.

It's a mother and a father and their children.

The Nazarene Fund had already saved them once from ISIS and then moved them back into their houses.

And I was told they were killed.

You have a different story this morning?

Yes, sir.

Actually,

they survived.

They were critically wounded with the bombings.

The unfortunate thing is

when Turkey began its bombing, it's very targeted against the it's focused on the Kurds.

But as we know, Christian families live in Kurdish areas.

Many of them come from centuries

of

family lineage in the area.

And this family, unfortunately,

was critically wounded.

We're getting the ground invasion just began in a four-pronged attack into northern Syria.

And the displacement, as of this morning, we're hearing that over a hundred thousand people have already been displaced.

And this number is going to continue to increase.

We're slowly getting feed from

some of

our members on the ground.

It's been very, very very difficult, as you can tell from the bombings and the shellings, to get this information.

But so far, a lot more people have been wounded.

We just don't have a very good tally on the numbers right now.

When we have the video, we are just receiving new video.

If we have the video, go ahead and roll this.

This is a town that

somebody appears to be standing on their roof, and they're showing that it's just everything around their town is on fire,

been bombed.

They were safe.

Can you tell me a little bit about this video,

Rudy?

Did you get it?

Yes.

Yeah, Glenn, I just saw the video.

This is coming from the town of Tel Abyad.

That's in the north-central region of Syria, of northern Syria.

And, you know, the person that videotaped this is videotaping the

different sections where the Turks are bombing.

The Kurdish forces are not going to take this laying down.

They're going to actually fight.

And the reason why the fighting is going to actually happen is because

back in January 2018, the Turks went into the town of Afrin in Syria and

cleansed over 200,000 Kurds.

This was in January 2018.

So Kurdish forces saw this and are not going to, this time, sit back and not be prepared.

They are going to fight to the death.

So these are not people, I wish we wouldn't have been in bed with these particular Kurds.

These are not the Iraqi Kurds who are very pro-democracy and freedom and love America.

These guys are really some, you know, they're Marxist,

communist

kind of, you know, they're authoritarian.

And I don't like being in bed with them, but still they fought against ISIS.

They actually were guarding a lot of the ISIS members, which we have taken apparently the worst of those ISIS people and got them out so they're not released back into the public.

But that's one of the things the Kurds and the Christians and the Yazidis are afraid of is

those gates are going to be opened from those prison camps and they're all going to just disappear.

Yes, that's correct.

So what's going to happen is as the Kurdish forces will be pressured, big camps like Al-Hol camp, which which has houses right now over 70,000 prisoners, mainly the women and children of ISIS fighters, many of them very radicalized and have sworn to fight.

Camps like Aina Isa, Roj, all of these camps now will be under a major duress because the Kurds will not be able to maintain

guard over them.

And the likelihood, and actually Bardadi last month,

the leader of ISIS, made a plea for his fighters to to go in and rescue all these prisoners and get them released we are now already hearing of of ISIS in attacks where we're hearing of suicide attacks not unconfirmed yet but I'm not surprised I would not be surprised if they start to show

you know back when when when ISIS was strong and they controlled a good chunk of real estate in northern Syria many of the ISIS fighters were found with

SIN cards from Turkey.

Their rear base, their support would come from inside Turkey.

Well, we know we shut down two organ harvesting,

you know, quote, hospitals,

and they were in Turkey.

They were helping harvest organs with ISIS.

And, you know, Turkey is, Turkey is, she may be an ally in NATO, but it's not an ally.

It's not, they're on the wrong side.

And if I'm not mistaken, I'd love you to correct this.

They want to re-establish the Ottoman Empire.

They want their land back, even from the northern Iraqi Kurds.

They want to

wipe out all Kurds and many of the Christians.

They don't want them there anymore.

And Turkey has done this in the past.

Am I mistaken that we're looking at a genocide?

Yes, I would call it an ethnocide, but yes, you're correct.

And the reason why is because the current president of Turkey is a card-carrying member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

And when the Muslim Brotherhood was established in the early part of the 20th century, the view from Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, is to return to what he calls pan-Arabism and pan-Islamism, basically a control when Islam had conquered all the way up to the end of the Ottoman Empire in the beginning of the 20th century.

It had large real estate in North Africa, across the Middle East, into a good chunk of Europe.

And the idea behind the Muslim Brotherhood is basically

to return to this

pan-Arabism.

And that's the foundation of it.

The current president of Turkey holds these views in his mind.

So, what he's talking about right now is repatriating a lot of the refugees that are inside Turkey into northern Syria and creating that buffer zone.

Unfortunately, most people don't understand that what he really wants to do is he wants to rid of northern Syria of any presence of Christians or Kurds and replace them with Arabs, Sunni Arabs that have the same mindset.

Because only 17 to 20 percent of the refugees currently in Syria are, I mean, in Turkey, are Syrian Arabs

that are Sunnis.

So he's not going to have a lot of refugees to work with, and he's going to have to replace the rest of these gaps with other people.

Okay, Rudy, you and I have talked to many of these Christians in the past.

They've wanted to stay in the area because they don't want to abandon the birthplace, in many cases, of Christianity,

where the apostles actually set up the actual church that they attend.

And

they don't want to abandon it.

I have a feeling what's coming now, they're going to be willing to say,

I got to get out of here.

We got to get our families out of here.

Yes.

This is...

Am I overstating it to say the problem may be worse than it was before, and we have to get these people out?

Yes,

it could become a lot worse and we need to help every single one of them.

And the reason why is they're going to get pushed into areas that are predominantly dominated by

Iranian-backed militias, which are just as bad as ISIS.

And

we can see a resurgence of ISIS, so they would be indiscriminately targeted because of their Christian faith.

And

sadly enough, as you mentioned, we would lose a lot of those Judeo-Christian areas that have been there for centuries that hold basically

the historical data of

our heritage, of where we originally came from.

Like, you know, the tomb of Jonah, the tomb of Nahum, and all these very special old places that you read in the Old Testament.

So, and

these Christian families are,

you know, we talked, I was in Iraq with my team not even a month and a half ago, And we were talking to 684 Syrian Christian families that were crying.

They wanted to return back to Syria, but they could not because the infrastructure was taken away from them.

They can't even work.

Now we're going to see even more Christians leave from inside Syria.

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Okay, last week we did a chalkboard.

It is the

most watched video the Blaze has ever produced in 10 10 years.

It's watched on YouTube and Facebook as well.

It is hard to find, however.

It's almost like it's being suppressed.

If you want to find this chalkboard, go to YouTube and the Glenbeck page and search for Ukraine Scandal Explained.

Ukraine Scandal Explained, and it should pop up.

And it's a edited 50-minute version of the chalkboard.

A lot of the reporting that we got and and the evidence that we have on that chalkboard came from John Solomon, who has been relentless on Ukraine.

And we have a ton of questions.

And John, normally we kind of meander, and I'd like to, I've literally have two and a half pages of questions I'd like to get to

so we can kind of move quickly.

How are you?

I'm doing well.

Thanks for having me on today.

Okay.

So, first of all, thank you for everything you've done.

Thank you for the bullets that you are taking.

I know what it's like to have your life's work just discredited and

everything called into question, even though you have the goods,

and you'll make it through it, and you're going to come out as a hero in this story, I believe.

Well, the great thing is, I don't even really want to be a hero.

I just, the good thing about journalism is facts are a stubborn thing.

Yep.

And I think when people look at the facts and they get rid of the spin and the personal ad hominem attacks that don't have any basis, you focus on the facts.

There are a lot of troubling questions.

And I'm sure you're going to ask me a lot of them today.

Yeah.

Well, so

Devin Nunes has just revealed that they were looking into a report of strange requests to use government resources to monitor journalists over there.

And we have to be cautious because sometimes those are okay,

sometimes they're not.

Do you have any new information on this?

Well, I can tell you what happened.

I was listening with interest when Congressman Nunes made those comments last night.

About 10 days ago, I received some communications from the intelligence community, from sources I had there.

And they said to me that there was going to be a revelation soon about some inappropriate monitoring of my communications.

Now, they weren't more specific than that.

So that's really all I've had for the last 10 days.

And I let my note lawyers know, and we're just going to wait and see if an actual notification comes forward.

And then we heard Congressman Nunez last night, what he talked about was very similar to the information the intelligence community sources were telling me over the last ten 10 days.

It sounds like, from what we know, that

the U.S.

Embassy in Kiev may have been monitoring a handful of journalists' communications.

Now they might be public communications like our Twitter accounts and our interviews, or they might have been private.

We don't know yet.

There are very specific rules in the State Department and the intelligence community governing this.

And it sounds like Congressman Nunez wants to find out whether those rules are complied with or not, whether this was an appropriate or inappropriate monitoring of communications.

And as I learned a long time ago, this isn't my first time.

In 2002, the FBI similarly, or actually inappropriately, intercepted my mail without a warrant and kept it in an effort to keep me from writing about stories about what had happened before 9-11.

It just took a while to get to the truth, and I think we need to be patient.

There seems to be a red flag here, but we don't have all the facts.

I want to be careful and patient.

Let's go get the facts, and we'll find out what happened.

We have the ambassador,

Jovanovich, testifying before the House.

Do you believe she may be involved in any of this or just if you just don't know, you don't know.

Are we going to get anything, do you believe,

new on whether she gave the Ukrainians the do not prosecute list and why she didn't grant visas to the prosecutors who said they had evidence on Biden and collusion between the DNC and the Ukrainian embassy?

I think she's a very important witness, and I look forward to finding out what she has to say.

What we do know,

first of all, on the monitoring, usually such monitoring, if it was done out of an embassy, would have to be authorized by the ambassador under the normal rules.

We don't know if that happened here yet, right?

We could have just some rogue agents.

So let's wait and see.

But the normal processes

would be for the ambassador to authorize such a request.

So let's wait and see what she says.

We'll learn more tomorrow.

On the do not prosecute list, this is one of my favorite red hearings.

Those who now

accuse me of weaving a conspiracy theory say

Ukraine prosecutor Lusenko, the general prosecutor, the attorney general of Ukraine at the time, did an on-camera interview.

It isn't in dispute.

He said it.

And he said that in his first meeting with Ambassador Yovanovich in 2016,

she gave him a series of names of people she did not want to be prosecuted.

That was a sensational claim.

And so I did the interview in February.

I spent an entire month checking it out before I actually allowed the interview to run.

That doesn't get mentioned in any of these stories attacking me.

During that one month's time, here is what I was able to do to corroborate what the Ukrainian Prosecutor General had said to me.

First, the State Department and the Ukrainians both gave me a copy of the same letter.

It's an April 2016 letter.

It clearly shows the embassy in Kiev instructing, pressuring, ordering the Prosecutor General's office not to pursue an ongoing investigation of of a George Soros funded group called ANTAC,

the Anti-Corruption Action Center of Ukraine.

It's a George Soros group.

It's funded partly by Soros, partly by the State Department.

That letter unequivocally shows in writing that the State Department pressured Ukraine not to pursue an entity.

In addition, the State Department put a senior U.S.

official on background for me prior to my

writing the story and I gave him the names and said these are the names that Prosecutor General Lucenko said came up in the meeting as people that the U.S.

did not want to see prosecuted and that senior official said to me and I have the quotes right in front of me I actually had them ready just in case you asked me about this I can confirm to you that U.S.

Embassy CAV mentioned several of those names during conversations in 2016 with the Prosecutor General's office and other law enforcement agencies that we did not want to see those people harassed, investigated, or prosecuted.

So the State Department confirmed it.

There was written letters showing such pressure being applied.

And now the media and their defenders are trying to claim that that's a bogus story.

It's not.

It's been corroborated.

It's been confirmed.

And I hope tomorrow Ambassador Jovanovich will honestly answer what went on in that meeting.

I got news for you.

I don't think she is because she's instrumental in the corruption.

She would be incriminating herself on a lot of things, would she not?

Well, you know, listen, she probably is carrying out what she thought was the policy of the United States, or certainly her best effort at it.

That doesn't mean it was right or wrong, but I think just getting the fact based out there, were the Ukrainians telling us the truth?

It appears they were, based on my reporting.

Let's wait and see what she has to say.

Are you as solid on her not granting visas to the Ukrainian prosecutors that claim to have evidence of the Bidens and collusion between the DNC and the Ukrainian embassy?

And she, under the Obama administration, refused entrance to those people?

My understanding is that these

visa requests were

geez, you're breaking up.

You're breaking up.

No.

So what happened was

a lot of people think that this all started with Rudy Giuliani going around Ukraine saying, giving me dirt.

It actually started much earlier.

First,

in May of 2018, more than a year and a half ago,

Congressman Pete

went to Ukraine, came back deeply disturbed by.

Okay, hang on, hang on.

Are you moving into a different room or pacing or anything?

Because we're losing you.

I don't think so.

No.

All right, hang on just a second.

Let me take a quick break because I don't want to miss a single word on this.

Let's take a quick break, have our engineers look at this, see if we can get a better connection.

All right, we have him now on a different line and a different phone.

John Solomon, we were talking about the prosecutors at the embassy.

Did she refuse visas

to let these prosecutors come in and work with the DOJ?

So there were three waves of concerns expressed by Ukrainian authorities, including the prosecutors and other officials.

May of 2018, then House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions, a Republican from Texas, one of the most powerful chairmen in all of Congress at the time, he made a trip over to Ukraine.

He came back and he wrote a letter to the brand new Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, and said, I have heard some deeply troubling reports from both Ukrainians and Americans that our ambassador is bad-mouthing President Trump, and I think you should recall her.

That was the first time that Ukrainians on the ground raised the concern that

they saw the ambassador engaged in inappropriate behavior, interfering in investigations, that sort of stuff.

A few months passed, nothing happened.

So the Ukrainian prosecutors under Lusenko, the career people, not Lusenko, the political figure at the top, but career people downstream from him, they hired an American American lawyer.

This is in the October-November timeframe of 2018.

They went out of the way.

They hired a former U.S.

attorney here in the United States, and they gave him a packet of information of things that they thought were going wrong.

One was

the ambassador was interfering in Ukrainian internal affairs, like telling us who we could prosecute and not prosecute.

Two, that Joe Biden had fired a prosecutor who was investigating his son's company, Burisma.

And three, there is some significant evidence, and there's about to be a court ruling in Ukraine this is in the fall of 18 there's about to be a court ruling that Ukraine inappropriately interfered in the U.S.

election in 2016 we'd like to get all this information to the Justice Department that U.S.

attorney a Republican reached out to the U.S.

Attorney's Office in New York and provided that information the reason they hired that U.S.

attorney was that they had tried on their own to get visas to come to the United States and the embassy was telling them they would not process the the request they were just sitting there unprocessed.

So they wouldn't reject them.

They wouldn't approve them.

And so they were in limbo, and so they hired this lawyer to go provide that information to the U.S.

attorney in

New York.

I confirmed with that U.S.

attorney, he did, in fact, convey that information.

He was, in fact, hired.

They were, in fact, not getting their visas.

So an American confirms this story from the Ukrainians.

Go ahead, go ahead.

And then we fast forward the third wave is when eventually Lucenko, the boss of these

career prosecutors in Ukraine, the Attorney General of Ukraine, they call him the Prosecutor General, he reaches out to me and agrees to do an interview, and he says on the record

what had happened, both, you know, confirming what Pete Session said, confirming what the prosecutors had done in the fall, and legitimately raising concerns, which is when we have a diplomat on our soil in Ukraine, their job is not to tell us what to do in our internal affairs, to make, you know, deal with American policy, but not to tell us who we can and can't prosecute on our own soil.

And so three waves over a year, all under President Trump, all efforts to get information to the United States that they thought was troubling, and all before Rudy Giuliani ever got on the ground in Ukraine.

So did we get

those documents?

Did that ever come and whatever happened to it?

That's a great question.

I spoke to the U.S.

Attorney, the lawyer who was hired.

He says he did, in fact, give a general summary of what they had and then offered to get them all the documents, all the underlying documents that would validate or confirm that summary.

And the U.S.

Attorney's Office in New York never responded with interest, never asked for the documents.

Basically, it died with the first letter that was sent over.

So

it does not look like the U.S.

Justice Department under Donald Trump was very interested in it because they could have at least gotten the documents.

So what did I do?

I went and tried to get those documents and I got many of them, like the letter I told you about, the do not prosecute letter, like the bank record showing how much Hunter Biden was paid.

I went and got those myself, and I spent months and months validating them with sources, both on the American and U.S.

side.

And when I would have two or three sources saying that is an accurate document, yes, I can confirm that happened, then I proceeded in writing my stories.

All right.

A Ukrainian lawmaker, who I've not heard about, has just announced that he has documents that Joe Biden was personally paid $900,000 for lobbying activities for Burisma.

He claims the documents back this up.

It seems like one of those things that is too good to be true.

We don't know who this guy is.

I don't know who this guy is.

Do you?

And have you heard this?

And is there any truth to this or possibility that it's true?

It's come up many times in my conversations with the Ukrainians.

The problem for me as a reporter, and again, it's a sensational thing.

It'd be a wonderful thing to report, you know, and make famous if it were true, but it's not true, right?

And here's how I know it's not true.

I have the internal accounting registers of

Burisma.

I was able to get them from a source.

They were validated by Burisma corporate officials.

They show every transaction the company ever made.

There is no transaction listed in that

accounting ledger and in any of the financial books or any of the wires that I've also been able to get showing a payment to Joe Biden.

So I don't give much credence.

That lawmaker is very closely aligned to Russia.

So it could be Russian misinformation or propaganda.

I will say many people have alleged that on the ground.

There's a rumor that has long been on Ukraine, but I always stay in the form of

what's in the fact.

And what I can tell you is the amount of money that goes to Hunter Biden's company is a lot more than what Joe Biden and Hunter Biden say.

If you look at the press reports of the last year, there's this number that keeps coming up that Hunter Biden only got $50,000 a month.

Now, only is a lot of money.

$50,000 is a lot of money, right?

That's a big chunk of change.

The problem with that account is that it greatly

underestimates or

it greatly diminishes how much money really was flowing to Hunter Biden and his company.

I have put into the public domain the corporate records of Rosemont Seneca.

How did I get them?

I got them from the FBI in America.

They had upseized them in another case.

I was able to obtain them from the court file.

From the period of 2014 and 2015, you can see from May 2014 through the end of 2015, regular payments totaling more than $166,000 every month going to Rose Montseneca from Burisma, usually in two payments, $83,333,

twice.

It's highly likely that those payments were

one was for Hunter Biden and the other was for his business partner Devin Archer, both who got put on the board.

Now that's unusual.

One American company having two board members,

it raises a question about independence of the board, right?

But there was at least that much of money.

Some months you can see as much as $220,000 going to Rose Montseneca.

That is a lot more than $50,000.

We do not know what that money was for.

It's marked in the ledger as consulting payments.

So that would mean these board members were also paying themselves consulting fees.

That is why the Ukrainians wanted this to be investigated in America.

Not under Ukrainian law.

They wanted Americans to look at it and find out what was going on with the money.

All right.

Tell me about Nancy Pelosi's son.

He apparently was also,

I think, a COO of an oil company over in Ukraine.

Do you have anything on that?

I don't.

I don't have much visibility on that.

I've seen the reports.

I think there's a much more interesting story emerging in the next few weeks.

I would keep an eye in the next month on the Office of Special Counsel, not to be confused with Robert Mueller's Special Prosecutor's Office.

This is a career office, and it's where whistleblowers traditionally go when they have evidence of wrongdoing.

I am seeing pretty substantial evidence that the OSC has an ongoing investigation into multiple energy companies in Ukraine and the possibility that the Obama administration created erroneous records that allowed more money to flow to those energy companies than that they were entitled to get at the time.

That case is still unwinding, but I think we can see a lot of people involved in that case too.

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