by ukrainians and russians and kazakhs and chinese communists, and they re paid through shell corporations. now, what s a shell corporation? a shell corporation is a legal fiction. corpoand itot ait s not a realt it s not like you start a car wash business. it has employe s notrwash buss t actually does something. no, a shell corporation existsl on paper, and its main purpose is to launder money to hide the money that s coming in. i have to tell you, i do not know anymonday. individual in government, republican or democrat, who has ever doneone anything remotely like what is alleged here, which hake whas hd a business of selling official favors for tens of millions ofoa dollars. and by the way,he they re not getting money. hunter wasn t getting money from from the french or the britist gettin h or the canadians or friends of america. they were seeking out communists and corrupt oligarchs who were willing do things. john look, you live a life. have you ever had a corrupt foreign o
only corrupted federal institution. from the cdc, the nih, the cia, we can look at every american institution and wonder what has gone wrong. but your former institution is the one in the spotlight tonight. what is wrong, james, with the fbi? it s a fair statement. pushback on corrupt. with the problems are just the upper echelons. we know the fbi director and the attorney general are political appointees. the vast majority of fbi agents, 12,000, 36,000 employees in total are good, decent people. they are working to follow evidence. it s the people at the top, they ve got to go. will: i will say this and all optimism, i hope you are right. i do worry about a class of employees perhaps at the higher levels of every federal institution but a class of employees who remain amount of the party in power and whose primary purpose is for
job as a federal prosecutor in the office literally investigating jeffrey epstein, magically the next day started representing a bunch of jeffrey epstein s closest colleagues, including, he set up his office and the exact same office suite in south florida as jeffrey epstein s criminal defender himself. so you ve just got to marvel at the coincidence they are. will: what in your estimation, and we ve talked about this with others but you reported on this deeply, you ve reported on what we have talked about tonight, the permanent class in washington. what in your estimation is the true motivation about what we watched happen last night? i think it s a declaration of war against the american public, against half of the country, if not more, that doesn t want to be ruled by a bunch of corrupt oligarchs. it s easy to look at what happened and say it s just about trump, it s just about donald trump, and he s kind of different. it s not about anything else. no, this is about the ruling e
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nato alliance. i want to get your take on ukrainians authorities saying they seize the 154 assets from detained putin ally viktor medvechek. this includes 36 cars, 20 plots of land, 32 homes, 32 apartments and a yacht. how big a deal is this for ukrainians? this is a big deal, don. this is a big deal. one of the things president zelenskyy made top of his list when he ran for president back in 2019 was to go after corrupt oligarchs. you could add corrupt russian oligarchs. medvechek is clearly in that category. one of his kids is the godson of president putin, so they re that close. and that kind of wealth is exactly what president zelenskyy was going after. it s clearly corrupt, ill-gotten wealth, and president zelenskyy is going after medvechek and