[inaudible] why do you ask such dumb question? jesse: it s actually great question. it s a question every single reporter should be asking. because, before we even knew joe biden was the big guy, before we even had the laptop a ukrainian businessman told an fbi informant that he bribed the big guy 5 million bucks. he used the phrase the big guy when joe was v.p., years before the nickname went public. and tonight we are learning the big guy was throwing his weight around. this alleged $5 million bribe wasn t so much of a bribe. it was more of a shakedown by the big guy, joe biden. he was shaking down the ukrainian. the federalist is reporting that biden coerced the ukrainian to pay the bribe. the big guy was strong arming a ukrainian energy company to wire him cash. the ukrainian told the fbi informant he hid the payments, never directly paid joe, just hid it in a maize of shell companies and said it would take at least 10 years to follow the money back to biden. well, it
but the really interesting thing today is, of course, that we, the public, can all see it. that wasn t the case in ancient greece. most of the ateen whos would be going around their own business, they didn t know what was happening in the senate. today we do today behave the opportunity to see all of this play out. 51 people signed a letter. we can all see through them this is a lot harder. he mentioned the tutors. if you had a problematic opponent they wouldn t have used that word. it if you have a problematic opponent quite easy. hire thugs, kill him, put in a port wine baylor and smuggle him out in the back door. not so easy the age of social media. total reputational destruction that they go for. jesse: didn t it used to just be a woman? you know, you send a woman into the bar, maybe a photograph or two was then, maybe an audio