[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
comcast business. powering possibilities. i m gassed with sudan. if you re just joining us, welcome. it s good to see you. thank you for sticking around if you re sticking with us. we re just days away from an emotional farewell in memphis. the funeral for tyre nichols, killed at the hands of police. the unit that deployed the five officers now charged has been disbanded. it s just one of the actions the community is calling for after the release of that horrifying video. i m going to be talking to a police expert this hour. we re following some breaking political news. just days from now, a showdown between kevin mccarthy and president biden on the debt ceiling. we re going to meet this wednesday. the president said he did not want to have discussions. i think it s important that our whole government is designed to find compromise. they can take control of this runaway spending. coming up, i m going to speak to congressman adam schiff. he got kicked off the house intel c
i m not an accountant but something caught my eye on his dallas. joe claims he made $15 million between 2017 and 2019, right after he was v.p. he says he made 11 million from his book and jill s book and the rest from a dozen or so speaking events. but here s the thing. we have to take joe biden s word for it. his tax returns don t actually show 15 million coming in from book deals and speeches. joe funneled $15 million through a tax loophole he used an accounting trick and $15 million appeared in a tax shelter. we re just supposed to believe that the big guy says the money is from books and speeches. i mean, the guy is plagiarist who can barely talk and we are supposed to believe 15 mill is from books and speeches? shouldn t joe biden release his entire tax return from his s corporations? celtic, capri and ucopa? because he has been lying about money this whole time.
republicans are asking for an exchange for these negotiations. mccarthy interestingly is saying in that interview that those demands for cuts to social security, to medicare, those are off the table. spending cuts to defense spending are still in play. he insists the u.s. will not default on those debt. remember treasury secretary janet yellen using accounting trick until that looming deadline of july when that headline comes to be able to make sure the united states is able to pay for the things it needs to be for? ? this really comes at a critical time. this is a big test of mccarthy s leadership. he is under a lot of pressure from some far-right members of his caucus. it s all eyes on these two on wednesday to see whether that they can work some sort of deal oh. beyond wednesday, we re just a week over the state of the union address. we re hearing reports that he is wrapping up his travel
it s, it s because of the creative math that the democrats are feeding you. based on a number of arbitrary so-called sun set provisions that will all be extended. every one of them. let me translate. it s an accounting trick leftist socialists use to lie to you. senator lindsey graham. your chamber, the senate passed a resolution on the debt ceiling. did a republican cave this time? this was not the debt ceiling but keep the government funded until february eighteenth. we haven t addressed the debt ceiling yet. i predict that not one republican will vote to raise the debt ceiling. the democratic party sean: senator come i don t mean to interrupt you, but the republican party said they wouldn t do it in december. other republicans caved like ra cheap suit. you are right. i don t think it will happen againit for a lot of reasons.