Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley argues Sen. Johnson was correct when accusing Sen. Peters, Democrats at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing for recently spreading 'Russia disinformation' claim.
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You talked about many russian
disinformation
will will Brian Brian lets
bring be in Jonathan Turley
George Washington, university law,
professor
good morning to you
good morning,
Ainsley this hearing was was
supposed to about election
irregularities.
You will could see Senator
Johnson had a grievance with
Senator Peters and wanted to
talk about it.
Do you think he was right to do
that?
He was right about the
accusation.
I tweeted immediately, when
Senator Peters denied it that
they actually did issue that
statement that the Hunter Biden
Matter was russian
disinformation.
This was part of a general
narrative,
Adam Schiff, over at the IT house.
Intelligence committee assured
the public that this was russian
disinformation
and it was coming directly from
the Kremlin.
All of that was demonstrably
false,
but it was stated before the
election
and it served its purpose.
It created some doubt as to
whether this laptop and these
emails were authentic.
There was never any indication
that they were true ofly russian
disinformation,
but are the Democrats are very
good at this.
They issued fifty former national
security figures who said yep.
This looks exactly like stuff
coming out of the Kremlin and
the media ran with that story,
and it really did work
Steve, yeah,
Brian. It worked
and it hurt the country,
even if you are the biggest
trump supporter or detractor.
It was a distraction
and for two years the world
laughed at us and the Russians
couldnt believe how great they
had it, as they were the bad guy.
But the Democrats and
Republicans tore each other
apart and we wasted a lot of
money and unbelievable amount of
time.
I thought something else stood
out about that hearing and then
we will move on
Christopher Krebs. Was there and
looks like an important guy,
a smart guy,
but he was there saying there
were no problems,
and then you have the Trump
lawyer sitting there saying
excuse me: there is twenty six thousand
people in Nevada that voted that
didnt belong there.
There is forty five thousand that voted
twice
and the american people are
looking at this going. How can
this guy, with his hair, gel, sit
there and say no problems at all
and the other guy say we have
huge problems and we cant get a
hearing.
Do you understand Jonathan, the
frustration and why people are
in the streets in Washington?
We have two people telling us
exact opposite stories.
Well, I actually do
understand the frustration
I actually thought the hearing
was very interesting on both
sides.
I thought Krebs did a good job
in responding to the allegations
involving this voting machine
and these coded these codes
that came up.
I thought he did a good job on
that.
I thought that the Wisconsin
attorney and former judge also
did a very good job.
Im surprised that the Trump
campaign did not use him more
significantly before. If,
but I think part of the
frustration is- and this is where
I have to give the Wisconsin
attorney it some credit.
It is true that the Wisconsin
Supreme Court did not look at
the underlying allegations
and it. This has been a point of
contention that the media is
reporting that all of these it
violations have been reviewed by
all of these courts.
Some of them have reviewed the
specific alleged violations.
Many of them have not, including
the Wisconsin Supreme Court,
which really had a division on
the court.
Some of those justices felt that
it was wrong to it basically
cite whats called latches,
saying you came to us too late
and dismiss these issues.
There is frustration in that.
I think the press could do a
better job in acknowledging that
many of these decisions were
paced on threshold issues, not
the underlying violations
Steve. Suddenly, the press is
starting to pay attention be to
the Hunter Biden story,
although before the election, it
was only the New York Post and
the channel that we are on
Brian and him
Steve and Jonathan Turley as
well,
and it was great
and as it turns out regarding
that hearing it wasnt russian
disinformation, there actually
was a Doj investigation are into
him about his dealings.
The Foxnews dot com got ahold of an
email from Hunter Biden to one
of those chinese energy
companies.
The guy who runs it
among other things, it says I
hope my letter finds you well.
I regret missing you on my last
visit to the United States.
Please accept the best wishes
from the entire Biden family as
well as my partners.
We are all hoping to see you
again soon in the United States
or in Shanghai,
so that is from apparently the
laptop of Hunter Biden.
You know, Fox NEWS has been the
only ones asking Joe Biden about
his son.
Finally, apparently yesterday
Joe Biden realized. I should
probably answer one of the
questions with a real answer and
he did
listen. To this are recall,
your son did nothing wrong.
Your son did nothing wrong,
im, confident,
Steve hes, confident that
Hunter did nothing wrong.
Jonathan, if you were in the
audience- and you were going to
ask Joe Biden a question,
what would you like to know?
I would like to know the
first question Doocy asked, which
was a couple days ago, and that
is when did you first know about
the investigation of your son?
We have literally had this news
blackout and it particularly Joe
Biden, has not disclosed when he
was first told that his son was
under investigation.
The fact is that many of us have
been writing about Hunter Biden
for years.
This was before the recent
burisma stuff.
You know the bidens have used
public office for their benefit
really quite openly.
You know Joe Bidens brother
advertised himself,
this isnt word of mouth.
He actually put into print that
he had access to his brother as
a pitch to get clients.
You know, Hunter Biden was put
on the Amtrak Board
and when that happened, Senator
Carper from Delaware, the only
thing he could come up with as
an explanation is that Hunter
Biden, rode trains, a lot
thats like putting someone in a
top position at the FDA because
he eats a lot
physical. It was almost mocking
the selection,
so the family has had this long
history of cashing in on
influence and access
and whats really bizarre about
this is some of us have been
writing about this for years
that I have never had a single
reporter challenge me on one
salient point:
this was clearly an influence
pelgdingpeddling scheme,
both the uncle and it Hunter
Biden, were selling influence and
access.
No one seriously disagrees with
it.
When Joe Biden says my son did
nothing wrong.
He seems to be confining his
definition of what is wrong to
the criminal code
and thats, not usually how we
measure will public officials
Ainsley Jonathan? Thank you so
much
or public figures.
Thank you,
Brian Jonathan, its also true,
you cant, diminish Tony
Bobulinskis story. He is all
over these emails and referred
to by Hunter.
Anyone who says bobulinski,
doesnt, make sense or add up
just read this and thats the
rabbit hole
Steve because in this
particular one that we were
citing a moment ago, Hunter
alludes to the fact that Tony
Bobulinski had contacted the
company earlier and says: hey:
where is our 10 million dollar?
And apparently they had not
gotten the money Hunter thought
its time for me to get out the
email
Ainsley Cover of the New York
post. Seventy six percent of those following
this story closely in the media.
They think that the media
ignored it to help Joe Biden win
this election
Steve Jonathan Turley, never
ignored it.
Sir. Thank you very much.
Transcript generated on 2020-12-17.