'Tucker Carlson Tonight' takes a closer look at Hunter Biden's overseas business dealings
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Good evening and
welcome to Tucker Carlson
tonight theres an awful lot
of noise in the news right now,
as you would expect there is
an election c coming three weeks
away.
Everyone wants to get a blow in
before its too late, but not
everything you hear is untrue
and not every story is complex.
At the heart of the growing
Biden, Ukraine scandal is a very
straightforward question. Did
Joe Biden subvert foreign policy
in order to enrich his own
family? Wes Mackey was the
sitting president of the
United States, including in his
portfolio Ukraine.
At that moment, vice president,
vice President Joe Biden had
more influence over the
ingredient government and the
ukrainian economy than any other
person on the globe outside of
Eastern Europe.
His son Hunter knew that he
hoped to get rich from his
fathers influence.
We know from
the New York Post. It tells
some of that story.
Tonight. We would like to bring
you some more detail. We have
another batch of emails, some
exclusive to this show we
believe they also came from
Hunter Bidens laptop. We cant
prove that they did. We H have a
exam at that computer, but every
detail that we could check,
including a hunter Bidens
personal email address at the
time, suggests they are
authentic.
As we told you last night, if
these emails are fake, this is
the most complex and
sophisticated hoax in history.
It almost seems beyond human
capacity.
The Biden campaign believes
these emails are real, they
havent said otherwise
we sent to the body of them to
Hunter Bidens attorney and
havent heard back
with that in mind, heres what
we learned on November second,
two thousand and fifteen, a Burisma executive called
Vadym Pozharskyi, emailed Hunter
Biden and his business partner,
Devon Archer.
The purpose of this email was to
be on the same page about the
final goals, including, but not
limited, to a concrete course of
action.
What did Burisma want exactly
good p dot r? For starters, the
executives wanted high ranking,
U Dot S officials to express their
positive opinion of Burisma,
and then he wanted the
administration to act on
burismas behalf. The scope
of work should also include a
visit of a number of widely
recognized and influential
current and former? U DOT s
policymakers to Ukraine in
November
the goal the executive
explained was to close down any
cases and pursuit against the
head of Burisma in Ukraine
that couldnt be clearer what
they wanted to
Burisma wanted Hunter Bidens
Father to get their company out
of legal trouble with the
ukrainian government and thats
exactly what happened
one month later to the day. On
December. Second, two thousand and fifteen Hunter Biden
received a notice from a
Washington, P, dot r firm, called Blue
star strategies. They had
apparently been hired to lobby
the administration on it.
Ukraine,
at this show has obtained that
email
hello. All this morning, the
White House hosted a conference
call regarding the
vice presidents. Upcoming trip
to Ukraine attached is a memo
from the Blue STAR strategies
team, with the minutes of the
call which outlined the trips
agenda and addressed several
questions regarding: U Dot S policy
towards Ukraine.
Here you have a p dot r firm
involved in official weight
house foreign policy call. How
could that happen?
Good question,
but it worked
days later Joe Biden flew to
Ukraine and did exactly what his
son wanted. The vice president
gave a speech slamming the very
ukrainian law enforcement
official, who was Tormentingg
Burisma, the exact guy.
If the ukrainian government
doesnt fire its top prosecutor,
a man called Viktor Shokin, the
administration will withhold a
billion dollars in american aid.
Ukraine is a poor country. They
had no choice but to obey.
Bidens bullying worked
he bragged about it later.
I had gotten a commitment
that they would take action
against the state prosecutor and
they didnt.
So walking of the press
conference I said, were not going
to give you the billion dollars.
They said you have no authority
youre, not the president. The
president said, I said, call him
im telling you youre not
getting the billion dollars
im going to be leaving here, and
I think it was six hours I
said im leaving at six hours.
If the prosecutor isnt fired
youre, not getting the money
well son of a bitch that she got
fired.
He gave that speech
before the Council of Foreign
relations. We pretend this is
normal and officially
authorized. This is how things
are done. Thats not true at
all.
If this is bizarre- and the
amazing thing about the video
you just saw- is that no one in
that audience of Harvard
graduates ask the glaringly
obvious question: why was the
vice president of the
United States and threatening a
tiny country like Ukraine to
fire its top prosecutor?
That doesnt seem like a
vice presidents role
now we know why
Viktor Shokin has signed an
affidavit, affirming that he was
in fact investigating burisma. At
the moment Joe Biden had him
removed.
He said before he was fired.
Administration officials
pressured him into dropping the
case against Burisma. He would
not do that. So Joe Biden canned
him
thats how things really work in
Washington.
Your son has a lucrative
consulting deal with a ukrainian
energy company. You tailor
american foreign policy to help,
make him rich
our foreign policy,
even at the State Department,
possibly the most cynical agency
in government. This seemed
brazen
during the impeachment
proceedings, a state department,
official called a George Kent
said it was widely known in
Washington that the bidens were
up to something sleazy in
Ukraine.
I was on the call, and I raised
my concern- that Hunter Biden was
on the Board of Burisma.
This could create a perception
of a conflict of interest.
How did the vice presidents
often respond to this concern?
According to George, Kent was the
message I recall hearing back
was his son was dying of cancer
and theres no further bandwidth
to deal with family related
issues at the time this was
Americas foreign policy being
tailored to Joe Bidens son.
Five years later, he still has
not been forced to explain why
he fired at Ukraines top
prosecutor. At precisely the
moment, his son was being paid to
get him to fire Ukraines top
prosecutor. Nor has Joe Biden
addressed whether or not he
personally benefited from the
Burisma contract.
There are hints
last night, former mayor, Rudy
Giuliani, published what he said
is another email from Hunter
Bidens laptop its a note to
one of his children, its sad
and fraught and personal, and we
arent going to quote it at
length, but at the end there is
this dont worry, unlike your
grandfather, I wont make you
give me half your salary.
What does that mean exactly
we dont know there may be more
detail, but we dont have access
to that.
The question remains: how has
Joe Biden lived in extravagance
all these years on a government
salary?
No one has ever answered that
question and the tech monopolies
are working hard to make certain
no one ever does
this morning the New York Post
published another story. This
one describes a business venture
Hunter Biden was working on in
China.
The email reads this way. At the
moment there is a provisional
agreement. The equity will be
distributed as follows.
Ten held by Hunter for the big
guy
is the big guy, Joe Biden.
If so, how much did Joe Biden
get and how much of that came
from the communist chinese
government?
Those are real questions. This
man could be elected president
in three weeks, but twitter
doesnt want you to wonder. It
wont. Allow you to ask those
questions:
Twitter, restricted
the New York Post story as
unsafe, as though it was a lawn
dart or a defective circular
saw
it was enough for the Biden
campaign. It was enormously
useful
all day they deflected questions
about Joe Bidens subversion of
our countrys foreign policy. By
invoking twitters ban on
the New York Post story,
the tech monopolies censored
information to help their
candidate and the candidate uses
that censorship to dismiss the
story. One hand washes the
other.
I think twitters response to
the actual article itself makes
it clear these reported
allegations are false and they
are not true.
We are glad to see social media
companies like Twitter, taking
responsibilities to limit
misinformation.
You want to know
what corruption looks like
you just saw what corruption
looks like
my campaign: donors control the
media. They are shutting down
the publics, access to
information that criticizes
me. The fact they are doing
that gives me justification not
to address your question about
that information. Thats. What
corruption looks like when
billionaires, shut down
legitimate questions about a
candidate three weeks before
election day, thats
corruption,
its also almost perfectly
circular reasoning, and to
illustrate that twitter and
Facebook censored
the New York Post story before
they had any reason to suspect
it wasnt true.
Even now, they arent claiming
its a hoax because its not a
hoax
in minutes state shut down this
countrys centuries long
tradition of a free press, and
they did it for partisan
reasons. They didnt pretend.
Otherwise,
it doesnt matter who you plan
to vote for the first Tuesday in
November. You should be
terrified.
Democracies cannot exist and
never will be able to exist
without the free flow of an
information thats a
prerequisite
and without it we are done. But
companies like Facebook, Google
and twitter do not care because
they do not believe in
democracy. They worship, power,
Melania, trumps, private phone
conversations, the presidents
tax returns. They were happy to
publish all of that. They
didnt have a problem with
hacking. But if you criticize
the democratic candidate their
candidate, you are banned,
thats the standard they have
set.
How do we come back from that
today? You have elected
Democrats, members of the party
who, just in the recent past
claimant, to revere free speech.
Cheering on censorship.
Here is the moderate
Senator Chris Coons of Delaware.
Doing just that.
Facebook and twitter have
policies not to spread things
that are utterly unreliable,
that have been debunked and
where their origin is
untrustworthy,
they are practicing their own
internal controls, as I wish they
had over the past four years
if they had been more selective
about what they posted in
two thousand and sixteen dont take my word for
it. Listen to the head of the
FBI,
an active russian disinformation
campaign in twenty. Sixteen had an
influence on that election. They
are trying even harder in this
election im glad they are
managing the content on their
own website.
That man is a liar.
Not one word of this story has
been debunked, not one word in
those emails has been debunked
and if it is debunked, we will
be the first to report its
because we are not liars, but did
you catch the phrase? He wanted
you to hear
russian disinformation
thats what they are claiming
these emails are and its all
over the internet, conspiracy
laden conjecture crazier than
anything the Q people thought of
but lunatic lies about. Russia is
ever censored by the tech
monopolies.
It helps Joe Biden. Therefore,
you can read it:
we are the real journalist. Now
we need them more than ever.
If theyre gone cowering,
afraid they dont want to upset
power,
Jake Sherman of Politico, who
claims to be a news reporter
actually apologized on Twitter,
for asking the Biden campaign
about Hunter Bidens emails.
These people are craven, they
have no standards or
self respect
it like their masters in
Silicon Valley, they worship,
power alone,
Adam Schiff of California, knows
that feeling well
when he sees censorship, it
excites him and he calls for
more
the online ecosystem and
unwitting audiences that the
Kremlin so ably exploited remain
vulnerable to unscrupulous
homegrown actors, who conceive
and spread falsehoods of their
own.
If left unchecked, there could
be irreversible damage not only
to our nations discourse but
the how we, as as a society, sort
fact from fiction
theyve, not change the
foundational features of their
platforms that expose users and
recommend to them often extreme
sensational or emotionally,
charged content.
That guy is the
chairman of the House
Intelligence Committee and there
he is affirming the censorship
of his own campaign donors in
Silicon Valley, the most
powerful people in the world.
If this doesnt rattle your cage,
then nothing will.
Ten years ago no member of
Congress wouldve said what
Adam Schiff just said in public,
it wouldve been considered an
obvious threat to the
constitution. To the
first amendment,
bill of rights, the ACLU
wouldve screamed professional
journalist associations would
have joined them, but today they
are all silent. Some are
applauding and some are
accelerating
watch this member of Congress
suggest the government ought to
decide what news organizations
are allowed to publish just like
they do in China.
Do we need a new agency that
essentially would be, on behalf
of the public, making the rules
subject to legislative authority,
as opposed to having that
delegated to the tech giants,
a new agency with
legislative authority to decide
what you are allowed to read
sound familiar.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-16.