00:00Thanks to all the witnesses for being here. You know, the visual, sometimes it really is true,
00:04a picture speaks louder than words, it's worth a thousand words, and here all you have to do is
00:08look over at this side of the dais to see that the stone wall continues. I mean, from the party
00:13that lied to this nation for four years, let's just take a look at some of the things that
00:19our colleagues said on the Democrat side when their own Justice Department was concluding
00:25that Joe Biden, who let's not forget, illegally took classified documents, illegally took classified
00:32documents and kept them in his garage, in his freezer, I mean, Lord knows where, he just certainly
00:38didn't know. Their own Justice Department interviewed the guy and concluded he could not form the requisite
00:44mental state to stand trial. He did not have the mental ability to stand trial, and what did our
00:50Democrat colleagues say? Vice President Harris says, oh, no, no, the way that the Herr report
00:55characterized the president's so wrong, the president's demeanor is totally fine. Senator
00:59Smith, what Herr said about the president not remembering his son's death, so unfair. Senator
01:05Cain said this is grandstanding. Senator Fetterman said it's just cheap shots. You had other senators
01:10saying, Senator Ossoff, in February of 2024, 2024, saying, and I quote, I found the president to be sharp,
01:17focused, impressive, formidable, and effective. In June 2024, Congressman Jeffries insists Biden was,
01:26and I'm quoting again, incredibly strong, forceful, and decisive. Where are they now? They don't want to
01:33answer for any of those quotes now. They lied to us for four years, and we know they lied. They know
01:39they lied. It's why they're not here. They don't want to answer a single question they can't bear to show
01:44their faces in public. And you know what? It's right that they can't do that, because the bill
01:49of goods they sold this country, they walked this country right into one of the greatest
01:53constitutional crises of our history, of our history. And now they are afraid to even show up
01:59to admit it. These are people, and this is a party that cannot be trusted with power, that cannot be
02:05trusted to tell the truth, the most basic truth. They all changed their tunes after Joe Biden debated
02:11President Trump, and the whole world could see he couldn't even form a sentence, that running this
02:15guy for president again is a form of elder abuse. My, how they changed their tunes after that. Now
02:21they can't even show up in public to talk about it. This is embarrassing. But worse than that, it's
02:27dangerous. It is dangerous for this country. Mr. Wold, I want to pick up on something you just said a
02:32second ago about the OLC and their opinion as to when an auto pin can be used. Let's be clear about
02:38this. Auto pin means not signed by the person. Auto pin is basically push of a button and it gets
02:44signed. OLC says only when the president specifically directs it and it is under his direct
02:51authority. Do I basically have that right? That's correct, Senator. So based on the facts we know,
02:56did that happen in this case with all of the pardons and clemencies and other giveaways that
03:01Joe Biden side? Assuming that the Biden White House complied with sort of traditional practice
03:08of presidential administrations and that there was record keeping either from the staff secretary or
03:13others, there should be records to indicate either through covering memorandum or briefing books where
03:19the president would have signed his signature authorizing this decision. None of that has come
03:23forward. That would be very easy to dispel some of these concerns. And I think what we're seeing here
03:27is really the auto pin is best understood as a sort of a tool of executive. Hold on a second. I want to,
03:32I want to, I want to, I would just want to, you just said something very important. I want to emphasize
03:35that. So what you're saying is, is that there should be for every time that Biden authorized the auto
03:41pin, there should be a record of that. And he should have had to have registered his personal consent to
03:47using the auto pin. Is that basically correct? I think, I think to put it, uh, to put it another
03:52way, I would say in, in the pro the policy paper flow to the Oval Office, there should be a record
03:58of what documents are presented to the president when, and when he gave his assent to the actions
04:03that are listed in those documents, whether it's a judicial nomination or it's a statutory response to
04:09Congress. Well, I think the answer is we need to get those documents. And I just say to the, to our friends in
04:14the media over here, you guys need to be asking for those documents and we need to be asking for
04:18them. Mr. Chairman, we need to see those documents and the president, the former president now can
04:23certainly choose to release them. I'm sure they're part of his personal papers, right? Mr. Wold?
04:27And that's correct. And the first place to start would be the staff secretary's office under
04:31president Biden. Oh, this is, so here's, here's the trail. If you want to know, if you want an answer
04:36to the question, did Joe Biden actually assent to the use of the auto pin and all you think of all the
04:42people he pardoned, he granted clemency to murderers, drug dealers, child rapists, let's find out. Did he
04:49actually authorize it? There should be a record of it is what we've learned today. Thank you for that
04:54testimony, Mr. Wold. There should be a record of it. So this is a binary question. It's not, oh, we don't
04:59know. Gee, it's hard to say. No, actually we can find out. So I right now today, I call on President Biden,
05:07former President Biden and his staff, release the documents. You have them, you know, you have them,
05:11release them. If you're, if what you did is legal and if you're really not embarrassed about it and you
05:17think it was totally constitutional, release the paper flow. Show us the documents where the president
05:21authorized the use of the pin for every single pardon and clemency and stay application. Let's see it.
05:28Let's see all of it. And if you won't do it, we should subpoena those documents and we should find out the
05:34truth of who was really running the White House because I think we can see it was not Joe Biden. Thank you
05:39all for being here today. Mr. Wold, thanks for your testimony.
05:43Senator Kennedy.
05:45Thank you, Mr.
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