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00:00Welcome to a spooky special edition of Jesse Waters' Primetime.
00:11I'm not Jesse dressed up as Charlie Hurt.
00:14I'm actually Charlie Hurt.
00:16So, trick or treat.
00:18Happy Halloween and all of that.
00:22It's getting spooky in Washington.
00:24Even Chad Pergram is getting a little scared.
00:27The senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram is here to share some ghost stories
00:32from the halls of Congress.
00:34Chad.
00:35Good morning, guys.
00:36Well, these are tales of the macabre, perhaps from the congressional crypt.
00:41And since we're going to tell ghost stories, I thought I would bring along some marshmallows here.
00:46Halloween started a day early.
00:48The president and first lady were handing out king-sized candy bars
00:51to the little ghouls and goblins at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
00:55The Millers were there.
00:57Katie was a skeleton.
00:59And Stephen was the Democrats' worst nightmare himself.
01:04One trick or treater got spooked and the first lady had to step in to comfort her.
01:09And we had a repeat of Halloween's past.
01:13President Trump dropped a candy bar on a trick or treater's head, just like he did in 2019.
01:19Trump's handing out treats while Chuck Schumer and his minions in the Democrat Party
01:23are playing a trick on America.
01:25The government's been shut down for a month, and food stamps run out tomorrow.
01:32People are scared.
01:33I think families are going to feel like the rug is being yanked out from underneath.
01:38Hunger in our community will go up, 100%.
01:42Schumer's minions are saying, no treats for you.
01:46Why?
01:47They want it all for themselves.
01:48Are you ready to vote with the Republicans to reopen the government at this point as a reasonable Democrat?
01:55Maybe others would follow you.
01:59You know, I'm not there yet because we have had literally, Joe, no discussion whatsoever about how we're going to deal.
02:06This is the right way to do it, Senator, by people not getting paychecks at the TSA.
02:11This is extortion.
02:14Democrats are still throwing a party, but you're just not invited.
02:17Even CNN knows they're all dressing up like clowns.
02:21This is a choice by the White House.
02:24And this is also, Congresswoman, this is also a choice by Senate Democrats to not vote to open the government.
02:30Yes, it is.
02:31Trump says this is just the craziest Halloween.
02:35The Democrats just don't know what they're doing.
02:37I don't know what's wrong with them.
02:38They've never done a thing like this.
02:41They've become crazed lunatics.
02:43All they have to do is say, let's go, let's open up our country, and everything snaps back into shape.
02:52Democrats are talking crazy.
02:53They think Trump spiked the punch bowl with a poison pill.
02:57Any bill that they've put forth, they've always had some extra stuff to it.
03:01There's always been a poison pill to it.
03:03So I disagree with your characterization.
03:05What were the poison pills?
03:07I think what you're trying to do is shift the responsibility to Democrats.
03:13Trump's not spiking anything.
03:15Well, maybe he may be spiking the filibuster because it might be the only way to reopen the government.
03:20Every Republican just wants this shutdown to end.
03:23We just want this to end.
03:26They do not deny that they, the Democrats themselves, that they are prolonging this pain.
03:31They admit to it.
03:32They said they're using it as leverage.
03:34The big question everybody needs to ask this morning is why.
03:37They're trying to appeal to the radical left Marxist rise in their party.
03:42That boy, Hakeem, keeps saying Johnson won't pick up the phone, but even CNN is hitting him with a fact check.
03:50You said that Mike Johnson's not willing to sit down and have a conversation.
03:54Y'all did have a phone conversation, I believe you said, earlier today.
03:58Who initiated that call?
03:59Was that you or was that Speaker Johnson?
04:02It was a call from Mike Johnson.
04:03It was very brief.
04:04Uh, and it wasn't a substantive discussion in terms of finding a path forward.
04:10But was he calling to talk about the government shutdown?
04:14I mean, you can say that that was in the ballpark.
04:17Strike three, Hakeem.
04:19You're out.
04:20Charlemagne, the podcaster, meanwhile, is stuffing him in himself in a Halloween costume.
04:25People are angry.
04:27So why is Hakeem Jeffries talking like he's Chuck E. Cheese Obama?
04:31Okay?
04:33What are we doing?
04:34What are we doing?
04:36Come on, man.
04:37Come on, come on, come on.
04:39Clearly the Democrats don't have the leaders they need to meet the moment.
04:42Okay, fine.
04:43Anyone who is a fan of sports knows sometimes you need a rebuilding year.
04:46Okay, get some draft picks, develop young talent.
04:48And at some point, the old guys need to retire.
04:52So Democrats are looking for something a little bit more fresh.
04:55Hakeem's not the guy.
04:57And they're in love with a commie named Mamdani.
05:00Hakeem was forced to endorse.
05:02But Chuck says, no way, Jose.
05:05Mamdani, you going to vote for him?
05:06Look, the bottom line is very simple.
05:09I have a good relationship with him.
05:12And we're continuing to talk.
05:14He's voted on Tuesday.
05:15What are you going to do?
05:16It's very simple.
05:18It's very simple.
05:19If Chuck doesn't want to get on board, Democrats are going to make him walk the plank.
05:23Ilhan Omar says, Chuck better watch out.
05:26Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
05:28Would you like to see her primary Chuck Schumer?
05:31I would like to do Alex.
05:33I would like Alex to do whatever it is that Alex wants.
05:36And I'll be there to support her.
05:38Sounds like a yes to me.
05:39Democrats can't ever give us a straight answer.
05:42They'd rather just walk away than answer.
05:45A far-lefty candidate bum-rushed ICE, and now she's facing federal charges.
05:50But don't ask her about it, though.
05:52Just to be clear, the indictment alleges that you and others, quote,
05:57surrounded a federal officer's vehicle, banged on its hood and windows, etched pig on the side, and impeded movement.
06:05Did you etch the word pig on the side of an officer's car?
06:09I'm pleading, not guilty, the evidence will come out in court, and I plan on winning.
06:15Thank you so much for having me.
06:16Yeah, um, did she just sign off?
06:21And poof, like a ghost on Halloween.
06:24Democrat policies have scared us enough, and they're still trying to scare us.
06:28All I know is, no, sir, you will not get a third term.
06:32That's not going to happen.
06:33And frankly, you never should have had one term.
06:35If I'm going to be perfectly honest, you were never qualified to be president of the United States, not once, but definitely not twice.
06:43And your incompetencies are showing.
06:45You are a loser, and unfortunately, we all are being dragged down with you in your loser way.
06:52If there's a loser out there tonight, it's Democrats.
06:56Trump just came back from Asia with $2 trillion worth of deals.
06:59A loser could not pull that off.
07:02Even Chuck Schumer says Trump's a winner.
07:03I guess you have to say it's Donald Trump.
07:07He's figured out how to communicate in this fragmented environment.
07:10If the question is effective communicator, he's effective.
07:13You've got to say that Trump's been the more effective communicator of anybody.
07:17Trump will communicate with anyone, from the Chinese to the Arabs to, yes, even Democrats.
07:2247 says his door is always wide open.
07:26I'm always going to meet.
07:27All they have to do is open up the country.
07:29Let them open up the country, and we'll meet.
07:32We'll meet very quickly.
07:35Democrat strategist Michael LaRosa joins me now.
07:38Good evening.
07:39Good to see you.
07:39Happy Halloween.
07:41So, you know, I know that AOC announced the other day the Democrats are not crazy.
07:46But when you look at some of that, it's kind of hard to say that they're not crazy.
07:49Yeah, after hearing your entire monologue, Charlie, it's a little hard not to feel like we're a big ship taking on water in every direction sometimes.
08:00And there are some communicators for the Democratic Party who I would just love to see communicate a little less.
08:07But I do think you'll probably be reading from a different script next week.
08:12I think that the tide will shift.
08:14Nothing's frozen in politics.
08:16And next week, after the elections in New Jersey, Virginia, and California, which will reset and even up the score heading into the midterms on redistricting, I think Democrats will feel a little more spring in their step.
08:29Well, certainly going into Virginia and New Jersey, they're both solidly Democrat states.
08:36But the fact that we're even talking about races there, I think, is probably pretty alarming for Democrats.
08:44No, not really.
08:46We're always talking about the election preceding the midterms because both sides feel that they are harbingers for things to come, just like when Glenn Youngkin won the governorship of Virginia four years ago.
09:03Republicans thought there was a chance they could keep it again.
09:07And Jack Cittarelli came very close to beating Phil Murphy four years ago as well in a shocker.
09:13OK, so then let's get you on the record for this.
09:17I like this.
09:18So if Jack Cittarelli wins in New Jersey or Jason Miara wins in Virginia, would you say that's a five alarm fire for Democrats?
09:26Yes.
09:28OK, we'll get you back for that.
09:31You can have me back and we will we will we will break that down.
09:33But, yes, I don't I don't foresee.
09:35I see Miara as you feel confident that that's not going to happen.
09:39I think that the Democrats will likely win both states.
09:47Right.
09:47But if I'm wrong, I will come back and hash it out with you for sure.
09:49No, and for sure, Democrats should, especially considering the fact that not only are they Democrat states, but you also have a Republican in the White House.
09:56And usually these off off year midterm, you know, middle midterms or whatever you want to call them, go against the party in power.
10:05Let me ask you about this.
10:06So food stands run out tomorrow.
10:08Right.
10:09Democrat, you know, bipartisan majorities have voted in both chambers of Congress to keep the government open at Biden spending levels.
10:18Yes. Democrats in the Senate, a minority of Democrats in the Senate or a Senate, a Democratic minority is filibustering this.
10:28How does that not wind up hurting Democrats when food stamps run out tomorrow?
10:34Well, a couple of things.
10:36There's a there's a bit of a quagmire here.
10:37So you have Democrats who have successfully elevated the issue of health care nationally as a tactic, but has nothing to do with keeping the government funded and reopening it up.
10:51But they're successfully using it as leverage, which, by the way, is not unusual.
10:56That is politics.
10:57That is governing.
10:58That's always been the case within Congress.
11:02And Republicans, I would say they passed a clean CR, a clean government funding bill for the first time in a long time.
11:10But it is Biden spending levels.
11:13It is a Biden budget that Democrats have already voted for.
11:16Right.
11:16But you would think that Republicans also might want to help save that subsidy in the end.
11:23It would be politically advantage advantageous for both parties to do that.
11:28Indeed.
11:29Michael LaRosa, thank you so much for joining us.
11:33You're welcome.
11:33Good to see you.
11:34You too.
11:35Fox News alert.
11:36The FBI just foiled a Halloween terror plot.
11:40National correspondent Jeff Paul has the details.
11:43Hey, Jeff.
11:44Hey there.
11:45Well, yeah, sources telling Fox News the attack plot was likely linked to international terrorism, quite possibly with a connection to ISIS.
11:52The FBI says it was supposed to be carried out this Halloween weekend, but instead, multiple people have been arrested.
11:59The operation all happening in Michigan, where multiple suspects were apprehended.
12:03In suburban Detroit, federal investigators could be seen in a neighborhood near a local high school.
12:09They walked in and out of a house, some carrying items out to a nearby evidence truck.
12:13The FBI says at the moment, there is no really current credible threat to public safety.
12:19And while we wait for more details about the alleged terrorism plot, President Trump was asked about the situation.
12:26There's a broad detail from the FBI reporting that it was said to happen over the weekend, the Halloween weekend.
12:33The FBI report back.
12:33We're catching people before they ever start, yeah.
12:35FBI Director Cash Patel telling Fox News, quote, through swift action and close coordination with our local partners, a potential act of terror was stopped before it could unfold.
12:46The vigilance of this FBI prevented what could have been a tragic attack.
12:50And thanks to their dedication, Michigan will have a safe and happy Halloween.
12:55Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer says she's grateful for the swift action.
12:59The suspects, meanwhile, could be in court as soon as Monday.
13:02Back to you.
13:02Thank you, Jeff Paul.
13:05Kamala and Gavin are on a collision course.
13:1647's back from Asia touting historic deals, but Democrats aren't impressed.
13:21The left's it girl, Gavin, he says that Trump didn't strike gold.
13:25He got played.
13:27This is weakness masquerading and strength.
13:29This is classic Trump and Trumpism.
13:31This guy is historically weak.
13:34And these are acts of a weak person that is trying to appear strong.
13:40I was embarrassed.
13:42I was humiliated.
13:44Watching the President of the United States in front of Xi.
13:46We're good.
13:47I mean, he was negotiating away this country in the first five minutes of the photo op.
13:51He came back with nothing.
13:53He got played by President Xi.
13:55Trump is so weak.
13:59Gav's just jealous.
14:00Last time he visited the Great Wall, he steamrolled a Chinese kid on the court.
14:05Trump, on the other hand, he's erasing four years of auto pen embarrassment.
14:10Kamala had a big hand in that.
14:11I met with over 150 world leaders, presidents, prime ministers, chancellors, and kings.
14:18I've negotiated very important deals and issues on behalf of the American people.
14:25What deals has Kamala negotiated?
14:28Everything she touches blows up.
14:30The border, AI, space.
14:33No wonder she got landslided and is shopping for a comeback plan.
14:37If Kamala wants a rerun in 2028, she's got to bend the rules.
14:42What's Mamala got in mind?
14:43I think we should reduce voting age to 16.
14:47Gen Z.
14:49They're age about 13 through 27.
14:52They've only known the climate crisis.
14:55They missed substantial parts of their education because of the pandemic.
15:00If they're in high school or college, especially in college,
15:05it is very likely that whatever they've chosen as their major for study
15:08may not result in an affordable wage.
15:12Kamala is building an army of teenagers, a bunch of mini-Grettas with climate anxiety.
15:19They've coined the term climate anxiety to describe fear of not only being able to buy a home,
15:28but that fear it'll be wiped out by extreme weather, but fear of having children.
15:32If they're voting right now at 16 and up,
15:36they're going to be talking about the importance of climate.
15:38They're going to be talking about the importance of figuring out how AI is going to affect the future of the workforce.
15:45They're going to be focused on what are we really doing about affordable housing.
15:49So we already learned the word salons don't win elections, but Kamala's got bigger issues.
15:55She still thinks Autopenn is sharper than ever.
15:59I believe he was fully competent to serve.
16:02Do you really?
16:03Yeah, I do.
16:05That surprises me, actually.
16:07No, I do.
16:08But there's a distinction to be made between running for president and being president.
16:13What's the distinction?
16:15Well, being a candidate for president of the United States is about being in a marathon at a sprinter's pace,
16:24having tomatoes thrown at you every step you take.
16:28We're all Jon Stewart.
16:29So he wasn't competent enough to campaign, but he was competent enough to run the country.
16:34Don't worry, though.
16:35Kamala might be running Joe over with her electric school bus, but it's out of love.
16:40I actually write about it extensively in the book about my feelings for the president.
16:46I care about him deeply, and I did not want to pile on with all the criticism that he was facing.
16:59I didn't think it was necessary for me to wait on already what was so much.
17:06So Kamala's off launching her White House run.
17:10Problem is, Greasy's getting ready, too.
17:13I do want to talk about Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom's very old friend.
17:16They knew each other back in the day.
17:19There's absolutely no reason for her to take herself out of the running at this point.
17:23And, of course, it would be very complicated because Governor Newsom would be one of the potential top candidates,
17:30and they've had this frenemy relationship for years and years and always been in close contention on so many things.
17:38This could be legendary, the Battle of the Golden State Frenemies.
17:42And they've had the same consultants for years, so they know a lot of the good and the bad about each other.
17:47Yeah, it's kind of dangerous in many, many ways.
17:50So who wins? Carville's ready to risk it all, but only if it's fresh meat.
17:57Let me be very clear here.
17:58No one that had anything to do with 2024, no Democrat wants to hear from you.
18:05We all voted for you.
18:08Let's bring in Republican strategist Katie Zachariah.
18:11So great to see you.
18:12You know, I always hate asking the same question over and over again,
18:15but what is wrong with your politicians in California?
18:18I ask myself the same thing.
18:21There's nothing scarier on this Halloween than imagining a Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom,
18:26or Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom on the same ticket.
18:29It's a race to the bottom, Charlie.
18:31And watching these soundbite, watching them go through their record, their track record of success,
18:37which is really abject failures in California, Charlie, is really something to remark at.
18:42So you're obviously a Republican, but since you live in California,
18:46California, you're kind of a, I consider you an expert on Democrats.
18:50Kamala Harris has never won a single electoral vote in a primary, in a Democrat primary for president.
18:59She flamed out in 2020 before the primary began.
19:04And in 2024, party elders had to rig the whole thing to give her the nomination.
19:10She's never earned a single vote in the Democrat party.
19:12Do you think that Democrat voters, rank and file regular Democrat voters,
19:17if they're allowed to have an unrigged and fair primary election, do you think they would get behind Kamala Harris?
19:24Well, I think it's going to be pretty successful for us Republicans if she continues doing these types of interviews.
19:30And I do see the Democrats getting tired of this, right?
19:34She spent a $1.5 billion on her campaign in 107 days, and she's still very far behind on the payments.
19:42The DNC is still making those payments.
19:44So I think they're exhausted by this.
19:47I think they're looking at a new candidate.
19:48Gavin Newsom is obviously surfacing.
19:50And why they're saying frenemies and it's complicated is because Gavin Newsom is the clear darling now, the Democrat darling.
19:58Barack Obama has basically come out and supported everything Gavin Newsom is doing with Prop 50.
20:04And he is, you know, all over the ads for Prop 50 supporting, quote, Gavin Newsom.
20:08And this is really a soft launch for his presidential campaign to see who's behind him.
20:13And Kamala's gained a lot of foes, Charlie.
20:15Her book pretty much went scorched earth on most of the people she worked with.
20:19So California is also home to Hollywood, which is very obsessed with optics.
20:24And I don't understand what Gavin Newsom is doing with the hand gestures.
20:30And I don't know why California voters don't think it's really weird and punish him over it.
20:36Well, he gets teased about it constantly.
20:38But I think what it is is he continues the rhetoric, continues to say the same things over and over again.
20:43And for the life of me, Charlie, as a lifelong native Californian, I cannot understand how a single person could go vote for anything Gavin Newsom is behind because his track record is, quite frankly, we'll use this term scorched earth.
20:58But in a literal way in California, people have lost so much under Gavin Newsom.
21:03And on his point on fentanyl, I want to make, when he said President Trump didn't come back with the deal.
21:08Look, in California, over his five year in his governorship, 2,100 percent increase in fentanyl deaths, 4,000 deaths in California for fentanyl.
21:17And what did Gavin Newsom do about it?
21:19Nothing, Charlie.
21:20So we see this track record of him talking, using these crazy hand motions.
21:24But honestly, it's scary.
21:26It's this really kind of psychological trick.
21:31So you don't listen to what he's saying and you just get tricked by his crazy hands.
21:35I don't quite frankly know.
21:37Yeah.
21:37And not to mention a mass exodus out of California, even into Mexico, the one place where you see that.
21:43It is really crazy.
21:44And will you have your work cut out for you, convincing people that these people really are as crazy as they look?
21:52So, Katie, thank you so much for joining us.
21:55Thank you so much, Charlie.
21:57All right.
21:58So is Trump going to bomb Venezuela?
22:00We'll find out.
22:05And we have a Fox News alert.
22:07Trump ramping up the pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
22:10Coke boats have been blowing up by the week.
22:13Bad hombres are now sleeping with the fishes.
22:16Could this be a warm-up for something bigger?
22:19Maybe even strikes on land?
22:21There are reports that you are considering strikes within Venezuela.
22:25Is that true?
22:26No.
22:26But you made a decision on that?
22:27No, it's not true.
22:28So for now, it's no moss on bombs.
22:31But things are getting hot in the Caribbean.
22:34Marines are doing live fire exercises.
22:36And Democrats, they'd rather see due process for drug lords.
22:39If they happen to wind up on a boat, and they're probably drug smugglers, don't get me wrong,
22:45but we don't know who they are or directly who they're affiliated with.
22:49And the thing to remember here, drugs are a major problem.
22:51But this is a huge escalation of presidential power.
22:55He is judge, jury, and executioner for, gosh, thousands, tens of thousands.
23:00Meanwhile, other Democrats are dreaming of a day when President AOC gets a big red button.
23:07There will be a Democratic president someday.
23:10And all my MAGA friends who are, you know, cheering on these illegal killings need to imagine
23:15who gets killed when President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says that it doesn't matter what the law says.
23:21But for now, President AOC is as real as a Halloween costume, and a pretty good one, by the way.
23:27MAGA Mike and Republicans are locked in on the real war.
23:31The cartels are at war with the U.S.
23:34They have killed more people than we've lost in war.
23:36I mean, you know, one boatload full of this stuff, fentanyl, for example, can kill hundreds of thousands of Americans.
23:41So you take that out, and you leave that out at sea, and you've saved the country.
23:46You've helped save lives.
23:47Innocent people.
23:48I cannot imagine why they would be criticizing the White House for taking action.
23:52So Medal of Honor recipient David Belavia joins me now.
23:57David, so we're watching all of this video, and of course the Department of War happily plays the clips of these boats getting absolutely smoked.
24:08What kind of a message does that send to the drug cartels?
24:11Exactly what it's intended to send, is that there's really no—we've lost 275,000 Americans since 2020 to these overdoses.
24:25Every politician, election season, stands with a grieving parent, said they're going to do all that they can.
24:31And a year ago today, those cartels were operating unmolested, not just in Venezuela.
24:37They were in the United States, Charlie.
24:39They were literally in America operating and killing Americans.
24:44So tell me what the response should be when you have a cartel and a nation-state supporting narco-terrorism.
24:52Secretary Hegseth, by the way, is giving us all the information that we need.
24:56We were doing drone strikes with far less information coming from the Biden administration.
25:02Was Zawahari—what was he doing in Afghanistan?
25:04Was he having a Long Island iced tea?
25:06He was just on a porch sitting around.
25:08A bomb went through his door.
25:10These people have killed 275,000 Americans.
25:14That's all the excuse the President of the United States and the Commander-in-Chief need to say enough is enough.
25:19This ends now.
25:20So, of course, Trump's argument would be this is a war zone.
25:23They made it a war zone when they started bringing these drugs into our country.
25:29I know you're—I don't think you're a lawyer, but from a legal standpoint, do Democrats have a point about due process, or would you consider this just a war zone?
25:42Well, Charlie, I'm better than a lawyer.
25:45I'm an infantryman, okay?
25:47And I can tell you that when the country is at threat—look, let me just make this equation.
25:53You're my neighbor, and your dog keeps going to the bathroom on my yard, okay?
25:58I confront you, and I tell you it's wildly unacceptable that this happens.
26:02If it happens again after I've confronted you and told you to stop, three things are happening.
26:08Either you have no control over your dog, or you do have control and you don't take me seriously, or the third option is you've trained your dog to take a dump on my yard.
26:19All of those things are wildly unacceptable.
26:22And when it comes to American lives, American lives are at stake, and our people are dying.
26:28This president has said this from the campaign trail every single time he did a rally to as he's president.
26:36Now, there's no shocks here.
26:38We have Democrats that are more alarmed over the east wing of the White House than we do with 275,000 Americans overdosing.
26:45Enough of the games.
26:47Either we take this seriously or we don't.
26:49And, of course, what's most interesting about it is the fact that the war zone has moved, say, to the Caribbean.
26:55It means it's not crossing our border because Donald Trump closed down the border, something Democrats have spent the last eight years telling us was impossible to do.
27:05David Bellavia, thank you so much for joining us.
27:09Shaving up to be a scary Halloween for Joe Biden and his administration,
27:13House Oversight Committee just dropped a scathing report full of bombshell allegations that the big guy's team covered up his cognitive decline.
27:23Biden's team spent the past four years insisting he was sharp as a tack.
27:27Maybe it's because his fiercest defenders only saw him twice.
27:32I had an external facing role.
27:33And so, you know, it was not unusual that I would have, you know, fairly infrequent interactions with the president himself.
27:42So, weekly, monthly, what are we talking about?
27:46Very infrequent.
27:48I think I met with the president a handful of times during my tenure in the White House.
27:54But some Biden diehards are doubling down, still trying to convince us that Biden bombed the debate because he had the sniffles.
28:03That was a cold, a flu, a virus.
28:06You know, that's between him and his doctor.
28:08But he had been under the weather that whole period of time.
28:11And you've known President Biden for many years.
28:16Had you ever seen him have a cold or the flu before him?
28:22Yes.
28:22Did he ever behave the way that he did during the debate?
28:27Not that I ever saw.
28:30And Biden's top campaign aide admitted he got paid $4 million to work on the big guy's reelection
28:36and would have gotten another $4 million if he could have lugged Doe Joe over the finish line.
28:43Were there any circumstances in which he would have received a bonus?
28:49Yes, he was.
28:50What were those circumstances?
28:51That Joe Biden would have been re-elected president, I said.
28:57What would the bonus have been?
29:05I believe it would have been $4 million.
29:08In addition to the $4 million that you were already paid?
29:11Yes.
29:11You think he had an incentive to keep him on the ticket?
29:14But for $4 million, I think anyone would run a Weekend at Bernie's Part 3.
29:19We all knew Joe was asleep at the wheel.
29:21What we still don't know is who was running the country and who signed all those pardons.
29:27Was it the Easter Bunny?
29:28Oversight says, since we have no idea, they're all null and void.
29:33No one who authorized auto-pin or actually physically, manually pressed the power button on auto-pin ever heard directly from Joe Biden.
29:42And furthermore, there are no notes, there's no chain of custody that would show that Joe Biden was involved in any meetings where they discussed the pardon process.
29:52This is a massive cover-up, and what we determined was every pardon should be declared null and void.
29:59And all of a sudden, the left is against investigating former presidents.
30:03Instead of investigating a man who is no longer in office, I want the government shut down to figure out what's going on, because it's getting ready to be the longest one in history.
30:14We know who shut the government down, Whoopi.
30:17It's the Democrats.
30:18Case closed.
30:19But the auto-pin probe is just beginning.
30:23Attorney General Pam Bondi is on the case.
30:26House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer joins me now.
30:30So, you've been looking at this now for a better part of a year.
30:35Are you narrowing, is your committee narrowing down to a number of suspects who you think are singularly responsible for this?
30:46And what kind of punishment are they facing?
30:52Well, look, if they were operating as President of the United States, if they were forging the President of the United States' signature on pardons and executive orders and other legal documents, then I think those are pretty serious crimes.
31:04The Oversight Committee, we investigate.
31:08Once we conclude an investigation, we publish a report and we make referrals and recommendations.
31:13Based on the overwhelming evidence that we accumulated in the form of emails, in the form of notes and documents from National Archives, and in the form of hours and hours of depositions, we concluded that there was a massive cover-up of Joe Biden's cognitive decline.
31:31The staffers knew it. That's why they discussed whether or not to give him a cognitive test and then ultimately declined against it.
31:38That's why Dr. O'Connor pled the Fifth Amendment to avoid self-incrimination.
31:42But even further, there's no evidence that Joe Biden was ever involved in any of the decision-making.
31:47Normally, when you have meetings and discussions on things like pardons and other high-profile events that would be presidential level, you would have notes, you would have meetings, there would be emails, there would be things in the schedule for meetings, nothing pertaining to Joe Biden.
32:07We gave every staffer, the 12 staffers that we brought in for depositions were the ones that we knew had the influence over the auto pen.
32:15They all were inconsistent in the process. The emails even contradict what the deposition said.
32:23And at the end of the day, I think we've gotten as much information as we can get to determine what we've determined.
32:28Now we've handed it over to Pam Bondi, and we've made notes to the Attorney General.
32:33If there's further things that we can do as a committee, we'll do them, but we're going to wait for guidance from her.
32:39This is a serious issue, and all those pardons should be declared null and void.
32:42Yeah, so let me ask you this, going back to the process about how this happened.
32:46From my understanding of reading your report, many of the pardons were issued based on memos that were signed JB for Joe Biden.
32:57Was there anybody else in the White House with the initials JB that you think might have signed some of those memos?
33:04Well, think about this. What they're trying to say on the memos for the auto pen is that some staffer would type up a memo, then hand the memo to Joe Biden.
33:15The memo would say that someone would have the authority to sign Joe Biden's name.
33:20Joe Biden would read that memo and say, okay, and then initial his initials on it, and then hand it back to the staffer.
33:26And then they would go take that document that just needed one signature that would have taken the same amount of time for him to sign as it would for him to initial, and then use the auto pen.
33:37Look, there were emails from the Department of Justice during the Merrick Garland time to the staffers asking if Joe Biden was even involved in the process, warning the staffers of the excessive use of the auto pen.
33:51And, you know, again, I think that at that point, the response from the Biden administration was when they were talking about the use of the auto pen was Joe Biden was verbally giving him authority to use it.
34:03Then they come back and they had these discovery of these memos.
34:06I mean, just complete inconsistencies.
34:09And that's why we think the attorney general needs to take it with the full force of the Department of Justice.
34:13Well, you know, maybe I'm crazy, but I do think it's kind of interesting that there was another person in the White House with the initials J.B., as in Jill Biden, which I think bears investigation at the very least.
34:29James Comer, thank you so much for joining us.
34:30Absolutely.
34:32Okay, monkeys on the loose.
34:34That's next.
34:35It's not Halloween without a little monkey business, and we have plenty to report this year.
34:45First, a group of monkeys escaped onto a Mississippi highway after a truck flipped over.
34:50They were eventually captured, but not before a long chase.
34:55Let me show you the wreck, and then I'm going to show you the monkeys that we have here.
34:59And again, these monkeys could be dangerous, and that's why I'm not staying too far from my vehicle in case we have to get back in.
35:08These possibly, what's the word I'm being told here, they could have diseases.
35:14Meanwhile, in Texas, a primate wearing a diaper prowled around a spirit Halloween store.
35:19He's someone's pet who got spooked by an animatronic decoration.
35:23He went bananas, scaling the walls, swinging from the rafters, until the monkey's owner enticed him down with a cookie.
35:42Let's bring in comedian and co-host of the PBD podcast, Vince O'Shaughna.
35:46So, Vince, do you have a monkey, or do you want a monkey?
35:49I do not, but Jesse, I just want to say, first and foremost, I know it's Halloween.
35:55I've seen a lot of costumes today, but the one that you have on, you look exactly like Charlie Hurt.
36:01I mean, the makeup, you even sound like him.
36:03So, it's absolutely amazing.
36:04You did a favor.
36:05Whoever did your makeup belongs in Hollywood.
36:07But anyway, Charlie, I actually don't have a monkey.
36:10Yeah, yeah, you look amazing.
36:12But no, I don't have a monkey.
36:13But you know what?
36:13That type of situation would be all my luck.
36:15Like me being late for work, and Patrick, my CEO, is like, where are you?
36:18I'm like, there's a freaking chimpanzee on the 95, and I'm late.
36:22I'd probably get fired for that.
36:23But yeah, this is, people have no business having monkeys as pets, because this is the
36:26situation, what happens when you have one.
36:28Yeah, and of course, early reports was that they had, like, diseases.
36:32And, but maybe, maybe they did, maybe they didn't, who knows.
36:36But I want to ask you about this.
36:37So, Gen Z is now trying to transition Halloween into Valentine's Day.
36:42New data shows that Gen Z is more open to finding love on Halloween than other holidays.
36:49They think they have better luck dressed up as Dracula than on dating apps.
36:54I'm thinking, does this just mean that we've all gotten so fat that we look better in, like,
36:59some kind of costume than we do in our regular, you know, spandex?
37:07100%.
37:07Charlie, people are just trying, like, all this cosplay and role-playing.
37:11People just don't want to live in their actual reality.
37:13They like to live in this fantasy world.
37:15But can you imagine, like you said, 20% hook up on this night.
37:19On Halloween, they're out there hooking up.
37:21Could you imagine that conversation, like, a father sitting with a son, and the son is like,
37:25so, Dad, how was I conceived?
37:27And he's like, well, I was at a Halloween party dressed as an ICE agent.
37:31Your mom was dressed as an illegal alien.
37:32And let's just say my car was a sanctuary city.
37:35Like, that's, these are the stories.
37:37The babies that are going to come out from this night, they're going to have to hear those stories down the roll.
37:41Yeah, I was dressed as Fred Flintstone, and your mom was a freaking chimpanzee with a diaper.
37:46Like, that's what's going to happen.
37:47Well, I say bring back the cat costumes, because they're always winners if you're looking for love.
37:52All right, last question.
37:53So, how old is it, too, is too old to go trick-or-treating?
37:56You have all these adults.
37:57They're going trick-or-treating and dressing up.
38:03Eight years old, Charlie.
38:04It's over.
38:05I had a 40-year-old come to my house today, a 40-year-old.
38:08And I'm like, dude, I'm like, get that, go get a job.
38:11Like, I'll give you $5 if you need money.
38:12Like, you might have been a homeless person, but it's like, it's for little kids, Charlie.
38:16And I love it how women have hijacked Halloween.
38:19It's the one day they get to go out and dress as provocative as possible.
38:23And, like, for the worst professions.
38:25It'll be like an EMT.
38:26I'm like, hey, listen, your job is saving lives, not ruining my relationship, okay?
38:30Don't, I'm not, what are you?
38:31I'm a sexy mouse.
38:33Just relax.
38:33We know what you're doing.
38:35We're not stupid.
38:35But, you know, it works.
38:37Thank you so much.
38:38Good to see you.
38:38Happy Halloween.
38:40Thank you, Charlie.
38:41More primetime.
38:42Straight ahead.
38:42Good to see you.
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