Marc Elias' faceplant; Biden's hypocrisy on legal bill funding (05-14-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:29] I mentioned earlier, I think last hour, sort of a drive by just a flesh wound, a glancing

[00:00:35] blow, if you will, on Mark Elias, right?

[00:00:40] The Democrats super lawyer, so-called super lawyer.

[00:00:45] So apparently he and Jonathan Turley, the constitutional scholar, lawyer guy formerly

[00:00:55] of Georgetown.

[00:00:56] I think he's at George Washington University now.

[00:00:59] I don't think those two guys get along very well.

[00:01:03] And they are both critical of one another.

[00:01:08] And Elias gets very upset whenever Turley makes note of his failures in the courtroom.

[00:01:16] And then that prompts Elias to attack Turley and then Turley responds and they go back

[00:01:25] and forth.

[00:01:26] And so I think, and I don't know, they're lawyers, so they enjoy doing this.

[00:01:30] Okay.

[00:01:31] So Jonathan Turley has another write up, this one about Elias and the law firm that he just

[00:01:39] lost.

[00:01:42] The firm of former Clinton campaign general counsel Mark Elias has lost another election

[00:01:47] case in spectacular fashion.

[00:01:51] See, so Turley is kind of going to keep it on here, I think.

[00:01:56] To Mark Elias, which is totally deserved, right?

[00:02:00] I am not a fan of Mark Elias.

[00:02:04] Mark Elias ran point on so many lawsuits that were filed against the North Carolina legislature.

[00:02:13] He's made millions and millions of dollars suing Republican states over redistricting

[00:02:20] maps and stuff, right?

[00:02:22] But really the thing that should inspire animus towards Elias is his role in the Steele dossier

[00:02:31] and him allowing people to lie to Congress and not correcting them because the truth

[00:02:40] was more damaging to Hillary Clinton.

[00:02:44] And Elias is a partisan hack before he's a lawyer.

[00:02:47] Okay.

[00:02:48] So the firm of Mark Elias lost another case in spectacular fashion.

[00:02:55] The chief judge of the Western District of Wisconsin, James Peterson, who by the way

[00:03:00] was appointed by Obama.

[00:03:04] The judge did not just reject the Elias law group challenge to a particular election related

[00:03:12] law, but the judge ridiculed him.

[00:03:18] You hate to see it.

[00:03:20] So what was the case over?

[00:03:22] Well, the case was over the requirement to have a witness when you vote absentee.

[00:03:29] Well, remember I said yesterday we were talking about election integrity laws and it just

[00:03:37] seems that every single attempt to shore up our election system, to close loopholes, you

[00:03:44] know, to kind of make sure that people aren't abusing the system for nefarious means that

[00:03:51] all of these safeguards seem to draw the ire and opposition and then litigation from Democrat

[00:03:57] lawyers.

[00:04:00] And like I'm starting to get the impression that you guys don't want any election integrity

[00:04:05] laws on the books because you sue over like everything.

[00:04:11] So up in Wisconsin, oh and by the way, these lawsuits on these types of laws, they are

[00:04:15] never filed in solid blue states, right?

[00:04:21] When Democrats control the state like New York for example, California, you don't see

[00:04:26] Mark Elias going into those states challenging these various laws.

[00:04:30] There's no reason to, right?

[00:04:33] He's already under control.

[00:04:36] You see him going into states that are either controlled by Republicans or that are quote

[00:04:42] purple, right?

[00:04:44] That are swing states.

[00:04:45] So Wisconsin is one of these states and so he goes in there and challenges the witness

[00:04:50] requirement for absentee voting.

[00:04:52] Oh which by the way, before I forget, if you want to vote, you can do so today.

[00:04:59] Today's election day for the second primary in North Carolina or aka the runoff.

[00:05:07] It's only for a couple of races on the Republican side.

[00:05:11] So if you are a registered Democrat, you don't get to vote.

[00:05:15] I know suppression.

[00:05:17] No, because you already voted in your primary.

[00:05:20] This is a runoff for the Republican primary.

[00:05:22] So if you voted as an unaffiliated, if you're an unaffiliated voter, so I'm unaffiliated,

[00:05:27] I voted in the Republican primary and so that means I get to go vote in the runoff.

[00:05:34] I didn't vote in the Democrat primary.

[00:05:37] If you're a Republican voter, you can vote in the primary runoff today, all right?

[00:05:44] So just a heads up on that.

[00:05:45] Make sure you go to the State Board of Elections website if you don't know where your polling

[00:05:50] station is.

[00:05:53] So go check that out.

[00:05:54] All right, so Mark Elias.

[00:05:58] By the way, just as a side note, he has been sanctioned previously in court.

[00:06:02] He's also been accused of lying in the Steele dossier scandal by journalists as well as

[00:06:06] others.

[00:06:08] So U.S. District Judge James Peterson ruled against the lawsuit brought by the Elias Law

[00:06:12] Group arguing that the witness requirement violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and

[00:06:19] the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

[00:06:22] This was their argument.

[00:06:24] I'm not saying it's a good one.

[00:06:26] The state statute said that the witness has to certify two different things.

[00:06:33] If you're going to witness somebody's absentee ballot, you got to have two things.

[00:06:37] The statute first says what the voter must certify on the ballot envelope.

[00:06:43] The first requirement concerns the voter certifying that he or she meets the requirements for

[00:06:47] voting generally and for voting absentee.

[00:06:50] And then the second requirement is certification that the voter followed the process for preparing

[00:06:55] the absentee ballot.

[00:06:57] And so these are called the first voter certification and the witness certification.

[00:07:02] The witness certification refers to a witness certifying, quote, all of the above, which

[00:07:09] is obviously referring to the language on preparing the absentee ballot because obviously

[00:07:15] you're the witness and you're just there to witness that they're doing it correctly.

[00:07:20] Right.

[00:07:21] But Elias argued, no, no, no.

[00:07:25] The witness certification requires certifying everything that preceded it on the details

[00:07:35] of the voter's record.

[00:07:37] So in other words, their name, their what, social security number, whatever, their date

[00:07:44] of birth, their residence, like all this other information that the witness has to certify

[00:07:48] all that other stuff.

[00:07:51] The judge, here's what the judge said.

[00:07:53] Quote, well, actually, let me read you what, yeah, let me read you what Turley calls this.

[00:08:00] Judge Peterson expresses disbelief at the lunacy of Elias' argument.

[00:08:04] Like I said, they don't like each other.

[00:08:08] All right.

[00:08:09] So normally, this is what the judge says, quote, normally the court would begin by searching

[00:08:14] for other textual clues in the statute.

[00:08:17] But in this case, the most obvious problem with the plaintiff's interpretation is that

[00:08:21] it simply does not make any sense.

[00:08:25] The court then goes on to say, quote, under Elias' interpretation, every witness would

[00:08:33] have to determine the voter's age, residence, citizenship, criminal history, whether the

[00:08:38] voter is unable or unwilling to vote in person, whether the voter has voted at another location

[00:08:44] or is planning to do so, whether the voter is capable of understanding the objective

[00:08:47] of the voting process.

[00:08:48] He's running through all of the checklist that you as the voter would have to certify

[00:08:52] is all true.

[00:08:53] Right.

[00:08:54] So you check all these boxes.

[00:08:57] And that's your part of the certification.

[00:08:58] And Elias is arguing that the witness certification applies to that first part, too.

[00:09:03] And the judge is like, that's that stupid.

[00:09:07] He says if the plaintiff's interpretation were correct, it would mean that countless

[00:09:10] absentee ballots over decades were invalid because the witness certified that the voter

[00:09:15] was qualified to vote and met the other requirements in the first voter certification, even though

[00:09:20] the witness had no basis for such a certification.

[00:09:23] It then, Turley says, it then gets even wackier.

[00:09:28] They argued that a simple witness requirement, that's it, just having a witness, that that

[00:09:34] was some sort of violation of the Voting Rights Act, like literally Jim Crow 2.0.

[00:09:43] Having a witness is like segregationist.

[00:09:47] It's voter suppression.

[00:09:48] This is this was their argument.

[00:09:51] This case adds to a long litany of losses and controversies for Mark Elias.

[00:09:56] That record includes allegations of lying to reporters and subverting voters.

[00:10:00] Elias featured prominently in the filings of special counsel John Durham.

[00:10:04] It was Elias who made the key funding available to Fusion GPS, which in turn enlisted Christopher

[00:10:10] Steele to produce his now discredited dossier on Donald Trump in his campaign.

[00:10:16] And when reporters did ask about the possible connection to the campaign, Clinton officials

[00:10:21] denied any involvement.

[00:10:23] Weeks after the election, journalists then discovered that the Clinton campaign had hidden

[00:10:28] payments for the Steele dossier as legal fees.

[00:10:34] Sound familiar?

[00:10:35] Legal fees.

[00:10:37] They tucked it in among $5.6 million that was paid to Perkins Coie, which is where Mark

[00:10:42] Elias was working at the time.

[00:10:46] And that, by the way, led to the Clinton campaign getting nailed by the federal authorities

[00:10:54] over classifying these as legal fees when it was clearly not.

[00:10:58] It was oppo research.

[00:10:59] It was election related.

[00:11:02] Message here on Twitter.

[00:11:03] It's a tweet from Mary who says, if prosecutors went digging for crimes committed by

[00:11:09] Clinton Global Initiative, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, several members of the Biden

[00:11:12] family, I can only imagine what prosecutors could come up with.

[00:11:16] But no investigation, no crimes.

[00:11:18] Yeah.

[00:11:19] No reasonable prosecutor.

[00:11:22] Dot dot dot.

[00:11:24] Quoteth Jim Comey.

[00:11:30] So President Joe Biden.

[00:11:33] He's had some legal expenses of his own.

[00:11:35] Right.

[00:11:36] He's all focused on Donald Trump's legal bills and a lot has been said and made of

[00:11:43] Donald Trump's fundraising and the Republican Party's fundraising that's being used to pay

[00:11:48] off his legal fees and such.

[00:11:50] And I am not here to mock or denigrate any of that.

[00:11:55] Look, if you want to donate to Donald Trump's legal fund, you go right ahead.

[00:12:00] OK.

[00:12:01] You go right at he's a multi billionaire.

[00:12:03] Right.

[00:12:04] He's got all this money.

[00:12:05] So I assume he does not need my help.

[00:12:09] So.

[00:12:11] I was interested to see this story, though, that had come down the pike from the Independent

[00:12:16] Journal Review, IJR dot com, President Joe Biden.

[00:12:21] He too has received a little help with his legal expenses.

[00:12:26] Mm hmm.

[00:12:28] As he was facing a special counsel investigation into his handling of classified documents.

[00:12:33] Right.

[00:12:36] So Axios had published a report that said President Biden used campaign donations to

[00:12:42] help pay his legal bills last year during the special counsel's probe into his handling

[00:12:48] of classified documents, according to two people familiar with the matter and an Axios

[00:12:53] review of campaign finance records.

[00:12:56] The payments made through the Democratic National Committee are at odds with the Biden campaign's

[00:13:01] recent attacks on Donald Trump for spending his campaign funds on legal fees.

[00:13:07] According to Axios, the Democrat National Committee paid more than one and a half million

[00:13:12] dollars to lawyers or firms representing Biden during the probe in a statement to Axios.

[00:13:19] DNC spokesperson Alex Floyd insisted that the comparison between Biden and Trump was not

[00:13:25] valid.

[00:13:26] Quote, there is no comparison.

[00:13:29] The DNC does not spend a single penny of grassroots donor money on legal bills, unlike

[00:13:34] Donald Trump, who actively solicits legal fees from his supporters and has drawn down

[00:13:39] every bank account he can get his hands on like a personal piggy bank.

[00:13:42] OK, wait, hang on a second.

[00:13:45] There is no comparison.

[00:13:47] The DNC does not spend a single penny of grassroots donors money.

[00:13:50] Grassroots.

[00:13:51] So that's the difference.

[00:13:53] So so what?

[00:13:55] You segregate the money in the DNC.

[00:13:58] You segregate the money from big time donors and grassroots donors.

[00:14:01] Is that what you're saying?

[00:14:04] How do you do that?

[00:14:06] How do you know, by the way, have you heard the term all funds are fungible?

[00:14:10] So think of it like different pockets in the same set of pants.

[00:14:13] Right.

[00:14:14] I got one hundred dollars in my left front pocket and fifty dollars in my right front

[00:14:18] pocket.

[00:14:19] I still have one hundred fifty dollars.

[00:14:22] Right.

[00:14:23] And so money I spend out of the hundred is like if I spend seventy five out of that,

[00:14:28] I still get twenty five left over out of that pocket and I still then could take.

[00:14:32] The rest of that money, combine it and use it for other stuff doesn't it's fungible.

[00:14:36] It goes anywhere.

[00:14:37] And so the money you're sending to or to Biden's legal fees is money that you would not be sending

[00:14:43] otherwise to campaign purposes.

[00:14:47] So I don't believe you, DNC spokesperson.

[00:14:49] But then again, I'm kind of biased.

[00:14:51] I don't believe anything they say.

[00:14:53] New York City mayor says illegal aliens could solve lifeguard shortage because they are

[00:14:59] excellent swimmers.

[00:15:03] Not this is not the Babylon B. And, you know, it's not the onion because it's like it's

[00:15:10] kind of funny.

[00:15:14] The onions just not even and I've been trying anymore.

[00:15:17] OK, hang on a second.

[00:15:19] There's an audio clip.

[00:15:20] Let me write.

[00:15:21] I have not heard.

[00:15:22] OK, I'm not.

[00:15:23] I don't know if this is true.

[00:15:24] But if those jobs that we are in high demand, we could expedite.

[00:15:32] How do we have a large body of people that are in our city and country that are excellent

[00:15:38] swimmers and at the same time we need lifeguards?

[00:15:42] And the only obstacle is that we won't give them the right to work to become a lifeguard.

[00:15:48] That just doesn't make sense.

[00:15:50] And if we had a plan that say you have a shortage of food service workers and those who fit

[00:15:56] the criteria, we're going to expect expedite.

[00:15:59] If you have the experience that you are a nurse, which we have a nurse shortage and

[00:16:06] we would expedite you.

[00:16:07] And it's the same with lifeguards.

[00:16:09] So we have all these eligible people waiting to work with the skills we need to fill the

[00:16:15] jobs.

[00:16:16] But we are unable to allow them that state.

[00:16:21] Mm hmm.

[00:16:23] I can.

[00:16:24] Yeah.

[00:16:27] OK, yes, I could.

[00:16:28] Yes.

[00:16:29] The easy the easy.

[00:16:32] That's the headline.

[00:16:33] Right.

[00:16:34] The easy analysis here and responses.

[00:16:35] Right.

[00:16:36] Yeah.

[00:16:37] Oh, yeah.

[00:16:38] They could solve the lifeguard shortage because they're quote, excellent swimmers.

[00:16:40] But he's talking about I don't think he's talking about all illegal aliens.

[00:16:45] He's talking about the illegal aliens who are good swimmers.

[00:16:50] But hashtag not all illegal aliens.

[00:16:54] That's the best interpretation I can give.

[00:16:57] That's the benefit of the doubt I can offer New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

[00:17:01] But let me see here.

[00:17:06] This is also breaking.

[00:17:07] This is from Tristan Leavitt.

[00:17:19] I guess he's is he elected an elected official for West Virginia?

[00:17:22] He may be empower U.S. president.

[00:17:26] OK.

[00:17:28] He's reporting that this morning, the legal team of the IRS is supervisory special agent

[00:17:34] Gary Shapley.

[00:17:35] This is one of the whistleblowers against Hunter Biden.

[00:17:39] Right.

[00:17:40] And the sweetheart deal that blew that whole thing up.

[00:17:44] Shapley referred to the Justice Department of Justice Office of Inspector General and

[00:17:50] the DOJ, the conduct of Special Counsel David Weiss.

[00:17:55] For attacking the IRS whistleblowers reputation by leading the world to believe that they

[00:18:01] were under investigation.

[00:18:02] OK, so this is now a referral from the lawyers representing Gary Shapley.

[00:18:09] And they're going after David Weiss because on March 11th, the filing in California criminal

[00:18:16] court, the case against Hunter Biden.

[00:18:20] Weiss opened that lawsuit or that memorandum of points and authorities.

[00:18:31] They Weiss opened it with an attack on the IRS whistleblowers comparing their conduct

[00:18:37] with that of Hunter Biden's.

[00:18:39] So what has happened in the last 24 hours here is that the Department of Justice has

[00:18:44] now been forced to acknowledge that the whistleblowers did not divulge personal tax information improperly,

[00:18:53] inappropriately or illegally.

[00:18:56] That they were actually allowed to do so because it was part of whistleblower protection to

[00:19:03] Congress, which is what the two whistleblowers from the IRS had said and members of Congress

[00:19:09] had said, like the Ways and Means Committee oversees the IRS and stuff.

[00:19:14] And so they have oversight.

[00:19:16] So there wasn't person that they did not do this outside of the boundaries of the law

[00:19:21] or the rules.

[00:19:24] But in the filings from David Weiss, let's see here, Weiss's office referred to the whistleblowers

[00:19:34] as, quote, hyenas baying at the moon.

[00:19:39] These two agents have made unsubstantiated claims that prosecutors decision making in

[00:19:44] this investigation was affected by politics.

[00:19:48] The animus had a direct impact later in the March 11th filing.

[00:19:51] Weiss indicated that an attached exhibit filed under seal described the, quote, responsible

[00:19:56] steps that the IRS had taken to address Shapley and Ziegler's conduct.

[00:20:01] And the reference was followed by a heavily redacted paragraph.

[00:20:07] An application for sealing the order described a potential ongoing investigation investigating

[00:20:12] these agents.

[00:20:15] Then followed up by a declaration that said the IRS's office of chief counsel said the

[00:20:21] investigation entity agreed that the documents could be used in filing with the court as

[00:20:27] a...

[00:20:28] So basically they're saying, Shapley's going after Weiss saying, you told the world that

[00:20:32] we were under investigation for this and we were not.

[00:20:39] And that these were retaliatory tactics against whistleblowers who are protected.

[00:20:48] Yes, that's going to be bad.

[00:20:51] Oh my goodness.

[00:20:55] They are guilty of that which they accuse you, I swear.

[00:20:58] It's like, that's why James Lindsay calls it the iron law of woke projection.

[00:21:06] Right?

[00:21:07] The iron law of woke projection.

[00:21:10] And I say they are guilty of that which they accuse you.

[00:21:11] It's the same thing.

[00:21:12] Right?

[00:21:13] They're projecting onto you.

[00:21:14] They have these thoughts.

[00:21:15] I would do this in that situation so I'm going to accuse you of doing that because I think

[00:21:19] I would do that.

[00:21:20] That's what comes into my mind so I'm going to accuse you.

[00:21:23] That's just nuts.

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[00:22:19] House Republicans investigating the Biden administration.

[00:22:22] Oh, hang on a second.

[00:22:23] Before I get to that, let me read this.

[00:22:25] It's a Pete tweet.

[00:22:27] It's another one from Mary responding to New York City Mayor Eric Adams' comments about

[00:22:33] all the good swimmers who are illegal aliens should be able to get jobs as lifeguards.

[00:22:41] Mary says, what Mayor Adams said is how legal immigration is supposed to work.

[00:22:46] We fill needs legally.

[00:22:48] We don't just hope people come over who can fill certain roles and then have to use taxpayer

[00:22:52] dollars to support the rest.

[00:22:55] That is exactly right.

[00:22:56] See, this is the thing where I break with a lot of the hardcore capital L libertarians

[00:23:04] or hardcore ones who are like, open the borders up everybody.

[00:23:07] No, I'm not for that.

[00:23:09] And I'm also not on the shut it all down.

[00:23:11] No more people.

[00:23:12] I'm not on board with that either.

[00:23:14] I want the best and the brightest.

[00:23:17] I want people who are in love with the idea of America and want to come here to chase

[00:23:24] their dreams and make us the shining city on the hill.

[00:23:28] I want those people.

[00:23:30] And when you have so many people that want to come here, yes, you have to be a little

[00:23:34] bit picky and choosy about the kinds of expertise they have when they come in.

[00:23:43] I think that's a rational position.

[00:23:45] And honestly, I think probably most people agree with me.

[00:23:49] I feel like that's true, but I don't know.

[00:23:52] I do.

[00:23:53] I feel like that's true.

[00:23:54] Although I know there's like a growing, there's a growing population and it may be the majority

[00:23:58] view now that wants to just shut it all down.

[00:24:01] I think I did some polling on that a couple of weeks ago, but that's a response to what

[00:24:05] we're seeing this chaos at the border.

[00:24:06] All right.

[00:24:07] House Republicans investigating the Biden administration ahead of the 24 election are

[00:24:11] raising concerns over revelations from documents reported by the Washington Examiner about

[00:24:17] a key meeting between the White House and left-wing activists talking about voter registration.

[00:24:25] No way.

[00:24:27] GOP lawmakers are increasingly worried that an executive order issued by Joe Biden in

[00:24:34] 2021, which mandated that federal agencies develop voter registration plans with approved

[00:24:39] quote unquote outside groups, that it's going to be unlawfully weaponized this November

[00:24:45] to boost Democrat turnout.

[00:24:47] The Biden administration has framed the unprecedented operation as nonpartisan, but internal documents

[00:24:53] show the government hosted a July 2021 order planning call that appeared to serve overwhelmingly

[00:25:03] as a platform for left-wing organizations to suggest sweeping election policy changes.

[00:25:13] I am as shocked as you.

[00:25:16] Republicans have launched investigations into Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's funding of

[00:25:19] progressive left groups that lawmakers say helped to tilt the 2020 election for Democrats.

[00:25:25] The Zucker Bucks, right?

[00:25:27] 2021 Biden Bucks order is legally questionable.

[00:25:31] The order directs agencies to solicit and facilitate the approval of nonpartisan third-party

[00:25:36] organizations and state officials to provide voter registration services on agency premises.

[00:25:43] However, the meeting notes, which were obtained through separate records requests by the Heritage

[00:25:50] Foundation's oversight project, shows that the attendees all came from these left-wing

[00:25:55] activist groups.

[00:25:57] They were that want to register illegal immigrants.

[00:26:01] Agencies that were funded by George Soros's Open Society Policy Center, End Citizens United

[00:26:08] and the Democracy Fund, Legal Women Voters, the Sentencing Project, like a murderer's

[00:26:13] row if you will of these leftist groups, right?

[00:26:16] Shocking.

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