reliability, value, and choice. now more than ever, it all starts with great internet. wow. announcer: wow supports c-span as a public service, along with these other television provider giving you a front row seat to democracy. announcer: we have been showing yotrp's ninees in their own words. ne, pam bondi nominated by th president elect to serve as attorney general. in 2020 she was a defense atrney for then president trump first impeachmentrial. she also led the first lawsuit aimed at overturning the affordable cect. up next, a look pam bondi in 2012 when she testified at a congressional hearing about florida's efforts to combat prescription drug abuse. >> thank you congresswoman.

thank you for championing this cause. got it. thank you, congresswoman bono mack, and thank you for championing this cause on behalf of our country. and thank you as well, ranking member butterfield, for having us here today and also to congressman stearns from florida and to all the committee members. we truly appreciate this. i'm here to tell you about what florida's doing to try to stop prescription drug abuse, as congressman stearns told you, just to put it in perspective, of the top 100 oxycodone dealers in the entire country, 98 of them were in florida. now we have 13. and that's with the legislation that's been in effect barely a year. so last year we had over 900 pain management clinics registered within our state. today we have 580, and i guarantee you that number is going to continue to plummet. um, i want to outline now briefly our comprehensive legislation and what we've done in our state.

as you know, we have become the oxy express, and that's why i worked so closely with general conway, with general dewine and -- in ohio because what was happening, people were buying their drugs in florida, taking them to kentucky. i had to hug a mother in kentucky when i was with general conway, who lost her daughter two years ago to prescription drugs that were bought in florida, and that had to stop. so we passed with that. we passed tough new legislation in our state and we're very proud of that legislation. it's long, long overdue, let me tell you that. the common characteristics of a pill mill in florida were cash business, $200 to $300 cash, armed guards at the door, little to no medical equipment at all, just shelves and shelves of pills. these doctors who we call drug dealers wearing white coats are sitting in a back room just signing prescription pads, and it was legal and it was killing

our kids, so. we had very weak regulatory oversight of the pain management clinics. we had limited oversight of the physicians who were dispensing, which was very important, and we had a non-operational prescription drug monitoring program. so with that we've now passed some very tough legislation and we're very proud of that. one of the most important things to me was that we banned doctors from dispensing most abused narcotics, and we made that a violation of the ban, both a third degree felony and how do you heard a bad doctor, take -- hurt a bad doctor, take their license away. so with that dispensing ban, we feel that we've been very successful as well. we also have, we created a standard of care for physicians prescribing controlled substances. we required these doctors to

either electronically prescribe or to use counterfeit proof prescription pads, none of which had been done in our state. we also added, as i said, enhanced criminal penalties which were very important and required all of these pharmacies to be re-permitted by the state of florida. we did great things. we now have the pdmp up and running, which if you have any questions i can discuss that with you as well. and with that, you know, we can always create tough new laws and move on to something else. but what we did in florida with governor scott's help, we started to strike force and -- a strike force and that's joined with federal, state, and local officials all working together. you can pass these laws and move on, and it's not going to work. we are targeting these guys and we are putting them out of business and with that just we have 7 strike forces throughout our state and if you have questions about the strike force, i can explain that in greater detail. but what we've done since we've had the strike force is we have

truly gone in and started putting these guys out of business. we're targeting them and we're not letting up on them. we also have an educational component of this legislation. and that involves narcotics overdose prevention, education, nope. and this task force, these, these remarkable people have done an amazing job of going into our schools and educating our children about this. we've also instituted along with dea, state drug takeback days. i've participated. personally and as many of those as i could, you would not believe the drugs that are being turned in and it's gotten so successful that we plan on putting permanent dropboxes up at our police stations and our sheriff's offices as well. at two drug takeback days alone, we seized over 5 tons of prescription drugs. unbelievable. so and we're very pleased to announce that as of february 12

2012, our strike force efforts , february have resulted in 2040 arrests. 34 of those are doctors. we've seized 390 weapons, almost $5 million, but there is one other problem. i have run out of time, but that is the babies being born addicted to prescription drugs, and that is our newest fight this session, and we are not going to give up on that as well. thank you for all of your efforts, and we do know we have a long way to go, but i don't think any of us in this room are going to stop. thank you. >> thank you very much. i'm going to recognize myself for 5 minutes of questioning, and i would like to begin with attorney general bondi. i know you care passionately. you and i have spoken about the opiate babies, and you know it's my belief that when people dabble with heroin or cocaine, they understand they're dabbling with a potential addiction. they don't necessarily think that when they start playing around with pharmaceuticals. can you speak to why you're so focused on the opiate babies? i mean, you really are passionate about it and i'd love for you to, you ran out of time, so please talk about it for a little bit if you could.

>> absolutely. you know, right after we passed our legislation last session, i started getting calls from neonatal intensive care nurses, neonatologists, and said there's another problem. and you've got to come see this. i went to st. joseph's hospital in tampa. 20% of the babies going through the neonatal intensive care unit are born addicted to prescription drugs. now imagine the worst addict you can see on tv going through those withdrawals. that's how these babies are born into this world. their incubators have to be covered with blankets. they're sensitive to light, to sound, to touch. instead of milk, they're getting morphine or methadone. that's how these kids are coming into this world. all children's hospital in st. petersburg, that's a premier hospital for children. 30% of the babies going through the neonatal intensive care unit, born addicted to prescription drugs, and it has to stop. you take it from a cost perspective. i take it from a perspective

babies' lives, but if you look at it from a cost perspective, st. joe's had to expand their nicu just to accommodate these babies. so it's costing taxpayers a fortune, and i think a lot of it really has to do with education, and that's why we have legislation proposed this session. i've talked to adoption lawyers. i've talked to nurses. we've brought in the board of health. we've brought in the board of medicine. it's all about working together to educate these women because unfortunately i think some of these women will say i've stopped drinking alcohol. i've stopped smoking marijuana, but because it's the word prescription drugs, they don't realize the harm that it's doing to their unborn child. what scared me to death, chairman bono mack, was when i when i asked a doctor, i said we can't let this become the next crack baby epidemic, and he said we've already surpassed it. >> thank you. i just wanted to say we don't even know the long term consequences for these opiate babies.

>> in 2020, pam bondi was then pa of president donaldrump's defense team. here she is delivering some of the opening arguments in the early stages of the trial, which ended with an acquittal. >> members of the senate. when the house managers gave you their presentation, when they submitted their brief, they repeatedly referenced hunter biden and burisma. they spoke to you for over 21 hours and they referenced biden or burisma over 400 times. when they gave these presentations, they said there was nothing, nothing to see. it was a sham.

this is fiction. in the trial memorandum the house managers described this as baseless. now why did they say that? why did they invoke biden or teresa -- burisma over 400 times? the reason they needed to do that is because they are here saying that the president must be impeached and removed from office for raising a concern. and that's why we have to talk about this today. they say sham, they say baseless. because they say this, because if it's ok for someone to say, hey, you know what, maybe there's something here worth raising, then their case crumbles. because they have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there is no basis to raise this concern.

but that's not what public records show. here are just a few of the public sources that flagged questions surrounding this very same issue. the united kingdom serious fraud office, deputy assistant secretary of state george kent. hunter biden's former business associate. an abc white house reporter. good morning america, abc, the washington post. the new york times. ukrainian law enforcement. and the obama state department itself. they all raised this issue. we would prefer not to be talking about this. we would prefer not to be discussing this. but the house managers have placed this squarely at issue. so we must address it.

let's look at the facts. in early 2014, joe biden, our vice president of the united states, led the united states' foreign policy in ukraine with the goal of rooting out corruption. according to an annual study published by transparency international, during this time, ukraine was one of the most corrupt countries in the entire world. in ukraine, there's a natural gas company called burisma. burisma has been owned by an oligarch named mykola solcevski. here's what happened very shortly after vice president biden was made us point man for ukraine. his son hunter biden ends up on the board of burisma, working for and paid by the oligarch socevsky. in february 2014, in the wake of

anti-corruption uprising by the people of ukraine, zolevsky flees the country, flees ukraine. salt cap ski -- socevsky, the oligarch, is well known. george kent, the very first witness that the democrats called during their public hearings, testified that socevsky stood out for his self-dealings, even among other oligarchs. house managers didn't tell you that. ambassador kurt volker explained that burisma had a quote, very bad reputation as a company for corruption and money laundering. end quote. house managers didn't tell you that. burisma was so corrupt that george kent said he intervened to prevent us aid from co-sponsoring an event.

with burisma, do you know what this event was? it was a child's contest. and the prize was a camera. they were so bad, burisma, that our country wouldn't even co-sponsor a children's event if -- with burisma. in march 2014, the united kingdom serious fraud office opened a money laundering investigation into the oligarch solcevsky and his company burisma. the very next month, april 2014, according to a public report, hunter biden quietly joins the board of burisma. remember, early 2014 was when vice president biden began leading ukraine policy. here's how hunter biden came to join burisma's board in april 2014. he was brought on the board by devin archer, his business

partner. devin archer was college roommates with chris hines, stepson of secretary of state john kerry. all three men, hunter biden, devin archer, and chris hines had all started an investment firm together. public records show that april 16, 2014, devin archer meets with vice president biden at the white house. just two days later, on april 18th, 2014 is when hunter biden quietly joins burisma, according to public reporting. remember, this is just one month after the united kingdom serious fraud office opened a money laundering case into burisma. hunter biden joins the board. and not only 10 days after hunter biden joins the board,

british authorities seized $23 million in british bank accounts connected to the oligarch solcevsky, the owner of burisma. did hunter biden leave the board then? no. the british authorities also announced that it had started a criminal investigation into potential money laundering. did hunter biden leave the board? no. what happened was then, only then, did the company choose to announce that hunter biden had joined the board, after the assets of burisma and the oligarch owner were frozen and a criminal investigation had begun. hunter biden's decision to join burisma raised flags almost immediately.

one article from may 2014 stated thappointment of joe biden's son to the board of ukrainian gas firm burisma has raised eyebrows the world over. even an outlet with bias for democrats pointed out hunter biden's activities created a conflict of interest for joe biden. the article stated the move ises questions about a potential conflict of interest for joe biden. now even chris hines, hunter biden's own business partner, had grave concerns. he thought that working with burisma was unacceptable. this is chris hines. he was worried about the corruption, geopolitical risk, and how bad it would look.

so he wisely distances himself from hunter biden and devin archer's appointments to parisa. -- to burisma. he didn't simply call his stepfather, secretary of state, and say, i have a problem with this. he didn't tell his friends, hey guys, i'm not getting on the board. i want nothing to do with this. he went so far as to send an email to senior state department officials about this issue. this is chris hines. he wrote, apparently, devon and hunter have joined the board of burisma, and a press release went out today. i can't speahy ty decided to, but there is no inve by r firm in their company. what did hunter biden do? he stayed on the board. what did chris hines do? he subsequently stopped doing business with his college

roommate, devon archer and his friend hunter biden. chris hines's spokesperson said. the lack of judgment in this matter was a major catalyst for mr. hines ending his business relationship with . cher and mr. biden. now the media also noticed the same day an abc news reporter asked obama white house press secretary jay carney about it. here's what happened. >> hunter biden is now a -- taking a position with the largest oil and gas company, holding company in ukraine. is there any concern about at least the appearance of a conflict there? >> i would refer you to the vice president's office. i saw those reports. hunter biden and other members of the biden family are obviously private citizens and where they work is not does not reflect an endorsement by the

administration, or by the vice president or president. but i would refer you to the vice president's office. >> the next day, the washington post ran a story about it. it said, the appointment of the vice president's son to a ukrainian l ard looks nepotistic at best, nefarious at worst. again, the appointment of the vice president's son to a ukrainian oil board looks nepotistic at best, nefarious at worst. and the media didn't stop questioning, asking questions here. it kept going. here's abc. >> you have to fight the cancer of corruption. >> but then something strange happens. just 3 weeks later, a ukrainian natural gas company, burisma, accused of corruption, appoints hunter biden, seen here in their promotional videos, to their board of directors, paying his

firm more than a million dollars a year. >> here is more from abc. >> ukraine wasn't the only country where hunter biden's business and his father's diplomacy as vice president intersected. it also happened in china. this video shows chinese diplomats greeting vice president biden as he arrived in beijing in december of 2013, right by his side, his son hunter. less than two weeks later, hunter's firm had new business, creating an investment fund in china involving the government-controlled bank of china, with reports they hoped to raise $1.5 billion. >> in fact, every witness who was asked about hunter biden's involvement with burisma agreed there was a potential appearance of a conflict of interest. multiple house democrat witnesses, including those from

the department of state, the national security council, and others unanimously testified there was a potential appearance of a conflict of interest. these were their witnesses. how much money did hunter biden get for being on the board? well, you start looking at these bank records. according to reports, between april 2014 and october 2015, burisma paid more than $3.1 million to devon archer and hunter biden. that's over the course of a year and a half. how do we know this? some of devon archer's bank records were disclosed during an unrelated federal criminal case having nothing to do with hunter biden. these bank records show 17 months that burisma wired two

payments of $83,333 not just for one month, for 2 months, for 3 months, but for 17 months. according to reuters, sources report that of the two payments of $83,333 each, one was for hunter biden and one devon archer. now hunter biden was paid significantly more than board members for major us fortune 100 companies such as goldman sachs, comcast, citigroup. the typical board member of these fortune 100 companies, we know they're titans of their industry. they're highly qualified, and as such they're well compensated. even so, hunter biden was paid significantly more. this is how well he was compensated.

so hunter biden is paid over $83,000 a month. while the average american family of four during that time, each year made less than $54,000. and that's according to us census bureau during that time. and this is what's been reported about his work on the board. the washington post said, quote, what specific duties hunter biden carried out for burisma are not fully known, end quote. the new yorker reported. once or twice a year he attended burisma board meetings and energy forums that took place in europe, end quote. when speaking with abc news about his qualifications to be on burisma's board, hunter biden didn't point to any of the usual qualifications of a board member. hunter biden had no experience in natural gas, no experience in the energy sector, no experience

with ukrainian regulatory affairs. as far as we know, he doesn't speak ukrainian. so naturally the media has asked questions about his board membership. why was hunter biden on this board? >> if your last name wasn't biden, do you think you would have been asked to be on the board of burisma? >> i don't know. i don't know, probably not. >> so let's go back and talk about his time on the board. remember, he joined burisma's board april 2014 while the united kingdom had an open money laundering case against burisma and its owner, the oligarch bull chesky. on august 20th, 2014, 4 months later, the ukrainian prosecutor general's office initiates a money laundering investigation into the same oligarch, solchevsky. this is one of 15 investigations

into burisma and zolevsky, according to a recent public statement made by the current prosecutor general. on january 16, 2015, prosecutors put the owner of burisma, on whose board hunter biden seth, on the countries warning list for fraud -- wanted list for fraud while hunter biden's on the board. then a british court orders his $23 million in assets be unfrozen. why was the money unfrozen? deputy assistant secretary kent testified to it. >> somebody in the general prosecutor's office of the rain shut the case, issued a letter to his lawyer and that money went poof. >> so essentially paid a bribe to make the case go away. >> that is our strong assumption. yes sir.

>> he also testified that the ukrainian prosecutor general's office's actions led to the unfreezing of the assets. after george kent's confirmation, that prosecutor was out. victor shokin becomes the prosecutor general. this is the prosecutor that you'll hear about later, the one that vice president biden has publicly said he wanted out of office. in addition to flagging questions about previous prosecutors' actions, george kent also specifically voiced other concerns this time. to the vice president's office about hunter biden. in february 2015, he raised concerns about hunter biden to vice president biden's office. >> in a briefing call with the national security staff of the office of the vice president in february of 2015, i raised my concern that hunter biden's status as a board member could create the perception of a conflict of interests.

>> but house managers didn't tell you that. this is all while hunter biden sat on burisma's board. did hunter biden stop working for burisma? no. did vice president biden stop leading the obama administration's foreign policy efforts in ukraine? no. in the meantime, vice president biden is still at the forefront of the u.s.-ukraine policy. he pledges a billion dollars loan guarantee to ukraine contingent on its progress in rooting out corruption. around the same time of the $1 billion announcement, other people raised the issue of a conflict. as special, the obama administration special envoy for energy policy told the new new yorker it raised hunter , biden's participation on the board of burisma.

he raised it directly with the vice president himself. this is a special envoy to president obama. and the media had questions too. december 8th, 2015, the new york times publishes an article that prosecutor general shulkin was investigating burisma and its owner zlochevsky. >> the times report, here is their quote. the credibility of the vice president's anti-corruption message may have been undermined by the association of his son hunter biden, end quote, with burisma burisma and its owner zlochevsky. and it wasn't just one reporter who asked questions about the line between burisma and the obama administration. as we learned recently through reporting on fox news on january 19th, 2016, there was a meeting between obama administration officials and ukrainian prosecutors.

ken vogel, journalist for the new york times, asked the state department about this meeting. he wanted more information about the meeting, quote, where us support for prosecutions of burisma holdings in the united kingdom and ukraine were discussed, end quote. but the story never ran. around the time of the reported story, january 16, meeting between the obama administration and ukrainian officials took place, according to a ukrainian press report as translated says, quote, the us department of state made it clear to the ukrainian authorities that it was linking the $1 billion in loan guarantees to the dismissal of prosecutor general viktor shokin, end quote. now we all know from the obama administration and from the words of vice president biden himself, he advocated for the

prosecutor general's dismissal. there was ongoing investigation into the oligarch zlochevsky, the owner of burisma, at the time. we know this because on february 2nd, 2016, the ukrainian prosecutor general obtained a renewal of a court order to seize the ukrainian oligarch's assets. a kiev post article published on february 4, 2016 says the oligarch zlochevsky is suspected of committing a criminal offense of illicit enrichment, end quote. over the next few weeks, the vice president had multiple calls with ukraine's president poroshenko. days after the last call on february 4, 24th, 2016, a dc consultant reached out to the state department to request a meeting to discuss burisma.

we know what she said because the email was released under the freedom of information act. the consultant explicitly invoked hunter biden's name as a board member. in an email summarizing the call, the state department official says that the consultant noted that two high profile citizens are affiliated with the company. including hunter biden as a board member, end quote. she added that the consultant would quote like to talk with undersecretary of state novelli about getting a better understanding of how the u.s. came to the determination that the country is corrupt, end quote. to be clear, this email documents that the us government had determined burisma to be corrupt. and the consultant was seeking a meeting with an extremely senior state department official to discuss the us government's position.

her pitch for the meeting specifically used hunter biden's name, and according to the email, the meeting was set for a few days later. and later that month, on march 29th, 2016, the ukrainian parliament finally votes to fire the prosecutor general. this is the prosecutor general investigating the oligarch, owner of burisma. on whose board hunter biden sat. two days after the prosecutor general is voted out, vice president biden announces that the us will provide $335 million in security assistance to ukraine. he soon announces that the us will provide $1 billion in loan guarantees to ukraine. now let's talk about one of the democrats' central witnesses, ambassador ivanovic. in may 2016, ambassador ivanovic was nominated to be ambassador in ukraine. here's what happened when she was preparing for her senate

confirmation hearing. >> congresswoman stefanik had asked you how the obama-biden state department had prepared you to answer questions about burisma and hunter biden specifically. do you recall that? . >> yes. >> out of thousands of companies in the ukraine, the only one that you recall, the obama-biden state department preparing you to answer questions about was the one where the vice president's son was on the board. is that fair? >> yes. >> so she's being prepared to come before all of you. all of you, and talk about world issues. going to be in charge of the ukraine and what did they feel the only company, the company that it was important to brief her on in case she got a question? burisma.

ambassador ivanovic was confirmed july 2016. as the obama administration was coming to a close. in september 2016, a ukrainian court cancels the oligarch zlochevsky arrest warrant for lack of progress in the case. in mid january 2017 burisma announces that all legal proceedings against it and zlochevsky have been closed. both of these things happened while hunter biden sat on the board of burisma. around this time, vice president biden leaves office. years later now, former vice president biden publicly details what we know happened. his threat to withhold more than a billion dollars in loan guarantees unless chopin was fired. here's the vice president. >> i said, i said i'm not going to we're not going to give you the billion dollars. they said, you have no authority. you're not the president. the president said, i said, call him.

i said, i'm telling you, you're not getting a billion dollars. i said, you're not getting a billion dollars. i'm going to be leaving here. i think it was about 6 hours. i looked, i said, i'm leaving in 6 hours. if the prosecutor's not fired, you're not getting the money. oh, son of a bitch. got fired and they put in place someone who was solid at the time. >> what he didn't say on that video, according to the new york times. this was the prosecutor investigating burisma. chopin. what he also didn't say on the video was that his son was being paid significant amounts by the oligarch, owner of burisma, to sit on the board. only then does hunter biden leave the board. he stays on the board until april 2019. now on november, 2019, hunter

biden signs an affidavit saying, quote, he's been unemployed and has no other monthly income since may 2019. this was in november of 2019, so we know from after april 2019 to may 2019, through november 2019, he was unemployed by his own statement. april 2019 to november 2019. despite his resignation from the board, the media has continued to raise the issue relating to a potential conflict of interest. on july 20, 2019, the washington post wrote the fired prosecutor, general show, quote, believes his ouster was because of his interest in the company, end

quote, referring to burisma. the post further wrote that quote, had he remained in his post, he would have questioned hunter biden. on july 20th, 2019, 3 days later, president trump speaks with president zelensky. he says, the other thing, there's a lot of talk about biden's son, that biden stopped the prosecution, and a lot of people want to find out about that. so whatever you can do with this attorney general would be great. biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution, so if you can look into it. looks horrible to me. end quote. the house managers talked about the bidens and burisma 400 times, but they never gave you the full picture. but here are those who did. the united kingdom serious fraud unit.

deputy assistant secretary of state george kent. chris heinz. the white house reporter. abc, good morning america, the washington post, the new york times, ukrainian law enforcement, and the obama state department itself. they all thought there was cause to raise the issue about the bidens and burisma. now the house managers might say without evidence that everything we just have said has been debunked, that the evidence points entirely and unequivocally in the other direction, that is a distraction. you've heard from the house managers. they do not believe that there was any concern to raise here that all of this was baseless. and all we are saying is that there was a basis to talk about this, to raise this issue. and that is enough.

i yield my time. >> we have been pulling from the c-span archives to bngou president trump's nominees in their own words. we hear more from attorney general know many pam bondis she spoke in support of president trump's reelection bid on the second night of the 2020 republican national convention. ♪ >> i'm pam bondi. our parties theme tonight is america, the land of opportunity and listening to the stories of discoveries and deliverance, you can't help but be proud to call this country home. but for jill biden, it has been the land of opportunism, not

opportunity. as a career prosecutor and former attorney general of florida i thought corruption and i know what it looks like, whether it is done by people in pinstripe suits or orange jumpsuits. at the democratic convention we were told to look at jill biden as the model of integrity, but when you look at his 47 year career in politics, the people who benefited or his family members, not the american people. let's take a looser look. we know about hunter biden, a corrupt ukrainian oligarch put hunter on the board of his gas company. he had no experience in you frame or in the energy sector -- ukraine or the energy sector but he was paid millions to do nothing. he only had one qualification the battered. he was the son of the man who distributed usa to ukraine.

a few months after hunter biden joined the corrupt company's board, the obama biden state department began doing business with him, even when it remained under investigation for corruption. and it gets worse. that same company was being investigated by a ukrainian prosecutor. the vice president of the united states threatened to withhold aid to ukraine unless that same prosecutor was fired. then, he was fired. hunter only resigned from the board just before his dad announced his campaign for president. let's talk about china. fact. joe biden moved to china on air force two with hunter along for the ride. they said he was just there is a family member but we know that is untrue. in beijing hunter had meetings

with his chinese bank partners. hunter arranged for his dad to meet with one of the partners. 10 days later, those chinese communist bankers approved millions to go to hunter's firm. those bankers worked for the chinese communist party, which oppresses their people, cheated american workers for decades and covered up a deadly virus. to this day, hunter controls a 10% stake in that firm. joe biden has done more than look the other way on china. he said the chinese aren't our competition. they are not bad folks. talk to the folks in middle america who lost countless jobs to china while your son was getting rich with them. but there is more. fact. there have been numerous press reports that have shown other

close biden family members benefited from joe's 47 year political career. joe biden was point person on iraq. the president of a construction firm met with his team in the white house and who did they hire to build houses in iraq? joe biden's most family member. you guessed it, and he had no experience in the industry and no experience in iraq. a company official bragged it helps to have a family member as partner. the family member put it bluntly by saying there is a line of 737's filled with cash ready to invest. let's follow the money down south. as reported in the press, yet another close family member of joe's set his sights on costa rica and jamaica, where millions of dollars flowed from the obama biden administration in taxpayer

backed loans linked to the same family member. these aren't isolated incidents. it is a deliberate pattern of conduct. that is just what he did as vice president. imagine what he would do as president. how many american families would be allowed to get away with this? why should there be one standard for the elite political class and another set of rules for the rest of us? when millions of americans voted for donald trump, they knew he would be different and he is. he is a tough no-nonsense outsider who can't be bought or intimidated. he won't even take a paycheck from the american people. he donates his paycheck to charities across this country. democrats have lectured america about integrity four years while

their nominee has been writing the text book on abuse of power for 40 years. if they want to make this election a choice between saving america and swindling america, bring it on. joe says he will build back better. build the bidens back better. our president is in this to build a safer, better and stronger america and he will finish what he started to keep this a real land of opportunity for everyone. if you want to check your voting status, secure your ballot or register to vote, text "both" to 880-22. remember, the best is yet to come. >> we have been showing you president elect trump's nominees their own words. we finish our look at attorney

general nominee pam bondi. she spoke at press conference in bedminste new jersey come alongside foerresident trump who at the time was announcing a lawsuit against social media platforms that banned him. >> i am here not as part of that great legal team over there, but i am proud to be part of america first policy constitutional litigation team. i was here to explain a few things, and what john said, this is about to our constitution. this isn't just for conservatives. this is for everyone out there, about censorship, for democrats and even progressives who should be protected under the first amendment. tulsi gabbard sued. do you remember that? she was censored when she was

running for president. she sued. people say that they have immunity, they meaning youtube, facebook, twitter under section 230. section two hundred 30 came about in 1996 and it was an offshoot of the decency act to protect really, to protect against children being exploited online. that is what this was about. take effect in 1996. how many users were there? probably 20 million on aol. 1996. now, what do we have? facebook, twitter, we have billions worldwide. so times have changed. the internet is flourishing, but first amendment still must be protected. nobody could envision what was about to happen with the internet in our country, with billions of users worldwide. that is why this is so important. when you have mark zuckerberg

and others called in front of congress, being coerced and questioned by all of these congressman, then you also have mark zuckerberg emailing with dr. fauci about covid and in fact, a lot of their emails that we received have been redacted, not just because of phone numbers but because they were trading trade secrets. things, so a private company is communicating with the federal government and parts of that were redacted. so that makes them, they are not immune anymore. they are not immune anymore. it was coercion, collusion, working together and they cannot hide from the first amendment. that is why this is so very important. even facebook's board oversight board that mark zuckerberg created, the oversight board, came back and said there were problems. there were problems and it

lacked consistently being applied to everyone by community standards. so that is why this is so important for us, for our future, for all political parties, for all human beings around the world. we believe in the first amendment and america first licy, will fight for it. thank you. . >> president biden is in southern california in response to the wildfires, but he is there for another reason. the birth of his great-grandchild. thwashington post posted, with thick smoke cerg the sky, president biden arrived at ceda-sai for the birth of his great-grandchild. hunter biden has arrived with naomi do to have a c-section. the president revealed, i'm about to have -- to be a great grandfather. jesus god. president jimmy carter, the 39th

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