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fake moderate joe manchin's family came to the radical left in his party and now sadly the people of west virginia will pay the price for him caving literally through higher taxes and higher inflation and a much longer recession than needed. a lower quality of life, all in the name of green renewable energy. we are going to expose the shameful hard left turn from the west virginia center. by the way, tonight we have an interesting question. why is mary muriel bowser, washington, d.c., finally now asking the national guard and their assistants question rick will give you that answer coming up. first might our top story, i wish it was not true but after two straight quarters of negative growth, we are officially in a recession. this was the very definition of a recession. look. according to cnn and cnbc in the "l.a. times" "the new york times" and nancy pelosi and pretty much every notable economist and pretty much everyone else on

earth. but you're mentally impaired, decrepit old president knows better. according to joe, we are definitely not in a recession in spite of what actually having two consecutive quarters of negative growth. >> the inflation reduction act will add another $370 billion in clean energy tax credits and reconciliation. including incentives to accelerate domestic production of solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, and critical materials processing. that doesn't sound like a recession to me. thank you very much. >> sean: it does to everyone else with a brain that actually believes the definition, two straight quarters of negative growth. tonight we can report the housing market which i've been warning you about, i told you this going to happen, that the crash has officially begun. new home construction won't stop. sale of pre-existing home, will stop. they aren't going to give up

their fixed loans. going with a 7% or 8% fixed loan. they can afford it. foreclosures are a way out and you know the repo man from way back when. motor vehicle repossessions. they are also way up. newly 50% of our fellow americans struggling to simply pay their bills. we learned this week consumer confidence is now at a new low. inflation remains at a 40 plus year high. gas prices to large double what they were under donald trump even though they are tapping the strategic petroleum reserves which we need in case of an emergency and joe biden is in complete denial and just lying to all of us. that should bother all of you the most. just like he lied about never talking to hunter about his foreign business dealings, we have new evidence today. we have a report with matt gaetz coming up later in the program. 14 specific times joe met with hunter's foreign business partners. every american should be angry not only about his failure as president but the fact that he

lies and everyone else around him tells the same lines. today in a bizarre moment, biden insisting that ungrateful americans, you are ungrateful, complaining about the economy. because they have jobs instead of a thousand dollar checks from the government, it's your fault. take a look. >> i started thinking about it. somebody raising a middle-class kid. one year even though you didn't have a job you have now come even though you didn't get a raise that your, the difference between having a job, having a 5% raise or whatever. three, five, seven, whatever happens to be in the face of inflation. the price at the pump, although that's down every day so far. but you know, it's like whoa, i feel worse off. but then again i didn't get a check from the government for eight grand. does not m make any sense to

anybody or is it just me? >> sean: no, joe, it doesn't make sense. it's like uttigieg. more pain at the pump. more benefit from more pain that you esperance. who knows what joe was talking about. who knows they are adopting these insane policies. they are hurting the entire country. i don't know the fed chairman, jerome powell, he called today's negative gdp report even worse than expected. maybe they should listen to him although i don't frankly think he knows what the hell he's doing either. take a look. >> we didn't expect a good reading but this one was even worse than expected i would say. i don't talk about my own personal estimate of what the terminal rate would be. i will write down that. it's going to evolve. it has evolved for all participants. it has evolved over the course of the year as we learn how persistent inflation is going to be. >> sean: every american needs to take. none of this is good but as per

usual joe biden and all the advisors, they refuse to tell the truth which again is nothing new. joe was in denial. remember about afghanistan? he lied. what a great success. we still have americans behind enemy lines. it's nearly one full year. day 348 since he abandoned them. we have our department of homeland security secretary saying the border is secure. it is anything but secure. just the opposite. joe lied about the russian buildup of russian troops around ukraine. that doesn't necessarily mean that he's going to invade. wrong again. they lied about the supply chain. they lied about not being warned about the baby formula shortage. they lied repeatedly about the causes of spiking gas prices. they caused the price bike because they artificially reduce the world supply. they lied over and over and over again. inflation is transitory. and now biden and everyone around him and the media mob,

they are all lying about what are some very real recession by definition, by the definition that they themselves used to your zero. in fact, today's massive spending bill and tax hike rubber-stamped by joe manchin will make this recession and are impatient that much worse. you can't fight inflation by printing money and raising taxes. by the way, you know who said that? joe biden. i'm sorry, joe manchin and barack obama. we will play it later. course biden's constant state of denial and lying has led to serious because once his. americans have died. we have others left and abandoned in afghanistan. growth is at war. fentanyl is pouring across our borders. human trafficking inside the u.s. is at an all-time high. now americans are being crushed by joe's inflation. his record high gas prices, and a brand-new recession. so it's time for all of them to stop spinning, stop lying, and admit to the truth.

if you can for submit to the truth, it shall set you free. maybe it will start -- will start thinking about a course correction. back to securing our border, go back to energy independence policies. we need a massive change of direction. your policies are failing the american people. here with reaction, fox business host larry kudlow. larry, at any point in your career and your whole career has been about the economy one way or the other, has anybody ever tried to change the historical definition of recession until this administration? i can't recall any other time they have tried this. >> well, no. it's all phony baloney and malarkey coming out of the white house. everybody knows this. the numbers today, you had your second straight quarterly decline. they were worse than the first quarter. the inflation rate was 8.9% so

it's a bad connotation. actually i thought you're going to ask me, have you ever seen a swing down this fast? biden in 18 months, he took a strong economy growing at 6% with less than 2% inflation and in 18 months, turn that into a high inflation recession. in just a year and a half, it's really quite remarkable. by the way, i happen to agree with your analysis. way too much spending. way too much money printing. way too much war against fossil fuels. driving up prices for everybody. okay, let's fix it. let's fix it. we can fix it. you are on the supply side, right? make the trump tax cuts permanent. let's have deregulation. let's have energy independence. let's have deregulation across the board. let's have a strong dollar to

hold down inflation. this could be fixed with the supply-side agenda but i don't think we're ever going to see it from biden. >> sean: all of this was preventable. the crisis the border was preventable. if he would've kept the trump policies. we be paying $2.20 per gallon if we'd kept the trump energy policies. we could have been the most energy dominant country in the face of this earth because as putin is getting a billion-dollar profit a day, selling oil to europe, although he's cutting it back and giving it to china and india, we could be supplying their energy needs in western europe and they wouldn't have to rely on pollutant. we have the added benefit of bankrupting him. so all of this was preventable. now, the worst thing they've done is, and explain this to me. they say this was all in the name of climate change. it's okay to import energy from iran and russia and venezuela

and saudi arabia and opec but we can't do it domestically where we would do it cheaper, where we need do it faster and we would do it cleaner. explain to me, how does that benefit mother earth? >> you've got a bunch of climate extremists. you've got a bunch of climate zealots. it is like a religion. this bill, this reconciliation bill that you mentioned was unfortunately joe manchin caving in. by the way, sean, this bill is going to increase. it's going to double the tax on coal believe it or not. manchin is from a coal state. the bigger picture as we could have gotten out of this mess by keeping the spigots open. permits for drilling, permits for pipelines and permits for refineries and permits for lng exports are al roker we could've

done that but biden won't do it. this reconciliation bill has about 350 billion in green energy subsidies, tax credits. they are making the same mistake again. by the way, take this bill and add onto it this intel corporate welfare chips plus bill and you know what you've got? $850 billion just in the last two days. $850 million in new spending at about $750 billion in new taxes. i ask you. that is going to make the recession worse and the inflation higher. this is like the cure is worse than the disease. i've never seen anything like it. i've never seen anything this stupid. >> sean: larry kudlow, you're right on the money. we can solve this. he would take a little time. i would say about a year, year and have probably we can get things back on track but it would take that long. it's not going to happen. this is their religion now.

they won't change course. they will go down with the ship. larry kudlow, thank you as always. in more bad frankly humiliating, embarrassing news, joe biden literally got lectured and threatened repeatedly by titus president xi today. beyond pitiful. i was embarrassed for my country, humiliating for the entire country. the country's ruling communist party is a blood lust for rli taiwan. many experts china is actively a waiting an invasion of the sovereign island neighbor. president xi knows biden is weak, decrepit and he's not going to do a thing. when this was discussed during today's lengthy phone call, china's dictator she threatened the u.s. demanded nancy pelosi cancel an upcoming trip to taiwan. "those who play with fire will be perished by it." it is hoped that the u.s. will

be cleared i'd about this. in response to the threat, wanted your president do or say? he did nothing. he just sat there. he took it, embarrassing the entire country. in fact, biden is still working to reward china by ending the tariffs that donald trump put because they are not involved in free and fair trade so they put tariffs on china. still looking the other way is the deadly chinese fentanyl floods the southern border. giving the country a free pass on the virus that was made in that lab in wuhan. letting the communist party by a plan near military bases, by of our farmland, our ranch land, hundreds of thousands of acres. he sent a million barrels of our oil from our strategic reserves to china and another 4 million to other countries around the world at a time when we are paying the highest price we've ever paid for gas and diesel in our country's history.

now joe is cowering in fear and took a lecture and a threat from that dictator? as they threaten our country. joe, get a spine. who the hell cares what president xi thinks. you should've been lecturing him about the death and horror that china unleashed on the world about how they treat minorities in their country. you should have compensation for the well over 1 million americans killed by the virus they tried to hide from the world. remember you could fly from wuhan to any other part of the world but if you were in wuhan, you weren't allowed to fly anywhere into china. if you are in any other part of china, you weren't allowed to fly to wuhan. i wonder why. why didn't you challenge him on their unfair trade policies become of their intellectual property theft. sadly joe biden was a wimp today. he showed nothing but weakness, nothing but appeasement. joe, the next time, just hang up the phone of some dictator threatening you.

keep the tariffs. maybe double them. support taiwan. green light nancy pelosi strip instead of capitulation like you showed today. make the communist chinese know that there will be serious, deadly consequences for any invasion. your weakness is inviting aggression. only peace through strength works. you might want to start listening to your generals, joe, if you can focus long enough. if you refuse to stand up for america and our allies, there will be serious questions about whether joe biden is compromised. we do know his son hunter, it's interesting. why do joe biden as he was canceling the keystone xl pipeline why did he give vladimir putin a waiver to build the north string to pipeline? why is he lifting tariffs in china? why is me holding china accountable for covid and other issues that intellectual property theft? could it be because the biden family syndicate got a $1.5 billion deal with the bank of china, hunter running it, no

experience whatsoever. in fact the ccp funded the biden families lavish lifestyle for many years. what do they get in return? how compromised is the biden family? here now with reaction, the cohost of the five, geraldo rivera. former senior advisor, kellyanne conway. you watch today this president the power not humiliated and embarrassed how weak our president was questioned after getting threatened by him? i wouldn't put up with after five seconds and i'll tell you us wouldn't have put up with it. a guy by the name of donald j. trump. he wouldn't take that speed 21 from anybody. >> the problem i think sean is don't know that president biden knows what our policy is vis-a-vis china. back in may, you'll recall he was asked if he would use military force to defend taiwan. since the 1970s, as you know,

since the nixon-kissinger days, we have had a policy of one china. chinese government in beijing. taiwan is part of china. what we have said is we have strategic ambiguity. we have hinted that if china would try to take taiwan by force, the united states would intervene but now i don't know what our policy is. that's what the problem is. it leads to confusion. confusion leads to peril. the tenor and tone of the remarks, i don't know. i don't like communist china. i don't trust communist china. i think china is our strategic rival, or principal strategic rival. not russia but china. picking the fight over nancy pelosi trip that i don't even know israel, i'm not sure that's the wisest thing to do, sean. >> sean: kellyanne, you know donald trump as well as i do. never wouldn't have put up with that threat.

>> he didn't put up with the threat. he took on communist china. took them on in the uighurs, the persecution, the uighurs in china. december 1, 2018 and bonus areas, president trump took on president xi about getting the fentanyl getting the heck out of our country. do joe biden asked president xi about fentanyl? did he hold him to account for the uighurs, our technology, is he going to have this great trade deal? between the usa and china in january of 2020 before we all, before we found out what coronavirus was and what covid-19 would turn out to be. if you talk about that virus? i think the call today actually

started a year ago when president xi and vladimir putin and the rest of us in this world saw of feckless and reckless commander-in-chief and president joe biden withdrawing from afghanistan is such a chaotic deadly way. service members lost. ignoring the advice of his generals. we also including xi and put in, women and children running across the tarmac and hanging from the plane. turning over control of afghanistan to the taliban. when the american president projects weakness, people, property, peace and prosperity are endangered and that's what we all saw it today. >> sean: geraldo, i would've liked to have seen joe biden pushed back and say you know what, you over the world compensation for the deaths because of the virus created in that lab in your country and you knew damn well what was going on there. i would've preferred the joe biden safe you don't start free and fair trade, we are going to double down on our tariffs because we're going to insist that you start being a

fair trading partner. i would've preferred that they be told in no uncertain terms what the price would be to intellectual property theft and the most important thing is don't you dare tell us who we are going to send to our ally in taiwan. save your lectures. we will send anybody want anywhere we want anytime we want, and it's none of your business what we do. why didn't he just say that? i can't believe i'm sticking up for nancy pelosi's right to go. >> she has an absolute right to go. the consequences. the last time a speaker of the house when, newt gingrich, 1997. china in 1997 has no resemblance to the much more powerful china of 2022. >> sean: so we should cower? >> no, that's my point. that's my point. we have the uss ronald reagan there right now, big carrier strike group 350 ships, 27,000

sailors and marines. the united states is not wimping out. when their planes harass ours, we harass theirs. >> sean: i trust general milley. i don't trust general joe. >> i want to know where the speaker, is the speaker pelosi trip real? >> sean: it was real. >> why doesn't she announce it? >> sean: it was real. >> she and kevin mccarthy would go together. >> sean: they should. >> it's a safety issue. it's a safety issue for them. it's a safety issue for her to really talk about her whereabouts. but i'm very disappointed that joe biden, when the number three nancy pelosi is being threatened, he talked about climate change today incident about that. his administration has a walk back its comments in may and october. he doesn't know what the policy is at the rest of us don't know what the policy is. >> sean: i don't think he could pick it out on a map. that's my opinion. when we come back, joe manchin. he caved to the radical left on

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>> sean: more breaking news. senator joe manchin has officially caved to the far left claimant cult alarmists of his own party and says he is going o along with the democrats latest reckless tax increases and spending spree. sadly joe manchin completely caved, folders of the climate alarmists cult that represents the new green deal democratic party. he chose them steadily over the great people of west virginia. the many people whose very

livelihood comes from the energy sector. the democratic claimant cult, they want to demolish and destroy that industry. that includes billions in funds for the democrats green new deal fantasies. but that wasn't all that long ago joe manchin along with barack obama, today we found out we are officially in a recession. both said you don't raise taxes in a recession. this bill is going to raise taxes to the tune of 313 billion. take a look. >> i don't think during a time of recession you mess with any taxes or increase taxes. >> does not make sense to raise taxes in a recession so getting growth on track is still our most important priority. >> the last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of a recession. it would put businesses in a further hole. >> sean: sadly, manchin folded.

i did have a conversation with donald trump about this. looks like manchin is sticking up for the people of west virginia. he said he will fold. he always does. he was right, i was wrong. he didn't do what he said he wouldn't do all along. he demanded the people of west virginia, whacking the state with a massive tax increase. assault on the energy sector. that's at the heart of west virginia's economy. this legislation will not do a single thing to ease inflation. it will do the exact opposite. it's one big democratic tax hike with more regulation coming at a time when married couples are already paying an added $6,800 more because of biden inflation. individuals are paying another $3,400 every year. if you drive your car, that's another $2,000 putting gas in your tank. the bill includes a 15% corporate minimum tax. are we the only ones that remind you corporations don't pay taxes, they push the cost on to you.

over 100 billion more dollars that they think they can get for more irs tax harassment enforcement. all that really means, i won't change my life at all. many more of you will get the annual hannity treatment and i don't wish that anybody. 400 billion for what they're calling energy security and climate change. manchin held the line but he's doing exactly what he said he would not do. he has folded to the far left claimant cult that represents party. here with reaction, fox news contributors jason chaffetz and charlie hurt. we get your take on this. i believe that mansion understood that with the democrats were proposing would hurt his state in particular. i was pretty shocked to hear he is going along with the build back broke new green deal madness. but he is. >> this is what is shocking. manchin was put up as the one person with kyrsten sinema that was holding back dam but the

good people of west virginia got snookered. just this week he has miraculously added more spending, more than $700 billion and more spending. is that going to help you at the gas tank? is he going to help you with inflation? no. he raised taxes. everybody is going to feel that it west virginia and the coal industry also got a tax increase so good luck explaining that. shelley moore capito got it right. but joe manchin, don't believe that he stands on principle. he raises taxes and spends like a democrat and the people of this country are going to pay the price especially in west virginia. so disappointed in the sky, he talks a good game but when push comes to shove he falls like a house of cards. >> sean: as i look at this objectively, i cannot wrap my mind around the idea without any real alternative, they say that

we will be energy independent with renewables. we don't have that technology or capacity. and we won't for the next ten to 20 years at a minimum. but it's okay to import oil from countries that hate us. give up energy independence. it would be better for national security, high paying career jobs. we literally would be back to $. we could be the biggest producer of energy and bailout western europe and their energy needs and become the wealthiest country on earth and pay next to no taxes. why wouldn't they even consider that plan? while they are building their quote renewables. >> i've got to tell you, i didn't think it was possible to screw up the economy any worse than the biden administration and democrats already had in less than two years. and yet here we are. they have managed to find a new way to make it even worse. of course pete buttigieg tells people who complain about $6 a

gallon gasoline to buy an electric car and he doesn't seem to care that an electric car costs cc $6,000. under this bill, it's going to cost you $62,000 instead of $66,000. it's absolutely insane. it's a massive live. the idea they are calling it the inflation reduction act, this includes $400 billion in government spending which of course is not going to help any average american. but it is going to make inflation even worse. >> sean: it is solyndra on steroids in the middle of a recession. it is dumber than dumb. if you want -- if it's possible to screw up the economy anymore, this will do it. even manchin said and even obama said, you don't raise taxes in the middle of a recession. exactly what they are doing.

of course it's going to do nothing to lower the price of the pump for americans in every product in every store to get there by a truck, playing a lot more for diesel, it costs more. the cost gets passed on to us. i don't know. i don't see how -- >> and the truck driver is not getting a pay raise out of this. >> sean: great point. thank you. still ahead, the illegal immigrant accused of raping and impregnating that 10-year-old was in court today. also so-called rape trees that ted cruz told us about popping up along the border, we are going to explain more about what they really are and how prominent they are and how scary this is, straight ahead

♪ ♪ >> sean: more troubling developments out of ohio surrounding the illegal immigrant suspect charged with raping and impregnating that 10-year-old little girl. here with the latest is matt finn. sad, tragic story. >> it really is, sean. you may recall the national spotlight shining on the story earlier this month on president biden referenced a 10-year-old ohio girl raped and forced to travel to indiana for an abortion because of roe v. wade being overturned. we now know that an illegal immigrant from guatemala, 27-year-old gershon prentice, is the person accused of raping that 10-year-old girl and we learned that fuentes was livingh that girl. he was ordered to be held without bond, he pleaded guilty. the judge did not hold back when explaining why she ordered no bail. >> a child who has gone through the physical trauma of being raped, the trauma of being

10 years old and being impregnated, the physical and mental, emotional, of having to drive to another state. >> columbus police say that fuentes confessed he attacked the girl in the dna of the aborted fetus confirmed he was the father. if convicted he faces life in prison with no parole. >> sean: that little girl, so sad for her. hope this guy never gets out of jail ever. matt finn, thank you. democratic run cities, they are getting just a small glimpse of what border states are suffering from everyday. under the biden open borders crisis. in our nation's capital, d.c. mayor bowser, guess what, she finally supports calling out the national guard. why? they handled the arrival of thousands of illegal immigrants in washington who she says are straining their resources. what d.c. is saying pales in

comparison to all the carnage and all the chaos and all the suffering, human suffering that's been going on at our southern border every single day since joe biden became president and brought back not only catch and release. catch, process, give a free phone, free transportation to people that don't obey our laws, don't respect our borders or our sovereignty. as such we have plenty of drug smuggling, human traffickers, they have been taking advantage of biden's open borders, reckless inversion policy in spite of the big lie that mayorkas said that our borders are secure. that is a lie. the though suffering the most are the most vulnerable. senator cruz was on the program telling us what he is seen with his own eyes of the border. watch. >> they describe the phenomenon they are seeing that which is what they call rape trees. which is the cartels take women

over, girls or women and in the united states fate violently rape them here and then they hang the girls or the women's underwear in the trees. there are trees where they have dozens of women's underwear hanging in them and it's designed to be -- it is a trophy but is also taunting law enforcement. you can't stop me. >> sean: senator joni ernst of iowa explains human smugglers are regularly taunting law enforcement as young girls continued to be raped. here with reaction, arizona attorney general. sara carter. you've been reporting for us at the border. this is not the first time i've heard about these quote rape trees." have you seen them? how common is this? how common is rape when people take that perilous journey that they have been taking. >> you know, when you were talking and matt finn and you are talking about the story of

the 10-year-old girl, i was thinking to myself, how many young girls i have spoken to what i've been out there on the border, so many young girls, some as young as 6 years old, 7 years old. i remember being in guatemala and they removed a group of young girls that they had found that removing any caravan towards the united states and they realized that all these young girls. they work with any guardians at all and unfortunately some of them have been sexually abused and physically abused. so we are seeing this more and more. it's becoming more and more common. because of bidens border policy, the unbelievable policy that actually invites chaos, invites this kind of emboldening of the cartels and human traffickers, we are seeing the traffickers go far beyond what we have ever really seen at the border. and so senator cruz is right on target. we are seeing for example in march, some of the drug cartels that were on the u.s.-mexico border here in texas literally

got out some of the members of the vehicle and began pointing automatic rifles at dps helicopters up in the air. they are not afraid. why? because they are not going to pay a price for it. sean, i can tell you it is the most vulnerable. this year we are restricting 169,000 plus unaccompanied minors coming into the united states. >> sean: unbelievable. mr. attorney general. i know that you're in the middle of your senate campaign and you have a big primary coming up. you have talked to me often about how bad this is. how bad is it on the human trafficking side. how common are these rapes taking place? >> it's terrible. you and i have spoken about this. we are running out of words and adjectives to describe what joe biden is doing. everyone listening should make no mistake. murderers, rapists are being

enabled. he has incentivize people coming into this country illegally. the cartels have seized operational control. they are not only making a bunch of money but they are flooding drugs, fentanyl in this country being made in china. processed, driven across the border. we are paying the cost of so many ways and it breaks my heart. i am a generation american. doing everything i can in the courtroom. shame on joe biden. shame on kamala harris. shame on secretary mayorkas here he should be impeached for letting this happen. >> sean: arizona needs to join texas and florida. forget about delaware. every illegal immigrant to be put on a bus and sent to muriel bowser and joe biden. that's what they belong. that's the ones aiding and abetting the lawbreaking. they should be responsible for people that they have assisted to legally enter our country. thank you both. we appreciate those reports. coming up, another day, another

scandal for zero experience hunter biden and the biden family corruption. here is the new twist. how connected is joe to all of this? weigh more than we knew yesterday. congressman matt gaetz joins us next. he got an official at the doj to admit it, straight ahead.

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♪ ♪ >> sean: just like we have been telling you, joe biden has repeatedly lied about never, not one time ever talking to his son, talking to a son about his foreign business dealings. tonight we have new evidence exposing this biden family foreign syndicate because a new review from fox news digital finds that biden met with hunter's business associates at least 14 times while he was vice president. we have pictures of some of the

meetings. earlier today congressman matt gaetz pressed a senior biden doj official on hunter's dealings and why the department appears hell-bent on protecting hunters no matter what. take a look. >> where is the laptop? do you know where hunter biden's laptop is? >> again, i'm not going to talk about any potential ongoing investigation. >> do know where it is? >> i'm not going to talk about any ongoing investigation. >> you say you follow the facts of the law but you can't even follow a laptop. the good news is you're not the only ones with that laptop. patrick whole convicted of bribing government officials in africa and you gave a million bucks to hunter biden. are you familiar with that? >> i'm not going to speak about any ongoing investigation. >> is that an ongoing investigation. >> any potential ongoing investigation. >> it degrades the country's belief in you guys. you have whistle-blowers saying you are rat this information then you say you won't talk

about it. >> sean: matt gaetz of florida, you have a primary coming up. i know you're well-liked in your district and i'm sure that you will do well. the doj and fbi were apparently protecting hunter biden and joe biden by claiming that claiming things we would call evidence were nothing but russian disinformation. add that your line of questioning i think you have a even bigger story on top of 14 example of joe biden meeting with hunter's foreign business partners. >> the biden family clients be is ongoing. unfolding before our eyes. today we learn more about the people inside our own government who are helping them. you have hunter biden selling influence to foreign governments and then joe biden specifically has a roll meeting with hunter's associates, fox news broke a huge story, 14 examples, each

representing a live. joe biden told us he was never involved in his son's business deals. they are getting rich. america is getting a recession. fbi whistle-blowers are coming forward to tell us that anytime there is derogatory information that comes forward about hunter, they label it for interference and they stick it in a drawer. the irony is that hunter biden is the white glove valley of foreign interference and set our country. they are getting deliverables for it. the trump china initiative was a way to focus prosecutions to stop chinese espionage, will the biden dlg did away with the initiative. this is a compromise first family. >> sean: biden leveraged a billion dollars to get a ukrainian prosecutor fired in six hours. we know he had no experience had made millions there. we know he made millions from a

russian oligarch. is that the reason why joe gave the nord stream 2 pipeline labor to pollutant while canceling that keystone xl pipeline. he sat quietly and got a beat down from president xi today. is that why i guess that he's not taking on china and the origins of the covid virus? do these countries have the family compromise? i would yes. because libya did. >> i gave ahead of the national security division of the department of justice the opportunity to say unequivocally joe biden is not compromised. you know what, he couldn't do it and we are talking about hunter. he specifically cited ongoing investigations. those might be investigations to nowhere. i don't think anyone in this fbi really wants to be involved in holding the biden family

accountable what we can directly tie the actions in u.s. policy to the travel of hunter biden. we can tie the granting of business licenses to introductions that hunter biden specifically made to joe biden. this isn't just a wayward son doing strange things all around the world. both hunter biden and joe biden have specific rules within the crime family and they are getting very wealthy doing an end u.s. policy is suffering as a consequence while the chinese communist party laughs at us and they take over our government without firing a single shot. >> sean: if you are conservative or republican and you jaywalk, you get ten years. you get a predawn raid, guns drawn, cnn cameras but if you're a democrat you get away with anything. we don't have equal justice under the law in my opinion anymore. congressman matt gaetz, thank you as always. appreciate you being with us. when we come back, more "hannity" straight ahead.

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♪ ♪ >> sean: unfortunately that's all the time we have left this evening, thank you for being with us, thank you for making the show possible. set your dvr so you never miss an episode of hannity, for news any time to foxnews.com. in the meantime let not your hearts be troubled, "the ingraham angle" -- that means laura ingraham's next and that means she is fired up, ready to go. >> laura: you're so mean to hunter biden. night after night, hunter biden can't get a break. he's put upon, he doesn't have enough money to pay his bills. selling those things he does for $500 a pop. >> sean: i'm going to look into the portraits of a and if there is a painting by numbers i will buy one. >> laura: i think you should consider it, then youou