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So, as I went back into the courtroom, the hearing had just begun again. The judge was back on the bench, and she was pressing the prosecution on this investigation and the four corners of this plea agreement. One of the prosecutors said that the investigation was very much ongoing, and that she asked him, Well, what is not covered in this plea agreement if you are leaving the possibility for there being other future charges?

So, then the judge said, Would this include a possible Farah charge that's not registering as a foreign agent? The prosecutor said, No, the deal would not include that. It was at that point that she had said to the prosecution, you know. If you were not good, if you can charge that, then what does this mean? And the prosecutors, she asked Hunter Biden's attorneys about that, and he said, well, then there's no deal.

And the prosecutor said, then there is no deal.

So Biden's team said that the plea agreement, as far as they understood it, was now null and void. They were moving ahead to talk about what the next steps would be in this case.

So as of right now, the deal appears to be dead and off the table. Yeah. Oh, hi. It's Wednesday. Just thought we'd start your day off.

you know like this There's a whoop. Boy, I'm telling you something. This is crazy. A lot of developments that have happened just since yesterday. Welcome to the show.

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So, this is what's up. The uh First son. Infant Baby Hunter. 53-year-old baby infant swaddled little baby hunter was in. He's in court, actually.

He's, this is the. This is the court case where he had the tax evasion charges, the weapons charges, and they were trying to get this is the sweetheart deal that you've been hearing about. This is the sweetheart deal that a lot of people were pretty upset about. And so everybody's outside of the courthouse in Delaware right now. He went in and it started taking a lot longer than they were expecting.

So people started getting sus, right?

So some of the reporters, they can't have cameras, etc. They started going in there and then they were shocked by what they were hearing. What you just heard, and that was CNN covering that. was that Hunter Biden actually like he and his attorneys actually thought That the plea deal? included immunity from future prosecution.

Because see, there's a whole other. Investigation. Look at him. The Farah charge, that's the Foreign Agents Registration Act. And that has to do With the lobbying and all of the other work that he was doing, and then apparently.

you're not registered as a for it's the ba it's the same thing that that Paul Manafort went to jail for. And so He's actually thought that he was going to have some kind of immunity to this. This is kind of crazy.

So this and then They said that they didn't really want the weapons charges. And that's when he lied and falsified, you know, the 4473, all that stuff. We've talked about that. You know what these charges are, you've heard about them for a long time. But that, you know, that apparently they didn't like the provisions in this deal.

They didn't, they, uh, the judge was concerned because. The provision about the weapons charge, and that's in a separate case. He he thought he just had immunity from everything. He thought he could walk in there and being the president's son, he could have immunity from everything. And she's like, wait a minute, wait a minute, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Because she's expressed a concern that, you know, this is the provision in the deal that allowed you not to be prosecuted for this. What? And then The ongoing investigations into him separately, into the potential Farah. Violations. That's what caused all of this.

So, this is where we are.

So this plea deal Because he had agreed to this plea deal with federal prosecutors in Delaware. He would enter the pretrial diversion agreement for that charge, an alternative to the prosecution that allows defendants to avoid a conviction or prison time. And so. His lawyer said, well, we can't do that then if he's not. They wanted him to be completely I am Not actually shocked, really.

So that's how we're starting the program today. Pretty unbelievable, is it not? I mean, it's it's It is. Pretty wild. And this is and man, you know the person who's happiest about this?

Gavin Newsome. Mm because this just got really, really bad. For Biden, like worse than you possibly thought it could. And we're going to cover all of this. Because The way that they keep trying to put this.

Oh, it's just a little thing. That's how they were spending this last night. It's not a big deal. You know, the judge is just wondering whether or not You know the deal. Is you know, you know, just immunity for some things, or if it's just for the tax charges.

They were really trying to downplay this. I mean Ultimately, I it From what I understand, and we're going to talk to our friend Andy McCarthy later on in the program. I know from, you know, just reaching out to some friends of mine, it's rare for a judge. To refuse a deal like this at this stage, if they reach a deal, if the prosecutors and the defendants reach a deal, I mean, the judge typically doesn't necessarily refuse it. But It is Pretty amazing that she's raising concerns.

about You know what? He's demanding, you know, all of this immunity for all of these other ongoing separate cases.

So this is pretty this is you know, it's kind of stunning So This is the latest that's happening because Whoo boy. And I mean, it it It's the weapons charge, it's the Farah. There's so many things that are wrapped up in this. And so that's what And all of this happened going back to last night. And if you get the newsletter over at Substack, we sent a piece out.

Lorraine had covered this last night in a piece that just, because this was all, you guys got kind of got hit with a lot last night if you're a subscriber, but there's a lot happening. Uh so last night And this all started like at one o'clock yesterday, and it just continued to barrel on towards the evening. But that's when the story hit that the lawyers were accused of deceiving the court. before he was expected to enter this plea deal, right? And it was a lawyer that was affiliated with Hunter's legal team who Reportedly, she misrepresented herself to get an amicus brief pulled ahead of the hearing today.

And so there was a lot of discussion, back and forth discussion, as whether or not it was confusion, or I just don't lean into. Confusion, the confusion. Uh excuse for this because it's the Bidens. And I just don't think that there are any innocent accidental errors. I mean, do you?

I don't think so. I mean, and I think that we're pretty justified in believing that.

So I don't believe that it was just an accidental confusion, whatever thing.

So It was it was about 1.30 yesterday. And it gets all into this, the piece over at Substack. This was the s because this Jeopardi started the whole domino effect.

So you had The House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith, his lawyers filed an amicus brief alleging that Hunter. had benefited from a lot of this you know, the political influence of which Merit Garland and the DOJ are being accused, right? And it called into propriety, you know, into question the propriety of the entire investigation. And the brief included evidence from the IRS whistleblowers and all the stuff that the committee had been discussing with regards to this whole ongoing investigation.

So at 1:30, Smith's lawyer, Ted Cotillia, was informed that the brief had been pulled. And it was removed. At the request of somebody in his office, and he's like, Well, what?

So that there was a bunch of emails that went out, and all these emails are public. Lorraine has them up on the on the on the newsletter. There was a flurry of emails between the clerk and Hunter's lawyer, Chris Clark, and then they got into the truth of it. There was some woman named Jessica Bengals who had called the clerk's office and she represented herself as a member of Catilia's office and requested that the brief be pulled. But she doesn't work for Ted Catilla.

She works for Latham and Watkins. That's Chris Clark, Hunter Biden's lawyer, former law firm. And they've been helping Clark with the Hunter Biden case.

So the judge was ticked when she found out last night. I mean, she was hot. And she threatened sanctions. She told the Biden legal team: you guys have 9 p.m. to respond.

Or the hammer's coming down. And so then Matthew Salerno, who's a lawyer at Latham and Watkins, responded saying, It was just a big misunderstanding. They had Jessica Bengals submit a statement, and she. Her statement was weird because she was trying to say, well, the clerk's a liar, without saying the clerk's a liar. Nobody was believing it.

And the judge, you know, and this just led to the domino effect that we're seeing today.

So, this is the hot mess. that we have. There is nothing Nothing, everything with this guy is a hot mess.

Now, the guy with the gray hair, that's the bong smoking attorney, right? That's Bing Bong, the pot smoking attorney who was out on the balcony with a giant bong. Like days ago. We're calling him that, bing bong. That's his name.

He was the guy who was out. I just think, you know, when you're representing. A drug addict. And he's in trouble for selling influence. you know, a drug addict.

I just think maybe don't be photographed smoking pot. You know? Maybe don't be photographed doing a bong hit right before he visits you ahead of his case, right? I'm just saying. Just because he's a drug addict.

I just want to remind everybody, right? Good heavens.

So, this is what's happening right now. We're going to bring you all of the latest with this because they're still in that courtroom. They're still in that courtroom.

Meanwhile, somewhere, Gavin Newsom's rubbing his hands together. Cackling. You're going to see him, depending on how today goes, you're going to see him step up even more. Because they're going to try to edge Biden out over this.

So, the FARA investigation, the FARA violations, I mean, they literally thought. their plea deal covered everything. How in the world are you confused over this at this stage? How do you think that your plea deal is so much broader than what prosecutors offered you. Holy cow, that's a question for Andy McCarthy.

How does that happen? I mean, I'm not a lawyer, but I know what I know. You guys imagine this. Like, you know, you're representing your client and you're operating under. The some understanding that the plea deal covers everything your client did.

And then you walk into court. Oh, wait, no, it doesn't. I mean, whose fault is that? I mean, I'm inclined to think it's the bong-smoking attorney's fault. I don't know.

This whole thing is wild. And Apparently This was not explored until this judge started asking questions this morning. I mean There is is anything with this damn family not a clown car? I'm asking, like for all of us, is anything Anything at all. How uh It just, it's a mess.

It's an absolute mess. You know, for everyone who thought that Trump's 2020 lawyers were bad. You got bing bong, att bing bong, attorney at law. Hey dude. That's that guy.

Golly, he comes looking like a did you see him cut sidebar? He looks like a grease ball. He does, man.

So, I'm not, I'm gonna, I'll bring you the latest on this because there's gonna be a shift. I know you're bored to death with all, I know that you're tired of the political stuff. I know that you're tired of the primary. I'm not really going to get into the, I'm not getting into the day-to-day, like, this is what happened today.

Someone farted. I'm not getting into all that. What I am going to get into is, wow, somebody really like screwed the pooch here, like, big time. Here it is. This is going to reset the stage a bit.

Because I feel like you want to know that, right?

So, we're going to cover all of this stuff. All right, here's what else we have on deck: who, boy. It's that kind of a day.

So we've got the UFO hearings. Just show us some aliens and we'll be done with it, right? Bring me an alien head in a pillowcase, throw it up on the table in front of Congress. What are you looking at? Why are you doing that?

Kane's losing it. I just saw some audio that came over. Wait, wait, wait. Did you see an alien head in a pillowcase that someone threw in front? I couldn't see, but I need it.

I did get audio of someone who claims they've seen something similar.

Okay, wait a minute. Before we go. Steve's going to just kill us. We're like, don't don't play. Is it like so incredible?

Oh yeah. Yeah, it is. As a matter of fact, it's who retired with some muddles and stuff? Grush, Mr. Grush.

I don't know who that is. Apparently, he's one of the ones on the panel testifying right now in front of Congress. We're going to visit this.

Okay, so then we have also Mayorkis, the Biden situation, the border situation ongoing. I mean, there's a lot of stuff happening right now. We got a million things. ESG, wait until you hear about this story. Because it's here.

We also are going to get into more with FedEx pilots. We got some Econ stuff, Law and Order, all of this. It's kind of a crazy day, so hang in there. Black Rifle Coffee Company, together with the Boot Campaign, are on a mission to raise $1 million to change the lives of veterans.

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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.

Okay, so here are two other stories we're going to hit also later on in the program. A federal judge has blocked a Keith Biden administration asylum rule at the core of the post-Title 42 strategy. The administration has 14 days to appeal this ruling. It was dealt a major blow. They're trying to control.

Control. This is, yes, they're not. It's a border issue. A federal judge blocked this rule in, it was introduced in May that makes illegal entrants ineligible for asylum if they've entered illegally and failed to take advantage of expanded lawful pathways that pretty much they don't actually help. And so this judge blocked the circumvention of lawful pathways rule, blah, blah, blah.

So they're going to go back and forth over this. We're going to come back to this later on in the program when we discuss immigration. Additionally, Republicans are sounding the alarm on the militarization of the IRS after it spent $10 million on weapons and gear since 2020. Representative Stephanie Beis cited the report that the IRS spent that $35 million of our tax dollars on weapons and gear since 2006.

Well, because they're coming to shake you down over all your Etsy and your Venmo and everything else stuff. Bo Bergdahl, the walking abortion. That is Bo Bergdahl. A judge vacated the desertion conviction for a former U.S.

soldier captured in Afghanistan. He wasn't captured. He went AWOL and then apparently miraculously turned up in this village where he seemed like he was less a captive and like more of an ally.

Sort of interesting. Very interesting too that everyone that went out to search for him, all of their coordinates were discovered by the Taliban and they knew exactly where to go and attack our guys.

So yeah, this guy, seriously, no. To vacate this desertion, this might be an effect of Brexit.

So interesting story. Britain's economy is going to outperform Germany's this year. The IMF is forced to admit. Europe's biggest economy risks becoming stuck between stagnation and recession. Oh, Brexit.

So great. And the FTC, they're looking to break up Amazon.

Well, they're ready in a lawsuit that potentially could. Its case would be a high watermark for the FTC chair who gained prominence, criticizing the company's dominance. It's a long-awaited anti-trust suit against Amazon, and they said that they've been investigating them on a number of fronts.

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I'm just not going to get into anything that's related to Hunter Biden. He's a private citizen. I would refer you to his representatives. Just don't have anything to share on that. That is something that he is dealing with, and so I would refer you to his representatives on this.

Private citizen, infant baby hunter. 53-year-old infant toddler baby hunter. Is a private citizen, said KJP yesterday evening. Hold on. Did you see that damn motorcade?

Did you see his motorcade rolling up to court today? His private citizen motorcade? Yeah, that's not an awesome. How many cars deep was it? One, two, three, four, five, four, five, six, maybe seven.

Barricades and stuff. I mean, yeah, with barricades, tree enclosures. That's his private citizen motorcade. You're telling me you don't get that kind of treatment as a private citizen? Got it.

You don't get that when you go to, you know, go get your meat to go and grill at home? No. You don't roll up like that, seven cars deep, six cars deep? I'd love to. Because you're a private citizen, also.

I mean, I know that when I go to Kroger, Cane or whatever grocery store I go. I mean, Private citizen coming, shut the roads down. Six-car motorcade. You're not getting that. You need to call somebody.

Absurd. That's the private citizen motorcade. I thought I had some sort of privilege because I'm half white or something. Oh, Hispanic adjacent. Yeah, yeah, we're white adjacent because half Hispanic.

That's correct. I'm a motor kid. Is that what costs you the motorcade? I think so. Oh, dang.

No, no, you're a citizen, though. You get it. It doesn't matter. You get a private citizen motorcade. Yeah.

I had no idea. Don't ask me who funds it. I don't know. I think it comes from the ether. Where do I apply?

That's a great question. Mine just showed up. Like when I pull out of my driveway, there's bam, six cars there, five cars. And I'm like, what are you doing? And they're all Ma'am, we're here to.

Where are you going? We're here to accompany you. And I'm like, why? And they s and they're just these dudes in suits. I don't know who they are.

And they're like, Well, you're a private citizen motor cage for your protection. And they just roll with me to the store, you know. You didn't you don't get that? I'm just shocked. Like Steve even gets it.

Man. Steve's so used to having his motorcade in DC, but see, everybody has a motorcade in DC, so Steve never leaves like the station or his apartment because you can't get anywhere. Everybody's got their motorcades. Yeah. I mean, you just it's a mess.

Some people try to sneak out without them.

Some private citizen privilege there. Yeah, right? Private citizen privilege. P C P link. Yeah, he's a private citizen who you know, flies on Air Force One.

That I have not, I've never been asked on Air Force One. The only time I've ever been on an Air Force One plane was at the Reagan Museum in Simi Valley. Right? Or in uh that COD map where you get to run through. And it's like virtual, so I don't think that counts.

And it's an old plane. Like the Reagan one's old too, but it's still fascinating nonetheless. Yeah, I I mean he gets to fly around on um Air Force One, you know, private PCP, private citizen privilege. And Oh, you know, he gets the FBI and Secret Service to intervene when he commits crimes.

Now I've never thrown a gun. away in a trash can across from a school, but I bet if I did as a private citizen, I'm positive the Secret Service would immediately snatch it and try to hide it. Right? Just snatch that gun right up. I'd get a whole different kind of motorcade.

Yeah. I mean, you know, private citizen privilege, right? P C P Link. I'm sure they would intervene. Or, you know.

Like Kane, because remember that time you lost your iPad? Was your iPad you lost it? No, it was the MacBook. Oh, yeah, the MacBook that you hate that you begrudgingly take everywhere with you. What are you talking about?

I don't hate it. In case you all forgot, when we were at Shot Show in Vegas, Kane accidentally left his MacBook behind it. You said it like there's quotes. Security. You said it like there's quotes on accidentally.

No, it's just the way I talk.

Okay. Accidentally left his MacBook. It's just this natural to say it like that. And he couldn't find it. And I was like, golly, I'm glad that you don't have a lot of homemade shenanigans on that laptop.

But then I forgot. You know, he's got PCP, private citizen privilege.

So, what would it matter? Because if you like, left it somewhere. And then you forfeited your ownership of it because you abandoned it. You know, no big deal. The FBI is going to come in and snatch it for you.

and hold it. You know, because PCP. Even if it has like a record of all your crimes and stuff. I mean, it's a wonder anything gets done in the United States because of all the PCP everywhere, right? The private citizen privilege.

I mean, for the love. It's amazing. But I will say I've never been vacationing at Camp David. You know, as a private citizen. And I've never been invited to a state dinner.

as Hunter Biden has been.

So Is he more of a private citizen than I am? How does that work? Never also got to go on Air Force One on a taxpayer. funded Junk it too. Ireland to go and discover my roots.

Never, never had that either as a private citizen. I'm just. You know, I'm just just curious. about how that works. But that's a private Citizen Privilege that PCP.

So I, you know, just thinking out loud here, I mean, that's just, you know, if you don't have that, I don't know who to talk to. We should maybe ask Governor Abbott's office, like, I'm sorry, yes, Governor, where I should have asked them this yesterday, but I didn't know that KJP was going to use that. That was after he was on and after the show was off air. I should have said, Governor, can you please suggest to our listeners and viewers of the Simulcast where they can go to request their PCP privileges? you know, the private I will say one last observation on this.

Do you all have like security that do you like wake up in the middle of the night to go get a glass of water? And then there's a Secret Service agent right there just like watching over you? Has that ever happened? I don't have that. You know, as a private citizen.

Am I afforded that? Am I owed it? I feel like Sally from Peanuts when she's writing to Santa and she realizes, I just want what is coming to me. I just want what I'm I feel like that's me right now. Where's my PCP, my private citizen privilege?

Can you really say you're a president? I mean, you're the president's son, and you, I haven't, I don't live at the White House either. He did live at the White House, or lives, lived, lives, I don't know.

So yeah, real private citizen stuff there. I'm just not going to talk about that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You don't you don't get to do all that, and then be like, No, he's a private citizen. You leveraged who he was, made him into a public figure, to sell his his little spirograph drawings.

You know my name is Simon. is Hunter and I like to do drawings. Only people who watched SNL in the 90s know what that is. Everyone else thinks I'm crazy. But you don't get to, they leveraged him as a public person, and then they.

Sold that, his name, to inflate the value of his spit takes, literally. I mean That's you know, just saying here. Hmm. I I'm just, you know, I'm just fascinated by this whole thing.

So we're watching the trial go down, right? And so now apparently it was off, the plea deal was off, now it's a bounce back on. CNN says, Update: The Hunter-Biden plea deal is back on. Appears Biden legal team now agrees DOJ could later charge Biden on unrelated issues.

So he's agreeing to some that wasn't the original plea deal as they thought.

So, the Ferris stuff, the weapons, he still could be up for all that stuff. This is just related to the tax evasion stuff. Hmm. Interesting. Very interesting.

I mean, I don't know. I want to ask Andy McCarthy this, whether or not it's customary. For someone to just waltz into the courtroom and be like, Yes, I would like immunity from all the things, please. before we progress. Yes, all the crimes That's how many investigations are out against this guy.

But yeah, go ahead and believe MSNBC and CNN. Guys, there's nothing to see here. You're just making somethem out of nothin'. Really? People have been saying, as Lorraine noted, that this uh this appointee.

is it's a Trump appointee. Oh, ye GADS She's a Trump appointee. Mary Ellenorika. She's a Trump appointee. Yeah, but apparently she's voted Democrat and she also like ruled against like there's a couple of different like uh early on with the dude with the laptop like she had a ruling against him at one point.

So that kind of blows that up.

So Farah isn't covered, so it looks like He's not gonna be And here's the. Can we play the audio on this? And this is all brand new audio. Please say a prayer for Juan today because he has to grow a temporary arm. To play all of this breaking video.

So CNN was saying that it's going to be much more limited. If you could play this really quickly, because this gets into just a little bit. of what apparently I I guess the Farah thing is excluded. Take a listen. Appears to be back on track.

After I was just out here, the Biden's team had asked for 10 minutes to speak with the prosecution. They were doing that while the judge was off the bench. Then, after a bit of a period, they came back, the judge came on, and she asked them where they are.

So, essentially, Biden's team is agreeing to the plea deal, but a much more limited in-scope deal. Part of the issue here was that the judge didn't understand exactly what this plea agreement was covering because it seemed to be very all-encompassing.

So, she wanted them to really narrow down what it was that was covered under this plea agreement. And so, the prosecutors had said that this plea agreement would cover any charges that were tax charges from 2014 to 2019, any drug use charges because Biden has admitted that he used illegal drugs, and the specific firearm possession charge that is included in this deal.

So, Biden's lawyers got up and said that yes, they will agree to the prosecution's understanding of the scope of this agreement, and then the judge. Started to proceed with the usual questioning of Hunter Biden if he was willingly going to enter into this plea agreement, were any additional promises made.

So things are back on track. Interesting. So it's back on track. It's interesting because they were saying that. The lawyers were trying to push.

The deal is like the final chapter of this five-year investigation. But the judge was like, Yeah, that ain't gonna happen. And then she was asking the prosecutor, Leo Wise, if the investigation was ongoing, and he said yes. And adding that if Biden's team thought otherwise, then there's no deal. Huh.

That's so crazy. This is all so nuts. I I we're going to talk to Andy McCarthy, like I said, about all of this. Also. On deck.

Aliens Now, I'm of two minds on this. People are so distracted. With the Biden stuff and the upcoming election and the economy and oh my gosh, the culture war and everything else that You know, this is just, this is, they're just throwing aliens out there to get people to look at this or to use, or. People are so distracted that they're throwing this alien thing out there. One of two things.

Yeah, I don't know if it can be a bit of both. I don't know. I just, like I said, I'm going to need someone. To stroll into the hearing room, like Old West style, and literally just throw a pillowcase full of alien heads on the table there. And be like, this what's up?

Aliens, just you know point to a degeneration exile. Aliens.

So what's up? I just that I feel like that's that's how it's gotta go. That's how it's got. We're going to talk more about this year coming up because we got Days of the Eastern United States on the way. And I really think I mean, is it the bi is that the biggest story?

Is it? What if we're just like getting prep for our alien overlords? But then would they really want us 'cause look how bananas we all are. I mean, we get offended over stuff that's like on pancake mixes, boxes of pancake mix. I mean, that's like a fragile.

That's a fragile little species right there.

So catch the Dana show noon to 3 p.m. Eastern on DirecTV Channel 347. Yeah. Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. If you believe we have crashed craft, stated earlier, do we have the bodies of the pilots who piloted this craft?

As I've stated publicly already in my NewsNation interview, biologics came with some of these recoveries. Um Were they, I guess, human or non-human biologics? Non-human, and that was the assessment of people with direct knowledge on the program I talked to that are currently still on the program. Aliens.

I mean, I'm not saying it's aliens, but. It's aliens. That's from earlier today. That's Nancy Mace talking. Who's that fellow?

Tell me about that. Mr. Grush. I don't know. I don't know.

Mr. Grush. I'll have to look it up. G-R-U-S-C-H, yeah. mister Grush.

He sounds like the name of a guy who would sit In the truck on top of the ridge at Area 51 and drive down like a madman if he tried to go down that road. I haven't researched that or anything. David Charles Grush. Ooh, what's he do? He's an intelligence officer for 14 years in the U.S.

Air Force.

Sounds like he may know some things. Yeah, credibility abounds. Here's so welcome back to the program. We're getting ready to barrel into the second hour, and this is the song going UFO, which I think is significant.

Now, I'm of two minds. Like, oh, it's a way to distract everybody from everything that's going on, or everybody's so distracted by everything that's going on, this is the best time to put an alien UFO thing. Right? I mean, I just think that this is how crazy the world is. They're doing literal actual UFO hearings, and everyone's like, okay, whatever.

But anyway. Talking about everything else. That's kinda kinda significant, right? I mean, what are they here for? What do they want if they were here?

If they're, I think that there's alien life out there. I think it's mathematically, you know, problem, and I don't think it conflicts with anything biblically either. Uh but I just am just curious like well Well, why though? Like, why? I understand why they wouldn't want to be publicly known because we're nuts.

We are nuts. It's I mean, I'd be terrified of us if I were those aliens. We'd accuse them of racism and then we'd like tar and feather 'em and we'd, you know They'd be they'd be convicted in the court of public opinion. And then we'd call up their alien overlords and complain and try to get them fired if they're alien jobs. We're nuts.

That's probably why they don't want to say anything. They don't want to get canceled. All of a sudden we're boycotting, you know, their whatever earth, whatever their planet f they're from. Yeah, I'd be the same way. I'd be looking down like these little creatures are bananas.

Look at this. They they look at it. They got mad. over what was on a butter box. That's crazy.

Look at them. They're mad. I mean, they're all broke because of inflation and taxation, but they got time to be pissed over a butterbox. That's crazy. This one's crying over syrup.

Isn't that nuts? This one chopped off his franken beans and thinks he's a woman. They're bananas. That's probably what they're thinking. They're sitting up in their spaceships locking their doors.

Did you lock it? It's locked, Karen. Stop it. They would talk like this. But you know what I mean?

They I wouldn't I'd man take us up with you. It's crazy down here. Dang They don't want to, they can't come down and be like, take us to your leader, because then we would, and they would be like, Do you have any others? That's too bad. Golly, he'd probably sniff 'em.

and then fall down the stairs. Nobody knows what would happen. Got it. to our own detriment. Look at them, they're giving up plentiful oil and gas and Driving round cars that lose a charge if it gets cold.

Yeah, that's what's That's or hat. That's what we're doing. Yeah, we're deliberately sending ourselves back to the pioneer days. Oh, my gosh I just I wouldn't, they need to stay away. Like, take up, take some helpful advice, alien friends.

Just don't, man. Just stay safe. Stay safe. Stay in your vehicles. Lock the doors.

Just make, you know, just don't get caught because they'll cancel you. They'll accuse you. It'll they'll you'll you'll get milkshake ducked. That's what's gonna happen. Look, a lovely little alien that loves ice cream.

Five seconds later, we regret to inform you that the alien is a racist, anti-semi-bigot. And then it's done. That's it. Yay, internet. Yay, internet, yay.

Alright, so this is what we got on deck. The deal is now on, but it's not the original plea deal. Here's a question.

Now I know what I know and I know what I don't. But is it weird that the plea deal wasn't filed into court record? Like with all the other, with everything else? Isn't that how that usually goes? That's a question for Andy McCarthy.

He's going to be joining us later on. And also, can they just stop remaking old movies like Snow White? Stay with us. It seems that Commander Biden has a bit of a biting problem. Can you give us the latest and also any plans for him to perhaps make a move, go stay with some family and friends as Major Biden, the previous dog did?

So as you all know, the White House complex can be unique and very stressful. That is something I'm sure you all can understand. And it is, as I just said, it is unique and it is stressful for all of us.

So you can imagine what it's like for a family pet and family pets more broadly.

So this had to do with the story of the Biden, one of the Bidens, another dog that kept biting everybody? Did you honestly think you saw their kids, right? Did you think the dogs are going to be any different? Welcome back to the show. Dana Lash here, top of the second hour.

It's Cringe Jean Pierre yesterday. We were asked about that because they re- What did they do with Commander Biden? Were they? Where'd they put him? One of the German shepherds.

And he was the German shepherd that replaced the other German shepherd that bit people. I mean again you saw their kids. The owners You know what? I had a thought. Remember that uh movie that came out that I didn't see that we but we did laugh about, Cocaine Bear?

Uh cocaine dog, anybody? Yes, the White House is a very stressful place. Is that why people literally leave Coke bags everywhere? Just wondering. I'm asking for I'm asking for a whole bunch of people.

So we've been following this, the Hunter-Biden thing. The attorneys are still working with the judge. Just a real quick FYI.

So the plea deal. There is a plea deal back on, but it's not the one that everybody thought it was. In fact, we don't even know what the original one said because apparently that was never filed with the uh or uh into the court records.

So I don't I don't even know, but apparently it wasn't the deal that Hunter thought he was going to get. 'Cause he thought he was gonna get immunity from all the things. You know, he's got a couple of other investigations going out there, so we'll see where this goes. It's not all tied up yet, but that's just that's some of the latest. I got a million questions, but You know, we got Amy McCarthy who's going to be joining us next hour, and I'm going to ask him some of these questions.

And we might know more at that. At that time. The the I mean, I just don't even understand how in the world. They you have the depart you have the DOJ go into this proceeding and you have not discussed whether or not this meant immunity from everything or just it was very narrow in scope. Because, I mean, I just reject the idea that Hunter Biden's attorneys, and yes, I know one of them is that old hippie-looking dude who was like a, who was out there.

On his balcony, right before he met with Hunter, a drug addict, smoking, you know, he was hitting his bong. And The i the I just Cannot accept the fact that Hunter Biden's attorneys had no idea what the hell was happening until they walked into the proceedings. We just thought, Your Honor, it was just like immunity from all the things, man. We didn't know that it was just for like the one thing, man. We just thought It's like, you know, it's like peace and love.

This is like for all the things. Hold my bong. Yeah, hold my bong, man. Huh. Hm.

Oh, boy.

So that's the latest. But does have a break from all of that. You know, it's still summer. Is it concert season still? Yeah.

It's sure.

So I don't know if you've seen this. I saw Lala Palooza tweeted it out a couple of days ago. It's called the Butt Light Backyard. They said come check out all of these amazing artists turning up the heat at the Bud Light backyard at Lollapalooza. All weekend long you can enjoy a cold Bud Light while listening to live bands and D J s.

See you there, stupid emojis And I'm like, who are these people? It's DJ Metro, DJ Heavy, C Y D E Ways. Ha ha see, 'cause it's not S A D, it's C Y D so clever. DJ Heavy, Charlotte Sands, Steph Equal, Loveless, Equal, all these other people that I have no idea who the hell they are. That's the Bud Light Backyard series sponsored by Crocs.

Internet Explorer. Axe body spray. I mean, it could be. That does that make you want to go, Kane? No.

The Buddha backyard. No, not at all. You don't wanna go to that? I don't think I recognize even one name on that list. You don't recognize the group Little Stranger.

I sure don't. You don't recognize whoosh. No, what who? Whoosh. Come and have a cold butt light at the butt light backyard at Lollapalooza, where we made Lollapalooza cringe.

Sponsored by X Body Spray. Get a free crock. With every ticket. Just n croc. Got it.

I don't know who these bands are. Who are they? I mean, did they just Who are they? If you've never heard of Single One that lists that I've never seen. No, Juan was showing the list up on the screen, and I didn't.

I don't. I what? Who? It's Trenheiser Busch. See it.

Pretending that it's beer. Good luck with that. Do they make these up? Like these are horribly made up names. Like, we did a way better job with our made-up band names.

I think. Like, I would totally go see any of our band names. Give me some. Give me a band name, Kane. I would totally go see this band.

Give me one. Oh. One of the ones that we transgender monkeys. Totally would see that.

Sounds like a lot of fun. Mm-hmm. Synthetic virtue. Oh my gosh, that sounds way better than whoosh. Non-union beavers?

Golly, that sounds amazing. I totally want to go see that band. Death by Robots? Oh my gosh, that's going to be like a great speed metal/slash punk mashup. Putin's tumor.

Oh, right there? That sounds amazing. That sounds way better than. uh little stranger or Danny Deal? Why do every why does everyone think, Look how clever I'm being, I'm in this spotless name.

Yeah. Let's not say we did. It's the Bud Light backyard.

So Yeah, so you're a no for this. I'm a no.

Okay. What if they gave you? as, you know, a door prize. Oh. Really?

What kind of a door price? Or like, you know, entry, you know how you get a gift with entry? What if they gave you like a lifetime supply? Uh Aka Bud Light. And some crocs.

and Axe Body Spray and an AOL. Disc. And some internet explorer. What if they gave that to you in a bag? Would you go?

It's really tempting. It's free. And by tempting, I mean not at all tempting. No. Yeah.

Still wouldn't care. And you can get C D's of all these amazing acts. It's so bad. This is so bad. I could make fun of this all day.

I think I may actually. But I, yeah, so they're trying real hard. But that's what Lala Palooza. Nobody, everybody's making fun of this. Nobody actually took it seriously.

They're They're they're not. Yeah. Remember when Lalapalooza was like cool? And then now it's this. Yeah, remember?

Like pearl jam, chili peppers, like all that stuff for the very first Lollapaloozas. Yeah, it was, it was like, I mean, that's when like live music was really good. Then and then now you got this. Like who? Who are these people?

I I don't even know. They're trying real hard, I'm telling you.

Okay, can we talk about Schmo White? Yeah. What? Shmo White. That's what they should just rename it.

They're redoing Snow White. We talked about the photo that came out and How, like, Peter Dinklage declared himself that he was king of the dwarves and he cost all these other dwarves their jobs. Yeah, yeah, he did, didn't he? He's like I went ahead and made all my money with all the rolls that I could get Now That's and I'm I'm literally quoting like his detractors who are themselves little people They're like, he is not king of little people. He's not king of little people.

He is not king of all. These roles for little people. He cannot say because he complained about it, and then apparently Disney changed it.

So. Uh anyway. And then it they're like uh it's like uh Shmo White and the Seven assortedly assorted various random sized magical persons. I don't know. They look like people who just stepped out of a Johnny Wuz catalog.

Look at us with our boho air hot new looks for fall.

So, anyway, they had this. This, I've never heard her do an interview, but I. And I'm trying not to be mean about it, but you know how sometimes you just you're you're watching like an actor or an actress promote a movie. And you're really into it until they open their mouths. And then you're like, there's something about you I don't like.

Like you're too smug. Or something.

So she's standing there, and we played a clip of this yesterday, but there's more out there. She was standing there with Galgado. And I don't know why Galgado was like, if she doesn't get saved by a prince, I'm like, stop being excited over that. Nobody wants to see that. Stop it.

But it's this Rachel Zeigler chick. And she was saying that in this audio that It's uh she was saying that It it was It's an old story. It's obviously old. She was saying that the Snow White story was just too old. And it had to it was made 85 years ago.

And therefore, it's. You know, it's dated, it's extremely dated, and all this stuff. This is what she was saying. And There was another soundbite 2 where she was talking about rewriting some things on it. How they had to, I guess.

I don't even know why. They felt like they had to change it. Like, why not just. I mean, that's appropriation, then. You're appropriating a story and ruining it, and you're like retelling it.

Why not just, I don't know, imagine Like a new story, play some of this because this, and then, like, some of her other interviews, I was just like. Uh seems kind of insulting to the original material, right? Listen. We have this. Should have it.

years ago and therefore it's extremely dated when it comes to the ideas of women being in roles of power and and what a woman is fit for in the world and so when we came to reimagining the actual role of Snow White it became about the fairest of them all meaning who is the most just oh for the love no it's not about who's the most just it's about who's the hottest chick in the realm shut up Stop it. I love how women try to lie that they are not concerned about being pretty. Shut up, you are. Don't you lie. Every woman is.

If you say that you're not, then you're going to hell because you're lying. They act like that's a bad thing, and then they simultaneously pretend that they don't care. This is not about who's most just. And when d is she not is she unaware that The queen is pretty powerful in that film, in that story, and she herself is pretty powerful in that story. And Kane asks, how is Gal Godot supposed to be jealous of Rachel Zeigler's looks?

Right. That's part of the story. I mean, who's the fairest of them all? I mean, you literally played Wonder Woman. You're like mid to late thirties and you look like you're 15.

Shut up, evil queen. I I just why not instead of reimagining things Maybe just like come up with your own story. It's not that hard. Are you telling me that society and all cultures are all out of ideas? There are no other mythical, there's no other mythical anything.

Everybody's out of ideas. Is that what you're telling me? Because I don't believe that. I mean honestly. If you're watching the simulcast and you see the photo that Juan has up, Of the seven assorted magical persons.

They look like Johnny Wuz people. I swear that actually might, or anthropology, because some of the clothes that they have that are going on there, I don't even know what in the hell is happening. It just it's I don't know. It's like someone went into a child's costume box and threw it all into the store, and then there's our merching, our merchandising. I'm just saying that Just read just y just come up with a new story or find a new story.

I mean, this is just why. It just, how is that? That to me seems like appropriation and insulting the original work. That's what it seems like. I mean, it's not.

It's not wrong to have these original stories, and there was nothing wrong with the original story. If you get the newsletter, I sent out a piece yesterday, and we'll talk about this here coming up. But there were two things that I was reading, and it kind of dovetails into this. It's the cultural aspect of things.

So, I have not seen the Barbie movie. I'm not going to see the Barbie movie because I have to be enthralled. By the subject on the screen to sit there. As fidgety and wound up as I am, I cannot be held captive in a dark room and be and watch something. I have to be entirely engrossed in it.

But there were some people that were Saying that maybe It's not what it seems, but not on purpose. Like the filmmakers accidentally. showed the death of feminism. We're going to talk about this coming up because it's actually a fascinating consideration. And now, all of the news you would probably miss.

It's time for Dana's Quick Five.

So, Hunter Biden has pled not guilty in a Delaware courtroom on gun and tax charges, refusing to accept the plea deal previously laid out by prosecutors because there were ongoing investigations. And I don't even know how you could even enter into a plea deal when that's that. That's a question for Andy McCarthy. The judge says she was not going to accept or reject any kind of plea agreement because she wants more information. We're going to talk more about this coming up.

Also, Porsche's only EV in production was hit by weekly supply chain issues. Porsche warned on Wednesday that the weekly supply chain snarls hampered with the output of its fully electric, only fully electric vehicle and warned about slower growth in Europe. The CFO told reporters on a media call that it faces major challenges in securing parts like high-voltage heaters for its take-hand EV. He said the ability to meet its EV sales target of more than 12% of shipments this year might be difficult and depends if supply chain woes can be resolved in the second half. Only going to get worse.

The more you more you rely on China. Just saying, just saying. This is wild. A 14-year-old boy who's blind had his vision restored by eye drops that use inactivated herpes virus and a potential breakthrough that could help millions. They repair A faulty collagen-producing gene and helped clear eye scarring.

It's a major win for treating rare diseases, but it's a $600,000 cost. It was only recently approved as a topical gel to be rubbed onto skin lesions caused by the sporadic disease. But now it also caused scar tissue buildup on eyeballs. And so they were able to actually use this as a way to restore vision to this child who's blind. This is unbelievable.

So that's a huge, huge breakthrough. Let's see here. This dogs in this French town are going to have their DNA tested to crack down on a problem of people not cleaning up after their own dogs. How do you not clean up after your dog? They said that uh owner and this is in a a French town.

It would require dog owners to have their pets genetically attested so authorities could track their uh Excrement. It must be really bad if they're going to that extent. Stick with us. We got all the latest on this plea deal that didn't happen. Between Twitter, Facebook, or any of your social media, there's a lot of information out there.

That's why your lovable curmudgeon is here to help you make sense of it all. Live or on demand, the Dana Show. The son of the president of the United States has just pleaded not guilty. Not guilty is what he has pleaded to. The judge here says that she will not accept or reject the plea agreement.

She wants more information. Basically, excuse me, what she is asking for is to determine whether or not it's appropriate for her to consider something in the diversion program. This relates to the gun charge.

So as part of that agreement, effectively what you have here is a provision which asks the court to weigh whether or not possibly Hunter Biden could have violated his pretrial diversion agreement as it relates to the gun charge. What would happen according to that agreement? Is that the defense and the prosecution, but they have the opportunity to bring the facts to the court and for the court to determine whether or not there was a breach of that. If there is a breach, then the government could then move forward and prosecute Hunter Biden on the gun charge. What she says is: wait just a minute.

I'm not somebody who normally has to consider those provisions. I normally don't see a pretrial diversion agreement. And now you're putting me in the position, possibly, of being the gatekeeper as to whether or not the Justice Department and the government files charges against Hunter Biden. That's not a situation from a separation of powers and a constitutionality that we can, that she feels immediately that she should be there, that she should make a determination on.

So that's what this hinges on. She also has some Rule 11 that's whether or not she can accept a guilty plea or not. And there's different versions of that where either she just kind of effectively rubber stamps an agreement or whether or not she. She can challenge a plea agreement and determine whether she wants to accept it or not. Long story short here, this morning we believe that this would be just a simple guilty plea.

The judge would accept it, the president's son would say, that he committed tax crimes, that possible gun charges would be part of a pretrial diversion agreement, there would be a likely probation as a result of that, and we'd be out of here in two hours.

Now the judge wants both sides to provide briefs to the court. Wow.

So the judge not only Called out this sweetheart plea deal. That The attorneys for Hunter Biden were fixing up for him. But She also called out, you know, essentially U.S. Attorney Weiss, because I mean, how would you consider that? That's not an serious investigation.

He it I don't know. Did they I don't know. This is wild, though. Welcome back to the show. Bottom of this second hour.

Man, we got Andy McCarthy coming up next hour. I've got a million questions for him. Because Hunter Biden, if you just heard it, had pled not guilty just minutes ago. And uh minutes ago. And this, he pled not guilty in a Delaware court after that federal judge refused to rubber stamp the sweetheart deal, the plea deal, because the defense lawyers, remember, she was saying she couldn't accept or deny his guilty plea because of the ambiguities.

One of the questions that I have for Annie McCarthy. Stems on, it centers on. First up, how can you make a plea deal like this if you have two other investigations that are ongoing? And you know, that was, you know, when she was referencing these ambiguities. I mean, you don't know how that's going to, whether or not there's one's a serious, you know, there's serious investigations, you know, i.e., Weiss, mentioning the attorney Weiss.

But it just seems weird to me that you could even. That you could arrange a deal like this when you don't even know the outcome of those other two pending investigations. That's number one. I'm curious as to how he really would have violated his pretrial diversion agreements. We've got you know, and whether or not I mean, is that normal to ask for immunity like that?

Like just a global universal immunity from everything. Or is that, you know, he's a special private citizen. He's got that PCP, that private citizen privilege. Honestly, I I agree with some. I have a friend of mine who's went on this rant.

A 16-tweet rant about the need for cameras in federal courtrooms with cases like these. Because You It's still even kind of difficult to trust what you're getting from the media because this is the same media that covered up the whole laptop thing for. You know how many years now? Uh and then and then You know, you see all the media. I mean, they're all essential, they're all Democrat activists.

They all vote Democrat. There's very few that don't. And they they actually We're trying to push this idea. That you know, Hunter Biden, he's he's you know, he's going to say that the only reason that he didn't want to pay all of his taxes and he did all of this stuff is because he was just and he got addicted to drugs, is he was just aggrieved. He was so sad over his brother's death.

Except before his brother's death, for years, he had already been a drug addict and he had already been doing all this shady stuff. I mean, it goes way before that.

So that's, I don't know. I felt like that was what they were trying to set up. There's a lot of stuff here. But that's the big breaking story. And this was after all of the drama last night that Lorraine had written up over at Chapter and Verse, the newsletter at Substack.

And there's a development she has a development piece that you can go. It's not behind a firewall. It's for all uh for all subscribers. You can go and check that out right now to get all of the latest because Who boy? I mean, that is something else something else.

So I'm I'm we're gonna be following all this because dang I j you know, I'm telling you So he pleads not guilty. There's no plea deal now. Uh I thought this judge I mean Because this means, you know, obviously with these other investigations, there could be more charges. Hunter becomes the prey. And even then, even what they were.

Putting forward as the New pleio. That was still really, really limited. and scope.

So we got uh trending UFOs. Area 51, aliens, Hunter Biden. I mean, it makes sense, right? Moderna. I mean, it makes sense.

We got all this stuff. all this stuff trending. I wanted to point out something And I don't know if I put it up, um On my I don't know if I had it on Substack last night, but I I may have. I did tweet about it. Because I saw this yesterday.

You know, with all of the discussion about Bronnie James, LeBron James's son. And you know, the scary, scary story. You know, he has a cardiac event and he's in the hospital and all of this stuff. I mean, it's it's a real it's it's devastating because he's gonna play ball and is he gonna still be able to go on schedule? I mean, how is this, you know, how does something like this work?

But Elon Musk He uh got a lot of uh pushback yesterday. All he said And he retweeted the story about Bronnie James and, you know, how he was in the hospital and He had said, quote, we cannot ascribe everything to the vaccine, but by the same token, we cannot ascribe nothing. He said, myocarditis is a known side effect. The only question is whether it's rare or common. And everyone's like, Oh, I can't believe that you're saying that this is related.

He's not saying that it's related or unrelated. The Hill came out with a piece, Elon Musk, came under heavy criticism after he tweeted about a possible connection between the vaccine and the cardiac arrest suffered on Tuesday by Bronnie James. He merely asked a question. That's literally what he did. I just write it to you.

So Where does this renewed? Appreciation. For privacy come from? Related to the Vaccine or the shot 'cause it's not a vaccine. Here's why.

I ask. I had uh what was this, back in Guess it's twenty-one. After the lockdown. And things kind of started opening up again, but there were a lot of caveats, a lot of rules, and restrictions. And I had people who wanted to meet in New York and some, you know, business that kept coming up and, you know, wasn't able i people wanted to do it in person and not over Zoom.

Problem is as I wouldn't have been able to go anywhere in New York. Because I did not get the shot. And my family didn't get it either. And we ended up actually contracting the virus. We ended up just getting it naturally.

And we have, you know, we believe in science. That's, you know, you know this, we believe in natural immunity. But I wouldn't have been able to go anywhere because you had to not only have had the shot, but then you had to have all the follow-up shots, and then you had to register with the city, and then you had to have literally. like your COVID vax, your shot card. showing all of the shots that you got and when that you were up to date because It wasn't good enough for you to have just one singular shot, a shot, and shot.

You had to have all of them. Or you were con what are they, uh You were considered under vaccinated. And you had to show that. To get in it, if you wanted to go to a damn Binnegan's, you had to show your vax card. If you wanted to go to McDonald's in New York City, you had to show your vax card.

You and they put out a thing that was the rule. You couldn't go. to restaurants, museums, anywhere without having it.

So I kept having to turn down. All of these meetings. I had to turn down, I turned down a bunch of TV, I turned down lots of meetings. with people because I'm like I'm not getting it just for this.

Now. You can come to Dallas, but hell if I go up there. It's not going to happen. And I'm not going to sit here and inject myself with something just so I can go up there and meet you. You know, you might be nice, but ain't nobody that important.

And so I just I didn't do it. I mean, people were demanding to know whether or not you had it. They were demanding your entire health history. If you went to anywhere, you went to a doctor's office, you went to the dentist. You know, if you had to go to the damn dermatologist everywhere you went.

You had to fill out. Did you ever did any of you all ever have to fill out a form like under penalty of perjury? Like some BS stupid legalese, you know, the scare tactics. I'm telling the truth. I don't know anybody that has it.

Shut up. No, they were demanding to know everything about you. People lost their jobs. If they didn't get this. They lost their jobs.

They lost their livelihoods. Friendships were ended, families were forever divided. Because it was used as a measure of complicity. How? It was a measure of of Subjugation.

How much of a team player are you? That's how it was presented. How much of a team player are you? Do you care about other people's health? An injection that actually didn't transfer immunity was being used as the standard of measure to determine whether or not you actually cared for the lives of other people, which is the wildest thing I've ever seen.

So, the same people who demanded that everybody present these cars just to go to restaurants and did all this, suddenly, suddenly, wow, they don't want to talk about the shots anymore. I mean, they went from demanding to know your history to how dare you talk about someone's private health history. Oh, hell no. You don't get to have both of these. You do not get to have both.

That is not how this works. You gotta pick a narrative. I don't know if you saw this. This is a really interesting conversation. I saw this video of Tucker Talking to Ice Cube.

Did y'all say that? That's a very It was a really interesting conversation because he didn't Get it? And he his family didn't get it. They didn't get the uh The sh the shot? And Yeah, people were arrested over that, all that.

He didn't get it. And people attacked him. They attacked him publicly. Because he didn't get it. And it's interesting because You know, if you, as the point was made, you know, if you stand for principle and you, you know, you stand against something, you know, it's kind of considered, you know.

pretty self sacrificial and heroic, and that is not at all how he was treated.

Now, the reason people were talking about this with regards to Bronnie James is because LeBron James had gone out and said that he had gotten the shot.

Now, nobody's saying definitively one way or the other. But at the same time, while I understand that athletes, in particular, especially high-level top-tier athletes, That they have to monitor their health, and there's all this stuff that goes into it. I also believe, too, that this is. I feel like they're trying to mainstream this as a common event, and it's not a common event. There's no reason why perfectly healthy people need to be having these issues.

And I am absolutely not going to refuse or decline to talk about it in connection with these mandated shots that everyone lost their damn minds about, and now they don't want to have a conversation about them. After demanding that you provide your entire health history just to go into a CVS, now you can't talk about it anymore. Oh, hell no We're not doing that. Not at all. That's abusive.

And you shouldn't stand for it either.

So I'm glad that he asked it. He asked a question, and everyone lost their minds.

Well, continue losing them because there's more questions where that came from. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man. I'm trying to figure out whether point of this guy's Crime was. Florida man was arrested after he dunked a woman's head in a vat of tar.

Jeez, Louise. Levy County Sheriff's deputies were responding to calls of domestic disturbance. Uh this was just last week. When they arrived they said a woman told them that Marshall Demick dunked her head in a Vadatar. And they used it to treat the clam and oyster bags.

She also said that he uh choked her, pointed a shotgun at her. They transported the victim to a local hospital. She had chemical burns all over her face and arms. And by the way, he's a prohibited possessor, so he's like in major trouble. He's being held on half a million-dollar bond, but in tar.

Like I'm just like thinking of 'Cause that's used to clean the bags for oysters and clams. Is that like the same kind of tar that like my parents put on their driveway? Kind of. Yeah, like how do you get that? I mean, I remember as a kid watching those.

Those dawn liquid soap commercials, and they're cleaning all them birds whenever there's like an oil spill or something, they clean those birds with that. Do they have to do that? I'm just wondering. I'm at I'm just that's just terrifying. A Florida man was arrested after spraying a woman with a garden hose.

Flag who among us? Flager County. He was arrested after he allegedly sprayed her with a garden hose amid an argument about being on his property. Jeremy Rutfield was arrested. Are you k serious?

Simple battery? Anyway.

So, Flager County deputies were called. There was a woman who reported an unknown woman had come and pointed a gun at her husband. The husband. Uh, they said reportedly escalated the incident. He sprayed a woman with a garden hose because he said she was on his property over her pro over the property line.

So then the woman said she was in fear of being attacked, so then she didn't display, she brandished. How are you? How is she not in trouble? Like from what I'm reading with the story, he had a hose. She had a How is she not in trouble and he's the one in trouble?

Brandisheen, that's a charge, depending on how it's done. Depending on what you're doing, if you're not in fear for your life and you had a hose, I would just. I don't know. I'm just wa- I dunno. They said that uh uh deputies said that uh I mean, both of them looks like they've been fighting over their property line for some time.

But yeah, apparently with a hose that can get you a battery charge. That's kind of crazy. Uh also, I know we got a minute left. This um Let's see. Oh, yes.

A Florida man was arrested for DUI while a lemur and a wallaby escaped from a truck during a dra a traffic stop. Yeah, this is a movie.

So it was a truck, a trailer, and then there was like a menagerie of animals in the back, and he was driving drunk. He gets pulled over, and then you have all you have like a wallaby, you got all kinds of, it was like a lemur, all kinds of stuff escape from this damn trailer. They had to get Florida fish and wildlife. They had to do all kinds of stuff. And I think they were still looking for the lamer.

Stay with us. Can you do anything at all, Joe? What would you do? I said I'd cure cancer. They looked at me like, why cancer?

Because no one thinks we can. That's why, and we can. We end the cancer as we know it. Um What say what He was said that he said that people were saying that he said that he cured it, but I don't think that we got that out of that sound bite, but still. What?

He's mumbling. He and Kamala, they're both just communication geniuses, right? Welcome back to the program, Top of the Third Hour. We've got our friend Andy McCarthy who's going to be joining us. Here later on.

While this has all been happening, the latest with the Hunter Biden in the White House is now. They have their White House press briefings, so let's keep an eye on that. But And I think that what the President, the only thing that was on his calendar today was he he got his briefing at 9 a.m. and then that's it. I don't think anything else is on his calendar.

Yeah, it must be nice, right? Must be nice. Look at that. But. While that's been going on, You've also had The border.

hearing immigration. With Alendromaorcus, who Who has been in the hot seat answering questions? In fact, audio sun by 20. He was asked repeatedly if he could give. An answer to what he would limit illegal entry, how many illegal entries would he allow in a certain period of time?

He wouldn't answer. He couldn't even say if there's a limitation. Listen. Mr. Secretary, what is the maximum number of illegal migrants you believe we should admit into this country?

Congressman, it is our responsibility to enforce the laws that Congress has passed, and that is indeed what we are doing. Individuals who do not have a limit. Yes or no? Congressman, individuals. who make a claim for relief under our laws and who do not.

Hmm. He could not. Answer. He couldn't answer. He couldn't answer at all.

I mean, and that wasn't the only. I mean, pretty amazing. I mean, he was also, he was also saying that our approach to managing the border, he says it's working, Audio Soundbite 19. This is, it's all working. Listen.

Our approach to managing the borders securely and humanely, even within our fundamentally broken immigration system, is working.

Okay, so Is that When he said well, I disagree with, you know, every single part of what he just said. I mean, especially when he's talking about that it's humane. I mean, we just had the story of the New York Times that was reporting on all of the kids that they lost, uh they lost uh track of because you had Xavier Becera. Over at HHS, who is pushing people to process and just discharge these kids fast. Doesn't sound very humane to me.

So they can't answer. They can't answer a single question. He has no idea. They have no idea. And in the meantime, Aliens Audio sound by 22.

Former Air Force Intelligence Officer David Grush or Grutch? Grush. Yes, it's brush. Wha so we're calling them on what is it, UAP's? Uh unidentified aerial phenomenon.

Okay, let's just call them aliens. And he well, listen to him, his testimony here. Listen. Mr. Gresh, finally, do you believe that our government is in possession of UAPs?

Absolutely, based on interviewing over 40 witnesses over four years. And where? I know the exact locations, and those locations were provided to the Inspector General and some of which to the intelligence committees. I actually had the people with the first-hand knowledge. Um provide a protected disclosure to the Inspector General.

Show us. Right. Show some aliens. I wanna see him. Come on.

That's kind of I mean There are I don't know. Like when they say that they're non-human pilots, because that's what they were testifying as they were, they were talking about non-human pilots. Um What is it that seems like KG language? Doesn't it? Yeah.

Like what does that mean? Is it a dolphin? Like what's piloting the thing? I know, it feels like it's some cagey language. What do you think it is?

You're type. What are you typing over there? Are you trying to say something slack? I'm doing my job. That's all I'm saying.

Are you saying something in slack? No, I'll type it out here if I'm doing slack.

Okay. Yeah, it's totally aliens. But I'm not. For me, I think when they say, I mean, it could be animals. What?

Like squirrel? I don't know. They're igg Hut. They're nut at me one time. Squirrel.

They can get aggressive. But for me, I want to see some proof here. That's where I'm at. I mean, it's not that difficult. Bring us something.

What do they well, yeah, of course they will. It'll trigger worldwide panic. Of course it would. I mean, you you've seen how people are primed to just freak out over stuff at this point. But this was very interesting testimony.

So, this was a former Navy pilot, fighter pilot Ryan Graves, and he was talking about the capabilities. of these objects Even in the most, you know, even in some of the worst circumstances, listen to this. How do you know that these were not our aircraft?

Some of the behaviors that we saw in our working area, we would see these objects. Being at 0.0 Mach, that's zero airspeed. Over a certain Pieces of the ground.

So, what that means, just like a river, if you throw a bobber in, it's going to float downstream. These objects were staying completely stationary in category 4 hurricane winds. These same objects would then accelerate to supersonic speeds, 1.1, 1.2 Mach, and they would do so in very erratic and quick behaviors that I don't have an explanation for. Category 4 hurricane winds, and they're totally stationary. Interesting.

Now, there's two lines of thinking. As I said, you could think. Can you believe they're trying to distract us? from all of this other stuff with 100 byte and everything else with this UFO stuff. Or While everyone's distracted by the Hunter Biden and all this other stuff.

Let's throw out the alien. information. I don't know. Like it's it could go one of two ways, right? I have a bigger tinfoil hat type take on it.

Oh, do share. One likes to laugh at me about it. Oh, boy.

I think that they are going to. This is like predictive programming in a way, where they're trying to get people used to the idea that there is evidence of alien life. Hold up, hold up. You have half of the planet. Not half, but you have people who are starting to say that you can invert your franc and turn it into A Mary Shelley's Franken vagina, and then you're a chick.

I'm pretty sure people are primed already. Yeah, go ahead. They're definitely impressionable people, apparently. But I think this is all a one-world government thing. I think they're going to try and get all the countries together and say, hey, we have this alien problem.

We need a one-world government. We need a one-world military. And we need it all to be one so that we can fight these things. I think that's the ultimate.

Well, see, this is when I would want to meet with the aliens and be like, okay, let's figure out what your goals are and let's see if they're in any way they overlap. Because I hate these damn people. Let's figure out if we can be on the same team here. You know, like, good, great. They're redoing Snow White.

They're man over butter. I mean, what in the world? Let's figure out. You know, let's. Let's just figure out.

You know, if this is I feel more aligned with aliens than I do the left. Oh, for sure. And I don't even know what they are. I mean, they could like come out and be all like tentacles and like, you know, like They could with giant three eyes and you're meek meep. I don't know.

I could I'd Be like I feel you. I feel you. But I'm just saying, like I'm you know, I'm just trying to figure out how I could strategize this here, you know. Like now before you open a can of whatever Whoop derier. Let's just figure out what your goals are, and let's figure out what our goals are, and let's see if we can't, you know.

Magnify, maximize each other's plans here with just a little discussion. Let's just see where we can have a conversation. Just see where it goes, right? Because I reject the one world order, but if I have to have an overlord I don't want it to be those people. Because I because they don't believe in science, whereas the aliens clearly do because they've been able to get here.

You know, I'm just I'm transactional. I'm looking at this. Just, you know, is all I'm saying.

So Steve says he's not over the Nancy Mace question. Biologics came with some of those recoveries. Biologics. What a weird word. Biologics.

A diverse gr I mean, that's like, what is that? I mean, what a biologic. Like a Like are they like human matter? No biological matter. Huh.

Interesting. Interesting. I would still say show us. I couldn't sit there. And not demand.

Evidence Now I know I think everybody thinks that aliens would come here and they would take all our stuff, right? I just I just don't know if the commies would ever be able to find like Similar ground with us, even against an alien invasion. I think that, you know, if that's what they're, if that's what the one world government people are waging their bets on, they're going to be sorely mistaken. 'Cause these people don't fight. Except that they they only have riots when a bunch of them go to hot topic together and they all get black hoodies.

And then, you know, they jump around and they, like, go after, you know, the places that they frequent, like morons. You know, they go after the Starbucks and, you know, the true religion gene store and all that kind of stuff. They don't, you know, they don't otherwise and they burn down black communities. They love doing that. But I'm you know I I don't really think that we're going to be able to.

I don't want those people on my team because they're a liability and they're just weight. You know, they don't got anything that you need to repel an alien invasion. They they don't even they wouldn't know how to use it if you gave it to them. Hell, we don't got time to train these people. I don't want them on my team.

Just go ahead and give them maybe we could just like hand them over. It's like an offering. Leave us alone. You can have these guys. Take them.

Go. Right? Just saying. And they'd be happy. Because they won it over, Lord, clearly.

Yeah. Here you go. Here's your alien overlord.

Now be happy. You got what you all want. I don't know. Do you think any of that would work? I'll I'll sit down and negotiate with them.

I don't speak alien, but I'm just saying. But I do think it's wild that we're having actual hearings and they're on C-SPAN. And not enough people are talking about it. And I also agree, I get it. You're like, oh, that could be a distraction from all of this.

Or it could be, we're all distracted by all of this. This is the best time to throw this stuff out there. Yeah. That way it's kind of in your head, but not but there's so much going on, you don't have time to freak out and obsess over it, right? It just feels like that's the way to go.

Anyway.

So this, you know, we'll keep an eye on it and see. But it would really explain a lot of stuff. Because I think there's some people out there who are straight up the hell alien. I mean, it would make a lot of sense.

Now, some of the other things that we uh We've got because we have the ongoing Well, we had the Corrine Jean-Pierre talking to the press, and she was not going to answer any question about private citizen. Hunter Biden. And then we also have Uh some of this other I got a few other things that are happening here. Uh like we have uh We got some culture stuff. We're going to be talking to Andy McCarthy here coming up about all of this.

I'm very, I'm, I'm, we have Kevin McCarthy also signaling. that they're open perhaps, they're open to having an impeachment vote. Which is great, but it's not going to do anything because they don't control the Senate. Why'd you throw your arm up like that? How many times has he been saying this and for how long?

I know. I get it. But I also want to make sure that we're we're not Although I think he's totally guilty, I I I'm of two minds. I think both simultaneously. That they're too weak to do it, and also that They want to make sure that they're not doing it in a way where it seems hyper-politicized the way Democrats have done it, because Democrats have made it a tool of politization.

As opposed to like a you know a justice investigation. They've really politicized it. And I do think that there's some value in avoiding that sort of optic. because that's really polarized people. We'll talk more about this.

And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.

So, Sinead O'Connor is dead. The Irish music legend dies at age 56 years old after years of mental health battles. This was also just barely two years after her 17-year-old son apparently committed suicide after escaping the hospital while on Suicide Watch. 56 years old. Her last tweet she had was an image of her son.

And she said, quote, been living as an undead night creature since. He was the love of my life, the lamp of my soul.

So she was still obviously. Really, really suffering. She's just had a very, very troubled life, but 56 years old. Golly. This is wild, very wild, and very sad indeed.

I was always hoping that maybe she'd come around and, you know, she would. Would find something to have joy about. Netflix has listed an AI production manager job with a staggering salary of up to $900,000 a year. Hollywood executives insist it's just not realistic to pay actors more as they strike over AI protections and pay. Interestingly, Jason Aldean's song, which is not at all controversial, try that in a small town, had six seconds quietly edited out and no longer contains this clip, a news clip, depicting a violent BLM protest in Atlanta.

But Kame, what did you say? That it was probably more so over copyright issues because it was over the Fox News. Fox 5 Atlanta actually asked them to remove it. Yeah, Fox 5 Atlanta, which is not like Fox News, but Fox 5 Atlanta, which is like an NBC affiliate. I think that they were objecting to the use of their footage, copyright footage being used.

And I think that's why it was removed. At least that's what the article indicates. Rudy Giuliani admits in court that he made false statements about two Georgia election workers that he accused of rigging the 2020 election. That's creating a lot of problems. I mean, the fact that he's, you know, this is not coming out.

He's being sued for defamation by these two individuals. They said that the. Uh, that these statements, you know, about rigging the election, that obviously they said it ruined their lives, etc., etc. He was part of the former president's legal team trying to fight some of these results in Battleground State. And they conceded that he had defamed these two individuals.

Interestingly, Pfizer is warning customers that there could be drug supply disruptions after a tornado damaged their North Carolina plant. The tornado that did it caused extensive damage at this plant in North Carolina last Wednesday, a large Pfizer pharmaceutical plant, may have may disrupt some drug supply chains. Pfizer sent out an email to customers explaining 65 different formats and formulations of products, including anesthetic lidocaine, morphine, and other essential hospital medicines. They could have supply disruptions in the near term as a result. Meta apparently holds rights.

To the letter X, which is going to make Twitter's brand a little more complicated. Yeah. Coming up, Andy McCarthy on this whole thing with the play deal. Stay with us. To catch up on all the headlines in Crazy Wokery, download the Dana Show podcast and get Dana's perspective on the Dana Show.

And I'm just going to continue to say, as it relates to the case that we're seeing in Delaware, I'm just going to not speak to that. Uh It is an independent matter. This is up for the Department of Justice. Even with the question that you're asking me, it's up to, it's one of those legal, criminal matters, and it's up to that process, that legal process. I'm just not going to speak to it here.

legal process that started really kind of unfolding Yesterday, late afternoon. Welcome back to the program. Daniel Lash here, bottom of this third hour. You can listen across the country. You can follow the simulcast online, also 347 Direct TV.

That was Carrie Jean-Pierre just moments ago talking to the press at the White House when she was asked about this plea deal, or well, really, absence of a plea deal in this Hunter Biden investigation. This was, it's been confusing and chaotic, and I have a million questions. And I think one of the best people to really break this down, he always does such an amazing job at this. Our good friend Andy McCarthy, best-selling author. He's a contributing editor at National Review.

You can see him on Fox News, former chief assistant U.S. attorney, his bestseller, Ball of Collusion, the plot to rig an election and destroy a presidency, a must-read. Andy, I just have to get your take on everything that has happened just in the past 24 hours, because this seems like it's very unusual. And I know that there's a lot of debate back and forth on how apparently nobody knew the term. Terms of this now non-existent plea agreement and how why none of this was put into writing.

What is your take on all of this? I think, Dana, what happened is that this was a political exercise that they tried to dress up to look like a standard legal plea. Uh and The problem they had is the judge wasn't in on it. Yeah, it's kind of important. Yeah, well, you know, look, the most important thing in a plea agreement for both the defendant and the government is what the immunity term is.

The defendant pleads guilty because the plea agreement And the plea itself is a double jeopardy shield against future prosecution on whatever in the agreement they agree is covered. Um The Qt Pie thing they tried to do here because this is so political. is They were letting Hunter plead to two misdemeanors. that were supposed to be covering all of the tax charges. That are conceivable between 2014 and 2019, even though they The Justice Department intentionally left the 2014 and 2015.

Counts run to lapse under the statute of limitations, which is a whole nother. Scandal. But the idea is. What Hunter wanted to be able to say. Is that that plea not only covered the tax charges But the facts Underneath the tax charges, and therefore, any charges that could be extrapolated.

from that time frame.

So that would cover like money laundering. Foreign Agent Registration Act, other tax charges, any other conspiracy charges, that sort of thing. And The Justice Department knew because it's Biden Justice Department with a neon-blinking conflict of interest doing this investigation because the Attorney General hasn't done his duty and appointed a special counsel, which the Justice Department regulations require in a situation like this. They're hoping nobody will notice that. Hopefully, people are starting to notice it.

But because this is a weasel deal, Um What the Justice Department knew was if they put that kind of an understanding in a plea agreement, the public would have gone crazy. that all those potentially serious charges were Being immunized in connection with this two-misdemeanor plea deal and throw in a gun count that the normal person would do time for because it's a 10-year count, that this guy wasn't even going to really be prosecuted for it. They were going to just dismiss it after a certain period of time. Yeah, that's unbelievable. Yeah, so if they put all that in writing, people would have gone nuts.

So they put their little heads together and they come up with this very vaguely worded agreement, apparently, so that Hunter would be able to walk away and say, the case is over, I've got immunity from everything. The Justice Department would be able to say, we have a continuing investigation and we can't comment any further. and they would hope the whole thing would go away. But the thing is, in a legal agreement, you're supposed to write things clearly so that everybody has an understanding of what's on the table and what's being agreed to.

So the judge said, Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute here. What are you immunizing him for? And it turned out that. They objected at that point, the Hunter people did, because they and the government. Publicly, at least, couldn't agree on what was covered by the agreement.

And I think. Actually, the Justice Department completely agreed with Hunter, but they couldn't say that publicly because it would have been scandalous.

So they had to say there's a continuing investigation. It doesn't cover him on that. And the Hunter people had to then say, whoa, wait a minute. We're only doing this because we thought we were covered on everything. And then the whole thing blew up.

Wow.

So it was, they thought their theater was going well and then it kind of fell apart. It seemed weird to me. We're talking to our friend Andy McCarthy that they would ask or expect immunity for. From prosecution for ongoing investigations, like investigations that are currently, they're still in the middle of them. Yeah, well, the question, that's a good question to ask the Justice Department in particular, because you have to ask.

If this was a legitimate investigation, and a legitimate plea proceeding. What on earth motive Does the Justice Department have to give a plea agreement to one of the main subjects of a continuing investigation? on two misdemeanor charges that are just a small slice. Of the overall thing they're looking at. They would never do that in a normal case.

There's no reason to do it. I just mentioned a couple of minutes ago. how they let the 2014 and 2015 counts go. It was the Justice Department that did that, according to the whistleblower testimony. The defense, in the interest of getting a global plea agreement that would settle everything, because that's what they want, right?

They want a complete shield from prosecution. They were willing to, if they needed to, to waive the statute of limitations in order. to get that agreement. It was the Justice Department that didn't That ended up not taking that agreement and letting those counts go. And I'm completely convinced.

You know, everybody keeps talking about, well, they let these. Counts lapse. And that is scandalous, but what we should be looking at is what are the counts that they let lapse? It's the Burisma counts. The 2014 and 2015 stuff.

is what we're now hearing According to the information that the FBI informant got, that was not given to the IRS investigators. What we're now hearing is that, number one, The sinecure that Hunter got, where he was paid this. Obscene amount of money to sit on this board, even though he had no relevant experience, was part of a bribe by Barisma to get favorable treatment for Joe Biden, who had a lot of influence at the time as vice president. Over What was going on in Ukraine because the Obama administration was trying to stand up this new Ukrainian government. This informant, according to the head of ERISMA, The head of Barisma tells this informant: putting Hunter on the board was part of the bribe.

And then the other thing is, he says he bribed in addition to that. Hunter or Joe $5 million apiece.

Now, you can call a $5 million bribe all kinds of things. You know what they call it then at the IRS? Income.

So how How is it that they're doing this investigation? The Justice Department's going to give away the store on two misdemeanors. And it turns out that there's $5 million more potentially in income. He didn't declare, and they the FBI and the Justice Department haven't even told the IRS. Which is supposed to be investigating the tax caps.

Oh, by the way, we have evidence of this other $5 million.

So, why do you think they let those counts go? Because if those counts are in any indictment, they explain the whole scheme. The Justice Department wants us to go away. Because it's the Biden Justice Department. If you had an independent investigation, there's no way that would ever happen.

Which is why they've never had one. Talking with our friend Andy McCarthy. Is this because what happens now?

So now he's pled not guilty. I mean, obviously, this case is going to go forward. There was some speculation that this is a stalling tactic from Hunters' attorneys. Where do you think that where how does this proceed from this point?

Well, I'm glad you asked that because somebody asked me a little earlier.

So now that the the deal is blown up, I guess they they go to trial. Yeah. Go to trial. On what? Because you may have noticed They never indicted him.

The only thing that's in front of the court is this one little weasel deal that they did today that has two misdemeanor camps.

Now In a normal case The Justice Department would indict the case because that stops the statute of limitations from running. And it doesn't prevent you. from continuing plea negotiations, but it would be too Too embarrassing for the Justice Department if they did an honest indictment that laid out the whole case against these guys. Do you think after they did that, they could conceivably then bring Hunter in and give him a two-misdemeanor plea? You know, once they laid out in a public document what the whole case is?

Everybody says, you know, the thing blew up. I guess we could have a trial now.

Well, you could have a trial on these two little misdemeanor charges, I guess, but they've never indicted him.

So they're going to go and and the way it'll be presented, they'll reconvene and they'll try to figure out their next move.

Meanwhile, that clock is ticking because doesn't one doesn't the statute of limitations on the gun charge, doesn't that run out like in October or something? October for the love. Oh, for the love. Yeah, well, but Dana, I think A lot of this brinksmanship, because that's what it is. We've asked all along.

I think you've probably asked me ten times. What's taking so long? Why do you think this is going on for so long? And the reason is, it ratchets up a lot of pressure on a court, for example, to accept the plea agreement if we're now at the 11th hour and if they don't. Dispose of the case, everything could.

End up lapsing under the statute of limitations.

So I actually think this is part of the strategy to delay it as long as they could delay it. But they can't let the thing completely run out. Because then It'll be bad for Biden that they never did anything about Hunter, and he's got to run on that.

So, what they were trying to do was string it out as long as they can. Give him irrelevant or or uh trivial plea agreement. and make the whole thing go away. And then you ratchet up the pressure on the court by waiting till the last minute. Because now the judge knows if she doesn't take the plea, maybe the whole, maybe all the counts end up lapsing.

Damn. This is, I mean, I mean, it's, you know, as much as we kind of were joking about his pot-smoking attorney on the balcony with his bong, it looks like, you know, they may have, on its face, it looks bad for the Hunter Biden team, but this may actually be kind of like a little victory for them because then they can just, as you were just saying, string this along, push this out as much as possible, and then get into a position where you either get him with a plea deal or nothing. Yeah, that is true. The thing they didn't factor in though is The thing about this proceeding today, and how unusual it was, and how it blew up. is They've liked the whole idea for five years of this being under the radar.

I mean, we care about it, but generally speaking, the public doesn't.

Something like this makes people start to pay attention to it. And it's going to be harder for them to get away with. A sweetheart plea deal once people educate themselves on what this is all about and how involved in it the president is. Oh, yeah. And now in his DOJ, I mean, this really does hurt Merrick Garland.

I can't imagine him not signing off on the way that the no independent investigator, no, no indictment at all. I mean, how do you have this much evidence and this much of a case? And then the DOJ is kind of silent here. And there's, you know, as you said, two little misdemeanors and that's it. It does, yeah, it does look, there's a definitely like there's two tiers of justice here.

So by all accounts, last quick, last, last word on this, Andy, this it looks like you think that this, they're gonna, they're either gonna have to accept like a much reduced, you know, probably very unsatisfactory for people who believe in justice, plea deal for Hunter or nothing. That's probably what this will amount to.

Well, you know, look, they could go back to the drawing board and try to figure something out. And I wouldn't put anything past them, Dana, because if you, you know, once you understand. All of the things that we just laid out, you know, looking at the criminal procedure, you gotta sit back for a second and say, man, this was audacious that they thought that they could get. away with this right in front of everybody's nose. And I'm just of a mind that if that's how people are wired, you have no idea what they'll try to get away with.

That's That's a powerful thought right there. Andy McCarthy, you have to get his book because Ball of Collusion. I mean, it's still happening now. The plot to rig an election, destroy presidency. Andy McCarthy, always a pleasure, my friend.

Thank you so much for setting this perspective for us. We appreciate your time. We know you're busy. Thank you. Thanks, Dana.

Of course.

Now we uh are wind winding up this third hour of the program. Man. What would they not be capable of?

So it is a little bit of a victory. We made fun of Biden's attorney too soon. I still am going to, but, you know, looks like, hm Catch the Dana show noon to 3 p.m. Eastern on DirecTV, channel 347.

So let's put a bow on this. The discussion with Andy on this whole thing. This is gamesmanship from the Administration and the DOJ. You have Mayor Garland who will not appoint a special prosecutor for this Hunter Biden case because if he did that, then they would have to bring charges. And if they don't indict Hunter Biden, then the clock can run and then the statute of limitations can hit because the gun charge, the statute of limitations, hits in October.

The other remaining charges, I mean, it's coming up right after that. The burismo ones, as Andy mentioned, they already ran out.

So you don't have him indict, you let the statute of limitations run out. And then, guess what? You don't have to compromise Biden or the Democrats going into 2024 by him having to pardon his son. This is gamesmanship. This was their plan all along.

So they show up. They it looks like on its face like it's a loss. They have a wink, wink, nudge, nudge deal. that they can't exactly itemize in a court record, which I didn't even know you couldn't do that. Or you could do that.

And then now, then they have this.

So, this was this is all planned. I would, I would, I'm sure that they have some signal or some kind of messages at this point between DOJ and then Biden lawyers. Who boy, we're going to have that interview up and then Lorraine's going to have a follow-up piece with all of this.

So, there you go. Today in stupidity, Camp. And the DOJ not indicting means that statute's limitation completely runs. Yep, as we said, yep. All right.

So, Joe Biden is out there talking about how we're not just like we don't have to take care of our own citizens, right? We're a part of the global community. It's Cut 17. I don't know if Juan has that or not, but let's hear this. Of course we need to take care of our own citizens.

But we're also a part of the global community. It's all about that global. See, say Poadway, Kane. Bogada. I had to actually think about it to say that.

Tired of it. Yeah, there you go. Folks, that does it for us today. Make sure you sign up for the newsletter, chapter, and verse over at Substack. Find us on Facebook, YouTube, like and subscribe.

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