New York Times Confirms Hunter Biden Laptop Authenticity After Media and Big Tech Blocked the Story

[00:04] MARIA: WELCOME BACK.

[00:04] WELL, THE NEW YORK TIMES FINALLY

[00:06] CONFIRMS THAT HUNTER BIDEN'S

[00:08] ABANDONED LAPTOP IS YEAR,

[00:10] AUTHENTIC.

[00:12] THE STUNNING ADMISSION AND

[00:13] ABOUT-FACE COMES AFTER THE

[00:15] MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND BIG TECH

[00:16] BLOCKED STORIES ABOUT THIS

[00:18] LAPTOP, EVEN SMEARING REPORTS AS

[00:20] RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION WHEN 50

[00:24] INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS SIGNED A

[00:26] LETTER THAT SAID THAT THE LAPTOP

[00:28] AND HUNTER BIDEN'S E-MAILS WAS

[00:30] PART OF A DISINFORMATION

[00:32] CAMPAIGN.

[00:33] I CALLED THEN SITTING DIRECTOR

[00:35] OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, JOHN

[00:37] RATCLIFFE, TO TELL US WHETHER OR

[00:38] NOT THE LAPTOP AND THE E-MAILS

[00:40] WERE REAL.

[00:42] HERE HE IS ON THIS PROGRAM BACK

[00:46] IN OCTOBER OF 2020.

[00:47] >> THIS IS NOT PART OF SOME

[00:49] RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN.

[00:51] THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY HAS

[00:52] NOT BEEN INVOLVED WITH HUNTER

[00:53] BIDEN'S LAPTOP.

[00:54] HUNTER BIDEN IS A U.S. PERSON

[00:55] AND HE WOULD BE SUBJECT TO ANY

[00:57] INVESTIGATION REGARDING FRAUD OR

[00:59] CORRUPTION, WOULD BE RIGHTFULLY

[01:01] THE JURISDICTION OF THE FBI.

[01:02] SO THE FBI HAS HAD POSSESSION OF

[01:05] THIS.

[01:07] MARIA: JOE CONCHA, CHRISTIAN

[01:10] WHITON WITH ME THIS MORNING.

[01:11] JOE CONCHA, YOUR THOUGHTS?

[01:12] AT THE TIME, WE ALL KNEW THAT HE

[01:14] IT WAS REAL.

[01:15] WE ALL KNEW THAT THE NEW YORK

[01:18] POST'S BREAKING THIS STORE WHICH

[01:19] WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT

[01:22] STORIES AND IN RETROSPECT IS

[01:25] PROBABLY WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT

[01:26] STORY AROUND THE ELECTION.

[01:29] >> ABSOLUTELY.

[01:30] AND THIS IS WHERE WE SEE

[01:34] JOURNALISM MORPHING INTO

[01:36] ACTIVISM, MARIA.

[01:37] IT'S A HOOT TO GO BACK AND LOOK

[01:38] AT THE WAY THIS STORY WAS

[01:40] COVERED AT THE TIME.

[01:42] SOME OUTLETS IGNORED IT AND

[01:44] OTHERS WERE PATENTLY PIOUS IN

[01:48] REJECTING IT.

[01:49] HERE'S ONE, QUOTE, WE DON'T WANT

[01:51] TO WASTE OUR TIME ON STORIES

[01:52] THAT AREN'T STORIES AND WE DON'T

[01:53] WANT TO WASTE OUR LISTENERS' AND

[01:57] READERS' TIME ON STORIES THAT

[02:01] ARE FICTION.

[02:03] YOU MENTIONED THOSE INTELLIGENCE

[02:05] OFFICIALS, FORMER ONES, 50 OF

[02:07] THEM SIGNING A LETTER SAYING

[02:08] THIS WAS ABSOLUTELY RUSSIAN

[02:10] DISINFORMATION.

[02:10] JOHN BRENNAN, THE FORMER CIA

[02:12] DIRECTOR, NOW WITH NBC NEWS, HE

[02:14] SIGNED OFF ON THAT LETTER AS

[02:16] WELL, FOR EXAMPLE.

[02:16] ARE THERE ANY APOLOGIES COMING?

[02:18] OF COURSE NOT.

[02:19] ANY CORRECTIONS COMING?

[02:21] NOT SHOT, MARIA.

[02:22] NO REMORSE WHATSOEVER BECAUSE

[02:24] ULTIMATELY JOE BIDEN GOT INTO

[02:26] THE WHITE HOUSE AND TO REPORT ON

[02:28] IT NOW, THERE AREN'T TOO MANY

[02:29] CONSEQUENCES NOW, ARE THERE?

[02:30] MARIA: YEAH.

[02:31] AND YOU LOOK AT ALL THOSE

[02:34] POLITICAL HACKS ON CNN AND ON

[02:38] MSNBC THAT REFUSE TO REPORT THE

[02:40] NEWS OF INFLUENCE PEDDLING.

[02:43] A SERIOUS STORY, CHRISTIAN.

[02:44] YOU EVEN HAD PEOPLE LIKE, WHAT,

[02:49] LESLIE STAHL SAYING WE CAN'T

[02:52] VERIFY IT.

[02:53] EVEN CHRIS WALLACE DURING THE

[02:55] DEBATE I THINK CUT OFF PRESIDENT

[02:56] TRUMP TO SAY NO, NO, NO, WE

[02:58] CAN'T GO THERE, WE'RE NOT GOING

[02:59] TO TALK ABOUT THAT, WE HAVE TO

[03:00] TALK ABOUT THE CLIMATE.

[03:02] REMEMBER THAT ONE?

[03:03] WAS IT CHRIS WALLACE WHO CUT OFF

[03:04] PRESIDENT TRUMP WHEN TRUMP TRIED

[03:06] TO BRING THIS UP AT THE DEBATE?

[03:09] >> RIGHT, SUCH A MAGNIFICENT

[03:15] ARBITER OF TRUTH, CHRIS WALLACE

[03:16] WAS.

[03:16] YOU HAVE THE CORPORATE MEDIA --

[03:18] I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO KEEP

[03:19] IN MIND, TECH IN PARTICULAR WAS

[03:20] IN THE FRONT SEAT OF CENSORING

[03:23] THIS.

[03:24] TWITTER WHEN I ACTUALLY REPOSTED

[03:25] SOME OF THE CONTENT FROM THE NEW

[03:27] YORK POST CENSORED MY ACCOUNT,

[03:28] WOULDN'T UNLOCK IT UNTIL I

[03:30] DELETED.

[03:31] IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE END

[03:32] FOR ME WITH TWITTER WHEN THEY

[03:35] EVENTUALLY CENSORED DONALD

[03:35] TRUMP, I SAID THAT'S IT, DELETED

[03:37] MY ACCOUNT.

[03:38] THAT'S ONE OF THE BEST THINGS

[03:39] YOU CAN DO.

[03:39] I THINK THAT'S BETTER THAN

[03:41] QUITTING SMOKING FOR YOUR

[03:41] HEALTH, AT LEAST FOR YOUR MENTAL

[03:44] HEALTH.

[03:44] SILICON VALLEY AND CORPORATE

[03:45] MEDIA ARE TERRIBLE AT

[03:47] CENSORSHIP.

[03:48] THEY CENSOR STUFF THAT IS TRUE.

[03:51] WE SAW IT WITH CORONAVIRUS TOO.

[03:53] THEY JUST GET IT WRONG.

[03:54] THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SHOULD BE

[03:55] ABLE TO DECIDE WHAT THEY CONSUME

[03:58] MEDIA-WISE, NOT BIG TECH.

[04:00] MARIA: OF COURSE.

[04:02] JOE?

[04:03] >> JUST TO CONFIRM, YOU WERE

[04:06] SPECULATING BEFORE CORRECTLY, IF

[04:08] CHRIS WALLACE WAS THE ONE WHO

[04:09] SHUT DOWN THEN PRESIDENT TRUMP

[04:11] DURING THAT DEBATE.

[04:12] WALLACE TO TRUMP SAID HE HAS TO

[04:14] BE A LITTLE CAREFUL WHEN HE

[04:16] BRINGS UP THE HUNTER BIDEN

[04:17] STORY.

[04:19] SO YES, PRESIDENT TRUMP IN FRONT

[04:21] OF 90 MILLION PEOPLE WASN'T ABLE

[04:21] TO BRING UP THE HUNTER BIDEN

[04:23] LAPTOP STORY BECAUSE THE

[04:24] MODERATOR DEEMED THAT IT WASN'T

[04:26] WORTHY OF CONVERSATION AT THE