31:05 segments, the actual news, this guy Simon Marks is their guy. And there's, I got four short clips, well one of them's long, looks like, but the rest of them are pretty short. This is Simon Marks reporting on Trump and what's going on over here from the British perspective. President Trump, sorry. Wait, wait, we've talked about this before, which is the The fact that they just parrot the worst of our mainstream media. Oh yeah, no, they wake up in the morning. They look at the New York Times, Washington Post, NBC, CNN and just rewrite it. We're not going to do any investigation. They've got to add a little flair to it. There are some gems, not in this first clip, but especially in this Texas clip. Play this and we'll get into it. President Trump yesterday, as you know, in the grounds of the White House,
31:59 broke the law. He called on two countries, Ukraine and China to interfere in America's 2020 presidential election. But... Let's just stop. Is that really against the law? He broke the law and asked them to interfere. He didn't talk about how they handled China. Will you interfere in the election, please? I mean, this is the way it's being reported. Yeah, we'll get into that. The law that was broken, according to this guy, is the Federal Election Committee, one of these federal laws for, you know, asking for help, for help, assistance, yeah, whatever.
32:40 digging up dirt on his likely opponent Joe Biden, the former vice president of the United States and his son Hunter who used to do business in both Ukraine and China and today President Trump returns to the lawn of the White House to justify what the vast majority of observers here in Washington believe is an attempt by the president to break federal election law, which prohibits him from soliciting support of any kind or any value from a foreign government. Here's what Donald Trump had to say today. I don't care about Biden's campaign, but I do care about corruption.
33:20 His campaign, that's up to him. Politics, that's up to them. I don't care about politics. Politics, as I think I made clear, and yesterday somebody asked me a question and I gave an answer, but always in the form of corruption. What I want to do, and I think I have an obligation to do it, probably a duty to do it, Corruption, we are looking for corruption. Multiple times President Trump at that appearance insisted that there was a distinction between digging up political dirt on Joe Biden, Joe Biden and going after corruption. That strains credulity, not my opinion but the opinion of Mitt Romney, a former Republican presidential candidate who took
34:01 to Twitter a short while ago to describe the president's actions as wrong and appalling. When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China's investigation, wrote Senator Romney, is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated. Senator Romney of course is one of those Republicans who may well end up determining the fate of the Donald Trump presidency because if President Trump is impeached by the House of Representatives there will then be a trial in the US Senate where Republicans like Senator Romney are in the majority. They will all have to decide are they going to vote or
34:47 to keep Donald Trump in power or are they going to convict him of high crimes and misdemeanors against the American Constitution? The vast majority of Republicans in the Senate are remaining silent at the moment and that's not necessarily good news for President Trump who must surely crave voices supporting him from within his own party. Yeah, that's taking the show prep from the US mainstream media. Boom. He's got it. Nailed it. He's got to pump it up a little bit. They're not just puppets reading from the script. No, please. He's got some of his own opinions here. Let's go to Report on Trump 2.
35:31 to. Some senators are speaking but very uncomfortably. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, you will remember him excoriated by Donald Trump as little Marco during the 2016 presidential election campaign, was asked if he really thought that it was apt for the President of the United States to be inviting China to investigate Joe Biden. I don't know if that's a real request or him just needling the press knowing that you guys were gonna get outraged by it. He's pretty good at getting everybody fired up and he's been doing that for a while and the media responded right on task. Blaming the media, Senator Rubio looked as miserable as he sounded in that clip. Wow!
36:15 Nice editorial. I saw the clip. He didn't look any different than he ever looks and he didn't sound any different than he ever sounded. But let's just take a look at what's happening when he says this. He's saying, you know, the media jumped on it on cue. He's saying that to the media. Yeah, including this guy. Let's hear that last bit again. That was good. Right on task. Blaming the media, Senator Rubio looked as miserable as he sounded in that clip. Wow. Nice one. LBC. Good to go. So this guy's a liar. So let's go on to the one. I think this is the
36:56 This is the shortest one, but it's the biggest whopper, number three. Another Republican is speaking out against the president, Congressman Will Hurd of Texas. I think it's terrible. It's something that I wouldn't have done. And I can go two days, I think two days before that, wishing China congratulations on 70 years of communism via a tweet is not something I would do either. China is an adversary. Oh, really? That's why they all resigned. Okay. I'm sure some of them did.
37:46 So I didn't realize, according to him, Texas is furious. Texas... We're outraged, I tell you. ...is furious at Trump for his behavior. Yes! Orange man bad. We hate him. It's very frightening. We have to retire. This is, this, I mean, this isn't even the New York Times. This is MSNBC they're translating here. Yeah. That's quite impressive, actually. So the Texans are... they hate Trump. I didn't realize Texas hated Trump. Oh, we hate that guy. And these guys would have faced a drubbing. You know, whenever I'm faced with a drubbing, I retire. That's the Texas way, my friend.
38:30 It's the Texas way. Yeah. All right. Let's wrap this idiot. More damaging, more damaging issues for the president of the United States. The release of texts overnight between three American ambassadors operating in the vicinity of Ukraine. It is apparent that at least one of them raised questions about whether President Trump was insisting on a quid pro quo. asking the Ukrainian president to dig up dirt on Joe Biden in exchange for withheld military assistance and also a withheld invitation for President Zelensky to visit the White House. For President Trump,
39:09 The straits here are becoming more treacherous and the Democrats are becoming increasingly emboldened as their impeachment inquiry, Andrew, gets underway. Alright, that's LBC's US correspondent Simon Marks in the latest dramatic twist. in the affair over Joe Biden. I wonder still if if Trump has factored all this in because I'm sure I saw polls recently which showed Biden support was going down because all of this activity has it focused attention on his son and Biden's business activities and of course if Trump wanted to smear him in
39:48 It seems to be working, but whether he's damaging himself more in the process, who knows? Oh brother. Alright, I would like to make a case for our stance on this. With some support from some clips, etc. Because we saw very early on, it was only three shows ago, it seems like, oh my god. I mean, we've forgotten all about Kavanaugh, we forgot about Epstein, everything is off the radar, it's all about this. And, in fact, let me read this. I got a note from someone who is clearly... Man overboard! And after our previous show, we discussed this impeachment bullcrap. And I just want to share that so that we can understand where some people are coming from. This person is a listener and I think maybe even a producer donor. You two disgust me on the No Agenda podcast.