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futures." i'm maria bartiromo. ing thanks so much for joining us this morning. today, the stakes are heightening. donald trump in the crosshairs of democrat prosecutors trying to bleed him dry of his money with a new $400 million verdict against him as trump sails to the gop presidential nomination. the 45th president defiant on friday. finish. >> so this is russia, this is china, this is what you've been reading about all your lives, and it's happening right here in our country. thank you very much. we will stop it, we will make america great again. you have my word. maria: coming up, president trump's daughter-in-law and the host of the right view podcast, lara trump, on the millions of dollars her family is being forced to pape after a new york judge's verdict and whether she's about to ten up in the rn if c. then, texas senator and judiciary committee member ted cruz on the two application of the law after witness testimony

cornerrers president joe biden allege aing bribery, and the doj hits back at a biden whistleblower who said joe and hunter biden were paid $5 million apiece by ukraine. then, the setup exposed, block buster details on the biggest political scandal a first exposed right here on "sunday sunday morning futures" on how the fbi and cia set is up trump advisers. former campaign adviser george papadopoulos here, he liveit all, and he is here to tell us about the dirty tricks of the weaponized intelligence agencies. plus, the impact on america's national security. house homeland -- house armed services committee member and florida congressman mike 8 waltz on the impact of playing politics amidst foreign adversaries working against america. it's all right here, right now on "sunday morning futures." ♪ ♪ maria: and we begin this sunday morning with the spotlight on

the department of justice amidst new, damning testimony against president joe biden follow followed by a new civil verdict against president donald trump. longtime hunter biden business associate tony bobulinski testified behind closed doors on capitol hill this week telling the house oversight and judiciary committees in markets despite repeated denials from president biden that he was not involved in his son's overseas business dealings, quote, they're lying. it's a blatant lie. you have stacks of evidence that show joe biden showed up at meetings, shook hands, participated in phone calls all the way back to last summer. finish just him being on the phone is evidence of involvement and enabling the transaction, says bobulinski, whose testimony also coincides with another hunter biden business associate is, rob walker, who told the committees joe biden attended a meeting where officials from the chinese energy company cefc were present. while walker simultaneously denied biden was involved in their business affairs. meanwhile, special counsel david

weiss charged a longtime, trust thed fbi informant with making false statements after he testified that joe and hunter biden received $a 5 million a apiece in bribe from the ukrainian energy company burisma n. a statement, house oversight committee chairman congressman james comer said fbi director christopher wray refused to release the form detailing what the informant said, claiming it would jeopardize the safety of the confidential human source who they said was invaluable and was being paid six figures by the bureau. comer shot back saying, quote: the impeachment inquiry is not reliant on the fd-10 the form but, rather, based on a large batch of evidence including bank records and witness testimony revealing joe biden knew of and participated in his family's business deals. he's comer with me on thursday on fox business telling me he sent a subpoena this week to american express suggesting china was paying the credit card bills for the biden family. >> we know that there was a

pretty extensive money laundering scheme. we know that they use used a complex series of transactions through what i consider shell companies. a shell company is, as your viewers know full well, is a company with no assets or no known purpose. and this was a complex way to try to deceive the irs and to operate in the shady manner that they operated. one of the things that you'll notice on all of the bank statements is a lot of payment to credit cards, and and there were various credit cards. maria: then, after all of this late are friday judge arthur engoron released his verdict in new york attorney general letitia james' fraud trial against president trump, ordering trump to pay more than $355 million in fines while barring trump from serving as an officer or director of any new york corporation or other legal entity in new york for a period of three years. of course, new york where he's built his empire. joining me right now is texas

republican senator ted cruz. senator, great to see you this morning. thanks for being here. >> good morning, maria. great to be with you. maria: your reaction to all of this. >> look, i think we are seeing a systematic and sustained assault on the rule of law. we're seeing an assault on the constitution, and we're seeing fundamentally an assault on democracy. what has happened in washington, it's really frightening and it's really sad. democrats have become radical eased, and they have decided that partisan politics matters more than the rule of law. they're willing to weaponize the department of justice, they're willing to utter wily abuse government power to try to stay in power. the judge's decision in new york is an outrage. this was a partisan democrat judge adjudicating on a case brought by a partisan democrat attorney general. she campaigned, letitia james campaigned on saying i'm going to get donald trump. she got in front of this smirking, sanctimonious partisan democrat who then, in that case a -- understand this judge just ordered donald trump to pay over

$350 million for an offense that had no victim, that involved giant international banks that a made money, didn't lose money and that were eager to loan more money. and the entire thesis of it was, well, they say trump overstated the value of his real estate. the last i checked, these banks were not fragile, vulnerable consumers. they valued the real estate. they were eager to make the loans. they made money on it, they wanted to make more. what this is about, this is about power and trying to destroy donald trump. why? because, ultimately, this is about ea attacking democracy. they want to stop the voters from voting for donald trump. it is dangerous, the brazen cynicism with which they're willing to abuse the justice system to try and stay in power at all costs. maria: well, i mean, all of this as it is so clear that there is a serious difference between the priorities, between the republicans and the democrats. >> yes. maria: right now your colleagues are sending or wanting to send more money to ukraine, and you

have yet to secure the southern border where we are watching potential terrorists come in, fentanyl come in, chinese nationals coming in. we don't know what's behind that. what is the fate of this $95 billion package with $60 billion going to ukraine? >> well,ing i think the foreign aid bill that was rammed through by democrats in the senate, i think it's going nowhere in the house. they know that. the bill was all about political camouflage. it was the all about giving chuck schumer and democrats the ability to pretend to want to do something on the border while at the same time doing nothing. and understand, the border issue and the abuse of the rule of law in the department of justice, they're ultimately the same issue which is the willingness to put partisan interests of democrats above everything else. we've seen an invasion at our southern border under joe biden. we've seen 10.4 million illegal immigrants cross the border, invading principally my home

state of texas, but coming to every state in the union. and the democrats affirmatively want that, they're okay with that, they're fine with the body bags, with the people who are dead, with the children who were assaulted, with the women who were raped. they're fine with the 100,000 americans who died of overdoses last year. all of those are acceptable consequences to democrats because if they look at that 10.4 million illegal immigrants and they see future democrat voters and partisan power is all that matters. let me commend the house of representatives. they impeached alejandro mayorkas, that was the right thing to do, and i believe the senate should convict him. why? because he actively aided and abetted the criminal invasion of the united states. he aided and abetted mexican drug cartels that have made billions of dollars exploiting human beings, undermining public safety in america and posing an incredible national security threat. and joe biden and congressional democrats are accomplices in

this chaos that is unfolding in our country. maria: well, then who's to blame in the senate? because it seems like all of the republican efforts die in the senate. we know what's going to happen to this impeachment of mayorkas when it gets to the senate, it's going nowhere. mayorkas keeps its job. we know that the house did h.r. 2, it went nowhere in the senate. is that mitch mcconnell? who's responsible? >> sadly, it is. look, it's chuck schumer, number one. and chuck schumer is helping drive the train. listen, we know joe biden's not driving the train, so it's a combination of left 46 wing congressional democrats and i think barack obama that are driving the train, and joe biden is mr. magoo just wandering around a confused. you look at the senate, senate democrats want to do nothing to fix the border, they want to do nothing to turn the economy around, they want to do nothing to stop crime we're seeing. and identify got to tell you -- i've got to tell you where the mayorkas impeach end, you know what schumer wants to do, he doesn't want to have a trial.

he doesn't even want to have senators vote on guilty or not guilty. what he's trying to do is simply table it, just put it aside. in over 200 years of our nation's history, the senate has never once tabled articles of impeachment. that has never happened. every single time the senate has voted, has voted on either guilt or innocence, or house -- the house that has withdrawn the impeachment. joe biden wants to protect even every senate democrat from voting whether mayorkas is guilty or not. ultimately, joe biden is guilty, but mayorkas was the lead henchman in opening up the southern border. and i've got say, you know, look, if republican leadership in the senate doesn't like the criticism, here's an opportunity to demonstrate some backbone. they could stand up and say let's have a trial. they could stand up and say you cannot refuse if to even follow the constitutional process for impeachment. you can't dodge responsibility. that's what schumer and the democrats want to do. maria: do you believe mitch mcconnell will not run for

re-election should donald trump win in 2024? >> you know, i don't know. that's a decision for mitch if to make. obviously, there's a lot of bad blood between mitch mcconnell and donald trump. mitch will have to make that decision. i want to see republicans in the senate if stand and lead and fight. i believe no's going to be -- november's going to be a very good election. i think we're going to see donald trump reelected as president of the united states. i think we're going to see republicans keep and grow our majority in the house, and critically, i think we're going to win the united states senate. now, i will say my race here in texas is a battleground race. the democrats are spending over $100 million. chuck schumer's made a clear i'm his number one target. george soros is pouring millions of dollars into the state of texas. my last race, as you know, maria, i won by less than 3 points because i'm the democrats' top target. and so i'm grateful for the people all across the country that go to ted cruz.org, that

make contributions, that support our campaign because i'll give you my we word, i'm going to keep fighting for the rule of law, for the constitution, for the bill of rights, and i'm going to keep fighting to secure the border even as we see these radicals undermine our safety. maria: as you seek your third senate term this november, have -- are you concerned about the weaponization of government, which is where with we started this conversation? are you concerned about election integrity for this upcoming election? >> look, of course. we have seen that the democrats willing to cross any if line are, cross any boundary. you know, it's really striking, leftists, few -- if you look at their rhetoric, what they accuse their opponents of doing is what they're doing. what's the favorite line of democrats right now? assault on democracy, assault on democracy. this is literally simultaneously while they've brought four indictments against the leading republican candidate for president, simultaneously while two different state thes is have tried to throw donald trump off

the ballot. why? what is the purpose of all of this? to stop the voters from voting for their opponent. literally, their rhetoric, assault op on democracy, is precisely what they're doing. democrats and a lot of folks in the corporate media are fond of saying, well, trump will be a dictator. maria: yeah. >> the irony is you look at joe biden's record, he has repeatedly ignored the law. he did things like vaccine mandates in the government that were blatantly illegal, but he didn't care. he tried to give away over a trillion dollars in student loan forgiveness that was blatantly illegal, the supreme court struck the it down, but he didn't care. maria: that's right. >> so it is dangerous, the willingness of democrats to weaponize government, and hay put partisan politics above national security and above the safety of americans. maria: senator, thank you very much for being here this morning. we so appreciate your time, senator ted cruz in texas this morning. >> thanks, maria. maria: quick break and then new, explosive details on what we have been reporting on this program now for six years on the

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>> we now know that there was no official intelligence that was used to start this investigation. we know that sidney blumenthal and others were pushing information into the state department, so we're trying to piece all of that together, and that's high we continue to look at the state department. that many of the trump campaign people were targeted. they know that they used the dossier that was paid for by the clinton campaign to go after and use it in a fisa warrant against the campaign. >> in the obama justice department and at the fbi, at the end of the da day i think that was the policy that dictated a lot of these decisions and why they were willing to violate or suspend fbi and department policies to get to a place that they wanted to, to investigate donald trump -- someone they didn't think should be president, would be president and once he became president, hay didn't want him to continue in that role. maria: oh, ye yes, a blast from the past. that was former house intelligence committee chairman congressman if devin nuñes followed by then-judiciary

committee member john ratcliffe back on this program in 2018 exposing the origins of the trump-russia collusion lie and how the fbi and the cia spied on and ran into trump advisers. this week more details emerge on the extent of that hoax with multiple sources confirming to reporters michael shellenberger, matt tiey by what we first reported here in 2018, that under former president obama the intelligence community, including the cia and fbi, illegally targeted trump advisers long before the summer of 2016 with the help of foreign intelligence agencies. the reporters added, quote, after public and racket had been told that president obama's cia director, john men manager had identified 26 trump associates for the five is to target, a course -- source confirmed they were identified as people to bump or make contact with or manipulate. they were targets of our own intelligence community and law enforcement targets for collection and misinformation

joining me right now, one of the people that was swept up in the whole hoax, former trump campaign foreign policy advisor george pop adopt louse. george, great9 to see you after all of these years. thank you so much for being here. >> good morning, maria. thank you so much for having me again. maria: george, i want you to start with the story of the $10,000 which we talked about so many times back in 2018 and then were slammed on social media because we talked about it. back in 2017 you were with in israel, and you were approached and given $10,000 in cash. can you tell us about that? >> yeah. this really goes to the heart of the bombshell story that was just released last week regarding to accelerate -- overt pollution between the obama administration, cia, the u.s. intel agencies and foreign-allied intel services. it was a profound indictment,

and it was incredibly devastating for them. and it goes exactly to the heart of this $10,000 question and various oh setups. -- other setups. in the summer of 2017 at a time when i'm leaving the trump transition, i'm going back into the energy business that i was a consultant in, i'm offered $10,000 to go to israel to basically have a project, right? a, quote-unquote, project. this individual, named charles tadwell, presents himself as some sort of executive in the energy business and presents me with $10,000 in cash. now, of course, as an american citizen in a foreign country i don't speak the language, i don't know exactly what's going on, what does any normal person do? they give it to their lawyer before they go back to the united states. but what happens when i get back to the united states with, maria? i'm intercepted by about eight a fbi agents rummaging through my luggage, looking for money. they don't know what to do with me because the entire setup failed. and it really goes to the heart of how this entire scandal was

not part of a spontaneous investigation if the way a that the mainstream media wanted you to believe. it was all predetermined, it was all fabricated, and it was all part of an entire plan by the obama administration if to subvert our democrat process. maria: this is so extraordinary, george isful thank you for relaying that story once again. i think about that story often. again, you were given $10,000. you gave the money to your lawyer. you boarded a plane back to dulles to go to washington. as you touched down in dulles airport, eight a fbi agents come on your plane going through your stuff. what did they say when you said to them, hold it, guys, i don't have any money? why are you looking for $10,000 in money? how did they connect -- i mean, you were trying to connect the dots that, yeah, somebody did give me 10,000, but i didn't accept it, it's with my if lawyer. what was their answer? >> look, they're not going to sit there and tell you to your face that we're setting you up.

anybody can connect the dots and realize what was going on at that point. and, you know, going, you know, the recent information came out that around 26 trump officials were bumped by cia and all of these various foreign intelligence agencies, you know? and i started off my work in the ben carson campaign, and i realized that dr. ben carson, fortunately, was one of these 26 individuals that was targeted by the cia. so it made pleat sense when i left -- complete sense when i left carson's campaign and before "the washington post" even knew i joined trump's campaign, that all of these assets at the heart of this entire scandal were bumping into me, trying to it me up, trying to set other people up. and it really just shows you that this entire thing was fabricated from the beginning because they had two objectives in mind, maria. they wanted to, first, spy on the trump campaign by any means necessary including illegally and, secondly, should trump have won, to handcuff him from properly governing the country.

and that's really what happened here. once comey failed, once comey was fired, what did he do? he released this memo to get mueller there. mueller was all about covering up what they were doing during crossfire hurricane. that a failed. it continued into impeachment 1.0, 2.0, trump fought back and the country's stronger because of that. we need to continue to understand, maria, this isn't a 2016 story that we're talking about here. this affected now three different u.s. presidential elections. maria: yes. >> 2016, 2020 when you have the cia willfully is suppressing the hunter biden story and, of course, this new information now that was just released this past week is going to have a major impact moving forward in 2024. so domestically, congress has to act. you have fisa renewal up for debate right now. maria: yeah. >> you have the power of the purse that congress has to use to rein in the intel agencies. and globally, you have now this war raging with russia, you also have to look at how the five is intelligence agreements that the united states has is

going to be effective moving forward because if you or i or anybody as as a foreign policy advisor in diplomacy cannot trust our allies in conversations because you think that they're going to spy on you or relay information to the opposition, that is deleterious for foreign policy, and it cannot continue. maria: well, you know, you were very smart and very fortunate to give the money to your lawyer. obviously, this is the an extraordinary story, and when we first broke this news back in 2017 and '18, we were all slammed by the lunatics on twitter. but let me get your take on the other way they tried to set you up because you call it a honey pot situation. one international spy dropped something in your ear saying russia has e-mails on hillary clinton. then a few months later another international spy came to ask you about that very comment. tell me about that and what you call a honey pot, george. >> yeah. so the story basically is that right when i joined trump's

campaign before even "the washington post" knew that i was officially part of this campaign, the man at the heart of this entire scandal including comey's investigation, horowitz, mueller, durham and potentially new investigations, joseph miff sudden, this infamous professor who was introduced to me by this company we now know was connected to mi-6 tells me later on, hey, did you know that the russians have hillary's e-mail mails? of course, that was obviously speculated all around the global media at that point. i didn't think anything of it. shortly thereafter, these various foreign governments started to ask me questions. oh, what do you know about this, all these type of rumors, and you could understand from march until july they were just looking for any way possible to get a hook into the trump campaign. maria: wow. >> and they actually went out of their way to exploit their own assets to do it, and it failed. maria: we will leave it there.

the honey pot was a woman who they made believe wanted to flirt with you, etc. , to get information from you. thank you so much, george, for being here this morning. george papadopoulos. lived it all and is still sanding to tell us about it. thank you, george. quick break, and then former president trump's efforts to change the top of the rnc on his way to securing a third consecutive presidential nomination. trump's daughter-in-law and the host of the right view podcast, lara trump is here on the latest verdict against her family and the possibility of her joining the new leadership team coming in to the rnc. that's coming up, stay with us. ♪ ♪ you were always so dedicated... ♪ we worked hard to build up the shop, save for college and our retirement. but we got there, thanks to our advisor and vanguard. now i see who all that hard work was for... it was always for you. seeing you carry on our legacy— i'm so proud. at vanguard, you're more than just an investor,

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man is a companion. the only man who's ever foot my bills completely is my daddy. maria: and that was fulton county district attorney fani willis taking on -- taking the stand on thursday over allegations of an improper personal relationship with special prosecutor nathan wade and a potential misuse of federal money as both are leading the beings of former president trump over allegations of election interference in 2020. willis are defending the money that she and her lover spent on trips and on wine and on grey goose vodka claiming she paid him back for everything in cash so there are no receipts or record of it. hours later, letitia james' case was ruled on with the new york judge ruling trump must pay $355 million in fines and be banned from serving as a director or owner of any business in new york for three years. trump's sons, eric trump and donald trump jr., also ordered to pay $4 million apiece for

allegedly falsifying business records according to engeron. despite president trump facing these legal issues brought by biden's department of justice and democrat prosecutors, trump is closing in on his third consecutive presidential nomination heading into next saturday's south carolina primary. trump leads nikki haley in her home state by double digits in the latest polls. a victory will give trump his fifth straight primary win. now changes are expected to come to the republican national committee following the south carolina player with ronna mcdaniel out as chairwoman and lara trump possibly in. trump has recommended mcdaniel be replaced with north carolina gof chairman michael watley as the new leader of the rnc with his daughter-in-law, lara trump, the as the cochair. joining me now in this "sunday morning futures" exclusive, the host of the right view podcast, lara trump. lara, thank you so much for being here. >> thank you, maria. great to be with you. maria: first, your reaction to the verdict against your family on friday. >> what do you even say

to something like this, maria? this is insane. obviously, everybody knows that leticia shah james ran for attorney general on a platform or -- of t protecting the people of the state of new york, not going after actual the justice, taking down donald trump. she said herself, i look forward to going in to the office of attorney general every day suing trump and going with home, the judge made his decision on how he would rule in this case before the first word of the first day of trial was ever spoken. it didn't matter that there was a mountain of evidence to show actually how well run this company truly was, that these banks didn't lose a single dollar. they had to use a fraud statute in new york that didn't require fraud, they had to go so far out of their way with, these banks said not only did we make hundreds of millions of dollars, we wanted to do more business with the trump organization x. then, of course, every person in this case testified to the fact my husband eric and his brother don had nothing to do with anything

alleged here, but slap them in there, give them a $4 million charge as well. it is insame. i think what people have seen with this case is that they are doing everything possible not just to insure that donald trump doesn't become the 47th president, but to personally destroy him. this company was his life's work. they want to take that down. they want to take down his family. any collateral damage they can possibly find in the wake of what they want to do to him is great on their side. but people see now more clearly than ever that donald trump is standing in the gap between us keeping our country together and and losing america, losing the america we have always known. he is holding the line. he will not stop. it doesn't party how much nonsense is thrown his way. maria: yeah. >> everyone can see how insane this situation fewly is. maria: lara, i want to move on and get your take on the infrastructure around the republican party or and whether or not you are about to step up as a cochair there. what are your

expectations here, and what would be the timing of, in fact, you taking a role in the leadership of the rnc? >> well, the committee has to ultimately vote me in. if that's what they decide to do, i would be honored to have this position because, look, maria, i think there's no time to waste. we have ten months to go. really before what i think we can all feel right now in this country is the most important election any of us have ever seen. we are poised to lose the country, like i just said. everyone sees it, everyone feels it. the world is destabilized right now because you have bad leadership at the top. we need donald trump to be back in that white house. we need to expand our lead in the house. we need to take back the senate. and you don't win a presidential campaign without the aid of the republican national committee. and so if i am chosen as cochair, what i can tell you is that we really do have a lot of work to get e done. now, there are things that have been done, they have an election integrity division at the rnc that really no one has heard much

about. they have 78 lawsuits across the country to overturn those, you know, those laws that were changed during the 2020 election under the guise of covid that a changed how you vote in so many quay states. -- so many states. they have people who are actually trained poll watchers, people who are going to go into precincts, maria and not just stand there and watch things happen, they physically can count the ballots coming in and out of a precinct. so there's a lot that's been done, but this is a lot to be done. maria: yeah. >> we need the strongest ground game that this country has ever seen. we need to make sure we are doing legal ballot harvesting. that's something we've never done as republicans. it's something democrats often do, questionable to some. we will do it the legal way. we need to have an election day operations all across this country like we've never seen. and we need to make sure that nothing is left to chance, that on november 5th of this year donald trump will, indeed, become the 47th president of the united states. maria: so i'd like to know what you're

planning should you get the opportunity to lead in the rnc. because people are concerned about election integrity. tell me specifics in addition to that ballot harvesting, things that you think are needed and that you will do to ensure a free and fair election come november. >> well, first of all, i think we need to raise a lot of money. we know the democrats have a mountain of it right now, and we need to do the same. so i think you need to reestablish that people can feel good about donating to the are rnc which right now, you know, some people aren't really sure how is their money being spent. what i can assure you is if i am there, i will make sure every single penny donated to the rnc goes to electing donald trump and taking back the senate and extending our lead in the house. we need poll watchers in place across the country. go to donald j trump.com and sign up to be a volunteer. the truth is we really need to have people in

place, legal people in place on election day so that if there are any challenges, anything questionable at all a, we are ready to strike at a moment's notice. and we really have to hit this thing head on. we have a lot of work to do. there's a little time to go between now and november 5th. and, look, we're going to hit the ground running as soon as -- and if i am elected as cochair of the rnc. maria: and tell me what you've studied from 2020 to be able to take the forward for 2024, and do you believe that these judgments against your father-in-law, against president trump will in any way stop him or show him down -- slow him down in terms of running and as he expect winning? if. >> yeah. they're not going to slow him down at all. he's probably has the most energy of any person i've ever seen in my life. he's incredible. nothing will stop him. and, look, these are designed to make him rethink what he's doing. obviously, all of these indictments, well,

donald trump's going to say i can't do it. absolutely not. he's going forward because i think he nose, maria -- knows, maria, he is truly e the only person who can do the job that we need to bring this country back, to put us back on the right track, to stabilize the world. we have to play the game differently. i think we've all seen that from 2020 and from years beyond. the democrats are, have been playing chess, and we have been playing checkers, and we have to reverse those roles. we have to be steps ahead of them and far ahead in the game so that there is no ground to mange. we need people going to early vote. it would be great, maria, if we had one day of voting in this country, we had a paper ballots, everybody got the day off of work. we don't have that. we have to start banking the votes early, the day your state allows for early voting, go vote. and then you take people with you every day thereafter to vote. we have to have such a lead going into election day that we're not making up ground, that there's no catch-up to play because we know i have what with states like arizona sometimes there are problems in

the system. sometimes the lines are very long. go vote, get people in to vote with you because with really this is a must-win election for us. maria: well, we'll be watching to see if there are efforts to try to muddy up your name as you -- >> oh, stay tuned, absolutely. maria: finish as you move higher, to another level in the rnc, lara. we'll be watching that because i know that has been the case for others. lara a trump, thank you very much. we'll be watching your work. >> thanks so much. maria: we will see you soon is. quick break and then new frontiers of hostility against america and the role of the u.s. space force created during the trump administration in protecting america following ap an intelligence report that indicates russia has obtained a dangerous weapon that could set modern societies back hundreds of years. house intelligence committee member florida congressman michael waltz is here on the impact biden's foreign policy has had on u.s. foreign adversaries and america's national security. it's up next, stay with us. ♪ ♪ fresh, warm hot dogs! when i'm not selling hot dogs, i invest in a fund

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turner, was very frustrated after sending multiple classified letters to the administration asking what are you going to do to stop this threat, to deal with this threat and won't surprise you we got radio silence are. so the committee voted unanimously, republican and democrat, to say, you know what? all members need to be aware, this threat is so serious, so grave, all members immediate to be aware. obviously, you had this, you know, kind of blow-up, but guess what? the director of national intelligence and the martial security advisor were on the hill the next day giving us a strategy and telling us what they're going to do about it. if this weapon is allowed to fully deploy, it could completely blind our economy, it would take out our gp if s, it could blind our military -- maria: wow. >> it is incredibly serious. it's a weapon of mass if destruction. not just us, countries all over the world. maria: wow. >> and the fear is that putin has calculated we are far more

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conversations on how to deal with this. they should be delisted, we should be blocking outbound flow, our money from going into those companies on their markets. i've talked to you about the fact that the military's 401(k) plan, $800 billion in assets was investing our military's retirement into the chinese stock market. these interests have their tentacles everywhere. it really is the epitome of the swamp. we're fighting through it and you have to dry up the cash. till we do in washington, i'm asking every individual nevada torr out there, sit down -- individual investor, sit down with your as vieder and dome through your funds and make sure you're not investing in the greatest adversary. maria: what is president biden doing about the aggression coming out of communist china for example? >> we don't know how compromised he is, how compromised his son is in terms of taking money. i'll tell you the thing that is

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