The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (01/16/2023):
3:00pm- On Saturday, the White House released a statement revealing that five additional pages containing classified information were found at President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware. According to The New York Times, the classified documents “were discovered hours after a White House statement on Thursday morning that cited only one" page had been “discovered the night before in a storage area adjacent to the garage.”
3:20pm- While appearing on MSNBC, former Congressman David Jolly argued that President Joe Biden should be praised for his handling of classified documents—arguing that after discovering the documents, Biden did exactly what he was supposed to do by contacting the proper authorities.
3:45pm- Speaking with Jonathan Karl on ABC’s This Week, Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) endorsed Attorney General Merrick Garland’s decision to appoint a special counsel to investigate Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents. Schiff said he couldn’t “exclude the possibility” that there was a national security risk to Biden’s actions.
3:50pm- Chairman of the House Oversight Committee James Comer (R-TN) questioned why the discovery of the Biden documents wasn't announced immediately after they were discovered on November 2nd—speculating that it likely had to do with the impact the news could have had on the highly consequential November 8th midterm elections.
3:55pm- Why was Hunter Biden paying Joe Biden $50,000 a month for rent at the Wilmington home where classified documents were discovered? According to a report from Zero Hedge, “the most expensive home currently for rent in Wilmington, Delaware is going for $6,000 per month.”
4:00pm- Despite seven whales washing-up along New Jersey beaches, Governor Phil Murphy insists he will not halt the development of massive offshore windmill farms. Environmental organizations have expressed concern that the dead whales could be the result of development-related exploration of the ocean floor.
4:15pm- Recently on 60 Minutes, Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich warned of an unavoidable “mass extinction.” Ehrlich has a long history of making inaccurate doomsday predictions: in the 1970’s he famously warned that overpopulation would cause mass starvation and chaos, in the 1990’s he stated Florida and Washington D.C. would soon be underwater, and in 2014 he suggested that in the not-too-distant future society will be forced to eat human bodies.
4:35pm- In an attempted defense of Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, The New York Times published an article titled, “Documents Inquiry Puts Spotlight on Biden’s Frenetic Last Days as Vice President”—suggesting that the chaotic finally days of the Obama Administration are responsible for Biden’s carelessness. NYT White House correspondents Peter Baker and Michael D. Shear also name White House aides who may be responsible for misplacing the classified documents now at the center of a Justice Department's special counsel investigation. Zeoli wonders: Who, from the Biden Administration, coordinated with Baker and Shear to write this defense?
4:50pm- Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy said that Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had no say in the Biden Administration’s decision to hide the classified documents scandal from the press for two-months. So, who is making these decisions?
5:00pm- The World Economic Forum Conference—an international non-governmental lobbying organization—is set to kick off their annual summit in Davos, Switzerland on Monday. The meeting's primary concerns: environmentalism and climate change. But how many conference participants will be arriving in private jets? According to a study from Greenpeace, an estimated 1,040 private jets were used by attendees at the 2022 World Economic Forum conference.
5:15pm- BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warned that he expects a recession in 2023.
5:25pm- While appearing on Fox News, investigative journalist Matt Tiabbi estimated that 500 to 1,000 people from multiple federal government agencies were involved in censoring social media posts, specifically on Twitter.
5:45pm- The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill writes that in the 1970s then-Senator Joe Biden scuttled President Jimmy Carter’s nomination of Ted Sorenson to CIA Director, alleging that Sorenson had unlawfully possessed classified documents. Biden, according to Scahill, even suggested Sorenson could be prosecuted under the Espionage Act.
6:05pm- National Review’s Dominic Pino writes that the “Consumer Product Safety Commission is out of control.” After considering a ban on gas-stoves, citing alleged pollutants the stoves expel, the agency is now targeting a small business owner.
6:25pm- President Joe Biden sang “happy birthday” to Andrea Waters King—wife of Martin Luther King III—but seemingly forgot her name midway through the song….
6:40pm- In a recent opinion editorial, Princeton University philosophy professor Peter Singer idiotically compared climate activists who deface artwork to Martin Luther King Jr.—arguing that the climate activists are simply doing what is required in order to draw public attention to their cause.
