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🗓️ 22 February 2024
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Alexander Smirnov. Last week, the FBI arrested Alexander Smirnov, an informant the FBI had used as a confidential source since 2010. Smirnov was charged with lying to the FBI that President Biden and his son Hunter were involved in a bribery scheme with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
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0:44.8 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. I'm your host, Isaac Saul. And on today's episode, we're going to be talking about that Biden informant who is just arrested by the FBI for making false allegations to federal officials. |
1:12.6 | We're going to be talking about what this arrest means, what the indictment has to do with the |
1:18.0 | Biden impeachment inquiry, and all the interesting fun stuff swirling around that. |
1:24.0 | Before we jump in, though, let's kick it off, as always, with some quick hits. |
1:34.2 | Music Before we jump in, though, let's kick it off, as always, with some quick hits. First up, the Biden administration canceled roughly $1.2 billion of student loans for 153,000 borrowers, |
1:42.0 | and plans to email each borrower to alert them. Number two, officials from the |
1:47.0 | University of Alabama at Birmingham are pausing their in vitro fertilization treatments after the |
1:52.0 | state Supreme Court extended legal rights to frozen embryos. Number three, with a bipartisan border |
1:58.2 | bill stalled in Congress, President Biden is considering |
2:00.8 | executive action to restrict asylum claims at the southern border. |
2:05.0 | Number four, New York Attorney General Letitia James said she is prepared to seize Donald |
2:09.3 | Trump's properties, including Trump Tower, if he fails to pay his $354 million civil fraud |
2:15.5 | fine. |
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