Lou Dobbs:
Lee Smith - his new book is "The Permanent Coup: How Enemies Foreign and Domestic Targeted the American President", also a new documentary out based on his national bestseller "The Plot Against the President", the documentary of the same name, we recommend both to you. Well it's all three two books and one documentary.
The busy man himself, Lee Smith, good to have you with us. Let's see, let's start with the your reaction to, on, now uh, with the crickets we're hearing from the justice department about what the Biden family is now uh accused of and for which there is considerable uh evidence in the New York Post uh outstanding reporting.
Lee Smith:
Yeah, the the the Post uh the Post articles have been very important putting a lot of detail, uh putting a lot of detail, on what the Bidens have been up to. I think it's important however to go back uh to several years ago. We've known the general shape of the Biden's corruption in Ukraine basically since 2015. The New York times was reporting it then. The reason the press is burying it now is because the context has changed entirely. It appears that the Clintons leaked it to the New York Times to keep Joe Biden out of the 2016 primary race. They all know what's happening here they're buried it. But the bigger problem is not just the press. The fact is we're seeing a repetition of what Christopher Wray's FBI is up to. In December as Mayor Giuliani was talking about, not only did they get word of the hard drive, but that was also when they were putting the president through an impeachment process that had to do with the Biden's corruption in Ukraine. As many of us were saying at the time, the president was absolutely correct to want to know what was going on with the Bidens in Ukraine. And now we see that the FBI Christopher Wray's FBI buried that. This is part of a larger cover-up.
Dobbs:
Yeah, it is a cover-up that is extended, it is now clear that the current director of the FBI has much to answer for. Uh, it is not simply stonewalling, it is not simply slow rolling, this is a full-fledged cover-up by the upper officials of the FBI. Do you agree.
Smith:
Absolutely it's an active cover-up no it's an active cover-up it's not just a matter
Dobbs:
So why is it with a Republican attorney general, one in whom this this president and many republicans had great confidence in, that this is still ongoing? There is obviously, there are obviously, huge problems with political corruption atop the justice department and the FBI still.
Smith:
Absolutely and you know we see it also, you mentioned the uh the intelligence community assessment before, we see problems at the top of the CIA, the president has uh in some cases through bad advice, uh in many cases simply through subterfuge, but he is surrounded by people who are not only not helping him, as you said with Christopher Wray it's not only a matter of uh disinterest, it's a matter of actively working against the president and the american public. That's the key takeaway for me. They're not just targeting President Trump. And finally that's what this new book is about "The Permanent Coup", yes they've gone after the president but it's an attack on the foundations of the republic.