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Ahead on American Sunrise, early edition it happened. The Justice Department got an indictment from a grand jury for former FBI Director James Comey on charges of lying to Congress and obstruction of justice. There seems to be irrefutable evidence of his guilt, all on videotape, but Comey is publicly maintaining his innocence. Meanwhile, this ain't your Daddy's government shutdown. The Trump administration is not giving in to Democrat demands, and it's also preparing to use a likely shutdown as a way to identify more government jobs to eliminate permanently. Do the Democrats want to make that gamble? Speaking of Democrats, the once heavy favorite in the New Jersey governor's race is now in a dead heat in the polls, and that's before her connection to a major Naval Academy cheating scandal was revealed. And with all these big stories swirling around the country, what better time to take in some golf? President Trump is about to attend the big Ryder cup tournament on Long island, and we will take you there live. American SUNRISE EARLY EDITION begins now. Welcome to AMERICAN Sunrise EARLY edition, the.
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We will be letting the public know regularly what we have found. American Sunrise Early EDITION with your host Jake Novak starts now. Welcome to this no tie Friday and a very busy one right here on American Sunrise EARLY EDITION here on REAL America's Voice. Have a lot to get to. And I'm gonna get you out to Bethpage, Long island, where we're awaiting President Trump's arrival in just a few moments. But first, I have to summarize, of course, the big major story of this morning, and that is the indictment of James Comey, a grand jury indicting him for lying to Congress and obstruction of justice. Of course, those two charges are connected because the obstruction is connected to the alleged lying. Now, I want to play for you what I think is the biggest piece of evidence that really makes this an open and shut case. Again, of course it'll go to trial. I'm not personally convicting. I don't have the power to personally convict James Comey. But I want you to take a look at the incident at the moment where he is accused of lying to Congress. Here he is getting questioned back in 2017. Check it out.
Mike McCormick
Director Comey, have you ever been an anonymous source in news reports about matters relating to the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?
Jake Novak
Never.
Mike McCormick
Question two one, relatively related. Have you ever authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?
Jake Novak
No.
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Has any classified information relating to President Trump or his association associates been declassified or and shared with the media?
Jake Novak
Not to my knowledge. Now, of course, the indictment just came down yesterday, but we've had documented evidence that everything he just said all the answers that James Comey just gave to Senator Chuck Grassley from Iowa, a little bit tough for him to get those questions out, but you heard them. There's really strong evidence that all three of those answers were lies. From James Comey. From James Comey. And he did do all of those things. Now, in a short video released last night, Comey is maintaining his innocence, but not before he makes it clear that he considers fighting President Trump to be the priority. Check it out. My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn't imagine ourselves living any other way. We will not live on our knees. And you shouldn't either. Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool of a tyrant, and she's right. But I'm not afraid, and I hope you're not either. I hope instead you are engaged, you are paying attention, and you will vote like your beloved country depends upon it, which it does. My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system, and I'm innocent. So let's have a trial and keep the faith. Notice how he waits to the very end to say that he's innocent. His priority is fighting President Trump. He's making that clear. Listen, if you're an FBI profiler, which Comey should be familiar with, they would tell you this. He basically almost admitted his guilt right there in that. In that soundbite, talking about how fighting President Trump is a priority. And hint, hint, that's why I lied to Congress and did all those other things. Again, if I were an FBI profiler, that's how I would write about that particular soundbite and that particular admission, almost. I really. I felt that was almost like an admission from Comey. It sounds like he's trying to say he's innocent, but he throws it in there at the very end, you see what his priorities are. All right, we're gonna have a lot more on this throughout this hour, throughout the two hours coming up after me of the American Sunrise show the rest of the broadcasting day on Real America's Voice. There's a lot of other things to get to, including new, very solid evidence that There were almost 300 FBI agents involved in the January6 event, including one who was caught on tape, the one who broke the windows at the Capitol. That was an FBI agent. Unbelievable stuff. So we're going to talk a lot about that all throughout the day. But first, let's talk some golf. It's Friday. Minutes for me, where are David Zier, our real America's Voice correspondent and the host of Breaking Point? David, you're just a few steps away from where President Trump's going to be in a couple hours. A fun weekend coming up, and it doesn't. And we were expecting rain today, but it looks like we got spared.
David Zier
It's beautiful out, and I brought my clubs, but they wouldn't let me on the golf course. Today. We're here at Republic Airport awaiting for Trump's arrival. Wheels up. A Marine one off the White House lawn should be at about 9:50 today. He'll be here at about 11:10am we're in front of the historic American Air Power Museum. You know, a lot of iconic jets were made on Long island, like the A10, the A6, the F14 on display over here. But Trump is no stranger to golf in the New York, New Jersey area. He owns 15 golf courses, three of them, one in Westchester, one in Bedminster, one in Hudson Valley. This is his third visit to sporting events in the New York area in just the last month, including the U.S. tennis Open and 911 Yankee Stadium visit two weeks ago. And this is pretty big here, this Ryder cup at the Bethpage Black, one of the toughest courses in the country. A public course. I'm not good at it. I've been playing for 45 years. Very, very tough course here. I just wanted to add 250,000 people expected to attend. It's going to raise $200 million for the area. Tickets are as high as $4,000 for the three or four days, including the practice round here. And people are getting 18,000 a week to rent out Beth Page Black and charging $100 a day to park in their driveway.
Jake Novak
Why didn't I do that? I mean, I'm probably only like 20 minutes from the course. I should have rented out my house. You could drive them. I really should have. Well, it's not too late if you're watching and you need parking and maybe just a $10 Uber ride from my. From my driveway to Beth. I'm just kidding. But anyway, that's. That's awesome. Listen, David, obviously a lot of people are going to be. What? You know, I see this almost as a triumphant thing. You know, it wasn't that long ago where a lot of us said, listen, President Trump, don't come to New York. You know, it's really hostile territory for you with this Letitia James and Kathy Hochul and Alvin Bragg. You know, you don't want to show up in this state because they might indict you or do something. Clearly he's just not worried about that anymore. So this is more than just attending a fun event that I think he would want to attend whether he were president or not. In fact, I know that for a fact. But it's going to be interesting to see how he's received, won't it, David? Yeah.
David Zier
And he always turns lemons into lemonade in New York and he has triumphant visits here. Listen, security is really high at Bethpage Golf Course today. They have increased restrictions on folding chairs, vaping devices, lighters, plastic insulated beverage containers and other. But there's a lot of activity here right now. We just saw two fighter jets escorting what looked to be a civilian airliner, smaller one, maybe like, you know, an MD80 or something like that. That was interesting because Trump's not expected here for a couple hours. I'll send you guys up some info if I can get more on that. But I wanted to add one thing, Jake. You know, Trump issued an executive order. I was covering the White House. About two weeks ago. Trump issued the executive order to try to get the Long island railroad strike averted. There's about six unions. One of them couldn't agree on a three year, a third year pay raise, I believe, and the amount of that as a percentage of their income. But Trump averted that. That would have spelled disaster for the Ryder cup as the Bethpage and Farmingdale train stations are a main hub for pedestrian traffic. 50,000 people coming today alone.
Jake Novak
Yeah. You know, I mean, even if you say, well, those people with the $4,000 tickets, they're not taking the train to Bethpage Black. I get it. But all the people going to work that day would have also been on the road and that would have really clogged things up. You know, that would not have been a. I had already blacked out my schedule for today thinking I wasn't going to need to, you know, be able to get around anywhere. And I think now I'll be fine. Last question I want to ask you, David, the sit again, this is a, this is an interesting thing because for folks who you don't know what the Ryder cup is, it's kind of like the Davis cup in tennis. It's when the United States goes up against Europe in, you know, a weekend tournament. We lost the Ryder Cup a couple of years ago. So this is all about getting that cup back. And, you know, as much as this is about sports and things like that, it's really another America first kind of thing. President Trump is there to cheer on the US Team to get that Ryder cup back that we believe is rightfully an American property? I mean, this is actually not that just only a leisure moment for him, is it?
David Zier
No. And even Rory McIlroy playing for the European team was praising the United States, and that was really great. And Scotty scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau talked to Trump all the time here. We lost eight of the last 11 Ryder Cups to Europe, even though we won more overall over the course of history here. And I just wanted to add, Beth Page Black was host to the 2002, 2009 U.S. open. I watched Tiger woods at the 18th hole win in.02. That was a really historic event here. And Long island, no stranger to professional golf events like Sabonick US Open at Shinnecock in 95. That was extraordinary. Corey Paven winning. So Long island has a rich history of golf and I think we have more golf courses per square mile than any place in the country outside of Hilton Head.
Jake Novak
Yeah. Take that, Florida. Right. That's one thing we still have. Look, for those of you who don't know it's such a popular course, even though it's very hard that there are people who park in the parking lot overnight. So because they have such an early tea time and they sleep in their.
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Cars, I've done it.
Jake Novak
So they can get that early tea time because that's all they can get at Beth Page Black. So anyway, David Z. Are you going to be there for us all day? I know you're going to be moving some locations as time goes on. Thank you so much for your reporting. And again, Real America's Voice is definitely going to be the only place where you get real extensive coverage of the president's visit to Long island today. So please stay with us. Thank you, David.
David Zier
Thank you, Jake.
Jake Novak
All right. We have so much more to cover this morning and later. And of course, that is more about James Comey, for example, now that James Comey's been indicted, what about Joe Biden? A little bit later on this hour, I'm going to talk to someone who used to work closely with Joe when he was vice president who says it's past time to indict him. He's got the evidence. American Sunrise EARLY EDITION will be right back.
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That'S a live look at the American Air Power Museum. Very, very close to the Bethpage Black Golf Course. And this is the airstrip that President Trump and Air Force One will be landing at a little bit later today. Again, you really need to stick with real America's voice. We've got this all covered. We have a very strong Long island presence. Not just me, but also a little bit further out in Suffolk County. So this is and it's going to be an interesting day. I'm sure you're going to want to hear what President Trump has to say about the James Comey indictment. There's a bunch of other things to ask him about as well. So we'll be on that all over it. Welcome back to American Sunrise EARLY edition. It is a no tie Friday, but a busy no tie Friday. I got to get the tie out of the way so I can get have all the blood flowing in my head right now because it is a very busy day with this indictment of James Comey. Also, so many other things to talk about. But I'm bringing in right now real America's Voice contributor Emily Finn, because I don't want to forget about how people can respond to some of these things, some of these news, some of these issues. And just next door to the state of New York in New Jersey, we have a very interesting situation. Mikey Sherrill, who's currently a congresswoman in New Jersey, although she's really from Virginia, that's another story. She was really a heavy favorite to win that election. She was ahead in the polls by a lot for most of the spring and summer. Well, the latest Emerson poll shows, according to Emerson, that that race is a complete dead heat. In fact, I actually saw another poll that wasn't quite as respected, but had Jack Ciarelli, the Republican nominee, ahead. Emily, this is a very interesting situation, but it was a very, no good, very bad day for Mikey Sheryl, because first she got that poll news and then the story that had been, I guess, suppressed for all this time that while she was at the Naval Academy, which is a big part of her campaign, she's a Navy veteran. That's the answer to every question they ask her, how you doing today? She's like, I'm a Navy veteran. That's her answer to every question. It turns out she was connected in some way. We don't know all the details, but she was connected so much to this huge cheating scandal at the Naval Academy in 1994 that she was not allowed to march at her own graduation. Sounds pretty serious. I think that her campaign is circling the drain right now.
Emily Finn
Emily, that is certainly a skeleton in the closet that I don't think she wanted to come out. We'll see how big that skeleton actually is. I'm sure there's some more investigations happening into that. But yeah, bad day for her and must admit being the favored candidate, you know, even just a few months ago, as you were reporting there, Jake, if you look at that poll, you actually break it down a little bit further about the issues, the top the topics that New Jersey voters care about the most when it comes to crime, when it comes to immigration policy, Those are both 5%, way lower than, let's say, the economy, threats to democracy. That was 13%. So taking that into consideration and that the Republican candidate who the person at the very, very top, President Trump, is backing both crime and immigration policy more than anything else right now. That is basically the cornerstone of his administration. At this point, it seems like the voters in New Jersey are getting more and more on board with that messaging because it's just a popularity thing at this point. If her popularity is so bad that even on these issues that don't necessarily mean the most, she's still losing, I don't think this is going to look good leading up to November for her.
Jake Novak
Yeah. And I'll give you some inside baseball for those of you watching who aren't from the New York or New Jersey area. I think another big reason for this shift in the polls is a very, very strong campaign ad that the Cittarelli campaign is running that Mikey Sheryl provided to them on a silver platter. There's a commercial where they take a segment from an interview. It isn't even edited. It is an unedited part of an interview that she did on live TV on New York's ABC station, where the interviewer asks her what she thinks the big problems in New Jersey are that she needs to address. And she's very visibly and verbally stumped by the question. She's looking up, she's like, wow, that's a tough one. I hadn't really expected that question. And in a graphic next to her face, they show all the things that are plaguing New Jersey. High electric bills, the highest property taxes in the country, and on and on down the line. I actually think after all the scandal stuff and the other things that are going on, that's a huge reason. It is because people can see it's an unedited video, and that's a real moment. And she doesn't even know about any problems. Then why run if you can't even name a problem? That might be the big game changer here, Emily.
Emily Finn
Absolutely. But that's a great point. Why run if you don't even have any policy or any ideas to make the lives of New Jerseys people better than what is the point of this campaign? You know, she definitely is kind of embarrassing herself on the campaign trail. We'll have to keep a close eye and see how all of this plays out.
Jake Novak
Yeah. And for those of you who don't live in the New York, New Jersey area, count yourself lucky, because that ad, as much as it's effective. It runs every five seconds on some channel. When I'm at the gym, it's at every, it's on every TV at once.
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It's incredible.
Jake Novak
But hey, if I had a tool like that, I'd use it a lot too. So I don't blame him. Emily Finn, thank you so much for joining us. We'll see you in the 8 to 10am hour on American Sunrise. Thank you.
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Thank you.
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It's a live look at the Capitol building. Hey, that's the the building where James Comey lied. It really seems like he lied, didn't it? I mean, honestly, we have it all on tape. And there's documented evidence that the things that he said to Chuck Grassley back in 2017 and then he said it again again in another hearing in 2020 remotely. But they're right there on Capitol Hill in that building on the Senate side. He lied. Just as simple as that. Let's take a look at where the markets are going to begin today. We've had a losing week, folks. Maybe we'll end up on a positive side today. Slight positive opens, at least as the futures are right now. If we opened right now for the Dow and the S&P 500, Nasdaq is flat to down gold. Pretty flat too. Below 3800 announced where we hit earlier this week. But Very close to an all time high. Look at crude oil, hit the $65 per barrel mark. That's still again historically incredibly low, especially if you factor in inflation. 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I got some mixed news for you from the car sales front. This is really kind of interesting. I'm hoping this is just about one company. Overall, we did see an increase in our latest report in car sales, especially over that heat of the summer. Car sales went up and the estimated total car sales for the year, well over 16 million. So that'd be a nice healthy number. The record is about 17 million and we're slowly creeping back to that number. So that was the good news. But the bad news is CarMax, which is, you know, a part of the market that is an important part of the market, the online sales aspect of new car sales. And CarMax reported weaker than expected profits, weaker than expected sales compared to the same period a year ago. Here's what I'm thinking. The reason for this is we had so many incentives going on at dealerships, not through these third party online folks. And you had to go to the dealerships, especially for some of the incentives that some of the dealers were putting on electric vehicles, because as you know, at the end of this month, which is now just four days away, the tax credit for buying an evidence ends. But you had to show up the dealer and really put the screws to him a little bit yourself as a buyer with leverage to get the best deals. And you can't really do that online. So that is why I think CarMax had some weaker numbers, whereas the overall sales were strong. But I'm going to be watching this very clearly. That's my theory. I don't know for sure, and neither does anyone, really, but let's find out whether we're getting a slowdown in car sales. I'm going to be watching that very closely. All right, here's a very serious warning I have to give all of you. If you own a 2020 Ford Explorer or a 2020 Lincoln Navigator. 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It's Friday, September 26th. Here are this morning's top stories. It happened. The Justice Department gets a grand jury to indict FBI Director James Comey on charges of lying to Congress and obstruction of justice. There seems to be irrefutable evidence of his guilt, all on videotape. But Comey is also publicly maintaining his innocence, sort of. Meanwhile, this ain't your daddy's government shutdown. The Trump administration is not giving in to Democrat demands, but it's also preparing to use a likely shutdown as a way to identify more government jobs to eliminate permanently. Do the Democrats really want to gamble that in that kind of a game of chicken? Speaking of Democrats, the once heavy favorite in the New Jersey governor's race is now in a dead heat in the polls. And that's before her connection to a major Naval Academy cheating scandal was revealed. And with all these big stories swirling around, what better time to take in some golf? President Trump is expected to attend. He will attend the big Ryder cup tournament here on long island, about 10 minutes from where I'm sitting right now. And we will take you there live all day. American SUNRISE EARLY EDITION continues now. Welcome back to AMERICAN SUNRISE EARLY edition. It's a no tie Friday, but a busy one Again, that indictment announced against James Comey. I showed you at the top of the hour the very video where I think irrefutably he lies to Congress. That's what he's charged with, also obstruction of justice. He talks about how he didn't leak any information about the phony Russia investigation to the news media or any classified information. There is hard evidence, and there's been hard evidence for a couple of years now, accepted as real throughout the country that he lied about that. It was just a matter of whether he would be indicted. He has been indicted. And very interestingly, in my opinion, a video he put out to supposedly proclaim his innocence spends less than a second proclaiming his innocence. It starts out with and is 90% him bashing President Trump, basically saying, hey, this is why you lie, because you don't like President Trump. It's just incredible to me. Who knows what's gonna happen with the jury in that case? We'll talk a lot about it, not only in this hour, a little bit later, but also throughout the day here on Real America's Voice. But that's James Comey. What about Joe Biden? Joining us now is the author of many books and former White House stenographer. And then to then Vice President Joe Biden, Mike McCormick. And one of his books is called the Case to Impeach and Imprison Joe Biden, which he wrote a number of years ago. Again, Mike McCormick. Mike, it's been five years since I spoke to you. You had another book out about Joe Biden back then. So glad to get back in touch with you and talk to you now because you texted me, you know, a little while back and said, hey, the time's running out to impeach Joe Biden on some of the stuff that. That he did. So tell us a little bit about that. Tell us a little bit about what you saw and a little bit about that time element here. Yeah.
Mike McCormick
Hey, great to be back with Jake.
Jake Novak
Yeah.
Mike McCormick
There's four months left to indict Joe Biden for crimes he committed when he was a vice president. And I done. I wrote a book. That book right there. Whoops, sorry. That book, the case. Impeachment, prison. Joe Biden came out two years ago with me trying to get in front of the grand jury that was impaneled by the special counsel, David Weiss, who was investigating the Bidens. And David Weiss and his grand jury would never listen to me because I had evidence. I was an eyewitness to Joe Biden's crimes. They didn't want that. They were shielding Joe Biden. The crimes that I witnessed took place in 2014. I was on an airplane, Air Force Two, flying into Kyiv, Ukraine, when Jake Sullivan, who was Joe Biden's national security Advisor, came back to the talk to the press. My job as a stenographer was to stand there and record what he said. One of the press asked him, what kind of energy assistance are you bringing to Ukraine? Jake Sullivan mentioned four things. Two of them directly benefited Hunter Biden's company, that he was secretly on the board of Burisma holdings, which is natural gas conglomerate. Joe knew Hunter was on the board. I don't know if Jake Sullivan did, but at that point, from that point on, they started a conspiracy. The conspiracy was Joe Biden was enriching his family by bringing this money to Ukraine that was then going back to his son. And Jake Sullivan was telling the people about it, that it was. It was okay. It was a government process. It wasn't a government process. It was a crime. They continued that conspiracy all the way through Joe Biden's presidency. The reason he has only. There's only four months left to indict Joe Biden is because when he became president on January 21, 2021, illegally, I think he got presidential immunity. So no crime he committed during that presidency can he be tried for. So that Ongoing crime of conspiracy was still going on in that presidency. There's four months left in the statute of limitations time of five years before that presidential immunity kicks in. So we got four months from died him. I can sit in front of a grand jury and tell them what I just told you. And that would be evidence of Joe Biden committing a crime as a vice president and possibly being indicted.
Jake Novak
Mike McCormick, has anyone. And again, you talked about how the previous regime was running cover for Joe Biden, but has anyone from the Pam Bondi Justice Department contacted you or Cash Patel to try to get this ball rolling?
Mike McCormick
I've reached out to a couple people in their doj. They've been real busy. I actually sent a pretty big information packet to the U.S. attorney in D.C. their political or public corruption office. So that was in June. I haven't heard back. Judge Jeanine Pirro, who was. She was just confirmed there about a month ago. So things are moving in the right direction, but they're moving slowly. It's a great day that we finally got an indictment on James Comey. Let's get more. It's going to take a while. This is a. There's a lot going on. There's a lot of different reasons, There's a lot of different investigations. But I would love to get. Jake Sullivan is part of this conspiracy. Jake Sullivan's wife is a sitting congresswoman. She's from New Hampshire. Is she part of this conspiracy? Is she covering for Jake Sullivan as he's a conspirator out there not telling people the crimes that he knew Joe Biden committed? He was the U.S. he was national Security Advisor in the White House during Biden's presidency. As I reported this, as I wrote my book, a reporter from the New York Post blatantly asked Stephen Nelson asked Jake Sullivan in a White House briefing, were you involved in conspiracy with Joe Biden with the Ukraine Energy Company, as this stenographer Michael Cormack is alleging? He blatantly answered no, he's part of the conspiracy. His wife is a congresswoman, Maggie Goodlander from New Hampshire. Should she be as part of this? This. This factors into the midterm election in 2026. Her. She's running for reelection. Her opponent should get on the stick about, you know, there's corruption here that in that household, they have to look at it.
Jake Novak
You know, so much of this, of course, is connected to Hunter Biden. And as we know, Hunter Biden got a full pardon from his dad. And honestly, I actually think that there's an opportunity involved with that as opposed to thinking, oh, it ends there. They pardon him, we're out of luck because now that he's been pardoned, he can't invoke his Fifth Amendment rights about self incrimination because he's been pardoned for it. So the question now is, can they drag him before Congress or before a grand jury to testify? And then if he did not, if he, if he decides not to do that, that's a new crime and he can't be part, you know, he doesn't get a pardon for that. So in other words, it sounds like he should be able to be compelled, on pain of going to jail, to testify in this case and he won't be able to take the Fifth.
Mike McCormick
Yeah, Hunter Biden can be a. Would be a witness. Devin Archer would be a witness. They both had a meeting with Joe Biden in the west wing of the White House. It's documented. The Hunter Biden laptop that's been validated by the FBI. They had a meeting with him just days before. I was on this airplane with them. They were talking about Barisma. They walked out of the meeting. There's email saying, okay, I'm going to join the board of Barisma today. And then they also did another. They did another kickback scheme with a company called Metabiota. They were talking about that with Joe Biden. That's the company that set up the bio labs in Ukraine. And that's what's in that book. Oops. That book. Sorry. I always mix that up on camera.
Jake Novak
That's all right.
Mike McCormick
It's called An Almost Insurmountable Evil. It's how Joe Biden and Hunter Biden were involved in the Wuhan pandemic that began back in 2011. You know, as a stenographer, I travel with Joe Biden to China. Joe Biden got in front of an audience in China, in Chengdu, and said, you have too many old people. You have too many old people. And the Chinese heard that because they had this one child policy. And eight years later, in 2020, in 2019, in August of 2019, the Wuhan virus rolled out and it killed old people. I think they were working on that the whole time. And that's what I wrote about in that book.
Jake Novak
My goodness. You know, I tell you something, the thing is with these stories, it's amazing how much this has been suppressed from the American public.
Mike McCormick
Right.
Jake Novak
Unless you are watching Real America's voice or following some people who have been documenting it, the American people, a good chunk of the American people have no idea about any of these allegations. Let's just say for the sake of, again, jurisprudence and fairness, okay, we have to prove all these allegations. That's fine. But the problem, Mike, is that millions and millions of Americans, especially voters, don't even know any of this. Well, they might know that Hunter Biden had a drug problem. They might know that he had some. You know, maybe he got a job here or there that he wouldn't have deserved or gotten to this law school or because of Joe. All right, they might know that. They might. But do they know that he was actually on the board of a natural gas company, something that he had no experience? This isn't like one of the George Bush family, where they're always into oil for generations. This is, this is a ridiculous position. I. Most people don't even know that. And of course, this is the same company where we're pouring in billions of dollars under the Biden administration for fight of war. I mean, it's. Again, you, as a stenographer, how to put out the book about this. You understand that if you were saying this about Donald Trump or a Republican, you would be personally a big household name. You would have been on MSNBC and CNN not only for this story, Mike, but every other time anything happened with the president that you were writing about, you'd be, you'd be on the panel, you'd be a huge star. I mean, I'm not saying that that was your goal, but, I mean, it got to be a little frustrating here. You have some really interesting information to share with the public. You should be someone people know.
Mike McCormick
That's what I put in my books. I named the people I was standing there with, the press. I named the names of the press who weren't working to get the truth out. James, sorry, Peter Baker at the New York Times, he was on a White House trip that I took to Ukraine in 2015. And he's never really. He's never corrected the mistakes that I've written about in my book. You know, one of the, one of the things that Joe Biden did on that trip was he met with the then mayor of Kyiv, who's still the mayor of Kyiv, a guy named Vitaly Klitschko. Vitaly Klitschko was on the board of Burisma with Hunter Biden. That's in the laptop. And the New York Times has never written about it. So, no, my books are never going to be on the New York Times bestseller list because I tell the New York Times what a bunch of frauds they are. Same with the Washington Post, same with Axios. So we do get on Real America's Voice, and this is where we get our word out slowly but surely. I'm also. I also write a substack. My sub stack is Midnight in a Laptop of Good and Evil. I've got a lot of information on there coming out. There's stuff right. Right on there right now about how Hunter Biden sort of tipping his hand about how he was involved in the Wuhan pandemic. He did this interview last July, and he said there's something in there about the bird flu. Well, the bird flu was what the Wuhan pandemic was. And he admitted that he was involved in the bird flu in this interview.
Jake Novak
Oh, my God. I mean, if that. I mean, that. That would be, you know, that would be the political scandal of a lifetime if that, you know, if we get more information on that and some, you know, incredible. You know, last thing I'll talk about is, like, listen, you were a stenographer. You know, I often say this to people, and they don't believe it when I tell them that. When I say that television stars, movie stars, and politicians, they're not like us. They are a different breed of human. I mean, I really think it's like Darwin. It's almost like evolution. They've evolved into a different type of human being. And by that, I mean they don't operate the. The way you or I would operate. Everybody else who's normal, who's watching would know that. If there's a literal stenographer sitting there, you probably be really careful about not lying, because that's the way it is. If you figure, like, okay, hey, no one would do, you know, sure, people lie and they cheat and they steal, but they don't do it when the camera's on them constantly and there's someone literally writing down everything they say and who said it to them. But that's exactly what these politicians do. You're almost like the furniture to them. I mean, it's just amazing to me. You must know that there's something different about these folks, isn't there?
Mike McCormick
Yeah, yeah. Jake Sullivan flunked Sopranos 101. I mean, he incriminated himself. Standing next to the guy recording everywhere, he said, so is Joe. So did James Comey. Like you were just saying, these people are stupid, but we let them. We pretend because the media tells us, oh, they're geniuses, they're smart, they're honorable people. They're not. These people have sold their souls to get where they got. I worked with Joe Biden. I worked with Barack Obama. These are evil people. They did evil to our world and our country and we have to get it back. It's going to take a while. It's going to take a while to work it through the courts. James Comey's indictment is the first small step. There's a lot more coming. Indicting Joe Biden will be a big thing. Having a big trial of his conspirators. Jake Sullivan, Hunter Biden, part of Hunter Biden's conspiracy with the Metabiotic company. That's the bird flu company that started in December of 2013. He doesn't get a pardon for that. The pardon starts in January of 2014. He went to China in December of 2013 and that's when they started this investment in the Metabolic, the bird flu company that he talked about. That's what he's worried about. He can be indicted for that.
Jake Novak
That's a whole new ball of wax that we've started here. And let's get to it. Let's continue. Mike, keep in touch. Thank you so much for joining us. And we're going to get you back updated on all the major stories going on right now, especially that James Comey indictment when we come right back. American Sunrise EARLY edition. Stay with.
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Welcome back to AMERICAN Sunrise early edition. You know, when we show the Capitol dome for from now on, we shouldn't, we should just say scene of the crime. That should be the banner scene of the crime. I mean, that could be anything. It could be a number of crimes that have been committed there. But in all seriousness, there's two crimes in particular this morning that really have me thinking about the Capitol building because that's where they happen, or at least on that, on that Hill, the James Comey lying situation, which I think we have him dead to rights. I'm sorry, I played at the beginning of the hour, the moment where he lies for the first time to come. Congress. And also we have this report from John Solomon from just the news here on REAL America's Voice that we now know. There were 275, almost 300 FBI agents in the crowd on January six, including the one who very famously broke the window in the Capitol. That was an FBI resource asset agent, I'm not really sure, but an FBI asset nonetheless. Unbelievable. But this stuff is unraveling. Let's bring in David Brody, who's on location today in Virginia and joining us. And David, your, your response to this? It feels like less. When I first heard the indictment, I thought like, well, they're just checking a box. But you know what? This now feels like more like the first card in a house of cards that might start to fall. That's the way it's starting to look a little bit more upon reflection, for me.
David Brody
Yeah. Paging John Bolton. Paging James Clapper. They're taking note of what happened to Jim Comey last night, for sure. By the way, we're here in Virginia. We have the AMAC boot camp. It's really exciting. Boot camp here in Purcellville, Virginia, where Patrick Henry College, Dr. G. And I will be hosting American Sunrise from here for the next couple hours. So when it comes to Comey, one of the things that's going to be interesting here is that we think we're assuming it'll be tried in the Eastern district of Virginia, in Alexandria, not the most liberal, excuse me, conservative place in the union. As a matter of fact, I'm being very facetious, so we'll see exactly how that runs. And of course, you know, Jake, that in a grand jury, you just need a majority of the folks there to say that there is probable cause rather than a unanimous verdict. So. So there's obviously a much higher threshold. We'll see. It feels like a slam dunk. I mean, there's the tape of Grassley in 2017 asking Jim Comey if he's ever been an anonymous source or. Or anything of that nature, especially as it relates to Andrew McCabe and what he did with CNN or I should. CNN, I believe it's the New York Times. Excuse me. So there's that tape, and then we have Ted Cruz, I mean, the doubling down in September of 2020, literally asking James Comey, hey, just double checking here. You said never. You were never an anonymous source.
David Zier
Is that correct?
David Brody
He's like, I'm standing by that. So. So I mean, it's kind of a double, double situation there with James Comey. What's going to happen? I don't know. I am a little concerned, I'll be honest with you, for the future here. What I mean by that is that what happens when there's a Democrat president, what happens when there's obviously a Democrat attorney general and is payback coming? We're not going to have to answer that question now. We may have to answer it. Hopefully not in four years. We may have to answer in eight or 12. But you wonder if this is a slippery slope that we're going down. Now, don't get me wrong. Do I think James Comey, obviously, regarding the charges that are coming against him, I think they're warranted, for sure. I'm just concerned that the narrative out there is retribution.
Jake Novak
Right.
David Brody
The media always talking about retribution. Well, and the Democrats clearly believe that. So if that's the case, once they're in power. Are we going down the retribution rabbit hole, if you will. And if that's the case, that might not be good for America.
Jake Novak
Yeah, well, good point about the slippery slip. It's just that we're already at the bottom of it. They spent the last four years already doing what we're fearing for.
David Brody
But are we, Jake? But, but, but that's the question you wonder if we are are at the bottom of it.
Jake Novak
Well, again, that's going to be something that the future or the current Republican candidates are going to end and members of Congress and things like that are going to have to be careful with. They, they're going to be very, they're going to need to do a very good job of dotting their eyes and crossing their T's on these kinds of things. And maybe that would be a good thing in some ways. Be nice if they were a little bit more careful because there's plenty of corruption to go around. But this is a very obviously a very historic day in America and you're gonna be covering it a lot and that's gonna be really interesting at the AMAC event that you're there, you and Dr. G. So again, everyone stick with us the next two hours, all day. You really gotta stay with us all day. President Trump coming out here to Long island as well. American Sunrise Early Edition will be back on Monday and I'll see you in the 9am hour on American Sunrise.
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This episode dives into urgent breaking news stories from the American political landscape on a busy Friday morning. The central theme is the historic indictment of former FBI Director James Comey on charges of lying to Congress and obstruction of justice. Host Jake Novak frames the indictment as a watershed moment, exploring both the evidence and the political implications. The episode also covers President Trump’s high-profile visit to Long Island for the Ryder Cup, the heated New Jersey governor’s race, the ongoing government shutdown standoff, and new revelations about government and DOJ activities. Invited commentators and correspondents provide diverse analysis, with notable segments devoted to Biden family corruption allegations, agency misconduct, and the media's role in these unfolding stories.
“We will not live on our knees. And you shouldn’t either … I’m innocent, so let’s have a trial and keep the faith.”
— James Comey (as paraphrased and quoted by Jake Novak at 06:56)
Jake Novak frames Comey’s statement as an “almost admission” of guilt (07:28), observing that Comey only claims innocence as an afterthought.
“His priority is fighting President Trump. He’s making that clear. … If you’re an FBI profiler, … he basically almost admitted his guilt right there in that soundbite. … It sounds like he’s trying to say he’s innocent, but he throws it in there at the very end, you see what his priorities are.”
— Jake Novak (08:05)
The conversation includes speculation on whether Comey’s indictment could be “the first domino” in a larger accountability process for government officials (54:55).
Correspondent Coverage:
“He always turns lemons into lemonade in New York and he has triumphant visits here.”
— David Zier (11:25)
The Ryder Cup is contextualized as an “America First” stage, with Trump supporting the US Team and the event bringing economic excitement to the area.
The episode highlights an impending government shutdown, with the Trump administration refusing to concede to Democrat demands and positioning the shutdown as a tool for identifying “non-essential” jobs to eliminate (03:05, 36:24).
Jake Novak frames the shutdown not as a routine standoff but as a bold leveraging of government structure and priorities.
Scandals Emerge:
“Why run if you don’t even have any policy or any ideas to make the lives of New Jersey’s people better? Then what is the point of this campaign?”
— Emily Finn (22:39)
Claims & Timeline:
“I was an eyewitness to Joe Biden’s crimes. They didn’t want that. They were shielding Joe Biden … There’s four months left to indict Joe Biden for crimes he committed as Vice President.”
— Mike McCormick (39:29–41:22)
Broader Implications:
David Brody Adds Perspective (from 56:24):
“You wonder if this is a slippery slope that we’re going down. … Do I think James Comey … charges … are warranted? For sure. I’m just concerned that the narrative … is retribution.”
— David Brody (58:25)
On Comey’s Priorities and Statement:
“Notice how he waits to the very end to say that he’s innocent. His priority is fighting President Trump. He’s making that clear. … That was almost like an admission from Comey.”
— Jake Novak (08:05)
On Political Cycles of Retribution:
“You wonder if this is a slippery slope that we’re going down. … The narrative out there is retribution.”
— David Brody (58:25)
On Media and Information Suppression:
“It’s amazing how much this has been suppressed from the American public … millions … don’t even know any of these allegations.”
— Jake Novak to Mike McCormick (46:32)
| Timestamp | Segment Description | |-----------|--------------------| | 02:38 | Jake Novak announces breaking news: indictment of James Comey | | 05:13 | Playback & analysis of Comey 2017 Senate testimony | | 06:56 | Airing/analysis of Comey’s public response to indictment | | 09:09 | Live report from David Zier on Trump’s Ryder Cup visit | | 12:36 | Discussion: Impact of Ryder Cup for Trump and NY area | | 18:21 | Political analysis: New Jersey governor’s race, Mikie Sherrill scandal | | 27:38 | Economic/market update and Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack | | 36:24 | Recap of main stories and the Comey case | | 39:26 | In-depth interview: Mike McCormick on Biden Ukraine ties | | 56:24 | David Brody joins for analysis of Comey indictment impact | | 58:25 | Discussion on political retribution and future governance |
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