On Tuesday, former Hunter Biden business associate Tony Bobulinski testified in a closed-door hearing before the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees. In his opening statement, which has been made public, Bobulinski explains: “from my direct personal experience and what I have subsequently come to learn, it is clear to me that Joe Biden was "the Brand" being sold by the Biden family. His family's foreign influence peddling operation—from China to Ukraine and elsewhere—sold out to foreign actors who were seeking to gain influence and access to Joe Biden and the United States government. Joe Biden was more than a participant in and beneficiary of his family's business; he was an enabler, despite being buffered by a complex scheme to maintain plausible deniability. The only reason any of these international business transactions took place—with tens of millions of dollars flowing directly to the Biden family—was because Joe Biden was in high office.”
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) referred to his colleague Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) as a “prick” for delaying a vote on a controversial foreign aid bill.
Health officials have identified a case of the bubonic plague in a person residing in Oregon. An investigation concluded the individual was likely infected by a house cat. Meanwhile, evolutionary biologists at Princeton University have found that wolves in Chernobyl—the location of a catastrophic nuclear meltdown in 1986—may have developed a resistance to cancer. So, do mutant Chernobyl wolves make for better pets than house cats? The evidence seems clear.
Dr. EJ Antoni—Economist & Research Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to breakdown January’s inflation report which reveals consumer prices rose 3.1% year-to-year, higher than the 2.9% that economists had forecasted. As a consequence of this month’s inflation report, the Dow Jones Industrial average fell 524.63 points—the Dow’s worst day since March of last year.
On Tuesday, the New York special election to fill former U.S. Representative George Santos’ vacant Congressional seat. Last year, Santos became the sixth congressman in U.S. history to be expelled from the House of Representatives. The House voted 311 to 114 in favor of removing him following numerous allegations of lying about his background and a 23-count indictment that includes allegations he “repeatedly, without authorization” charged donor credit cards—depositing funds into his own bank account. Though, he has not yet been found guilty of any crimes. Republicans currently hold a majority in the House—219 to 212 with 4 vacancies.