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00:01:06.000We're going to talk about a variety of topics, some of the big wins from Judicial Watch, including Los Angeles County confirming removal of 1.2 million ineligible voters from part of a lawsuit.
00:01:19.000But we are going to lead with the Project Veritas story.
00:01:24.000Well, James O'Keefe last evening posted a picture on his social media of just what kind of seemed to be a brainstorming session.
00:01:31.000James O'Keefe was in jeans and a jacket, hat backwards and a big whiteboard, joking around, it looks like, with his team in a good way, favorable.
00:01:40.000That he's still creating, that he seems like he's planning his next moves.
00:01:45.000Look, the left would love nothing more than to take James O'Keefe out of the game.
00:01:52.000They would love nothing more than to try to make James O'Keefe no longer a threat.
00:02:01.000You see, James O'Keefe has successfully been able to land more shots on target than anybody else in the conservative movement, maybe except Donald Trump in the last decade.
00:02:14.000James O'Keefe tweeted out, those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who actually do.
00:02:19.000In a war room at midnight with a few happy warriors making moves, James O'Keefe looks to be in great spirits.
00:02:26.000However, I don't think we should turn our back on the idea of James O'Keefe having a rightful, having a right to still be involved in Project Veritas, not just involved, it's his organization.
00:02:56.000They say it's because of $150,000 in black cars, which are business expenses.
00:03:00.000We went through that whole thing in great depth and great detail, and I thought it was rather persuasive against the board's contention that this was wasting of money.
00:03:11.000And joining us now is another hero who is friends with James O'Keefe, who I know has strong opinions about this.
00:03:17.000Tom Fitton is with us from Judicial Wash.
00:03:47.000I haven't seen anything that the board has released to suggest the kind of extraordinary action that they took was warranted, especially given the risk to the company.
00:04:00.000So if I were them, I'd try to walk it back as quickly as I can and resolve the issues they have with James so they can get back to work.
00:04:10.000How important is James O'Keefe to the movement?
00:04:15.000Well, you know, I think he has this entrepreneurial spirit and an approach that it's hard to clone.
00:04:23.000And so he has a unique approach that was pursued through Project Veritas.
00:04:31.000And, you know, I think he'll land on his feet no matter what happens.
00:04:35.000But, you know, there are these leaders in our movement and in the nation that, you know, we shouldn't cast aside easily.
00:04:45.000And I don't think that's going to happen with James.
00:05:03.000It's a few years ago now to get LA County and generally California to get back on track in terms of ensuring that they're taking reasonable steps to clean up the voter rolls, which is required under federal law, the National Voter Registration Act.
00:05:19.000And it looked like to us, and I think they admitted to this, that they hadn't cleaned their roles in 20 years under some sort of consent decree they had back to the Clinton administration.
00:05:33.000So long story short is they settled with us and it was a remarkable settlement to their credit.
00:05:38.000They committed to over time cleaning up the roles specifically in Los Angeles County.
00:05:46.000And they finally reported back to us the results of that work that took years.
00:05:51.000I think it should have been done more quickly, but you know, it was a settlement, so that's life.
00:05:57.000And they confirmed 1.2 million names were removed.
00:06:00.000Half of those names, it looks like Charlie had been on the rolls and hadn't done anything, meaning been inactive for at least 10 years.
00:06:09.000So this is a remarkable development for cleaner elections in California, because it doesn't mean that, you know, if there's an inactive voter sitting on the rolls, it doesn't mean they're voting illegally.
00:06:21.000Obviously, if they vote, they become active, but it's kind of a pool of names from which fraudsters can draw.
00:06:28.000So if someone moves away, then that's a name potentially that can be easily taken up and then voted on.
00:06:35.000And so by, and that's why you have these rules requiring them to take reasonable steps to clean up the rolls.
00:06:40.000So we've got 1.2 million taken off the rolls in California.
00:06:44.000This happened looks like over the last year.
00:06:46.000So they waited to the last minute in terms of the settlement.
00:06:50.000And then, you know, separately, we had a lawsuit against New York City that resulted in a settlement that happened after they removed 440,000 names from the rolls.
00:07:01.000And just before that, North Carolina, we stopped our lawsuit after they removed after we sued 430,000 names, I think.
00:07:12.000So we're just talking 2 million names in the last year have been cleaned up as a result of litigation by one group, Judicial Watch.
00:07:20.000By the way, litigation that in the ordinary course should have been and still should be pursued by an honest justice department, but they don't care.
00:07:29.000They want the roles to be dirty, in my view.
00:07:31.000The left is there so their political allies can steal elections if necessary.
00:07:36.000And that's not something that we countenance.
00:07:38.000So is there any evidence that these names that will now be removed, removed from the voter rolls received mail-in ballots?
00:08:23.000I mean, that's or they can just get their, you know, someone can just send a name, you know, send a request in their name.
00:08:31.000So that's the risk that's now alleviated and mitigated as a result of their names being removed.
00:08:37.000So this is just one of several areas across the country where this is a major concern.
00:08:43.000How many, if you were to speculate, millions of ineligible voters are still on voter rolls, let's just say in the key states, Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin?
00:08:54.000Well, we have litigation ongoing in Pennsylvania.
00:09:13.000It's a significant, it's a significant number.
00:09:16.000You know, in New York, for instance, they didn't remove people from the rolls for five, six years.
00:09:23.000So, but thanks to our work, states are being more careful.
00:09:28.000And I think the story here is that Judicial Watch settled with California and Los Angeles County and New York City.
00:09:37.000You know, it's not exactly the types of jurisdictions that one would think that Judicial Watch would be able to easily settle with on this sensitive topic.
00:10:48.000And it's an astonishing amount of names that were deleted over the last year or removed, as I say, should have probably been done a decade or more ago.
00:10:59.000So it's pursuant to a court process and a federal court settlement.
00:11:18.000Yeah, I mean, this is one of, I think, a few lawsuits that have been spawned as a result of the Twitter files release.
00:11:25.000And I think the specific one you're referencing, it looks like these NGOs, these non-governmental organizations and government entities were essentially engaging in censorship activities, targeting countless Americans on what is the equivalent of a Slack channel.
00:11:44.000I don't use Slack, but sort of a casual approach to censorship.
00:11:54.000unless they tell us they don't comply with the law.
00:11:58.000So the Department of Homeland Security, rather than disclose information about their censorship activities, is hiding these records in violation of the FOIA law.
00:12:10.000And I'm sorry, but when you break the law, especially on sensitive topics like this, in terms of secrecy, it suggests to me, and I think to most fair-minded people, that there's something they don't want us to see.
00:12:21.000Yeah, and I just want to remind our audience, because this was a story we covered rather extensively a couple months ago.
00:12:27.000The government, thanks to the United States Constitution, the Founding Fathers put rules for what the government cannot do.
00:12:35.000They don't always follow those rules, but to get creative, they outsourced their censorship to other companies because private companies are not bound by the Bill of Rights.
00:12:47.000They can basically do whatever they want.
00:12:49.000And so, but is that still the case, Tom?
00:12:53.000There has to be some constitutional precedent, maybe not, of a government agency outsourcing the behavior that they themselves could not do.
00:13:05.000The equivalent would be asking telecom companies after 9-11 to listen in on Muslims' phone calls, right?
00:13:13.000Just something that would have gotten the liberal media upset.
00:13:21.000Well, you're highlighting the illegality of it and the unconstitutional nature of it.
00:13:25.000The government can't do, you know, through a cutout something that they're prohibited under law from doing directly.
00:13:33.000And we know in California, for instance, speaking of which, the Secretary of State's office in 2020 was, as, you know, as now has been widely disclosed, but we had uncovered it first, was working through these big tech companies to take down material they didn't like related to election controversies.
00:13:52.000And one of those, you know, D.C. Draino, the internet influencer.
00:14:04.000They took down a video of mine for Judicial Watch talking about the concerns I had about mail-in voting and the dirty voting rolls in California and such.
00:14:15.000So we sued under the Constitution civil rights lawsuit, this California Secretary of State for that very issue, that they were violating our civil rights by getting YouTube to take this video down of ours.
00:14:42.000And Tom, thank you for fighting the fight for me because I was explicitly put on a do not amplify list by Twitter.
00:14:50.000And I do know the Department of Homeland Security had me on a very long report.
00:14:55.000And so reasonable minds can say, hey, one plus two should equal three, right?
00:15:02.000And so, Tom, any closing thoughts on this?
00:15:05.000Well, you have potential civil rights claims.
00:15:08.000I'm not a lawyer, but certainly any lawyer will look at that and wonder if there was a connection and whether it's worth pursuing via litigation.
00:15:16.000In the least, Congress has got to step in because the Biden administration hasn't stopped doing anything that we're concerned about here.
00:15:25.000Maybe Twitter's ratcheted things back, but it hasn't stopped over at Facebook and Google.
00:15:32.000They think they're able to do what we all object to.
00:15:35.000So Congress has got to step in and target those who committed these illicit acts and be explicit as to prohibiting it from happening anymore.
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00:18:40.000So let's, I want to get into the specific news from the House Oversight Committee, but let's just, I want to get a bigger picture kind of answer from you.
00:18:54.000Talk about how this Congress is currently contrasting with the one that just ended.
00:19:00.000Well, look, I got to tell you, this Congress has actually moved faster and done more things than even I anticipated.
00:19:06.000I mean, I was hopeful is what I wanted to see happen, but we've been moving at breakneck speed.
00:19:13.000Obviously, everybody pays attention to oversight and judiciary, but even in the other committees, homeland, you know, agriculture, natural resources, my other committee, financial services, we're all moving at warp speed.
00:19:28.000You know, on financial services, I'm on the ESG task force appointed by Chairman McHenry on that task force.
00:19:35.000I mean, we're really looking into everything.
00:19:38.000And so, you know, that really has me optimistic.
00:19:41.000The second part is, you know, the members want to do the work.
00:19:45.000You know, the members are excited about being in the majority.
00:19:48.000They want to hold this administration accountable, just like everybody watching your show and people who listen to shows and are activists, patriots, conservatives, people who just want to see the country back on track.
00:20:01.000But this crop of Republicans is committed to that work.
00:20:03.000So it's not been a thing where you have members saying, ooh, maybe we shouldn't go here.
00:20:07.000Ooh, maybe we should stay away from that.
00:20:09.000What's the New York Times going to say?
00:20:22.000So I want to get into one of the specific stories here that really caught my eye.
00:20:26.000Key Hunter Biden Associate is now cooperating with Congress, opening a crucial window into Joe Biden's dealings.
00:20:33.000Can you tell us who this person is, Eric Schwerin?
00:20:38.000Is he testifying mostly privately right now?
00:20:40.000What's the strategy and why is this important?
00:20:43.000Well, you know, what he's doing right now, these are private testimonies, private questioning, really going through all of his accounts.
00:20:51.000And then, you know, you may or may not see him in a public hearing.
00:20:55.000You know, that still remains to be seen.
00:20:57.000But Mr. Schwarren, he was in the investment business.
00:21:00.000He was a business dealer that did work with Hunter Biden for some time.
00:21:05.000And so he has key information about what not just Hunter.
00:21:09.000And I think the person who gets left out is Jim Biden, Joe Biden's brother, who's also a very key part of all of this stuff and what the Biden family dealings are.
00:21:19.000And frankly, how their entire business apparatus is about selling influence from one Joe Biden.
00:21:26.000And so the reason why this is such a focal point for us is because Joe Biden is making decisions, not just domestically, but internationally every single day right now based on compromise deals he might have made previously.
00:21:41.000And so, you know, the guys on the other networks are all like, you're just trying to play got you.
00:21:45.000There's nothing got you with that with business deals for your family with the Chinese and other countries when the guy sitting in the White House is also making said deals.
00:21:54.000And we want to make sure that he's not compromised.
00:21:56.000That seems to be a very simple one that requires oversight.
00:22:08.000He's a sloppy person, obviously, leaving laptops and stuff.
00:22:11.000But I'm worried that you might be wasting valuable time, not wasting, using valuable time just going after the Biden associates to only find things that we probably already know and reconfirm suspicions we already have.
00:22:28.000Can you alleviate my concern that you think this is the best use of the time of multiple things for the House Oversight Committee?
00:22:35.000Well, one thing is that this is not the only thing House Oversight is doing.
00:22:38.000I mean, we already started stuff dealing with Twitter and the social media companies.
00:22:42.000We're not going to let go of the rope on that with respect to not just the FBI, but other elements of the government suppressing free speech.
00:22:52.000We have another hearing on Afghanistan that's coming up in a couple of weeks.
00:22:55.000Like there's other things we're doing well.
00:22:56.000But the reason why it's important to get the foundation right is that if you're ever going to make the critical ties to Joe Biden, it can't just be a rush to judgment.
00:23:09.000Think that where the Democrats' oversight attempts were just completely ridiculous, that everything was about Donald Trump.
00:23:17.000And they tried moving heaven and earth to criminalize the man.
00:23:21.000And so much so that they never laid a foundation for why you were even looking in that direction.
00:23:26.000And so, you know, if you look at the chain of evidence, it's pretty clear.
00:24:02.000Is that factoring that Joe Biden's decisions?
00:24:04.000But then let's go to the Asian theater.
00:24:06.000As the Chinese Communist Party decides to get more aggressive, is any of our decision not to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon, did it factor into Joe Biden's calculus that they might, A, have the goods on Joe and his family, or B, that he looked at that as some sort of like, hey, I don't want to upset the gravy train or the ATM.
00:25:17.000To build, to make electric batteries, you need cobalt, lithium, rare earth, nickel, a couple other key critical minerals.
00:25:25.000Joe Biden's administration is against mining for any of that in the United States, or frankly, getting or sourcing that stuff from allied countries of others.
00:25:34.000Meanwhile, the Chinese are dominating the critical minerals environment.
00:25:39.000Hunter Biden and Jim Biden helped facilitate some of those mining deals to Chinese companies.
00:25:45.000And one of the centerpieces of Joe Biden's administration is electric vehicles for all and all the other.
00:25:52.000But ladies and gentlemen, those batteries, the core piece and components of those batteries come from China.
00:25:57.000It doesn't matter if they're manual, if they're put together in India or Singapore or whatever the case might be.
00:26:03.000The core mineral contents come from China.
00:26:06.000And here's the irony, just so everyone understands.
00:26:08.000So there's massive mineral deposits, for example, in Texas, right?
00:26:12.000That very well could be used and utilized for nickel-cobalt, as you mentioned.
00:26:16.000Do you know the reason they use not to be able to use those rare earth minerals?
00:26:22.000So here they are saying that we need electric cars for the environment, but we're not allowed to explore our own minerals to build the batteries needed in the electric vehicles because the environment is a problem.
00:26:34.000So we'd rather have it happen in China.
00:26:39.000And so this is why it's so mind-boggling.
00:26:41.000But when you bring in the family situation, the business dealings around the globe, the other deals that we don't know about, frankly, that have existed around the globe, and you tie that in with this policy agenda, then it looks incredibly seedy, backhanded, self-dealing, double-dealing from the bottom of the deck, however you want to characterize it.
00:27:23.000Or if it's even going as far as, listen, family members can't be involved in international business transactions with somebody who's a sitting president because, you know. you might have implications on the decision-making process.
00:27:36.000These are things that are critical for the American people to understand and Congress has a responsibility to investigate.
00:27:55.000This deadline is looming a couple of weeks, if I'm not mistaken.
00:27:58.000What do you think the strategy needs to be for House Republicans?
00:28:01.000So this is going to be a tough one because I really think that we might have to take one or two bites at the apple here.
00:28:07.000Some people might want to hear about a short-term deal.
00:28:10.000But the way this is laid out, if you do a debt ceiling deal in June, there might be one or two or a handful of things that you might be able to get.
00:28:18.000But the Democrats are going to want to extend the debt ceiling past the presidential election.
00:28:22.000That's about $2.6 trillion, give and take.
00:28:25.000Well, unless you're getting massive spending reforms, I'm not giving you $2.6 trillion on a debt ceiling.
00:28:32.000In September, we have the omnibus or not the omnibus.
00:28:35.000We have the new budgetary funding for the government that's coming up because that was stupid deal they did in December.
00:28:40.000They stole nine months of Congress from you.
00:28:45.000And so if you try to find a way to combine the two or have debt ceiling go after the spending packages have to get done, it gives House Republicans more leverage.
00:28:54.000By the way, people need to understand the timing of debt ceiling was done on purpose by Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, and Chuck Schumer.
00:29:02.000It was laid this way on purpose so that it had to go first so that it didn't put us in the best position.
00:29:09.000But the thing that they never counted on is that you have House Republicans who mean business.
00:29:13.000And I think that that's what's been indicative these first two months.
00:29:17.000And we're not going to take some sloppy deal or a side deal to just move the debt ceiling along.
00:29:23.000So that's why I think we might get one or two bites at it.
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00:31:33.000And what they're worried about is where are their groups of one or two or four that are coming through while everyone's focused on the immigration processing here.
00:31:43.000Ben, what did you see on the border last evening?
00:31:47.000Well, unfortunately, I saw more of the same, the open borders that Joe Biden and the left and Secretary Marorcus have invited into our country.
00:31:58.000One of those being China, huge numbers from China coming across.
00:32:02.000And in speaking with Matt Gates, Congressman Matt Gates, again, it was an honor to be out there with him last night.
00:32:07.000One of the hardest working congressional representatives we have, one of the biggest fighters we have out there.
00:32:12.000But these huge numbers from China, large numbers still coming from the Middle East, all over.
00:32:17.000And the moral of the story is nothing that the left is doing, nothing that Joe Biden's doing is doing anything to slow down this unprecedented invasion of our country by countries that are hostile to our nation.
00:32:30.000Whether or not the Chinese nationals that are coming in want to get away from the CCP or communism or they're coming as bad actors working for the CCP, then we really don't know that.
00:32:40.000And that's the reason why we have to have a secure border and legal immigration processes, which have just been completely undermined by this current administration.
00:34:18.000And this is simply going into the pockets of the cartels, but it's also going into the pockets of Democrats, socialists, communists, these leftists in America, the NGOs in America, and many of the governments outside of this country.
00:34:30.000And I think the moral of the story of this is, you know, Kamala Harris goes around, does her pretend root cause analysis.
00:34:36.000The moral of the story is the root cause is the left.
00:34:39.000It's communism, it's socialism, it's corruption in all of these countries.
00:34:42.000That's why we're seeing so many Brazilians leave Brazil now to escape Lula.
00:34:46.000That's why we're seeing so many from Peru come.
00:34:48.000Obviously, the Venezuelans and Cubans, but it's all by design to destroy this country from within.