00:00:00.000Today on the Charlie Kirk show, James Comer, who is the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, walks us through the pending investigations and what he hopes to accomplish.
00:00:09.000And we remember Andrew Breitbart, an incredibly important segment.
00:00:13.000If you don't know who Andrew Breitbart is, you got to listen to it.
00:00:45.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:52.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:21.000Maybe you could tell us if it's true or not.
00:01:22.000House GOP game plan, investigate everything.
00:01:26.000What's the truth, Representative Comer?
00:01:28.000The truth is we're going to focus on waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in the federal government.
00:01:33.000We'll probably have somewhere around 40 or 50 investigations.
00:01:37.000If you investigated everything, that would be a million things.
00:01:40.000And Axios was being, you know, their typical smart elect self in that headline.
00:01:46.000But at the end of the day, we are going to provide oversight for this administration and the mainstream media and the officials in the Biden administration are just going to have to get used to the fact that the voters spoke and there's a change of guard in Washington, D.C.
00:02:01.000So no longer will Congress be turning a blind eye to scandals, to wasteful spending, unnecessary spending.
00:02:38.000And in fact, I just have to, I have subpoena authority.
00:02:41.000The chairman of the oversight committee has complete subpoena authority.
00:02:45.000Obviously, we have to get the counsel for the speaker's office to sign on to it because they'll be representing us in court if the receiver of the subpoena refuses to comply with the subpoena.
00:02:57.000But what we're doing is checking the boxes to have a successful subpoena.
00:03:02.000If you subpoena someone and they refuse to comply, then it goes to court.
00:03:08.000You have to show good faith effort to get that information or that person to come forward.
00:03:15.000We've already put deadlines on certain officials requesting certain information.
00:03:21.000Just about all of them have missed that deadline.
00:03:25.000We'll re-request it and then they'll start receiving subpoenas if they don't comply with those requests.
00:03:30.000I know this might be too many hypotheticals and I don't want to put you in a spot where it's all speculative, but we did deal with this with Eric Holder and we did deal with this with Lois Lerner.
00:03:40.000Do you think that the committee has the desire, not the desire, but the willingness to potentially use contempt of Congress?
00:03:49.000I'm only saying that because we know how these willpower is what I'm really thinking for.
00:03:53.000We know how these people operate and they did it to a lot of people in the last Congress.
00:05:02.000So one of my fears, Representative Comer, and maybe you can alleviate me of this concern, is that there's almost too much to investigate, that it would be spread too thin.
00:05:12.000I'm sure you've heard this piece of feedback before.
00:05:24.000And that's really when you're able to do most of your work.
00:05:26.000And they're going to try to stretch out.
00:05:28.000And then you have debt ceiling fights and you have foreign policy stuff and you've got things happening in the skiff and you have the weaponization of government.
00:05:35.000So what can you say to our audience that might be concerned?
00:05:38.000There's almost too much to investigate.
00:05:42.000We have a really top-notch staff, a lot of really good lawyers, former DOJ officials.
00:05:50.000I mean, we've got the experts that want to do the right thing.
00:05:54.000We're sending, we're going to send people to the border to do depositions with Border Patrol agents in our investigation of wrongdoing with Mayorkas.
00:06:02.000So we're actually going to send our staff down there to make it easier to where people can do depositions on potential wrongdoing with the Homeland Security Cabinet.
00:06:39.000We're going to do whatever is easiest to get the information as quickly as possible.
00:06:42.000So fortunately, in addition to having a great committee that meets, as you say, we've got about 100 more dates set to meet this year.
00:06:50.000We also have a very large staff that wants to do the right thing.
00:06:55.000They can all probably make money in the private sector more, and they probably will be in the private sector very soon, but they have something to prove.
00:07:01.000And I think we're going to be hopefully very successful in our quest for the truth.
00:07:06.000There's some breaking news from just the news in the last couple of hours, couple days.
00:07:10.000Former Rosemont Seneca businessman, Eric Schwerin, is going to be a very valuable witness, you say, and he's cooperating with the committee.
00:07:51.000All of these people are going to have to come forward at some point.
00:07:54.000They're either going to have to sit down for a transcribed interview or they're going to be subpoenaed to do a deposition and or have to sit in front of the committee and answer questions in front of the American people.
00:08:05.000But either way, even if they come in for a deposition or interview, because of what the January 6th committee did, people will be able to see this now because they recorded all those depositions.
00:08:20.000He's critical because he's the one, if you'll remember the email that was on the laptop where he Sherwin emailed Hunter Biden and said, This is why Joe Biden is vice president.
00:08:32.000He said, Your dad's Delaware tax return has come in the mail today.
00:08:37.000I'm going to deposit it into his account at the time he's vice president of the United States and then turn around and write a check from Joe Biden to you.
00:08:46.000So he definitely had access to Joe Biden's personal checking account.
00:08:52.000And one of the questions that we're trying to answer: were all these accounts that were flagged by the banks, were they commingled accounts with Joe Biden?
00:09:00.000Because at the end of the day, our investigation is of Joe Biden.
00:09:19.000Did he benefit personally from all these shady business dealings that his family did?
00:09:23.000Sherwin can be, he has the ability to answer a lot of those questions because he was in charge of both accounts for Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, as witnessed in the emails.
00:09:35.000Representative Comer, there's so much to get into.
00:09:38.000And I'm really glad you guys are focused on your committee.
00:09:41.000You have some great committee members as well.
00:09:43.000And, you know, the fourth branch of government, the intel agencies, the FBI, the CIA, the Department of Justice, all of them, they're going to do everything they possibly can to try and prevent you from getting to the truth.
00:09:57.000Do you or someone you know need to relocate, upsize, or downsize your current home?
00:10:01.000I cannot say enough good things about Andrew Del Rey and Todd Avakian.
00:11:56.000And yes, the State Department, where they technically, because we have a constitution, are not able to censor people like Charlie Kirk, but they can fund groups that censor us.
00:12:07.000Well, anything that pertains to tax dollars is fair game for the House Oversight Committee.
00:12:12.000And what we learned, first of all, if you go back to Zuckerberg, the interview he did, and then with our committee hearing with Twitter executives, is the federal government was funding outside groups.
00:12:25.000The FBI had the group that no one knew about that censored conservatives on social media.
00:12:33.000I know the White House is funding an outside group to attack me and Jim Jordan every day for having the audacity to investigate this white.
00:13:01.000We don't know who's funding the, we don't know who's funding the Congressional Integrity Project.
00:13:05.000But with respect to what we've seen with the Twitter files, is the FBI was telling Twitter stories that should be suppressed, people they should consider to suppress.
00:13:17.000They were being very careful, just like those 51 former intelligence officials.
00:13:21.000They didn't say the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation.
00:13:25.000They said, boy, that sure looks like Russian disinformation.
00:13:29.000So they were using social media to do what the government thinks.
00:13:53.000We're exploring that too, because the government shouldn't be allowed to shut up its own citizens.
00:13:56.000Just kind of a basic constitutional promise.
00:13:59.000So you have, we've talked about several topics, the Biden stuff.
00:14:05.000Is there any hesitation that you have that too much emphasis on Biden could either get categorized as overly political or just it might not be the best use of time?
00:14:15.000Because we haven't even talked about the CDC, the FDA.
00:14:19.000So explain that, your calculus here, because as the leader of the oversight committee, you got to prioritize.
00:14:28.000I know we talked about this a little bit earlier, but walk us through your thoughts on that.
00:14:50.000The Department of Energy came out and said, yeah, yeah, you know what?
00:14:53.000We decided the COVID originated in the Wuhan lab.
00:14:56.000They knew we would get this information out.
00:14:58.000Just the sheer fact that we've got the gavel, we have subpoena power, we've identified people to bring in to talk to, then, you know, answers are starting to come out of this government.
00:15:12.000We had done the background work for a long time and identified 40 individuals who had anything to do with funding gain of function research and different things that were going to the Wuhan lab.
00:15:24.000Once we subpoenaed the Twitter people, they came out and said, yeah, you know what?
00:15:29.000We know the laptop's real, which is important because forever the narrative was that the laptop was Russian disinformation and that Republicans had altered the contents to try to embarrass Joe Biden.
00:15:41.000Now we know that that laptop's real and it hasn't been tampered with.
00:16:05.000There's so much, as you mentioned, to investigate.
00:16:07.000If it's something that I think the financial services can do related to the Securities and Exchange Commission, then I'm calling up McHenry at Financial Services.
00:16:16.000If it's something that I think that G.G. Thompson can do at the Agriculture Committee for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, we're doing that.
00:16:25.000So we're delegating a lot of things to other committees.
00:16:29.000We're making every committee focus at some point on oversight of this administration.
00:16:35.000Representative Comer, keep up the great work.
00:16:38.000Thank you for being so generous with your time.
00:16:45.000And if I were to say one thing, focus more on the fourth branch of government than even on Biden, because that's going to long outlive him.
00:16:53.000And I know you believe that the Leviathan is the greatest threat to our liberties.
00:16:57.000God bless you for your courage, and you're welcome back anytime.
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00:21:02.000It is a collective effort, a group effort to remember Andrew because he deserves that.
00:21:08.000It's so much more than I can do by myself.
00:21:11.000And luckily, there's so many people on board with this.
00:21:14.000Just last year for the 10th anniversary of his passing, we put together a tribute of dozens and dozens of the top conservatives lending their voice to share what Andrew meant to them.
00:21:24.000And it really is a who's who of the conservative movement.
00:21:26.000I've never seen such an assemblage of top conservatives do one sort of dedicated task.
00:21:31.000It's at the front page of Breitbart.com.
00:22:36.000The first, I was taking LSAT classes and basically working part-time picking up Andrew's laundry until James O'Keefe walked in with his acorn case, games' first big scoop.
00:22:47.000And then all of a sudden, I was leaving the LSAT classes to go put up stores.
00:22:51.000And Acorn, we're taking down one of the biggest organizations ever without the New York Times, without the Washington Post.
00:22:57.000Thankfully, Fox is on board a little bit, but it was the, there was no CNN coverage.
00:23:01.000And then unless they were attacking Andrew, and we took out this leviathan of a left-wing group directly connected to Obama.
00:23:08.000And we were doing it, you know, from our laptops outside of our LSAC classes.
00:23:11.000And it was just, and Andrew marshaled the whole thing beautifully.
00:23:14.000He didn't just take out Acorn, he took out the media.
00:23:17.000And that started my career and James's at the same time.
00:23:21.000And that's just one example, just one example of the million.
00:23:24.000The movie Hating Breitbart is a really good film.
00:23:47.000And I just want everyone to understand the framework, the mentality, the energy, and the spirit that is just dominant now on the right was so minuscule.
00:24:04.000This language was not anywhere in the conservative movement till Andrew came along, right, Alex?
00:24:10.000Yeah, he was really the only people he would ever call to resign or anything like that were always disappointing Republicans.
00:24:16.000It was never, it was never that he understood the left was a collective.
00:24:21.000And the only people who really got like individual attention through him on the left were the people who were the major power brokers and the funders.
00:24:27.000He was really George Soros, John Podesta, the type of people who were.
00:24:36.000Yeah, no, no, he wanted to do a big Podesta, and he called that one so right because that guy's been just such a cockroach in the sense that he keeps surviving.
00:24:45.000It's the, he's in so many scandals, his families had scandals, and then Hillary makes him campaign manager, and then he loses that, and which he, you know, never should have lost that race, and he lost it.
00:24:56.000And then he gets revived again by Joe Biden, who's given him hundreds of billions of dollars to spend on climate.
00:25:23.000He literally, Andrew Breitbart, years after his death, directly impacted the 2016 election.
00:25:29.000You've heard me talk about that before.
00:25:30.000It's one of the most amazing stories about how James Comey comes out, does a press release and says, oh, we found some stuff on the laptop.
00:25:37.000Literally, but remember, it wasn't whose laptop was it?
00:25:42.000And the only reason they found stuff on it is because Weiner was married to Huma Abedin, who was friends with Hillary Clinton.
00:25:49.000But that kind of whole cabal, and that was only the case because Andrew Breitbart was able to successfully get Andrew Anthony Weiner exposed, no pun intended, and get him to resign.
00:26:00.000It's all that kind of cause set in motion years before.
00:26:03.000I want to play a piece of tape here of Andrew, just kind of his attitude.
00:26:07.000You know, he, again, I feel like I know him, even though I never met him.
00:26:23.000You are, this is why the American people, a great amount, pulling, this is why so many people can't stand the mainstream media and why there's a hardcore animosity towards the media that is pretty much commensurate or equivalent to the animosity towards Congress.
00:26:47.000Alex, everything he talks, he could be saying that today.
00:26:52.000That's the thing about Andrew, which blows my mind.
00:26:55.000And I was just, you know, it's still thinking about his memory still brings a tear to my eye sometimes because so often do I hear his words ringing when I'm looking at the current news cycle, when I'm looking at the current heroes and villains of our movement, who's really making things happen on our side and who's really making things happen on the left, the bad guys.
00:27:14.000And Andrew's words were always so prescient.
00:27:17.000He really understood that the cultural battles were the biggest.
00:27:20.000He understood that the media has to be the target number one for the conservative movement, figuratively speaking, for you Soros-funded freaks who are monitoring the show, figuratively, when I say target.
00:27:31.000But He understood where the movement needed to go, but also the tactics.
00:27:37.000And this is what I'm most obsessed with: is that understanding, empowering guerrilla journalists, empowering citizen journalists, rejecting the establishment media, and doing so proudly.
00:27:53.000And also, just one of the things Andrew did, though, and that video reminds me: this kind of street vibe that I'm going to meet you in the streets.
00:28:01.000I'm going to talk to you wherever you are.
00:28:04.000Like right after this, Alex, I'm going to Santa Barbara, University of California, Santa Barbara, setting up a card table and talking for kids for a couple hours.
00:28:10.000I'm largely inspired by that kind of bravado, that kind of gusto of Breitbart.
00:28:27.000It won't be common really ever the way Andrew did it.
00:28:31.000If you were at CPAC and let's say the top 100 conservatives are there, you know, most of them either won't mingle with the people or they'll have security around them.
00:28:39.000Andrew would walk through, sit at the bar and hold court and talk to anyone for hours and hours and hours.
00:28:47.000At the height of his powers, he'd do it.
00:28:49.000And literally, it would be, you know, Tea Party grandma from Ohio on the right, New York Times reporter on the left, and just, you know, a blogger behind him.
00:30:29.000Andrew, James brought Andrew these tapes.
00:30:31.000Andrew came up with a drip, drip, drip approach.
00:30:33.000He trapped the media into ignoring it.
00:30:35.000And then when Andrew defunded it, de-linked them from the census.
00:30:42.000Yeah, so it is the, so, so they got defunded.
00:30:45.000They got de-linked from the census, all because Andrew not only trapped Acorn with James's incredible reporting with these tapes where he opposes a pimp and a prostitute with a woman named Hannah Giles, who's a journalist, and he got them to actually commit to give money for a child sex trafficking ring, even though it was a fake thing.
00:31:04.000And all but one Acorn, he went to like eight locations and all but one location said they were willing to help James get the money and set up the business and then funnel it back into a fake hoax congressional campaign that James was going to run once his child sex ring opened up.
00:31:19.000And all these Acorn groups helped James do it.
00:32:45.000That was in Rosemont, actually, Illinois, or Schomburg.
00:32:48.000And then this is the other thing that I want to just focus on the last couple of minutes we have here is Andrew was a legitimate intellectual.
00:33:16.000I see what exactly happened in this country.
00:33:20.000The Frankfurt School, these guys left.
00:33:23.000These guys left Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy to come to California in the 1940s and they lived by the beach and they were depressed by the relentless cheeriness, the productivity, and the capitalism that they witnessed around them.
00:33:40.000And they came up with a, they came up with at the end of the day, we could call it cultural Marxism, but at the end of the day, we experience it on a day-to-day basis.
00:33:51.000And by that, I mean a minute-by-minute, second-by-second basis.
00:33:56.000It's political correctness and it's multiculturalism.
00:33:59.000Alex, he understood what we were up against.
00:34:02.000Yeah, he's got a book called Righteous Indignation that thankfully wrote that before he passed.
00:34:06.000And chapter six is all about this stuff, the Frankfurt School and all of those people, Theodore Dorno and Marcusa, coming to Berkeley and Santa Monica and trying to ruin our country and their legacy endures.
00:34:17.000And Andrew was the first to flag that one.
00:34:20.000And he was also, he used to be on the left, wasn't he?
00:34:27.000Well, but he was just a factory setting default liberal.
00:34:31.000I think he basically was, when you grow up in LA and you like partying and music and girls and drinking and stuff like that, then you're going to be that way until he started to listen to Rush Limbaugh.
00:34:41.000And he started to, he paid attention to the high-tech lynching of Clarence Thomas by Joe Biden in the Senate in the Senate confirmation for a Supreme Court seat.
00:34:50.000Those things were what informed Andrew and made him a conservative.
00:34:53.000Alex Marlow from Breitbart.com, 11 years ago, we got some tragic news, but 11 years later, his legacy is not just alive and well, it is flourishing, it's thriving.
00:35:02.000And in that spirit, I'm going to Santa Barbara to go challenge these apparatches.