00:00:00.000Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to the Great America Show. Great to have you with us.
00:00:05.160The January 6th committee is beginning its hearings, and with them comes a new chapter in the iniquity and evil of the Marxist left in America,
00:00:14.880a continuation of their politics of destruction and deceit.
00:00:19.120There is, of course, the question of whether the committee itself is lawful,
00:00:22.900as Speaker Pelosi ignored the clear requirements of establishing such a committee when she rejected two congressmen selected by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
00:00:33.320Pelosi then appointed two RINO congressmen who are party outcasts, Liz Cheney and Adam Kensinger.
00:00:40.900They are also the only Republicans to vote for creation of that committee, and the Republican National Committee censured them for doing so.
00:00:49.700And there are many questions the committee itself hasn't answered, including why Pelosi has refused to release all video relating to the Trump rally and the Capitol Hill intrusion.
00:01:01.560And, of course, questions about the Capitol's security on January 6th.
00:01:08.220The fear among some Republicans is that the committee's true purpose is to create just a pretext to make a criminal referral against President Trump to the politically corrupt Justice Department.
00:01:21.940That fear is understandable, given that DOJ has been an eager accomplice with the Marxist Dems political persecution of President Trump for the past six years,
00:01:33.160including three years of FBI investigation, almost two years of a special counsel investigation, and two impeachments, all of which produced absolutely nothing.
00:01:47.180We are witness, ladies and gentlemen, to the Democrat Party and the deep state possessed and led by the Marxist left in full assault against a man before, after, and during his term as president.
00:02:02.220With the full complicity of the corporate national media and members of his own party, including some in leadership.
00:02:10.960And with these hearings, the madness goes on, unchecked.
00:02:16.180And, of course, President Trump is still being persecuted by local prosecutors as well.
00:02:21.680The Attorney General of New York, the Manhattan DA's office, and the DA of Fulton County, Georgia, all politically motivated and relentless.
00:02:31.060The power of district attorneys recognized by billionaire leftist George Soros, who's been funding like-minded leftist prosecutors' political ambitions for years.
00:02:42.840In so doing, Politico now credits him with the anti-law and order progressive overhaul of the entire American justice system.
00:02:51.940Breitbart reports the Law Enforcement Defense Fund found that Soros had spent $40 million sponsoring those leftist prosecutors and now can claim to have successfully placed 75 radical leftist prosecutors in office around the country.
00:03:10.320The left is advancing, and police and sheriff departments are struggling to retain and recruit law enforcement officers.
00:03:17.800There's no question that the Marxist left is driving the Biden White House, the radical Dems, and their agenda.
00:03:26.080An agenda and objective authored by former President Barack Obama two presidents ago now.
00:03:33.140The fundamental transformation of America.
00:03:36.660Our guest today has been on the front lines of the battle for the future of America.
00:03:43.520He sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, the Committee on the Budget, and he's ranking member of both the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
00:03:59.860And I have to say, all of those assignments are important and prestigious, and I also must point out, they carry with them a tremendous burden, a tremendous responsibility to the nation, and the senator's workload is extraordinary.
00:04:16.540And certainly, I appreciate all he does for this country.
00:04:21.020Senator Johnson, it's great to have you back with us here on the Great America Show.
00:04:25.600So, I want to start first with the Biden administration and what we're looking at in poll after poll after poll is devastating for this president and for the Democratic Party.
00:04:39.240I'd like your reading on what is happening in this country politically and what you're expecting in November.
00:04:48.740Well, first of all, what we are witnessing is what President Biden talked about fundamentally transforming America.
00:04:55.600Now we see what that fundamental transformation looks like.
00:04:58.720Open borders, a flood of illegal immigrants, 40-year high inflation, record gasoline prices, rising crime, the indoctrination of our children through way too many schools.
00:05:09.800They're fundamentally destroying this country.
00:05:12.060I think what amazes me is that his approval ratings are as high as they are.
00:05:16.460How can any American take a look at this disaster that is Democrat governance, the weakening of America that, quite honestly, tempts tyrants like Putin to invade and take advantage of American weakness, our lack of resolve and invade a country like Ukraine?
00:05:32.240I mean, this is a result of Biden governance, Democrat policies, Democrat governance.
00:05:59.620It is a totalitarian vision as well, and I think it's very clear now to even casual political observers that this is a Democrat party that is now driven by Marxist Dems, and they mean business, as you've suggested.
00:06:20.260I think I remind the audience every once in a while, we've only had this man in the White House for 17 months, and the catalog of destructive policies and initiatives and decisions on the part of this president are stunning.
00:06:35.980One would think that it would take at least a full term to achieve the devastation that he has, but he's done it in 17 months, and we're now expecting on our southern border another 5 to 7 million illegal immigrants to cross that border in the second year of the Biden presidency.
00:07:00.080Well, first of all, your listeners need to understand that radical leftists, which by and large is now the Democrat Party, they are relentless.
00:07:11.980I mean, people that served in the Obama administration are serving the Biden administration.
00:07:16.040They sit, and when they're out of power, they plot for the next moment when they're in power, and they strike immediately.
00:07:22.540They flood the zone, and so people have to understand that they are driving toward one-party rule.
00:07:30.240Why do you think the first House bill, H.R. 1, is about a national takeover of our elections?
00:07:36.600They know full well the results of the Baker-Carter Commission on Elections that said that absentee balloting presents the greatest threat toward fraudulent elections, and that's what they're driving toward.
00:07:48.400If they use COVID to double the number of absentee ballots, they want mail-in ballots.
00:07:53.000They want a flood of illegal immigrants.
00:07:58.200When you try, you get accused of being a racist, but the fact of the matter is it is changing America, and it is fundamentally transforming it.
00:08:10.180And as I said before, it's the fundamental destruction of this country, and I hope more Americans are waking up.
00:08:16.900But the problem is we've got a mainstream media that is also populated with a bunch of radical leftists.
00:08:22.780They installed President Biden, a guy who campaigned from his basement.
00:08:28.440They will continue to cover up for him as they move down this road to socialism.
00:08:33.540And as you say, they covered up for him, but it was even a stronger relationship than that, I believe, Senator.
00:08:43.020It was complicity at all levels, whether they're the corporate media outlets, whether it be the intelligence agencies, particularly under President Obama, and the impact that they had lasting through to the 2020 election.
00:08:59.500It's outrageous what we witnessed, and the president, as vice president, a former vice president running for president, stood in front of the American people and lied through his teeth.
00:09:11.320And about the laptop, his son's involvement and his family's involvement in corrupt schemes, which is now a matter of public record.
00:09:22.720And the American people now are extremely distrustful, I think, really, of both parties, but certainly the Democrat Party for all that they've done.
00:09:32.000So what do you think the implications are for this November?
00:09:43.820I mean, Democrats deserve to be swept from power.
00:09:47.280But if you really just take a look, you know, dating back into the 2016 election and the corruption of Hillary Clinton, first of all, her email server, and then the corrupt exoneration, you know, the exoneration email, the corrupt editing of that where James Comey left her off the hook.
00:10:04.600And we find out that Hillary Clinton approved of, you know, this leaking of a story, completely false, completely made up of old cloth, that Trump was somehow had a relationship with Alphabank.
00:10:16.420And, of course, the Steele dossier, which now we know the FBI knew was Russian disinformation as early as October 2016.
00:10:23.960And yet they kept this this false narrative, this hoax going for years.
00:10:29.520I mean, this is the most destructive political dirty trick in U.S. history.
00:10:35.120It resulted in a basically attempted coup of a sitting president and certainly harmed his reelection chances.
00:10:42.140But this was all started by Hillary Clinton.
00:10:46.120And we still, to this day, don't know whether Russia actually did hack the DNC server.
00:10:50.460But that sure was a good distraction over the nasty emails that that revealed.
00:10:55.300And then, again, accused Russian collusion, whether it was the Steele dossier, the Alphabank hoax.
00:11:01.540They went so far as senior Democrats produced a intelligence product, had it classified, then lead to the media accusing Senator Grassley and myself of soliciting and then disseminating Russian disinformation.
00:11:14.100Nothing could have been further from the truth.
00:11:15.760But the press was complicit in that Russian collusion narrative as well.
00:11:54.100And once the wrong guy, from their estimation, got elected president, they had to start a diversionary operation of what they had done during the 2016 election.
00:12:13.400But what he revealed in his indictment and trial of Michael Sussman, I hope every American is paying attention to because it just shows the utter corruption of Hillary Clinton, her campaign, elements high in the FBI, our Department of Justice.
00:12:27.780You know, I would say even our intelligence services, you know, Chuck Grassley, and we wrote a letter to Gina Haspel, you know, laying out specific pieces of information we wanted.
00:12:35.820This is during the Trump administration.
00:12:56.840And that's a real problem for our nation.
00:12:59.680It is a tremendous problem for our nation, as you just said.
00:13:04.720And I don't believe people have quite come to terms with the fact that these are Marxist leftists driving the Democrat Party now.
00:13:13.520This is a group of people within the deep state, the permanent bureaucracy, who mean to align themselves on every issue with the Democrat Party.
00:13:23.120And devil take the hindmost, and Republicans are defenders of the status quo.
00:13:29.780And that is not going to stand for these radical leftists, as you described them, because they mean to fundamentally transform, as President Obama famously said, this great nation.
00:13:43.400And we are watching, and we are watching, we are reaping the whirlwind right now.
00:13:48.880There isn't one element of public policy in this country at which President Biden is touched that isn't the worst for it.
00:13:58.040And the pain is being felt by millions of Americans, whether it's almost $10 a gallon gasoline in California, whether it is a border that is wide open, and a president who is failing in his duty in every aspect.
00:14:15.660I seriously cannot think of a single public policy choice he's made, or decision that he's taken, that is to the benefit of the United States' national interest.
00:14:45.660I saw a recent meme on social media laying out the timeline in Venezuela, where not that many years ago, they were the third largest economy in the Western Hemisphere, the second largest purchaser of Ford F-150 trucks.
00:15:52.940And I don't believe most people really appreciate the dimension, the depth, and the profundity of that existential moment in which we now live.
00:16:02.820This is that generation in which it could be lost, in my opinion, because the Marxist left is in control of our courts, our FBI, the Department of Justice, most of the executive departments in the country, certainly the White House.
00:16:23.280Our Supreme Court is highly politicized, and we will see what they create, what is the result of these decisions as we conclude the term this summer.
00:16:39.760It's a military that is also corrupted and ineffective.
00:16:44.540The leadership, I would say, the top two levels of our general officer staff is just woe be gone.
00:16:52.140Again, they are politicized, and they are devastating in their leadership, so-called leadership, in the military.
00:17:02.100I don't know where an American citizen right now turns to say, you know, this is a government I'm proud of.
00:17:07.880This is a government that has not declared me as a citizen of the United States its enemy, because this government, Senator, across the board, political corruption permeates,
00:17:20.220and the American citizen, whether you're a parent with the government trying to intrude in the relationship between you and your child and the school,
00:17:29.420whether you are buying a product that has a label Disney on it,
00:17:35.780you again are being accosted by a wretched and, again, corrupt intervention in the relationship between our families and the welfare of our children by corporations,
00:18:58.460Now, we certainly still have a free press, and we have outlets, obviously, like this show and others.
00:19:04.020But in terms of the percentage of the American public that watch this versus most people get their news feeds now from our big tech social media giants,
00:19:16.900their radical leftists, look at what Mark Zuckerberg did in Wisconsin.
00:19:21.460He took over the election system in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
00:19:25.180His political hack had the key to the absentee ballot room.
00:19:29.500And yet people go, oh, nothing went wrong in that election.
00:19:33.420You know, we see the Dinesh D'Souza's movie, 2,000 Mules.
00:19:37.880Oh, that's just how we design our elections to be run.
00:19:40.640I mean, it's just jaw-dropping, the state of denial in our media and, you know, from liberals in general.
00:19:48.580They're just in a state of denial in terms of the harm their policies are causing in this nation.
00:19:54.400You know, Senator, I think they now know and fully appreciate what they have done.
00:20:00.600And I think maybe they're quietly, secretly very proud of what they're achieving.
00:20:08.300They've destroyed confidence in our elections.
00:25:40.860And, Lou, I think our goal should be to restore confidence into our election system that no matter who wins, Republican, Democrat, or Independent, we all agree that's a legitimate result.
00:25:58.700It's obvious that's what they're trying to do with H.R. 1, with all these mail-in ballots, the explosion of absentee ballots.
00:26:06.980It's obvious what they're trying to do here.
00:26:09.820Well, speaking of what they're trying to do, Susan Rice is there at the, you know, the domestic council, domestic policy council.
00:26:19.140And she's very interested in this election, isn't she?
00:26:22.680And no one seems to want to talk about what she is up to and what this administration is up to.
00:26:29.840And I get increasingly worried because no one is asking those questions of the White House and coming up with the answers.
00:26:38.280And further, Biden isn't changing a policy.
00:26:42.620They're just nuts when it comes to public policy.
00:26:46.600Well, the good news is you have also 80% of the American population that actually do want voter ID.
00:26:54.660As much as the Democrats scream that's racist, no, most people don't want their legitimate vote canceled by an illegitimate vote.
00:27:01.280You know, what I can tell you what we're trying to do in Wisconsin is just, you know, be aware of what happened.
00:27:06.540You know, I kind of went down the laundry list of like three different investigations.
00:27:12.540It pretty well come up with the same thing.
00:27:13.640There are all kinds of guidances issued by Wisconsin Election Commission and election procedures carried out by election officials that were contrary to state law.
00:27:23.520So the first thing you do is you just make election clerks and Wisconsin Election Commission follow the law.
00:28:01.320So tell me this, Senator, why is it the Republicans have such a hard time understanding that their number one priority should be to put in voter ID?
00:28:11.260And I want to put this in parentheses next to that question.
00:28:14.140Mexico has a absolutely terrific, idiot-proof system of voter ID and requirement for certification, valid identification when they go to vote.
00:28:38.620All but one country in Europe has voter ID, and yet we listen.
00:28:43.320Our Republican leaders listen to these idiots on the left and don't call us racist because we want voter ID, ignoring the fact you have to have voter ID for everything.
00:28:53.820I mean, you have to have identification for everything in this country.
00:28:56.720And what is this condescension that isn't considered bigotry on the part of the left?
00:29:01.640They're saying that their coalition of constituents and voters isn't smart enough, can't have voter ID.
00:29:11.700What is the reason they can't have voter ID, and why not pay for it?
00:29:16.120I mean, the ignorance of the situation is overwhelming.
00:29:19.480And that's what's sickening American voters and American citizens right now.
00:29:26.020I'm sitting on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
00:29:27.660We've held hearings on the European subcommittee.
00:29:31.100And some of these countries that are trying to shed the corruption, the corrupt legacy of the Soviet Union, we're always pushing them for election reforms and other legal reforms, judicial reforms.
00:29:44.680And we're trying to impose on them much tighter controls on their elections than we impose on ourselves here.
00:29:51.640We have far more lax laws when it comes to elections, more early voting.
00:29:56.660A lot of people just, a lot of countries don't allow early voting at all.
00:30:00.300It's like you show up on election day.
00:30:02.320By the way, that's the best way to control voting.
00:30:05.360It's when you start allowing early voting and absentee balloting and mail-in balloting, that's what opens up the potential for fraud.
00:30:12.360And again, it's hard to prevent fraud in those situations, and it's even more difficult to prove it.
00:30:17.620Once the ballot is separated from the absentee ballot envelope, now what do you do?
00:30:25.640So it's very difficult after an election to prove all these things, which is why you have to prevent it on the front end with the kind of controls you're talking about.
00:30:35.820And again, the good news is 80% of Americans agree with voter ID because they don't want their legitimate vote canceled by a fraudulent one.
00:30:43.360The Republican Party isn't delivering on what they want.
00:30:46.920And that has to change, and I hope it can change by this November.
00:30:51.840The other part that has to change is we've got to have Republican volunteers in every polling place in the country.
00:30:59.260We've got to have aggressive lawyers sitting in every position that they can, poll watchers and full participants volunteering from the Republican Party,
00:31:09.640because anything less is going to result in more fraud and a rigged election once again.
00:31:15.840And by the way, this is exactly what the left wants.
00:31:18.680They want to beat down Americans, so they give up, and Marxists can take over.
00:31:24.580And how many states have gone to one-day election, Senator?
00:31:29.380The number of states that have taken one day of elections, which is in the Constitution, one day and turned it into a voting season, for crying out loud.
00:31:39.500You talked about the absentee ballots, the most potential for corruption.
00:31:46.360But the idea of adding days and weeks, and in some cases months, to the election is madness itself.
00:31:55.680Well, the voters certainly don't have all the information they should have, that they would have if they waited to vote on Election Day.
00:32:03.500So, listen, there's a legitimate reason to have absentee ballots.
00:32:07.580I now find myself having to generally absentee ballots because I'm here in Washington, D.C. on Election Day.
00:32:11.660But, you know, in Wisconsin, that's a privilege.
00:32:26.380I think what's even, in many cases, more outrageous is all these elected officials that are howling about how Georgia changed their laws.
00:32:36.460You take a look at the voting restrictions in their own states, far more restrictive than anything Georgia enacted.
00:32:43.420So, again, here's a shocker, newsflash, Democrats are hypocrites.
00:32:47.740This is just an appalling circumstance, and we're left in the position, really, I think, Senator, of hoping, hoping that we can get enough local volunteers and state organizations energized and led by intelligent, well-meaning patriots who will assure that their citizens' vote counts.
00:33:10.500It's going to take an almost 180-degree turn in the attitude of Republicans to get that engaged, that involved, and be full-on participants in democracy.
00:33:20.900But I hope this is the year it happens.
00:33:23.340Senator Johnson, we always give our guests the last word here, and I want to turn to you now for your concluding thoughts as we wrap up here.
00:33:31.420Well, to give your listeners some hope, in Wisconsin, we've actually beefed up and had a lot more people voluntarily sign up to be election workers, poll workers.
00:33:54.680Hopefully, this will be the election where we get a Republican governor so that we can enact into law, have a governor that signed the law that our legislators already passed to, again, increase the controls over our election system so that we restore confidence in it.