Rep. James Comer is the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee and is one of the smartest, hardest working congressmen in the House of Representatives. Congressman Comer has a lot of work ahead of him in order to make sure the Republicans keep control of both houses of Congress in November.
00:00:00.000Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to the Great America Show. Good of you to join us. Thrilled to have you with us today and thrilled to be able to say that that big red wave is building. It's redder and it is bigger.
00:00:14.240It looks like the Dems are in for a real shellacking in a couple of weeks on November 8th. The prospect is very real that we could see the Republicans take back not only the House with perhaps a 30-seat margin, but also win the Senate by maybe, perhaps, possibly three seats. Now that would be something, wouldn't it?
00:00:35.360That kind of big victory depends, of course, on a few variables. You knew I'd have to say that, right? Well, one of the variables is, of course, GOP and independent turnout. It has to be big, and independents need to vote and bring your friends and family and neighbors, whoever, please.
00:00:54.940This election is, for real, the most important midterm election in our history. Maybe 1862 was right up there, but for us, this is the big one. If patriots lose this election, so does the republic, and we lose the republic as well. And we'll lose everything that Americans have stood for and fought for since 1776.
00:01:19.440And the other variable, of course, is whether the Republican Party big shots can do anything besides raise money. This midterm election will be urban and suburban combat, street by street. The turnout will be critical.
00:01:35.140The question is, can a ragtag bunch of Republicans and independents go toe-to-toe with the nasty Marxist Dems? And how many Republicans and independents know about Biden's executive order 14-0-1-9?
00:01:51.280You know, the Biden executive order he signed within a few months of taking office. The one that orders federal agencies to get out the vote. And I don't think it means just any old vote. I'm pretty sure that Biden meant only Democrat votes. There it is.
00:02:11.380Biden has politically weaponized the federal government for this one special midterm election. If the Marxist Dems win this midterm, the midterms that follow will be only mere charades.
00:02:26.340So we've got to get out the vote. Republicans and independents, we have to understand that the GOP has to get to the Supreme Court to stop this latest Marxist Dem plot to steal yet another election.
00:02:39.520Wake up, patriots. We're in a fight. We have to win. Wake up, Republican National Committee. What's your plan? What are you doing, Ronald McDaniel?
00:02:49.780And the Republicans have no choice but to win this election. We need everybody out voting because it will take all of us to bring this nation back to its senses.
00:03:00.500And it all begins on November 8. And now our guest today, Congressman James Comer,
00:03:06.640one of the smartest, hardest working congressmen in the House of Representatives.
00:03:11.680He'll have a lot more work ahead of him when and if the Republicans can win this election.
00:03:16.800Our guest is the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee.
00:03:20.540Here now, Congressman James Comer and Congressman, always great to talk with you.
00:03:25.300Thanks for being back with us here on The Great America Show.
00:03:28.980We're going into this election. The time is just flying now.
00:03:33.160Give us your sense of how the Republican Party will do, particularly in the House of Representatives.
00:03:40.280I think we're going to do well, Lou. Everything seems to be breaking our way.
00:03:44.260You know, you and I and your listeners, we are focused on politics year-round.
00:03:49.700And we tend to forget that most Americans don't really start paying attention to the elections until the last three weeks.
00:03:56.020And I think the American people are now focused on the elections.
00:04:00.400And they realize that the Democrat policies have been disastrous.
00:04:03.340And they're ready to make a statement.
00:04:06.460And that statement is going to be a big red wave this November.
00:04:10.180So I'm real excited about our prospects in the House and the Senate.
00:04:14.060Well, we follow you on Twitter as well.
00:04:16.360And we notice, because we're very worried about this election being rigged, much as the 2020 was,
00:04:21.840I'm sure the Democrats will be creative and come up with new approaches, strategies, and tricks.
00:04:26.500But you point out on Twitter that the Democrats in D.C. want to make illegal or making it legal for illegal immigrants to vote.
00:04:39.540How in the world can that be tolerated in the capital of the United States?
00:04:59.700It's always been about getting more Democrats registered in the big cities so that in these U.S. Senate races and in the presidential races,
00:05:08.400they can run the score up in the big cities.
00:09:39.440And she wanted to, you know, have a formal investigation into that from the Energy and Commerce Committee,
00:09:47.460and she was telling Paul Ryan blocked her from that.
00:09:49.720I've heard Jason Chaffetz tell stories of where he was blocked from trying to provide oversight.
00:09:55.360I'm pretty confident that's not going to happen because, you know, the difference in Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy from an oversight standpoint is
00:10:08.540You would think that, you know, there was no need for oversight of the Clintons when Paul Ryan was speaker.
00:10:14.260But now that McCarthy's running for speaker, that's a big part of the platform, oversight of this unaccountable Biden administration.
00:10:21.800And I think he realizes where the base is on this.
00:10:25.140Lou, if we go in and repeat what happened the last time the Republicans earned the majority and Clinton was president and Obama was president
00:10:34.560and there's nothing done to hold people accountable, there's nothing done to reform government, the spending, the practices of these bureaucracies,
00:10:44.280then I don't think there's going to be a big future for the Republican Party because I think the base is going to pack up and leave.
00:10:49.660And I think Kevin McCarthy gets the pulse of the people on that issue.
00:10:55.720They expect us not just to shine a light on the problems, but to try to hold people accountable.
00:11:01.440People want Dr. Fauci to be held accountable.
00:11:03.600People want the Biden family to be held accountable for influence peddling.
00:11:08.560It's hard when you have a Department of Justice and an FBI that's been complicit in a lot of these problems.
00:11:17.900So we're going to have to really stick together and get some results for the base.
00:11:23.880So I'm going to ask you a couple of tough questions here because I think the American people right now are asking tough questions of the Republican Party.
00:11:32.900Have you or in leadership, Jim Jordan, others, Kevin McCarthy, obviously, have you all been holding meetings about what to do with an FBI that is absolutely politically corrupt,
00:11:47.580a Department of Justice that is actively, viciously, politically corrupt, and how you can hold accountable President Biden, Alejandro Mayorkas for the open borders?
00:12:06.500I mean, are you guys getting to the granular, gritty base of what to do because walking in there saying, you know, we're going to try just sure as hell isn't going to make it?
00:12:23.600And, of course, the FBI and Department of Justice will fall more under Jordan and the Judiciary Committee.
00:12:29.480But, you know, in dealing with the whistleblowers in the Hunter Biden investigation, there's, you know, there's several people that have claimed that they reached out to the FBI about wrongdoing and nothing ever happened.
00:12:41.120So there's going to be a lot of crossover on that.
00:12:43.780I think that, you know, at the end of the day, when you talk about the need to reform the FBI, there's there are a lot of people that say, you know, abolish the FBI.
00:12:51.480But honestly, I think there's a role for the FBI, but it's you're going to have to get all new management at the top and people are going to have to be held accountable for wrongdoing or they'll repeat that.
00:13:07.160Well, I was going to say that the FISA warrant that's been abused, that needs to go away.
00:13:13.500And the because that's what they used to spy on the Trump campaign and who knows what else they abuses they've done with their ability to have those FISA warrants.
00:13:22.780And then the, you know, the fact that the FBI can talk to you and they don't have to record it.
00:13:29.520They don't wear body armor, just like when they raided Mar-a-Lago.
00:13:54.660And I'm pretty confident that, you know, when you look at the judiciary committee, you've got Jordan and Matt Gates and Biggs and all those guys.
00:14:01.340I'm pretty confident there's going to be a day of reckoning for the FBI.
00:14:05.140Well, you know, you said there's a place for the FBI.
00:14:07.560And as I watch these guys in, you know, in body armor, their tactical gear, their AR-15s as they're going after a misdemeanor charge and putting a man in handcuffs, I've got to tell you, that's as basic as it gets.
00:14:29.320Those are agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, assaulting private citizens, assaulting American citizens, and nothing has happened to them.
00:14:46.580But that rot goes deeply into the FBI.
00:14:49.440And I don't want to see a one of them get off for sitting there obeying unlawful orders, unconstitutional orders, and making the American people sick to their guts as they watch an agency that was once storied, respected, and now it's an obscenity in our government.
00:15:14.300You know, the positive thing here is how many FBI agents are coming forward with, I guess you could call them whistleblowers, but with accusations.
00:15:25.260And, you know, they realize that their credibility has been diminished.
00:15:30.760They realize that they have caused irreparable – the management has caused irreparable damage to the FBI, and they want to see change.
00:15:42.540So, you know, that's – again, that's going to be a big priority for Jim Jordan and that committee, and hopefully something will get done very, very quickly.
00:15:51.020But, you know, Jim, I'm sure you talk to him a lot, Lou.
00:15:54.040He realizes there's a lot of pressure to hold people accountable in the FBI and to get new management and reforms to the FBI.
00:16:04.760It's terrible when, you know, we – a big part of the Republican platform is to fund the police.
00:16:11.600The Democrat platform is to defund the police.
00:16:13.240But then we've got a law enforcement agency like the FBI that I don't think there's a lot of – there's a lot of support to certainly increase their funding and certainly support to decrease funding within the top ranks of the FBI.
00:16:27.840I just really wonder how far the Republican Party will go because Kevin McCarthy is by nature, and I'm talking about his history, his record.
00:16:38.160I'm not talking about personalities here.
00:16:40.420I'm not talking about mood swings on the part of the minority leader.
00:16:44.600I'm talking about the fact that he has – you know, he rolled on the president in the immediate aftermath of January 6th.
00:17:05.280I think that he has to be proved first mentally competent.
00:17:09.920I think the Dems have to prove that he's not mentally competent.
00:17:14.020And if he is, the Republicans should go after him like a storm the Capitol has never seen.
00:17:20.380This is – and everybody wants to talk quietly and softly as we go into this election.
00:17:26.440American people are waiting to hear that Republicans have guts and principles and will back them up and will rid this country of these Marxist Dems and their leftist destruction.
00:17:38.020No, and I think McCarthy's gotten the message from the base.
00:17:44.320This is – you know, everybody – this is a one chance here.
00:17:48.780And this is something he's obviously no secret work for – towards for a long time.
00:17:53.440You know, I obviously don't agree with everything.
00:17:57.380My district's much more conservative, representing a southern district in a very red state like Kentucky.
00:18:04.220He's very different than representing a suburban district in California, like where Kevin represents.
00:18:09.280But I think he realizes where the majority of our conference is, the majority of the conference, especially after this newest redistricting, is from extremely red conservative districts that have a lot of disgruntled voters, especially on the way that Trump was treated.
00:18:26.420And they realize how the media and how the Democrats, you know, through the impeachment process and investigation process, just harassed Trump, still harassing Trump.
00:18:37.120And they expect a little reciprocity here on the – with respect to – but, yeah.
00:19:12.660But you all made him Speaker of the House.
00:19:15.600I think that the Republicans need to learn a lesson here.
00:19:18.240They need leaders who are exerting pressure, who are strong and definite in their principles and their pursuits.
00:19:29.920And when you've got a guy that's sitting there in California, the People's Republic of California, look, everybody knows he's got to make compromises to get elected.
00:19:38.220But those compromises should never be part of the leadership of the Republican Party.
00:19:43.180And it's what scares me to death about him being Speaker of the House.
00:19:49.980Well, again, I know that he's had the opportunity to travel around in all these open seats.
00:19:55.680And just this week I've been in West Kentucky and spoken to some Republican women's groups.
00:20:02.420And these are, you know, nice women that I've known for a few years.
00:20:08.300And they're like, are you all going to do anything about all this corruption or who's going to do what about FBI?
00:20:17.320I mean, they – and these are the most loyal Republicans.
00:20:22.120You can imagine what the – you know, the average voter feels.
00:20:26.300I mean, I think they're pretty disgusted by Biden's policies, and they're willing to give the Republicans another chance.
00:20:34.040So we've got to do the best with this second opportunity.
00:20:36.780I've been in Congress six years, so I was under Paul Ryan for two years.
00:20:41.160And, you know, it was pretty disappointing.
00:20:43.040I was on the Oversight Committee, and I had Jason Chaffetz and Trey Gowdy as chairman of the committee.
00:20:50.260And we didn't have any, hardly, investigations going on there.
00:20:53.840And what you did have going on was all kabuki theater, right?
00:20:58.380I mean, it's – we could have done a lot more.
00:21:01.720Now that I'm in charge of the committee from the Republican side, I mean, we're every day launching another probe, another investigation.
00:21:11.500We've got so many documents requested and so many document preservations that we're going to remind this administration on November the 9th,
00:21:21.040after it's clear we're going to be in the majority, that they better have those documents to us in January or else.
00:21:28.840And I think they know the or else will be the subpoena power.
00:21:32.520I mean, we – this administration has had no oversight over the last two years.
00:21:36.400There's no accounting of money going out.
00:21:39.700You know, a lot of the Ukrainian money, nobody knows exactly where it was spent.
00:21:44.040You've got – in addition to 4&A, you've got all this COVID money that nobody really knows where it was spent.
00:22:16.920Who is going to enforce the judgments of the Oversight Committee?
00:22:20.880Tebow, I just told – I mean, Jim Jordan, he just told Jim Jordan, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, to go to hell.
00:22:31.580He doesn't have to account to him at all.
00:22:33.280And you're going to get that in spades from every one of these entitled, crooked FBI agents and officials.
00:22:42.220One of the things that Paul Ryan refused to do is hold people in contempt of Congress, and we've seen Pelosi do that with Bannon and a few other people.
00:22:52.280That's something that McCarthy's going to have to do.
00:23:08.100There were a lot of judges that were field, conservative judges.
00:23:11.420So we've got a little better prospects in the court.
00:23:14.980Just like when I say I hope Hunter Biden does not get indicted, Lou, because if he gets indicted for lying on a gun application or for tax evasion,
00:23:25.180which are drops in the bucket for the wrongdoing that he's committed, then when we subpoena him, he disregards the subpoena, we're going to take it to court.
00:23:34.300The court's going to say, well, he's under indictment, so there's already a federal investigation going on.
00:23:39.060So, in other words, Lou, an indictment on Hunter Biden by this Department of Justice protects Hunter Biden.
00:23:46.400It protects Hunter Biden from coming in front of our committee.
00:24:04.960That was a salvation and preservation for Mr. Sussman.
00:24:11.080We're being, you know, these games are being played.
00:24:12.980But what I have, I have just a serious doubt is that there is anyone in the Republican Party right now who can play the game half as well as these,
00:24:22.920these macabre, evil Marxist Dems because they are manipulating the system, whether it's in the courts,
00:24:30.240whether it's in the FBI, whether it's the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security.
00:24:36.660Hell, the same thing is true of the Defense Department.
00:25:05.460They're being told that everybody is a racist.
00:25:08.300And now it's a paid for program, whether you're in an HR department in left-wing corporate America or you're in government, local, state, federal.
00:25:18.500It's ignorance run wild in this country right now.
00:28:04.940There will be no more BS about putting up with court proceedings and nonsense.
00:28:10.300There's either action or there isn't because the American people, you know, there's no slowdown in the part of the Marxist left in this country.
00:28:21.560They're telling children what they're going to talk about in class, whether it's sex or gender discussions or whatever.
00:28:27.000They're getting indoctrinated, not educated, and everybody in this country knows it, and we've got to have people who move and get it done, and process is no excuse for any of us.
00:28:39.160Not a single person in the Republican Party should have the excuse of process.
00:29:51.140Hopefully they'll realize the pulse of the American people now, expecting to get policy passed.
00:29:58.560From an investigation standpoint, we're going to start deposing people in January, the day that we get the subpoena power, we get the gavel.
00:30:08.340We're going to start doing transcribed interviews.
00:30:10.020We're going to start having committee hearings, and we're going to move as quickly as we can to produce factual evidence of wrongdoing.
00:30:18.120From Dr. Fauci, from the NIH, with grant dollars that they were handing out, especially for EcoHealth Alliance, who, by the way, they refunded them again,
00:30:29.880the company that was getting American tax dollars to do gain-of-function research in Wuhan lab where COVID started.
00:30:36.700They got more tax dollars from the Biden administration than you've got what's going on at the southern border.
00:30:43.820Mayorkas is the prime candidate for removal from office.
00:30:48.100I mean, I don't think anyone would disagree with that, that has any sense of decency or knowledge of what's going on at the southern border.
00:30:56.980And then finally, the Biden crime family.
00:31:00.620It's not just the president's brothers.
00:31:04.060The president knew darn well what was going on.
00:31:07.900And according to Hunter Biden, according to the whistleblowers, they told me, Lou, that Hunter was paying for a lot of Joe Biden's living expenses.
00:31:15.080So this would indicate that Joe Biden was directly involved in this influence peddling, and that's why I need those bank records.
00:31:25.520That's why we're going to use the subpoena power to get the bank violations and the bank records and, you know, look in and see,
00:31:32.140was there, you know, direct transfers of money from Hunter's shady business dealings to Joe Biden?