DEMS ARE DESTRUCTIVE OF DEMOCRACY AS THEY WORK TO SILENCE REPUBLICANS AND CRITICS
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Joe Biden is a clueless, clueless, compromised puppet president. China, spy balloons, China balloons, shoot downs, and missions to recover surveillance payloads all time to come about just as the Republican House investigation into Biden and his crime family began. China accuses the United States of dramatizing their intrusions into U.S. airspace and the White House says they have no evidence that the balloons belong to China.
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Hello everybody, Lou Dobbs here and welcome to the Great America Show. Good to have you with us
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in this fight for truth, justice, and the American way. And let's get to it. The good citizens of
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America have let this country get well past the time for all of us to call out the evil and the
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stupidity of the Marxist left. They've overtaken academia, our public schools, corporate America,
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and almost all of media. It is past time that we straightened out our politics and called out evil
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and stupidity throughout our society, whether in our communities, our political system, or our
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federal government, dominated by the Marxist Dems and their evil. The Marxist Dems Secretary of
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Transportation is a practitioner of stupidity and evil. He ignored the environmental disaster caused
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by a train derailment that now threatens an Ohio town and perhaps millions of Americans.
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The threats to health in part created by the so-called controlled detonations of train tank cars
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containing hazardous chemicals that have been roaring into the skies above Palestine, Ohio.
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Livestock dying, fish belly up in nearby rivers and streams. The Daily Mail reporting that Secretary
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Buttigieg, speaking at a conference, ignored the transportation catastrophe and the danger to
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Ohioans and spoke only of diversity in the construction workforce. What? He is a perfect fit for this
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anti-American Marxist Dem administration. Spy balloons, China balloons, shoot downs, and missions to
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recover surveillance payloads all time to come about just as the Republican House investigation
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into Biden and his crime family began. Bright, shiny objects, those balloons with which to
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distract the American people of the awfulness of this corrupt Biden regime. China accuses the United
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States of dramatizing, if you can imagine, their balloon incursion into U.S. airspace. Upset that the
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House of Representatives actually voted unanimously to condemn China for their intrusions into U.S.
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territory. I repeat, when was the last time you heard Congress condemning the People's Republic of
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China? The Chinese are used to Biden kowtowing to their dicta from Beijing, his obeisance to whatever
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President Xi demands. Biden is a gutless, clueless, compromised puppet president, which makes him
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immensely dangerous. And now the White House and stooge-led Pentagon says they have no evidence that
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the balloons belong to China. Pathetic claptrap from woke generals like Milley, who know little and fret
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much over cultural issues they don't truly comprehend. And then we find out they didn't actually know that
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balloons had been over the U.S. territory under President Trump. It's military leaders like
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Milley, who act like damn fools and think they can hide behind an obfuscating mouthpiece like Admiral
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Kirby. Please spare us further nonsense and lies in the place of facts and truth. And somebody tell
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these generals to think of the budget in good sense before they fire at two-bit balloons with almost
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half-half-million-dollar Sidewinder missiles from $300 million F-22 jet fighters. Really? That's smart
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to these general officers who run the military? Big shots all and peanut brains. Speaking of peanut
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brains, Jake Sullivan, Biden's National Security Advisor, has created a task force to focus on these
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unidentified flying objects. As they call them at the White House, there aren't enough BS
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groups and titles in the White House already, and the military is sending balloon debris and remains
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to the, are you ready, the FBI for analysis. You've got to be kidding. The Air Force, the Navy, DARPA,
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Fort Meade don't have the most advanced analysis teams and equipment? What's wrong with this story?
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Come on. And now good old former National Director of Intelligence James Clapper with a big story out in
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the Washington Post. He tells the Post that Politico deliberately distorted the Hunter Biden laptop
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letter. You know, the one signed by 50 intelligence veterans and five former CIA directors among them,
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all claiming it was Russian disinformation. Now, 28 months after that incident, think of that.
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More than two years since that incident that changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election
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changed history, in fact, and Clapper wants to change his story. I think it's interesting that the
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facile Clapper has never apologized for signing that document for his part in the now obvious U.S.
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intelligence disinformation campaign in behalf of Joe Biden just before the last presidential debate
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and the election. Nor has Clapper or any one of the other signees of that letter claimed they had
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any other purpose than to destroy the credibility of the New York Post story that set off blackouts of
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the story in the national establishment and social media and changed American history. And still,
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the wrong man is in the White House, and that's why, in my opinion, the Marxist Dems and the Deep State
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continue their political persecution of President Donald Trump, now seeking, according to the New York
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Times, to break President Trump's attorney-client privilege in the Jack Smith special counsel attack
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on the former president. Outrageous. Outrageous. And we know it will only get more so.
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There is good news. The House of Representatives, led by Speaker McCarthy, has passed the resolution
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condemning China. And the hearings on the weaponization of the federal government against citizens,
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the Oversight Committee hearings on President Biden and his corruption, the judiciary hearings on the
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corruption of the DOJ, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, all underway. And the battle to end
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corruption in our federal government is well underway. Our guest today is Congressman Byron Donalds,
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outstanding Republican, member of the House Oversight Committee, chaired by Congressman James Comer.
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Great to have you with us, Congressman Donalds, and congratulations on how quickly the Republican
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Congress has gotten down to work on these important investigations.
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He is, actually. And I think, look, you, anytime you have to go through, you know, a little bit of
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adversity like that, you typically come out stronger. And I think that's what's happened with him.
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Also, there's been a lot of, a lot of clarity between the members in our conference, which has been
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really good for us. I think the lines of communication, not even think I know, the lines of communication are
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open. Members are really engaging on all of these different policy fronts. It's, it's really a team
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effort. And, you know, I think that's, you have to give credit to the speaker for, you know, number one,
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allowing, you know, that kind of a framework to happen, because it could go the other way where,
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you know, Nancy Pelosi, there was no input. It was her way or the highway. And, you know, that was not
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just for Republicans. That was for her rank and file Democrat members. That's how it was. And so it's been
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a very open, collaborative process. It's really empowered him, in my view, to be a better speaker.
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And I'm just glad to see him, you know, taking that mantle and driving the train the way he is.
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Absolutely. And I think the Republican Party is going to be, is already immensely benefited by
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the process between all of you who contested the speakership and really tested the way the 118th
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Congress would operate. I think all of you deserve, as I say, great credit, as well as the speaker
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coming together and then getting done what you have to this point. I want to turn now, if I may,
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to the State of the Union. We find out that this has the second smallest TV audience in history,
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and down 30% from last year, which was also a low watermark. Your thoughts about the State of the
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Union, your reactions? I mean, I'm not surprised. Joe Biden is boring. I told a couple of reporters
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that, who asked me, what was I anticipating? And I was like, I just hope we get out of here in a
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reasonable time, because he's just not good at this. If I were his team, I would have made the speech
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about 35 minutes. Get in and get out. But, you know, they wanted to give the longest speech I think
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has ever been given was this one. And it was incoherent, and it was confusing. Like, one point,
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he's blaming Big Pharma, and on the other hand, he's praising him. So, I don't know which Joe Biden
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you're looking for. His comments about how billionaires shouldn't pay a lower tax rate than
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a teacher. Well, first of all, that's just a lie. Even, like, Washington Post, I think, now has come out.
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There are fact checkers that come out and said that that is not true. So, it's all over the place.
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He barely talked about the border, barely talked about foreign policy, which there are major foreign
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policy things going on in the world right now. And he was focused on baggage fees and resort fees. I
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mean, like, it was ridiculous. Yeah, I think ridiculous is a terrific definition of what that
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speech was. And he didn't mention the balloon. And even in the absence of a mention, he managed to
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say he was going to work with Xi Jinping. And don't you worry about all of those incursions by the
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communist Chinese with their surveillance balloons, most of which we didn't pick up, apparently,
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at the time they were crossing into U.S. territory. Amazing.
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Well, one thing, I'm glad you raised Xi Jinping. He had this point in the speech was,
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name one world leader that would love to trade places with Xi Jinping. He's like, name one,
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none of them want to. And I'm like, dude, what are you talking about? Do you think Vladimir Zelensky
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would trade his hand of having the arsenal of the Chinese government versus his arsenal now?
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I think so. You know, I'm like, and stuff like that just makes no sense at all. But that's what
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Joe Biden was saying. Yeah, it was, it was, the speech was ridiculous, as you say. It was also
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stupefying, the incoherence, the absurdities, and the litany of Marxist items on his agenda.
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This man, it may be a puppet, but he's a well-schooled puppet in Marxist ideology.
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He's attacking just about everything that is worthwhile in the United States,
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whether it's our public school system, whether it is the American family, whether it is the middle
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class, whether it is the U.S. government itself that is now riddled with political corruption.
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And that brings us to the committees that are formed to investigate whether it is the
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weaponization of government or whether it be the oversight committee, trying to figure out what in
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the world this president has been doing with all of the evidence arrayed against him and managing to,
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for over four years, escape a significant investigation and conclusion, even a report
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from the Department of Justice. Your thoughts? I'm very concerned. This is not good. Because what
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we've, what we're starting to unveil in the oversight committee is that you have some elements of the
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FBI, some elements of CDC, presidential campaigns, the Democrat National Committee, all working in concert
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to suppress information, to suppress free speech. They're doing it on purpose. And the purpose of
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why they're doing it is to interfere in an election. As much as they tried to blame the $100,000 in
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Facebook ads that Russians operatives bought during the 2016 campaign and tried to tie that to Donald
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Trump with all of the hand wringing and the shouting and the fear mongering that the Democrats have done
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the last, the last really the last six years now over this issue. Um, it's nothing. It's a drop in a
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bucket to what they actually did with the social media companies in the middle of the 2020 election.
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That, that, that is what is becoming very, very clear. And I know we're focused on Twitter right now,
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but if it was happening at Twitter, it happened at Facebook. It happened at Google. And so there's
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going to be a lot more investigations to come. We're just getting started. Yeah. And, uh, a lot more
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happened as, as dastardly as everything that, uh, that's being revealed, uh, about, uh, Twitter and its
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relationship with the FBI, the department of justice, the intelligence community as dastardly
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as all of that is, we know that the role of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook was even worse, uh,
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whether it be voter turnout, uh, whether it, the list goes on at, uh, Facebook. And I'm sure that's
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going to be a monumental investigation. I'll tell you, I'll tell you myself in the Hunter Biden, uh, story
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is, was, is the tip of the iceberg. I'm talking about all the silencing of voices, um, not allowing
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for conservative thought leaders, uh, viewpoints to matriculate through that platform. Um, the shadow
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banning that, that looks like was occurring. You know, I look at my own, you know, Twitter following
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for about a year and a half before Elon Musk bought Twitter, my Twitter followers never went past 150,000.
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Like it just never, it would hover around 147 is sometime somewhere. Right. Elon Musk buys the
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place, takes off all the shadow banning stuff. Like I'm around 260,000. So I'm like, I, you know,
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I was on Twitter, I was doing stuff. I would tweet, but you would never see your reach grow when you
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observe. And I'm not the only member of Congress that's happened to his members all over this building
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where once Elon Musk bought Twitter, they're following the people who follow them actually started
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to grow because what's pretty clear to me is they weren't tamping down on the movement of
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information. And that, that is so detrimental to a democracy. As much as the Democrats want to
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lecture everybody on saving the democracy, what they were in my view, promoting in some ways,
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completely act asking for, and what they were able to achieve was the silencing of their critics
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and their rivals politically. If they're doing that, that is completely destructive of the
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democracy. Well, and we do want to mention that they threw a sitting president off of social media
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completely. And Twitter took the first, the first action. I mean, in this moment, it's hardly a cool
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moment, but it is a cooler moment than the, in the middle of the 2020 election to deny the president
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of the United States of media doesn't have an effect. My gosh, it's, it's just unthinkable what we have
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experienced. And you mentioned the, the investigations of president Trump to impeachments. Now another
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special counsel, uh, investigation, uh, which was, is completely cockamamie. Uh, it's, it's just
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ignorant, uh, to have created, but here we are. And the only wrongdoing that's been discovered in over
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six years of these investigations against a president and a presidential candidate, uh, and a, uh, a former
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president who happened to be the same man, Donald, Donald J. Trump, the only wrongdoing has been by
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four consecutive directors of the FBI who lied to the American people, the, the actions of the
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intelligence community, the department of justice and the FBI, and not a single one of them has been
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held accountable for trying to overthrow the president of the United States. And that is precisely what
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they're doing with. And the evidence is sitting right there in front of everyone in Congress,
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every one of us in this country, that they tried to overthrow the president of the United States.
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You know, everything you said is true. And you know, it's true because in the oversight hearings,
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the Democrats weren't pushing back saying, this is a lie. This is a lie. This is a lie.
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What they were saying was, oh, well, what about January 6th? That's what, that was where they were
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going. Well, what about January 6th? That's, that was their entire line of questioning. And so it's,
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this is so problematic because I've been saying this for a couple months now, Republicans are
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going to have to be the party that saves the democracy, because it's clear that it's clear
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that the Democrats are only interested in having a political system where they become the only
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arbiter of truth, where they are, they have all the keys and they hold all the doors. And that's,
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it's not going to be functional long term. I was telling some of my colleagues that, listen,
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I'm more than happy to debate you. Come and sit down and let's debate. We can go at it all day
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long. It could be one of them. It could be a Senator. It could be the president. I don't care.
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Let's sit down and do it. But I will give you the ability to speak. I won't stop you from sharing
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your ideas. Personally, I think your ideas are nutty anyway. So go ahead and share them. Share them.
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I'm fine. I'll stand on mine. You stand on yours. But when you have the situation we have
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currently where the media covers up, where the social media companies are suppressing information,
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how are the American people supposed to be able to get the information necessary to make solid
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political decisions for their future? That's the problem. And that's what the that's what the
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democracy faces right now. Without question. And talking about President Trump being thrown off
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social media, I had the same experience, by the way, my followers resumed after Elon Musk took over
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Twitter, the number of followers growing. It's interesting that in the last month, I've been
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shadow banned again, without comment, without reason. As a matter of fact, I got a funny message.
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I wanted to follow some of the folks, and I do this every once in a while, who are following me.
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They're not necessarily, you know, they're not blue check people. They're just people following. And I
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kind of like having them in my news line. And because I am a populist, after all.
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And I get a message from Twitter saying that I've gone over my limit on followers. I mean, that's a new one
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for me, as if it's a strategic plan on my part of some kind, to want to reciprocate with as many of my
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followers as I can. And I'm not talking, I'm talking about relatively small numbers compared to the number
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of followers. But nonetheless, it's what I like to do. Right. It's bizarre.
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Well, like I said, we're going to get to the bottom of this thing. There's a lot more that's going to be
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done. And, you know, going back to some of the stuff that we worked on during the speakership
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election, it's not just going to be the oversight committee or the judiciary committee. We have the
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committee, the weaponization of the federal government. That committee is real. A lot of stuff is going to
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come out of that committee as well. Excited for them to get started under the leadership of Jim
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Jordan. Because at the end of the day, we want a government that's working for people, not against
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Yeah, absolutely. And give us a sense how you feel the investigations are going so far. The most
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prominent, of course, the Oversight Committee and the Judiciary Committee. Is there a sense of urgency
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here? Because I have to say, it's critically important, in my view, that you will not only
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do these jobs, but you do them with a sense of urgency. Because this is just no time for business
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as usual. It can't be a show and tell. This has got to result in significant, significant
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Well, yeah, I agree with you. It's not going to be a drag out. I think the Democrats, when they did
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the January 6th Committee, it was on purpose. It was to be drug out over time to do whatever they
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could to impact the midterm elections. That's why they did it the way they did it. We're going to
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get down to business. Talking with Chair Comer and Chair Jordan, we're not sitting around in our hands.
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We're actively going through the work. Our staffs are going through this work in real time
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in overdrive. Because one of the things that's come up is you open up one box of stuff, and then
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that box leads you to five other things. And so you really have to go through the process. You can't
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play political games with it. You have to get down to business. But one thing I do want to make sure
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that I state is it's not just the investigations that are coming out of this Congress. We are focused
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on legislating and actually putting together plans, policies, frankly, for Joe Biden to sign if the
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Senate takes them up around energy, around our border, around the financial system and the regulatory
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system. We're looking at what tax policy is going to look like because the Trump tax cuts are actually
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going to start expiring over the next couple of years. And what is tax policy going to look like
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in the United States? We're looking at these things. What about supply chains? We're looking
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at all that. And there's legislation to come on all these items. So, you know, I don't want people
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feeling like all they're doing is investigations. Like we're going to do the investigations, but we're
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going to be an active legislative House of Representatives as well. We're going to do that job.
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Well, that's great, great news. And you asserted something at the outset of our conversation,
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talking about the public's right to know. You didn't frame it that way, but that's what we're
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talking about. The records that were sealed by the J6 committee, all of the documents and the video,
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and it goes across every department of this government. Foyer requests that are ignored
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and games are played. Everything that you can do to put, serve the public's right to know,
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put these records and these documents in front of them, I think would be a very, very helpful
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action on the part of the Congress. Your thoughts?
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No, I totally agree with you. That is something that is on its way as well. I think the respective
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committee is actually going to be led by my good friend, Barry Loudermilk out of Georgia. And so
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he takes this very seriously. He's just an excellent man of character, you know, quality member of
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Congress. And that's something that he's working on with the Speaker.
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That's great news as well. Congressman, we always give our guests the last word here. And if I may,
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I'd like to ask you for your concluding thoughts. It's been great having you with us here on the show.
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Well, I'll tell you, it's an exciting time on Capitol Hill. First of all, Nancy Pelosi is not
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Speaker of the House. So, you know, it's always a good thing. But it's a time where it's going to
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be very active. There's going to be a lot of collaboration and input from all the members
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of Congress, even the Democrat members. And there's a lot of policy areas I don't agree with them on.
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But there is room or something that we do agree on. And when that stuff happens, we're going to work
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on it and get it done. You know, I mean, you've seen some of that already dealing with the COVID
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emergency. You had Democrats join us to support ending the COVID emergency and things like this.
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So, you know, the resolution condemning socialism. I know 100 Democrats voted against the resolution
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to condemn socialism, but half of their conference voted with us. That's a good thing. We should be
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condemning socialism. And then when we get down to the real policy issues, I work on a lot of nuclear
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policy stuff. We have Democrats that want to work with me on nuclear policy initiatives because that's
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going to be critical to our energy matrix going forward. I just think that, you know, in spite of
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the circus of politics, I think that there's a lot of stuff that can get done. And I always believe
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in America. I believe in the American people. We have the can-do spirit. And so I think that we just
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got to make sure Washington does its job so the American people can flourish and thrive. And,
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Well, I think you're exactly right. And I hope that somewhere in there, there is room for a
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condemnation of the People's Republic of China for violating our sovereignty along the way.
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Congressman Byron Donalds, thanks so much for being with us. You're a great American.
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We wish you continued success and God bless you.
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Thanks, everybody, for being with us today. Here tomorrow, our guest is General Michael Flynn,
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former National Security Advisor to President Trump. You don't want to miss him.
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General Flynn, here tomorrow. Till then, thanks, God bless you, and God bless America.