The Great America Show - DEMS ARE DESTRUCTIVE OF DEMOCRACY AS THEY WORK TO SILENCE REPUBLICANS AND CRITICS

00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, Lou Dobbs here and welcome to the Great America Show. Good to have you with us

00:00:05.060 in this fight for truth, justice, and the American way. And let's get to it. The good citizens of

00:00:11.480 America have let this country get well past the time for all of us to call out the evil and the 1.00

00:00:17.740 stupidity of the Marxist left. They've overtaken academia, our public schools, corporate America, 1.00

00:00:23.760 and almost all of media. It is past time that we straightened out our politics and called out evil

00:00:30.500 and stupidity throughout our society, whether in our communities, our political system, or our 1.00

00:00:36.440 federal government, dominated by the Marxist Dems and their evil. The Marxist Dems Secretary of 1.00

00:00:43.040 Transportation is a practitioner of stupidity and evil. He ignored the environmental disaster caused 1.00

00:00:50.240 by a train derailment that now threatens an Ohio town and perhaps millions of Americans.

00:00:56.780 The threats to health in part created by the so-called controlled detonations of train tank cars

00:01:02.740 containing hazardous chemicals that have been roaring into the skies above Palestine, Ohio.

00:01:09.700 Livestock dying, fish belly up in nearby rivers and streams. The Daily Mail reporting that Secretary

00:01:16.620 Buttigieg, speaking at a conference, ignored the transportation catastrophe and the danger to

00:01:23.140 Ohioans and spoke only of diversity in the construction workforce. What? He is a perfect fit for this 0.98

00:01:32.320 anti-American Marxist Dem administration. Spy balloons, China balloons, shoot downs, and missions to

00:01:40.240 recover surveillance payloads all time to come about just as the Republican House investigation

00:01:46.440 into Biden and his crime family began. Bright, shiny objects, those balloons with which to

00:01:53.500 distract the American people of the awfulness of this corrupt Biden regime. China accuses the United

00:02:01.100 States of dramatizing, if you can imagine, their balloon incursion into U.S. airspace. Upset that the

00:02:08.780 House of Representatives actually voted unanimously to condemn China for their intrusions into U.S.

00:02:16.220 territory. I repeat, when was the last time you heard Congress condemning the People's Republic of

00:02:24.260 China? The Chinese are used to Biden kowtowing to their dicta from Beijing, his obeisance to whatever 0.91

00:02:31.820 President Xi demands. Biden is a gutless, clueless, compromised puppet president, which makes him 0.95

00:02:38.960 immensely dangerous. And now the White House and stooge-led Pentagon says they have no evidence that 0.97

00:02:47.020 the balloons belong to China. Pathetic claptrap from woke generals like Milley, who know little and fret 0.98

00:02:55.400 much over cultural issues they don't truly comprehend. And then we find out they didn't actually know that 0.99

00:03:02.460 balloons had been over the U.S. territory under President Trump. It's military leaders like

00:03:08.300 Milley, who act like damn fools and think they can hide behind an obfuscating mouthpiece like Admiral 1.00

00:03:14.840 Kirby. Please spare us further nonsense and lies in the place of facts and truth. And somebody tell 1.00

00:03:23.200 these generals to think of the budget in good sense before they fire at two-bit balloons with almost

00:03:29.520 half-half-million-dollar Sidewinder missiles from $300 million F-22 jet fighters. Really? That's smart

00:03:38.100 to these general officers who run the military? Big shots all and peanut brains. Speaking of peanut

00:03:45.800 brains, Jake Sullivan, Biden's National Security Advisor, has created a task force to focus on these

00:03:52.860 unidentified flying objects. As they call them at the White House, there aren't enough BS

00:03:59.260 groups and titles in the White House already, and the military is sending balloon debris and remains

00:04:05.180 to the, are you ready, the FBI for analysis. You've got to be kidding. The Air Force, the Navy, DARPA,

00:04:13.900 Fort Meade don't have the most advanced analysis teams and equipment? What's wrong with this story?

00:04:20.180 Come on. And now good old former National Director of Intelligence James Clapper with a big story out in

00:04:28.200 the Washington Post. He tells the Post that Politico deliberately distorted the Hunter Biden laptop

00:04:35.460 letter. You know, the one signed by 50 intelligence veterans and five former CIA directors among them,

00:04:42.960 all claiming it was Russian disinformation. Now, 28 months after that incident, think of that.

00:04:51.720 More than two years since that incident that changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election

00:04:58.200 changed history, in fact, and Clapper wants to change his story. I think it's interesting that the

00:05:05.380 facile Clapper has never apologized for signing that document for his part in the now obvious U.S.

00:05:12.780 intelligence disinformation campaign in behalf of Joe Biden just before the last presidential debate

00:05:20.240 and the election. Nor has Clapper or any one of the other signees of that letter claimed they had

00:05:28.140 any other purpose than to destroy the credibility of the New York Post story that set off blackouts of

00:05:35.060 the story in the national establishment and social media and changed American history. And still,

00:05:42.020 the wrong man is in the White House, and that's why, in my opinion, the Marxist Dems and the Deep State

00:05:48.560 continue their political persecution of President Donald Trump, now seeking, according to the New York

00:05:55.140 Times, to break President Trump's attorney-client privilege in the Jack Smith special counsel attack

00:06:02.020 on the former president. Outrageous. Outrageous. And we know it will only get more so.

00:06:10.740 There is good news. The House of Representatives, led by Speaker McCarthy, has passed the resolution

00:06:16.660 condemning China. And the hearings on the weaponization of the federal government against citizens,

00:06:23.580 the Oversight Committee hearings on President Biden and his corruption, the judiciary hearings on the

00:06:30.400 corruption of the DOJ, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, all underway. And the battle to end

00:06:37.720 corruption in our federal government is well underway. Our guest today is Congressman Byron Donalds,

00:06:45.140 outstanding Republican, member of the House Oversight Committee, chaired by Congressman James Comer.

00:06:50.920 Great to have you with us, Congressman Donalds, and congratulations on how quickly the Republican

00:06:56.440 Congress has gotten down to work on these important investigations.

00:07:01.000 He is, actually. And I think, look, you, anytime you have to go through, you know, a little bit of

00:07:07.880 adversity like that, you typically come out stronger. And I think that's what's happened with him.

00:07:13.600 Also, there's been a lot of, a lot of clarity between the members in our conference, which has been

00:07:19.500 really good for us. I think the lines of communication, not even think I know, the lines of communication are

00:07:24.300 open. Members are really engaging on all of these different policy fronts. It's, it's really a team

00:07:30.520 effort. And, you know, I think that's, you have to give credit to the speaker for, you know, number one,

00:07:35.880 allowing, you know, that kind of a framework to happen, because it could go the other way where,

00:07:40.060 you know, Nancy Pelosi, there was no input. It was her way or the highway. And, you know, that was not

00:07:44.760 just for Republicans. That was for her rank and file Democrat members. That's how it was. And so it's been

00:07:49.940 a very open, collaborative process. It's really empowered him, in my view, to be a better speaker.

00:07:55.200 And I'm just glad to see him, you know, taking that mantle and driving the train the way he is.

00:08:00.660 Absolutely. And I think the Republican Party is going to be, is already immensely benefited by

00:08:07.440 the process between all of you who contested the speakership and really tested the way the 118th

00:08:17.460 Congress would operate. I think all of you deserve, as I say, great credit, as well as the speaker

00:08:24.600 coming together and then getting done what you have to this point. I want to turn now, if I may,

00:08:30.860 to the State of the Union. We find out that this has the second smallest TV audience in history,

00:08:37.720 and down 30% from last year, which was also a low watermark. Your thoughts about the State of the

00:08:44.880 Union, your reactions? I mean, I'm not surprised. Joe Biden is boring. I told a couple of reporters

00:08:53.420 that, who asked me, what was I anticipating? And I was like, I just hope we get out of here in a

00:08:59.300 reasonable time, because he's just not good at this. If I were his team, I would have made the speech

00:09:06.400 about 35 minutes. Get in and get out. But, you know, they wanted to give the longest speech I think

00:09:12.100 has ever been given was this one. And it was incoherent, and it was confusing. Like, one point,

00:09:19.680 he's blaming Big Pharma, and on the other hand, he's praising him. So, I don't know which Joe Biden

00:09:25.900 you're looking for. His comments about how billionaires shouldn't pay a lower tax rate than

00:09:32.860 a teacher. Well, first of all, that's just a lie. Even, like, Washington Post, I think, now has come out.

00:09:38.400 There are fact checkers that come out and said that that is not true. So, it's all over the place.

00:09:43.420 He barely talked about the border, barely talked about foreign policy, which there are major foreign

00:09:49.700 policy things going on in the world right now. And he was focused on baggage fees and resort fees. I

00:09:55.420 mean, like, it was ridiculous. Yeah, I think ridiculous is a terrific definition of what that 0.86

00:10:05.380 speech was. And he didn't mention the balloon. And even in the absence of a mention, he managed to

00:10:13.440 say he was going to work with Xi Jinping. And don't you worry about all of those incursions by the

00:10:18.800 communist Chinese with their surveillance balloons, most of which we didn't pick up, apparently,

00:10:24.800 at the time they were crossing into U.S. territory. Amazing.

00:10:29.760 Well, one thing, I'm glad you raised Xi Jinping. He had this point in the speech was,

00:10:36.080 name one world leader that would love to trade places with Xi Jinping. He's like, name one,

00:10:41.960 none of them want to. And I'm like, dude, what are you talking about? Do you think Vladimir Zelensky

00:10:46.900 would trade his hand of having the arsenal of the Chinese government versus his arsenal now?

00:10:52.120 I think so. You know, I'm like, and stuff like that just makes no sense at all. But that's what

00:10:57.480 Joe Biden was saying. Yeah, it was, it was, the speech was ridiculous, as you say. It was also 0.98

00:11:04.340 stupefying, the incoherence, the absurdities, and the litany of Marxist items on his agenda.

00:11:15.160 This man, it may be a puppet, but he's a well-schooled puppet in Marxist ideology.

00:11:21.140 He's attacking just about everything that is worthwhile in the United States,

00:11:27.140 whether it's our public school system, whether it is the American family, whether it is the middle

00:11:32.780 class, whether it is the U.S. government itself that is now riddled with political corruption.

00:11:39.680 And that brings us to the committees that are formed to investigate whether it is the

00:11:45.820 weaponization of government or whether it be the oversight committee, trying to figure out what in

00:11:52.740 the world this president has been doing with all of the evidence arrayed against him and managing to,

00:11:59.680 for over four years, escape a significant investigation and conclusion, even a report

00:12:07.120 from the Department of Justice. Your thoughts? I'm very concerned. This is not good. Because what

00:12:16.640 we've, what we're starting to unveil in the oversight committee is that you have some elements of the

00:12:23.220 FBI, some elements of CDC, presidential campaigns, the Democrat National Committee, all working in concert

00:12:34.800 to suppress information, to suppress free speech. They're doing it on purpose. And the purpose of

00:12:41.520 why they're doing it is to interfere in an election. As much as they tried to blame the $100,000 in

00:12:48.840 Facebook ads that Russians operatives bought during the 2016 campaign and tried to tie that to Donald

00:12:56.800 Trump with all of the hand wringing and the shouting and the fear mongering that the Democrats have done

00:13:03.280 the last, the last really the last six years now over this issue. Um, it's nothing. It's a drop in a

00:13:10.960 bucket to what they actually did with the social media companies in the middle of the 2020 election.

00:13:17.280 That, that, that is what is becoming very, very clear. And I know we're focused on Twitter right now,

00:13:23.040 but if it was happening at Twitter, it happened at Facebook. It happened at Google. And so there's

00:13:28.880 going to be a lot more investigations to come. We're just getting started. Yeah. And, uh, a lot more

00:13:34.380 happened as, as dastardly as everything that, uh, that's being revealed, uh, about, uh, Twitter and its

00:13:42.660 relationship with the FBI, the department of justice, the intelligence community as dastardly

00:13:48.180 as all of that is, we know that the role of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook was even worse, uh,

00:13:55.380 whether it be voter turnout, uh, whether it, the list goes on at, uh, Facebook. And I'm sure that's

00:14:02.900 going to be a monumental investigation. I'll tell you, I'll tell you myself in the Hunter Biden, uh, story

00:14:10.500 is, was, is the tip of the iceberg. I'm talking about all the silencing of voices, um, not allowing

00:14:16.900 for conservative thought leaders, uh, viewpoints to matriculate through that platform. Um, the shadow

00:14:23.940 banning that, that looks like was occurring. You know, I look at my own, you know, Twitter following

00:14:29.020 for about a year and a half before Elon Musk bought Twitter, my Twitter followers never went past 150,000.

00:14:36.260 Like it just never, it would hover around 147 is sometime somewhere. Right. Elon Musk buys the

00:14:42.780 place, takes off all the shadow banning stuff. Like I'm around 260,000. So I'm like, I, you know,

00:14:48.740 I was on Twitter, I was doing stuff. I would tweet, but you would never see your reach grow when you

00:14:55.160 observe. And I'm not the only member of Congress that's happened to his members all over this building

00:14:59.680 where once Elon Musk bought Twitter, they're following the people who follow them actually started

00:15:04.660 to grow because what's pretty clear to me is they weren't tamping down on the movement of

00:15:10.260 information. And that, that is so detrimental to a democracy. As much as the Democrats want to

00:15:16.580 lecture everybody on saving the democracy, what they were in my view, promoting in some ways,

00:15:24.320 completely act asking for, and what they were able to achieve was the silencing of their critics

00:15:32.520 and their rivals politically. If they're doing that, that is completely destructive of the

00:15:38.640 democracy. Well, and we do want to mention that they threw a sitting president off of social media

00:15:46.980 completely. And Twitter took the first, the first action. I mean, in this moment, it's hardly a cool

00:15:56.320 moment, but it is a cooler moment than the, in the middle of the 2020 election to deny the president

00:16:02.880 of the United States of media doesn't have an effect. My gosh, it's, it's just unthinkable what we have

00:16:12.520 experienced. And you mentioned the, the investigations of president Trump to impeachments. Now another

00:16:18.000 special counsel, uh, investigation, uh, which was, is completely cockamamie. Uh, it's, it's just

00:16:25.820 ignorant, uh, to have created, but here we are. And the only wrongdoing that's been discovered in over

00:16:32.300 six years of these investigations against a president and a presidential candidate, uh, and a, uh, a former

00:16:39.100 president who happened to be the same man, Donald, Donald J. Trump, the only wrongdoing has been by

00:16:45.860 four consecutive directors of the FBI who lied to the American people, the, the actions of the

00:16:53.140 intelligence community, the department of justice and the FBI, and not a single one of them has been

00:17:00.660 held accountable for trying to overthrow the president of the United States. And that is precisely what

00:17:06.160 they're doing with. And the evidence is sitting right there in front of everyone in Congress,

00:17:10.720 every one of us in this country, that they tried to overthrow the president of the United States.

00:17:17.360 It's just mind boggling.

00:17:18.500 You know, everything you said is true. And you know, it's true because in the oversight hearings,

00:17:24.140 the Democrats weren't pushing back saying, this is a lie. This is a lie. This is a lie.

00:17:28.920 What they were saying was, oh, well, what about January 6th? That's what, that was where they were

00:17:34.700 going. Well, what about January 6th? That's, that was their entire line of questioning. And so it's,

00:17:40.080 this is so problematic because I've been saying this for a couple months now, Republicans are

00:17:45.860 going to have to be the party that saves the democracy, because it's clear that it's clear

00:17:50.620 that the Democrats are only interested in having a political system where they become the only

00:17:58.540 arbiter of truth, where they are, they have all the keys and they hold all the doors. And that's,

00:18:05.560 it's not going to be functional long term. I was telling some of my colleagues that, listen,

00:18:08.840 I'm more than happy to debate you. Come and sit down and let's debate. We can go at it all day

00:18:13.400 long. It could be one of them. It could be a Senator. It could be the president. I don't care.

00:18:17.600 Let's sit down and do it. But I will give you the ability to speak. I won't stop you from sharing

00:18:23.120 your ideas. Personally, I think your ideas are nutty anyway. So go ahead and share them. Share them.

00:18:28.360 I'm fine. I'll stand on mine. You stand on yours. But when you have the situation we have

00:18:33.660 currently where the media covers up, where the social media companies are suppressing information,

00:18:39.280 how are the American people supposed to be able to get the information necessary to make solid

00:18:44.380 political decisions for their future? That's the problem. And that's what the that's what the

00:18:48.660 democracy faces right now. Without question. And talking about President Trump being thrown off

00:18:54.320 social media, I had the same experience, by the way, my followers resumed after Elon Musk took over

00:19:01.120 Twitter, the number of followers growing. It's interesting that in the last month, I've been

00:19:07.200 shadow banned again, without comment, without reason. As a matter of fact, I got a funny message.

00:19:13.860 I wanted to follow some of the folks, and I do this every once in a while, who are following me.

00:19:19.120 They're not necessarily, you know, they're not blue check people. They're just people following. And I

00:19:23.940 kind of like having them in my news line. And because I am a populist, after all.

00:19:30.280 And I get a message from Twitter saying that I've gone over my limit on followers. I mean, that's a new one

00:19:39.020 for me, as if it's a strategic plan on my part of some kind, to want to reciprocate with as many of my

00:19:46.420 followers as I can. And I'm not talking, I'm talking about relatively small numbers compared to the number

00:19:51.780 of followers. But nonetheless, it's what I like to do. Right. It's bizarre.

00:19:57.680 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

00:20:01.800 done. And, you know, going back to some of the stuff that we worked on during the speakership

00:20:06.440 election, it's not just going to be the oversight committee or the judiciary committee. We have the

00:20:11.860 committee, the weaponization of the federal government. That committee is real. A lot of stuff is going to

00:20:19.120 come out of that committee as well. Excited for them to get started under the leadership of Jim

00:20:23.980 Jordan. Because at the end of the day, we want a government that's working for people, not against

00:20:29.720 them, not over them.

00:20:31.460 Yeah, absolutely. And give us a sense how you feel the investigations are going so far. The most

00:20:39.220 prominent, of course, the Oversight Committee and the Judiciary Committee. Is there a sense of urgency

00:20:45.940 here? Because I have to say, it's critically important, in my view, that you will not only

00:20:52.800 do these jobs, but you do them with a sense of urgency. Because this is just no time for business

00:20:58.960 as usual. It can't be a show and tell. This has got to result in significant, significant

00:21:05.400 conclusions.

00:21:08.280 Well, yeah, I agree with you. It's not going to be a drag out. I think the Democrats, when they did

00:21:14.160 the January 6th Committee, it was on purpose. It was to be drug out over time to do whatever they

00:21:20.740 could to impact the midterm elections. That's why they did it the way they did it. We're going to

00:21:26.500 get down to business. Talking with Chair Comer and Chair Jordan, we're not sitting around in our hands.

00:21:33.520 We're actively going through the work. Our staffs are going through this work in real time

00:21:40.420 in overdrive. Because one of the things that's come up is you open up one box of stuff, and then

00:21:48.320 that box leads you to five other things. And so you really have to go through the process. You can't

00:21:54.760 play political games with it. You have to get down to business. But one thing I do want to make sure

00:22:00.600 that I state is it's not just the investigations that are coming out of this Congress. We are focused

00:22:06.300 on legislating and actually putting together plans, policies, frankly, for Joe Biden to sign if the

00:22:13.900 Senate takes them up around energy, around our border, around the financial system and the regulatory

00:22:21.780 system. We're looking at what tax policy is going to look like because the Trump tax cuts are actually

00:22:28.100 going to start expiring over the next couple of years. And what is tax policy going to look like

00:22:32.980 in the United States? We're looking at these things. What about supply chains? We're looking

00:22:38.720 at all that. And there's legislation to come on all these items. So, you know, I don't want people

00:22:43.980 feeling like all they're doing is investigations. Like we're going to do the investigations, but we're

00:22:49.020 going to be an active legislative House of Representatives as well. We're going to do that job.

00:22:55.720 Well, that's great, great news. And you asserted something at the outset of our conversation,

00:23:04.660 talking about the public's right to know. You didn't frame it that way, but that's what we're

00:23:09.260 talking about. The records that were sealed by the J6 committee, all of the documents and the video,

00:23:16.440 and it goes across every department of this government. Foyer requests that are ignored

00:23:23.300 and games are played. Everything that you can do to put, serve the public's right to know,

00:23:31.660 put these records and these documents in front of them, I think would be a very, very helpful

00:23:37.600 action on the part of the Congress. Your thoughts?

00:23:42.000 No, I totally agree with you. That is something that is on its way as well. I think the respective

00:23:49.080 committee is actually going to be led by my good friend, Barry Loudermilk out of Georgia. And so

00:23:55.060 he takes this very seriously. He's just an excellent man of character, you know, quality member of

00:24:02.920 Congress. And that's something that he's working on with the Speaker.

00:24:05.620 That's great news as well. Congressman, we always give our guests the last word here. And if I may,

00:24:12.580 I'd like to ask you for your concluding thoughts. It's been great having you with us here on the show.

00:24:17.440 Well, I'll tell you, it's an exciting time on Capitol Hill. First of all, Nancy Pelosi is not

00:24:23.780 Speaker of the House. So, you know, it's always a good thing. But it's a time where it's going to

00:24:28.780 be very active. There's going to be a lot of collaboration and input from all the members

00:24:33.640 of Congress, even the Democrat members. And there's a lot of policy areas I don't agree with them on.

00:24:38.440 But there is room or something that we do agree on. And when that stuff happens, we're going to work

00:24:42.640 on it and get it done. You know, I mean, you've seen some of that already dealing with the COVID

00:24:49.060 emergency. You had Democrats join us to support ending the COVID emergency and things like this.

00:24:56.760 So, you know, the resolution condemning socialism. I know 100 Democrats voted against the resolution

00:25:03.480 to condemn socialism, but half of their conference voted with us. That's a good thing. We should be

00:25:11.600 condemning socialism. And then when we get down to the real policy issues, I work on a lot of nuclear

00:25:16.060 policy stuff. We have Democrats that want to work with me on nuclear policy initiatives because that's

00:25:21.060 going to be critical to our energy matrix going forward. I just think that, you know, in spite of

00:25:26.660 the circus of politics, I think that there's a lot of stuff that can get done. And I always believe

00:25:34.680 in America. I believe in the American people. We have the can-do spirit. And so I think that we just

00:25:39.480 got to make sure Washington does its job so the American people can flourish and thrive. And, 0.98

00:25:44.400 you know, we do that, man, we'll be just fine.

00:25:47.480 Well, I think you're exactly right. And I hope that somewhere in there, there is room for a

00:25:54.060 condemnation of the People's Republic of China for violating our sovereignty along the way.

00:26:01.480 Congressman Byron Donalds, thanks so much for being with us. You're a great American.

00:26:06.720 We wish you continued success and God bless you.

00:26:11.200 Listen, anytime, Lou. Thanks for having me on.

00:26:13.260 Thanks, everybody, for being with us today. Here tomorrow, our guest is General Michael Flynn,

00:26:18.680 former National Security Advisor to President Trump. You don't want to miss him.

00:26:23.380 General Flynn, here tomorrow. Till then, thanks, God bless you, and God bless America.

The Great America Show - February 15, 2023

DEMS ARE DESTRUCTIVE OF DEMOCRACY AS THEY WORK TO SILENCE REPUBLICANS AND CRITICS

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