In this episode, Rep. Claudia Tenney (D-NY) talks with Lou Dobbs about her ongoing investigation of Joe Biden and his family, including his son Hunter Biden, who has been charged with conspiracy to commit tax evasion and money laundering. Tenney is a two-term congresswoman and sits on the Science, Space and Technology Committee.
00:04:55.100We think there's a whole lot more out there.
00:04:56.720But this is what – when you talk about slow walking, the DOJ tried to obstruct the whistleblowers and others who brought these cases to their attention.
00:05:06.740Remember, the whole reason the IRS stumbled upon the Hunter Biden issue is they were investigating an international porn ring.
00:05:14.560And this Hunter Biden popped up in here, the suspicious activity reports, the violation of law, the money laundering, the tax evasion.
00:05:22.760And so they're trying to slow walk it because as each year goes by, they lose another year of being able to prosecute Hunter Biden for the millions of dollars that came in and the millions of dollars in tax evasion.
00:05:34.720So there's a motive there to protect the administration.
00:05:37.460The job of the Department of Justice is not to protect the administration.
00:05:41.660Yes, we know they're appointed by the administration, but their job is to uphold justice and our laws.
00:05:46.680And this is where we're seeing a complete dereliction of duty by whether it's Christopher Wray with the IRS, whether it's Merrick Garland trying to engage in this cover-up.
00:05:55.920And now we have Attorney General out of Delaware Vice giving conflicting statements, you know, which need to be looked at.
00:06:02.000But I think what Kevin McCarthy is trying to do – and I'm not trying to defend him, but we want to make sure if we get an impeachment, we get an impeachment.
00:06:09.140We don't want to go through the processes that the Democrats did, the abuse of power by Nancy Pelosi, to throw these impeachments out against Donald Trump wrongly that didn't happen.
00:06:20.180And that really we want to make sure if we get – if we go for the king, we want to make sure we take his head off.
00:06:26.080And I think that's what we really want to do with Biden.
00:06:28.080We really want to make sure we have everything in place.
00:06:30.300And we want to make sure we're following the Constitution and the law.
00:06:37.560But I think right now we've had pretty good accomplishments over this very short time after a very arduous start with our speaker vote taking a long time with the very narrow majority that we have.
00:06:48.620We have a lot of issues that have come to play, but we've gotten some things over the line.
00:06:52.280And I think one of the things, Lou, that's important is that the Democrats always stick together, and we normally never do.
00:06:57.700We have stuck together on a lot of issues this year and got some major accomplishments.
00:07:03.000Our biggest hassle and problem now is getting things through the Senate and getting things to stick beyond the administration.
00:07:10.340So holding them accountable is job number one.
00:07:13.120But we've got to maintain our majority.
00:07:14.780We've got to come back, and we've got to get a majority in the Senate, and we have to take back the White House because that's the only way we're going to save this country.
00:07:22.180I think that's true, but at the same time, there's also an urgency because this corrupt administration is destroying lives every day, and the American people deserve action and not just simply process.
00:07:53.740We're talking with Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, and I just want to say that, again, you are doing remarkable work for the country and for the people you represent in New York, and we're all deeply grateful to you.
00:08:07.080I don't think we say that enough to the representatives who are making a real difference in Washington, D.C., but I want to make certain that we make our gratitude known.
00:08:17.820Let's turn to the whistleblowers, and those whistleblowers have made all of the difference in the investigation, for all of the investigation committees.
00:08:27.700Give us your assessment as to where you are and the whistleblowers, their importance, and the status of their testimony.
00:08:38.720Thank you, Lou, and thank you for the kind words.
00:08:40.300Look, I'm getting older now, and one of my missions is to do whatever I can to save America just like you.
00:08:45.220I mean, I look at it, it says Lou Dobbs' Great America Show.
00:08:48.200I think it should be Great American Lou Dobbs Show and what you do and the courage to stand up, but I think that many of us now feel that way.
00:08:58.580I go out of my way to make sure that we can save this republic, and I think one of the most important things that we remember from Lincoln in a real crisis time during the Civil War was, yes, can we save the republic?
00:09:09.880But more importantly, can we be self-governing?
00:09:12.880And that's one of the reasons that I actually explain every vote that I take on the House floor in detail.
00:09:19.640I want to create a nation of informed patriots who make good votes, who can be self-governing and preserve this country, because that's the only way we're going to preserve it.
00:09:28.460And the authoritarianism, the creeping communism from the left is really part of that whole woke culture.
00:09:35.380So the whistleblower is really important because this is about us being able to stand up to our government, to know, and when we see something wrong in our government, to hold that open.
00:09:45.280And Jason Smith, our chairman, when becoming chair of the Ways and Means Committee, opened up a whistleblower portal, something we didn't have before, and encouraged whistleblowers to come forward.
00:09:55.880I have to emphasize, neither one of these whistleblowers are political or even necessarily Republicans.
00:10:01.460One said that he's actually a gay Democrat.
00:10:04.120So this is why it's so important to preserve our country and our ability to stand up to our government.
00:10:09.020This is just basic and critical to what our founders stood for.
00:10:13.600So that's why these whistleblowers are so important, why we're highlighting them, why we're trying to make their testimony, you know, part of the record.
00:10:22.820We've made it public. People can read those whistleblower.
00:10:26.000You can go to the Ways and Means Committee. You can go to my website.
00:10:28.960We have all this testimony and all this information up if you want to read what they had to say.
00:10:33.420And this is just a small snippet of the beginning of all the crime that has been put together by the Biden administration.
00:10:40.560And I can't think of anyone more corrupt.
00:10:43.020And I know a lot of people say, well, gee, Joe Biden's just supporting his son.
00:10:47.380Let us be clear. Joe Biden is using a son, a vulnerable person with a disability, a drug problem.
00:10:53.740And he's using him. He's still taking him, you know, brass brazenly.
00:10:58.420He's at state dinners. Well, a state dinner that Merrick Garland is in.
00:11:02.140He's traveling around the world with him.
00:11:04.240He traveled on Air Force Two when he was vice president of the United States and met with the Chinese Communist Party officials.
00:11:10.140And then what do you know, a few weeks later, made a Chinese part, a deal with the Chinese Communist Party for an energy deal.
00:11:15.860This is the guy that's forcing the Green New Deal on all of us and especially in New York State.
00:11:20.600And yet at the same time, you know, is making money off energy and oil and gas and natural gas and liquefied natural gas.
00:11:28.360This is just totally hypocritical and totally outrageous.
00:13:08.420And I think when more Americans realize what's going on and why it's leading to us having inflation spending and letting these people get away with the types of things they are in our criminal justice system,
00:13:19.280why it's so important that we continue this fight and using the whistleblowers and giving them the opportunity to speak out when they see corruption in their own ranks.
00:14:59.420He got elected right after law school and has always been in an elected office.
00:15:04.280So the only way he can make money is actually by using his position in government, whether it's as a senator or vice president or now as president of the United States.
00:15:13.880You can't do it directly, but you can use your family members.
00:15:52.180It's preventing us from being competitive on the world market.
00:15:56.000And this is going to be a problem going forward if we don't deal with this inflation issue,
00:15:59.820which is directly tied to the Biden administration's, you know, excessive spending.
00:16:05.360Their handouts to their friends who are in the Green New Deal businesses that are really just private equity firms that are setting up,
00:16:13.140you know, money to get from government, giving themselves high salaries and then forcing us all, you know,
00:16:18.880to live without air conditioning, live without heat and, you know, to not be able to drive our cars and get to work.
00:16:24.080And I think this is part of the control situation that you're seeing, that the Biden administration is masterminding and hurting Americans.
00:16:31.180But inflation and just the way the media is also covering for them, that's really dangerous when we have a media that's not in check.
00:16:40.020And your show and independent media organizations that call this out are what people are going to be relying on.
00:16:45.900And that's why, again, why I explain my vote.
00:16:47.860People need a place to go where they can get reliable information.
00:16:50.660They know what's really going on and they can make good decisions.
00:16:53.220They can discern what's fact, what's fiction, what's real.
00:16:56.420Because I think that's one of the biggest challenges of the day is how do we believe this explosion of information that we have?
00:17:15.900We're back now talking with Representative Claudia Tenney, and I want to turn to what you were saying earlier.
00:17:23.080The oligarch, the Ukrainian oligarch who has tapes, he says, of Hunter and Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, and for his protection, he kept them.
00:17:35.680Has the Congress seen any of the investigating committees seen or heard of these tapes?
00:17:40.680Do we know if the oligarch still has them in his possession?
00:17:44.160As far as we know, I don't know of anyone officially on Oversight Judiciary or on our Ways and Means Committee who have actually listened to the tapes.
00:17:54.320And if they're still in existence, they would be certainly critical.
00:17:57.240But just look to what Tony Bobulinski said and look at the laptop.
00:18:01.240I mean, the laptop is, you know, a wealth for information all over that laptop that leads us everywhere.
00:18:07.680We know that Joe Biden was actually, you know, the Democrats and the Hunter Biden's lawyer trying to claim that the WhatsApp message was fake.
00:18:18.180That was an actual message verified by WhatsApp taken from, you know, and then the time frame that happened on a Sunday in Delaware.
00:18:25.740And we have placed Joe Biden and Hunter Biden at their home and at Joe's home in Delaware at the same time.
00:18:32.080So the question is, if Joe Biden's sitting in the room and he's engaging in this type of extortionary threats to these foreign countries, again, more leverage on foreign countries.
00:19:39.260Just on the Afghanistan withdrawal alone, add the border, add this now corruption scheme that we're finding out about.
00:19:45.920Let's put all these these in place and make sure that we get a solid impeachment against him.
00:19:51.580I think Mayorkas alone on the border should get impeached.
00:19:54.820And I think what's happening with Merrick Garland is totally corrupt.
00:19:57.600And then let's look at the conflicting statements of A.G. Weiss in Delaware of not of saying, well, I was in charge.
00:20:04.360Oh, no, I didn't have you know, these are if these were Trump family members or Trump administration people, they would all be charged with something.
00:20:13.080And so as the House, we have that we can bring impeachment proceedings.
00:20:17.040We just have to make sure we have enough evidence that we can get the Senate to go along with us.
00:20:22.760I mean, that's part of the problem is getting the Senate to go along with us under Chuck Schumer, who is, you know, from New York.
00:20:28.600Remember, Chuck Schumer, who runs the Senate side of the of the Capitol, is from New York and served in the state legislature.
00:20:35.800Hakeem Jeffries, who runs the minority side, you know, only we only have a five seat majority at the moment, but runs the minority side in the House of Representatives.
00:20:44.040On the other side of the Capitol also comes from the House of Representatives or from the state assembly.
00:20:49.240And he used to incidentally sit next to me in the state legislature in my first term.
00:20:53.340So we have two New York City left wing Democrats on, you know, running and running interference, running interference with the Biden administration.
00:21:02.300You see people like AOC are supposed to be independent and standing up.
00:21:06.000What's she doing? She's now decided she's going to support, you know, decrepit old Joe, who's also really corrupt and really gross.
00:21:12.920You know, touching other young children. And I mean, you know, the list goes on.
00:21:17.840I can't find a redeeming quality in Joe Biden, to be honest with you.
00:21:20.820I got to be I just I've never really cared for the guy. I think he's worse as president.
00:21:25.580I think he's had a number of, you know, slip ups in terms of his mental acuity to be able to do this really, really important and serious job.
00:21:34.320And yet the Democrats, they don't care.
00:21:35.980They, you know, as Nancy Pelosi famously said, I can get a glass of water elected.
00:21:40.660And so as long as they have people behind the scenes, you know, commandeering Joe Biden and acting as the puppet, you know, the puppeteers, they're going to keep them there.
00:21:50.860And that's just a sad state of affairs for Democrats to think it's OK to have a person that doesn't have the ability to make decisions,
00:21:57.760a person that doesn't have the ability to really understand everything that's going on that he needs to understand as the commander in chief
00:22:04.720and the president of the most important country in this in this world right now.
00:22:08.840It's truly dispiriting your your description of the the leaders of the Democratic conference in the House and the Senate.
00:22:21.540It's because it's so accurate and it is so true what they have done to President Trump,
00:22:29.040what the political persecution of a sitting president trying to derail a candidate and failing and then trying to overthrow his presidency,
00:22:39.740then persecuting him beyond his term in office.
00:22:44.140I agree. And we this is the people have to stand up now.
00:22:47.160They have to recognize this. We have to make this clear.
00:25:21.300Our country needs to be able to reward courage again.
00:25:24.340I mean, when you look in the past, people died for their beliefs.
00:25:27.960People stood up for our patriots, stood up in the founding of our nation and throughout our early history because they knew what was at stake.
00:25:42.900But, I mean, there are some people out there that I would – I think that if we do see Democrats who are willing to stand up, we need to embrace them and recognize that they are trying to do the right thing.
00:25:51.900And I think that that's part of what we can do in the future.
00:25:55.040But right now, so many of them are scared off by a primary or scared off by, you know, not standing up.
00:26:17.100Self-governance is what our country is about.
00:26:19.300If we can't be self-governing, we're going to allow this government out of control, the Marxist Dems, as you call them, to run our lives and to allow the woke culture to take over.
00:26:41.020And God bless you and all your listeners.
00:26:42.860Thanks to Congresswoman Claudia Tenney.
00:26:45.040And we thank you for joining us as well.
00:26:47.600And join us here tomorrow when our guest will be Tash Patel, former top official of the Defense Department, Chief of Staff for the House Intel Chairman, Devin Nunes, and federal prosecutor.