FULL HOUSE INVESTIGATION OF BIDEN CORRUPTION SCANDAL, CALLED FOR BY REP. ISSA
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Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) joins us on The Great America Show to talk about his opposition to Marxist globalist plans to create a one-world government, as well as his call for U.S. troops to fight in Ukraine.
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Hello, everybody. This is the Great America Show. Thanks for being with us as we fight to preserve
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and protect the American way. The American way was under bold assault on Face the Nation this
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weekend, as leftist Margaret Brennan and her guest, far-left Delaware Senator Chris Coons,
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appeared to be following the same corporate globalist script, as they clearly stated their
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views that it's up to the United States to finance a vaccination program at solely American taxpayer
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expense, of course, to save lives around the world. Now, these two on CBS, obviously enthusiastic
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about the plan, many Marxists who decry the United Nations failure to live up to the hopes and
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expectations of predominantly Marxist one-worlders, are now trying to find another direction in which
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to build global governance. Where has the United Nations been in Ukraine, for example? Why has
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it acquiesced to the will of communist China and Russia? And where is the United Nations World
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Health Organization in combating the COVID virus around the world? Doesn't it have a global ambition
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for vaccination? Why didn't Brennan and Coons take up those obvious questions? Why did they ignore the
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tremendous existing U.S. national debt of $30 trillion, greater than the size of our national
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economy? Why not discuss fair shares of burden, including communist China, the Middle East, the
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European Union, all nations with far less debt than the United States? The American Marxists appear ready
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to be the next best thing when it comes to creating a foundation for building that one-world government,
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as they seek to intentionally squander more of America's wealth, run up ruinous levels of national
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debt that will crush American taxpayers, devastate the most secure markets on the planet, the American
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capital markets, and destroy the U.S. economy. That is clearly their intention. There is no other
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certainly obvious possibility. Doubt that the Marxist-left Democrats don't mean to destroy us?
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Here's Brennan asking Coons if President Biden should set a red line in Ukraine and send in U.S.
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troops. Coons wouldn't back away from his call for the Biden administration to consider sending troops
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to Ukraine. He is, in my opinion, a sickening example of the worst kind of leftists, willing to
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sacrifice American lives to serve their mad Marxist agenda. Absolutely disgusting. The senator, though,
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wasn't through. He then tried to hijack Easter for his call to send our troops to another foreign war,
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irrespective of our national interest, irrespective of the cost in American lives and treasure, while
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insulting a billion or more Christians. Coons revealed himself as nothing more than another
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leftists trying to eliminate God from our lives in America. He said this, that the reason American
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families come together on Easter is to celebrate the best of the human spirit and grieve the loss of
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lives to COVID. The senator ignored the obvious truth, that on Easter, Christians celebrate the
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resurrection of the Son of God, the most significant day in all of Christianity, the keeping of God's
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promise, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the gift of forgiveness of our sins and life eternal for those
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who believe in Jesus Christ. Coons actually tried to secularize the holiest of days in Christianity with his
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ignorant and destructive call for American troops in Ukraine, and he did so without comment from the show's
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host. As I said, disgusting. But Florida and its governor are inspiring parents and state governments
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all over the country. As Florida fights the Marxist STEM's efforts to indoctrinate their students in public
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schools. Florida's Education Department banned 54, imagine that, 54 of the school's math textbooks, math, mind you,
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for trying to indoctrinate students in critical race theory, in math classes, not just CRT, but other woke
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nonsense, including Common Core and SEL, social emotional learning. Not in Florida, and good for
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Florida. Woke ideology is also a huge problem in the federal government, and believe it or not, in our
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military. The Pentagon driving the woke nonsense throughout the services, and many question the
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effect on our troops and their combat readiness. Not a minor issue in these uncertain times. Joining us
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today, our guest is Congressman Darrell Issa, one of the truly great Americans of the Congress,
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a businessman, a politician. He's a member of the Foreign Affairs and Judiciary Committees.
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Issa is also a member of the Republican Study Committee, a large number of caucuses,
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including the Second Amendment, Army, and Border Security Caucuses. And we're delighted to have
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you with us here on The Great America Show. Congressman, welcome. You're already in the thick of the action
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here. You've called for the DOJ to investigate Black Lives Matter after it used $6 million of its
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nonprofit donations to buy a sprawling Los Angeles mansion. What could be wrong with that?
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So many things, Lou. Thank you for having me on, and thanks for covering what is on its face a
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wrongful activity. You know, not everything that happens can you look and say, well, wait a second,
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that shouldn't happen. Sometimes you have to do a little investigation to find out if there's a good
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reason. Now, what is the good reason that somebody might invest in a house that is currently fair
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market valued at about $4 million and pay $6 million on something that they clearly can't use? It's not an
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office property. It is a mansion. But that would be bad enough. But the facts of it are that in a matter
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of weeks after it was bought, it was flipped to them for almost $3 million more than had been paid
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for it. You go, well, wait a second, that's inherently wrong. It's clearly inherently wrong
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to pay too much and, of course, have a connection to the person who made it. And then the question is,
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where did that money go? So that's why this is not a hard one. This is one for the IRS and the
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Department of Justice to do their job. And what do you, by the way, I didn't realize,
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I mean, the aggregates at play there, I think is somewhere around, what, $9 to $10 million then
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between flips, purchases. This house was sold for what might have been a deal
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at around $3 million and then resold to Black Lives Matter at $6 million a few weeks later.
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Those two transactions back to back could not have been without anticipation. And they're exactly the
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way if you're trying to play a shell of taking not nonprofit money, charity money, and funnel it to
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yourself, whether it's in commissions or in unearned profits of flipping the house.
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That's what is on its face, easy to see. I've talked to half a dozen of the best realtors who
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deal in these kinds of properties. No question at all, the first sale was at or below a fair market.
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The next sale was clearly above fair market. And if you run a nonprofit, you have fiduciary obligation
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not to be a stupid buyer, but you also have an obligation to spend the money for the intended purpose.
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There is no intended purpose that has been stated on this. And everyone that's been asked has simply
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clammed up and they won't talk until somebody comes in like the IRS that has the right to revoke
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Black Lives Matter's tax-free status and collect revenues on these gains, or the Department of
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Justice that walks in with the kind of clout that you don't just say, I won't talk to you.
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But that right now isn't happening, and we need it to happen. Obviously, as a member of Congress,
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we can do some investigations. But look, we don't want to investigate every charity that does wrong,
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but we certainly want to make sure that the taxpayers are protected. And in fairness, donors
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who gave money to organizations like this need to be protected. And that's a lot of money, a lot of money
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to go into a house way above market under such suspicious circumstances.
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I want to get to some of the other sources, reported sources for Black Lives Matter. It's a
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self-confessed Marxist organization. But this is the co-founder of BLM reacting to those darn 990s
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and the requirements to report faithfully for your nonprofit. Here's Patrice Cullors on the
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inconvenience of our tax code. You know, first of all, number one, I actually did not know what
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990s were before all of this happened. It's confusing. So part of the opportunity here is to
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educate our folks. Like something's being weaponized against us that many people don't even know and
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honestly don't care about. I didn't know about them until they started asking us for them for
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COVID relief funds. I said, you need my 990s. I had to call the accountant.
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Yeah, exactly. Yeah. The accountant handled that. Like, I don't know what that is.
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It is such a trip now to hear the word, the term 990s. I'm like, it's like triggering.
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She obviously has a great sense of humor about it. She was giggling just a bit reminiscent of
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Kamala Harris, the vice president. Her response to lots of questions, giggling over
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a serious issue. What kind of support are you getting for this inquiry into Black Lives Matter?
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I've been getting lots and lots of calls. You know, I operate a family foundation. I file a 990.
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And I got to tell you, we don't give to any charities without looking at their 990. And
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there are independent agencies who evaluate these charities and they give them an A through an F.
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What do you think the Black Lives Matter's rating is? Yes, it is an F. If there was an F minus,
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they would have it. And the reason simply is that the money brought in versus the money that actually
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can be shown going to any beneficiaries is de minimis. And that's what gets you an F is lots
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of money coming in, no benefit going out. And so, you know, my view on this is if you, if you founded
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a nonprofit and you don't know that the 990 is how people get an assurance that you're honestly filing,
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you know, filing, using the money properly, because a 990 is not a private IRS form. It's a public form
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so that a public foundation can be held at least reasonably accountable. And I don't care if you're
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the Red Cross or you're a very small family foundation, you file these because the public
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has a right to know. And the right to know in this case includes the source of that funding.
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And we understand that a number of the donors to Black Lives Matter and supporters are corporate
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corporations, big corporations who have decided to take on a left wing embrace of social governance
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that is all too, in my judgment, all too common in corporate America. What would be the implications
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for any corporate donor that gets involved with this, this nonprofit now?
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Well, corporate boards do get embarrassed when they see a company misusing the funds,
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but sometimes it takes a long time. And you mentioned left leaning boards and that those you can't
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embarrass, you can't shame. But, you know, over the years, you know, Jesse Jackson with his rainbow
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push and others, they ran shakedowns of these corporations, basically saying,
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give to us or we're going to be focusing on your bank and the like. And Black Lives Matter,
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I believe, took a page out of that. And that is part of how they got money from some entities
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who would love nothing more than to say, look, we can no longer give to this group because
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they clearly have some governance problems or the like. And it's one of the reasons that 990s can be
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telling. A board sometimes can look and say, look, we understand they're asking for money,
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but this is not a charity. This is somebody's piggy bank. And, you know, there's been history of other
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organizations. And, you know, I disagree with what Black Lives Matter does and how they've incited
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riots and they've been part of violence. I disagree with a lot of that. But even if you agree with Black
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Lives Matter, you've got to be shaking your head and saying, this wasn't supposed to be giving to
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private individuals to enrich themselves, but it clearly is. And they are way too close between
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their not-for-profit and, quite frankly, their own profit-making, which appears to be huge.
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Absolutely. And I want to go to another area that, let's put it this way, public interest and
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great concern, and that is the Hunter Biden laptop. We now know with a clear, clear timeline,
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the implication of Hunter Biden into, frankly, the impeachment, the first impeachment of President
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Trump, his role in Ukraine, he and his father's role to a degree, but the degree to which we do
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know it in their business dealings in China and Ukraine, this is a family enterprise, and it looks
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on its face to be a criminal enterprise that has been covered up by a host of federal agencies,
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in addition to the family and the Democratic Party, of course, over time. You're calling now for a
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House Republican probe into the laptop and Hunter Biden, which, by the way, I want to commend you
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for doing so. For the life of me, I do not understand why the Republicans, knowing that there is a
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Democratic-inspired witch hunt of the President of the United States, and as a candidate over a course of
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five years and now as a private citizen over the course of the past year, why in the world the
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Republicans wouldn't have done it sooner? Tell us about what you are recommending the House do.
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Well, I'm recommending two things. One is that the House do its job and investigate whether violations
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of a number of laws, including because we now know that money's flowed from Hunter Biden to
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then-Vice President, now-President Biden. And we know later that monies flowed when Hunter was in
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trouble from the former Vice President at that time to Hunter. We know that, in fact, this is an
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enterprise in which monies flow back and forth. And that, by definition, begs the question of,
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well, wait a second, the Vice President, and before that when he was a Senator and now as President,
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they have outside limits as to what they can make, and they have to disclose them. No such
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disclosures ever occurred. Those are all within Congress's purview. Needless to say, we need to
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push to get the IRS to do their job, which we clearly see it need to be done. And lastly, we need
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to investigate probably the worst part of it, which was that when the New York Post made this public,
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what we saw was a systematic shutting down by Twitter, Facebook, and Google, and, quite frankly,
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all the mainstream media, so that the American people, what was known by the FBI two years earlier,
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known by, published by the Post in October, was not known by the American people when they went to
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the polls in November. That cannot continue. And so the investigation of the coordinated shutdown of
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information needs to be investigated, not to get off of Hunter Biden, but there's also now evidence
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that the swamp, if you will, to use a term, people in the Department of Justice and the FBI
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and at the National Security were providing briefings to Twitter that there was misinformation as to
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Hunter Biden that was coming. Well, wait a second. It wasn't misinformation. And the FBI knew that this
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was the real McCoy and that this laptop contained the kind of damning information that they didn't
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want out that is now out. That happened while Trump was president, while his attorney general was there.
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There needs to be a thorough investigation of whether you have rogue agencies that don't care who the
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president is. They have their own political agenda. And it appears that we have exactly that.
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They are rogue, rogue agencies, as you say, and the FBI. Christopher Wray is an absolute dupe and
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co-conspirator with the authors of the Steele dossier, with the effort to cover up for Hunter Biden,
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Joe Biden, the Biden family, corruption. There is no question of this. This is a straightforward fact
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based on evidence and testimony that we all now have. It's in the public domain. And yet we still
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don't, even though, and it's amazing how much gratitude was expressed to the Augusta New York Times
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and the Washington Post for acceding to the idea that, yes, the laptop scandal is valid, it's true,
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and it implicates a lot of government agencies, including the Secret Service, which the computer
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shop repairman, Congressman, John Paul McIsaac, said clearly was protecting the Biden family and covering
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for Hunter Biden. Now, we also know that every other agency beyond the Secret Service had to be doing
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exactly the same thing. Your reaction to how entrenched this abject corruption is in our federal
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government? Well, we're only beginning to see how bad it is. But it does show you something, which is
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that democracy and free and fair elections are what we've been discussing going back all the way to
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2000 and the outcome of the so-called hanging chet. And each time we've had a problem, Congress has
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weighed in, provided money to try to make sure that we have free and fair elections. If we have within the
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government agencies that distort what the American people get to know, distort, if you will, criminal
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allegations when none exist, or hide criminal wrongdoing when it does exist, then that rule of
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law undermines any possibility of a free and fair elections. The American people cannot make the right
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decision if they're denied the right information, or in the case of 2016, and for the next three years,
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endlessly told a lie to undermine a president for almost his entire time as president.
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That's where we are today. And that's a big part of where the Judiciary Committee is the primary
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defender of the Constitution. We've got to get the First Amendment working again, but we also have to
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get these agencies free of the kind of corrupt behavior that we now know they were guilty of.
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And, you know, one time when an agency makes a mistake, if that laptop had just languished and
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nobody looked at it, you'd say, well, that was ineptness. But when you see systematic activity
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again and again and again, you realize, no, deeply embedded in the Department of Justice, deeply embedded
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in the FBI and other agencies, are people who are running the show for the left constantly,
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no matter who's in the White House. Now, do I blame the attorney generals that Trump put in there for not
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building a system to try to root some of that out? Of course. But at the end of the day, Congress is a
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sustaining body, and we need to make sure that no president ever inherits this kind of a swamp again.
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And that's going to take us years, certainly the two years I hope to be in the majority before the
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next presidential election, but well beyond that. It's something I've been doing for years in the
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way of oversight, but it's clear that we haven't made as much progress as we wanted since the days
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of Lois Lerner and the IRS going after conservative groups, since the Fast and Furious program where the
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attorney general was complicit in trying to use guns, weaponize guns for his political game.
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The list is endless of past investigations, but the future investigations in many cases are going
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to be more serious and more fundamental to our democracy.
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I appreciate the fact that you use the expression more serious, because I got the feeling that Benghazi
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was not a serious investigation of Hillary Clinton or the Obama administration's role in Benghazi.
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I've seen a lot of investigations, but one thing that's very clear is that corrupt people hire corrupt
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people throughout our federal government, the permanent bureaucracy. Christopher Wray is a corrupt
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director. He lied directly to the United States Congress when in September he said, this is Russian
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disinformation, that there is a campaign, a drumbeat, and then went about with his hair on fire,
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running off to social media, to every avenue and throughout the corporate media to set up the
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shield for Joe Biden, which he used in that third debate to his advantage. In absolute fact, this is a
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statement of fact. The Democratic Party, the deep state, stole the election of 2020, and they did so
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in orchestration with big tech, big media, and there's just no equivocation about it.
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Well said, Lou. You're exactly right. And he's got a 10-year term unless he's forced out sooner.
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And that's one of the big problems with corruptness at the FBI is that we've tried to insulate it from
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politics, but in fact, we've insulated the ability to oversee it.
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Yep. That's a great point. And whether it's James Comey, Christopher Wray, the list goes on from here,
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I'm sure, until someone like Congressman Issa breaks the cycle, if you will. Congressman,
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I got to ask you, you've said it's going to take years. We know that corruption is pervasive,
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it's deep, and it's profound throughout the federal government, the permanent bureaucracy,
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the deep state. We know the Democratic Party has lied, cheated, and stolen. And yet, the ability of
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our legal system, and they've tried, of course, throughout that three times to overthrow one
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president, as well as block his candidacy. There is no recourse in law. There is no way that I can see
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that there's a straight line to accountability, to punishment for evil acts by the Democrats.
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There are people in government that are always there yelling, hey, we have a problem. One of the
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groups that is there saying it almost universally are the inspector generals. They do a good job. They
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tend to not be co-opted, but they don't have the ability to bring an indictment. And often, they're
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undermined by the administrations themselves. So, you know, in my years of doing this, when I found
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the right whistleblowers, and I found the right advocates, the question, and that's why I said it'll
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take years, but it is doable. We need to create, and this is a constitutional conundrum, we need to
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create a second way for government to look at itself. Congress cannot bring an indictment, and separation
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of powers intended that they not be able to bring an indictment. But there have to be places that are
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independent of the influence of a president that can bring indictments, if you will, on all the president's
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men. And we've been dealing with that for a long time. Impeachment is not the right tool, but we need to have
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that. And, you know, you mentioned Benghazi. There were people in government, including the
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undersecretary, Patrick Kennedy, who were absolutely accountable for the original mistakes that were made
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that led to the ambassador and his men being killed. And then, as you say, we had a secretary of state who
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had broken the law, and yet the chances of the administration ever indicting her when, in fact, she could
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be indicted were zero. And, of course, they proved it by later saying there wasn't something to be done
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there, even though they've indicted people for far less violations of classified material. So, Lou, one of
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the goals I have as a watchdog, if we're given the opportunity again, is not just to do investigations,
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but to fundamentally change the path of those investigations leading to meaningful prosecutions.
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And, look, it's not going to be easy, but I believe we can do it, and I think we have to do it.
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Our founding fathers did not understand one thing, which is if a president wanted to break the law
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and use his vast military to do it, he could do it, and impeachment wasn't a meaningful tool.
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We now know that, and we have to create secondary capability. And you mentioned Benghazi, good example.
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Hillary Clinton, when we discovered she had broken the law, it should have been a short path
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to an administration doing something. And, by the way, it should have been a short path when the next
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administration came in. But, of course, they looked and said, well, that's not consistent with our
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political agenda. It can't be about political agenda. You break the law, you need to be held
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accountable. And if you're high-ranking and you break the law, you really need to be held accountable.
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And that's not what happens right now in America. It does seem to happen if you work for Trump. It
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doesn't seem to happen if you work for a Democrat. I think that's exactly right. One side gets punished.
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One side is punishing in its corruption and its commitment to values outside those of the national
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interest, national values, and national security. And straightforwardly, the Democratic Party
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is rancid with corruption and its alignment with the deep state. To look only at Joe Biden. This
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president has tentacles that reach out from the Biden crime family to China, to Russia, from Hunter
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Biden to Ukraine and beyond. And we still don't know what the purpose of Hunter Biden's interest
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in those biolabs in Ukraine was. These are deeply, deeply troubling questions. They're not only not
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being answered, they're not being asked by the corporate media, which was our last refuge once
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the deep state took control of our government. Well, Lou, one of the things that when you touched on that
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that's happening as we speak is, and I'm very excited about it, the fact that somebody who wants
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freedom for America and for the world, Elon Musk, is willing to say, you know what, there's a tool being
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misused, Twitter, and I'm willing to pay too much for it. He's paying way above what would be considered
00:29:49.520
market because he wants that tool to be used differently, differently than it was when it stifled
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these investigations, different than it did when it took down President Trump, different than when it
00:30:00.900
takes down lots of people. Or, you know, people like Jim Jordan find they've got the Twitter numbers,
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but suddenly the message isn't getting out because they're using algorithms to cheat them.
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Well, he can't afford, Elon Musk can't buy Google or Facebook. They're trillion-dollar companies.
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But Twitter's affordable, and he's made a very valid offer for it. And I suspect they're going to say
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no promptly, even though it's a fair offer. But it does show you that the deep state, including
00:30:30.720
these tech companies, they do not want somebody who, look, Elon Musk isn't in my pocket, but he
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certainly is one of those people who has reinvented things. I remember when he came to us years ago and
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said, you're being cheated on the cost of launching by these companies that for 50 years have made rockets,
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and I'll prove it to you. And you know what? This guy who we thought of as PayPal, you know,
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turned into somebody who proved that you can make rockets and launch them for less than half the
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price. That kind of genius, given a passion for a free society and one in which the truth gets heard,
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is exciting. Now, like I say, I think they're going to turn him down, but it certainly shows America
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what it's all about, and that Twitter is part of this cover-up and does not want to be sold to somebody
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who just might not take down honest speech when somebody disagrees with it.
00:31:28.660
Yeah, I'm glad you're acknowledging and praising Elon Musk, because he's not only an extraordinary
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disruptor, for which he gets, I think, great credit, deservingly so, but he is also a creative genius.
00:31:44.140
And, you know, that physics degree, people forget about that physics degree that he has.
00:31:49.820
And he taught all of us that those rockets, yes, they can land on a booster, on a return to Earth,
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four square. And he is taking on Twitter, doing the nation a great service, as you say,
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because he has called out Twitter's executives and their founders for what they are. They're
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oligarchical despots, and they are not operating in any fashion in the American interest. It is a sad,
00:32:25.640
sad organization. And perhaps the melancholy will overwhelm them. And Elon Musk will win himself a
00:32:35.020
hostile takeover of Twitter, because the good that would inure to both him, financially, frankly,
00:32:44.460
and to the rest of us with the preservation of the First Amendment, you know, it's just exhilarating
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to think we still have a leader in American business, an oligarch, the biggest oligarch of
00:32:58.380
them all, who actually turns out to be a great patriot. That's amazing, isn't it, Congressman?
00:33:04.580
Well, he is a great patriot. But to paraphrase or personally quote the late Steve Jobs, you know,
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here's to the crazy ones who just think differently, who can't fit in and think they can change the world,
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and they do. This is a man who has already changed the world. And he continues to not fit in with the
00:33:27.420
tech community, with the incumbent defense community, with the auto community. He'll never fit in. He'll
00:33:34.360
never fit in because that's not who he is. Like the man that created and recreated Apple, Musk is a
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person who wants to change the world and is crazy enough to think he can and has.
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And, you know, with all credit to Jobs for the crazy epaulette that he would put on Elon Musk's
00:33:56.200
uniform and others, I think also God's gift of a great mind and a great heart also goes a long way.
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And I think that is descriptive of Elon Musk as well.
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Oh, absolutely. And a work ethic that is second to none. But, you know, at the end of the day,
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a great mind has to also be applied to a particular mission. And I applaud him for applying to,
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yet again, a completely different mission from the ones he has already proven to be
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successful and a genius in. Most people wouldn't have the bandwidth to even be thinking about something
00:34:37.780
so far from their core business. Henry Ford was very good at one thing, but he wasn't very good
00:34:43.960
at everything. This is more like an Edison that, you know, can be beyond, can just look at a new job,
00:34:52.700
a new thing, and pick it up and do it. And, but we need that and we need more of them. And we need
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people who believe that an open and free and fair First Amendment actually is a good thing,
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even when you don't always agree with what gets said. And that's, that's where Musk really makes
00:35:11.720
a difference is he wants every, everyone's words to be heard, not just the ones he agrees with.
00:35:17.140
Yeah. And, uh, kudos, uh, great, great, uh, applauded, uh, to Elon Musk and, uh, to Congressman
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Daryl Issa, a great Congressman, a great American, a great Patriot. Great to have you with us here on
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the show. I look forward to our next conversation. And, but before we have that, our convention is
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always to give our guests the last word, Congressman Issa. You know, the last word is that freedom is
00:35:47.500
just around the corner, a return to, uh, the first amendment as it was intended. It's just around the
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corner. Uh, I'm just old enough to know that after Jimmy Carter count came Ronald Reagan, I see the
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future as very, very bright, but we have a lot of work to do and we better get to it. Amen. And,
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and by that, I may, if I may, I add one word now. Congressman. Thanks so much. God bless you.
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God bless. Congressman Daryl Issa. Thank you for being with us, everybody. Tomorrow we'll be talking
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with a great American hero, Robert O'Neill, the man who shot Osama bin Laden, a terrific author,
00:36:30.960
speaker, and I think one of the best folks on Twitter. His handle is M-C-H-O-O-Y-A-H, M-C-H-O-O-Y-A-H.com,
00:36:43.420
or just search for Robert J. O'Neill on Twitter. And please join us here tomorrow when we'll be
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talking with Mr. O'Neill. There'll be no quiz, I promise. Till then, God bless you and God bless America.