The Great America Show - FULL HOUSE INVESTIGATION OF BIDEN CORRUPTION SCANDAL, CALLED FOR BY REP. ISSA

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. This is the Great America Show. Thanks for being with us as we fight to preserve

00:00:05.800 and protect the American way. The American way was under bold assault on Face the Nation this

00:00:12.380 weekend, as leftist Margaret Brennan and her guest, far-left Delaware Senator Chris Coons,

00:00:19.200 appeared to be following the same corporate globalist script, as they clearly stated their

00:00:24.880 views that it's up to the United States to finance a vaccination program at solely American taxpayer

00:00:33.580 expense, of course, to save lives around the world. Now, these two on CBS, obviously enthusiastic

00:00:40.700 about the plan, many Marxists who decry the United Nations failure to live up to the hopes and

00:00:46.700 expectations of predominantly Marxist one-worlders, are now trying to find another direction in which

00:00:54.620 to build global governance. Where has the United Nations been in Ukraine, for example? Why has

00:01:01.600 it acquiesced to the will of communist China and Russia? And where is the United Nations World

00:01:07.620 Health Organization in combating the COVID virus around the world? Doesn't it have a global ambition

00:01:16.520 for vaccination? Why didn't Brennan and Coons take up those obvious questions? Why did they ignore the

00:01:23.420 tremendous existing U.S. national debt of $30 trillion, greater than the size of our national

00:01:30.620 economy? Why not discuss fair shares of burden, including communist China, the Middle East, the

00:01:37.580 European Union, all nations with far less debt than the United States? The American Marxists appear ready

00:01:46.100 to be the next best thing when it comes to creating a foundation for building that one-world government,

00:01:52.080 as they seek to intentionally squander more of America's wealth, run up ruinous levels of national

00:01:58.540 debt that will crush American taxpayers, devastate the most secure markets on the planet, the American

00:02:05.120 capital markets, and destroy the U.S. economy. That is clearly their intention. There is no other

00:02:13.280 certainly obvious possibility. Doubt that the Marxist-left Democrats don't mean to destroy us?

00:02:19.960 Here's Brennan asking Coons if President Biden should set a red line in Ukraine and send in U.S. 0.98

00:02:27.640 troops. Coons wouldn't back away from his call for the Biden administration to consider sending troops 1.00

00:02:33.940 to Ukraine. He is, in my opinion, a sickening example of the worst kind of leftists, willing to 0.90

00:02:40.420 sacrifice American lives to serve their mad Marxist agenda. Absolutely disgusting. The senator, though, 1.00

00:02:48.780 wasn't through. He then tried to hijack Easter for his call to send our troops to another foreign war,

00:02:55.100 irrespective of our national interest, irrespective of the cost in American lives and treasure, while

00:03:01.160 insulting a billion or more Christians. Coons revealed himself as nothing more than another 1.00

00:03:06.440 leftists trying to eliminate God from our lives in America. He said this, that the reason American

00:03:13.460 families come together on Easter is to celebrate the best of the human spirit and grieve the loss of

00:03:20.580 lives to COVID. The senator ignored the obvious truth, that on Easter, Christians celebrate the

00:03:28.080 resurrection of the Son of God, the most significant day in all of Christianity, the keeping of God's

00:03:34.520 promise, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the gift of forgiveness of our sins and life eternal for those

00:03:41.560 who believe in Jesus Christ. Coons actually tried to secularize the holiest of days in Christianity with his 1.00

00:03:50.660 ignorant and destructive call for American troops in Ukraine, and he did so without comment from the show's 0.69

00:03:57.940 host. As I said, disgusting. But Florida and its governor are inspiring parents and state governments 0.99

00:04:04.340 all over the country. As Florida fights the Marxist STEM's efforts to indoctrinate their students in public

00:04:10.500 schools. Florida's Education Department banned 54, imagine that, 54 of the school's math textbooks, math, mind you,

00:04:21.000 for trying to indoctrinate students in critical race theory, in math classes, not just CRT, but other woke

00:04:29.240 nonsense, including Common Core and SEL, social emotional learning. Not in Florida, and good for 1.00

00:04:38.320 Florida. Woke ideology is also a huge problem in the federal government, and believe it or not, in our

00:04:44.140 military. The Pentagon driving the woke nonsense throughout the services, and many question the

00:04:50.100 effect on our troops and their combat readiness. Not a minor issue in these uncertain times. Joining us

00:04:58.120 today, our guest is Congressman Darrell Issa, one of the truly great Americans of the Congress,

00:05:03.800 a businessman, a politician. He's a member of the Foreign Affairs and Judiciary Committees.

00:05:08.800 Issa is also a member of the Republican Study Committee, a large number of caucuses,

00:05:13.700 including the Second Amendment, Army, and Border Security Caucuses. And we're delighted to have

00:05:19.160 you with us here on The Great America Show. Congressman, welcome. You're already in the thick of the action

00:05:25.280 here. You've called for the DOJ to investigate Black Lives Matter after it used $6 million of its

00:05:34.540 nonprofit donations to buy a sprawling Los Angeles mansion. What could be wrong with that?

00:05:42.100 So many things, Lou. Thank you for having me on, and thanks for covering what is on its face a

00:05:48.560 wrongful activity. You know, not everything that happens can you look and say, well, wait a second,

00:05:53.740 that shouldn't happen. Sometimes you have to do a little investigation to find out if there's a good

00:05:58.840 reason. Now, what is the good reason that somebody might invest in a house that is currently fair

00:06:07.060 market valued at about $4 million and pay $6 million on something that they clearly can't use? It's not an

00:06:13.840 office property. It is a mansion. But that would be bad enough. But the facts of it are that in a matter

00:06:21.840 of weeks after it was bought, it was flipped to them for almost $3 million more than had been paid

00:06:30.260 for it. You go, well, wait a second, that's inherently wrong. It's clearly inherently wrong

00:06:35.380 to pay too much and, of course, have a connection to the person who made it. And then the question is,

00:06:41.280 where did that money go? So that's why this is not a hard one. This is one for the IRS and the

00:06:46.900 Department of Justice to do their job. And what do you, by the way, I didn't realize,

00:06:53.540 I mean, the aggregates at play there, I think is somewhere around, what, $9 to $10 million then

00:07:02.820 between flips, purchases. This house was sold for what might have been a deal

00:07:09.480 at around $3 million and then resold to Black Lives Matter at $6 million a few weeks later.

00:07:17.840 Those two transactions back to back could not have been without anticipation. And they're exactly the

00:07:25.360 way if you're trying to play a shell of taking not nonprofit money, charity money, and funnel it to

00:07:33.100 yourself, whether it's in commissions or in unearned profits of flipping the house.

00:07:39.520 That's what is on its face, easy to see. I've talked to half a dozen of the best realtors who

00:07:45.620 deal in these kinds of properties. No question at all, the first sale was at or below a fair market.

00:07:53.300 The next sale was clearly above fair market. And if you run a nonprofit, you have fiduciary obligation

00:08:01.580 not to be a stupid buyer, but you also have an obligation to spend the money for the intended purpose. 0.97

00:08:07.800 There is no intended purpose that has been stated on this. And everyone that's been asked has simply 1.00

00:08:14.620 clammed up and they won't talk until somebody comes in like the IRS that has the right to revoke

00:08:21.240 Black Lives Matter's tax-free status and collect revenues on these gains, or the Department of

00:08:28.680 Justice that walks in with the kind of clout that you don't just say, I won't talk to you.

00:08:33.280 But that right now isn't happening, and we need it to happen. Obviously, as a member of Congress,

00:08:39.580 we can do some investigations. But look, we don't want to investigate every charity that does wrong,

00:08:45.620 but we certainly want to make sure that the taxpayers are protected. And in fairness, donors

00:08:50.740 who gave money to organizations like this need to be protected. And that's a lot of money, a lot of money

00:08:56.720 to go into a house way above market under such suspicious circumstances.

00:09:01.600 I want to get to some of the other sources, reported sources for Black Lives Matter. It's a

00:09:10.700 self-confessed Marxist organization. But this is the co-founder of BLM reacting to those darn 990s 0.99

00:09:20.260 and the requirements to report faithfully for your nonprofit. Here's Patrice Cullors on the 0.96

00:09:26.860 inconvenience of our tax code. You know, first of all, number one, I actually did not know what

00:09:32.820 990s were before all of this happened. It's confusing. So part of the opportunity here is to

00:09:39.840 educate our folks. Like something's being weaponized against us that many people don't even know and

00:09:46.300 honestly don't care about. I didn't know about them until they started asking us for them for

00:09:50.060 COVID relief funds. I said, you need my 990s. I had to call the accountant.

00:09:55.840 Yeah, exactly. Yeah. The accountant handled that. Like, I don't know what that is.

00:10:01.580 It is such a trip now to hear the word, the term 990s. I'm like, it's like triggering.

00:10:09.200 April 15th is next week.

00:10:10.800 Yo.

00:10:11.860 She obviously has a great sense of humor about it. She was giggling just a bit reminiscent of 1.00

00:10:18.020 Kamala Harris, the vice president. Her response to lots of questions, giggling over 0.84

00:10:24.180 a serious issue. What kind of support are you getting for this inquiry into Black Lives Matter?

00:10:32.860 I've been getting lots and lots of calls. You know, I operate a family foundation. I file a 990.

00:10:39.880 And I got to tell you, we don't give to any charities without looking at their 990. And

00:10:46.880 there are independent agencies who evaluate these charities and they give them an A through an F.

00:10:54.060 What do you think the Black Lives Matter's rating is? Yes, it is an F. If there was an F minus,

00:11:01.140 they would have it. And the reason simply is that the money brought in versus the money that actually

00:11:06.900 can be shown going to any beneficiaries is de minimis. And that's what gets you an F is lots

00:11:14.440 of money coming in, no benefit going out. And so, you know, my view on this is if you, if you founded

00:11:22.120 a nonprofit and you don't know that the 990 is how people get an assurance that you're honestly filing,

00:11:31.900 you know, filing, using the money properly, because a 990 is not a private IRS form. It's a public form

00:11:38.480 so that a public foundation can be held at least reasonably accountable. And I don't care if you're

00:11:43.880 the Red Cross or you're a very small family foundation, you file these because the public

00:11:49.620 has a right to know. And the right to know in this case includes the source of that funding.

00:11:55.500 And we understand that a number of the donors to Black Lives Matter and supporters are corporate

00:12:05.780 corporations, big corporations who have decided to take on a left wing embrace of social governance

00:12:15.680 that is all too, in my judgment, all too common in corporate America. What would be the implications

00:12:23.820 for any corporate donor that gets involved with this, this nonprofit now?

00:12:30.020 Well, corporate boards do get embarrassed when they see a company misusing the funds,

00:12:34.660 but sometimes it takes a long time. And you mentioned left leaning boards and that those you can't

00:12:41.360 embarrass, you can't shame. But, you know, over the years, you know, Jesse Jackson with his rainbow

00:12:47.540 push and others, they ran shakedowns of these corporations, basically saying,

00:12:53.460 give to us or we're going to be focusing on your bank and the like. And Black Lives Matter, 0.97

00:12:59.280 I believe, took a page out of that. And that is part of how they got money from some entities

00:13:04.580 who would love nothing more than to say, look, we can no longer give to this group because

00:13:11.260 they clearly have some governance problems or the like. And it's one of the reasons that 990s can be 1.00

00:13:18.900 telling. A board sometimes can look and say, look, we understand they're asking for money,

00:13:24.720 but this is not a charity. This is somebody's piggy bank. And, you know, there's been history of other

00:13:30.780 organizations. And, you know, I disagree with what Black Lives Matter does and how they've incited 1.00

00:13:36.020 riots and they've been part of violence. I disagree with a lot of that. But even if you agree with Black 1.00

00:13:42.960 Lives Matter, you've got to be shaking your head and saying, this wasn't supposed to be giving to

00:13:48.700 private individuals to enrich themselves, but it clearly is. And they are way too close between

00:13:54.500 their not-for-profit and, quite frankly, their own profit-making, which appears to be huge.

00:14:00.700 Absolutely. And I want to go to another area that, let's put it this way, public interest and

00:14:09.480 great concern, and that is the Hunter Biden laptop. We now know with a clear, clear timeline,

00:14:18.440 the implication of Hunter Biden into, frankly, the impeachment, the first impeachment of President

00:14:26.780 Trump, his role in Ukraine, he and his father's role to a degree, but the degree to which we do

00:14:35.400 know it in their business dealings in China and Ukraine, this is a family enterprise, and it looks

00:14:43.440 on its face to be a criminal enterprise that has been covered up by a host of federal agencies,

00:14:51.300 in addition to the family and the Democratic Party, of course, over time. You're calling now for a

00:14:59.800 House Republican probe into the laptop and Hunter Biden, which, by the way, I want to commend you

00:15:07.620 for doing so. For the life of me, I do not understand why the Republicans, knowing that there is a

00:15:13.540 Democratic-inspired witch hunt of the President of the United States, and as a candidate over a course of

00:15:20.620 five years and now as a private citizen over the course of the past year, why in the world the

00:15:26.320 Republicans wouldn't have done it sooner? Tell us about what you are recommending the House do.

00:15:33.840 Well, I'm recommending two things. One is that the House do its job and investigate whether violations

00:15:39.660 of a number of laws, including because we now know that money's flowed from Hunter Biden to

00:15:46.980 then-Vice President, now-President Biden. And we know later that monies flowed when Hunter was in

00:15:54.580 trouble from the former Vice President at that time to Hunter. We know that, in fact, this is an

00:16:02.140 enterprise in which monies flow back and forth. And that, by definition, begs the question of,

00:16:08.080 well, wait a second, the Vice President, and before that when he was a Senator and now as President,

00:16:12.840 they have outside limits as to what they can make, and they have to disclose them. No such

00:16:18.660 disclosures ever occurred. Those are all within Congress's purview. Needless to say, we need to

00:16:24.460 push to get the IRS to do their job, which we clearly see it need to be done. And lastly, we need

00:16:33.340 to investigate probably the worst part of it, which was that when the New York Post made this public,

00:16:39.320 what we saw was a systematic shutting down by Twitter, Facebook, and Google, and, quite frankly,

00:16:47.680 all the mainstream media, so that the American people, what was known by the FBI two years earlier,

00:16:54.260 known by, published by the Post in October, was not known by the American people when they went to

00:17:01.380 the polls in November. That cannot continue. And so the investigation of the coordinated shutdown of

00:17:08.760 information needs to be investigated, not to get off of Hunter Biden, but there's also now evidence

00:17:16.920 that the swamp, if you will, to use a term, people in the Department of Justice and the FBI

00:17:23.280 and at the National Security were providing briefings to Twitter that there was misinformation as to

00:17:33.020 Hunter Biden that was coming. Well, wait a second. It wasn't misinformation. And the FBI knew that this

00:17:39.600 was the real McCoy and that this laptop contained the kind of damning information that they didn't

00:17:46.100 want out that is now out. That happened while Trump was president, while his attorney general was there.

00:17:52.760 There needs to be a thorough investigation of whether you have rogue agencies that don't care who the

00:17:58.360 president is. They have their own political agenda. And it appears that we have exactly that.

00:18:03.800 They are rogue, rogue agencies, as you say, and the FBI. Christopher Wray is an absolute dupe and

00:18:14.160 co-conspirator with the authors of the Steele dossier, with the effort to cover up for Hunter Biden,

00:18:22.040 Joe Biden, the Biden family, corruption. There is no question of this. This is a straightforward fact

00:18:29.680 based on evidence and testimony that we all now have. It's in the public domain. And yet we still

00:18:36.860 don't, even though, and it's amazing how much gratitude was expressed to the Augusta New York Times

00:18:44.620 and the Washington Post for acceding to the idea that, yes, the laptop scandal is valid, it's true,

00:18:53.100 and it implicates a lot of government agencies, including the Secret Service, which the computer

00:19:01.440 shop repairman, Congressman, John Paul McIsaac, said clearly was protecting the Biden family and covering

00:19:14.300 for Hunter Biden. Now, we also know that every other agency beyond the Secret Service had to be doing

00:19:21.980 exactly the same thing. Your reaction to how entrenched this abject corruption is in our federal

00:19:30.400 government? Well, we're only beginning to see how bad it is. But it does show you something, which is

00:19:38.460 that democracy and free and fair elections are what we've been discussing going back all the way to

00:19:46.020 2000 and the outcome of the so-called hanging chet. And each time we've had a problem, Congress has

00:19:52.760 weighed in, provided money to try to make sure that we have free and fair elections. If we have within the

00:19:59.780 government agencies that distort what the American people get to know, distort, if you will, criminal

00:20:08.020 allegations when none exist, or hide criminal wrongdoing when it does exist, then that rule of

00:20:15.960 law undermines any possibility of a free and fair elections. The American people cannot make the right

00:20:22.520 decision if they're denied the right information, or in the case of 2016, and for the next three years,

00:20:30.180 endlessly told a lie to undermine a president for almost his entire time as president.

00:20:37.380 That's where we are today. And that's a big part of where the Judiciary Committee is the primary

00:20:43.580 defender of the Constitution. We've got to get the First Amendment working again, but we also have to

00:20:48.640 get these agencies free of the kind of corrupt behavior that we now know they were guilty of.

00:20:55.300 And, you know, one time when an agency makes a mistake, if that laptop had just languished and

00:21:03.040 nobody looked at it, you'd say, well, that was ineptness. But when you see systematic activity

00:21:08.660 again and again and again, you realize, no, deeply embedded in the Department of Justice, deeply embedded

00:21:14.380 in the FBI and other agencies, are people who are running the show for the left constantly,

00:21:22.560 no matter who's in the White House. Now, do I blame the attorney generals that Trump put in there for not

00:21:29.420 building a system to try to root some of that out? Of course. But at the end of the day, Congress is a

00:21:36.100 sustaining body, and we need to make sure that no president ever inherits this kind of a swamp again. 0.99

00:21:42.300 And that's going to take us years, certainly the two years I hope to be in the majority before the

00:21:47.260 next presidential election, but well beyond that. It's something I've been doing for years in the

00:21:53.220 way of oversight, but it's clear that we haven't made as much progress as we wanted since the days

00:21:59.280 of Lois Lerner and the IRS going after conservative groups, since the Fast and Furious program where the

00:22:06.980 attorney general was complicit in trying to use guns, weaponize guns for his political game.

00:22:15.820 The list is endless of past investigations, but the future investigations in many cases are going

00:22:22.220 to be more serious and more fundamental to our democracy.

00:22:26.280 I appreciate the fact that you use the expression more serious, because I got the feeling that Benghazi

00:22:33.680 was not a serious investigation of Hillary Clinton or the Obama administration's role in Benghazi.

00:22:43.400 I've seen a lot of investigations, but one thing that's very clear is that corrupt people hire corrupt

00:22:50.700 people throughout our federal government, the permanent bureaucracy. Christopher Wray is a corrupt 0.93

00:22:57.320 director. He lied directly to the United States Congress when in September he said, this is Russian 0.93

00:23:06.540 disinformation, that there is a campaign, a drumbeat, and then went about with his hair on fire,

00:23:14.600 running off to social media, to every avenue and throughout the corporate media to set up the

00:23:22.360 shield for Joe Biden, which he used in that third debate to his advantage. In absolute fact, this is a

00:23:31.020 statement of fact. The Democratic Party, the deep state, stole the election of 2020, and they did so

00:23:39.140 in orchestration with big tech, big media, and there's just no equivocation about it.

00:23:47.960 Well said, Lou. You're exactly right. And he's got a 10-year term unless he's forced out sooner.

00:23:58.700 And that's one of the big problems with corruptness at the FBI is that we've tried to insulate it from

00:24:05.100 politics, but in fact, we've insulated the ability to oversee it.

00:24:09.620 Yep. That's a great point. And whether it's James Comey, Christopher Wray, the list goes on from here,

00:24:20.380 I'm sure, until someone like Congressman Issa breaks the cycle, if you will. Congressman,

00:24:29.980 I got to ask you, you've said it's going to take years. We know that corruption is pervasive,

00:24:35.480 it's deep, and it's profound throughout the federal government, the permanent bureaucracy,

00:24:39.720 the deep state. We know the Democratic Party has lied, cheated, and stolen. And yet, the ability of

00:24:48.160 our legal system, and they've tried, of course, throughout that three times to overthrow one

00:24:54.280 president, as well as block his candidacy. There is no recourse in law. There is no way that I can see

00:25:05.000 that there's a straight line to accountability, to punishment for evil acts by the Democrats.

00:25:14.460 There are people in government that are always there yelling, hey, we have a problem. One of the

00:25:23.160 groups that is there saying it almost universally are the inspector generals. They do a good job. They

00:25:30.240 tend to not be co-opted, but they don't have the ability to bring an indictment. And often, they're

00:25:38.140 undermined by the administrations themselves. So, you know, in my years of doing this, when I found

00:25:45.580 the right whistleblowers, and I found the right advocates, the question, and that's why I said it'll

00:25:50.260 take years, but it is doable. We need to create, and this is a constitutional conundrum, we need to

00:25:56.520 create a second way for government to look at itself. Congress cannot bring an indictment, and separation

00:26:03.680 of powers intended that they not be able to bring an indictment. But there have to be places that are

00:26:09.140 independent of the influence of a president that can bring indictments, if you will, on all the president's

00:26:16.940 men. And we've been dealing with that for a long time. Impeachment is not the right tool, but we need to have

00:26:23.600 that. And, you know, you mentioned Benghazi. There were people in government, including the

00:26:29.340 undersecretary, Patrick Kennedy, who were absolutely accountable for the original mistakes that were made

00:26:37.240 that led to the ambassador and his men being killed. And then, as you say, we had a secretary of state who

00:26:43.760 had broken the law, and yet the chances of the administration ever indicting her when, in fact, she could

00:26:51.180 be indicted were zero. And, of course, they proved it by later saying there wasn't something to be done

00:26:56.520 there, even though they've indicted people for far less violations of classified material. So, Lou, one of

00:27:03.700 the goals I have as a watchdog, if we're given the opportunity again, is not just to do investigations,

00:27:11.260 but to fundamentally change the path of those investigations leading to meaningful prosecutions.

00:27:17.420 And, look, it's not going to be easy, but I believe we can do it, and I think we have to do it.

00:27:23.040 Our founding fathers did not understand one thing, which is if a president wanted to break the law

00:27:30.560 and use his vast military to do it, he could do it, and impeachment wasn't a meaningful tool.

00:27:39.760 We now know that, and we have to create secondary capability. And you mentioned Benghazi, good example.

00:27:47.440 Hillary Clinton, when we discovered she had broken the law, it should have been a short path 1.00

00:27:51.300 to an administration doing something. And, by the way, it should have been a short path when the next

00:27:56.200 administration came in. But, of course, they looked and said, well, that's not consistent with our

00:28:02.260 political agenda. It can't be about political agenda. You break the law, you need to be held

00:28:08.140 accountable. And if you're high-ranking and you break the law, you really need to be held accountable.

00:28:12.820 And that's not what happens right now in America. It does seem to happen if you work for Trump. It

00:28:19.140 doesn't seem to happen if you work for a Democrat. I think that's exactly right. One side gets punished.

00:28:25.580 One side is punishing in its corruption and its commitment to values outside those of the national

00:28:33.000 interest, national values, and national security. And straightforwardly, the Democratic Party

00:28:40.280 is rancid with corruption and its alignment with the deep state. To look only at Joe Biden. This

00:28:48.760 president has tentacles that reach out from the Biden crime family to China, to Russia, from Hunter

00:28:59.300 Biden to Ukraine and beyond. And we still don't know what the purpose of Hunter Biden's interest

00:29:07.460 in those biolabs in Ukraine was. These are deeply, deeply troubling questions. They're not only not

00:29:15.500 being answered, they're not being asked by the corporate media, which was our last refuge once

00:29:22.220 the deep state took control of our government. Well, Lou, one of the things that when you touched on that

00:29:29.740 that's happening as we speak is, and I'm very excited about it, the fact that somebody who wants

00:29:35.480 freedom for America and for the world, Elon Musk, is willing to say, you know what, there's a tool being

00:29:43.280 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

00:29:56.040 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,

00:30:07.140 but suddenly the message isn't getting out because they're using algorithms to cheat them.

00:30:11.580 Well, he can't afford, Elon Musk can't buy Google or Facebook. They're trillion-dollar companies.

00:30:17.920 But Twitter's affordable, and he's made a very valid offer for it. And I suspect they're going to say

00:30:24.220 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

00:30:37.500 certainly is one of those people who has reinvented things. I remember when he came to us years ago and

00:30:43.440 said, you're being cheated on the cost of launching by these companies that for 50 years have made rockets,

00:30:49.100 and I'll prove it to you. And you know what? This guy who we thought of as PayPal, you know,

00:30:56.100 turned into somebody who proved that you can make rockets and launch them for less than half the

00:31:01.260 price. That kind of genius, given a passion for a free society and one in which the truth gets heard,

00:31:10.180 is exciting. Now, like I say, I think they're going to turn him down, but it certainly shows America

00:31:15.600 what it's all about, and that Twitter is part of this cover-up and does not want to be sold to somebody

00:31:22.060 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

00:31:35.700 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,

00:31:58.600 four square. And he is taking on Twitter, doing the nation a great service, as you say,

00:32:07.960 because he has called out Twitter's executives and their founders for what they are. They're

00:32:16.140 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

00:32:51.760 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,

00:33:11.740 here's to the crazy ones who just think differently, who can't fit in and think they can change the world,

00:33:19.940 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

00:33:42.340 person who wants to change the world and is crazy enough to think he can and has.

00:33:48.700 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.

00:34:06.860 And I think that is descriptive of Elon Musk as well.

00:34:10.260 Oh, absolutely. And a work ethic that is second to none. But, you know, at the end of the day,

00:34:16.700 a great mind has to also be applied to a particular mission. And I applaud him for applying to,

00:34:25.960 yet again, a completely different mission from the ones he has already proven to be

00:34:31.640 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

00:34:59.700 people who believe that an open and free and fair First Amendment actually is a good thing,

00:35:06.800 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

00:35:26.740 Daryl Issa, a great Congressman, a great American, a great Patriot. Great to have you with us here on

00:35:34.540 the show. I look forward to our next conversation. And, but before we have that, our convention is

00:35:40.880 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

00:35:53.840 corner. Uh, I'm just old enough to know that after Jimmy Carter count came Ronald Reagan, I see the

00:36:00.860 future as very, very bright, but we have a lot of work to do and we better get to it. Amen. And,

00:36:08.600 and by that, I may, if I may, I add one word now. Congressman. Thanks so much. God bless you.

00:36:17.600 God bless. Congressman Daryl Issa. Thank you for being with us, everybody. Tomorrow we'll be talking

00:36:24.440 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

00:36:49.120 talking with Mr. O'Neill. There'll be no quiz, I promise. Till then, God bless you and God bless America.

The Great America Show - April 18, 2022

FULL HOUSE INVESTIGATION OF BIDEN CORRUPTION SCANDAL, CALLED FOR BY REP. ISSA

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