The Great America Show - GOP NEEDS TO MAKE HOUSE=SENATE

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00:01:18.340 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs and welcome to The Great America Show. Thanks for being

00:01:26.820 with us. Great to have you. Republicans look like they're the go-to party now for the House

00:01:32.020 of Cards treatment, for chaos and just plain double dealing. Just like that, Congressman

00:01:38.040 Jim Jordan, one of the most respected congressmen in the House of Representatives, is out of the

00:01:43.660 running for speaker after only three rounds of voting. What a week it was for the House

00:01:49.700 of Representatives. Yesterday, Congressman Jim Jordan failed on a third vote to secure

00:01:54.980 the speakership. This time, Jordan lost 25 votes from the RINOs in his conference following

00:02:00.600 the third vote. The Republican conference then went into a hastily called secret meeting for

00:02:07.440 a vote, a secret vote, on whether Jordan should remain as the speaker nominee. Now remember,

00:02:14.520 Kevin McCarthy won the speakership in January with 15 rounds of voting. And of course, the

00:02:21.520 Republicans were swapped in that secret meeting with a secret vote, the conference voting to

00:02:27.520 remove Jordan as their speaker nominee. We're told, reliably, the vote was 122 to 86. And now

00:02:36.360 that opens the door to the return of the former speaker, Kevin McCarthy, that's just coincidental,

00:02:42.400 I'm sure, and a few others. My guess right now is, but doing dirt in the dark like that doesn't play

00:02:50.780 well with voters. And my, my guess right now, selling out to the swamp, if that's what they actually did,

00:02:59.020 and it does look that way, well, these Republicans are likely to lose the House next year, fail to gain

00:03:05.540 the Senate, and this isn't at all helpful to President Trump's next administration. It is tough

00:03:11.560 to imagine what these characters are thinking. So the RINOs win. The Republicans are set to meet again

00:03:18.040 Monday to elect a new speaker-designee. This is now the mess that the establishment and the RINOs 0.57

00:03:24.660 wanted all along. And while the House struggles to get their act together, the House Oversight Committee

00:03:30.280 hasn't skipped a beat in their investigation of the Biden crime family. Just yesterday,

00:03:36.280 Chairman James Comer released the following regarding his investigation of President Biden

00:03:41.580 and the uncovering of a direct payment of $200,000 to Joe Biden.

00:03:48.440 This summer, Joe Biden said, where's the money? Well, we found some. We're still digging into the

00:03:54.320 evidence subpoenaed from bank accounts belonging to Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden,

00:03:59.020 and James and Sarah Biden, the brother and sister-in-law of the president. A document that

00:04:04.500 we're releasing today raises new questions about how President Biden personally benefited

00:04:08.840 from his family's shady influence peddling of his last name and their access to him.

00:04:14.700 Bank records obtained by the House Committee on Oversight have revealed a $200,000 direct payment

00:04:20.360 from James and Sarah Biden to Joe Biden in the form of a personal check. Here's some important

00:04:26.500 context about this check we've obtained in our investigation. In 2018, James Biden received

00:04:33.080 $600,000 in loans from AmeriCorps, a financially distressed and failing rural hospital operator.

00:04:40.920 According to bankruptcy court documents, James Biden received these loans, quote,

00:04:45.120 based upon representations that his last name, Biden, could open doors and that he could obtain

00:04:51.400 a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections, end quote.

00:04:56.940 On March 1st, 2018, AmeriCorps wired a $200,000 loan into James and Sarah Biden's personal bank

00:05:05.020 account, not their business bank account. And then on the very same day, James Biden wrote

00:05:10.260 a $200,000 check from this same personal bank account to Joe Biden. James Biden wrote this

00:05:16.760 check to Joe Biden as a, quote, loan repayment. AmeriCorps, a distressed company, loaned money

00:05:24.640 to James Biden, who then sent it to Joe Biden. Even if this was a personal loan repayment,

00:05:31.200 it's still troubling that Joe Biden's ability to be paid back by his brother depended on the

00:05:36.100 success of his family's shady financial dealings. Some immediate questions President Biden must

00:05:42.440 answer for the American people. Does he have documents proving he lent such a large sum

00:05:47.260 of money to his brother? And what were the terms of such financial agreement? Did he have similar

00:05:54.160 financial agreements with other family members that led them to make similar large payments

00:05:58.500 to him? And did he know that the same day James Biden wrote him a check for $200,000, James Biden had

00:06:06.700 just received a loan for the exact same amount from business dealings with a company that was in

00:06:12.500 financial distress and failing? The House Oversight Committee will soon announce our next investigative

00:06:18.820 actions and continue to follow the money. The bank records don't end here. There's more to come.

00:06:24.880 Comer deserves great credit for the work he and his committee are doing and will continue to do. 0.95

00:06:29.960 The Biden family is as corrupt as they come. Every one of us knows it now. And each day that goes by 0.64

00:06:35.860 the House Oversight Committee simply churns out more evidence. As the war in Israel rolls on,

00:06:42.020 Joe Biden took some time this week to offer up an aid package for Israel. The only problem is the aid

00:06:49.540 package is really, of course, an aid package for Ukraine as well. This is what the package includes.

00:06:57.340 An additional $61 billion in aid for Ukraine and $14 billion in aid for Israel. You heard me right.

00:07:05.740 $61 billion for Ukraine, $14 billion for Israel, and then $9 billion in humanitarian aid amongst the

00:07:14.020 two countries, $7 billion in funding for Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific region, and throw in another $13

00:07:20.660 billion to address security at the U.S.-Mexico border, whatever that means in Joe Biden's world.

00:07:27.740 Imagine that, more than half of the money going to Ukraine as an additional payment of what here

00:07:33.220 on this show we call Biden's blackmail, Biden's hush money. Our guest today is Congressman Ben Klein,

00:07:40.800 a member of the House Judiciary, Appropriations, and Budget Committees, three of the most powerful

00:07:45.980 committees in Congress. Congressman, great to have you back with us on The Great America Show. I want

00:07:51.180 to start, if we may, the race for speaker. I've known Congressman Jordan for a long time. I'm a

00:07:57.180 great admirer of the congressman for his commitment to the country and conservative values. I think he'd

00:08:03.000 have been an incredible speaker. It seems, though, there's more than a minor division in the

00:08:07.700 Republican conference. RINOs who seem to be more Democrats than Republicans, and some Republicans

00:08:13.880 who sometimes get lost on one issue. Your thoughts about what that portends?

00:08:19.760 Well, I think you are going to see a more unified conference. For too long, we've had

00:08:26.420 those pushing in a direction that was not as aggressive as the majority of the conference,

00:08:34.580 but quite frankly, the people, the grassroots have wanted us to be. And I think you're going

00:08:40.280 to see a more aggressive effort to pass conservative legislation that's going to represent the values

00:08:47.280 of the people, less government, smaller government. We're not just going to shave back the increases

00:08:52.560 in spending. We're actually going to see decreases in spending and not just one half of 1% decreases.

00:09:01.720 You're going to see a real effort to shrink the size and scope of government, at least

00:09:07.320 from our end. I mean, the House is only one half of one branch of government, so we've got a long

00:09:12.660 way to go. But if we can stand for the people, stand for smaller government, then we'll start to make

00:09:18.260 a big change. Absolutely. Will that change include what we thought would be the reality after the

00:09:26.360 election of Kevin McCarthy in January? The 118th Congress would be a Congress of regular order.

00:09:34.660 There would be 12 separate appropriations bills. There would be adequate time to go through the

00:09:40.320 process rather than simply be a hurried, in effect, quasi-omnibus bill, although not with that name.

00:09:50.720 Will it be truly regular order? Yes. And we were seeing some semblance of that. We've only gotten

00:09:58.980 halfway through the appropriations bills, which was a problem. And regular order implies that we're

00:10:05.500 going to get our job done on time. And so moving forward, we've got to have that recognition, not just

00:10:12.300 from this. Also, the majority leader staff, the majority leader, you know, setting bills on the

00:10:19.600 schedule with enough time to get the amendments in order to get rules committee to go through them

00:10:25.960 all. It does take some time, but we've got experienced staff, a team that knows what it

00:10:31.580 takes, and they just have to have the willingness to get us there. We'll restore regular order and

00:10:36.760 deliver on that promise for the people. Well, I think the people are more than ready. And I think

00:10:41.960 if this Congress can deliver on that, that many of the issues and problems that confront

00:10:49.980 the country will be on their way to solution, because there's a reason for regular order. There

00:10:56.680 is a reason for discrete and separate bills of appropriation so that issues can be handled within

00:11:06.120 in the context of the Congressional responsibility. There is oversight, there's appropriation, there is

00:11:13.100 budgeting, and it has in it all together, as you well know, but for the audience, all implies management,

00:11:21.220 active management of the Congress of the United States. And what we've seen instead is

00:11:26.820 just simply an omnibus, a wave of the hand at trillions of dollars in spending, and the result

00:11:37.160 is no oversight and really no participation on the part of the Congress in Congresses before the 118th,

00:11:44.800 since 1996, anyway.

00:11:46.400 Now, basic fiscal management is not too much to ask. You know, we'll pull the curtain back for the

00:11:52.860 people, for your listeners here, that there's a reason why we've been lurching from crisis to

00:11:58.680 crisis, from omnibus to omnibus. And that's because the big spenders, and they're on both sides of the

00:12:05.200 aisle, but they're primarily in the Senate, have gamed the system so that no matter whether a Republican or

00:12:13.220 Democrat House, the House passes its appropriations bills, they send them over to the Senate,

00:12:18.740 and the Senate sits on them and waits. And then they have no choice but to pass an omnibus bill

00:12:24.820 that is loaded down with pork barrel spending that satisfies both parties, the pork barrel spenders in

00:12:32.240 both parties, the House, I mean, in the Senate. And then they push it back on the House. And it was

00:12:38.720 interesting. I was speaking with a Senate appropriator, trying to get them to move

00:12:43.980 appropriations bills on the floor. I said, why is it that you can't get your appropriations bills

00:12:49.580 done? And she said, well, the Senate majority leader sets the schedule, and he has to set aside time

00:12:55.780 for these appropriations bills. I said, well, why doesn't he do that? And she said, well, because

00:13:00.300 when they go to this crisis mode, guess who writes the appropriations bills,

00:13:06.440 the omnibus appropriations bills? It's not the appropriations committee. It's the majority

00:13:11.120 leader's office. It's Chuck Schumer's office that writes this omnibus bill. So he maintains control

00:13:18.360 by delay by creating this crisis. It benefits him and it benefits the big spenders that he is

00:13:26.640 in their pocket.

00:13:28.000 Right. And when we talk about Chuck Schumer, we're talking about

00:13:32.420 the ultimate insider establishment Marxist Dem leader. He is he I think he stands unique over

00:13:43.460 the course of the past 20 years in Congress and that he has had the ability to send out not just

00:13:50.060 pork and special interest within the state of New York, but across the country and in

00:13:57.980 fact, he has had a unique power in my judgment, a unique power for some time that he could move

00:14:07.180 money to independent Democrat, but independent jurisdictions all over. We can talk about a

00:14:14.740 city, a town, a township for crying out loud or an entire state, whether it be California or whether

00:14:21.320 it be, you know, I don't know, pick a town in New Mexico. He really has that kind of power. He can even

00:14:30.040 affect state budgets, which he's done for a number of blue states who are awash in debt and deficits.

00:14:38.400 That has to end this. The legislation that passed during COVID, they would load up and they would

00:14:50.720 argue that it was somehow beneficial to the people to address COVID. But really what it was, was just

00:14:58.980 paying off the debts of these blue states. Chuck Schumer had been waiting for the opportunity to

00:15:05.440 pay off the unfunded pensions, the Chicago's, the Illinois's, the New York's, the way that they were

00:15:14.480 so wasteful with money and underfunded the pensions of their public employees that when he had the chance

00:15:22.140 to get all these big payoffs, that's what all that these COVID bills ended up doing. They weren't

00:15:28.420 for the public. They were for the government unions. We're talking with Congressman Ben Klein,

00:15:36.660 and we are talking with one of the heavyweights in the Republican Party in the House of Representatives

00:15:41.280 on Capitol Hill to that point. He is, he sits not only on one or two of the most powerful and

00:15:49.400 important committees. He sits on three, the House budget, House appropriations, and the judiciary.

00:15:55.400 We'll be right back with Ben Klein as we talk about what is next for the 118th Congress. Stay with us.

00:16:09.620 We're back now with Congressman Ben Klein. And Congressman, let's talk about what is happening

00:16:15.180 in the Middle East. That conflict is, at this point, raging. Rockets are still flying into Israel,

00:16:24.100 Israel preparing what looks like a major ground operation, that is an invasion of Gaza. Give us 0.92

00:16:34.100 your thinking on where that crisis stands and what you see in this particular moment as being the most

00:16:44.980 important elements of all of that is occurring there. Well, correctly identifying Hamas as the enemy 1.00

00:16:53.500 is proving to be a challenge for the left. It's remarkable to me that there are those in this

00:17:02.260 country and elsewhere in the world that can't see that the evil that's been undertaken by Hamas in 1.00

00:17:12.260 Israel and why we need to stand for this sole democracy in the Middle East, stand up for the people,

00:17:20.380 stand up for their right to defend themselves, and make sure that they have everything that they need

00:17:26.840 to successfully defeat and eliminate and erase Hamas from the map. And so what Israel is undertaking right 0.97

00:17:37.520 now is very significant. It's very serious. And they are going to make sure that our hostages are rescued,

00:17:48.080 that there are Americans being held hostage in Gaza, and we have to make sure that they get out. So making sure we

00:17:56.140 help Israel to do that. But also to make sure that Hamas doesn't threaten and that Hezbollah doesn't come in from the 0.93

00:18:04.160 north, and this thing doesn't turn into a regional conflict as well. But stationing our carriers out in

00:18:09.860 locations where we're going to be able to provide that assistance, that's going to help contribute to keeping

00:18:18.020 Iran in check and keep Hezbollah out of this conflict. 0.93

00:18:24.260 Right. You know, we talked with Congressman Corey Mills, who's just returned, as you know,

00:18:30.220 from rescue missions from Israel. He's brought out in this most recent trip, I believe it's 96 Americans

00:18:37.420 who returned Sunday. He is exemplary. He is a true American hero. He is going back and talking with

00:18:48.320 him. His frustration with this administration, which has no plan to rescue Americans, which did not

00:18:55.420 respond until watching Congressman Mills go over there and a number of other people who have done

00:19:04.220 similar things. He he did. The president of the United States didn't say a word, didn't act. No one in the

00:19:11.740 Defense Department did, where in times previous to this administration, so much was different.

00:19:18.580 But automatically, if you're an American hostage of a foreign power or terrorist group,

00:19:26.100 they every every effort was made to rescue them. Your reaction?

00:19:32.340 It's shameful. And it just shows you that our Defense Department is as toothless as our State

00:19:38.800 Department. We're all, you know, it's an administration full of Anthony Blinkens, which is

00:19:43.440 not a compliment. And to see someone like my colleague, Corey, go over there and be able to

00:19:52.660 rescue Americans, it not only shines a light on the ineffectiveness of the administration's

00:19:59.740 lack of lack of effort, but also just shows us that good men with with the will and the ability can

00:20:11.000 can make great things happen. Americans still can can still act and do so in the interest of their

00:20:19.380 fellow citizens in this in this great nation. And it seems to be lost on so many people, but

00:20:25.540 particularly the left, as you're saying, they I can't even explain them anymore. I studied them

00:20:32.100 in college. I, you know, I've worked in this, this craft for a very long time. But this is an

00:20:39.860 inexplicable moment in history, which we have a a presidency, an administration, a regime, whatever

00:20:47.500 you want to call it, that is effectless without exception across every agency, every department

00:20:55.200 there. The military is in the has been captured by the woke left. It is it is so deeply troubling to

00:21:05.520 see what this administration has done. Our southern border wide open. And we're getting all sorts of

00:21:12.760 people coming across from the terrorist database just in the last in the last week coming in from

00:21:20.460 Iran, coming in from various hotspots in the Middle East and about 275 known terrorists in the course of

00:21:29.580 this year. And and yet nothing seems to move the needle with this indifferent and impaired and 0.93

00:21:36.800 compromised president. Your thoughts. You're absolutely right. It is amazing how this open

00:21:44.500 border has contributed to rise in and criminal activity, drug running, human trafficking, sex

00:21:53.520 trafficking every district in the country, including mine and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, not very

00:21:59.840 close to the southern border. But at the same time, we see the impact here in our community. There's fentanyl

00:22:06.060 in our communities killing young people. And and now we have that specter of people on the terrorist

00:22:14.400 watch list coming in and we don't know where they're coming in from. We don't know. They're often

00:22:22.900 gotaways that are that we don't know who they are. If they're running from apprehension, you know, if we're not

00:22:32.020 able to apprehend them, then they are most likely engaged in criminal activity, either in this country

00:22:38.400 or in their home country and running from something. So we've got to close the border. It's a matter of

00:22:45.280 national security. It's a matter of matter of homeland security. And this president really does have to

00:22:52.360 face accountability for his lack of sealing the border. Mayorkas long past time to impeach Mayorkas. But

00:23:00.480 the willful neglect on the part of this administration means that we have got to hold more people

00:23:07.540 accountable. And I just want to urge everyone listening to The Great America Show and listening

00:23:13.060 to Congressman Ben Klein to call your representative, call the Capitol Hill switchboard. You can talk to

00:23:20.420 your senator as well as your representative, but focus, if you will, on the on your representatives.

00:23:26.320 Now call 202-224-3121. That's 202-224-3121 to let your representatives know how you feel about that

00:23:38.200 wide open border and the fact that they are accepting as routine collateral damage more than 100,000

00:23:45.680 American lives every year due to fentanyl and opiate overdoses, drugs brought in across that southern

00:23:53.040 border. Congressman, we're going to take a quick pause here. We'll be right back with Congressman Ben

00:23:59.240 Klein. And we're going to take up the issue of what is next with the Republican 118th Congress and with

00:24:07.280 the war with Hamas and Israel. Stay with us. 0.98

00:24:17.280 And we're back now. And I just want to remind you, the Capitol Hill switchboard number 202-224-3121,

00:24:23.840 202-224-3121. And if I may suggest you urge your representative to vote for Jim Jordan for Speaker of the

00:24:33.960 House, I truly believe that the fate of the Republic rides on the outcome of this vote, which takes place

00:24:41.580 this week. And it's very important who has the third most powerful job in the U.S. government.

00:24:49.800 Jim Jordan is, I think, a man whose time has come and who is perfect for that job.

00:24:55.100 And if you can agree, let your representatives know. Well, let's turn to Congressman Ben Klein now.

00:25:03.260 The question I have is, you mentioned Mayorkas. What would it take to impeach a government official 0.53

00:25:09.320 if not leaving a 2,000-mile border wide open, turned over to the cartels, in a moment of crisis like we

00:25:17.500 are experiencing now, that conflict in the Middle East could go any number of ways. We do know that 2,000

00:25:23.780 of our troops in the region have been notified to prepare for deployment to U.S. aircraft carrier

00:25:31.380 strike forces are in position. And your judgment, what will it take to impeach Mayorkas or President

00:25:41.540 Biden, based on the evidence that we already know to be true? Well, I agree with you. It's long past

00:25:49.060 time that Mayorkas go. And my constituents have let me know that they're fed up with that. They're also 1.00

00:25:59.060 fed up with us not holding the president and his son accountable, his family accountable for the actions

00:26:07.460 that they've been engaged in over the past several years. You know, the one thing that we do have to

00:26:15.380 remember is, judiciary is a single committee, and it's the only committee that does impeachment.

00:26:20.500 And so if we go after Mayorkas, that's going to take up all of judiciary's time. And we have 0.98

00:26:25.860 a judiciary chairman who needs to be elected speaker. So when we elect him speaker, we're going to be able

00:26:34.740 to have a new judiciary chairman. And we've got lots of great choices on the upper dais who are going to

00:26:40.740 continue to push not only for impeachment, but also we're going to have to get a new chairman

00:26:46.180 of the weaponization subcommittee. Jim Jordan is chairman of that. And it is going after the

00:26:52.020 weaponization of government. So he's a one man wrecking crew. And it's going to take several

00:26:58.260 of our conference to actually take the place of Jim Jordan and all of the things that he's been

00:27:04.100 engaged in. We have our government oversight chair, Jamie Comer, who's doing a great job holding the

00:27:10.020 the Biden family accountable. And the facts keep coming to light. And so the impeachments are

00:27:16.020 looming large. And I'm hopeful that we'll start that process soon. Well, I agree with you and I

00:27:25.380 hope with you that that can transpire very quickly. But do you are you interested in the job of

00:27:32.980 the chairmanship of the judiciary? The judiciary chair? No. I'm happy to be a member of judiciary,

00:27:42.100 along with Chairman Jordan. But, you know, up there on the top of the dais, we've got Mike

00:27:48.260 Jonathan from Louisiana, who's chairman of the Constitution subcommittee. We've got Matt Gaetz.

00:27:53.060 We've got Andy Biggs, who's chair of the crime subcommittee and was actually chair of the Freedom

00:28:00.260 Caucus in the last Congress. We've got a number of members of Congress who are Daryl Issa as chair

00:28:06.900 of the intellectual property subcommittee, who are on the top of the dais. I'm a little bit lower.

00:28:14.260 So I'm not eligible, but I'll be a loyal soldier whenever we can get a new chairman to go in after

00:28:20.660 and holding this administration accountable. And to be perfectly honest, Congressman,

00:28:25.540 I'm not sure that we could spare you from the budget committee and your other committees to

00:28:36.580 judiciary right now. Well, we'll be busy under a Jordan chairmanship or speakership because the 0.51

00:28:43.220 budget committee is going to be passing a balanced budget. And Jim Jordan is going to be pushing for

00:28:48.420 fiscal management. You know, the Appropriations Committee only deals with about a third

00:28:55.780 of our spending. The other two thirds are mandatory, what's called mandatory spending,

00:28:59.940 which is on autopilot because of these programs that we have that need reforms. And Jim Jordan

00:29:06.260 is going to make sure that we rein in the wasteful spending that is causing these trillion

00:29:12.420 dollar deficits and 33 trillion dollars debt. And I have heard some of your colleagues say that

00:29:18.740 you're indispensable to the appropriations process as well as the budget. So I think you're going to

00:29:25.300 have probably a heavier load than you may right now want to take on. I agree. I welcome it though.

00:29:33.220 Well, good for you because you're much needed and much appreciated. Congressman, let's let's turn to

00:29:39.700 now what what is happening in this economy is we're watching consumer confidence plummet in

00:29:46.900 in this country and people aren't paying much attention to it. And I probably should be talking

00:29:51.620 about it more on this show than I am. But when consumer confidence drops seven and a half percent

00:29:58.980 as it has this month, we know that now this dysfunctional government that is the Biden regime

00:30:07.780 is having immense impact, perhaps unintended consequences. You can argue with whether it's

00:30:14.020 intended or unintended because he's done so much that's devastating to the great republic.

00:30:20.660 It's what are we to do here, given the circumstances that are well beyond the control of government

00:30:26.980 that often. And that is bring in hyperinflation and the and the prospect of stagflation come bring

00:30:36.820 policy into line to forestall that your thoughts. It's a challenge when you unleash the beast that is

00:30:43.940 inflation, hyperinflation as the Biden administration has done. It didn't take much. You know, it took

00:30:49.700 trillions and trillions of dollars, seven trillion dollars in spending to unleash the beast. But once it was

00:30:55.700 unleashed, you know, the Fed for the Fed, everything looks like a nail when all you've got is the

00:31:01.460 ability to raise interest rates to tackle it. So we've got a responsibility in Congress. You know, we

00:31:08.100 have very little to do with the Fed. I wish that we had more direct the Fed was more directly accountable

00:31:16.260 to Congress. We I would love to audit it. Many would like to end it. But we would like to

00:31:22.340 use the tools at our disposal to reduce inflation. One thing we can do is become energy independent.

00:31:29.220 Again, we need to open up the floodgates for energy production here in this country.

00:31:34.420 We also need to stop the wasteful and woke spending on the things that we don't particularly need. You

00:31:44.500 know, we just passed a State Department funding bill that reduced spending not to last year's level,

00:31:50.100 not to the year before last, but all the way back to 2015. So almost a decade of increased spending

00:32:00.580 wiped out because we didn't need it. You know, we get rid of WHO spending. We need to get rid of

00:32:08.100 all of the woke and weaponized government. And that's that will help address inflation as well.

00:32:12.740 Let me ask you this final question and concerning appropriations. Do you have both the will and the

00:32:21.220 and the ability on the on the weaponization committee, but primarily, of course, on the

00:32:26.260 appropriations committee to pull back the funding of the special councils, which are absolutely

00:32:31.940 outrageously out of control, purely politically motivated political persecution of President Trump.

00:32:38.020 Do you have the will and the intent on the appropriations committee to to bring into

00:32:45.460 line runaway government in terms of political corruption, whether it be the Department of

00:32:51.140 Justice, the FBI or the federal judiciary itself? Yeah, as a member of the Judiciary Committee,

00:32:57.620 I'm the only Judiciary Committee member on both the Oversight Committee and the Appropriations

00:33:03.700 Subcommittee on Judiciary. So I I get to see both sides of it. The attorney general comes in

00:33:09.620 and I'll light him up on on his weaponization of government. But then on the appropriation side,

00:33:16.260 we'll actually put our money where our mouth is and actually defund this these programs, these divisions

00:33:24.340 that are breaking not only the laws, but the confidence of the people in their government. And

00:33:30.980 and that's where we have to drain out the woke and the weaponized from our FBI, from our DOJ,

00:33:38.580 the prosecutors who are so one sided. And and we really do. And that's why you're going to be

00:33:44.900 proud of this Justice Department Appropriations bill that's coming out. It will be hard to reconcile

00:33:50.740 with the Senate. It'll be hard to reconcile with the White House because we are pushing so far to get

00:33:57.220 rid of it and put things on the right path for the American people. Well, Congressman, we are delighted to

00:34:03.540 hear that. And we are also anxious to see that that legislation come forward. I always give I say I

00:34:12.740 always give every guest. That's not quite true. But I try to give most guests the last word here on the

00:34:18.020 Great America show. And I would be remiss not to certainly give you that opportunity. Your concluding

00:34:24.020 thoughts, if you would, Congressman Klein. Well, thanks, Lou, for having me on. We are

00:34:28.500 truly at a crossroads in this country between going down the same path we've always gone of deficit

00:34:33.700 spending, woke and weaponized government getting run over by a Biden administration by the Senate and

00:34:39.540 Chuck Schumer. But we've got an alternative choice to put Jim Jordan in the speakership and actually

00:34:45.860 have a house that stands up equal to the Senate, equal to the Senate, stands up for the American

00:34:52.500 people for the values that we share. And I look forward to hopefully to electing him on Tuesday,

00:34:57.460 voting for him on Tuesday and getting him in there as speaker and really changing things for the

00:35:02.260 American people. Congressman Ben Klein, thanks for being with us, a great American. And thanks for

00:35:07.780 all that you are doing for this great country. God bless you. Lou, thank you. Thanks, everybody,

00:35:13.460 for being with us here today. Our guest here tomorrow on The Great America show will be Alabama's

00:35:17.940 Secretary of State Wes Allen, who's doing great things for the people of Alabama to assure voter

00:35:24.740 integrity. We'll be talking with him about what he's done to make sure there's no rigged election

00:35:30.580 in Alabama and the rest of the country needs to listen in. Please join us for that tomorrow and be

00:35:36.020 with us each and every weekday. Please join us this Sunday as well on 77 WABC Radio for my show,

00:35:43.540 Lou Dobbs Sunday. Please be with us for that. Thanks, everybody. God bless you, and may God bless America.

The Great America Show - October 21, 2023

GOP NEEDS TO MAKE HOUSE=SENATE

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