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After his arraignment, President Trump tweets a picture of his mug shot with the caption, "Election Interference: Never Surrender." The president spoke to our friend Greg Kelly on Newsmax immediately after the arraignment and said these radical left-wing prosecutors are bringing all these indictments for one purpose only, to wear him out.
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Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and welcome to The Great America Show. Thank you for being
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with us. President Trump making his return back to Twitter, or as it is now known, X,
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last week after his indictment, tweeting a picture of his mugshot with the caption,
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election interference, never surrender. The president spoke to our friend Greg Kelly on
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Newsmax immediately after the arraignment, and said these radical district attorneys and
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prosecutors are bringing all these indictments for one purpose only, to wear him out. And he said
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they will never wear him out. This is a weaponized Justice Department, and all of these indictments
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and cases, I have a couple of cases that are not indictments, it's just cases where you have these
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left lawyers suing, like a woman that I never saw before, other than she took a picnic 25 years
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ago on a line, on a contributor's line or something, or charity line. Everything, it's just like one
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thing after the next, and what they want to do is they want to try and wear you out, which they never
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do. But they want to wear you out to just an absolute horrible thing that they're doing. And
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I've never seen anything like it. This is third world country. And I really believe they're getting
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hit by it. You know, we were going, there were tremendous crowds in Atlanta, and they were so
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friendly, so friendly. But this is a radical left district attorney, as we have in New York, and as
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we have in all the other places, whether it's district attorney or AGs, we have that in New York.
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They're going after you all for nothing. I mean, the AG case, they have no case against me at all.
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They do it to try and get elected, but they also do it in court with the Department of Injustice
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in Washington. Terrible thing. God bless President Trump and all Americans who are rallying around
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him. The Marxist Dems and the Deep State aren't even trying to conceal their intentions to destroy
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this man. Our support is critical to assure they fail in that effort and that the republic prevails.
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President Trump was sorely missed at last week's Fox News Republican debate, not by his eight rivals,
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but by Fox, certainly. The Trump-less debate drew a dismal audience of just 12.8 million viewers,
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dismal ratings compared to President Trump's first debate at this point in the 2015 campaign.
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With Trump, Fox drew an audience of 24 million viewers. Without Trump, Fox lost just about half
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its audience. President Trump setting new records in his interview with Tucker Carlson
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on X, formerly known as Twitter, some 250 million views on X. Memo to whoever is directing U.S. foreign
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policy these days in the Biden regime, you might want to rethink, well, a lot of things, but certainly
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Russian sanctions. They seem to be backfiring. While the United States and Europe lost trillions in
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wealth last year, the Swiss bank UBS reports that Russian wealth grew by $600 billion and the number
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of Russian millionaires grew by 56,000, up to more than 400,000 millionaires. Brilliant idea,
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these Biden sanctions, and like so many of his ideas, or whoever has his ideas, they don't pan out.
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Over the weekend, the first son, Hunter Biden, downsized, you'll be pleased to know,
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and moved into a new home in Malibu with his wife and his three-year-old son. Hunter reportedly moved
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out of his $20,000 a month lodgings into cheaper lodgings into a $16,000 a month rental. $16,000 a
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month. Average national rentals run about $2,000 a month, and it makes you wonder how Hunter Biden
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can afford $200,000 a year in just rent. He has sold a few pieces of art to some of his father's
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employees at the White House, but it's unclear if Hunter Biden even has a job right now. We all have
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a hunch, don't we, about where Hunter does get his money. The Daily Mail, reporting over the weekend,
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the Ukrainian prosecutor named Viktor Shokin, who Joe Biden had fired when he was vice president for
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Mr. Obama, spoke out on the bribery and corruption that he witnessed.
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I do not want to deal in unproven facts, but my personal conviction is that, yes, this was the
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case. They were being bribed. The fact that Joe Biden gave away $1 billion in U.S. money in exchange
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for my dismissal, my firing, isn't that alone a case of corruption? That's evidence of criminality,
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and Viktor Shokin may well play a prominent role in the investigations into the Biden regime and its
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corruption. Our guest today is one of the leading Republicans fighting for President Trump and for
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the American people. Congressman Jim Jordan, he's chairman of the House Judiciary Committee,
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the Weaponization Subcommittee as well, and a new probe, Chairman Jordan calling for investigations
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into the Fannie Willis District Attorney prosecution down in Fulton County, Georgia. First of all,
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Congressman, great to have you with us. Thank you for everything you and your committees are doing.
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This, as we learn more about this district attorney, your call for the investigation,
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all the more important. Tell us where your committee is at this moment.
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Well, we want to know, did she coordinate with the federal government? Was the Biden Justice
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Department working with her? The same Biden Justice Department, of course, that through the special
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council is going after his presidential opponent, going after President Trump, is likely opponent,
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I think extremely likely opponent in the general election. Were they working with Fannie Willis'
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office working with the federal government? Were they working with Jack Smith? There's been reports
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that they've talked to some of the same people. So we want to know that. And then, frankly, another
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important question is, were you using federal funds to go after President Trump and these 18 other
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individuals? We did the same thing. We sent a similar type of letter to Alvin Bragg several months ago
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when the Manhattan DA did his ridiculous indictment of President Trump. And we found that in that
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situation that they were, in fact, using federal funds in the investigation to go after
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President Trump. So that's one of the questions we asked. And in the Alvin Bragg DA's office,
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they brought in a Justice Department official, detached him to support their investigation of
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Donald Trump and subsequent indictment. Exactly right. And they also sued us. They also took us to
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court. The House Judiciary Committee took us to court when we asked to talk with one of the individuals
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involved in that investigation. And the court ruled in our favor, and that particular individual
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actually came and was deposed. We had a deposition with Mr. Pomerantz a few months ago as well. So
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we want to know some of this. We're asking some of the same questions. We want to know what we
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think it's important for the country to know what's going on here, particularly, as I said,
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when it's the Biden Justice Department that is in the process of indicting, now in two locations,
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in Miami and D.C., their opponent in the presidential contest. And now we, of course,
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have this state prosecutor, Fannie Willis, doing what she's doing with her ridiculous actions in
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Georgia. Do you think you'll find the same relationship between the, what I call here on
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this podcast, the Biden corrupt Department of Justice? Do you think you're going to find the
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same relationship as with the Bragg DA office in Manhattan? Well, I wouldn't be surprised. I mean,
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the short answer is I don't know. But we do think, as I said, we think it's important for the country
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to get all the facts. We're in truly unprecedented territory. I think just the country sees it for
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what it is. I mean, remember, just last night, the number of people who watched President Trump's
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interview, while the debate was happening on the Republican side, and President Trump chose not
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to go there, and yet the people tune in, I think the country sees the double standard. They see the
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unequal application of the law, and they see how this swamp, the establishment, whatever you want
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to say, has been out to get President Trump now for several years, seven years, I would say. So we're
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trying to get the facts and the information, make sure the country has it, in addition to some of
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the other investigations we're doing, which we think are very important.
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Absolutely. And we're now, we've entered the eighth year of the political persecution of Donald
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Trump, without forestalling it for even one moment. Here he is, as you point out, the presumptive nominee
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of the Republican Party. He is the leader of the Republican Party at this point. It's remarkable.
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Now, Fannie Willis, her judgment here is bizarre, because she's also calling for a trial as soon
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as October 23rd. Now, this is a woman who just pulled together her indictments, and according
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to reports, at the behest of the Department of Justice, which said they had to go on the Monday
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so that they could cover for the appointment of David Weiss as the special counsel. I mean,
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this thing is a moving circus, this relationship with the Department of Justice and state and local
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prosecutors. I mean, this is absurd, what we're watching.
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Yeah. But some of the things that were in the indictment, like they cited tweets from President
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Trump as actions taken, overt acts taken in furtherance of this racketeering statute that
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they're using as the basis for what they're alleging is criminal activity. It's ridiculous.
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The chief of staff calls or texts a member of Congress and asks for a phone number. That was an
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overt act who furtheres a conspiracy. Are you kidding me? So when you kind of look at what she's listed
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there, and then you look at the history and the pattern that existed between Alvin Bragg and the
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federal government and specifically the Justice Department, that's why we put the letter together.
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That's why we're asking these questions. And we'll see what the response is. But one of the things,
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we never take anything off the table in trying to get the facts and do our duty under the Constitution,
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which is our oversight duty, to get the facts for the American people, get the facts for the Congress
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that could impact how we legislate and frankly, how we appropriate the American people's tax style.
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Well, she has criminalized basically political discussion, dissent, protest. It's crazy what's
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going on. She's unfortunately not alone. Since April 4th, the indictments rained down on President
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Trump. He now is facing four separate indictments. He is facing over 91 counts. He's
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looking at over 700 years in prison if he were found guilty of all of them. If this isn't within
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this time span to have these local and state prosecutors go after him to do so with highly
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suspect timing, the American people have, I think, they have to be seeing through this.
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Yeah. No, they definitely are. They also understand that when you're focused on something like this,
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there's an opportunity cost associated with it as well. And that, of course, is the record levels
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of crime we're seeing in these urban areas. So there's that issue. There's the fundamental issue,
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which you pointed out, which I think is so clear and so important. This attack on politics,
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this attack on the First Amendment free speech rights of the president and others who were simply
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engaged in doing what happened. I mean, was it Dershowitz who said, we asked the same questions.
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We were asking the same thing back in 2000 when Dershowitz was working to help Al Gore.
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It's a crime, which is just political activity and First Amendment protected activity. This is what is
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so frightening. But the left, their quest to control, their quest for power, it seems to just be like
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they're willing to do things we've never seen before. And of course, that includes attacking
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the First Amendment liberties of the American people.
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We're talking with the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Congressman Jim Jordan.
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We'll return in just one moment. Please stay with us. We'll be right back.
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We're back with Congressman Jim Jordan. Mr. Chairman, let me let me turn to this issue that
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you brought up of opportunity costs, the amount of taxpayer money going into these persecutions of
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President Trump, the the taxpayer money that's being spent on special counsels to no end,
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only wrongdoing that has been turned up over the course of these eight years of the political
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persecution of Trump has been the wrongdoing of the FBI, the Department of Justice and various
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agencies of the federal government, including the the intelligence community.
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What in the world are we? Is there a legislative response to this that says this will never have
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to say this again? Because there's no it's just going on and on.
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Yeah, a couple of things. That's a great question. One, when you reference the intelligence community
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and the Justice Department, understand FISA is up to FISA law is up to part of that is up for
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reauthorization. So we're looking to make sure we do major changes to that before we would ever
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reauthorize it. So that that's one direct avenue. Second, specific to the president's situation,
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a couple of my colleagues who are on the Judiciary Committee have introduced good legislation. One
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it one simply says, if you're going after a president or former president, that case has to
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be done in federal court. After all, we're talking about the president, a federal office, the commander
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in chief. So that we think that's a piece of legislation that's been introduced that we think
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makes sense that to kind of get to this issue of these local, many times left, left backed,
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left endorsed, left supported prosecutors who are soft on crime, but but do crazy things about
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going after their political opposition. So that's a that's a piece of legislation that has been
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introduced. This happened right at right when we were dealing with initially dealing with the
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Alvin Bragg situation up in Manhattan. So, yeah, there are there are some specific pieces of
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legislation we look at. And then, as I mentioned before, we've got to use the appropriations process,
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the power of the purse and the ability to control. I mean, the legislature, the Congress determines
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where money gets spent. So that's another avenue we're looking at as we're heading into the end of
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our fiscal year and doing the appropriations. With all the investigations you've got going,
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I'm going to say this plainly, as you know, I'm pretty plain spoken.
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Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House, sold out the Republican conference and much of its agenda
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when he agreed to what could be as much as four trillion dollars in spending beyond anything
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recognized in an agreement with 118th Congress. Right now, we know that he is interested in
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investigating the wildfires on Maui. He called for that. And that's all well and good. But primary
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in the minds of most, I believe most Americans is a commander in chief who is corrupt as he can be.
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It is the most corrupt administration in American history. We already know that because of the
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results that you and your other investigating committees have produced already. It's not a
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court of law, but what you have in front of you is sufficient to prosecute anyone. Is he ever going
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to approve an impeachment inquiry? Well, the Speaker has been clear. He said we'll be driven by the facts
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and the evidence. And if it warrants that, then we will go to an impeachment inquiry phase of this
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investigation. I think we're very close, Lou. I really do. I would not be surprised at all if we
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have that resolution in September sometime when we're back in Congress, back in session, have that
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resolution and have a vote on it. Now, the key is, if we're going to do that, you need to see if the
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whole conference is supportive of that because we're not going to get any Democrat support
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and it should be driven by the facts, should be driven by the constitution, should be driven by
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our duty to the American people. And I do think that that's the direction we're headed because
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the evidence, you know, the left always says, oh, there's no evidence that Joe Biden, there's tons
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of evidence out there. There's the 20 different companies. There's the nine different families
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getting paid. There's there's there's the WhatsApp message. There's the 10 percent for the big guy
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email. There's the testimony of Devin Archer. There's the dinners, the phone calls, the meetings,
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for goodness sake. So on and on it goes. And then there's the actions Joe Biden took five days after
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that meeting in Dubai between Burisma officials and Hunter Biden and Devin Archer. Five days later,
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he goes to Kiev and attacks the prosecutor there, the very prosecutor who our State Department said was
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doing was doing fine and they were willing to give a billion dollars of American taxpayer money to
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Ukraine. So there's all that. If that's not evidence, I don't know what is. So, yeah, I do
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think it's likely that we get to that point based on based on the facts and evidence that we're
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uncovering. Well, that's encouraging. And I think personally, I think that is absolutely critical
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because I suspect I don't know if you'll acknowledge this, but I suspect that you're feeling
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very clearly the time pressure and also the public view that's boiling over right now about what
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what we face in our government. The Marxist Dems, to be very direct, taken over our federal government.
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Congressman, I can't think of a single agency that isn't under the influence and direct control
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of the Marxist Dems and the very familiar deep state characters that have been part of the of this
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horrible persecution of President Trump for eight years. Yeah. Yeah. Now, there is there is some
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positive news, Lou, with you talk about these various agencies. You know, you got the DHS who
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tried to set up a disinformation governance board. You got what we've uncovered, the censorship
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focus of the FBI and others. But the positive news is the IRS announced four weeks ago they will no
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longer be sending agents to Americans' homes making unannounced visits. And of course, the IRS said,
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well, we're doing that for our agents' security and for their protection. Baloney. They're doing that
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because we caught them knocking on a journalist's door while that journalist was testifying in front of
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our committee. I mean, that's why they changed their behavior. So we're making some progress there
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and with some of these other agencies. But our job is to continue to do do our oversight, do the work
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that the Constitution requires us to do. And we're we're committed to doing that. Well, you're doing
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the Lord's work. And without the 118th Congress and Congressman Jim Jordan leading the investigating
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committees, we would not be here near what we hope will be in September, an impeachment inquiry.
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Let me ask you this. Do you think all of these cases are, in fact, election interference in their
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combination and their cumulative weight? Yeah. I mean, remember, it was just a little over a year
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ago. They knocked on President Trump's door, raided his home. They didn't probably not. They just came in,
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rated his home 91 days before the midterm election. And then think of what they have done. And here's
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the guy leading in every poll. And they're now this is the fourth indictment that he faces in
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Georgia. So it's Manhattan, it's D.C., it's Miami and it's Atlanta. I mean, of course, that's election
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interference. And that's on top of what we what we uncovered this year in the Congress. We uncovered
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what they did in 2020 with the with the 51 former Intel officials in their memo and the way they
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pre bunked the Hunter Biden laptop story. And now we've uncovered because these two brave whistleblowers
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came forward how David Weiss and the Justice Department were running this investigation into
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President Biden's family business, his son's business. So, yeah, this is this is all, I think, designed to
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increase the chances for President Biden to win, decrease and hurt President Trump. But I don't think it's
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going to work. I think the American people know what's going on and they know how good of a president
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President Trump was and what he got accomplished. I think they're I think he's going to be our next
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president. That's certainly what I hope happens. Absolutely. Congressman Jim Jordan. Thanks, sir.
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We appreciate it. You bet. Thanks for all you do. Take care, brother. Congressman Jim Jordan,
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a great American. Thanks, everybody, for being with us. Our guest here tomorrow, Congressman Matt
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Rosendale, Freedom Caucus member, one of the brave 20 who demanded and won reforms for the 118th
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