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China is getting ready for war, and puppet President Joe Biden is nowhere to be found to even concern himself about the threat. Marxist special counsel Jack Smith goes to the Supreme Court asking them to decide if President Trump has immunity from prosecution regarding his challenge to the 2020 election. And in the House of Representatives, it s set to vote this week on two competing FISA reform bills, the Protect Liberty Act and the Patriot Act.
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Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to The Great America Show. Great to have you with us today.
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China's aggression and intimidation aim now at America and our allies in Asia, and it's ramping
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up. That, according to the DHS Cybersecurity Agency, Chinese-affiliated hacking groups have
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infiltrated critical American infrastructure, including water utilities and oil and gas pipelines
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and more. China's People's Liberation Army has hacked into more than 20 suppliers, major suppliers,
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over the past year alone. And that cybersecurity agency says it's very clear the Chinese efforts
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to compromise critical infrastructure is all part of a pre-positioning to be able to disrupt or destroy
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critical American infrastructure in the event of war. In other words, China is getting ready for war,
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puppet President Joe Biden is nowhere to be found to even concern himself about the threat. But does that
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really even matter? President Biden has always been lax in his approach to his son's business partners, the
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Chinese Communist Party. Let's take a listen to Joe Biden's encouragement of China over the last few years.
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We want to see China rise. China is not our enemy. China is a great nation, and we should hope for the
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continued expansion. China is not a problem. That a rising China is a positive development, not only for
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the people of China, but for the United States and the world as a whole. And I'm even more convinced now
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that a rising China is an incredibly positive development for not only China, but the United States
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and the rest of the world. A rising China can be a significant asset for the region and the world.
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In the president's own words, you heard it. He wants China to rise even at America's expense.
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And Marxist junkyard special counsel Jack Smith going to the U.S. Supreme Court asking them to decide if
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President Trump has immunity from prosecution regarding his challenge to the 2020 election.
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Smith says in his filing that the case presents a fundamental question at the heart of our
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democracy, as he put it, whether a former president is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for
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crimes committed while in office. Interestingly, Smith didn't mention or name any alleged crimes.
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Smith asking the Supreme Court for an expedited ruling, it appears so that the trial scheduled to
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begin in Washington on March 4th can move ahead. Marxist Dem judge, Tanya Chutkin, who is to preside
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over that case, rejected Trump's attorney's efforts to get her decision that the immunity claim was valid.
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And now here is the junkyard special counsel himself asking the Supreme Court for the go-ahead.
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And in the House of Representatives, it's set to vote this week on two competing FISA reform bills,
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the Protect Liberty Act and the Patriot Act. One of the bills, H.R. 6570, the Protect Liberty and
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End Warrantless Surveillance Act, authored by Congressman Andy Biggs. He's our guest today.
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Andy Biggs sits on the House Judiciary Committee. He's currently leading the fight to overhaul FISA's 702
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section. Congressman, great to have you with us. Big things happening in Washington and most of America
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isn't aware of what's occurring. The American public is very interested in what this new speaker of the
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House thinks about Section 702. Where does he stand? Well, the confusion stems, Lou, and I think
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you'll know this when I say this, because the watchers want to continue to be able to watch without having
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to get a warrant and adhere to the constitutional constraints that they're supposed to operate
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under. And we're trying to put that genie back in the bottle. And they've enjoyed a time being outside
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that bottle so long that they're fighting us. They're using misinformation and disinformation.
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The other thing I would say about it, Lou, is they're supplying misinformation and disinformation,
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and that's what they do for a living. I mean, that's their job. They're used to doing that.
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So they're actually out there doing it. I still think we get my bill through the House.
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The question is, have they damaged it enough so where before we would have gotten 300 to 320 votes,
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have they damaged it so where it's a barely passed type of thing? And that I simply don't know.
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And the Speaker's taken, in my opinion, an amorphous position. He has not come out
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forcefully enough to say there's got to be warrants.
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And I want to remind everybody listening to us that your bill on ending warrantless surveillance
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got through the committee, was passed by the House Judiciary Committee. It was a bipartisan vote,
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was it not? Yes, Lou. In fact, this is so it passed 35 to two. And it is, you know,
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everybody from the ACLU to America First, I mean, they all support this bill. It's a bipartisan bill.
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It's a bicameral bill. And look, Jerry Nadler is the lead co-sponsor with me. So I'm the sponsor.
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Jerry Nadler is the co-sponsor. You've got Warren Davidson of Ohio. You've got
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Lofgren, Zoe Lofgren of California. You've got Jayapal of Washington. You've got Jim Jordan. I mean,
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you have got this basic complex of conservative and progressive Democrats who've come together.
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We all recognize that all Americans have been abused by the surveillance apparatus of this
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federal government. And we have to rein them in. And for whatever reason, you've got the
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intelligence. Well, I told you what the reason is, but you've got the intelligence community
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saying they they hate our bill. And why wouldn't they? They don't want to have warrants. They don't
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want to have any constraints. I think you're making the exact point. This is about the confrontation of
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the public's right to know their rights as American citizens, including their privacy,
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versus the awesome power of the federal government and the agencies of the intelligence community and
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the FBI, certainly to spy at will on any citizen. The bill you've sponsored is protection for the
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Constitution and the citizens. And what they want is the ability to snuff out the Constitution
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and our rights. It's that clear cut. I don't understand the ambiguity for Speaker Johnson. As a
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matter of fact, it concerns me deeply that he would for a moment hesitate within the face of moral clarity
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and this conflict, which side he would come down on, because this that's what this is.
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Yeah, I agree with you. I could tell you what they've done to try to play him and and move him
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to this kind of ambiguous position. And that is they've told him that without if they are required
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to get a warrant, then then they will not be able to catch every terrorist activity that's going on.
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And we will be attacked by terrorists. And he will be the one who gets blamed for American deaths on
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American soil by radical Islamist terrorists or some other terrorist group. That's that's their selling
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point. And if for some, it's compelling for me, it's it's weak and bogus.
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Yes, it is. I'm on your side of it. And I'm as as per usual. And I am so delighted that you've got
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bipartisan support for your legislation to protect the rights of American citizens. We're coming right
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back with Congressman Andy Biggs. Please stay with us.
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We're back with Congressman Andy Biggs. And Congressman, I want to turn just to stay just
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a bit with the 702 and your legislation. Do you think there's any chance here that warrantless
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surveillance has already achieved its aim, that they have spied on Speaker Johnson and have something
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with which to blackmail him and the others in the Congress who really want to reauthorize
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a corrupt FBI and DOJ and intelligence community so that they continue to spy and abuse their power
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as public servants? Well, it's hard for me to say yes or no to that, except for to say that I've known
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Mike Johnson. And I don't think to be frank with you, I don't think he has probably ever done anything
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that would be blackmailable, extortionable. The others, I don't know. But with Mike Johnson,
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I would say that's probably not the case. I think instead they've played to the one thing that
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that plagues Mike and the Speaker is sometimes he's trying to he over analyzes things. And they've
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played that and they've now said, you'll be the reason that we have this danger, Lou. And that's
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that's that's that's my perception of this. It's not you know, I'm not I'm only basing it on what I
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know of Mike and the others. I don't know them well enough to say, I mean, look, we've all done
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stupid stuff. But I will tell you this, taking part of your first point, these guys have been buying
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private databases to build these massive databases on every American. And so it isn't. So they say,
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well, you know, we're just focusing on foreign people in foreign lands. But then why are you
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buying up these massive amounts of databases and creating these massive databases?
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No, no. They just say, well, it's it's for the security of the country. It's the it's the old Ben
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Franklin argument, you know, you know, those who would choose security over liberty will have
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neither and will deserve neither. I'm I'm distressed that the Speaker of the House
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confronted with the choice between having a sense of security because of the ability to surveil foreign
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citizens, that he would gladly throw away the rights of Americans not to have surveillance,
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violence by our own government. It is this is an existential moment in time. It is the I think,
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for this speaker, it is one of a moral issue, a moral choice that if he is as he is reported to be
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a man of principle, morality and and God fearing, I can't imagine how you could take any other stand
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than to protect the republic and to protect the American people at the same time and take
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responsibility as it falls. It is the responsibility, irrespective of 702, for the FBI and these agencies
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to perform. By the way, even with it, they haven't performed magnificently, I think is a fair statement.
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So let's turn to now the impeachment inquiry. Where does the good speaker, apparently one of the most
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confused people in Washington, D.C. right now, what does he what's his position on impeaching Joe Biden
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right now? Well, I would say it's stronger toward impeachment than Mr. McCarthy's was. That's what I
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that's the best I can give you. I mean, here's the deal. We're doing the impeachment inquiry vote.
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I think we're my understanding is we're doing it this week. And then from there, over oversight,
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which I sit on that committee, we're supposed to finish up our report post haste, get it to
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judiciary. And early in January, judiciary is going to do the requisite hearings that through the process
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we're supposed to do. And then if we have the votes and quite frankly, Lou, I don't know if we've
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got the votes out of judiciary just because of where we sit. But if we have the votes,
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I think it gets moved to the floor of the House for the impeachment vote.
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We're going to take a quick break. Congressman, we'll be right back. We're talking with Congressman
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Andy Biggs, the sponsor of the end warrantless surveillance by the deep state. I added that part
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to his bill. We'll be right back. We're back with Congressman Andy Biggs. And as he referenced,
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he is a member of the Judiciary Committee. The Judiciary Committee has a lot before it. You're
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doing great work. You've amassed incredible evidence. I want you, if you would, to just give us a sense of
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where you are and where you think the committee is, because it didn't sound like there was a
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bipartisan issue right now for the committee. Yeah. So where I am is, I think we have between
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the two committees that I sit on, we have more than amply shown bribery. And bribery does not
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require that there be a definite tit for tat or quid pro quo where Joe Biden gets a million bucks
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in exchange for telling the Ukrainians, you're not getting a billion dollars unless you fire
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the guys, you know, looking into my son's company, whatever. If the family is receiving benefits
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and Joe Biden is exchanging access or activity in exchange for that, then that's bribery. I mean,
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that is, I mean, there's law on that point. He's committed bribery. I think he should be
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impeached. I think we've known that for a long time. We just have had enough, we've had trouble.
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So this gets to your second point about where's the committee. We've had trouble putting that,
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putting, getting enough votes in our committee. Look, we can't even get our committee on the
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Republican side to give everybody on a Republican side to say Mallorca should be impeached for Pete's
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sake. So both of these guys should have been impeached, but we're short a little bit on the
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votes. I understand that's why McCarthy didn't ever want to really go there because he wants a
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unanimous vote. I don't blame him for wanting a unanimous vote. The Democrats are not going to
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help us out at all. They do not care that Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and the Biden crime family
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is utterly corrupt, that he was selling access, that he was leveraging U.S. taxpayer dollars to
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protect his son, that millions of dollars was going into that family and being distributed
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throughout the family. They just don't care. So it's up to us. And now, since they expelled
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George Santos from the floor. And why did they do that, by the way? Why did they do that?
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What was the, why would the Speaker of the House call that vote and not permit him due process,
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especially at a time where you have such a thin majority?
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The, the, the rules of the House allowed that to be brought by privilege. He's required to either,
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he couldn't get the vote to sit in his committee. So he had to bring it to the floor. But what he,
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my opinion, what should have happened is the Republican leadership should have whipped against
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that. They should have said, no, we're going to whip against that. Please don't vote for this.
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But they didn't. They didn't. And in so doing now.
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And that is a Speaker decision. That's a Speaker decision, is it not?
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So do we know, did he ever explain to the conference why he was taking what was a reckless
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decision in the face of the slim majority and the denial of an individual, George Santos's
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due process? I mean, how can the Republican party impeach people are breaking the law when they
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themselves won't even afford one of their own members of the conference due process? It looks
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awfully both naive and unprincipled. Right. And well, and I would say it's hypocritical,
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right? On a certain point, right? We're always talking about due process. And then here's a guy
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who didn't get due process yet. Now, hasn't gone through that. And yet you're going to toss him
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out. And then in the meantime, the guy who did get due process, which is Jamal Bowman,
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instead of tossing him out, you give him a do nothing censure resolution. I mean, so these are
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the types of things that everything you and I have talked about, the 702, the impeachment, the now
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putting ourselves in a numerical disadvantage. And then with Mr. McCarthy stepping down and retiring
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by the end of this year, leaving Congress. So what that's done is, is, is, Lou, we're going to have
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like a one or two margin, seat margin effectively. And so getting that impeachment requires unanimity
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amongst the Republicans. And that's where being candid and truthful, we have trouble getting it out of
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judiciary that way. And that means that we're going to have trouble getting it off the floor that way.
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That's, that's what I'm telling you. And I appreciate you telling us and, and our audience,
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the American people, we're left to a question is, in my opinion, and as we close, is Mike Johnson,
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a Manchurian speaker? I mean, he is weak on 702, FISA. He's weak on continuing resolution.
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He's weak on George Santos. And I, give me your sense. That's my straightforward question as we
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conclude. So I don't think he's a Manchurian candidate. I think we can explain it far more
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simply that he wakes up as a conservative every day, but has a tough time making the decisions and
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the calls that would exemplify that conservative mantra. I do not understand the notion of let's
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fight another day. Let's live to fight another day. At some point, you're facing an existential crisis
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when all the institutions are controlled by the hard left and are economically, we're going off the
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edge. Foreign policy wise, we're on the legend teetering over. And our border is wide open with
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all these dangerous things. I find myself saying, you're going to have to make hard calls, hard
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decisions and lead. You're going to have to do that. And I just, I'm not sure that, frankly, I'm not sure
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that he can. Congressman, we thank you for your candor and your straightforwardness and your insight
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and wisdom, as always. And keep up the fight. You're a great, a great representative for the
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good people of Arizona and a great representative for how public service should be conducted, in my
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opinion, if I may say that. And we appreciate you very much. Congressman Andy Biggs.
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Thank you, Lou. Thanks. God bless you and your wife as well. Take care.
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Thanks, everybody, for being with us here today. Our guest here tomorrow is Cornell Law Professor
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William Jacobson. We'll be talking about anti-Semitism on America's college and university
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campuses. And we'll take up the resignation of the UPenn president and what will happen to
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Harvard's president. She's now not only being accused of being anti-Semitic, but also plagiarizing.
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We'll take up where we go from here in America. Please join us each and every day for the Great
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