Mid-Day Update： DeSantis Attacks MAGA
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Former Attorney General Bill Barr should be called before Congress to answer questions about his handling of the Hunter Biden investigation, says John Solomon. Governor Ron DeSantis goes after MAGA with a Hillary Clinton 'deplatforming' moment.
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I'm Lou Dobbs with this Great America Show midday update. Governor Ron DeSantis goes after MAGA.
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Governor Ron DeSantis with a Hillary Clinton deplorable moment. The 2024 hopeful is a confused
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candidate and he proved it by insulting President Trump's MAGA base over the weekend. Here's the
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governor. I think that we have a strand in our party that views supporting Trump as whether you
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are a rhino or not. And so you could be the most conservative person since sliced bread.
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Unless you're kissing his rear end, they will somehow call you a rhino. So it's been totally
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detached from principle and what you actually believe and results. And it's more about just
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what faction you happen to do. So there'll be people who are huge Trump supporters like in Congress
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who have like incredibly liberal left wing records that that's really just atrocious.
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And yet they're viewed as by some of these folks as like as like really, really good.
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Then you have other people, you know, like a Congressman Chip Roy, who's endorsed me,
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Congressman Thomas Massey. These guys have records of principle fighting the swamp that are second to
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none. And yet they will be attacked by some of these people and called rhinos. So it's just been
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totally detached from any type of substance. And ultimately, a movement can't be about the
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personality of one individual. The movement has got to be about what are you trying to achieve
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on behalf of the American people? And that's got to be based in principle, because if you're not
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rooted in principle, if all we are is listless vessels that just supposed to follow, you know,
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whatever happens to come down the pike on truth social every morning, that's not going to be a
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durable movement. Hunter Biden's special counsel, David Weiss, has close ties to the Biden family.
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The Washington Post reporting today that between 2007 and 2010, David Weiss was acting U.S. attorney
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for Delaware and that he worked hand in glove with Hunter Biden's older brother, Beau Biden. The Post
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reporting says during that period, Weiss likely ran into Joe Biden many times. Beau Biden at the time was
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the attorney general for the state of Delaware. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says
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he's facing severe obstruction in his Hunter Biden investigation. Comer said over the weekend that as
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the investigation progresses, so does the obstruction from the FBI, the Secret Service, IRS, and the
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Marxist Dems in the House. We know talking to the banks that they're under considerable pressure
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not to cooperate with us. I've been saying for months, Maria, that we are facing obstruction
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like has never been demonstrated in the history of congressional investigations. Not only are we
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being obstructed by the Biden legal team, we're being obstructed by the Department of Justice. We're
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being obstructed by the FBI, by the Secret Service, by the IRS, by the Democrats on the House Oversight
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Committee. And the next question is, will we be obstructed by the new special counsel, David Weiss?
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Join us today for The Great America Show. Our guest is just the news, John Solomon. John says former
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Attorney General Bill Barr should be brought before Congress to answer serious questions
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about his treatment of the Hunter Biden case. Bill Barr made a decision that Hunter Biden's sins were
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somehow couldn't be prosecuted in the window for election. But those were not charges involving Joe
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Biden. There was nothing that prevented the American people from understanding that Hunter Biden did
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something wrong and it wasn't meddling against Joe Biden to acknowledge it. Right. For some reason,
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he created the election window and he wasn't he was also inconsistent. You and I have talked about
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this. He said, I didn't want to meddle in the election. That's why we kept everything secret about
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Hunter Biden, except he put out documents about Joe Biden in September of 2020. Joe Biden attended the
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famous Barack Obama January 5th, 2016 meeting to go get Mike Flynn. Well, wait, that affected Joe Biden.
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Why were you willing to acknowledge that but not Hunter Biden? There's an inconsistency in the behavior
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of Bill Barr by his own standards that he's never answered and why he went to Delaware when the tax
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crimes at the time that were alleged occurred in Washington, D.C. in California, because that's where
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Hunter Biden was residing at the time, are all mystifying to people. And I don't think I think
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at some point there'd be a value in House Republicans calling him before Congress and saying you did this
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and this and this. Why? Why did you appoint a Delaware U.S. attorney when the crimes you had before
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you were in Virginia and in Washington and California? Why didn't you give him special counsel status to
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overcome that? The media interviews that have been done with Bill Barr haven't asked, I think,
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the probative questions that would get the right answers. So maybe Congress should do it. I want
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to give Bill Barr the benefit. I'd like to know these answers. He hasn't been willing to do an
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interview with me, but I'd sure love to do one with him. Join us today for our interview with John
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Solomon on The Great America Show. Join us each and every weekday. I'm Lou Dobbs with this Great America