REP. COMER SAYS BIDEN CREATES LAWS TO SUIT HIM, INTERPRETS THE CONSTITUTION THE WAY HE WANTS— NOT THE WAY OUR FOUNDERS WROTE IT
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Congressman James Comer (R-VA) joins host Lou Dobbs (R) to discuss the latest in his investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden and what is turning into something of a fight with a Marxist-Stim Manhattan DA who refuses to turn over documents pertaining to his political persecution of President Donald Trump.
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Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and this is The Great America Show. Welcome, everybody.
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Delighted to have you with us. Today, our guest is Congressman James Comer, chairman of the House
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Oversight Committee. He's here to bring us up to date on the latest in his investigation of
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President Biden and what is turning into something of a fight with a Marxist-Stim
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Manhattan district attorney who refuses to turn over documents pertaining to Alvin Bragg's
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political persecution of President Donald Trump. All that and more with Congressman Comer coming up
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right after these developments. New blockbuster evidence in the John Durham Special Counsel
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investigation. That's right. John Durham is still at it. And for the first time, Durham is alleging
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that Hillary Clinton's campaign and others formed what he calls a joint venture or conspiracy
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to smear and frame Donald Trump with the so-called Russian collusion story to hurt his campaign
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and ultimately his presidency. And hard evidence of his allegations, a Michael Sussman email to then
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FBI General Counsel James Baker was included in the filing by Durham's special counsel team
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this week. And now House Oversight Committee Chairman Congressman James Comer with a major step forward
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in his committee's investigation of the Biden crime family. The Treasury Department caving to Comer's
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demands to review bank suspicious activity reports or SARS as they're called about the Biden family.
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And his committee has also demanded George Soros back Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg come before his
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committee to explain why a local prosecutor is going after a national political candidate and former
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president, which is clearly a federal matter and an abuse of prosecutorial authority by the local
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DA. Our guest now is Congressman James Comer. Great to have you with us, Mr. Chairman. Bragg seems to be
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trying to laugh off your efforts to get him to testify and to appear before your committee. Your reaction,
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Mr. Chairman? Well, the Manhattan DA Bragg does not have the luxury to determine whether or not he can
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come and testify to Congress. When he made the decision to play in the federal sandbox, so to speak,
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with respect to federal campaign finance laws and particularly with a presidential candidate,
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not to mention a former presidential, the former president of the United States, then he became
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squarely within congressional jurisdiction. I remind people that Congress writes the federal election
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laws, not the Manhattan DA. So we just have some questions. Jordan, with judiciary, obviously has
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jurisdiction over judiciary matters. We're very concerned that there's a two-tier system of justice
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at the Department of Justice. We're very concerned with how Republicans, especially the former president,
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have been treated by the Department of Justice with investigation after investigation after
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investigation. And then I'm concerned because I think this is a waste of tax dollars. That's where
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the House Oversight Committee comes in. We've got a crime problem in America. One reason we have a crime
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problem is because district attorneys aren't prosecuting criminals, and he's spending his time trying
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to prosecute a former president of the United States who's a current front-runner for president.
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And then, of course, Chairman Steele's concerned about election laws, and he's House administration. So
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we expect Bragg to come testify to Congress to answer some basic questions.
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Bragg. And with that, we're looking at what can not surely be a coincidence. We're looking at three
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prosecutions in the state of New York. We're looking at Georgia. We're looking at Florida.
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One a state matter, one a local matter that is in Fulton County, Georgia. And the federal matter
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pertaining to Mar-a-Lago, going ahead in Florida. There's five separate prosecutions against President
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Donald Trump. That has to be surely something other than coincidence. Is that something that
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Absolutely. Again, we've created a special task force, a select committee to investigate the
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weaponization of the Department of Justice. I don't think anybody in America can say with a
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straight face that Donald Trump would be going through any of these trials were it not for the
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fact that he's running for president again and leading in every poll in the Republican primary
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and most of the polls in the general election. We fear this is political, and that's what our
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concern is with Merrick Garland's Department of Justice, that it has been overly politicized. But now,
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Bragg is the one that we're most concerned about. This is the most obvious overreach. It's in the
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different level. It's with the things that he's looking at. The statutes of limitations have expired.
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The case was passed on by the Department of Justice several years ago. I mean, there's no good
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explanation why in a city with the crime rate that New York City has that you would have a DA spending this
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much time trying to investigate or prosecute or indict, whatever you want to say, a presidential
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candidate. I mean, this is a problem that Republicans have. And Democrats have said the same thing. You
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know, they swiped what James Comey did with talking about emails right before the 2016 election. I mean,
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the federal government needs to stay out of our elections. And that's what, you know, everyone
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complains about election interference. I mean, there's no good reason that we can tell for
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Bragg to be doing what he's doing. You know, if there is, and he can come tell us about it. I mean,
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that's what we've asked. And that's what we expect. Yeah, nothing that's come out of that grand jury so
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far has made a lick of sense, including having Michael Cohen, who confessed to lying to Congress,
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who has been flat out, straightforwardly accused of being a pathological liar by one of the New York's
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most prominent attorneys, Robert Costello, who said, if you put a gun to his head, as the way I
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understand it on the witness stand, if you put a gun to Michael Cohen's head, he couldn't tell the
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truth. What kind of nonsense is this to put a case that is utterly dependent on the star witness who's
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a pathological liar? Well, you know, you could certainly say that the two star witnesses have
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credibility challenges. And that's all I want to say with respect to that. But at the end of the day,
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my problem isn't as much the witnesses as it is the fact that you've got a local DA trying to indict
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a presidential candidate. I mean, on a case that the Department of Justice passed on for a million
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reasons three years ago or four years ago. I mean, this is something that is a concern. You know, what's
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to say, Lou, that my local county attorneys in my red district start trying to prosecute the Biden family
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and leading Democrat, Chuck Schumer and others. I mean, you can't overstep jurisdiction here and
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you can't write the laws to suit your political agenda, which is what it appears that Bragg is trying
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to do. And that's our concern. You know, if he's on the above board, everything's on the up and up and he's got,
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you know, credible evidence that has legal standing, then he can come explain that to us. And I'm sure
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that we would back off. I would back off, certainly. But at the end of the day, we're just sick and tired
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of the politicization of the Department of Justice. And we want to know, has he been communicating with
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Merrick Garland? Is this just part of their narrative to try to say, oh, Trump got indicted in five states
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over five different things? I mean, this is this is the concern we have with Merrick Garland
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and his Department of Justice right now. Well, Merrick Garland, there's a lot of reasons for
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concern with that man. When you look at all of the overreaches by his department and the FBI under his
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attorney generalship, this this is a man out of control. And I mean, it's unprecedented what he has done,
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raiding a former president's home, going after records, there is no dispute that the president
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has no reasonable dispute that the president has the authority and possess the authority to declassify
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those documents. The rest of it. Yeah, I'm sorry, go ahead. Well, with respect to the documents,
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that's another great example. I mean, Trump, it's my understanding, was working with the National
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Archives, and they were arguing over what is classified and what isn't classified. And,
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you know, people make the argument that the president has the ability to declassify. I've
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heard Democrats say, especially Democrat members of Congress that were in the military, that we
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over classify documents. So, you know, there was a lot going on there with Trump and the National
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Archives for him to just get raided. But then you see with Joe Biden, he's mishandled classified documents,
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in at least, to my count, five different locations, but they never raided any of those locations. They
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would call Joe Biden and say, or they would call Joe Biden's lawyers and say, hey, it's Monday at 12
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o'clock. We're going to come Thursday at 3.30 in the afternoon and search your premise. So,
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give them three or four days to do who knows what. And at the end of the day, remember,
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there's no inventory of missing classified documents. That's something that certainly needs
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to be changed. And I hope to pass legislation that would affect the outgoing president and define
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exactly what steps need to be taken for documents to follow the outgoing president and vice president
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when they leave office and go to the private sector. But, you know, the way they treated Trump
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versus the way they treated Joe Biden on the mishandling of classified documents is probably the
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biggest example of a two-tier system of justice. Yeah, I think there's only one tier, frankly,
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and I don't think it applies to the Marxist Dems of this country who run the Democrat Party at all.
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It's one set of rules for the conservatives, Republicans, and independents. And those are
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the Democrat rules. That's where our system of justice is. We don't have a system of justice,
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I think, Mr. Chairman, frankly, not when we permit this kind of nonsense to go on.
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Are you going to subpoena, Bragg? Well, that will be Jordan's decision in the end. He's the lead
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investigator of this. So, Jim would be the person to ask that question. All right. I'll reserve that
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for Mr. Jordan. The fact that the vice president, the former vice president, lied in the... I mean,
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I'm just looking at the level of things that you could go through. I mean, it's really unending,
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and I know you know this far better than I do. I mean, I don't know how the resources that would
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be required to go through the conduct of this government, your oversight of this government,
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the way it has spent taxpayer money, those it's targeted, the weaponization committee,
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I understand, but just simply in the operation and administration of this government to the
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disservice and to the jeopardy of American citizens, it's just astounding.
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It is, Lou. You look at what the president said over the weekend that
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the Republicans were to blame for not securing the southern border. The Republicans were wanting
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to cut border patrol agents, and that would lead to more fentanyl pouring across the border. I mean,
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are you kidding me? This president has created an open border policy. That's our border policy
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under Joe Biden. It's an open border policy. He turned the border patrol agents from policing agents,
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protecting our border to the welcoming committee. I mean, they're like the local chamber of commerce,
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visitor center for these people coming across the border. And that's why we've had 100,000
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fentanyl deaths since Joe Biden's been president, because we don't have a secure border. And I think
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that for Joe Biden to stand and the press to not call him out, that it's Republicans' fault. I mean,
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that's all we've talked about. Just about every committee's had a hearing on the border since
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we've been in the majority. We're at our wits' end looking for ways to try to make this administration
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do what it should do, protect our homeland. And then, you know, he said last week after I'd published
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the bank record showing his family had taken over a million dollars from the Chinese Communist Party,
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he said that was a lie. I mean, I have their bank records, Lou. It's no lie. And the press didn't,
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again, call him out on that. So, you know, we've got, as you know, a challenge with the mainstream
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media here in the United States telling the truth about this administration.
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Well, respectfully, Mr. Chairman, we don't have a problem. We've got a crisis.
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This national corporate media is in absolute league with the Marxist-dem-led Democratic Party.
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This is not a, and I think most Americans don't understand this. The Democrat Party isn't a party
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of the loyal opposition. They are a party of occupation, and they are trying to overthrow
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everything about this republic. The fact that we can't get a straightforward, to think that a
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president of the United States lies about what he did, lies about what the Republicans did on that
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border, and who's responsible, and there isn't a peep. And by the way, the Republican leadership
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hasn't been exactly vociferous and united. It seems to me that every single one of the 222 Republicans
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in the House should be screaming at the top of their lungs that we're not going to be told to go to hell by
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the president of the United States, who is shredding the Constitution every day, and now with every
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breath. Yeah, the actions of this president have put every American in jeopardy with respect to
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no homeland security on the southern border, with respect to out-of-control crime rates in the big
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cities and criminals going free because of his criminal justice reform, because of inflation, because
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of the Biden spending too much, all of his stimulus bills and his welfare giveaways. Now we've got a
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crisis with our banks, because the regulators weren't paying close enough attention to the changing economy,
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because one thing that's brought a lot of these banks down, Lou, is the fact that they had so many
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treasuries. And you know what happens to the value of treasuries when interest rates go up a lot,
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and a lot of these banks were underwater because of bad policies of this Biden administration.
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You throw in the energy policy, the push to make everything electric, while at the same time
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cutting off coal, canceling the Keystone pipeline. I mean, decision after decision that this administration
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has made has put every American in peril. And that's what you're right, the Republicans are going to have
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to stand up. And as you know, the Senate tied our hands till October because they funded the budget
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before we became the majority. But we're working on it as we speak, trying to get enough votes to
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to make some some cuts to try to balance the budget, for God's sake, and try to force this administration
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to do what it's supposed to do on the southern border. Yeah. I would say that your chances of succeeding at
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that, if I may, Mr. Chairman, based on the experience of the last two years and what,
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almost three months, would be zero. There is no way. This president has served notice on the Republican
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Party, on the citizens of this country. When it comes to the Constitution, when it comes to American
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values and the national interest, go to hell. I mean, you could put that in quote marks from Joe Biden.
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Yeah. Go to hell. And it seems clear to me that because of the extraordinary
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violations by this president of the Constitution, of the rule of law, his own self-dealing,
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you're going to have to do something dramatic. We're going to have to do something dramatic as a
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nation to deal with this, because it's clear to me after watching this, at least to me, Mr. Chairman,
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the government wasn't designed for this kind of reprobate sitting in the White House, shielded
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and assisted and supported and guided by Marxist Dems who could give a damn about law, who could
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give a damn about their traditional role, whether they be in the fourth estate or whether they be in
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the Internal Revenue Service Agency. Yeah, their desire for political correctness and wokeness has
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certainly led to a trend among prosecutors that, you know, it's for some reason wrong to prosecute
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certain types of people. And, you know, we've got a crime crisis in America here in Washington, D.C.
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Thankfully, we passed legislation in May and the president did sign that undid a crazy decision
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that the city council made here in Washington, D.C. to not prosecute anybody unless they committed
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murder. So if somebody carjacked at 9 a.m. in the morning, they would get arrested and be back out on
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the street by noon. They could go to steal a hot dog somewhere and then carjack again at two o'clock.
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You know, the decisions coming out of these liberal prosecutors in the name of Joe Biden's
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criminal justice reform is just it's wreaked havoc on these cities. And I think, you know,
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hopefully that's one thing voters will remember they did in New York in the midterm election. They
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turned on the Democrat Party because of their soft on crime positions. And, you know, with respect to
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the Constitution, Joe Biden will say was, you know, he can he can pay for this student loan bailout,
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even though he has no authority to appropriate money, especially that much hundreds of billions
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of dollars. But then he'll say, well, I can't do anything. You know, he can't do anything about
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tick tock because he doesn't have the constitutional authority. I mean, he creates laws to suit him and
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he interprets the Constitution the way that he wants, not the way that our founders wrote it.
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So let me ask you this question. I've got a couple of others, if I may. Let me let me start with this.
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The House GOP is demanding Biden reveal Chinese ties to the Silicon Valley Bank.
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Well and good. But he has not answered any of your questions to this point.
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He won't even acknowledge his own truth, which is that he is destroying this country at the southern
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border. He's in league with a he's turned over control of the southern border, north and south
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of that border to the Mexican drug cartels. We have people dying. We can't sit here and wait till
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November 24th, November of 2024. What if we don't make it? I mean, are we just going to say we tried?
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This is this is going to require a I think a unique, a dramatic and original solution,
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because where the Democrat Party has us headed and this crazed, impaired president has us headed
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is to oblivion. And it's that straightforward. He has said, I will say it again. He's told us all
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go to hell. Now, there has to be a response to that, that doesn't wait on 2024.
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I truly believe we can't afford to take that risk.
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Yeah, I you're you're you're on a roll. We need to I need to get you to come to speak
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to our conference or motivational speech to try to get a few of our guys to feel the same sense of
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urgency that most working taxpaying Americans feel about this administration. So I appreciate what
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you're saying and and I hope that we can put the brakes on on the spending and get a reasonable
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budget and force the Senate to go along with us with respect to him lying about the bank records.
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That was the first batch Lou. Let's see what happens on the second batch and the third batch and the
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fourth batch because that's what's going to happen. We're not letting up on this investigation and we're
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going to present the American people with the facts about what the Biden family's been doing
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to profit off of working taxpaying, God fearing Americans. May I ask you one last question here,
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Mr. Chairman, any timetable for when you'll hear about Hunter Biden's business partners?
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Will you have to subpoena them as well? Well, we've asked a couple of them to come in for transcribed
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interviews and the deadline for a response is in the next few days. So stay tuned, Lou. We're not going to
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let up on this and we've got a lot of momentum. I've already got more information than I think
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most of the critics ever thought we would get. We've already gotten one set of bank records.
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We've got access to those suspicious activity reports from Treasury that they said I would never
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get. And just stay tuned on more bank records coming in. Well, I will say this, Chairman James
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Comer, you are dialed in and I guarantee you we'll be tuned in. Thanks so much for being with us and
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thanks for all that you're doing for the country. Appreciate it. Thanks for having me, Lou.
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Thank you. Thanks, everybody, for being with us today. Here tomorrow, our guest will be Tom Bevan,
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founder and editor of Real Clear Politics. And as you might expect, we'll be talking about all
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that's going on in national politics and the continuing contest for truth, justice and the
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American way right here tomorrow. Please join us till then. God bless you and God bless America.