The Great America Show - REP. COMER SAYS BIDEN CREATES LAWS TO SUIT HIM, INTERPRETS THE CONSTITUTION THE WAY HE WANTS— NOT THE WAY OUR FOUNDERS WROTE IT

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and this is The Great America Show. Welcome, everybody.

00:00:05.240 Delighted to have you with us. Today, our guest is Congressman James Comer, chairman of the House

00:00:10.160 Oversight Committee. He's here to bring us up to date on the latest in his investigation of

00:00:15.580 President Biden and what is turning into something of a fight with a Marxist-Stim

00:00:20.100 Manhattan district attorney who refuses to turn over documents pertaining to Alvin Bragg's

00:00:27.060 political persecution of President Donald Trump. All that and more with Congressman Comer coming up

00:00:34.120 right after these developments. New blockbuster evidence in the John Durham Special Counsel

00:00:40.040 investigation. That's right. John Durham is still at it. And for the first time, Durham is alleging

00:00:46.740 that Hillary Clinton's campaign and others formed what he calls a joint venture or conspiracy

00:00:53.040 to smear and frame Donald Trump with the so-called Russian collusion story to hurt his campaign

00:01:00.100 and ultimately his presidency. And hard evidence of his allegations, a Michael Sussman email to then

00:01:08.380 FBI General Counsel James Baker was included in the filing by Durham's special counsel team

00:01:14.940 this week. And now House Oversight Committee Chairman Congressman James Comer with a major step forward

00:01:21.320 in his committee's investigation of the Biden crime family. The Treasury Department caving to Comer's

00:01:28.340 demands to review bank suspicious activity reports or SARS as they're called about the Biden family.

00:01:36.620 And his committee has also demanded George Soros back Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg come before his

00:01:43.240 committee to explain why a local prosecutor is going after a national political candidate and former

00:01:50.040 president, which is clearly a federal matter and an abuse of prosecutorial authority by the local

00:01:57.480 DA. Our guest now is Congressman James Comer. Great to have you with us, Mr. Chairman. Bragg seems to be

00:02:05.020 trying to laugh off your efforts to get him to testify and to appear before your committee. Your reaction,

00:02:11.820 Mr. Chairman? Well, the Manhattan DA Bragg does not have the luxury to determine whether or not he can

00:02:17.980 come and testify to Congress. When he made the decision to play in the federal sandbox, so to speak,

00:02:29.180 with respect to federal campaign finance laws and particularly with a presidential candidate,

00:02:36.580 not to mention a former presidential, the former president of the United States, then he became

00:02:41.940 squarely within congressional jurisdiction. I remind people that Congress writes the federal election

00:02:48.640 laws, not the Manhattan DA. So we just have some questions. Jordan, with judiciary, obviously has

00:02:56.260 jurisdiction over judiciary matters. We're very concerned that there's a two-tier system of justice

00:03:01.580 at the Department of Justice. We're very concerned with how Republicans, especially the former president,

00:03:08.140 have been treated by the Department of Justice with investigation after investigation after

00:03:12.800 investigation. And then I'm concerned because I think this is a waste of tax dollars. That's where

00:03:20.020 the House Oversight Committee comes in. We've got a crime problem in America. One reason we have a crime

00:03:24.020 problem is because district attorneys aren't prosecuting criminals, and he's spending his time trying

00:03:29.720 to prosecute a former president of the United States who's a current front-runner for president.

00:03:36.900 And then, of course, Chairman Steele's concerned about election laws, and he's House administration. So

00:03:41.780 we expect Bragg to come testify to Congress to answer some basic questions.

00:03:47.100 You expect Biden?

00:03:49.840 Bragg. We expect Bragg to come.

00:03:51.700 Bragg. And with that, we're looking at what can not surely be a coincidence. We're looking at three

00:04:00.020 prosecutions in the state of New York. We're looking at Georgia. We're looking at Florida.

00:04:05.820 One a state matter, one a local matter that is in Fulton County, Georgia. And the federal matter

00:04:14.300 pertaining to Mar-a-Lago, going ahead in Florida. There's five separate prosecutions against President

00:04:23.260 Donald Trump. That has to be surely something other than coincidence. Is that something that

00:04:31.740 would be within your purview to investigate?

00:04:35.260 Absolutely. Again, we've created a special task force, a select committee to investigate the

00:04:41.460 weaponization of the Department of Justice. I don't think anybody in America can say with a

00:04:45.480 straight face that Donald Trump would be going through any of these trials were it not for the

00:04:50.580 fact that he's running for president again and leading in every poll in the Republican primary

00:04:56.360 and most of the polls in the general election. We fear this is political, and that's what our

00:05:02.740 concern is with Merrick Garland's Department of Justice, that it has been overly politicized. But now,

00:05:07.440 Bragg is the one that we're most concerned about. This is the most obvious overreach. It's in the

00:05:15.920 different level. It's with the things that he's looking at. The statutes of limitations have expired.

00:05:22.720 The case was passed on by the Department of Justice several years ago. I mean, there's no good

00:05:29.280 explanation why in a city with the crime rate that New York City has that you would have a DA spending this

00:05:37.360 much time trying to investigate or prosecute or indict, whatever you want to say, a presidential

00:05:47.600 candidate. I mean, this is a problem that Republicans have. And Democrats have said the same thing. You

00:05:53.040 know, they swiped what James Comey did with talking about emails right before the 2016 election. I mean,

00:05:59.760 the federal government needs to stay out of our elections. And that's what, you know, everyone

00:06:05.680 complains about election interference. I mean, there's no good reason that we can tell for

00:06:11.280 Bragg to be doing what he's doing. You know, if there is, and he can come tell us about it. I mean,

00:06:16.000 that's what we've asked. And that's what we expect. Yeah, nothing that's come out of that grand jury so

00:06:22.240 far has made a lick of sense, including having Michael Cohen, who confessed to lying to Congress,

00:06:28.320 who has been flat out, straightforwardly accused of being a pathological liar by one of the New York's

00:06:36.720 most prominent attorneys, Robert Costello, who said, if you put a gun to his head, as the way I

00:06:44.160 understand it on the witness stand, if you put a gun to Michael Cohen's head, he couldn't tell the

00:06:49.920 truth. What kind of nonsense is this to put a case that is utterly dependent on the star witness who's

00:06:58.400 a pathological liar? Well, you know, you could certainly say that the two star witnesses have

00:07:05.440 credibility challenges. And that's all I want to say with respect to that. But at the end of the day,

00:07:10.560 my problem isn't as much the witnesses as it is the fact that you've got a local DA trying to indict

00:07:18.320 a presidential candidate. I mean, on a case that the Department of Justice passed on for a million

00:07:28.160 reasons three years ago or four years ago. I mean, this is something that is a concern. You know, what's

00:07:34.720 to say, Lou, that my local county attorneys in my red district start trying to prosecute the Biden family

00:07:41.920 and leading Democrat, Chuck Schumer and others. I mean, you can't overstep jurisdiction here and

00:07:50.560 you can't write the laws to suit your political agenda, which is what it appears that Bragg is trying

00:07:59.360 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,

00:08:05.920 you know, credible evidence that has legal standing, then he can come explain that to us. And I'm sure

00:08:12.960 that we would back off. I would back off, certainly. But at the end of the day, we're just sick and tired

00:08:20.240 of the politicization of the Department of Justice. And we want to know, has he been communicating with

00:08:26.480 Merrick Garland? Is this just part of their narrative to try to say, oh, Trump got indicted in five states

00:08:34.160 over five different things? I mean, this is this is the concern we have with Merrick Garland

00:08:39.280 and his Department of Justice right now. Well, Merrick Garland, there's a lot of reasons for

00:08:43.200 concern with that man. When you look at all of the overreaches by his department and the FBI under his

00:08:51.200 attorney generalship, this this is a man out of control. And I mean, it's unprecedented what he has done,

00:08:59.200 raiding a former president's home, going after records, there is no dispute that the president

00:09:05.200 has no reasonable dispute that the president has the authority and possess the authority to declassify

00:09:12.800 those documents. The rest of it. Yeah, I'm sorry, go ahead. Well, with respect to the documents,

00:09:18.400 that's another great example. I mean, Trump, it's my understanding, was working with the National

00:09:24.640 Archives, and they were arguing over what is classified and what isn't classified. And,

00:09:29.920 you know, people make the argument that the president has the ability to declassify. I've

00:09:34.400 heard Democrats say, especially Democrat members of Congress that were in the military, that we

00:09:39.440 over classify documents. So, you know, there was a lot going on there with Trump and the National

00:09:45.360 Archives for him to just get raided. But then you see with Joe Biden, he's mishandled classified documents,

00:09:53.200 in at least, to my count, five different locations, but they never raided any of those locations. They

00:09:58.960 would call Joe Biden and say, or they would call Joe Biden's lawyers and say, hey, it's Monday at 12

00:10:05.360 o'clock. We're going to come Thursday at 3.30 in the afternoon and search your premise. So,

00:10:11.760 give them three or four days to do who knows what. And at the end of the day, remember,

00:10:18.080 there's no inventory of missing classified documents. That's something that certainly needs

00:10:23.360 to be changed. And I hope to pass legislation that would affect the outgoing president and define

00:10:30.080 exactly what steps need to be taken for documents to follow the outgoing president and vice president

00:10:36.320 when they leave office and go to the private sector. But, you know, the way they treated Trump

00:10:39.760 versus the way they treated Joe Biden on the mishandling of classified documents is probably the

00:10:46.000 biggest example of a two-tier system of justice. Yeah, I think there's only one tier, frankly,

00:10:52.320 and I don't think it applies to the Marxist Dems of this country who run the Democrat Party at all.

00:10:58.000 It's one set of rules for the conservatives, Republicans, and independents. And those are

00:11:04.160 the Democrat rules. That's where our system of justice is. We don't have a system of justice,

00:11:09.520 I think, Mr. Chairman, frankly, not when we permit this kind of nonsense to go on.

00:11:15.120 Are you going to subpoena, Bragg? Well, that will be Jordan's decision in the end. He's the lead

00:11:23.680 investigator of this. So, Jim would be the person to ask that question. All right. I'll reserve that

00:11:30.400 for Mr. Jordan. The fact that the vice president, the former vice president, lied in the... I mean,

00:11:41.360 I'm just looking at the level of things that you could go through. I mean, it's really unending,

00:11:46.960 and I know you know this far better than I do. I mean, I don't know how the resources that would

00:11:53.280 be required to go through the conduct of this government, your oversight of this government,

00:11:59.440 the way it has spent taxpayer money, those it's targeted, the weaponization committee,

00:12:05.120 I understand, but just simply in the operation and administration of this government to the

00:12:10.800 disservice and to the jeopardy of American citizens, it's just astounding.

00:12:18.080 It is, Lou. You look at what the president said over the weekend that

00:12:22.240 the Republicans were to blame for not securing the southern border. The Republicans were wanting

00:12:29.360 to cut border patrol agents, and that would lead to more fentanyl pouring across the border. I mean,

00:12:35.280 are you kidding me? This president has created an open border policy. That's our border policy

00:12:42.240 under Joe Biden. It's an open border policy. He turned the border patrol agents from policing agents,

00:12:49.840 protecting our border to the welcoming committee. I mean, they're like the local chamber of commerce,

00:12:55.360 visitor center for these people coming across the border. And that's why we've had 100,000

00:13:01.680 fentanyl deaths since Joe Biden's been president, because we don't have a secure border. And I think

00:13:07.840 that for Joe Biden to stand and the press to not call him out, that it's Republicans' fault. I mean,

00:13:15.040 that's all we've talked about. Just about every committee's had a hearing on the border since

00:13:19.680 we've been in the majority. We're at our wits' end looking for ways to try to make this administration

00:13:26.880 do what it should do, protect our homeland. And then, you know, he said last week after I'd published

00:13:31.920 the bank record showing his family had taken over a million dollars from the Chinese Communist Party,

00:13:37.040 he said that was a lie. I mean, I have their bank records, Lou. It's no lie. And the press didn't,

00:13:43.600 again, call him out on that. So, you know, we've got, as you know, a challenge with the mainstream

00:13:48.800 media here in the United States telling the truth about this administration.

00:13:53.520 Well, respectfully, Mr. Chairman, we don't have a problem. We've got a crisis.

00:13:57.520 This national corporate media is in absolute league with the Marxist-dem-led Democratic Party.

00:14:07.520 This is not a, and I think most Americans don't understand this. The Democrat Party isn't a party

00:14:13.280 of the loyal opposition. They are a party of occupation, and they are trying to overthrow

00:14:19.440 everything about this republic. The fact that we can't get a straightforward, to think that a

00:14:26.240 president of the United States lies about what he did, lies about what the Republicans did on that

00:14:31.360 border, and who's responsible, and there isn't a peep. And by the way, the Republican leadership

00:14:37.440 hasn't been exactly vociferous and united. It seems to me that every single one of the 222 Republicans

00:14:44.960 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

00:14:50.320 the president of the United States, who is shredding the Constitution every day, and now with every

00:14:56.000 breath. Yeah, the actions of this president have put every American in jeopardy with respect to

00:15:06.880 no homeland security on the southern border, with respect to out-of-control crime rates in the big

00:15:13.440 cities and criminals going free because of his criminal justice reform, because of inflation, because

00:15:19.760 of the Biden spending too much, all of his stimulus bills and his welfare giveaways. Now we've got a

00:15:27.040 crisis with our banks, because the regulators weren't paying close enough attention to the changing economy,

00:15:36.400 because one thing that's brought a lot of these banks down, Lou, is the fact that they had so many

00:15:41.680 treasuries. And you know what happens to the value of treasuries when interest rates go up a lot,

00:15:46.640 and a lot of these banks were underwater because of bad policies of this Biden administration.

00:15:52.240 You throw in the energy policy, the push to make everything electric, while at the same time

00:15:57.760 cutting off coal, canceling the Keystone pipeline. I mean, decision after decision that this administration

00:16:03.360 has made has put every American in peril. And that's what you're right, the Republicans are going to have

00:16:10.000 to stand up. And as you know, the Senate tied our hands till October because they funded the budget

00:16:15.680 before we became the majority. But we're working on it as we speak, trying to get enough votes to

00:16:22.240 to make some some cuts to try to balance the budget, for God's sake, and try to force this administration

00:16:28.160 to do what it's supposed to do on the southern border. Yeah. I would say that your chances of succeeding at

00:16:34.480 that, if I may, Mr. Chairman, based on the experience of the last two years and what,

00:16:40.000 almost three months, would be zero. There is no way. This president has served notice on the Republican

00:16:47.120 Party, on the citizens of this country. When it comes to the Constitution, when it comes to American

00:16:54.240 values and the national interest, go to hell. I mean, you could put that in quote marks from Joe Biden.

00:17:00.400 Yeah. Go to hell. And it seems clear to me that because of the extraordinary

00:17:07.200 violations by this president of the Constitution, of the rule of law, his own self-dealing,

00:17:14.420 you're going to have to do something dramatic. We're going to have to do something dramatic as a

00:17:19.320 nation to deal with this, because it's clear to me after watching this, at least to me, Mr. Chairman,

00:17:25.400 the government wasn't designed for this kind of reprobate sitting in the White House, shielded

00:17:34.880 and assisted and supported and guided by Marxist Dems who could give a damn about law, who could

00:17:41.860 give a damn about their traditional role, whether they be in the fourth estate or whether they be in

00:17:47.760 the Internal Revenue Service Agency. Yeah, their desire for political correctness and wokeness has

00:17:57.280 certainly led to a trend among prosecutors that, you know, it's for some reason wrong to prosecute

00:18:07.940 certain types of people. And, you know, we've got a crime crisis in America here in Washington, D.C.

00:18:14.300 Thankfully, we passed legislation in May and the president did sign that undid a crazy decision

00:18:22.320 that the city council made here in Washington, D.C. to not prosecute anybody unless they committed

00:18:26.480 murder. So if somebody carjacked at 9 a.m. in the morning, they would get arrested and be back out on

00:18:33.440 the street by noon. They could go to steal a hot dog somewhere and then carjack again at two o'clock.

00:18:38.500 You know, the decisions coming out of these liberal prosecutors in the name of Joe Biden's

00:18:45.500 criminal justice reform is just it's wreaked havoc on these cities. And I think, you know,

00:18:52.340 hopefully that's one thing voters will remember they did in New York in the midterm election. They

00:18:57.620 turned on the Democrat Party because of their soft on crime positions. And, you know, with respect to

00:19:04.660 the Constitution, Joe Biden will say was, you know, he can he can pay for this student loan bailout,

00:19:11.260 even though he has no authority to appropriate money, especially that much hundreds of billions

00:19:19.080 of dollars. But then he'll say, well, I can't do anything. You know, he can't do anything about

00:19:22.260 tick tock because he doesn't have the constitutional authority. I mean, he creates laws to suit him and

00:19:28.960 he interprets the Constitution the way that he wants, not the way that our founders wrote it.

00:19:35.440 So let me ask you this question. I've got a couple of others, if I may. Let me let me start with this.

00:19:41.180 The House GOP is demanding Biden reveal Chinese ties to the Silicon Valley Bank.

00:19:46.680 Well and good. But he has not answered any of your questions to this point.

00:19:50.840 He won't even acknowledge his own truth, which is that he is destroying this country at the southern

00:19:55.780 border. He's in league with a he's turned over control of the southern border, north and south

00:20:02.320 of that border to the Mexican drug cartels. We have people dying. We can't sit here and wait till

00:20:10.720 November 24th, November of 2024. What if we don't make it? I mean, are we just going to say we tried?

00:20:19.420 This is this is going to require a I think a unique, a dramatic and original solution,

00:20:27.280 because where the Democrat Party has us headed and this crazed, impaired president has us headed 0.78

00:20:34.100 is to oblivion. And it's that straightforward. He has said, I will say it again. He's told us all

00:20:40.980 go to hell. Now, there has to be a response to that, that doesn't wait on 2024.

00:20:49.420 I truly believe we can't afford to take that risk.

00:20:52.040 Yeah, I you're you're you're on a roll. We need to I need to get you to come to speak

00:20:58.860 to our conference or motivational speech to try to get a few of our guys to feel the same sense of

00:21:06.820 urgency that most working taxpaying Americans feel about this administration. So I appreciate what

00:21:15.340 you're saying and and I hope that we can put the brakes on on the spending and get a reasonable

00:21:21.900 budget and force the Senate to go along with us with respect to him lying about the bank records.

00:21:28.540 That was the first batch Lou. Let's see what happens on the second batch and the third batch and the

00:21:34.220 fourth batch because that's what's going to happen. We're not letting up on this investigation and we're

00:21:39.100 going to present the American people with the facts about what the Biden family's been doing

00:21:44.220 to profit off of working taxpaying, God fearing Americans. May I ask you one last question here,

00:21:51.660 Mr. Chairman, any timetable for when you'll hear about Hunter Biden's business partners?

00:21:57.580 Will you have to subpoena them as well? Well, we've asked a couple of them to come in for transcribed

00:22:02.580 interviews and the deadline for a response is in the next few days. So stay tuned, Lou. We're not going to

00:22:08.280 let up on this and we've got a lot of momentum. I've already got more information than I think

00:22:12.640 most of the critics ever thought we would get. We've already gotten one set of bank records.

00:22:18.440 We've got access to those suspicious activity reports from Treasury that they said I would never

00:22:23.000 get. And just stay tuned on more bank records coming in. Well, I will say this, Chairman James

00:22:30.420 Comer, you are dialed in and I guarantee you we'll be tuned in. Thanks so much for being with us and

00:22:36.660 thanks for all that you're doing for the country. Appreciate it. Thanks for having me, Lou.

00:22:41.020 Thank you. Thanks, everybody, for being with us today. Here tomorrow, our guest will be Tom Bevan,

00:22:46.480 founder and editor of Real Clear Politics. And as you might expect, we'll be talking about all

00:22:52.440 that's going on in national politics and the continuing contest for truth, justice and the

00:22:58.560 American way right here tomorrow. Please join us till then. God bless you and God bless America.

The Great America Show - March 28, 2023

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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