The Great America Show - REP JAMES COMER： NATIONAL ARCHIVES REFUSE TO ANSWER HOUSE OVERSIGHT CMTE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FBI MAR-A-LAGO RAID

00:00:00.260 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and this is The Great America Show. Welcome. Great to have you

00:00:07.000 with us. I'm sure you're as relieved, as the rest of America, that President Biden's back in D.C. to

00:00:13.340 lead the free world. Excuse me. I mean, to lead the liberal world order. We're told he's going

00:00:20.420 to give a big old pep talk to the Marxist Dems this week. He apparently just heard there's a

00:00:26.320 big election coming up. And you know that not a single national news outlet will refuse to cover

00:00:33.260 the president's speech, even though it will be just weeks from the election. And you know how the

00:00:39.020 Marxist Dems hate to intervene in elections. Well, the speech ought to be a stemwinder,

00:00:44.980 especially if the Biden teleprompter has a malfunction. President Trump is understandably

00:00:51.400 furious over the Department of Justice and FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago and their illegal search and

00:00:59.000 seizure of his offices and documents. And he's urging FBI agents to come forward, the good ones,

00:01:07.080 and tell the truth. More than a dozen agents have done just that. They're whistleblowers.

00:01:11.840 And among their charges, that top FBI officials ordered special agents not to even look at Hunter

00:01:19.260 Biden's laptop and not investigate the Bidens at all. Business as usual in the D.C. swamp, wouldn't

00:01:26.980 you say? And with us today is one of the Republican leaders in the effort to drain the swamp and restore

00:01:33.700 integrity to government. Our guest today is Congressman James Comer of Kentucky, ranking member on the

00:01:40.600 House Oversight Committee and a great American. Congressman, welcome back to the Great America

00:01:46.280 show. Good to have you with us. Well, let's start with the National Archives. They now say that 700

00:01:52.840 pages of classified materials were seized by the FBI from Trump's home. And DOJ now admits they seized

00:02:01.940 protected attorney-client privilege documents, exactly as President Trump had said. Your committee has

00:02:09.800 oversight jurisdiction over the National Archives. What can you do about this?

00:02:16.360 Well, I have a lot of thoughts, Lou. I have a lot of questions. And unfortunately, the National Archives

00:02:21.460 aren't responding to our questions. The House Oversight Committee, we've always had legislative

00:02:26.340 jurisdiction over the National Archives. They're a sleepy, normally a sleepy government bureaucracy that

00:02:32.580 comes before our committee once or twice a year just for housekeeping purposes. But now suddenly they

00:02:38.620 won't talk to us. We've requested information and they refer it to the Department of Justice. So

00:02:44.920 my first question is, did some librarian at the National Archives somehow work with the Department

00:02:54.000 of Justice to raid the former president of the United States' home because of some documents? If so,

00:03:01.940 they need to explain that because, you know, from what we've learned, every president during the

00:03:08.360 transition from the White House back to their private sector residence, they always take a lot of boxes of

00:03:18.480 information. You know, they're going to work on memoirs and things like that, mementos. And, you know,

00:03:24.140 there's, it's completely inconsistent with what, you know, Hillary Clinton and Obama, Obama took so

00:03:32.360 much more, I mean, truckloads and truckloads of documents. And, you know, who boxed those documents?

00:03:38.880 We know that Donald Trump didn't box those documents. I mean, you know, and number one,

00:03:44.040 we don't know what documents he has. So we don't know what documents he has. We know that they didn't

00:03:47.800 treat Trump the same way they treated Clinton, Obama, and every other former president. We also

00:03:54.160 don't know who, who put the boxes together and how the FBI knew about the body. Could have been a

00:04:00.940 setup deal, Lou. There's a million questions out there that we have. And unfortunately, we're not

00:04:06.340 getting any answers, even though the, as the top Republican on the House oversight, we have

00:04:11.100 jurisdiction over the National Archives. Incredible. You have oversight, and these librarians won't

00:04:20.560 talk to you. I mean, that's really crazy. I mean, on any level, that's crazy. But they talk to us all the

00:04:29.160 time before. They worried us to death before. Now, now we can't get them to respond. They just, they send

00:04:35.260 a letter and say, all right, well, you have to refer to the Department of Justice. Well, you know how that's

00:04:39.920 going to go? I mean, they won't even return our phone calls at the Department of Justice.

00:04:44.340 Maybe you ought to tell them then if you need funding, you ought to talk to the Department of

00:04:48.520 Justice yourselves because you won't be getting any. That's the, that's the key for the future.

00:04:55.380 That's what the Republicans, if we retake the majority, we're going to have to

00:05:00.640 hit them where it hurts if they're not going to be honest and truthful and transparent with the

00:05:07.100 American people. Yeah, well, honest, truthful, and transparent are no part of the Biden administration 0.76

00:05:13.960 or the Marxist Dems who run the Democratic Party. This is now, you have librarians telling the U.S.

00:05:20.760 Congress and the House Oversight Committee to go to hell. You are no longer in an era of honesty,

00:05:26.960 transparency. This is an outrage of, I mean, librarians telling you to go to hell. It's one 0.99

00:05:36.100 thing when it's the Department of Justice telling you to go to hell because that's just who they

00:05:40.140 are. They're part of, and with the FBI, they're the Gestapo of the Democrat Party. But the National

00:05:48.820 Archives, I mean, this reaches a level of absurdity that's unimaginable, or was at least.

00:05:54.420 When I first heard that the subpoena was initiated, or the raid was initiated by the National Archives,

00:06:02.060 I thought that that can't be true. There's no way that government agency triggered an FBI raid

00:06:09.880 at Mar-a-Lago. But apparently, Lou, that's what triggered it. Yeah, I've heard that story,

00:06:16.940 and I've heard so many stories over the past six years. They all come down to one thing.

00:06:22.060 But you can't trust the Marxist Dems. You can't trust Joe Biden or anybody associated with him.

00:06:30.060 And you can't trust the national left-wing corporatist media. This is a war that's been

00:06:37.960 going on against Donald Trump for six years. And in that six years, we've had four consecutive

00:06:43.660 directors of the FBI lie to the American people in the U.S. Congress and or the U.S. Congress.

00:06:50.540 And they're usually the same thing, really, at least in effect. We have, I don't know how many

00:06:58.540 agents are guilty of crimes. We know that they tried to frame the National Security Advisor for

00:07:05.000 President Trump, General Michael Flynn. We know that they tried to frame President Trump. We know

00:07:11.960 that they were using materials created by the Clinton campaign. We know that the DNC lawyers

00:07:18.500 were lying. We know they had a portal to the FBI. Do you know what we don't know? We don't know how

00:07:23.960 many portals are in Republican law firms around the country. But then again, how many Republican law

00:07:30.860 firms are there, really? Because the left wing of this country, the Marxist Dems, have taken over

00:07:36.840 the major law firms. And they are putting on a squeeze in the judiciary system, which is rising

00:07:44.480 in levels of corruption, almost to parity with our executive branch. Right. No, it's the American

00:07:53.820 people have lost confidence in the Department of Justice and in the intelligence community and

00:08:00.840 you know, it's not going to end well. They could have a press conference. They could at the very

00:08:07.380 least meet with the leadership in Congress and explain what's going on and why they did what

00:08:13.520 they did, but they refused to do so. And as former President Trump said, the temperature in America

00:08:19.260 is going up at a time when it should go down. You know, you're always going to have political

00:08:24.440 divisions in America, Lou, but these are being fueled by the people that are supposed to be

00:08:31.980 watching our backs. You know, the law enforcement, the Department of Justice, the intelligence community.

00:08:38.920 And, you know, unfortunately, as someone, I consider myself a, you know, a level-headed member of

00:08:44.760 Congress. I don't have any confidence in the Department of Justice or the intelligence community.

00:08:51.160 And it's not just because of the raid at Mar-a-Lago. It was long before that. The, the, and what they said

00:08:56.660 would happen in Afghanistan, and what they said would happen in Ukraine, and, and, you know, the

00:09:01.160 Steele dossier, and all the mistakes that have been made by the intelligence community, and there's no remorse.

00:09:06.580 And then they do this, this latest thing at Mar-a-Lago, with such arrogance, and they won't, you know,

00:09:13.200 like, well, it's none of your business, what's going on. Well, it is our business. It's my business as the top

00:09:17.640 Republican, and hopefully the next chairman of the House oversex me, but they don't talk to us. And,

00:09:21.700 you know, it's just not going to end well. It shouldn't end well. But this time, it ought to be

00:09:28.140 very serious business. And the leadership of this Republican conference, if they do succeed,

00:09:36.200 the House of Representatives, I truly believe, has to understand that this is the one,

00:09:42.260 on time that they will have to straighten things out. And there will be no frivolity. There will be

00:09:50.860 no nonsense and no politics. And Kevin McCarthy, you know, I, what's really strange about Kevin

00:09:57.480 McCarthy is I talk to some of his friends. We have mutual friends, and they tell me what a great guy

00:10:03.760 is. But Kevin McCarthy isn't standing up for Donald Trump. Kevin McCarthy isn't demanding explanations

00:10:11.120 from the President of the United States, which is his prerogative as a minority leader. He doesn't 0.99

00:10:16.520 even demand explanations from the Speaker of the House. It is, it is, we have January 6th political

00:10:24.400 prisoners still in jail in what Attorney Joe McBride refers to as the Washington Gulag.

00:10:32.720 We have people being treated as inhumanely as if they were in a jail in Nicaragua or Moscow.

00:10:39.900 It is, this is ignorance on display. And we're watching a country in decline. And I swear to

00:10:47.360 you, the Republican rhino leadership, Mitch McConnell, are you kidding me? He is denigrating Republican

00:10:54.980 candidates in the midst of the most important midterm election in our history and has the

00:11:02.240 effrontery to do it. What in the world are the American people to think? We've got to make

00:11:07.080 judgments here. Is this the Republican Party? Is Mitch McConnell the Republican Party? Is Kevin

00:11:13.100 McCarthy? Or is it Jim Jordan, James Comer? And the list goes on. Fortunately, we have some

00:11:18.900 wonderful, wonderful Republicans in both the House and a few in the Senate. It's time to get past any

00:11:27.960 idea that this is anything less than open political warfare between the two parties and a war by the

00:11:37.820 radical Marxist Dems against this very nation. Well, I tell you, Lou, I share a lot of your

00:11:46.280 frustration. I know your listeners do as well. One thing that I'm going to say that hopefully will

00:11:52.460 give people confidence. Jim Jordan will be chairman of the Judiciary Committee. He will have jurisdiction

00:12:00.900 over the Department of Justice. Jim's on my committee, too. He's on the Oversight Committee.

00:12:04.940 So we'll work with them on a lot of the abuse and lack of transparency at the Department of Justice.

00:12:13.540 And once it's brought out into the American people's homes on television, on radio, on podcast,

00:12:20.940 and they see the problems, then I think, Jim, you know, you look at the Judiciary Committee,

00:12:27.340 you got Jim, you got Andy Biggs, you got Matt Gaetz, and you got some pretty good fighters on there

00:12:32.660 that I think are committed to seeing reform. You know, just talking about it, just pointing the

00:12:38.760 problem, that's not going to work. That's what, you know, Republicans have done in the past. They

00:12:42.760 identify problems, but they don't provide solutions or try to execute the solutions. I'm pretty

00:12:48.620 confident that this is going to be the number one priority for the Judiciary Committee, led by

00:12:54.980 Jim Jordan, with all those, you know, good guys on there that are committed to reform. I mean,

00:13:03.100 this is the deep state. And I've said this, and every time I say this on, you know, Fox or

00:13:08.840 New York Times, I get clobbered, but the deep state is real. The stuff Devin Nunes talked about

00:13:15.240 for years is real. And it's something that, you know, it has been highlighted in the last few

00:13:21.740 weeks. And, you know, it's not going to change unless we have reform. And surely to goodness,

00:13:28.040 when Republicans get the majority, we'll be able to do that, hopefully.

00:13:30.940 Well, millions of Americans and I also hope that is the case. We're going to have to pray as well

00:13:42.640 over it all, because this is, we're talking about whether or not this republic survives.

00:13:49.680 Right now, you know, we talked about the Justice Department. When we look at what happened,

00:13:55.040 first of all, we know that Joe Biden once again lied. Now, think about this. He hasn't been

00:14:00.720 around much for the past five weeks. He has disappeared from view, except for photo ops to

00:14:06.680 to assign the deficit, excuse me, the deficit. In my dreams, it should be the deficit reduction act,

00:14:14.980 the inflation reduction act, which has nothing to do with inflation, nothing to do with reduction,

00:14:21.040 except in the taxpayer dollars that will flow out to a climate change, for crying out loud.

00:14:27.860 So it is, this is way past time to understand that we have a moment in history that very few Americans

00:14:38.840 have had to meet before us. And we're going to be, we're being severely tested now. But when that

00:14:46.280 election is here, whether we do not turn out in the numbers required, if we don't turn out with

00:14:52.340 intensity, and I mean, bring every neighbor, every friend and family member. And by the way,

00:14:58.800 whomever you know, get them to the polls, and make sure that we don't, don't have a repeat of 2020.

00:15:07.320 And that scares the devil out of me. Yeah, it should. It should. And, you know, we,

00:15:13.180 we saw in New York last night, that was a House seat that, that should have gone Republican,

00:15:19.560 and it didn't. And, you know, the early numbers will look, but the turnout, you know, among our

00:15:25.900 conservative Republicans wasn't what it, what it needs to be. I mean, it's, people talk about

00:15:32.900 politics all the time, they complain, but then for whatever reason, sometimes they think it's too

00:15:37.120 much trouble to go, go to the polls and vote or request an absentee ballot vote. And that's,

00:15:41.580 that's frustrating. Yeah, it's frustrating. But I think also, the Republican, the Republican Party

00:15:50.000 is known as well by its leaders as by the local races and the local congressmen and state senators.

00:15:57.840 It is a difficult thing to overcome the negativity, and just the sheer revulsion at what Mitch McConnell

00:16:05.820 stands for, and how quiet and passive Kevin McCarthy has been. And like I say, I have mutual

00:16:14.040 friends with the minority leader who absolutely tell me he's the greatest guy in the world.

00:16:20.700 I can't prove it by his acts or his rhetoric. Yeah, I think that, I think when he gets his chance,

00:16:29.320 and I think he's going to be the speaker, I think that he will, you know, he's going to have a very

00:16:36.980 conservative conference. I mean, there are going to be a few moderates in there, but at the end of the

00:16:43.580 day, the overwhelming majority, and when I say, you know, if we come back with 235, let's say, 0.85

00:16:49.620 you're talking about, you know, close, you know, 190 that are, that are from districts like mine that

00:16:56.500 are pretty darn red, you know, pretty conservative districts. Trump won by 25 or more points. So

00:17:02.440 I think he's going to have to. Could you just say that one more time? Because I just love hearing

00:17:06.420 that, the margin of victory for Mr. Trump. Yeah. Well, he won my district by 50 points. Now,

00:17:13.520 that's what Trump loves. He loves me to, when I'm around him, he loves me to tell people how much he

00:17:17.780 won my district by. I said, 50. He goes, he, he said, I said, Trump won my district by 50 in front of a

00:17:24.920 group of people. He said, he said, Trump won by 50, not Trump got 50. Trump won by 50. You know,

00:17:33.000 it was 75, 25. That's Kentucky's first district. That was the margin, 75, 25, both against Biden and

00:17:41.820 Clinton. So, yeah, they expect, they expect a lot of support. Yeah, right.

00:17:48.800 Well, I, and I, I have to say, going back to the librarian, if I may, the idea, the president of

00:17:58.940 the United States and his people lied. Let me repeat that lied about whether or not he knew about the

00:18:05.180 raid on his political opponent and likely political opponent in 2024 against, ordered a raid against a

00:18:14.580 former president of the United States who has executive privilege that, by the way, he does not

00:18:19.960 have the ability to, to nullify, who has every right of any citizen. And the fact is that Susan Rice is

00:18:32.200 running the White House right now and Ron Klain. And right now in Washington, D.C., those two people

00:18:38.780 represent the, the front of the spear that is the third term for President Barack Obama. And nobody

00:18:47.160 should doubt that. That's exactly what is going on. There is a cabal that surrounds both Obama and

00:18:54.760 many of his top advisors from his second term in office who are driving the Biden administration.

00:19:03.560 No one thinks for even a moment. This is about Joe Biden, his philosophy, his ideology, his acumen,

00:19:10.460 his knowledge, or his grand reasoning. We know he's impaired. He's incapable of getting across a stage

00:19:18.760 without help. And he is out of sight. 150 days, actually, it's now 160 days of vacation. He's been away

00:19:28.300 from the White House more than any of the last three presidents. Think about that. And, and right

00:19:35.960 now, we have a librarian who they're trying to pretend made the decision to raise the presidents. This

00:19:43.780 is, this is what a feat cowards President Biden, Merrick Garland, and Christopher Wray are, that they 0.87

00:19:53.440 would even pretend they were taking orders from, from a deputy archivist. My gosh, what are we 0.88

00:20:00.620 thinking? Yeah. And, you know, the, there's no question that the Obama people are calling the

00:20:09.040 shots in the White House. The, the most offensive thing for me with respect to the raid, and, and again,

00:20:16.420 Lou, I share your, your doubts that Joe Biden wasn't advised or pre-warned about the raid before

00:20:24.900 it happened, even though that's what the story Merrick Garland's saying. But at the, at the, at the end

00:20:30.380 of the day, the most offensive thing to me on the raid thus far was the fact that they raided Mar-a-Lago

00:20:38.520 for some documents that the National Archives said Trump had that he wasn't supposed to have.

00:20:44.820 And in the very next day, Hunter Biden was getting on Air Force One to go on another one of those

00:20:52.300 vacations that you mentioned with Joe Biden to Kiowa Island in South Carolina. Hunter Biden, I mean,

00:20:59.980 you know, we have his laptop, his hard drive, we have his hard drive on the House Oversight Committee.

00:21:05.460 And the FBI has to know about all of the wrongdoing that's on there with, with respect to his

00:21:13.580 financial transactions, with respect to who he was receiving money from, the influence peddling with

00:21:20.700 our adversaries around the world, some of the stuff that I think he's done in his personal life that

00:21:26.240 would violate laws all over the world. And yet they do nothing about Hunter Biden. And he's boarding

00:21:34.400 Air Force One, which symbolizes everything about the United States, the day after the, the FBI

00:21:40.700 raids Mar-a-Lago. That's just, that's just pouring salt in the wound. And another example of the deep

00:21:48.080 state and how far we've come in the wrong direction with respect to our intelligence community and

00:21:54.180 federal bureaucracies.

00:21:55.180 We're talking about what is a horribly corrupted federal government. The archivists are corrupted.

00:22:04.660 I mean, it doesn't, I can't think of a more passive and erudite group that one would expect to,

00:22:14.740 to live in some solitude and a contemplative environment. And they are on the, on the front edge

00:22:24.500 of the Marxist-DEMS attacks against the former president, against the political opposition,

00:22:32.040 and against the constitution and the very nation in which they live. The republic is teetering here.

00:22:40.180 There is no question whatsoever. How, how can you, how do you plan to hold accountable these people?

00:22:48.700 House oversight has immense power. And with the election and the majority, you will have far more

00:22:56.960 power. It is, I, I don't even know really where you would start. And I can't wait to hear your

00:23:04.280 thoughts on this because this is, the American people right now have to be gut sick. I mean,

00:23:10.820 everyone I talked to, I don't know about you and your, in your state, your district, people are,

00:23:18.200 are hurt from this Biden economy. They're hurting because they're so sick of the, the assault against

00:23:25.120 the, the nation, our values of what the Marxist-DEMS are doing on every level. They're intimidating.

00:23:31.280 They are trying to create, spread as much despair among Trump supporters, that is patriots,

00:23:37.120 all across the country. Uh, your, your thoughts about how to get this, uh, this, this underway,

00:23:46.220 this, this ability to root out all of the evil that is in our government.

00:23:52.080 Right. Well, I'm in Paducah, Kentucky right now, and I've already talked to a lot of people on the

00:23:56.900 street today and they're all furious. They all have questions and, you know, unfortunately we can't

00:24:01.240 answer their questions and they expect, they know what this election is all about, this midterm election.

00:24:05.860 They know that, uh, if the house flips and we can't blame it on Nancy Pelosi anymore. And what

00:24:11.740 we're going to do, so Jim Jordan's on the oversight committee, as well as going to be chairman of the

00:24:17.380 judiciary committee, we're going to coordinate together with respect to the Mar-a-Lago raid

00:24:22.080 here. You've got, uh, we'll have the national archives in front of our committee and he'll have, uh, the

00:24:28.460 department of justice in front of his committee and we're going to work together. And, uh, we're there,

00:24:33.240 every question that you have, Lou, will be asked. And, uh, then you're going to see

00:24:40.480 legislation, uh, to try to reform. And if they're unwilling to reform, or if we can't get it through

00:24:47.000 the Senate or, or, you know, the president vetoes it and we can't override the veto, then you're going

00:24:52.840 to see, uh, uh, some, uh, negative reactions from the appropriators because, you know, they get a lot

00:25:01.280 of appropriations and they hide behind transparency by saying, well, this is classified, this is top

00:25:06.940 secret or whatever. They can't tell us why they raided Mar-a-Lago. If they can't tell us what were

00:25:12.180 in those boxes that they had to do, uh, an FBI raid, then, uh, you know, there needs to be

00:25:20.600 significant reform. And one thing the Republicans are going to have to do, I hope we do when we get

00:25:25.400 the majority, we've got to shrink the size of government. Remember they just added 87,000 new

00:25:31.860 IRS employees to the payroll. I don't think they're going to be able to find 87,000

00:25:37.140 people before January. We've got to stop that. We've got to shrink the size of government. 0.79

00:25:43.060 Anything that can be privatized needs to be privatized. Anything that can be eliminated

00:25:47.040 needs to be eliminated. And, you know, that's not been a priority in the past. Unfortunately,

00:25:53.200 when, when Paul Ryan was speaker, that was never a priority. And that was a mistake.

00:25:57.060 The first two years of, uh, of the Trump administration, you should have had an aggressive

00:26:01.840 Republican conference in the house that, that wanted to shrink the size

00:26:07.120 of the government. Look, the Democrats have had two years of complete power and they've

00:26:10.120 unfortunately passed a lot of legislation, a lot of left wing legislation. And we're going to have

00:26:15.580 to do the same when we get power, the American people are going to lose, you know, give up on the

00:26:21.000 Republican party, in my opinion. And I hope that every chairman of every committee in the house

00:26:27.160 of representatives in the Senate will spend some time with Devin Nunes to understand if they do not

00:26:34.640 understand now how important leadership is as Devin Nunes, how, and the, one of the greatest crises

00:26:41.120 in this country's political history, Devin Nunes couldn't even get a subpoena as chairman of the

00:26:48.660 house intelligence committee, which could have been with, uh, a, a, an active investigation could

00:26:56.420 have rooted out much of this and the, that it was going on in the intelligence committee, uh, community,

00:27:01.060 uh, much of what was happening in the department of justice, the FBI in cooperation with the

00:27:06.780 democratic national committee, the Hillary campaign, uh, the five eyes, uh, themselves who

00:27:12.700 were participating, uh, in this plot to overthrow the president, but all Ryan stopped it all. And

00:27:19.880 the importance of removing rhinos from even the profile of the conference of the house of

00:27:26.980 representatives to me is critically important. This Mitt Romney's and Paul Ryan's have no place in,

00:27:34.020 in modern, uh, politics in this country, because this is a battle and these men are not warriors. They are

00:27:40.940 simply, uh, egg sucking, uh, uh, pocket lining, uh, pitiful excuses for our legislators and public servants.

00:27:50.480 Well, I can see a scenario where you have witnesses from the department of justice and the FBI

00:27:58.680 in a committee hearing. And then Devin Nunes also as a witness in the committee hearing. And that,

00:28:04.760 I think that would, uh, that would be very interesting to watch because so much of what Devin

00:28:10.400 Nunes said initially during about the steel dossier and, and, uh, the FBI and things like that,

00:28:20.160 people, you know, rolled their eyes and said he was a crazy right wing conspiracy theorist,

00:28:25.140 whatever he was a hundred percent accurate. Uh, now even the Washington post has had to backtrack

00:28:30.880 and, uh, you know, confirm a lot of the things that Devin warned people about initially. And, uh,

00:28:38.180 so Devin ought to be feeling pretty good about himself because a lot of what he, what he warned

00:28:44.160 the conference about ended up being true, almost a hundred percent. And, you know, it's a sad day for

00:28:50.400 the, for the intelligence community. But again, Lou, you know, having the hearings and we'll have the

00:28:56.260 hearings and the, and the American people will see for themselves, you know, the, the abuses, the,

00:29:01.640 the mistakes, the lack of transparency, but then it's going to be up to the Republicans

00:29:07.640 to reform those agencies. And, and I think if, uh, if McCarthy lets Jordan play a big role in

00:29:16.280 reforming the department of justice, then, uh, I have confidence that, that something will get

00:29:21.860 done. Now with respect to the national archives, as you can imagine, Lou, they shouldn't have the

00:29:27.640 authority to do what they did. If, if the department of justice is going to blame this all on the

00:29:32.060 national archives, then I can assure you there's going to be reform in the national archives. They're not

00:29:37.340 going to be able to trigger what they just triggered there. And, uh, you know, we'll, we'll say it's

00:29:44.620 just unfortunate that I can't tell you exactly why they rated Mar-a-Lago exactly what was in those

00:29:50.600 boxes. Uh, you know, who put those boxes together? Cause again, no president packs their own boxes when

00:29:56.700 they leave. How in the world do these people get away with lying, uh, at the level of archivists?

00:30:05.320 Uh, right. I mean, this is, this is the deep state protecting its own. And by the way, apparently

00:30:13.600 they are in charge of all, all the federal employees, no matter what, you know, you probably

00:30:21.180 find them in fish and wildlife as well. I mean, but, but, you know, when you ask who, who was in

00:30:28.540 the room and they say, well, general services and national archives, that's not what we're at.

00:30:32.660 Who, who, with general services and who with national archives was in the room part. That's

00:30:38.580 what I want to know, not the agency, the individual. That's what I want to know. And, and, you know,

00:30:45.340 hopefully we'll get to the bottom of it.

00:30:47.960 Well, Congressman, I know that you're going to give it, uh, an all American effort. And, uh, I hope

00:30:53.920 that I can, can I make one suggestion to you?

00:30:56.220 Yes, sir.

00:30:57.960 How about you and all who are going to be, or who are prospective chairman, if the Republican

00:31:03.960 party wins, he's a big, he's midterms in as big a fashion as we think. How about if you

00:31:10.300 all make sure from Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell, uh, and to all of the, all of the

00:31:17.040 prospective chairs, talk about specifically your plan of attack, uh, against, uh, the secretive,

00:31:25.300 uh, police force, uh, that the, that works for the radical Dems called the FBI, uh, the

00:31:31.220 justice department with what it's done to the January 6, uh, prisoners of, uh, prisoners of

00:31:38.480 political warfare. And by the way, the only one carrying out a war are, are, are the Marxist

00:31:44.760 Dems. They are destroying lives. They have, I mean, we can go through the list of all that

00:31:51.440 needs to be done, but if you all could put a program, a strategy and put it before the

00:31:56.140 American people, before those midterms about what you will do with specificity, if elected,

00:32:02.980 I think you would win by an even larger margin than it appears you will.

00:32:07.540 What do you think?

00:32:09.200 I think that's a great idea. And, uh, I'm, I'll talk to Jordan here probably before the

00:32:14.860 end of the day and we'll, we'll, we'll talk about it. But you know, the good thing that

00:32:18.780 I'm confident in when, uh, when we take the majority, people like, like yourself, Lou,

00:32:25.560 have such a big following out there. You're going to make, you're going to do everything

00:32:28.660 to hold our feet to the fire, to make sure that, uh, you start seeing results or there's

00:32:33.420 going to be a backlash among, uh, our people, even in the districts that, that Trump won

00:32:38.400 by 50, the reddest of the red districts. So I think that, uh, that gives me confidence

00:32:43.400 because I know that, uh, whether you're talking about McCarthy or McConnell, people like you

00:32:50.260 that are leaders, uh, in, uh, in providing information to the base, they, they know that,

00:32:57.300 uh, you know, McCarthy and McConnell know that if they don't deliver results or if they do

00:33:03.340 like Paul Ryan did and, and block subpoenas that from people like Devin Nunes or, or Jim

00:33:09.440 Jordan or, or myself that, that, you know, there's going to be, there's going to be consequences

00:33:14.400 with, within the base because we've, we've sat back for a long time and, and watch the Democrats

00:33:20.220 just completely let the, uh, the bureaucracies run the show and that's got to change. And 0.62

00:33:29.420 we're going to have an opportunity to change it and we better get it done or, or we're going

00:33:33.560 to feel the wrath of the Lou Dobbs is in the conservative media.

00:33:37.320 I, I, I'm fully supportive of everything that you're doing, Congressman and the, and the house

00:33:43.660 conference and, and, uh, the senators who stand up and of course, president Trump. This is,

00:33:50.160 this is a moment for, for men and women like you who, with strength and courage and care

00:33:55.960 for the Republic, uh, to take on these, these are forces of evil, uh, at work in the Democrat 0.66

00:34:02.980 party, uh, in, in, in the deep state and they have to be met head on and with great, great

00:34:09.600 energy, uh, and, uh, commitment on the part of the Republican party, which I know you will,

00:34:15.260 uh, which you will be helping lead. I want to say thank you so much.

00:34:19.920 Uh, we always give our guests the last word here, Congressman, uh, and, uh, if you will,

00:34:25.420 your concluding thoughts.

00:34:27.680 Well, thank you, Lou. It's always a, an honor to be on your show. And, and I'll say this with

00:34:32.360 respect to the national archives, we're going to find out, uh, from start to finish how they

00:34:40.020 were able to trigger an FBI raid on the former president of the United States home.

00:34:47.420 And that, that agency is going to be reformed. You know, you can't start letting government

00:34:54.020 bureaucrats have the power, unelected government bureaucrats who are all left wing, by the way, 0.99

00:35:01.480 to, to have this type of power. And certainly the department of justice shouldn't be empowering

00:35:07.800 these left wing bureaucrats. So, uh, we're, we're going to try to get the answers that, that

00:35:12.420 every American has, and not just point the finger and identify the problem, but hopefully provide

00:35:18.200 solution to the problem. And, uh, that's a, that's a promise that I'm going to make. And I

00:35:23.600 know Jim Jordan feels the same way. And hopefully, hopefully we can, uh, start at first, at the very

00:35:30.300 least, to figure out how this started and then fix the problem to where it never happens again.

00:35:36.740 It's a big, big task, but you know, we've got to start on day one in January. Hopefully we'll have

00:35:42.060 the majority and we can do that. Congressman, uh, we all hope exactly that and pray God's speed,

00:35:49.000 uh, in achieving exactly that result. Congressman James Coleman, we thank you very much for being

00:35:55.620 with us here on the great America show. God bless you. Thank you, Luke.

00:36:00.400 Thanks everybody. And tomorrow here on the great America show, our guest will be Senator Tommy

00:36:07.320 Tuberville of the great state of Alabama, another great American. Please join us here tomorrow.

00:36:12.800 Till then, God bless you and God bless America.

The Great America Show - August 30, 2022

REP JAMES COMER： NATIONAL ARCHIVES REFUSE TO ANSWER HOUSE OVERSIGHT CMTE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FBI MAR-A-LAGO RAID

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