The Great America Show - February 27, 2023


REP. JAMES COMER THINKS REPUBLICANS ARE READY TO DISRUPT & DISMANTLE OUR CORRUPT FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY


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34 minutes

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160.71121

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5,607

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285

Misogynist Sentences

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Summary

In this episode, Congressman James Comer (D-VA) and Lou Dobbs discuss the ongoing investigation into the influence peddling schemes of the Biden family and their business dealings with foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, whether foreign or domestic.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. Lou Dobbs here, and thanks for joining us on The Great America Show. Welcome.
00:00:05.560 You'll be glad to hear that the Biden regime is warning communist China not to send lethal
00:00:11.420 weaponry and arms to Russia. Biden's national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, this weekend
00:00:18.000 warned China not to send lethal aid to Russia. Warning China, mind you, even as Biden is sending
00:00:25.660 more than $110 billion to Ukraine and Zelensky to fight China's strategic partner, Russia.
00:00:33.220 And Biden's Secretary of State, Tony Blinken, and CIA Director William Burns joining in that
00:00:39.720 warning to Xi Jinping, both seemingly indifferent to the likelihood that Xi will support his partner,
00:00:47.820 Vladimir Putin. This isn't looking good, folks. And at the same time, the Biden regime is warning
00:00:53.820 China. They're also telling NATO nations to ignore China's repeated efforts to negotiate a peace
00:01:00.900 settlement between Ukraine and Russia, talking with the UK, Germany, and France, putting the United
00:01:08.140 States in a bit of a mess. Biden pressing Zelensky to fight on instead of negotiating, while Biden
00:01:15.400 opposes China, leading in talks to de-escalate hostilities. Only the Biden administration could
00:01:21.920 be this messed up. Meanwhile, the New York Post reporting China's police are hunting down Chinese
00:01:28.660 citizens here in the United States and maintaining a number of police stations here in the United
00:01:34.160 States. And Congress is only now preparing legislation to shut them down. The 118th Congress has been
00:01:42.500 underway now for less than two months. The principal committees investigating political corruption of the
00:01:48.380 Biden regime and Marxist Dems are making good progress already. Those committees are the House
00:01:55.020 Oversight Committee, the Judiciary Committee, and the Select Subcommittee on Weaponization of the
00:02:01.460 Federal Government. The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the involvement of
00:02:07.360 President Biden in his family's business dealings with corporations, with governments, officials,
00:02:12.780 and individuals in influence peddling schemes, whether foreign or domestic. The House Oversight
00:02:19.640 Committee is Congress's principal investigative committee with the broadest investigative authority.
00:02:26.360 Our guest today is the man who leads that committee, Congressman James Comer, chairman of the
00:02:31.540 Oversight Committee. And Congressman, great to have you with us and welcome. Thanks for all you and
00:02:37.440 Judiciary Chairman Jordan and your members and staff are doing for the American people.
00:02:41.940 If you will, what's your judgment on what appears to be a very strong start?
00:02:47.560 Yeah, I think everything is going according to plan. We've requested every bit of information that I said
00:02:53.400 on your show during the campaign we would request. We've run into every roadblock imaginable, which we factored
00:03:00.040 that in. But where we are having success, Lou, is with the people that were in the Hunter Biden orbit and in the
00:03:07.500 Joe Biden influence peddling orbit. They're starting to come in. We've requested financial information.
00:03:14.740 My lawyers are working with their lawyers. We're trying to get that information in as we speak. And I
00:03:20.120 believe we're going to have a lot of success from the banks, even though the Treasury Department
00:03:26.700 is blocking us from getting the suspicious activity reports that every committee had access to prior
00:03:33.740 to Joe Biden becoming president. So I think we're going according to plan and we're not going to let
00:03:38.800 up. This is very serious. And I think the evidence is overwhelming that this family's been involved in
00:03:45.180 some very shady business dealings that could compromise our national security.
00:03:49.520 Well, that it is. That's great to hear that it's going that well. And I know that Hunter Biden,
00:03:57.400 for example, has already refused to cooperate with your investigation and in no uncertain terms,
00:04:04.960 your reaction to his response, which I assume didn't surprise you.
00:04:10.820 No, but you think about Hunter Biden, if I were innocent and the Democrats were saying bad
00:04:17.540 things about me, I would want to clear my name. But the problem Hunter Biden has is the evidence
00:04:22.880 is overwhelming that he was paid millions and millions of dollars just for simply being a Biden.
00:04:28.900 Now, we want to know what did he provide our adversaries in China, Ukraine and Russia in return
00:04:36.260 for the millions and millions of dollars that he received. We want to know if he was a part of any of
00:04:42.200 the mishandled classified documents that were at the place where he was living for two years. We have
00:04:48.260 a lot of questions for Hunter Biden, as well as Jim Biden, the president's brother. Unfortunately,
00:04:54.560 as you said, Lou, they're not cooperating with us, but we have other avenues. And I believe at the end
00:05:00.020 of the day, we'll be successful in obtaining the information that we need to be able to conduct a
00:05:06.100 thorough investigation of the influence peddling schemes for the Biden family.
00:05:11.920 As you say, the Biden family, as it is, as it is, as it appears right now,
00:05:18.120 involved in so many business dealings. And if nothing else, their timing seemed to be perfect,
00:05:24.080 coinciding with Joe Biden's terms in office as vice president, and now president. That,
00:05:31.920 that is going to be a very tough and I would guess very complicated investigation. Is it your sense
00:05:40.600 it's going to be complicated or am I overstating it? Well, it just, it obviously depends. We're trying
00:05:48.640 to keep a narrow focus. We want to follow the money. We know of about 25 different sources of
00:05:57.620 questionable revenue that the Bidens received through various shell organizations. The money
00:06:04.000 usually didn't come from, say, China to the Bidens. It usually went from China to an LLC that
00:06:12.760 the Bidens had a small interest in. Then the LLC would pay both Hunter Biden and Jim Biden for
00:06:19.440 consulting fees. We would like to know what they did in exchange for the consulting fees. What type of
00:06:26.480 consulting did they in fact do? So, you know, this was something that you can tell the Bidens knew
00:06:34.660 didn't need to become public. They tried every way in the world to keep Joe out of it. They
00:06:41.380 referenced to Joe Biden as the big guy. They gave him several other nicknames. They would always
00:06:48.120 make sure that people were very careful not to mention Joe Biden. But according to all the people
00:06:54.960 we've spoken with who were involved in the business dealings, according to the emails,
00:06:58.780 the text messages, and the pictures, Joe Biden knew very well what his family was doing.
00:07:03.520 What I think is ironic and one reason that the bank suspected the Bidens of money laundering
00:07:08.540 was that they just shifted money around from LLC to LLC. And what they were doing, in my opinion,
00:07:14.980 Lou, they weren't laundering money. They were just trying to hide the source of the money.
00:07:19.960 And the source oftentimes was the Chinese Communist Party.
00:07:24.960 Unbelievable. And in that orbit, as you were talking about, Eric Swerin, I understand,
00:07:33.320 is producing documents. Is he cooperating further with your committee?
00:07:38.920 So far, I'm very optimistic that he's working with our committee. Our attorneys are in
00:07:44.660 communication. He's a very important witness in this. There are other witnesses that we're
00:07:51.160 communicating with and in the process of obtaining documents from. So I believe that there are going
00:07:57.660 to be plenty of people who were involved with the Bidens who are going to come forward with
00:08:02.680 a lot of information that we need. You know, another thing with Jim Biden, you know, he flies under
00:08:09.120 the radar, Lou, because he didn't leave a laptop lying around. But Jim Biden's involved in a lot of
00:08:15.640 different lawsuits right now where people who were dissatisfied with the, quote, consulting that
00:08:22.000 Jim Biden provided. So there's a lot of public records with respect to ongoing litigation with
00:08:29.720 Jim Biden. So, you know, this family just doesn't have a good track record of producing much of value to
00:08:38.380 people who have been partners with them. Now, what we want to know is, did China, Russia, and Ukraine
00:08:44.800 receive a return on their investment? Because they've made a pretty significant investment
00:08:49.220 in the Bidens, if you consider what they paid Hunter Biden and Jim Biden, as well as what they
00:08:54.500 transferred to Joe Biden through the University of Delaware and the University of Pennsylvania.
00:08:58.980 It's extraordinary. And Swerwin, again, known as Mr. Money for the Biden family, he was involved in
00:09:09.800 lots of their personal finances and seemed to run not only being in the partnership for some of these
00:09:17.140 business enterprises or dealings, but also the family's private money. He seems to be a critical
00:09:25.060 component. He was. And you see emails where he was making deposits on behalf of Joe Biden when he
00:09:32.440 was vice president. He was also transferring money from Joe to Hunter while he was vice president. I
00:09:38.140 believe there was a time that Joe Biden was asked about Mr. Sherwin and he acted like he didn't know
00:09:42.800 him, but he had access to a checking account. So, Lou, I don't know how many people have access to your
00:09:47.100 checking account, but if there are any people with access to your checking account, I'm pretty sure you're
00:09:52.720 very familiar with them, just like any other American would be. So the Bidens just haven't been
00:09:58.560 truthful with the American people about the extent of their influence peddling. And also what we're
00:10:06.480 going to be able to prove very easily is Joe Biden knew very well what his family was involved in,
00:10:12.820 who they were meeting with, who they were receiving payments from, and some of the
00:10:17.540 quote unquote business and consulting deals they were supposedly performing.
00:10:22.720 Well, President Biden in Ukraine for what was a spectacular photo op, I'm not sure what else it
00:10:30.120 accomplished, but it did give him a chance to give the Ukrainians another $500 million. And he's operating
00:10:40.580 as a man that is, in fact, the big guy with a 10 point big. This is outrageous what he's doing in that
00:10:50.460 country at this moment, unilaterally, it appears.
00:10:55.240 Yeah, the Burisma deal just stinks to high heaven. I mean, we have a lot of questions about Joe Biden
00:11:02.140 as vice president, and what he actually did, and why he did it in getting that special prosecutor
00:11:09.940 fired. We had a member of the House Oversight Committee, a Democrat member say that they were knew
00:11:16.320 exactly what went on there, and Joe Biden fired the prosecutor because he wasn't hard enough on
00:11:22.020 the corrupt Burisma deal. And I don't know if you saw that, Lou.
00:11:27.240 I did.
00:11:27.900 I thought, so he fired the guy because he wasn't hard enough on the corrupt company that his son was
00:11:35.900 getting paid $80,000 a month for being a director of? I mean, none of this stuff makes sense. They're
00:11:41.820 insulting the intelligence of the American people. And it's a sad day for the media, because the media
00:11:49.100 is turning a blind eye to this whole story with respect to the corruption that went on in Burisma.
00:11:55.940 The real quid pro quo in Ukraine was Joe Biden with what he did with the special prosecutor in
00:12:03.720 exchange for American foreign aid to Ukraine. So Joe Biden's been very cozy with Ukraine,
00:12:10.040 dating back to his time as vice president. And if you look at the benefits that his son received
00:12:18.200 for sitting on a board which he had no experience and had no qualifications or qualities,
00:12:25.940 that would add value to that board, other than being the son of the vice president who controlled
00:12:30.260 the foreign aid. I mean, it's just a joke that the media is not pressing Joe Biden while he's in
00:12:36.020 Ukraine right now about coming forward and being truthful about what he really did to protect his
00:12:43.420 son and that corrupt energy company that he was making so much money every month from being a director of.
00:12:48.500 And you're talking about Ukraine, and then there's China, the dealings with CFC. This is a remarkable
00:12:59.940 family, as it turns out, because as we see more of what is out there, then there's the dealings with
00:13:07.080 Kazakhstan, the dealings, you know, across the board, here with a number of countries, it goes on and on. And yet,
00:13:18.440 Hunter Biden, in this in the District of Delaware, the US attorneys is not has not moved one inch in the
00:13:27.360 investigation and prosecution of Hunter Biden for first tax evasion. And now, in front of him, all of this,
00:13:35.240 uh, plus, uh, you know, a number of certain federal felonies. Your thoughts about that?
00:13:42.680 Well, you know, people assume because that US attorney was appointed by Donald Trump, that he's
00:13:48.540 going to be a model conservative, that's going to do the right thing. And he's not going to worry about
00:13:54.620 the Biden's or the Democrat Party or whatever. But, you know, I know that in Kentucky, even when Obama
00:14:01.480 was president McConnell had a big say and who got to be US attorney. So they, the president works,
00:14:09.000 deals out with the senators on who these US attorneys are. I don't know what the thought
00:14:13.880 process was, and who was in charge of appointing the US attorneys when Trump was president for Delaware.
00:14:19.400 But this US attorney had had, uh, dealing had an opportunity to go after the Biden's, uh, years ago.
00:14:26.760 Uh, and in fact, it was Bo Biden, the president's other son, uh, that was involved in some campaign
00:14:34.040 donations from a person that got indicted, uh, as well. Joe Biden was involved in some of these
00:14:39.160 campaign donations when he was a senator. And then when he ran for, for president against Obama,
00:14:44.360 uh, but, uh, you know, nothing ever happened. So yeah, I don't know much about this US attorney,
00:14:50.120 other than he's had an opportunity to investigate the Biden's before, and he chose not to. Uh, we
00:14:56.760 all know that he's just been silent for a long time. Uh, we know what's on that laptop. Lou,
00:15:02.360 you've seen what's on that laptop. I mean, there's enough to indict Hunter Biden. Now there was enough
00:15:07.960 to indict Hunter Biden, uh, three or four years ago with what's on the laptop. So for whatever reason,
00:15:13.720 this US attorney, uh, hasn't, uh, produced very many results. And you are producing results already
00:15:22.920 because people are standing up and taking notice whether they, uh, are working, uh, formerly
00:15:28.680 working with Hunter Biden, whether they're in the Biden family or the democratic, uh, the democratic
00:15:35.560 leadership. Amongst those, uh, watching right now, uh, those, uh, following the classified document
00:15:42.840 scandal of the Biden's, whether it is the Penn Biden center at the university of Pennsylvania,
00:15:48.760 or whether it is the residence of the president, uh, in Wilmington or another of his vacation homes
00:15:55.800 in Delaware, this man has been busy with classified documents that you're going to reach. I am sure to
00:16:03.720 that. Uh, are you not? Because you are after all investigating the president of the United States.
00:16:10.920 That's correct, Lou. The first person we brought in for a transcribed interview
00:16:15.160 was the general counsel for the national archives. And we asked questions as to why,
00:16:22.280 if you go to the website of the national archives, are there all these stories and press releases
00:16:28.040 about the raid on Mar-a-Lago for, for president Trump's supposed mishandling and classified documents,
00:16:34.040 but yet no mention of Joe Biden's mishandling of classified documents. And the fact that Joe Biden
00:16:40.040 had classified documents mishandled in at least four different locations. If you just got your
00:16:45.000 information from the website of the national archives, you would never know that Joe Biden
00:16:49.960 ever had mishandled any classified documents. And the response that the, the general counsel gave was,
00:16:57.480 he did produce fresh releases about Joe Biden, but he wasn't allowed to post them on the website.
00:17:03.960 So the only two people that could have prevented him from posting them on the website would have
00:17:08.440 been Merrick Garland or Joe Biden. That's the chain of command, uh, with respect to the general
00:17:14.200 counsel for the national archives. We also asked about why he responded to requests from Carolyn Maloney,
00:17:20.280 my predecessor, who was chairman of the house oversight committee, uh, with her request about
00:17:26.200 Mar-a-Lago, but he never responded to my request when I became chairman of the committee in January
00:17:31.400 about the raids at the different Biden residences. And he said he did respond, but he wasn't allowed to
00:17:37.880 send the correspondence to me. So this is, this was two examples of either the department of justice or the
00:17:45.640 White House blocking the national archives from, from doing what they should do and being transparent
00:17:51.480 with the American people and responding to the chairman of the house oversight committee. You throw
00:17:56.840 in the fact that I don't believe we would have ever known about the first batch of documents that were
00:18:03.320 mishandled that were found on November 2nd. I don't think we would have ever known about that had someone
00:18:08.680 not leaked to the press that those documents had been found at the Biden residence. So
00:18:15.480 they've never been transparent with the American people about the documents. We're concerned that
00:18:21.240 there are at least two emails that Hunter Biden sent that may have in fact been classified documents.
00:18:29.960 But as you know, Lou, this administration is not being transparent and the Department of Justice
00:18:35.160 is doing everything in their ability to protect this president.
00:18:38.680 Does it seem to you at this moment in, in history, in this moment in which you're involved in a,
00:18:47.160 a fundamental, the incipient point of what will be the preservation of the Republic,
00:18:53.400 I truly believe, if you can succeed? Is it your sense that the federal government is now permeated
00:19:00.920 with Marxist Dems, left wing, deep staters, whether it's the Department of Justice, the FBI,
00:19:08.600 I mean, for crying out loud, the National Archives, the Homeland Security Department,
00:19:13.560 it's department after department, agency after agency. These are, the Bidens are a protected group
00:19:20.680 in this. And they are across, just by the way, it's reminiscent of the Clintons as well.
00:19:26.280 Uh, this government seems to be brimming with Marxist Democrats.
00:19:33.240 You know, Lou, I agree. We, we saw when the Clintons were president that there were
00:19:38.840 unelected bureaucrats and agencies that bent over backwards to protect the Clintons
00:19:43.000 and some of their scandals. But what's happened from the time Bill Clinton was president to today
00:19:49.000 when Joe Biden's president is the fact that the federal government has significantly grown.
00:19:54.920 I don't know very many conservatives whose children apply for jobs in the federal government. It's the,
00:20:02.680 the average federal employee by nature, especially the ones in Washington, D.C.,
00:20:08.120 are overwhelmingly liberal. Uh, they're, they're, you know, educated on the East Coast at the liberal,
00:20:16.680 many Ivy League schools. Uh, these people are appreciative of the fact that Joe Biden
00:20:23.560 turns a blind eye and lets these unelected bureaucrats continue to operate their agencies
00:20:29.560 in any manner they want to spend money in any manner they want without any oversight or checks
00:20:34.600 or balances. So they've got a pretty good deal with Joe Biden. And it's unfortunate, you know,
00:20:39.800 you had Donald Trump, he came in, he tried to disrupt the, the deep state of the federal bureaucracies,
00:20:47.160 and, you know, he, they fought back. And unfortunately, the media is the entity that,
00:20:52.520 that should be the one that comes in and, and ultimately decides that, wait a minute now,
00:20:59.080 the, the deep state's in the wrong, and we're going to have to, uh, reform our federal government.
00:21:04.120 But unfortunately, the, the liberal media is going along with them. So you have a scenario now,
00:21:09.240 we have the liberal media, you have the Department of Justice, you have all these government
00:21:13.720 agencies, and unfortunately you have the FBI all working to shield this administration
00:21:20.280 from any oversight. Heck, we can't even get information on where they're spending the money
00:21:24.600 in Ukraine. You say, well, you, you spent, you know, you, you've offered them 10 billion more
00:21:29.000 dollars. Where's it going? And they'll say, well, it's going to Ukraine. Well, that's not good enough.
00:21:33.320 And it's just, we're in a terrible situation in the federal government. I think House Republicans,
00:21:38.680 uh, are ready to try to dismantle and, and, and try to disrupt this federal bureaucracy,
00:21:45.480 but we're going to have to have some help from our Republicans in the Senate.
00:21:50.840 Well, and, and you, uh, live in a state that is very familiar to the, to the minority leader,
00:21:57.320 uh, in the Senate, uh, your relationship and how hopeful are you that there will be help coming
00:22:03.000 from the Senate? Well, you know, one of the things I think Sarah McConnell was concerned about
00:22:09.240 when they went along and funded the government for the, for another nine months was the, the uncertainty,
00:22:17.160 uh, with the speakers race and things like that. Look, in nine months, there's no reason for the
00:22:24.120 Senate to, to do anything to continue to fund the federal government at the levels that it's being
00:22:30.440 funded. And there's no reason in the world why we can't hold funding, withhold funding on different
00:22:36.760 agencies and different bureaucrats who are clearly violating the constitution, who are clearly
00:22:42.600 violating the law, who are clearly bending over backwards to protect this administration
00:22:48.440 from needed oversight. So, uh, we're going to be sounding the alarm. We're going to be putting
00:22:53.160 pressure on these senators to work with us, to try to hold Washington DC accountable to the American
00:22:59.640 people and the American taxpayers. Well, that, that is, first I'll say good for you. Uh,
00:23:06.840 secondly, I think that's another chore that faces you. That's going to, it's difficult, uh, just,
00:23:13.160 just thinking about, uh, Mitt Romney, uh, and some of the others, Lindsey Graham. I think that's a very
00:23:19.640 difficult, uh, task you have in front of us because they are, they're not so much liberal as they are
00:23:26.120 contrarian, uh, and, uh, they are following somewhat different stars, I believe than,
00:23:33.320 than most of us. Uh, it's, it's really inconceivable about how they determine what is in the national
00:23:39.320 interest in the rarefied era of the U S Senate, uh, and, uh, under Republican colors. Let me turn to
00:23:45.720 the, a couple of things you were talking about the bank. I want to go back to that a bit because we've
00:23:50.200 talked about the suspicious activity reports that the banks file when they suspect money laundering
00:23:55.720 and other criminality, the banks themselves, if you're refused by the treasury department and
00:24:02.280 secretary Yellen, the banks themselves, uh, have every opportunity to provide those to you. Do they not
00:24:10.040 under subpoena if necessary? Under subpoena because of privacy laws, they're going to have to be subpoenaed.
00:24:15.080 Uh, we've been communicating with the banks for several months, even prior to the November
00:24:19.960 midterm elections. Uh, we feel like the banks are in a position now, uh, once they get subpoenaed to
00:24:27.000 provide the majority of the information that we're requesting, there's still a bank or two that we're,
00:24:32.840 we're negotiating with, but I think you're going to see the subpoenas come very soon. And, you know,
00:24:38.600 one wrench, the, the lawyers for Hunter Biden, they continue to reach out to every,
00:24:44.440 they know exactly. It's funny, Lou. They know exactly who we're trying to communicate with for
00:24:49.720 information. It's like they, they, they know what the problem is. They know where we're going,
00:24:57.320 which shows they know that this family has been involved in influence funding.
00:25:02.840 They had 13 different banks. You know, this is a family. You're talking about business, Lou.
00:25:07.560 What is their business? They don't own anything. They don't have any real estate.
00:25:11.000 They don't manufacture anything. They're not licensed to sell anything. They're not registered
00:25:15.160 lobbyists. So what is their business? They don't, they don't, it's influence peddling.
00:25:20.680 They have 13 different banks. They got bank violations at every one of those banks. I mean,
00:25:26.760 that says a lot about the type of business this family was involved in. So, uh, you're going to see
00:25:34.440 these records. Uh, we've tried to give this administration every opportunity in the world
00:25:39.560 to do what every other administration has done. When the house oversight chairman requests those
00:25:44.440 suspicious activity reports, they provide them. But Joe Biden changed the rules to where we couldn't
00:25:49.480 get them. I wonder why. And why isn't the mainstream media holding him accountable for that? Can you
00:25:54.440 imagine if Donald Trump did that? What the media would be doing that they would be demanding that the
00:25:59.480 Democrats impeached Donald Trump for that? So we're going to get the information from the banks.
00:26:04.680 I'm making sure every I is dotted and every T is crossed because when we do these subpoenas,
00:26:10.760 if people don't abide by the subpoena, then it goes to court. If they don't comply with the subpoena,
00:26:18.680 it goes to court. I want to make sure that every time we subpoena someone, we can win in court and get
00:26:24.600 that information. So, uh, I think you'll be seeing subpoenas go out very soon for, for the bank
00:26:30.040 information. May I touch upon one thing, uh, there, if you will, Congressman, uh, when that subpoena is
00:26:38.520 issued demanding production of the information you require, whatever documents, uh, they deny it,
00:26:45.160 you go to court, you prevail. And what, what happens then? What do you win in court and how do you enforce
00:26:52.600 it? Well, the court will order that they go. Now, if you look at, at say Steve Bannon,
00:26:59.080 when the January 6th committee subpoenaed him, he didn't come. There were, there were two things
00:27:03.880 that the courts did. They, they are two things that Congress did. Number one, they, they took him to
00:27:09.320 court and one, and the other, they held him in contempt of Congress, which obviously helps too. So
00:27:16.280 I think we saw some new tools that Congress can do, uh, through their January 6th committee,
00:27:23.240 which, you know, wasn't even a real committee, Lou, the house oversight committee has been around since
00:27:27.880 Abraham Lincoln was, was in Congress. He was on what is today, the house oversight committee. So
00:27:32.440 this committee has been around a long time and I feel like our subpoena would have more merit in court,
00:27:39.400 even though we've got a department of justice that's doing everything in their ability to block meaningful,
00:27:46.680 constitutionally authorized oversight. So, uh, but we're going to win in court and that's why we're
00:27:53.640 making sure everything we do, uh, is done right. We're having plenty of legal counsel look over
00:27:59.960 everything because this is very important and we're not going to let this administration continue to
00:28:05.080 get by, uh, with all of the potential corruption that we've already seen out of this administration
00:28:10.920 over the past two decades. And, and Mr. Chairman, will you indeed subpoena the Biden's to, to testify
00:28:19.480 before your committee? Well, it's going to be hard with the president. Now with the family members,
00:28:25.080 it's a lot easier. Uh, we're, I'm going to hold out on that till we get the information. If we get all
00:28:30.760 the banking information we want, we'll invite them to come to the committee. And if they don't want to
00:28:36.360 defend themselves, uh, or defend the indefensible, then, then I don't know what else needs to be done.
00:28:44.440 Uh, once we get the banking records and we get all of the witnesses under oath to testify,
00:28:50.680 either in a committee hearing or in, in a deposition or transcribed interview, then I think we'll have
00:28:56.280 enough information. Uh, we welcome the Bidens to come to the committee anytime they want. And again,
00:29:02.280 if I were, if I were Hunter Biden and I were innocent, like his lawyers and all the hit people
00:29:06.760 that work in the white house that attacked Jim Jordan and me every day, if, if they're telling the
00:29:11.000 truth, I would want to come to the house oversight committee and, and clear my good name. But for
00:29:17.240 whatever reason, they, they won't respond to any of our requests and they continue to have their,
00:29:24.120 uh, attack dogs bark every day from the white house that Ian Sam's, uh, the president's little
00:29:31.400 weenie guy comes out every day and attacks me anytime I requested information this week
00:29:36.200 on where the money was going in Ukraine. And he, he attacked me for having the audacity
00:29:41.160 to want to know where our tax dollars are being spent in Ukraine.
00:29:44.680 Well, Congressman, I think you, you got the quote that we're going to see in
00:29:50.440 quite a bit of media, as you describe that. Yeah. That gentleman, uh, in the white house,
00:29:56.840 I will say gentlemen in parentheses, in quotation marks, as well as parentheses.
00:30:02.200 Uh, we always give our guests the last, uh, the last word on this. I may, I first though, ask you
00:30:09.080 the J six video. Do you think that speaker McCarthy may have made a mistake giving that
00:30:14.920 to journalists with one show rather than putting it before the American people?
00:30:21.720 I haven't talked to Kevin McCarthy about that. I think sunshine is the best disinfectant.
00:30:26.120 I'm an oversight guy through and through. I think the more people that have access to it,
00:30:30.120 the better. But, uh, you know, we'll, we'll see what Tucker Carlson is going to do with that
00:30:35.160 information. I know the people on my committee and Lou, many of them come on your show. Uh,
00:30:39.800 many good firebrand Republicans that serve on the house oversight committee. They want
00:30:45.320 the American people to have access to those, to those videos. So I don't agree with Chuck Schumer
00:30:50.920 and the Democrats saying that that's compromising the security of the Capitol. I mean,
00:30:55.240 you can see pictures of the Capitol on Google. I mean, there, there's doors all the way around it.
00:30:59.640 There's windows. I mean, we, you saw how the Capitol was compromised. I don't see how this video,
00:31:05.480 uh, would in any way, shape or form compromise the security of the Capitol. So I think
00:31:09.880 the best disinfectant is sunshine and hopefully every American will have access to those tapes at some
00:31:15.160 point. Well, if I may, I, I'm going to, uh, I will speak only for myself, but I think that you
00:31:23.080 and I agree that what those, uh, that video, which the lawyers for all of the 800 plus folks, uh,
00:31:30.040 that have been political prisoners of the Marxist Dem party, uh, they desperately need that video,
00:31:36.760 uh, for their legal purposes and talking about security. They are, their security is,
00:31:43.640 and safety now is at stake. And I hope that the speaker will amend his judgment and make certain
00:31:51.000 that the lawyers and those political prisoners who have been in jail in some cases for now over
00:31:57.640 two years, uh, get access to that desperately needed video. Uh, but again, speaking only for myself,
00:32:05.400 Mr. Chairman, uh, the last word, I promise you, and, uh, if you would, your concluding thoughts.
00:32:12.520 Well, I just appreciate you, your interest in this, Lou, you're on top of this. This is very
00:32:18.680 important. Uh, we need to know exactly, uh, why the Biden's received so much money from China, uh,
00:32:25.160 through their various personal accounts and through the, the universities affiliated with
00:32:29.160 Joe Biden, we need to make certain that they weren't, uh, doing anything improper with those,
00:32:34.280 uh, classified documents. And I think, uh, we could do that and get it done quickly. If the,
00:32:39.400 if the administration will work with us and we're not going to let up.
00:32:42.760 We appreciate your time and God bless you. We all appreciate the hard work that you and your
00:32:47.800 committee and staff are doing, uh, an extraordinary challenge and one we know, uh,
00:32:52.520 against which you will prevail. Thanks so much for being with us.
00:32:55.320 Thanks for having me, Lou.
00:32:56.840 Congressman James Comer, chairman of the house oversight committee, a great American.
00:33:02.600 Chairman Comer, you may have noticed mentioned the white house attack dogs who are barking at him
00:33:08.040 almost every day. Ian Sam is the white house spokesman that he referred to. And if I may
00:33:14.280 suggest everybody just watch this white house and these Marxist Dems as they attack the house
00:33:21.080 investigators, they've organized public relations and law firms to viciously attack the members of
00:33:27.480 the house oversight committee judiciary and the weaponization subcommittee all it's it's all
00:33:34.120 truly outrageous. And I would urge you to tell your congressmen and senators how much you appreciate
00:33:40.040 their hard work, the hard work of those investigators who are truly presenting the American people
00:33:46.520 and our Republic. The white house attack dogs went after Congressman Comer because he wants an accounting.
00:33:53.720 Now listen to this because he wants an accounting of how more than a hundred billion dollars
00:33:59.640 is being spent by the white house in Ukraine. The white house couldn't understand why he would want
00:34:05.400 to do that. As chairman Comer said, sunshine is the best disinfectant, but clearly the Biden regime
00:34:13.000 is in a very dark place. Thanks everybody for being with us. And here tomorrow, our guest will be
00:34:19.160 NBA player Ennis Cantor. Cantor has been outspoken. He's been courageous in his condemnation of the
00:34:25.880 communist Chinese and their treatment of the Uyghurs and the NBA has blackballed him for his criticism
00:34:32.840 of China. And of course, the NBA's hypocrisy. Please join us here tomorrow for Ennis Cantor
00:34:40.120 and what some call the communist Chinese control of the NBA. Till then, follow me on Twitter at
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