The Great America Show - November 28, 2022


REP. JAMES COMER VS HUNTER BIDEN AND ANY CRIMINAL ASSOCIATES

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Lou Dobbs John Fawcett
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Hunter Biden Joe Biden Jim Jordan Donald Trump Daryl Issa Merrick Garland Klaus Schwab Barack Obama James Comer Adam Schiff John Smith Collins Fauci Catherine Herridge Herschel Walker Maria Bargaroma Mitch McConnell Jason Chaffetz Bob McConnell Eric Swalwell and 16 more
THE BIDEN FAMILY IS COMPROMISED BY THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY AND SO IS THE DEM PARTY, AND MORE THAN A FEW REPUBLICANS SAYS LEE SMITH JEFFREY CLARK SAYS WE HAVE TO FIGHT LAWFARE BECAUSE THE LEFT HAS CAPTURED THE ABA AND OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM

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In this episode of the Great America Show, host Lou Dobbs is joined by Rep. James Comer (R-Ohio) and Rep. Jim Jordan (D-Ohio), who are investigating whether or not Joe Biden and his family conspired with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to steal millions of dollars from the U.S. government.

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00:00:00.200 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and we're happy to have you back with us here on the Great America Show,
00:00:06.040 where truth, justice, and the American way are essential to who we are and what we do.
00:00:12.260 We're almost three weeks from Election Day. We have a pretty good idea of who won what in the midterms.
00:00:18.400 We have a remarkably close divide in the Senate. If Herschel Walker wins in the December 6 runoff in Georgia,
00:00:24.280 the Senate will be 50-50. In the House, it looks like the Republicans will have an eight-seat majority.
00:00:31.160 It's all that close. And an unprecedented disruption worldwide as Amazon workers demanded better pay
00:00:38.200 and working conditions walking up the job Friday in 40 countries, including the U.S., Canada, U.K.,
00:00:45.640 Australia, India. To put it all in perspective, one-third of all warehouse workers are employed by Amazon.
00:00:52.860 In China, huge protests, riots, and clashes by workers at Foxconn under suffocating lockdown
00:01:00.060 because of the latest wave of the COVID virus and a couple of the newest variants.
00:01:05.540 It's hard to tell how severe the reprisals will be by the Communist Chinese Party.
00:01:10.920 The majority in the Chinese Communist government is 100%, so that makes their politics a little simpler
00:01:16.340 than ours, doesn't it? What Xi says is what goes, period.
00:01:21.200 The People's Republic of China is, of course, communist, totalitarian, and their dear leader
00:01:27.040 has put in place a zero-tolerance policy for the entire nation of 1.4 billion people.
00:01:33.260 And the COVID menace is apparently sweeping the country now.
00:01:37.000 Even parts of the capital city of Beijing are in lockdown once again, leading to more suppression.
00:01:42.760 And there is no other way under their communist government.
00:01:46.900 But communism could be the role model for the entire globe, says the World Economic Forum's
00:01:52.880 founder, Klaus Schwab, the ultimate Davos man.
00:01:57.020 He's pushing a reset for capitalism, but he's also embracing communism.
00:02:02.660 Declaring China is the role model for many countries, as what he calls the global community,
00:02:08.100 is driving a systemic transformation of the world.
00:02:12.640 Boy, that sounds familiar, doesn't it?
00:02:14.880 Breitbart, reporting Klaus Schwab, told the elites at G20 that, quote,
00:02:19.660 we have to construct the world of tomorrow, end quote.
00:02:24.000 Sounds like the globalist elites are just thrilled with the idea of communism, China style.
00:02:30.660 We know it doesn't make much difference to President Biden and his family.
00:02:34.140 They've been taking money from their Chinese business partners connected to the CCP for years.
00:02:40.700 And that is now under investigation by the House Oversight and House Judiciary Committees.
00:02:46.560 Our guest today is the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee.
00:02:50.660 He is soon to be chairman of the committee come January 3rd, Congressman James Comer.
00:02:56.180 Good of you to be with us here, Congressman.
00:02:58.320 You've held press conferences announcing your investigation.
00:03:01.780 You've done a number of interviews.
00:03:03.180 I'm impressed that the national corporate media has actually reported on your press conferences and your intentions.
00:03:10.600 You've served notice on the Bidens and the media.
00:03:13.360 Your thoughts now, if you will, about the investigation you'll be heading after January 3rd.
00:03:18.940 Well, I'm pleased that the mainstream media picked up our press conference as well as they did.
00:03:24.900 Obviously, we laid out the reasoning why we're moving forward with an investigation of Joe Biden.
00:03:32.820 We showed overwhelming evidence where he's lied to the American public about not just his knowledge of Hunter's shady business dealings, but also his direct involvement with Hunter's shady business dealings.
00:03:44.740 So we believe, as we've said all along, Hunter Biden's a national security risk, and we believe that we need to determine whether or not this White House is compromised.
00:03:54.980 Because of the millions of dollars that the Biden families received from China, Ukraine, and Russia.
00:04:02.220 And that's what we did.
00:04:03.380 Ironically, Lou, the White House, I'm sure this surprises you, right after that press conference, started attacking Jim Jordan and me and our character.
00:04:12.560 And remember, forever they said that laptop wasn't real.
00:04:17.580 And then when it was proven it was real, after our press conference, they said, well, the stuff about Hunter might be true, but anything that would implicate Joe Biden, that was fake.
00:04:27.760 That was a folder that had been added.
00:04:30.000 And then yesterday, the White House got the shock of their life when CBS News came out and verified after a forensic audit that what we have is 100 percent original, accurate, and has not been tampered with.
00:04:45.360 I have to say, my head spins some days at what the left-wing media in this country, the corporate left-wing media, because everybody listening to us should remember, this is corporate America's voice speaking through these media outlets.
00:05:05.700 And that tells you how far the corporate America has come.
00:05:10.780 They're anti-conservative, they're anti-traditional, they're anti-institution, they are operating as a, frankly, I think, not the fourth estate, but more like a fifth column in this country.
00:05:24.080 What do you think, Senator?
00:05:25.560 What do you think, Congressman?
00:05:27.520 You know, I've been a low-level member of Congress for six years, and I've observed things that I thought were slightly biased or whatever.
00:05:38.460 But until Thursday, when we flipped the house and it became apparent that I was going to be leading the major investigation of the Biden administration with subpoena power as chairman of the committee,
00:05:51.880 I did not realize how grossly biased and to what length the mainstream media will go to cover up scandal, to cover up conflicts of interest, and to just pretty much regurgitate the worst talking points that the Democrat National Committee would send them.
00:06:14.980 I can believe that the Democrat National Committee was communicating with social media companies, telling them what to suppress and what not to suppress.
00:06:25.320 When I saw the mainstream media copy and paste everything they said about me on their reporting about the investigation, you know, they said things like, well, this is the first thing the Republicans rolled out.
00:06:40.800 That is just not true.
00:06:42.200 On Tuesday, when we met and voted for our leadership, that was when Biggs and McCarthy ran against each other and Scalise was elected without opposition and, you know, you went on down the line.
00:06:54.920 Right after that election, those members in leadership walked out and had a press conference.
00:07:00.160 On Tuesday, they talked about their agenda.
00:07:02.680 They talked about reducing inflation and securing the border and, you know, rescinding the IRS, 87,000 IRS agents.
00:07:09.940 They went down that whole commitment to America list at the campaign.
00:07:13.320 Then on Wednesday, some of the committees had press conferences and issued press releases talking about their agenda.
00:07:20.260 Then on Thursday, Jim Jordan and I had a press conference to talk about the Biden investigation and his investigation of the FBI and DOJ.
00:07:29.380 Well, the media then said, well, that's the first press conference the Republicans had, and this is what they lead off on.
00:07:34.920 It wasn't.
00:07:36.240 It was probably the fifth or sixth press conference.
00:07:38.660 But, again, we campaigned on holding this administration accountable.
00:07:44.660 Yes, we campaigned on reducing inflation, and the best way to reduce inflation is just stop the ridiculous spending in Washington.
00:07:52.820 But we also campaigned on holding this administration accountable.
00:07:55.760 So the media is just – has been really unfair just in the first four or five days of announcing our investigation.
00:08:04.240 But you know what?
00:08:06.040 We're going to try to win the battle with facts.
00:08:09.240 Well, and I know you're going to win more than – more battles than have ever been engaged on this – on Capitol Hill for a long time.
00:08:20.660 I'm – you know, first I just want to say how grateful that we all are to you and to Congressman Jordan for taking the lead in getting to the truth.
00:08:29.460 I also want to take up your point you made and just give an example.
00:08:34.240 The announcement of a special counsel last Friday by Eric Garland, the attorney general, as they went through that, they acknowledged that there was no – you know, that John Smith will not be there because he had had a serious accident with his bicycle.
00:08:53.560 And then we found out, you know, as we sit there sort of scratching our heads, it had to be a heck of a bicycle accident not to be there.
00:09:02.440 And then they not once mentioned any president that he had worked for.
00:09:08.960 And he started working for Bill Clinton, just so everybody knows, that it was Barack Obama.
00:09:16.060 And now it is Joe Biden.
00:09:19.080 And then, lo and behold, we go back to 2010, the year of the Tea Party, and there is John Smith meeting with Lois Lerner to inquire about the powers and possibilities of holding accountable conservative groups for seeking tax-exempt status.
00:09:36.460 And then we go forward to Bob McConnell in Virginia prosecuting him, a Republican running for the presidency.
00:09:50.880 They shut him down, and the Supreme Court reverses it.
00:09:54.240 The list goes on.
00:09:55.080 But this man, Jack Smith, just so everybody knows, clear as it can be, I'm telling you, is a left-wing activist.
00:10:02.560 He is nothing more than a Marxist dem doing exactly the bidding of the power structure of the Democrat Party.
00:10:10.840 Do you think I'm way off?
00:10:13.220 No, I think you said it very well, Lou, and Jim said it.
00:10:18.200 We were on Fox Sunday morning on Maria Bargaroma's show, and he outlined all those past work experiences that he had.
00:10:28.800 I didn't realize that.
00:10:30.220 I didn't know who he was.
00:10:31.540 I'm glad Jordan stayed on top of this.
00:10:34.320 But, you know, they announced that special counsel on Friday, Thursday, when Jim Jordan and I had that press conference.
00:10:40.540 Obviously, he's focused on the DOJ and FBI abuses.
00:10:45.180 And he made the statement, he said, I just wish the DOJ would stay out of elections.
00:10:51.680 And the very next day, they announced a special counsel on the first Republican to file for president in the 2024 election, Donald Trump.
00:11:02.380 So, you know, it's just this politicization of the DOJ and FBI just keeps getting worse and worse and worse.
00:11:11.160 The deep state continues to try to grow and expand at a time when there's finally going to be a mechanism in place in the House of Representatives to try to, you know, hold this deep state accountable and try to pass reforms.
00:11:28.660 I mean, you know, I'm very disappointed that we didn't get the Senate, but at the very least, we can still conduct meaningful, credible investigations and do everything in our ability to set the stage on trying to educate the public on the wrongdoing of these bureaucracies as well as this administration.
00:11:47.640 And hopefully, in the end, we're going to be able to get new people in places in these government bureaucracies that have been taken over by left-wing bureaucrats that are unaccountable to anyone and have absolutely no transparency.
00:12:03.960 And hopefully we can pass some laws to where this never happens again.
00:12:08.200 I don't know if you'll ever be able to pass a law because the Democrat Party is a different party than the Republican.
00:12:17.180 The Democrat Party is driven by Marxist ideology and Marxist Democrats who indeed are committed to the destruction of some of the basic institutions, whether it be the Supreme Court of the United States.
00:12:32.340 They've overwhelmed the district court system with their appointments and this and President Biden is going full bore ahead.
00:12:41.080 And in some cases with Mitch McConnell's not only compliance, but assistance and complicity.
00:12:48.380 This is a strange time for Republicans who think of themselves as a party to be dealing with a Democrat organization that thinks of itself as an activist organization.
00:13:04.720 It's, if not an outright, well, in my opinion, it's an organization that means to destroy everything we think of as America.
00:13:15.360 It's going to be an extraordinary, I think, period in history as you guys move forward.
00:13:21.200 Let me turn, if I may, Congressman, to what you think is the most important issue, the most important focus that you're taking for the American people in these investigations that you're preparing to launch.
00:13:36.380 Well, another misstatement by the press was they implied this was going to be our only investigation, this Biden family influence peddling.
00:13:47.400 Look, Lou, our staff will almost double on the oversight committee.
00:13:52.800 The Democrat staff will will be cut in half.
00:13:55.520 So we just essentially get their extra staff.
00:14:00.720 I mean, we'll hire our own staff, but their cap space, I guess you could call it if you use the NFL term.
00:14:05.900 And we have the capacity and infrastructure to carry on around 50 major investigations because we're going to have a staff of about 70 people.
00:14:18.120 My committee roster goes from 20 to 25.
00:14:22.540 I'll have 25 of the most focused members of the House of Representatives who, you know, many in the Freedom Caucus who want to hold this administration accountable.
00:14:33.720 And we're going to be able to have a lot of investigations.
00:14:37.880 And let's just be honest.
00:14:39.600 The Democrats didn't investigate anything with respect to the Trump administration.
00:14:43.640 They didn't investigate all this COVID money that was going out the door.
00:14:47.360 They didn't investigate all of the unemployment insurance fraud that was taking place.
00:14:54.100 They don't investigate any of this money that's been going to Ukraine.
00:14:57.460 They didn't worry about all the equipment and people that were left behind in Afghanistan.
00:15:03.940 You know, we've got to get answers.
00:15:05.240 And they certainly didn't investigate the origination of COVID or any wrongdoing by Dr. Fauci or Dr. Collins.
00:15:11.960 And so we've got a lot of catching up to do because for two years, the mainstream media and the Democrats in Congress have turned a blind eye to all this wrongdoing, all this wrong, this unnecessary wasteful spending.
00:15:24.520 So, you know, we get a lot of press over the Biden investigation.
00:15:29.060 We're obviously going to investigate Mayorkas. 1.00
00:15:31.120 We announced that yesterday.
00:15:32.940 We're going to we've got a lot of specific questions for Dr.
00:15:36.700 Fauci and Dr.
00:15:37.580 Collins over what went on during COVID.
00:15:40.960 But at the end of the day, I'm also very concerned about the billions of dollars that was wasted in the name of COVID.
00:15:48.580 You know, you've got state and local governments that received hundreds of millions of dollars for COVID related expenses, and they didn't use any of that money for COVID.
00:15:59.200 It was just more slush fund, more money for these blue cities and red ones, too.
00:16:04.300 I mean, they took the money and just just spend it on whatever.
00:16:07.260 I know one of my counties took some money from COVID and they were trying to buy a little league uniform for the for the baseball team.
00:16:14.800 I mean, it's just it's a tragedy what's happened with our tax dollars over the last three years.
00:16:22.200 I mean, it's always been a bad bad Washington, but it's been special bad, Lou, the last three years.
00:16:26.880 And somebody has got to investigate this and hold people accountable for wrongdoing or they're going to continue to to misspin and misappropriate our hard earned tax dollars.
00:16:38.100 I think that it's fair to say that one of the things you will find is that all of it, not all of it, but nearly all of that money that was sloshing around in the swamp. 0.95
00:16:50.900 Much of it ended up in the pockets of state, I should say, in the accounts of state budgets in blue states that have been managed by fools and and criminals. 0.96
00:17:07.380 I mean, it's just that straightforward. 0.88
00:17:09.700 This and by the way, we've got whether it's the Inflation Reduction Act or whether it is these latest stimulus packages.
00:17:16.260 All of that money is out there just waiting for people to pick up and take home.
00:17:20.960 I'm I think that that investigation on the part of you and Congressman Jordan is going to be revelatory.
00:17:29.400 I don't think people have any idea of how just horrific and and just large, incomprehensibly large.
00:17:38.820 The corruption is in that in that town.
00:17:43.120 It's it's just mind boggling to think, as you say, it's just mind boggling to think of what has taken place right after the election.
00:17:53.420 CBS verified that Hunter Biden laptop, as you pointed out.
00:17:57.020 How long do you think it's going to take to wake people up to the reality of what has occurred in this administration?
00:18:06.600 What you've been talking about for some time now, what is effectively a crime family that is connected to this president and to which he is the patriarch?
00:18:18.880 Well, kudos to CBS and Catherine Herridge, who's been working on this investigation for a long time.
00:18:27.580 I mean, the White House was winded by what they came out with yesterday, because remember, Lou, as I said earlier, they spent two years saying that's not Hunter Biden's laptop when they knew darn well it was.
00:18:41.520 They just lied to the American people and the mainstream media took it hook, line and sinker.
00:18:46.760 And not only did they say, of course, it's not Hunter Biden's laptop, they attacked any Republican like me or Jim Jordan who would suggest it was.
00:18:54.780 Well, then when it became apparent that it was the laptop, then they said, well, you know, some of that stuff's true.
00:19:01.880 But the stuff implicating Joe Biden receiving direct benefits from the shady businesses, that stuff was put in there by Republicans.
00:19:08.340 That is not original. It's been tampered with.
00:19:11.520 Well, what CBS knew. And after my press conference, they doubled down on that.
00:19:15.900 The White House said that anything that I have has been tampered with.
00:19:21.460 They have added to it Republican conspiracy theories.
00:19:25.160 That's what they said. Well, then CBS News comes out with this yesterday.
00:19:28.760 The White House, all you're hearing is crickets.
00:19:31.000 They're not even talking about it now.
00:19:32.220 And I can't tell you how important that was to my investigation because, you know, they were going to say the whole time the White House was going to say, the Democrat National Committee, all these are conspiracy theories.
00:19:48.460 This is this is not true. That is absolutely not true.
00:19:51.980 They have stuck that in there to try to embarrass the president, you know, kind of like what Adam Schiff did with the Steele dossier and all the Russian disinformation.
00:19:59.260 That's what they were. They were accusing me of being a Republican version of Adam Schiff without saying it.
00:20:03.800 But then CBS came out with that. And that is I mean, that for for 24 hours since that story has come out, I have not had one media outlet out, you know, one mainstream media outlet say anything negative about the investigation.
00:20:19.980 They've moved on. So, you know, that's good.
00:20:24.200 Very good. And, you know, what's really tells you how they're what we used to say in Texas, lower than a snake's belly.
00:20:32.840 Right. That's that's CBS News. That is CBS corporate.
00:20:40.520 That is most of the outlets, nearly all of the corporate outlets in the country, because, you know, it was just in March of this year that the New York Times and Washington Post finally acknowledged that it was the real deal.
00:20:56.060 So I don't see why we should give too many accolades to CBS News for being eight months behind the Post and the Times, nor should we be too thrilled with the Times and the Post for being a year and a half behind the actual incident in October of 2020.
00:21:13.100 This is a crime against the country. And it's a crime that was in part perpetrated by the national corporate media, as well as Silicon Valley, big tech and social media, along with the FBI and Justice Department.
00:21:33.740 But what the country is going to learn here, I think, is going to be just fascinating.
00:21:38.340 I and I just again want to salute you and thank you for proceeding with it.
00:21:43.380 By the way, I understand that you believe that Hunter's artwork may not have been a good faith effort at higher artistry and, in fact, had a commercial interest selling it to the Chinese.
00:21:57.980 Tell us about that.
00:21:59.020 Well, I didn't talk about that in the press conference because I was waiting for a question where some media reporter would defend Biden saying, well, this may be true, but none of this happened while Joe Biden was president, at which point I was going to come back with, well, actually, there was a little incident that happened when Joe Biden was president.
00:22:19.820 That was when his son took up artwork and sold at least three paintings for anywhere between $75,000 and half a million dollars to who we are pretty darn certain was a buyer in China.
00:22:36.760 So that's a problem.
00:22:39.260 And that obviously is if you study what China is doing to try to infiltrate the United States, they're using the art world. 0.91
00:22:49.820 As a mechanism for money laundering.
00:22:51.740 And remember, one of the things the Delaware U.S. attorney has always investigated Hunter Biden for, in addition to tax evasion, has been money laundering.
00:23:00.900 And that's what I'm pretty certain several of those bank violations pertain to money laundering.
00:23:06.400 So there's a problem with the fact that Hunter Biden is not an artist.
00:23:12.920 No one is going to even admit that Hunter Biden starts doing some painting and then voila, he's the highest paid modern American artist in the history of the United States.
00:23:26.520 I mean, give me a break.
00:23:28.120 And this art gallery owner popped off at the mouth when he first got that, that he was selling all this artwork to China.
00:23:35.760 He's now the – he's going to be the U.S. liaison for China for the art world.
00:23:45.000 And, you know, now the White House met with him and he's not talking.
00:23:49.440 He's hushy zip. 0.57
00:23:51.020 And Hunter, to my knowledge, hasn't picked up a paintbrush since then.
00:23:54.700 So, you know, there's some problems while Joe Biden was president with some of the influence peddling that Hunter Biden's done.
00:24:02.480 So, you know, their last resort, they keep backing up.
00:24:05.820 You know, they started out the laptop wasn't real, that, you know, the president had no knowledge of Hunter's business dealings.
00:24:13.800 Now they're saying, well, the laptop may be real, but it had been tampered with.
00:24:19.780 Of course, CBS put that out, but then they've said, well, you know, Hunter may have done some things wrong, but Joe Biden certainly wasn't involved.
00:24:27.440 He didn't – he did not directly benefit from Hunter's business deals.
00:24:33.400 And they keep moving the goalposts.
00:24:35.600 They keep going backwards.
00:24:37.920 And, you know, what they're going to try to say is, well, none of these deals happened while Joe Biden was president.
00:24:42.620 Well, the artwork did happen while he was president.
00:24:45.800 And does anyone in America believe that that artwork was purchased because it was superior artwork?
00:24:54.800 It was purchased to gain favor with the Biden family because that's their business model.
00:25:00.360 That's what they've done for over a decade.
00:25:03.940 And it's not just Hunter Biden.
00:25:05.520 It's the president's brothers as well.
00:25:09.460 Yeah, it is a crime family.
00:25:12.020 That's pretty much the only conclusion one can reach.
00:25:17.060 You mentioned money laundering several times.
00:25:19.340 And now we're hearing the stories about FTX, the bankrupt crypto company that apparently was at least the second highest donor in this cycle to the Democrats and to the Biden campaign.
00:25:35.020 And now the story is that the money that was going to Ukraine was laundered through FTX and back to – well, you know, we can imagine who they went back to, but apparently a number of Democrats right there in the D.C. swamp.
00:25:51.960 What do you think of that?
00:25:53.420 Are you going to investigate that?
00:25:54.640 Well, the Financial Services Committee is better equipped to investigate the whole crypto world.
00:26:03.800 Honestly, Lou, that's been a hard one.
00:26:05.560 I grew up watching you on Moneyline or whatever the show was on CNN.
00:26:11.680 It's always – that has been the one financial issue that has been hard for me to comprehend this crypto.
00:26:18.380 So I feel better about it now because it looks like it was a pyramid scheme or something.
00:26:23.420 But at any rate, what you just mentioned, the fact that he was the largest donor to the Democrat Party or the second largest donor and that Ukraine may have been receiving funds through the crypto world.
00:26:41.160 And then, of course, he's taking money back to the Democrat Party.
00:26:45.040 That's the same thing that Donald Trump was asking Zelensky about on the phone with respect to Hunter Biden because Joe Biden was vice president of the United States in charge of how Ukraine was receiving foreign aid.
00:26:58.940 At the same time, his son was getting $166,000 a month from Burisma.
00:27:06.040 And was that a quid pro quo?
00:27:10.780 Donald Trump had every right to ask that question about corruption, and that was the first thing they impeached him on.
00:27:19.140 So we're going to be asking the same questions.
00:27:22.080 We're not going to investigate the whole cryptocurrency.
00:27:25.700 And speaking of that, it's funny.
00:27:29.000 The Democrats want to regulate everything, but they never came up with a plan to regulate cryptocurrency or Bitcoin or any of these crypto companies.
00:27:38.500 Is it because they didn't want to be regulated, obviously, and they were donating a lot of money to the Democrats?
00:27:43.940 So a lot of people lost a lot of money.
00:27:47.080 The government was nowhere to be found.
00:27:48.760 We don't want government to overregulate, but you have to have certain policies and rules and regulations in place to prevent bad actors.
00:28:00.160 And what looks like here, we've had a bad actor with FTX, and obviously they were a major, major donor and probably donated enough money for the Democrats to maintain control of the Senate.
00:28:13.580 So that's certainly something that's going to be investigated in the House of Representatives, but probably more from the Financial Services Committee.
00:28:21.440 Well, the Financial Services Committee is going to have a, I think, just a, it's going to be a carnival to go through that.
00:28:28.860 Because there's one other part in this that you, you know, you're aware of, but didn't mention, and that is that the Biden administration wants to, looking very seriously at creating a digital currency.
00:28:42.580 Now, that's a really interesting idea, because we happen to have a reserve currency for this entire world.
00:28:51.080 We would be putting ourselves in real harm's way to be competing through a digital currency.
00:28:56.980 And I was from the, and by the way, when you said you couldn't quite get your head around cryptocurrency, that's because there's nothing there.
00:29:07.600 Right.
00:29:08.520 As a friend of mine used to say, you know, these con men, they can come up with all sorts of schemes and kind of complicate it.
00:29:15.580 But usually at the bottom, it's pretty simple.
00:29:18.980 It's a con job.
00:29:20.800 Right. 0.98
00:29:21.540 And that's what, in this, it's just ridiculous.
00:29:24.320 There's just no way in the world, talking, whether you're talking store of value, exchange values, it makes no sense.
00:29:32.780 And people, unfortunately, are finding that out the hard way.
00:29:36.060 But that's the way that always ends, when something like this bubbles up.
00:29:40.180 I want to turn to, if I may, to your focus on Merrick Garland is of particular interest to me, too, because he is behaving as awful as I can imagine Attorney General.
00:29:58.220 This is a man we were going to have as a Supreme Court Justice if Barack Obama had had his way.
00:30:03.880 This man is out of control.
00:30:07.360 And is there going to be an effort here to speed up the investigations?
00:30:13.960 Because it's Congress's seems to take longer even than the Department of Justice.
00:30:20.380 And the Department of Justice is where truth goes to die.
00:30:23.680 We seldom see the report.
00:30:25.240 We don't have a report yet on the integrity of the election of 2020.
00:30:29.620 We had an attorney general lying through his teeth, Bill Barr, when he said that they had had a, they'd investigated and found nothing.
00:30:37.880 They didn't, they didn't look and they didn't find.
00:30:40.860 And so what I'm asking is, is justice going to be swift here?
00:30:45.940 Are we going to see you really power ahead?
00:30:49.780 This is the top priority for Jim Jordan and the judiciary guys.
00:30:54.280 I mean, this is, you know, Garland walked into a cabinet, the DOJ, that didn't have a high level of confidence when he walked in the door.
00:31:04.800 And since he's been there, it's only gotten worse.
00:31:07.540 No one trusts the DOJ.
00:31:10.120 Their credibility is at an all time low and going lower every day.
00:31:14.520 This special counsel, the raid on Mar-a-Lago, I mean, you know, but nothing with Hunter Biden.
00:31:20.600 I mean, CBS hopefully will not stop there with the authenticity of the laptop.
00:31:28.860 Hopefully they can start talking about some of the things in the laptop because, you know, Hunter Biden's crimes, as I outlined in the press conference, go beyond influence peddling.
00:31:40.520 And the fact that he's walking the streets now and flying on Air Force One and having, you know, a wedding at the White House, I mean, this is, this is not good.
00:31:50.700 This is not a good look for the DOJ because anybody else's son would have already been in prison for a third of what Hunter Biden's done.
00:31:57.920 So I think that this will be a top priority for Jordan.
00:32:03.200 You know, I'm getting calls from FBI agents all the time, and we're referring them back to that committee.
00:32:07.960 So what we're trying to do, as I said earlier, there was no oversight of this administration in the first two years of Biden in office.
00:32:15.820 The Democrats just turned a blind eye.
00:32:17.520 We're trying to delegate.
00:32:19.560 The crypto will be in financial services.
00:32:21.520 As the DOJ, FBI stuff will be in judiciary, then oversight will have, you know, 95 percent of everything else.
00:32:28.500 But, you know, the reason we're doing that, we want swift action because it's out of control at the FBI and DOJ, and something has to be done.
00:32:36.580 And I think Jim Jordan's the right guy to lead that part of the investigation.
00:32:42.020 And, you know, a lot of the guys on that committee come on your show all the time, and they want to get to the bottom of this, shine the light on the wrongdoing there, and make reforms there at the DOJ.
00:32:56.900 And as you say, Lord, do they need to be reformed?
00:33:01.380 It's just the size, the scale, the scope, the toxicity of this corruption is unimaginable to most Americans, I have no doubt.
00:33:14.400 The money laundering back to the Dems with FTX, the money that's sloshing around, as you pointed out, various bills, acts by the Congress that have put trillions of dollars into our economy.
00:33:31.380 By the way, it's no wonder we've got runaway inflation, we've got runaway legislation.
00:33:37.320 Right.
00:33:37.980 And there it is.
00:33:40.480 I'd just like to get a sense of your personal view about the involvement of China.
00:33:48.740 We talked, you mentioned the President of the United States being compromised.
00:33:52.780 China, for example, received millions of barrels of oil from the United States as a result of Joe Biden releasing oil from the strategic reserves.
00:34:05.920 How in the world does that oil end up in the hands of a Chinese company just happened to at one time being doing business with Hunter Biden?
00:34:13.900 Are you going to be looking into that as well?
00:34:15.820 Absolutely.
00:34:17.280 We've been looking into that, and it's very concerning.
00:34:20.860 I mean, one of the things that we outlined in the press conference was I showed the map of the United States in Chinese that highlighted all the major natural gas distributors in the United States.
00:34:31.700 What Hunter and Joe's business, Hudson West, was trying to do was make a pitch to the Chinese Communist Party-owned energy company, CEFC, to be able to not only purchase liquefied natural gas, but also to start taking ownership in the drillers.
00:34:51.720 Now, you talk about a national security concern.
00:34:54.300 What if those drillers owned by China decided in February during a blizzard in New York and New England area, you know what, we're just going to cut back a little bit here. 0.85
00:35:03.160 I mean, the fact that the President of the United States was part of a company that was trying to help China get their foot in the door on our American energy industry at a time when people are outraged over China buying some farmland in the Dakotas, which I'm against too.
00:35:19.760 I don't want to buy farmland in the Dakotas, but my God, we're talking about the American energy industry here.
00:35:25.100 And then we wonder, is he compromised?
00:35:27.960 Well, why did he sell the strategic oil reserves to China?
00:35:31.100 Why did he cancel the Keystone Pipeline?
00:35:33.140 Why is he going to Saudi Arabia on his hands and knees begging them for more production when he's telling our energy producers to cut production?
00:35:40.660 I mean, it doesn't make sense, Lou, and it would lead one to believe that this administration has been compromised.
00:35:47.020 Maybe they have something on him.
00:35:49.300 I mean, goodness gracious, if you could see the hard drive and the really bad stuff on there that Hunter Biden did that he taped and videoed himself, you would see a guy that is a prime suspect to be compromised.
00:36:03.820 That's what China looks for in their spies. 0.97
00:36:06.100 They look for people like Eric Swalwell and Hunter Biden to prey on, to get information from.
00:36:11.740 And, you know, there's I don't I apologize to nobody for investigating this Biden family, because the evidence that would suggest this administration's compromised is overwhelming.
00:36:24.900 You have got so many areas to investigate and you have the capacity.
00:36:31.020 You talked about increasing it automatically by 50 percent and having 70 staff.
00:36:36.720 Do you have the capacity to double that again?
00:36:41.080 And I'm asking a serious question, because this is for people who have never investigated.
00:36:46.580 They don't realize the work it takes.
00:36:49.680 This is going to be huge.
00:36:52.620 Well, we're excited about doubling the staff.
00:36:56.140 We've got resumes for the best and the brightest.
00:36:58.520 I mean, these people, they don't want to become career bureaucrats.
00:37:01.880 They want to get one or two good years in and move on.
00:37:04.580 You know, that's what you want.
00:37:05.900 That's like you don't want some person that wants to get, you know, burrowed into the federal civil service system and make a career out of it, sitting, you know, not being very productive.
00:37:17.880 These people are ambitious.
00:37:19.640 They want to prove themselves and they want to move on.
00:37:22.880 We also have some we're going to have some of the brightest law clerks, the interning for us that are going to be doing a lot of research and digging.
00:37:30.900 And I mean, I'm excited about what we've got.
00:37:33.240 But then these new members, I mean, the most requested committee to be on among the freshman class and the sophomore class in this Congress is the Oversight Committee by far.
00:37:45.240 That's never happened.
00:37:46.360 When I got on the Oversight Committee six years ago, Jason Chaffetz was the chairman.
00:37:50.460 There were 27 in my class, Lou.
00:37:52.380 I was the only one that requested to be on Oversight Committee because I was passionate about wasteful spending.
00:37:57.060 That's how I ended up on the I just drove me crazy about all the money we were wasting.
00:38:01.260 I was the only one.
00:38:03.320 Now, the last two classes of freshmen, Oversight is the most requested committee to be on.
00:38:10.420 And I think that shows we've got some people who want to be on this committee, who want to try to root out waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement and try to hold this administration accountable.
00:38:20.820 Well, the next time I see Daryl Issa, I'm going to have to kid him about Comer's oversight.
00:38:27.780 Apparently, they found a leader that they really like.
00:38:32.620 Daryl Issa did a terrific job.
00:38:35.160 And Issa was chair before I was in Congress.
00:38:38.200 So I served under Chaffetz and Gowdy.
00:38:42.400 So that's the two Republican chairs I served under.
00:38:44.600 They were Republican slash rhino, I believe, is the expression. 0.85
00:38:50.520 I won't get into that.
00:38:53.680 It's great talking with you.
00:38:55.060 I'm going to as we wrap up here, I'm just going to ask you, we've for one thing coming out of Germany.
00:39:03.560 This is a little from left field and I apologize for that, but I think it's important.
00:39:07.580 Germany is now having their corporations start analyzing their dependency on China.
00:39:15.660 The government of Germany is taking a look at corporate dependence on China and looking to straighten that up and to make certain that there is full disclosure of any economic, financial or political dependency on China.
00:39:34.660 Canada is taking a hard step forward on semiconductors.
00:39:42.600 I mean, I think most Americans didn't realize that we were shipping our advanced semiconductors from this country to China and not bringing the wall down.
00:39:52.660 And there are so many areas where we are so vulnerable to not.
00:39:57.700 These are our enemies.
00:39:59.140 We're in a cold war with China, whether people want to acknowledge it or not. 0.97
00:40:02.520 And as you have pointed out, you know, they're walking right over the top of us because too many people are making too much money by selling out to the Chinese one way or the other, whatever the interpretation of that word is, one wants to attach to it. 0.89
00:40:17.340 It's a sellout by corporate America.
00:40:19.360 We've got to stop it here.
00:40:20.840 And with that, I'd just like to get your reaction to those developments.
00:40:24.500 No, I agree, and I think that's something that was said on the Tuesday press conference last week, the first press conference that the Republicans had after we became the majority party was that, you know, we're going to put a priority on trying to stand up to China. 0.69
00:40:42.320 We've got to change the way we do business with China. 0.79
00:40:46.560 Now, they've taken over our technology.
00:40:48.980 They've taken over a big part of our advanced manufacturing.
00:40:51.500 They are beating us every day with their cyber security, with their cyber hacks.
00:40:58.640 They are infiltrating our universities with spies, stealing our research and development.
00:41:04.120 We have a big problem with China, and we've got to get serious about it. 1.00
00:41:08.420 And I think that's something you're going to see be a priority for this House Republican majority in January when we start.
00:41:15.800 Well, Congressman, I thank you for your time.
00:41:19.060 Thank you for sharing so much with us here today.
00:41:22.780 It is so refreshing.
00:41:24.920 It's downright inspiring to hear a U.S.
00:41:29.040 congressman who is taking on these tremendous challenges, and we thank you for doing so.
00:41:35.940 Congressman James Comer, soon to be the chairman of the House Oversight Committee.
00:41:40.580 We thank you very much for your time, and God bless you, and Godspeed.
00:41:46.520 Thanks for having me on, Lou.
00:41:48.360 Thanks, everybody.
00:41:49.220 And tomorrow, our guest will be Jeff Clark of the Center for Renewing America, and yet more outrage as Attorney General Merrick Garland appoints a left-wing apparatchik as special counsel to, what else?
00:42:02.260 Attack, once again, President Trump.
00:42:04.520 That's tomorrow here on The Great America Show.
00:42:07.020 Please be with us for that.
00:42:08.600 Till then, God bless you, and may God bless America.