The Great America Show - REP. JAMES COMER’S INVESTIGATIONS UNDERWAY, CONCERNED ABOUT BIDEN’S POSSESSION OF CLASSIFIED DOCS DISCOVERED IN 2 LOCATIONS

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs and welcome to The Great America Show. Great to have you with us.

00:00:05.940 And it's great to see the quick start of the 118th Congress. No hesitation, no breaks,

00:00:12.220 no excuses. The Republicans with Kevin McCarthy as their speaker, moving straight ahead to do

00:00:18.700 the people's business. The Marxist Dems don't like it, of course, but it's hard to care what

00:00:24.140 they don't like. The Biden regime and their Marxist dem accomplices in both the House and Senate

00:00:30.320 are hell-bent on destroying what's left of America. That much is obvious to nearly everyone.

00:00:37.780 This week in Mexico City, Biden met with Prime Minister Trudeau and Mexican President

00:00:43.420 André Manuel López Obrador, presumably to assure that all of North America goes Marxist at the

00:00:50.540 same time. They want to coordinate such things, don't they? Biden did make it known that he's

00:00:56.520 not content to have brought an estimated five million illegals into the United States 0.99

00:01:01.740 in his first two years. Are you ready for this? He is now planning to make it even easier for

00:01:08.740 illegal immigrants to enter the United States. I can't wait to find out how he plans to make it

00:01:15.340 any easier. How he could do more damage to the country in less time. The president of Mexico,

00:01:22.320 you will not be pleased to know, did graciously thank Biden for not building even so much as a

00:01:29.000 single meter of the border wall. Making it so much easier, of course, to cross and keep the big money

00:01:36.780 wheels spinning without a lot of disruption. Keep everything smooth. Keeping the cartels rolling in

00:01:43.720 cash with their illegal immigrant smuggling, their sex trafficking, and of course, there are those 0.81

00:01:49.840 killer drugs. Methamphetamines, cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl, all part of the money wheel because

00:01:57.160 those drugs kill more than 100,000 Americans a year. Maybe as high as 150,000. So there have to be,

00:02:06.440 of course, replacements. Which means the cartels have to bring in more and more illegals 0.97

00:02:12.520 to replace all the Americans their drugs kill. Don't want to have any labor shortages, do we?

00:02:19.360 And they sure don't want the market demand for their drugs to decline. A truly beautiful money

00:02:25.300 wheel. Which is what I strongly suspect was the major item on the Biden-Trudeau-AMLO agenda.

00:02:33.060 What could be bigger than that, right? So Biden surely didn't say a single word to Lopez Obrador

00:02:39.280 about maybe, just maybe, asking nicely the drug cartels to perhaps, please, don't kill so many

00:02:47.740 American citizens. You would think that Biden could at least nicely ask AMLO to inquire whether

00:02:53.920 the cartels would consider reducing what is now the wholesale fentanyl slaughter of hundreds of

00:03:00.620 thousands of Americans. But you know, Biden is, after all, the big guy, the 10-percenter. And he does

00:03:07.880 have a family to support, right? And Biden has other matters on his mind as well. It turns out that just

00:03:16.100 days before the November midterm elections, November 2nd, crazy timing, huh? Just amazing. Just days before

00:03:24.780 the midterm elections, less than a week before the election. Just imagine the coincidence. The

00:03:30.760 president's very own attorneys just happened to be opening a locked closet in an old office of Joy

00:03:37.800 Biden. And they find, right? It's hard to believe they find top secret documents discovered in a closet

00:03:46.200 of all places at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank. Think of that. The Penn Biden Center think

00:03:54.580 tank. Because, of course, Biden is synonymous with big thinking and a closet that had been locked for

00:04:00.840 years. And his attorneys just happened to be there. And then it's only days before the election. How about

00:04:07.380 all of that for coincidences? And it only took two and a half months for the story to come out to all of us.

00:04:15.460 First, they said there were only a few documents, highly classified. And, of course, Biden said he

00:04:22.100 was surprised they were there. This is a man who's surprised at what he has for breakfast. But then

00:04:28.360 there was a suggestion there were boxes more with more documents. But it's all okay because Joy, he says,

00:04:35.920 is a nice fella. But today, guess what? That's right. Another coincidence. They found more batches of top

00:04:44.140 secret documents belonging to Joe Biden. And these new highly classified documents are in an entirely

00:04:52.120 different location. You know, if Joe Biden weren't such a nice guy, a lot of people would be highly

00:04:58.880 suspicious. But then again, a lot of people have been suspicious of Joe Biden for a very long time.

00:05:06.340 I thought it might be fun to listen to how NBC News first reported broke the news that Biden had

00:05:14.220 misplaced more top secret documents that he should never have taken, never been in possession of in the

00:05:22.520 first place. Listen as the NBC reporter falls all over himself, excusing, apologizing, rationalizing the

00:05:32.200 awful news that he is breaking to the American public.

00:05:37.540 Aids to President Biden have been conducting an exhaustive search, we are told, of other locations

00:05:42.580 to make sure they've gathered up all the classified documents that went to the wrong place because if

00:05:47.880 it happened once, it could happen again. And what we're told is that they have found at least one

00:05:52.440 additional batch of classified documents. Now, that's basically all we know. We don't know the extent,

00:05:57.520 the nature of the classification on these documents. We don't know exactly when they were found.

00:06:01.540 And again, we don't know whether this was anything more than inadvertent error by whoever was packing

00:06:08.840 the documents as they left the Biden White House. But it's significant because it shows that the

00:06:13.900 scope of this may be more broad than we first realized. You know, we were initially talking

00:06:18.540 about a set of less than a dozen documents in one location at the Penn Biden Center. Now it appears

00:06:23.560 there are more classified documents that went astray after Joe Biden left the Obama administration.

00:06:29.580 And there you have it. NBC News breaking the story. Ken Delaunian, the reporter. He got through it,

00:06:37.160 didn't he? Well, now, thanks to the Republican majority in Congress, it looks like we will be

00:06:42.400 able to put at least some of those nasty suspicions to rest. Because today, the chairman of the powerful

00:06:48.540 House Oversight Committee, James Comer, wrote Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen demanding information about

00:06:55.360 suspicious business dealings of the Biden family and asking Twitter executives to testify on the

00:07:02.220 blackout of the Hunter Biden laptop reports. The 118th Congress, as I said, already in action.

00:07:10.380 Investigations well underway. And after a historic week of negotiations for reforms that mean this

00:07:16.900 Congress will be more effective, transparent and significantly different. Our guest today is

00:07:23.160 Congressman James Comer, the man leading those investigations and making it clear his first

00:07:28.720 investigation is focused squarely on President Biden. Congressman, great to have you with us here

00:07:35.360 as always. How important in your judgment was last week's negotiations and the resulting reforms?

00:07:43.160 Yeah, those guys had a great first week of Congress. Andy Biggs, Byron Donald,

00:07:47.940 Michael Cloud. They're all on the Oversight Committee currently. We're excited to finally

00:07:54.840 get started. I guess today's the first day we can officially mail out and send out requests for

00:08:01.320 information as the majority party as chairman of the House Oversight Committee. So I know that

00:08:08.100 they created an environment where there will be more transparency. There's not going to be a

00:08:15.340 dictatorship like the Democrats had under Pelosi, like the Republicans have had in the past.

00:08:20.300 There'll be more voices heard and a more transparent process. So I think that's a win for every American.

00:08:29.040 Absolutely. And the House passing the rules package, transparency assured as a result of that

00:08:37.500 reform. Give us a sense of where you are going to focus first and foremost. I know you have been

00:08:46.520 working on a number of issues. Your priorities now as chairman.

00:08:51.240 Well, from an investigative standpoint, as you know, Lou, we're very concerned about the Biden family

00:08:56.160 influence peddling. We believe that more and more evidence surfaces that would suggest that Joe Biden

00:09:04.680 not only knew very well about what his family's shady business dealings were, but he was also a central

00:09:11.960 figure in those business schemes. So we want to bring that to light. We want to hold him accountable

00:09:19.960 for any potential wrongdoing. And we want to change the law to where it's not acceptable to have family

00:09:28.800 members that profit off the last names of high ranking political figures, especially the president

00:09:35.060 of the United States. Because if we don't change it, it could be a problem moving forward with the next

00:09:40.420 president or president. So, you know, we're not going to let up on that. We have today asked the three

00:09:49.420 executives that were identified by Elon Musk initially in the first Twitter dump to come talk to our

00:09:56.260 committee. We want to have transcribed interviews with them to discuss exactly what role the FBI

00:10:02.480 played in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story, because that's very concerning because the FBI had

00:10:07.260 the laptop and they knew it wasn't Russian disinformation. So we've already started, as we

00:10:13.060 speak, bringing people in with respect to Biden family influence peddling. We're concerned about

00:10:18.640 Mayorkas and the disaster at the border. We're concerned about COVID-19. We're going to be taking the lead 0.99

00:10:24.380 in that, not just determining the origination of COVID-19, but also trying to get an accounting of

00:10:30.160 where all the hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars of potential waste went and try to hold

00:10:37.620 bureaucrats accountable for misusing our tax dollars. So no shortage of oversight priorities, and I'm glad that

00:10:44.620 we can officially get started now. How do you feel about the level of corruption in our federal

00:10:50.660 government about the Marxist tone that the Democratic Party has taken on and the way in which the deep

00:11:00.320 state, the Marxist Dems are working hand in glove, working together to first assault the Republican Party

00:11:08.520 and institutions across America? I'm very concerned. I've said this numerous times. The deep state is

00:11:17.680 real. Just with the Twitter dumps, we see that the FBI, without any authority to do so, created a task

00:11:26.020 force of at least 80 special agents that did nothing but police free speech on social media platforms,

00:11:32.800 as well as paid them millions of dollars for their, quote, time to suppress conservative speech

00:11:40.600 on social media platforms. The FBI should never be, nor should any government agency be involved in

00:11:47.320 censoring speech, and then to find out they're using massive amounts of tax dollars to do that,

00:11:52.640 yet the Democrats never asked any questions or never held any oversight hearings. The Democrats have

00:11:57.640 enabled the bureaucrats to continue to waste taxpayer funding and to abuse their power by going after 0.67

00:12:04.940 Republicans, so I am concerned, and I hope that we can do something about it. You are going to be

00:12:10.700 working overtime with all of those issues, and we know there are many more that will likely be of

00:12:18.380 interest to your committee. I want to just turn to one thing that you mentioned there on COVID. Are you

00:12:24.740 going to also be looking into the role of the Centers for Disease Control, their relationship

00:12:31.720 to NIH, their relationship to the World Health Organization? It is, by all appearances, a highly

00:12:41.600 suspicious organization of relationships and institutions. Yes, sir, and I think you'll see the

00:12:49.740 oversight committee is going to have a special subcommittee that will be focused on nothing

00:12:54.720 but COVID-19, not just trying to determine the origination of COVID-19, but also to determine

00:13:01.120 exactly what went on with the gain of function research that Dr. Fauci initially said wasn't

00:13:07.300 happening, but now we know was happening. We also want to track the tax dollars that went

00:13:13.860 through grants because we believe a lot of the medical advisors that were constantly confirming

00:13:21.640 every theory that Dr. Fauci had about COVID-19, that every directive that Dr. Fauci had, we

00:13:29.420 believe they were benefiting directly from grants. So we have got a lot of questions for them.

00:13:36.860 We have already requested that about 40 different employees from the NIH, the CDC, and HHS come

00:13:45.840 in and sit down for transcribed interviews. We want to interview them to know exactly what

00:13:51.900 they knew and when they knew it with respect to COVID because we know now that so much of

00:13:57.980 what Dr. Fauci was saying initially about the role the federal government had in the Wuhan lab,

00:14:03.900 as well as a lot of the decisions he made with respect to shutting small businesses down,

00:14:11.340 forcing public school students to learn virtually as opposed to in person. We now know those decisions

00:14:16.860 were bad decisions. So we're just trying to get a better understanding of the thought process,

00:14:23.340 the decision-making process. We need to fix this to where it doesn't happen in the future. And I have

00:14:28.300 met Jim Jordan and I, as you know, Jim will also be on the oversight committee. We met with Rand Paul,

00:14:35.100 Ron Johnson, Chuck Grassley, and Roger Marshall in the Senate because they had big plans, obviously,

00:14:42.540 to get Dr. Fauci in front of their committee and to subpoena some people with respect to COVID-19.

00:14:48.860 They unfortunately can't do that because the Senate didn't flip like the House did. So

00:14:53.500 they're working with us now and advising us on how we can better pursue Dr. Fauci and and hold

00:15:00.140 Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins accountable for a lot of potential wrongdoing.

00:15:05.980 Excellent. I want to turn to a couple of, well, one of the first issues is those suspicious activity

00:15:12.300 reports, which the Biden administration has denied your committee. Will that change with

00:15:18.540 you as chairman? Well, the last time we heard from Janet Yellen, she declined my request to observe and

00:15:26.220 view those suspicious activity reports because she said I was in the minority. Well, as of today,

00:15:32.700 I'm in the majority and I'm chairman of the committee. So we've re-requested from Secretary Yellen an

00:15:38.300 opportunity to take the suspicious activity reports and examine them or, if nothing else,

00:15:45.580 go in a classified room, sit down and along with my staff and read those suspicious activity reports.

00:15:51.340 I was the director of a bank for a long time. I know how to comprehend a suspicious activity report.

00:15:55.900 They're not that complicated. So we'll be waiting to see what we hear from Secretary Yellen. If we don't

00:16:03.420 hear anything from Secretary Yellen, then we'll unfortunately have to subpoena the reports from

00:16:09.660 the banks. For the benefit of the audience who might not, some might not know, Treasury Secretary

00:16:16.300 Yellen changed the rules that apparently, and quite logically, the orders of the President of the

00:16:21.980 United States. When you became very interested in Hunter Biden's suspicious activity reports,

00:16:29.660 that certainly looked very bad in terms of the denial of transparency by the Biden administration.

00:16:37.980 It does look bad, Lou, and I have learned some other things. I don't know 100% whether or not this

00:16:45.260 is true or not, but I'll say this on your show. I fear that she may have let Maxine Waters view some

00:16:52.700 suspicious activity reports of some Republicans. So, you know, this is something that should be

00:16:59.340 concerning. Another example of a two-tier system in the Biden administration, the way they treat

00:17:04.700 Republicans versus the way they treat Democrats. But we'll know more about that hopefully in the coming

00:17:10.060 weeks. Well, we know one thing that you and Jim Jordan have worked hand in glove, a great team. You're

00:17:21.260 now in cross-membership on committees, so there'll be great communication, including on the so-called

00:17:27.980 Church 2 Committee. So, at this point, do you believe that the Financial Services Committee can work

00:17:38.220 better with your committee to make certain that you get all of the information that you need from

00:17:45.180 Treasury, from whatever agency in the Biden administration? I hope so. I've had several

00:17:51.660 communications with Patrick McHenry, who'll be chairman of that committee. The suspicious activity

00:17:58.540 report is going to be part of their legislative agenda. They want to do reform, enact reform.

00:18:03.740 With respect to those, there are a lot of banks that complain about excessive compliance and excessive

00:18:09.660 regulations after the Dodd-Frank bill that you know a lot about, Lou, and that was one of the reforms

00:18:15.340 that they're wanting to implement. So, the term suspicious activity reports is going to be

00:18:21.980 something that people hear a lot about for various reasons, not just because of our investigation of

00:18:27.500 the Biden influence peddling, but also because a lot of banks want to see reform within those bank

00:18:34.620 reports. There is so much that could be put under the heading of suspicious activity on the part of

00:18:40.540 the federal government in these recent years. The classified documents from President Biden's days

00:18:48.380 as vice president, actually his post-vice presidency, and before the interim between vice president,

00:18:56.220 if you will, and presidential candidate and president. Discovering it, they say, fewer than a dozen

00:19:02.700 documents. We don't hear about it, though, for three months that this has occurred. Your thoughts about

00:19:09.660 it, and is that worthy of some investigation, the way that President Biden is treated? He is cocooned

00:19:15.580 by the federal agencies, and President Trump, they want to harpoon him at every turn.

00:19:21.980 Yes, I'm very concerned about what we learned recently about the Biden family having classified

00:19:28.700 documents at the Biden Center. You know, how ironic, because remember when Mar-a-Lago was raided,

00:19:34.700 Lou, Joe Biden was very quick to criticize Donald Trump and said it was

00:19:39.340 irresponsible for the president to possess classified documents, even though the president

00:19:45.740 is the only person that has the ability to declassify documents, but that's another story.

00:19:50.700 The fact that he had some potentially classified documents, Joe Biden was quick to criticize. Well,

00:19:58.060 now we learn, thanks to investigative reporting, not anything that Joe Biden disclosed,

00:20:03.420 that he too possessed classified documents. Only his were from his time as vice president,

00:20:09.340 so he didn't have the authority to declassify them. And this apparently happened on November 2nd,

00:20:16.940 about a week before the midterm elections. He didn't disclose that, even though when he was a candidate

00:20:22.940 for president, Joe Biden said he would be the most transparent president in the history of America.

00:20:27.180 He's the least transparent president. And this is another cover-up by Joe Biden. Because if you

00:20:31.980 remember, Lou, the closing argument that Joe Biden made during the midterm elections was that

00:20:38.060 Republicans were a threat to democracy. And one of the things he cited was Donald Trump's personal

00:20:45.100 residence being raided by his Department of Justice. So, you know, this is something that we're not going

00:20:51.100 to let up on. We've requested information from the National Archives about who actually triggered

00:20:56.620 that raid, because it should be very concerning that a little sleepy government agency like the

00:21:02.220 National Archives would have the potential to order a raid of the former president of the United States.

00:21:08.300 I mean, you talk about government agencies and bureaucracies out of control. That's the perfect

00:21:13.180 example. Well, now we see Biden did the same thing. Are they going to raid Joe Biden's residence in

00:21:18.620 Delaware? Are they going to raid his vacation home at Kewa Island? You know, I don't know. So we're going

00:21:23.900 to try to find out about this and we're not going to let up on it. I'm sure we'll see a convoy of

00:21:29.580 FBI SWAT cars moving out toward his vacation homes. And I'm sure we'll see pictures suddenly released

00:21:38.220 of secret documents spread all over the floor, as they did to President Trump. We've heard Biden's

00:21:46.380 official papers are sealed at Penn University. Why for a vice president? That's public property. How

00:21:55.980 could that be? How could they be sealed? Well, I mean, it doesn't look like Joe Biden was telling

00:22:02.220 the truth about how he stored his papers. And, you know, this is something that we are going to request

00:22:09.260 information from the White House Council, because they've gone into great detail about, as you said,

00:22:14.940 how President Trump's documents were stored at Mar-a-Lago. So, you know, we need to know

00:22:22.700 exactly how these were stored, what documents they were. You know, some of the documents that I think

00:22:28.540 they're saying that Donald Trump has that they're calling classified is a note from Kim Jong-un to

00:22:35.580 Donald Trump. I don't think that's an issue of national security or anything like that. So we don't

00:22:40.620 know what Donald, what Joe Biden had, and we're going to try to find out. But again, this is another

00:22:46.700 example of the hypocrisy of this administration, another example of a two-tier justice system in the

00:22:53.340 Biden administration with Merrick Garland. And that's why we're starting that church select committee

00:22:58.460 to try to tackle the weaponization of the Department of Justice and FBI and try to enact reforms.

00:23:04.220 Talking with a former Trump top national security official, Kash Patel, who worked at Justice,

00:23:13.340 he worked at the National Security Council, he worked for the Department of Defense.

00:23:20.460 Are you going to, is your committee going to talk with him about Russiagate? As he says,

00:23:26.220 all of this begins with Russiagate. He believes that there are Republicans who have seen documents

00:23:34.940 that are right on point, but they could not release anything about it because of their security

00:23:43.100 clearance and their responsibilities. And of course, the result would be to violate

00:23:49.100 their responsibilities. There's a hidden CIA memo, we all know, sitting in the CIA

00:24:00.860 Central Intelligence Agency that would be perhaps revelatory. Are you interested in talking with him

00:24:09.100 and learning more about what was involved there? I am. I'm confident that that new church-style

00:24:16.700 committee looking into the weaponization of the DOJ and intelligence community will be

00:24:23.260 requesting that and trying to obtain that information and talk to all of those people. I mean,

00:24:29.100 that's going to be a full-time committee with a full-time staff that does nothing but focus on this

00:24:35.180 because it's a problem, as you know. Just what I mentioned earlier, the thought that a little sleepy

00:24:43.740 government agency like the National Archives could trigger a raid of the former President's home. I

00:24:49.740 mean, that's very concerning. So everything's on the table, and I know that there's a playbook there

00:24:57.580 of all the wrongdoing that Donald Trump suffered through as President with respect to threats from

00:25:07.260 the intelligence community and the FBI spying on his campaign all the way till the raid at Mar-a-Lago.

00:25:14.060 You know, there's plenty of work for this new select committee to delve into with respect to

00:25:21.820 wrongdoing at the highest levels at the Department of Justice.

00:25:24.220 Speaking of the archives, we now find out that part of the documents and evidence gathered by the

00:25:33.900 January 6th committee will be sealed for a half-century, and this all will reside with the archives.

00:25:42.140 The archivists are taking control of the government at the behest, it seems, of Joe Biden and the Marxist Dems.

00:25:50.460 Yeah. And, you know, Lou, my fear is that the January 6th committee is really the entity that

00:25:58.700 got the National Archives to trigger the raid on Mar-a-Lago, not because Trump had any documents

00:26:05.180 that were of the utmost concern to national security, but because they were on a fishing expedition

00:26:11.180 trying to find out any damaging information that they could use against him in their January 6th witch hunt.

00:26:17.580 So we feel like that, you know, those documents shouldn't be sealed for 50 years.

00:26:23.820 And I think that's another thing when those 20 guys that you mentioned at the beginning of your show

00:26:27.980 were negotiating with McCarthy when he was running for speaker, that was one of their issues.

00:26:33.740 They wanted, you know, some committee to be able to look into some of the abuses of the January 6th committee.

00:26:40.540 And I think they settled on the church committee doing that and having that authority.

00:26:46.300 I know the language that was added during those five extra days would suggest that.

00:26:51.980 I haven't sat down yet and talked to it.

00:26:54.540 We're actually going to be voting on that bill very soon to make it official, but I think that's

00:27:01.660 something that that church style select committee will be concerned about as well.

00:27:07.420 Well, you know, I know that you will be, you are a fearless and one of the smartest warriors

00:27:18.460 looking for the truth for Americans.

00:27:20.140 And, you know, we, I think it's, as an audience has listened to you describe just part of what you

00:27:26.620 and your committee are going to be doing.

00:27:28.140 Uh, they understand what a challenge, a trial and, and, uh, a great exertion.

00:27:33.420 This is going to be on your part and that of the committee.

00:27:36.140 I'd like to ask you about a couple of things because as the speaker, uh, got rid of a couple

00:27:41.740 of people that were well worthy of being gotten rid of from committees, including, uh, Swalwell

00:27:46.620 and, uh, you know, Omar, uh, and the bunch, uh, are there people that you think need to be

00:27:55.340 removed from other committees? Uh, for example, uh, how about all of the, you know, the people who,

00:28:01.500 uh, are, uh, came to from the democratic party on the J six committee, are they going to be allowed

00:28:07.580 to have, uh, those preferred committee assignments?

00:28:09.900 All I know of is that, uh, McCarthy's going to remove Swalwell and Adam Schiff from the intelligence

00:28:19.820 committee. And this is significant because they get intelligence briefings and we all know about

00:28:26.140 the many lies that were told by Adam Schiff. Uh, we know that, uh, Eric Swalwell, uh, had a

00:28:32.780 relationship with a Chinese spy while he was getting intelligence briefings from the intelligence

00:28:39.180 community. So I think those are two legitimate reasons to remove them from the intelligence

00:28:44.300 committee. Now, uh, Pelosi or now Hakeem Jeffries may appoint them to other committees, but, uh,

00:28:52.140 you know, the, then with Omar, she was on the foreign affairs committee and she just has so many

00:28:58.380 anti-American sentiments and statements. It just was an embarrassment to the foreign affairs committee.

00:29:04.860 So she's being removed from that. Uh, it's my understanding that they could serve on other

00:29:10.940 committees. They just can't serve on those committees. And look, symbolically, it's good to get

00:29:15.340 rid of Adam Schiff from the intelligence committee because he's been the, he was the chair of it.

00:29:20.060 And, uh, I mean, how many things did he say in the name of intelligence that, uh, about Donald Trump

00:29:27.820 and collusion with Russia and the steel dossier that we now know is 100% bogus, fake. Uh, he's really

00:29:36.860 damaged the reputation of our intelligence community and he's damaged the reputation of

00:29:41.020 congressional oversight. So, you know, I don't know where they're going to put him, but I think

00:29:45.340 it's a good statement that we're serious about only allowing members to have security clearances

00:29:51.340 that are worthy of them and trustworthy. Well, and that every American I would think would be cheering

00:29:58.220 as a result. I want to, as we sort of, uh, wrap up here, uh, over the course of the next few minutes,

00:30:07.420 because I know you've, you've got a tremendous schedule, uh, and we don't want to take up too

00:30:13.500 much of your time. Well, I do want to, but, uh, I want to also be very respectful. Uh, the,

00:30:20.220 the, the relationship between McCarthy, the, the, what do you call them? The 20, uh, that seems to

00:30:29.340 me to have produced such amazing results, uh, uh, contentious. Yes. Uh, but not in any way chaotic,

00:30:37.100 nor did I find it disrespectful at any time. One of the other, uh, do you think that's going to result

00:30:43.980 in the, in the Republican 118th Congress being more, uh, deliberative, more, uh, vocal in their

00:30:52.940 debate and discussion publicly? Because I have to say, I was cheering, uh, the entire time, uh,

00:30:59.900 for those issues to be, uh, to be taken up broadly and publicly. Yes, I do think it's going to

00:31:08.300 make us a better Congress. Uh, those guys had been mistreated in the past by previous speakers,

00:31:16.060 the ones that, that served in Congress, like, uh, you know, several of them are new. So they

00:31:22.140 really hadn't had a chance yet, but they, like many Republicans distrusted anyone that was in

00:31:27.580 a leadership position in Washington. Uh, the changes made, uh, give those guys a seat at the table

00:31:33.820 and they're reflective of a big percentage of our Republican base out there. So I think the base

00:31:38.940 feels better now, has a little more confidence that, you know, this is, uh, their voices are

00:31:44.380 going to be heard. Uh, Jordan was, was very involved in the process all along. And, you know,

00:31:50.540 I had a lot of calls, Lou, more calls from, uh, people in my district saying vote for Jim Jordan

00:31:56.140 than, than anyone. And I talk, as you know, I talk to Jordan every day, listen,

00:32:00.380 Jordan didn't want the job. I mean, he would rather, uh, lead the investigation of the deep

00:32:05.580 state than try to get 218 votes on the farm bill. You know what I mean? I mean, this,

00:32:10.060 this, this investigation of the deep state is what Jim Jordan wired for. And McCarthy's

00:32:16.060 given him the green green light, just like he's given me the green light on the Biden family

00:32:20.060 investigation. So, uh, and, and those guys, most of them are on the oversight committee.

00:32:24.620 I'm trying to get Scott Perry on the oversight committee as well. Uh, you know, these guys,

00:32:30.300 they're, they're passionate. Uh, they, they're very reflective of the majority of the viewpoints

00:32:36.220 in my district. So I think it was a good discussion. I hope that we learn from it. We, we can have this

00:32:43.660 type of debate and, and, and get a consensus. I just hope we do it a little quicker next time.

00:32:49.580 And we start a little earlier, so we don't, uh, uh, go past any, any deadlines, but you know,

00:32:54.780 nothing was lost that the Democrats haven't had an oversight committee on, on tax dollars being

00:32:59.980 spent in two years. So going four extra days without having a speaker of the house didn't,

00:33:04.620 didn't hurt a thing. I think we learned from it. I hope we did. And I hope we can be a better, uh,

00:33:09.580 majority in the future. Yeah. And, uh, also, uh, both parties have failed to produce a budget over

00:33:15.820 the course of, uh, uh, a decade and a half, a lot of, a lot of improvement, uh, uh, to be made.

00:33:23.740 And what you all have achieved is I think absolutely remarkable. Uh, as you know, we always give our

00:33:30.380 guests the, the last word Congressman. And, uh, if you will, your concluding thoughts, uh, uh, for an

00:33:35.900 audience who is cheering you, uh, and the Republican 118th Congress, and yes, uh, Speaker McCarthy

00:33:42.780 to get a lot done. Well, two things, Lou, thanks for having me on again. Thanks for what you do.

00:33:48.060 Uh, we're going to finally vote on some bills that I think conservatives have been, uh, wanting

00:33:54.460 Congress to vote on for a long time. I campaigned for Congress six years ago on the basis of term

00:33:59.660 limits, and we're finally going to vote on, on term limits. I think if you want to fundamentally

00:34:03.740 fix Congress, especially the Senate, you're going to have to enact term limits. We're also now,

00:34:08.860 because the rule change is going to have to be serious about spending cuts. You know,

00:34:12.620 Republicans always campaign and say they're for reduced spending, but then, uh, the spending

00:34:17.180 always increases. And what we see what happened, uh, just right before Christmas with the Senate

00:34:22.460 and the omnibus bill, you know, they increase spending. So we're going to have to get serious

00:34:27.340 about reducing spending when Democrats say, oh, the Republicans, they don't have a plan to reduce

00:34:31.900 inflation. Yes, we do. Our plan to reduce inflation is cut wasteful government spending. We have

00:34:37.260 inflation because the Democrats spent too much money. So, uh, I think you're going to see a

00:34:41.420 commitment from this Republican majority to vote on bills like term limits and to actually propose

00:34:48.300 and enact spending cuts that'll hopefully reduce inflation and try to get us closer to a balanced

00:34:53.740 budget. Congressman James Comer. Thank you, sir. Chairman of the house oversight committee.

00:34:59.660 Great to have you with us. Thank you, Luke. And thank you everybody for being with us here

00:35:04.140 tomorrow. Freedom Caucus chairman, Congressman Scott Perry joins us. Also one of the 20 reformers

00:35:09.980 of the 118th Congress. Please follow me on Twitter and truth social at Lou Dobbs. That's at Lou Dobbs

00:35:17.340 on Twitter and truth social till tomorrow. Thanks. God bless you. And God bless America.

The Great America Show - January 12, 2023

REP. JAMES COMER’S INVESTIGATIONS UNDERWAY, CONCERNED ABOUT BIDEN’S POSSESSION OF CLASSIFIED DOCS DISCOVERED IN 2 LOCATIONS

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