The Great America Show - March 10, 2023


SEN. BLACKBURN： CHINA HASN’T BEEN HELD TO ACCOUNT FOR COVID & JW’S FITTON： BIG CORPORATE MEDIA ENTITIES HAVE CEDED JOURNALISM TO MARXISTS

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train derailments dirty election rolls
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Lou Dobbs John Fawcett
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Joe Biden Donald Trump Marsha Blackburn Pete Buttigieg Merrick Garland Hillary Clinton Josh Hawley Tom Fitton Obama Fauci Paul Manafort Rick Grinnell George W. Bush Tom Fenton Andy Ogles Xi Jinping Ron Paul Keystone Mueller Houck and 1 more
NO ONE GAVE THIS BUSINESS GUY A CHANCE. THEN TRUMP SHOCKED THE WORLD, CREATING THE BIGGEST POLITICAL MOVEMENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY EVERY SINGLE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY HAS KNOWN THE ORIGINS OF COVID FOR ALMOST 3 YEARS AND COVERED IT UP TO MANIPULATE AN ELECTION

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn (D-TN) and Judicial Watch's President Tom Fitton (R-NJ) join host Lou Dobbs to discuss the latest train derailment in Alabama, the kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico, and the growing number of train derailments across the country.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Great America Show. I'm Lou Dobbs, and great to have you with us.
00:00:06.000 You know, it's easy to think at times that this country is in decline.
00:00:10.420 Norfolk Southern has problems and yet another derailment, this one in Alabama.
00:00:16.060 So far, no reports of hazardous chemicals leaking, fortunately, but what a mess the company is in.
00:00:22.580 A CEO who doesn't show his face in East Palestine, Ohio, and apparently doesn't know much about railway maintenance and safety.
00:00:31.900 And yes, Pete Buttigieg is part of the problem.
00:00:35.520 Pete plays big shot while trains are flying off the rails, and he's playing with others' lives.
00:00:41.320 But Biden won't fire him because the Marxist puppet Biden just simply doesn't care.
00:00:46.320 Whoa, this is a stunning development now in that kidnapping of four Americans in Matamoros, Mexico.
00:00:53.780 That's right across the border from Brownsville, Texas.
00:00:56.860 The Gulf Cartel apologized for kidnapping and killing two of the four they kidnapped in broad daylight
00:01:05.100 and turned over to the authorities five members of the cartel's scorpion group, saying they acted without orders.
00:01:13.800 This looks like, I think, a one-off response by the Gulf Cartel, not the beginning of a new cartel trend on the southern border,
00:01:22.900 which I think everyone understands now the cartels effectively control.
00:01:28.480 And with all the screwball things going on in this country, there has to be a reason.
00:01:33.540 And maybe a group of researchers from the University of Oregon and Northwestern, well, here it is.
00:01:39.740 And I bet many of you suspected this.
00:01:41.740 For the first time in 100 years, IQ scores have dropped in America.
00:01:48.120 IQ points fell between the years 2006 and 2018.
00:01:53.220 And the biggest declines were in the age group, 18 to 22.
00:01:58.780 Now, really, is anybody surprised?
00:02:01.340 It's also sobering that the study period doesn't include the peak years of the China virus pandemic.
00:02:07.480 We can all expect another big decline, folks.
00:02:10.340 Well, derailments, spy balloons, a Biden budget that will run the national debt up to more than $51 trillion in the next 10 years.
00:02:18.520 And Biden's poll numbers are even worse than we knew, as Russia's war against Ukraine worsens.
00:02:25.020 And a nationwide strike right now in France.
00:02:28.240 Lots of questions still about election integrity in this country.
00:02:32.900 Destabilization, do you think?
00:02:34.180 Very possibly.
00:02:36.360 Our guests today are Senator Marsha Blackburn and Judicial Watch's President Tom Fitton.
00:02:42.540 Senator Blackburn sits on the Judiciary Committee, the Finance Committee, Veterans Affairs, and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
00:02:51.320 She is without question one of the hardest-working, most knowledgeable senators we have.
00:02:56.320 And it's great, Senator, to have you with us here.
00:02:58.660 Let's start with the train derailments.
00:03:00.520 Norfolk Southern just had another one.
00:03:02.280 Your thoughts, Senator?
00:03:04.460 Lou, I think everyone is concerned about this.
00:03:08.320 As we hear about train derailments, it causes you to ask, what is the problem?
00:03:14.540 Are the tracks in disrepair?
00:03:17.160 Are some of these train cars or engines in disrepair?
00:03:23.180 Is there something that is happening?
00:03:27.520 These need to be investigated to figure out exactly what is causing these.
00:03:34.660 And then if it's maintenance, looking at the history of maintenance and see if these are sudden, if these are things that have been on the list for needed repair,
00:03:45.060 or is this, does it have anything to do with bad actors?
00:03:51.220 I don't know the answers to all of this.
00:03:54.820 I do know that there is a concern because of the number of accidents that we have seen and the short period of time in which we have seen these.
00:04:06.600 And in many of those cases, and one hopes it's coincidental, hazardous, toxic chemicals aboard the train cars that are derailed.
00:04:18.660 Palestine, East Palestine, Ohio, a terrible accident there. 0.55
00:04:25.220 And we're only learning now more and more about just how hazardous the contents of those tanks were.
00:04:31.880 To look at this right now, to see all of these derailments, the number of derailments,
00:04:38.460 I think most people would be astonished at the number each year of these trains that derail.
00:04:44.620 And I'm not clear about who is responsible for those tracks beyond, obviously, the railway, the railroad company.
00:04:53.100 But there seems to be very little regulation about the rails themselves.
00:04:59.720 And what we are, and this is one of the reasons people are concerned about Secretary Buttigieg and how he spends his time.
00:05:10.240 They want to know that planes are going to fly.
00:05:12.860 They want to know that boats are going to be able to navigate the rivers.
00:05:17.480 They want to know that trains are going to stay on the rails and that our interstates are going to be safe and passable.
00:05:27.140 Now, that is for people and the safety of people and the safety of goods.
00:05:33.080 And they're very concerned that there does not seem to be a sense of urgency in finding out what is really going on here and why this has continued to happen.
00:05:50.560 And as I said, I don't know the answer to all of these things.
00:05:54.980 I'm not certain anybody has all of the answers at this point.
00:05:59.660 But this deserves our best effort.
00:06:03.740 And right now, the frustration with many people is that we don't seem to have an administration that is putting that best effort forward.
00:06:14.540 You know, Senator, you make a great point.
00:06:17.300 I can't think of any department within this government under the Biden administration that shows much urgency at all about anything, let alone doing something about any of it.
00:06:31.180 Well, and see, you know, Lou, here's the thing.
00:06:35.080 People want government to work.
00:06:37.240 People are paying for this government.
00:06:39.460 The money doesn't just fall out of the sky and into the federal coffers.
00:06:46.460 You have American citizens who work, and before they ever get their paycheck, the federal government has taken their share of that paycheck.
00:06:58.800 So they expect government to give them something in return.
00:07:04.660 And right now, every taxpayer is holding $246,000 of U.S. government debt.
00:07:12.220 If you want to say by every man, woman, and child, it is north of $70,000 per individual.
00:07:21.180 And people are saying, hey, wait a minute.
00:07:23.280 We can't get from point A to point B.
00:07:25.880 We have federal agencies that are putting enormous amounts of compliance on my employer.
00:07:35.640 We have the IRS that thinks we're the villain.
00:07:40.000 We are trying to get EPA to work with us on a project for our town and city and deal with wastewater.
00:07:48.880 We have a Department of Transportation that doesn't seem to understand transportation.
00:07:56.180 We have a Secretary of Homeland Security whose border policy is an open border and does not believe in securing the homeland.
00:08:07.000 It is, people are just saying, you can't make this stuff up.
00:08:12.120 They're right.
00:08:13.040 And if we could, we wouldn't.
00:08:15.860 And yet, here we are.
00:08:17.160 And here we are with this administration.
00:08:19.780 It's just one thing after another. 0.97
00:08:23.140 And when we look at this Secretary of Transportation, Buttigieg, he is a complete and utter inept and seemingly AWOL federal official. 0.93
00:08:39.600 He doesn't seem to be presiding over anything. 0.81
00:08:42.420 He is learning one thing, though, about transportation.
00:08:45.620 He's flown in 18 private aircraft.
00:08:49.740 I mean, those things cost thousands of dollars an hour.
00:08:52.920 Who is this?
00:08:53.620 Who does this guy think he is?
00:08:55.040 He doesn't work, seemingly, and he certainly knows how to fly in style on the taxpayer dime.
00:09:01.860 Well, we certainly think that how he spends his time is something that should be looked at.
00:09:09.460 But right now, as a matter of fact, he is in Nashville at the Clinton Global Health Initiative.
00:09:16.620 And I said, you know, maybe they're going to do a health panel on how to support people that are being subjected to toxic exposure.
00:09:28.600 Maybe that would be a good topic for them.
00:09:30.800 But instead of working on East Palestine, instead of making certain that our rails are safe for passengers and for transit for cargo and goods,
00:09:45.820 maybe he should be focusing on that, trying to figure this out, rather than hobnobbing with the rich and famous in Nashville at the Clinton Global Initiative.
00:09:56.720 Well, it certainly would make sense to me.
00:10:00.160 The man makes no sense, irrespective of whether it's an event like what you're describing or simply dealing with the tragedy in East Palestine, Ohio.
00:10:11.780 I have to ask, I mean, Buttigieg is running around saying that this derailment could have been prevented if Trump hadn't carried out certain regulatory policies, etc.
00:10:22.800 The Washington Post actually fact-checked him and found out that there was absolutely no regulatory change made under President Trump that contributed in any way to that derailment.
00:10:36.880 And yet this this oath of a public official is wandering around spewing this kind of partisan nonsense.
00:10:44.700 Well, you know, when you look at WAPO coming in and doing the fact check on that, this shows you how this administration is not serious about things.
00:11:02.040 It's easy to say, well, blame Trump.
00:11:04.760 It's like Obama during his presidency would say, go blame George Bush.
00:11:09.460 And people are, they're not, they don't want the blame game right now.
00:11:16.220 They want a community that is secure.
00:11:19.480 They want to be able to drink the water, breathe the air.
00:11:22.440 They don't want to have their children breaking out in hives and with rashes after they have gotten a bath or a shower.
00:11:31.600 And they're concerned about what they may be exposing their families to by staying there in this area.
00:11:42.080 But they don't have the money to go somewhere else.
00:11:44.980 And we use the word exposure to talk about the exposure brought to us by, of all departments, the Energy Department, talking about the origin of the COVID pandemic.
00:12:01.820 First of all, I think most people would be astonished to find that the Energy Department is considered at least parts of it, part of the intelligence community.
00:12:10.080 What do you make of the conclusion that Wuhan, indeed, that virology lab in Wuhan was the source of the pandemic virus?
00:12:20.340 Well, Lou, as you know, I was called a lot of things for even suggesting that it was likely that the virus had come from the lab.
00:12:33.980 This was a lab that was doing coronavirus research.
00:12:38.520 They were doing gain-of-function research.
00:12:42.120 Our diplomatic scientist had many times cited this lab as having concerns for what was being done there.
00:12:53.240 There were concerns and questions about was this a lab where they were working on a biological weapon?
00:13:00.120 There were questions about NIAID, Dr. Fauci's agency, and EcoHealth Alliance and what they were doing with money that was going into this research.
00:13:13.780 So now, having this report leaked, and the only way we know about this is because the report was leaked.
00:13:22.680 Having it leaked, it raises questions as to what Dr. Fauci did, what was he trying to cover up, because this is the COVID cover-up, the WHO and what they were doing.
00:13:40.900 You know, and remember, they negotiated the language of the COVID report with the Chinese Communist Party, because they didn't want to be held to account for this.
00:13:54.100 They did not want to have to admit that they were responsible for it, and we know it came from somewhere in China, most likely that Wuhan lab, because that is where they were doing the research.
00:14:12.460 But they did not want to have to admit that, and you had the WHO, and you had NIAID, and you had social media, and you had big media out here saying, oh, it's not the fault of the Chinese or the Chinese Communist Party.
00:14:35.540 This is something that just evolved, and we know that's not true.
00:14:40.060 Not true, and we also know that Dr. Fauci and his exchanges in particular with Senator Rand Paul lied through his teeth, didn't he?
00:14:50.620 Well, we know that he did not come forward in a straightforward manner.
00:14:57.160 We know that he told lies, and because of that, you've got people that lost their life.
00:15:04.240 You've got over a million Americans that lost their lives.
00:15:07.860 You've got many million that had their family lives disrupted because of loss of life or injury or loss of livelihood or because of long COVID or kids that are suffering from myocarditis or others that are suffering from respiratory diseases, all because of COVID, and China has still not been held to account. 0.90
00:15:31.620 And shame on this administration for not doing so.
00:15:36.380 And no wonder the report had to be leaked for the American public to learn anything about it, because one thing about this administration, it is, despite President Biden's promises, the least transparent administration, I believe, ever.
00:15:54.320 We always, as you know, Senator, give our guests the last word on this podcast, and we turn to you now for your concluding thoughts.
00:16:02.660 Thanks for being with us today.
00:16:03.980 I'm delighted to join you always and appreciate that you're bringing attention to this issue of China.
00:16:11.300 What we need to do as we look at this is realize China has not wanted us to know that they were responsible for COVID because they don't want to be held to account by other nations for what they have done.
00:16:28.540 And we have to look at this as more of what China is doing, whether it is trying to buy U.S. farmland, trying to buy U.S. food processors and disrupt our food supply. 0.73
00:16:41.480 We have to look at what they're doing with soft propaganda, with the sister city programs and the Confucius Institutes.
00:16:48.880 We have to pay attention to what they're doing in great power competition and spreading their military and debt diplomacy and the bullying they're doing to Taiwan and how they're carrying out a genocide on their own people, the persecution they're carrying out on the Tibetans and the Mongolians and what they are doing to the Hong Kong freedom fighters.
00:17:14.220 China is our adversary, and I think because of a China spy balloon, more people realize that, and we need to continue to encourage people to keep their guard up against the Chinese Communist Party. 0.93
00:17:31.700 Senator, I think you're exactly right, and we admire and respect you for speaking out on all of these issues.
00:17:40.280 Thank you so much for that, and thank you so much for being with us here on The Great America Show.
00:17:45.980 Senator Marsha Blackburn, God bless you. Thank you.
00:17:48.980 You too. Thanks, Lou.
00:17:50.380 Senator Marsha Blackburn, Great American.
00:17:53.440 And turning to election integrity, one of the country's most important watchdog groups is Judicial Watch.
00:17:59.740 It's won a big lawsuit in Los Angeles County, which removed 1.2 million ineligible voters from the rolls as a result of the settlement.
00:18:09.120 Tom Vinton is the president of Judicial Watch, and Tom, thanks for being with us here.
00:18:14.060 Thanks, as always, for the great work you and Judicial Watch do for the country.
00:18:18.660 And congratulations on that settlement that strips more than a million ineligible voters from the rolls sometime in the making.
00:18:27.320 Tell us about it.
00:18:28.340 Thank you, Lou, for the good word.
00:18:29.620 I think we filed a lawsuit back in 2017 or so, and to their credit, the California Secretary of State's office in L.A. County, they settled with us.
00:18:39.720 And as part of this settlement, this is under the National Voter Registration Act, which means, which requires them to take reasonable steps to clean up the rolls, which they hadn't done in 20 years, by the way.
00:18:52.620 They said they began the process to remove 1.2 million names, and of course, that began in 2019, and the process was they send cards out to people if they haven't voted, and if they don't vote the next two federal elections, then they're removed.
00:19:10.400 And so that time frame has now taken place, and we finally got the acknowledgement this month, or last month now, it's February, from California officials that they removed last year 1.2 million names.
00:19:28.880 It's an incredible achievement, and not only that, but the process is in place for a regular removal of names as they age out.
00:19:39.900 What happens is, if you don't vote, and you're not around to vote for years on end, you're supposed to have your names removed.
00:19:49.440 And, of course, the left doesn't want to do that, because my view is they want that pool of names from which to draw fraudulent votes, which is why the law requires that the names be removed, because, you know, we're not dumb.
00:20:01.680 So that's a great victory, and this is on top of last year, New York City, of all places.
00:20:09.100 They settled with us after they removed 400, I think, and 40,000 names.
00:20:15.240 North Carolina, we had sued.
00:20:17.180 We ended the lawsuit after they said, oh, no, no, we removed 430,000 names.
00:20:21.980 So that's 2 million names in the last year, thanks to Judicial Watch litigation.
00:20:29.160 It's a good start, don't you think?
00:20:32.260 I think it's a great start, and that's, as I said, congratulations and thank you for what you're doing.
00:20:38.800 When you talk about the amount of time and money involved in these lawsuits, Tom, I mean, this is an undertaking that should be, if people were doing the decent and correct thing, you would think that these jurisdictions would want to create a system whereby those names were sloughed off after one election cycle.
00:21:02.580 I don't see the magic in two.
00:21:04.220 Yeah, well, you know, that's the way the law has been interpreted and applied, and, you know, it's two federal elections, so, you know, just think about it.
00:21:17.200 It's as little as three years, right?
00:21:21.460 Right, right.
00:21:22.300 So, in theory, things will, you know, and once the process begins, you know, it doesn't have to be a perfect system, but they've got to take some reasonable steps, and they didn't even want to do that.
00:21:34.100 In California until we intervened.
00:21:36.660 In New York City, they didn't remove names for six years until we intervened.
00:21:42.420 In North Carolina, they had major issues.
00:21:44.620 We still have litigation going on in Pennsylvania.
00:21:47.840 Hopefully, we'll settle that, and they'll do the right thing.
00:21:50.660 And in Colorado.
00:21:53.940 And, you know, this is a more important issue than it used to be, even, because now that we're mailing ballots everywhere, you know, if the lists aren't as clean as they should be, both with people who haven't voted in a while and people who just voted yesterday but moved away, and they're not tracking that adequately, it shows you the urgency of keeping the rolls clean.
00:22:14.380 Because dirty election rolls can mean dirty elections, and this is something not only the state should be doing, but this is something the Justice Department is supposed to be enforcing.
00:22:25.880 You know, thankfully, this law allows for Judicial Watch and our clients to sue.
00:22:30.660 But, you know, some federal election laws don't allow that, and they have to rely on the Justice Department.
00:22:37.880 The Justice Department has simply refused to enforce this aspect of the law for decades, practically speaking, Republican and Democrat alike.
00:22:46.220 And this, I'm sure, under the guise of civil rights concerns, rather than the electoral integrity concerns.
00:22:58.480 Is that correct?
00:22:58.880 Right.
00:22:59.160 They tend to be concerned about purging voters, even though when you look at the data in California, you know, people are moving away.
00:23:07.040 I mean, the number of people who haven't voted, who still want to remain registered, was maybe, you know, 26,000 of the 1.2 million.
00:23:18.440 Amazing. Absolutely.
00:23:20.100 So just to be clear, you're not required to vote every two years.
00:23:25.320 You're just supposed to check in and say, yeah, I'm still here.
00:23:28.380 So the state can, or the county, can just make sure that your name is still, you know, you're still living where you're supposed to be, or you say you are, and you're eligible to vote.
00:23:41.820 You know, the danger is people move away, and ballots and other material get sent to where they live, where people know that someone's moved away, and they start voting in their name.
00:23:51.580 That's why we've got to have this rigorous enforcement of the law that the Justice Department refuses to do, but Judicial Watch has stepped in to do.
00:24:00.700 Well, and again, good for you, and thank goodness.
00:24:04.240 I want to turn to that Justice Department and the fact that it has been so apathetic in terms of electoral integrity and absolutely enforcing laws and regulations where appropriate.
00:24:21.580 The idea that Merrick Garland and his testimony had to be prodded to give even straightforward, even remotely straightforward answers, he never volunteered one straight away.
00:24:36.280 But I think it's really interesting to hear an exchange between Josh Hawley, Senator Hawley, and Merrick Garland on the issue of pro-life centers and charges that the Justice Department brought against, and I'll clean this up here in a minute.
00:25:02.580 But let's go to the sound, and then I'd like to get your reaction to it, if we may.
00:25:08.080 Do you think, in your opinion, you are the Attorney General of the United States, you are in charge of the Justice Department, and yes, sir, you are responsible?
00:25:18.280 So give me an answer.
00:25:19.660 The FBI does not agree with your description.
00:25:22.080 I'm not asking about the FBI.
00:25:23.320 You are the Attorney General.
00:25:24.560 Give me your answer.
00:25:25.360 Do you think that it was objectively reasonable, and they followed your guidelines, in sending 20 to 30 armed agents to terrorize these people?
00:25:35.080 Yes or no?
00:25:35.920 The facts I have, which are those presented by the FBI, are not consistent with your description.
00:25:41.200 So you think it was reasonable?
00:25:43.020 I'm saying the facts are not as you described.
00:25:46.160 What, that the children weren't there?
00:25:47.580 That there weren't long guns there?
00:25:49.500 That there weren't agents?
00:25:50.320 What do you dispute?
00:25:52.000 What's the factual premise you dispute?
00:25:53.360 The FBI said they don't agree with your description of-
00:25:56.880 Be specific.
00:25:57.900 They don't agree with what?
00:25:58.860 Of how many agents, of the agents who were there, and of what their roles were.
00:26:03.040 They don't agree.
00:26:03.840 Do you know the jury in this case acquitted Mr. Houck?
00:26:07.300 I'm sure you're aware.
00:26:08.340 Do you know how long it took him?
00:26:09.680 I am aware, and we respect the decision of the jury.
00:26:12.460 Do you know how long it took him?
00:26:13.500 I don't know.
00:26:14.260 One hour.
00:26:16.200 One hour.
00:26:18.240 Philadelphia District Attorney declines to prosecute.
00:26:20.620 The private suit's dismissed.
00:26:21.720 You use an unbelievable show of force, with guns that I just note liberals usually decry.
00:26:28.180 We're supposed to hate long guns and assault-style weapons.
00:26:30.680 You're happy to deploy them against Catholics and innocent children. 1.00
00:26:33.500 Happy to.
00:26:34.640 And then you haul him into court, and a jury acquits him.
00:26:37.300 In one hour.
00:26:39.860 I just suggest to you that that is a disgraceful performance by your Justice Department, and
00:26:45.700 a disgraceful use of resources.
00:26:48.040 Senator Hawley, having quite an exchange with the Attorney General, Tom, and that is our
00:26:57.640 Justice Department right now.
00:26:59.660 Your reaction?
00:27:00.700 Well, you know, it's worse than that, because the targeting of that pro-life activist and 0.76
00:27:10.120 other pro-life activists have to be compared and contrasted with to failure, the failure
00:27:16.640 to follow-up on attacks on churches, attacks on pro-life activists directly by radical pro-abortion
00:27:26.700 extremists that haven't been pursued adequately by the Justice Department.
00:27:30.760 And what Garland said yesterday was, well, it was, you know, when these pro-lifers are caught
00:27:37.900 doing something wrong, it's usually during the day, and there's video.
00:27:41.880 But this other activity that we're talking about, the anti-pro-life terrorism by the left,
00:27:49.980 they do that at night, so it's harder.
00:27:52.160 I mean, who are they kidding?
00:27:53.300 And of course, that echoes the prior position of the Justice Department in suggesting that
00:27:59.820 it was worse, January 6th was worse than the terrorist attacks on federal buildings in
00:28:06.940 the West Coast by Antifa mobs, because those attacks took place at night. 1.00
00:28:14.880 Yeah, this is just a stunning and stupid remark by a party hack. 1.00
00:28:21.740 This is Merrick Garland. 1.00
00:28:23.520 This man could have been sitting on the Supreme Court.
00:28:26.400 He's nothing more than a two-bit political hack for the Marxist Dems.
00:28:31.020 He makes it so obvious.
00:28:33.900 What in the world do you do in a situation where you have an administration like this,
00:28:40.700 who is willfully, lawless, and absolutely, completely, and utterly ideological in every decision
00:28:49.700 they're making?
00:28:51.740 Yeah, when you have the Justice Department prosecute and target people based on their
00:28:56.360 politics, you know, that's, you know, we've had instances that that happened throughout
00:29:01.900 our history.
00:29:02.940 You know, it happens now and again.
00:29:05.580 But here you have a massive effort to jail their political opponents, whether it be pro-lifers,
00:29:10.860 anyone who disputed the 2020 election, you know, well, in the case of Trump, anytime he crosses
00:29:18.420 the street, that is the way to end a republic.
00:29:22.480 When you kind of lose control of the Justice Department or they amore itself, it amores itself
00:29:28.840 from any respect for the rule of law and a neutral application of the law as best as can be.
00:29:36.580 You know, there's always politics in the Justice Department, but here it's just risen to
00:29:42.980 something that made, that has kind of eviscerated the public trust in the Justice Department's
00:29:49.780 ability to fairly administer justice.
00:29:52.300 I think it would be interesting for the audience to hear the Attorney General respond to the
00:30:00.940 point that you made, which is the difference in federal law enforcement based on sunset and
00:30:09.960 sunrise.
00:30:10.640 The FACE Act applies equally to efforts to damage, blockade clinics, whether they are
00:30:24.500 a pregnancy resource center or whether they are an abortion center.
00:30:28.620 It applies equally in both cases, and we apply the law equally.
00:30:32.780 I will say you are quite right.
00:30:34.220 There are many more prosecutions with respect to the blocking of the abortion centers, but
00:30:43.040 that is generally because those actions are taken with photography at the time, during
00:30:50.640 the daylight, and seeing the person who did it is quite easy.
00:30:55.820 Those who are attacking the pregnancy resources centers, which is a horrid thing to do, are doing
00:31:02.300 this at night?
00:31:04.080 Hard thing to do, because they're doing, I shouldn't laugh, but the absurdity of this
00:31:11.660 response from what turns out to be a relatively mediocre mind, if I might say, for anyone serving
00:31:19.760 as the Attorney General of the United States.
00:31:22.840 And when you think of the resources they brought to bear investigating the January Sixers, and compare
00:31:30.660 in contrast with the lack of interest in this terrorism against pregnancy centers that are
00:31:36.460 trying to help women who want to keep their babies, just provide support for them. 1.00
00:31:43.280 That tells you everything you need to know.
00:31:46.000 And can anyone add anything other than derision, you know, that's self-evident to what Garland's
00:31:53.140 comments were.
00:31:54.920 And a lot of these, this anti-pro-life activism by Garland's Justice Department, isn't like
00:32:02.500 someone blockaded an abortion clinic yesterday, and they show up and arrest them the next day.
00:32:07.480 No, this is, as has pointed out with the poor gentleman in Philadelphia, this is coming back a long time
00:32:16.760 after the fact and deciding to issue these charges in a way that suggests that it was a political
00:32:24.480 decision, not because they had better pictures.
00:32:27.460 And the reality, too, is that the rebuke to the Justice Department, the idea that they again
00:32:37.200 stormed a man's home with federal agents, all tricked out in tactical gear as well, from
00:32:48.520 the FBI, it's just outrageous what we're watching.
00:32:52.560 The Committee on Weaponization in the House of Representatives, Tom, it is so timely and
00:32:59.520 so critically important because people do not want to acknowledge this, that our government
00:33:05.380 has been weaponized and directed at us.
00:33:08.560 And by the way, we are their enemy as far as every one of these agencies is concerned, and
00:33:15.860 we're being treated that way.
00:33:17.100 And we have to understand now that these Marxist Dems are the enemy of the American people
00:33:24.120 who love this country, who believe in its values, and who respect this republic.
00:33:31.140 Your thoughts?
00:33:33.380 Well, there's this radical element on the left that is on the rise within the Democratic Party
00:33:41.540 and institutionally and the various agencies that don't see the rule of law as any prohibition
00:33:48.200 to advancing their agenda.
00:33:50.220 So if they support abortion, that's all that matters.
00:33:54.180 The rules be done.
00:33:55.600 If they want to undo elections or challenge election security measures like voter ID, or they dispute
00:34:06.120 people's right to disagree with someone's analysis of the 2020 election, nope, they can't let that
00:34:13.740 be.
00:34:14.400 They have to sue and or prosecute.
00:34:17.120 So these are political prosecutions and a misuse of federal law enforcement authority to achieve
00:34:25.360 political ends in a way we've never seen before.
00:34:27.540 And it's something coming out of the Marxist left, as you point out, and we've got to call
00:34:35.420 it as we see it.
00:34:37.160 Without question, and Judicial Watch does that in the interest of the American people and the
00:34:43.080 national interest.
00:34:44.060 And again, I just want to salute you for the work you're doing.
00:34:47.700 In addition to that, a federal court hearing scheduled in the lawsuit about a meeting between
00:34:54.620 the Department of Justice Attorneys and Associated Press reporters regarding President Trump's
00:35:01.820 one-time campaign manager, Paul Manafort.
00:35:05.820 Tell us where we are, the status of that, and its importance.
00:35:13.020 Well, you know, that story's been out there for some time, and our litigation's been going
00:35:16.720 on for some time.
00:35:17.700 But nothing is simple with this Justice Department.
00:35:20.420 It's really quite extraordinary.
00:35:21.300 In the middle of the 2016 campaign, AP reporters, it looks like, went to the Justice Department,
00:35:29.720 the anti-Trump Justice Department at the time, and was turned over, I guess, the security
00:35:37.520 codes to Manafort's storage locker.
00:35:42.500 And they were obviously trying to get the Justice Department to go after him, and they
00:35:47.780 wanted to report that out.
00:35:49.240 So we exposed that collusion.
00:35:52.220 But one of the U.S. attorneys or aides who were present at that inappropriate meeting,
00:35:58.960 you know, magically his documents weren't searched, and now we're concerned they may
00:36:04.000 have been destroyed.
00:36:05.840 So, you know, the federal court in our case is interested enough to have a hearing on the
00:36:11.540 matter next week.
00:36:12.300 So this is about, you know, the politicized targeting and collusion with the media of
00:36:17.600 the Trump campaign by the Justice Department.
00:36:20.360 This is before Mueller was appointed, I think.
00:36:22.540 It might have been in 2017.
00:36:24.580 It doesn't matter in the sense that, you know, I'd like to have you point to me, point out
00:36:31.920 to me, previous instances of the media, for instance, working to go after Joe Biden with
00:36:39.180 the Justice Department or Hillary Clinton with the Justice Department. 0.99
00:36:43.340 Obviously, it never took place.
00:36:45.700 And now we have a cover-up of that activity, it looks like, including the destruction of
00:36:50.860 records that we're asking about.
00:36:52.960 Well, and Hillary Clinton, famous for destruction of documents, of devices, of laptops, you name 0.99
00:37:05.480 it.
00:37:06.260 And she succeeded, whereas anyone even thinking about it from the wrong side of the aisle would
00:37:14.500 be in deep and desperate trouble for some time to come.
00:37:17.800 We're watching that very bifurcation in the instance of the treatment of President Trump
00:37:26.460 and President Biden.
00:37:29.340 Vice President Pence is now dragged into this.
00:37:33.080 Meanwhile, there's a very significant difference between Biden and Trump, and that is that President
00:37:40.360 Trump, those documents, as the President of the United States, he had the authority to
00:37:45.860 declassify them, Joe Biden did not.
00:37:49.080 In fact, reaching back, as he said to reporters, back to 1974, this is, I'm tire of the people
00:37:58.560 who talk about a two-tiered justice system in this country, one for Democrats and one for
00:38:03.600 Republicans.
00:38:04.100 I really believe that there is only punishment for the right in this country, Republicans,
00:38:12.880 conservatives, and independents.
00:38:15.880 If you're not a Marxist dem, you are in real trouble.
00:38:20.220 Yeah, I mean, I kind of take the same approach, and, you know, it's a semantical point, but
00:38:25.020 I think it's worth mentioning.
00:38:26.560 No, there isn't a double standard.
00:38:28.960 It's a single standard.
00:38:30.160 They go after Republicans and conservatives while we're trying to protect their allies,
00:38:35.020 Democrats, and leftists.
00:38:37.120 They're perfectly consistent.
00:38:38.540 It's not a double standard, and, of course, you know, the Washington Post the other day
00:38:43.480 had this news story, because the FBI now is trying to get in good with the Republicans
00:38:48.920 now that they're running the House.
00:38:51.500 They were supposedly opposed to the raid on Trump's home, and who was pushing it?
00:38:58.480 Political appointees and deep staters in the Justice Department, some of whom had harassed
00:39:03.480 Trump on the Russia hoax and protected Hillary.
00:39:07.640 Sure enough, they won, and the FBI raided Trump's home.
00:39:10.580 And as you point out, the double standard, or I should say the single standard is, of course,
00:39:17.660 Joe Biden is protected from similar law enforcement activity.
00:39:21.420 And he's been protected for years and years and years.
00:39:26.360 I would say it goes back to, you know, if we had an honest media here and folks who are
00:39:37.160 truly interested in history, does anyone seriously think that Joe Biden just became corrupt when
00:39:42.360 he was Obama's vice president?
00:39:44.740 Yeah, right.
00:39:45.720 Now, he must have been on the take, and he was, and my understanding is his reputation
00:39:51.300 in Delaware was for someone who was always on the take for decades.
00:39:57.480 And the fact that he got to the position he has been, where he is now, with virtually no
00:40:03.200 Justice Department intervention the way they would for any other politician or citizen, and
00:40:10.460 zero media interest, is such an indictment of this decrepit city.
00:40:15.160 Yeah, it's an indictment of that swamp of a city, Washington, D.C., but it is also an
00:40:24.140 indictment of the power structure of this country, the establishment, the corporatists, the donor
00:40:32.320 class, the oligarchs, if you will.
00:40:35.180 They control the media.
00:40:37.140 They, you pick the paper, Washington Post, the New York Times, pick the network, Comcast, it's
00:40:47.880 AT&T.
00:40:49.940 You keep going through the list of it.
00:40:53.280 There is a corporate combine that has decided, with their ownership of media, that they will
00:41:01.120 be Marxist, they will, in point of fact, be anti-American values, and certainly are disinterested in
00:41:12.100 fair and equitable treatment.
00:41:14.220 They talk about equity.
00:41:15.960 They were talking about actually trying to assure outcomes rather than opportunity, equal opportunity.
00:41:22.880 The corporate masters of the marketplace right now are having their way, whether it's freedom
00:41:31.440 of information, whether it's freedom of speech, whether it is economic power, they hold sway,
00:41:38.760 do they not?
00:41:39.220 Yeah, or even worse, those who know better, who run these media entities, because these
00:41:46.560 are large corporations, as you point out, they've ceded the practical control of them
00:41:53.280 and the way they approach public policy issues and, quote, journalism to the radical left.
00:42:00.200 And it used to be, you know, at least you could read these papers and look at these publications,
00:42:05.840 and there was a liberal bias, but you pretty much came away with an understanding of the
00:42:10.860 issue, if you were well-versed.
00:42:13.380 Here, you can't read much of anything without being force-fed a one-sided narrative to advance 0.85
00:42:21.600 a political agenda that actually leaves you more ignorant reading the story than as if you
00:42:27.940 hadn't read it or listened to it on television or the radio.
00:42:32.200 I find myself just stupefied when I see Joe Biden talking about he's going to veto the bills passed
00:42:43.920 in the House and the Senate, trying to block his order on giving priority to environmental,
00:42:51.520 social, and governance issues rather than maximizing investor return in retirement funds,
00:42:59.800 including 401ks, by the way. And then I have to, and I know that he can go ahead and veto that,
00:43:09.160 but what I don't understand in the first place is how in the world, who gave him the authority
00:43:14.080 to make that decision to insinuate ESG and any other contrivance that he would like
00:43:22.820 into rules concerning retirement plans. It's outrageous. And I don't hear protests from even
00:43:29.980 the Republicans about this. The incipient point was his laying down the rule. This is, to me,
00:43:38.160 an absolute obvious abuse of power by the president again.
00:43:42.000 It is. And what's remarkable is that there was a majority for overturning his rulemaking in both
00:43:51.000 houses, which shows you how extreme that Biden was, a bipartisan majority. And just so folks and
00:43:58.180 listeners understand this, he's requiring, it sounds to me like, that those charged with investing your
00:44:06.640 retirement funds, you know, and you may think you're investing your funds in, you know, indexes
00:44:14.480 and index funds and other sort of general investments. Well, that may not longer be the case in the sense
00:44:21.380 that there's this requirement, certainly on the retirement side, that they take politics into account
00:44:28.100 when doing investing. And that's not something that anyone really wants, especially if you want a
00:44:33.180 return on your investment. And certainly it's, no one also wants their retirement funds used to advance
00:44:41.160 climate alarmism, Marxism, racialism, racism, Marxist racism, and the other radical left proposals that's
00:44:53.700 behind this so-called ESG agenda, which is essentially equity, which is Marxism, sustainability,
00:45:01.180 which is also Marxism, gussied up with environmental language, and governance, which covers all of the
00:45:11.700 discriminatory racialism they want to impart through these investment programs.
00:45:21.960 And thereby also, with his veto, if it stands, and it certainly will, it just simply gives corporate
00:45:33.180 America more power, Wall Street more power, through these left-wing proposals for how to invest, all sorts of
00:45:46.180 issues that arise from turning the marketplace into ESG, environmental, social, and governance
00:45:54.440 preferences, that are now dictated by the government of the United States. It's madness itself.
00:46:03.880 I want to turn, if I may, very quickly now to the issue that is before us, and that is the House,
00:46:12.580 the 118th Congress, the House of Representatives, I think is off to a marvelous start. That is the
00:46:19.500 House Judiciary, the House Oversight Committee, as well as the Weaponization Subcommittee of Judiciary,
00:46:28.340 they are all off to a terrific start. I thought the hearing the other day on the part of the China
00:46:34.140 Committee really confronting China on issues, or perhaps more accurately, confronting policy
00:46:42.560 makers in Washington with the realities about China. This is a healthy, I think, and more
00:46:50.460 energetic effort than I, frankly, expected some months ago.
00:46:55.480 Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to complain about hearings that probably would never even happen,
00:47:02.400 even under a prior Republican Congress, right? You know, we've been around the block long enough,
00:47:07.480 you and I, Lou, to know how this, how these issues would have been approached under prior Republican
00:47:14.380 controlled houses. And so there's been significant change for the better in terms of their willingness
00:47:20.360 to conduct oversight of these issues. You know, my concern is that it needs to be more and better
00:47:25.300 and quicker with a goal of figuring out what to do, as opposed to explaining the problem
00:47:32.760 for two years. So I would encourage them to do more of this, get it done more quickly.
00:47:40.560 Those, you know, where we know something has happened that's wrong, and we don't need much more
00:47:45.680 analysis or investigation, they should be taking action for accountability. And obviously,
00:47:53.280 investigating a bit further, the other corruption, I mean, the China issue alone,
00:47:57.240 you know, you could have a select committee that just is ongoing forever, with the China influence
00:48:04.900 operations and the corruption tied to China and the other, and the other issues, threats from China
00:48:12.000 that are never going to go away, absent extraordinary events that would be miraculous, forget about
00:48:22.380 extraordinary. So this is a major issue that they can't do enough on, as far as I'm concerned.
00:48:29.040 And I, I quite agree with you on all of that. And when you talk about China, we're looking at for 20, 0.90
00:48:39.540 I'm going to say 27 years in this country, we have known that the, the PLA, the, the intelligence
00:48:47.860 agencies of the CCP have been working across this country with thousands of front country
00:48:54.120 companies, stealing our intellectual property, stealing our technology. When you look at some
00:49:01.380 of the aircraft, some of the ships that, of the PLA Navy or the PLA Air Force, you would think you're
00:49:07.340 looking at a subsidiary of US aerospace companies. But the, the facts are, we, this, this administration
00:49:17.020 is aligned with the CCP. This administration is suspiciously aligned on so many issues, bringing
00:49:26.320 down the, the strategic petroleum reserves to levels not seen in 40 years, to selling crude
00:49:33.620 oil to, to China, which has amongst the largest oil reserves in the world. And, and while shutting
00:49:42.220 down the Keystone pipeline, and, and accidentally, it seems, some refineries have been taken out
00:49:50.160 of commission by fire and accident. We're looking at an administration that seems just gleeful
00:49:57.220 that there are, and there is in prospect, even greater shortages and higher prices ahead for
00:50:05.420 fossil fuels. Your thoughts? You know, I think there's a mutual interest that the left in this
00:50:12.520 country has with the Chinese. Obviously, there are some in this country that admire the authoritarianism
00:50:17.940 of the Chinese Communist Party. And they wish they could get away with that here. But what their mutual
00:50:23.940 interest is, is their anti-Americanism. And so steps that are undermining American power are something
00:50:31.220 that the left has been engaged in for decades here. You know, Obama, you know, his chief goal was to
00:50:37.440 knock America down the size vis-a-vis other countries. And so, you know, the left crippling
00:50:44.520 our ability to produce energy domestically, and, you know, other steps that weaken our position vis-a-vis
00:50:53.740 China are to be expected. You know, and I was also thinking a little bit about the admissions by the 0.71
00:50:59.440 Department of Energy recently has reported in the Wall Street Journal and confirmed, and obviously the
00:51:05.040 FBI has jumped onto that train as well, that this was a lab leak, right? And the Chinese obviously have 1.00
00:51:13.760 covered that up. People say, you know, what was the benefit of China doing that? Let's say, how could
00:51:19.000 you even think it could have been even on purpose? And my response is, I don't know if it was on purpose
00:51:23.600 or not, or whether it was even a lab leak, but I think it's strong evidence it was. All I do know is
00:51:29.100 that China is stronger now than it was before, uh, before COVID, uh, certainly vis-a-vis the United
00:51:36.680 States. And, um, so don't tell me they didn't get a benefit from it. They severely weakened the West
00:51:43.460 through this, uh, as a result, the benefit, whether it was a, you know, something they were planned or it
00:51:50.320 was a happy accident or it was, you know, something that, um, uh, they didn't plan and didn't, and it
00:51:57.920 wasn't even something they were trying to push, but this was a side benefit. Uh, they, they've,
00:52:03.720 their powers increased as a result of the COVID virus. No question about it. And Congressman
00:52:09.220 Andy Ogles, uh, said here on this, uh, on this podcast, uh, I, I thought he said it extremely well.
00:52:17.040 He believes that COVID was straightforwardly covert asymmetrical warfare against the United States.
00:52:23.640 Uh, we lost more than a million Americans. Uh, we continue to, uh, have our economy and society
00:52:31.020 still feeling the disruptions over that, uh, two, two and a half year period. Uh, and without any
00:52:38.400 question, as you so, so say, state so well, uh, we are, we're worse off and China is better off and 0.69
00:52:47.660 more to the point, uh, China did this on purpose and without response or consequence. Uh, if indeed,
00:52:55.180 uh, this country is to be a superpower, there should have been a, uh, a, without question,
00:53:01.780 a response to the, uh, the decision by Xi Jinping not to warn the entire world, but especially this
00:53:08.960 country, uh, that they had such a deadly, a highly transmissible disease that they had unleashed on the
00:53:15.700 world. They did not do that. And the morality of it is very straightforward. Uh, that's, that is a
00:53:21.980 murderous act on the part of the Chinese government, the CCP, your thoughts. You know, I, what I think 0.87
00:53:28.980 is interesting, um, is that we complain about the Biden administration's approach to China,
00:53:34.020 but in many ways, and this shows you the legacy to Trump is more powerful than many would like to
00:53:40.560 admit, is that it's not as far away from Trump's views on, or approaches to China as you might think.
00:53:48.900 I mean, the Chinese are so bad that even the Biden administration is thinking, oh, well, maybe we 1.00
00:53:54.160 should be calling them out on the COVID vaccine, you know, the COVID craziness. Uh, so there's this,
00:54:01.240 um, I, I think the story of the last few years,
00:54:06.160 is it slowly, but surely, and maybe it's too slowly. There's this kind of, uh, uh, a gathering
00:54:14.340 of thinking on this, um, among Democrats and Republicans, that the Chinese threat is real
00:54:20.860 and we have to stop with the politics. Uh, you know, we understand that folks are compromised here,
00:54:28.380 uh, but there has to be a reckoning. Now, I, I, I'm not trying to be Pollyannish on this,
00:54:34.440 uh, but boy, um, the fact that the Biden DOE would finally admit, uh, that, uh, COVID likely
00:54:45.200 came from the lab, um, uh, it's a pleasant surprise. Let's put it this way. You're exactly
00:54:53.260 right. Uh, because other agencies within the intelligence community are, uh, coming up with
00:54:59.560 conclusions like, uh, well, with low confidence, uh, no confidence at all, uh, uncertain, uh, the CIA
00:55:07.340 position is just absurdly, uh, to me, at least, uh, absurdly ambiguous. Uh, and they're really the
00:55:15.380 ones paid to, to do this sort of thing. We still, we still have a CIA. We, well, we do, and they're
00:55:21.340 working hard against the American people, I'm sure at this very moment. Uh, but this is a, this is a,
00:55:28.360 a, a time in which we have to really understand. There are so many Americans in our leadership. Uh,
00:55:37.420 let's start with the leadership. The leadership of this country has been for 30 years, some of the
00:55:42.880 slowest witted people, uh, in our society. I don't know how we found them. I don't know
00:55:49.080 entirely how they got there, but irrespective of their ideology, slow witted and slow to learn
00:55:55.400 and slow, uh, to, uh, to awaken. And the Republicans have, my Lord, what does it take for them to
00:56:04.200 understand that corporate America has moved on from, from that, uh, that sad party that thought
00:56:10.720 that the chamber of commerce was theirs when in point of fact, they, uh, belong to the chamber of
00:56:16.380 commerce. Uh, this is a, a tectonic shift here that, uh, I think this rupture between corporatists
00:56:25.440 and, uh, Donald Trump's America first Republican party is going to pay huge dividends, uh, and
00:56:33.980 benefits to the, to the American working man and woman, our middle class, uh, and those who truly are,
00:56:41.460 our patriots and want to see this Republic succeed for their children and the children of, uh, their
00:56:48.840 children and generations to come. What do you think? Yeah, I think the, uh, you know, the corrupt
00:56:55.680 corporatist class that is, uh, that has allowed the hijacking of corporate power to achieve anti-American,
00:57:05.700 anti-free market, uh, anti-constitutional goals, uh, is, uh, there's going to be, um, uh, reckoning.
00:57:16.020 They're going to be inheriting the wind, uh, because I think, uh, fewer and fewer conservatives
00:57:21.300 are going to be terribly interested in advancing corporate interests where previously you could
00:57:28.000 say, look, you know, these, these corporations are the way we employ people. It's how we grow our
00:57:33.440 economy and keep the country strong. Well, that argument gets weak, where it gets weaker when
00:57:40.520 these corporations seem to spend more time, uh, misusing their dollars to advance political
00:57:46.240 goals, as opposed to, um, you know, the old phrase that used to be the business of America
00:57:52.280 is business, uh, for businessmen, the business of America seems to be politics. And if that's
00:57:57.320 the case, you know, go get their money from somewhere else. Yeah, I think that's exactly
00:58:03.600 right. And particularly now, uh, here we are in 2023 and we're watching Ford motor building
00:58:10.740 plants in, uh, in Mexico. Tesla is talking about, uh, putting it up a plant in Mexico, the offshoring
00:58:20.120 of American production. Are you kidding me? Uh, the continued outsourcing of American middle-class
00:58:26.520 jobs as they bring in six, seven million illegal immigrants in the core course of the first two
00:58:32.780 years, the Biden administration, this is madness. And at the same time, arresting people who want
00:58:38.960 to protect, uh, life, uh, at pregnancy centers, rather than, uh, than have our young women going 0.75
00:58:46.040 to, uh, to abortion clinics, but they have to bring in six million illegal immigrants to replace, 1.00
00:58:51.840 uh, the, the babies, uh, that, uh, they insist die rather than live. Yeah. Many ways. It's the end of
00:59:01.520 America. Uh, you know, for, for the open borders crowd, uh, it's not just open borders. It's, it's,
00:59:09.120 it's the end of us as a sovereign nation. And, you know, from their perspective, a plant in another
00:59:16.740 country is no different than being a plant in another, having a plant in another state.
00:59:22.320 Their goal is to erase borders, uh, erase America as an independent sovereign. And, uh, with that goes
00:59:30.340 our constitutional protections and our God-given rights. Uh, the constitution was designed to
00:59:35.660 protect and advance. Uh, uh, so this is a, uh, a dire threat to our Republic and the kind of the
00:59:44.580 corporate approach of they are, uh, they, they aren't American companies anymore. Uh, they're
00:59:53.440 international companies with no loyalty, uh, is, uh, to the net to our nation is a symptom of that
01:00:01.580 ideology. Again, I am in 100% agreement with you, Tom. We thank you for being here today. It is always
01:00:10.680 great to have you here. Uh, we enjoy your reasoning, your knowledge, uh, your insight and all that you
01:00:17.420 do for this country, you and judicial watch Tom Fitton. Thanks for being with us. Thank you,
01:00:23.840 Lou. Tom Fitton, judicial watch their vigilance critical to the country. Thanks everybody for being
01:00:29.320 with us. Have a great weekend and please join us here Monday when our guest will be former director
01:00:35.040 of national intelligence, Rick Grinnell, who also served as ambassador to Germany. Rick Grinnell
01:00:41.600 here Monday. Please join us till then. Thank you. God bless you and God bless America.