The Great America Show - THE BIDEN FAMILY IS COMPROMISED BY THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY AND SO IS THE DEM PARTY, AND MORE THAN A FEW REPUBLICANS SAYS LEE SMITH

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and welcome to The Great America Show, as we try our best to root out the Marxist-dim evildoers and those who work ceaselessly to stamp out truth, justice, and the American way.

00:00:14.360 Take, for instance, the new special counsel. That's right, we have a new special counsel appointed by the corrupt Attorney General Merrick Garland, big political theater production at the DOJ, to announce further political persecution of the president, yet another special counsel.

00:00:32.920 But DOJ couldn't even cite a crime or crimes committed. And curiously, the Attorney General's guest of honor wasn't even there, the man who will lead another assault against President Donald Trump.

00:00:46.720 Missing was this fellow by the name of Jack Smith. Smith, Merrick Garland claimed, would be fair and impartial and independent in his efforts to crush Trump and destroy his campaign for his second term in the Oval Office.

00:01:01.600 Garland didn't, of course, use those exact words, but that's what he meant. He just talked about what a swell fella this Smith is.

00:01:09.760 But nothing Garland could say would deflect from or cover up Smith's absence. Make anyone forget that he didn't show up for the big announcement.

00:01:19.540 They claimed that it had been in a bicycle accident that kept him away from the introductory event at the Justice Building.

00:01:26.800 But must have been a heck of a bicycle accident. But then it occurred that maybe they didn't want to put good old Jack Smith in front of all that media.

00:01:36.660 They didn't want him to have to answer questions and kept him out of the glare of media interest and even a prying question or two.

00:01:44.440 There's only de minimis data on the web, this guy acting more like the pursued than the central figure in a second coming of a special counsel attack on President Trump.

00:01:55.940 And so now, a few days later, we know a little more about Mr. Jack Smith and why Merrick Garland might have wanted to keep him under wraps for a while.

00:02:05.760 For example, Mr. Smith was reportedly a full-on member of the Department of Justice IRS Deep State Cabal that in the wake of the Tea Party surge of 2010 decided to, well, constrain the conservatives and deny tax-exempt status to conservative groups.

00:02:26.020 Mr. Smith wanted to see what else they could do.

00:02:29.120 Smith was also leading the prosecution of Virginia Republican Governor Bob McDonald.

00:02:34.180 Convicted initially for taking gifts for political favors, the Supreme Court overturned the conviction.

00:02:42.060 And Smith failed to convict Democrat Senator and Vice President candidate John Edwards.

00:02:48.080 Smith's wife, by the way, is reported to be a big donor to the Biden campaign, a producer of a Michelle Obama documentary.

00:02:56.320 So there's your Merrick Garland, certified, impartial, absolutely fair, and no political conflicts of interest at all, Mr. Jack Smith.

00:03:06.080 Riding at the head of another special counsel gang that wants to take Donald Trump's scalp.

00:03:12.780 Democrats up and down the eastern seaboard, by the way, prosecuting and suing the former president,

00:03:17.800 as the Marxist Dems are using the judicial system, as always, trying to crush the Trump candidacy.

00:03:24.860 They really hate him.

00:03:26.320 They really fear him.

00:03:28.160 The Marxist Dems call it lawfare.

00:03:30.700 And whatever anyone calls that evil, it is wide-open war on Donald J. Trump.

00:03:37.200 Elections, it's said too frequently, have consequences.

00:03:40.560 And sometimes the consequences are unexpected and perverse.

00:03:44.200 A divided nation spent more than $17 billion in these midterm elections.

00:03:50.640 And the result, evenly divided by party in both the House and the Senate.

00:03:56.080 Joining us now is national security and political journalist and best-selling author of The Plot to Overthrow the President and the Permanent Coup,

00:04:04.800 Lee Smith, great American.

00:04:06.980 Lee, great to have you with us here.

00:04:08.400 So what's happened, Lee, this was a big election, big expectations.

00:04:13.200 And the result is we're divided.

00:04:15.840 And if anything, even more so.

00:04:19.020 I certainly agree.

00:04:21.080 I think there are a number of different things going on here.

00:04:23.980 And, you know, I hear people who know a lot more about elections and polling,

00:04:29.020 who counsel that we should wait for more data to come in.

00:04:33.980 But a lot of this stuff looks very – a lot of this stuff looks very funky right off the bat, just like 20 –

00:04:41.300 the episode from this most recent election that I like best, I mean, sardonically here,

00:04:48.840 was what was the Pennsylvania polling place where they basically said, oh, yeah, sorry, we're out of paper.

00:04:55.820 Come back later.

00:04:57.160 I mean, again, a lot of the stuff that was going on here, it's just outrageous.

00:05:02.880 So that's where we are right now as a country.

00:05:06.420 There is – and in Arizona, they were running out of ink.

00:05:10.600 So they were running out of some of the basic necessities of electioneering.

00:05:16.940 Thank goodness they had the toner.

00:05:19.120 Yeah, no ink, but they had the toner.

00:05:21.040 Thank goodness.

00:05:22.320 I mean, if an office manager ran – an office manager ran an office like this, they'd be fired.

00:05:30.160 But that's how they're holding elections in Arizona and Pennsylvania. 0.86

00:05:33.820 Well, I think in those two states, there has to be a bonus program.

00:05:36.980 If you can figure out a way to take down the heavily Republican areas in your precinct, your state or district,

00:05:47.240 we're going to work it out at the end of this thing.

00:05:51.380 Because otherwise –

00:05:52.180 Big Christmas bonus.

00:05:52.820 Big Christmas bonus involved.

00:05:55.440 And there seems to be a lot of it going on.

00:05:59.460 And I can't – at this moment, it does not come to be who said this to us here on the show,

00:06:05.060 but we'll find out soon because my colleagues will figure it out.

00:06:11.800 Someone said that one of the basic differences in the Republican and the Democratic Party in elections and campaigns

00:06:18.140 is Democrats pay their people to get out and be organized and move the vote to the polls.

00:06:26.200 The Republicans, they don't pay.

00:06:28.600 They just ask for volunteers.

00:06:30.260 And for some reason, it works better for Democrats who pay than it does for Republicans who are just asking people to volunteer their time,

00:06:39.320 their energy, and their souls to their grand old party.

00:06:43.820 What do you think?

00:06:45.820 Well, yeah, and then they insult them.

00:06:48.600 I mean, this is what's going on in a lot of conservative media.

00:06:53.260 It's what's going on with a lot of the bigwigs in the party.

00:06:57.060 They go around, yeah, now it's an opportunity to crush Trump and crush Trump supporters.

00:07:02.760 They're going to go the way that we want to stare at now.

00:07:05.440 So, yeah, it's right.

00:07:06.440 It's not just we're not going to pay you anything. 0.99

00:07:08.760 Now we're going to take your work for free, and we're going to slap you in the face.

00:07:14.100 Well, what I love is all of the leadership of the Republican Party, and I'm not being sardonically, I'm out of my mind to even say it that way, sardonically or facetiously.

00:07:25.780 But the fact is that they're blaming the turnout of First America, MAGA supporters.

00:07:37.200 They're out of their minds. 1.00

00:07:38.700 These idiots who lost three straight elections, we now find out Ronna McDaniel wants to run for re-election after she lost 2022, 2020, and 2018. 1.00

00:07:51.640 This woman thinks she should be coronated, for God's sake. 1.00

00:07:55.780 What in the world is the Republican Party now, if not just a regal organization?

00:08:04.000 Right.

00:08:04.840 She's running for re-election. 1.00

00:08:06.380 I think everyone who's got to vote in this should vote for Mark Elias or someone from the DNC.

00:08:13.760 Amen, brother.

00:08:14.700 Just take a tour and rub it in.

00:08:17.940 Let them eat it now, right?

00:08:19.700 Yeah, that's how you run elections.

00:08:22.340 So we're going to do the same.

00:08:24.160 Now, who's our – I love it.

00:08:26.360 We've got rhinos. 0.99

00:08:27.800 The Democrats don't have dinos.

00:08:29.880 We've got Ronna Romney McDaniel, and the Democrats have got Mark Elias.

00:08:37.260 What is wrong with this picture?

00:08:39.880 Yeah.

00:08:42.060 Here's – allow me, if I may.

00:08:45.020 You may call me again, Pollyannish, if you like.

00:08:48.000 But I also – I take some good news from this election as well.

00:08:52.660 Well, this is a sharp turn that I never – I have to tell you, this is a sharp turn I didn't expect.

00:08:59.180 A lot of people are talking about the Florida election in terms of a landslide that Governor

00:09:05.680 DeSantis and Senator Rubio won in a landslide.

00:09:08.660 Now, a congressional source, a friend of mine, explained it rather differently.

00:09:11.820 He said that what it really shows is that Florida has become a thoroughly red state.

00:09:18.380 So in lots of ways with this election – what this election is, it's sort of the first post-COVID

00:09:25.880 election, by which I mean a lot of people left their blue areas, their blue cities, and they

00:09:33.720 moved to red states.

00:09:35.640 They moved to red regions.

00:09:36.980 And I know that I voted with my feet in the spring of 2021 by leaving Washington, D.C.,

00:09:44.620 and coming down south here to South Carolina.

00:09:47.580 And I think if we look generally at what happened, there's a lot of that that's been going on.

00:09:55.400 And if you look at New York, for instance, right, the great Lee Zeldin, an amazing campaign,

00:10:01.660 an amazing race.

00:10:02.620 He lost by less than seven points.

00:10:05.120 Wait a minute.

00:10:06.280 I can't – Lee, you just did something I hear a number of people doing.

00:10:10.840 The amazing Lee Zeldin, he only lost by seven points.

00:10:15.140 I – you know, we – the Republican Party, I've got to tell you, has got to come up with

00:10:20.220 something – I'm sorry to be controversial in this.

00:10:24.780 No, it's great, yeah.

00:10:26.180 I just can't accept the fact that Lee Zeldin is a great campaigner and a great political

00:10:31.840 genius because he only lost by seven points.

00:10:35.200 I mean, I just can't get it.

00:10:38.000 You know what a rancid mess New York is.

00:10:41.580 I can't understand why he didn't win by seven points.

00:10:45.780 Because I think that's another thing reflected in the election.

00:10:49.060 And this is a tragic thing about our country right now.

00:10:52.500 Look, Gavin Newsom won re-election.

00:10:54.500 John Fetterman is elected the – elected senator from Pennsylvania.

00:10:59.620 And it's shocking, right?

00:11:00.860 It's astonishing.

00:11:02.140 Nonetheless, the people who stayed in Pennsylvania, the people who decided to stay in places like

00:11:07.620 Philadelphia, I'm sure – to paraphrase Donald Trump, I'm sure there's lots of great

00:11:12.160 people there.

00:11:12.840 But the fact is, people who are – people who are nonetheless enduring the crime, the

00:11:18.300 violence, the insanity, is there any surprise that they would elect John Fetterman?

00:11:22.920 And the people who elected Kathy Hochul, that's what I'm saying.

00:11:28.080 I mean, the ugly side that we have to confront is that there are a lot of people, many of our

00:11:37.420 fellow Americans who are absolutely stark raving nuts to continue to vote for this.

00:11:44.560 We unfortunately have to admit that, I guess, an open border over which 5 million people

00:11:51.840 have crossed since Joe Biden became president, record high inflation, soaring energy and food

00:11:59.840 prices, I guess this really doesn't matter to a whole bunch of Americans.

00:12:04.240 And we look at this and say, how is it possible?

00:12:07.420 How is it possible?

00:12:08.420 But, you know, you say that, Lee, and I understand why.

00:12:12.860 Because inflation is a big deal.

00:12:15.440 High prices that are just ripping family budgets to pieces.

00:12:19.240 For some people, this is not an academic exercise.

00:12:22.360 This is real pain.

00:12:24.120 But you know what?

00:12:24.940 I didn't see a single Republican who I really believed was talking about the real pain of

00:12:29.420 the voter.

00:12:30.780 I mean, I listened to Carrie Lake in Arizona.

00:12:33.840 Great campaigner.

00:12:35.540 But you know what?

00:12:36.240 I had a feeling she was talking to a national audience and not a state audience.

00:12:41.080 I had a feeling, you know, that this was somehow a national campaign rather than a gubernatorial

00:12:47.620 campaign.

00:12:48.560 I don't understand how you can elect Katie Hobbs in a million years. 0.59

00:12:53.360 But there it is.

00:12:54.220 Republicans have got to examine the way they're talking about the issues they're messaging

00:12:59.500 and what in the world.

00:13:01.920 You know, when the Republicans talk about pain, high inflation, high prices, I didn't hear a 0.97

00:13:07.780 single damn Republican, not a single damn Republican, say what he or she could actually do about inflation. 0.94

00:13:16.340 I didn't hear the party leaders, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy and Ronna McDaniel. 0.99

00:13:24.440 Are you kidding me?

00:13:25.820 These people were fighting Donald Trump.

00:13:28.220 Their enemy was America first. 0.99

00:13:30.580 It wasn't Joe Biden and the Marxist Dems who are trying to take over this country.

00:13:34.760 What little of it they don't already occupy.

00:13:39.040 They were fighting Donald Trump, for God's sake.

00:13:42.360 Right.

00:13:42.660 And what voter sitting there with his family or her family, the children at the table with

00:13:48.440 food that isn't quite what they would have prepared if it didn't cost a damn much.

00:13:52.340 What are they going to think about a party where they can't get a commitment from the leadership

00:13:58.160 of the Republican Party about what they'll do, about while they will replicate the success

00:14:03.800 of Donald Trump, but they want to have a petty, pitiful fight when they wouldn't support the

00:14:10.260 president when he needed them most.

00:14:11.960 And now when he needs them again, they're fighting against him instead of the Marxist Dems.

00:14:17.980 What kind of party is the GOP?

00:14:20.880 And then they and by the way, implicit in those responses is, you know, it's sort of

00:14:25.960 an elitist response. 1.00

00:14:27.040 What about those stupid people who didn't vote for us? 1.00

00:14:29.780 Let me tell you, I don't trust the Republican Party and I'm in it. 1.00

00:14:33.860 OK, I don't trust the leadership and I follow them sometimes.

00:14:39.480 Rarely.

00:14:40.040 OK, rarely.

00:14:41.440 But the truth is, the American people are being asked to buy a bunch of bill.

00:14:45.000 Just let me rephrase this because my wife is listening.

00:14:47.980 Yeah, a bunch of bull from so-called leaders.

00:14:53.340 What we've got to have better minds and more integrity and more energy and more originality

00:14:59.960 than that.

00:15:01.340 The Republicans.

00:15:02.480 Did you think that there were figures in this campaign season like Blake Masters or like

00:15:09.440 like Adam Laxalt, who represented a new or Joe, Joe Kent running, you know, for a seat

00:15:17.260 out of Washington?

00:15:18.640 Did you can't, by the way, I think is a different figure in all of that.

00:15:21.740 But OK, go ahead.

00:15:23.220 No, I was going to say so.

00:15:24.720 Did you think there were inspirational?

00:15:27.160 Maybe inspirational is not the best word.

00:15:29.920 Did you think that there were.

00:15:33.800 Did you think that there was enough new blood coming into the party in this campaign?

00:15:38.860 But I do want to ask about Joe Kent now, because I, you know, how is how is he different?

00:15:44.480 And are you distinguishing him in a positive way?

00:15:48.700 I'm distinguishing him in a positive way.

00:15:51.140 I think that he stood head, head and shoulders above those other candidates that you mentioned.

00:15:56.840 And by the way, I love Joe Kent.

00:16:00.040 He's fantastic.

00:16:01.220 All right.

00:16:01.540 Do we agree?

00:16:03.020 Oh, absolutely.

00:16:04.420 But I but I how does he stand head and shoulders above them?

00:16:07.980 I'm not I'm not debating this, by the way.

00:16:10.480 I just want to.

00:16:11.580 I want to get sidetracked on Joe Kent, which I'll be glad to do.

00:16:15.780 But first, I think what we have to get to is these candidates across the board.

00:16:21.900 We heard a lot of bull from Mitch McConnell, you know, Colonel Senator Foghorn from Kentucky,

00:16:28.660 who has the intellect of a squash and and the spine of a, you know, I'll find another garden

00:16:36.980 vegetable to to associate with him in my next metaphor.

00:16:40.480 But the reality is this is just not a time for for a party to have these kinds of divisiveness

00:16:51.660 and try to appeal to the popular vote.

00:16:57.180 They can have all of this division they want because they can trade and will horse trade

00:17:02.340 in the in the conference.

00:17:03.960 And, you know, the establishment will win as usual and this will move on.

00:17:08.240 But the fact is, the Republican Party, I think Josh Hawley is very close to right.

00:17:14.040 This party is dying before our eyes if it's not dead.

00:17:17.880 Right.

00:17:18.700 I had not heard him say that.

00:17:21.000 Yeah.

00:17:21.220 I mean, we certainly have that.

00:17:23.120 We certainly have that sense from lots of voters.

00:17:26.120 And certainly it's going to get worse insofar as they're going after Donald Trump.

00:17:31.100 I mean, why they see why they are seizing this as an occasion to go after Donald Trump. 0.84

00:17:37.260 It's not a mystery to me, but it's just a further indication that this is a it's a sick 0.97

00:17:43.000 organism. 0.60

00:17:43.580 I don't know if it's dying, but it's a sick organism.

00:17:47.740 I think it's dying.

00:17:48.980 And I know this is supposed to be a postmortem and not a diagnosis, but the fact of the matter

00:17:55.980 is what party doesn't have a response other than, no, you can't do that.

00:18:02.320 It's against the law.

00:18:03.320 When they talk about the Dems, the Marxist Dems say, here's a giveaway.

00:18:07.860 Think how smart Joe Biden is.

00:18:10.240 And we all talk and I include myself in this. 0.94

00:18:12.280 I call him the impaired puppet president. 1.00

00:18:14.380 But I have to tell you, his puppet masters aren't stupid. 0.99

00:18:18.340 They came out with a loan forgiveness program that put half a trillion dollars in what we 0.97

00:18:26.520 used to call walking around money to get Democrats, young Democrats to vote.

00:18:30.740 And guess what?

00:18:31.240 They did.

00:18:32.280 And by the way, what's really slick about it is he knew it was unconstitutional and

00:18:36.000 illegal.

00:18:36.880 He knew he wouldn't have to write a check.

00:18:39.260 Right. 0.98

00:18:39.540 So he got all the benefits and the Republicans just said they're sucking their thumbs and 1.00

00:18:43.440 sucking air. 0.99

00:18:44.920 They had no response, no intelligent response. 0.99

00:18:48.240 I'll tell you what's really getting on.

00:18:49.880 What's really getting under my skin.

00:18:51.620 I keep hearing people.

00:18:52.720 We have to emulate.

00:18:54.380 We have to do the same things that the Dems are doing between ballot harvesting and mail

00:18:59.420 in.

00:18:59.620 I'm like, you're missing the point.

00:19:01.940 And the point is this, is that insofar as the Dems own the infrastructure, they can do

00:19:07.140 whatever they want.

00:19:08.020 And that's what I was getting at by saying in Pennsylvania, they just said, oh, we're out

00:19:11.800 of paper.

00:19:12.220 Who knows what they'll do in twenty twenty four.

00:19:14.460 But the idea of playing catch up is never going to work.

00:19:18.840 The idea is figuring out how to own these different things, because without that, we're

00:19:25.780 always going to be several.

00:19:27.100 So but I guess the question that finally we're discussing right now is does Republican leadership

00:19:33.220 want to catch up or are they happy to be one or two beats behind?

00:19:38.480 Well, they're very happy because the leadership has got their jobs, they've got their perks

00:19:43.520 and they've got all of their PAC money.

00:19:46.500 Excuse me.

00:19:48.140 They're very happy.

00:19:49.600 Why wouldn't they be?

00:19:51.120 RNC chair Ronna McDaniel running for reelection.

00:19:54.820 By the way, there are a bunch of Republicans who won't be running for reelection because

00:19:58.760 they couldn't get elected.

00:19:59.620 I don't know how many good candidates there were that failed.

00:20:03.900 I suspect not as many as perhaps might think so of themselves.

00:20:08.240 Take Lee Zeldin, for example.

00:20:09.980 You mentioned what a great guy is, and I think he is a great guy, a great human being, a wonderful

00:20:15.180 human being.

00:20:16.000 But as a politician, he's milquetoast. 0.94

00:20:19.020 He is absolutely milquetoast.

00:20:21.000 And you know it and I know it.

00:20:22.260 What do you think?

00:20:24.360 I mean, I think I think it was a hard carry in New York.

00:20:28.680 You know, he was talking about crime.

00:20:30.740 Obviously, that's the major issue there.

00:20:32.380 But again, as I said, we it's a tragedy for the country. 0.94

00:20:36.700 But but voters in places like New York and California and Illinois are zombies. 0.56

00:20:41.160 And they prove that by look at look at what happened in Michigan.

00:20:44.300 I mean, I think we have to accept that a lot of people actually did vote for people like

00:20:49.200 Gretchen Whitmer, no matter how badly she tortured them. 0.69

00:20:52.600 I mean, these these governors tortured them.

00:20:56.280 They tortured Californians, New Yorkers, Michiganers. 0.81

00:21:00.100 It's terrible.

00:21:01.160 And nonetheless, they voted for them again.

00:21:04.400 What can you do with four people like that?

00:21:08.200 So you should reject your torturers.

00:21:10.280 You should reject the people that your kids out of school for two years, the people who

00:21:16.000 destroyed your businesses.

00:21:17.680 If they can't figure it out themselves, what do we do with them?

00:21:21.580 Well, one of the things we could do is actually serve them instead of corporate America, the

00:21:27.460 Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, Wall Street, big tech, big media, social media.

00:21:32.340 I mean, you've got the whole country obsequious and in serving the big tech and the establishment,

00:21:41.400 don't you?

00:21:42.660 Yeah, I'm interested in what you're talking about.

00:21:46.620 What you mentioned before, you're talking about inspirational leadership, new ideas.

00:21:52.240 And one of the things we what are the things that we've seen for the last couple of years

00:21:58.060 and you and I have spoken about January 6th and the reason that people on the Hill, Republican

00:22:05.980 legislators said nothing about January 6th.

00:22:08.240 We can imagine what happened.

00:22:09.360 Kevin McCarthy said, everyone, keep your head down.

00:22:12.200 Let Joe Biden run the country into the ground.

00:22:14.280 We don't have to do a single thing.

00:22:15.680 We'll just pick up.

00:22:16.340 They'll just vote us back in in 2022 because they won't have a choice seeing what Biden

00:22:21.420 has done to the country.

00:22:22.500 So we saw that unfolding from the beginning, right, as Republicans made made no effort to

00:22:29.000 defend their base.

00:22:29.980 So before we're talking about how they're not paying GOP, you know, GOP workers, I mean,

00:22:36.700 they just that there are still January 6th defendants being held, you know, without trial,

00:22:44.700 without bail.

00:22:46.380 And so we've seen what that results in.

00:22:48.540 Two years of this stuff, they weren't even defending their own supporters.

00:22:53.600 So, yeah, I think what you say is right.

00:22:56.940 There was not only no inspirational message, there was no defense of Republican supporters.

00:23:05.160 Well, to quote Penny Rogers, you know, winners, you know, winners grant and losers say, deal

00:23:13.960 again.

00:23:14.860 The fact of the matter, again, is I can't find an inspirational candidate anywhere or person

00:23:22.620 anywhere in Republican leadership.

00:23:24.640 Can you?

00:23:26.020 Well, what about Donald Trump?

00:23:28.060 Well, first, I'd like to tell you that I never, ever, ever allow guests to ask the questions

00:23:32.380 on the Great America Show.

00:23:35.960 But since you have, I think Donald Trump was highly inspirational.

00:23:42.180 I don't know what to say about a man who now has been so outlandishly aggressive against

00:23:51.440 his own party and sort of lost sight of who the enemy is, which is the Marxist Dems.

00:23:57.940 Who attacks the governor of a state where he knows that if he does run at 2024, he's going

00:24:05.460 to need that governor, those votes in that state, an immensely popular governor.

00:24:11.080 How does that make sense on any level to do that?

00:24:15.840 If I may ask you that question in response to yours.

00:24:19.080 Well, I'm not disagreeing.

00:24:22.220 You've persuaded me that the landscape is pretty bleak right now.

00:24:27.060 It is bleak.

00:24:28.780 And in this country, it's in a paroxysm of uncertainty and ambiguity and confusion and

00:24:36.640 conflict.

00:24:38.000 And we have no one honestly talking about what we are contending with.

00:24:43.780 We have terrible leadership, terrible.

00:24:47.100 And we are blaming people.

00:24:49.240 But I understand the fear of people as well.

00:24:52.000 Don't you?

00:24:52.680 I think people are I think people are very anxious when they see the different things

00:25:00.660 that are happening.

00:25:01.260 I mean, and it's virtually every initiative that comes out of the White House.

00:25:04.560 It's virtually everything they do.

00:25:06.240 I mean, I think we've talked about this before.

00:25:07.920 I mean, it's like a campaign of demoralization and desecration.

00:25:11.120 And yes, unfortunately, there appear to be very few, if any, Republicans who are willing

00:25:17.740 to pick up the standard, certainly among legislators and political officials.

00:25:25.720 Are there people out there who are inspiring?

00:25:28.420 Yes.

00:25:29.020 Actually, I think there are people who are inspiring out there.

00:25:32.880 Um, but they don't, they don't appear to be in political leadership right now.

00:25:39.980 No, they don't.

00:25:40.900 And, and, and, and Joe Biden, President Biden took the opportunity today to say America

00:25:46.880 first is dead because the Senate is in the same, same, uh, uh, divide that it was before

00:25:54.980 the election.

00:25:55.580 Uh, is America first dead?

00:25:58.700 No, absolutely not.

00:26:00.200 Because America first, Donald Trump did something brilliant.

00:26:03.200 Donald Trump saw a movement, saw a groundswell across this country.

00:26:09.000 Uh, and, and he grew it.

00:26:11.340 He, he, he, he grew this movement, but like, uh, like a talented political leader, he recognized

00:26:18.500 something bigger than himself and he jumped in front of it.

00:26:21.600 If there are problems with him now, it's because he believes he's bigger than it.

00:26:25.060 But America first, the people who believe this, oh no, I, I think that sentiment is only

00:26:30.560 growing.

00:26:31.780 Um, I, I, I think it's become even more powerful.

00:26:35.120 Well, I, as you know, I'm, I'm America first to the bone.

00:26:39.240 You know, I, and if we're not to be America first and hear a president say we're not America

00:26:44.680 first anymore.

00:26:45.500 Think about that.

00:26:46.500 Oh, it's nuts.

00:26:47.520 I mean, it's in the United States that who does he serve?

00:26:50.780 Right.

00:26:51.360 The Soviet Union, Ukraine, who?

00:26:53.220 Well, uh, uh, there are quite, there are questions about that, Lou, as we know, look

00:26:59.340 up, but I mean, this is, this is precisely what Barack Obama was getting at when Barack

00:27:04.100 Obama said, not only that he doesn't believe in American exceptionalism, any more than a

00:27:09.020 Greek exceptionalism or, uh, a British exceptionalism, but also when he was talking about utterly

00:27:14.400 transforming the country.

00:27:15.680 And I guess one of the things before Americans right now is, um, um, are, and this is the

00:27:23.020 fundamental issue.

00:27:23.900 I think with America, it was like, no, we love our country the way it is.

00:27:27.720 We don't want our country transformed.

00:27:30.560 I know.

00:27:30.980 I do believe that there, that is a powerful and winning sentiment across this country.

00:27:36.220 Right.

00:27:37.240 I agree.

00:27:38.620 But if every Republican candidate really believed what they were saying about high prices, inflation,

00:27:46.780 this, uh, destabilized economy, if you will, the, uh, volatile markets and uncertain, uh,

00:27:53.640 economic growth and future.

00:27:55.140 Why could they not understand the fear of middle-class Americans who can't afford college, who can 0.91

00:28:01.800 for their children, can't, uh, keep their, uh, keep food on the table, who are paying over

00:28:08.520 a hundred dollars for a tank full of gas to get to work.

00:28:12.040 Uh, what about those folks?

00:28:13.840 Uh, the Republicans didn't speak to them at all.

00:28:17.260 And for me, uh, I think, you know, this, I mean, I've, I've written a lot of books on this

00:28:21.780 country's middle-class where the American dream resides and it, it pains me to see them ignored

00:28:29.900 once again.

00:28:34.120 I think that there, and again, I, I, I think that the, the thrust of America first, it is

00:28:42.280 the middle-class.

00:28:43.600 This is what the middle-class believes.

00:28:45.880 I mean, I, I, I, I don't think that, I don't think it's.

00:28:50.500 Uh.

00:28:51.780 Look, I, I believe that Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, the progressives, the pro, the progressive

00:29:00.160 faction of the United States government has its dagger at the throat of the middle-class.

00:29:05.540 The middle-class isn't going anywhere.

00:29:08.440 We've been taken for granted.

00:29:10.220 We've been taken advantage of, but I think that we've also, we've also shown our abilities.

00:29:17.380 And I, I don't think that's, I don't think that's going away, but I, I, I, again, it's,

00:29:22.200 it's a search for leadership, um, that is worthy of Americans.

00:29:28.260 That's worthy of the middle-class.

00:29:31.000 Right.

00:29:31.080 Are there people out there who can do it?

00:29:32.600 That's why I was interested when you were saying about Joe Kent.

00:29:35.000 Is Ron DeSantis capable of, of, of, um, of carrying the banner on behalf of the American

00:29:41.200 middle-class?

00:29:43.020 What do you think?

00:29:44.260 I do think so.

00:29:46.020 Um, he certainly inspired a lot of people.

00:29:49.060 Look, the fact that, you know, over, what, at this point, it must have been a million,

00:29:53.160 half a million Americans who moved to Florida saying this guy has got, he's got it going

00:29:57.940 on.

00:29:58.460 He's at least protecting our liberty.

00:30:00.160 He's going that far.

00:30:01.220 He's against all this trans stuff.

00:30:03.460 He's against the CRT stuff.

00:30:05.740 I mean, it's, it strikes me that there are very, very simple cases that political, uh,

00:30:10.080 that our political leadership can make and really get out there and mean it and fight

00:30:13.900 for it.

00:30:16.000 It's, it's just to me, uh, it's a moment where we've got to be honest on our examination

00:30:22.840 of the party and its leadership.

00:30:24.360 Uh, we, we now have Kevin McCarthy reelected as the, uh, uh, the house, uh, speaker, the

00:30:32.880 majority leader and house speaker of, you know, we're, we're going to see some real, some real

00:30:38.140 fun now.

00:30:39.400 Uh, but the party itself has to go through some considerable examination from without.

00:30:46.240 I would not leave a reform of any bankrupt bank, uh, to the, the board of directors of that

00:30:52.500 bank, nor would I leave the reform of the Republican party up to the RNC, uh, Kevin McCarthy

00:30:58.680 and Mitch McConnell.

00:30:59.740 How about you?

00:31:00.940 Will a split, I mean, I'm wondering, uh, you know, so, so, so, so it was not to ask more

00:31:05.420 questions, but I'm wondering, how is this for a rhetorical, uh, rhetorical phrasing?

00:31:10.220 I'm, I'm wondering if the thing that people are scared of a split between Trump and DeSantis,

00:31:16.460 I'm wondering if that sort of thing might not actually work to strengthen.

00:31:22.500 The party and strengthen America first, let people, let them argue.

00:31:27.480 I mean, it seems that that is, uh, that that is a good way for people to not only hone their

00:31:33.020 arguments, but to figure out how they're going to lead.

00:31:37.660 I've got to be straightforward here.

00:31:39.940 I mean, I've been saying that for, for weeks now, DeSantis doesn't bother me in the least.

00:31:45.120 I want there to be competition for the nomination, uh, uh, with president Trump, who I support.

00:31:52.500 Uh, I don't want to see any more of this nonsense like we see in Congress when I'm talking about

00:31:58.200 the divide is between, uh, the, the Republican party elites and the Republican party, the rank

00:32:05.580 and file.

00:32:06.600 These, these leaders on Capitol Hill and, and, uh, Ron, Romney, uh, McDaniel.

00:32:13.440 I mean, they're the, they're globalists, at least just like the, the lefties in counterpoint.

00:32:18.240 We have president Biden who says he's not going to ever go to war with China.

00:32:23.280 Basically.

00:32:23.760 Uh, he says, uh, everything is just ducky.

00:32:27.420 Uh, and for all the world looks like a functionary, uh, of Ho Chi.

00:32:32.160 Oh my God.

00:32:33.160 I almost said it.

00:32:34.260 He looks like I almost did it.

00:32:36.960 A function, a functionary of Xi Jinping, uh, and the PRC.

00:32:44.280 Right.

00:32:44.940 The idea, um, the idea somehow, which we've heard many people float that, uh, oh gee, is

00:32:51.260 Biden going to stand up strong to the Chinese? 1.00

00:32:54.460 Is Biden going to make war against China is absolutely preposterous, right?

00:32:59.060 Because we know how, uh, uh, extensively compromised the entire Biden family, as well as the democratic

00:33:06.380 party as a whole, and as well as many Republican officials, uh, uh, compromised by the Chinese 0.96

00:33:12.640 communist party.

00:33:13.660 So it, it, it frankly, wasn't surprising to me that what comes out of this meeting is

00:33:19.900 basically, um, basically Biden's appeasement, right?

00:33:24.040 Saying we're going to work on climate change.

00:33:26.580 The way that I see that Xi just threw him, uh, you know, Xi just threw him a bone here.

00:33:30.880 Go ahead.

00:33:31.300 Look like a tough guy since that's so important to the democratic party.

00:33:34.640 Climate change.

00:33:35.540 Sure.

00:33:35.980 We'll work on climate change together.

00:33:38.360 So, yes, I, I think it's extremely, uh, it's extremely troubling.

00:33:42.220 And when we're coming back to the weakness of the Republican party, who is going to, um,

00:33:48.440 who is going to underscore the very serious problems that the Chinese communist party poses 0.86

00:33:54.840 to American peace and prosperity.

00:33:58.260 And, and yet that really wasn't, uh, at the, at the center of any of the campaigns, uh, that

00:34:04.900 we watched, uh, for the Senate or for the house of representatives, at least that, that

00:34:09.060 I saw.

00:34:10.100 Did you?

00:34:11.000 No, you're right.

00:34:11.920 And it's a very good point because we see that the Chinese are not just, the Chinese

00:34:15.820 also have what they call their subnational strategy.

00:34:18.900 They've been infiltrating their way into different states, different districts, different parts

00:34:24.300 of America all around the country.

00:34:26.700 And that actually would have been an important thing for different, uh, different candidates

00:34:32.300 across the country to talk about how this is an, these are important things to our communities.

00:34:37.700 This is an important thing to our state to protect ourselves against, uh, against Chinese 1.00

00:34:43.820 communist party infiltration.

00:34:45.200 Look, and this might have to come back to New York for one second.

00:34:47.980 We saw now that the, that the CCP has a, uh, has opened up a police precinct in New York

00:34:55.240 city.

00:34:55.760 Now that strikes me that that probably would have been a good thing for, um, for Lee Zeldin

00:35:00.940 and other candidates, uh, other Republican candidates throughout the state to talk about.

00:35:06.280 I wonder why they didn't know.

00:35:09.800 Uh, it's just, uh, it's to me, uh, the great frustration for me in this election is Republicans

00:35:16.980 weren't running much of a campaign.

00:35:18.880 They were talking about investigations as if the entire country hated the Bidens.

00:35:23.800 They don't, uh, many of them depend on the Bidens for their, uh, for whatever their government

00:35:30.360 assistance, uh, for, uh, you know, their, their ideological comfort, whatever it may be.

00:35:37.040 Uh, but they had one group to appeal to, and that is the Republican party and the independents

00:35:44.100 in this country who vote together most often.

00:35:46.800 They didn't this time.

00:35:48.200 The other problem with the investigations was all of these investigations, and I'm sure some

00:35:53.740 of them will still be conducted, but they will by necessity be extremely limited, uh, not

00:35:59.740 only in scope, but in their ability to get anything done.

00:36:03.020 I mean, they can certainly, uh, produce lots of evidence about different things that have

00:36:07.620 been going on, though lots of this is public.

00:36:09.720 What we know made, uh, you know, made public by various journalists, um, but the idea that

00:36:16.720 they're going to be able to hold the Bidens or others accountable for what's been going

00:36:21.400 on.

00:36:21.740 I mean, the, the, the department of justice is still controlled by Joe Biden.

00:36:25.700 So investigations on Capitol Hill, I mean, yeah, that in itself is not appealing to Republican

00:36:32.700 voters, nor should it be, as you say, when people are concerned rightly, when people are

00:36:38.020 worried about their savings accounts evaporating, when people are worried about filling up their,

00:36:45.100 uh, car, putting food on the table, investigations are not a priority.

00:36:51.540 Well, you know, with some exceptions, and I think, uh, Jim Jordan, uh, is the ranking member

00:36:58.080 of the Judiciary Committee, you know, he says he's investigating James Comer House Oversight.

00:37:03.380 He's going after, uh, Fauci and, uh, what looks as he has, uh, revealed what looks like an effort

00:37:11.160 to use government, uh, U.S. money to shut down, uh, inquiring minds about the origin of the

00:37:19.860 Wuhan virus, uh, and how it, uh, came to be that the United States did not pursue that aggressively.

00:37:27.120 He says it looks, at least at this point, like, uh, Fauci and others, uh, actually reusing

00:37:34.580 federal grant money to shut people up.

00:37:37.700 Um, that's certainly my assumption.

00:37:40.380 I mean, Anthony Fauci, among others, I think it's very important to understand Fauci in a

00:37:45.440 context most people, um, don't discuss, right?

00:37:48.880 Anthony Fauci is not just the, was, as he's retiring next month, not just the longstanding

00:37:54.060 head of NIAID, but he's also America's biowarfare czar, right?

00:37:59.580 These were powers that were granted him after 9-11 by the Bush administration.

00:38:04.760 I think that's the heart of what's going on.

00:38:07.260 And I think, frankly, that's what stalled many investigations into Anthony Fauci's role.

00:38:12.620 I mean, the amount of power that he's wielded throughout Washington, not, not, not for the,

00:38:18.600 uh, not for the four decades, but, uh, explicitly for the 20 years since 9-11, that's something

00:38:26.380 that's helped protect Fauci from both sides of the aisle.

00:38:29.880 No, I mean, Rand Paul has been very effective or relatively effective sticking it to Fauci.

00:38:35.820 I agree.

00:38:36.600 I believe that there were, there, there are others who are more than capable of it, like

00:38:41.180 Congressman Wenstrup out of Ohio.

00:38:43.160 I know he's looking at this and these things are all very, very important.

00:38:46.920 And, and, and I, I, I agree we have to push, they have to push ahead on these investigations.

00:38:51.680 But again, the idea that this was going to, um, summon a groundswell of support.

00:38:57.080 And I think that was always unlikely.

00:38:59.520 Right.

00:38:59.880 And I think, uh, James Comer of house oversight, uh, time will tell, but I have every confidence

00:39:06.880 that he will do exactly what he said he will do.

00:39:09.440 Uh, and that's a big step out there for me, uh, with my skepticism of politicians these days.

00:39:15.660 Uh, this is where I say, uh, Lee, if you will, uh, we always give our guests the, uh, the

00:39:30.260 last word and your concluding thoughts, if you would, please.

00:39:33.860 Well, thank you very much, Lou.

00:39:35.380 First of all, it's always great to be speaking with you.

00:39:37.820 What we need to look at as Americans, not just the Republican party, but as how the country

00:39:44.060 as a whole moves forward.

00:39:45.640 And I help all of us get that time and we get that piece and we get time to spend with

00:39:50.220 our families and think, um, thank the Lord and thank the founders of this great country

00:39:57.220 for what we have in our hands.

00:39:58.680 And that we not forfeit this incredible blessing that we've been given as Americans.

00:40:07.420 Absolutely.

00:40:08.740 I appreciate it.

00:40:09.640 Lee, always enjoy our discussions.

00:40:12.080 Uh, and, and, and, and provocative.

00:40:16.280 So thanks for being with us.

00:40:17.500 We appreciate it.

00:40:18.540 Thanks.

00:40:19.160 Thanks everybody for being with us today here.

00:40:21.480 Monday will be Congressman James Comer.

00:40:23.980 He's making lots of news.

00:40:25.760 He served notice that he will be subpoenaing Hunter Biden to fully investigate Biden corruption

00:40:31.860 and his statement that China's purchase of Hunter's art looks convincingly like a payment

00:40:37.880 for services, namely influence in the Biden administration.

00:40:42.840 Please join us Monday for our discussion with the man who will lead the house oversight

00:40:47.020 investigation, Congressman James Comer.

00:40:50.400 Until then, thank you.

00:40:52.520 God bless you.

00:40:53.400 And may God bless America.

00:40:55.760 God bless America.

The Great America Show - November 25, 2022

THE BIDEN FAMILY IS COMPROMISED BY THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY AND SO IS THE DEM PARTY, AND MORE THAN A FEW REPUBLICANS SAYS LEE SMITH

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