The Great America Show - June 05, 2025


THE D.C. SWAMP RUNS DEEP, BUT THIS TIME IT MAY BE DRAINED!


Episode Stats

Length

30 minutes

Words per Minute

194.54205

Word Count

5,905

Sentence Count

420

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary

In this episode, we sit down with Rep. James Comer (D-VA) to discuss the Biden Autopan scandal, which involves a pen used by former Vice President Joe Biden to sign executive orders and pardons.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Great America Show.
00:00:05.140 It's great to have you with us.
00:00:06.100 We're live from the swamp, or as some call it, the nation's capital.
00:00:09.420 Just a few moments ago, we sat down with House Oversight Chairman James Comer to talk about
00:00:13.560 a slew of issues.
00:00:14.680 What's going on in his committee?
00:00:16.240 The Biden auto pen scandal, Elon Musk coming out against the big, beautiful bill, coming
00:00:21.500 out against the GOP and President Trump, and Jasmine Crockett announcing she's looking
00:00:26.140 to overtake chairmanship of that committee that Comer sits as the chairman of.
00:00:30.960 They'd have to win back Congress first, which may be an uphill battle, considering all that
00:00:35.760 the Democrats have done over the last four and a half years.
00:00:38.880 Among many issues that Congress faces right now, and the Oversight Committee faces, is
00:00:43.380 that auto pen scandal.
00:00:45.640 Joe Biden signed a massive amount of pardons before he left office, his son among them.
00:00:50.840 But there was many other child predators, convicted felons for rape of children, and a slew
00:00:58.220 of terrible, terrible crimes that were all signed with this auto pen that we're hearing
00:01:02.840 about.
00:01:03.700 So who signed it?
00:01:05.040 Did Joe Biden even know his name was being signed on documents?
00:01:08.920 Who's responsible for it all?
00:01:10.740 We're going to take you now to that interview that we just did with House Oversight Chairman
00:01:13.900 James Comer on his thoughts on where this investigation goes and what he has in store for the rest
00:01:19.520 of this Congress.
00:01:20.840 Mr. Chairman, thank you so much for sitting down with me.
00:01:28.200 As I told you before we sat down, you were one of Lou Dobbs' favorites, so it really means
00:01:32.220 a lot that you've taken the time.
00:01:33.900 I want to start with first what's surrounding the news, this Biden auto pen scandal and everything
00:01:38.940 surrounding it.
00:01:40.160 Where are you guys at right now in investigation, number one?
00:01:43.220 Number two, how many people do you believe are complicit in this?
00:01:46.080 Was Hunter Biden complicit?
00:01:47.720 Did Joe even know what was going on?
00:01:49.480 Well, we're going to find out if Joe knew what was going on, because that's the basis
00:01:53.520 of the investigation.
00:01:54.760 We're moving really quickly.
00:01:56.740 We announced this investigation 10 days ago.
00:01:58.760 If it will go back 10 days, that's when Tapper started talking about his book.
00:02:04.320 Buttigieg gave an interview saying that he was blocked from access from Joe.
00:02:08.100 People started talking within the old Biden White House that Joe wasn't on the top of
00:02:15.120 his game, and they were trying to distance themselves from the auto pen when it came out
00:02:19.940 that the auto pen was used to sign all the executive orders and all the pardons.
00:02:24.700 So we announced the investigation.
00:02:27.180 We notified four staffers.
00:02:28.920 These are the four low-level, no-name staffers that we believe were the ones in charge of
00:02:33.180 manually placing the documents in the auto pen.
00:02:35.640 Somebody had to put the documents in the auto pen.
00:02:37.820 So we've identified the four employees who we believe did that.
00:02:41.860 I sent them letters saying, we would like for you to come in voluntarily to answer questions
00:02:46.460 from the House Oversight Committee.
00:02:47.760 That's all part of Duke's process.
00:02:49.200 You have to give them opportunity to hire lawyers if they want, which of course they
00:02:54.080 did, and then their lawyers respond to our lawyers.
00:02:57.260 I'm pleased to say that we should be announcing within a few hours, dates, that those four
00:03:03.220 employees are going to come in.
00:03:04.520 So now we've expanded the investigation to who we believe will be the ones who were instructing
00:03:10.800 the employees to put the documents in the auto pen.
00:03:13.780 So the reason for all this, obviously, is to determine who was running the White House
00:03:18.620 was Joe Biden actually giving the authority to use his signature, and if not, are these
00:03:25.880 executive orders, many of which were done in the last 100 days of the Biden administration,
00:03:30.360 many of which were done to Trump-proof this administration, are these then valid executive
00:03:38.140 orders?
00:03:38.580 And if not, that changes the course of history, to be honest.
00:03:41.960 So this is a significant investigation.
00:03:43.820 The difference in this investigation and other investigations that I've led with respect
00:03:49.080 to Biden, the media thus far hasn't been weaponized.
00:03:52.340 The media isn't saying there's no evidence that Joe Biden was, you know, wasn't completely
00:03:58.080 a mental invalid.
00:03:59.680 They know.
00:04:00.520 Yeah.
00:04:00.900 So I think the media has some level of curiosity now, and I think they've moved on for the
00:04:05.900 Biden.
00:04:06.180 So that's going to help us as we move forward.
00:04:08.560 What kind of constitutional issue does this pose, right?
00:04:11.760 You're the congressman here, so correct me if I'm wrong.
00:04:14.500 To me, it seems, as a layman, it's probably illegal for an auto pen or somebody else to
00:04:20.060 be signing your signature on documents that are signed into law.
00:04:23.360 And I understand, I worked in Congress, some of the letters that circulate Congress are
00:04:27.060 with a stamp, but that's under your approval.
00:04:28.940 You know what's going on.
00:04:30.100 What's the constitutionality, the problem there, if this man didn't even know what was
00:04:34.400 being signed into law?
00:04:35.560 Well, my advisors think that if he gave the authority, then they might could have a leg
00:04:42.520 to stand on in court.
00:04:43.620 The problem here is that no one believes that Joe Biden knew what was going on.
00:04:47.940 There is an interview that has surfaced in the last two weeks where he was asked by a
00:04:52.440 reporter about an executive order.
00:04:53.720 He had just signed that day, and he had no idea what that reporter was talking about.
00:04:57.840 That's pretty damaging evidence that Joe Biden had no knowledge of who was using that
00:05:03.720 auto pen.
00:05:04.120 And so, you know, I don't know that you can get the executive orders kicked out just because
00:05:09.180 of the use of the auto pen.
00:05:10.320 There's a precedent where presidents have used the auto pen sparingly before.
00:05:14.880 I think Obama did when he was out of the country on something, but never to the degree that
00:05:19.240 Joe Biden, and the general rule is you have to sign your own signature with anything pertaining
00:05:23.640 to the law.
00:05:24.280 So, you know, it's a little bit up to interpretation as to whether or not you can use the auto pen.
00:05:29.900 And the question here is, did Joe Biden give the authority to use it?
00:05:34.300 Was he knowledgeable enough to know what he was giving the authority for?
00:05:40.500 And that's why we're bringing in Dr. O'Connor, who is the White House physician, to ask him
00:05:45.320 questions about Joe Biden's mental fitness.
00:05:47.780 So that's that's my next question is you mentioned Jake Tapper.
00:05:52.000 Everyone now all of a sudden is coming out.
00:05:53.820 What we knew, what you had been saying for years, that this man is not mentally fit.
00:05:58.780 He's not all there in the head.
00:06:00.140 He's demented in some way or another.
00:06:01.820 I don't know what.
00:06:02.420 I'm not a doctor, but apparently neither is Dr. O'Connell.
00:06:05.540 This is the man who's treating a man who now we find out has prostate cancer, which doctors
00:06:09.340 are saying probably was around for five to 10 years.
00:06:12.040 OK, we're men.
00:06:12.960 We all know what happens after 50.
00:06:14.300 You go every year to get your prostate checked to make sure that you're not getting prostate
00:06:17.480 cancer.
00:06:17.980 OK, you have that.
00:06:19.480 You have this man going in for a yearly physical under a doctor's order.
00:06:22.740 But it's not even that you have the mainstream media so complicit making you look like a
00:06:26.740 crazy man while you're investigating him, saying this man is out of his mind.
00:06:30.260 He's losing it.
00:06:31.320 But you're the crazy man and the media is right.
00:06:33.220 But now we've got Jake Tapper and all these other people who are coming around saying, well,
00:06:37.480 we didn't see it.
00:06:38.440 On 60 Minutes the other night, Bill Clinton, of all people, who I, in my opinion, is not
00:06:43.340 all there either.
00:06:44.320 It's what happens when you get older, right?
00:06:46.520 Saying that he never saw any sort of problem with his mental fitness, nothing whatsoever.
00:06:51.040 That's their token doctor is Bill Clinton.
00:06:54.100 I mean, what's going on here?
00:06:55.860 Yeah, well, obviously, the American people know that there was a cover up.
00:07:00.420 They saw on live TV during the debate that Joe Biden wasn't all there.
00:07:08.440 Now, the reports that are coming out are more and more damaging that Joe didn't know.
00:07:14.080 He got lost in the closet.
00:07:16.100 You know, he he he was shielded from staff.
00:07:19.640 You know, the cabinets are booty jegs claiming he didn't see him for a long time.
00:07:23.160 You know, anyone that wants to have a future in politics is going to come out and distance
00:07:28.660 himself from the Biden family.
00:07:30.960 So I think that the truth is is slowly emerging with respect to the fitness.
00:07:37.860 Now, the physician, if you'll remember, his name came out in the Biden influence peddling
00:07:42.960 schemes.
00:07:43.560 He was in on a deal, a domestic scheme with Jim Biden and Joe Biden.
00:07:48.600 It was ironically the one deal that we found where Joe Biden profited two hundred thousand
00:07:53.800 dollars.
00:07:54.280 This was the same scheme.
00:07:56.440 So this guy was was Joe Biden's physician when he was vice president, stayed as his physician
00:08:01.880 when the four years when they were in the private sector, when Trump was president the first
00:08:06.440 time.
00:08:06.880 And then they brought him back as a civilian to be the physician.
00:08:11.200 You know, he consistently issued reports saying Joe Biden was healthy.
00:08:15.000 Now, everyone that knows anything about prostate cancer, my father, grandfather and great
00:08:18.620 grandfather all had prostate cancer.
00:08:20.020 So I have really studied a lot about prostate cancer.
00:08:23.020 I get my PSA check twice a year and all that.
00:08:26.100 So, you know, no one believes that he just found out he had stage four prostate cancer.
00:08:33.460 You know, that's something that you have to have for a long time.
00:08:35.940 No one believes what the physician said, that he didn't test his PSA for 10 years.
00:08:39.920 Yeah.
00:08:39.960 Everyone gets their PSA tested, every man from probably 45 on.
00:08:44.880 So, but if you will remember going back to old interviews that, you know, we're researching
00:08:51.600 and others are researching, Joe Biden slipped up once and said he had cancer.
00:08:55.520 And then the White House quickly issued a statement saying he misspoke.
00:08:58.720 How do you misspeak about having cancer?
00:09:02.340 So if at that point he knew he had cancer, then Dr. O'Connor lied consistently to the American
00:09:08.600 people and the White House lied to the American people and said he didn't.
00:09:12.580 And remember, these same people tried to get Joe Biden to, they tried to keep him on the
00:09:18.000 ballot for another four years as president.
00:09:21.660 I mean, it's just unthinkable what was going on there.
00:09:24.780 It makes you wonder who's running the show.
00:09:26.460 Sitting right across from me is the great Mark Mitchell of Rasmus.
00:09:28.940 Mark, what were the numbers for the American people with Joe Biden's mental decline?
00:09:34.180 That's one of the sickest things.
00:09:35.920 Americans knew that he was gone.
00:09:37.600 Well, 66% of them wanted him to get a mental exam in February of 22.
00:09:42.540 And 68% of them agreed that Joe Biden's mental decline had been apparent over time.
00:09:47.560 So this is way before anybody in the media touched it.
00:09:49.640 They'd seen all the videos.
00:09:50.740 They made up their minds.
00:09:51.740 And then, of course, nobody's addressing it.
00:09:53.660 Yeah.
00:09:54.440 The American people saw it.
00:09:55.760 We saw it.
00:09:56.920 As a man who covered news every day, producing Lou Dobbs' shows, we lived it every day.
00:10:02.180 And you know what?
00:10:02.680 The truth of the matter is, I don't think you have a mean bone in your body.
00:10:05.420 You're probably one of the few people out here who does.
00:10:07.080 I think it probably troubled you, and correct me if I'm wrong, to see this man tripping going
00:10:10.840 up steps, tripping falling down steps, falling on stage.
00:10:13.500 It's just an embarrassment to the country.
00:10:14.780 It's an embarrassment to his family.
00:10:16.200 It's an embarrassment to just about everybody.
00:10:18.020 We didn't want to see that happening.
00:10:19.600 Yet the media sold it that this man was as healthy as can be.
00:10:23.180 But Donald Trump's the one with dementia.
00:10:25.220 He closes his eyes for a second.
00:10:26.620 He blinks.
00:10:27.060 They catch him on camera with his eyes closed.
00:10:28.840 He's falling asleep.
00:10:29.860 See, when Ronnie Jackson was out there saying, this man is healthy, you know, he's a little
00:10:33.900 heavy, he eats McDonald's, but who is it?
00:10:36.740 But Donald Trump is the one who's not healthy.
00:10:40.060 Do you think we ever get accountability out of the, maybe not the media, but these people?
00:10:44.720 On the right over here, I had to look at, I know Ian Samms was one of your good friends
00:10:47.980 over here, but who I looked at, he doesn't have a job right now.
00:10:50.540 He's politically consulting.
00:10:52.140 Oh, yeah.
00:10:53.000 Is he a person you'd like to bring in and talk to?
00:10:55.280 I would, I would love to talk to Ian Samms.
00:10:58.520 You know, we have so many clips of just him looking in with his ugly little bald head
00:11:03.320 in the camera, lying, just lying to the American people about Joe Biden, lying about Joe Biden
00:11:09.520 mental fitness, lying about Joe Biden and his family's influence peddling, lying about Joe
00:11:15.640 Biden's knowledge and participation in his family's influence peddling.
00:11:19.620 So he's a person of interest.
00:11:21.400 You know, he seemed, he would, he, he loved to go in front of the TV camera and he loved
00:11:26.580 to attack me and Jim Jordan.
00:11:29.500 So, you know, he seemed to be very knowledgeable when he was going in front of the TV camera.
00:11:33.620 I think he would be a very good person to come in and explain what was going on in the
00:11:38.980 Biden White House because he sure acted like he knew everything.
00:11:41.640 And I hate it that he is unemployed now.
00:11:43.940 And I'm, I'm shocked that he's not in high demand in the private sector.
00:11:47.680 Maybe we can check with your staff.
00:11:49.100 If you have an intern position, I'm sure he'd suit you well.
00:11:52.640 You know, we always need somebody to clean the bathroom.
00:11:57.640 Well, you know what?
00:11:58.540 In Sam's, if you're listening, I'm sure this will be out there somewhere where you'll be
00:12:01.040 able to, to come apply for a job.
00:12:02.800 I want to turn to something that you hear all the time.
00:12:05.700 And I get blowback, the audience, the listeners, we want to arrest Comer and Jordan.
00:12:09.820 They're not doing anything.
00:12:10.960 They're not arresting anybody.
00:12:13.000 First of all, you're not a cop.
00:12:14.320 You don't have the power to arrest anybody.
00:12:16.700 What your job is to do is to make the recommendation to the Department of Justice.
00:12:20.960 And if they are not corrupt, Merrick Garland, they heed the warning and they heed the indictment
00:12:27.240 and they either follow up or they don't.
00:12:29.640 Tell the audience, if you will, how it works.
00:12:33.480 Congress cannot arrest anyone.
00:12:35.060 If Congress could arrest anyone, Adam Schiff would have arrested everybody when he was
00:12:40.060 chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, when he was leading the first Trump impeachment.
00:12:44.720 All Congress can do is investigate.
00:12:46.740 We have subpoena power.
00:12:48.440 We can subpoena documents.
00:12:50.620 Now, it was very difficult to subpoena documents in the Biden White House because they fought
00:12:56.140 us.
00:12:56.380 Merrick Garland fought us every step of the way.
00:12:58.920 The FBI, the deep state, they fought us every step of the way.
00:13:02.560 But we were successful in getting the bank records.
00:13:05.640 I subpoenaed bank records from the private banks.
00:13:07.980 The private banks turned over the bank records.
00:13:10.420 Once the bank records emerged, then you saw you could follow the money.
00:13:15.000 And it was obvious what the Bidens were doing.
00:13:16.820 They were taking monies from our enemies around the world to the tune of tens of millions of
00:13:20.720 dollars.
00:13:20.960 And according to the Irish whistleblowers who came forward because of our investigation,
00:13:25.980 the Bidens never paid a penny of taxes on it.
00:13:27.840 So that was a huge scandal.
00:13:29.600 Now, this scandal, we have a attorney general that I assume is going to be working with
00:13:36.280 us on this that will, at the very least, not obstruct our investigation.
00:13:40.200 We've got a media that at this point isn't as weaponized as it was because I think that
00:13:46.380 they know the truth is going to eventually come out because people like Ian Sams are going
00:13:52.140 to eventually get disgruntled and start talking.
00:13:54.600 So I think that we'll be able to get information.
00:14:00.900 And if there are criminal referrals, then we will issue to a what I hope to be a friendly
00:14:07.120 attorney general in Pan Bondi.
00:14:09.160 Now, the basic role for Congress is to get information.
00:14:15.060 And all the most we can do, the most we can do is issue criminal referrals.
00:14:20.420 Now, you can impeach, but not my committee.
00:14:22.960 They would always say, why isn't Comer impeaching?
00:14:24.560 It's the Judiciary Committee that impeaches.
00:14:27.080 And let's be realistic about impeachment.
00:14:30.140 I know the Democrats are going to say they're going to impeach Trump if they flip the House
00:14:33.960 and all that.
00:14:34.540 But at the end of the day, it takes 67 votes in the Senate to convict.
00:14:39.320 No president in history has ever been removed from office because of impeachment.
00:14:43.280 None.
00:14:43.700 Zero.
00:14:44.060 People forget about that.
00:14:44.900 So impeachment is really nothing.
00:14:48.540 The Democrats have cheapened it.
00:14:50.960 The Republicans impeached Clinton.
00:14:52.600 He's still around.
00:14:53.640 He never left office.
00:14:54.840 The Democrats impeached Trump.
00:14:56.520 It really doesn't mean anything.
00:14:58.860 The damage is, number one, getting the truth to the American people, which we have been successful
00:15:03.300 at.
00:15:04.040 And number two, issuing criminal referrals, which we did for Hunter Biden and Jim Biden.
00:15:08.620 Of course, Joe Biden and or the Audubon issued pardons at the last minute for the Biden family.
00:15:16.220 The other problem is, is to correct me if I'm wrong.
00:15:18.900 The Republican Party, it seems there's no unity in it.
00:15:22.480 You do all this good work.
00:15:24.200 You show the receipts.
00:15:25.740 They call you a liar.
00:15:26.920 But you have Republicans on our side of the aisle who sit there and can sit there with a
00:15:32.340 straight face and say, we can't impeach him.
00:15:34.600 This isn't good enough evidence.
00:15:35.820 I mean, what is the problem with these people?
00:15:38.220 Whereas the Democrats, you can get every single one of those stooges to go out and eat yellow
00:15:42.920 snow if their leader tells them to do so.
00:15:45.100 But the Republicans, you cannot get unanimous consent.
00:15:48.480 I mean, you look at the big, beautiful bill.
00:15:50.040 They had to have, I won't even get to the story of what happened, but one member fell
00:15:53.940 asleep in the back of the room.
00:15:54.840 So, you know, he didn't make the vote.
00:15:56.800 Why is it that the Republican Party cannot unite?
00:15:59.840 Well, it's a frustration for me.
00:16:01.340 And, you know, I always said when we were leading the Biden influence peddling investigation,
00:16:05.620 which everyone now agrees was very effective.
00:16:09.640 Everyone now agrees we got the truth.
00:16:12.160 No one denies anything in our final report.
00:16:14.440 I wrote a book.
00:16:15.260 No one denies anything in the book about the Biden corruption.
00:16:18.980 So at the end of the day, you know, we did our job.
00:16:23.360 But throughout the whole process, there were Republicans criticizing me all the time.
00:16:27.160 There were Republicans that would go on the record, there were Republicans that wouldn't.
00:16:29.820 There were staffers, leadership staffers, always taking shots at Jim Jordan and me.
00:16:35.420 And it's very frustrating.
00:16:37.940 I said, I didn't mind fighting Jake Tapper and CNN and Rachel Maddow and MSNBC, but it would
00:16:43.560 get, you know, it was frustrating fighting.
00:16:46.120 I'm not going to mention conservative commentators that are bloggers, not on TV shows or anything.
00:16:53.480 But it hurts because if a Republican in Congress comes out and criticize it, the Democrats are
00:16:59.580 going to take it and run with it.
00:17:00.780 Just like on the big, beautiful bill, you've got, you know, a few members of Congress, some
00:17:05.120 from my home state that have been critical of the bill.
00:17:08.640 Well, that's all that's on NBC and CBS and ABC.
00:17:12.800 And it hurts the momentum.
00:17:14.520 You never hear Democrats doing that.
00:17:16.180 So it's frustrating.
00:17:17.640 But I'll say this, there are 220 Republicans in the House and 53 Republicans in the Senate.
00:17:25.980 They're only about 10 or 15.
00:17:28.140 But those 10 or 15 get a lot of press because if you're willing to criticize another Republican,
00:17:32.800 especially Donald Trump, you're going to get on mainstream media and they're going to be nice to you.
00:17:38.720 The only problem is nobody's watching.
00:17:40.260 If you look at cable news, television, Jake Tapper's got his new book out.
00:17:43.240 Now, Jake Tapper's managed to do something you never want to do in politics.
00:17:46.760 You never want to alienate your base, number one.
00:17:49.100 And number two, you never want to alienate the middle.
00:17:51.680 He's managed to piss off the Marxist Dems and he's managed to piss off the Republicans because
00:17:56.140 of what he's done for the last four years.
00:17:57.520 And his ratings are at all time low.
00:17:58.980 It's the reason why people tune into this podcast.
00:18:00.820 It's the reason why people are tuning into all independent, you know, conservative and
00:18:05.060 mainstream media news outlets far surpassing the ratings of CNN.
00:18:09.360 And I do shows that get better ratings than CNN.
00:18:11.540 I mean, it's pathetic.
00:18:12.780 It's truly pathetic.
00:18:13.580 But I think the American people have woken up.
00:18:15.800 Looking forward to 2026, this is where I see a massive problem.
00:18:19.980 And it may be a leadership problem.
00:18:21.260 I'm not entirely sure.
00:18:22.880 But to me, it seems, and correct me if I'm wrong, that Mike Johnson doesn't really care
00:18:27.100 about holding the majority in the House right now just based on what's happening.
00:18:31.640 To me, it seems almost like a Paul Ryan 2.0.
00:18:34.380 Well, I think, I haven't talked to Mike Johnson specifically, but I would assume that his
00:18:40.940 objective is to pass the Trump agenda.
00:18:43.360 So the Trump agenda is the budget reconciliation bill or what Trump calls the big, beautiful
00:18:49.920 bill.
00:18:50.240 That is the Trump agenda.
00:18:51.240 It's the tax cuts.
00:18:52.700 And when Republicans criticize the spending, what they're calling spending are tax cuts.
00:19:00.740 I don't consider that spending.
00:19:02.140 Spending is going out, buying the Pentagon, wasting money, buying unnecessary military
00:19:08.780 equipment, having people draw welfare that are ineligible for welfare.
00:19:13.740 That's spending.
00:19:14.760 Yeah.
00:19:15.380 OK, a bridge to nowhere.
00:19:16.500 That's spending.
00:19:17.860 Tax cuts are not spending.
00:19:19.880 So the big, beautiful bill also has border security in there.
00:19:23.680 It has a lot of policy in there.
00:19:25.660 So it's a pretty substantial bill.
00:19:27.780 Uh, also the rescissions package and, and they're Trump's starting to send them over.
00:19:33.240 Just sent one over in the last 24 hours, which are the doge cuts, right?
00:19:38.140 We'll, we'll pass that out.
00:19:39.260 I think once those are passed, I think the, the path to be reelected and to keep the majority
00:19:46.320 becomes easier because it doesn't matter what we do, uh, how much money we raise, what our
00:19:52.260 message is in the midterm elections, if we don't pass the Trump agenda, then, then we're
00:19:58.640 probably not going to maintain the majority.
00:20:00.860 So I think all the King's horses and all the King's men are in on passing this big, beautiful
00:20:05.740 bill and the rescissions packages and the doge cuts and things like that.
00:20:10.680 Yeah.
00:20:11.040 I, they, I, they really got to get together.
00:20:12.820 Mark Mitchell does this polling on every day and people are just very resentful.
00:20:17.260 I mean, you look at, you said, mentioned Pam Bonney before, you know, the Epstein files,
00:20:21.500 they're on the desk, they're on the desk, they're coming out next week and it's an influencer
00:20:24.920 thing.
00:20:25.320 It's, I mean, just so idiotic on how they're doing things.
00:20:29.920 There's a way that you can message things.
00:20:31.780 Don't give everything all at once.
00:20:33.280 Let a little bit out.
00:20:34.200 When you did your investigation, you'd let out one thing, you'd let out the next thing
00:20:37.340 and you built this entire case.
00:20:39.400 Everything Donald Trump has done so far was just with the power of his own pen.
00:20:42.760 And I think the number is the least amount of bills sent to the president's desk in like
00:20:46.500 70 years from a Congress.
00:20:48.360 The American people see that.
00:20:49.800 And it kills me to know that you have worked so hard.
00:20:52.920 Donald Trump has worked so hard to get reelected, breaking all odds, winning an election three
00:20:56.540 times, never been done before.
00:20:58.340 And just to throw it all away at the end of the day, it breaks my heart.
00:21:03.100 I know it breaks Lou Dobbs's heart knowing everything that you guys have went through to
00:21:07.120 just throw it all away.
00:21:08.300 Yeah.
00:21:08.560 Well, hopefully we'll be effective at the end of the day.
00:21:10.800 It takes a long time to pass legislation.
00:21:13.120 Lots of egos in Congress.
00:21:16.480 You know, the Republicans must whomever that comes out and critical of the big, beautiful
00:21:21.720 bill that that, you know, complicates things.
00:21:24.060 Yes.
00:21:24.400 But it's not supposed to be easy.
00:21:26.000 And hopefully we will.
00:21:27.400 But I think that our.
00:21:31.080 Future election hopes and dreams depend on passing the president's agenda.
00:21:37.460 Yeah.
00:21:37.620 And it is frustrating when there are Republicans that are opposing it because there are things
00:21:42.180 you look at a bill that's a thousand pages long.
00:21:44.960 You're going to find things that you don't like.
00:21:46.800 I'm going to find things I don't like.
00:21:47.820 All part of getting to 218 in the House and 50 in the Senate involves giving and taking
00:21:55.320 and negotiating.
00:21:56.200 If you don't want to do that, if you're a member of Congress and say, I don't want to
00:21:58.820 do that.
00:21:59.200 I want it my way or no way.
00:22:00.560 Then you really don't need to be in Congress because unfortunately, our founding father
00:22:04.660 set it up to where you have to get a majority in the House.
00:22:07.600 And normally you have to get 60 out of 100 votes in the Senate, which means you would
00:22:12.000 have to get Democrats.
00:22:12.780 But because the budget reconciliation bill, you only have to get a majority.
00:22:16.380 So we don't have to fool with any Democrats.
00:22:19.220 And hopefully we'll be able to do it on our own.
00:22:22.020 And if we don't, no one to blame but the Republicans.
00:22:24.880 Yeah.
00:22:25.080 And the Senate, you already have problems because off the bat, you start with Murkowski, Susan
00:22:28.880 Collins.
00:22:29.240 And you've got Tom Tillis now is just acting like a total fool with what he did to Ed Martin.
00:22:34.040 And, you know, I broke, I did a show and I broke it down and I looked at where the money
00:22:38.020 is coming from.
00:22:39.300 And Tom Tillis took massive amounts of money from the Medicare lobby, from the medical fields.
00:22:44.320 In my opinion, we've got to get this money out of politics.
00:22:47.120 Walking in this building this morning, I couldn't even get into the building because it's just
00:22:50.620 lobbyist after lobbyist after lobbyist after.
00:22:53.820 I think we should pass a law here in Congress where everyone who takes money should wear a
00:22:58.660 NASCAR jacket and say, I am sponsored by X, Y, because then at least the American people
00:23:02.920 know what's going on.
00:23:04.340 To me, it's these people buy the power, they buy the influence that they need, and they
00:23:08.600 do what they have to do.
00:23:09.880 In your investigation, nothing stopped you.
00:23:11.640 You probably had death threat after death threat.
00:23:13.700 I did.
00:23:13.980 You probably had to worry about looking behind your back when you went home with your wife
00:23:17.260 and your kids.
00:23:17.940 But it didn't stop you.
00:23:19.220 Right.
00:23:19.500 Nothing could stop you.
00:23:20.700 Whereas these people get a phone call from any lobbying industry and says, I want this
00:23:27.640 done.
00:23:28.700 Done.
00:23:29.420 It's amazing.
00:23:30.220 There is a direct correlation with special interest money and members of Congress who
00:23:34.060 really want to disrupt the system.
00:23:37.140 And that's a good thing I'll brag on the Oversight Committee.
00:23:39.380 You look at our members on the Oversight Committee, not a lot of special interest love
00:23:44.540 for the Oversight Committee.
00:23:46.240 But then you look at the Ways and Means Committee and the Energy and Commerce Committee and the
00:23:50.620 Appropriations Committee.
00:23:51.440 Those are your policy committees.
00:23:53.800 There's a lot of love from special interest in K Street for those committees.
00:23:57.660 So I think the biggest problem that exists in Congress is the amount of time people stay
00:24:05.680 in Congress.
00:24:06.500 So I think one of the biggest solutions, long-term solutions to fixing a broken Congress is term
00:24:12.120 limits.
00:24:13.080 And it's not, you know, term limits isn't as big a problem in the House as it is the
00:24:16.920 Senate.
00:24:17.340 The Senate, my God.
00:24:19.700 But you need to do it, I think, 12 years in the House and 12 years in the Senate is
00:24:24.400 plenty of time.
00:24:25.020 You know, people say, oh, you need seniority, seniority.
00:24:27.800 I use it myself as an example.
00:24:30.460 Seniority doesn't mean anything in the House.
00:24:31.820 It does in the Senate.
00:24:33.420 Chairmanships are determined in the Senate by seniority.
00:24:35.440 In the House, you run for...
00:24:36.800 But you've got a good parking spot outside, too.
00:24:38.620 Yeah, well, I don't drive.
00:24:41.020 I've never...
00:24:42.140 I'm too small a town.
00:24:43.660 I couldn't navigate the roads very well.
00:24:45.600 Good for you.
00:24:45.800 But, you know, at the end of the day, you run for chairmanship and you run for leadership
00:24:53.240 in the House.
00:24:54.440 I became the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee after just three and a half years
00:24:59.300 in Congress.
00:25:00.460 So, you know, everyone who I ran against had more seniority than I did.
00:25:05.040 Seniority doesn't mean anything in the House.
00:25:07.240 So, you know, one of the biggest arguments against term limits is, oh, you've got to
00:25:11.440 have seniority.
00:25:12.200 That's not a thing.
00:25:13.400 Yeah.
00:25:13.680 That's not a thing.
00:25:14.620 Yeah.
00:25:15.260 I would even be in favor, if they didn't want to go to term limits, make the senators
00:25:18.820 run every two years, too.
00:25:20.300 Yeah.
00:25:20.640 Make them run every two years to figure out so that people can see what's going on with
00:25:23.920 them.
00:25:24.360 Yeah.
00:25:24.620 Before we wrap up, I know you're strapped on time and I appreciate you really sitting
00:25:27.080 down with us today.
00:25:28.560 What's your outlook look like for this Congress as for your investigations?
00:25:33.300 Well, we've got a lot of...
00:25:34.420 It's not just the auto pin.
00:25:35.600 And obviously, that's become front and center because so much has come out in the last little
00:25:39.120 bit.
00:25:39.580 And if you think about what's the biggest thing holding Trump back now are a lot of
00:25:44.880 these executive orders that were used to Trump proof it.
00:25:47.600 A lot of his problems in court stem from some of these executive orders that Joe Biden signed.
00:25:52.600 If this investigation proves Joe Biden had no knowledge of that, then there's a good case
00:25:59.320 to get those executive orders declared null.
00:26:03.220 So, you know, I think that that's a major investigation.
00:26:09.200 We're bringing in 21 and we've got a lot of different investigations that we think pertain
00:26:16.020 to potential data breaches, not just with government entities, but private sector entities that could
00:26:21.780 create national security risk from China.
00:26:25.180 We're focused on, you know, some mysterious, suspicious contracts that the government's
00:26:31.480 issued.
00:26:32.020 We're working closely with Doge and some of the recommendations they recommended on, you
00:26:40.640 know, policy changes and things like that.
00:26:42.480 So now that the White House has got the rescission thing down, I think they understand that we're
00:26:48.460 going to be working with them and having hearings ahead of rescission package bills that come
00:26:54.000 in to save money.
00:26:55.300 We did the NPR and public television hearing that I think is going to be the first rescission
00:27:00.700 package that we do.
00:27:01.720 That was in the Oversight Committee in Marjorie Taylor Greene's subcommittee.
00:27:05.120 So we're going to play a role in trying to do what the committee is supposed to do, and
00:27:08.840 that's eliminate waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in the federal government.
00:27:11.540 I think we've got a lot of opportunity, and I think having a friendly administration will
00:27:16.980 help an administration willing to cut waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:27:22.060 They just needed some time to get their people in the door to get confirmed, and I think now
00:27:27.400 we're in a position where hopefully with Pam Bondi, hopefully with, you know, all the other
00:27:32.260 cabinet secretaries that we can move forward at a fast pace and try to drain the swamp.
00:27:38.840 And disrupt this Washington that's out of control.
00:27:44.440 Last question.
00:27:45.600 Do you have the full faith and confidence in Pam Bondi?
00:27:48.460 I mean, in my opinion, we've seen nothing so far.
00:27:52.280 We've heard a lot of talk, as Lou Dobbs used to call a blather, but we've got nothing to
00:27:57.220 show for it.
00:27:57.980 I understand the Epstein files are long, and there's a lot into them, and they're very
00:28:01.660 complex, but give the people something.
00:28:03.840 Yeah.
00:28:04.380 Break it down.
00:28:05.060 Yeah, I think that it's taken her time to get her people in to understand the process.
00:28:12.700 Donald Trump brought in outsiders, and we wanted outsiders, and the American people wanted
00:28:19.380 outsiders, but it takes those outsiders a little time to understand the mechanism.
00:28:23.920 I think Musk was effective for the most part at Doge, but a lot of stuff that he recommended
00:28:29.480 he didn't really understand because he had never worked in government, like terminating
00:28:33.560 the federal employees.
00:28:34.560 It's very difficult to terminate federal employees.
00:28:36.620 There's a way to do it.
00:28:37.940 I don't know that he did it the right way, and I don't know how many of those that he
00:28:41.920 terminated are really terminated right now.
00:28:43.960 So we've got to work with these cabinet secretaries and the people in the Trump administration.
00:28:50.560 We've expressed our willingness, and our assistance is available.
00:28:57.520 We are now communicating with Pam Bondi.
00:28:59.980 It's taken her a while to just get settled in, and I think you're going to see more performance
00:29:08.440 out of her moving forward.
00:29:09.880 She certainly has the ability.
00:29:11.760 President Trump had confidence in her.
00:29:13.320 I don't know her, but I believe that she's going to get some things done.
00:29:18.000 It's just taken her a while to get her people in place.
00:29:20.640 And remember, she's fighting the deep state.
00:29:22.280 I mean, that's ground zero for the deep state and people.
00:29:26.220 She walked into an agency that's not her friend, and she's not going to get much cooperation
00:29:31.620 from the career staff at the Justice Cabinet.
00:29:35.060 Yeah, and we still have a lot of these holdovers who are hidden, buried deep down that we can't
00:29:38.760 seem to get rid of.
00:29:39.440 I mean, that's the root of the problem.
00:29:41.820 You've got them.
00:29:42.540 But in my opinion, Pam Bondi's got to crap or get off the toilet.
00:29:46.260 I think that's the saying.
00:29:47.500 Get the job done or pass a little torch to somebody who can get it done.
00:29:51.500 Thanks for all the work that you're doing, and we appreciate you sitting down with us,
00:29:53.840 Congressman.
00:29:54.320 Thanks for having me.
00:29:55.240 Thanks, everybody, for being with us tonight here on The Great America Show.
00:29:57.500 Tomorrow, we're back with House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan and Nancy Mace.
00:30:02.580 We take up all these issues that are facing Congress right now, and what they're going
00:30:07.020 to do to stop these Marxist ends, these rogue judges who mean to destroy this country, and
00:30:12.200 they're doing just that.
00:30:13.720 We'll see you back here tomorrow for The Great America Show.
00:30:15.400 Until then, may God bless you.
00:30:16.980 May God bless America.
00:30:17.900 And may God bless the great Lou Dobbs.
00:30:19.820 Have a wonderful night, everybody.
00:30:21.140 Have a wonderful night, everybody.