The Great America Show Mid-Day Update - May 31, 2023
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Summary
Kevin McCarthy sold out, capitulating in debt talks to President Biden. The House Freedom Caucus vowing to hold Speaker Kevin McCarthy responsible with a potential motion to vacate, which one member of Congress can bring to unseat him. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer calls FBI Director Chris Ray s bluff, announcing he will start contempt of Congress proceedings against the FBI Director for his refusal to comply with a subpoena.
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I'm Lou Dobbs with a Great America Show update. Kevin McCarthy sold out, capitulating in debt
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talks to President Biden. The House of Representatives set to vote tonight on the
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Biden-McCarthy spending bill, which gives the president a blank check through January of 2025
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to spend as freely as he wants, at least another $4 trillion added to the national debt.
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The House Freedom Caucus vowing to hold McCarthy responsible with a potential motion to vacate,
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which one member of Congress can bring to unseat McCarthy. House Oversight Committee Chairman James
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Comer calls FBI Director Chris Ray's bluff. Chairman Comer announcing he will start contempt of
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Congress proceedings against the FBI Director for his refusal to comply with a subpoena from the
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Oversight Committee. Comer issued the subpoena earlier this month, compelling Director Ray to
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produce any whistleblower forms from confidential sources from June of 2020 that contain the word
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Biden. Here is Congressman Comer talking with Sean Hannity last night about Director Ray.
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He was given three weeks to produce a document and go into detail on what exactly they did
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to investigate the validity of the document. But thus far, he won't even admit that they have the
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document, Sean. He's given us the runaround for three weeks. He's just stalling. He said there's
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good faith effort. They haven't produced anything. They haven't even admitted they have a document.
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So we don't have confidence in Director Ray. We're already in the process of drafting legislation
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to hold an Oversight Committee markup next week to hold FBI Director Ray in contempt of Congress.
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Chairman James Comer will join us next week on The Great America Show to give us an update on where
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the committee investigation is headed. We hope you'll be with us for that. Please join us today on The
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Great America Show. Our guest is Congressman Andy Biggs. We take up Speaker Kevin McCarthy's betrayal of the
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Freedom Caucus and the Republican Conference. And the question is, will one of those Freedom Caucus
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members bring a motion to vacate Speaker McCarthy? Here is Andy Biggs' take on what he calls a putrid
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budget deal. I think this is probably the worst piece of legislation I've seen since I've been in
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Congress. And the way it was negotiated, everything about it, the process has been bad. But when you have
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a bad process, almost invariably, you're going to get a really bad product. And this product
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is putrid, quite frankly. And I'm hoping that we can at least keep a majority of Republicans off of
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it. I know that I know, Lou, this gives you an idea how bad this is. I'm pretty certain there's
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going to be 100 to 150 Democrats voting for this bill tomorrow. They'll also help it get out of rules.
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And I just hope that a majority of Republicans say no.
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All that and much more on The Great America Show today. Please join us. And a reminder to be with us
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each and every weekday on The Great America Show. This is the Lou Dobbs Great America Show update.