The Great America Show - The Great America Show Mid-Day Update - May 31, 2023

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.

00:00:00.000 I'm Lou Dobbs with a Great America Show update. Kevin McCarthy sold out, capitulating in debt

00:00:06.480 talks to President Biden. The House of Representatives set to vote tonight on the

00:00:11.320 Biden-McCarthy spending bill, which gives the president a blank check through January of 2025

00:00:17.080 to spend as freely as he wants, at least another $4 trillion added to the national debt.

00:00:24.340 The House Freedom Caucus vowing to hold McCarthy responsible with a potential motion to vacate,

00:00:31.360 which one member of Congress can bring to unseat McCarthy. House Oversight Committee Chairman James

00:00:37.800 Comer calls FBI Director Chris Ray's bluff. Chairman Comer announcing he will start contempt of

00:00:44.560 Congress proceedings against the FBI Director for his refusal to comply with a subpoena from the

00:00:51.280 Oversight Committee. Comer issued the subpoena earlier this month, compelling Director Ray to

00:00:57.120 produce any whistleblower forms from confidential sources from June of 2020 that contain the word

00:01:04.120 Biden. Here is Congressman Comer talking with Sean Hannity last night about Director Ray.

00:01:11.400 He was given three weeks to produce a document and go into detail on what exactly they did

00:01:18.020 to investigate the validity of the document. But thus far, he won't even admit that they have the

00:01:24.860 document, Sean. He's given us the runaround for three weeks. He's just stalling. He said there's

00:01:30.520 good faith effort. They haven't produced anything. They haven't even admitted they have a document.

00:01:35.300 So we don't have confidence in Director Ray. We're already in the process of drafting legislation

00:01:40.460 to hold an Oversight Committee markup next week to hold FBI Director Ray in contempt of Congress.

00:01:49.000 Chairman James Comer will join us next week on The Great America Show to give us an update on where

00:01:54.880 the committee investigation is headed. We hope you'll be with us for that. Please join us today on The

00:02:00.900 Great America Show. Our guest is Congressman Andy Biggs. We take up Speaker Kevin McCarthy's betrayal of the

00:02:06.980 Freedom Caucus and the Republican Conference. And the question is, will one of those Freedom Caucus

00:02:12.400 members bring a motion to vacate Speaker McCarthy? Here is Andy Biggs' take on what he calls a putrid

00:02:18.960 budget deal. I think this is probably the worst piece of legislation I've seen since I've been in

00:02:23.360 Congress. And the way it was negotiated, everything about it, the process has been bad. But when you have

00:02:31.460 a bad process, almost invariably, you're going to get a really bad product. And this product

00:02:35.660 is putrid, quite frankly. And I'm hoping that we can at least keep a majority of Republicans off of

00:02:43.660 it. I know that I know, Lou, this gives you an idea how bad this is. I'm pretty certain there's

00:02:48.700 going to be 100 to 150 Democrats voting for this bill tomorrow. They'll also help it get out of rules. 0.78

00:02:55.060 And I just hope that a majority of Republicans say no.

00:03:00.060 All that and much more on The Great America Show today. Please join us. And a reminder to be with us

00:03:06.400 each and every weekday on The Great America Show. This is the Lou Dobbs Great America Show update.

The Great America Show - May 31, 2023

The Great America Show Mid-Day Update - May 31, 2023

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