The Great America Show - July 03, 2023


THE SPIRIT OF 1776 LIVES


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Supreme Court strikes down President Joe Biden's plan to forgive student loan debts. Whistleblowers reveal massive corruption at the highest levels of the Biden crime family and the IRS. Former IRS agent Gary Sharpley says the Department of Justice covered up for Joe Biden.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and this is The Great America Show. Great to have you
00:00:08.380 with us on these, well, July 4th Independence Day holidays. The Supreme Court, in its final
00:00:16.020 week of the spring term, abolishing affirmative action, giving strong support to the freedom
00:00:21.740 of speech, giving primacy to the right of religious freedom over work schedules, and
00:00:27.880 all in all reaffirming the nation's founding values that the Biden regime has been trampling
00:00:34.020 for the past two and a half years. It's been a tough two weeks for President Biden. The
00:00:40.260 Supreme Court last week issued a series of blows to the Biden regime's radical agenda, including
00:00:46.560 a reminder to Mr. Biden that his powers as president are limited by the Constitution, and his half
00:00:54.160 trillion-dollar walking-around money program was ruled unconstitutional, the court ordering
00:01:00.980 in effect a restoration of respect for the American taxpayer and the law as they defeated his student
00:01:09.160 loan forgiveness plan. In a 6-3 ruling last week, SCOTUS said the Biden student loan forgiveness
00:01:16.440 plan is a no-go without congressional approval, period. President Biden spoke at the White House
00:01:23.620 Friday and addressed the high court's ruling, and he takes no blame for his totalitarian overreach.
00:01:30.760 This program was all set to begin. The website had been set up, the applications had been simplified,
00:01:37.000 so that it took less than five minutes to complete. Notice had been sent out to people about the relief
00:01:42.700 they were eligible for. 16 million people. 16 million people had already been approved. The money was
00:01:49.340 literally about to go out the door. And then Republican elected officials and special interests
00:01:54.620 stepped in. They said, no, no, literally snatching from the hands of millions of Americans thousands
00:02:00.540 of dollars in student debt relief that was about to change their lives. You know, these Republican
00:02:06.060 officials just couldn't bear the thought of providing relief for working-class, middle-class Americans. 0.75
00:02:11.800 Republican state officials sued my administration, attempting to block relief, including millions of their own
00:02:17.940 constituents. Republicans in Congress voted to overturn the plan. I think everyone, I don't think I had
00:02:22.560 any Republican votes for this plan. At the same time, think about this. We all supported the
00:02:28.560 Paycheck Protection Program. Remember PPP? You know, which was designed to help business owners who lost
00:02:34.880 money because of the pandemic? It was a worthy program. But let's be clear, some of the same elected
00:02:40.560 Republicans, members of Congress, who strongly opposed giving relief to students, got hundreds of thousands
00:02:47.300 of dollars themselves in relief, members of Congress, because of the businesses they were able to keep
00:02:53.320 open. Several members of Congress got over a million dollars. All those loans are forgiven. You know how much
00:03:01.100 that program cost? $760 billion. My program's too expensive. $360 billion more than I proposed in my
00:03:13.940 debt relief program. The PPP program Biden refers to was to keep Americans afloat during the plague of
00:03:21.160 the China virus and approved by Congress. Biden blames the Supreme Court and Republican members of
00:03:27.480 Congress for his overreach, his endless authoritarian fiats that no president, not even Barack Obama,
00:03:35.800 ever attempted in such numbers. The Supreme Court ruling surely gave Biden agita, as did the number of
00:03:43.040 whistleblowers coming forward from the Internal Revenue Service. They made apparent the corruption of the
00:03:48.680 Biden crime family and that of the Department of Justice. Whistleblower Gary Sharpley, 14 years an IRS
00:03:56.660 agent, says the Department of Justice intervened a number of times when his agency investigated the
00:04:04.000 connection between Hunter Biden's business dealings and Joe Biden. They were told they were not allowed to
00:04:11.140 look into any reference to the big guy. Congressman James Comer, who's been leading the investigation
00:04:17.720 into the Biden family corruption, says overseas payments to the Biden family could exceed $40 million.
00:04:26.900 Comer says the DOJ has engaged in a cover-up of public corruption at the highest level.
00:04:33.860 This is another example of the Department of Justice meddling to have a cover-up. This is a cover-up
00:04:39.880 of public corruption at the highest levels. And if you go back to when we brought the General
00:04:45.120 Council for the National Archives in for a transcribed interview in the House Oversight
00:04:49.580 Committee, they said the DOJ told them to stand down. We have FBI whistleblowers that Senator Grassley
00:04:55.460 and I have worked with that said they were told to stand down on this investigation of Biden bribery.
00:05:01.140 Now you have two very credible IRS whistleblowers who have said the same thing. They started finding
00:05:06.900 those shell companies that we've disclosed in the House Oversight Committee. And I think they were
00:05:11.880 on number five or number six out of 19. And they were told to stand down. So we have a situation here
00:05:18.700 where our federal government has been involved in a cover-up. It's generated by the Department of
00:05:25.640 Justice. And it continues with this Hunter Biden plea deal. I mean, this is a slap in the face of every
00:05:31.920 American who works hard and pays taxes and believes in our system of justice.
00:05:37.220 Joe Biden nonetheless seems to be getting a free pass to this point, while President Trump may soon
00:05:43.240 face another 45 charges that the Marxist thug Jack Smith is reportedly considering. We're in the eighth
00:05:50.640 year of Marxist-dim political persecution of President Trump. Jack Smith, Merrick Garland,
00:05:58.000 and Joe Biden will surely pay for these crimes against an innocent man. Joining us now is attorney
00:06:05.500 Kurt Olson. He's represented President Trump and currently represents Carrie Lake. Kurt, great of
00:06:11.840 you to take time to talk with us over these July 4th holidays. A lot of opinions out of the Supreme
00:06:18.280 Court last week. Of course, religious liberties reassured students will have to pay their debts
00:06:23.540 and affirmative action for college students is no longer. Let's start with the Supreme Court decision
00:06:29.400 ending affirmative action. Your reaction, Kurt, to this historic ruling?
00:06:34.100 Well, I do think that this is a watershed opinion, which is putting a nail in the coffin of quotas.
00:06:43.180 And it ruled that colleges who were using simple quotas based on race for admission policies were
00:06:50.740 flat-out unconstitutional. And this is a great day for America, because we're getting back to where
00:07:00.020 it's merit that counts, not the color of your skin. I mean, this goes back to the Dr. Martin Luther King,
00:07:06.980 in his I Have a Dream speech, when he said, you know, I dream of the day when somebody will judge me for
00:07:12.900 the content of my character, not the color of my skin. And it's, you know, odd to think that it took us
00:07:19.940 50 years to come back to that notion. It is. How will it be enforced? Do you have any idea?
00:07:27.540 Well, what it will do is that students who have been discriminated against based on the color of their skin
00:07:33.780 in the admissions process should be able to sue. I haven't had an opportunity yet to read the opinion in
00:07:41.540 detail. But there may also be issues with respect to federal funding. So many of these colleges receive
00:07:48.900 federal funding. And if they are using policies that are unconstitutional, those funds should be at
00:07:55.860 risk as well. It's time for meritocracy to return to this country. We have fallen prey to some of the
00:08:04.020 most noxious left wing values that we could possibly have permitted. We would never have
00:08:12.580 dreamed of permitting 50 years ago, some of them helpful and necessary. But most we're now in the
00:08:20.180 woke society, which is, to me, the ultimate extension of what was driving things like affirmative action
00:08:26.740 at the time. Your thoughts?
00:08:28.260 Well, I think when you look at, you mentioned woke society. And woke society, it's the difference
00:08:34.500 between what is just happening and what is being done to you. And so this idea of wokeness and white
00:08:42.900 supremacy, this is a recent phenomenon. And so what you're seeing is there is an effort to divide people
00:08:51.860 in America by race, by religion, by sexual preference. Everything is being done. And this is part 0.70
00:09:00.580 of a takedown of America. And it's done by the establishment, because when the people are divided
00:09:07.300 and focused on their differences. So when you have Biden come out and say that white supremacy is the
00:09:15.140 greatest threat to America? Since when? And these ideas that are being promoted to divide people,
00:09:28.180 that's the true danger to America. So getting back to the idea, as you said, to a meritocracy
00:09:35.140 and having the court put on a stamp of approval of the constitution, which is what this country was founded
00:09:42.980 on. This is a great event. And hopefully this will lead, this will be one more nail in the coffin of
00:09:50.420 wokeness, which has just been a travesty and being used by people who want to control people.
00:09:59.060 True words were never spoken, Curt. And we listened to the Department of Defense talking about how they're
00:10:06.180 going to operate. But they are now at least a year behind current events. We now have heard from
00:10:15.460 BlackRock, the institution that started all of the ESG, the environment, social, the equity, social
00:10:24.500 governance, ESG nonsense to go along with CRT, critical race theory, all of that Marxist blather.
00:10:32.180 They're going to have to roll back a lot of silly, silly talking points that they put in the mouths of 0.99
00:10:38.500 their CEOs and discussed at their board meetings. It's ignorance. It was known ignorance. And now the
00:10:45.380 left is starting to retreat. And just in time, I might add to support what you're saying.
00:10:51.460 Yeah, I hope that it's a retreat because it's a question of, are they just not going to talk about
00:10:57.620 it, but still do it in another form? Or are they actually going to stop promoting the policy of ESG?
00:11:06.420 And I think the jury is still out on that. But this shows the power of the market. Anheuser-Busch is a
00:11:16.100 perfect example of how people can vote with their wallet, so to speak, and reject this notion of
00:11:25.460 wokeness of an agenda that is being put on. And one thing that state legislatures can do, because many
00:11:33.060 pension plans invest in BlackRock. So BlackRock, I think, has about $14 trillion under assets.
00:11:42.500 And so states, particularly those that are conservative, that do not believe in the agenda
00:11:49.620 of the left and the woke culture, they should be taking a hard look as to whether or not
00:11:55.140 the state pension plans that they are at least have some measure of control, that they could cause a
00:12:02.180 divestment from BlackRock that has been promoting anti-American policies. And so I would call on state
00:12:09.300 legislators to start taking a more active role. And the same thing with universities, state-funded
00:12:14.660 universities. State legislatures can start taking a more active role to stop wokeness, whether it's in 0.85
00:12:22.580 the university or the boardroom. This is a fundamental threat to America. And with state legislators,
00:12:30.020 if they get the guts to start heading or taking this on, we can really get America back to its
00:12:39.380 founding principles.
00:12:40.260 We're talking with Attorney Kurt Olson. Stay with us. We're coming right back.
00:12:44.660 We're back, Kurt. I want to take up what the president said. President Biden, right after
00:12:57.060 the announcement that the Supreme Court had rolled affirmative action off the books,
00:13:03.940 he said that this is not the final word. I've never heard a president say that about a Supreme Court
00:13:12.740 decision. I have heard, of course, the reaction of this administration to Roe v. Wade and that
00:13:19.940 ruling. This is a government that, you know, these people are all talking, the left is all talking about
00:13:26.180 election deniers. This is a president who is denying our constitution. He's denying our system of
00:13:32.500 government. And no one is calling out the Biden regime for being anti-Constitution, anti-America.
00:13:41.700 What is going on here?
00:13:44.020 Well, again, this is just another arrow in the quiver of the takedown of America. And so what
00:13:50.660 they are trying to do is to delegitimize the court whenever it rules in a manner that they don't agree
00:13:56.580 with. Because at the end of the day, they want control. And so whether it's court
00:14:02.260 packing or having term limits on Supreme Court justices, these are fundamental changes that they
00:14:11.380 want so that they can implement their agenda. And so whenever a decision comes forward that they
00:14:19.780 don't agree with, you know, they don't follow the constitutional order, because the Supreme Court is
00:14:28.980 supposed to be the final word on the constitutionality of a decision. And so you may recall the Morby
00:14:35.380 Harper decision that came out two days ago, where the Supreme Court ruled six to three, that article one of
00:14:42.980 the constitution where state legislatures, it states that they have plenary authority to govern the time,
00:14:48.900 places and manner of elections. The Supreme Court ruled that they are the legislature is still subject
00:14:54.980 to judicial oversight, which for the left was a victory. They didn't complain about that. They didn't
00:15:01.700 seek to delegitimize the court. And so this just shows the intellectual dishonesty of the left and that
00:15:06.660 for them, it's not about the Constitution. It's not about America. It's about power. And that's their end game.
00:15:13.300 These are Marxist Dems leading the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party itself is now a Marxist party,
00:15:21.220 as far as I'm concerned. And certainly this administration aligned with communist China, aligned with Iran,
00:15:30.020 with Venezuela. This is this is a and Cuba, apparently, because they're not even objecting to China
00:15:36.660 building a military base in Cuba. This is a period of great peril for the United States. And this 0.95
00:15:43.620 administration is so anti-American, they don't even attempt to hide it anymore. At least they were some
00:15:49.380 subtlety in the early months of the administration. But now they're full on anti-America and anti-
00:15:55.860 certainly American sovereignty. And we're talking about this as we go into July 4th. I'd like to get your
00:16:03.620 thoughts as a former SEAL, Kurt, if I may, about what this country is, where we are, what what you're
00:16:11.780 thinking about on this July 4th.
00:16:14.500 Well, I'm thinking about the peril that this nation faces. Much of what you much of what you just alluded to.
00:16:21.460 But I'm also looking at people starting to awaken and to reassert themselves. And so I'll give you
00:16:29.780 one example that just happened in Spalding County, Georgia. The supervisors there voted to get rid of
00:16:37.220 electronic voting machines. And these are the people that are coming forward and starting to take control.
00:16:44.500 And this is against the state government. Secretary of State Rasenberger and Kemp both oppose this measure.
00:16:51.700 The same thing in Shasta County, California, where the supervisors there voted not to renew the
00:16:58.740 electronic voting machines manufacturer's contract. You want to go to hand count. And so what you're
00:17:04.180 seeing, and I think what needs to be celebrated and promoted, just as it was in 1776 and the years
00:17:11.860 preceding that, where the American people stood up to tyranny. And they just didn't go along with it
00:17:18.340 anymore. You're starting to see that same spirit come alive. And we need to promote that even further and
00:17:25.380 celebrate it. Because this is what will save the country. It's when the people start realizing that the
00:17:31.780 power resides with them for change, just as it did back in 1776.
00:17:39.380 Wise and inspiring words, Kurt Olson. We thank you very much for those words.
00:17:43.860 And we thank you very much for being with us today on The Great America Show.
00:17:48.340 Kurt, thanks so much. And God bless.
00:17:50.580 Thank you, Lou.
00:17:51.460 Kurt Olson, in the fight, working for President Trump and America. Kurt, a great American. We hope
00:17:58.820 you have a great Fourth of July, our 258th Independence Day. Let's make sure our great country
00:18:06.660 has many, many more. Our guests here tomorrow will be former senior intelligence analyst for the
00:18:11.940 National Security Agency and whistleblower Russ Tice. We hope you'll be with us. Till then,
00:18:18.420 thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.