The Great America Show - November 12, 2022


TOM FITTON SAYS THE SEN. GRASSLEY AND SEN. JOHNSON PROBE OF HUNTER BIDEN IS ADVANCING AND SENATE LEADERS AREN’T HELPING


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Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton joins the Great America Show host Lou Dobbs to discuss the ongoing election recount in Arizona and Nevada, and the ongoing investigation by Senators Johnson and Grassley of the Judiciary Committee into the Joe Biden campaign.

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm Lou Dobbs and welcome to the Great America Show, Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
00:00:07.720 Always under assault, always ultimately prevailing, and we're in a test.
00:00:13.020 Never in peacetime have the threats been more dangerous to this republic of ours than right now.
00:00:19.460 As I speak with you, the Marxist Dems are still counting votes out there in Nevada and Arizona,
00:00:24.900 and Republicans in both states are wringing their hands and gnashing their teeth while ever so pleasantly urging,
00:00:32.440 even begging really, for the vote tabulation to be sped up.
00:00:36.440 But why do they think the vote count is being slow-rolled to begin with?
00:00:41.200 Once again, it looks as though, at least to me, like the Republican Party is being played for the political chumps that they customarily play.
00:00:49.660 It took days of delays after the election in good old Maricopa County for Senator Mark Kelly to,
00:00:57.220 well, at least appear to prevail against his Republican challenger, Blake Masters.
00:01:02.460 It was never a likely proposition for Masters, but it now looks assured that Kelly has won re-election.
00:01:09.880 But what about GOP gubernatorial candidate Carrie Lake? 0.96
00:01:13.200 Up in all of the polls going into Election Day, now after days of delays, inexplicable and brazen delays,
00:01:22.220 all presided over, by the way, by Lake's opponent, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, 0.97
00:01:27.700 who quite smartly, but not so ethically, never gave up her office and authority over the election that she was running in,
00:01:36.860 just because it was a monumental conflict of interest.
00:01:40.140 But that's the Arizona way, apparently.
00:01:43.200 And here we are on a beautiful Saturday in America with the governorship in Arizona uncertain
00:01:48.340 and the final tally just as uncertain in Nevada,
00:01:52.220 where former Attorney General Republican Adam Laxalt, at last report, was up by a whole percent,
00:01:59.060 a margin that dwindles, it seems, with each vote drop and each passing day.
00:02:04.180 He's also caught up in a slow roll count of voting.
00:02:07.320 And again, no explanation from the election so-called authorities and huge questions and suspicions that multiply by the day.
00:02:17.460 So at this point, it appears likely the Republicans will take control of the House of Representatives.
00:02:23.500 By a considerably smaller margin than was expected.
00:02:27.500 No red wave this time.
00:02:30.000 The Republicans have now 211 seats.
00:02:33.320 They need 218.
00:02:35.440 Only seven more needed for the Republicans to take control of Congress.
00:02:40.260 And the Democrats, they need 22 more seats to add to their 196 held so far.
00:02:46.820 Why, oh why, do we permit such sloppy, third-world, inexplicable conduct of our elections? 1.00
00:02:54.800 You and I, we know the reason, and so do both political parties.
00:02:59.160 It is outright corruption.
00:03:00.920 And it's not only tolerated, it seems to be an essential part of our electoral system, coast to coast.
00:03:07.600 And the D.C. swamp loves it.
00:03:09.620 Our guest works every day to reveal truths that the corrupt in our government bury and hide.
00:03:15.840 Tom Fitton is our guest, president of Judicial Watch, and they do a great job for all of us.
00:03:21.880 Welcome, Tom.
00:03:22.640 And while the midterm elections were raging, Senators Johnson and Grassley were moving ahead with their investigation of Hunter Biden.
00:03:30.720 Does everybody remember Hunter Biden and the implications for President Biden?
00:03:34.880 Is this investigation this time for real, or is it more pretend?
00:03:40.180 Well, I think Johnson and Grassley do mean business.
00:03:44.040 I mean, they've shown that they're the only Republicans in the Senate.
00:03:48.660 You know, I don't obviously other support what they're doing, but they have taken leadership on this.
00:03:54.060 And I do trust they'll try to get to the bottom of it.
00:03:57.400 The challenge they have is they have zero support from the leadership.
00:04:01.840 You know, Mitch McConnell has zero interest in scandal politics.
00:04:06.180 And I don't use, you know, I don't use scandal politics as a way to denigrate the effort.
00:04:12.180 But, you know, they think it's a loser, so they don't want to ever do it.
00:04:15.100 And plus, you know, you have this mutually assured destruction pact between Republicans and Democrats on corruption anyway.
00:04:22.820 So, that is a positive development.
00:04:28.040 And, you know, we've gotten more out of Johnson and Grassley on corruption related to Hunter and Joe Biden than out of the Justice Department, that's for sure.
00:04:40.160 No question about that.
00:04:41.600 And over four years now of investigation by the U.S. attorney in Delaware, I've never seen a more careful investigation, have you?
00:04:53.060 I mean, I really think they need to fire some people.
00:04:56.180 If it takes four years to investigate an issue like tax evasion, which that narrowly was the issue, these people at the Department of Justice are no longer just corrupt and crooked.
00:05:08.900 They are immensely slow-witted.
00:05:12.860 I don't understand how anything ever happens, and perhaps nothing is happening in this country in the prosecution of crime.
00:05:21.160 I really, I just, I am stunned that the national media, the Republican Party, the American people sit there and say, oh, yes, it's that slow as molasses Department of Justice where truth goes to die.
00:05:34.980 Don't bother them, don't wake them, because all they do is evil when they're engaged.
00:05:41.760 Your thoughts?
00:05:43.620 Well, if the slowness is the result of bureaucratic incompetence, that's one thing.
00:05:47.520 And always, you can't eliminate that when you're talking about the government.
00:05:51.760 But we have evidence the slowness is because of obstruction of justice.
00:05:55.320 You had information coming out of whistleblowers that talked to both Grassley and Johnson that they buried the Hunter laptop just before the election.
00:06:06.300 They've had the laptop since at least 2019.
00:06:09.480 They've been investigating Hunter for four years, as you've suggested.
00:06:13.920 So the fact that nothing's been done to date suggests that it's a political process now that they're obstructing the fair administration of justice.
00:06:27.980 Anyone else would have been prosecuted.
00:06:30.520 You know, unlike, you know, some of our friends on the left, I don't believe Hunter or Joe or his brother should be prosecuted because they're powerful.
00:06:39.960 Simply because they're powerful and should be punished, that's the way the left treats Trump.
00:06:47.120 I think there's this strong evidence of crimes.
00:06:50.480 You know, I'm no fan of Kamala Harris.
00:06:53.780 You know, I'm not aware that she's done anything personally corrupt.
00:06:58.100 So I don't talk about corruption in Kamala Harris.
00:07:01.740 I'm not a fan of a lot of Democrats and a lot of liberals.
00:07:05.180 But if there's no corruption issue, then it's just politics, right?
00:07:07.980 We can argue with them.
00:07:09.100 But Joe and company, we've got the significant corruption issues that are being covered up by the Justice Department and the FBI.
00:07:18.080 Well, you know, I have to say this just to have a little fun.
00:07:23.700 If the president of the United States is as corrupt as Biden has been demonstrated to be, along with his son, his brother, I mean, this is a matter of evidence.
00:07:36.200 It is straightforward.
00:07:37.820 It's in front of everyone, including the prosecutors and the Department of Justice.
00:07:41.980 If he's this corrupt and this brazen about it, what would be what would keep Kamala Harris from being crooked or Nancy Pelosi?
00:07:51.000 I mean, it's a rancid political corruption that exists in the swamp.
00:07:55.900 Why not make it nice and financial, build up the comfort zones for all of these people?
00:08:01.620 It is disgusting what we're watching here.
00:08:05.100 Yeah.
00:08:05.320 I mean, even as I said, well, I don't know anything about Kamala.
00:08:08.000 I'm like, well, maybe there's something I should know about.
00:08:10.560 But, you know, I mean, who we know this about, you know, whether it's a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Milley, whether it is Pete Buttigieg in transportation.
00:08:27.040 I mean, we have people in all sorts of places in this administration who have no clue what they're doing.
00:08:35.040 They don't even know what they're talking about.
00:08:36.660 And they don't even try to pretend they know what they're talking about, let alone actually do something constructive.
00:08:42.440 Yeah, you know, that's the failure of big government in dramatic ways.
00:08:49.360 And, you know, when you're talking about the Biden corruption, you know, my view is it has serious national security ramifications.
00:08:58.860 Biden and his family have been compromised by Russia and China money.
00:09:02.420 There's no doubt about it.
00:09:04.340 They may, best I can tell, Biden, Joe, or at least Hunter, still has business connections with China.
00:09:11.440 Right.
00:09:11.960 And, you know, and given the 10 percent big, you know, for the big guy business approach they have, you know, the president's implicated as well.
00:09:21.300 You know, I jokingly say that Joe Biden is the most corrupt president since he was vice president.
00:09:28.860 It's true.
00:09:29.860 It's true.
00:09:31.080 And funny, now that's a good one.
00:09:34.500 I love that one, Tom.
00:09:35.640 The Judiciary Committee sending over all of that stuff to to the Justice Department and the Senate Judiciary Committee should be taken rather seriously.
00:09:46.540 But it's going to they're just swatting it away, even though they're saying that they've got bank records related to the president of the United States,
00:09:55.360 United States, his family with connections to to the CCP, for crying out loud, the PLA and the Chinese intelligence agencies.
00:10:05.260 This would be a this should be a front page story right now on every newspaper in the country.
00:10:13.540 And instead, it's, you know, how much are the Democrats ahead in the state of New York?
00:10:18.720 That's the big story for them.
00:10:21.340 And by the way, that's becoming less of a story because they are now behind in New York in terms of the governor's race, certainly.
00:10:27.460 I mean, what's going on?
00:10:29.100 Any other president?
00:10:30.640 If this if this evidence was in front of the American people, there would be an outrage.
00:10:37.460 There is just ho hum.
00:10:39.360 It's ho hum.
00:10:40.520 It's a Biden.
00:10:41.540 It's a radical Marxist damn in the White House with all of his friends.
00:10:46.640 There's it's like the entire country has been desensitized to right and wrong, good and evil, proper and outrageous.
00:10:58.180 What what's your what's your thinking on that?
00:11:02.640 I think the media is compromised and they're part of the corruption in the sense, you know, Joe Biden's been in Washington for 50 years.
00:11:11.820 He didn't just, you know, start doing bad things in 2018, two years after he left the presidency or the vice presidency were.
00:11:23.680 And, you know, so his reputation is well known in the press corps and they protected him.
00:11:31.240 And not only that, they've actively gone after people who've tried to hold him accountable.
00:11:37.000 I mean, we're supposed to throw into the memory hole that they tried to remove Trump from office for blowing the whistle on Biden corruption in Ukraine and Russia.
00:11:46.640 And also, you're supposed to forget that there were, after all, a couple of years of investigation by the FBI pertaining to the special counsel investigation, a year of investigation before that, that they framed his his presumptive national security advisor.
00:12:10.600 That is, that is, General Michael Flynn.
00:12:13.040 They did so and it began in July of 2016.
00:12:16.180 He hadn't even been elected.
00:12:17.920 They thought they could shut down his candidacy in the final months of that election.
00:12:22.520 Then they went to from the from there to the special counsel, then two impeachments.
00:12:27.540 And the list keeps I mean, the hits keep coming.
00:12:29.900 And the fact this president is standing is a it's a monument to the fact that he is a the toughest, strongest leader we've had in this country in memory.
00:12:42.540 And and and and now the the Trump's derangement syndrome is exponentially larger and more intense amongst Democrats in this country.
00:12:54.500 It doesn't end here and it's not going to end well for the Democratic Party, because now they have a mass, such a trail of both evidence and transgressions that it's it's just revulsive that it's disgusting what they have done.
00:13:14.320 And they're going to have to live with this in history.
00:13:16.520 Well, and the question is, is there going to be accountability?
00:13:20.340 And, you know, the concern is that, you know, the Justice Department and the FBI.
00:13:25.540 You know, we they should do their job, but we can't rely on them to do their job.
00:13:29.460 They can't be trusted to do their job.
00:13:32.100 And it doesn't mean we don't press.
00:13:34.840 Come here.
00:13:35.320 Just for a second.
00:13:37.220 Let me just interrupt for a second, Tom.
00:13:40.020 Who in Washington, D.C. can we trust?
00:13:43.540 Is it the courts, Congress, the Senate?
00:13:48.280 Is it the presidency or is it the military, intelligence agencies?
00:13:55.700 Exactly who can we trust?
00:13:58.720 The Fourth Estate, the august Washington Post.
00:14:03.160 What are we talking about?
00:14:04.920 Trust there.
00:14:06.800 I have to tell you, I trust not a single one of those institutions.
00:14:11.700 And and I and I pity those who do.
00:14:16.460 Well, and I don't disagree with you.
00:14:18.320 And and to a degree we trust anyone in Washington, they need to have a demonstrated record of success
00:14:24.460 and focus on these issues we care about.
00:14:27.780 And to a degree anything's going to get done in Washington, it's because there's going to be a small group,
00:14:32.940 relatively speaking, of men and women in these institutions who are willing to do the right thing,
00:14:38.240 who should be encouraged and, you know, would see that in the Senate.
00:14:41.900 You're going to have a senator here and there do something right that will make remarkable progress.
00:14:47.740 Think back to Devin Nunes.
00:14:49.660 You know, who knew that Devin Nunes almost single handedly would solve Russiagate?
00:14:55.160 And that he was just one man.
00:14:58.160 So you I'm both hopeful and despairing in some respects, because it doesn't take a lot to get a lot done in here in Washington.
00:15:05.380 But still a lot still doesn't get done in Washington, nevertheless, which is just troubling.
00:15:10.040 Yeah.
00:15:10.480 One honest one honest person can do a great deal.
00:15:14.600 But that one honest person, Devin Nunes is a great example.
00:15:20.100 He knew exactly what was happening with the Russian hoax with Crossfire Hurricane. 0.91
00:15:25.600 He knew the role of the intelligence agencies and he knew it in 2017.
00:15:31.600 And what happened?
00:15:34.120 The CIA, he produces a memorandum.
00:15:37.080 And the CIA fills all of the space around it with landmines, all sorts of defenses, legal and institutional,
00:15:50.940 and puts it away in their little vault in the middle of a lobby and says, you know, you can't have your own memo back
00:15:57.340 and you will not share it with anyone or you'll be prosecuted.
00:16:00.740 I mean, that's outrageous.
00:16:02.820 We know that this entire government is corrupt, Tom.
00:16:07.920 Why doesn't anybody want to just say it out loud?
00:16:10.960 They're corrupt to the core of these institutions.
00:16:15.600 No, we have a rule of law crisis and the left is in a revolutionary mode right now,
00:16:21.520 attacking the institutions that we rely on to protect our republic and to, you know,
00:16:28.100 you know, basically are the core of our constitutional republic.
00:16:34.360 You know, and I've been thinking about what should be done next year.
00:16:37.420 And, you know, I'm just thinking out loud a little bit with you here, Lou.
00:16:41.600 Sure.
00:16:42.020 Is that if I were running the House, you know, I'd do the basic oversight.
00:16:47.360 I'm not suggesting they don't do that.
00:16:49.320 But, you know, a lot of the basic oversight's been done.
00:16:53.360 It's been done by Judicial Watch.
00:16:54.980 It's been done by, you know, Nunes.
00:16:56.760 It's been done by others.
00:16:58.440 Durham, I'm sure, after his failures, will have some report that will highlight what needs to be done.
00:17:04.400 We know a lot of what's been, you know, Hunter Biden's laptop is out there.
00:17:08.420 There's plenty of witnesses that will come and testify already.
00:17:11.580 So if I'm the Republicans or if I'm running the House, I would be doing a comprehensive impeachment of Biden, of Meyer Orkus, of Garland, anyone else who's been involved in this misconduct.
00:17:28.440 You know, for instance, those officials who were authorizing the spending of a half a trillion dollars without congressional authorization.
00:17:35.600 And when you're, you know, just take the impeachment approach, and there should be just a comprehensive investigation there, not with the goal of, quote, getting information.
00:17:45.960 No, with the goal of holding those responsible for government misconduct and abuse of office accountable.
00:17:53.640 And I don't know what's going to happen in the Senate, but I could think of worse things for the House to do than to give voice to the American people who don't, who are tired of folks getting away with it.
00:18:05.600 And the Justice Department, you know, if they're obstructing justice, impeach the responsible officials there.
00:18:15.080 You know, what else is there to do other than to take those steps?
00:18:19.000 See, now I think we're thinking out loud and in the right direction.
00:18:23.720 What else can we do?
00:18:25.160 Because each of the, everything that you've described, the other parties tried, and they've tried to do it against the innocent, i.e., particularly Donald Trump.
00:18:35.600 And what we end up with are these public spectacles made for television, episodic, you know, political theatrics that may amuse and even divert attention as someone wishes.
00:18:49.260 But the reality is we know what is in front of us, and we can't do anything until we have prosecutors who can respond to the evidence before them and do so in a timely and energetic manner.
00:19:05.580 You mentioned the bureaucracy.
00:19:07.040 I don't give a damn about the bureaucracy anymore.
00:19:09.100 Either the Republican Party comes up with a solution to sclerotic bureaucracy and corrupt decision makers throughout the deep state, or they're useless.
00:19:27.380 But we've got to have results.
00:19:30.120 We've got to show the American people that their government still works.
00:19:33.360 And we know at the end of those trails, the odds are decidedly against them to actually change this government that is so rife with corruption.
00:19:44.720 What do you think?
00:19:45.280 No, I, you know, I can't disagree with the challenges ahead.
00:19:51.640 You know, the question is, and this is kind of why I was raising the issue of the impeachment, is are we doing what we can do?
00:20:00.420 You know, Judicial Watch does what we can do, and Lord help us if we weren't doing it.
00:20:05.920 So are they doing, are they using all the tools available to them under the Constitution to hold these folks accountable?
00:20:13.500 And if they're not, we should demand more.
00:20:17.620 Of whom do we demand more?
00:20:20.660 We can't get, we can't even get, here is a party, a Republican Party, that for the past seven years has been run over by a freight train
00:20:31.400 that is driven by, engineered by the radical Dems.
00:20:36.980 They've outsmarted the Republicans electorally, bureaucratically, legally, administratively.
00:20:43.960 There isn't anything they haven't done that isn't, that they haven't made the Republicans look like fatuous, indolent fools.
00:20:54.500 Where are we going to get suddenly this energy and this directed?
00:20:59.680 Well, look, Lou, you know, if I thought Congress is always going to do the right thing, or even half the time do the right thing,
00:21:05.360 or 10% of the time do the right thing, I'd shut Judicial Watch down.
00:21:09.200 I mean, we have Judicial Watch because there's this yawning accountability gap here in Washington, D.C.,
00:21:15.380 and, you know, and even if we do have the government, you always need this civic, you know, this civic society.
00:21:21.500 Don't worry about Judicial Watch, Tom.
00:21:24.160 Don't worry about it.
00:21:25.380 You're always going to have a role.
00:21:27.620 Right, but Congress. 0.70
00:21:28.420 But if we can't expect more of this government, what in hell are we doing in this country,
00:21:34.140 and what are we doing politically, irrespective of your party or ideology, your partisanship?
00:21:40.660 Yours, I mean, everyone's.
00:21:42.380 Right.
00:21:42.600 I mean, if it's suddenly we've hit the 21st century and we're so sophisticated, so assured and worldly that we just accept this bull's BS,
00:21:56.960 you know, we've got to expect more of ourselves, of this government, and demand it.
00:22:02.820 And by the way, you and I both know, let's just talk straight.
00:22:06.600 Kevin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell are going to preside over this great washing of the federal garments, stained beyond belief.
00:22:17.900 It's just, it's just, to me, it's sickening to think that we're walking into another barrage, another Potemkin village in which political theatrics are at the center. 0.78
00:22:29.980 It's just, it's all make-believe.
00:22:33.520 We've got to get to reality.
00:22:35.060 And I think that's an important fact to keep in mind as, you know, presumably the House is going to go to the Republicans.
00:22:44.860 You know, I guess it's possible it won't, but it's likely to happen.
00:22:49.820 And so when they start doing things, we should be, you know, have clear eyes about what's going on.
00:22:55.260 Are they just doing enough to keep what they consider to be the base happy, or are they doing something substantial?
00:23:01.600 And you're right, the House leadership, generally speaking, isn't going to want to do this work in a substantial way.
00:23:10.660 You know, the Senate, frankly, you know, we would have to have a radical change in the caucus of the Senate Republican side, certainly, for anything to happen.
00:23:22.520 So these are challenges.
00:23:23.740 So we've got to find those who are doing good things and raise them up.
00:23:27.020 And not only that, but while raising them up, say, this is our expectation.
00:23:33.920 So it's not you can do no wrong.
00:23:36.800 It's we like when you do right, and you need to do more of it and hear what it is.
00:23:41.340 Here's what it is.
00:23:43.160 And here's what it is.
00:23:44.420 It's Mitch McConnell, who is compromised beyond belief.
00:23:48.060 Here's a man spending more money on, he is donating more money to Democrats opposing Republican candidates for the Senate, in at least two instances, than many states are spending entirety, their entirety of campaign spending.
00:24:07.820 This is obscene.
00:24:09.340 And no one's talking about it.
00:24:11.420 They have a minority leader in the Senate trying to defeat Republicans.
00:24:16.460 This is idiotic, particularly at a time when they have the thinnest imaginable margin.
00:24:24.320 How much evidence of political corruption does one need than those statements of fact that I just made?
00:24:30.860 Well, you know, while avoiding, as the head of a nonprofit, C3, commenting on campaign activities like that, it does demonstrate a certain amount of cynicism towards the Republican base, that's for sure, and to conservatives who they often ask for support from.
00:24:50.000 Yeah, oh my gosh.
00:24:52.220 I mean, don't you, I don't think I have heard of more eloquent diversion, aversion than that, and I appreciate it, and I understand your reasons for being careful, but particularly in this day and age.
00:25:08.920 By the way, just breaking now, I'm pleased to tell you that the folks over at the Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft, have just reported that PayPal has reinstated its policy to fine users $2,500 directly from their accounts if they spread, quote-unquote, misinformation.
00:25:32.160 Now, they not only want to be the paragons and arbiters of what is truth, but they also want to use you as a revenue source for PayPal.
00:25:44.220 It is, your thoughts?
00:25:47.220 Oh, it's even worse than that, because I saw that headline and went and looked at the terms of service.
00:25:53.280 PayPal says if you break their rules, they can keep all the money in your account for up to six months.
00:25:59.800 Well, they must need money badly.
00:26:04.060 I have a feeling they're going to need customers badly.
00:26:07.820 No one should put up with this kind of totalitarian.
00:26:10.700 And that's the other thing.
00:26:12.140 We're watching totalitarianism embraced by corporate America and big tech and social media.
00:26:19.940 We've had that experience.
00:26:21.420 Now we're watching it expand to its next level.
00:26:23.920 We are watching a corporate America has become as authoritarian as the Marxist dims themselves.
00:26:34.720 And again, few people are commenting on it, reporting on it, investigating it.
00:26:41.500 And everyone wants to pretend if you just avert your eyes, it's not that significant.
00:26:46.560 We can just move ahead.
00:26:48.960 PayPal has to be called to account for this.
00:26:52.540 This is outrageous.
00:26:54.860 The next thing, Chase Manhattan will be able to call your loans if, for some reason, you went to the wrong rally, supporting the wrong candidate.
00:27:05.900 What's next?
00:27:08.780 Well, that's right.
00:27:10.180 And, you know, you've got the corporations becoming political enforcers, as you say, for the left.
00:27:16.840 But it's even worse than that.
00:27:18.480 You know, we're talking about Washington being corrupt.
00:27:21.000 And, you know, there's corruption that's always present.
00:27:26.660 And, you know, hopefully it's addressed, you know, in terms of, let's say, the Hunter Biden type of corruption.
00:27:31.440 Right?
00:27:31.660 But then you have Biden raiding the home of his adversary, Trump.
00:27:37.760 Yeah.
00:27:38.680 You have the Justice Department, you have the White House encouraging illegal, dangerous protests at the homes of Supreme Court justices.
00:27:47.360 But that's not corruption.
00:27:50.120 That's a dire threat to our Republican former government.
00:27:54.140 Absolutely.
00:27:54.340 You know, that way lies the end of our republic, that type of behavior.
00:27:58.540 Justice Alito, the other day, giving a speech at the Heritage Foundation, talked about the number of assassination threats against the conservative justices as a result of the leak from the Supreme Court to the media.
00:28:16.640 And he talked about assassinations.
00:28:22.500 But he didn't talk about the reason for those threats.
00:28:26.860 The left is threatening the Supreme Court of the United States.
00:28:31.700 They are trying to intimidate the judiciary in this country and the conservative justices of the Supreme Court.
00:28:41.780 And I will say this, it is a horrible moment in which the Washington Post, for crying out loud, doesn't even take that story and give it the coverage it deserves and the issues, the coverage it deserves.
00:29:00.900 They're nothing more than a partisan operation.
00:29:06.140 It's sickening to watch what we're permitted to happen.
00:29:09.420 It's as if half the country is on nondepressants and sedatives.
00:29:15.140 I don't know what's happened to this country.
00:29:17.460 There is no visible beating pulse in the Republican Party right now without Donald Trump leading it every day.
00:29:26.100 Yeah, we're certainly lacking in leadership.
00:29:30.240 I'm a little bit more optimistic about the number of people concerned who share our concerns, Lou.
00:29:36.180 I mean, it's obviously not a majority, but it's a significant number that could, you know, change the direction of the country in a dramatic way.
00:29:43.080 But the leadership for that group is lacking, that's for sure.
00:29:47.680 You know, Trump is not in office.
00:29:49.600 He may run for office again.
00:29:52.140 You know, but in the meantime, those who rely on those types of voters, in my view, have an obligation.
00:29:56.960 And, you know, and just generally speaking, as, you know, having taken oaths to protect the Constitution, you know, to protect the Supreme Court, to say to the president of the United States and the Justice Department, unless you start prosecuting people for harassing the Supreme Court justices as is required by law, there's not a dollar that's going to flow into the Justice Department.
00:30:20.440 You know, there are, you know, we need people to address the crisis and defend the Republic using the tools available to them.
00:30:28.940 And that's, you know, this isn't about Hunter Biden.
00:30:31.840 This is about whether or not we're going to have a court or not.
00:30:34.640 This is about whether or not the president, if you speak out against the president, you want to run against the president, or you've been as a political opponent, you can go to sleep at night without having to worry about the FBI banging down your door.
00:30:48.180 These are dangerous times for our nation, Lou, and, you know, the number of people who understand that is way too small in this city.
00:30:59.600 I could think of maybe four or five House members who understand this, and, you know, maybe two or three senators.
00:31:09.340 Well, you look at the, and I think you're right, and I think you've put it exactly as it should be laid out, because this is a country now.
00:31:20.980 Well, we are in the, and I would say the throes of lacking comprehension.
00:31:30.440 We're in the throes of so much disinformation, so much blowback, so much noise coming from the left, and so little, so little emanating from the right,
00:31:44.740 that it's very difficult for people to understand how serious this conflict is, because the ones who you would expect to be in opposition to these forces are silent in the days here as we advance toward the election.
00:32:03.320 They're scared to death to mention anything, because their neighbors will react.
00:32:08.980 They may be called domestic terrorists if they say they want to vote for Trump.
00:32:13.420 We are in such a, it's a frightening moment in history, and I think a lot of people are, to that point, frightened.
00:32:21.200 And the idea that anybody can scare Americans, frightened Americans, makes my blood boil.
00:32:29.860 Well, you know, I, again, I can't tell anyone or won't tell anyone, I guess, whether to vote, who to vote for or against.
00:32:37.940 But I will tell your listeners that they should make this issue, these issues we're talking about, a priority in their communications with their elected representatives and what they're telling candidates on the trail.
00:32:49.040 I mean, if this issue is important to you and you're persuaded, you know, then what are you going to do about it, dear listener?
00:32:56.560 Are you going to, are you going to, you know, just have one vote or are you going to make this a priority for you in terms of communicating with every elected official and being as active as you can, you know, under our precious First Amendment rights?
00:33:10.720 You know, what good is the First Amendment if you don't want to exercise it, not only in terms of free speech, but you're, this is the, one of the wonderful aspects of the First Amendment that has never given enough attention.
00:33:23.140 We have this God-given right to petition our government.
00:33:27.720 And how few of us use it is just a scandal.
00:33:31.320 And, and again, the Marxist left doing everything in their power to make certain that we don't use our freedom of speech.
00:33:41.640 And that is at the very center of what is happening here.
00:33:46.000 One of the reasons that there is so little response to the unmitigated, pervasive corruption, political corruption of our government.
00:33:53.980 And, uh, Tom Fenton, as you know, we always give our guests the last word and, uh, your concluding thoughts here, if, uh, if we may.
00:34:04.380 Well, you know, uh, I'm going to be positive.
00:34:06.840 I mean, I think, uh, uh, with a little bit of, with a different leadership in, in Washington, D.C.
00:34:14.520 And I just don't mean replacing Republicans with Democrats.
00:34:17.680 I mean, focusing on the right type of leadership here in Washington, D.C.
00:34:21.540 We, we can get a lot done, uh, certainly on the political side, uh, in terms of these, uh, issues that we're care, we care about.
00:34:29.060 But I'm, I'm pleased to say in the meantime, Judicial Watch is going to continue to do the heavy lifting.
00:34:34.040 And if Congress won't do it, the media won't do it.
00:34:36.860 You can be sure Judicial Watch will.
00:34:38.580 Thank you, Lou.
00:34:39.500 Tom Fenton, Judicial Watch.
00:34:41.500 Thanks everybody for being our guests.
00:34:43.760 Uh, and join us here on Monday when our guest will be Republican pollster, John McLaughlin.
00:34:49.960 We'll see you here Monday, our guest again, John McLaughlin, on what happened in this election that's still undetermined.
00:34:58.420 Till Monday, thanks for being with us and God bless you.
00:35:01.920 May God bless America.