The Marxist-run propaganda media could barely contain their excitement at Trump's arraignment in the Mar-A-Lago FBI raid at his Florida estate. They have no qualms about conjuring pure fiction. Only one Republican presidential hopeful rose to Trump's defense.
00:00:30.000Hello everybody, I'm Lou Dobbs and this is The Great America Show.
00:00:34.040Thanks for being with us in these dark days of the Republic.
00:00:37.020The Marxist Dems and Rhinos taking victory laps this week in the wake of President Trump's indictment and arraignment in the Mar-a-Lago FBI raid presidential document case.
00:00:48.680The Marxist Dem mainstream propaganda media could barely contain their excitement.
00:00:54.400They're not only a freak show, they have no qualms about conjuring pure fiction.
00:00:58.480Here is CNN reporter Evan Perez with CNN's Jake Tapper just moments after President Trump had left that Miami courtroom.
00:01:08.720Evan, what can you tell us about, without mind reading obviously, the president's mood?
00:01:24.060It was certainly, you know, we've seen him sometimes when he's irritated, when he's not exactly very comfortable and happy inside a room.
00:01:33.020That is the look we saw there seated at the defense table inside this courtroom, packed courtroom, by the way.
00:01:40.000Initially, the U.S. Marshals and the clerk told us we were going to be limited to about 20 seats inside that courtroom along with members of the public.
00:01:48.640Like they actually had very few members of the public actually show up there to be in the room.
00:01:54.320And they ended up taking about 40 reporters inside this very packed courtroom, Jake.
00:02:00.640And so, you know, we're all, of course, eyes glued to the former president.
00:02:05.160And it's certainly the look of a man, you know, like you and I have seen, when he's not happy, when he's not, when he's irritated sometimes.
00:02:14.840He has that folded arm sort of looking around and not quite the energetic thing that you sometimes see when he's at his rallies and when he's sort of very happy about how things are going.
00:02:30.800And a reporter who can read minds? That's more than yeoman work.
00:02:34.960Reporting on the president's thoughts and emotions, reading those from afar, even for a CNN reporter and anchor.
00:02:42.540By the way, CNN, in my opinion, has a lot of work to do to become a fair and balanced objective network, as their owners say they mean it to be.
00:02:52.720The Marxist-run propaganda media, not the only ones barely containing their excitement, add to that list a number of hopefuls running for the Republican presidential nomination.
00:03:03.640Only one rose to Trump's defense, Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:03:08.160Ramaswamy was the only contender as well in the race who went down to the Miami courthouse and spoke out about the corruption of our country's Department of Justice.
00:04:00.140And we will be standing up for truth at every step of this campaign.
00:04:05.080While Ramaswamy was defending truth, justice and President Trump, here are some of the other 2024 contenders, neocons and rhinos who couldn't get over their ambition and instead took the Biden regime's side spewing pure evil.
00:04:20.880Let's begin with former National Security Advisor John Bolton.
00:04:25.700If he has anything like what the complaint, what the indictment alleges, and of course the government will have to prove it, then he has committed very serious crimes.
00:04:38.480I speak here as an alumnus of the Justice Department myself, because not only is it powerful, it's very narrowly tailored.
00:04:46.060They didn't throw everything up against the wall to see what would stick.
00:04:48.900This really is a rifle shot, and I think it should be the end of Donald Trump's political career.
00:04:56.340And here is RINO, former Vice President Mike Pence.
00:05:00.920The handling of classified materials is a very serious matter, not only from my years as Vice President, but also my years on the International Relations Committee.
00:05:11.580And look, I had the chance to review the indictment over the weekend, and this indictment contains serious charges.
00:05:31.320I mean, the very prospect that what is alleged here took place, creating an opportunity where highly sensitive classified material could have fallen into the wrong hands, even inadvertently.
00:05:43.600That jeopardizes our national security.
00:05:46.260It puts at risk the men and women of our armed forces.
00:05:49.460And as I said, I can't defend what is alleged, but the former president has a right to his day in court.
00:06:51.900If the allegations are true and there's lots of indications that they are, President Trump had classified documents where he shouldn't have had them.
00:06:58.780And then when given the opportunity to return to me, he chose not to do that for whatever reason.
00:07:02.660That's just, Brian, you talked about me having classified documents.
00:07:05.460I handled thousands and thousands of them over my time in Congress and then as a CIA director and secretary of state.
00:07:11.460I suppose we can all make mistakes and get them to the wrong place.
00:07:13.840But when somebody identifies that, you've got to turn them in.
00:07:16.120And so that's just that's inconsistent with protecting America's soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines.
00:07:20.620And if the allegations are true, some of these were pretty serious, important documents.
00:07:48.380She sits on the House Oversight Committee, the committee led by Chairman James Comer, investigating the Biden crime family.
00:07:55.800Congresswoman Luna introduced a resolution in Congress this week to censure and fine Congressman Adam Schiff for his pathological lying.
00:08:04.160The procedural vote, believe it or not, failed with a vote of 225 to 196, 20 rhinos voting against the legislation.
00:08:15.460Representative Luna, it is great to have you back with us here on The Great America Show.
00:08:19.920Let's start with, do you believe Congress has the unilateral power to defund these corrupt government organizations and individuals going after their political opponents?
00:08:30.440If you look at what even just happened to President Trump and with the indictments, I mean, we have our tools here in Congress, right?
00:08:39.080Like a majority of it is being able to defund certain positions and controlling the power of the purse.
00:08:43.860But if we're not going to use these parliamentary procedures, if we're not going to be actually putting, you know, teeth behind the statements that we make on national television, then we're no better than the other side.
00:08:55.720And granted, I know a lot of people are like, well, you know, the legislative body is too divided right now.
00:09:01.440But the problem is, is it's divided because for too long, so many people have been quiet and allowed bad things to take place.
00:09:08.340And when you allow a certain level of corruption, it ultimately ends up infecting the entire institution and then it's completely not functioning.
00:09:14.700And so all we're doing is trying to bring accountability and honor back to the House of Representatives.
00:09:20.420Well, we have seen much of what you're describing in previous Congresses.
00:09:24.520It is to your credit, to the Freedom Caucus, to the to the brave or mighty 20, if you will, led by Andy Biggs, who have made it possible for members to have real representation of their constituents before.
00:09:45.540Let's be honest, it was 435 souls marching as in the direction of Paul Ryan or are not marching at all.
00:09:53.860So to this point, I think McCarthy has done a very good job until until the debt ceiling compromise there.
00:10:05.220Obviously, there's a great deal of reporting now about the split between a large group of conservatives that hasn't been mended.
00:10:16.020Well, you know, I think that in regards to exactly what I was just stating earlier, you know, we have this power to control funding that goes to different agencies.
00:10:25.160And when you see a gross weaponization, for example, of the FBI, you know, I'm on House Oversight.
00:10:31.580My goodness, Lou, they just showed us a document in regards to the Hunter Joe Biden bribery scheme.
00:10:37.000And they redacted information that Senator Grassley came forward with.
00:10:40.780And it literally stated that they had they had a source that had 17 recorded phone calls, 15 of which were Hunter, two of which were with then Vice President Joe Biden on bribery schemes.
00:10:52.240Representative Luna, we're coming right back with her.
00:10:55.000And what is happening in the U.S. Congress and what in the world is happening to the FBI?
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00:12:30.420And we're back with Representative Luna.
00:12:34.720And Representative, you were just talking about the issues with the so-called FD-1023 form for the FBI.
00:12:45.320And Chairman Comer's efforts, the committee's efforts to get explanations about that document, to get it in your possession.
00:12:55.120Tell us where we are now and what the travail has been.
00:13:00.620So, as of right now, you know, last week I was able to go in with members of Oversight to read that document.
00:13:07.460And then not even three days after the fact, we sign out from Senator Grassley that not only the FBI did they redact information, but they redacted some pretty damning evidence in that document that states the name of the individual who had 17 recorded phone calls,
00:13:24.920two of which were of Joe Biden as vice president, 15 of which were from Hunter Biden in their joint $10 million bribery scheme.
00:13:34.920And so, going back to what I was saying on the previous segment, you know, as a member of Congress, it's our job to, if we see that there's a gross overreach and if there's an abuse of power,
00:13:46.400especially with some of these three-letter organizations, we should defund them.
00:13:49.820And so, one of my biggest issues that I had with the recent debt ceiling fight and negotiations, of which I'd like to add that I was a no vote on,
00:13:58.680is because of the fact that it did not seem that those negotiating understood how bad the weaponization has become on the American people.
00:14:11.040And so, that was an opportunity missed.
00:14:14.720And then you find out in the next two years, they're going to be printing and spending $4 trillion more that we don't have.
00:14:24.040That's us running faster off the cliff.
00:14:26.700And I just, the way I can explain it to people is that people up here would never, never, ever spend their personal finances the way that they're spending the American taxpayers' dollars.
00:14:38.160And when I talk to other members, like Representative Verne Buchanan, who's to the south of me, who is also no vote, he's been up here for a while.
00:14:46.680And he says, Anna, I've been up here and it's always the same thing.
00:14:48.940They say that they get this great deal.
00:14:50.440They go and they message it to the American people.
00:15:26.540And, you know, it seems straightforward that if the Republican Party can't find a proven, publicly recognized liar like Adam Schiff, if they can't take him through an ethics process and sanction him, how in the world will you people have the guts to actually hold the FBI accountable and and conduct effective oversight?
00:16:07.780And I think that, again, it's up to people to make their voices heard.
00:16:11.880So I'm really hoping that they end up, you know, doing the correct thing.
00:16:16.040But I just any Republican who's going to vote to protect Adam Schiff after this, I just I absolutely question why.
00:16:23.200It's I've made sure I've gone through absolutely every single legal process to ensure that this is not violate violating anyone's constitutional rights, that this is done in the most ethical fashion and is an accountability mechanism.
00:16:35.720And to hear the opposite of that, I just it makes me wonder.
00:16:42.640And I hope that everyone listening, I will call everyone in their family, their friends, their neighbors, even.
00:16:50.280Well, I won't even suggest passing strangers, but make representative and your senator understand what's at stake here.
00:16:57.760If the Republican Party cannot sanction Adam Schiff for putting the president of the United States and the nation through pure hell with his outright lies, his deceit.
00:17:11.760And by the way, with a deep state, the FBI, the Department of Justice, the White House, knowing full well from the time from the time this thing began under the administration of Barack Obama, it's just outrageous.
00:17:28.980And if they can't hold that, they can't hold Schiff, as I said, representative, it's just it's beyond your you know, the party is, I think, effectively done.
00:17:38.740The House has a great opportunity here to be the heroes and have been for five months.
00:17:44.140But now McCarthy is once again put in play the integrity of the leadership, the integrity of the promises made to the American people.
00:18:26.700And we wish you the the very best in your in your efforts.
00:18:32.260You're give us your sense of your prospects for success.
00:18:35.900So as of right now, two thirty is going to be a pretty big deal.
00:18:40.620I have some of my Republican colleagues joining me that are supporting this.
00:18:45.660And then behind the scenes, we've actually had multiple offices, some even of moderate members reaching out, saying, like, hey, how can we message on this to inform people and basically get the correct information out about what SHIP did, etc.
00:19:01.160Right. The first one is, is that Democrats have sent out an email.
00:19:04.380They are going to do something called trying to table this, meaning they don't want to let it come to the floor and they're going to try to kill it immediately.
00:19:11.140They can only kill it if Republicans vote with them.
00:19:14.100So we're hoping that Republicans do the right thing and don't vote with Democrats to kill this.
00:19:19.060And then if that happens, it will come to the floor tomorrow at around 11 and we'll hopefully have our vote to censure and send Adam Schiff to House Ethics for investigations with a suggested fine of 16 million dollars.
00:19:30.740And with that, we, you know, we want to wish you the best of success and the nation, the best of success.
00:19:38.420And thank you again for what you're doing.
00:19:40.400We're going to be putting up those numbers.
00:19:42.640We'll be telling you about them at the end of today's podcast on where to call and get your representative in the know about where you stand and where you want the nation to stand with Representative Luna on the resolution.
00:19:56.960We're coming right back with her in just a few minutes.
00:20:26.960Of the Oversight Committee and the lies that have been put forward by the FBI to your committee as you seek to perform your constitutional responsibilities of oversight over the FBI, the Department of Justice, this government.
00:20:41.820Give us a sense of how in the world there could be any question about turning over a document that an informant has, a whistleblower, has told the committee, Senator Grassley about.
00:20:53.860Give us a sense of what is going on there.
00:20:58.820Well, it seems as though that the FBI seems to think that they're not accountable to Congress, which is crazy because, as you know, we're the last line of defense.
00:21:08.860And, of course, they're accountable to us.
00:21:10.260But I believe it's because, again, going back to kind of how previous Congresses functioned and really, I think, how they've just kind of not chosen to do the right thing and fight for what's right.
00:21:21.020We basically had to threaten, not we, Chairman Comer essentially threatened the director of the FBI with contempt of Congress charges.
00:21:32.120And we were about to draw up the entire bill to do that, to bring it to the floor.
00:21:36.720And then at the last minute, they said that we could see this document.
00:21:40.440And then we come to find out that the document's been redacted with some very important information.
00:21:44.940So the fact is, is that I have heard from other members.
00:21:50.400But that, again, going back to kind of the parliamentary procedures and what we can do, we can technically vote to defund someone's position.
00:21:57.720And, effectively, that would remove them from whatever appointed position they might have, even if it's from the president.
00:22:11.240And that's something that comes up during the appropriations negotiations.
00:22:14.880And so I've actually heard other members talking about potentially doing that, not just for the director of the FBI, but in the case of Mayorkas, it can be done and a few others.
00:22:25.500And so that's still, again, that accountability tool mechanism.
00:22:29.060But it's like, you know, I sometimes get frustrated because I come up here, you know, we're up here during the week.
00:22:36.460We get to go back home on the weekends sometimes.
00:22:38.500But it's just like, why are people not doing this?
00:22:48.980If you can do that with the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, with the director of the FBI, I would urge you to consider the attorney general as well.
00:23:02.300We don't even know who is on his staff as this man is carrying out the most atrocious act of political persecution in the country's history.
00:23:11.480I did hear, I believe, and I could be wrong, but I did hear, I think that Representative Green was considering doing that, and she may have already started the process.
00:23:23.060So I think that other people are starting to use these tools.
00:23:26.560And mind you, Lou, these were some of the tools that the Freedom Caucus and the 20 negotiated for at the beginning of this year.
00:23:32.720So we wouldn't have these tools at our disposal had we not negotiated the way that we did during the speaker's fight.
00:23:40.040So this is kind of a whole different ballgame in Congress as opposed to the last one.
00:23:45.980And so I think that we'll get some movement.
00:23:50.720I know that there's also a privilege motion that Representative Boebert filed for impeachment of Biden, which is the same procedure that I did with Schiff.
00:24:01.960And so that will likely also come to the floor.
00:24:04.260And that was done, I believe, just yesterday.
00:24:15.800And I do believe that it is contagious, but it has to be a significant, powerful dose of medicine to get it going, if that's not a mixed metaphor.
00:24:27.660Let me also ask you, why only Comer and Raskin are going to be allowed to see the two reference documents for the 1023 that you all have had the opportunity?
00:24:44.960Why would not the entire committee get to see those documents?
00:24:48.640I think it's because, and I'm going to just go on an assumption here, but I think it's because, one, they both have subpoena power, whereas the other members don't.
00:24:58.580And then, two, I, after reading the document, Lou, and seeing some of the stuff in it, I think it's, there's a genuine fear that the whistleblower and the human source might get killed.
00:25:09.820And so I think that they're trying to, well, that was said to Chairman Comer per the SBI.
00:25:20.000So the SBI didn't allude, but, you know, it is the Eastern Europe bloc.
00:25:27.860You know, there's some pretty powerful people.
00:25:31.140So you're describing the Eastern bloc or are you describing the federal government of the United States?
00:25:35.860I, you know, I'm going to speculate here and think that it's probably some more, it's probably the Eastern bloc.
00:25:43.220But at what I've kind of read, I, you know, I wouldn't put anything.
00:25:49.000Yeah, I'll just stop there with my statement.
00:25:50.840I just, I really think that it needs to be as secure as possible.
00:25:55.340But as we're seeing now, I mean, it might come to an impeachment.
00:25:58.000And if it's an impeachment, then Congress would conduct the preliminary investigation.
00:26:02.600Representative Luna, I want to say to you, I have enjoyed this conversation immensely.
00:26:09.880You give me great hope for not only the 118th Congress, but the future of the House of Representatives.
00:26:18.460Your spirit is much needed in that conference.
00:26:23.000Congressman Comer, Congressman Jordan are providing great leadership.
00:26:27.840And I'm delighted to have the opportunity to sit down and talk with you.
00:26:31.540I want to say as we wrap up here, my first reaction when I heard that the FBI was concerned for the life of this person is if the FBI, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States government cannot assure the life of a whistleblower or an informant under any circumstances with all the resources they have at hand.
00:26:52.440And how could anyone ever possibly trust the FBI?
00:27:15.020You can head over to my official channels at Rep Luna to find out more information on what I'm doing on the official side on Twitter and Instagram.
00:27:22.640And then if you're on any social media, you can always head to my personal pages at Real Ana Paulina and see my commentary on what's happening in Washington.
00:27:29.800Outstanding. Great to have you with us. Thanks so much.