Jim Jordan, head of the House Judiciary Committee, joins us live from CPAC to talk about why we need to fight back against the woke agenda and why you should vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 election. Plus, Hershey's launches a H.E.R. campaign with a dude, Faye Johnstone, to celebrate Women's Month, and calls BS on the idea that a biological man can be the face of women. Also, a major media outlet uses the word "motherfucker" in a sentence that could have been used to describe a woman, and it's not even close to being a good one. Triggered is a production of Gimlet Media and is brought to you Live from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) where hundreds of conservative activists are gathered to discuss all things political, social, and cultural. Please remember to vote in the "STAND UP FOR OUR SONGS" straw poll and tell us what you think about it in the comments section below! and don't forget to SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts and leave us a rating and review! Subscribe to our new podcast, if you like what you're listening to this podcast and/or have a question or suggestion for our next episode. Thank you so much for listening and supporting this podcast! Timestamps: 1:00:00 - What's the craziest thing you've heard this week's episode? 2:30 - What would you do with your wallet? 3:15 - What do you think of a woman who's a biological male? 4: What's better than a biological woman? 5:10 - Who's better at being a dude? 6:40 - What kind of woman is more than a woman than a man? 7:20 - What are you would you like to be a woman you can be? 8:15- What's your favorite thing that's better? 9:30- What is the most authentic? 11:50 - How do you want to see a woman in public space? 12:00- What do I need to be allowed to be your authentic self? 13:00 15:00s? 16:30s 17:40s - What s your favorite type of woman in a public space in public? 18:20s - Is it possible to be more authentic than a female?
00:00:37.000If you go find him, introduce yourself, he's got tickets to the reception with all of our president, the big guy himself, not the 10% for the big guy president, but my dad, President Donald Trump.
00:00:49.000So if you're at CPAC, you find the guy wearing this hat, he's gonna give you tickets to the VIP reception with DJT and you're gonna have a blast.
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00:01:06.000We can drive the liberals crazy and make sure we have a president who will put America first.
00:01:13.000Hard to believe we're even in a fight about that, but we've seen what's going on with Joe Biden and the Democrats, and we realize we gotta fight for these things.
00:01:20.000So, before we get to our amazing guest tonight, Jim Jordan, we've got a little news of the week, okay?
00:01:28.000Hershey's, as in Hershey's chocolate, this week decided to celebrate Women's Month
00:03:35.000When you're an adult, if you want to do this, I actually couldn't give a shit.
00:03:39.000But, but, if you're gonna make this the face, if you're gonna jam this down our throats, if you're gonna indoctrinate our children with this garbage, that's when I start having a problem with it.
00:04:04.000They're just taking cues from the press and the woke media, thinking, hey man, rather than being normal, if we do this, it's an easy existence.
00:04:13.000But that existence seems to me to be designed to erase everything
00:05:53.000A major political journalism institution is saying the word mother is offensive.
00:06:01.000What does that tell you about the news that these people are giving you every day?
00:06:05.000What does that tell you about the filter that they put on everything that you read that gets aggregated and put in your hometown paper that your children see and make decisions on?
00:07:28.000There's no excuse for anything else that we don't like in the world other than racism and climate change and perhaps chauvinism because she's a woman.
00:07:35.000It has nothing to do with the fact that she did a shitty job, that Chicago is like a war zone, that we haven't seen a positive article about anything in Chicago in the years that she was mayor.
00:07:47.000It has nothing to do with that, folks.
00:08:20.000So, speaking of insanity, and I think this may end up being a good segue into Jim Jordan, the Justice Department has been called out for using SWAT teams to target pro-life activists around the country.
00:08:35.000They have not brought one charge against Antifa.
00:08:45.000I was told it was a mostly peaceful protest by reporters with buildings burning in the background who simultaneously got hit in the head with bricks.
00:08:53.000But somehow we were told that it was a mostly peaceful protest.
00:08:57.000They haven't brought one charge against Antifa.
00:09:03.000You don't want to rip a baby out of the womb at ten months, or as one Princeton professor wrote a paper, a professor at Princeton wrote a paper, there should be abortion up to the age of six.
00:09:28.000You won't read about it because they're worried about the backlash and they're trying to protect it, but this is the direction that they want to go.
00:09:34.000So, Ted Cruz confronted Attorney General Merrick Garland about this yesterday.
00:10:12.000Guys, these people are nothing but evil.
00:10:14.000Remember, billions in damage, murder, looting, arson, because it's okay to steal and rob a Gucci store if it's in the name of social justice, right?
00:11:34.000They will do everything in their power.
00:11:36.000And it's not like it's just Jim Jordan and his committee fighting back.
00:11:40.000It's the entire mainstream media covering up for it.
00:11:43.000It's entire big tech and search engines and Google and of course social media pretending like these things aren't happening.
00:11:51.000So when someone can get ripped out of their home with armed guards and a SWAT team simply for being pro-life and then no charges filed, a jury finds that they're not guilty in less than an hour,
00:12:02.000They wanted to hang these people out to dry.
00:12:05.000You see, whether it's that or Kyle Rittenhouse, you see what we're up against.
00:12:33.000When you have a racist on the other side that doesn't fit the narrative, and you see the media doing it, they pray each and every time one of these instances is that it's a conservative white male in a MAGA hat with an AR-15.
00:12:45.000You can see him just chomping at the bit.
00:12:48.000They start spreading the innuendo, and then the second that's not true, boom!
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00:17:42.000When you believe and sort of know that that witness has lied to the folks that I get the privilege of representing back in the 4th District of Ohio.
00:17:49.000Then you've sort of got to treat it like a wrestling match and you've got to be pretty aggressive and go after them.
00:17:53.000You know what, I actually wasn't even going to go here with this, but you were one of the guys when I was being subpoenaed and when I was testifying in front of the, you know, for treason, right?
00:18:01.000Crime punishable by death according to Pencil Next Shift.
00:18:05.000But you were one of the guys in the room, and I was a baby at this stuff.
00:18:08.000This is now six years ago basically, early Russia, Russia.
00:18:11.000I'm wondering what the hell I'm even doing in the room.
00:18:14.000You're right because it is that match like you actually in that room to me were able to redirect questions that were sort of gotcha that I probably wasn't thinking about because maybe even at the time I was naive but you were able to sort of be like and Don Junior what do you think and I was like oh that's I get it like it wasn't
00:18:32.000We were all naive, frankly, at the time, what they were trying to do.
00:18:35.000We just never thought they would turn the government on a presidential candidate, then turn it on his family, and it was all a bunch of made-up baloney.
00:18:44.000But I think what we learned from all that was just how aggressive the left is.
00:18:50.000Unfortunately, today, there is no trying to get along with the left.
00:18:52.000You just got to stop them, because where they want to take the country
00:18:55.000How they have, in many ways, made the government so politically focused on targeting their opposition, which is what they did to you and your family, that is frightening.
00:19:06.000And that's what we have to fully expose and then pass legislation to help remedy that situation.
00:19:12.000So, I mean, so how do you do that, right?
00:19:14.000Obviously, you know, we're, I always say we're not in a fair fight, right?
00:19:17.000It's not your ideas versus theirs or mine.
00:19:20.000It's their ideas boosted by big tech, boosted by mainstream media, boosted by, you know, everyone, you know, I read the polls the other day, you know, something like 50% of women identified as LGBTQIA, not because they actually were, but because
00:19:36.000There's a social consequence to not being that right now.
00:19:39.000So how do we actually win that battle?
00:19:42.000Because so many Republicans refuse to engage.
00:20:13.000There's nothing off limits, which is the scary part.
00:20:16.000Because it used to be we just had the debate.
00:20:18.000In that situation you have to fight, you have to fight smart, but you have to fight and then trust the American people that in the end the truth will come out.
00:20:26.000We saw it come out on the, as President Trump says, on the Russia, Russia, Russia.
00:21:09.000That's like saying, well, you know, two years later after your national championship wrestling match, you know, well, that point was, he was out of bounds.
00:21:44.000One, the way we ultimately get back, not get back, but the way we ultimately remedy it is make sure President Trump gets elected president in 2024.
00:22:04.000When he announced, and before he announced, I was encouraging him to announce and run again here.
00:22:09.000He's the guy, because he's proven he can get things done when everyone's coming.
00:22:13.000But in the meantime, in this Congress, we have to get all the facts on the table so that the country fully understands what they did to us.
00:22:24.000And this is the scary thing, is what they did with the laptop story in the run-up to the 2020, to the most important election we have, which is election for Commander-in-Chief, election for President of the United States, because that was an orchestrated effort to convince the country that the laptop that the FBI had for a year wasn't really accurate, even though they knew it was.
00:22:49.000When Hunter did his Cry Tour a couple weeks ago, oh, they're ganging up on me.
00:22:55.000I'm like, wait a minute, you had your 50-year-old dude, first of all, you sound like a bitch, but you had the entire force of mainstream media, you had an entire force of big tech, and you had the biggest names in our intelligence, or I call it the lack of intelligence community, backing you.
00:23:14.000Because, again, there's the investigation, but if there's no consequence, there's no accountability, how do we deal with that?
00:23:20.000Well, one of the things we should pass is, I would bet that all 51 of those people who signed that letter, the now famous letter with the line, you know, the Biden laptop story has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation, which became what the media used.
00:23:34.000So, I would bet every one of those 51 has a security clearance.
00:23:46.000But we should pass legislation that says, look, there may be a valid reason for some of it, sometimes for certain people, but all 51... Because that's their meal ticket, right?
00:23:54.000That's what gets them the contributorship.
00:23:56.000This guy has special access to the information that you don't know and you're not... It's classified.
00:24:01.000And then they go on TV and they lie to you.
00:24:03.000Like, you know, like Schiff and these guys, you know, about me and all those guys about me anyway.
00:24:08.000Yeah, I can't think of a specific thing Clapper may have said on TV that wasn't accurate, but I know when he testified in front of a House, or in a Senate committee, he said things that were not accurate.
00:24:17.000But yeah, I think they monetize it, and that's a scary thing.
00:24:21.000But we can't, and you know this, we can't prosecute anyone, we can't indict anyone.
00:24:26.000All we can do is our constitutional duty is make sure the country gets the truth, and then we have legislative solutions.
00:24:32.000But when you bring out the facts and the truth, then you gotta, you know,
00:24:36.000You hope you have a Justice Department, if someone did do something criminally wrong, that they get indicted.
00:24:40.000Okay, so in my intro to the show we talked about that.
00:24:42.000Merrick Garland and the Justice Department, you know, they're swatting people that are pro-life with SWAT teams, but, you know, the Summer of Love participants who murdered, looted, arsoned, burned down buildings, nothing happened, you know, you talked about.
00:24:54.000We know that Clapper and some of those guys lied.
00:24:57.000We know that Wray seemingly lied, I guess it was yesterday, before Congress.
00:25:03.000If they can lie before Congress, but nothing happens.
00:25:08.000And we've got to make that clear, because some people are like, why didn't your dad do XYZ?
00:25:12.000It's like, well, Congress has to put it on his desk for him to actually sign legislation.
00:25:15.000I understand there's a process, but how do you hold those who are refusing to actually follow the law or the Constitution, protecting one side while weaponizing it against the other?
00:25:26.000Because again, if I lied before your committee, even if you were on it and you were trying, you know, whatever it was,
00:25:34.000And they were looking for that, because everyone knows it was nonsense, but if you ask me the same question 15,000 times over literally about 50 hours of testimony, maybe he'll make a mistake.
00:25:43.000He'll put the comma in the wrong spot, and now we got him, and it's perjury.
00:25:47.000So if Ray is able to do it, the director of the FBI, Clapper, former head of the CIA, and they can get up before Congress, McCabe and Strzok and all those guys seem to have done the same thing.
00:26:00.000But then they go on, they're not even a slap on the wrist, they get a contributing role at CNN and a big salary with it.
00:26:08.000Well, the legislative branch, what we can do, is you go after the money.
00:26:13.000At some point, this is what the founders envisioned, and we've gotten away from this, where the founders said, look, we think, in the three separate and equal branches of government,
00:26:22.000If there's one that's more equal than the other, it's supposed to be the legislative branch, and in particular the House of Representatives.
00:26:27.000That's why every tax and spending bill has to start in the House of Representatives.
00:26:30.000So, in the end, the real leverage we have is to say,
00:26:39.000FBI, OK, DHS, the entity that tried to set up a disinformation governance board.
00:26:44.000Maybe you shouldn't get any money to do anything.
00:26:46.000We want you to have money to deal with the border, which you're not really doing a very good job of.
00:26:50.000But we don't want money being used on this other area.
00:28:15.000I'm trying not to get into weeds too much, but this debt ceiling comes up.
00:28:18.000One of the things I think we should get on the debt ceiling is, OK, if we're going to let the country borrow more money and keep doing this crazy Biden spending, one of the things that should be done is a structural change which says when we get to the end of the fiscal year,
00:28:30.000If you don't have a budget in place or the appropriations process in place, you have what we call a continuing resolution.
00:28:36.000You don't just spend what you're currently spending, which would frankly be a lot of savings for you.
00:28:41.000So you get that in place and then as you move towards that date, the end of the fiscal year, which is September 30th,
00:28:47.000Then you say, okay, look, if you want to fund certain things, we got to limit dollars going here.
00:28:52.000You have the fight then with the backstop being, so you don't go into a shutdown, but the backstop being, if we don't get an agreement, you spend what you're currently spending.
00:29:02.000I mean, if you ran your household like we run our country, you'd be in foreclosure and you'd be out on the streets, but we can keep getting away with it.
00:29:11.000And then you pick the one, like the FBI is asking for a brand new headquarters.
00:29:16.000I don't know that the folks I represent would think that's a good use of their money.
00:29:19.000I don't know that they deserve their current headquarters.
00:29:21.000I mean, if they're going to be acting as, you know, a political arm of the Democrat Party, you know, maybe we should get rid of the FBI entirely, or at least you got to burn it down and start from scratch.
00:29:30.000Particularly, you brought up the example of when they raided the home of Mark Howe.
00:29:35.000Pro-life activists sent out 20 agents to his home.
00:29:40.000Compare and contrast that to what took place in the summer of 2020, as you mentioned, but also compare it and contrast it to what took place in Supreme Court justices' homes when they were in an assassination attempt on, which was what they were doing, protesting at justices' homes, direct violation of a statute, 18 U.S.C.
00:29:58.000section 1507, which says you can't do that with the intent of trying to influence a pending decision, but they did.
00:30:35.000Perhaps in the event that you're not in control of the House.
00:30:38.000I think part of it is you lay it out, you pass legislation in the House, you fight to limit where the dollars go, use the appropriation process, the old power of the purse as we speak.
00:30:49.000And then all that, you don't do it for this reason, but all that creates a framework for the American people to decide who they want representing them in the House, the Senate, and in the White House.
00:30:59.000And that's how American government and American politics works.
00:31:15.000Because there are, you know, there's 25 wonderful shiny objects that we could be chasing, but I think given the timeline and given, you know, what are the priorities and how do we get to the bottom of them?
00:31:27.000One, the border situation is as bad as it's ever been, and it's been done intentionally.
00:31:32.000Day one, January 20, 2021, Joe Biden comes in and he undoes three key policies that the Trump administration had in place that had security on the border.
00:31:42.000In fact, we had our first hearing, we had a sheriff from Arizona said in his 38 years in law enforcement, I thought this was powerful, he said, the best the border's ever been,
00:32:17.000We're going to pass legislation that will address that.
00:32:19.000Basically, it puts back in place the policies that were there under the...
00:32:25.000You take care of the big picture, and you solve a drug trafficking crisis, which has created every state and turned them into a border state, a sex trafficking crisis, a human trafficking crisis, child predation.
00:32:36.000You cover a lot with just that one simple policy, and yet the Democrats seem totally oblivious, understanding that they're looking to build up a voter base, and you're, you know, who cares if it kills tens of thousands of Americans every year with fentanyl, if we can retain power forever.
00:32:54.000I mean, it's almost this depressing thought that you would have an administration where the fentanyl, the things that are happening to women and children, and it's like, it's caused by your, and you're just doing that for some political gain.
00:33:10.000The second key issue is the First Amendment.
00:33:13.000Because this whole idea of government being turned against the American people, when you boil it all down, and this is what I talk about here, when you boil it all down, it's an attack on the First Amendment.
00:33:23.000And you think about, in the last couple years, every right we enjoy as Americans under the First Amendment has been attacked.
00:33:31.000Your right to practice your faith, your right to petition the government.
00:33:34.000If Nancy Pelosi closed the Capitol for like a year now, you couldn't come talk to your member of Congress to petition them to redress your grievances?
00:34:08.000Because if you can't speak, you can't practice your faith, you can't petition your government, you don't have free press, that's why they go after you, that's why they go after...
00:34:17.000So many conservatives, it's about that.
00:34:19.000But they've done that effectively, and I get it.
00:34:21.000I'm a big boy, I've made my bet, I've chosen to be in this fight, but that weaponization.
00:34:26.000A parent is concerned about going to a PTA meeting, so rather they can indoctrinate our kids with critical race theory and trans bullshit, but if you speak up...
00:34:40.000Like, I did a thing in the beginning about Hershey's, you know, there for Women's Month, they have a trans activist with, I believe it says...
00:35:07.000And that's something I think we've got to regain because they'll say, oh no, you have it.
00:35:10.000Well, but if you're going to weaponize, you know, the entire media industry against a soccer mom and dox them, and you see what they've done to so many of these conservatives.
00:36:16.000I don't know but it's it's yeah it's ridiculous and the chilling impact that it has.
00:36:22.000I mean you're a parent today and you're thinking I might go to the school board meeting tonight but you think well wait a minute the FBI and the Justice Department set up this snitch line.
00:36:30.000They'd call the FBI on me if I showed up to a school board meeting.
00:36:33.000They would you for sure but but I mean every parent
00:36:36.000Just a good mom and dad out there doing what families do all over this country.
00:36:40.000They care about their kids' education.
00:37:13.000The hills to die on for the left is like, a parent shouldn't know that a teacher is indoctrinating their three-year-old and trying to convince them to get permanent gender reassignment surgery.
00:37:21.000They don't even think that's controversial, that we should carve the parent.
00:37:26.000That one lady I saw last week, well I have a master's degree in education.
00:37:31.000I wonder if the parents know more than me about what happened to their children.
00:37:35.000It's lunacy, but they're believing it.
00:38:07.000Create the oligarch class in Ukraine with the billions that they're gonna pilfer, kick back to Big War in America who watched Big Pharma get rich for two years, and like, everyone gets a board seat and makes money except for the American people who have to actually foot the fucking bill.
00:38:21.000Yeah, and what did the Biden administration say?
00:38:24.000We're gonna, we're there for as long as it takes, and I would say, as long as it takes to do what?
00:38:28.000Wait, wait, we've been out of the never-ending wars for all of like nine months now, and we're like, we're back!
00:38:58.000I guess NATO said, well, we're in the future.
00:39:01.000We're going to let Ukraine into this thing permanently into NATO.
00:39:04.000I'm like, wait a minute, like while we're at war, you're taking like the biggest or one of the, probably why we're in this to begin with, right?
00:39:12.000I'm not saying Putin wouldn't have done it anyway.
00:39:14.000I'm not naive, but like it was certainly an excuse, but now they're saying one of the biggest negotiating chips to get to peace, which is I think what we all want.
00:39:34.000One, weak leadership in the Oval Office.
00:39:36.000When Mike Pompeo was asked the question a year ago, just after Russia initially went in, he was asked the question, would this have happened under President Trump?
00:40:09.000That's the one I never understood with NATO.
00:40:12.000Germany asked us to write a check to protect them from Russia while they sign a deal for the Russia pipeline to get so they're enriching the enemy that they want us to protect them from and we're sitting there like shutting down our energy and it's
00:41:45.000We had two FBI people, former FBI people, come in and talk about what's happened to the FBI and how dramatically it's changed from its central mission of several years ago.
00:41:54.000But our next hearing is going to be next week, and it's going to be on the Twitter files.
00:41:57.000And we're going to have people come in and talk about
00:42:01.000Matt Taibbi and Shellenberg are going to come in and talk about what they saw when Elon Musk gave them access to what was going on with the collusion between our government and big tech to limit the information Americans got.
00:42:14.000The term they use, visibility filtering, which is a fancy way of saying when they shadowbanned us.
00:42:19.000Yeah, I'm sitting there like, and it's even interesting, I was psyched when Twitter did the change.
00:42:25.000The second it was announced, even before the takeover happened, like my engagement following went through the roof because they were burning the files.
00:43:17.000Because, you know, I see it and it's, like I said, I have friends in this world that are like, it's worse now than it was under the Bolsheviks, which is hard to believe.
00:43:28.000So we're going to have them come in and tell their story, what they saw, and additional things they'd say that they've learned since, what have we got, 17 different Twitter files that have come out.
00:43:38.000But I really liked Taibbi and Schellenberg, what they wrote in particular about the run-up to the 2020 election.
00:43:44.000Where we saw just how choreographed, it seemed to me, how choreographed this whole narrative was to get everyone to buy into the concept that what was going to come out on Hunter Biden... Trump was going to get us into World War III.
00:44:00.000Hunter Biden's a great human being, but I'm a piece of shit.
00:44:04.000I'm trying to figure all this stuff out.
00:44:46.000And I was like, hey man, if Trump took over the wheel of the beast to go drive and be with his supporters, I'm more likely to vote for him, not less, but minor details.
00:44:54.000But, you know, when it seems like it was just a sort of known secret, right?
00:45:40.000They could have even done what they always do, which is selectively leak stuff.
00:45:43.000You know, they did some of it, but the narrative to me, now in J6, is what I always knew it would be, because I'm not an imbecile and I've been in the room at this point.
00:45:51.000So I knew it was bullshit, but now it's coming out.
00:45:54.000You know, they're outraged that it's coming out, but if they knew, and it's sort of a D.C.
00:46:00.000Because if there are people that are exonerated, that have been sitting in jail, who were not violent, from this, and the Democrats
00:46:09.000Hold it and withheld that exculpatory evidence for two years.
00:46:15.000How does someone not go to jail for this?
00:46:16.000I mean, imagine taking two years of someone's life for bullshit in a narrative, knowing it, making sure they use their power in media and power in government to prevent that, to drive a narrative like, you know, the first unarmed insurrection in the history of the world.
00:46:34.000So I will tell you what we've been doing in the committee.
00:46:37.000We've had a number of FBI agents come to us as whistleblowers and they talk a lot about the pressure from the DC headquarters and the Washington field office on field offices around the country to go after January 6th people who were there.
00:46:56.000The very first whistleblower we talked to
00:47:02.000And just to add some additional flavor to what you described, he said, they got a call from Washington and said, hey, we want you to start an investigation on these two individuals.
00:47:13.000They were the two who organized a bus tour, two buses that came down for the January 6th rally.
00:47:17.000And they said that the two individuals who organized it, we have them on video inside the Capitol.
00:48:54.000You'd be violating, you know, XYZ rights of that individual, and yet this way it happened.
00:48:59.000And by the way, I talk a lot of shit about the FBI, but when I'm saying that I'm talking about leadership, because I've had the same thing.
00:49:05.000The guys that are the door kickers, you know, whose opinions are known,
00:49:37.000It was a lot easier for me to be a real estate developer, too, than to get out in this beautiful, you know, battlefield of a political landscape, especially when you're on my side.
00:49:53.000And they talk about the pressure they're under to catalog, categorize even cases that aren't domestic violent extremism as domestic violent extremism.
00:50:02.000So much so that we had the Richmond Field Office do the memorandum which said if you're a traditional Catholic, you're a domestic extremist.
00:51:29.000It's always about, for the left, it's politics.
00:51:31.000So they could lie to the, and you see that in so many different issues.
00:51:38.000Now, the good news is, even though the left controls every institution, the left controls the White House, the left controls the bureaucracy, they control big tech, they control big media, they control Hollywood, they control higher education, they control all kinds of things.
00:52:13.000On the state level, they weaponized the laws.
00:52:15.000I always say, you could run Jesus Christ against John Fetterman right now for president in 2024 and it don't matter if we don't start playing the game the way they are because they'll figure out whatever loophole.
00:52:26.000They're so much better at this than us.
00:52:27.000You know, they'll figure out the loophole, they'll do this, and even then they'll say, oh well, there was a Republican that voted for it.
00:52:32.000Yeah, because you browbeat him, you bullied him, the hometown paper basically said, we'll get you out of your position on the state legislature if you don't go along with the Democrats.
00:52:40.000You're racist, you're homophobic, you're misogynist, you're one of the isks.
00:52:45.000These people are getting bullied and pressured into doing stuff that they don't even agree with, or they're just weak.
00:52:53.000Again, we've got to get to that point.
00:52:55.000With them trying to run out the clock, why don't we go right to subpoenas, knowing they're trying to do these things, or all of these things.
00:53:02.000Why don't we go right to that and at least get the information, make it public.
00:53:07.000Yeah, we're trying to make all the information public we can.
00:53:09.000I've done more subpoenas than the rest of the Congress combined.
00:53:14.000But it's still like, for all of us, because we've lived this for so many years now, we'd have liked to have done them all yesterday.
00:53:20.000But there's a process you've got to go through, unfortunately.
00:53:24.000Talk about that, because again, I think there's probably a lot of pressure on you.
00:53:44.000at play, and so to be punctual and to get something done, you still actually have to play within those realities, and you can't just do what we'd all love.
00:53:52.000There's a whole process, particularly when you're talking about folks in government versus folks out of government.
00:53:56.000Folks in government, you want to talk to them.
00:54:18.000You try to accommodate and then at some point if they if they're just not coming in then you issue the subpoena.
00:54:22.000But you have to lay that track record if you're because if you get to the point where they don't come and you got to go to court you got to have that track record.
00:54:28.000So it's a different process for folks in government.
00:54:31.000Out of government it's a little different.
00:54:34.000It's a lot quicker and so we're going to try to get those people in a more expedited way and get their testimony, get their transcribed interview or a deposition, get that done.
00:54:45.000But it is a process you have to go through to lay the groundwork.
00:54:50.000So how do you convince the American people?
00:54:52.000Because, you know, the Republicans, you know, everyone, again, I understand it, there's a lot of people that they want X, but they're not necessarily going to inform that process.
00:54:58.000How do you keep them in the loop to know that it's going, but also going, you know, as aggressively, I guess, as possible?
00:55:05.000How do you make that connection so that they see it, they can, because I see people, hey, I don't want to support any Republicans, I don't feel like we're getting enough action, like, that's not exactly, like, I understand, again, the realities.
00:55:17.000I mean, I think part of what we're going to try to do is you're going to have hearings so that you can present some facts, people see the facts get put on the table, and then behind the scenes you're doing the depositions, you're writing the letters, you're getting the evidence, the documents you need from the subpoenas, and building the case.
00:55:36.000That's just how these investigations work, so we're committed to doing all that as quickly
00:55:43.000But in a way that's consistent with the law, consistent with the Constitution.
00:55:46.000So, you know, since we're finishing up sort of January 6th, but what do we do about the Ashley Babbitt shooting, right?
00:55:52.000I mean, it seems to me like it's, I'd say, the least investigated police shooting in the history of police shootings.
00:55:59.000I see the video, and as a gun guy I know, like, this was not a, like, any other cop with this video would be in jail, not made a hero.
00:56:09.000I don't even want to use the term accidental discharge, because to me, as a gun guy, it seems actually worse than that.
00:56:15.000Just gross incompetence from someone with a record that I've at least read about.
00:56:20.000Maybe I'm wrong, but I've read about negligent firearm stuff from this officer.
00:56:24.000I think he left a loaded firearm in a toilet in Congress, just so we're clear.
00:56:32.000He's turned into, like, you know, he's General Patton, and it's pretty obvious, and you actually, if you look at the videos, he actually batted, I think, actually punching one of the other aggressors.
00:56:41.000How does that, you know, again, how do people feel confident that stuff's gonna happen if that happens?
00:56:46.000And I get it, like, these guys, I love law enforcement and the community, it's one of our most vocal supporters, but, like, I saw that, and I'm seeing the tears on his hand, and I'm, you know, I'm also seeing them now opening doors everywhere.
00:57:00.000This is why what Speaker McCarthy did with allowing transparency to begin to happen with the release of the videotape, I think is so important.
00:57:15.000Also, remember, there are millions of documents
00:57:19.000That the House Administration Committee now has.
00:57:34.000You're seeing the videos now, it's like, they orchestrated, they were, it seems to me, as a person with a brain and an IQ above single digits,
00:57:42.000Like, they wanted this to happen because they could use it to weaponize.
00:57:47.000They could use it to go after innocent Americans.
00:57:50.000They could use it to go after the Second Amendment, even though it seems like almost no one was actually armed at the insurrection, which, again, I don't know.
00:57:56.000Like, if I was doing an insurrection, it probably wouldn't be that way, but I would never do that thing because I'd be investigated already and in jail.
00:58:03.000And meanwhile, the guy who planted the bombs at the RNC and DNC
00:58:18.000That guy's on videotape walking around Washington D.C.
00:58:20.000and we have no leads, no information on that?
00:58:23.000It was just a setup as part of another narrative, but because they got what they wanted elsewhere, they don't even need to bother to follow up that part.
00:58:30.000When I see some of the video, I mean the instigation stuff, it's like,
00:59:43.000I think Trump was really accomplished.
00:59:44.000It's amazing what he was able to get done, given all the stuff floating over his head.
00:59:48.000But that stuff floating over his head was designed to slow down his ability to accomplish it.
00:59:53.000Yeah, and it undermines his fundamental... Probably the thing that bothers me and ticks me off more than anything is the idea that it's the unelected people who think they run the government.
01:00:41.000They were trying to set him up, remember?
01:00:43.000So if that's on audio tape and we get access to that, maybe this all doesn't happen because they were actively trying to undermine the guy the American people elected as Commander-in-Chief, your father.
01:01:10.000And I don't mean... So how do you call that out, right?
01:01:13.000I mean, I imagine there have to be moderate Democrats in Ohio, your home state, that are like, hey man, even our Democrat... meaning, I believe there are moderate Democrats in America.
01:01:23.000I just don't believe there are any in office because you can't win without the New York, California Democrat money.
01:01:27.000And you're not getting that if you're not... No, you said it right.
01:01:29.000You know, allowing a three-year-old to change their gender permanently.
01:02:10.000That doesn't believe what everyone here believes.
01:02:15.000They don't believe that America's a great... That's scary.
01:02:18.000And so if they don't start from the premise that we all... America's not perfect, but it's the greatest nation ever.
01:02:23.000And I tell people, next to Jesus, the best thing that ever happened to this world is our country.
01:02:28.000But no, the left doesn't believe that.
01:02:30.000And they think the bureaucrats are supposed to run things, not the individuals who we the people elect.
01:02:35.000That's what we've got to fundamentally change.
01:02:38.000And that's so much of what our committee is going to focus on.
01:02:40.000Because we're the House Judiciary Committee.
01:02:42.000We're supposed to be the committee that protects the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the First Amendment.
01:02:48.000And that's what we're going to focus on doing.
01:02:50.000Talk a little bit about, you know, obviously there's a lot of controversy around Kevin McCarthy becoming Speaker, and, you know, I got a lot of crap.
01:02:57.000I mean, people were nominating you, and you're like, I'm for him.
01:03:00.000Because, again, people don't necessarily understand, like, you don't want to do the, and I wouldn't either, you know, the 365 days of fundraising, and then this, you want to get on, you know, you're a nose-to-the-groundstone guy, get in there, get on the details, and not have to do that aspect of it.
01:03:30.000Kevin was able to bring us together and focus on working as a team and when it happened was when they the first impeachment of President Trump and they first went after your dad on that bogus phone call baloney and Kevin came to means I mean, I I'll always appreciate what he did He said I'm gonna and Rick Crawford who was willing to step off the Intel Committee.
01:03:50.000He says Jim I'm gonna put you on the Intel Committee for all those secret depositions in the bunker in the basement the capital that ship did and
01:03:57.000Yeah, where they took my phone, my legal team's phone, but Adam Schiff was leaking to CNN every bathroom break.
01:04:02.000And so, Kevin brought us together, and remember the conventional wisdom was, going into that first impeachment, that every single Democrat was going to vote to impeach President Trump, and several Republicans in the House were going to join him.
01:04:17.000We go through that process that Kevin helped put together.
01:04:19.000Where we had a good team of people, good staff lawyers, everything working.
01:04:23.000We go through that process and what happened?
01:04:25.000Every single Republican voted not to impeach.
01:04:46.000I mean, it started off a little bit more rocky, right?
01:04:47.000Yeah, we didn't always agree, but one thing I admire about people is people who are willing to work hard.
01:04:53.000And this guy, hard work... Oh, it's brutal.
01:04:55.000I always tell people, hard work doesn't guarantee success, but it sure improves your chances, right?
01:05:00.000And Kevin is willing to work hard, do the fundraising, bring our team together, and he said something to me.
01:05:05.000I said this when I nominated him on the House floor on January 3rd.
01:05:08.000He said something to me our first term.
01:05:10.000I got a lot of help for supporting him as well but I was like...
01:05:29.000Dude, I'm the guy that shows up in some random place in Georgia or Missouri at some fundraiser and like, he's there working the room as well.
01:06:17.000And by the way, no one did that better than your father.
01:06:21.000I mean, I still remember early in the administration, Mark Meadows and I, this is probably 2018, we're in the West Wing there, and one of the offices, they got a big whiteboard where, I said this out here, they had listed every single promise President Trump made to the American people in the 2016 campaign.
01:06:50.000And I just felt like we weren't doing what we said.
01:06:52.000So we said, we've got to form a group that is focused on the American people, the American family, who says, so many people think this town's forgotten them.
01:07:02.000And the contrast between the leadership then and the leadership under Kevin McCarthy, Kevin has been focused on, what do we tell the voters we're going to do?
01:07:10.000Let's go get that done, just like your dad did.
01:07:14.000So what's the number one issue, if you could get, of the things that have been promised to the voters, what's number one for you?
01:07:20.000You know, in terms of the Republican Party and then maybe what's number one that you can do from your position as chair of the Judiciary Committee?
01:07:29.000Number two is this weaponization issue and the attack on the First Amendment, like we said.
01:07:35.000But you think about what we've seen in the last two years.
01:07:37.000We went from a secure border to no border.
01:07:39.000We went from safe streets to record crime.
01:07:41.000We went from stable prices to record inflation.
01:07:44.000And we went from good energy policy, dominant energy policy, to the ridiculous situation we have now.
01:07:50.000And all of those things are contributing to the record inflation that American families are having to deal with, driving up the cost of everything.
01:07:56.000I talked to our son the other day, our oldest son.
01:08:22.00080-some-thousand IRS agents going to harass conservatives.
01:08:25.000This idea that the ATF is going to make 10 million to 40 million gun owners felons or put them on some registration list because of something they told them they could do 10 years ago that they suddenly changed their mind on.
01:08:35.000This idea that the FBI has two standards of justice.
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