today the fbi briefed minority leader
kevin mccarthy
who joins us in moments and also speaker
pelosi
on their investigative findings in the
eric swalwell christine fong matter
the minority leader had been asking to
be brought up to speed on this all week
despite speaker pelosi's assurance that
leadership was
in the loop when all of this unfolded
back in 2015
mccarthy said he learned about it in the
press along with the rest of the country
so he wanted a briefing and after he got
it today just hours ago
he said this it only raised more
questions
and the one thing that was fundamentally
answered he should not be on intel
intel committee is a special committee
it's a committee that keeps our secrets
it's a committee that's able to know our
secrets this committee has a lot of
information that members of congress do
not
so earlier today mccarthy expressed that
he is quite alarmed
that democrats seem well not to be
especially given their very deep
concerns about russian spycraft
which they investigated relentlessly for
four years
what do the communist chinese have on
the democrats that is so powerful we
have nancy pelosi
who just last year said it was a
diversion to focus on china
you got adam schiff the now chairman of
intel committee
saying it was just escalation that it
was wrong that we closed that consulate
in houston why
can't the democrats admit that china is
our adversary
why can't they stand up to them
china's clearly stated battle plan is to
dominate the united states by 2024. they
say this
quite publicly so today the united
states punch back with some new
sanctions
on the prc for human rights abuses theft
of trade secrets
as well as their undermining our efforts
to counter
illicit trafficking of nuclear and
radioactive materials
also their aggressive actions to
dominate the south china sea
dni ratcliffe has warned quote the
people's republic of china
poses the greatest threat to america
today and the greatest threat to
democracy and freedom
worldwide since world war ii
so any infiltration of our government
obviously is a serious matter
in moments congressman peter king victor
davis hansen
and joe koncha on whether
president-elect biden is up for
all of these challenges but first to
house minority leader kevin mccarthy
fresh from that fbi briefing on the hill
this afternoon
about congressman swalwell and christine
fong
leader mccarthy good to have you here
tonight thank you thank you so much
thank you when you how long was tell
what can you tell us about the briefing
how long was it how involved was it
um and did you learn things that you
didn't know before
well i've been asking for this briefing
since this story broke publicly
i was not briefed that's when i first
learned about it
i had two different fbi briefings
scheduled that were cancelled on the day
and now it came on friday and we were
briefed together
speaker pelosi and myself for more than
an hour
i can't tell you about what's in it but
i can tell you this
what i learned today and anyone who was
in that room with me
would never allow swalwell to be on the
intel committee or to continue to be on
it
i don't know if the briefing before for
leaders
if they had the same information they
have today but if that was the case
he should not be serving
what was your impression of the fbi
briefers i mean
house how grave a situation do they
consider this
or do they agree largely
with congressman swalwell who says look
this happened six years ago
she has long left the country
gone back to china and he claims that
the fbi
told him look thank you uh for speaking
with us they
they came to him because they wanted to
alert him to the situation
um and they say that he did nothing
wrong was there anything different in
their tone today
i can't talk about what's in it but
let's talk about what's publicly out
there right now
it wasn't that this spy known as a spy
got to know him as a congressman but got
to know him as a city councilman
it's told in the press that they he she
helped raise money they called her a
bundler in the press
got her into got him into congress and
within his second term he got probably
one of the most powerful committees
that is one of the most difficult
committees to sit on that it's not
selected by your peers it's selected by
one person
the leader of the democratic party and
the lemur of the of the republican
selects the republicans i take this
quite serious where you interview
this is also the same man when you asked
him a part of this committee
the questions that he raised what he
said about russia and others
many of the questions that he raised and
posed to people are
made accusations about people is
actually what happened to him
if you read the press it was the fbi
that went to him
in the press not he going to them and
this individual that they talk about
christine
fong she wasn't in the press saying
the only person in america that she was
getting
making relationships with getting to
know um
so it's pretty i would assume it would
be pretty um
serious if the fbi came to you that they
knew this person was
a spy for another country and then take
from a moment
what are the actions that he takes just
in this last month
you talk about john radcliffe the
director of intel when he said that
china is our greatest threat
swalwall didn't say he was correct
suaville actually challenged him and
said china is not
now he's a part of the intel committee
so he reads the reports that i read all
the time as the gang of eight
anyone who reads those reports would
never make that accusation and would
never say that they would agree with
john radcliffe
and they would take actions to protect
america
did you he do you see any evidence that
any
relationship with her or with china
um led him to get the position that he
got was there lobbying involved
what are you hinting at there i'm not
hitting on anything
what i'm stating here is the facts that
i know he should not be serving on intel
um what i read in the paper
this individual got to know him as a
city councilman
helped him run for congress and remember
what eric swalwell did
last year he ran for president as well
he raised a lot of questions on other
people i just think for what i know
for what the fbi bi presented it is
without a shadow of a doubt i have no
question
as a republican leader i would never
appoint anyone with that information i
have on them
did they share with you whether or not
this was a sexual relationship we know
that that was the case with two mayors
and obviously that
you know it takes the lev to a different
level did they share that with you
uh i cannot talk about what i learn in
in there
okay all right uh leader mccarthy thank
you
good to have you here tonight sir thank
you so much merry christmas