WASHINGTON IS FINISHED.
MARIA: AND JOINING ME RIGHT NOW
WITH INSIGHTS ON THE PARTY’S NEW
LEADERSHIP AND ITS IMMEDIATE
PRIORITIES IS HOUSE JUDICIARY
RANKING MEMBER, SOON TO BE THE
CHAIRMAN OF THE JUDICIARY
COMMITTEE AND A MEMBER OF THE
HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE AS
WELL, JIM JORDAN IS HERE.
CONGRESSMAN, IT’S GOOD TO SEE
YOU.
THANKS SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE
THIS WEEKEND.
>> YOU BET.
GOOD TO BE WITH YOU.
MARIA: WE JUST HEARD KEVIN
McCARTHY.
SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER OR
NOT HE’LL MAKE IT OVER THE
FINISH LINE WITH ANDY BIGGS
TELLING FOX THAT HE DOESN’T HAVE
THE VOTES.
WHO WILL BE THE SPEAKER OF THE
HOUSE, AND WHAT ARE YOUR
EXPECTATIONS FOR THE LEADERSHIP
COMING UP IN THE HOUSE?
>> WELL, YEAH, I THINK IT’LL BE
KEVIN McCARTHY.
LOOK, I SAID ALL ALONG THAT THE
GUY WHO GETS YOU TO THE SUPER
BOWL GETS TO COACH THE GAME, AND
UNDERSTAND OVER THE LAST TWO
CYCLES REPUBLICANS HAVE PICKED
UP SEATS IN THE HOUSE AND, OF
COURSE, NOW WE’RE IN THE
MAJORITY, AND WE WILL GET TO
CHAIR THE COMMITTEES, WE WILL
GET TO DO THE WORK THAT THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE ELECTED US
TO DO.
I DO THINK IT’S INTERESTING TOO,
REMEMBER JUST A COUPLE YEARS
AGO, MARIA, WHEN DEMOCRATS WERE
SAYING THAT THEY WERE GOING TO
TURN TEXAS BLUE?
WELL, TEXAS IS RED ARE,
FLORIDA’S REALLY RED, OHIO IS
RED AND, FRANKLY, IT LOOKS LIKE
NEW YORK AND CALIFORNIA ARE
GETTING A LOT LESS BLUE BECAUSE
THOSE ARE THE STATES THAT
ACTUALLY WHERE WE ELECTED NEW
PEOPLE THAT A PUT US IN THE
MAJORITY.
I THINK THAT’S CONCERN NO ONE
SEEMS TO FOCUS ON THAT BECAUSE
WE DIDN’T QUITE DO WHAT WE
THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO DO
OVERALL IN THE ELECTION, BUT WE
STILL WON THE HOUSE.
AND LET’S COME TOGETHER AND
REALIZE THAT WHATEVER
DIFFERENCES EXIST BETWEEN THE
MORE MODERATE MEMBERS IN THE
HOUSE AND CONSERVATIVE FOLKS
LIKE YOU AND I, THEY PALE IN
COMPARISON TO THE DIFFERENCES
BETWEEN REPUBLICANS AND THE
RADICAL LEFT WHICH NOW RUNS THE
DEMOCRAT PARTY WHICH HAS GIVEN
US THE CHAOS AND THE CRAZINESS
THAT WE’VE SEEN OVER THE LAST 21
MONTHS.
MARIA: YEAH, IT’S AT LOT OF
FIRES TO PUT OUT, THAT’S FOR
SURE.
SO YOU’VE TALKED ACT YOUR
PRIORITIES, YOU AND JAMES COMER
ON THURSDAY ABOUT THE
INVESTIGATION INTO THE BIDEN
FAMILY AND INFLUENCE PEDDLING.
TELL ME ABOUT THAT AND TELL ME
WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING TO GET TO.
>> WELL, WE’RE LOOKING TO GET TO
THE TRUTH AND THE PACTS.
AND I THINK PROBABLY -- THE
FACTS.
AND I THINK PROBABLY WHAT
HAPPENED WEEK WAS THE FIRST TIME
THE WASHINGTON PRESS CORPS HEARD
THE FACTS, THE THEY ACTUALLY HAD
TO REPORT THE FACTS AND PROBABLY
THE FIRST TIME THAT THEY
ACTUALLY REALIZED THIS WASN’T A
RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION
OPERATION, THIS WAS ALL TRUE
CLEAR BACK IN OCTOBER OF 2020
THE WHEN THE STORY THE FIRST
BROKE ABOUT THE LAPTOP.
BUT FOR ME, THE OVERARCHING
CONCERN IS THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT THAT IS POLITICAL.
AND THERE’S NOT A QUESTION ABOUT
THAT I NOW.
WE KNOW THAT IS THE CASE.
THEY’RE A POLITICAL OPERATION,
WE’VE LEARNED THAT FROM
WHISTLEBLOWERS.
AND THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE
POLITICAL NATURE OF THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT AND THIS HUNTER BIDEN
STORY, I THINK, IS A REAL
CONCERN BECAUSE WE KNOW THE FBI
WAS INVOLVED IN GOING TO
FACEBOOK IN OCTOBER OF TO -- OF
2020 AND TELLING FACEBOOK TO BE
ON THE LOOKOUT FOR RUSSIAN
DISINFORMATION.
AND THEY DID THAT AT THE SAME
TIME THAT THESE 51 FORMER INTEL
OFFICIALS RELEASED THAT LETTER
THAT SAID THE HUNTER BIDEN STORY
HAS ALL THE EARMARKS OF RUSSIAN
MISINFORMATION.
SO THAT LINKAGE BETWEEN THE
POLITICAL NATURE OF THE FBI TO
THIS STORY AND SUPPRESSING THAT
AND USING THAT TO THROTTLE BACK
THAT STORY SO THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE COULDN’T GET INFORMATION,
I THINK THAT IS A BIG CONCERN
BECAUSE IT FITS IN WITH THIS
BROADER CONCERN I HAVE WHICH IS
A JUSTICE DEPARTMENT THAT IS NOT
TREATING PEOPLE EQUALLY UNDER
THE LAW AND OPERATING IN A
POLITICAL FASHION.
MARIA: WELL, THIS IS A REALLY
IMPORTANT POINT THAT YOU MAKE,
AND YOU’VE CONE SO MUCH WORK IN
TERMS OF INVESTIGATING WHY THEY
WERE GOING AFTER SOCCER MOMS,
WHY THEY WERE ATTACKING ORDINARY
CITIZENS TO BASICALLY CALL THEM
INSURRECTIONISTS AND EXTREMISTS
JUST BECAUSE PARENTS WANTED TO
KNOW MORE ABOUT WHAT THEIR KIDS
WERE LEARNING; THAT IS, ABOUT
CRT.
ALL THE WAY TO JANUARY 6TH.
YOU KNOW, THAT HEARING THIS PAST
WEEK WITH CHRISTOPHER WRAY, I
WAS STRUCK BY THE FACT THAT HE
COULD NOT ANSWER THE QUESTION
ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THE FBI HAD
CONFIDENTIAL HUMAN SOURCES
DRESSED UP AS A TRUMP SUPPORTERS
ON JANUARY 6TH AT THE CAPITOL.
>> YEAH.
I DON’T -- I THINK HE PROBABLY
COULD HAVE ANSWERED THE
QUESTION, I THINK HE JUST
REFUSED TO ANSWER THE QUESTION.
AND, YOU KNOW, FOR WHATEVER
REASON.
WE HAVE HEARD FROM NUMEROUS
WHISTLEBLOWERS WHO HAVE SAID THE
PROBLEMS ARE AT THE HIGHEST
LEVEL OF THE FBI, SPECIFICALLY
THE WASHINGTON FIELD OFFICE.
ONE WHISTLEBLOWER TOLD US, IN
FACT, AT THAT LEVEL IT WAS
ROTTEN AT ITS CORE.
THINK ABOUT THIS, COMING TO US
AS A WHISTLEBLOWER ABOUT THE
AGENCY HE WORKS FOR, IT’S THAT
BAD.
BUT THERE WAS AN INDIVIDUAL,
TIMOTHY THINK BOLT, A DIFFERENT
WHISTLEBLOWER WENT TO SENATOR
GRASSLEY AND SAID IS HE WAS THE
GUY WHO WAS INVOLVED IN
SUPPRESSING THE HUNTER BIDEN
STORY IN THE FALL OF 2020.
AND THEN WE’VE HAD OTHER
WHISTLEBLOWERS COME TELL US THAT
IT WAS THIS SAME MAN WHO WAS
PRESSURING AGENTS TO CLASSIFY,
AS YOU TALKED ABOUT, CLASSIFY
ALL THESE CASES AS DOMESTIC
VIOLENT EXTREMISM CASES TO FIT
THIS BROAD NARRATIVE THAT JOE
BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATS HAVE
ABOUT HOW HALF THE COUNTRY ARE
EXTREMISTS.
SO THAT IS, WHEN I TALK ABOUT
THE POLITICAL NATURE THAT JUST
PERVADES THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
NOW, IT IS THERE.
BECAUSE WE HAVE HEARD FROM -- I
HAVE NEVER IN MY TIME FROM
CONGRESS SEEN SO MANY AGENTS
COME TO US AS WHISTLEBLOWERS.
IT’S UNPRECEDENTED WHAT WE HAVE
SEEN.
AND THEY DID IT WHILE WE’RE IN
THE MINORITY KNOWING THAT WE
DIDN’T REALLY HAVE THE POWER TO
DO MUCH OTHER THAN BEGIN TO TELL
THEIR STORY, BUT NOW WE CAN FIND
OUT JUST HOW BAD IT IS BECAUSE
THAT IS ALWAYS THE FIRST STEP IN
STOPPING IT, TO EXPOSE IT AND
RELATE THE COUNTRY SEE -- LET
THE COUNTRY SEE EXACTLY WHAT’S
BEEN GOING ON.
MARIA: WELL, IT’S VERY SAD AND
DISTURBING WHAT HAS TAKEN PLACE
AT THE HARDSHIP OF THE FBI AND
THE DOJ TO SEE THIS KIND OF
POLITICIZING OF REALLY,
ARGUABLY, OUR MOST IMPORTANT LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
BUT LET’S ZERO IN HERE ON THE
BIDEN FAMILY BUSINESS AND THIS
INFLUENCE PEDDLING INVESTIGATION
THAT YOU AND JAMES COMER WILL BE
CONTINUING, BECAUSE MY WORRY IS
THE FACT THAT THE COMMUNIST
PARTY OF CHINA IS INSIDE THE
GATES OF AMERICA, AND THEY HAVE
INFILTRATED THIS COUNTRY IN SO
MANY WAYS FROM, YOU KNOW, HONEY
POTS TO PEOPLE LIKE ERIC
SWALWELL AND OTHER LAWMAKERS IN
CALIFORNIA TO, YOU KNOW, PUTTING
ENTRAPMENT SCHEMES IN PLACE.
CONGRESSMAN, WHAT ARE YOU GOING
TO DO TO CONNECT THE DOTS THAT
TAKING MONEY FROM IF OFFICIALS
OF ADVERSARIAL COUNTRIES IS A
NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT?
>> WELL, THE FIRST THING WE NEED
IS ACTUALLY ACCESS TO THE
SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY REPORTS.
THESE ARE REPORTS THAT BANKS AND
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS SEND TO
THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT WHEN
THEY SEE SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY.
THE COMMITTEE HAS ONLY BEEN ABLE
TO SEE 2.
WE KNOW THERE ARE 150, SO WE’D
LIKE TO SEE THE OTHER 148.
SO I THINK THAT IS STEP ONE.
AND IT SHOULD TELL US MANAGER
THAT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION
HAS CHANGED THE POLICY.
IT USED TO BE IN PREVIOUS
ADMINISTRATIONS, WITH BUSH,
OBAMA, WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP
COMMITTEES COULD HAVE ACCESS TO
SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY REPORTS, BUT
NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION HAS SAID, NO, NO,
NO, TIMEOUT.
SO, FIRST OF ALL, HAY WON’T
COMPLY WITH ANY REQUESTS WE HAVE
FOR INFORMATION THAT MR. COMBER
HAS SENT TO THE WHITE HOUSE OR
TO THE FOLKS INVOLVED IN THIS,
THEY WON’T COMPLY WITH THAT
WHICH IS SORT OF KIND OF THE
KNOWLEDGE, I GUESS, FROM MANY
WHITE HOUSES AS THEY’RE
RELUCTANT TO COMPLY WITH THE
OPPOSING PARTY.
BUT THEN THEY CHANGED THE
SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY REPORT
PROCESS AND PROTOCOLS.
THAT’S NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE.
AND NOW WE LEARN THEY’VE SET UP
A SPECIAL GROUP, THE DEMOCRATS
HAVE, TO GO AFTER PEOPLE WHO ARE
INVESTIGATING THIS ISSUE.
SO I THINK THAT’S KIND OF
SENDING A SIGNAL IN AND OF
ITSELF THAT MAYBE THERE IS
SOMETHING THERE.
AND WE TRY TO POINT OUT A NUMBER
OF THESE FACTS AT THE PRESS