KENNEDY: DIDN’T WORK FOR THE
NATZIS AND NOT FOR FBI AGENTS.
PARTY PANEL WILL STICK AROUND
BUT LIBERTY LOVERS WILL AGREE
THAT FBI HAS WAY TOO MUCH POWER.
IF THEY CAN DO THIS TO A FORMER
PRESIDENT, IMAGINE WHAT THEY CAN
DO TO YOU.
WHAT CAN CONGRESS DO ABOUT IT
AND WILL THIS TURN MORE
AMERICANS TO CIVIL LIBERTARIANS.
JOINING ME NOW IS CALIFORNIA
REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN AND
HUGHES JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
MEMBER TOM MCCLINTOCK.
CONGRESSMAN, WELCOME BACK.
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE RAID SO
FAR?
>> VERY FOREIGN AND VERY
FRIGHTENING FROM THE AMERICA I
GREW UP IN.
THAT AMERICA WE ENFORCED OUR
LAWS EVEN HANDEDLY AND NEVER
CRIMINALIZED POLITICAL
DISAGREEMENTS.
THIS NEW AMERICA, THE LEFT, IS
VERY FOREIGN AND VERY
FRIGHTENING.
KENNEDY: IT IS, AND DO YOU THINK
IT’S STRANGE THAT WE HAVEN’T
HEARD AT LEAST SOMETHING FROM
THE DOJ OR FBI GIVEN THE
MAGNITUDE OF THIS RAID?
>> YOU WOULD THINK IF IT WAS
SOMETHING HEINOUS, THEY’D BE AT
LEAST LEAKING IT.
THEY’RE VERY GOOD AT LEAKING
THINGS.
THE FACT WE HAVEN’T HEARD LEADS
ME TO BELIEVE THIS WAS INDEED
OVER A RECORDS DISPUTE.
AN ARMED RAID ON THE HOME OF A
FORMER PRESIDENT OVER A RECORDS
DISPUTE.
THERE’S ONLY WAY TO INTERPRET
THAT, IT’S A DELIBERATE MESSAGE,
WE CAN COME AFTER ANYONE FOR ANY
REASON, ABUSE ANY POWER AND
SHATTER ANY CIVIL NORM AND LOOK
WHAT THEY’RE DOING WITH IT.
I MEAN, THREAT TAGS ON PARENTS
THAT PROTEST AT A SCHOOL BOARD
MEETINGS DOUBLING THE IRS THAT’S
SITTING ON 5 MILLION ROUNDS OF
AMMUNITION FOR SOME REASON.
THE FBI ISSUE ADD PAPER AT FIELD
OFFICES SAYING IF YOU DISPLAY
THE BETSY ROSS OR GASTON FLAGS,
THE ICONIC AMERICAN FLAGS ON
WHICH WE WON OUR INDEPENDENCE,
THAT’S EVIDENCE OF POLITICAL
EXTREMISM.
I FLY BOTH OF THEM ON THE FOURTH
OF JULY AND ARE THEY COMING
AFTER ME NEXT?
KENNEDY: I HAVE A GASTON FLAG
SWEAT SUIT THAT I CAN’T WAIT TO
DEBUT.
YOU WILL ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT AND,
HEY, MAN, DON’T TREAD ON ME.
THAT’S WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
WHEN, YOU KNOW, A FORMER
PRESIDENT CAN BE TARGETED LIKE
THIS AND IT BETTER BE BIG.
IF IT IS BIG THEN, YOU KNOW,
IT’S LIKE HIGH FIVES ALL AROUND.
LET’S HIT THE SHOWERS, FELLAS.
IF IT’S NOT AND IT IS OVER
COCKTAIL NAPKINS AND, YOU KNOW,
RINKY DINK LITTLE TINKER TOYS,
THEN NO, IT’S ON AND THERE
BETTER BE A REVOLT AT THE BALLOT
BOX.
THERE BETTER BE SOME COME UPENS
FOR THIS AND WHAT CAN CONGRESS
DO TO REIGN IN THE EGREGIOUS
POWER THAT THE FBI IS ABLE TO
ABUSE?
>> A LOT WITH THE MAJORITY.
I WILL NOT VOTE ANOTHER PENNY
FOR THE FBI OR DOJ OR IRS TILL
THERE’S A TO THE TO BOTTOM HOUSE
CLEANING IN THE AGENCIES AND
THAT INCLUDES THE REPLACEMENT OF
EVERY SENIOR OFFICIAL.
IF, WHAT, 217 OTHER CONGRESSMAN
TAKE THE SAME PLEDGE, THIS ABUSE
IMMEDIATELY COMES TO A
SCREECHING HALT.
YOU KNOW, LAURA SAID IT BEST,
POWER TENDS TO CORRUPT AND
ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS
ABSOLUTELY.
WE NEED TO GIVE SERIOUS
ATTENTION TO WHETHER HAVING A
CENTRALIZED NATIONAL POLICE
FORCE IS A GOOD IDEA AND MAYBE
WE SHOULD BREAK UP THE FBI, KEEP
WHAT WORKS, THROW AWAY THE REST,
AND RELY ON LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT FOR UPHOLDING MOST
FEDERAL LAWS.
KENNEDY: YES, AND I KNOW THE
DEFUND THE POLICE MOVEMENT GOT A
LOT OF TRACTION.
I’M NOT CALLING FOR THAT FOR
FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND NOT
THE FBI BECAUSE I KNOW THERE ARE
GOOD AGENTS OUT THERE.
I KNOW PEOPLE WORK REALLY HARD
AND IT’S A DIFFICULT JOB TO GET,
BUT IF NOTHING ELSE, WE SHOULD
AT LEAST AUDIT THE FBI AND I
WOULD AGREE WITH YOU, SENIOR
LEADERSHIP, IF THEY ARE GOING TO
ABUSE POWER THIS EASILY, YOU
KNOW, IT’S LIKE I ALWAYS GO BACK
TO THE STORY ABOUT THOSE POWER
GYMNASTS, YOU KNOW, THE DOZENS
AND DOZENS OF YOUNG WOMEN
BECAUSED OVER THE YEARS
BECAUSE -- ABUSED OVER THE YEARS
BECAUSE A LAZY FBI AGENT RUNNING
COVER FOR SOMEONE DECIDED TO PUT
TESTIMONY IN HIS DESK SO THIS
DOCTOR WAS LEFT TO REOFFEND MORE
AND MORE YOUNG, TRUSTING,
VULNERABLE WOMEN.
THAT’S WHAT THE FBI HAS BEEN
DOING.
THE FBI HAS BEEN WITH WITHHOLDIN
INFORMATION AND FIGHTING WARRANT
REQUESTS ABOUT CARTER PAIGE
WORKING FOR THE CIA.
THEY LEAVE THINGS LIKE THAT OUT
FOR POLITICAL GAIN.
SO IF THIS IS WHAT THEY HAVE
BALLOONED INTO, SOMEONE HAS TO
TAMP DOWN THIS MUSHROOM CLOUD.
>> WELL, WE ALSO HAVE TO LOOK AT
STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT.
MADISON WARREN DOES, WE’RE NOT
GOVERNED BY ANGELS AND IT WAS
THE STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT THAT
WAS MEANT TO CONTAIN THE WORST
PART OF OUR HUMAN NATURE,
INCLUDING THE TEND I DID TENDENC
TO ABUSE POWERS THAT WERE GIVEN.
WE NEED A DISCUSSION OF A LOT OF
FEDERAL LAWS.
MOST OF THEM ARE PASSED BY BROCK
SEIZURE DISORDERSES OF
ADMINISTRATIVE LAWS BY A 10-1
AND MADISON CALLED THAT
IMPURITIES AND WE NEED TO
RE-EXAMINE FUNDAMENTAL CRIMES.
FOR EXAMPLE DISPUTES WITH THE
IRS ARE FUNDAMENTALLY CIVIL
DISPUTES AND OUGHT TO BE TREAT
THAT HAD WAY.
WHY DO WE THROW PEOPLE IN JAIL
OVER DISAGREEMENTS OVER WHAT
THEY OWE AND DOES THE IRS NEED
FIVE MILLION ROUNDS OF
AMMUNITION?
>> NO, THEY DON’T -- KENNEDY:
NO, THEY DON’T, TAXATION IS
THEFT AND ALL THE STUFF GOING
ALONG WITH IT.