In this episode, Congressman James Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, joins to discuss his investigations into Joe Biden's business dealings and the challenges in obtaining information from the Biden administration. Comer contrasts this with the Trump administration's cooperation and emphasizes the need for reforms to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in government spending. The episode highlights the importance of restoring public trust in government through transparency and accountability, with a focus on potential reforms under a Trump administration. The Truth with Lisa Boothe is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network - new episodes debut every Tuesday & Thursday.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I was thinking about this the other day, after all
the tax that President Trump faced, you know, being called
the threat to democracy. He's hitler, he's all these different things.
He's going to be the guy that will restore our
trust in government. He will restore our faith in government,
and he'll do that through radical transparency. We've already seen
him take steps to do that. We're releasing certain files
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to the public of wanting to be honest with us.
Also just looking to reform our federal government as well
and reduce spending to finally get some of the oversight
that we didn't get over the past four years, but
probably to be expected considering Joe Biden pardon his entire
family on the way out, just a little bit of
corruption with the Biden family. With that in mind, you know,
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what will this reform look like over the next four years?
What will this transparency look like over the next four years?
And as we see Democrats freak out over doge and
over some of these reforms and some of these cuts
to government, what does that mean for the Democrat party
as well? We'll talk to a guy who knows a
(01:04):
thing or two about oversight and transparency. Who better to
have this conversation with than Congressman James Comer, the chairman
of the Oversight Committee. We'll also ask him, as Joe
Biden pardon his entire family on the way out, does
he have any intention on issuing a subpoena to any
of Joe Biden's family members. They can't plead the fifth now,
(01:28):
so will he do that? We'll ask him about that
and so much more. Stay tuned for this conversation with
Congressman James Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee. So, Congressman,
you've been investigating Joe Biden and his family and his
connections to Hunter Biden's business dealings.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
So we saw him pardon.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
His family on the way out. We know that they
can't plead the fifth Do you have any intention of
subpoenaing Joe Biden or his family moving forward?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Well, obviously I would love to hold the entire family accountable.
I think that decision is going to have to be
made by Donald Trump for us to be able to
get the information that we need from Joe Biden and
to be able to overcome what would inevitably be court
cases where they would argue their pardons didn't require them
(02:25):
to come into Congress, We're going to have to have a.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Cooperative Department of Justice.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So I tell people the balls in Pam Body's court,
the balls in Donald Trump's court. If they want to
press forward, I would be more than happy to bring
that family in because everything we said in the investigation,
everything I said on interviews, turned out to be true.
When Joe Biden preemptively pardoned his entire family for an
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eleven year period, which just so happened to be the
eleven year period, I subpoened their bank records.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Weird how happens.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, that was admission of guilt, and no family should
be able to get away with what they got away with.
Not only did they lie about it, but they took
money from places and people they never should have taken
money from while Joe Biden was Vice President of the
United States, and they never paid a penny of taxes
on it.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
And to me, that's a pretty serious crime.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Congressman, we saw your oversight efforts or efforts be met
with resistance from the Biden administration. You know, now you
have a willing participant with President Donald Trump and his administration.
What does that mean for oversight over these next four years?
You know what will be focused on and what sort
of documents are you looking to get a hold of
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that you couldn't get ahold of these past four years.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well, we couldn't get a hold of anything in the
Biden administration.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
The only time they ever allowed me to do anything
that I wanted from an overset a standpoint, was they
finally allowed me to go in treasure and look at
those bank violations that the Biden family had. And obviously
they didn't know what they were, or they couldn't comprehend them,
or hadn't really investigated that.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
But that's what helped.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Us find all the different shell companies and all the
different bank accounts and how the family had received incremental
payments that have been laundered through all the shell companies.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So that was very helpful. And after that day they
led us in treasury. We never got.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Anything else from the Biden administration. But the Trump administration
has already been cooperative. We're in constant communication with several cabinets,
which obviously with the DOGE people we want to identify
waste fraud, abuse.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Of mismanagement in the federal government.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
We're working together hand in hand to try to do
what the Oversight Committee supposed to do, and that's to
root out wasteful.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Spending and to make government more efficient.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
And you know, finally we have a president and administration
that shares our goal and hopefully we'll be able to
be very effective.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Although it turns out that the left does not want oversight.
If you look at the reaction, you know, to what
the Trump administration has done so far and what Dog
has done so far, has the reaction surprised you at all?
And you know, what sort of reforms do you think
we could get done over these next four years.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I'm not surprised that the Democrats don't want to see
any type of government reform. I'm not surprised that the
Democrats don't want to save taxpayer money. I am surprised
that they've been so vocal thus far on things like
USA that they're you know, the average person in America
is thrilled that Donald Trump shut that down. The average
(05:47):
person in America probably supports eighty five or ninety percent
of the ideas, the good government ideas that Eli Musk
has tweeted out. So they picked some odd hills to down,
making such a big fuss out of shutting down usaid.
When the when the American people see how much of
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that money was was not just wasted, but was fraudulently spent.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
And I think the American people are going to be
even more supportive of Donald Trump and the Republican Party
and even less supportive of the Democrat Party. So the
Democrats can obstruct our oversight efforts all they want. At
the end of the day, I think the American people
want to see their their tax dollars spent wisely and
(06:37):
they know that that that hasn't been the case for
a long time.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
You know, And your role is over, say Sherman.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I mean, you've seen the ugly part of our government
up close. What needs to be reformed the most from
what you've seen.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well, I'm partial, and I would start with the intelligence
community as well as our entire judiciary. It has been weaponized,
it's been politicized, it completely lost credibility, and we've got
to restore competence that we need a strong intelligence community.
(07:16):
You know, some Republicans say, oh, we need to abolish
the FBI and the CIA.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
No, we really need it.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
You go back to, you know, when when our country
was being founded and George Washington.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Kind of had an intelligence apparatus.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
We need intelligence disintelligence community has been wrong, dating back
to George W.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Bush and Iraq.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Head weapons of mass destruction to today where they sent
out a letter with fifty one intelligence officials lying to
the American people tried to commit election interference and say
that that Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation when they
knew it was not.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
The intelligence community has lost all confidence, and you.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Know it's it's got to be completely rained in the
judiciary is the same way the Department of Justice. I
think we've got to just completely overhaul those agencies, but
also spending. And members of Congress say, well, we appropriated
one trillion dollars to medicare.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Well, that doesn't mean that every.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Penny of that one trillion dollars is spent on deserving
people that are that are sixty five and over. We've
got Medicare fraud that's rampant. But they're going crazy, the Democrats,
because we want to reform how payments to providers are
being paid in medicare.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
They said, oh, they're cutting Medicare. I mean, we're.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Trying to get this massive amount of wasteful spending under control.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
And every time we do anything, they.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Cry foul and say it's going to you know, people
are going to starve to death and they're going to die.
And it's just it's you know, there's every part of
the government is out of control. Every agency in the
government could be reduced. Uh, every there are duplicative services
in every agency and and uh, we're just we need
(09:14):
to consolidate them. And it's going to be a herculean task,
but it has to be done. And thank god we
have an administration and a Congress that finally wants.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
To do it. What do you think of those so far?
Are they on the right track.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
They're on the right track. And I tell them, dogs
is going to have ideas that are that are good ideas.
They're gonna have goals that can be achieved. They're going
to have goals that that may not can be achieved.
And every now and then they're gonna they're gonna have
an idea that that may be a bad idea. Uh,
but thank god they have ideas, and thank god they're trying.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
And I think they've already.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Eliminated an an enormous amount of wasteful spending, enormous amount
of unnecessary and burdens from regulation.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
So I strongly support what they do.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I love people with big ideas and with a vision,
and it's great to set goals and you don't always
achieve those goals. But you know, I'm excited about DOGE
and I want to keep working with them because I'm
passionate about government oversight. I'm passionate about trying to save
taxpayer dollars. And you know, we've been going to get
(10:23):
the current in Congress. Not only has there been not
a single Democrat in Congress that wanted to save taxpayer money.
Not only did the Body administration not want to save
taxpayer money, there were a lot of Republicans in Congress
that didn't care, especially the one, the old decrepit ones
that have been here for decades and decades and decades.
(10:44):
Now we've got a popular president, we've got an entity
like dogs that's focused on this, and I think it's
bringing more Republicans together and hopefully we can get some
things done that need to be done.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
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b O O T H. Well, I think it's interesting,
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and I was thinking about this the other day, sir,
that you know all these things that have been you know,
all these lines of attacks against President Trump. You know,
he's hitler, he's a threat to democracy all but what
he ultimately could do over these next four years is
restore trust and government in a way that we haven't
seen in a very long time. And that's done through
transparency and so like the irony is the guy that
(12:29):
they have attacked, you know, as the threat to democracy
is the one that could restore Americans trust in our
constitutional republic.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, that's a very good point. I agree with that
one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I think he's the guy that can do it because
I will tell you from where I sit, I have
very little trust in our federal government. But I do
believe Donald Trump can can help me restore trust in
the government if there you know, just your transparency and
he's everything.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
He's done, every thing that the media.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Is losing their mind over and the left wing liberals
and Congress are losing mirth he said he.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Would do in the campaign.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
He's been transparent, and I think that's the that's the
first step.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
You know, I saw you announce that you're going to
be investigating the debank d banking of conservatives. This is
a very important issue. First of all, you know, what
do we know about it? And also you know what
are you looking for? What are you hoping to uncover
in your investigation.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Well, this has been going on for several years. It
probably started towards the end of the Obama years, but
it really escalated during the Biden years. And a lot
of that was because the ESG policies. And you've got
banks that were afraid to not just loan money, but
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to even open an account for industries that weren't in
favor with the liberals, anything in the color industry or
anything in in you know, most energy other than solar,
and when you know, anything pertaining the drilling or fracking. Uh,
then then you had you know, industries run by outspoken conservatives.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Businesses accounts owned by outspoken conservatives.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
They didn't want to offend the liberals that were keeping
up with.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
With who their customers were. And this is discriminatory.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
And we've seen some of the bigger banks, especially when uh,
you know, they put liberals on the board, liberal activists
on the board, uh, that that have created these s
G and d I policies, and they've tried to you know,
discriminate against conservatives essentially, and discriminate against necessary industries.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Uh, some big agriculture industries weren't allowed to bank.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
So we want to see which banks were involved in this,
make it public and let them respond and see if
they're going to, you know, abide by the law.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
And not discriminating.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Look, I'm not telling them who to loan money to,
even telling the Liberals do that through laws like DoD
frank where they have mandates as to what percentage of
minority loans and things they you know, a minimum they
have to have and all that. But we're seeing you know,
if you've got someone with a seven digit network that
wants to open up an account and put one hundred
thousand dollars in there, and you deny because they're conservative,
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that's that's not very good business. And it's also not
legal by the discriminatory laws that ironically the Democrats put
in place.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Do you think any of it was directed by the government,
by the Bidminstration, Well.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I do, because what we found out with the Twitter
files and from both Zuckerberg and Musk is that that
they were communicated. The government was communicating with the social
media companies to censor conservatives and deep platform conservatives. So
(16:06):
it wouldn't surprise me a bit if some liberal bureaucrat
in Washington, d C. Called Bank of America and said, hey,
do not bank with any of the Trumps, or do
not allow any coal company or oil company or fracking
company to have any type of account here, because that's
(16:28):
really bad. And you know, we're about the Green New Deal,
and there are obstacles to our new America, and they
don't want to let transgenders play in girls sports and
things like that. I mean, that is how the left
was operating under the Body administration. The unelected bureaucrats were
(16:49):
going wide open, trying to spread their ridiculous left wing
ideology into every facet of our lives.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
And that changed now in.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
The liberals, especially the liberals in Congress, are having a
hard time dealing with you.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah, before we go, I've got to get you real quick.
On the Quinnipiac poll showing that Democrats unfavorability has reached
a sixteen year high. They're only thirty one percent of
voters of a favorable view of the Democrat Party. Sort
of sweet after everything that they put us through over
the past four years, to see the American people finally
(17:28):
on our side.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
And rejecting, you.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Know, just the dumpster fire that they created over the
past four years.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
So your reaction to that poll.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I'm not a bit I'm not a bit surprised. When
you nominate Joe Biden when you know he's not physically
or mentally able to be president, and I think you
nominate him for another four year term, then you stick
Kamala Harris when you had you know, they have decent
Democrat governors around that that would have been appealing candidates,
(17:59):
but you know, they didn't want to offend you know,
their their dei objectives and their narratives and all that,
so they put Harris on the ticket.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
When you've got people like Adam Schiff and Jamie Raskin, who,
in my opinion, are the two most dishonest members of
Congress out front in so many of your your left
wing policies, then of course you're going to be unpopular
with the American people. And the buzzword that Trump and
Republicans are using out is common sense. We want to
(18:32):
restore common sense. Nothing that the Democrats advocated for made
any common sense, whether you know it was who they
were nominating to.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Lead their party.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Uh, you know, their their you know, green New Deal agendas,
their dei obsession there, the centering conservatives, their left wing propaganda.
They destroyed public education in so many any different ways.
I think the American people said, enough is enough. We're
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going to go with the meanor party that has bad
tweets and we're.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Going to go with them, and you know, goodbye Democrat Party.
And that's kind of where we are in America.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Now and I hope it stays that way. Yeah, Congressman
James Comer, we appreciate the work you do as chairman
of the House over Site Committee, and we appreciate your
time today. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
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(19:47):
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I was thinking about this the other day, after all
the tax that President Trump faced, you know, being called
the threat to democracy. He's hitler, he's all these different things.
He's going to be the guy that will restore our
trust in government. He will restore our faith in government,
and he'll do that through radical transparency. We've already seen
him take steps to do that. We're releasing certain files
(00:22):
to the public of wanting to be honest with us.
Also just looking to reform our federal government as well
and reduce spending to finally get some of the oversight
that we didn't get over the past four years, but
probably to be expected considering Joe Biden pardon his entire
family on the way out, just a little bit of
corruption with the Biden family. With that in mind, you know,
(00:44):
what will this reform look like over the next four years?
What will this transparency look like over the next four years?
And as we see Democrats freak out over doge and
over some of these reforms and some of these cuts
to government, what does that mean for the Democrat party
as well? We'll talk to a guy who knows a
(01:04):
thing or two about oversight and transparency. Who better to
have this conversation with than Congressman James Comer, the chairman
of the Oversight Committee. We'll also ask him, as Joe
Biden pardon his entire family on the way out, does
he have any intention on issuing a subpoena to any
of Joe Biden's family members. They can't plead the fifth now,
(01:28):
so will he do that? We'll ask him about that
and so much more. Stay tuned for this conversation with
Congressman James Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee. So, Congressman,
you've been investigating Joe Biden and his family and his
connections to Hunter Biden's business dealings.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
So we saw him pardon.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
His family on the way out. We know that they
can't plead the fifth Do you have any intention of
subpoenaing Joe Biden or his family moving forward?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Well, obviously I would love to hold the entire family accountable.
I think that decision is going to have to be
made by Donald Trump for us to be able to
get the information that we need from Joe Biden and
to be able to overcome what would inevitably be court
cases where they would argue their pardons didn't require them
(02:25):
to come into Congress, We're going to have to have a.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Cooperative Department of Justice.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So I tell people the balls in Pam Body's court,
the balls in Donald Trump's court. If they want to
press forward, I would be more than happy to bring
that family in because everything we said in the investigation,
everything I said on interviews, turned out to be true.
When Joe Biden preemptively pardoned his entire family for an
(02:53):
eleven year period, which just so happened to be the
eleven year period, I subpoened their bank records.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Weird how happens.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, that was admission of guilt, and no family should
be able to get away with what they got away with.
Not only did they lie about it, but they took
money from places and people they never should have taken
money from while Joe Biden was Vice President of the
United States, and they never paid a penny of taxes
on it.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
And to me, that's a pretty serious crime.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Congressman, we saw your oversight efforts or efforts be met
with resistance from the Biden administration. You know, now you
have a willing participant with President Donald Trump and his administration.
What does that mean for oversight over these next four years?
You know what will be focused on and what sort
of documents are you looking to get a hold of
(03:44):
that you couldn't get ahold of these past four years.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well, we couldn't get a hold of anything in the
Biden administration.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
The only time they ever allowed me to do anything
that I wanted from an overset a standpoint, was they
finally allowed me to go in treasure and look at
those bank violations that the Biden family had. And obviously
they didn't know what they were, or they couldn't comprehend them,
or hadn't really investigated that.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
But that's what helped.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Us find all the different shell companies and all the
different bank accounts and how the family had received incremental
payments that have been laundered through all the shell companies.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So that was very helpful. And after that day they
led us in treasury. We never got.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Anything else from the Biden administration. But the Trump administration
has already been cooperative. We're in constant communication with several cabinets,
which obviously with the DOGE people we want to identify
waste fraud, abuse.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Of mismanagement in the federal government.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
We're working together hand in hand to try to do
what the Oversight Committee supposed to do, and that's to
root out wasteful.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Spending and to make government more efficient.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
And you know, finally we have a president and administration
that shares our goal and hopefully we'll be able to
be very effective.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Although it turns out that the left does not want oversight.
If you look at the reaction, you know, to what
the Trump administration has done so far and what Dog
has done so far, has the reaction surprised you at all?
And you know, what sort of reforms do you think
we could get done over these next four years.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I'm not surprised that the Democrats don't want to see
any type of government reform. I'm not surprised that the
Democrats don't want to save taxpayer money. I am surprised
that they've been so vocal thus far on things like
USA that they're you know, the average person in America
is thrilled that Donald Trump shut that down. The average
(05:47):
person in America probably supports eighty five or ninety percent
of the ideas, the good government ideas that Eli Musk
has tweeted out. So they picked some odd hills to down,
making such a big fuss out of shutting down usaid.
When the when the American people see how much of
(06:08):
that money was was not just wasted, but was fraudulently spent.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
And I think the American people are going to be
even more supportive of Donald Trump and the Republican Party
and even less supportive of the Democrat Party. So the
Democrats can obstruct our oversight efforts all they want. At
the end of the day, I think the American people
want to see their their tax dollars spent wisely and
(06:37):
they know that that that hasn't been the case for
a long time.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
You know, And your role is over, say Sherman.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I mean, you've seen the ugly part of our government
up close. What needs to be reformed the most from
what you've seen.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well, I'm partial, and I would start with the intelligence
community as well as our entire judiciary. It has been weaponized,
it's been politicized, it completely lost credibility, and we've got
to restore competence that we need a strong intelligence community.
(07:16):
You know, some Republicans say, oh, we need to abolish
the FBI and the CIA.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
No, we really need it.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
You go back to, you know, when when our country
was being founded and George Washington.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Kind of had an intelligence apparatus.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
We need intelligence disintelligence community has been wrong, dating back
to George W.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Bush and Iraq.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Head weapons of mass destruction to today where they sent
out a letter with fifty one intelligence officials lying to
the American people tried to commit election interference and say
that that Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation when they
knew it was not.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
The intelligence community has lost all confidence, and you.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Know it's it's got to be completely rained in the
judiciary is the same way the Department of Justice. I
think we've got to just completely overhaul those agencies, but
also spending. And members of Congress say, well, we appropriated
one trillion dollars to medicare.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Well, that doesn't mean that every.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Penny of that one trillion dollars is spent on deserving
people that are that are sixty five and over. We've
got Medicare fraud that's rampant. But they're going crazy, the Democrats,
because we want to reform how payments to providers are
being paid in medicare.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
They said, oh, they're cutting Medicare. I mean, we're.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Trying to get this massive amount of wasteful spending under control.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
And every time we do anything, they.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Cry foul and say it's going to you know, people
are going to starve to death and they're going to die.
And it's just it's you know, there's every part of
the government is out of control. Every agency in the
government could be reduced. Uh, every there are duplicative services
in every agency and and uh, we're just we need
(09:14):
to consolidate them. And it's going to be a herculean task,
but it has to be done. And thank god we
have an administration and a Congress that finally wants.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
To do it. What do you think of those so far?
Are they on the right track.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
They're on the right track. And I tell them, dogs
is going to have ideas that are that are good ideas.
They're gonna have goals that can be achieved. They're going
to have goals that that may not can be achieved.
And every now and then they're gonna they're gonna have
an idea that that may be a bad idea. Uh,
but thank god they have ideas, and thank god they're trying.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
And I think they've already.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Eliminated an an enormous amount of wasteful spending, enormous amount
of unnecessary and burdens from regulation.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
So I strongly support what they do.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I love people with big ideas and with a vision,
and it's great to set goals and you don't always
achieve those goals. But you know, I'm excited about DOGE
and I want to keep working with them because I'm
passionate about government oversight. I'm passionate about trying to save
taxpayer dollars. And you know, we've been going to get
(10:23):
the current in Congress. Not only has there been not
a single Democrat in Congress that wanted to save taxpayer money.
Not only did the Body administration not want to save
taxpayer money, there were a lot of Republicans in Congress
that didn't care, especially the one, the old decrepit ones
that have been here for decades and decades and decades.
(10:44):
Now we've got a popular president, we've got an entity
like dogs that's focused on this, and I think it's
bringing more Republicans together and hopefully we can get some
things done that need to be done.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
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and I was thinking about this the other day, sir,
that you know all these things that have been you know,
all these lines of attacks against President Trump. You know,
he's hitler, he's a threat to democracy all but what
he ultimately could do over these next four years is
restore trust and government in a way that we haven't
seen in a very long time. And that's done through
transparency and so like the irony is the guy that
(12:29):
they have attacked, you know, as the threat to democracy
is the one that could restore Americans trust in our
constitutional republic.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, that's a very good point. I agree with that
one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I think he's the guy that can do it because
I will tell you from where I sit, I have
very little trust in our federal government. But I do
believe Donald Trump can can help me restore trust in
the government if there you know, just your transparency and
he's everything.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
He's done, every thing that the media.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Is losing their mind over and the left wing liberals
and Congress are losing mirth he said he.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Would do in the campaign.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
He's been transparent, and I think that's the that's the
first step.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
You know, I saw you announce that you're going to
be investigating the debank d banking of conservatives. This is
a very important issue. First of all, you know, what
do we know about it? And also you know what
are you looking for? What are you hoping to uncover
in your investigation.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Well, this has been going on for several years. It
probably started towards the end of the Obama years, but
it really escalated during the Biden years. And a lot
of that was because the ESG policies. And you've got
banks that were afraid to not just loan money, but
(13:53):
to even open an account for industries that weren't in
favor with the liberals, anything in the color industry or
anything in in you know, most energy other than solar,
and when you know, anything pertaining the drilling or fracking. Uh,
then then you had you know, industries run by outspoken conservatives.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Businesses accounts owned by outspoken conservatives.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
They didn't want to offend the liberals that were keeping
up with.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
With who their customers were. And this is discriminatory.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
And we've seen some of the bigger banks, especially when uh,
you know, they put liberals on the board, liberal activists
on the board, uh, that that have created these s
G and d I policies, and they've tried to you know,
discriminate against conservatives essentially, and discriminate against necessary industries.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Uh, some big agriculture industries weren't allowed to bank.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
So we want to see which banks were involved in this,
make it public and let them respond and see if
they're going to, you know, abide by the law.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
And not discriminating.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Look, I'm not telling them who to loan money to,
even telling the Liberals do that through laws like DoD
frank where they have mandates as to what percentage of
minority loans and things they you know, a minimum they
have to have and all that. But we're seeing you know,
if you've got someone with a seven digit network that
wants to open up an account and put one hundred
thousand dollars in there, and you deny because they're conservative,
(15:30):
that's that's not very good business. And it's also not
legal by the discriminatory laws that ironically the Democrats put
in place.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Do you think any of it was directed by the government,
by the Bidminstration, Well.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I do, because what we found out with the Twitter
files and from both Zuckerberg and Musk is that that
they were communicated. The government was communicating with the social
media companies to censor conservatives and deep platform conservatives. So
(16:06):
it wouldn't surprise me a bit if some liberal bureaucrat
in Washington, d C. Called Bank of America and said, hey,
do not bank with any of the Trumps, or do
not allow any coal company or oil company or fracking
company to have any type of account here, because that's
(16:28):
really bad. And you know, we're about the Green New Deal,
and there are obstacles to our new America, and they
don't want to let transgenders play in girls sports and
things like that. I mean, that is how the left
was operating under the Body administration. The unelected bureaucrats were
(16:49):
going wide open, trying to spread their ridiculous left wing
ideology into every facet of our lives.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
And that changed now in.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
The liberals, especially the liberals in Congress, are having a
hard time dealing with you.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah, before we go, I've got to get you real quick.
On the Quinnipiac poll showing that Democrats unfavorability has reached
a sixteen year high. They're only thirty one percent of
voters of a favorable view of the Democrat Party. Sort
of sweet after everything that they put us through over
the past four years, to see the American people finally
(17:28):
on our side.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
And rejecting, you.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Know, just the dumpster fire that they created over the
past four years.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
So your reaction to that poll.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I'm not a bit I'm not a bit surprised. When
you nominate Joe Biden when you know he's not physically
or mentally able to be president, and I think you
nominate him for another four year term, then you stick
Kamala Harris when you had you know, they have decent
Democrat governors around that that would have been appealing candidates,
(17:59):
but you know, they didn't want to offend you know,
their their dei objectives and their narratives and all that,
so they put Harris on the ticket.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
When you've got people like Adam Schiff and Jamie Raskin, who,
in my opinion, are the two most dishonest members of
Congress out front in so many of your your left
wing policies, then of course you're going to be unpopular
with the American people. And the buzzword that Trump and
Republicans are using out is common sense. We want to
(18:32):
restore common sense. Nothing that the Democrats advocated for made
any common sense, whether you know it was who they
were nominating to.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Lead their party.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Uh, you know, their their you know, green New Deal agendas,
their dei obsession there, the centering conservatives, their left wing propaganda.
They destroyed public education in so many any different ways.
I think the American people said, enough is enough. We're
(19:04):
going to go with the meanor party that has bad
tweets and we're.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Going to go with them, and you know, goodbye Democrat Party.
And that's kind of where we are in America.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Now and I hope it stays that way. Yeah, Congressman
James Comer, we appreciate the work you do as chairman
of the House over Site Committee, and we appreciate your
time today. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
That was Congressman James Comer, Chairman of the House Oversite Committee.
We appreciate him making the time. Appreciate you guys making
the time at home. Just so that you know, we're
now going to be publishing on Tuesdays and Thursdays, just
with all the news with the Trump administration, we think
that that will allow us with twice a week, just
to be a little bit more on top of what's
(19:47):
going on. So appreciate you guys for listening and your
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