September 5, 2025 • 15 mins
Congressman Mark Harris joins Bo and Beth to discuss yesterday's Senate hearing with RFK Jr., the first jobs report after President Trump fired the head of the BLS. Plus Congressman Harris shares his thoughts on the press conference held by multiple survivors of Jeffery Epstein.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is Good Morning Beat Friday morning in the Tyboid
studio or studio however you say, boeing Beth here and
a lot coming up on the show, but right now
we focus on US Congressman Mark Harris, who joins us
as he does every Friday. Congressman, glad to have you
(00:22):
back on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well, it's great to be with you. Bow and Beth,
hope you're doing great today.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
We are doing well. A lot to talk about, and
I think I'll start here. There was a Senate Finance
Committee hearing yesterday with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy,
and I'm sure you heard her, Saul, A good bit
of this. I mean, you couldn't miss this after you're
watching the news or anywhere yesterday. Some of the highlights
from it. But what I'm going to do is play
(00:49):
a little bit of a montage here of RFK versus
some of the high ranking Senate Democrats.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I'm not taking them away from people, Senator.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
It takes it away if you can't get it from
your pharmacy.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Well, most Americans are going to be able to get
it from their pharmacy.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
For free dollars. Most Americans will be able to get
it from their pharmacy. Fu chriestion is everyone who wants it.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
That was your promise.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I know.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
I never promised that I was going to recommend products
with which there is no indication you grew up.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
President Trump got three million dollars, Every Republican got corporate
pac money for the pharmaceutical industry, Democrats as well. Everybody
is corrupt. But you, Is that what we're looking at.
I don't think so, and I think do you?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
You don't even know what you're talking about. Ken anyone
presents you with information that does not fit I did
not blame that shooting you.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
I have no idea whether I have no idea and
I will. I never said that you're making it up.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Interesting, Yeah, you are. You are getting it as honest right.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
You want to talk about mental health and gun You're
bus in this country.
Speaker 7 (01:56):
If you want to talk about mental health and gun
violence in this country, we should be talking about that,
because that's what the talks.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
You are has it to the health of the American people.
I think that you ought to resign.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
An email from a physician friend of mine. Hey, Bill,
I'm not even sure what I'm asking you, but we're
all confused and concerned about who can get the COVID vaccine.
I would say, effectively, we're denying people vaccine.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I hate Senator cap Well. I you're wrong, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So tumultuous day. They're in that Senate hearing in Washington.
That's where Congressman Harris is in d C this morning.
I do uh, I want I want to play for
people what President Trump said in response to this. I'll
get to that in a minute, but I want to
get to your response first. As a congressman there, I
want to what did you think about a bit of
a circus yesterday?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Well, I got to tell you, you wonder why individuals
are willing to step in and serve their country. Uh,
when when they just take that kind of berating at
a at a hearing. And so that was that was
a tough hearing. I thought Rfka Junior stood in there,
(03:03):
he took it, he gave response. Listen, the changes that
have come at the CDC is what prompted all of that,
and that he's brought about the change of leadership there. Truthfully,
I still find people throughout my own district. Nearly every
time I'm out in the district, I'm meeting somebody that
is dealing with an effect side effect of the COVID vaccine.
(03:28):
And I think people are still reeling from the whole
COVID vaccine situation, and I think the RFK has responded
to that. I think that people are really needing their
trust rebuilt in our entire healthcare system, and I think again,
that's what RFKA Junior has come in to try to do,
and that is to bring about some of the changes.
(03:48):
And the Democrats on that Finance Committee that you just
played up montage of comments just really were loaded for
bear and decided they were going to just go after
him and attacked him. But I find it when we
see all of the mismanagement that happened during the COVID situation,
the fact that the changes from the CDC that have
(04:10):
now taken place, that the Democrats would basically try to
accuse RFK Jr. Bringing chaos, I find that really rich
when you consider all of the things that our nation
went through and dealt with through that whole COVID crisis
as well. So I think that I'm gratefully stood in there.
I'm grateful he tried to address the questions. But again,
(04:34):
you see the chaos, and that's when President Trump is
seeing the things that are happening that are really victories
I think for our country. The other side is always
looking for things to kind of create distractions, and I
think that's a perfect example of it.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
Yesterday, what does this the new guidelines? What does this
mean for North Carolinians. I know now that it has
changed as far as people who want to get the
COVID vaccine and choose to get the COVID vaccine that
they now need a prescription. So how does it change
for every day North Carolinians Now.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Well that I think again it's still available that folks
are able to get it, but I think the fact
that you know it's not mandated, it's something that people
are going to really talk to their doctors about. I mean,
I remember when I first when COVID first hit. I
remember going to my doctor and my doctor had basically said,
you know, this is something you ought to get and
(05:33):
and later by the time we got to the end,
my doctor felt like, hey, that I probably wouldn't do
it the same way again. So I think having a
situation where now the more data that's out, the more
science it's out, individuals will have conversations with their doctors.
They will get a prescription and they'll go and get it.
(05:54):
And I think that's and people will make a conscious decision.
And I think it's an informed consciousness vision, which I
think is extremely important.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I mentioned President Trump did respond or he asked about
what happened yesterday. He had a gathering at the White
House last night, hosting a roundtable of tech CEOs, but
of course, as his custom, he had a Q and
A with press in the room as well.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Senator Bill Caffy said, effectively, we're denying people vaccines.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Do you have full confidence in what RFK Junior is
doing well.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
I didn't get to watch the hearings today, but he's
a very good person and he means very well, and
he's got some little different ideas. I guarantee a lot
of the people at this table like RFK Junion and
I do, but he's got a different take, and we
want to listen to all of those takes. But I
heard he did very well today. But it's not your standard.
(06:50):
It's not your standard talk. I would say that, and
that has to do with medical and vaccines. But if
you look at what's going on in the world with
health and look at this country also with regard to health.
I like the fact that he's different.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
So there you go. I want to I said I would,
and I wanted to play what President Trump had in response.
We'll continue with various other topics. Congressman Mark Harris is
talking to us from DC this morning.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
This is Good Morning.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
DT with both Thompson and Beth.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Troud Man, News Talk eleven ten out of nine three
WBT coming up at eight oh five in studio special guest,
we have Bishop Michael Martin of the Charlotte Catholic Diocese.
There's a big event going on at the Convention Center
tonight and tomorrow, so he will be in in just
(07:39):
a little bit. We have a United States Congressman from
DC joining us right now our continued conversation here on
Friday morning with Congressman Mark Harris. We always appreciate your time, sir.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It's always a pleasure to be with you, so we
have to.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
We're watching within the next hour or so. The next
jobs report is DOE out from and this job's report
is notable because this is the first one, of course,
since President Trump fired that top Labor Department official over
accusations of releasing inaccurate data. So the first report since
(08:15):
then is coming out in just a little bit. I
mentioned that President Trump had a group of people at
the White House last night, tech CEOs and the biggest
of the big I mean, aside from Elon Musk, he
was not there, but you had Zuckerberg there last night.
You had Bill Gates there last night and a big, big,
long table of people. Now during that President Trump took
(08:38):
questions as he usually does, and this is number one, Bernie,
the first Trump cut. This is a reporter asking a
question about what we're anticipating here. Tomorrow, we have a
jobs report coming out, the first since the BLS commissioner
who you fired won't be there.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
A lot of people will be turning to you to
see if you believe the.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Data that's released.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Can you commit to say, we're going to see.
Speaker 8 (09:00):
What the numbers. I don't know they come out tomorrow,
but the real numbers that I'm talking about are going
to be whatever it is. But we'll be in a
year from now where these monstrous, huge, beautiful places, the
Palaces of genius, and when they start opening up, you
seeing I think you'll see job numbers that are going
to be absolutely incredible. Right now, it's a lot of
(09:23):
construction numbers, but you're going to see job numbers like
our country has never seen before.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Okay, so that's what he says ahead of this, these
numbers coming up. Congressman, you know, what do you make
of a Friday jobs report now in light of what
we saw a month ago?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Well, I think again the president's point being as has
been that you know, he was very upset over the
fact that the revisions that would always come out after
the fact were just dramatically off from where the actual
job numbers when they were given out actually landed. And
so I think that it's fair to point out that,
(10:01):
I mean, obviously we're going to get the numbers today
where they are going to be what they are, and
folks will react. But then again, the proof is in
the putting, as they say, I think when revisions come
out a little bit later on, that's when you're going
to see what really kind of the accuracy is of
the numbers that we see today.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
Do you think that Because the new head of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics is EJ. Antony, who was basically
an economist for the Heritage Foundation, which is a partisan Foundation.
Do you think that everyone is going to trust these
numbers as being more accurate, which is kind of the
question that they were asking of the President yesterday.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, to your point, best, I don't know that you
get everybody in Washington to trust anything. Unfortunately, trust is
something that right now either side seems to be attacking
the other side when things come out. And you know, again,
the trust factor is not exactly at an all time
(11:06):
high among the parties involved here in the political world.
But I do think that the American people have confidence
right now in the leadership, They have confidence in the
direction that our country's going. And again, the jobs numbers,
they're just part of the overall economy. And what we're
trying to do in Congress is trying to make sure
(11:28):
that the legislation that we move forward is putting those
principles in place that President Trump set out that needed
to be in place in order to get our economy
really ramped up and moving again. I've said for a
while that when you look back prior to COVID, in
those few years right before COVID hit, the economy was
(11:48):
hitting on all cylinders. And if we're going to see
that again, we've got to get those things in place,
and with the Working Family Tax Cut, formerly known as
the One Big Beautiful Bill that it went into effect.
We genuinely believe that we've gotten the principles in place
in the last couple of months, and now we hope
to see again with certainty at that level that businesses
(12:13):
and our economy begins to move very strongly once again.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
So the Labor Department will release those numbers within the
next hour, and we'll be watching those numbers and watching
the reactions both from the American public and from President
Trump as well, because one thing is for sure, the
dynamic has changed since the last time that we got
numbers from the Labor Department, and we will see you
are in d C. No, I understand you're en route
(12:40):
to Texas later on today.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Yes, sir, I'm attending at dinner tonight in Texas and
we'll be speaking there tomorrow as part of a panel,
and then I'll be heading back to Charlotte late tomorrow
afternoon and look forward to getting back with you. It's
been a busy week. We had some amazing hearings and
the Judiciary Committee on Censorship that was going on in
(13:04):
Europe the first time I'd had the opportunity to sit
across the table from Nigel Farage and that was fascinating
and it was very interesting to see the things that
are going on in Europe we need to be aware
of because oftentimes they make their way to our shores
and we want to make sure that doesn't happen when
it comes down to these censorship items.
Speaker 7 (13:25):
Right now, What was it like being in DC yesterday
when the Epstein survivors, the women who said that they
were part of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein's human trafficking ring.
What was it like being in Washington for that?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, I think everybody is certainly moved. Everybody I know
and everybody I come in contact with are certainly well
aware of their presence here and just moved. I mean you,
you cannot not be moved by just what these young
women have gone through. And I'm hearing there could be
(14:04):
as many as a thousand people who suffered at the
hands of this pedophile. And look, everybody here I think
agrees that we want there to be accountability and we
want the thought process to be followed, and so we've
done the things. We feel like the Oversight Committee is
working very very hard on this. Chairman Comer is committed
(14:27):
to getting the documents. Just this week they were released
thirty four thousand pages of documents that are out there.
We're trying to make sure that we protect the victims
through redactions, but the other folks, they're going to be
out there. So whatever is in there is getting out,
and there's a commitment among this Congress to get that out.
(14:49):
I do believe that with all my heart, and like
I said, we took steps even this week.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
Are you concerned about the story that broke this morning
that came from the O'Keeffe Media group, which is a
conservative media group, that they caught the deputy chief of
the Justice Department on a hidden camera and him saying
on camera that they were planning and this is according
to the report on redacting Republican names from the list
(15:17):
and leaving Democrat names on the list.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Well, now that's true, I would certainly be concerned about that.
You're breaking news to me that's something I have not
seen or heard at this point. Bet So, I certainly
will ask some questions this morning of my staff to
see if we can find out more about that. But
you're telling me something I did not know Congressman Harris.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
We appreciate your time as always and we look forward
to talking to you next week.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Thank you look forward to it as well. You all
have a great weekd
This is Good Morning Beat Friday morning in the Tyboid
studio or studio however you say, boeing Beth here and
a lot coming up on the show, but right now
we focus on US Congressman Mark Harris, who joins us
as he does every Friday. Congressman, glad to have you
(00:22):
back on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well, it's great to be with you. Bow and Beth,
hope you're doing great today.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
We are doing well. A lot to talk about, and
I think I'll start here. There was a Senate Finance
Committee hearing yesterday with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy,
and I'm sure you heard her, Saul, A good bit
of this. I mean, you couldn't miss this after you're
watching the news or anywhere yesterday. Some of the highlights
from it. But what I'm going to do is play
(00:49):
a little bit of a montage here of RFK versus
some of the high ranking Senate Democrats.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I'm not taking them away from people, Senator.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
It takes it away if you can't get it from
your pharmacy.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Well, most Americans are going to be able to get
it from their pharmacy.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
For free dollars. Most Americans will be able to get
it from their pharmacy. Fu chriestion is everyone who wants it.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
That was your promise.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I know.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
I never promised that I was going to recommend products
with which there is no indication you grew up.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
President Trump got three million dollars, Every Republican got corporate
pac money for the pharmaceutical industry, Democrats as well. Everybody
is corrupt. But you, Is that what we're looking at.
I don't think so, and I think do you?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
You don't even know what you're talking about. Ken anyone
presents you with information that does not fit I did
not blame that shooting you.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
I have no idea whether I have no idea and
I will. I never said that you're making it up.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Interesting, Yeah, you are. You are getting it as honest right.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
You want to talk about mental health and gun You're
bus in this country.
Speaker 7 (01:56):
If you want to talk about mental health and gun
violence in this country, we should be talking about that,
because that's what the talks.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
You are has it to the health of the American people.
I think that you ought to resign.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
An email from a physician friend of mine. Hey, Bill,
I'm not even sure what I'm asking you, but we're
all confused and concerned about who can get the COVID vaccine.
I would say, effectively, we're denying people vaccine.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I hate Senator cap Well. I you're wrong, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So tumultuous day. They're in that Senate hearing in Washington.
That's where Congressman Harris is in d C this morning.
I do uh, I want I want to play for
people what President Trump said in response to this. I'll
get to that in a minute, but I want to
get to your response first. As a congressman there, I
want to what did you think about a bit of
a circus yesterday?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Well, I got to tell you, you wonder why individuals
are willing to step in and serve their country. Uh,
when when they just take that kind of berating at
a at a hearing. And so that was that was
a tough hearing. I thought Rfka Junior stood in there,
(03:03):
he took it, he gave response. Listen, the changes that
have come at the CDC is what prompted all of that,
and that he's brought about the change of leadership there. Truthfully,
I still find people throughout my own district. Nearly every
time I'm out in the district, I'm meeting somebody that
is dealing with an effect side effect of the COVID vaccine.
(03:28):
And I think people are still reeling from the whole
COVID vaccine situation, and I think the RFK has responded
to that. I think that people are really needing their
trust rebuilt in our entire healthcare system, and I think again,
that's what RFKA Junior has come in to try to do,
and that is to bring about some of the changes.
(03:48):
And the Democrats on that Finance Committee that you just
played up montage of comments just really were loaded for
bear and decided they were going to just go after
him and attacked him. But I find it when we
see all of the mismanagement that happened during the COVID situation,
the fact that the changes from the CDC that have
(04:10):
now taken place, that the Democrats would basically try to
accuse RFK Jr. Bringing chaos, I find that really rich
when you consider all of the things that our nation
went through and dealt with through that whole COVID crisis
as well. So I think that I'm gratefully stood in there.
I'm grateful he tried to address the questions. But again,
(04:34):
you see the chaos, and that's when President Trump is
seeing the things that are happening that are really victories
I think for our country. The other side is always
looking for things to kind of create distractions, and I
think that's a perfect example of it.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
Yesterday, what does this the new guidelines? What does this
mean for North Carolinians. I know now that it has
changed as far as people who want to get the
COVID vaccine and choose to get the COVID vaccine that
they now need a prescription. So how does it change
for every day North Carolinians Now.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Well that I think again it's still available that folks
are able to get it, but I think the fact
that you know it's not mandated, it's something that people
are going to really talk to their doctors about. I mean,
I remember when I first when COVID first hit. I
remember going to my doctor and my doctor had basically said,
you know, this is something you ought to get and
(05:33):
and later by the time we got to the end,
my doctor felt like, hey, that I probably wouldn't do
it the same way again. So I think having a
situation where now the more data that's out, the more
science it's out, individuals will have conversations with their doctors.
They will get a prescription and they'll go and get it.
(05:54):
And I think that's and people will make a conscious decision.
And I think it's an informed consciousness vision, which I
think is extremely important.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I mentioned President Trump did respond or he asked about
what happened yesterday. He had a gathering at the White
House last night, hosting a roundtable of tech CEOs, but
of course, as his custom, he had a Q and
A with press in the room as well.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Senator Bill Caffy said, effectively, we're denying people vaccines.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Do you have full confidence in what RFK Junior is
doing well.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
I didn't get to watch the hearings today, but he's
a very good person and he means very well, and
he's got some little different ideas. I guarantee a lot
of the people at this table like RFK Junion and
I do, but he's got a different take, and we
want to listen to all of those takes. But I
heard he did very well today. But it's not your standard.
(06:50):
It's not your standard talk. I would say that, and
that has to do with medical and vaccines. But if
you look at what's going on in the world with
health and look at this country also with regard to health.
I like the fact that he's different.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
So there you go. I want to I said I would,
and I wanted to play what President Trump had in response.
We'll continue with various other topics. Congressman Mark Harris is
talking to us from DC this morning.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
This is Good Morning.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
DT with both Thompson and Beth.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Troud Man, News Talk eleven ten out of nine three
WBT coming up at eight oh five in studio special guest,
we have Bishop Michael Martin of the Charlotte Catholic Diocese.
There's a big event going on at the Convention Center
tonight and tomorrow, so he will be in in just
(07:39):
a little bit. We have a United States Congressman from
DC joining us right now our continued conversation here on
Friday morning with Congressman Mark Harris. We always appreciate your time, sir.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It's always a pleasure to be with you, so we
have to.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
We're watching within the next hour or so. The next
jobs report is DOE out from and this job's report
is notable because this is the first one, of course,
since President Trump fired that top Labor Department official over
accusations of releasing inaccurate data. So the first report since
(08:15):
then is coming out in just a little bit. I
mentioned that President Trump had a group of people at
the White House last night, tech CEOs and the biggest
of the big I mean, aside from Elon Musk, he
was not there, but you had Zuckerberg there last night.
You had Bill Gates there last night and a big, big,
long table of people. Now during that President Trump took
(08:38):
questions as he usually does, and this is number one, Bernie,
the first Trump cut. This is a reporter asking a
question about what we're anticipating here. Tomorrow, we have a
jobs report coming out, the first since the BLS commissioner
who you fired won't be there.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
A lot of people will be turning to you to
see if you believe the.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Data that's released.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Can you commit to say, we're going to see.
Speaker 8 (09:00):
What the numbers. I don't know they come out tomorrow,
but the real numbers that I'm talking about are going
to be whatever it is. But we'll be in a
year from now where these monstrous, huge, beautiful places, the
Palaces of genius, and when they start opening up, you
seeing I think you'll see job numbers that are going
to be absolutely incredible. Right now, it's a lot of
(09:23):
construction numbers, but you're going to see job numbers like
our country has never seen before.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Okay, so that's what he says ahead of this, these
numbers coming up. Congressman, you know, what do you make
of a Friday jobs report now in light of what
we saw a month ago?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Well, I think again the president's point being as has
been that you know, he was very upset over the
fact that the revisions that would always come out after
the fact were just dramatically off from where the actual
job numbers when they were given out actually landed. And
so I think that it's fair to point out that,
(10:01):
I mean, obviously we're going to get the numbers today
where they are going to be what they are, and
folks will react. But then again, the proof is in
the putting, as they say, I think when revisions come
out a little bit later on, that's when you're going
to see what really kind of the accuracy is of
the numbers that we see today.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
Do you think that Because the new head of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics is EJ. Antony, who was basically
an economist for the Heritage Foundation, which is a partisan Foundation.
Do you think that everyone is going to trust these
numbers as being more accurate, which is kind of the
question that they were asking of the President yesterday.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, to your point, best, I don't know that you
get everybody in Washington to trust anything. Unfortunately, trust is
something that right now either side seems to be attacking
the other side when things come out. And you know, again,
the trust factor is not exactly at an all time
(11:06):
high among the parties involved here in the political world.
But I do think that the American people have confidence
right now in the leadership, They have confidence in the
direction that our country's going. And again, the jobs numbers,
they're just part of the overall economy. And what we're
trying to do in Congress is trying to make sure
(11:28):
that the legislation that we move forward is putting those
principles in place that President Trump set out that needed
to be in place in order to get our economy
really ramped up and moving again. I've said for a
while that when you look back prior to COVID, in
those few years right before COVID hit, the economy was
(11:48):
hitting on all cylinders. And if we're going to see
that again, we've got to get those things in place,
and with the Working Family Tax Cut, formerly known as
the One Big Beautiful Bill that it went into effect.
We genuinely believe that we've gotten the principles in place
in the last couple of months, and now we hope
to see again with certainty at that level that businesses
(12:13):
and our economy begins to move very strongly once again.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
So the Labor Department will release those numbers within the
next hour, and we'll be watching those numbers and watching
the reactions both from the American public and from President
Trump as well, because one thing is for sure, the
dynamic has changed since the last time that we got
numbers from the Labor Department, and we will see you
are in d C. No, I understand you're en route
(12:40):
to Texas later on today.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Yes, sir, I'm attending at dinner tonight in Texas and
we'll be speaking there tomorrow as part of a panel,
and then I'll be heading back to Charlotte late tomorrow
afternoon and look forward to getting back with you. It's
been a busy week. We had some amazing hearings and
the Judiciary Committee on Censorship that was going on in
(13:04):
Europe the first time I'd had the opportunity to sit
across the table from Nigel Farage and that was fascinating
and it was very interesting to see the things that
are going on in Europe we need to be aware
of because oftentimes they make their way to our shores
and we want to make sure that doesn't happen when
it comes down to these censorship items.
Speaker 7 (13:25):
Right now, What was it like being in DC yesterday
when the Epstein survivors, the women who said that they
were part of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein's human trafficking ring.
What was it like being in Washington for that?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, I think everybody is certainly moved. Everybody I know
and everybody I come in contact with are certainly well
aware of their presence here and just moved. I mean you,
you cannot not be moved by just what these young
women have gone through. And I'm hearing there could be
(14:04):
as many as a thousand people who suffered at the
hands of this pedophile. And look, everybody here I think
agrees that we want there to be accountability and we
want the thought process to be followed, and so we've
done the things. We feel like the Oversight Committee is
working very very hard on this. Chairman Comer is committed
(14:27):
to getting the documents. Just this week they were released
thirty four thousand pages of documents that are out there.
We're trying to make sure that we protect the victims
through redactions, but the other folks, they're going to be
out there. So whatever is in there is getting out,
and there's a commitment among this Congress to get that out.
(14:49):
I do believe that with all my heart, and like
I said, we took steps even this week.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
Are you concerned about the story that broke this morning
that came from the O'Keeffe Media group, which is a
conservative media group, that they caught the deputy chief of
the Justice Department on a hidden camera and him saying
on camera that they were planning and this is according
to the report on redacting Republican names from the list
(15:17):
and leaving Democrat names on the list.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Well, now that's true, I would certainly be concerned about that.
You're breaking news to me that's something I have not
seen or heard at this point. Bet So, I certainly
will ask some questions this morning of my staff to
see if we can find out more about that. But
you're telling me something I did not know Congressman Harris.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
We appreciate your time as always and we look forward
to talking to you next week.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Thank you look forward to it as well. You all
have a great weekd
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