January 16, 2023 • 31 mins
In this Best of Hannity episode, Sean reviews all of the ways in which inflation has destroyed the bank accounts of millions of Americans. The economy is on the edge of a disaster!
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To a lock karage. Okay, so it's not like you're
sitting down the street. We don't think that Biden is
a lawyer and a thief, so we give them the
benefit of the doubt. That's probably what's going on. Freedom
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right News round Up, Information Overload, hour eight hundred ninefold one. Sean,
if you want to be a part of the program,
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I gotta tell you something. This is insanity. You got
the mob, the media, fake news, CNN, you got AOC,
you got Pete Buddha, Judge, you got everybody out there.
They want to now Kathy HOCl the governor New York,
and they want to ban gas stoves. They think that
this is now the new fad of the climate alarmist cult.
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And you couldn't imagine a more you know, ridiculous, you know,
anti science, dishonest, elitist, you know, signal as it relates
to the economy, By the way, who's gonna buy everybody
a new appliance, who's gonna pay for all of this?
And as we've been pointing out, then the FAA disaster
where for the first time since nine to eleven, two
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thousand and one, they had to shut down the entire
country in terms of air flight. The FAA, they don't
know why was it a hacking, was it a computer glitch?
How did it happen? You know, doesn't impact Pete Buddha
Judge because he's out there flying around in a government
jet that you paid for. And meanwhile they lecture every
American about you know, carbon emissions, carbon emissions. Well, your government,
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you have paid for a fleet of close to a
thousand jets and helicopters that they all use on a
regular basis if you look through all the varying times.
Now now they want to band gas stoves. Are you
kidding me? In fluoresca lightbulbs? I mean, this is insanity
to me. Anyway, there was some tape earlier Pete Buddha
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Judge making excuses for the FA outrage that we're going
to talk about the economy as well. Listen to this.
First of all, any hint of what the root cause
was of this outage, Well, now that the system is
up and running. Our primary focus is to determine that
root cause, and I've directed FAA to figure out exactly
how this happened. This is an incredibly complex system, so
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glitchers or complications happen all the time, but we can't
allow them to ever lead to this level of disruption,
and we won't ever allow them to lead to a
safety problem. Yeah, he doesn't have the problem because he's
flying on a private jet you paid for with all
the carbon emissions that they say they're so angry about.
By the way, Congresswoman Nancy May South Carolina the bill
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that would require Buddha judge to fly commercial especially after
the FAA in Southwest Airlines debacle, and those things haven't
been resolved. Then. Over at fake news CNN, they're comparing
gas stoves to an idoling car. Listen, the science is
showing us that having a gas stove in a small apartment,
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especially with bad ventilations like having a car idoling there,
and if you have young kids, it can affect cognitive
abilities and as well as ASTHMA. Oh, great science over
there at fake news CNN. In the meantime, you pay
in record amounts of money to fly with the worst
service that we've ever had. Have you looked at the
price of eggs recently if you can find them, you know,
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eleven fifty a dozen in some stores, I paid ten bucks.
I eat eggs every day, three or four eggs every day,
or egg whites, depending on what the day is. It's unbelievable.
Traveling has never been worse than it is right now.
If you listen to the left and liberals in general
and they talk about the eco, you would think that
nothing is nothing has gone wrong at all. But they
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couldn't be more wrong anyway. Here to sorted it out,
we have David Bonson, He's the founder managing partner of
the Bonson Group. Steve Moore Economics, extraordinary expert trump Phonomics,
the inside the American First plan to save our economy.
You know, if you listen to these so called experts,
you would think that the economy is completely rebounded and
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we have nothing to worry about. Meanwhile, the price of
every consumer good continues to rise. The only thing that
went down somewhat significantly was the price of a gallon
of gasoline. Steve Moore, So I agree with you, Sean,
that we are hardly out of the woods. And this
idea of taking a victory lap on inmplation is a
little ridiculous. I just calculated the numbers from when Trump
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came into office to today, Sean. If you know what
the average increase in prices for average consumer goods is
over that to year period, I'm listening thirteen by the way,
let me give you examples. The price of eggs is
up fifty nine point nine percent. Fuel and oil again
again if you liken it to what Joe Biden inherited
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is up forty one point five percent, butter margerin thirty five,
airfare thirty percent, let us utility, public transportation, even my favorite,
you know, Sebrett hot dogs with the full natural casing, bread, coffee, dare.
All of it's going up. Electricity prices are going to
double in California, New England this winner. Yeah, I'll give
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you another one that you know. Health insurance class were
up eight percent this past year. Gee, Sean, I thought
we didn't we past the Affordable Care Act? Wasn't that
going to bring it? Put sound for pretty health plans,
en Steve, The average family who was going to save
twenty five hundred dollars on average per year. Yeah, that
never happened. So now that's the bad news. The good
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news is that we did get a good number for
this month, this past month of December. David Bohnson talk
more about that than you know. It's more of the particulars.
So it looks like inflation is coming down. But I'm
worried about just a structural economy. When you have a
thirty two trillion dollar debt, when you're borrowing a trillion
and a half dollars a year, that is a prescription
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for national disaster on the economy. I see it that way,
and it's obvious if you listen to the financial experts.
I'm hearing almost all of them are unanimously predicting a
recession this year. David Bonson, Yeah, So I feel very
strongly that I have a right wing conservative based objection
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to what the Biden administations doing the economy. But I
do think my opinions are a little different than you
guys on what the nature of that is. Here. The
bidenmenistations made so many mistakes I wouldn't even know where
to count, Sean, but on the price of eggs and
food and these different things, the COVID lockdowns were a disaster,
and we reopened our economy where normal human beings aided
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by God to live normal lives. When about living normal lives,
but guess what, the supply side of our economy wasn't ready.
We didn't have enough goods and services because of those
absurd blue state lockdowns, and that was the primary cause
of inflation. That is no question coming down to difficantly,
and the prices are still higher than they were two
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years ago. But from a political standpoint, I want the
right to focus on the worst thing the Bide administration
is doing, because it's going the inflation numbers are going
to continue getting lower, and that's not because they're doing
good stuff. It's because we're going to lose growth in
the economy and prices are going to be coming down.
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Core goods are only up now year over year two
point one percent. They had peaked it over nine percent.
That's not because the Biden administration did anything. It's because
this inflation was highly supply side driven. Ultimately, I really
believe that the blow slow and no growth that excessive
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government indebtedness creates is our biggest problem, and it's all
I want the right talking about because America is a
high growth economy and well, people are turning up into Japan.
Explain that so the average person can understand completely what
you're saying, because there's too much economic speak in there
for me. Okay, that's fair. I'm sorry. I think that
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America is used to growing at a certain rate ever
since World War Two. We produce a lot of goods
and services. There's consumption, there's activity, there's humans doing a
lot of things with innovation and productive economic living, and
that since the financial crisis, coming with the Obama years,
President Trump inherit economy that had been growing at half
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of his seventy year average. After they passed the tax
bill that Steve Moore and others were a big part of,
economic growth got up to three percent. It doubled what
it had been in the Obama years, the first time
we saw three percent real GDP growth since the financial crisis.
Right then COVID came Sean and and now I think
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we're going to be stuck at one percent of growth
for a long time. And we're doing it now with
instead of twenty four million dollar twenty four trillion on now,
it's thirty thirty one trillion thirty one trillion. You're right,
I stand corrected in defending it. They want to keep
going and making it worse and worse. Do you, my
non economic argument are trying to be simple about it
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is every dollar they spend is a dollar not being
spent in the private sector, and that's the problem. Quick
break more with our economic experts David Bonsen and Steve
Moore on the other side, and your calls coming up.
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All right, we'll continue with our economic experts David Bonson
and Steve Moore, and we'll get to your calls at
the bottom of the half hour eight hundred nine four
one Sean, if you want to join us politically speaking,
this is where the House Republicans not only do they
have the power of subpoena, which is so pivotal, as
we spent the entire almost the entire show on before
you guys joined us, discussing especially these investigations into the
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Biden family, whether or not the DOJ's weaponize the FBI politicized,
but on the issue involving the economy and where it's headed.
I think this is the one bread and butter issues
are the ones that impact Americans the most. Nobody's talking
about Steve Moore that Joe Biden, as of January first,
raised billions, hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes
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that are impacting the poor, the middle class, people on
fixed income the most. Something he promised you wouldn't do
if you make less than four hundred thousand a year.
But he raised significantly billions of dollars in new taxes
on cold gas and oil and on your pension plan,
and corporate tax increases, which we know get passed on
to consumers. Yeah, and don't forget the most important tax
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of all sean which you didn't even well we kind
of indirectly mentioned, which is inflation is a tax. It's
a tax on Americans earnings. And so you know, at
the time when we've had that thirteen percent inflation over
the last two years, wages and salary's have gone up,
you know, just a little bit more than half of
that amount. So it's a it's a it's a tax
on everything. It's almost like a sales tax. Sean um
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that that inflation rate that's so high. Now, David Bohnson
is right that the inflation is coming down rapidly, and
he's exactly right. But that growth point is what really
is sticks in my crop. Because I honestly believe Sean,
and I know you believe this too. Um, if Trumps
were still president, we wouldn't be talking about a recession.
You kidding me. We've been We've been booming. We've been
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producing three or four million more bureaus a day of oil.
We would we would have control of our border, we
wouldn't have the tax of we would become it, We
become an energy rich country because because we would take
energy independence, put it on steroids, and we would be
providing Western Europe with all their energy needs and getting rich.
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And don't forget also, you know there's no way that
that Pewton could have gone into Ukraine if we continued
because his whole economy is based on the place of oil.
And you know. So my point is that we if
we're going to grow, If David Bobson is right that
the economy is only going to grow by one percent
or less under Biden, well I thought that was an
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optimistic figure by David. Do you agree with David or
that's a disaster. Well, let me ask you. I thought, David,
no offense, I'm not arguing with you, I thought your
one percent prediction on GDP was pretty optimistic. Steve Moore,
do you think that's where we're headed? Well, what I'm
saying is that's the consensus forecast, even the Biden administration
saying the economy is only going to grow by one
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or one half percent. We've got to be growing at
three to three and a half to four percent. Under
Reagan we had three and a half to four percent growth.
Under Trump we had three percent growth, and we were
headed to four percent growth. So growth is the solution
of these problems. But where's it going to come from?
You got a president doesn't want to produce our energy,
wants to raise taxes on our businesses, and on and
on and on all things that are just weights on
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the back of the American economy. I think that's the
perfect analogy. He's weighing down the economy. All these taxes
on energy, gas, oil, coal, is only gonna It's gonna
act like a sinking weight on the economy at all times.
And I don't see those policies changing anyway anyhow with
this president. David Well, no, and the energy independence is
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the greatest example, and all three of us were during
the Obama year is very critical, appropriately so a President Obama.
But what he did was say all the wrong things
about green energy. But then he actually didn't really shut
down tracking, he didn't really shut down permits, he didn't
do all the stuff President Trump did. He didn't do
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it the way I would do it. But Biden came
in with the bark of a radical environmentalist and the
bite where at least Obama was a little bit more
hypocritical because he knew he needed the growth of the
fracting revolution. We need that energy independence back. It would,
in and of itself over a ten year period add
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two percent per year to GDP just by itself. You
add in the other factors. That's how you get back
to the Steve Moore three handle or four handle that
we need. Sean, I don't predict one percent GDP growth
this year. I would love for it to be the case.
I wouldn't bet a political race that it's going to
be recessionary, but I expect it will be. But one
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percent is my prediction for years going forward. And the
problem saying one percent is you're talking about Japan level
numbers and it's totally unacceptable. And the reason we need
the growth Steve Moore's talking about is not only because
we need it to fund our deficits. We need it
to fund economic growth and hire us standard of living.
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It's the best things for humanity to have the opportunity
to have an aspirational society. They're taking away people's hope. Yeah,
I think that's well said, Steve. Not That's one other
prick thing that you didn't mention. Did you see the
story this week that the Biden administration doesn't want to
build new roads. Now, we just passed a lot a
trillion dollars infrastructure bill, and they don't want to use
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it for roads are transant and green undersea politics and
things like that. They don't want people driving covers. I mean,
this is a shanity that did you did you see? Yeah?
Not only that, did you see that had we by
eliminating the Keystone Exhil pipeline, it costs sixty thousand jobs
and billions of dollars potentially for this country. Never mind,
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we would be importing nine hundred thousand, nine hundred thousand
barrels of Canadian oil daily by now yep, Yeah, I
mean it's we're not building the infrastrure. We do need
infrastructure in this country, but it's not We need pipelines,
we need roodes, we need to prepare our bridges of things.
And they're spending it on windmills. Yeah, just what we
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need a beautiful windmill to kill the birds. I love birds.
I don't want to kill the birds anyway. I really
appreciate you both being with us. Thank you, Steve Moore,
David Bonson, Thank you eight hundred and nine for one
sea on our number. You want to be a part
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count on Sean Hannity is back on the radio twenty
five to the top of the hour. All right, So
last night we went to the swamp the sewer, only
to come back to the other swamp and sewer where
we're at, which is foolishly we're at anyway. So and
I went there after all that went on last week.
I wanted to find out could take the temperature. One
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of the things I kept saying last week was everyone's
got to listen to me. The agenda is set, The
agenda is in concrete. The investigations are happening. The commitments
to America are all going to be voted on. You know,
at the end of the day, I think they could
have solved this before January third. I like a lot
of all the changes. They can't think of one. I
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don't like to be honest, But anyway, so I wanted
to do this town hall and Kevin McCarthy, Jim Colemer,
James Jordan. Jim Jordan was on. We had people like
Alista Phonic and Steve Scalise. You know what, we had
a great time. Anyway, I want to run some of
this from last night so you can hear for yourself
and see if you have more confidence after this interview.
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I have a feeling that two hundred and twenty two
people agree on Jim Jordan's investigation, and that would be
into whether the FBI's politicized, the DOJ weaponize what they
weaponized from homeland FBI. You know, we've watched him get
out of control with no check and balance. But last
week was tough. But remember what my father always said,
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it's not how you start, it's how you finish. And
let me tell you what happened after last week, our
very first bill, we repelled eighty seven thousand. Irsay's promised
to do that. We promise to do it. We made
it in our in our commitment to America, which you've
talked a lot about, and we'll check it off as
they go at my own copy. Yeah, but you know what,
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you know what else we did next? We just passed
the Church style committee that Jim Jordan will run looking
at the weaponization of government. You know what We just
passed right now, a select committee on China, and we
got one hundred and forty six Democrats to vote with us.
Pelosi would never allow us that had an agreement with her,
and she backed away the night before. So you want
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to bring jobs back from China to America. You want
to stop them from buying our farmland, you want to
stop them from stealing our intellectual property. This is where
it all starts. And this is only our first couple
of days in power. So the power of the purse,
which we'll talk about at like the power of subpoena.
Those are the two big powers you have. Okay, let's go.
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Let's focus on the investigation part. Jim Jordan inappropriations that
we got James Kalmer. They'll both be joining us tonight
and he'll be looking into the Biden family syndicate. We
know everybody in this room knows one thing that Joe
Biden lied when Joe Biden said, not one time did
he ever talk to us Son Hunter about his foreign
business dealings. We have photographic evidence and evidence of meetings
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that have taken place, and witnesses that will attest to such.
We got documents that they denied us until we're in
the majority. Do you think the president, more than forty
years of being elected, why do you think he finally
went to the border because we were sworn in. He
knows what's coming. You've got to secure your border, and
we're going to use every power we have to make
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sure we protect this country and look out for the
American taxpayer. I think last week, at least a part
of it was Republicans around the country were disappointed in
past speakers. I'll give one example, John Baynor. I was
disappointed in John Bayner, and I think that there were
people that wanted the assurances. I had interviewed you enough,
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I had asked repeatedly the commitments to America. I have
my version right here, which we'll talk about, and they
wanted to know these investigations were real. What other investigations, Well,
you've got a whole government accountable for the whole time
the Democrats have been in power. All they've done is
increased spending. Why don't we have a check in Vallet's
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think of this. When the Republicans were in power last
time for eight years. You know how much discretionary spending
increase in those eight years. Zero They were in power
for four years, they increased it by thirty percent. They
went from spending four trillion to seven trillion. We don't
have that type of money. They created inflation. So we've
got to get our country under control financially. How do
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we do that too? Energy policy, Watch what they've done
to make us week. They made our price of gas
go up, but they made us week around the world.
We're gonna become energy independent. Our borders not secure. But
look what they have done to our schools as well. Right,
we're going to pass a parent's Bill of rights. Also,
when you think about this as well, when we look
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at checks and balances, you got comer oversight, you got
Jim Jordan at Judiciary, but every single committee has an
oversight committee. So every dollar matters how we spend it.
And we're going to be looking at everything. No more
blank checks. Okay, and by the way, you will vote
on every appropriations built independently, twelve of them. Yes, okay,
we'll get to that. I want what other investigations? Okay,
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First of all, COVID. Why don't we know where COVID started.
They wouldn't have any hearings on it. We have that.
Why shouldn't we know what happened in Afghanistan those last
two months? Thirteen GoldStar families have a right to know,
but more importantly, this nation has a right to know
so it never happens again. We should know what happened
with China and where the money's going. We know the
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documents are there. I think the country has a right
to know that as well. But the weaponization of what
the FBI is fouci, well, that goes right into COVID.
We have our own ability to oversee that and look
into that. Now let's get to the issue of finances
and money and spending. And why don't you explain how
this process now will be different. And we're coming up
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against the debt ceiling vote and what that's going to mean.
That might be the first test of how committed the
Republican Party in the Houses to really hold an the
line on spending. Am I wrong on that? No, You're
not wrong on that, but thank for one moment we cannot.
One of the greatest threats we have to this nation
is our debt. It makes us weak in every place
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that we can. We have never been at this high
of debt to GDP accept during World War Two. It's
the Biden family Foreign syndicate. Remember, they use their political
status to profit pedal influence. Zero experienced hunter House Republicans
vowing to investigate every single corner of it. All Right,
the people that will be leading two of the most
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important investigations, along with Speaker Kevin McCarthy, we have the
House Judiciary Committee chairman. That's Jim Jordan. House Oversight Committee Chairman,
that's James Comer. Guys, you've been on a lot. Jim,
you will be investigating. You're both Jim's Jim mc jordan.
You both you will be investigating whether the FBI has
been politicized and whether the DOJ has been weaponized. Yeah,
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what do you see so far? Well, it's not a
question of whether that's happened. It has because we've had
now dozens of FBI agents come to us taking whistle
blower status talking about how political things have become, and
I always step back and look at the big picture.
We had a Department of Justice that treated moms and
dads as terrorists use the Patriot Action placeboard me. Yes,
you got the FBI that paid Twitter three million dollars,
not one not to but three million dollars to censor
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conservative viewpoints on their platform. And then of course you
got what we've seen happen across government in so many
other agencies where it's been weaponized against the very people
they're supposed to serve. The Department of Homeland Security tried
to set up a disinformation government sport as if some
federal agencies should tell the American people what they're allowed
to say, what they're not allowed to say. That if
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that's not a direct attack in the First Amendment, I
don't know what is in that. That's what we're going
to look into, because the first step in stopping it
is you have to get all the facts on the
table for the country to see. Then you go about
stopping and making sure it never happens again. Let me
ask you this. Did it the FBI in twenty sixteen,
in twenty twenty and the presidential elections, did they put
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their thumb on the scale? I can give you detail.
I know you have the detail. But for example, in
twenty twenty, they FBI agents in early October, after they
were warned by Bruce Orr not to use the dossier.
They flew over to Great Britain and they met with
Christopher Still. They offered him a million dollars to prove
that the dossier that Hillary Clinton paid for the Russian
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dossier was true. He couldn't claim his money. But then
by the end of the month it became the bulk
of the FISA application and it was unverified. But I
would argue, we got away with it. Yeah, now we
have the recent case. They suppressed all this information about
Hunter Biden's laptop. Did they put their thumb on the scale.
And I would argue, as my colleague Mat Gates said, committee,
I would argue, was all the others as well. So
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twenty sixteen they spile in Trump's campaign and do what
you just describe. Twenty eighteen and Samallar investigation twenty twenty,
they suppressed the Hunter Biden's story and in twenty twenty two,
ninety one days before the midterm election, they raided President
Trump's home, which, oh, by the way, is quite a contrastman,
what we learned yesterday how they treated President Trump, and
what we learned yesterday where Joe Biden now had classified
information at the Biden's Center that they knew about before
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the election, but somehow that didn't get made public. Will
this be like a Church committee moment? Will this be
that the true reform that what should be the premier
law enforcement agency in the world, the FBI. Will we
be able to restore it to the great greatness that
once had. That's our goal. Rank and file agents are
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good men and women. We know that by the fact
that dozens of them come talk to us about what
they see happening and how concerned they are about it.
So we know what. We know that. So that's our goal,
our objective. But we're going to do everything we can.
We're gonna do it a in a vigorous way. We're
gonna do an aggressive way. We're going to do it
in a way that's consistent with the Constitution. But we're
going to do it because that's our job. This is
not about they said today on the floor when we
passed the resolution creating this. They said on the floor
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to day, mister Nader is quote in the paper, and
they went after us the day on the floor, they said,
this is political and we're going to fight a tooth
and nail. Why we're protecting the First Amendment, We're protecting
the American Why would you fight a Democrat. I thought
you guys embraced the Constitution like we all do. Love
the First Amendment and the rights we enjoy. That's what
this is about, and we're gonna do everything we can
to protect American citizens First Amendment liberties. They should join
with us, not fighting. Yeah, I agree with you. We
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know what. We won't play like them. They want to
put somebody on the committee, put them on the committee.
We're not presetting this thing to be political, because that's
not what it should be. We're going to follow the constitution.
Jim will follow wherever the information takes us. But this
hasn't happened since nineteen seventy, and I think it's gotten
so far out of control. You hear from all not
just the American citizens, but the whistleblowers at the FBI
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are coming to us. We're going to hear from them.
That's our goal. You know, they whistle our status. They
have to agree, but we hope that some of these individuals.
I think they will because frankly, a number of them
have been retaliated against that which is not allowed to happen. Well,
but I think they be all actually kind of said
that you're not allowed to talk to members of Congress
or the Senate. I'm like, day after we first talked
about it on your show. The very next day, he says,
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issues a memorandum saying, hey, hey, be careful, here's the
rules when you're gonna talk to Comress. That that looks
to me like a definite infringement on their liberty, their
right to go tell us what's going on in those agents.
And they believe this. They love this agency. They want
this agency to be what it was. You know, it's funny.
A friend of mine retired from the FBI. He said,
it is not what I signed up exactly. That's how
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much it changed your investigation. You said something that was
deep and profound. People think now the FBI had the
Hunter Biden laptop in December twenty nineteen. That's why the
FBI meeting with Big Tech once a week prior to
the twenty twenty election, say, oh, you might get disinformation
about Hunter. They could have verified Hunter in five minutes,
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either him doing drugs or other things with other people,
but I won't go into those details. But they didn't.
You're going to be investigating you, said the President of
the United States. Joe Biden lied to this country, didn't
he when he said he never discussed his foreign business deals.
Was a son. Absolutely. We have produced pictures, we produced emails,
We've produced documents that show that not only did Joe
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Biden know very well what his son and brother we're
doing with prospective influence pedaling, but he was also a
part of it. As many of you likely to recall,
Texas congressmanship, Roy was critical and bringing all sites together
last week to unify around a new speaker. And I
believe that the party is now stronger and even more
unified around what is the America First, Conservative make America
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Great Again agenda. You played a big role. I gave
you props last week on TV. I meant them my
note behind the scenes, you tried to bridge the gap.
You were successful. How hard was it? Well, look beating
the swamp is hard, and everybody here is committed to
doing that. And sometimes you got to break a little glass,
sometimes a little temporary conflict thing. American people were drawn
in last week. They were drawn into what we were
trying to accomplish on their have to fight for them.
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They want to believe that we're here fighting for them.
And I was delighted to work with my colleagues here
and this morning in the Republican Conference, I think there
was a new sense of unity, a new sense of purpose,
united behind a mission, a mission to stop funding a government,
a government filled with bureaucrats and tyrants rolling over the
American people, denying their liberties, undermining their freedoms. We having
a unique opportunity, Kevin has an historic opportunity right now
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to carry this country forward. I look around the room,
Brian Fitzpatrick behind me, French Hill and Garrett Grays. We
worked together all last week to make this happen. My
fellow Texans Ronnie Jackson, Brian Baban who worked hard on
the Texas border plan. That's a part of this deal. Look,
we're all united to stand up with the American people.
That stuff was important. We got through it. And but
we got Now, look, we've got the tools, we've got
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some of the transparency. Now the work lies ahead. We
got a unite and go execute. And Byron, you also
worked hard by on the scenes. By the way, it
had to feel a little good. They get some votes
for a speaker. It was cool. I'll admit that it
was really cool. But I lost to this guy. You
know what I'm gonna do. No, it was it was
a point in time where you know, there was some
who believe in my abilities. But the number one thing
was bringing this thing together. Obviously the world was watching.
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We all knew that. But Lightships said, we had a
responsibility to make sure. Number one. We had a plan
and we had an agenda that Speaker McCarthy has built
for our conference. The thing that we were looking for
is making sure that every tool in this building is
utilized to make that happen. And so the job was simple,
find a way to get everybody together so we can
get the job done and get down to business. And
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that's what we're doing. We have thirty seconds left, mister speaker,
what do you want the American people to hear? Last?
Where are you taking this group of this majority? I
want them to understand this is their house, this is
their government, and we will always listen to them, and
we will always fight for this right. What our battle
last week was to only make us stronger to represent you.
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if you want to be a part of the program,
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I gotta tell you something. This is insanity. You got
the mob, the media, fake news, CNN, you got AOC,
you got Pete Buddha, Judge, you got everybody out there.
They want to now Kathy HOCl the governor New York,
and they want to ban gas stoves. They think that
this is now the new fad of the climate alarmist cult.
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And you couldn't imagine a more you know, ridiculous, you know,
anti science, dishonest, elitist, you know, signal as it relates
to the economy, By the way, who's gonna buy everybody
a new appliance, who's gonna pay for all of this?
And as we've been pointing out, then the FAA disaster
where for the first time since nine to eleven, two
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thousand and one, they had to shut down the entire
country in terms of air flight. The FAA, they don't
know why was it a hacking, was it a computer glitch?
How did it happen? You know, doesn't impact Pete Buddha
Judge because he's out there flying around in a government
jet that you paid for. And meanwhile they lecture every
American about you know, carbon emissions, carbon emissions. Well, your government,
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you have paid for a fleet of close to a
thousand jets and helicopters that they all use on a
regular basis if you look through all the varying times.
Now now they want to band gas stoves. Are you
kidding me? In fluoresca lightbulbs? I mean, this is insanity
to me. Anyway, there was some tape earlier Pete Buddha
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Judge making excuses for the FA outrage that we're going
to talk about the economy as well. Listen to this.
First of all, any hint of what the root cause
was of this outage, Well, now that the system is
up and running. Our primary focus is to determine that
root cause, and I've directed FAA to figure out exactly
how this happened. This is an incredibly complex system, so
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glitchers or complications happen all the time, but we can't
allow them to ever lead to this level of disruption,
and we won't ever allow them to lead to a
safety problem. Yeah, he doesn't have the problem because he's
flying on a private jet you paid for with all
the carbon emissions that they say they're so angry about.
By the way, Congresswoman Nancy May South Carolina the bill
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that would require Buddha judge to fly commercial especially after
the FAA in Southwest Airlines debacle, and those things haven't
been resolved. Then. Over at fake news CNN, they're comparing
gas stoves to an idoling car. Listen, the science is
showing us that having a gas stove in a small apartment,
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especially with bad ventilations like having a car idoling there,
and if you have young kids, it can affect cognitive
abilities and as well as ASTHMA. Oh, great science over
there at fake news CNN. In the meantime, you pay
in record amounts of money to fly with the worst
service that we've ever had. Have you looked at the
price of eggs recently if you can find them, you know,
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eleven fifty a dozen in some stores, I paid ten bucks.
I eat eggs every day, three or four eggs every day,
or egg whites, depending on what the day is. It's unbelievable.
Traveling has never been worse than it is right now.
If you listen to the left and liberals in general
and they talk about the eco, you would think that
nothing is nothing has gone wrong at all. But they
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couldn't be more wrong anyway. Here to sorted it out,
we have David Bonson, He's the founder managing partner of
the Bonson Group. Steve Moore Economics, extraordinary expert trump Phonomics,
the inside the American First plan to save our economy.
You know, if you listen to these so called experts,
you would think that the economy is completely rebounded and
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we have nothing to worry about. Meanwhile, the price of
every consumer good continues to rise. The only thing that
went down somewhat significantly was the price of a gallon
of gasoline. Steve Moore, So I agree with you, Sean,
that we are hardly out of the woods. And this
idea of taking a victory lap on inmplation is a
little ridiculous. I just calculated the numbers from when Trump
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came into office to today, Sean. If you know what
the average increase in prices for average consumer goods is
over that to year period, I'm listening thirteen by the way,
let me give you examples. The price of eggs is
up fifty nine point nine percent. Fuel and oil again
again if you liken it to what Joe Biden inherited
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is up forty one point five percent, butter margerin thirty five,
airfare thirty percent, let us utility, public transportation, even my favorite,
you know, Sebrett hot dogs with the full natural casing, bread, coffee, dare.
All of it's going up. Electricity prices are going to
double in California, New England this winner. Yeah, I'll give
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you another one that you know. Health insurance class were
up eight percent this past year. Gee, Sean, I thought
we didn't we past the Affordable Care Act? Wasn't that
going to bring it? Put sound for pretty health plans,
en Steve, The average family who was going to save
twenty five hundred dollars on average per year. Yeah, that
never happened. So now that's the bad news. The good
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news is that we did get a good number for
this month, this past month of December. David Bohnson talk
more about that than you know. It's more of the particulars.
So it looks like inflation is coming down. But I'm
worried about just a structural economy. When you have a
thirty two trillion dollar debt, when you're borrowing a trillion
and a half dollars a year, that is a prescription
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for national disaster on the economy. I see it that way,
and it's obvious if you listen to the financial experts.
I'm hearing almost all of them are unanimously predicting a
recession this year. David Bonson, Yeah, So I feel very
strongly that I have a right wing conservative based objection
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to what the Biden administations doing the economy. But I
do think my opinions are a little different than you
guys on what the nature of that is. Here. The
bidenmenistations made so many mistakes I wouldn't even know where
to count, Sean, but on the price of eggs and
food and these different things, the COVID lockdowns were a disaster,
and we reopened our economy where normal human beings aided
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by God to live normal lives. When about living normal lives,
but guess what, the supply side of our economy wasn't ready.
We didn't have enough goods and services because of those
absurd blue state lockdowns, and that was the primary cause
of inflation. That is no question coming down to difficantly,
and the prices are still higher than they were two
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years ago. But from a political standpoint, I want the
right to focus on the worst thing the Bide administration
is doing, because it's going the inflation numbers are going
to continue getting lower, and that's not because they're doing
good stuff. It's because we're going to lose growth in
the economy and prices are going to be coming down.
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Core goods are only up now year over year two
point one percent. They had peaked it over nine percent.
That's not because the Biden administration did anything. It's because
this inflation was highly supply side driven. Ultimately, I really
believe that the blow slow and no growth that excessive
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government indebtedness creates is our biggest problem, and it's all
I want the right talking about because America is a
high growth economy and well, people are turning up into Japan.
Explain that so the average person can understand completely what
you're saying, because there's too much economic speak in there
for me. Okay, that's fair. I'm sorry. I think that
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America is used to growing at a certain rate ever
since World War Two. We produce a lot of goods
and services. There's consumption, there's activity, there's humans doing a
lot of things with innovation and productive economic living, and
that since the financial crisis, coming with the Obama years,
President Trump inherit economy that had been growing at half
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of his seventy year average. After they passed the tax
bill that Steve Moore and others were a big part of,
economic growth got up to three percent. It doubled what
it had been in the Obama years, the first time
we saw three percent real GDP growth since the financial crisis.
Right then COVID came Sean and and now I think
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we're going to be stuck at one percent of growth
for a long time. And we're doing it now with
instead of twenty four million dollar twenty four trillion on now,
it's thirty thirty one trillion thirty one trillion. You're right,
I stand corrected in defending it. They want to keep
going and making it worse and worse. Do you, my
non economic argument are trying to be simple about it
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is every dollar they spend is a dollar not being
spent in the private sector, and that's the problem. Quick
break more with our economic experts David Bonsen and Steve
Moore on the other side, and your calls coming up.
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All right, we'll continue with our economic experts David Bonson
and Steve Moore, and we'll get to your calls at
the bottom of the half hour eight hundred nine four
one Sean, if you want to join us politically speaking,
this is where the House Republicans not only do they
have the power of subpoena, which is so pivotal, as
we spent the entire almost the entire show on before
you guys joined us, discussing especially these investigations into the
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Biden family, whether or not the DOJ's weaponize the FBI politicized,
but on the issue involving the economy and where it's headed.
I think this is the one bread and butter issues
are the ones that impact Americans the most. Nobody's talking
about Steve Moore that Joe Biden, as of January first,
raised billions, hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes
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that are impacting the poor, the middle class, people on
fixed income the most. Something he promised you wouldn't do
if you make less than four hundred thousand a year.
But he raised significantly billions of dollars in new taxes
on cold gas and oil and on your pension plan,
and corporate tax increases, which we know get passed on
to consumers. Yeah, and don't forget the most important tax
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of all sean which you didn't even well we kind
of indirectly mentioned, which is inflation is a tax. It's
a tax on Americans earnings. And so you know, at
the time when we've had that thirteen percent inflation over
the last two years, wages and salary's have gone up,
you know, just a little bit more than half of
that amount. So it's a it's a it's a tax
on everything. It's almost like a sales tax. Sean um
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that that inflation rate that's so high. Now, David Bohnson
is right that the inflation is coming down rapidly, and
he's exactly right. But that growth point is what really
is sticks in my crop. Because I honestly believe Sean,
and I know you believe this too. Um, if Trumps
were still president, we wouldn't be talking about a recession.
You kidding me. We've been We've been booming. We've been
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producing three or four million more bureaus a day of oil.
We would we would have control of our border, we
wouldn't have the tax of we would become it, We
become an energy rich country because because we would take
energy independence, put it on steroids, and we would be
providing Western Europe with all their energy needs and getting rich.
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And don't forget also, you know there's no way that
that Pewton could have gone into Ukraine if we continued
because his whole economy is based on the place of oil.
And you know. So my point is that we if
we're going to grow, If David Bobson is right that
the economy is only going to grow by one percent
or less under Biden, well I thought that was an
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optimistic figure by David. Do you agree with David or
that's a disaster. Well, let me ask you. I thought, David,
no offense, I'm not arguing with you, I thought your
one percent prediction on GDP was pretty optimistic. Steve Moore,
do you think that's where we're headed? Well, what I'm
saying is that's the consensus forecast, even the Biden administration
saying the economy is only going to grow by one
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or one half percent. We've got to be growing at
three to three and a half to four percent. Under
Reagan we had three and a half to four percent growth.
Under Trump we had three percent growth, and we were
headed to four percent growth. So growth is the solution
of these problems. But where's it going to come from?
You got a president doesn't want to produce our energy,
wants to raise taxes on our businesses, and on and
on and on all things that are just weights on
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the back of the American economy. I think that's the
perfect analogy. He's weighing down the economy. All these taxes
on energy, gas, oil, coal, is only gonna It's gonna
act like a sinking weight on the economy at all times.
And I don't see those policies changing anyway anyhow with
this president. David Well, no, and the energy independence is
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the greatest example, and all three of us were during
the Obama year is very critical, appropriately so a President Obama.
But what he did was say all the wrong things
about green energy. But then he actually didn't really shut
down tracking, he didn't really shut down permits, he didn't
do all the stuff President Trump did. He didn't do
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it the way I would do it. But Biden came
in with the bark of a radical environmentalist and the
bite where at least Obama was a little bit more
hypocritical because he knew he needed the growth of the
fracting revolution. We need that energy independence back. It would,
in and of itself over a ten year period add
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two percent per year to GDP just by itself. You
add in the other factors. That's how you get back
to the Steve Moore three handle or four handle that
we need. Sean, I don't predict one percent GDP growth
this year. I would love for it to be the case.
I wouldn't bet a political race that it's going to
be recessionary, but I expect it will be. But one
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percent is my prediction for years going forward. And the
problem saying one percent is you're talking about Japan level
numbers and it's totally unacceptable. And the reason we need
the growth Steve Moore's talking about is not only because
we need it to fund our deficits. We need it
to fund economic growth and hire us standard of living.
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It's the best things for humanity to have the opportunity
to have an aspirational society. They're taking away people's hope. Yeah,
I think that's well said, Steve. Not That's one other
prick thing that you didn't mention. Did you see the
story this week that the Biden administration doesn't want to
build new roads. Now, we just passed a lot a
trillion dollars infrastructure bill, and they don't want to use
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it for roads are transant and green undersea politics and
things like that. They don't want people driving covers. I mean,
this is a shanity that did you did you see? Yeah?
Not only that, did you see that had we by
eliminating the Keystone Exhil pipeline, it costs sixty thousand jobs
and billions of dollars potentially for this country. Never mind,
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we would be importing nine hundred thousand, nine hundred thousand
barrels of Canadian oil daily by now yep, Yeah, I
mean it's we're not building the infrastrure. We do need
infrastructure in this country, but it's not We need pipelines,
we need roodes, we need to prepare our bridges of things.
And they're spending it on windmills. Yeah, just what we
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need a beautiful windmill to kill the birds. I love birds.
I don't want to kill the birds anyway. I really
appreciate you both being with us. Thank you, Steve Moore,
David Bonson, Thank you eight hundred and nine for one
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five to the top of the hour. All right, So
last night we went to the swamp the sewer, only
to come back to the other swamp and sewer where
we're at, which is foolishly we're at anyway. So and
I went there after all that went on last week.
I wanted to find out could take the temperature. One
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of the things I kept saying last week was everyone's
got to listen to me. The agenda is set, The
agenda is in concrete. The investigations are happening. The commitments
to America are all going to be voted on. You know,
at the end of the day, I think they could
have solved this before January third. I like a lot
of all the changes. They can't think of one. I
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don't like to be honest, But anyway, so I wanted
to do this town hall and Kevin McCarthy, Jim Colemer,
James Jordan. Jim Jordan was on. We had people like
Alista Phonic and Steve Scalise. You know what, we had
a great time. Anyway, I want to run some of
this from last night so you can hear for yourself
and see if you have more confidence after this interview.
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I have a feeling that two hundred and twenty two
people agree on Jim Jordan's investigation, and that would be
into whether the FBI's politicized, the DOJ weaponize what they
weaponized from homeland FBI. You know, we've watched him get
out of control with no check and balance. But last
week was tough. But remember what my father always said,
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it's not how you start, it's how you finish. And
let me tell you what happened after last week, our
very first bill, we repelled eighty seven thousand. Irsay's promised
to do that. We promise to do it. We made
it in our in our commitment to America, which you've
talked a lot about, and we'll check it off as
they go at my own copy. Yeah, but you know what,
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you know what else we did next? We just passed
the Church style committee that Jim Jordan will run looking
at the weaponization of government. You know what We just
passed right now, a select committee on China, and we
got one hundred and forty six Democrats to vote with us.
Pelosi would never allow us that had an agreement with her,
and she backed away the night before. So you want
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to bring jobs back from China to America. You want
to stop them from buying our farmland, you want to
stop them from stealing our intellectual property. This is where
it all starts. And this is only our first couple
of days in power. So the power of the purse,
which we'll talk about at like the power of subpoena.
Those are the two big powers you have. Okay, let's go.
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Let's focus on the investigation part. Jim Jordan inappropriations that
we got James Kalmer. They'll both be joining us tonight
and he'll be looking into the Biden family syndicate. We
know everybody in this room knows one thing that Joe
Biden lied when Joe Biden said, not one time did
he ever talk to us Son Hunter about his foreign
business dealings. We have photographic evidence and evidence of meetings
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that have taken place, and witnesses that will attest to such.
We got documents that they denied us until we're in
the majority. Do you think the president, more than forty
years of being elected, why do you think he finally
went to the border because we were sworn in. He
knows what's coming. You've got to secure your border, and
we're going to use every power we have to make
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sure we protect this country and look out for the
American taxpayer. I think last week, at least a part
of it was Republicans around the country were disappointed in
past speakers. I'll give one example, John Baynor. I was
disappointed in John Bayner, and I think that there were
people that wanted the assurances. I had interviewed you enough,
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I had asked repeatedly the commitments to America. I have
my version right here, which we'll talk about, and they
wanted to know these investigations were real. What other investigations, Well,
you've got a whole government accountable for the whole time
the Democrats have been in power. All they've done is
increased spending. Why don't we have a check in Vallet's
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think of this. When the Republicans were in power last
time for eight years. You know how much discretionary spending
increase in those eight years. Zero They were in power
for four years, they increased it by thirty percent. They
went from spending four trillion to seven trillion. We don't
have that type of money. They created inflation. So we've
got to get our country under control financially. How do
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we do that too? Energy policy, Watch what they've done
to make us week. They made our price of gas
go up, but they made us week around the world.
We're gonna become energy independent. Our borders not secure. But
look what they have done to our schools as well. Right,
we're going to pass a parent's Bill of rights. Also,
when you think about this as well, when we look
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at checks and balances, you got comer oversight, you got
Jim Jordan at Judiciary, but every single committee has an
oversight committee. So every dollar matters how we spend it.
And we're going to be looking at everything. No more
blank checks. Okay, and by the way, you will vote
on every appropriations built independently, twelve of them. Yes, okay,
we'll get to that. I want what other investigations? Okay,
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First of all, COVID. Why don't we know where COVID started.
They wouldn't have any hearings on it. We have that.
Why shouldn't we know what happened in Afghanistan those last
two months? Thirteen GoldStar families have a right to know,
but more importantly, this nation has a right to know
so it never happens again. We should know what happened
with China and where the money's going. We know the
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documents are there. I think the country has a right
to know that as well. But the weaponization of what
the FBI is fouci, well, that goes right into COVID.
We have our own ability to oversee that and look
into that. Now let's get to the issue of finances
and money and spending. And why don't you explain how
this process now will be different. And we're coming up
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against the debt ceiling vote and what that's going to mean.
That might be the first test of how committed the
Republican Party in the Houses to really hold an the
line on spending. Am I wrong on that? No, You're
not wrong on that, but thank for one moment we cannot.
One of the greatest threats we have to this nation
is our debt. It makes us weak in every place
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that we can. We have never been at this high
of debt to GDP accept during World War Two. It's
the Biden family Foreign syndicate. Remember, they use their political
status to profit pedal influence. Zero experienced hunter House Republicans
vowing to investigate every single corner of it. All Right,
the people that will be leading two of the most
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important investigations, along with Speaker Kevin McCarthy, we have the
House Judiciary Committee chairman. That's Jim Jordan. House Oversight Committee Chairman,
that's James Comer. Guys, you've been on a lot. Jim,
you will be investigating. You're both Jim's Jim mc jordan.
You both you will be investigating whether the FBI has
been politicized and whether the DOJ has been weaponized. Yeah,
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what do you see so far? Well, it's not a
question of whether that's happened. It has because we've had
now dozens of FBI agents come to us taking whistle
blower status talking about how political things have become, and
I always step back and look at the big picture.
We had a Department of Justice that treated moms and
dads as terrorists use the Patriot Action placeboard me. Yes,
you got the FBI that paid Twitter three million dollars,
not one not to but three million dollars to censor
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conservative viewpoints on their platform. And then of course you
got what we've seen happen across government in so many
other agencies where it's been weaponized against the very people
they're supposed to serve. The Department of Homeland Security tried
to set up a disinformation government sport as if some
federal agencies should tell the American people what they're allowed
to say, what they're not allowed to say. That if
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that's not a direct attack in the First Amendment, I
don't know what is in that. That's what we're going
to look into, because the first step in stopping it
is you have to get all the facts on the
table for the country to see. Then you go about
stopping and making sure it never happens again. Let me
ask you this. Did it the FBI in twenty sixteen,
in twenty twenty and the presidential elections, did they put
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their thumb on the scale? I can give you detail.
I know you have the detail. But for example, in
twenty twenty, they FBI agents in early October, after they
were warned by Bruce Orr not to use the dossier.
They flew over to Great Britain and they met with
Christopher Still. They offered him a million dollars to prove
that the dossier that Hillary Clinton paid for the Russian
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dossier was true. He couldn't claim his money. But then
by the end of the month it became the bulk
of the FISA application and it was unverified. But I
would argue, we got away with it. Yeah, now we
have the recent case. They suppressed all this information about
Hunter Biden's laptop. Did they put their thumb on the scale.
And I would argue, as my colleague Mat Gates said, committee,
I would argue, was all the others as well. So
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twenty sixteen they spile in Trump's campaign and do what
you just describe. Twenty eighteen and Samallar investigation twenty twenty,
they suppressed the Hunter Biden's story and in twenty twenty two,
ninety one days before the midterm election, they raided President
Trump's home, which, oh, by the way, is quite a contrastman,
what we learned yesterday how they treated President Trump, and
what we learned yesterday where Joe Biden now had classified
information at the Biden's Center that they knew about before
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the election, but somehow that didn't get made public. Will
this be like a Church committee moment? Will this be
that the true reform that what should be the premier
law enforcement agency in the world, the FBI. Will we
be able to restore it to the great greatness that
once had. That's our goal. Rank and file agents are
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good men and women. We know that by the fact
that dozens of them come talk to us about what
they see happening and how concerned they are about it.
So we know what. We know that. So that's our goal,
our objective. But we're going to do everything we can.
We're gonna do it a in a vigorous way. We're
gonna do an aggressive way. We're going to do it
in a way that's consistent with the Constitution. But we're
going to do it because that's our job. This is
not about they said today on the floor when we
passed the resolution creating this. They said on the floor
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to day, mister Nader is quote in the paper, and
they went after us the day on the floor, they said,
this is political and we're going to fight a tooth
and nail. Why we're protecting the First Amendment, We're protecting
the American Why would you fight a Democrat. I thought
you guys embraced the Constitution like we all do. Love
the First Amendment and the rights we enjoy. That's what
this is about, and we're gonna do everything we can
to protect American citizens First Amendment liberties. They should join
with us, not fighting. Yeah, I agree with you. We
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know what. We won't play like them. They want to
put somebody on the committee, put them on the committee.
We're not presetting this thing to be political, because that's
not what it should be. We're going to follow the constitution.
Jim will follow wherever the information takes us. But this
hasn't happened since nineteen seventy, and I think it's gotten
so far out of control. You hear from all not
just the American citizens, but the whistleblowers at the FBI
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are coming to us. We're going to hear from them.
That's our goal. You know, they whistle our status. They
have to agree, but we hope that some of these individuals.
I think they will because frankly, a number of them
have been retaliated against that which is not allowed to happen. Well,
but I think they be all actually kind of said
that you're not allowed to talk to members of Congress
or the Senate. I'm like, day after we first talked
about it on your show. The very next day, he says,
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issues a memorandum saying, hey, hey, be careful, here's the
rules when you're gonna talk to Comress. That that looks
to me like a definite infringement on their liberty, their
right to go tell us what's going on in those agents.
And they believe this. They love this agency. They want
this agency to be what it was. You know, it's funny.
A friend of mine retired from the FBI. He said,
it is not what I signed up exactly. That's how
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much it changed your investigation. You said something that was
deep and profound. People think now the FBI had the
Hunter Biden laptop in December twenty nineteen. That's why the
FBI meeting with Big Tech once a week prior to
the twenty twenty election, say, oh, you might get disinformation
about Hunter. They could have verified Hunter in five minutes,
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either him doing drugs or other things with other people,
but I won't go into those details. But they didn't.
You're going to be investigating you, said the President of
the United States. Joe Biden lied to this country, didn't
he when he said he never discussed his foreign business deals.
Was a son. Absolutely. We have produced pictures, we produced emails,
We've produced documents that show that not only did Joe
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Biden know very well what his son and brother we're
doing with prospective influence pedaling, but he was also a
part of it. As many of you likely to recall,
Texas congressmanship, Roy was critical and bringing all sites together
last week to unify around a new speaker. And I
believe that the party is now stronger and even more
unified around what is the America First, Conservative make America
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Great Again agenda. You played a big role. I gave
you props last week on TV. I meant them my
note behind the scenes, you tried to bridge the gap.
You were successful. How hard was it? Well, look beating
the swamp is hard, and everybody here is committed to
doing that. And sometimes you got to break a little glass,
sometimes a little temporary conflict thing. American people were drawn
in last week. They were drawn into what we were
trying to accomplish on their have to fight for them.
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They want to believe that we're here fighting for them.
And I was delighted to work with my colleagues here
and this morning in the Republican Conference, I think there
was a new sense of unity, a new sense of purpose,
united behind a mission, a mission to stop funding a government,
a government filled with bureaucrats and tyrants rolling over the
American people, denying their liberties, undermining their freedoms. We having
a unique opportunity, Kevin has an historic opportunity right now
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to carry this country forward. I look around the room,
Brian Fitzpatrick behind me, French Hill and Garrett Grays. We
worked together all last week to make this happen. My
fellow Texans Ronnie Jackson, Brian Baban who worked hard on
the Texas border plan. That's a part of this deal. Look,
we're all united to stand up with the American people.
That stuff was important. We got through it. And but
we got Now, look, we've got the tools, we've got
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some of the transparency. Now the work lies ahead. We
got a unite and go execute. And Byron, you also
worked hard by on the scenes. By the way, it
had to feel a little good. They get some votes
for a speaker. It was cool. I'll admit that it
was really cool. But I lost to this guy. You
know what I'm gonna do. No, it was it was
a point in time where you know, there was some
who believe in my abilities. But the number one thing
was bringing this thing together. Obviously the world was watching.
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We all knew that. But Lightships said, we had a
responsibility to make sure. Number one. We had a plan
and we had an agenda that Speaker McCarthy has built
for our conference. The thing that we were looking for
is making sure that every tool in this building is
utilized to make that happen. And so the job was simple,
find a way to get everybody together so we can
get the job done and get down to business. And
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that's what we're doing. We have thirty seconds left, mister speaker,
what do you want the American people to hear? Last?
Where are you taking this group of this majority? I
want them to understand this is their house, this is
their government, and we will always listen to them, and
we will always fight for this right. What our battle
last week was to only make us stronger to represent you.
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It doesn't matter if you're a Republican Democrat, are independent.
Your voice matters, and you have a voice here. Our
commitment to America, what we campaigned on, we will keep it.
We're showing it each and every day. We might stumble it,
but the one thing I hope everybody learned from me,
we will never give up and I'll never give up
on the American public. We're going to do these town
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do them. I hope you found it worthwhile eight hundred
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Congressman Pat Fallon of Texas he's going to talk about
his official filing to remove Alejandro Mayorchis from his position
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