Speaker 1: Just to give you a glimpse into how much Joe
Speaker 1: Biden hates this country and how terrible he is as
Speaker 1: a president. He just treated a w NBA player who
Speaker 1: hates America with a Russian arms dealer who has the
Speaker 1: nickname Merchant of Death, all while leaving behind a US
Speaker 1: Marine Paul Wheelan, who's stuck in Russia. But that's the
Speaker 1: kind of president Joe Biden is. He got thirteen service
Speaker 1: members killed with his botched withdrawal from Afghanistan while leaving
Speaker 1: Americans behind, while turning his back on hard working Americans.
Speaker 1: This is a guy who has forced experimental shots on
Speaker 1: our military members and then purged the military of people
Speaker 1: who didn't want to get it. This is a guy
Speaker 1: who claims that he's just the average Joe from Scranton, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: while using his role in government to get rich and
Speaker 1: enriched his entire family. So we've got a corrupt man
Speaker 1: in the White House and a corrupt administration when you
Speaker 1: look at the totality of everything they've done for the
Speaker 1: border to Afghanistan, to just about everything to the Department
Speaker 1: of Justice, and the abuses that we've seen there against
Speaker 1: Americans as well. So fortunately even though we didn't win
Speaker 1: the Senate, even though things didn't go exactly how we
Speaker 1: wanted them to go this past election cycle, we do
Speaker 1: have the House. We will have a Republican lead House,
Speaker 1: which means we'll have Republican led investigations. One man who's
Speaker 1: going to play a vital role in all of that
Speaker 1: is Congressman James Coomber from Kentucky. He's going to be
Speaker 1: serving and taking the helm of the Oversight Committee as chairman.
Speaker 1: So we're going to talk to him today about all
Speaker 1: these investigations, what it means, what the consequences are going
Speaker 1: to be, and what the focus is going to be
Speaker 1: for the Oversight Committee as well. I mean, there's so
Speaker 1: much to investigate. How do they figure out what is
Speaker 1: the most important and also how do they enforce subpoenas
Speaker 1: when you've got a Department of Justice with Merrick Garland
Speaker 1: who has no interest in helping you out. So we're
Speaker 1: going to talk to him about all of that. I
Speaker 1: hope you enjoyed this conversation with Congressman James Coomber, the
Speaker 1: Income Oversight Chairman of the House. Progress Homer, Well, first
Speaker 1: of all, thank you for joining the show. Sorry appreciate
Speaker 1: you taking the time pleasure. You're going to be a
Speaker 1: busy man. I mean, you are a busy man, but
Speaker 1: as the incoming oversight chairman, there's a lot to investigate.
Speaker 1: We've we've got a corrupt president, a corrupt administration, so
Speaker 1: you're going to be a busy man. Yeah, there's no
Speaker 1: shortage of oversight needed in this town. And if you
Speaker 1: think about it, there has been zero oversight over the
Speaker 1: past to two years. Therefore, with all the bad, disastrous
Speaker 1: policies in this administration, like the botch withdrawal in Afghanistan,
Speaker 1: no one's even been held accountable. So we've got a
Speaker 1: lot of work to do. We're two years behind because
Speaker 1: we've been in the minority and haven't had the gabble. Therefore,
Speaker 1: we haven't had subpoena power. We're ready to get started
Speaker 1: and try to get caught up over the past two
Speaker 1: years and try to provide oversight over things that are
Speaker 1: gonna happen over the next two years. I mean, the
Speaker 1: challenge is almost going to be figuring out what to
Speaker 1: focus on because there there are so many things to investigate.
Speaker 1: As you pointed out, the botched withdrawal left thirteen service
Speaker 1: members killed because of the Biden administrations and competency. So
Speaker 1: how do you sort of decipher and go through all
Speaker 1: these different areas of interest and figure out what to
Speaker 1: focus on. Well, fortunately for for me and for the
Speaker 1: Oversight Committee, we have a large staff. We get to
Speaker 1: significantly increase our staff size going from the minority to
Speaker 1: the majority. We're just blessed to have a great selection
Speaker 1: of resumes from people that want to come in and
Speaker 1: do a one or two year stint. They're not trying
Speaker 1: to be career government employees. They want to make a
Speaker 1: name for themselves and move on, which is great. That's
Speaker 1: what like what you would want. And uh, we we
Speaker 1: have some committee members who are very passionate about oversight
Speaker 1: and holding this administration accountable. So I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: be able to multitask. We're trying to h also delegate.
Speaker 1: There's so many different areas of oversight. Uh. If it's
Speaker 1: something that I think could be handled by another committee
Speaker 1: of jurisdiction that doesn't quite have the staff or the
Speaker 1: expertise that we have, then we're we're passing that along
Speaker 1: to them. But UH, we're really trying to lead a
Speaker 1: team effort here to uh to get caught up and
Speaker 1: then to provide oversight to for the next two years
Speaker 1: of what we know will be more disastrous policies coming
Speaker 1: out of this administration. Well, and you know, and then
Speaker 1: of course investigations will come as you start looking under
Speaker 1: the hood about things that have taken place over the
Speaker 1: past two years. But from knowing what we know, now,
Speaker 1: what are the priorities going into this new Congress from
Speaker 1: an and get an investigative standpoint. Obviously we're concerned about
Speaker 1: what's going on in the southern border. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a it's a joke what this administration's border he is.
Speaker 1: It is, as we all know, an open border policy.
Speaker 1: We've got to change that. We've got to hold people
Speaker 1: accountable for, uh, the hundred thousand plus sitting all deaths
Speaker 1: that have happened as a direct result of this administration's
Speaker 1: failure to secure the border. So that's gonna be a priority. Uh,
Speaker 1: all things COVID nineteen, not just the origination of COVID nineteen,
Speaker 1: but also all the funds that have been misappropriated through
Speaker 1: the Unemployment Experience Unemployment Insurance Fund where we had you know,
Speaker 1: as much as fraudulent claims. Uh, the p P p
Speaker 1: loan programs. There's just massive amount of fraud that that's
Speaker 1: happened in that this stimulus money the state and local government.
Speaker 1: So all this COVID money, Uh, no one's had any
Speaker 1: type of oversight over where it went, how much was abused,
Speaker 1: how much was wasted, and so we've got that and then,
Speaker 1: of course, uh something that's very important to me that
Speaker 1: I think the American people are gonna have a greater
Speaker 1: interest and when they hear more about what we have
Speaker 1: is the Biden family influence family. I mean, this family
Speaker 1: has been able to sell access to the government at
Speaker 1: the highest levels for over a decade. No one teld
Speaker 1: them accountable. Uh, No one really knows the extent to
Speaker 1: how much money they have received from Russia, from China,
Speaker 1: from Ukraine, from the Middle East. That we're gonna try
Speaker 1: to determine that dollar amount, and we're ass gonna try
Speaker 1: to determine if Joe Biden was directly We know he's
Speaker 1: directly involved. Was Joe Biden a direct beneficiary of this?
Speaker 1: And obviously, Joe Biden's lied numerous times about his knowledge
Speaker 1: of his family's shady business dealings. He's lied about his
Speaker 1: involvement and his family's shady business dealings, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go a step further and see if in fact,
Speaker 1: he was actually receiving direct benefits from our adversaries in
Speaker 1: China and Russia because of the family influence apenalty. So
Speaker 1: that's gonna be an investigation that's going to be a
Speaker 1: great interest to a lot of Americans. Well, you know what,
Speaker 1: we know that Hunter Biden's emails say that it was
Speaker 1: ten percent for the big guy, for Joe Biden. You know,
Speaker 1: we know that he's flown Hunter or on air Force
Speaker 1: two degrease deals in countries like China. When he was
Speaker 1: vice president, he bragged about getting the prosecutor general fired
Speaker 1: in Ukraine who was investigating Barrezba. You know what else
Speaker 1: do we know about Joe Biden's possible involvement. You know,
Speaker 1: how involved do we think he he was and a
Speaker 1: son's business dealings from what we know now, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it was very involved. All the people that he
Speaker 1: said he never met with, we have pictures or emails
Speaker 1: to prove that he met with him, some of them
Speaker 1: numerous times. We also know that, as you said, he's
Speaker 1: taken Hunter on the taxpayer funded trips to meet with
Speaker 1: some of these people that he was later going to
Speaker 1: be paid millions of dollars from. Now, if you look
Speaker 1: at the emails and text messages on the hard UH,
Speaker 1: you know, there are many that Hunter is complaining to
Speaker 1: others about how much he's having to spend to keep
Speaker 1: his family up. You know that no one appreciates him,
Speaker 1: and he's you know, he's kept Joe up for years.
Speaker 1: And in addition to the big guy the ten percent
Speaker 1: for the big Guy, there's also references to many things
Speaker 1: that Hunter Biden was paying for for his father. So
Speaker 1: these are why we're looking at specific bank records. When
Speaker 1: we get the gavel and get subpoena authority in in January,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see that this investigation is focused on specific
Speaker 1: areas where we believe Joe Biden was directly benefiting from
Speaker 1: this influence peddling. And remember Hunter's only source of income
Speaker 1: UH for several years was was what I would consider
Speaker 1: his influence peddling with China and Russia. So and of
Speaker 1: course the BARISHMA and Ukraine. So the fact that Joe
Speaker 1: Biden's lied time and time again, he lied about the
Speaker 1: laptop being Russia, this information he lied about h uh
Speaker 1: knowing any of these people that Hunter Biden was involved with.
Speaker 1: H We also believe he's he's not been truthful about
Speaker 1: the benefits he's received. You know. One of the emails
Speaker 1: showed that Hunter Biden requested an extra set of keys
Speaker 1: for both Joe Biden and Joe Biden because they were
Speaker 1: going to be a part of this business, which the
Speaker 1: business was involved in trying to help Russia or I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: trying to help China get their foot in the door
Speaker 1: and start purchasing interest in natural gas drillers in the
Speaker 1: United States. So that's a national security concern. And again,
Speaker 1: in addition to all the investigation we're doing to try
Speaker 1: to determine the extent of how much the Biden family
Speaker 1: has received from influence pedding. The primary purpose of the investigation,
Speaker 1: honestly is to determine whether or not this administration is
Speaker 1: compromised because of the millions of dollars that they've received
Speaker 1: from China and Russia. And uh, you know, I think
Speaker 1: that's an investigation that needs to happen. Unfortunately, the mainstream
Speaker 1: media is not, and we're gonna take that seriously. But
Speaker 1: we are, and I believe we'll hopefully have the tools
Speaker 1: necessary to get an answer and hopefully get it soon.
Speaker 1: When you've got so got money that he can't account
Speaker 1: for in Ukraine, when his family has also made money
Speaker 1: from Ukraine as well, So you know, certainly raises questions
Speaker 1: about you know, can he can he make decisions? Is
Speaker 1: he making decisions in the interests of the country, or
Speaker 1: is he making decisions that are in the interest of
Speaker 1: his families, you know, bottom line and their financials. I
Speaker 1: think is a good question to get to. You to
Speaker 1: your points, take a quick commercial break, and then back
Speaker 1: with the incoming oversight Chairman James Comer. Obviously, with Joe
Speaker 1: Biden being in charge, UH and having Merrick Garland at
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice, you know you're not gonna getting
Speaker 1: any assistance from them and enforcing some of these to
Speaker 1: pianos and trying to hold people accountable. So what are
Speaker 1: the limitations and what can you do to try to
Speaker 1: you know, circumvent that or to try to bring accountability. Well,
Speaker 1: you get the nail on the head obviously if you
Speaker 1: compare our investigative work to what the January six Committee
Speaker 1: has done. They had a d o J that got
Speaker 1: their backs, that worked tirelessly to ensure that everyone complied
Speaker 1: with the subpoenas they issued. I'm gonna go out on
Speaker 1: them and say, we probably won't have that type of
Speaker 1: support from the d o J. They also had support
Speaker 1: from the FBI. You know, I I really believe that
Speaker 1: the January six Committee was the entity that triggered the
Speaker 1: raid on bar Largo, So the FBI was working with
Speaker 1: the committee more than likely to try to obtain documents
Speaker 1: for their investigation. I'm gonna go out on them and
Speaker 1: say the FBI is not gonna work with us on anything,
Speaker 1: because you know, we're looking into the wrongdoing in the FBI,
Speaker 1: especially with respect to the Biden family influence peddling and
Speaker 1: the and the Hunter Biden laptop, which is a primary
Speaker 1: source of evidence for for our investigation. So it's gonna
Speaker 1: be more challenging. But if you'll see, the first subpoenas
Speaker 1: we're gonna issue will will be the private sector people
Speaker 1: and deprive it uh sector businesses to obtain information we need.
Speaker 1: We're obviously going to request information for the government as
Speaker 1: we have in the past, probably issue subpoenas very soon
Speaker 1: on that too, but uh, we'll have a lot greater
Speaker 1: success with private sector people and private sector businesses complying
Speaker 1: with our subpoenas. So I believe we'll be able to
Speaker 1: get sufficient amount of information even if the Biden administration
Speaker 1: continues to fight us and obstructed at every level. So
Speaker 1: it's just going about it a different way than Democrats.
Speaker 1: Obviously we're able to do, you know, and I hope
Speaker 1: to you know, obviously we've seen this collusion on free speech,
Speaker 1: both with the Twitter files that have been released and
Speaker 1: then also with this UH lawsuit from Attorneys General Jeff
Speaker 1: Landry and Louisiana and Eric Schmidt incoming senator elect you know,
Speaker 1: I hope we get to the bottom of that too,
Speaker 1: and what role American companies, to your point, have played
Speaker 1: in stifling or speech. We're watching that lawsuit with great interest. Uh.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of different areas where I think
Speaker 1: we're going to receive assistance that that lawsuit. Lots of
Speaker 1: information is coming out of that. There are some good
Speaker 1: media outlets that are doing some very good investigative work
Speaker 1: that that's being very helpful in our investigations. You know,
Speaker 1: There's there's a lot of information that you can get
Speaker 1: through just basic fo your request from different media outlets.
Speaker 1: So we're paying close attention on every front. But that
Speaker 1: that that lawsuit that Landry's leading is a big deal, Well,
Speaker 1: it very much is, and I appreciate the work that
Speaker 1: they're doing. Um, you know, you had mentioned COVID. You
Speaker 1: know what's really sad is that so many people have
Speaker 1: been harmed by a variety of COVID decisions, from lockdowns
Speaker 1: to vaccine injuries. And the problem is there is a
Speaker 1: high probability that there is a financial motivation to some
Speaker 1: of these decisions that have been made. You know that
Speaker 1: there is the most likely conclusion that COVID came from
Speaker 1: the Uhan Institute of Virology that was working on coronavirus.
Speaker 1: Is Yeah, You've got people like Dr Faucci who have
Speaker 1: tried to say otherwise when you know there ties to
Speaker 1: him and gain a function and a role in potentially
Speaker 1: strengthening the virus at the Uhanan's to a virology or
Speaker 1: he's refused to say whether people in the vaccine approval
Speaker 1: committee have also made money from these vaccine manufacturers. So
Speaker 1: what you know, what what kind of what do you
Speaker 1: guys plan to do on the COVID front to try
Speaker 1: to bring accountability to these people that may have been
Speaker 1: profiting off of these bad decisions that have harmed so
Speaker 1: many Americans. That's a great point a lot of people,
Speaker 1: you know, they just focused on Dr Faucci, were we
Speaker 1: believe that initially we need to bring in all of
Speaker 1: the scientists that gave Dr Faucci a green light. If
Speaker 1: you'll go back to the emails that our committee unearthed
Speaker 1: several months ago that showed in February March Fauci's earliest
Speaker 1: advisers when COVID was just coming out. They looked at
Speaker 1: it and said, well, obviously this is a lab link
Speaker 1: from the Wuhan lab, because that's what they were doing
Speaker 1: down there, We're researching COVID viruses. And then they looked
Speaker 1: at the DNA sequences and well, obviously this is being made.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no way it could jump from animal
Speaker 1: to human that that quickly. So did something happen Three
Speaker 1: days later after Dr fouch You had a conference call
Speaker 1: with them. They they never emailed again and they changed
Speaker 1: their story. We later learned that many of these scientists
Speaker 1: got grants from the n i A. So one of
Speaker 1: the things that we've learned that unfortunately, don't think anyone
Speaker 1: in Congress realized was that the n AH you know,
Speaker 1: has a huge slush fund and a lot of these
Speaker 1: these so called experts that went along with every decision
Speaker 1: Dr fouch you made, whether it was pertaining the lockdowns,
Speaker 1: whether it's pertaining the forcing children into virtual learning as
Speaker 1: opposed to in person learning. Uh, every decision they gave
Speaker 1: him a green light, didn't question him on anything, while
Speaker 1: at the same time they were receiving you know, some
Speaker 1: angel amounts of funds true Dr Fauci and Dr Collins.
Speaker 1: So this is concerning a lot of members of Congress,
Speaker 1: myself included. I didn't realize that that Dr Faucci and
Speaker 1: others were receiving royalties for uh, probably many of the
Speaker 1: vaccines that they were recommended people people take. So this
Speaker 1: is huge conflict of interest. At the at the very least,
Speaker 1: there needs to be more disclosure laws to know where
Speaker 1: where they've actually received some of their royalties from and
Speaker 1: you know how much royalty is they've received. So we've
Speaker 1: got a lot of oversight to conduct and unfortunately the
Speaker 1: Democrats haven't conducted any Why in the world they wouldn't
Speaker 1: conduct an investigation as to the true origination of COVID
Speaker 1: nighteen is beyond me because Republicans weren't accusing Democrats of
Speaker 1: creating COVID nineteen. We were accusing China of creating COVID
Speaker 1: Night team. But for whatever reason, the Democrats never wanted
Speaker 1: to look into that, and they've certainly not had a
Speaker 1: problem with all the money that's been wasted. And when
Speaker 1: we're talking about money, I'm talking about hundreds of billions,
Speaker 1: if not trillions of dollars that's completely unaccounted for. You know,
Speaker 1: the root of all that's corruption, right government? Corruption, government
Speaker 1: not serving the needs of its people, not being held
Speaker 1: accountable by the people, which is what you plan to
Speaker 1: do at oversight? What have you learned in your job
Speaker 1: at oversight? And then as you you know, take the
Speaker 1: home here soon about corruption in government, Well, it's worse
Speaker 1: than than you would realize, I don't I think most Americans,
Speaker 1: if they were paulled, would say that there's a lot
Speaker 1: of corruption in the government. But I don't believe they
Speaker 1: realize the extent. You know, the media has played along
Speaker 1: with the Biden narrative and the Democratic National Committee narrative
Speaker 1: that Joe Biden is an average guy, he's a good guy,
Speaker 1: he's a United he's not a divider and he's ethical.
Speaker 1: I mean, that is completely not true. I mean, if
Speaker 1: if you realize the extent too, the volume of the
Speaker 1: ULLs and and uh, the amount of money that his
Speaker 1: family has made off nothing more than access to the
Speaker 1: highest levels of government through Joe Biden, you would realize
Speaker 1: that he could be one of the most compromised presidents
Speaker 1: in the history of America. And this administration has had
Speaker 1: so much money at their disposal in the name of
Speaker 1: COVID and all these stimulus bills and infrastructure bills and
Speaker 1: UH inflation Reduction Bill which increased inflation. Obviously, they have
Speaker 1: spent so much money. There's been few too, to know
Speaker 1: guardrails on any of this money. Uh. We hear more
Speaker 1: and more reports every day of money that was fraudulently
Speaker 1: obtained by foreign countries. And it's it's very discouraging. And
Speaker 1: the fact that you know, this administration wants to continue
Speaker 1: to act like nothing wrong. Everything is great, UH, the
Speaker 1: borders secure, the the economy is fine, inflations under control.
Speaker 1: It's it's really discarded, it really is. But I appreciate
Speaker 1: the work you're doing. I appreciate you know, the Oversight
Speaker 1: Committee and the world that you're going to play and
Speaker 1: looking into all this, and I really hope that you
Speaker 1: get the answers that Americans deserve and that there's some
Speaker 1: accountability with this administration. Congressman, I know you have a
Speaker 1: very busy schedule. I appreciate you taking the time to
Speaker 1: join the show, and I appreciate the work that you're doing.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me on. He's going
Speaker 1: to incoming House Oversight Chairman h He's a Republican from Kentucky.
Speaker 1: Just breaking down all the work that he's going to
Speaker 1: be busy, right, there's a lot to investigate, so but
Speaker 1: appreciate the work that they're going to be doing and
Speaker 1: hopefully bringing at least answers and and maybe a little
Speaker 1: bit accountability as well. I appreciate you guys for listening
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