Speaker 1: New documents obtained by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization
Speaker 1: of the Federal Government confirm that the federal government, your
Speaker 1: government was spying on you if you were using terms
Speaker 1: like maga or trump. That's right, those two words could
Speaker 1: then get you monitored by your government. They use those
Speaker 1: words and sent them to financial institutions in America to
Speaker 1: spy on Americans, saying if people were using those phrases
Speaker 1: when completing transactions that dealt with finances like Venmo or
Speaker 1: zell or anything like that. Individuals who shopped at stores
Speaker 1: also like Cabellas or Dick Sporting Goods, or purchased religious texts,
Speaker 1: including the Bible, may also have had their transactions flagged
Speaker 1: by those financial institutions and then given to the United
Speaker 1: States of America's government to then look at you as
Speaker 1: a possible domestic terrorists. Yes, this kind of financial surveillance
Speaker 1: carried out in coordination with and at the requests of
Speaker 1: federal law enforcement into Americans' private transactions, is also raising
Speaker 1: alarms and serious concerns about the FBI's respect for fundamental
Speaker 1: civil liberties in this country.
Speaker 2: How did all this even happen?
Speaker 1: This now coming from the House of Representative Judiciary Committee
Speaker 1: Chairman Jim Jordan, who is blowing the whistle on this, saying,
Speaker 1: in light of these revelations, Jim Jordan has now officially
Speaker 1: requested transcribed interviews with Peter Sullivan, he's the senior Private
Speaker 1: Sector Partner for Outreach and the Strategic Partner Engagement Section
Speaker 1: of the FBI, and Noah Bissoff, former Director of the
Speaker 1: Office of Stakeholder Integration and Engagement in the Strategic Operations
Speaker 1: Division of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. The Committee and
Speaker 1: the Select Subcommittee have obtained documents, he says, indicating that
Speaker 1: following January sixth, twenty twenty one, there was distributed materials
Speaker 1: to financial institutions that, among other things, outline these types
Speaker 1: of various people of interest and provide financial institutions with
Speaker 1: suggested search terms and merchant category codes. I want you
Speaker 1: to hear exactly what Jim Jordan had to say to
Speaker 1: Sean Hannity about this spye on you the American.
Speaker 3: People, all right, turning down to a very disturbing report
Speaker 3: from Jim Jordan.
Speaker 4: Now get this.
Speaker 3: Apparently, federal investigators we're asking banks to search the personal
Speaker 3: transactions of individual Americans for terms like trump and MAGA
Speaker 3: thanks for also asking to see to use merchant category
Speaker 3: codes to identify potentially suspicious transactions And what transactionations did
Speaker 3: Treasury think were so suspicious? Small arms, sporting recreational goods
Speaker 3: In other words, if you go to stores like Dick's
Speaker 3: Sporting Goods and Bass Pro shops. By the way, I
Speaker 3: got my boots for Iowa at Dick's Sporting Goods.
Speaker 4: Thank god for instacart.
Speaker 3: If you are a law abiding American who legally purchased
Speaker 3: a gun after twenty twenty one, your government thought you
Speaker 3: needed to be monitored.
Speaker 4: Now sources are telling Fox.
Speaker 3: News Digital tonight that the impetus for this very serious
Speaker 3: invasion of privacy was, of course, none other than January sixth.
Speaker 3: These revelations should scare every single American. You want to
Speaker 3: talk about privacy, constitutional rights? What do you want to
Speaker 3: live in an Orwellian nightwear nightmare with big Brother?
Speaker 4: Here was the latest on all of this.
Speaker 3: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, I want to understand this.
Speaker 4: Tell me what they did here?
Speaker 3: Because do we not have privacy anymore in America? Is
Speaker 3: this not a constitutional violation? Unreasonable search and seizure?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Now in the last year's song. We've exposed the
Speaker 5: censorship where you had big government, big tech, big media,
Speaker 5: big academia working.
Speaker 4: To censor Americans.
Speaker 5: Now we have financial surveillance where it's big government working
Speaker 5: with big banks, big corporations to surveil to spy on Americans.
Speaker 4: And so it was big banks looking.
Speaker 5: And searching private transactions using key terms at the suggestion
Speaker 5: of the federal government to find out what you're buying,
Speaker 5: what you're spending your money on. Scary stuff. All it
Speaker 5: looks like, without any warrant, without any legal process, they
Speaker 5: undertook this as a way to identify domestic violent extremists.
Speaker 5: And here's what it sounds a lot like. Remember that
Speaker 5: memorandum in Richmond about pro life Catholics are extremists because
Speaker 5: they go to church in their pro life when they
Speaker 5: talk about, you know, protecting humans. That's exactly what these
Speaker 5: documents sound that life. We're right on the on the
Speaker 5: front edge of this. We'll see how it all progresses.
Speaker 5: But it's scary stuff. It's financial surveillance of the American people.
Speaker 1: Now, let's really just take a moment and dissect what
Speaker 1: Jim Jordan just said. Not only did the federal government
Speaker 1: give to financial institutions a hit list of people that
Speaker 1: they wanted to go after. They gave them the exact
Speaker 1: words that they think make you a threat to our democracy,
Speaker 1: because this list was about being a threat to our democracy.
Speaker 1: And the words that they use, the ones that we
Speaker 1: obviously could see at the beginning, like maga, right and Trump.
Speaker 1: Those are words that are associate you, associating you with
Speaker 1: conservative values. Right, you are public enemy number one to
Speaker 1: the left, if you voted for Donald Trump, if you
Speaker 1: are a make America great Again conservative, and those actually
Speaker 1: make a little more sense to me. I would expect
Speaker 1: them to use those types of words to then discriminate
Speaker 1: and take away our rights and our protections from our constitution.
Speaker 1: They believe that if you voted for Donald Trump, that
Speaker 1: you should be treated like a terrorist, a domestic terrorist specifically.
Speaker 1: How do we know this because they've said that. Remember
Speaker 1: this is the same group of people that believe that
Speaker 1: you should be unprogrammed, right, you should go to a
Speaker 1: deprogramming camp.
Speaker 2: That was their words.
Speaker 1: In fact, that was something that was talked about by
Speaker 1: so many in the media. It was something that was
Speaker 1: said a lot, in fact, to the point where we
Speaker 1: were able to put together an entire montage about why
Speaker 1: Trump's supporters should in fact be d programmed. Take a
Speaker 1: listen to this.
Speaker 6: Sadly, so many of those extremists, those mega extremists, take
Speaker 6: their marching orders from Donald Trump, and when do they
Speaker 6: break with him? You know, because at some point, you know,
Speaker 6: maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the
Speaker 6: cult members.
Speaker 3: Terms being tossed around like deprogramming Trump followers. All of
Speaker 3: America needs deprogramming because we've all been negatively influenced by
Speaker 3: Donald Trump.
Speaker 7: Can't sit down with people that don't recognize there was
Speaker 7: an insurrection or theygan alluded the other day to the
Speaker 7: dprogramming that Katie Kurk talked about.
Speaker 8: Deprogramming that might work in other cases is it's obviously
Speaker 8: proven to be difficult.
Speaker 3: But many of them have allowed the lies really to
Speaker 3: seep into their soul and.
Speaker 4: It's beginning to rot their minds.
Speaker 9: Taking it even a step further, Raskin told The New
Speaker 9: York Times that he's ordered books about cults and deprogramming
Speaker 9: to try to understand his Republican colleagues.
Speaker 10: There are a couple accounts lives of TikTok, A few,
Speaker 10: you know really prominent anti transit sort of far right
Speaker 10: activists who started to essentially make the argument that any
Speaker 10: exposure to children about LGBT people is automatically grooming.
Speaker 2: It seems to be emboldening.
Speaker 4: Anti gae trolls explain how it just lives of TikTok
Speaker 4: with this guy, James Lindsay.
Speaker 10: They would say, Hey, there's going to be something at
Speaker 10: this library.
Speaker 4: You know that they're going to read books. You know
Speaker 4: a dragon is going to come and read books. How
Speaker 4: do you fix it? How do you undo it?
Speaker 2: Well, at this point, you know it's deprogramming.
Speaker 11: That's what we're being fed. People of other races are
Speaker 11: out to get you. We accept that, we get fed that,
Speaker 11: and so when that doorbell rings or the basketball comes
Speaker 11: into your yard, your first response is to pull that gun.
Speaker 11: It's a programming that's occurring. The deprogramming question is much
Speaker 11: tougher to answer.
Speaker 7: People have literally been brainwashed, and it's scary by the
Speaker 7: myths and disinformation that is online, that is being the
Speaker 7: propaganda on Fox News. It is another epidemic that our
Speaker 7: country is facing. And until we really hold platforms accountable,
Speaker 7: until we really do some deprogramming.
Speaker 2: And anyone like him that the presses the enemy of
Speaker 2: the people.
Speaker 3: That's what Hubbard would say, That's what Moon said.
Speaker 11: If you say this is a cult, what's the first
Speaker 11: step of deprogramming?
Speaker 3: The first step with anyone who's a true believer is
Speaker 3: contact with people that are outside the bubble.
Speaker 8: I mean, I was just trying to engage in a
Speaker 8: little deprogramming with all of these myths about COVID nineteen.
Speaker 8: Is there any convincing those people that they're not living
Speaker 8: in a.
Speaker 4: World of reality or fact?
Speaker 5: Now, listen, if there was a deprogramming pill that I
Speaker 5: could put in everybody stocking for Christmas, I would do.
Speaker 8: It's because of Facebook. It's gotten out into wine moms
Speaker 8: and yoga groups and some maybe that's something that started
Speaker 8: as innocuous online that turns into something completely different, Brian,
Speaker 8: And that's part of the challenge, as you write of
Speaker 8: deprogramming it.
Speaker 9: We have issues that are going to take a long
Speaker 9: time to root out, and it's really about deprogramming. People
Speaker 9: have been listening to stuff coming from Marjorie Taylor Green
Speaker 9: and other big social influencers, and that includes the President.
Speaker 11: I hope deprogramming some people, one person at a time.
Speaker 5: They just need a little bit of affirmation.
Speaker 2: You know, I just spent a lot of time reading
Speaker 2: about deprogramming.
Speaker 4: Deprogramming, deprogram you're reading my mind.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I see a lot of that happeningly.
Speaker 4: No, you don't need to be deprogrammed.
Speaker 2: You look pretty No not, I'm not talking about me.
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Speaker 1: MAGA in Trump that we're getting flagged by the government
Speaker 1: and financial institutions were turning in Americans obviously that use
Speaker 1: the words MAGA and Trump. But what else was flagged?
Speaker 1: Religious texts And this is even outside of MAGA and
Speaker 1: Trump world. If you bought a religious text or a Bible, yes,
Speaker 1: a Bible or a Bible study book, and you use
Speaker 1: the word Bible, that would flag you in these category
Speaker 1: codes identifying transactions on behalf of the federal government buy
Speaker 1: banking institutions. And they said these are terms that they
Speaker 1: wanted to search in Zell payments. For example, they wanted
Speaker 1: to see if anybody that bought a Bible or a
Speaker 1: Bible study book or anything like that and had that
Speaker 1: term in the payment would then be looked at as
Speaker 1: a homegrown violent extremist indicator. So buying a book or
Speaker 1: reimburse somebody for Bible study right, and let's say you
Speaker 1: were in a Bible study or and somebody bought all
Speaker 1: the Bible study books and you reimbursed somebody and had
Speaker 1: that in the Zell and the word Bible appeared. Bam,
Speaker 1: you're now in the government's watch list. Not only that,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't just words like the Bible. It was
Speaker 1: also where you shopped. You heard Jim Jordan mention earlier
Speaker 1: in that audio I played to Sean Hannity about what
Speaker 1: words could get you busted, like bass pro or Cabella's.
Speaker 1: Imagine you go hunting. Imagine you have a friend that
Speaker 1: picks up for you something at academy sports and then
Speaker 1: you have a transaction in there. I've had this happen
Speaker 1: many times where I'd have a friend that would be
Speaker 1: going there. But yeah, grab me this, right, you're doing
Speaker 1: a weekend guys trip, or maybe you've got your kid
Speaker 1: that's on a team that you know with other kids,
Speaker 1: and so it would be a Christian school, right, so
Speaker 1: it may be reimbursement for Zell that would say my
Speaker 1: son's school name basketball, but it would have Dick's sporting
Speaker 1: goods in there, and it would have the name of
Speaker 1: the school, the religious school, which would have a religious
Speaker 1: name in at. Bam, now you're on a list. This
Speaker 1: is not just an invasion of privacy. I want to
Speaker 1: be very clear about that. This is a shocking abuse
Speaker 1: of power to spy on you. This should not I
Speaker 1: want to be clear, be okay, this should not be
Speaker 1: something that we say, Wow, I've got nothing to hide,
Speaker 1: so therefore I'm not worried about it moment. This should
Speaker 1: be a moment that should enrage you. And the reason
Speaker 1: why I say that is because this is what happens
Speaker 1: in socialists and communist countries. In the United States of America,
Speaker 1: our constitution says you're not supposed to be able to
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 2: I'm going to say that again. In our country.
Speaker 1: You're not supposed to be able to monitor the financial
Speaker 1: transactions of a person because they bought a Bible or
Speaker 1: went shopping at a sporting goods store, or they use
Speaker 1: a word like maga. That is not something that you're
Speaker 1: supposed to be able to do. And yet that's exactly
Speaker 1: what the government was doing without a warrant. There was
Speaker 1: no judge involved here, there was no babbable cause this
Speaker 1: was a straight up fishing expedition to turn you into
Speaker 1: an extremist domestic terrorist. And that is exactly what the
Speaker 1: left is trying to do here. They're trying to create
Speaker 1: a narrative in this country that if you vote for
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, You're a threat to society if you vote
Speaker 1: for Donald Trump this go around, you need to be deprogrammed,
Speaker 1: and your financial transactions need to be looked at by
Speaker 1: the way. I know people that went to January the sixth.
Speaker 1: I know people that were there that did not go
Speaker 1: into the capitol. I know people that were there that
Speaker 1: went there peacefully. I know people that went there that
Speaker 1: absolutely did not break any laws. Should they be treated
Speaker 1: like a domestic terrorist? Should they be treated like they
Speaker 1: are some sort of threat to the United States of America.
Speaker 1: And let's be also clear about this. They do not believe.
Speaker 1: And when I say they, I'm talking about the Biden administration,
Speaker 1: the DOJ, the FBI, and these scumbags that went down
Speaker 1: this road and did this. They okay, I want to say,
Speaker 1: I'll say it again. They don't believe you're actually a threat.
Speaker 1: They want to lock you up because you are a
Speaker 1: threat to their power. They don't believe you're a threat
Speaker 1: to this country. You are a threat to their power.
Speaker 1: That's why they're treating you like you're a terrorist. That's
Speaker 1: why they want to put you on a list. They're
Speaker 1: not actually worried about you doing something wrong. They're worried
Speaker 1: about you doing something right. They're worried about you getting
Speaker 1: involved in the process. They're worried about you voting. They're
Speaker 1: worried about you exposing their corruption. Let me remind you
Speaker 1: about parents, parents who went to school board meetings. Do
Speaker 1: you remember what happened to parents that went to school
Speaker 1: board meetings? The FBI put them on a list and
Speaker 1: then they lied about it to try to cover it up.
Speaker 1: And that list was if you were a parent that
Speaker 1: went to his cool board meeting to voice your frustrations
Speaker 1: about the indoctrination of your children on things that had
Speaker 1: nothing to do with an education, had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with the reading, writing, and arithmetic, to voice your concerns
Speaker 1: about transgender bathrooms and the assault of young girls in
Speaker 1: those bathrooms of the hands of men. You are to
Speaker 1: be treated like a domestic terrorist. You are to be
Speaker 1: put on a list like you are a domestic.
Speaker 2: Terrorist.
Speaker 1: This is the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party, and I
Speaker 1: will also say this, and I've said this before, and
Speaker 1: I hope you're understanding now just how accurate it is,
Speaker 1: is dead.
Speaker 2: For all.
Speaker 1: Intents and purposes. The Democratic Party is dead. They are
Speaker 1: masquerading like they are Democrats. When in reality what they
Speaker 1: actually are are socialists, communists, and Marxists. The Democratic Party
Speaker 1: of Bill Clinton's years is over. It is gone, folks,
Speaker 1: it does not exist. I'll be honest with you, Bill Clinton,
Speaker 1: he would have never done this. And the reason why
Speaker 1: is because I think even Bill Clinton, when he was
Speaker 1: the president of nineteen nineties, knew you couldn't get away
Speaker 1: with this and it was against the United States of
Speaker 1: America's constitution and against the rights of the people. Notice
Speaker 1: I didn't say Hillary Clinton wouldn't do this. I absolutely
Speaker 1: believe Hillary Clinton would do this and go much further
Speaker 1: than this. She's just like Barack Obama, She's just like
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. But there are many other Democrats back in
Speaker 1: the day that would have never even tried this because
Speaker 1: they would have said this is wrong. You don't lock
Speaker 1: up your political opponents this way. And if you think
Speaker 1: things aren't coming unhinged, look at just another example that
Speaker 1: happened in the last forty eight hours. There was an
Speaker 1: elected official that was arrested by the police because she
Speaker 1: was criticizing the sheriff in the town and she said,
Speaker 1: what are you.
Speaker 2: And they arrested her.
Speaker 1: They arrested her because she is an elected official, was
Speaker 1: holding the sheriff accountable and criticizing the sheriff, and the
Speaker 1: sheriff said, no, no, you can't do that. You can't
Speaker 1: criticize me. I'm going to arrest you at this meeting.
Speaker 1: There are people right now that are so power hungry
Speaker 1: and drunk, and they're realizing now that you can pretty
Speaker 1: much get away with whatever the hell you want to
Speaker 1: get away with if you're willing to just break the
Speaker 1: law and the other questions, who's going to stop you?
Speaker 1: Not this Department of Justice if you're on their team.
Speaker 1: Earlier today, I sat down with Senator Ted Cruz to
Speaker 1: talk about this exact issue of what Congress can do
Speaker 1: with real oversight of how this abuse of power took
Speaker 1: place with these financial institutions. And I want you to
Speaker 1: hear what he had to say. I want to move
Speaker 1: Senator also to this other really shocking story and it
Speaker 1: just shows you how bad our government has become. And
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the deep state here with the FEDS
Speaker 1: targeting conservatives with alarming new surveillance. The FEDS asked banking
Speaker 1: institutions to search private transactions without any type of warrants
Speaker 1: for terms like maga Trump or other words that dealt
Speaker 1: with things that were biblical purchases that.
Speaker 2: Can include a Bible.
Speaker 1: Also, keywords that they said that they suggested that banks
Speaker 1: look for in transactions would be things like sporting goods
Speaker 1: stores like Dick Sporting Goods, Cabbella's Bass Pro Shop in more.
Speaker 1: This is such an abuse of power and a weaponization
Speaker 1: of the federal government on the American people. When I
Speaker 1: hear this, I want to know, how is this not
Speaker 1: breaking the law to be able to do this without
Speaker 1: there being any probable cause or search warrants where they
Speaker 1: can just go to my bank and say, hey, if
Speaker 1: any of these things are there, we want to know
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 12: Look, this is an enormous abuse of power. It is
Speaker 12: an enormous violation of the privacy of Americans. This happened
Speaker 12: the House Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan released the documents that
Speaker 12: they got from the Treasury Department. And this all happened
Speaker 12: after January sixth, twenty twenty one. So after January sixth,
Speaker 12: you had Joe Biden in power, and these zealots said,
Speaker 12: we are going to target our political enemies. We have
Speaker 12: the entire federal government as a weapon. We are going
Speaker 12: to go after them. And this was driven by the
Speaker 12: Treasury Department's Office of Stakeholder Integration and Engagement in the
Speaker 12: Strategic Operations of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and it's
Speaker 12: called Finnsen is the acronym, and it distributed materials to
Speaker 12: financial institutions that outlined quote typologies of quote various persons
Speaker 12: of interest. Now, those typologies included anyone using the term Trump,
Speaker 12: anyone using the term MAGA. And they said, these are
Speaker 12: people more likely to be quote loan actor, homegrown violent extremists.
Speaker 12: And according to the Judiciary Committee's analysis, Finnsend wanted this
Speaker 12: is a quote Finnsend wanted financial institutions of extremism indicators
Speaker 12: that include transportation charges such as bus tickets, rental cars,
Speaker 12: plane tickets for travel areas with noparent purpose, or the
Speaker 12: purchase of books, including religious texts and subscriptions to other
Speaker 12: media containing extremist views. Now what kind of religious books. Well,
Speaker 12: among them was the Bible. If you went and bought
Speaker 12: the Bible, the Biden Treasury Department was reporting that, Okay,
Speaker 12: we think you're in danger of being a terrorist because
Speaker 12: you purchased the Bible. So if if you had any
Speaker 12: financial transaction that included the word Trump or MAGA. They
Speaker 12: thought you were in danger of being a terrorist. If
Speaker 12: you bought the Bible, you were in danger of being
Speaker 12: the terrorist. And they also instructed financial institution to query
Speaker 12: for transactions using certain codes like small arms and that
Speaker 12: that is an MCC code of three four eight four,
Speaker 12: or sporting and recreational goods in supply that's an MCC
Speaker 12: code of five zero nine to one and the keywords
Speaker 12: and this is what Treasury specified. Cabela's, Dick Sportings Goods,
Speaker 12: and Bass Pro Shop. And I'll point out Dick Sporting
Speaker 12: good in the middle of all the Democrat efforts to
Speaker 12: engage in gun control, came out rather loudly against the
Speaker 12: Second Amendment. So as for me, I don't go to
Speaker 12: Dick Sporting's good but bess Pro Shops and Cabella's are
Speaker 12: both fantastic institutions, and if you shop there, the Biden
Speaker 12: administration wanted to know because if you go to bess
Speaker 12: Pro shops, they think you're a likely terrorists. It's outrageous.
Speaker 1: It's also I think shocking how easily people were giving
Speaker 1: up this information. Why is it that we now find
Speaker 1: out that so many businesses are willing to just say
Speaker 1: here's everything when they're asked, not say hey, we'd get
Speaker 1: a warrant for this or show me some actual paperwork.
Speaker 1: It seems that almost all of these companies are complicit
Speaker 1: saying we're more than happy to help you invade on
Speaker 1: the privacy of our customers. From a standpoint you just
Speaker 1: mentioned of Dick's Sporting Goods. When I look at companies
Speaker 1: that do this, I say I'm never wanting to go
Speaker 1: there again, certainly not with a credit card.
Speaker 12: Yep. So it's not clear that the retailers were engaged
Speaker 12: in this process. So it's not clear that Cabells are
Speaker 12: Dick Sporting good or Beast Pro shops were participating. This
Speaker 12: was directed at banks, and listen, banks. Banks are massively
Speaker 12: regulated by the federal government. They are dealing literally every
Speaker 12: day with their federal regulators. The federal government has enormous
Speaker 12: power over banks, and and so I understand from a
Speaker 12: bank's perspective is Treasury is leaning on them and saying
Speaker 12: we want this information. The federal government has the ability
Speaker 12: to shut down a bank, to destroy a bank's business
Speaker 12: if they disagree with you. And so it is an
Speaker 12: area where for big state leftists that want to know
Speaker 12: everything about your personal life. Banks are a real vulnerability
Speaker 12: because every one of us, if you're dealing with modern life,
Speaker 12: if you're depositing a paycheck in your bank account, if
Speaker 12: you're paying your bills with a bank account, if you
Speaker 12: have a credit card, your financial records detail what you're
Speaker 12: spending money on. And by the way, the left, just
Speaker 12: like communists China, wants to know every single thing you
Speaker 12: spend money on. You know, one of the very first
Speaker 12: versions of the Build Back Broke bill, they called it
Speaker 12: build back Better, but I think build Back Broke defined
Speaker 12: it more accurately. One of the earliest versions required banks
Speaker 12: to report to the federal government. So if you're making
Speaker 12: a car payment, if you're making a rent payment, you know,
Speaker 12: we're not quite there, but we're not far away from.
Speaker 12: If you're filling up your tank with gas, you had
Speaker 12: to report to the federal government. And for leftist Elizabeth
Speaker 12: Warren and President she and China both want to know
Speaker 12: every single thing you spend a penny on. And this
Speaker 12: is an example of the Treasury Department Janet Yellen. You
Speaker 12: know George Orwell's nineteen eighty four talked about big brother.
Speaker 12: Janet Yellen is perfectly happy to be big sister and
Speaker 12: try to gather as much information about your personal financial
Speaker 12: transactions as humanly possible.
Speaker 1: What will the how come be of this? I guess
Speaker 1: you could say new investigation? And is there any way
Speaker 1: to stop this from happening in the future or as
Speaker 1: long as the Biden administration's in power, can they continue
Speaker 1: to get away with this abuse of power?
Speaker 12: Well, look, we can have congressional oversight, and we will
Speaker 12: and the House will engage in it because the House
Speaker 12: has a majority, and so they can hold hearings in
Speaker 12: the Senate. No Democrat cares. So in the Senate we
Speaker 12: will not have a single hearing on this. Why because
Speaker 12: the consequence of having a majority in the Senate is
Speaker 12: whoever has the majority has the committee chairman. So I
Speaker 12: am the ranking member on the Senate Commerce Committee. That
Speaker 12: means I'm the senior Republican on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science,
Speaker 12: and Transportation. That's a committee that has jurisdiction over forty
Speaker 12: percent of the US economy. It's an enormously consequential committee.
Speaker 12: As the ranking member, I have the ability to fight
Speaker 12: hard for jobs and economic growth in the state of Texas,
Speaker 12: and I do that and across the country, and I
Speaker 12: do that every day. But what I I don't have
Speaker 12: the ability to do is I can't convene a hearing.
Speaker 12: Only the chairman can convene a hearing. So in the
Speaker 12: Senate there is literally not a single Democrat that gives
Speaker 12: a dam that the Biden administration is violating your privacy
Speaker 12: by engaging in the searches because they, all of them,
Speaker 12: they hate Donald Trump so much that they've been radicalized
Speaker 12: and they believe it's perfectly justifiable to weaponize the federal government.
Speaker 12: So you ask, what can Congress do. Look, if we
Speaker 12: had control of both bodies, we could pass legislation to
Speaker 12: stop this. Under a Chuck Schumer Democrat Senate, they're not
Speaker 12: going to pass legislation to stop it. No Democrat will
Speaker 12: support it. So that means we can do oversight. I
Speaker 12: can write letters, I can give speeches, I can shine
Speaker 12: a light on it, I can do this podcast. But
Speaker 12: I can't convene a hearing of the Judiciary Committee because
Speaker 12: Dick Durbin, the chairman, won't do it. I can't pass
Speaker 12: legislation because no Democrat will support it. And so at
Speaker 12: this point, election have consequences, and as long as we're
Speaker 12: in the minority, what I'm limited to be able to
Speaker 12: do on something like this an abusive power of the
Speaker 12: Biden administration is shine a light and do everything I
Speaker 12: can to encourage the American people to be outraged at
Speaker 12: this and hold their elected officials accountable for violating their privacy.
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