PUTTING CLIMATE OVER INVESTORS.
JULIE.
>> Julie: THANK YOU.
>> Rich: HOUSE REPUBLICANS
OFFICIALLY TAKE CONTROL OF THE
CHAMBER IN LESS THAN A WEEK AND
THE COMMITTEES THAT COME WITH
IT.
PARTY LEADERS ARE PROMISING A
FLURRY OF INVESTIGATIONS
DESIGNED TO SERVE AS A CHECK ON
THE WHITE HOUSE.
LET’S BRING IN JASON CHAFFETZ
FORMER REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN
ONCE CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE
OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE.
HE IS ALSO A FOX NEWS
CONTRIBUTOR.
JASON, LOOK AT THIS LIST THAT
REPUBLICANS HAVE PUBLICLY
MENTIONED OF ITEMS THEY WOULD
LIKE TO LOOK INTO.
HUNTER BIDEN’S TAXES, COVID-19
ORIGINS, CHINA’S ROLE IN
COVID-19.
AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL, BORDER
HANDLING, F.B.I. MAR-A-LAGO
RAID.
A PRETTY LONG LIST THERE.
IF YOU ARE LOOKING AT THIS LIST
AND YOU ARE STILL CHAIRMAN OF
THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE,
WHAT DO YOU FOCUS ON AND WHAT DO
YOU THINK REPUBLICANS ARE GOING
TO GET THE MOST TRACTION ON?
>> WELL, THOSE ARE A GOOD START
RIGHT THERE BUT YOU HAVE 22
COMMITTEES IN THE HOUSE.
ALL OF THEM NEED TO BE INVOLVED
AND ENGAGED IN OVERSIGHT.
THE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE IS
SOLELY FOCUSED ON THOSE THINGS.
SINCE 1814 WE HAVE HAD THIS IN
PLACE.
DEMOCRATS AREN’T GOING TO LIKE
IT.
NO DOUBT THEY HAVE ALREADY START
EVIDENCE TO WRITE THE PRESS
RELEASES SEETHES OWE AN
OVERREACH AND THEY AREN’T
LEGITIMATE AND THEY WILL ONLY
SUCCUMB TO SUBPOENAS THAT ARE
LEGITIMATE AND THE LEGACY MEDIA
WILL ALREADY START WRITING
STORIES AND OP ED’S BEING THE
REPUBLICANS ARE OVERREACHING.
THE PROBLEM IS THE PRECEDENT
THAT DEMOCRATS SET IN THE 117TH
CONGRESS.
>> Rich: IF YOU LOOK AT THE
HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE AND IT
HAS JURISDICTION OVER A HOST OF
ISSUES MORE THAN OTHER
COMMITTEES ON THE HILL.
WHAT IS IT LIKE -- YOU KNOW THE
DYNAMIC OF BEING A REPUBLICAN IN
A REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED HOUSE
TRYING TO SUBPOENA A DEMOCRATIC
WHITE HOUSE?
HOW DIFFICULT IS THAT AND WHAT
KIND OF ROADBLOCKS ARE
REPUBLICANS GOING TO RUN INTO AS
THEY TRY TO LOOK INTO THESE
ISSUES?
>> WELL, ISSUING THE SUBPOENA IS
FAIRLY EASY.
I DID A COUPLE DOZEN OF THEM.
ONE-PAGE DOCUMENT AND THE
CHAIRMAN HAS UNILATERAL
AUTHORITY.
YOU DON’T NEED TO GET A
COMMITTEE, I WOULD JUST ISSUE AN
THE SUBPOENA.
AS MY FORMER COLLEAGUE TREY
GOWDY POINTED OUT IT IS ONLY AS
GOOD AS IT IS THE ABILITY TO
ENFORCE IT.
THE BIDEN DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WOULD BE THE ONE TO ENFORCE IT.
I ISSUED TWO SUBPOENAS TO
HILLARY CLINTON’S I.T. STAFFER
AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT TO
COMPEL HIM TO COME TO THE
COMMITTEE.
HE JUST DIDN’T SHOW UP AND THEY
NEVER PROSECUTED OR DID
ANYTHING.
LOOK AT THE SPEED AND VERACITY
THEY WENT AFTER STEVE BANNON
WHEN HE DIDN’T COME BEFORE THE
COMMITTEE.
THEY WERE ALL TOO HAPPY TO GET
THAT DONE WITHIN DAYS.
SO THAT WILL BE THE BIG
QUESTION.
WILL THE SUBPOENAS ISSUED BY JIM
JORDAN AND JAMES COMER, WILL
THEY BE ENFORCED BY BIDEN’S
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE?
>> Rich: DO REPUBLICANS HAVE TO
BE CAREFUL ABOUT HOW THEY DIVIDE
IT UP?
COVID ORIGINS YOU HAVE HOUSE
OVERSIGHT, OVERSOCIALITY
COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN ARE TALKING
ABOUT LOOKING INTO IT.
YOU TALK ABOUT DEMOCRATS SAYING
THERE IS OVERREACH BUT THERE IS
A CONCERN THAT REPUBLICANS
EITHER OVERREACH OR DON’T STAY
IN THEIR LANES WHERE THEY ARE
SUPPOSED TO WHEN IT COMES TO
THESE COMMITTEES LOOKING INTO
THE ISSUES?
>> THEY HAVE TO COORDINATE.
YOU CAN’T HAVE SEVEN COMMITTEES
DOING THE EXACT SAME THING.
THAT COORDINATION IS FAIRLY
SIMPLE TO DO.
THE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE HAS
JURISDICTION ON EVERYTHING
EVERYWHERE.
YOU MAY HAVE 1 OR 2 COMMITTEES
LOOKING AT SOME BUT THE
MAL PRACTICE THAT HAPPENED IN
THE 117TH CONGRESS, THEY DID NOTHING ON THE ORIGINS OF COVID.
NOTHING ON THE ORIGINS OF COVID.
NOTHING ON THE BORDER.
THEY HAVEN’T HAD ANYTHING ABOUT
THE BIDEN FAMILY BUSINESS.
THEY’VE DONE NONE OF THIS.
BIDEN HASN’T HAD A SINGLE
OVERSIGHT HEARING YET AND
THEY’RE ABOUT TO HAVE A LOT OF
THEM.
>> Rich: WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS