0:01

New documents obtained by the Select

0:03

Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal

0:06

Government confirm that

0:08

the federal government, your government was

0:11

spying on you if you were

0:13

using terms like maga or

0:15

trump. That's right, those

0:18

two words could then get you monitored

0:20

by your government. They

0:23

use those words and sent them to financial

0:25

institutions in America

0:28

to spy on Americans, saying

0:30

if people were using those phrases

0:32

when completing transactions that

0:34

dealt with finances like Venmo

0:38

or zell or anything like that.

0:40

Individuals who shopped at stores

0:43

also like Cabellas or Dick

0:45

Sporting Goods, or purchased

0:47

religious texts, including the

0:50

Bible, may also have had

0:52

their transactions flagged by

0:55

those financial institutions and then given

0:57

to the United States of America's government

1:00

to then look at you as a possible

1:02

domestic terrorists. Yes,

1:05

this kind of financial surveillance

1:08

carried out in coordination with

1:10

and at the requests of federal law

1:13

enforcement into Americans'

1:16

private transactions, is also raising

1:18

alarms and serious concerns

1:21

about the FBI's respect for fundamental

1:24

civil liberties in this country.

1:27

How did all this even happen?

1:29

This now coming from the House of Representative

1:32

Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan,

1:34

who is blowing the whistle on this,

1:37

saying, in light of these revelations, Jim

1:39

Jordan has now officially requested transcribed

1:42

interviews with Peter Sullivan,

1:44

he's the senior Private Sector Partner

1:47

for Outreach and the Strategic Partner

1:49

Engagement Section of the FBI,

1:52

and Noah Bissoff, former

1:55

Director of the Office of Stakeholder

1:57

Integration and Engagement in the Strategic

2:00

Operations Division of the Financial

2:03

Crimes Enforcement Network.

2:05

The Committee and the Select

2:07

Subcommittee have obtained documents,

2:10

he says, indicating that following

2:13

January sixth, twenty twenty one,

2:16

there was distributed materials to financial

2:18

institutions that, among other

2:20

things, outline these types

2:23

of various people of

2:25

interest and provide financial institutions

2:28

with suggested search terms and

2:30

merchant category codes.

2:33

I want you to hear exactly what Jim

2:36

Jordan had to say to Sean Hannity

2:38

about this spye on you the

2:40

American.

2:41

People, all right, turning down to a very disturbing

2:44

report from Jim Jordan.

2:45

Now get this.

2:46

Apparently, federal investigators we're

2:48

asking banks to search the personal

2:51

transactions of individual

2:53

Americans for terms like trump

2:56

and MAGA thanks for also asking

2:59

to see to use merchant category

3:02

codes to identify potentially

3:04

suspicious transactions And

3:07

what transactionations did Treasury

3:09

think were so suspicious? Small

3:12

arms, sporting recreational goods

3:15

In other words, if you go to stores like Dick's

3:17

Sporting Goods and Bass Pro

3:19

shops. By the way, I got my boots for Iowa

3:22

at Dick's Sporting Goods.

3:24

Thank god for instacart.

3:25

If you are a law abiding American who legally

3:28

purchased a gun after twenty twenty one,

3:30

your government thought you needed to be monitored.

3:33

Now sources are telling Fox.

3:35

News Digital tonight that the impetus

3:37

for this very serious invasion of

3:39

privacy was, of course, none

3:41

other than January sixth. These

3:44

revelations should scare every single

3:46

American. You want to talk about privacy,

3:48

constitutional rights? What do you want to live

3:50

in an Orwellian nightwear nightmare

3:53

with big Brother?

3:54

Here was the latest on all of this.

3:56

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim

3:58

Jordan, I want to understand this.

4:00

Tell me what they did here?

4:02

Because do we not have privacy

4:04

anymore in America? Is this

4:06

not a constitutional violation?

4:09

Unreasonable search and seizure?

4:11

Yeah? Now in the last year's song. We've exposed

4:14

the censorship where you had big government, big tech,

4:16

big media, big academia working.

4:17

To censor Americans.

4:19

Now we have financial surveillance

4:21

where it's big government working with big banks,

4:23

big corporations to surveil

4:25

to spy on Americans.

4:27

And so it was big banks looking.

4:29

And searching private transactions using

4:31

key terms at the suggestion

4:34

of the federal government to find

4:36

out what you're buying, what you're spending your

4:38

money on. Scary stuff. All it looks

4:40

like, without any warrant, without

4:43

any legal process, they undertook

4:45

this as a way to identify domestic

4:47

violent extremists. And here's what

4:50

it sounds a lot like. Remember that memorandum

4:53

in Richmond about pro

4:55

life Catholics are extremists because

4:57

they go to church in their pro life when they talk

4:59

about, you know, protecting humans. That's

5:01

exactly what these documents sound that life.

5:04

We're right on the on the front edge of this.

5:06

We'll see how it all progresses. But it's scary

5:08

stuff. It's financial surveillance of

5:10

the American people.

5:12

Now, let's really just take a moment and dissect

5:14

what Jim Jordan just said. Not

5:17

only did the federal government give

5:19

to financial institutions a hit

5:22

list of people that they wanted

5:24

to go after. They gave

5:26

them the exact words that they think make

5:28

you a threat to our democracy,

5:30

because this list was about being a threat

5:33

to our democracy. And

5:35

the words that they use, the ones that we

5:37

obviously could see at the beginning, like maga,

5:39

right and Trump. Those are words

5:41

that are associate you,

5:44

associating you with conservative values.

5:46

Right, you are public enemy number one

5:48

to the left, if you voted for Donald Trump,

5:51

if you are a make America great Again

5:53

conservative, and those

5:56

actually make a little more sense to me. I

5:58

would expect them to use

6:00

those types of words to then discriminate

6:04

and take away our rights and

6:07

our protections from our constitution.

6:10

They believe that if you voted for Donald Trump,

6:12

that you should be treated like a terrorist,

6:14

a domestic terrorist specifically. How do

6:16

we know this because they've said that. Remember

6:19

this is the same group of people that

6:21

believe that you should be unprogrammed,

6:25

right, you should go to a deprogramming

6:29

camp.

6:30

That was their words.

6:31

In fact, that was something that was

6:34

talked about by so many in the

6:36

media. It was something that

6:38

was said a lot, in fact, to the

6:40

point where we were able to put together an entire

6:43

montage about why Trump's

6:45

supporters should in fact

6:48

be d programmed.

6:51

Take a listen to this.

6:52

Sadly, so many of those

6:54

extremists, those mega extremists,

6:58

take their marching orders from Donald Trump, and

7:00

when do they break with him? You know, because

7:03

at some point, you know, maybe

7:05

there needs to be a formal deprogramming

7:08

of the cult members.

7:09

Terms being tossed around like deprogramming

7:12

Trump followers. All of America

7:14

needs deprogramming because we've all

7:16

been negatively influenced by Donald

7:19

Trump.

7:19

Can't sit down with people that

7:21

don't recognize there was an insurrection or theygan

7:23

alluded the other day to the dprogramming that

7:26

Katie Kurk talked about.

7:27

Deprogramming that might work in

7:29

other cases is

7:32

it's obviously proven to be difficult.

7:34

But many of them have allowed the lies

7:36

really to seep into their soul and.

7:38

It's beginning to rot their minds.

7:40

Taking it even a step further, Raskin told The New

7:42

York Times that he's ordered books about cults and deprogramming

7:46

to try to understand his Republican

7:48

colleagues.

7:49

There are a couple accounts lives of TikTok, A

7:51

few, you know really prominent anti transit

7:53

sort of far right activists who started to essentially

7:56

make the argument that any exposure

7:59

to children about LGBT people

8:03

is automatically grooming.

8:04

It seems to be emboldening.

8:06

Anti gae trolls explain how it just

8:09

lives of TikTok with this guy, James Lindsay.

8:11

They would say, Hey, there's going to be something at this

8:13

library.

8:14

You know that they're going to read books. You know a dragon

8:16

is going to come and read books. How do you fix

8:18

it? How do you undo it?

8:20

Well, at this point, you know it's deprogramming.

8:22

That's what we're being fed. People

8:24

of other races are out to get you. We

8:27

accept that, we get fed that, and so

8:29

when that doorbell rings or the basketball comes

8:31

into your yard, your first response

8:34

is to pull that gun. It's a programming

8:36

that's occurring. The deprogramming question

8:39

is much tougher to answer.

8:40

People have literally been brainwashed,

8:43

and it's scary by the myths and disinformation

8:45

that is online, that is being the

8:47

propaganda on Fox News.

8:50

It is another epidemic that our

8:52

country is facing. And until we really

8:54

hold platforms accountable, until we

8:56

really do some deprogramming.

8:58

And anyone like him that the

9:01

presses the enemy of the people.

9:03

That's what Hubbard would say, That's what

9:05

Moon said.

9:06

If you say this is a cult, what's the first step

9:08

of deprogramming?

9:09

The first step with anyone who's a true

9:11

believer is contact with people

9:14

that are outside the bubble.

9:15

I mean, I was just trying to engage in a little deprogramming

9:18

with all of these myths about COVID

9:21

nineteen. Is there any convincing those

9:25

people that they're not living in

9:27

a.

9:27

World of reality or fact?

9:29

Now, listen, if there was a deprogramming

9:32

pill that I could put in everybody stocking for

9:34

Christmas, I would do.

9:35

It's because of Facebook. It's gotten

9:37

out into wine moms and yoga groups

9:39

and some maybe that's something that started as

9:41

innocuous online that

9:43

turns into something completely different, Brian,

9:45

And that's part of the challenge, as you write of

9:48

deprogramming it.

9:49

We have issues that are going

9:51

to take a long time to root out, and it's

9:53

really about deprogramming. People have been listening

9:55

to stuff coming from Marjorie Taylor Green and

9:57

other big social influencers, and that includes the President.

10:00

I hope deprogramming some people,

10:02

one person at a time.

10:04

They just need a little bit of affirmation.

10:06

You know, I just spent a lot of time reading about deprogramming.

10:09

Deprogramming, deprogram you're reading

10:11

my mind.

10:11

Yeah, I see a lot of that happeningly.

10:13

No, you don't need to be deprogrammed.

10:15

You look pretty No not, I'm

10:17

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10:18

But this is what they think of

10:20

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10:22

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10:24

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10:27

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Now, it's not just the terms MAGA

12:26

in Trump that we're getting flagged by

12:28

the government and financial

12:30

institutions were turning in Americans

12:32

obviously that use the words MAGA and Trump.

12:35

But what else was flagged? Religious

12:38

texts And this is even

12:40

outside of MAGA and Trump world.

12:43

If you bought a religious text or

12:45

a Bible, yes, a Bible

12:48

or a Bible study book, and

12:50

you use the word Bible, that

12:53

would flag you in

12:55

these category codes

12:58

identifying transactions on

13:01

behalf of the federal government buy banking

13:03

institutions. And they

13:05

said these are terms that they

13:07

wanted to search in Zell payments. For

13:10

example, they wanted to

13:12

see if anybody that bought a

13:14

Bible or a Bible study book

13:16

or anything like that and had that

13:18

term in the payment would

13:21

then be looked at as a homegrown

13:23

violent extremist indicator. So

13:26

buying a book or reimburse

13:28

somebody for Bible study

13:32

right, and let's say you were in a Bible

13:34

study or and somebody bought all the Bible

13:36

study books and you reimbursed somebody and had

13:38

that in the Zell and the word Bible

13:41

appeared. Bam, you're now in the government's

13:43

watch list. Not only

13:46

that, but it wasn't just

13:48

words like the Bible. It was also where

13:50

you shopped. You heard Jim Jordan mention

13:52

earlier in that audio I played to

13:54

Sean Hannity about what words

13:57

could get you busted, like bass

13:59

pro or Cabella's.

14:02

Imagine you go hunting. Imagine

14:05

you have a friend that picks up for you something

14:07

at academy sports and

14:09

then you have a transaction in there. I've

14:12

had this happen many times where I'd have

14:14

a friend that would be going there. But yeah, grab me

14:16

this, right, you're doing a weekend guys

14:19

trip, or maybe you've got your kid

14:21

that's on a team that you know with

14:23

other kids, and so it would be a Christian

14:25

school, right, so it may be reimbursement for

14:27

Zell that would say my son's

14:30

school name basketball,

14:32

but it would have Dick's sporting goods in there,

14:34

and it would have the name of the school,

14:36

the religious school, which would have a religious name

14:38

in at. Bam, now you're on a list. This

14:41

is not just an invasion of privacy.

14:44

I want to be very clear about that. This

14:47

is a

14:50

shocking abuse

14:52

of power to spy on you.

14:56

This should not I want to

14:58

be clear, be okay, this

15:00

should not be something that we say,

15:03

Wow, I've got nothing to hide, so therefore

15:06

I'm not worried about it moment. This

15:09

should be a moment that should enrage

15:11

you. And the reason why I

15:14

say that is because this is what

15:16

happens in socialists and communist

15:18

countries. In the United States of America,

15:21

our constitution says you're not supposed

15:23

to be able to do that.

15:26

I'm going to say that again. In

15:28

our country.

15:30

You're not supposed to be able to monitor

15:32

the financial transactions of

15:35

a person because they bought a Bible

15:37

or went shopping at a

15:39

sporting goods store, or they

15:42

use a word like maga. That

15:45

is not something that

15:47

you're supposed to be able to do.

15:49

And yet that's exactly what the government was

15:51

doing without

15:54

a warrant. There was no judge

15:57

involved here, there was no

16:00

babbable cause this

16:02

was a straight up fishing

16:05

expedition to turn you

16:07

into an extremist domestic

16:10

terrorist. And that is exactly

16:13

what the left is trying to do here. They're

16:16

trying to create a narrative

16:18

in this country that if you vote for Donald Trump,

16:20

You're a threat to society

16:23

if you vote for Donald Trump this go around,

16:26

you need to be deprogrammed,

16:28

and your financial transactions need

16:30

to be looked at by the way. I know

16:32

people that went to January the

16:35

sixth. I know people that were

16:37

there that did not go into the capitol.

16:40

I know people that were there that went there peacefully.

16:43

I know people that went there that absolutely

16:46

did not break any laws. Should

16:48

they be treated like a domestic terrorist?

16:51

Should they be treated like they are some sort of

16:53

threat to the United States of America.

16:55

And let's be also clear about this. They

16:58

do not believe. And when I say they,

17:00

I'm talking about the Biden administration, the DOJ,

17:02

the FBI, and these scumbags

17:04

that went down this road and did this. They

17:07

okay, I want to say, I'll

17:09

say it again. They don't believe

17:11

you're actually a threat. They want to lock

17:14

you up because you are a threat to their power.

17:16

They don't believe you're a threat to this country. You

17:18

are a threat to their power. That's

17:21

why they're treating you like you're a terrorist.

17:24

That's why they want to put you on a list.

17:27

They're not actually worried about you doing

17:29

something wrong. They're worried about

17:31

you doing something right. They're worried about

17:34

you getting involved in the process. They're worried about

17:36

you voting. They're worried about you exposing

17:39

their corruption. Let

17:41

me remind you about parents,

17:44

parents who went to school board meetings. Do

17:47

you remember what happened to parents that went

17:49

to school board meetings? The FBI

17:51

put them on a list and then

17:54

they lied about it to try to cover it up. And that

17:56

list was if you were a parent

17:59

that went to his cool board meeting to voice

18:01

your frustrations about the indoctrination

18:03

of your children on things that had

18:05

nothing to do with an education, had nothing to do with

18:07

the reading, writing, and arithmetic, to voice

18:10

your concerns about transgender

18:12

bathrooms and the assault of young

18:14

girls in those bathrooms of the hands of men.

18:18

You are to be treated like a domestic terrorist.

18:21

You are to be put on a list like

18:24

you are a domestic.

18:27

Terrorist.

18:29

This is the Democratic Party.

18:32

The Democratic Party, and I will also

18:34

say this, and I've said this before, and I hope you're

18:36

understanding now just how accurate it is,

18:38

is dead.

18:40

For all.

18:42

Intents and purposes. The Democratic

18:45

Party is dead. They are masquerading

18:48

like they are Democrats. When in reality

18:50

what they actually are are

18:53

socialists, communists,

18:57

and Marxists. The

18:59

Democratic Party of Bill Clinton's

19:01

years is over. It

19:03

is gone, folks, it does not exist.

19:06

I'll be honest with you, Bill Clinton, he

19:08

would have never done this. And

19:11

the reason why is because I think even Bill Clinton,

19:13

when he was the president of nineteen nineties, knew you

19:15

couldn't get away with this and it was against

19:18

the United States of America's constitution

19:20

and against the rights of the people. Notice

19:23

I didn't say Hillary Clinton wouldn't do this. I absolutely

19:25

believe Hillary Clinton would do this and go much

19:27

further than this. She's just like Barack

19:30

Obama, She's just like Joe Biden. But

19:33

there are many other Democrats back in the day that

19:35

would have never even tried this because they would

19:37

have said this is wrong. You

19:40

don't lock up your political opponents

19:42

this way. And if you think

19:44

things aren't coming unhinged, look

19:47

at just another example that

19:49

happened in the last forty eight hours.

19:52

There was an elected official that was arrested

19:54

by the police because

19:56

she was criticizing the sheriff in the town

19:59

and she said, what are you.

20:00

And they arrested her.

20:02

They arrested her because she is an elected

20:04

official, was holding the sheriff

20:06

accountable and criticizing the sheriff,

20:09

and the sheriff said, no, no, you can't do that. You can't

20:11

criticize me. I'm going to arrest you

20:13

at this meeting. There

20:15

are people right now that are so power

20:19

hungry and drunk, and they're realizing

20:21

now that you can pretty much get away with whatever

20:23

the hell you want to get away with if

20:25

you're willing to just break the

20:28

law and the other questions, who's

20:30

going to stop you? Not this Department

20:32

of Justice if you're on their team. Earlier

20:35

today, I sat down with Senator Ted Cruz

20:38

to talk about this exact issue

20:41

of what Congress can do with

20:43

real oversight of how this

20:46

abuse of power took place

20:48

with these financial institutions. And I want

20:50

you to hear what he had to say. I want

20:52

to move Senator also to this other really

20:55

shocking story and

20:57

it just shows you how bad

21:00

our government has become. And I'm

21:02

talking about the deep state here with

21:04

the FEDS targeting conservatives

21:07

with alarming new surveillance. The FEDS

21:10

asked banking institutions

21:12

to search private transactions

21:15

without any type of warrants

21:18

for terms like maga Trump

21:22

or other words that dealt with

21:24

things that were biblical purchases

21:26

that.

21:26

Can include a Bible.

21:29

Also, keywords that they said

21:31

that they suggested that banks look for in

21:34

transactions would be things

21:36

like sporting goods stores like Dick Sporting

21:38

Goods, Cabbella's Bass Pro Shop

21:40

in more. This is

21:43

such an abuse of power and a

21:45

weaponization of the federal government

21:47

on the American people. When I hear

21:49

this, I want to know, how is this not

21:52

breaking the law to be able to do this without

21:54

there being any probable cause or search

21:56

warrants where they can just go to my bank

21:59

and say, hey, if any of these things are there, we

22:01

want to know about it.

22:02

Look, this is an enormous abuse of power.

22:04

It is an enormous violation of the privacy

22:07

of Americans. This happened

22:09

the House Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan released

22:11

the documents that they got from the

22:13

Treasury Department. And this all happened

22:16

after January sixth, twenty twenty

22:18

one. So after January sixth, you

22:20

had Joe Biden in power, and these zealots

22:23

said, we are going to target our political

22:25

enemies. We have the entire federal

22:28

government as a weapon. We are going to

22:30

go after them. And this

22:32

was driven by the Treasury Department's Office

22:35

of Stakeholder Integration and

22:38

Engagement in the Strategic Operations

22:41

of the Financial Crimes Enforcement

22:43

Network, and it's called Finnsen is

22:46

the acronym, and it

22:48

distributed materials to financial institutions

22:51

that outlined quote typologies

22:54

of quote various persons

22:56

of interest. Now, those typologies

23:00

included anyone using

23:03

the term Trump, anyone

23:06

using the term MAGA. And

23:09

they said, these are people more likely to

23:12

be quote loan actor, homegrown

23:14

violent extremists. And

23:18

according to the Judiciary Committee's

23:20

analysis, Finnsend wanted

23:23

this is a quote Finnsend

23:25

wanted financial institutions of extremism

23:28

indicators that include

23:31

transportation charges such

23:33

as bus tickets, rental cars,

23:35

plane tickets for travel

23:38

areas with noparent purpose, or

23:40

the purchase of books,

23:43

including religious texts

23:45

and subscriptions to other media

23:47

containing extremist views.

23:50

Now what kind of religious books. Well,

23:52

among them was the Bible. If

23:54

you went and bought the Bible, the

23:56

Biden Treasury Department was reporting

23:59

that, Okay, we think

24:01

you're in danger of being a terrorist

24:04

because you purchased the Bible. So

24:06

if if you had any financial transaction

24:08

that included the word Trump or MAGA.

24:11

They thought you were in danger of being a terrorist.

24:13

If you bought the Bible, you were in danger

24:15

of being the terrorist. And they also instructed

24:19

financial institution to query for transactions

24:23

using certain codes

24:25

like small arms and

24:29

that that is an MCC code

24:31

of three four eight four, or

24:33

sporting and recreational goods in supply

24:35

that's an MCC code of five zero

24:38

nine to one and the keywords

24:40

and this is what Treasury specified.

24:43

Cabela's, Dick

24:45

Sportings Goods, and Bass

24:47

Pro Shop. And I'll point out Dick

24:49

Sporting good in the middle of all the Democrat

24:51

efforts to engage in gun control, came

24:54

out rather loudly against the Second Amendment.

24:57

So as for me, I don't go to Dick

24:59

Sporting's good but bess

25:01

Pro Shops and Cabella's are both fantastic

25:03

institutions, and if you shop

25:05

there, the Biden administration

25:08

wanted to know because if you go to

25:11

bess Pro shops, they think you're a

25:13

likely terrorists. It's outrageous.

25:16

It's also I think shocking

25:18

how easily people were giving up

25:20

this information. Why

25:23

is it that we now find out that so many

25:25

businesses are willing to just say here's everything

25:27

when they're asked, not say hey,

25:30

we'd get a warrant for this or

25:32

show me some actual paperwork.

25:34

It seems that almost all of these

25:37

companies are complicit saying we're more

25:39

than happy to help you invade on

25:41

the privacy of our customers. From a standpoint

25:43

you just mentioned of Dick's

25:46

Sporting Goods. When I look at companies that

25:48

do this, I say I'm never wanting to go there

25:50

again, certainly not with a credit card.

25:52

Yep. So it's not clear

25:55

that the retailers were engaged in

25:57

this process. So it's not clear that

25:59

Cabells are Dick Sporting good or Beast Pro

26:01

shops were participating. This was

26:03

directed at banks, and listen,

26:06

banks. Banks are

26:08

massively regulated by the federal government.

26:11

They are dealing literally every day with

26:13

their federal regulators. The federal

26:15

government has enormous power over banks, and

26:17

and so I understand from

26:19

a bank's perspective is Treasury is leaning

26:21

on them and saying we want this information. The

26:24

federal government has the ability to shut down a

26:26

bank, to destroy a bank's business if

26:29

they disagree with you. And so it

26:31

is an area where for big

26:35

state leftists that

26:37

want to know everything about your

26:39

personal life. Banks are a

26:41

real vulnerability because every one of us,

26:43

if you're dealing with modern life, if

26:45

you're depositing a paycheck in your

26:47

bank account, if you're paying your bills with a bank

26:49

account, if you have a credit card, your

26:52

financial records detail what you're

26:54

spending money on. And by the way, the

26:57

left, just like communists

26:59

China, wants to know

27:02

every single thing you spend money

27:04

on. You know, one of the very first versions of

27:06

the Build Back Broke bill, they called it build

27:09

back Better, but I think build Back Broke defined

27:11

it more accurately. One of the

27:13

earliest versions required banks

27:16

to report to the federal government. So

27:18

if you're making a car payment, if you're making

27:20

a rent payment, you know, we're

27:22

not quite there, but we're not far away

27:24

from. If you're filling up your tank with gas,

27:27

you had to report to the federal government. And for

27:30

leftist Elizabeth Warren

27:33

and President she and China both

27:35

want to know every single thing

27:37

you spend a penny on. And this

27:39

is an example of the Treasury Department

27:42

Janet Yellen. You know George

27:44

Orwell's nineteen eighty four talked about big

27:47

brother. Janet Yellen is perfectly

27:49

happy to be big sister and

27:51

try to gather as much

27:54

information about your personal

27:56

financial transactions as humanly possible.

27:59

What will the how come be of this? I

28:01

guess you could say new investigation? And

28:03

is there any way to stop this from happening

28:06

in the future or as long as the Biden

28:08

administration's in power, can they continue

28:10

to get away with this abuse of power?

28:12

Well, look, we can have congressional oversight,

28:15

and we will and the House will

28:17

engage in it because the House

28:19

has a majority, and so they can hold hearings in

28:21

the Senate. No Democrat cares.

28:24

So in the Senate we will not have a single hearing

28:26

on this. Why because the

28:28

consequence of having a majority in the Senate

28:31

is whoever has the majority has the committee chairman.

28:33

So I am the ranking member on

28:35

the Senate Commerce Committee. That means I'm the senior

28:37

Republican on the Senate Committee

28:39

on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. That's

28:42

a committee that has jurisdiction over forty

28:44

percent of the US economy. It's an enormously

28:47

consequential committee. As

28:49

the ranking member, I have the ability to fight

28:52

hard for jobs and economic

28:54

growth in the state of Texas, and I do that and across

28:56

the country, and I do that every day.

28:59

But what I I don't have the ability to do is I can't

29:01

convene a hearing. Only the chairman can convene

29:03

a hearing. So in the Senate there

29:06

is literally not a single Democrat

29:08

that gives a dam that the Biden

29:10

administration is violating your privacy

29:13

by engaging in the searches because

29:15

they, all of them, they hate Donald

29:17

Trump so much that

29:20

they've been radicalized and they believe it's

29:22

perfectly justifiable to weaponize

29:24

the federal government. So you ask, what can

29:26

Congress do. Look, if we had control of both

29:28

bodies, we could pass legislation

29:30

to stop this. Under a

29:32

Chuck Schumer Democrat Senate, they're not going to

29:34

pass legislation to stop it. No Democrat

29:37

will support it. So that means we can do oversight.

29:40

I can write letters, I can give speeches,

29:42

I can shine a light on it, I can do this podcast.

29:46

But I can't convene a hearing of

29:48

the Judiciary Committee because Dick Durbin, the chairman,

29:50

won't do it. I can't

29:53

pass legislation because no Democrat

29:56

will support it. And so at this point,

29:59

election have consequences, and as

30:01

long as we're in the minority, what I'm limited

30:04

to be able to do on something like this an abusive

30:06

power of the Biden administration is

30:09

shine a light and do everything I

30:11

can to encourage the American

30:13

people to be outraged at this and

30:15

hold their elected officials accountable for

30:18

violating their privacy.

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