House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy joins 'Fox & Friends' with insight.
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I into youd, ask it: I have no,
I into youd, ask it: I have no
responses, another smear campaign
right up your alley.
Those are the question you
always ask.
Will that was the former vice
President Joe Biden yesterday
Help being asked finally about
his son Hunter Biden and the
dealings and e mails and
everything that goes along with
it so lets bring in house
Minority leader, Kevin Mccarthy
now to react and that other
subjects good morning
we really appreciate having you
good morning,
PETE whats, your response.
Finally, one reporter did ask
about the Hunter Biden scandal
he didnt answer.
Will he ever answer for it
well its obvious that
Hunter Biden made money off
using his family name?
What I dont understand is why
Joe Biden is not answering the
question of how much he knew
about this family business
remember six years ago, when he
was vice president. He took his
son Hunter Biden to China.
What did they talk about on that
plane?
Ten days after that trip, the
chinese company got their
license. That created the fund.
That Hunter Biden was a part of.
So these are questions. If
youre going to run for the
leader of the free world,
you need to answer.
You are vice president of the
United States. Your son was
making money off you. You even
said when you were leader of
Vice President Ukraine. You got
somebody fired going after the
company that your son was on
the board for and now there
are e mails saying that you
should be paid by this.
You can not avoid this question
and this question has to be
answered before voters should be
able to vote.
Will minority leader, Mccarthy.
Let me ask you about the tech
companies whats going on in
regard to this story and what
our response is going to be what
your response is going to be
many of the big ceos, Twitter,
CEO Jack Dorsey, Facebook Mark
Zuckerberg and CEO of Alpha
alphabet and Google, with coming
before the committee the next
couple weeks about decisions
they are making more so as
publishers versus platforms,
and we talked about section two hundred and thirty-
and whether or not they should
have liability reform,
whats the right way to begin to
handle these tech companies. Is
it repealing section two hundred and thirty
protection?
Surely its not having
government make every decision
along the way?
Is it something more drastic
whats the right way to handle
these big tech companies?
The right way to handle is,
is to scrap section two hundred and thirty and
start over
for your viewers to understand.
American public is wanting to
know about this election. Your
seventeen days away
section two hundred and thirty was created, so the
american public would
express themselves freely.
It is a protection, so people can
go on to these platforms
express themselves, and these
companies are protected by a
government law that they would
not be sued, but now what are
they doing?
They are actually censoring.
They actually went in and
censored an american government
website the republican website
of what we had
did they sensor when the
debunked Steele dossier came
out.
Did they sensor when trumps tax
returns come out?
Did they sensor the Alatola of
IRAN, the major sponsor of
terrorism? That answer is no,
they arent even pretending they
are protecting Joe Biden.
They are going after and helping
who they think will become the
next president.
That is appalling to me, and that
is a protection that government
provides them that I believe we
now need to scrap and start over.
We need a free town hall where
people can discuss ideas and get
information
Jedediah. These are important
questions that you bring up
about bias and about what
information distribution looks
like in twenty twenty
theres. Another topic weve been
following very closely because
last week was the Amy Coney
Barrett hearings.
They were handled quite well
very markedly civil. In
comparison to the Brett
Kavanaugh hearings, in my opinion,
but now you see a pil
ing on from some in the left,
as theyre calling for Senator
Feinstein to be ousted from her
position, because she had that
positive exchange that hug we
all saw with Lindsey, Graham
acknowledging that the hearings
were handled very very well. So
what do you make? We have this
tweet that well offer as
an example that says this is
not normal.
These hearings are not
legitimate.
Dianne Feinstein gave
credibility to the process when
the majority of Americans have
been clear that they want to
choose the next president and
the next president should fill
the vacancy. The committee needs
new leadership.
What do you make of this type of
bizarre reaction?
Shouldnt we be wanting
lawmakers to be able to come
together in a civil manner
and hold a hearing similar to
the one we just saw last week.
We should- and it just goes
to show they want division
instead of decency.
How many times do we see
something when people can
work together?
When you look at Amy Barrett?
What shes been able to do? She
deserves to be on the court.
I dont think anyone who watched
that hearing would think
differently and thats the only
question before us, and can you
not have a hearing that people
can respect?
Can two sides actually hug one
another at the end, that could
have differences of opinion
thats what Americas about, but
for those people that want to
drive division, and it almost
goes back to the big tech
they want to control what you
say, what you think and who
your friends are
thats. The real challenge and
whats scary to me is Joe Biden,
wont answer the question: if he
wants to pack court and
remember America tried that
once before with Roosevelt and
it was rejected,
it was rejected by the american
people and about Congress
thats why people need to go to
take the house dot com, because
Congress would vote on this as
well.
This is something of why the
Democrats are moving forward,
but Joe Biden is running for
president and wont answer
that question
PETE yeah, the only chance we
may get to get that question
answered is on the debate stage
and it might have to be the
president as the one who
actually asks it
house, minority leader, Kevin
Mccarthy. Thank you. So much for.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-17.