Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., discusses Bill Barr’s resignation, Swalwell Chinese spy scandal on ‘Fox & Friends.’
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Ainsley attorney general bill,
Ainsley attorney General Bill
Barr, stepping down announcing
his resignation, effective
December 23rd,
Brian Barr, calling it an honor
to serve praises. The presidents
accomplish
s in the face of relentless
resistance.
I havent noticed the
resistance,
Steve lets talks to House
Minority leader, Steve Scalise,
who joins us from New Orleans.
His house
good morning to you
congressman
good morning, good, to see all
of you
Steve good to have you
its too bad. He didnt stick
around until the very end, but
nonetheless, a lot of people
were talking this morning. He
did a good job.
He didnt get fired at the end.
Although a lot of people thought
he might
yeah,
you know he got to leave on his
own terms
and you know ready to move on
and look. He served a long time
there. He came back to help the
Trump Administration
theres. A lot to clean up within
the Justice Department
still is,
and I think people would still
like to see some resolution to a
few of the things outstanding
from the last few years.
But in the end you know he
and the president left on good
terms, which is most important
there
Ainsley. I know that you were
tweeting out about Eric
Swalwell.
You want some answers and you
are asking Nancy Pelosi. Did she
know about him when she placed
him on Intel?
Your second question is: why is
Eric Swalwell still on the Intel
committee?
We need answers now.
Are you getting any of these
answers?
No,
and in fact its alarming, the
silence is deafening right now
on this Swalwell scandal, where
you had a chinese spy, actually
have some kind of a relationship
with him.
A lot of people are asking him.
What was that relationship?
How long back does it go?
Reports are that it goes back to
when he was a councilman long
before he was in Congress and
that the chinese spy help money
for him
actually helped infiltrate. His
office
got some other people in his
office that were probably spies,
and then he gets on the house,
intelligence committee and just
second term, which is very
alarming that it doesnt happen
that often that quickly,
so the real question there is
did Speaker Pelosi know that he
had a relationship with a
chinese spy prior to putting him
on the House Intelligence
Committee.
All these questions need to be
asked and the bottom line is he
should be removed.
Steve the speaker said she was
unconcerned.
She said that at the time she
when he was in Congress before
she put him on the Intel
Committee,
she knew about it and she said
that the Republicans in the
leadership positions in the
house knew about it as well.
Well, first of all very few
part time get these private p
private briefings
our leader, Kevin Mccarthy, is
the one who puts republicans on
so speaker. Pelosi is the only
one who put him on
if she did it, knowing that he
had this relationship with the
chinese spy and that his office
had been. I will fill infiltrated
raises questions
why didnt she take him off.
While these answers still
havent been resolved.
A lot of questions
I mean we need to get resolved
and its alarming again that
you had somebody at this highest
level on the House Intelligence
Committee, that the Chinese had
infiltrated and by the way, also
raises the question: why did
Speaker Pelosi back away from
the bipartisan commission on
China? We were working on a
commission to look into chinas
wrongdoings on so many fronts
and ultimately, Speaker Pelosi
backed out
Kevin Mccarthy, still went
forward
MIKE Mccaul put together a
great report from that
commission alarming questions
that it raises about China.
Why did Speaker Pelosi back away
from that just a few months ago? Brian? How many are on that, his
Brian? How many are on that? His
RO, Khanna and Tulsi Gabbard
talk a lot of people
Brian absolutely.
Meanwhile, in America, people are
watching right now to see if you
guys are going to get anything
done on a bipartisan level to
get some aid to the people, while
these mayors and governors
haphazardly shut down businesses
and livelihoods.
So I understand you got two
bills
broken up into two bills:
one is seven hundred and forty eight billion and the other
is 160 plus billion,
the seven hundred and forty billion you guys kind of
agree on
what you dont agree on is money
to the states.
They dont agree on liability
insurance for businesses.
So are you going to pass
anything I mentioned?
We need to get it done.
Look going back to September,
we have been raising the issue
of another round of paycheck
protection loans for those small
businesses like had you on
earlier
the heart break in stories where
these governors are just
crushing these businesses, not
based on science,
Brian this bill three hundred billion for
PPP
money in that
and that should have been passed
back in September and for
whatever reason the speaker held
that up.
But at the end of the day we
need to get this done.
They need to stop demanding
things like bailing out failed
states.
They were trying to give checks
to people here illegally to
people in the country.
One thousand two hundred checks to people here
illegally.
No money for these small
businesses
got change.
I hope we get this done this
week
should have been done back in
September.
These governors need to stop
crushes these small businesses
by the way its do, as I say, not
as I do for these folks,
restaurants telling you not to
Brian what are the odds of this
passing before Friday.
If you put it on the floor
today, the things you mentioned
that why agree on it would pass
overwhelmingly
thats why Speaker Pelosi needs
to stop playing games on the
things we disagree on
bring the things to the floor. We
agree upon
lets help these small
businesses and people who
struggle
Brian Mitch Mcconnell needs
to do the same thing. He has the
votes.
The Democrats have been
blocking it.
They have a sixty vote requirement
over there and it seems like
chuck. Schumer wants to keep
holding that up
put the bills on the floor that
we agree on, and it would pass
overwhelmingly
Steve because everybody would
be on the record
all right.
Thank you for going on the
record, Steve Scalise,
always happy to.
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