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Deposition which is urn oath, you ask them questions, you get the transcript and everything else. three of them have done that, and weve learned some very valuable information from those three like what we just described mr. to boyle old us how that threat tag was used and was turned to go after to-life. maria: so what are you going to do if youre not getting the information that youre requesting? stephen the miller, who were going to the speak to in a little while, he said the gop needs to use ...

Actually see the law followed. you just heard the chairman of judiciary, jim jordan say, yeah, we are going to use the appropriations process. we will hold back funding for the fbi, we will, you know,al rotate funding differently -- allocate funding differently. what else should be done, in your view, because you toll me you think every agency should form an oversight agent agency. >> yeah. two things. one, as you mentioned and as jim jordan has commit to do and as other republicans in the house...

Of hunter biden as he is dealing with foreign governments?ting it is because this family istrie profiting off of doing favors for foreign countries. we have a compromised presidentn and congress will have to useevn all of its powers in all of its relevant committees to get to the bottom of this. i have enormous confidence in jim jordan and i have enormous confidence and james smith. >> you say that the appropriations process can beof critical here. you have written many state ofmy the union addr...

Compared to president trumps state of unions which were historically memorable, moving, were engaging, had drama, memorable lines. who canned ever forget when president trump thundered america will never be a socialist country or when he reunited the soldiers family to send a message if about peace, not war? congress has been challenged by president biden because hes lied about them, he lie about republicans, he slammed them on live television the, and he has said to them that were going to do i...

Profiting, profiting off of doing favors for foreign countries. so we have a compromised president, and congress is going to have to use all of its powers and all of its relevant committees to get to the bottom of this, and i have enormous confidence in james comer, in jim jordan, and i have enormous confidence many jason smith at ways and means. maria: you say the appropriations process can be critical here. youve written many state of the union addresses before, youve written many speeches for...

House of representatives and appropriations always start in the house. if they want to make a cut, theyve got the committees. let them make the cuts there and see what happens. >> you say this is going to get done, at the same time you say there will be no negotiations. how do you square that circle? >> simply. were not going to negotiate the debt limit. thats something that the republicans did routinely during the trump administration. they didnt object to increasing the debt limit then. why ar...

Theres a phi people, i think, who were consistent, like chip roy. chip roy has always been consistent on this. but a lot of people that i think are performance artists. >> do you see it this way, some of this was people wanting attention? >> i will agree about chip, he is very consistent in his radicalism, but some of the things he put forward could make the body better, but i also agree, dont be fooled by the smoke screen of the process. they are united about what they want to do on policy, whi...

That is taking our seniors hostage. we have to be clear about this. all the talk about process and amendments and germaneness, that is cover for what theyre really trying to do, which is dismantle the equities of our economy and to make sure that their billionaire buddies continue to thrive at the expense of hard-working american families. >> maybe you heard when i asked congressman roy about whether or not medicare and social security were mentioned when they talked about the negotiations. one ...

Thats the deal. the baseline for that balancing is 2022 spending. that doesnt mean there are automatic cuts to the defense budget. that will get worked out in the negotiation process. i think chip would agree with this, and the big thing theyre trying to push is regular order. regular order where we set budget limits and push ahead appropriations bills. >> and anybody can introduce an amendment at the time through the legislative process. >> yes. makes it messy. makes it time-consuming but does ...

But we have demonstrated over the last two years when democrats are united and in charge, that we work for the american people. whether thats rebuilding infrastructure, gun safety, returning manufacturing to our shores, reducing health care costs and making sure were investing in climate change. those are going to continue to be our priorities, and we hope that some republicans will be able to get to work for the american people. >> i dont doubt that theyre going to bring up legislation to push ...