Bishop Asks Ross Point Blank Why President Biden Read Classified Materials To His Ghostwriter

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At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) spoke about President Biden's ghostwriter.

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00:00Yields back. Who seeks recognition?

00:03Gentleman from North Carolina is recognized. Thank you, Mr Chairman. I

00:08wonder if my friend from North Carolina would engage in a colloquy. So

00:12I'll if I like to pose a question to Miss Ross, given what was just said,

00:18um, in the

00:20Mr Swanitzer was the ghost writer of what you just described and the

00:25ranking member before you described as a book about the death of President

00:29Biden's son.

00:31Why was President Biden, according to special counsel, her reading from

00:37classified materials about Afghanistan to his ghost writer in a book that was

00:42solely about the death of President Biden's son.

00:49You don't care to answer. I can understand. I have. No, I didn't yield,

00:53and I don't have any information about that. So I suggest that you use your

00:58minutes. I'll reclaim my time in contempt. Resolution. My time, gentlemen

01:02from North Carolina. Yeah, that's my time. I offered to engage in a

01:05colloquy to which would have the effect of refuting the absurd allegation that

01:10you made. But I can understand why you don't want to answer because it's an

01:14irrefutable point.

01:17Uh, no one that I know about who's interested in securing Mr Swanitzer's

01:22compliance with the lawful process served upon him has had anything to say

01:26about the death of Bo Biden.

01:28No one's read from the

01:32provision. The parts of the book about Bo Biden to frame this matter. The

01:38question is,

01:41why was Joe Biden reading from classified materials to somebody

01:46without a security client clearance in a matter for which he was going to be

01:50paid $8 million?

01:51And this Congress needs to investigate and consider what is necessary. And it

01:59is the committee vested by this, by this House of Representatives with

02:04inquiring into the grounds for impeachment of the self same president.

02:11And it the hypocrisy is mind blowing. I wonder if Steve Bannon could imagine

02:21that someone might, for a political purpose, pursue a

02:26a contempt resolution. But there's no political purpose here. It is the

02:32responsibility of this person who received classified information

02:38to provide what he has to this committee to evaluate.

02:45It's it's just almost it's unspeakable. I was thinking about the legislative

02:50purpose that was cited in order to secure the personal private income tax

02:55returns of President Trump.

02:59We can all say with certainty that there was no motivation of a political

03:03sword involved in that. Wow. Calling the tune requires playing by the tune.

03:12But

03:14Mr. Zwanitzer is an ordinary citizen. The process served upon him to compel

03:21him to provide information to this committee. Straightforward. He has

03:26with the most frivolous of arguments flouted his responsibility under law. It

03:32is this committee's responsibility to proceed. That's how it works. It's very

03:37simple. Nothing more to it than that. It's time we get on with it. I'm fully

03:41in support of the A. N. S. Mr Chairman. With that, I yield to anyone.

Bishop Asks Ross Point Blank Why President Biden Read Classified Materials To His Ghostwriter

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