Laughter Erupts After Van Drew Claims Trump Safely Stored Classified Documents At Mar-a-Lago

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At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, Rep. Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ) spoke about the differences between President Biden and former President Trump and their storage areas.

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00:00You know, I didn't prepare anything for this, I don't have a prepared speech, but it just

00:05struck me by what was just said as far as, you know, how wonderful everything was under

00:13and is under the Biden administration.

00:16Record inflation, record high interest rates, open borders, more crime in our cities, war

00:24around the world, a military that is literally lacking a lot of the things they need as far

00:31as morale, those aren't good things.

00:35And you know, the only thing that is worse than passing a limited number of bills is

00:41passing bad bills.

00:43You don't judge a Congress by the number of bills that they pass, you judge them by the

00:47bills that they don't pass trying to prevent problems, and you also judge them by the good

00:52bills that they pass.

00:54And I think you judge this committee by the things we've brought to light.

00:57If it wasn't for the majority in this committee, the average American wouldn't know what's

01:02going on.

01:04And let's go back to the case at hand here with Mr. Zewanser.

01:10We've asked the DOJ, they brought up before, one of my colleagues on the other side of

01:13the aisle brought up that, you know, we should go to the Department of Justice.

01:17We have.

01:18We've asked for the audio tapes.

01:20We got the transcripts, but we didn't get the audio tapes.

01:23If there is no problem, why wouldn't you turn them over?

01:27Think about it.

01:28The audio tapes should be exactly the same as the transcript.

01:33But is there a problem?

01:35Was the transcript not accurate?

01:36I would believe and hope that it is.

01:39But is there something in what President Biden said and the way he comported himself and

01:44the way that he behaved in those audio tapes?

01:48Some of the things maybe he did say or even didn't say that are of concern.

01:52We have a right to know that.

01:54Will the gentleman yield for a question?

01:55Just in a second.

01:57But we didn't get that information.

02:00You know, and here we are again.

02:02We ask, I mean, think about it.

02:03We were comparing what happened with classified documents with Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

02:09Donald Trump was a president when he removed those documents.

02:13He was a president that has a right to declassify.

02:16He was a president that put it in an area that was safely stored.

02:21Joe Biden, you can laugh all you want.

02:23I tell you what isn't funny is keeping documents in a broken down box next to a collapsed dog

02:28bed in a garage.

02:31That's not funny.

02:32And that's real.

02:33And that's where Joe Biden kept the documents.

02:35And then with even less funny is Joe Biden made money on the deal.

02:40He gets a ghostwriter.

02:41He writes a book and he uses the classified documents for the book.

02:46And I think he was eight million bucks.

02:48I don't have it in front of me.

02:50That's what's really concerning.

02:52President Trump didn't make any money from keeping classified documents.

02:57So we're not declaring like the like.

02:59And that's the issue.

03:01It is once again over and over and over and over again.

03:06Justice for the guess what?

03:07Any of us on either side of the aisle, if we were subpoenaed and we're supposed to give

03:11in information, we would be in trouble.

03:14And those those other individuals, the gentleman, you know, for a question, I will.

03:19I said in a minute, this is my time.

03:21You already spoke.

03:25So the point is, it's just a matter of being fair.

03:28If there's nothing to worry about, turn it over.

03:33If there's something to worry about, I understand why you wouldn't turn it over.

03:38And that's the point of this whole issue.

03:41He should turn over the ghostwriter should turn over the information that he has, the

03:48documents that are requested.

03:50If they're no big deal, they're no big deal.

03:52Why wouldn't you give them up?

03:54It would lead you to believe that there's something wrong.

03:58And I believe there is.

03:59Now I will yield.

04:01Thank you.

04:02I have a question for the gentleman from New Jersey.

04:03Two questions.

04:04One is with respect to if you got the subpoena, why would you just comply with it?

04:08Is the gentleman aware that Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, Scott Perry and Andy Biggs received

04:13subpoenas from the January 6th committee and never complied at all?

04:17I'm going to take my time back for a second.

04:19A committee that didn't wasn't bipartisan, wasn't legal.

04:25It wasn't.

04:26You had a couple of people on there.

04:27There was not.

04:28Don't.

04:29I don't believe that it was bipartisan.

04:32Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman, may I have my time?

04:36Mr. Chairman, may I have order?

04:37I'm along, said the gentleman from New Jersey.

04:40So we all know that the committee that Speaker Pelosi at that time refused to have a true

04:45bipartisan committee and that the committee was fake and the committee didn't do anything.

04:51And then afterward, documents from that committee are missing and we can't get a hold of it.

04:56There is a history here.

04:58This we see repeatedly over and over again.

05:01Just because a partisan group of people say a committee is bipartisan does not mean that

05:05it is because that committee was never bipartisan.

05:09You had two Republicans on there that hated Republicans and the rest were Democrats.

05:14Come on.

05:15Gentlemen, gentlemen's time has expired.

05:17I yield back.

05:18The gentleman yields back.

Laughter Erupts After Van Drew Claims Trump Safely Stored Classified Documents At Mar-a-Lago

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