Here me now is Texas Congresswoman Beth Van Dyne,
a member of the House Ways and Means and Small
Business Committees.
Congressman, good to see you.
Thanks very much for being here this morning.
I know these protests have spread to your alma mater
as well of Cornell.
What is your reaction?
Well, I mean you in in addition to what Alan
Dershowitz is saying,
you also have to look at where the funding is
coming from,
from anti democratic countries, foreign foreign countries give 10s of
billions of dollars to these universities,
55% are from anti democratic countries,
countries like Qatar. These countries have actually increased their funding
by almost 50%
in the last in the last four years since 20/20.
What are they reading in these in these universities?
It's anti democratic, it's anti-Semitism,
it's it's anti capitalism. Everything that we are against in
in America and yet we are funding them.
They have access to to monies
that we're helping with, with grant dollars and with with
low
low interest loans to students.
But we're also giving them tax free exempt status.
So when we think about everything that's happening on these
campuses,
how terrible it is, how anti American it is.
We have are looking at the Ways and Means Committee
of ways of being able to lose those tax exempt
status in the dollars that they're getting and cutting it
cold in its trucks. Yeah.
I don't understand why President Biden is so soft on
all of these adversaries who may be complicit like China
for example.
That's why we focus so much on what James Comer
is doing on the oversight Committee.
We don't understand why it is that he's so soft
on China and other adversaries and now they're complicit in
this as well.
Well, you start looking at where his family has connections
and where they're getting paid.
His brother, you know, having connections with Qatar and and
and being on the payroll.
Those relationships matter and they've been going on for decades,
but also the dollars that that are coming into these
universities have not had to be reported.
So that's something else that we have to change.
Where are these? Where are these universities that are receiving
tax rate exempt status that are receiving taxpayer dollars for
tuition?
Where are they also they're getting their funding and why
are they such breeding grounds for such anti American hate?
We're seeing that. And these students,
these students that are setting up tents that are destroying
buildings that are taking over,
you know, areas of the campus,
they need to be prosecuted.
If they are here from foreign countries on visas,
they need to be deported.
Well, your your comment on Qatar is important.
We've got a new report from Politico this morning that
fund a fund manager indicates Jim Biden,
President Biden's brother, was in business with Qatari officials.
And this is the #2 funder of US universities.
Do we understand? Behind China?
But we've got new details on Jim Biden's foreign fundraising
efforts spilling out in a Kentucky bankruptcy court,
where testimony indicates Jim Biden partnered with the Qatari government
officials in his quest to find money for
U.S. healthcare ventures. So we're following that.
But Congresswoman, I want to get your take on the
investigation into the classified documents.
They're investigating President Trump obviously over classified documents,
but there's also information about the classified documents that President
Biden took
so far. Robert you know Robert Hurris said,
well we're not going to prosecute or
do anything further with President Biden because he's you know
an aging individual and and and a jury will be
sympathetic to an old man who's losing his memory.
Well, your colleague, Florida Congressman Michael Waltz
had something different to say about that and he joined
me yesterday with this watch this.
Got to get your reaction,
Maria. I was shocked at how highly classified these documents
are.
The the media wants you to believe.
Oh, this was just some old Cold War stuff that
old senile Biden maybe had in his garage from decades
ago.
No, it was recent. It was relevant.
And I mean, they had so many code words across
it.
I've had a clearance for 30 years.
I had to ask what they meant.
Eyes only for the president and vice president.
Sensitive stripes down the side.
So, Congressman, what do you make of all of this?
I mean these are the the classified documents that Joe
Biden had to stuff in his pants or behind in
his jacket or something when he left the
the secure skiff room because you can't walk out with
documents,
right. And now we find out he's got all these
documents near his Corvette in his garage.
And Michael Waltz says they're a lot more serious than
anyone understands.
No absolutely right in the two tier justice system that
we're seeing the difference between how they're handling Biden and
how they're hearing they're handling President Trump is is day
and night. It's obviously political,
but you think about the sensitivity of these documents.
They were in a garage.
Who had access to them?
Hunter Biden obviously had access to them.
He was doing business with foreign,
with foreign anti American countries as well.
How far does this go down?
When you think about this access that was had and
you are absolutely right,
I've gotten these, these security briefings,
you're not allowed to take anything out.
How did that possibly happen?
And again what kind of rules are they living under
that the rest of us aren't.
This is obviously 2 tiered.
It's to be taken seriously and when is that going
to start happening?
When is the Department of Justice when is the FBI
going to start looking into the president.
We are doing that under our our Republican majority house
right now.
We're investigating that. Those investigations have to continue.
Yeah. Well, Congressman Waltz wanted wants an immediate damage assessment
from the intelligence community.
They were highly classified and relevant to current national security
threats.
So we're waiting on that investigation to find out specifically
what he had lying around.