And he joins us right now.
Do you know if he's going to show up or
not?
Congressman, first? And thank you for being here.
Well,
well, you bet. Good to be with you guys.
I expect him to. And if he doesn't,
we have other means that we can we can look
at using where we want him to come.
Alvin Bragg. We want Colangelo,
the guy who, you know,
worked for Letitia James, came and worked for the Justice
Department number three at the Justice Department and then went
back up to New York
to work for Alvin Bragg and prosecute in this case
against President Trump.
So we want those two to testify.
And we also want Brad Smith,
we want the expert on federal election law to testify
because they they remember this judge wouldn't let him testify
in the trial expert witness that he said no.
You talk about how partisan,
how biased this judge was.
So we want Brad Smith to be able to tell
the world what he wasn't allowed to tell 12 jurors
in Manhattan over the last couple weeks.
So a couple questions here.
One, will you subpoena them if they don't?
If they don't come, will this be a public hearing
or a deposition?
And what do you expect to learn,
Congressman? Good. What do you want to learn from these
guys when you when you hold them in?
It'll be a public hearing.
Yeah, it'll be a public hearing.
We don't, we never take any option off the table
and on how we need to proceed to do our
constitutional duty of oversight.
But I think one of the fundamental questions you ask
him is,
well, Alan Bragg, you campaigned on bringing in President Trump.
That's a that's a problem.
Judges are and prosecutors aren't supposed to do that.
Second, once you got there and saw how ridiculous this
case was,
you knew the federal Southern District in New York wouldn't
bring the case.
The Federal Elections Commission wouldn't bring this case.
There was nothing there. We heard Bob Costello testify in
front of our committee,
told us how wrong this was,
told us how much of A,
you know, you couldn't trust Michael Cohen,
so you weren't going to bring this case.
And you even said, Alvin Bragg,
that you could, quote, not envision a world where you
indict President Trump and call Michael Cohen as a prosecution
witness.
But you did exactly that even though you said you
wouldn't.
You flipped 180° and did that.
But he only changed his mind and indicted President Trump
and brought Michael Cohen as witness after,
after President Trump announces he's running for president.
So if that doesn't show you how political this all
is,
I don't know what does.
So I think that'll be a question.
What, what prompted you to change?
Because Michael Cohen was still a liar,
still a perjurer lied to our committee four years ago
six times when he was underoath in front of Congress.
So what compelled you to change your mind?
Only politics. I think that will be a line of
questioning that we'll get from from our members and get
to the bottom of the leak of the grand jury
testimony, which is a class E felony.
So maybe we can get
get on that. But I want to get your reaction
to just like how Biden does not want to hear
Americans complain about their financial hardships,
he doesn't want to hear their complaints about the justice
system either.
Congressman, here's what he had to say about
saying is oh so dangerous about the Trump case.
Listen to this.
And it's reckless. It's dangerous.
It's irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged
just because they don't like the verdict.
Our justice system has endured for nearly
250 years
and it literally is the cornerstone of America.
Our justice system, the justice system should be respected.
It's the the audaciousness of him saying that.
But yeah, no, no, what's dangerous is when you have
a two tiered system,
when you don't have equal treatment under the law.
When two days ago there's a story out that says
that Peter Struck and Lisa Page are in some kind
of settlement negotiations with the Biden Justice Department to get
some kind of settlement because their information,
their text messages got public,
even though they had this extreme bias against President Trump.
And we're part of the Mueller investigation and the spying
on President Trump's campaign.
So you have that. And then you have what happens
to President Trump in this ridiculous trial.
You have Merrick Garland named Jack Smith special counsel 3
days after President Trump announces he's running for president.
Everyone knows we have a weaponized justice system,
a weaponized government, the agencies that are supposed to serve.
We the people have been turned on.
We the people. That's the real problem.
So the president can say all he wants,
but the real danger is this weaponization of the federal
agencies against the American people.
But also, I mean, is this points been made a
lot,
but it's it's a Democrat prosecutor,
Democrat judge, Democrat jury in a Democrat town going after
the lead Republican candidate.
That is outrageous and it is unfair.
But we do have some exclusive video,
Congressman, because moments ago, Mr.
Smiley, some call him President Biden answers to some of
Peter Ducey's questions about the impact of the trial.
You got to hear this for yourself.
Let's listen.
Do you think this conviction helps Trump in the election?
Are you worried that this could happen to you someday?
Somebody comes up with some charges and tries to bring
you into court after your term.
And when Trump says you're just trying to bruise him,
what do you say
politically? Politically, he thinks you're pulling the strings behind the
scenes,
doing all this to help yourself.
No, it's not powerful.
The congressman, the president says they didn't do anything wrong.
But we have a laptop that would say probably something
a little bit different.
What say you?
Yeah. I mean, look, I,
I we actually have legislation that we passed on out
of our committee several months ago.
I wish we had. I wish it had been on
the floor and we had got it through the House.
I wish it was the law.
But it says if you're a former president or vice
president and you get some rogue state prosecutor who takes
you to,
you know, indict you, you can have that move to
federal court.
And if that would have been the law,
who would it would have?
So Biden wouldn't have to worry about anything in the
future either.
But would it would have protected President Trump from this
Alvin Bragg,
this ridiculous suit? Same with the funny Willis case in
Georgia.
I wish that that that legislation which we passed out
the Judiciary Committee months ago,
Russell Fries, the sponsor, a good member from South Carolina.
And it says you can,
you can move to change the venue and move it
from state court to court so you don't get these
rogue prosecutors who won't put the bad guys in jail
but go after some political prosecution against their political opponents
like Alvin Bragg and Fonnie Willis.
That's what we need to do.
The president's reaction to to Peter's questions,
It's, you know, typical Joe Biden.
Yeah, he, he didn't get the memo from members of
his own campaign that this has been a huge bomb
for all the Democrats and it's been a huge
boon for President Trump. But he's walking around grinning
like.
Thank you, Congressman Jim Jordan,
Great to see. Great work.
We appreciate it. Great to see.
Thank you. All right, coming up.