(upbeat music) - Congressman Jim Jordan is the chair of the House Judiciary Committee and the Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. In this RNC episode of "Morning Wire," we sit down with the Congressman to discuss what actions he and his colleagues are taking in response to the fatal security failure at the Trump rally, as well as the coordinated effort to censor conservative speech. I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Tuesday, July 16th. And this is an RNC extra edition of "Morning Wire." - College is expensive, but being a man shouldn't be. Score 60% off Jeremy's Razor's one-year bundle and dominate campus life. While others can form, you'll stand out, clean-shaven and unapologetic. Major in masculinity@jeremysraisers.com today. - Joining us now is Congressman Jim Jordan here at our RNC booth. A lot of fun to see you in person here. - Good to be with you. - I've had you a few times in Nashville. - Oh yeah, sure, sure. - But here on the ground with all the buzz around us, it's a lot of fun. So look, we've had a momentous week. A lot of things have changed. The events of this week and we're shocking. The details emerging from the events of this weekend are equally shocking and troubling. Secret service has been in the headlines a lot. A lot has screwed me. What actions is Congress taking now in terms of the fallout from that? - Good question, there are three committees that have some oversight jurisdiction here. Obviously, the oversight committee itself, Chairman Comer, has said he wants Ms. Tiedel, the head of the Secret Service in front of their committee next week. The Homeland Security Committee has jurisdiction in some of this area, of course, also. So Chairman Green is already asking for information, questions and different things that they're focused on. And then we're, because the FBI is heading up the investigation, we have oversight of the FBI and we already had scheduled. And so he'll be in front of this next Wednesday or Thursday, whatever the 24th is. Director Ray will be in front of our committee. Ranking Member Natalie and I got a briefing from some of the FBI yesterday, a short briefing about, you know, the preliminary stages of their investigation and what happened. Seems to me there's one sort of fundamental question. There's a finite number of buildings in the area that needed to be secure. Where you did not want a bad guy on the roof who could do what took place. It's not a hundred buildings, it may be three, four, five. What's the number? It's probably a relatively small number based on the video and photographs we've seen. Why wasn't that done? To me that's the fundamental question. And then there are other things that I think, you know, I'd love to talk to at some point that local police officer, if you can believe media who engaged with the bad guy for a brief moment prior to when he took the shots. I'd love to talk to the Secret Service agent, the sniper who ultimately took out the bad guy. So when did he engage, what did he know, how much time, you know, all those questions that sort of come to mind. So we'll be over, you know, looking over this and see what happens, but that's what I think how it plays out with the three congressional committees. - Have the Secret Service so far seemed like they're going to be fully cooperative? - I don't know. What I tried to get across a little bit yesterday and talking with the FBI was Director Ray better be able to answer some questions next week. The country deserves some answers to this stuff. And we'd like him to come in there and say, you know, tell us something, that makes sense. And then I do think there's this sort of just general concern that a lot of Americans have with, you know, the FBI that can't tell us who planted the pipe bombs on January 6th, the FBI or the Biden administration that can't tell us who leaked the Dobbs opinion, the Biden administration that can't tell us, you know, who put cocaine in the White House. We still don't know the answers are those kind of questions. And now we're supposed to believe that we're going to get the answers to something as tragic as what happened on Saturday. I think there's a skepticism, a healthy skepticism and maybe in many ways, a justified one. When you think about what we've seen from, you know, this is the same FBI, it said moms and dads to school board meetings need to be investigated. This is the same FBI that said that, you know, if you're a pro-life Catholic, you're an extremist. So they got some work to do to get us the answers and for us to fully, fully appreciate what they're doing. - One of the questions a lot of people have is, will people be held accountable if it is determined that there was violation of duty or really misuse of resources? President Trump made the point in the debate, actually, to accuse Biden of failing to ever fire anyone. I am curious to see, will we see anyone fired, anyone held accountable at the end of this process? - No, it's a good question. And to question, I get a lot. And I always, always put out the legislative branch, the Congress, we can't fire anyone, we can't indict anyone. All we can do is the oversight which a constitution requires, we do. So we're going to do that aggressively. We're going to do that in a way consistent with the constitution. We're going to do it. And we're going to get the facts out there for the country. And I think that's an important role we have, particularly after something that was this serious, where this was providence. I mean, but for the good Lord, you know, you know that's why President Trump turned at the exactives that this was the good Lord doing this. But for that, there could have been tragic. And then you're not, obviously, Mr. Competori who gave his life for his wife and daughter, you know, tragic day. So I think the country's entitled to know exactly what happened, why those buildings weren't secured, what took place in that brief amount of time. There's a report out today that said there was approximately a minute and a half from when someone so engaged with the assassin and when it happened. So we need to know the answers. We need to know exactly the sequence of things that happened in that timeline. You obviously have a lot of contact with a lot of Republicans. What has been the response that you've heard from your colleagues in terms of unity, direction going into this RNC so far, we've already had a very energetic, kind of historic event thus far. We've had the announcement of JD Vance. We've had a lot of things happen. What's the mood and the sense from your colleagues? And you can feel the energy. I mean, yesterday was particularly in light of, you know, what happened over the weekend. And President Trump's amazing response to it. I mean, that video of him with his fist pumping three times, it is just amazing. It shows, I think, the character of this individual, just the strength of the character he has. And I think it's also sort of a picture of America, like that's just an American defiant tough attitude. And we have that in President Trump. And then to follow that up here on Monday with Senator Vance, the American story from humble beginnings to now on the ticket, gonna be, I believe, the next vice president of the greatest country in history. That happening in the afternoon. And then President Trump walking in last night, 10 o'clock last night. It was like, it was an amazing day, over and over an amazing several days. So I think it's up, JD Vance, I wanted to ask you about that. So you obviously think this is a good decision. I think it's a great decision. I really do. JD, I think, confirms now. I mean, there's an, on a number of ways, and in a number of ways, I should say, it's like, we are now a, the Republican party, and I always thought we should have been this. We're a populist party rooted in conservative principle. That second part is important too. It's populism rooted in conservative principle. That's JD, that's President Trump, that's the ticket. JD is the American story. Kid from really working class, lower class, to bestseller doing well. Now they're gonna be vice president. So I think all that is positive. And then just from a practical political standpoint, you got a guy who, all the quote experts will tell you, this race is supposedly coming down to Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin. So why not have a guy from the Midwest who is the American story, who is so in tune with the president's policies? Why not have him out there campaigning across the Midwest? So I think for all those reasons, it was a great pick. And the young, the energy that a 40-year-old brings to the party is great. Yeah, it is, I think, important as well. Now let me add one other thing. Sure. There's an old line in life, never hurts to have smart people in charge, right? That is President Trump and that is JD Vance. I mean, they're both just sharp guys. I think that's important too when you're thinking about who is running the most important country on the planet. That is important as well. I've got to throw in a question about Garm and the hearing that featured Ben Shapiro from the Daily Wire. Yeah. What's the latest with that effort? How do you feel that? Oh, Elon Musk is looking to sue based on the report we put out, but I got to tell you, Ben did a great job. He made me just so, as always, well-prepared and just a master when the Democrats are coming out, they did a great job. But Garm should be, as Elon Musk has said, Garm should be called harm. It's Garm stands for what the Global Alliance of Responsible Media, Bologna. It's this consortium of people get together. And our angle from the Judiciary Committee is we think this is any competitive, potentially any trust because they're coming together and they have these vague definitions of what will ensure your brand safety if you advertise on this platform or this website and when, in fact, it's an effort to target you guys. And there's one email where it's, you are specifically-- I'm excited. Yeah, you've read it. And we use it in the hearing. And we kind of laugh about it, but it's like, it's real 'cause it's like, monetarily coming after conservatives. It's real, and you guys feel-- That's real in fact. Yeah, but it was a good hearing where Ben did just a tremendous job. And I will always remember the one-- I said to the one at agency, I said, do you advertise on-- do you do any political, well, they kind of tried it on you. And then I said, do you put ads on the view? Yeah, do you put ads on the watch post, yeah? Do you put ads on the Daily Wire, even though they got like 50 million impressions over the last 90 days and 12 million or 15 million followers, all this stuff? Well, no, we don't put them there. Which sort of makes the point? Like, we're not telling you got to put them here. So your decision, but it's obviously biased on being driven by politics versus what's good for that particular business. Yeah, we certainly agree. Yeah. There's been a lot of focus. This is final question for me. A lot of focus on obviously the presidential race. Congressionally speaking, how are things shaping up for Republicans heading into November? I think good. I've been traveling all over the country trying to help our candidates raise money and win these races. I was in Minneapolis on Saturday when just left an event for two of our colleagues when I heard the news of what was going on in Pennsylvania. We got good candidates. You know, it always starts with good candidates. You think about the United States Senate. I mean, Bernie Moreno in our state's a great candidate. He's doing a good job. I think he can be chair of Brown. We got Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania, a good candidate. I think he can be Bob Casey. I mean, it's just like we've got good candidates. Wisconsin got a great guy running. Mr. Hobday, it's like good candidates with the right people at the top of the ticket and President Trump and JD Vance. And then you look at all the Biden policies. You know, we went from secure border to no border, safe streets to record crime, $2 gas, the $4 gas, stable prices to record inflation. Take your family out to dinner on a Friday night and find out what inflation is like. So I think all that is gonna be the environment we're in where we're gonna, I think we're gonna win. - Let's end it right there. - Okay. - Jim Jordan, thank you so much for joining us. - Thank you guys, thanks for all you do. - That was Congressman Jim Jordan and this has been an extra edition of Morning Wire.
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