Rep. Darrell Issa is defending President Trump using the Justice Department to investigate his political foes ... and he says Trump's no worse than Joe Biden.
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00:00There's a difference between going after the man who is the candidate against you for president
00:07and finding ways in both federal and state court to create charges that had never existed before,
00:16to raid the former president's home and take information and then charge him with something
00:24less, if it was wrong, it was less wrong than what the president, former president Biden had
00:29done himself. And to say to the Department of Justice, look into this. You know, there's a
00:35thorough review at the Department of Justice in all aspects, and there should be. What a U.S.
00:40attorney does in the last few days of one administration, certainly the new U.S. attorney
00:45should quickly look at it and decide whether those cases should still be dismissed or go forward and
00:50so on. There's nothing wrong with that. And I've been on Judiciary Committee now. This is my 25th
00:55year in Washington. I've spent every year looking at these institutions, and this is how they've
01:02always worked. Well, I don't think they've ever worked where you have somebody who makes a statement
01:07that I absolutely believe this was a free and fair election. And on that basis, the president says
01:15to the Justice Department, investigate this guy. That's not a crime. That's an opinion. And it's an
01:23opinion backed by 60 judges and the majority of Americans that this was a free and fair election.
01:30So because he disagreed with Donald Trump, he is now under criminal investigation. That's not
01:37happened before. You can't be a Californian and think that when people in both parties received
01:43anywhere from two to 10 to 12 ballots, when people all over the country received California ballots
01:49long after they'd left the state. 60 courts respectfully disagree with you.
01:53Congressman, we're not going to relitigate whether or not. We're not going to relitigate whether or not.
01:58Let's say you're relitigating it. I'm not. Congressman, can we stop this for a second?
02:03I hear you. And I know, look, you have an opinion about this. We have an opinion about this.
02:08The bigger issue, at least for me, is that when you look at what's going on right now,
02:14Donald Trump tried to bar the Associated Press from even being in the White House because he
02:22disagreed with them about the way they referenced the Gulf of Mexico. And the court said, come on,
02:29you can't do that. It's unconstitutional. Joe Biden may have weaponized the Justice Department,
02:33his administration, but this feels 20 times as much. It feels like you get in the crosshairs of
02:41Donald Trump. And he will then use the Justice Department with an attorney general who will do
02:46anything he wants to go after them. It's called weaponizing.
02:50Every president we can point to all the way back to George Washington and find something wrong with
02:56their wooden teeth, so to speak. Let's not let's look at another way. It has the process played out
03:03in some sort of an adverse way. The president is issuing executive orders. Some are sustained.
03:10Some are not. Has he tried to circumvent any of the executive orders when he's been pushed back by
03:16the by the courts? No. Did Joe Biden get told in no uncertain term by the high court that he couldn't
03:23give away 200 or 188 billion dollars in student loans to just forgive it without Congress? Yes.
03:29And what did he do? He gave away another eight billion dollars afterwards, finding a way to
03:34circumvent the clear order of the court. That's fair. That's fair. We can we can have challenges
03:40with both sides. And of course, I'm a Republican, a very proud Republican. Sure, I'm more likely to
03:45point out failures in the other party, but I also take heed of what I hear from the other party.
03:50And I will tell you, Congress will, in fact, do its job and we'll make sure, more importantly,
03:56that the courts are free to do their job and do it properly.