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Mr. BIGGS. Madam Speaker, it is my pleasure to take a few minutes.
The first point I will talk about, the most fundamental aspect that this needs to be contextualized with is that the Democrats have basically corrupted every institution in America, not the least of which is this institution, not the least of which are the committees and the roles of committees.
The gentleman from Pennsylvania said this is a show trial. He is exactly right. This is designed for television. It is not designed to find truth. It is not designed to say, let's come up with a legitimate legislative purpose, which is what the Supreme Court says you have to have if you are going to have a subpoena in the first place. You have to have a legitimate purpose. They don't have any.
So these are the same folks that sit on this committee, that are running this committee. Don't forget, they ran the two sham impeachments. The last sham impeachment was such a debacle, such an embarrassment to our institutions and the Constitution that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court said, I am not going to show up.
So who do we have and what do we see? Well, they are not going to talk about tonight that four witnesses--four witnesses have testified under oath that 4 days before January 6, President Trump authorized up to 20,000 National Guard troops. Why won't they present that? Because it is indicia of what we would call in law the mens rea or culpability, your state of mind. And the state of mind said, we have to protect the Capitol.
What that means is there is no intention to incite. There is no intention to cause harm. But you are not going to hear about that, even though that has been testified to four different times.
The FBI has indicated pretty clearly that there was no collusion by President Trump to incite a riot on January 6. In fact, no collusion by President Trump or by any Member of Congress.
In fact, FBI Director, Christopher Wray, testified in the Committee on the Judiciary that he could not call what happened there an insurrection. But that is not what you are going to hear from the Democrats because they love that term, because they are all about hyperbole.
How about our former colleague, Denver Riggleman, a former Republican working for this committee? What did he say? Just the other day, he said: ``There is no smoking gun indicating that President Trump planned for the U.S. Capitol to be overrun by his supporters.'' But you are not going to hear that because this is--as they have accidentally said a couple of times--not about finding the truth but about narrative- building, and distracting the American public from the disaster that the Biden administration, Speaker Pelosi and her Democrats in the House, Chuck Schumer and his Democrats in the Senate, has perpetrated, has foisted upon the American people.
So you know what the Democrats want? They don't want us talking about: It costs me 85, 90 bucks to fill up my car with gas.
They don't want you talking about that.
They don't want you talking about: Hey, the size of that pack of tortillas that I just bought last week before it came out, they used to look like the regular corn tortillas. Now they look like mini tortillas. Same price, the same packaging.
They don't want you talking about that.
They don't want you talking about: Hey, kids, we are not going to be able to go on vacation this year.
They don't want you talking about any of that because that is what Americans are talking about.
They don't want you talking about the border. They don't want you talking about that.
When I was down to the border twice last week--two different borders, three different sectors--everywhere I walked, there were people coming up. You know what these folks told me? They said, ``We love Joe Biden.'' In fact, in Mexico he has got a 52 percent approval rating, while he is only 32 percent in the United States.
They want us to not talk about that stuff. They want to distract us. But the bad news for them is this: The reason you have to bring in an ABC producer is because your show stinks and that committee reeks, and no amount of production is going to give Liz Cheney charisma. Sorry to say. No amount of it is going to change and take that apart.
I know that there are others who want to talk about this but I just have to ask four or five things, if I can, Mr. Perry.
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Mr. BIGGS. Why is Nancy Pelosi off limits? Why isn't she testifying before that committee?
Oh my goodness, we can't ask her what happened. We can't ask her what she knew, what she didn't know.
We can't ask her why she didn't approve and encourage Mayor Bowser to accept the authorized and offered 20,000 National Guard troops.
Why has the committee not released 14,000 hours of video of January 6? Why is that missing?
Why has the committee selectively, without appropriate context, leaked documents or testimony?
Why did Adam Schiff come out here and put up a poster and later have to admit that, yeah, he had doctored the poster?
Because they are lying. They altered evidence, as Mr. Perry said.
I will just close with this: Committee member, Jamie Raskin, he loves to say that anybody who questions an electoral outcome of 2020 is telling the big lie.
Of course, he questioned the 2016 election outcome. Was that the big lie? Hillary Clinton questioned that.
Joe Biden has already said the 2022 midterms are going to be illegitimate. Why? Because he is going to get his butt kicked, that is why.
I will tell you something. Jamie Raskin selectively edited video he used in the second Trump impeachment just a few days before the President was going to be vacating the Oval Office. If anyone is persisting in telling a big lie, it is members of the J6 Committee.
That is why they have to bring in a producer. That is why they deleted the tweet from their star witness from tonight. And what did he say back then? He said the Proud Boys were organizing together.
How many police were there at 11:22 on the steps of the Capitol? I Count 1.
This is a deliberate act. And he wasn't talking about the people who came in. He said someone in authority left the door open and the mob walked in. That is their witness tonight. They deleted that text.
This is an illegitimate committee. You are going to see illegitimacy on display meant to deceive the American people. That is what happens in former Soviet Union. That is what happens in Venezuela. That is what happens whenever tyrants and authoritarians get a little bit of power or think they have any.
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Mr. BIGGS. Madam Speaker, as I watch what this January 6th Committee has done, as it unfolds, and the constant attack of President Trump, here is what I find interesting: It wasn't too very long ago that Chuck Schumer stood with a rabble attacking the United States Supreme Court. Chuck Schumer said: We are going to come up on you like, Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, like a whirlwind. You will know.
He made threatening comments. And guess what? Last night, there was an assassination attempt. A gentleman has been arrested for attempted murder of Justice Kavanaugh. Not a peep from the President, not a peep from Nancy Pelosi, not a peep from anybody here.
You had a President who said let's march peacefully up to the Capitol. Let's let them know you are here. Let's fight for our rights. Somehow, that is incitement.
That is not incitement, but this committee that is there, they don't care about the truth. They don't care about equity. I don't even like saying that term, ``equity.'' How about equality before the law? They never are concerned with due process or equality before the law. That is a political, sham, narrative-building exercise to divert the attention of the American people away from the disastrous Biden policies.
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