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Nov. 23, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
07:44
Representative Jim Jordan Calls Into the Show
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14-plus years now.
I was elected in 2006 in a down year for Republicans, frankly.
It was only about 13 or 14 in a class on the Republican side.
So I've been in Congress a while, and so we talk about it.
I write about that in the book, you know, some of the key investigations I've been a part of over the years.
But yeah, 14-plus years.
Would you have been able to write this book after, let's say, two years?
No, no, not even close.
I mean, the nature of my committee assignments, I'm on the oversight committee, and now I have the privilege of being the top Republican on the – the ranking member on the Judiciary Committee.
So those committees, it's – one of the things I write a lot about is the big investigations we've been involved with where government came after Americans, the IRS investigation where they went after Americans.
People who think like you and I do and targeted them on the lookout list that the IRS had.
And then I talk about my time on the Benghazi Select Committee and that investigation and what happened there.
And then, of course, more recently, the impeachment of President Trump, the first round of impeachment that was just so ridiculous what they did and the lack of due process and everything else.
So I write a lot about those and take the reader behind the scenes into those key investigations, which didn't happen after a couple of years.
Well, for that alone, I mean, just all of the investigations, every major one you've been a part of, for that alone, I want to just tell my listeners it's worth getting this book.
The book is up, by the way, folks, at my website, DennisPrager.com.
Jim Jordan, well known to all of you.
And it's Do What You Said You Would Do.
Why did you title it that, Do What You Would Say You Would Do?
Well, I always say I think we make this job too complicated.
You know, in the history of our great country, the greatest nation ever, only about 12,000 people have had the opportunity to serve in the United States Congress, have been given the privilege to represent folks back home in the Congress.
And so I always say, like, if you put your name on the ballot, and if the folks back home elect you to go serve, do what you told them you were going to do, because after all, that's why they elected you.
Don't make it more complicated than it is.
Now, what happens all too often is people get to Washington, and there's all kinds of people telling you a million different reasons why you can't do what you said you were going to do and what you were elected to do.
And that's the biggest problem in that town, particularly for Republicans, I think, over time.
And so we used that tile.
He was actually a constituent of mine.
I went in to raise some money from him when I was running for office.
And he had that on the front of his desk, and he gave me one of it, and it was just the first letter of each of those words, do what you said you would do.
And that's where we got the title, and I talk a lot in the book, Dennis, about President Trump, who did more what he said he was going to do than any president, certainly in my lifetime.
And I talk about the relationship that developed over time that he and I have, and what a good man he is, and I wish...
I've said this probably every speech I've given.
I wish every single American could spend time with President Trump, because if you, and I'm sure you have, but if you do, you cannot help but like him, and you see how genuinely he wants to help the country and fight for the things he told the American people he was going to fight for when they put him in the job.
Donald Trump has been as smeared by the media, but obviously in greater proportion, as Kyle Rittenhouse has been.
Yep.
That's all they do is smear.
Joe Biden includes a video of Kyle Rittenhouse in a tweet last year about white supremacists, and the press says nothing, nothing about it.
I know.
Yep.
Yeah, you're so right.
In fact, the mainstream press, everything they talk about now, everything they do, it's false.
It's a lie.
It's just bad.
It's about dividing.
But I tell my colleagues, particularly guys in the Freedom Caucus, I say, guys, if the mainstream press isn't saying something bad about you, you ain't doing anything any good.
Oh, you're a kindred spirit.
Oh, my God.
That is so true.
I know what they do to you.
I know what they do to you.
In fact, I had this conversation with the president one time.
I said, Mr. President, I know what the press does to me, how they lie about me and MSNBC and CNN and all this stuff.
I said, but you get it a thousand times worse, and you get it every second of every day.
And it was funny because it's a conversation a few years ago.
It was back during the Mueller investigation and all this stuff.
And there was a little break and a little pause, and the president goes, well, Jim, what are you going to do?
Go over in the corner, get in a fetal position, start sucking your thumb.
He goes, we've got to fight back.
I agree, Mr. President.
And that's why people appreciate you, because they try to smear you out, and you just fight back with the truth.
And I just gave a speech to a group here in our district just a few minutes ago, and I said, think about it.
The left controls everything.
The left controls big tech.
The left controls big media.
The left controls big corporations.
The left controls big sports.
They control the White House, the Senate, the Congress, the bureaucracy, Hollywood, higher education.
But they don't control we the people.
And we the people, which is the first three words that start this amazing place we call America, we're allowed to push back.
And when we do, the truth gets out.
We saw it in Virginia.
The truth got out there.
Glenn Youngkin's going to be the next governor of Virginia.
So this is how we have to fight back.
Just not be afraid, communicate the truth, even when they're going to lie about us and attack.
And you do that.
You're a great example of how that's supposed to work.
Well, coming from you, it's a big deal, because that's exactly what you do.
Tell me, do you agree, and did you know this before you went to Congress, that there is a swamp in Washington, a deep state?
Not even close.
I mean, you knew there was, you know, this tendency, because I was in the State House and State Senate in Ohio, but you never thought it could be near as bad as we saw.
And I certainly didn't think.
That our institutions, like the Justice Department, like the IRS, would weaponize government to go after people they disagreed with politically.
And it's probably what frightens me the most is what – well, let's just use the example today – what the Merrick Garland Justice Department is doing to parents.
We had a whistleblower come forward last week and gave us the email that was sent out on October 20th to FBI agents around the country, special agents in charge, and all across the country.
And it talked about putting a threat tag at this distinction, this label on designating parents as basically a terrorist threat for simply speaking out against this racist Hate America curriculum that's being taught.
And the very next day, excuse me, the very next day, Merrick Garland, on October 21st, tells us, oh, no, no, we're not treating parents as domestic terrorists.
I'm like, you've got to read the email that went out the day before, Mr. Attorney General.
So he needs to come back and testify to us.
So this is the thing that scared me the most, that I had no idea was happening.
But yet, over the last several years, we've seen where the IRS did it, where the Obama Justice Department went after President Trump and his campaign, and now we're seeing the Biden Justice Department go after moms and dads.
This is the most frightening thing I see happening.
All right, everybody.
The book is Do What You Said You Would Do, Fighting for Freedom in the Swamp.
Congressman Jim Jordan, I strongly, strongly urge you to get the book.
I know you have one segment.
I thank you for your time, and I'd love to do it again.
We will.
Thanks, Dennis.
Keep up the great work.
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