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Thank you all for being here.
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Today is a great day for transparency in America, because today I'm proud to announce the
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creation of the task force on the declassification of federal secrets.
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This task force will be a part of the House Oversight Committee and led by the very talented
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and persistent Congresswoman from Florida and a Pellina Luna.
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During her time on the Oversight Committee, Representative Luna is a sledgehammer against
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She is committed to throwing open the windows for the American people to allow the sunlight
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of truth shine on the federal government.
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I can think of no better person in Congress to lead this task force than Representative
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Last month, President Trump signed an executive order to begin the process to declassify information
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on the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK.
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This task force serves to build on President Trump's actions.
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For far too long, the American people have had reasonable questions of what their government,
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which they find every day, keeps hidden about certain issues.
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And for far too long, the federal government has not answered these questions.
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This creates distrust in our institutions.
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The voters of this nation delivered a historic mandate to President Trump on November 5th.
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The keystone of that mandate was demanding increased transparency of their government
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and elected leaders.
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And the mandate of this task force is to acquire that transparency.
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We will open this up for questions from the media.
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But first, I'd like to hand it over to my esteemed colleague and Chairman of the New Task
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Force, Congresswoman Luna, for her remarks.
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Thank you, Chairman.
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When our founding fathers stood against tyranny, they did not merely oppose taxes.
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They defended the sacred idea of individual sovereignty.
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They declared that no government, agency, or title could have fringed upon the freedoms
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of speech, religion, thought, and the pursuit of truth.
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For too long, the American spirit has been dimmed by veil secrecy, by a government that
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has grown too comfortable in the shadows, denying us the transparency we deserve.
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But today, we stand at the dawn of a new era, where the light of truth begins to shine
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A few weeks ago, President Donald Trump made a historic announcement.
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With the stroke of a pen, he committed to declassifying the files concerning the assassinations
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of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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A decision not just monumental, but pivotal.
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It is with profound honor that I have been entrusted by Speaker Mike Johnson and Chairman
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James Comer to lead the House Oversight Task Force on declassification of federal secrets.
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Together with the help of the White House, our intelligence allies, the Department of Defense,
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the Department of Justice, we will be conducting investigations into the following.
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The assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Dr. Martin Luther King, unidentified aerial phenomena
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also known as UAPs, unidentified submerged objects also known as USOs, the Epstein client
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list, the origins of COVID-19, and the 9-11 files.
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This task force will be a beacon of bipartisanship.
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On the Republican side, representatives Perchette, Boba Burleson, Crane Gill and Mace will be joining
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me, although I'd like to note that I'm expanding this to the entire governing body and will
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be allowing certain members to wave on.
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Our first hearing is set for March.
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The date will be announced soon, and we've already initiated close to a dozen communications
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with various agencies to include Pam Bondi at the Department of Justice and the Secretary
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This will no longer be a task force that makes bold promises only to fade into a relevance
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or send strongly worded letters.
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This will be a relentless pursuit of truth and transparency, and we will not stop until
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the American people have the answers they deserve.
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We will cut through their bureaucracy, challenge the stonewalling, and ensure that the American
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people finally get the truth that they have been denied for too long.
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If we are to endure and thrive as a nation, we must restore trust, trust through transparency.
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The American people must be trusted to think for themselves, to form their own judgments
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from the truth that they are entitled to know.
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We've been treated like children for too long and kept in the dark by those we elected
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It is my solemn duty to begin mending this trust to form a new relationship between the government
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Let us embark on this journey together towards a government that does not serve but one
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that enlightens, and that does not just serve but one that enlightens.
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Trust through transparency that begins now.
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Without further ado, we'd like to open it up for questions as I'm sure many of you have
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Obviously, your goals are aligned with the administration of the classification of
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How would you handle it, if you end up whether it's President Trump or Attorney General
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Monty, or if they disagree with what you are looking to declassify it on a certain topic,
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whether it's UAPs or 9-11 or something like that, how would you handle it?
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But there is some stuff that they don't necessarily want to do.
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Well, certainly I think that they would be supportive of being that they are advocating
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for this, but also I want to remind the American people that this is bipartisan.
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There's also Democrats that are looking into answering these very questions, but certainly
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we would share that information with the American people.
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This is about transparency, and I think again, as I stated for far too long, there's been
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a massive push to keep the American people in the dark in the ends today.
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The task force does not have so many parts.
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The task force is going to be a subsidiary of the full oversight committee.
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So if we have to issue one, Congresswoman Loonow, we'll discuss it and we'll take appropriate
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But in full transparency, we have a great working relationship, as I said earlier, with the White
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House, with the DOJ, with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State.
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The incoming FBI director, I think, will be very supportive, and we've also been told
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that the CIA director is very supportive.
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To put it in perspective, I think that this issue transcends not just one administration
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but multiple administrations, and it hasn't been until now, that we've been able to get
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people actually in positions of power that will push for transparency.
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Now, if I find that different entities in the various intelligence agencies are stone
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walling us, I'm going to make that known to the American people.
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But as of right now, we are cautiously optimistic.
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What's your primary vest is Epstein 9-11?
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Our first investigation will be announced, but it's going to be covering on a thorough investigation
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into the John F. Kennedy assassination, and I can tell you, based on what I've been seeing
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so far, the initial hearing that was actually held here in Congress was actually faulty in
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the single bullet theory.
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I believe that there were two shooters, and we should be finding more information as we
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are able to gain access into the skip, hopefully, before the files are actually released to
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Thank you for doing this.
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Have you identified the Democrats who will sit on the task force?
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Could you talk a little bit more about the role of Democrats?
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Yeah, so again, this is a bipartisan commission.
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Remember, JFK was a Democrat.
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RFK was a Democrat, and I'm sure that I think the entire conference has a question on what
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actually happened with Dr. Martin Luther King.
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But also, UAPs, you guys know that that was the biggest bipartisan by camera role hearing
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that we've ever had, I think, in congressional history.
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I do not know who their members are yet.
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They've noticed it, but they're taking this very seriously.
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This is not a conspiracy theory investigating committee.
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We're actually looking to present truth to the American people.
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And it's in my opinion that no one person elected to office is more important or more qualified
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to look at the information that they've been hiding from us.
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And so we look to push for that transparency.
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What sort of witnesses will you expect to have at your hearing studies in the first
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So much that the department heads, former employees of various agents.
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Would you like to jump in?
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Yeah, I was going to say based on what we're actually looking to do with the JFK investigation,
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I'm looking at to actually bring in some of the attending physicians at the initial
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assassination, then also people that had been on the various commissions looking into,
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like the Warren Commission looking into the initial assassinations.
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There's been conflicting evidence, and I think that even the FBI at the time reported
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some anomalies in the initial autopsy at Bethesda, Maryland.
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All of those, though, seem to have been, rinse and repeated in the media to push a certain
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narrative that we don't agree with.
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And so I think that in order to put to bed some of the theories that have been out there
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on John F. Kennedy, we have to know the full truth.
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And the full truth starts with transparency.
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And that's why these files is so important for the American people to read for themselves.
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What do you expect, for?
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So what are you hoping to uncover for as you AP, that you have not already heard from
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The biggest information problems that we've had with the UAPs is the amount of stonewalling,
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And also, it seems that there is this push to gas-like the American people into looking
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at the evidence and then not fully believing it.
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I think for us if we're writing the budget, for example, into the pinnagon, if we're
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writing the budget overall, for whatever programs might be out there, why is it that members
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of Congress who are given a top secret security can, are being denied access?
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That's not a free and true government.
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government and so for us, especially being that we have now a secretary of state who's
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actually open to declassification and Marco Rubio, we're hoping to present that information
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and at least acknowledge it from a government perspective that we are not alone but also
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let's see what the evidence is.
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Have you already been in contact with the service and request to the different agencies
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who have been able to purchase for the information?
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There's one out this morning, not just on RFK, JFK and MLK, but on everything that I
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listed above to include UAPs, Epstein and 9-11 in COVID, to the State Department Department
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Defense CIA and then also we'll be sending some to the FBI and letters have also gone
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Also, the student teacher from the House Select Committee on Substance and Substance
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Institute, and the student for the job and the substance.
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Well, what's interesting on that specific committee is what, to my understanding, when they
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actually brought in expert witnesses, they weren't actually people that were in attendance
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to the initial autopsy at Bethesda, but also this is a bigger committee than just the JFK
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We're also expanding into Epstein, COVID origins, 9-11s and then UAPs and USOs.
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And so before we initially had some of these hearings, this is going to be an encompassing
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committee that's going to work directly with the White House on information that they're
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There's actually three different government investigations into the JFK assassination,
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but again, this committee is expanding not just their but outwards into other fields,
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and again, we're working directly with the White House.
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In previous investigations, they didn't have access to the information that we are going
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And so that's a big deal, especially if you're looking at what truly happened with JFK.
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Are you going to get a top secret there?
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I already have a top secret clearance.
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All members of Congress have a TSCI.
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The question is, is do we get staff access of which Chairman and Commerce have been very
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supportive and will be getting staff access as well?
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We're going to wrap it up.
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Obviously, some of the questions on some of these topics, whether it's JFK or
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Epstein or the COVID-19, the questions are obvious.
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What specifically, though, are the questions you're looking to get answered in regards to September
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We just want the truth.
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How much did the CIA know in advance?
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But also, remember, when you have only certain information that's shared with the American
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people, that's when conspiracy theories happen.
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And it's in my opinion that conspiracy theories can be detrimental.
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It doesn't mean that in the last couple of months, we haven't been right on a few things.
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But what I will say is, I think that we deserve to give this information to the American people.
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I don't agree with the stonewalling that's occurred.
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And also, how do we prevent things like it from happening in the future?
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And we have to know the full picture in the American people deserve to know that as well.
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Can we expect any collaboration with the Department of Government at the FCC?
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I don't know what information does would have, but I would encourage them if they have
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anything on JFK, Epstein, or anything in between that they bring it to our office immediately.
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Okay, one more and then we'll wrap it up.
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We have a lot of questions.
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Some of the people in the mayor's administration have been vocal that they weren't going to
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comply with federal law, that they were going to continue to act as sanctuary cities.
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We want to know about coordination and communication they had between the previous administration.
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How did so many of these illegals get there who was paying for it?
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Who were they communicating with to be able to provide housing and so many other benefits
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to such a large population of people?
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Just the basic questions we all have.
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He was paying for it, who was leading the efforts to transport the illegals from whenever their
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entry point was in the United States to the sanctuary cities.
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And are the mayor's going to comply with federal law now?
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Are they going to work with Tom Hommon and the national security groups in the Trump administration
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to try to deport the criminal illegals and stop being a sanctuary city?
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Do you feel less worried about our items and how concerned they are?
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Do we feel less worried about Eric Adams?
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Eric Adams, I mean, he was one of the first mayors to bring up the crisis situation,
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the fiscal impact on the city.
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So I think he would be a very good witness and we have a lot of questions for him just
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like we do the other three mayors.
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All right, one last question then we're going to wrap it up.
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News Nation, let's go.
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Can I have your relationship with whistleblowers?
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Is it going to be the normal process that oversight typically does or would this be,
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are you going to create a separate avenue for the task force?
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I mean, we're all about the normal process, but look, if you have information and it's credible,
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we've always approached it in that I'd like to be the person that does the interviews for it,
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mainly because especially with stuff like this, we want to make sure that there's not bad
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actors that are pushing false information to create a narrative that's simply not there.
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And so every whistleblower that does come forward, as of right now, there's people that
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have been publicly out there, for example, in the JFK stuff that were actually present
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in the room at the operating room where he was actually brought to right after the shooting.
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So we hope to bring those people in to testify.
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And again, these hearings will be open to the public.
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I am also expanding this to the entire conference.
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So if someone's going to take this seriously and look at it through an investigative land
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and get answers to the American people, they are welcome to ask questions of the witnesses,
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and you guys will all receive notice of that.
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And we'll work with anyone who currently worked with the federal government that wants to declare
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whistleblower status and receive whistleblower protection.
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If that's what they're interested in doing, and I don't think they're going to face the type of retaliation
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that the previous administration gave whistleblowers, particularly the Irish,
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whistleblowers that blew the whistle on the cover-up of the Biden family.
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And I'd also like to close with this.
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If you are an independent investigator, we are being told that the FBI has now located
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thousands of pages of documents that they lost before specifically relating to JFK.
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We are going to get through as much as we can.
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We have a great team of attorneys.
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We have a great team of investigators looking into this.
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But it doesn't mean that we won't accept help from the public.
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And so we will be setting up a place for collection for people to present information.
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But again, this is about transparency.
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The government works for us.
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There have been people I think in power for too long that try to silence and keep us in the dark,
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but that stops today.
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You're seeing that same message come out of the White House, out of the CIA, the FBI,
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and every other agency in between.
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So we are very happy to have the support of all of those individuals.
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Happy to have the support of Chairman Comer and Speaker Johnson.
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And if you guys have any questions, please hesitate to reach out to Oversight.
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And we'd be happy to answer those at that time.
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