00:00Who seeks recognition? Mr. Chairman, I'd like to strike the last word. Gentleman's recognized.
00:04Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You know, just following up on a little bit of what the ranking member
00:10was discussing, there was a significant event this week in which this committee has jurisdiction over.
00:19The Speaker of the House, the third highest ranking U.S. official, third in line to be
00:26the president, looked into the TV cameras and told us that the current president of the United States
00:33was an FBI informant. I consider that to be gigantic news. And I'm just curious, have we
00:42reached out to the FBI, to Kash Patel, to confirm whether the president was at any time an FBI
00:49informant? I only say that because the Speaker of the House obviously gets significant briefings.
00:54He gets briefings that we do not get as regular members. And so I think this is something that
01:00we need to hear definitively. Before Kash Patel comes, we should clear up, maybe that we should
01:06send a letter to him to find out if the president was an informant. And if he was an informant,
01:11is that because he was working with the FBI after he was hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein?
01:18Did he turn because he got caught with Jeffrey Epstein? You know, when you're an FBI informant,
01:24there are lots of questions about how you became an FBI informant. And then how long was he an FBI
01:29informant? When did his service to the FBI stop, you know, being a member of the deep state? When did he
01:36stop doing that? I mean, look, if a regular member had said this, I would discount it.
01:41But the Speaker of the House is the one who said it. And then he said afterwards, well,
01:48I may have misspoke. Well, what was his misspeak? Instead of informant, did he mean agent?
01:53I mean, what is the misspeak for informant? I mean, I don't know another word that we use when
01:59we're describing an FBI agent or FBI informant or undercover. I mean, what was the misspeak here?
02:07And if he was lying then, is he lying now? I'm just confused. Perhaps maybe the Speaker should
02:13come to our committee and tell us what he meant when he said that. It's just, it's an order.
02:21I'm still speaking. I'm still speaking. I'm not. Is there a bill or an amendment on the floor?
02:26Strike the last word. I'm allowed to finish.
02:28Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen from Florida has a time. He's speaking. I think he's
02:33speaking about the bill. Well, he's not really speaking about the bill, but he's recognized to
02:36speak about the bill. Well, he's just been interrupted for about 30 seconds. I'd ask that
02:42it be added back onto his. Can we move to restore his time? That was a completely improper interjection.
02:47Time is stopped. We'll give him plenty of time. I'm usually good about that.
02:50Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate your indulgence. And I'm only bringing it up again,
02:55because this committee is the committee of jurisdiction over the FBI. And I don't think in the history
03:00of this country, we've had a Speaker of the House say the President was an FBI informant. I mean,
03:08that is, I mean, that's a dual role if I ever heard one. And so I just think we have, we have
03:14questions, Mr. Chairman. And on a bipartisan basis, maybe the answer is no. He wasn't an FBI informant.
03:19And that's fine if the answer is no. I just think we need to hear from the FBI. The Speaker has
03:26confused the American people whether Trump was working with the FBI against Jeffrey Epstein
03:31because he had information about Jeffrey Epstein because he was there for a long period of time
03:35and then got turned maybe by the FBI. I mean, did Trump ever go undercover? I mean, these are
03:42questions that the Speaker has raised. By the way, the President going undercover would be interesting.
03:48You know, but these are questions that he's raised. That is not a misspeak. There is not
03:53another adjective or verb for FBI informant, right? I understand the President kicked him out of his
04:02club. That doesn't make you an FBI informant. So I think we need to get to the bottom of that.
04:10Will the gentleman yield?
04:11I will.
04:13Just to add on to that, in 2002, the President said that he was aware that Jeffrey Epstein
04:21likes girls on the younger side. In 2003, he provided a birthday card with the shape of a woman,
04:33his clear signature for anyone who actually looks at it, and references a secret. In 2004,
04:42the FBI initiated an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. I would like for this committee to request
04:52from the FBI the opening document, the report of investigation that would have initiated the
05:00investigation into Jeffrey Epstein in 2004, because I think we should know how that investigation began.
05:09We know that President Trump had a falling out with Jeffrey Epstein around that time. Was it
05:16President Trump who provided the FBI with the information that caused this investigation to
05:23be opened? This committee deserves to know that. I yield back.
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