Steve Scalise: There's More To Learn About 'The Russian Collusion Hoax That Started Under President Obama'

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At today's House Republican leadership press briefing, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) promised more to find out about "the Russian collusion hoax that started under President Obama."

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00:00Leader. Thank you, Whip. Well, it's been a very busy first six months working with the Trump

00:07administration to deliver critical wins for hardworking families across America, to deliver

00:13wins on those issues that we all ran on, the things we said we would do if we got a Republican

00:19White House, Republican Senate, and Republican House. And of course, the one big beautiful bill

00:24really is the epitome of so many of those victories. But that's not all we've done. The president

00:30has already signed or has on his desk 31 different bills that have been passed by the House and Senate

00:37on the desk of the president, almost all of which have been signed into law. After today, maybe all

00:4231 will have been signed into law to continue delivering and getting our country back on track,

00:49reversing the damage that was done by Joe Biden in four years. What the Democrats did working with

00:56Joe Biden, not just to increase inflation, increase interest rates, to increase regulations and rules

01:03that stifled the ability for small businesses to grow. We've been working hard to reverse all of

01:09that. And while we are celebrating all of these wins, we are not tired of winning. And the American

01:14people aren't either. That's why this week, we still have more bills on the House floor. But we

01:19also have a lot of work being done in our committees. The Appropriations Committee this week is taking up

01:25three more appropriations bills in full committee. Tom Cole and his members have been doing an incredible

01:31job of getting their bills out of committee. The House has already passed over 60 percent of all

01:37government funding over to the Senate. And this week, we're going to see something that hasn't happened

01:42in years. The United States Senate is finally taking up a House Appropriations bill. That should

01:48be something that's always going on in Congress, where you see the House and Senate doing their jobs

01:54together. But Chuck Schumer for years refused to participate in a normal appropriations process

02:02because he wanted shutdowns. He wanted chaos. It's one of the reasons the Democrats lost the Senate

02:07is because the American people didn't want that dysfunction. And John Thune promised there would

02:12be a new day in the United States Senate. And Leader Thune is delivering on that. And one of those

02:17commitments he made is that we would have a normal working appropriations process. And they're

02:21actually doing that this week, moving the MilCon VA Appropriations bill and continuing to move more

02:28of the bills that we're sending over from the House. And so as the American people see Washington

02:34working for them for a change, we're also going to be going during this district work period and

02:40explaining to the American people what's been in a lot of those bills, because the Democrats have

02:44been lying over and over and over again about tax cuts for billionaires. They're talking about

02:51hospitals closing. Everybody in America is going to die, according to every Democrat.

02:56And of course, when the American people look at what's in those bills, they're going, wait a minute,

03:00you know, the waiter and waitress in America who averages $32,000 a year is going to get about

03:061700 more dollars in their pockets. That's real money for working people. And every Democrat voted

03:12no. You know, well, so while they're going back home and explaining and lying about the bills,

03:17we're going to start panning out across the country, telling the truth about what really is

03:22happening in the economy for working families. And we're proud of that. We're not done delivering,

03:28but I think it's important that we take some time to talk about what we've already done and delivered

03:34as we continue to move more bills. Like I said, a lot of work being done this week in committees,

03:40Energy and Commerce has taken up the NIL bill. You're seeing judiciary focus on that report. It's been

03:47covered pretty well. But I think there's a lot more to the story about the Russian collusion hoax that

03:52started under President Obama. And some of those facts are finally starting to come out. You know,

03:57it's interesting to see Democrats want to talk about Jeffrey Epstein. All of a sudden,

04:00for four years, Democrats hid and covered up the Epstein files. They did. They had it for four

04:08years. And Trump's in the courts right now trying to get a lot of that information unsealed so the

04:14American public can see it. But we're going to continue pushing for that transparency.

04:21Our committees are going to keep working to deliver more results for American families. That's what we've

04:27been doing. That's what we're going to continue to do. While Democrats just vote no. They hide. They

04:32lie. They try to talk about what they would do if they were in power. But of course, everybody knows

04:38what they did when they were in power. They moved a far left socialist agenda. They're about to elect

04:43as their new party leader, a socialist Marxist mayor of New York City. And half the Democrats,

04:50they all want to meet him and take selfies with him. And yet they're not sure if they're going to endorse

04:54him or not. But the bottom line is that's where their party has moved in Washington,

04:58in New York. But that's not where America is. Republicans are delivering for Americans,

05:04for hardworking families, all across the political spectrum. And that's why this economy is finally

05:10starting to move in the right direction. Our speaker, who's never slown down, who's never

05:13accepted failure as an option, the man who continues to work and is so patient,

05:19listen to our members, and then ultimately delivering with President Trump on this great agenda

05:22agenda is our speaker, Mike Johnson.

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