meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Daily Signal

BONUS: Chip Roy Tears Into Democratic Lawfare Against Trump, Bannon

The Daily Signal

The Daily Signal

Government, Daily News, News, Politics

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy discusses Republican responses to the upcoming imprisonment of Steve Bannon, the lawfare against former President Donald Trump, and more. Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription   Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

This is a bonus edition of the Daily Signal Podcast. I'm Mary Margaret O'Lahan and I sat down with Congressman

0:12.3

Chip Roy of Texas to discuss the DOJ's

0:15.1

continued lawfare against Donald Trump's allies.

0:18.9

We'll discuss Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro, and more.

0:22.3

Here's my interview with Congressman Roy.

0:24.0

Congressman Roy,

0:28.0

Congressman Roy, thank you so much for joining us.

0:34.0

Happy to be on.

0:35.0

So we saw last Thursday that a federal judge ordered Steve Bannon to begin serving his

0:39.7

prison sentence by July 1st for defying the January 6th Committee subpoenas.

0:44.3

Can we get your reaction to this news?

0:46.5

Yeah, well this is a, you know, extension of what we saw unfold with the improperly structured and improperly empowered January 6th

0:56.8

committee, which means that kind of everything that flowed from that was sort of, you know,

1:01.6

fruit of the poisonous tree, if you will. And of, you know, fruit of the poisonous tree, if you will.

1:04.2

And then, you know, everything that we're now looking at with respect to the subpoenas that

1:09.7

were issued for Steve and then obviously then the contempt for which he was then found, you know, guilty after DOJ prosecuted. I mean, now it's got to go to jail on July 1st. We believe that's all something that should never

1:25.8

have been pursued because of the nature of the January 6th Committee being not

1:30.1

not just partisan, not just a

1:33.0

political you know kind of witch hunt but really it was just

1:36.0

foundationally flawed and didn't even follow all of the structures that were originally put in place

1:40.4

which means that once that subpoena got to the house, it was flawed when it got to the house floor.

1:48.0

And again, none of this was for something that was very specific to a standing committee exercising its duly

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Daily Signal, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Daily Signal and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.