Hi everyone, it's 4 o'clock in New York, a new chapter in the House GOP's plan to govern

for Fox News and Fox News only began today. The committee is set up for one purpose only

that is to fuel the rights can favorite conspiracy theory that somehow the deep state is

that to protect Democrats and persecute conservatives and the disgraced ex-president and his allies.

The so-called select subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government held its very

first hearing today. Republicans invited a panel that included Senator Chuck Grassley, who

once said this, that the FBI was, quote, corrupted to its core. Senator Ron Johnson, who has

never met a conspiracy, he didn't really like a lot. And former Congresswoman and current

Fox News regular Tulsi Gabbard, here's to some of what they had to say.

It's clear to me that the Justice Department and the FBI are suffering from a political

infection that if it's not defeated, will cause the American people no longer to trust these

storied institutions. It will also threaten the American way of life.

Serious questions regarding instances of unequal application of justice and violation of January

6th defendants due process rights remain unanswered. It was a litany of complaints and grievances

and delusions and fantasies about Hunter Biden, the FBI, the deep state, Twitter, COVID-19,

and of course, as you heard right there, January 6th. Here's what was not covered by the Republicans

today. The fact that the multiple probes by DOJ taking place at this moment into Trump's conduct

are examining an unprecedented, violent, deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol,

as well as a months-long effort by the ex-president to resist handing over some of the country's

most sensitive intelligence secrets. And that even the probe launched by Trump's hand-picked AG Bill

Bar to quote, investigate the investigators, didn't just come up with nothing. It actually

uncovered more evidence of potential criminality in the part of the ex-president, Donald Trump.

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