Via America’s Lawyer: As school curriculums become a hot-button issue among Republicans, TX governor Greg Abbott is taking aim at books that cover gender identity and sexuality – calling them “pornographic” – and insisting they be pulled from classrooms. Also, there’s a revolving door between the pharmaceutical industry and federal regulators, and President Biden’s latest pick to run the FDA is no exception. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Find our merchandise at Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/rof-store Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RingofFireRadio Google+: http://plus.google.com/118415831573195648557 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ Follow more of our stories at http://www.TROFIRE.com Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Texas governor Greg Abbott wants schools in his state investigated for carrying books that, that he considers to be pornographic. You know, here's, this story, what caught me is it's another one of those things like it or not, that Republicans grab ahold of and like they did in West Virginia with the whole parents are messing with my child's education. And I don't like it. This is a continuation. They figured out this works. So now, you have this, this thing that's going to work for them. Yeah. I mean. Well, well and it's very scary because obviously the governor comes out and says, listen, we have a problem. We have found pornography in high school libraries. Well, that's attention grabbing. Oh my God. You know, we, you know, you don't want porn in a high school library. You got to get, but people assume when you say that, okay, well, somebody snuck in some Playboys in there, there's some Hustlers hidden. No, what they're talking about are books that might be considered probably beyond a high school student to a degree, depending on, you know, the maturity level of them. But they deal with issues of, of abuse. They deal with rape. Right. And. Well, to me, Farron, I mean, all a parent has to see is one of the books is called, it's called, Gender: A Memoir. Regardless of the ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pxgXCQyL-8

Republicans in the House of Representatives will likely be forming a Committee that is, allegedly, designed to conduct reviews of ongoing investigations at the FBI and other federal agencies. But the REAL goal is to protect Donald Trump from prosecutors, and possibly even provide protection for some of the Capitol Rioters. This is a gross abuse of power to protect a wholly corrupt individual, but it isn't surprising given today's GOP. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this. Link - https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/07/gop-panel-criminal-investigations-00076890 Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. As I mentioned earlier today, uh, today is the day that Republicans are going through, they're voting with their new house majority on rules, packages. They're setting up their committees and there's one proposed rule slash committee, I guess you would call it that should terrify everybody except of course for members of the Trump family and anyone being investigated for their ties to Donald Trump. Because one of the proposals would establish, I guess you would call it a select committee overseen by the Judiciary Committee, which is going to be chaired by Jim Jordan and this special committee overseen by Jim Jordan, which is gonna consist of 11 members, five of those. However, uh, McCarthy's gonna consult with Hakeem Jeffries about before putting them on that committee. So I guess Democrats may have five people on the committee maybe. But this committee is going to specifically oversee ongoing investigations from the federal government into all sorts of things. So to put it another way, it's not just a select committee being overseen by Jim Jordan. It is a protect Donald Trump's committee is the best way we should look at this. Oh, and by the way, for some reason, this committee is also going to get access to items obtained by the House Intelligence Committee, which that's the committee that does oversee a lot of classified information. They get info that is not shared with other committees, but as part of McCarthy's concessions, he said, okay, Jim Jordan, you and your weird little committee, y'all can have access to the House Intelligence Committee materials. That that sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. So here is what this committee of course would do if there is an ongoing investigation within the federal government. This committee would be able to issue subpoenas. They would be able to call the investigators into the house and give testimony. They would basically act as an unofficial person looking over their shoulder. They wouldn't really have any power to stop the investigations. That would come later through a rule that republicans also are putting in place as part of McCarthy's concessions. So they will be able to defund investigations, but not until, but not through that committee, if that makes any sense. So this committee is gonna go and they're gonna make it seem like all of these investigations are frivolous and they're all witch hunts. Then they're gonna take it to the full house and say, Hey listen, we think this is stupid. They're going after Trump and we've gotta protect him. Let's vote to defund this office. That is how this is gonna go. It could also apply, by the way, to Capitol Rioters still awaiting trial. They could kill those investigations. They could also, through their connection with the House Intelligence Committee that I mentioned, get their hands on documents about social media's involvement with the F B I and the cia. Which to be honest on that one, I'm actually okay with I, I, I do think we need to know how our federal agencies are using social media as a propaganda tool, and we do know that's happening. Lee Lee Fong recently uncovered that. So that is a thing, and I'm okay with that one. I'm not okay. However, with Jim Jordan and these other Republicans getting their hands on classified documents about ongoing investigations that they shouldn't be sticking their nose into, that is only gonna lead to trouble. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdmHstMFxSs

Go to http://noom.com/ringoffire and take your free 30-second quiz! Thank you #noom for sponsoring today’s video! The news coming out this week about the investigation into the Trump Organization and Trump family has clearly left the Trumps terrified. Eric Trump is leading the attacks on New York Attorney General Letitia James, but the attacks only seem to underscore how scared the family is. The investigation is clearly focusing on the conduct of the family, and things could start unraveling very soon. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this. Link - https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/590440-five-things-to-know-about-the-new-york-ags-pursuit-of-trump Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Find our merchandise at Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/rof-store Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RingofFireRadio Google+: http://plus.google.com/118415831573195648557 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ Follow more of our stories at http://www.TROFIRE.com Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. We found out a lot of new information this week about the ongoing investigations into the Trump organization and the Trump family taking place in the state of New York. And most of this new information obviously came from the court, uh, filings of New York attorney general Latisha James. Now she had to file in court this week, a 115 page document explaining why she needs the Trump family to come and testify in the ongoing investigation. And this is because the Trump family of course, has tried to argue that no, we don't have to come in and talk with the investigators. We're totally fine. This is a totally part in which hunt that is targeting our family. Well, the documents that were filed in court seem to tell a completely different story. First and foremost, the documents show that there is clear discrepancies in the values that the Trump organization reported for certain properties to both tax authorities and the banks. And this is exactly what everybody had expected. The New York attorney general. And of course the Manhattan district attorney to be looking into whether o ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzBcH-K0fjo

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