Sen. Johnson: Why Trump Needs a ‘Secretary of Information Extraction’ to Restore Transparency

American Thought Leaders

Jan Jekielek

Government, News, Politics

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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As part of our special series on the U.S. presidential transition period, I’m sitting down with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.).

In the next Congress, Johnson will become chairman again of the homeland security committee’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which has uniquely powerful subpoena powers to investigate crime and corruption within the U.S. government and beyond.

In this wide-ranging episode, we dive into the future of the Make America Healthy Again movement; what Johnson believes key steps are for the incoming administration to restore transparency, scientific integrity, and small government; and why Congress needs to retake its oversight authority.

“Our oversight authority is probably our greatest authority and greatest responsibility. ... We’ve got to fund government. But then once we funded it, we need to take a look at what we funded. … What we passed, did it actually work?”

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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0:00.0	As I'm meeting with them, we're talking about, you know, what's going to be our strategy.
0:03.0	Now, I've said publicly what President Trump really needs to appoint,
0:06.0	we're nominated as the Secretary of Information Extraction.
0:09.0	As I'm talking to these people, if I have one concern is they may be a little bit too optimistic
0:15.0	of how capable they will be of providing this information.
0:19.0	As part of our special series on the U.S. presidential transition period, I'm sitting down
0:24.8	with Ron Johnson, Republican Senator for Wisconsin.
0:28.3	In the next Congress, Johnson will again become chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security
0:33.0	and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which has uniquely powerful subpoena
0:38.7	powers to investigate crime and corruption within the U.S. government and beyond.
0:43.5	Johnson has been a strong proponent of Maha, or the Make America Healthy Again movement.
0:48.3	What you need at the top of these agencies are people who have the willingness to fight,
0:55.1	have demonstrated their willingness to fight, but it can also articulate what it is they need to do.
0:59.8	You've got to win the political argument.
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