Fox News "The Ingraham Angle" - Transcript: Interview with Sen. John Barrasso
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INGRAHAM: Here now, the Republican ranking on the Energy Committee overseeing the nom is Wyoming Senator John Barrasso. All right, Senator, Stone-Manning lied about this incident and her confirmation hearing, and still the so-called moderates, Manchin, Sinema, Kelly, it looks like they are going to vote yes.
SEN. JOHN BARRASSO, (R-WY) SENATE ENERGY COMMITTEE RANKING MEMBER: She is unfit to oversee the public lands of the United States. She was involved as a ringleader in this eco-terrorism, this tree-spiking, 500 pounds of spikes into trees in a national forest. And you say, what do these spikes look like. Here is one of them right now. This is what these spikes look like. They are big, long, can do significant damage, and especially if one of these is struck by a logger or a firefighter, or even a sawmill, where a blade, a saw, a blade would strike this, that could break, kill the person. People have been terribly injured with this sort of thing.
So here she is, she covered it up for four years until she was caught. And then she caught a plea deal and testified against others who went to prison. But spikes like this are still in trees in the national forest. People are still at risk. And since she testified, folks have come forward to say she lied under oath to the United States Senate. She is not trustworthy.
INGRAHAM: Well, you knew Joe Biden. He's a senator, got along with people. Tonight at his town hall and on CNN, he talked about his old friendship with Strom Thurmond and invoked Arlen Specter, and so forth. He is a real bipartisan guy, Senator Barrasso. Do you think in what you've seen, this nomination been one of the examples, that this is a real bipartisan administration that really wants to work with you all? Is that what you think?
BARRASSO: No, not at all. If we're going to vote on this in committee tomorrow, every Republican is voting no. Every Republican sent President Biden a letter to say withdraw her nomination. Democrats are going to have to decide by themselves. You mentioned Mark Kelly from Arizona, Catherine Cortez Masto from Nevada, another senator from a state with lots of public lands. Everyone is going to be held accountable for their vote.
And Tracy Stone-Manning continues to try to cover up what she's done. But the people that have come forward, one is the special agent, federal investigator, who did this case, who has received death threats as a result of it, and he has come forward to say, she lied. The other person that came forward to say she lied was one of the criminals who went to jail. So we have both the cop and the criminal saying she lied.
INGRAHAM: Senator, this is another radical populating the administration. I hope the Republicans stand firm on this infrastructure scam as well. We'll be watching. Thank you.
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