'Record of disaster': GOP rep. scoffs at 'ridiculous' White House economic claim

FOR SURE. >> DOESN'T WORK ANYWHERE. ASHLEY: NO. EXACTLY. REPORTERS ARE PUSHING BACK ON THE WHITE HOUSE CLAIMS THAT BIDENOMICS HAVE BEEN POPULAR. WATCH THIS. >> THE PRESIDENT'S ECONOMIC POLICIES ARE INCREDIBLY POPULAR. >> ACCORDING TO OUR LAST POLL 54-36% SAY DONALD TRUMP DID A BETTER JOB HANDLING THE ECONOMY WHEN HE WAS PRESIDENT THAN BIDEN HAS DONE SO FAR. >> WHEN WE CAME INTO OFFICE, AFTER FOUR YEARS

OF DONALD TRUMP , UNEMPLOYMENT WAS OVER 6%, AND TODAY, WE ARE STANDING HERE AT A TIME WHERE UNEMPLOYMENT IS AT HISTORIC LOWS. WE'VE RECOVERED OUR ECONOMY HAS RECOVERED FASTER THAN ANY MAJOR ECONOMY IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. ASHLEY: OKAY, CONGRESSMAN BYRON DONALDS IS HERE AND GREAT TO SEE YOU, CONGRESSMAN. THEY HAVE A SHORT MEMORY DON'T THEY, AT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION. DONALD TRUMP'S ECONOMY PRIOR TO COVID WAS

AT A 50-YEAR HIGH. IT WAS REALLY HUMMING ALONG. MY QUESTION TO YOU IS IS BIDEN'S ECONOMY WORKING FOR VOTERS? >> WELL LOOK. I'M REALLY GLAD THIS IS THE TOPIC BECAUSE I WATCHED SOME OF THIS PRESSER. IT WAS RIDICULOUS. THEY DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT ECONOMICS ARE OVER AT THE WHITE HOUSE EXCEPT OF COURSE IF YOU'RE TAKING MONEY FROM BURISMA, THEN THAT WORKS OUT FOR YOU BUT I'LL

DIGRESS AND LEAVE THAT FOR ANOTHER DAY. LISTEN. EVERYBODY'S INCOMES HAVE FALLEN WHEN YOU ADJUST FOR INFLATION IN THE BIDEN ECONOMY. UNDER THE TRUMP ECONOMY, BLACK VOTERS WERE EARNING MORE MONEY, BUILDING MORE WEALTH. THE AMERICAN DREAM WAS TANGIBLE FOR SO MANY AMERICANS. IN THIS ECONOMY, HERE, WE ARE STAGNATING VERY VERY FAST. INTEREST RATES ARE HIGHER. BANKS HAVE SERIOUS CONCERNS. OUR ENERGY SYSTEM IS ACTUALLY BECOMING MORE DEPENDENT

ON FOREIGN SOURCES. I MEAN, WE CAN GO DOWN THE LIST. LABOR PARTICIPATION RATE IS LOWER THAN IT SHOULD BE, AND WE COULD HAVE COME OUT OF THE PANDEMIC IF JOE BIDEN TOOK THE OATH AND JUST DID NO HARM. IF HE JUST SAT IN THE OVAL OFFICE AND DID NOTHING OUR ECONOMY WOULD HAVE REBOUNDED SIGNIFICANTLY FASTER THAN IT DID WITHOUT THIS CRIPPLING INFLATION WHICH HAS HURT EVERYBODY.

THAT IS THE BIDEN ECONOMIC RECORD WHICH IS A RECORD OF DISASTER WHICH IS WHY VOTERS ALMOST 2-1 WANT DONALD TRUMP BACK BECAUSE HE ACTUALLY KNOWS HOW TO RUN THE ECONOMY IN A SUCCESSFUL WAY FOR ALL AMERICANS ASHLEY: LET'S CHANGE TOPICS. ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK GARLAND IS GOING TO TESTIFY IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE IN SEPTEMBER BUT YOU SAY GARLAND DOES NOT HAVE CLEAN HANDS BECAUSE

OF HIS ROLE IN THE HUNTER BIDEN INVESTIGATION. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT? >> OH, BY A NUMBER OF THINGS. WE NOW HAVE SWORN TESTIMONY FROM A SUPERVISORY AGENT AT THE IRS THAT DAVID WEISS, WHO WAS THE U.S. ATTORNEY IN DELAWARE LOOKING INTO HUNTER BIDEN, THAT HE DID NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO BRING CHARGES IN SEVERAL JURISDICTIONS. THAT DAVID WEISS WANTED TO BE A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR

SO THAT HE COULD BE FREE FROM THE CLUTCHES OF MERRICK GARLAND AND THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND HE WAS TOLD NO BY MERRICK GARLAND. MERRICK GARLAND, MEANWHILE, SAYS VERY GLIBLY IN A HIGHLY LEGAL STATEMENT THAT BASICALLY, DAVID WEISS HAD FULL CONTROL AND AUTONOMY TO DO WHATEVER HE WANTED. WELL SOMEBODY'S LYING AND IT APPEARS TO ME THAT'S MERRICK GARLAND AND THE REASON WHY THAT DOES NOT SHOCK

ME IS BECAUSE THIS IS THE SAME ATTORNEY GENERAL WHO TRIED TO HAVE PARENT S BECOME DOMESTIC TERRORISTS BECAUSE THEY CARED ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THEIR KIDS CLASSROOMS. THIS IS THE SAME ATTORNEY GENERAL THAT PROSECUTED A FATHER TRYING TO PROTECT HIS SON WHO WERE ACTUALLY PROTESTING PEACEFULLY IN FRONT OF AN ABORTION CLINIC AND HE WENT AFTER THAT FATHER. SO IN MY VIEW, MERRICK GARLAND DOESN'T

HAVE CLEAN HANDS. IN MY VIEW WITH RESPECT TO THESE MATTERS, AROUND HUNTER BIDEN, THIS IS OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, AND WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO DO THESE INVESTIGATIONS, SO WHEN HE COMES TO JUDICIARY ON SEPTEMBER 2, I'M IN THE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE. I'M IN THE HEARING ROOM NEXT DOOR. I'M GOING TO BE PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT MERRICK GARLAND SAYS BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY WHAT HE DOES NOT SAY AND

WHAT HE TRIES TO WEASEL HIS WAY OUT OF. ASHLEY: YOU COVERED A LOT OF GROUND. CONGRESSMAN, THANK YOU SO MUCH