{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/icymi-grassley-joins-newsmax-to-discuss-his-arctic-frost-oversight-and-the-democrats-government-shutdown", "ICYMI: Grassley Joins Newsmax to Discuss His Arctic Frost Oversight and the Democrats\u2019 Government Shutdown", "2025-11-04", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "Senate", "IA", "Chuck Grassley", "G000386", "www.grassley.senate.gov", "grassley", "https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined \u201cThe Briefing\u201d with Ed Henry on Newsmax to discuss his release of 197 subpoenas former Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team issued as part of the indiscriminate \u201cArctic Frost\u201d election case against President Donald Trump. Henry and Newsmax were among Smith\u2019s targets.\n\nIn emails released by Grassley earlier this year, one of Jack Smith\u2019s weaponized prosecutors, J.P. Cooney, said, \u201cCan we do some work to nail down Trump\u2019s role in this, perhaps with some process on Ed Henry\u2019s LLC?\u201d Whistleblower records recently provided to Grassley then showed Smith sought records from Apple relating to Trump, Henry and the January 6 prison choir. Smith later obtained a court order to hide the subpoena's existence.\n\nVideo and excerpts of Grassley\u2019s remarks follow:\n\nVIDEO\n\nOn the latest in Grassley\u2019s Arctic Frost investigation:\n\n\u201cWell, of course, until now, we thought they were just after \u2013 to ruin President Trump and put Trump in prison and ruin him financially. Now, we know it was a fishing expedition to go after Republican organizations, people connected to Republicans [and] people that are conservative. Even Charlie Kirk's organization, TPUSA, was involved with this.\n\n\u201cSo, it was very much a fishing expedition. And I think that they were spreading a wide net because they were looking for anything they could to hook on Trump, [to] put Trump in prison, keep him from running for president, and things of that nature.\n\n\u201cBut Jack [Smith] subpoenaed all this stuff, and thank God the whistleblowers told us about it, gave us the documents, and that's why your name came out.\u201d\n\nOn what comes next for Congress' Arctic Frost oversight:\n\n\u201c...[T]he information that Pam Bondi put out about President Trump's telephone and his records, I released that back in March based upon information I got from whistleblowers.\n\n\u201c...[W]e have to get more documents from the bowels of the Department of Justice. And in those bowels of the Department of Justice are a lot of people that don't want this information out because they're probably very, very close to the liberal organizations in this town.\n\n\u201cBut, when we get these documents, we're going to have hearings and get the information out. If there's prosecution, that's obviously got to come from the executive branch of government, not from [Congress]. But I hope to expose enough information so that that would happen.\u201d\n\nOn FBI documents and the Comey case:\n\n\u201cWell, a lot of the documents we've gotten from the FBI have come from that same burn room that you had in your question, and I think the documents that have been available today give more evidence to the fact that Comey lied to the Congress of the United States. And I think that that's very important.\u201d\n\nOn ending Democrats\u2019 government shutdown:\n\n\u201cWell, for the first time this week, there's some talk about reaching an end to it. It isn't reached yet, but we were told to plan to be in session this weekend, if we can actually get it done this week.\n\n\u201cIf it doesn't, it's going to carry over, and I don't know how long could go on. But this is the first best news we had that it could end. And besides the air traffic controllers and shut down airspace, there's 42 million Americans that are on food stamps that can't get food stamps.\n\nAnd people are going to the checkout counter, finding out that there isn't any money in their debit card from the food stamps, and they leave crying, in sobs.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/icymi-grassley-joins-newsmax-to-discuss-his-arctic-frost-oversight-and-the-democrats-government-shutdown"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8429042063653469, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}