The House Oversight Committee will not allow former President Joe Biden's White House physician, scheduled to testify today, to limit the scope of the questions that can be asked him or the answers he is expected to give, Rep. Andy Biggs told Newsmax on Wednesday.
The Arizona Republican, who is a member of the House Oversight Committee, told "Wake Up America" that Dr. Kevin O'Connor, the former White House physician who served as Biden's doctor both as president and as vice president, is supposed to testify about Biden's mental fitness and his administration's use of the autopen.
O'Connor requested a delay in his testimony, which was denied.
Biggs insisted that, "Dr. O'Connor needs to come in. I believe he'll show up ... Our team is going to ask everything regarding ... Biden's mental capacity."
The congressman said that O'Connor won't be able to hide behind doctor-patient privilege or executive privilege, saying "my guess is he is going to try and skirt them on an individual one-by-one basis as they are asked."
Biggs said that if O'Connor does this, or uses the Fifth Amendment frequently, then the committee will have to decide whether to hold him in contempt of Congress.
Biggs emphasized that doctor-patient privilege is a creation of the courts and not Congress.
He added that "you have a Constitutional crisis if a physician can come in and lie to the public and hide the incapacities of the president, whether physical or mental."
The congressman stressed that "we are not going to allow the doctor-patient privilege to get in the way of understanding that the most powerful person on the planet is not capable of fulfilling his job."
It is also vital to know who was operating the autopen and was there a cover up and misconduct, and if so, who should be charged and prosecuted for such acts, Biggs said.
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