Jim Herring and the 5th Congressional District Republican National Committe Chairman Rick Buchanan speak at the 2019 Virginia Republican National Convention in Powhatan, Virginia. The event was held in honor of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
00:00:00.720Well hello! How are you? Welcome to the heart of America, the heart of Virginia, and the
00:00:07.000heart of Powhatan, Virginia. We are glad to have you out here. I was in charge of one
00:00:11.880thing and that was weather. So how did I do? Did I do okay? Man, we've got a full slate
00:00:17.800of great Republican warriors out here to fight for your freedom and you guys are going to
00:00:22.920enjoy hearing from each and every one of them. My name is Jim Herring and we can't thank
00:00:27.640you enough. We've even got folks from North Carolina here. How about that? When
00:00:30.880you come all the way up from the Tar Heel State, you're okay with me. Thank you so
00:00:34.300much. Hey listen, we're gonna try to get through some stuff. We've got a lot of
00:00:38.200people we want to have speak. I want to tell you one of the things I love about
00:00:41.500the Republican Party is that we start each and every gathering the way we
00:00:45.340should. We start off with a prayer because God comes first. And I want to
00:00:48.880invite Pastor Tom Alvarez to come up here. Pastor Tom, could you please lead us in a
00:00:52.660prayer, please? Amen. Stand if you will, please. Our gracious and loving Heavenly
00:00:59.100Father, we're reminded as a psalmist said this morning, O Lord, my God, unto thee do
00:01:06.480we put our trust. Lord, we acknowledge that you are our creator. You're the giver
00:01:12.060and the sustainer of life. We magnify you and we bless you. Lord, we've been
00:01:17.560reminded this week that our freedoms as Americans was not free. Thank you for
00:01:25.560those who gave their lives, gave some their careers to defend our freedoms and
00:01:32.960our liberties. We remember them. We honor them. We thank you that our spiritual
00:01:39.060freedom was purchased by Jesus Christ there on Calvary. We thank you and we
00:01:44.620rejoice in that. We thank you for those that are involved in our government. Lord,
00:01:50.500we recognize that you ordained the church and the home and the government. And so we
00:01:56.660commit it to you. We commit them to you. We thank you for this time together
00:02:00.760tonight. We pray for each one who challenges us. May we be attentive. Lord, may we as
00:02:06.860your people be the salt and the light and the culture in which you've called us to
00:02:11.960live. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Thank you, Pastor Tom. Greatly appreciate it. As I
00:02:20.000said before, we always start everything off with a prayer because God comes first. But
00:02:23.540the second thing to Republicans is our family and our country. And I want to
00:02:27.440invite the chairman of the 5th Congressional District, Mr. Rick Buchanan to
00:02:31.700come up and lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you, Jim. We'll make this simple. I pledge
00:02:43.620allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. To the republic for which it stands. One nation under God. Indivisible. Liberty and justice for all.
00:02:58.620Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Greatly appreciate it. Next, we're going to invite a young man. I've had a chance to hear this man do this a number of times. I got to meet him several years ago. He's the newest member of the State Central Committee from the 5th Congressional District.
00:03:10.620I'd like to welcome up Daniel Bradshaw to sing the National Anthem.
00:03:13.620Please join me in our National Anthem.
00:03:17.620Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
00:03:37.620Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
00:03:47.620O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
00:03:56.620And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
00:04:05.620Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
00:04:14.620O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
00:04:15.620O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
00:04:16.620Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free
00:04:29.620O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
00:04:36.620O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
00:04:43.620to be honest, I can't hold the note as long as Daniel does. I tell you what, when I first,
00:04:50.940my county, my home county is Goochland. You guys can take a seat if you want. My home
00:04:55.080county is Goochland, and when we moved into the 5th Congressional District, I didn't know
00:04:58.480what to expect, because in my 43 years, 43 years now, of involvement in politics, I'd
00:05:04.560only met two politicians who really, I thought, spoke for me, and I really identified was.
00:05:10.220One was Ronald Wilson Reagan, who my son is named after. Ronald Reagan spoke for me,
00:05:15.760and a second one was Dave Bratt, and I'm glad Dave's going to be here. We'll talk about
00:05:19.340him a little bit later on, but when I came to the 5th, I didn't know what to expect,
00:05:22.840and when I first met Bob Good, you don't just meet Bob Good. You meet Bob and his beautiful
00:05:28.120wife, Tracy, and his family, because they all come as a team. That's what you get with Bob Good.
00:05:33.940When I first got to talking with Bob, I started going, man, this is a guy of integrity. This
00:05:39.360is a guy of character. This is a guy who really stands for something and believes in something,
00:05:44.900and he tells me the truth, and you know what? I'm telling you one thing. Bob Good does not back
00:05:50.260down from a fight, and that's what I was looking for. When I started learning more about my congressman,
00:05:55.720I realized my congressman does not kiss rings. My congressman does not answer to the party.
00:06:01.240My congressman answers to three things, country, commonwealth, and constituents. That's who my
00:06:06.640congressman answers for. My congressman does not stand down. My congressman stands up. Are you
00:06:12.840ready to stand up for my congressman? Put your hands together for congressman Bob Good.
00:06:18.240Well, I won't back down. No, I won't back down. You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I
00:06:40.840won't back down. You won't back down. No, I'll stand my ground. Won't be turned around. And I'll
00:06:53.480keep this world from back to you. Thank you so much for being here tonight. Thank you so much for being
00:06:58.820here. And I'll say it once again. I'm so thankful that y'all are here because I know y'all have had a
00:07:07.620hard weeks of work and to come on a Friday night and be here tonight because you care what's at
00:07:13.980stake for the country. You know that we're hanging by a thread. You know we're teeter on the edge of
00:07:18.600the cliff. You know what matters most. You realize that you've suffered far too much under the policies
00:07:24.280of the last four years. You know, the only people doing better than they were four years ago are the
00:07:28.120illegal aliens. They're the only ones doing better under this Biden administration. And so thank you for
00:07:33.300being here tonight. We haven't even gotten up to our advertised starting time. We're going to have
00:07:38.160obviously our special guest tonight. He's going to be doing his show live from here. So he's going
00:07:42.680to take over and do whatever he wants to with the show here. We're going to do war room right here
00:07:46.440from Powhatan County. Do you realize that if we were to take this crowd just right over here, this part,
00:07:55.900this is more people than have been at all the events our opponent has had since he launched his
00:08:01.080campaign in November. Just this part over here. We knew that y'all would turn out tonight. And because
00:08:08.800again, you guys love the country. You love the constitution. You love the founders. You love your
00:08:15.580freedoms. And you know that it's all at risk. So I just can't tell you how thankful we are the way
00:08:20.700you have propelled us in this campaign, the way you have prayed for us, the way that you have knocked
00:08:25.540the doors, the way that you've made the phone calls, the way you put up the signs, the way that you've
00:08:30.100had our back, the way you've advocated against the lies and the deceit and the deceptions with our
00:08:34.900opponents' campaign. Let me give you the real simple answer for the things that you hear about
00:08:38.660from my opponents' campaign. Two words. They're lying. That sums it up. Liars lie. And that's what's
00:08:45.980happened. The whole campaign is based on a lie. He lied to you all last summer when he said he wasn't
00:08:50.900going to run for something after running for state senate. And then, of course, two weeks, or actually
00:08:55.300just a week after he wins the election, before he's ever sworn in, he's changed his mind, decides he
00:08:59.640doesn't want to be a senator. And he decides he's going to run for Congress. And so the whole
00:09:05.700campaign's based on lies. The whole campaign's based on the seat. But we know that the people
00:09:09.880of the 5th District aren't going to let this seat be bought by the D.C. special interest,
00:09:15.940by the D.C. swamp. The 5th District congressional seat is not for sale.
00:09:19.860So thank you, thank you again. We can't say that enough. By the way, we know we're ahead. We know
00:09:28.200we're ahead. We're absolutely ahead in this race. And it's going to get uglier, and it's going to get
00:09:32.240nastier over the next 11 days. So brace for impact, because it's coming in the next 11 days,
00:09:37.420because they're in a panic. They're in a panic because they know that we're ahead. They know
00:09:41.800that people are behind us. I can tell you our door-knocking results, we're knocking tens of
00:09:46.020thousands of doors. Overwhelming support with the door-knocking. This past week, our numbers are
00:09:50.420holding steady. They know that we're ahead. So you're going to see that impact from the nastiness
00:09:55.420and the deceit and deception that you're going to get over these next 11 days. Little side note here,
00:10:00.460vote early. Don't do like the other side and vote often. Just vote early. Only vote for me one time.
00:10:05.520But vote early. Let me give you a few reasons why you want to vote early. Be the first person to cast a
00:10:09.160ballot in your name, number one. Number two, when you vote early, then that makes sure that
00:10:15.720that frees you up to work on election day. We need you at the polls, by the way, giving out
00:10:20.340information. So you want to vote early so you don't have to beat your poll in place. And then
00:10:24.540if there's an emergency or something happens on election day, you get called out of work or a
00:10:28.540family, you've already voted. So vote early so that you can volunteer and so you can help us on election
00:10:33.840day. So all right, we have, he is in the house, so to speak. The one, the only, Steve Bannon.
00:10:49.520Is there a happy hour or something after? There's got to be some reason to get you. Are we in the
00:11:13.980row room yet? Are you guys ready to fight? Are we live on, are we live at six o'clock? We
00:11:22.800are, we're six right here. Okay, good. Um, this is a great honor to come here. Powhatan, uh, the historic
00:11:30.560courthouse, this county, the good folks. You know, I'm from Richmond. I'm from, I'm from the North
00:11:35.280side. Very wild. Um, we're here and you guys are here on a, on a, on a Friday afternoon. You
00:11:48.440could be doing anything. Why? You love your country, right? And, and, and right now it is
00:11:54.900definitely in, um, how do I say this? It is right here of which way this country is going to go.
00:19:19.660And the Apostle Paul said, from now on, everybody leave me alone, because I bear in my body the marks of Christ.
00:19:26.660Steve Bannon bears in his body, euphemistically at least speaking, figuratively speaking, the marks of patriotism, of freedom, and of courage.
00:19:39.660He's literally put it all on the line for the country.
00:19:42.660Hell, I was on a Navy destroyer for, what, three and a half, four years?
00:19:52.660You know, prison not going to be that bad.
00:19:55.660By the way, it's just serving my country in a different way, right?
00:19:59.660You think I'm going to kowtow to Nancy Pelosi? Never.
00:22:58.660He wanted to take it out of the election year because the donors said, oh, my gosh, if it's in the election year and you're running these big deficits,
00:23:06.660which you'll do $2 trillion deficits, they're going to look around the table and say, well, hey, what are the billionaires?
00:24:47.660Well, if you go back to January, the deal that was made with the former Speaker, and Gates and I were among the six who had never actually voted for him,
00:24:54.660but we agreed to vote present because 14 of our colleagues had negotiated some changes that we gave them the leverage and the space to negotiate.
00:25:02.660And to Steve Bannon's point, McCarthy's mad at everybody who he holds responsible for him not being Speaker except himself.
00:25:10.660But he's the one who promised that we'd have a vote on a balanced budget.
00:25:24.660He promised that we'd go back to majority of the majority, meaning we wouldn't bring bills to the floor that didn't have a majority of Republican support.
00:25:32.660And then, to Steve's point, he passed that debt ceiling deal, predominantly with Democrat votes, and took the debt ceiling increase, not for a dollar amount even.
00:25:39.660He said, we're going to take it to January of 2025 for as much as Congress can come together and gleefully spend.
00:25:45.660And there's one thing Congress is good at, gleefully spending your hard-earned money.
00:25:49.660And they took it out to January of 2025.
00:25:52.660And then the final straw was September of 30, of 2023, 2022, 23, 23, was when he did the continuing resolution again with almost every Democrat vote.
00:38:45.660We believe in entrepreneurial capitalism.
00:38:47.660You don't want the lords of easy money on Wall Street, right?
00:38:50.660You don't want the techno-feudalism coming out of Silicon Valley.
00:38:53.660Every day you're fighting for civil liberties, civil rights, the liberties and freedoms that were bequeathed us after generation after generation.
00:39:05.660And the other side is a proto-fascist organization starting with the media that's their active partners.
00:39:12.660So how is it that we, and you still got these Republicans in there that don't mind giving the CIA, the FBI, and the DOJ the right to listen to you, to get your information, to see what you're doing?
00:39:25.660How are we the fascist party when they back legislation that's purely fascist and give it to people that are unworthy to have that?
00:39:35.660Can your savings weather an economic storm? Think about what you've put away for the future.
00:41:32.660When's the last time you checked your home's title?
00:41:34.660All a thief has to do is forge your signature, refile as the new owner.
00:41:40.660And once your home is not in your name, it can get really ugly and it can get really ugly fast.
00:41:46.660They can take out equity loans or even sell your house to an unsuspecting buyer who shows up at your door one day and says, hey, this baby is mine.
00:41:55.660Don't think your home insurance policy will protect you.
00:44:03.660Yeah, what we did with those omnibus spending bills that were passed at the end of March gave Secretary Mayorkas and the Department of Homeland Security a $3 billion raise to bring more illegals into the country.
00:44:18.660We should have defunded that department and refused to fund this government that's perpetrating the border invasion.
00:44:24.660Moreover, they gave the FBI $200 million to build a new headquarters.
00:44:31.660The two senators from Virginia have asked me in the past to sign on to trying to get the FBI headquarters in Virginia instead of Maryland.
00:44:37.660And I said, I don't want them to get $1 for a headquarters.
00:44:40.660As a matter of fact, I want to defund them, start over, and rebuild it from the ground up.
00:45:44.660And what he's talking about is the departments and the agencies of the federal government are supposed to be authorized.
00:45:51.660The programs are supposed to be authorized every so many years, typically five years.
00:45:55.660We've got hundreds of them for hundreds of billions of dollars that have not been authorized in decades, in decades.
00:46:02.660And yet we still give them the money to keep doing stuff to you while they're pretending to do stuff for you.
00:46:09.660And we control the power of the purse, the Republicans.
00:46:11.660We could absolutely shut down this government, defund the weaponization, not give them the money to keep doing the things that we campaign against.
00:46:24.660And Trump's team, you know, those guys at CRA and American Policy Institute, American First Policy Institute, Heritage, go on the sites and read it.
00:47:16.660That's one of the things, a Russ vote, and remember, Russ was the deputy OMB director under President Trump, then the OMB director.
00:47:23.660You ask Russ anything on the budget, $7 trillion, he'll say, Russ will say, give me five minutes, and he'll come in with the answer.
00:47:33.660One of the answers is to start to force DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, all the intelligence, make them come in front of you guys, make them make a presentation, have the questions and answers, the due diligence, and then let's put it to a vote.
00:47:51.660You're going to shrink the federal government by 10% right off the box programmatically because they say, no, you were never authorized to do that.
00:47:58.660You shouldn't have done it, and you're not going to do it in the future.
00:48:00.660Yeah, we ought to cut some half a trillion dollars from the federal government.
00:48:04.660Most of the discretionary spending is totally unjustified, totally unconstitutional.
00:48:54.660I'm proud of that title of National Committee Woman.
00:48:57.660But I'm more proud of my title of being a charter member of the Posse.
00:49:02.660We have a new Republican Party, and we're never, ever going back.
00:49:15.660The reason I have been everywhere that Bob Good needed me during this campaign, and I will through the entire process, is that this isn't really about an opponent virtually.
00:50:03.660We are used to seeing Republicans up there fighting back when our own leadership is corrupt, when they turn their back on the grassroots, when they ignore the Constitution.
00:50:14.660We are used to having people speak up now and say something and inform us so we can speak up.
00:50:26.660People went there and all they cared about was keeping their nose clean so they could get the money they needed and they could get the committee chairmanships they wanted.
00:50:35.660And, frankly, the grassroots were not thought of.
00:53:06.660You've got these forever wars exploding all over the place.
00:53:09.660Now, I happen to think that immediately President Trump can get into this fiasco in Ukraine and cut a peace deal because they were never done if he was president.
00:53:19.660I think he'd do the same thing in Israel, right, because they were never done if he was president.
00:53:34.660And remember, Biden and those guys haven't seen any spending bill they didn't love.
00:53:39.660And I'm talking trillions of dollars of side pocket deals and this deal.
00:53:43.660But when those tax cuts, when President Trump is president and those tax cuts that have helped you so much in business, when they revert back, all of a sudden these guys, oh, my God, you can't have a tax cut.
00:53:55.660It's going to be so important for the House Freedom Caucus to work with the president, to work with, I hope, the new either deputy secretary of treasury, the head of OMB again, Russ Vogt, and the team over there to say, we're going to have to have some pay-fors.
00:54:11.660We're not going to have – these budgets are so out of control, we need to have some logical cuts in the budgets to make sure that we're offsetting at least part of the tax cuts so the tax cuts can get back to what they were doing under President Trump's terms.
00:55:00.660Pro-America growth policies that are important for the economy because we've got to grow our way out of this deficit.
00:55:06.660In addition to cutting the wasteful spending.
00:55:09.660And President Trump in the fair trade, he's going to use the tariffs as a bludgeon, right?
00:55:14.660He's going to bludgeon these other nations.
00:55:16.660I believe what you're going to see under President Trump is a whole restructuring of the economic order with something that's not the madness that we had with this post-war international rules-based order where they gamed the system, the elites gamed the system for their own benefit, the party of Davos, and gutted the middle class here and gutted the working class here of all the great high-value-added manufacturing jobs.
01:01:24.660And this is why the Freedom Caucus, we keep bringing it up, but can you think of anyone outside of the Freedom Caucus that's fighting on these three issues?
01:02:46.660And if, just in general, if someone, if a candidate can't commit to the issues ahead of time, which is not happening, what are they going to do when they get there?
01:03:49.660Paul Ryan, me and Gary Palmer and a couple other good guys go in there and say, hey, we found, Mr. Speaker, we found we're paying $40 billion to dead people.
01:03:58.660Does it seem reasonable to you we could save the $40 billion we're paying to dead people?
01:10:14.660And it's easy sometimes to point to China and big tech and all the bad guys, but part of this, the revolution has to start here when we look in the mirror every morning, right?
01:10:26.660We can do a lot with the church, with the politics, with the kids.
01:10:32.660We can get a lot of the job done if we do it, right?
01:10:35.660So it's action, and you all help me, right?
01:10:38.660With no money, I sent out like an email, right?
01:10:41.660A page, and you all shoved that thing out to your entire list, not to a few buddies.
01:10:46.660You sent that email out to your entire list.
01:14:41.660The Freedom Caucus, we actually, the members, choose the chairman of the Freedom Caucus.
01:14:45.660But the committees, they're not chosen by the members.
01:14:48.660The party chooses it based on, number one, you've got to raise a bunch of money for the party.
01:14:52.660Number two, you've got to do what the party tells you to do, not what your constituents want you to do, not what's right, not what honors the Constitution.
01:14:59.660And then number three, you've got to be an established and moderate rhino.
01:15:02.660That's how you get to be a chairman of a committee.
01:15:04.660Well, this was a chairman of a committee, and I was fighting for change, arguing for something.
01:15:08.660And this guy gets up and he says, I've been here 30 years.
01:16:07.660When Brad's sitting there saying he was a professor at Randolph-Macon, liberal arts professor, correct me if I'm wrong, isn't that the first job you actually ever had?
01:17:21.660And Congressman Bob Good knows that it's not military that it was back then and is fighting to make it the same as it was because that's what worked.
01:17:30.660We should be focused on war fighting, not, you know, gender theory and pronouns.
01:17:36.660Because if China and Russia come, what are we going to do?
01:18:48.660You know, I pledged last year not to fund the government without the border security and I voted against every spending bill since then.
01:18:57.660Number three, will you go out on the record, sign your name and a pledge, I will not vote for any more Ukraine funding or any other endless wars unless they go through a War Powers Act and goes through the proper, up through the presidency and through the Congress where it belongs.
01:19:15.660What he said and also that we don't borrow it.
01:19:18.660We can't borrow it from our kids and our grandkids.
01:19:21.660And we shouldn't throw $9.5 billion to fund Hamas when we're giving support to Israel.
01:19:30.660Because of him, I get to talk to a lot of candidates these days around the country.
01:19:35.660I put that test to about 40 people this year.
01:19:39.660None of them will say yes to that test in public, right?
01:19:43.660And you just got a guy on camera that just said, I will.
01:21:07.660And one of the things I say to the other 200 Republicans is I'll say to them, we will never save the country until it becomes more important to us to leave here having made a difference than it is to see how long we can stay.
01:21:19.660At the end of the day, most of them, their priority is to see how long they can stay.
01:21:24.660And they tell themselves, well, I can't do the right things.
01:21:26.660I can't do the tough things because I might not get reelected so that I can keep on doing not the right things and not the tough things.
01:21:35.660How do you put your head on your pillow at night and you're talking to your maker when you know you're not there for the right reasons doing the right things?
01:21:45.660I think they tell themselves, we'll fight next time.
01:22:45.660Some of them are afraid because they want to become a committee chair or they want to get on the money committee where you get the money for being on that committee.
01:22:52.660They didn't put me on any money committees.
01:22:54.660The budget committee doesn't get any money.
01:22:55.660The education committee doesn't get any money.
01:23:00.660But part of it, I think about the Daniel.
01:23:01.660Daniel said, Daniel, when he went, when he went to Babylon, he had purposed in his heart that he would please the Lord and not please the king of Babylon.
01:23:09.660He knew who he was when he went there.
01:23:12.660He went there and he was and he took a stand and he stood alone and he influenced Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.
01:23:18.660And they stood even without him when they would when they were cast in the fiery furnace because they knew whose they were.
01:23:22.660As Patty Lyman said earlier, that's what it's about.
01:23:25.660It's about knowing who you are, why you're there, who you're there for, what you stand for.
01:23:30.660And I've got to my right here, your left, my wife of nearly 36 years and two of my children are over here.
01:23:36.660They're grown now and I've got a couple of grandchildren's here and a daughter in law and and I've got one son, one daughter, one daughter in law and three grand.
01:23:47.660No, two grandchildren over there, Tracy, make sure.
01:23:49.660But I want to be able to look them in the eye and they know that when I come back home from D.C.
01:23:54.660that I did what I told them I would do.
01:23:56.660And when I leave D.C. and I hope it's at least a couple of years longer, I hope you're all going to keep me a couple of years longer.
01:24:03.660One of my prayers is, Lord, help me to be more concerned about offending you than I am about offending them.
01:24:10.660Help me to be more concerned about not offending you by what I don't say than I am about offending others by what I do say.
01:24:19.660You know, I got asked about it this week at a forum because I said on the House floor something I've said so many times.
01:24:24.660And really, when you break it down, this is what it's about.
01:24:27.660Almost everything that plagues our country, that plagues our society and plagues our culture is a failure to follow God's design for morality, for marriage and the family.
01:24:40.660Now, how many of us have imperfect families and imperfect past and life gets messy?
01:24:58.660I'm thankful to have a couple of dozen warriors like the day brats of the world fighting along beside me, man, because we help influence those other Republicans.
01:25:07.660But as my friend Matt Gaetz likes to say, our friend Matt Gaetz, you can't change Washington with the people who are in Washington.
01:25:18.660I'm trying to help reelect and elect courageous conservative warriors around the country so that we have more reinforcements in Washington.
01:25:53.660And by the way, tomorrow morning we have McGinley on exactly on your question about the steal because it's got to be answered.
01:25:58.660And the answer is quite imperfect right now.
01:26:00.660It's going to get better, but quite imperfect.
01:26:02.660But starting on the 20th, when he takes his hand off the King James Bible and we're back in power, those first hundred days are everything.
01:26:11.660On Capitol Hill right now, you know this, they're working nonstop because they know Trump's coming back to de-Trumpify everything out there.
01:26:19.660Bob Good, how do we take the burden off President Trump right now to make sure that he's got a runway that he can really hit it when he gets back in?
01:26:27.660A couple of things they're going to try to do, and you watch this, they're going to try to fund the government for another year from October 1 to September 30 of next year.
01:26:37.660And they're going to say that they're trying to help the president, that we're going to clean out the barn for him, we're going to clear the deck so he doesn't come in in his first quarter and have to worry about the funding of the government because what they don't want to do is allow President Trump and a Republican Senate, I hope led by Rick Scott, and a new Republican House majority, have us fund the government with the Republican priorities on a policy standpoint, but also taking steps towards balancing the budget and eliminating the deficit.
01:27:01.620They don't want to allow us to do that. So you're going to see just what happened two years ago when Mitch McConnell got together with Chuck Schumer, and they did it with that Christmas omnibus two years ago, they're going to try to do that again.
01:27:12.880So that's the battle right now that we're going to have from a funding standpoint.
01:27:15.700The other thing that the Biden administration is trying to do is to make it harder to fire federal employees, because quite frankly, we could probably fire half of them and we wouldn't miss them.
01:27:26.120Do you know 80%? 80% of federal employees haven't come back to work in office since COVID. 80% of them. But you know what? Some of them came back to protest having to work in person.
01:27:39.780They literally showed up in person to protest having to come back to work in person.
01:27:44.800So the Biden administration is trying to make it harder to fire federal employees before he gets out the door because he knows President Trump's going to come in and he's going to clean house and he's going to bring a reckoning
01:27:54.740because the deep state is embedded in all those departments and those agencies.
01:28:00.120Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. They're also trying to they're also trying to make sure he can't cut funding in Ukraine.
01:28:05.460He can't put sanctions. He can't take sanctions off Russia. He wants to negotiate on every aspect, either the border, the spending, the border in the forever wars.
01:28:14.080They're trying to de-Trumpify right now. What can you do to take leadership and make sure that President Trump has a Trump second term,
01:28:23.140not an Obama-Biden first year of a second term?
01:28:26.560Yeah, it's all about there's one of two things that are going to happen to save the country when it comes to the Congress.
01:28:30.940It's either the people in Congress grow courage and show unprecedented courage and resolve to do what we told you we would do.
01:28:38.580We get all Republicans do that. We don't need one Democrat vote to do that because we can do it out of the House
01:28:43.160and just say no to the Senate and make the Senate cave for once instead of the Republican House cave.
01:28:48.360If we fund the government implementing the priorities that we're talking about and eliminating the stuff that we run against
01:28:55.380and we campaign against, it's got to be more than just campaign talking points and slogans, right?
01:28:59.400It's got to be action behind. If we do that and we fund the government by September 30,
01:29:04.000so therefore we're funding it for the next year with our priorities,
01:29:08.000then it's the Democrats in the Senate who choose to shut down the government.
01:29:11.760They want to shut down the government. God bless them. Shut it down. We don't care.
01:29:14.440And that's what they don't understand. They're addicted to government. They're addicted to spending.
01:29:19.620So that's a critical piece of it is the funding of the government.
01:29:22.720I'll tell you one other thing that ties into what Steve was just talking about, the WHO.
01:29:27.320Right now, right now, the Biden administration, this is the most important, least talked about issue.
01:29:34.080The Biden administration is trying to surrender our national sovereignty to the WHO,
01:29:39.380which is an extension of the UN, which is a tool of the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party,
01:29:43.900and they want to surrender the WHO, our sovereignty when it comes to the next health pandemic,
01:29:49.680where they could declare a health emergency. They could declare a climate emergency.
01:29:54.000They could declare a poverty emergency. They could declare a gun emergency.
01:29:57.420What do they think is a gun violence emergency?
01:29:59.520And then we would have to comply with what the WHO says.
01:30:03.400The Biden administration is trying to put us under the WHO.
01:30:06.600We shouldn't do it anyway, but if we were going to do it, obviously, it ought to be a Senate treaty
01:30:10.380where senators have to go on the record whether or not to vote for that.
01:31:49.620Think about what he just – what if we just said we're not going to give the Department of Injustice any money until they end and reverse all this lawfare against our patriots?
01:32:20.100It's Bob Good, but what Bob Good stands for, which is you.
01:32:23.920Remember, on the 18th of June, Kevin McCarthy's revenge tour has to end right here.
01:32:31.760You've got to send a message to Kevin McCarthy and all those donors that are out to get Eli Crane and out to get Matt Gaetz and Bob Good and the backbone that got us at least a little bit we got.
01:33:32.860I stand behind everything I've done and said from when Tracy and I first answered that call, when others came and asked us to run for office, very different than my opponent.
01:33:50.480I've run for two things in my life, county supervisor and Campbell County, because other people came when I was 50 years old and asked me to run for county supervisor.
01:33:57.400And Tracy and I said, let's find somebody else.
01:33:59.440We'll pray about finding somebody else, and we couldn't.
01:34:41.000I fought and stood for the right things.
01:34:42.820I tell you what, if I was looking out for Bob Good, I would do very differently in Washington than I've done over these past three and a half years.
01:35:00.260We're going to end it with the patron hero that's going to win the Commonwealth of Virginia on the 5th of November this year, Donald J. Trump.