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00:00:03.000Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.
00:00:10.000Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.
00:00:13.000He could cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:00:16.000So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.
00:00:20.000If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer, if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground, then welcome, my fellow patriots!
00:00:56.000I've got a terrific report from the Arizona-Mexico border with Pinell County Sheriff Mark Lamb.
00:01:02.000You're not going to believe the tactics and strategies that smugglers are using to penetrate our border, to abuse our system of asylum, and really to reshape America in a very negative way.
00:01:14.000So I'm going to have that report from Sheriff Lamb.
00:01:16.000It's just the beginning in a series of reports that we're going to start sharing from the southern border.
00:01:21.000If we do not solve the southern border issue, If we do not engage in internal enforcement of our immigration laws, we will lose America.
00:01:29.000This must be a focus of Republicans in Washington.
00:01:32.000We've also got reports from the front line of the culture war, the latest what's going on in Washington, D.C. And we even check in on a Democrat who is throwing some shade at Adam Schiff, a California Democrat.
00:01:48.000But first, definitely want to thank all of our viewers.
00:01:52.000This is our 32nd episode, 17 and a half million combined downloads and views, and we are grateful for each and every one of them.
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00:02:33.000Now, Kevin McCarthy is the current minority leader.
00:02:36.000There are times on this program where I've been a critic of his, where others have criticized some of the decisions he's made, but he has been dead on on gas prices.
00:02:46.000All over America, we're seeing the impacts of inflation realized through energy.
00:02:52.000And it's not just at the pump where you see that inflation is a problem.
00:02:55.000Gas prices affect your consumer goods.
00:02:58.000They affect the services that you use.
00:03:00.000They affect even the food you eat when it comes to the costs that are built in.
00:03:05.000At the very beginning of the Biden presidency, Kevin McCarthy signposted that this was going to be an issue, that there were going to be a series of policy choices that Joe Biden was committed to, that his executive agencies would execute, that would really harm America.
00:03:23.000Go and look at what the price of oil is today and what you pay for in gasoline.
00:03:28.000I promise you, a year from now, the action of what this president has done has only increased it.
00:03:34.000The affordability is going to go through the roof.
00:03:37.000Remember, gas price today, national gas price, has not been this high since President Biden was vice president.
00:03:44.000The policies of Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden are destroying this nation.
00:03:49.000We've got gasoline lines, we've got stations that have no gas, we've got gasoline in Virginia, $7 a gallon.
00:03:55.000Six months of Biden administration, we have the highest gas prices in seven years.
00:04:00.000After his policies caused gas prices to skyrocket, he said he would lower the gas price.
00:04:05.000He hasn't done it, he's even made it worse.
00:04:07.000And no, not the measly two cents, the GCCC thinks is lowering it, is a reduction.
00:04:15.000He depleted 50 million barrels of oil from our emergency ply and has done nothing to reverse this anti-American energy agenda that he has contributed despite our costs.
00:04:28.000He was absolutely right on that front.
00:04:30.000And we all know Kevin McCarthy wants to be Speaker of the House.
00:04:33.000And if he ultimately becomes Speaker, which I think is not a certainty, we've got to go through a series of elections before then, his leadership on the issue of energy will be one reason why.
00:04:47.000Leah Thomas, the record-breaking women's swimmer.
00:04:55.000It's kind of grotesque, if you think about it, that the NCAA would be willing to wipe away all of the generational gains that have been made in women's sports following Title IX, following equitable allocation of resources, With this ridiculous embrace of wokeism at the expense of female athletes.
00:05:19.000More and more women who are using athletics for self-betterment, for an education, for achievement, for success, are resenting the fact that you've got Leah Thomas Clearly someone who shouldn't be competing in women's swimming out there doing just that.
00:05:36.000Rapid Fire Pod caught up with a Virginia Tech swimmer who had had enough.
00:05:43.000It's a common conception that we are all very disappointed and frustrated with someone who has capabilities more than us women have to be able to compete at this level and take opportunities away from other women.
00:05:55.000Like I have a teammate who did not make finals today because she was just bumped out of finals.
00:06:00.000It's heartbreaking to see someone who went through puberty as a male and has the body of a male be able to absolutely blow away the competition and you go into it with a mindset that you don't have a chance, if that makes sense.
00:06:14.000It's hard to compete against someone with the aerobic capacity, the muscle development, the body of a man.
00:06:21.000It's hard to think about it like that.
00:06:23.000And staying positive, I bet, for other swimmers who are in that heat is probably Overwhelming.
00:06:29.000I'm not sure I can't speak for them, but it's disappointing to see and frustrating, definitely.
00:06:34.000And you said that one of your teammates was crying today because she didn't make the finals.
00:06:39.000You said that she was 17th and there were 16 spots.
00:06:43.000So Leah Thomas took one of those spots.
00:06:46.000Talk to us about what your teammate was going through and that experience.
00:06:50.000She was very emotional and it's hard to see because it's her last NCAAs and she really loves that race and it was just heartbreaking to see that she put all her effort into it today and when the best time that she went in a morning session before and still not make it back.
00:07:04.000It's hard to see someone who works every day every night still not be able to compete against someone like that.
00:07:12.000This is why I'm against women in the draft and why I'm against men competing in women's sports because obviously men and women are different.
00:07:24.000For too long we've tried to pretend like men and women are the same but Biblically, that's false.
00:07:29.000From just a biology standpoint, that's false.
00:07:32.000From a capacity and capability standpoint, that's false.
00:07:35.000And I'm not asserting supremacy for one gender or the other, but certainly when it comes to the type of physical education and physical competition that you get from swimming, the Virginia Tech swimmer was absolutely right.
00:07:49.000So, it may be impolitic, it may not go along with sort of the political correctness of the times, but I have no problem recognizing that men and women are different.
00:08:00.000Our policies should not be blind to that obvious reality.
00:08:03.000I do think that if the NCAA continues to just engage in this bizarre behavior of embracing wokeism at the expense of their own athletes, you may see congressional action You're already starting to see more and more state action, and it's my suspicion that that is unidirectional.
00:08:21.000You are not going to see some new transition back to an effort to blur gender lines.
00:08:29.000I think folks want to see the realities that we live with certainly not evaporated at the expense of the vulnerable and at the expense of those that we've done a whole lot over the years in jurisprudence and in law to assist.
00:08:45.000We see in the war in Ukraine that the information space is an increasingly important theater in conflict.
00:08:52.000You have never seen before folks tweeting through wars or Skyping and FaceTiming through conflict like we do today.
00:09:01.000And there is a focus in the Congress to ensure that the United States, that our allies, that we win the information space.
00:09:10.000Now, Russia has a media arm, has a propaganda wing referred to as RT or Russia Today.
00:09:19.000And what they're trying to do in places where they're engaging in resource extraction and political activity is to try to get distribution for RT in places like South America, in places like Africa, and then to try to use that information space to try to shape people's opinion and perhaps even engage in malign activity.
00:09:40.000Well, Congresswoman Jackie Speier, Democrat from California, is on to them.
00:09:45.000She understood at a recent hearing that we had with the leadership from AFRICOM that in Africa specifically, growing distribution and growing credibility for RT is a harm to America.
00:09:59.000It deprives us of access to our interests and our ability to try to spread neoliberal values, democracy, not through the sword, but through high-quality information so that people can make reasonable decisions.
00:10:13.000And what Congresswoman Speer is most worried about is that RT may be gaining credibility.
00:10:55.000I completely concur with my colleague regarding the risk that RT poses, and it seems to appear more legitimate and objective when members of Congress go on RT. And so I associate myself with the gentlelady's comments, and perhaps you could share them with the gentleman from California who chairs the Intelligence Committee, who I've seen on RT, talking about legislation, giving him credibility.
00:11:23.000I only have a few moments, but I'd love to chat with you about it further.
00:11:26.000And of course, we couldn't close this segment without giving you the proof, without showing you the receipts.
00:11:32.000Adam Schiff going on RT to try to make a political point about legislation.
00:11:38.000Meanwhile, on the other side of Capitol Hill, in the House of Representatives, efforts continue there as well to inject more oversight into the NSA's surveillance programs and the top-secret FISA court.
00:11:48.000One of those members of Congress leading the effort is Adam Schiff from California.
00:11:52.000He joined me earlier and I asked him how his reforms to the FISA court will protect America's First and Fourth Amendment rights.
00:12:01.000I think they'll have the cumulative impact of making the FISA court much more transparent so the American people can understand what's being done in their name, in the name of national security, so that we can have a more informed debate over the balance between privacy and security.
00:12:15.000I think this can be accomplished while also maintaining sources and methods and not compromising some of the very real national security concerns at stake.
00:12:26.000Maybe Jackie Speier ought to reach out to Adam Schiff and tell him to actually be pro-America for once.
00:12:35.000It's quite fascinating to me that politicians in both parties act like they care about your rising gas prices, your rising grocery bill, your rising costs for food.
00:12:46.000But the reality is they continue to vote for policies in Washington, D.C. that actually exacerbate inflation and the increase of those very costs.
00:12:56.000It's one of the reasons why I'm voting with my constituents on any issues that would result in them having to endure more cost for the Russia-Ukraine war than the people who have actually prosecuted that war, than Vladimir Putin, who is at fault for that war.
00:13:12.000So I didn't vote with a majority of the Congress recently when they voted to end trade relations under our current system with Russia and Belarus.
00:13:21.000I was joined by seven other members of Congress.
00:13:24.000Lauren Boebert, Thomas Massey, Andy Biggs, Marjorie Teller-Green, Dan Bishop, Chip Roy, and Glenn Grothman.
00:13:31.000And I thought Thomas Massey had a particularly important take.
00:13:36.000He tweeted, This was slipped into the Russian sanctions bill on pages 19, 20, and 21. It gives the president broad authority to sanction virtually anyone, anywhere in the world, whether they are connected to Russia or not.
00:13:51.000Interventionists at the State Department are doing the happy dance now.
00:13:58.000So often these bills, they get labeled, oh, this is the Russia sanctions bill, so if you don't vote for it, you must be pro-Russia, you must be pro-Putin.
00:14:06.000I remember hearing that back during the Russia hoax impeachment.
00:14:09.000The reality is, representatives have to read the legislation.
00:14:13.000We have to ask tough questions, and we have to look at the second and third order effects.
00:14:19.000And here, the legislation gives this broad discretion to Joe Biden to just, like, hammer anyone in the world that he would deem a human rights violator for any reason.
00:14:32.000Increasingly, our own state department is more worried about whether or not other countries embrace wokeism than whether or not they're actually acting in the best interest of America, of Americans, of American businesses, you know, to enrich our country, not theirs.
00:14:56.000What this bill did, if you read it and understood it, it actually allows our president to go to almost anybody in the world, and if they have a visa, he can take away their visa, he can freeze their assets, regardless of whether they have anything to do with Russia whatsoever.
00:15:16.000He gets to define what a human rights abuse is, and he gets to go after anybody he thinks might be committing some kind of human rights abuse.
00:15:24.000Now, we might say, well, that's what's happening in Russia.
00:15:28.000But it also has been used, or could be used, even on people who are pro-life advocates elsewhere in the world.
00:15:35.000If Biden thinks that pro-abortion is a human right, and a pro-life person is violating somebody's right to an abortion, That's why I voted no.
00:15:47.000Why is it that Democrats always take an idea that most Americans support and then they stick it in with a couple of pieces of garbage to give themselves more power?
00:16:35.000And increasingly, as the federal government doesn't do its job, more and more pressure is building on state governments and even local sheriffs to have to deal with this national crisis.
00:16:47.000One of America's best sheriffs is Mark Lamb of Pinell County.
00:16:51.000He recently gave us an exclusive briefing regarding the tools that the smugglers are using, that the cartels are employing, and the things we ought to be doing in Washington to stop this terrible violation of our country.
00:17:05.000take a listen from the southern border.
00:17:10.000This is the heart of the activity in this county right here.
00:17:49.000It's ten times worse today than it was five years ago.
00:17:54.000I'll show you when we get over to the other side outside of this, but you're going to be shocked because I can show you a hundred more spots like this.
00:18:01.000When you hear me talk about carpet shoes, these are carpet shoes.
00:18:12.000So what you do is they put them on over their boots and they tie them up and they walk across with these because you can't hear them and you can't track them.
00:20:07.000You don't even know what you're taking.
00:20:09.000I heard a stat the other day that says 8 of 10 women that cross over the border are raped and 50% of gays and transvestites across the border are raped.
00:20:22.000What kind of self-help do the landowners have?
00:20:24.000In Florida, if someone comes on your property with the intent to commit a penalty, you have a right to use force against them.
00:20:43.000Can you tell people they have to get off your property?
00:20:45.000I always just tell people, if you can tell me that you're If you felt in fear of your own life, of serious physical injury or death, then you can use physical force, deadly force.
00:20:56.000So, I wasn't kidding, like, they'll come in a suburban like yours, an SUV like you've got, they'll take out all the seats, and they'll throw in 20-25 people, just like cord would, and they'll have a 17-18 year old driver go through there, and occasionally, They get nervous, they run into something, and they all get killed or maimed.
00:21:19.000And the obvious question is, well, gee, Sheriff, if you know where all these places are, why don't you have somebody out here to get them?
00:21:27.000And his answer would be, there are a hundred of these.
00:21:29.000Yeah, and they've got, I think he's got six guys on his staff.
00:21:36.000Cochise County has four guys or something like that on their staff that are designed for interdiction.
00:21:47.000I had live PD with me one night, and I followed a car back there.
00:21:51.000And a guy gets out of the car, I didn't have a reason to stop him, so I just got out and made contact with him.
00:21:57.000And I started speaking Spanish to him.
00:21:59.000And he was looking at me like, I'm speaking Chinese.
00:22:15.000So what is the guy doing at the first house you'd get to from Bahrain in the middle of the desert?
00:22:21.000Easily they could be bringing Middle Easterners up, drop them off there, and then putting them into our communities.
00:22:30.000And then if we catch them in the car, it's very hard because if they all say it's not mine, you can maybe charge the person if it's at their feet, you can charge that person.
00:22:41.000You can't charge everybody in the car.