Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - May 26, 2026


Brandon Gill’s Warning for Young Conservatives ｜ The Riley Gaines Show


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In this episode, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) joins Rep. Riley Goggins (R-VA) to discuss his experience in Congress and his thoughts on the current state of the Democratic Party and how it affects the country.

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00:00:19.180 Well, Congressman, thank you for joining the Riley Gaines Show.
00:00:22.820 Look, you are in your first congressional term. Is it everything that you dreamed of and more?
00:00:30.000 Well, thanks for having me on. You know, it's been a heck of a ride over the past year and a half. I mean, I always get frustrated that Congress doesn't move fast enough, but we've been more productive this Congress than I think in the past.
00:00:43.280 But whenever you look at everything the president's doing on multiple fronts, I mean, immigration, social issues, that is the standard for us. And we're trying to keep up with them. But, you know, it's a really exciting time to be here because Republicans are in power.
00:00:58.820 we're taking the country back we've got a lot of good work that we've done we've got a lot more to
00:01:03.760 do yeah you know you mentioned the the timeliness of which things get done you see people online
00:01:10.240 who are very quick to get frustrated or angry with conservative members in the house or the senate
00:01:15.880 but talk about that majority that very slim majority that you guys have because it makes
00:01:22.140 things increasingly difficult to get done again in a timely manner yeah and that's the thing you
00:01:27.940 know, we've got about a two-seat majority right now on the Republican side. And as you know,
00:01:32.720 every single bill that we do is on party lines. Any bill that's good, that is going to excite the
00:01:38.760 base, that's going to get us excited, it's going to be done on party lines. Democrats are never
00:01:42.660 going to help us out. Every Democrat that you think is moderate is going to be with the Democrat
00:01:48.260 team whenever they need the votes. So whenever you have a two-seat majority, that means that
00:01:52.660 almost anybody in the Republican conference can kill core legislation that we need to get done
00:01:58.880 if they just decide they don't want to be with the team. And at the end of the day, politics
00:02:02.760 is a team sport. Like, you know, it's shirts and skins. It's the Reds versus the Blues.
00:02:08.280 So it is important for us to stick together. But I mean, think of the Republican conference. I mean,
00:02:13.400 we've got, and the Republican Party, we're an ideologically diverse party. You've got the
00:02:17.940 the libertarians and the neoconservatives and the paleoconservatives and the sort of Reaganite
00:02:24.760 fusionists. You've got all kinds of different ideological strands. So to get everybody on the
00:02:29.080 same page with virtually zero room for error is difficult. With that said, I mean, we've already
00:02:35.860 gotten, you know, massive tax cuts through, massive funding for border security and deportations,
00:02:42.280 repealed half of the Green New Deal, the biggest welfare reform in American history. I mean,
00:02:47.020 we've done all of that this Congress. So, you know, there's a lot of work to do. Again, I'm
00:02:51.860 frustrated we can't go faster, but this has been a wildly productive Congress already. And I think,
00:02:58.480 you know, the goal is to expand that majority in the midterms so that we can continue doing more
00:03:03.700 work. Yeah, it's a good point. I think historically, and even currently, of course,
00:03:10.140 conservatives tend to be more calculated and analytical and principled. And so you do have
00:03:16.120 people who aren't willing to vote on party lines simply for the sake of doing so, whereas comparing
00:03:21.280 that to the Democratic Party, that doesn't really seem to be the case. I really thought after the
00:03:26.940 2024 election, when you have President Trump back in the Oval Office, of course, maintaining control
00:03:32.640 in the House and Senate, whatever it was, I really thought we would start to see Democrats
00:03:38.180 like recant from their voting records or from their previous positions or like slowly start
00:03:43.720 to distance themselves but that's really not at all what they've done.
00:03:48.260 You mentioned there's really no such thing as a moderate Democrat, at least in terms
00:03:51.220 of elected representation.
00:03:53.100 Do you feel like they're leaning in to the extremism?
00:03:57.240 I think so.
00:03:59.440 We like to say woke is dead and I think that feels good but the reality is the Democrats
00:04:05.000 are still latched on to woke.
00:04:07.940 We'll have a vote on the House floor, should men be in women's sports, 80-20 issue. 1.00
00:04:12.560 Americans think that's insane and insulting and dangerous. And yet you'll have every Democrat 0.99
00:04:18.060 vote against it to ban men from women's sports. I mean, they are so ideologically latched on to 1.00
00:04:25.240 wokeness that they can't let go. It really is kind of the core of their ideology, which is to
00:04:30.460 eliminate distinctions between men and women, to turn our society upside down. So I don't think
00:04:38.900 that they've walked away from it at all i think they're probably less vocal about it now you know
00:04:45.100 we have a lot of congressional hearings where i'll ask witnesses um things about said things
00:04:50.000 about things they've said in the past and try to get them you know for instance uh you know
00:04:54.700 pronouns you know the left pushed bizarre pronouns fey x i mean stuff that i i'd never even heard of
00:05:01.240 and i i feel like i'm pretty up on left-wing vernacular and though you can tell the left
00:05:06.800 wants to back away from it. They don't want to be straightforward about it. In other words,
00:05:11.440 they don't want to say, yes, I think everybody should use these crazy pronouns, but they'll
00:05:15.740 never, they'll never disown it or disavow it in any way because that is their core philosophy.
00:05:22.000 You know what, your hearings and the way you're able to interrogate or ask the witnesses these
00:05:28.140 questions have been phenomenal. And I think a large part of that is because you just use really
00:05:33.500 plain language, at least from the viral clips that I've seen online. It's not a lot of the
00:05:38.980 legalistic terms. It's just, what's your favorite method of abortion? And you're asking someone who
00:05:44.300 has clearly advocated for abortions or for what they call pro-choice implementations or policies.
00:05:50.740 And when they're asked that on the spot, it's exactly as you said, they don't want to say it
00:05:55.560 out loud. I want to hear about the preparation that goes into those hearings. Because again,
00:06:02.100 And you kind of are walking a fine line there where you want to just make yourself seem as distinguished as you are,
00:06:08.560 but also using language that everyday common sense Americans understand and putting these witnesses on the hot spot.
00:06:16.000 Yeah. And, you know, I think that so many political issues are actually pretty simple and it's easy to get in the weeds
00:06:23.760 and to get buried in details about, you know, different genders and, you know, different types
00:06:30.480 of abortion and all kinds of stuff, they're actually really simple issues. Like, should you
00:06:35.300 be able to kill a baby in the womb? Yes or no? And if you should, if you're going to advocate for 1.00
00:06:40.540 that, why don't you just clearly tell us about it? There's a whole bunch of different methods
00:06:44.860 of abortion that are commonly used. And if you're going to say that you're a reproductive rights
00:06:49.880 advocate, which is a really euphemistic and kind of condescending way to talk to people,
00:06:54.740 why don't you just explain to me the methods that you think are most preferable? So that's
00:07:00.500 what I ask. I think that's a very straightforward question. If you're going to spend 20 years of
00:07:04.320 your life advocating for abortion, why don't you tell me about it? Why don't you explain which
00:07:08.560 method you like? And whenever you read out the details, I think that most people hearing can
00:07:12.680 hear how just grotesque and barbaric these procedures are, and they're indefensible. 1.00
00:07:18.160 You know, I think that, you know, the transgender movement is the same way. 1.00
00:07:23.740 You know, we can get into, well, there's a difference between sex and gender.
00:07:27.540 And, you know, people, some people have a third or fourth gender. 0.82
00:07:30.540 All this nonsense, it really comes down to, should boys be in girls' sports? 0.90
00:07:35.080 Yes or no?
00:07:35.700 Most people say no, because that's crazy. 0.98
00:07:38.200 Should boys, should men be able to use my daughter's bathroom?
00:07:41.960 Absolutely not. 1.00
00:07:43.000 And if you think they should, you're nuts and you're insane. 1.00
00:07:45.680 or you're just an evil, perverted person. 1.00
00:07:48.720 And I think, again, that's something most people agree with. 0.97
00:07:51.220 So it comes down to just getting to the core of whatever the political issue is.
00:07:56.860 And I think that we always win whenever you can do that.
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00:08:32.560 Yeah, it's true.
00:08:34.880 I think especially over the past five or so years, certainly since President Trump has been back in the Oval Office for his second term,
00:08:42.080 there's almost like a level of cover at least again for your everyday american who feels
00:08:47.580 bold enough to again to say it outright i think they're they instilled a lot of fear in people
00:08:52.720 for a really long time uh you were fearful of being called any of the the phobia or isms you
00:08:59.000 insert the derogatory term because again they will call you anything for saying the very real 0.99
00:09:03.740 and true fact that men can't become women it's you're a bigot you're a nazi you're you're hitler 1.00
00:09:08.480 You're a far-right extremist. Again, you insert it. So I think there's a level of cover now that 1.00
00:09:15.920 President Trump provides for your normal person who is finally willing to say the truth.
00:09:22.180 I would say you provided a lot of that cover, Riley. I think that you were at the forefront
00:09:27.760 of the transgender boys and girls sports long before it was sort of politically accepted,
00:09:34.200 even on the Republican side, to be for that issue. And it's because you experienced it firsthand,
00:09:39.420 but I didn't mean to cut you off, but your boldness really was the start of this movement
00:09:45.320 that I think opened up and got a lot of elected representatives comfortable talking about these
00:09:51.220 issues. So you were a big part of that too. You know, that's very kind. And I'll tell you,
00:09:56.240 I was fearful for a while, admittedly, which I'm kind of ashamed to say as someone who's always
00:10:01.120 been a christian first and foremost but of course those viewpoints align conservative that's never
00:10:06.080 changed throughout my entire life i've always had the views that i even still currently hold but i
00:10:10.640 was scared but i realized upon speaking out when i finally got the courage to do it that a lot of
00:10:17.840 the fear was i guess self-imposed i i don't none of it really came to fruition like i thought it
00:10:25.440 was going to i thought i was going to lose friends i thought i was never going to get a job i thought
00:10:29.200 thought I was going to be ostracized from public life. That didn't happen. It's really only been
00:10:34.220 opportunities. You meet amazing people. You go amazing places. The ability for real and lasting
00:10:39.600 impact. So it made me realize, what was I so scared of? So thank you. That's very kind.
00:10:46.380 One of the things that I've been following that you have been leading the charge on is Trey's
00:10:52.440 law. Of course, this is a measure to protect child abuse victims from NDAs. Can you talk about this
00:10:59.020 I think more specifically what inspired it, and how does it fit into these broader efforts against institutional cover-ups?
00:11:08.340 Yeah, so Trey Carlock was a victim of sexual assault when he was a child and ended up committing suicide at 28.
00:11:17.560 And what happened was he was not allowed to tell his story, which is therapeutic and cathartic for so many people who go through this type of trauma.
00:11:27.160 And he wasn't allowed to because he had signed an NDA with his abuser that stopped him legally
00:11:32.980 from being able to say anything publicly.
00:11:35.560 And I think that that's wrong, and I think most Americans think that's wrong.
00:11:39.240 So the Texas State Legislature passed a bill called Trey's Law that would nullify NDAs
00:11:44.860 in the case of child sexual assault.
00:11:48.820 What Trey's Law does, which I introduced in the House nationally, would make that law
00:11:55.220 national so that you cannot silence child victims of sexual assault now right right now there are
00:12:02.360 certain state laws that might cover NDAs that were done prior to a settlement this this law
00:12:07.700 applies to any NDAs including NDAs as part of a settlement makes them null and void it does look
00:12:14.260 backwards so it nullifies any NDA that have been signed in the past and I think that's a core part
00:12:20.780 of protecting people who oftentimes don't have a voice in Washington, victims of sexual
00:12:26.880 assault, children, the people who a civilized society ought to be looking after the most.
00:12:33.120 You mentioned previously there's not a lot of bipartisan legislation or support even
00:12:39.380 on key issues like this.
00:12:41.020 Can we expect, I mean, I would hope some Democrats to support this effort?
00:12:45.640 I think we'll be able to get some Democrats on this effort.
00:12:48.960 We've already had positive feedback so far.
00:12:52.220 Luckily, this is one of the few issues where you do see Democrats jump on board.
00:12:56.540 Now, they won't jump on board when it comes to a law banning, castrating, you know, a six-year-old boy.
00:13:03.500 But they will jump on board, it seems, bills like this, which I'm, frankly, I'm very thankful for.
00:13:09.160 This is something that we should all be able to get behind.
00:13:12.400 Yeah, 100%.
00:13:14.180 One of the things that I admire most about you and your family, I mean, really is just that, that you're able to seemingly balance it all.
00:13:23.040 It's got to be difficult being in Washington, D.C.
00:13:26.020 Of course, your home state is Texas.
00:13:27.580 That's where your wife and two kids are.
00:13:29.480 How do you kind of manage the toll that it takes?
00:13:33.780 Well, I would say that that is by far the most difficult part of the job.
00:13:38.120 It's a very demanding job.
00:13:39.380 And, you know, you sign up and you know what you're getting into.
00:13:42.060 But my wife has been phenomenal through this whole time.
00:13:46.480 And actually, my wife and two kids travel back and forth to Washington with me most of the time.
00:13:52.560 So that means that I get to go home every night or almost every night and be able to put the kids to bed.
00:13:57.380 I get to see Danielle and get to spend time with them, which is incredibly important to me and to Danielle.
00:14:04.340 I don't want my kids to grow up feeling like they have an absent father.
00:14:10.100 So we go out of our way to make sure that we carve out family time so that I can be with them.
00:14:15.700 But that is one of the challenges.
00:14:17.260 It's a constant, you know, it means that my calendar pretty much consists of work and family time, and that's about it.
00:14:23.680 But we're able to do this by, I mean, honestly, by God's grace, but also because Danielle has been a phenomenal mom to both our kids
00:14:34.000 and is willing to go out of her way to make sure that we can stay together.
00:14:38.120 Danielle, of course, is a firestorm in her own right.
00:14:42.960 You guys are like the power couples of all power couples.
00:14:46.820 I was actually with your father-in-law this past weekend,
00:14:49.820 and I was asking him about you and just telling him how grateful I am for you and your family
00:14:53.960 and what you guys are doing and the clips online.
00:14:56.620 And, you know, before he mentioned anything about what you've been doing politically
00:15:01.160 and the movement that you've made there, he said, Brandon is such a good dad.
00:15:05.960 And that spoke volumes to me. Of course, your father-in-law, for those who don't know,
00:15:09.980 I imagine most people do, is Dinesh D'Souza, who's fantastic. Your wife, actually, I just saw
00:15:16.580 her on Fox and Friends recently, and she was sharing about how you guys met and giving kind
00:15:21.080 of marriage tips, marriage tips specifically to young women. What's your message to young men?
00:15:27.440 Because I think the younger generation in general, again, something that you can speak really well to
00:15:32.420 given your age and given your experience, they're desperate for clear leadership.
00:15:39.540 What's your message to young men right now?
00:15:42.080 Yeah, I would say, you know, I think that a lot of young people, men and women,
00:15:46.840 are yearning for almost for more tradition.
00:15:50.380 They see what the left has done to America and to sort of American culture,
00:15:54.520 and they want to go back.
00:15:55.980 They want to see a country where, you know, men can, on a single income,
00:16:00.160 raise a family, and stay together, and have God-fearing kids.
00:16:05.840 And I guess I would say, you know, you hear the trite advice oftentimes,
00:16:09.880 which I totally agree with, to get married young.
00:16:12.480 I think you certainly should.
00:16:13.760 But for young men, you know, be the man that you would want your daughter to marry,
00:16:18.760 or be the man that the type of woman you would like would be attracted to.
00:16:23.380 You know, and conduct yourself in a way that's dignified and becoming to the world that you want to create.
00:16:32.180 I think that you are seeing a massive move towards more tradition.
00:16:38.260 It's because people are yearning.
00:16:39.800 They've felt what it's like to be in a secular country where you have these weird perversions shoved on you all the time. 0.96
00:16:48.220 And they want to return to a country that's rooted in Christian faith.
00:16:53.380 and to a society that's built upon, I think, Christ.
00:16:58.860 And that starts with you.
00:17:01.760 I mean, that starts with each individual person.
00:17:06.240 You know, despite the fact that he's old, objectively, President Trump,
00:17:09.940 I think he does a fantastic job at appealing to younger people, too.
00:17:13.460 I think it's kind of like the rebellious thing to do is to support President Trump.
00:17:19.360 It's kind of like going against the status quo,
00:17:21.440 which it's no surprise that younger generations almost want to do that. They want to almost act
00:17:27.060 out of spite. He's very charismatic. He says what he thinks and that appeals to young people. But
00:17:32.160 his time in office, granted, we still have several years and we certainly shouldn't will it away or
00:17:37.420 think too far in the future. There are some concerns, I think, going into to 2028 or even
00:17:43.380 sooner, 2026, the midterms into how we reach younger voters. Is there concern there? Historically,
00:17:50.420 this isn't something that the Republican Party has done really well. Again, I think we are seeing,
00:17:55.260 you know, we're kind of going around that corner, but what do we need to be doing to reach younger
00:18:00.960 voters in a more effective manner? Yeah, I think that we need to be really clear about what we
00:18:06.580 provide. You know, the left will go to young people and they will say, we're going to give
00:18:10.220 you free stuff, to put it kind of bluntly. That's kind of the Mom Donnie message. He's a compelling
00:18:15.180 political figure in many ways, as evil as he is. I think what Republicans need to do is articulate
00:18:21.540 very clearly what we want to do is give you back your birthright that the left has been giving away. 0.57
00:18:27.460 The left has flooded our country with illegal aliens that you're paying for their welfare, 0.78
00:18:31.480 you're paying for their housing and for their medical expenses and for their education.
00:18:35.940 That's wrong. We want to end that. They're the ones taking your jobs. They're the ones that are 0.50
00:18:40.480 transforming your community. This is all things that the left is doing. And we're going to stop
00:18:46.920 them. We're going to give you back the America that is your birthright, that you deserve,
00:18:52.300 that we can restore and conserve. We are the ones who are going to reduce spending to bring down
00:18:59.200 inflation. We are the ones who are going to get all of these weird perversions that you've been
00:19:04.320 inundated with you know I think I think of myself and in some ways you know if I look at my life I
00:19:13.480 was born in 1994 for almost my entire life we've had a border crisis other than whenever President
00:19:20.040 Trump was in the White House for almost my entire life other than a couple years we've had a budget
00:19:25.960 deficit for my entire life I think in many cases you've seen our foreign policy go off track I
00:19:32.140 think that's the America that young people grew up in. They grew up in an America where the left's
00:19:37.940 long march through the institutions has kind of reached a culmination. That's why you've got
00:19:42.180 kindergartners being read transgender books in public schools. I mean, things that would have 1.00
00:19:47.500 been unfathomable even a decade ago. That's the America we grew up in fundamentally different
00:19:53.020 than the one that our grandparents grew up in. In many ways, the one our grandparents grew up in
00:19:58.240 doesn't exist anymore. And I think young people see that, they recognize it, and they realize
00:20:03.680 how hard we're going to have to fight to get real America back. And whenever you can show them that
00:20:09.100 we get the world that you grew up, we get that it's different than the one, than the America of
00:20:14.040 the 50s and 60s and 70s, and we would like to bring that back, I think that resonates with them.
00:20:20.440 But they want to see sincerity and authenticity in that as well.
00:20:25.520 You're young. It's your first term. You get to see it all, though, on a very personal, firsthand basis.
00:20:33.480 What do you make of term limits?
00:20:37.100 I think that it would certainly help a lot.
00:20:40.860 I don't think the term limits would solve every problem in Washington.
00:20:44.440 But there is an issue where you've got people who have come here and have been here for decades and decades
00:20:50.260 And if I come to believe that they represent Washington as opposed to their districts back home and that you see that on both sides of the aisle, I candidly, I do think it's worse on the Democrat side for sure.
00:21:03.160 But there is a level of, you know, you just get out of touch with with the rest of the country.
00:21:09.420 And that's not what the American people are looking for.
00:21:12.640 So I think I think it could be helpful.
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00:22:32.080 chairing a pretty important task force committee. Can you talk about that? Yep. So this is a task
00:22:38.980 force on the House Oversight Committee. It's the task force on defending constitutional rights
00:22:43.740 and exposing institutional abuses. And we've got a broad mandate to go after everything from DEI
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00:23:07.100 about a billion dollars a year in the home health services sector. And secondly, against four
00:23:13.000 different birth tourism companies. These are companies that facilitate birth tourism, people
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00:23:24.100 child can be an American citizen. One of them, by the way, the literal name of the business is
00:23:29.240 called Have My Baby in Miami. I mean, you can't even make this stuff up. So we've begun investigations
00:23:35.880 and that we're just getting started here.
00:23:38.360 Wow, well, praise God.
00:23:40.460 Thank you for what you do,
00:23:41.480 for representing the state of Texas so well,
00:23:43.420 but more so than that,
00:23:45.300 representing Americans,
00:23:46.640 especially young Americans, so well.
00:23:49.500 Just very grateful for you
00:23:50.900 and going to continue to cheer you on
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