00:02:16.860And, you know, we homeschooled all of our kids.
00:02:19.160And after serving in the military, served in the Virginia legislature, was in the Virginia House of Delegates for 10 years, which is actually the first time I met you was when I was chairing a subcommittee down there.
00:02:33.060And now we've just my wife and I both have been talking a lot about faith, about family, about biblical masculinity, about restoring the family in America.
00:02:42.140And that's kind of our full time job at this point.
00:03:56.460Ten years in the General Assembly, I learned a lot.
00:04:00.260It is frustrating in part because there's a lot of expectations for what people think
00:04:06.160you can accomplish by serving in the legislature.
00:04:08.860The end result is, is you have one vote. You can carry legislation. You have one vote in Virginia. I had one vote out of 100 delegates, one vote, you know, the 40 senators and the governor's got to sign it. So you're working very, very hard to try to get things done. But, you know, our government is set up to not work fast for a reason. And it's because we're trying to avoid the centralization of power.
00:04:28.120um but 10 years i i i fought the good fight i think i can safely say that i kept my word to
00:04:34.560my constituents with what i believed and now that i'm out uh i consider it a great honor but
00:04:40.160just as confident as we were that it was time to get in we were all so confident it was time to get
00:04:44.380out you feel like you ever experienced any sort of like i don't know the best way to put it maybe
00:04:50.020like political fatigue if you will yeah no here's where the political fatigue i'll never forget this
00:04:57.240conversation my mom had with me when I first ran for office. And she goes, Nick, I have no doubt
00:05:02.460you're going to be honorable in this position. She goes, the opposition is going to frustrate
00:05:08.600you, but your own side will break your heart. And that was true. That was true. I was used to the
00:05:14.600other side coming after me, the media coming after me. That was normal stuff. But it did get
00:05:19.760frustrated when you would watch your own side say one thing on the campaign trail and do something
00:05:23.780very differently when they were in office. And it's not because they were all just weak or
00:05:27.960cowards. It's because the, the, the incentive to get reelected and to kind of allow opinion polls
00:05:35.520to drive what that should look like is, is overwhelming. And to be quite frankly, it's
00:05:40.500rewarded by the electorate. And so part of it was frustration with some of my own colleagues at
00:05:45.600times, but also part of it was frustration with, with voters where I would look at them and be
00:05:50.360like, why did you sit this one out? Well, I just wasn't happy with any of the candidates and
00:05:54.620they're all the same. Well, in Virginia, we're learning the hard way that no, they're not all
00:05:58.500the same. And so I think it's so important for people to be not just engaged in the fact that
00:06:04.220they're talking about it on social media or voting, but really understanding how our process
00:06:08.860works. And one of the most important things, and this was, you know, again, my capacity as
00:06:13.000subcommittee chairman on higher education, when you came to speak, one of the biggest things
00:06:17.040people need to understand is that the reason why we're in the problems that we are right now
00:06:21.600is because the government has way too much control over our children's education,
00:06:26.400whether it's in elementary school, middle, high school, higher education. And if we want better
00:06:32.640elected representatives that are willing to stand strong, well, that starts in the home.
00:06:36.580And so I got very fatigued with politics because I felt like I was arguing with people that are
00:06:41.320already made up their minds. But the more I had an opportunity to actually speak with people like
00:06:45.580students that were curious about these things and wanted to understand them the more i felt like i
00:06:49.860was having a greater impact yeah 100 and and i agree i'm right there with you in speaking to
00:06:55.760education and having kids of your own you mentioned you guys homeschool which i find to be such a
00:07:01.840sacrifice on on your part as parents as well and now my husband and i we have our little baby
00:07:06.540uh granted she's only you know six months old now so we have time but you start to consider what
00:07:11.740what sort of route do you want to go down and there's so many different options now
00:07:15.240does virginia you guys don't have school choice passed am i correct in saying that yeah that's
00:07:20.960correct can you kind of explain what school choice is and maybe some some of the benefits that you
00:07:25.800have seen from homeschooling yeah um well i i think our journey into homeschooling was an
00:07:32.140interesting one because it started off we did it out of necessity i was leaving the military we
00:07:36.520weren't sure where we're going to live next we had a couple different options the school year
00:07:40.340was starting and so we just you know we don't want there to be this big gap so my wife started
00:07:44.460homeschooling um and then when we got to where we did in virginia we put our kids back in and
00:07:49.660within a year we had them back out because we thought oh we'll move to this nice conservative
00:07:54.060district and our values will be represented and that was not the case what happened to her from
00:07:59.960the studio that brought you weapons and producers james one and blumhouse what was our daughter
00:08:05.900doing in a 3000 year old sarcophagus comes a terrifying new vision katie was meant to stay
00:08:11.900buried what really happened to her she's different i just want my daughter back
00:08:20.460lee crumens the mummy only in theaters april 17th
00:08:26.460and um and it wasn't we had some great teachers but they weren't the ones selecting the curriculum
00:08:32.420them. They weren't the ones calling the shots. And so we pulled them out because we were concerned
00:08:37.300about what was going on within the government run school system. But if you asked my wife and I
00:08:41.740today, why did we homeschool? It's because we loved it. Um, is it a sacrifice? Yeah. And in
00:08:47.360some ways, but you know, what's also a sacrifice sending your kids to public school, you will
00:08:52.080sacrifice thousands of hours that you would otherwise would have had with them. You will
00:08:56.700sacrifice them getting exposed to things and concepts and ideas. And I don't mean good ones.
00:09:01.660I mean, what some other kid at school is showing them on their smartphone, you will sacrifice a lot about your kids innocence, you will sacrifice, again, that core relationship that you can build with your kids. So I will say that as much as it might be a sacrifice some ways with financially or things of that nature, it was an absolute blessing. And I love the relationship we have with all three of my adult children.
00:09:25.660They're all well-adjusted, productive members of society that I love hanging out with.
00:09:31.000And so I think we can't just look at homeschooling as a sacrifice.
00:12:07.120And just you're right, the hostility that you're met with and, quite frankly, the hypocrisy of it.
00:12:12.220And you spoke to it. It exists on both sides of the political aisle.
00:12:15.240I think on our side, you have like the campaign taglines of faith, family and freedom that people run on.
00:12:22.260Yet you have some people who I mean, their families are in disarray.
00:12:27.460Members of Congress who are having affairs on their wives.
00:12:30.480Tony Gonzalez being one on our side or shall I say a person with an R by his name.
00:12:35.480But then you also have people like Eric Swalwell on the other side of the aisle, who just recently suspended his campaign for California governor.
00:12:45.940Of course, this is amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct and assault, really horrible, horrific things.
00:12:54.400I wanted to ask you about the timing of these allegations and how they have surfaced in the media.
00:13:05.480There is there is nobody that was confused that Eric Swalwell had these allegations against him.
00:13:10.540This is not the first time people spoke up about it.
00:13:13.360It's just the difference was, is that he was on their side and they looked at him as an effective foil to go after Donald Trump.
00:13:19.440And then as he started to get within shot of winning the Democratic primary in California, then the concern was, is that if the Republicans actually launch a halfway decent campaign and he's the nominee, we could potentially lose the governorship of California, as bizarre as that sounds to people.
00:13:34.440so there's a reason why every other investigative journalist every other mainstream news network
00:13:40.220everybody nobody was interested in this they were all willing to defend eric swalwell i mean when
00:13:44.940the whole thing came down with him sleeping with chinese spies it was like just sweeping under the
00:13:49.400rug it's not a big deal it wasn't until that he his presence on the ticket could potentially
00:13:54.180hurt democrats then all of a sudden it was important to them because what's important
00:13:59.100is the maintenance of power it's not about women's issues if they cared about women's issues
00:14:04.200delegate born would have been a lot more respectful to you when you testified but he wasn't he was
00:14:08.860incredibly rude and that's how we see this if if democrats really cared about women if they cared
00:14:13.800about the me too movement well then they would police their own ranks better but they don't0.91
00:14:18.060until it can cost them politically then it becomes a primary issue so no the the timing of all of
00:14:23.380this is is very strategic and intentional yeah and i think concerning uh prior to this the options
00:14:29.140were Swalwell, again, again, a man who has multiple sexual misconduct allegations, you're
00:14:35.500right, sleeping with the Chinese spy, and Katie Porter, who's like accused of throwing a pot of
00:14:42.480boiling hot potatoes on her husband, quite the state of affairs in the state of California.
00:14:49.940One more kind of current event I wanted to ask you about that I saw you comment on online was
00:14:54.840what happened to independent journalist savannah hernandez uh she is i believe a turning point
00:15:00.580contributor she was filming an anti-ice uh or filming an anti-ice protest outside of
00:15:07.460an ice facility i believe in minneapolis when she was physically assaulted by multiple protesters
00:15:13.600this girl we'll have the b-roll playing on screen she's like what appears to be like 100 pounds wet1.00
00:15:19.860through. And you've got this big man who shoves her into a fence. Quite the coward, wouldn't you1.00
00:15:27.540say? Oh yeah, no. And here's the problem. My wife, when she saw that, she goes, doesn't surprise me
00:15:33.420at all. Because my wife actually ran for office once as well, and she was shocked at the outright0.99
00:15:38.340hostility that liberal men treated her with. They had no problem calling her the C word in public.
00:15:44.700They had no problem trying to threaten her online. I mean, as her husband, it was a very
00:15:49.240interesting experience. Nobody ever laid hands on my wife. That would have been very detrimental,
00:15:54.320but it was that overwhelming hostility where Tina would say, I understand why women don't trust men
00:16:00.520because when you hang out with liberal men, when you see them in action, you recognize how much
00:16:04.780hostility and hatred they actually harbor for women because the moment they find one where
00:16:10.500they think it's morally justified for them to abuse her physically or verbally, they take it.
00:16:15.700and this was a perfect example of this this guy runs over here you notice again when they're
00:16:20.160hurting when they when they go after republican men they use a rifle because they like a little
00:16:23.940offset right but when it's 120 pounds soaking wet female there they don't mind shoving her down to
00:16:29.380the ground and this is all part of how leftism has this is all about how leftism has developed
00:16:34.500for years they would inappropriately and inaccurately call anybody that disagreed with
00:16:39.700them a racist a sexist a misogynist and that was to rob us of our moral legitimacy but the language
00:16:45.360has now changed now they accuse us of being threats to democracy of being fascist of being
00:16:50.260nazis of promoting genocide whatever ridiculous claim they're not doing that to moral to rob us
00:16:56.460of moral legitimacy they're doing that to create moral justification for them to use violence
00:17:02.080against us to include a young woman who wasn't engaging in violence herself she was sitting
00:17:07.440there she was reporting they came over they were hitting her in the face with various items and
00:17:12.000toys. They were pushing, they were spitting. And the moment she moved her hand to push them out of
00:17:17.180the way because they were obstructing her and assaulting her, right? This guy runs over and
00:17:21.900thinks he's perfectly justified to knock her to the ground and then threaten her with further
00:17:26.200physical violence. Now, what I said online was if local law enforcement doesn't prosecute this,
00:17:31.840what they are doing is encouraging citizens to start to take justice into their own hands.
00:17:36.400Because when you refuse to have equal protection before the law, when these left-wing mayors and
00:17:41.560police chiefs or sheriffs or whatever it is, when they refuse to prosecute, when they refuse to go
00:17:46.240after them, what you're saying is, is that you are giving the left the ability and the freedom to
00:17:51.640continue to engage in violence. And that is going to be met with a reaction at some point. Now I
00:17:56.320don't want it to be that way. I do not, I do not support any sort of anybody engaging in aggressive
00:18:02.360violence to achieve a political objective, but defending yourself. Oh yeah, that's absolutely
00:18:07.240justified. So the good news is, is from what I've heard, the sheriff's department is going to
00:18:11.200actively prosecute the people that assaulted savannah but the rest of blue america needs to
00:18:17.920take note of this because conservatives are not going to continue to put up with this no and and
00:18:22.820we shouldn't have to quite frankly but you're right again in a city like minneapolis a state
00:18:27.620like minnesota where you don't see arrests or you don't see people i guess jailed for for proper
00:18:34.480amount of times for the crimes that they're committing uh of course it creates these issues
00:18:38.920And like you said, I think the FBI is now investigating. I know that Savannah has said
00:18:44.040that she wants to press charges. And so hopefully we see some success there. Last kind of news of
00:18:51.580the day story I wanted to ask you about is this Trump tweet or maybe Trump truth social post that
00:18:57.900he put up over the weekend in like the obscure hours of the night as President Trump does.
00:19:02.860he posted this AI generated image. I think it's very clear what is happening here. It's
00:19:09.880a depiction, I believe, of himself as Jesus Christ. He's wearing, you know, the robe and
00:19:14.800the sash and he's got, you know, there's a person in the hospital bed, a sick person.
00:19:19.880He's got his hand out. It's assumed that he's healing this person with onlookers. So, you
00:19:24.700know, nurses and soldiers. What do you make of this? And very quickly, I'll just insert my
00:19:30.480Thoughts, which I posted online, and it's already met with so much pushback, mostly from the MAGA
00:19:36.320base and just saying, I think two things, multiple things really can be true here. Number one,
00:19:42.060I do believe humility would serve President Trump. Number two, God shall not be mocked,
00:19:47.520and blasphemy is not something to take lightly. And three, I don't regret my vote at all.
00:19:52.000But this online base, the discourse that exists there, it makes you feel like you're the crazy
00:19:57.820person for saying those things. And so what's your take on this? Yeah, I think there's three
00:20:02.200categories that people fall into. There's the people that are using this to bash Trump because
00:20:06.460that's what they do. They bash Trump. Then there's the people that are defending this as if this is
00:20:11.680just, there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. It's perfectly okay. How dare you? You're just
00:20:15.680distracting. You're just joining the liberals. And then there's the category, which I consider
00:20:20.420to be the common sense one, to be quite blunt, which is he shouldn't have posted this.
00:20:24.660um it it it is it's not offensive in the sense that liberals get offended about everything
00:20:30.180it's that anybody that is depicting themselves in a picture where they're obviously making some
00:20:34.700sort of comparison between themselves and christ it is not a good idea right this is christ is
00:20:41.160someone to be venerated he's certainly someone that we should look up to and he's certainly
00:20:44.520someone whose actions and behaviors that we should um that we should attempt to emulate in our life
00:20:49.940But to draw some sort of image, which makes it looks like we are that person is wrong and offensive and it shouldn't have been done.
00:20:57.460And I'm glad he took it down by the same token. Do I still support Donald Trump? Yeah, I still support Donald Trump.
00:21:03.380Right. I still want him to have a successful presidency. I don't think this means that he's a horrible president.
00:21:08.980I think it was bad judgment. And the thing that I would tell the people on the left is I don't care about their concern because they don't they don't venerate Jesus anyways.
00:21:16.500right? They're, they're only using this. My wife, my wife once said it best. She goes, you know,
00:21:22.040the left, the left holds up, uh, you know, the constitution or Jesus, the same way atheists
00:21:28.380hold up the Bible, right? It's not because they venerated it's because we do. And so I don't care
00:21:33.140what their concerns were with this. I'm not, I'm not the least bit interested to the people that
00:21:37.540are eager to defend Trump. I get that. I get the kind of mentality that we've all kind of fostered
00:21:42.180at this point where we're so used to Trump being attacked for literally everything that we want to
00:21:46.000defend him. By the same token, there has to be a standard for truth. That's one of the things that
00:21:50.300has to distinguish the right from the left. The left has adopted this whole critical theory,
00:21:55.180tribalism, postmodern view of the world where there's no such thing as truth. There's just
00:21:59.700your tribe and you defend them at all costs and you attack everybody else at all costs.
00:22:03.860I'm never going to be that. I will never be that. If my own side does something that I think was
00:22:09.720incorrect, wrong, or immoral, that needs to be called out. That doesn't mean I'm going to throw
00:22:13.900off everybody or abandon them or completely get rid of them, right? But it does need to be called
00:22:18.580out because the ultimate standard for what the right should stand for is the belief in truth
00:22:23.840and the dedication to that. And insofar as it's within our power, we need to be constantly taking
00:22:30.540our viewpoints and aligning them with truth. And for me, Christianity is the formation of my
00:22:35.420worldview. There is only one person that has ever walked the earth that gets absolute, complete,
00:22:40.280and total loyalty from me, and that's Jesus Christ.
00:22:43.500And he needs to hold that special position