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00:00:30.000Well, welcome to the Riley Gaines Show. We are live on the couch from Washington, D.C.
00:00:39.300I've spent the day enjoying the Great American State Fair, seeing all of the wonderful things that the different exhibits have to offer.
00:00:45.740But today we are sat down with Congressman John McGuire.
00:00:49.900I was actually just telling him this off air.
00:00:52.760One of the things that I love most about Congressman is just how ambitious he is, how willing he is.
00:01:00.740I really do believe that majority of people who serve in the House or the Senate or, of course, in the 119th Congress, they do want to save America, but they don't always want to to take the necessary actions to achieve that goal.
00:01:14.820Congressman McGuire, he is one of those people. And so thank you for joining. Just very excited to chat with you.
00:01:21.980I want to start. You had a pretty exciting dinner last night.
00:01:25.860Oh, yeah. What an honor. We were in the Oval Office last night, the Rose Garden Club.
00:01:30.000President Trump has a group of legislators and other folks that have been with them nonstop all the way since they came down the escalator.
00:01:36.640And by that, you know, I'm just honored to be part of that team.
00:01:38.680And so we had a great dinner. We had a great conversation in the Oval Office.
00:01:42.800We've got so many things going for our country.
00:01:44.780If we can just start get everybody to row in the same direction, we can make a better future for all Americans.
00:01:50.260Is President Trump the same as people imagined him to be?
00:01:54.960You know, they see the clips of him, you know, on stage campaigning.
00:03:54.660What do you make of the increasingly violent and extreme rhetoric that we've seen that
00:04:02.140i believe certainly leads to uh deranged people who are willing to to attempt to commit these
00:04:08.680atrocities is that something that you have noticed in congress as well it has in fact i have
00:04:12.800legislation we could talk about that i'm working on to help with that i've received letters from
00:04:16.260law enforcement all over the country but charlie kirk you know i certainly had an impact on your
00:04:20.580generation but he had an impact on me and my generation as well and even today he can articulate
00:04:26.100our christian values better than anyone i try but i can't do it better than most pastors to be honest
00:04:30.840I'm telling you. I mean, really good. And we talk about our conservative views on life and on everything, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
00:04:39.280I mean, I studied myself, but I can't keep up even now.
00:04:42.720But no, he was great. And there is a much higher propensity for violence on the left.
00:04:47.540And it seems like the left believe that police are bad, criminals are good and don't care about the victims.
00:04:52.920So I've got a bill. It's called F.A.F.O.
00:04:55.340Imagine this. You've got your little girl, a little boy in an ambulance and you've got to get them to the emergency room in 15 minutes or it's not going to make it.
00:05:04.060And some people that are having a political protest in the middle of the road stops the ambulance from getting in the hospital and the child doesn't make it.
00:05:11.060That's domestic terrorism. The U.S. Constitution gives us a right to peacefully assemble on the sidewalk and protest.
00:05:17.500It does not give you the right to block roads, to set police cars on fire, to impede law enforcement, to block first responders, firefighters, ambulance folks.
00:05:27.160So what happened is George Soros put these prosecutors all over the country that won't prosecute.
00:05:33.980So this bill says that if they don't do their job, the U.S. attorney appointed by President Trump can step in and prosecute them to the full extent of the law.
00:05:42.180We need to make some examples because you've seen what's going on in Minnesota and other places.
00:05:46.680So I believe in limited government. But if we do anything, we need to keep you safe.
00:05:51.740You should be able to walk down any street in America with your little boy, little girl and be safe.
00:05:55.780So the F.A.F.O. bill. Oh, I love that. And a genius play on words.
00:06:01.160And kind of mentioning domestic terrorism, we've seen a rise.
00:06:05.900I mean, especially in the past few weeks, at least from from a public stage, it's being shown on Fox News all the time.
00:06:12.740We've seen a rise of the democratic socialists of America and their influence on specifically on these congressional races.
00:06:21.640Is that something that concerns you going into 2026?
00:06:26.660What's really at stake here when talking about the rise of socialism?
00:06:31.340Yeah, it very much concerns me. I met with a woman last week who's an expert on the subject.
00:06:35.980She escaped communist China, and she said that socialism and communism are the same thing.
00:06:42.040And they say socialism until they get power, and then they take over.
00:06:45.600And this Supreme Court decision really concerns me.
00:06:48.640Charlie Kirk, who I thank a lot of, he said that immigration without assimilation is an invasion.
00:06:59.500Our country, our rule of law is not perfect, but it's lifted more people out of poverty,
00:07:03.480giving more people freedom and opportunity than any form of government in the history of man
00:07:08.200because we're born with our god-given rights and they are enshrined in our founding documents
00:07:13.860and even in the minority our constitutional republic gives everyone a voice so um china
00:07:21.300communist china they've got 1.5 million birth i guess dual citizenship uh children that are now
00:07:28.940at the age where they could vote. They could literally come in, and because Democrats have
00:07:33.140same-day registration voting, they could sway elections all across our country. So I'm not
00:07:38.680happy at all with that decision, but we are now working on legislation to stop it with legislation.
00:07:43.660What about the other Supreme Court ruling that we saw yesterday? The Supreme Court ultimately ruled
00:07:50.400to uphold states, the laws that states have passed in 27 states currently, to prevent men from
00:07:57.100competing in women's sports within any educational program that receives federal funds that's right
00:08:02.160long overdue huh absolutely and you know you and i we've known each other since i was in the
00:08:05.980virginia general assembly and you've just been an inspiration to all of us to fight to protect
00:08:10.460women i've been saying they've been trying to erase women how do 10 men win 10 women's beauty
00:08:17.580pageants and you know and putting men in women's sports anyone that considers common sense important
00:08:22.980or valuable, knew that it was wrong. And thank God the Supreme Court did the right thing.
00:08:27.320Oh, right. We've reached this point where there's a faction of society and basically an entire
00:08:33.220political party that is so detached from reality. This has inspired the Riley Gaines Act,
00:08:40.840which you have really led the charge on. Tell us about this because I will say from my perspective,
00:08:47.180there is no greater honor than lending to my voice and my name to such an important piece
00:08:52.660of legislation. Tell us about it. Well, you've been a big inspiration, a big help. It's a team
00:08:56.220effort. But the Raleigh and Canes Act basically says that if your daughter loses a scholarship,
00:09:01.260a trophy, or a position on a team because of a boy and a girl's sport, or if she gets harmed,
00:09:07.620it sets up a mechanism where you can sue that school to basically get damages. Because everything
00:09:14.060that we've ever done, there's no accountability in there. And what about protecting the girls?
00:09:17.960I love this so much. And it's something I mean, speak about pretty frequently in discussing this topic is there's not a great enforcement mechanism.
00:09:27.960Of course, we have the Department of Justice and we have the Department of Education. First and foremost, they can't possibly keep up with every single school, every single institution, every single leader that's violating federal law.
00:09:38.760But also it's a lengthy, long process. There is no immediate there. I totally agree with you that it needs to be expensive to harm girls and to harm women and to infringe on parental rights and to infringe on the safeguarding of children.
00:09:53.080So I think this is genius. And again, I feel totally honored in lending my name to this.0.98
00:09:58.960I want you to talk about the American Dream Act as well, because when we're focusing on my generation, I think especially even young women.
00:10:07.320What is it that that you have heard that are some of our biggest concerns and what's being done specifically in the American Dream Act to make sure that that we can live the American dream?
00:10:18.320Well, everything, politicians have made some decisions.
00:10:43.720it used to be 20 percent of home ownership in america was under age 30 now it's closer to one
00:10:50.060percent and so i don't normally do this uh but i reached out to president trump and i said mr
00:10:55.420president it's hard to be a socialist if you own property and he said something to the effect that
00:11:00.120yes because socialism and communism take your property and it seems like young people in these
00:11:04.700universities are not getting the right information and so um and and you guys don't have uh a future
00:11:11.000financially. And we met a 24-year-old girl in DC. Her parents twisted her arm and said,
00:11:16.000you got to buy a house right when she graduated college. And she said, that's my travel money.1.00
00:11:20.180But she bought a home. She's now 30 years old and she's financially ahead of everyone she
00:11:24.920graduated with. And so then I met a guy, 65, no, 72 years old. He has 55 rental properties under
00:11:32.220the value of $500,000 to $200,000. When you graduate a university or a trade school, you
00:11:38.020can't afford a million-dollar house, but you might be able to afford a $300,000 fixer-upper,
00:11:44.220start a family, build a future. So this bill says if you're age 65 or older and you sell your
00:11:51.620property to a first-time buyer, there's a five-year moratorium on capital gains. And I got
00:11:56.380to tell you, staffers on the Democrat side and Republican side come up to me every day and
00:12:00.600whisper, that's my favorite bill. You're giving us a chance of the future. So it's the American
00:12:05.420Dream Act is to loosen up supply and to help young people afford homes. And every real estate
00:12:11.260lobbying firm in D.C. has endorsed the bill. Take your fantasy league strategy very seriously.
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00:12:32.920who gets you. Terms and conditions apply. So that's the American Dream app. I think it's
00:12:40.880incredible. As I have grown older, now graduating college, of course, entering into that real adult
00:12:47.920stage of life, now being 26, I've got a child, my husband and I, right? You start your family
00:12:53.460and you're forced to think about these financial decisions and to have financial responsibility.
00:12:58.680And I've realized now that the economic state of America is not the same economic state of America that my parents were starting this same phase of life in.
00:13:07.800So I think this is critical. And I do think affordability is going to continue to be, you know, always, regardless of who's in the Oval Office,
00:13:14.840will continue to be kind of top of of priorities for your everyday American, your everyday voter.
00:13:21.920So thank you for doing what you're doing here. One more thing that I know you and I have talked about before,
00:13:26.120But I have found so much interest in, and I think you explain it very well, and something that I didn't initially realize is the welfare programs that we have in this country, funded by taxpayers, so funded by you and me, that actually end up penalizing you for being married.
00:13:44.460Can you kind of explain what I'm talking about here?
00:13:46.760Yes, I'm on the Oversight Committee and I spent a good part of my first year in Congress with Elon Musk as part of the Doge Caucus finding waste, fraud and abuse in our country.
00:13:55.940J.D. Vance believes that if we were able to eliminate all the waste, fraud and abuse, it would literally eliminate our national debt.
00:14:01.460It's that bad. And I think all of America was watching what happened in Minnesota.
00:14:05.740A lot of people said, I don't know if I'm paying criminals or paying taxes. It's not fair.
00:14:30.460I think a lot of them, as a Christian, I believe that the government, especially Marxist,
00:14:35.780communists, want to separate you from God.
00:14:37.260They want you to worship government, and then they can give you your rights, which means they can take them away from you.
00:14:43.000What's unique about our country is you're born with your rights, and they can't be taken away.
00:14:48.020But these social net programs to get you dependent on government are, it's like, you know, I want to teach you how to fish, and then you can fish for life.
00:18:48.080You can stand strong on conservative principles, stand strong on the Bible and your faith,
00:18:53.780but still work with people and get things done is what I'm trying to prove.
00:18:57.280You mentioned in your conversation with President Trump, it's important to get everyone kind
00:19:02.100of rowing on the same team, being, you know, working together in collaboration to get and
00:19:08.720accomplish President Trump's America First agenda.
00:19:11.980How difficult really is it with the incredibly slim majority that Republicans have in the
00:19:16.640house and what does this mean for midterms are are you concerned about 2026 yeah well first of
00:19:23.520all it's very difficult it's more difficult in congress than it was in richmond in richmond i
00:19:27.760got you know i got policymaker of the year legislator of the year but the truth is none of the
00:19:32.560ideas were mine it came from you and people in your audience reaching out to their congress to
00:19:36.720say this is the problem and then we go fight for it i wish i could tell you there were my ideas
00:19:40.720but in richmond there's one issue per bill so it's black and white easy here you and i could work on
00:19:46.480a bill and someone puts an amendment on it and you and i don't like our bill anymore so it's
00:19:50.720really complex but it's like most things in life it's about building relationships now in the
00:19:55.520midterms historically we don't do well when you have a republican president in the white house
00:20:00.080however the polling is shifting our ways because i believe the theme should be common sense versus
00:20:05.520crazy almost all americans believe you should have a secure border but if the democrats get power
00:20:10.960again they're going to open up the border almost all americans believe that boys should be in boys
00:20:15.680sports and girls should be in girls sports but the democrats get power again we all know they're
00:20:20.240going to go back to that crazy common sense versus crazy and and a whole lot more and so i think we've
00:20:26.160got a good chance but we need everybody's prayers we need your vote we need you to volunteer knock
00:20:30.640doors and do all that and uh here's another one the save america act we absolutely have
00:20:36.320what's the latest here what's the deal oh my gosh we're trying everything so i was with speaker mike
00:20:40.160johnson we had a meeting a couple of days ago just he and i were talking and i was talking about how
00:20:44.880important the Save America Act was for me and I said we've passed it twice and he
00:20:49.680corrected me he says no we passed it three times I said really he said yeah
00:20:52.800in the last Congress I wasn't in the last Congress we passed in the 118th
00:20:56.640Congress we passed it twice out of the house in the 119th Congress but every
00:21:01.200time it goes over to the Senate there's all these things like the filibuster and
00:21:04.440all that which I think they need to get rid of it because the Democrats are
00:21:07.680definitely going to get rid of when they get if they get power so it's real
00:21:10.800complicated so what we tried a couple of days ago is we tried to slip the Save
00:21:14.700America Act into a rules vote for the National Defense Authorization Act. And it failed. And so
00:21:20.940now we're going to go back to the drawing board and we're going to keep working on it. But I would
00:21:24.860ask everyone, call your senator, say, we need the Save America Act. And that's another thing.
00:21:29.260If you put 100 Democrats in a room, 100 independents in a room, 100 Republican rooms,
00:21:34.220and said to them, raise your hand if you think only American citizens should vote in American
00:21:39.420elections, I bet you they would all raise their hands. And if you said raise your hand in these
00:21:43.500three groups however many groups there are if you think that you should have a voter id they would
00:21:47.660all raise their hat you can't get on an airplane can't get medication you can't hardly do anything
00:21:52.140without a photo id and so it's politics over the american people it's about power and control as a
00:21:58.940christian i think it's spiritual warfare and so i i don't have the answers i didn't get here by
00:22:04.300myself but i need prayers and advice and i'll give it all i got now you're running for re-election
00:22:10.540you're in the midst of of campaigning uh which i will say i have very happily very proudly
00:22:17.420endorsed you i'm so excited for for you to continue representing uh your district but
00:22:22.220but really more than that because what you're doing you do represent people like me so i am
00:22:27.740like all in i'm behind you i'm excited for you and i have no doubt that you'll be victorious there
00:22:33.820what are some of your legislative priorities uh going into this next legislative session
00:22:39.580It's a huge honor to have your endorsement. And I'll work every day to earn that. And just like I'm the first Republican in the country, as I told you, President Trump has endorsed and many, many people have endorsed us.
00:22:49.920And I hope that's indicative of the hard work we have. I'm in the middle of a primary fight right now. In Virginia, we have election season, 45 days.
00:22:58.560So right now we're voting. A lot of people in Virginia in my district don't even know. So I hope they'll spread the word that you have to vote right now.
00:23:04.700The last day to vote is August 4th, but I want to get reelected and help President Trump continue
00:23:09.980with his America persegenia. He needs people that he can trust, they can count on. Like I said,
00:23:14.760rowing in the same direction. I want to continue to work on the cost of living for young people.
00:23:19.860I want to help them have more freedom, not less freedom. You know, Charlie Kirk always talked
00:23:24.620about freedom. That's what our country was founded on, is slipping away. And I want to continue that
00:23:29.240fight so obviously i want to i want you to be able to live work and raise your family in peace so i'm
00:23:35.080going to keep that fight going sounds like the america that i want to live in and that i want
00:23:39.400my daughter to american flags everywhere we live in the greatest country you're describing like
00:23:45.080heaven to me it's why i love being here so much you just you see people who are wearing their red
00:23:49.560white and blue uh and they're just happy they just look happy to be here and that's a very stark
00:23:55.080contrast to that of what we see in the protests on the other really riots that we see on the other
00:24:00.820side there's no joy there's no contentment there's anger there's vitriol they want to destroy but the
00:24:06.540people who are here they want to build up they want to to construct something amazing and prosperous
00:24:12.660for the next generation and that's what i see you doing and for that i'm eternally grateful and
00:24:17.520grateful for you sitting down with me today where can my followers the listeners of this go to learn
00:24:22.840about you, your race, and follow you on social media? Where can they do that? Well, first of all,
00:24:28.080I wouldn't be able to do this without the grace of God and my incredible wife, Tracy, and our
00:24:31.400family. You know, there's a lot of sacrifice to serve our country, but as a Navy SEAL veteran,
00:24:35.820this is a way to continue service to our great nation. But I have a website. It's easy. It's
00:24:40.180mcguireva.com. It says M-C-G-U-I-R-E-V-A.com. The Victor Alpha's Virginia. So mcguireva.com.0.55
00:24:49.720You can sign up, volunteer, donate, find out where to vote, all that.