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00:00:00.000 hello everybody welcome back to the gains for girls podcast what a crazy uh past week really

00:00:14.300 with the whole simone biles feud back and forth i still am in disbelief that she initially tweeted

00:00:22.000 the things she did i'm shocked that it got the media coverage that it did uh she just recently

00:00:27.520 issued an apology um how sincere it was that's the question would she have issued this apology

00:00:34.940 had she not received the onslaught of pushback that she has received uh from the public from people

00:00:43.000 i saw so many comments when i was reading them before she turned her comments off

00:00:46.880 from parents of young girls or young girls themselves who say simone i've looked up to

00:00:52.600 you my whole life what are you doing selling out women and girls so uh all that to say i almost

00:00:58.560 feel bad for truthfully but nonetheless uh the apology it was issued i accept it uh we will i

00:01:07.640 have invited her to to join the fight to stand for fairness and a future for female athletes

00:01:13.280 in women's sports we have an exciting episode today but before we get into that i want to tell

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00:03:19.160 code gains g-a-i-n-e-s for 40 off go check it out today we are talking to u.s senator danes he is the

00:03:28.960 senator of the beautiful beautiful state of montana uh we have a lot to talk about we have seen the

00:03:34.680 ongoing negotiations with the big beautiful bill as trump calls it uh we are here to discuss that

00:03:41.120 uh one story in particular that i'm super excited to ask him about out of montana his home state

00:03:46.420 out of missoula which is a a blue a very deep blue dot in this beautiful red state uh just this past

00:03:55.900 week in the city of missoula there's actually the missoula city council that voted nine to two

00:04:01.820 uh to make the pride flag the city's official flag this wasn't despite of governor gianforte's

00:04:08.920 a new law that he signed uh ultimately banning pride flags from being flown on on government

00:04:14.980 property or at school so you'll get his take on that very exciting stuff check out this episode with

00:04:19.860 u.s senator danes here well senator danes thank you so much for joining the gains for girls podcast

00:04:25.760 uh really really excited to have you on especially uh given uh some of the the headlines that we

00:04:31.420 have seen out of your home state the state that you represent montana this past week uh but before

00:04:37.040 we get into any of that i i wanted to ask you can you give us an update on the the big beautiful bill

00:04:45.400 uh where negotiations currently stand uh what you know are the the key components that are still in

00:04:51.660 flux and how confident are you that this can pass in a form uh that you will support yeah well i mean

00:04:59.300 literally uh riley as i was coming down to my office to to uh do the segment with you i was on

00:05:06.340 the floor with uh uh chairman mike crapel chairman of the finance committee i'm on the finance committee

00:05:10.680 so it's the the inner circle of of the battle right now in a lot of these policies you know the plan

00:05:15.360 right now is to have us on the floor of the senate that last week of june that'd be the week of the

00:05:19.020 23rd uh get that passed and then we toss it back to the house because they have to have another vote

00:05:26.040 on it because we're changing a few things in the bill that the house originally passed and then it

00:05:30.540 goes to president trump's desk so the goal right now is to have this on president trump's desk by

00:05:35.640 the 4th of july that's what we're working against that's a pretty good deadline feels pretty pretty

00:05:40.740 good gift you know as i uh i just just did a tv hit with kudlow there on on fox biz about a half

00:05:46.420 hour ago i said i said larry i'll say this to riley uh when you step back remember two really

00:05:52.440 important things number one this stops the biggest tax increase in american history and

00:05:57.920 it's much all the fight going on we've got to deliver this stopping the biggest tax increase

00:06:03.160 in american history keep in mind every single democrat is going to oppose us on this every

00:06:07.920 one of them but second it's going to deliver about one and a half trillion dollars of real

00:06:12.920 spending reductions that's one of the biggest spending reduction bills that we've had in the

00:06:17.620 history of congress the white house says it's the biggest one but it's it's definitely on the short

00:06:22.000 list so just starting with that 30 000 foot view is is important and miss all these you know policy

00:06:28.340 fights we've got here some of the details yeah well incredible incredible news incredible work we've

00:06:33.660 been following of course everything that's been going on i was telling you prior to to recording just

00:06:39.200 the scrutiny uh that you all are under the inability to appease everyone but we trust president

00:06:46.040 trump we trust his america first agenda uh so thank you for being so willing to to defend it

00:06:51.280 i wanted to get your take on one more thing actually before we get to the story out of out of missoula

00:06:56.940 of course this past week i mean the state of california specifically los angeles is on fire uh what is your

00:07:04.900 take on on what's unfolding in la right now do you see this as a failure of of local leadership or state

00:07:11.320 leadership or are is this something that can be handled on a broader national scale well right to

00:07:18.660 be clear i see the failure of liberal leadership and so that starts at the community level the county

00:07:25.180 level the state level it's across the board failure now keep in mind what president trump has told ice

00:07:32.660 to do is to start by taking the worst of the worst so these are illegal aliens but these are the

00:07:38.720 criminals criminals who are convicted many cases i mean these can be rapists these can be murderers

00:07:44.620 these convicted of of violent crimes that some of these countries basically open the prison prison

00:07:50.980 cells and and flooded our country under joe biden's watch because you know ice has a huge task in front

00:07:57.060 of them we've got millions of illegal aliens here in the country and so what they're doing is they're

00:08:02.740 prioritizing let's get the worst of the worst off the streets first that that makes sense so they went

00:08:07.920 in to take 120 of the worst of the worst off the streets of los angeles and that's what has sparked

00:08:13.760 these riots you know we're parents of four children we have two sons and two daughters we now have uh

00:08:18.940 have six grandchildren hopefully our seventh be born here in in dallas the next couple of days our daughter

00:08:23.980 is literally in the final few days here of pregnancy and and you know we we care a lot as parents do

00:08:30.020 and grandparents the safety of our children and grandchildren and this is what president trump is helping

00:08:34.940 deliver here for the american people is to restore law and order and bring safety back to our communities

00:08:39.800 and it's amazing to me that you have an entire political party at least in terms of elected

00:08:45.120 representation and you're right at every level local state and federal that seem to oppose this

00:08:50.700 and when you say it when you when you phrase it like you did which is exactly what's happening

00:08:55.020 president trump is removing the worst of the worst uh gang members rapists pedophiles human traffickers

00:09:02.440 murderers uh really horrific heinous unimaginable crimes these people have committed despite the

00:09:09.280 fact that they're in this country illegally in the first place amazing to me that we have a political

00:09:14.020 party uh that opposes that and it's certainly not the republican party and i've hardly seen any

00:09:19.360 condemnation from the left following what we're seeing happening in la do you think that there are some

00:09:25.580 democrats that are enabling this this kind of lawlessness either by silence or of course by policy

00:09:32.220 specifically i mean people like gavin newsom who has not only allowed for this he's doubled down on

00:09:39.100 his stance here i know doubt about it i mean you think about just this this notion of sanctuary cities

00:09:43.720 is basically committing lawlessness to occur in pockets around our country and that's the concern

00:09:49.660 is that if you allow la to continue to be on fire i mean the looters the the horrible things we've seen

00:09:56.760 here lighting members of law enforcement vehicles on fire that kind of cancer spreads around the

00:10:02.140 country anarchists look at that and they say let's do that here in our city and as we're starting to

00:10:07.680 enter the summer season of course when it tends to peak this could be a huge problem for the country

00:10:11.960 so president trump is right to try to stop it now in los angeles before it spreads further

00:10:17.540 riley one other point i want to make on what ice is doing that came right out of montana uh we had some

00:10:23.340 of these trans de argoa the the worst of the worst venezuelan gang members that came into our country

00:10:29.100 these tda members there were a handful of them in my hometown of bozeman montana that's where i went to

00:10:35.460 kindergarten through college and to think they're in our backyards literally in bozeman and i was

00:10:42.040 talking to our local law enforcement their local sheriff's department when they when ice came in in

00:10:46.960 february grabbed these guys and deported them they told me they knew about these guys last year

00:10:52.160 but biden's administration would not allow ice to go in and take these guys off the street

00:10:58.400 as soon as the election happened as soon as it happened suddenly trump sworn in he now has pivoted

00:11:05.540 and ice comes in and gets these guys off the street it's just an amazing cause and effect about

00:11:11.520 this last election elections have consequences very grateful that president trump is our commander in

00:11:16.800 chief of course and that's that's what the american people voted for overwhelmingly voted for and not

00:11:23.160 just in the presidential race i had a special affinity for what was going on in the state of

00:11:29.060 montana number one uh the state is is just so beautiful i love visiting there it's probably one

00:11:35.360 of my favorite places in the world to be uh incredible people so beautiful but i don't think a lot of

00:11:41.300 people real i didn't realize this actually uh montana hasn't always been a deep red state uh and

00:11:49.440 now i think they're certainly seeing the consequences of having a a very very liberal supreme court in the

00:11:55.100 state of montana um anyways besides the point there was an important senate race uh that happened in the

00:12:01.240 state and i was so happy as i'm sure you were with the outcome of this senate race so i just wanted to

00:12:08.180 ask you what it's like having tim sheehy uh in the senate with you compared to to working alongside

00:12:14.900 john tester who i will say i know you're in a different position than me um but i will say what

00:12:20.500 i have experienced with uh john tester at least uh the statements that he has issued publicly he's a

00:12:27.480 total fensitter just like gavin newsom i don't believe that he believed half of the stuff that he was

00:12:32.660 voting on half of the liberal policies that he was voting on one of those of course being the issue of

00:12:36.980 men and women's sports uh he continually advocated in opposition of protecting women and girls in

00:12:43.080 sports but then it was remarkable to me because after he had already uh finished his time in the

00:12:49.100 senate after tim sheehy beat him uh he was on i think with bill maher and he says look i have daughters

00:12:53.860 this is crazy i don't want boys on the court or on the field with with my daughters which is again

00:12:59.560 in total contrast to everything he voted for his his voting record well i'll tell you uh you look at

00:13:07.960 what members of congress do post career john tester is now a contributor to msnbc does that tell you about

00:13:16.820 everything right there so i'll just tell you that most montanans don't like rachel maddow and watch

00:13:23.680 msnbc no but i i really think right away you guys what you captured in this last election cycle

00:13:29.300 with getting out there and and protecting women uh is i think that was one of the sleeper issues that

00:13:37.040 was absolutely one of the defining issues in this last election i think you had those independent

00:13:42.160 voters even you know democrat lean left voters that that just couldn't stomach how radical the

00:13:48.840 democrats had become and how the center of gravity of the party now was being defined by something's

00:13:53.500 crazy whether it was gender ideology nonsense and with these men now competing in women's sports

00:13:59.920 and i think that really was something that said okay that's a proof point around how crazy they are

00:14:05.500 and why i can't vote for them and i think that was really a defining issue that that was part of this

00:14:10.760 part of trump's a landslide i really do believe and you were out there in front the tip of the spear

00:14:15.620 when you came to montana helping us out and helping out tim sheehy here's a guy who had 200 combat

00:14:22.140 missions as a navy seal a naval academy grad his wife's a marine she's also a naval academy grad they

00:14:28.620 have four children they're both deployed to afghanistan at the same time and it's amazing story

00:14:33.580 of heroism and protecting our country and to have him back in washington now as my battle buddy

00:14:38.760 when we go down the senate floor we're flying like the blue angels now in formation but when john

00:14:44.500 test was here we cancel each other out on every vote but now with tim what a great ad and i just

00:14:50.440 want to thank you for your uh your investment in our state and our country by coming to montana and

00:14:55.420 helping tim sheehy win that race please it was um his his victory was was huge and again i think it

00:15:01.520 proved these policies it extends beyond president trump of course i do believe people turned out to

00:15:07.240 the polls to embrace donald trump again to embrace embrace his america first agenda to embrace his

00:15:12.300 cabinet picks but more so i believe that people turned out to the polls to reject absurdity and that

00:15:18.140 is is the entire platform that john tester uh maybe wasn't running on i don't think he liked to disclose

00:15:24.460 a lot of uh his voting record publicly because again i think he knew it didn't represent montana values

00:15:30.100 uh but nonetheless it is his voting record it's there we see it that was probably key to uh to

00:15:36.020 that victory for tim sheehy is we exposed we exposed john testers voting record when you run a campaign

00:15:42.000 against an entrenched incumbent i mean john testers had been in the u.s senate for 18 years

00:15:46.820 the way you beat an incumbent like that first you have to fire the incumbent so we made the argument

00:15:53.580 here's his voting record out of step with where montana is then you got to make the argument to hire

00:15:57.900 the new guy so it's fire and then hire so we first had to establish the fact that john tester voted

00:16:04.020 with joe biden and chuck schumer nancy pelosi 95 percent of the time montanans are going wait a minute

00:16:10.120 is that right wait it's proof so we got that out there now you got to give a reason to vote for tim

00:16:14.620 sheehy and that wasn't hard to do once we had this great uh american war hero there his beautiful family

00:16:21.060 his amazing wife montana's knew they had the right guy his wife really is so cool and his kids are just

00:16:27.440 about the cutest kids i've ever seen

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00:16:47.320 i've alluded to the story coming out of missoula which is kind of like this this liberal bastion

00:16:58.480 again in in the red state that is montana uh they have been pushing lgbtq plus pride to to new heights

00:17:07.540 really it was the missoula city council i believe that voted nine to two uh just this past week to

00:17:14.000 make the pride flag the city's official flag this comes right after that really in the face of a

00:17:22.000 recent bill signed into law by your awesome governor who have had the opportunity to to meet several

00:17:27.540 times now he's he's such a fantastic guy again his family too that bans pride flags from being flown

00:17:34.800 on government property and within any educational system schools so what in the world is going on here

00:17:41.480 senator well um we've got quite a rivalry with missoula by the way i'm a montana state university

00:17:48.520 bob roseman so we have what we call bobcat grizzly so my dad though in full disclosure

00:17:53.600 is a university of montana graduate he he was a marine in fact my mom was putting my dad through

00:17:59.440 school there a young marine from billings montana pregnant with me working at the the local uh

00:18:04.820 mercantile there missoula merc but i i just watched missoula has always been a kind of a liberal bastion

00:18:11.840 the state it's a university town that happens but they really took it to a new level of absurdity

00:18:16.240 when they voted to have the pride flag be the official flag of missoula and as our governor said

00:18:22.320 so eloquently who's a dear friend of mine uh governor gianforte we were in the software business together

00:18:27.260 before um we both got involved in politics i used to work for him in this he was a ceo and i was his

00:18:33.080 vice president so i've known him a long long time but greg said it well he said we want flags that

00:18:37.740 unite our state unite our communities like the american flag like the flag of montana not a lgbtq flag

00:18:46.380 that absolutely divides our communities and divides our state divides our nation so um we've got a little

00:18:52.900 battle in our hands back there in montana what's going on in missoula but uh missoula is kind of

00:18:57.320 true to form as they've been in the past year of just a very far left kind of agenda at the city level

00:19:01.200 the county county's much better off the city very far left that's what you see a lot oftentimes in uh

00:19:08.600 you know college cities uh cities where where there are colleges especially even i would say more so in

00:19:15.320 red states you see that in iowa uh we haven't had that too too bad in tennessee yet university of

00:19:21.340 tennessee still seems to be a stronghold for now uh but what we've realized all this to say is

00:19:27.440 is no one is immune to the insanity uh that comes with with liberal policies especially on on college

00:19:36.260 campuses do you think it's things like the things we're talking about uh whether it is the outrageous

00:19:43.160 spending whether it is la on fire whether it's it's of course the the even taxpayer funded uh

00:19:50.420 gender insanity in schools and beyond is it events like this that will ultimately influence

00:19:57.520 2026 midterms or i believe even further the 2028 presidential race like are we seeing this tipping

00:20:05.420 point here in public sentiment maybe on on things like crime uh things like justice parental rights

00:20:12.220 safeguarding of children uh is that something that that a sense that you get as a senator yeah what i find

00:20:19.280 remarkable riley is that um it seems like the left hasn't learned any lessons from this last election

00:20:25.520 generally will be a pivot a pivot more towards the middle if you're way out on the on the edge the

00:20:31.060 teeter-totter there's a pivot back towards the middle where common sense uh is they haven't done

00:20:35.820 that they're doubling down on their policies and and i think that's a problem that democrats have

00:20:40.200 they said well it's a messaging problem no no it's a product problem it's fundamentally flawed

00:20:46.020 in terms of what the party stands for and you've got increasingly uh moderates leaving the party and

00:20:52.120 what happens is it just comes down to the essence of the party now being a very far left led organization

00:20:57.640 that's where they're at right now because it's uh and they they you know you think about as as

00:21:04.320 someone of faith you know we think about the trinity uh as as as our you know our guiding north star

00:21:10.420 here the father son holy spirit that's the trinity the trinity of the left i think is abortion um it's

00:21:18.160 climate change and it's lgbtq that's their trinity those three so everything they see is through that

00:21:24.920 lens of abortion of lgbtq and climate change it is their religion yeah and they and they see government

00:21:33.640 as their god ultimately we see you know as as men and women of faith that uh that government has been

00:21:39.620 placed by god to restrain the the the the dark side of mankind that's part of government's

00:21:45.800 responsibility and so i think it's a fundamental foundational issue that's going to start

00:21:50.660 continuing separating um it's going to bring moderates and independents away from the democrat

00:21:55.640 party we just got to give them a reason to to vote for us you know again i think there's

00:22:00.360 plenty of reasons not to vote for democrats we've got to give them reason to vote for us and that's

00:22:03.960 why president trump's america first agenda is so important it's so true uh and especially

00:22:08.960 you know you mentioned these these battles that we face they're certainly spiritual battles uh i had

00:22:16.500 my eyes just totally open uh i mean speaking personally about three years ago always being

00:22:22.120 an outspoken christian always being an outspoken conservative but once the veil was lifted i i couldn't

00:22:30.000 unsee what i was seeing uh therefore it felt obligatory to to do something to get involved in any

00:22:37.260 way that i can and i think describing it uh the left has found a new religion and it has nothing to do

00:22:42.680 with our lord and savior our creator who died on the cross um rose again three days later for the the

00:22:51.060 option the hope of eternal life um so totally agree with you there last thing for you i just love

00:22:59.520 finding out people's why right uh i mean you describe your family hopefully to have you said seven this

00:23:06.600 will be your seventh grandbaby yeah yeah oh my gosh well how incredible praise god thank you've got

00:23:12.220 your family you you've got the beautiful state of montana waiting for you when you're done here

00:23:17.800 so i guess my question for you is is why why be there uh in such a polarized setting

00:23:24.420 what keeps you grounded i guess in montana values yeah well you just described an important part of it

00:23:31.720 faith and truly family you know that that phrase gets overused sometimes but that's true

00:23:36.120 um grounded i'm very grateful that i when i'm back home i'm home almost every weekend so

00:23:41.600 they say to uh friends and family and constituents i work in dc but i live in montana we're avid

00:23:48.160 outdoors people we we hunt we fish we backpack we do all the things we ski they do in montana

00:23:53.920 shot a coyote off my porch friday night when i was back home my wife spotted at 400 yards in her

00:23:58.300 pasture and i shot i mean that's montana that's who we are that's it

00:24:01.720 but when i come back here it's a different world in washington but that but i have a chance to

00:24:06.360 attend my our home church every sunday i get a chance to see my grandkids um every weekend

00:24:11.480 and that groundness is really important then to bring that when you come back to washington i've

00:24:16.540 always said you never you never want to have your identity uh defined by your title that you

00:24:21.040 you carry as you know the senator i could walk away from this job tomorrow i'm still the same

00:24:25.940 person as i am here today i don't find my identity in that i truly don't i mean it's an honor to do it

00:24:30.960 um it's i'm very respectful of the office and those i get to serve with but i don't find my

00:24:36.360 identity in it i see as a chance to serve yeah well that's incredible and we need more like that

00:24:42.560 uh certainly on both sides of the aisle i'll tell you my brother is watching yellowstone

00:24:47.960 right now and he is obsessed uh he has now branded himself like put this this this hot iron thing on

00:24:58.780 the stove heated it up he feels like he is a real montana cowboy so i gotta meet your brother i you

00:25:06.500 know it's funny people ask me do they say do i watch yellowstone it's the number one question i get

00:25:11.040 oftentimes and i'm not against the show but i we watched one episode one time and and but i said

00:25:17.200 why do i want to watch when i get to live it yeah literally our family has a sod farm in in the bitter

00:25:23.920 where they film is so it's filmed south missoula actually right about about an hour and a half south

00:25:28.840 is where they film it every every episode and then the fictitious place is paradise valley where it takes

00:25:35.120 place i hunt i hunt fish i killed a bear down there three weeks ago big old black bear

00:25:39.960 in grizzly country with you know so that's where i spend my time and so to me i get to live it

00:25:45.860 uh but i'm i'm thrilled we have a lot of people who are now adopted montanans they like the show

00:25:51.440 i'm happy to chat with your brother sometime and and uh if he ever comes out to montana i'll give him a

00:25:56.520 tour oh my gosh don't tell him that i think he thinks john dutton is the real governor of montana

00:26:01.540 when i speak i usually start off by saying governor dutton sends his best regards music is a laugh

00:26:06.820 that is so funny well i appreciate you and everything that you you have done

00:26:12.500 continue to do will continue to do uh and for being such a a great role model even to other

00:26:19.280 public servants really really appreciate it well uh back at you uh as a father two daughters talk

00:26:25.820 about a role model thank you being out there in the arena we appreciate you a lot the danes family does

00:26:30.740 crazy we have to be that's right thank you guys for joining the gains for girls podcast

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Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - June 18, 2025

What will it take for Los Angeles to find great leadership？

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