Louder with Crowder - If Texas Turns Blue - What Happens to America: Ft. In Studio Guest TX AG Ken Paxton

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00:03:32.000 Welcome to the lineup live here on Rumble.

00:03:35.000 Live streaming lives on Rumble.

00:03:37.000 YouTube is mostly dead.

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00:03:40.000 Allegedly, we have Texas AG Ken Paxton on the show today.

00:03:45.000 He's actually going to be in studio, which is pretty rare.

00:03:48.000 We rarely have people in studio just because of the weird sort of, like, biofilm that coats it.

00:03:59.000 That's right.

00:04:00.000 He's in the green room.

00:04:03.000 Hey, he's running for Senate.

00:04:04.000 You know what?

00:04:04.000 We're going to ask him about, you guys send in your questions.

00:04:07.000 What do you want to ask Ken Paxton most?

00:04:10.000 Because, hey, love the state of Texas.

00:04:12.000 There is room for improvement on some things, property taxes and H-1Bs. 0.90

00:04:17.000 That's the main thing.

00:04:18.000 It's property taxes and H-1Bs. 0.87

00:04:19.000 Then we're going to talk about the ice walkouts that are going on across this.

00:04:24.000 I want to say great land, but excluding the places where the ice walkouts have taken place.

00:04:27.000 And the Epstein files.

00:04:29.000 I heard you guys yesterday.

00:04:30.000 You want us to talk about them, so we will go through them.

00:04:32.000 The problem is it's not exactly what the media has been force feeding you.

00:04:37.000 So everyone here, we've had a long couple of days.

00:04:39.000 We are tired, but we're excited.

00:04:40.000 Let me ask you this.

00:04:42.000 What do you think you're missing from the Epstein Files?

00:04:46.000 Like, what do you want most that you haven't seen?

00:04:49.000 Don't say client list.

00:04:51.000 On with the show.

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00:07:38.000 You know, Josh, you're right.

00:07:39.000 Consensus game.

00:07:40.000 Welcome.

00:07:41.000 I did not say that.

00:07:42.000 I was not the one who said that.

00:07:45.000 Oh, geez.

00:07:45.000 This is payback.

00:07:46.000 I heard him say it.

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00:08:05.000 If not, I would be a cripple.

00:08:06.000 Captain Morgan, CEO, how are you, sir?

00:08:08.000 I am well.

00:08:08.000 How are you?

00:08:09.000 I'm good.

00:08:09.000 Yeah.

00:08:10.000 You don't believe it.

00:08:11.000 I believe well.

00:08:12.000 You don't believe it.

00:08:13.000 Well, you said good.

00:08:14.000 I'm about as good as the concept of consent.

00:08:17.000 And in marriage.

00:08:19.000 In marriage.

00:08:20.000 Yes.

00:08:20.000 And Saturday, February 14th at the Irvé Theater in Dallas, Texas.

00:08:24.000 Not underscore Feierstein on XGo.

00:08:26.000 Support live entertainment.

00:08:28.000 Josh Firestein.

00:08:29.000 I do.

00:08:29.000 I think consent is cool.

00:08:31.000 And I got it.

00:08:32.000 September 8th, 2011.

00:08:34.000 Good for you.

00:08:34.000 I only needed the one consent.

00:08:36.000 Good for you.

00:08:36.000 Now consent to this because it's Black History Month.

00:08:39.000 That was quite.

00:08:42.000 Tim consents to be good at his job.

00:08:45.000 It's the most important month.

00:08:47.000 Kind of a short one.

00:08:48.000 Some fast facts for you.

00:08:50.000 It's the month of the year. 0.70

00:08:51.000 In honor of our brethren of color, because we are all one people.

00:08:55.000 We are.

00:08:56.000 In the eyes of the Lord.

00:08:57.000 Which kind of seems weird than separating them for their own month.

00:09:01.000 But George Crum invented the potato chip way back in 1853.

00:09:06.000 Oh, that's pretty cool.

00:09:07.000 Oh, thanks, George.

00:09:08.000 Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color barrier in 1947.

00:09:12.000 Then it was pretty much all color barrier baseball.

00:09:17.000 And in 1879, Latifah Jackson invented talking on the speakerphone in public.

00:09:23.000 I saw 69G, you dirty hoe. 1.00

00:09:28.000 I think she's running for Senate. 1.00

00:09:33.000 What's your switch?

00:09:34.000 Just a washboard with a joystick?

00:09:35.000 I got him.

00:09:38.000 All right.

00:09:39.000 We're going to get the Epstein file.

00:09:45.000 You got to dance your way out of that one.

00:09:46.000 Come on, dude.

00:09:47.000 Professional show.

00:09:48.000 I want to do this and go away.

00:09:50.000 All right.

00:09:52.000 First thing we're going to talk about.

00:09:53.000 The 81st anniversary of the Battle of Ibojima is in 16 days.

00:09:57.000 That's a big one.

00:09:58.000 7,000 of 70,000 Marines were killed.

00:10:03.000 And only 216 of the 18,000 Japanese troops were taken alive.

00:10:07.000 So some history facts for you.

00:10:08.000 Wow.

00:10:09.000 Of course, there was a film about this directed by Clineshwood.

00:10:12.000 It's worthwhile.

00:10:12.000 By the way, question.

00:10:13.000 Which one do you like more?

00:10:14.000 Flags of our fathers?

00:10:15.000 Or what was the name of the Iwo Jima one?

00:10:20.000 Battle of Iwo Jima?

00:10:21.000 I don't know.

00:10:22.000 I know Flags of Our Fathers.

00:10:23.000 And then there was, you guys let me, one was showing it from the American perspective.

00:10:27.000 One was from the Japanese perspective.

00:10:29.000 Sans of Iwo Jima.

00:10:30.000 Sans of Ibojima.

00:10:31.000 Oh, okay.

00:10:31.000 Is that from the Japanese perspective?

00:10:32.000 Yeah, but it was, you know, kind of the, it was part of a series.

00:10:35.000 Let me know which one you guys actually think was better.

00:10:36.000 They were both really good films.

00:10:38.000 If you want a film done right, you want it done under budget, under time, you hire Clint Eastwood.

00:10:43.000 I mean, he's, you know, he's old.

00:10:45.000 Yeah.

00:10:46.000 So, of course, you guys know if you saw that film, the symbol of this event was the raising of our flag over Mount Suribachi.

00:11:03.000 Very proud moment for Americans.

00:11:06.000 And you know what?

00:11:07.000 Hey, it's okay to be proud of American success.

00:11:10.000 And that includes victories or that includes incredible battles.

00:11:13.000 That includes wars of attrition where it just shows the grit that we have.

00:11:16.000 Not to be outdone by that pride.

00:11:18.000 Minnesotans opposed to ICE.

00:11:22.000 They recreated the historic, the iconic moment, that sort of, I guess you would say, statue in top five gayest ways imaginable. 0.95

00:11:39.000 It's the battle of Emotina.

00:11:45.000 Are they going to put it in?

00:11:48.000 Are they going to actually raise it?

00:11:50.000 But that would require a little bit of effort.

00:11:51.000 No, they only had one camera.

00:11:52.000 It's a prop flag.

00:11:54.000 The post that accompanied it on X wrote, We stand for justice and a future worth fighting for.

00:12:01.000 Hashtag Minnesota Strong.

00:12:02.000 Hashtag ice thought, hashtag Minnesota, hashtag peace, hashtag celebrity.

00:12:05.000 Hashtags, what the hell?

00:12:06.000 And later, more Minnesotan freedom fighters reenacted the Battle of the Bulge.

00:12:11.000 Well, you're both winners.

00:12:13.000 You're both winners.

00:12:14.000 And we're all losers.

00:12:15.000 Yes.

00:12:16.000 And after the demonstration, the team behind it celebrated in Times Square.

00:12:20.000 So that was.

00:12:22.000 Oh, we did it.

00:12:27.000 Is he still in the green room?

00:12:30.000 There's a kid Paxton.

00:12:32.000 You know, we clean up the bio film and then we do this.

00:12:35.000 This is us.

00:12:36.000 So the Epstein files, this is something people, you know, of course, people, why didn't you talk about it yesterday?

00:12:42.000 Is it because you're on the island?

00:12:44.000 Sure.

00:12:45.000 The real reason is, I'll tell you this.

00:12:48.000 They might as well be called the Crowder files as far as I'm concerned.

00:12:50.000 Yeah, pretty much.

00:12:51.000 Pretty much at this point.

00:12:52.000 I mean, I will say this.

00:12:54.000 I do like a large shower.

00:12:55.000 So that's one thing where I actually find common ground at Epstein.

00:12:59.000 I wouldn't be doing those same things in the shower.

00:13:00.000 No, that's true.

00:13:01.000 But have you ever gone to a hotel where it has an obscenely, impractically large shower?

00:13:04.000 Oh, yeah, you ever have two shower heads?

00:13:06.000 Yeah.

00:13:06.000 Well, yeah, then your wife's like, hey, oh, we should charge a guy.

00:13:09.000 I'm like, no, that's two for me.

00:13:11.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:13:12.000 Yeah.

00:13:12.000 That's two heads for me.

00:13:13.000 It's like a car wash for me.

00:13:16.000 Yes.

00:13:16.000 I had one with three showers.

00:13:17.000 There were lights in there.

00:13:18.000 I had one with three shower heads.

00:13:20.000 It was the Londoner, maybe.

00:13:22.000 You guys can let me know.

00:13:23.000 Or London Hotel, Londoner, Glenn Beck back then.

00:13:26.000 When he launched Before It Was the Blaze, Before It was Insider Extreme.

00:13:29.000 It was Glenbeck.com, Before It Was The New Thing.

00:13:31.000 Yeah.

00:13:31.000 And I. Did one of them for your butt?

00:13:33.000 Well, I did.

00:13:34.000 I assigned one for my butt. 0.97

00:13:37.000 Did a show that night.

00:13:38.000 I was on stage doing jokes about Muhammad and everyone had a bulletproof fest except for me at the Nokia Theater. 0.99

00:13:42.000 Anyway, that's right.

00:13:43.000 I remember that.

00:13:44.000 It had one of those, it had three shower heads.

00:13:46.000 It had two on each side.

00:13:48.000 No, four, four.

00:13:49.000 I'm remembering.

00:13:49.000 It's coming back to me now.

00:13:50.000 It's four shower heads I had.

00:13:53.000 One, two, one telephone shower.

00:13:55.000 And then I had one thing that just shot jets out straight.

00:13:59.000 I thought I was like, maybe this is one of those like yoga bidets.

00:14:02.000 I don't know.

00:14:02.000 No, dude, that's a butt blaster.

00:14:04.000 But I spent.

00:14:06.000 I don't make good money for those.

00:14:07.000 I ate a schwarma wrap in that shower.

00:14:11.000 It was the biggest part of the room.

00:14:13.000 So my point is.

00:14:15.000 Jeffrey Epstein likes large showers.

00:14:17.000 Okay.

00:14:17.000 I too like large showers.

00:14:19.000 It's good leading.

00:14:20.000 Hitler, I would imagine, enjoyed a sandwich. 0.95

00:14:22.000 Hitler bad. 0.98

00:14:23.000 I also enjoy a good sandwich.

00:14:26.000 You think he ate it on rye?

00:14:28.000 I have no idea.

00:14:29.000 I said, nothing marble, right?

00:14:30.000 That's it.

00:14:31.000 They make good bread.

00:14:32.000 Surprise too spicy.

00:14:34.000 It's like pineapple makes my tongue go.

00:14:37.000 Okay.

00:14:38.000 Petty Hitler. 0.85

00:14:39.000 All right.

00:14:39.000 So the Epstein files.

00:14:40.000 People are like, why didn't you talk about it?

00:14:41.000 Well, because I will tell you this.

00:14:42.000 A lot of people have been misleading you.

00:14:45.000 And by design, I recreated the Epstein cell.

00:14:50.000 We did here down to the millimeter.

00:14:52.000 And we used a force meter where I tried to break my neck.

00:14:56.000 I wore a neck guard to see if I could apply the amount of force.

00:14:59.000 You can go and watch it.

00:15:00.000 I do not believe the story that we were told about Jeffrey Epstein.

00:15:04.000 It is technically possible, but unbelievably improbable, especially when you consider the surrounding circumstances.

00:15:13.000 That is my opinion.

00:15:14.000 I also believe that there was absolutely a blackmail operation going on, probably a litany of people involved.

00:15:21.000 I can't prove that, and I'm willing to bet that a lot of the probably most usable evidence has since been destroyed.

00:15:29.000 I want to be honest with you because I can't prove these things.

00:15:32.000 I can prove the amount of force that's needed to be generated.

00:15:34.000 You can go and watch that.

00:15:36.000 But that is my opinion.

00:15:37.000 Everything else, I am going to provide the links, references, because this is one of those situations where purveyors of misinformation, they are having a field day.

00:15:49.000 This is their Super Bowl.

00:15:50.000 So please be careful because when emails are taken out of context, when emails are mixed with notes to self, it's really easy to sell you a lie.

00:16:00.000 I think a lot of people are implicated.

00:16:01.000 Certainly those who you already know in the Democrat Party, and I think some of the Republican Party, absolutely, as well.

00:16:07.000 My opinion is that Donald Trump worked with the authorities, and really the only evidence that we have regarding Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is that he booted him, wasn't a fan of him, and a lot of crazy people have tried to tar and feather him.

00:16:19.000 That's my opinion.

00:16:20.000 So last week, big files dump, Deputy AG Todd Blanch said that the review is over.

00:16:27.000 That is disappointing, I know, to a lot of people, myself included.

00:16:31.000 What did we learn?

00:16:32.000 Mostly, like I said, that it's difficult to discern fact from fiction.

00:16:36.000 On the left, on the right, a big merit to fight.

00:16:43.000 Whichever way you want, that's the way you read.

00:16:46.000 Truth's mixing with fools.

00:16:48.000 The opposite of what people were open.

00:16:50.000 Gates, antibiotics, and interviews to see Jeff was at least afraid.

00:16:55.000 I do have a good mirror.

00:16:59.000 He likes a good mirror.

00:17:01.000 He does.

00:17:02.000 To be honest.

00:17:03.000 I also like a good mirror, but that doesn't mean I actually don't like mirrors.

00:17:09.000 I look at a mirror once a day after the shower.

00:17:10.000 That's it.

00:17:12.000 One time I looked at the end of the day.

00:17:13.000 I was like, oh my God, I've been bleeding all day.

00:17:15.000 I should have checked the mirror.

00:17:16.000 So let's go through this.

00:17:19.000 Again, references, link in the description.

00:17:20.000 The Bill Gates story.

00:17:22.000 So a lot of you have been told: hey, there's an email from Jeffrey Epstein to Bill Gates regarding antibiotics that he was supplied with or Epstein supplied to Bill Gates because of Russian prostitutes.

00:17:36.000 That may or may not be true, but that's not actually what's in the files.

00:17:39.000 So Epstein drafted notes, meaning these weren't sent to Bill Gates.

00:17:44.000 And just so you know, I really don't like Bill Gates.

00:17:46.000 He's a wiener.

00:17:49.000 And what the draft, I should say, not email, was indicating was that Bill Gates maybe got an STD from Russian girls, that he requested antibiotics to surreptitiously give to his wife on beknots to her.

00:18:01.000 There's no corroboration.

00:18:02.000 These are entirely writings of Epstein's own doing.

00:18:07.000 And to me, that's interesting in and of itself because it suggests that he was building, again, building a backlog for blackmail.

00:18:17.000 And the fact that it wasn't sent means that this is probably something he was holding in reserve as leverage.

00:18:23.000 That is an opinion, the actual note, you can go and read, check the reference.

00:18:27.000 And I will say, some of the notes still have us scratching our heads.

00:18:41.000 Yeah, well, you know, you were about to say something before we had to deliver the news.

00:18:45.000 From himself to himself.

00:18:47.000 Yeah, that's not what he kept a note basically to kind of, it seems like it's like, well, this will be discoverable at some point.

00:18:51.000 So you guys want to be careful about you.

00:18:52.000 The email that says all this stuff about you, Bill.

00:18:55.000 Well, it's about you.

00:18:55.000 That last one was.

00:18:56.000 No, that's not true.

00:18:57.000 That last one.

00:18:57.000 Lily, I mean, you just saw the tape.

00:18:59.000 That last one.

00:18:59.000 It doesn't mean anything.

00:19:01.000 Everyone likes to admonish.

00:19:02.000 I, too, like to admonish you, along with enjoying large showers and a good mirror.

00:19:06.000 Got admonished by Jeffrey Epstein.

00:19:08.000 You got admonished by Tim.

00:19:10.000 Yeah.

00:19:11.000 See, and it doesn't mean that you are on board with Jeffrey Epstein.

00:19:14.000 This is one that is interesting to me.

00:19:16.000 Check the references.

00:19:17.000 Is Elon Musk in the files?

00:19:21.000 Emails show that Musk tried to arrange a visit to Little St. James Island in 2012, 2013.

00:19:27.000 The visit never happened due to scheduling, and emails would suggest that they would act as evidence.

00:19:33.000 But the emails do contradict a claim that Musk made earlier, where he said that Epstein tried repeatedly to get me to visit his island.

00:19:42.000 I declined.

00:19:45.000 So is this a smoking gun?

00:19:48.000 No, not really.

00:19:48.000 It just tells you that sometimes people spin things or paint it in a way that isn't necessarily representative of reality.

00:19:55.000 This is one where I would have follow-up questions.

00:19:58.000 I think that it warrants this.

00:20:00.000 If he said, hey, this guy repeatedly tried to get me to the island, I declined.

00:20:03.000 And then we go, well, hold on a second.

00:20:04.000 It looks here like maybe you were thinking about it and kind of trying to schedule it until it fell through.

00:20:08.000 Can you give us the straight scoop?

00:20:11.000 I think that warrants a follow-up.

00:20:13.000 I think if we're going to be consistent across the board, Elon Musk warrants it.

00:20:16.000 By the way, tune in 11 a.m. Eastern.

00:20:18.000 If you guys are watching this on clips, you get to tune in live and interact with us.

00:20:21.000 Yes.

00:20:21.000 So Elon has actually been very, yeah, I agree with your take, but Elon has been very vocal about releasing all of the files.

00:20:27.000 He also knows this information is in the files, so he knows he's going to have to answer these questions.

00:20:31.000 He probably thinks he can just kind of deal with it and be like, no, I was never interested and it was just scheduling.

00:20:35.000 So I feel like, yes, a follow-up is warranted, but I feel like a lot of what we see is just people like either on timelines getting it a little wrong, maybe misleading because they don't want to be tied to Jeffrey Epstein and there was a conversation or something like that that happened.

00:20:48.000 But he has been pretty consistent on release the files.

00:20:51.000 Right.

00:20:51.000 Even though it might hurt him a little bit.

00:20:53.000 Yeah.

00:20:53.000 I still think it warrants the follow-up questions.

00:20:56.000 Yeah, but the story you gave isn't really straightforward.

00:21:00.000 And given Elon's public track record with, and I don't mean underage ladies anyway, but you know, he's prolific.

00:21:07.000 Yes.

00:21:08.000 Yes.

00:21:08.000 That's a good way to say it.

00:21:09.000 He gets his seed is sown.

00:21:14.000 We're not advocating for that.

00:21:15.000 We're just one that surprised me here.

00:21:18.000 Jason Callakanis, who's been on the show.

00:21:20.000 Not surprised.

00:21:20.000 More or less.

00:21:23.000 There were some documents that resurfaced contradicting some of his claims that he only knew Epstein in the 90s.

00:21:30.000 I love Palmer Lucky going after him.

00:21:33.000 I mean, is it a smoking gun?

00:21:35.000 No.

00:21:36.000 But this also, sometimes what just happens is people go, oh, gosh, I went to a dinner with him or I was at a function with him.

00:21:42.000 And I don't want people to make him out of a molehill.

00:21:44.000 When was that?

00:21:45.000 It could have been the 90s and they get their timelines wrong.

00:21:47.000 Follow-ups would clarify that.

00:21:49.000 So I do think it's important to, and this is across the board, I do think follow-up questions based on real information, not based on self-notes.

00:21:58.000 I don't think it would be fair to ask Bill Gates about a note that Epstein sent to himself.

00:22:01.000 I don't think it would be fair to ask President Trump to waste his time addressing a claim that was already pretty much considered to be non-credible.

00:22:09.000 But if it's somebody's own words that contradict a matter of record that is provable, I think a good indicator is will these people show up and address it?

00:22:19.000 And does it pass a sniff test?

00:22:20.000 President Trump, because you have some idiots out there going, President Trump is a pedophile.

00:22:26.000 There's no evidence of that whatsoever.

00:22:28.000 And again, before we get to the information in here, don't you think the left would have used this?

00:22:33.000 Don't you think in the Biden administration, I mean, just think of our intelligence communities.

00:22:38.000 Why wouldn't they?

00:22:40.000 They're going to impeach him over January 6th, peacefully and patriotically.

00:22:45.000 They're going to impeach.

00:22:46.000 But they're not if there's strong evidence that he was involved in sex trafficking.

00:22:52.000 The best they got was falsified documents.

00:22:54.000 Right.

00:22:54.000 Yeah.

00:22:54.000 That would have been the October surprise.

00:22:56.000 Right.

00:22:56.000 For sure.

00:22:57.000 Absolutely would have been.

00:22:58.000 So there are mentions of Trump in these documents.

00:23:00.000 And again, these are just documents.

00:23:01.000 This is a collection of information.

00:23:03.000 Some of it is taken from Jeffrey Epstein's own files, computers.

00:23:06.000 Some of it is taken from other statements.

00:23:08.000 This happens in any case.

00:23:09.000 And consistently, some information is deemed to be credible and some information is deemed to not be credible.

00:23:14.000 So something that people left out when circulating these allegations, they actually cropped this part that immediately followed the accusations.

00:23:22.000 It said complainant was spoken to and deemed not credible.

00:23:25.000 Additional research showed three separate incidents involving police which requested mandatory psychiatric evaluation.

00:23:34.000 You know, there are people out there, and the police refer to them as serial confessors.

00:23:38.000 There are people who get a thrill out of confessing to things like they didn't do.

00:23:42.000 That's why sometimes people go, well, he confessed.

00:23:43.000 Well, there are a lot of people who confess.

00:23:45.000 They will confess, and it's verifiably false, and they'll keep coming back in to go, no, no, no, I did it.

00:23:49.000 I committed the rape or I committed the murder.

00:23:52.000 This is something that people need to understand.

00:23:53.000 And there are people out there who make false accusations all the time.

00:23:56.000 For more proof, see me too.

00:23:58.000 This is an anonymous source that was deemed not credible, and there was a record of multiple requests from police for psychiatric evaluations.

00:24:05.000 If someone right now who hates you just said, you know what, I'm going to go to the authorities and say that you raped a minor.

00:24:12.000 And the police say, oh, well, this person's absolutely insane.

00:24:15.000 And you have an alibi where they can go here.

00:24:18.000 Here he is on security camera footage at that exact time, not even in the state.

00:24:23.000 Do you think it would be fair 5, 10, 15 years from now for that to be a matter of record?

00:24:29.000 And people say, well, see, well, why not this?

00:24:31.000 Why didn't he ever address this?

00:24:32.000 Yeah, the claims out there.

00:24:33.000 You may not have even known about it.

00:24:36.000 And this is the problem with following a lot of Johnny Cumb lately's in the space.

00:24:40.000 People like Ryan Garcia tweeting out or posting this.

00:24:44.000 He wrote, this is my public declaration and announcement.

00:24:47.000 I'm reclining.

00:24:48.000 I think he meant rescinding my past support for Donald Trump.

00:24:51.000 Anyone that was involved in anything to do with that island and what they were doing, I just can't support in any way.

00:24:59.000 Okay, before we get to the next part, what if they were involved with raiding the island?

00:25:04.000 What if they were involved with handing over information that led to this person being prosecuted?

00:25:10.000 What if they were involved in a way that was combating this island?

00:25:15.000 And the only strong evidence that we have as a matter of record that is admissible is that Donald Trump kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago and Donald Trump cooperated with authorities.

00:25:25.000 That matters.

00:25:27.000 So when people just say, I can't, anyone who's involved in any capacity, technically, people were involved with the Nazis if they were killing them.

00:25:37.000 They were at war with them.

00:25:38.000 There's an involvement there.

00:25:40.000 We have to be mindful of our words.

00:25:42.000 He wanted to say children need to be protected?

00:25:43.000 I agree.

00:25:44.000 Everyone knew better, F that, justice for all.

00:25:49.000 Clearly, everyone didn't know better because this guy got away with it for a very long time.

00:25:53.000 They started to know better after President Trump cooperated.

00:25:57.000 And this doesn't mean that Donald Trump is a saint and it doesn't mean that he's perfect.

00:26:01.000 But on this issue, I think anyone using it to turn on him is someone who you don't want in your ranks anyway.

00:26:08.000 If there's any proof that Donald Trump was actually involved with this, if there's any actual substantiated proof, I will be the first one to call it out.

00:26:16.000 And by the way, same thing with Bill Gates.

00:26:18.000 I can't stand Bill Gates.

00:26:20.000 There are very few people I dislike more than Bill Gates.

00:26:23.000 But an email that Jeffrey Epstein sent to himself, known liar, is not something I'm going to use to say that Bill Gates is clearly a practicing pedophile.

00:26:33.000 Yeah.

00:26:34.000 Does that make sense?

00:26:35.000 Is that fair?

00:26:36.000 And I'd highly encourage you to go check out the references because I see so much deliberately misleading information out there.

00:26:44.000 And I'll tell you, it, you know, makes me sad.

00:26:48.000 Well, it pisses me off because it doesn't actually help get to justice.

00:26:51.000 What it does is it gives people an excuse.

00:26:53.000 There's one about like they were eating the entrails of a human baby that they had sacrificed or something like that.

00:27:00.000 And it's like, well, if you go read the email that they're referencing, it doesn't say anything about that.

00:27:04.000 Right.

00:27:04.000 So all the left has to do is go, well, see, that's a lie.

00:27:07.000 Yeah.

00:27:07.000 Right.

00:27:07.000 And so you don't have to believe anything that's there.

00:27:09.000 Anybody who wants to just cover this stuff up, we don't want just random information.

00:27:14.000 When we say release the files, everybody is talking about like, there is a person serving prison time.

00:27:21.000 Why?

00:27:22.000 Why is she in jail? 1.00

00:27:24.000 Who were the clients that were doing this?

00:27:26.000 What evidence did you have that this was going on, that she was facilitating this stuff?

00:27:30.000 Those people need to pay. 0.99

00:27:32.000 That is what we're saying.

00:27:33.000 And this is not accomplishing that.

00:27:34.000 No.

00:27:35.000 Sorry, it's just mudding the waters even further.

00:27:37.000 And then you have some people going, like, oh, really?

00:27:39.000 Well, what part of this file explains about how he died?

00:27:42.000 It's like, guys, you understand there's a difference between this collection of a data dump of files that may exist and an actual investigation into the death of someone.

00:27:52.000 They're not the same thing.

00:27:53.000 All of your speeding tickets, your moving infractions, parking tickets, whatever disputes you've had in the past, that's not the same as a file that may or may not exist.

00:28:02.000 Should you choose to sexually traffic somebody?

00:28:06.000 It wouldn't be relevant.

00:28:07.000 It's not the same file.

00:28:08.000 It's different files.

00:28:12.000 James Tallarico, let's go to this.

00:28:15.000 Is he straight?

00:28:17.000 I'll go with queer. 1.00

00:28:18.000 We'll see.

00:28:20.000 We don't know.

00:28:21.000 Do we?

00:28:22.000 I heard him have betos on besos.

00:28:23.000 Could have fooled me.

00:28:27.000 Him and old Francis, Beto Francis worked.

00:28:30.000 They call him the old St. Francis of Assissy.

00:28:33.000 What?

00:28:33.000 Is that right?

00:28:34.000 The two together.

00:28:36.000 That was a reach.

00:28:36.000 Yeah, it was.

00:28:37.000 So, uh-oh.

00:28:38.000 James Tallarico, and we're going to have A.G. Ken Paxon on here in a little, maybe.

00:28:44.000 As of 2024, Texas was seen as a pretty solidly red state across the board.

00:28:52.000 You know, President Trump won by 14, Ted Cruz won by 9.

00:28:56.000 I remember everyone saying, oh, this is going to be the year.

00:28:58.000 It's going to be Beto.

00:28:59.000 Look, he kick-flipped.

00:29:02.000 Sick.

00:29:03.000 But that doesn't mean you can rely on it being red forever, especially when you look at what's going on in the state in some cases, for example, with H-1Bs. 0.93

00:29:11.000 In some cases, the fabric of the state changing quite a bit.

00:29:15.000 And I think that Texas is pretty important because it's certainly not the most conservative state in the union, but it is iconic in that if Texas were to fall, you know, to succumb to the woke virus of the left, if people still use that term, but to leftism, that would be a bad sign for the United States of America.

00:29:32.000 Yeah, massively bad.

00:29:33.000 And it's a target right now, too.

00:29:35.000 Yes.

00:29:35.000 And so right now, Democrats have pinned their hopes on.

00:29:39.000 Also, kind of those who present to be right-wing but say, but I'm reasonable, I'm center-left.

00:29:45.000 They have pinned their hopes on this new man who I cannot stand and is wrong about pretty much everything theologically, James Tallarico.

00:29:54.000 Federal Rourke came close, but did not prevail, even when it appeared Democrats in Texas had some kind of momentum.

00:30:03.000 Along comes Presbyterian seminarian and Democratic state representative James Tallarico.

00:30:08.000 He thinks he has what it takes.

00:30:09.000 We have the hottest new candidate of 2026, Texas James Tallerico.

00:30:15.000 James Tallarico, thank you so much for joining the conversation.

00:30:19.000 Thanks for having me.

00:30:20.000 Your profile has really risen in the past year, which I can personally attest to because my father-in-law actually went from being a middle school teacher to a four-term state representative making a name for yourself with exchanges in the state house that went viral.

00:30:38.000 James Tallarico is one of the top Democrats running for U.S. Senate this year.

00:30:42.000 James Tallarico, his faith, his Christian identity is clearly a big part of that.

00:30:47.000 And I think when you're talking about him, not just in Texas, but across the country, I think he's speaking to some of those values and some of those principles maybe more effectively than anyone else in the Democratic Party across the country.

00:30:58.000 James Tallarico.

00:30:59.000 He got it.

00:31:00.000 Thank you for being here.

00:31:01.000 You must have spelled it wrong.

00:31:02.000 Yeah, they spelled it phonetically.

00:31:05.000 So, former middle school teacher, apparently a Presbyterian seminarian, and he is leading Jasmine Crockett in the Senate Democrat primary.

00:31:13.000 Also, he, James Tallarico, really wants to be a dentist.

00:31:16.000 Well, sir, someday I'd like to be a dentist.

00:31:23.000 It's a good career.

00:31:24.000 We don't need any Democrat dolls.

00:31:27.000 That's right.

00:31:28.000 August.

00:31:32.000 August, as of August 2025, Tallarico led the Democrats who fled Texas for Illinois in an attempt to block Texas redistricting.

00:31:41.000 Yeah, he's one of those guys.

00:31:42.000 Yeah.

00:31:42.000 And then this summer, look, he's usually right, but he doesn't always get it right.

00:31:47.000 Joe Rogan hinted that Tallarico should run for president, and it could have just been, you know, being friendly to a being polite to a guest.

00:31:55.000 All I'm pushing back on is that second step of it's always going to be this way.

00:31:59.000 Right.

00:31:59.000 It doesn't have to be this way.

00:32:00.000 That is the key step.

00:32:01.000 Right.

00:32:02.000 So you need to run for president.

00:32:06.000 We need someone who's actually a good person.

00:32:09.000 Yeah, I don't know if I would go with that.

00:32:11.000 And here's why I wouldn't lean toward good person.

00:32:14.000 I can't say bad person, but someone who proactively manipulates scripture to use it as a platform and to try and justify a definitively anti-God platform, that is actually worse to me than someone who simply says I'm an atheist.

00:32:31.000 So that brings us to why he went viral this week, some comments he made regarding theology, religion, on, I believe, the Rogan podcast, as well as a recent New York Times one, because they're in that space now.

00:32:45.000 For the past 50 years in this country, the religious right, a political movement, convinced a lot of Christians in America that the two most important issues were abortion and homosexuality.

00:32:57.000 Two issues that aren't really discussed in scripture.

00:33:01.000 Abortion is never mentioned.

00:33:03.000 Consensual same-sex relationships are never mentioned.

00:33:06.000 What?

00:33:06.000 It's remarkable to me that you have an entire political movement using Christianity to prioritize two issues that Jesus never talked about.

00:33:16.000 Pause really fast.

00:33:16.000 First off, Gerald, that's wrong, right?

00:33:19.000 Just because I know that, yeah.

00:33:20.000 Second, no one's saying that these are the two most important issues.

00:33:23.000 There's a difference between being the most important issues and being closed-handed issues, meaning they are non-starters.

00:33:27.000 As a Christian, and I will tell you this, this is not me telling you what to think, but if you claim to be a Christian, for example, if you claim to be a Detroit Red Wing, well, you better play for the Red Wings.

00:33:38.000 You better put on that jersey.

00:33:39.000 You know what that means.

00:33:40.000 If you claim to be a Christian, you cannot be pro-abortion and certainly not as it exists in today's political spectrum.

00:33:48.000 And is that an issue that's being pushed solely by the right?

00:33:50.000 Right.

00:33:51.000 Like the left isn't out here trying their hardest to abort their babies?

00:33:54.000 Right.

00:33:54.000 It's just like when they go, yeah, we need to allow men fighting sports.

00:33:57.000 And you go, no, no, no.

00:33:58.000 They go, why are you making an issue?

00:33:59.000 There's like five athletes.

00:34:00.000 It's like, well, yeah, they all happen to hold world records, but you're the one who made it an issue.

00:34:04.000 Let's continue.

00:34:05.000 They're not important.

00:34:06.000 I actually think both of those issues are very important.

00:34:09.000 But to focus on those two things instead of feeding the hungry and healing the sick and welcoming the stranger, three things we're told to do ad nauseum.

00:34:17.000 The church does a great job of that, by the way.

00:34:19.000 It's mind-blowing.

00:34:20.000 Doesn't really do this in terms of not in the context of abortion because before God comes over Mary and we have the incarnation, God asks for Mary's consent, which is remarkable.

00:34:35.000 I mean, go back and read this in Luke.

00:34:39.000 I mean, I will.

00:34:40.000 The angel comes down and asks Mary if this is something she wants to do.

00:34:45.000 And she says, if it is God's will, let it be done.

00:34:48.000 Let it be.

00:34:49.000 Let it happen.

00:34:50.000 So to me, that is a RSVP this is one of our most crucial stories that creation has to be done with consent.

00:34:57.000 You cannot force someone to create.

00:34:59.000 Creation is one of those sacred acts that human beings.

00:35:05.000 That has to be done with consent.

00:35:06.000 It has to be done with freedom.

00:35:07.000 Marriage beds undefined.

00:35:09.000 And to me, that is absolutely consistent with the ministry and life and death of Jesus.

00:35:14.000 And so that's why I, that's how I come down on that side of the issue.

00:35:18.000 Yeah.

00:35:19.000 Well, that's incorrect.

00:35:22.000 He should be assigned onto you and you should bring tidings.

00:35:24.000 It's not like, so Mary, are you down with this?

00:35:27.000 I don't know.

00:35:28.000 Too late, baby's in you. 0.70

00:35:31.000 I think I want to travel.

00:35:33.000 Yeah.

00:35:34.000 Spend some more time on me.

00:35:36.000 You want to travel?

00:35:37.000 Oh, I'm saying, hold on a second.

00:35:38.000 Ring ring.

00:35:39.000 Yeah, all sinners of the world, sorry, you're all condemned to hell forever because Mary wants to travel. 0.99

00:35:44.000 Do I have that right?

00:35:45.000 The path to heaven is closed because Mary wants to take the road to Damascus. 0.98

00:35:49.000 Yeah, because she wants to eat, pray, love her way across this desert wasteland and find herself.

00:35:55.000 Hope you enjoy the fires of hell.

00:35:57.000 Am I getting that right, Mary?

00:35:59.000 But I want to see Athens.

00:36:02.000 Here's the fun part: there was so much consent asked when the angel said, This will happen, and you will name him Jesus.

00:36:09.000 She didn't even get to pick the name.

00:36:11.000 You think she'll pick whether this happens or not?

00:36:13.000 I was thinking about it.

00:36:15.000 I was thinking Hunter.

00:36:16.000 No, his name will be Jesus.

00:36:18.000 I'm an angel flying in the air right now.

00:36:20.000 Do as we say.

00:36:21.000 Oh, so now you're an angel explaining.

00:36:26.000 God's been planning this for a very long time.

00:36:29.000 She specifically says, I am the Lord's servant, which is what you say when you're consenting.

00:36:33.000 Right, yeah, exactly.

00:36:34.000 Yes, that's whatever you want to do.

00:36:36.000 Hey, honey, would you like to be my servant tonight in the bedroom?

00:36:39.000 A separate note.

00:36:41.000 I will just tell you this.

00:36:42.000 This whole thing is centered on this idea of consent as it exists in the leftist paradigm.

00:36:46.000 We wouldn't have this problem if we approach sexuality, sexual practice, the moral way.

00:36:52.000 Obviously, as a Christian, you believe that it's supposed to be within the confines of marriage.

00:36:55.000 If you're in a monogamous, loving relationship, consent is not only not perpetually needed, but I will tell you this: it's kind of gay. 1.00

00:37:03.000 And what I mean by that, see, I wasn't the one that's not a person.

00:37:06.000 What I mean by that is no woman who loves you the way that you're attracted to one should be like, okay, so sweetheart, is it okay?

00:37:14.000 It used to be once you get married, once you say I do, or you pull the lady in for a kiss and things continue moving.

00:37:20.000 That is seen as consent.

00:37:22.000 Now we've ruined the sexual dynamics of a man pursuing a woman.

00:37:26.000 Women don't like that. 1.00

00:37:28.000 Women, you can comment if you think women like to have a man who takes charge. 1.00

00:37:32.000 I'm not talking about abuse.

00:37:34.000 Let's just say what we all know to be true.

00:37:37.000 The idea of consent as it currently exists, which is really designed to put more landmines down in the area of intersexual dynamics, it's kind of a vibe kill.

00:37:48.000 It's kind of gay. 0.99

00:37:50.000 And condoms are for losers.

00:37:51.000 Now, yeah, you get the last part right.

00:37:56.000 Yeah.

00:37:57.000 Cigarettes make you look cool.

00:37:58.000 There's look.

00:37:59.000 They do.

00:37:59.000 Science is in.

00:38:01.000 They're gross, but they look cool.

00:38:03.000 So this is what they do: they create an issue, right?

00:38:05.000 My body, my choice.

00:38:06.000 Abortion all the way up until including birth on demand, taxpayer-funded, period.

00:38:10.000 Who changed safe, legal, and rare?

00:38:12.000 Wasn't us.

00:38:14.000 And then they go, why are you making it such a big issue?

00:38:16.000 Well, because there's 10 to 15,000 late-term abortions a year. 1.00

00:38:19.000 You say very small numbers.

00:38:21.000 That's significant to me.

00:38:24.000 They'll say, hey, we want to change the entire paradigm, the entire gender spectrum, and put biological males in with women. 0.99

00:38:24.000 They'll do this. 0.99

00:38:33.000 And if you oppose it, they go, why are you making this an issue?

00:38:35.000 Well, I'll tell you what the biggest issues are to Texas voters.

00:38:39.000 This comes from Emerson.

00:38:40.000 It's the economy.

00:38:41.000 They say threats to democracy and immigration.

00:38:44.000 And if beans should go in Chile, which will be decided the Texas way.

00:38:48.000 There you go.

00:38:53.000 Don't put beans in your Texas chili.

00:38:55.000 No.

00:38:55.000 I'm not even from Texas.

00:38:56.000 I know that.

00:38:57.000 It's true, but I like beans and chili.

00:38:59.000 You like wood.

00:39:01.000 You like the dish with beans in it.

00:39:02.000 It's like chili.

00:39:02.000 It's just not chili.

00:39:03.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:39:04.000 And this isn't a debate.

00:39:04.000 I grew up where I always had beans and chili, but I found out it is an actual state foodstuff where it has a very clear definition.

00:39:11.000 Correct.

00:39:12.000 And if you want to call it fusion, whatever.

00:39:14.000 And it's not even like pineapple on pizza.

00:39:15.000 That's a whole preference.

00:39:17.000 Beans don't go in chili.

00:39:18.000 It's a Texas food and it does not include it.

00:39:20.000 That's fair.

00:39:20.000 Fine.

00:39:21.000 And if you say otherwise, they will kill you.

00:39:25.000 But only if you have a midrift as a man.

00:39:27.000 Yeah, well, and here's the thing.

00:39:28.000 And this sentiment, it reflects America at large, American voters at large.

00:39:32.000 There have been recent polls that have come where you see deportation support sometimes as high as, I saw a number yesterday, 63%, whereas opposing it, 30-something percent.

00:39:43.000 The only group opposing it as a majority were Democrats, meaning independents supported it as a majority.

00:39:48.000 And you'll see fluctuations across the board sometimes if you get down to the method of doing it.

00:39:52.000 But Americans understand the economy is important.

00:39:55.000 Immigration is important.

00:39:57.000 But I repeat myself.

00:39:58.000 The issue is you cannot force an agenda.

00:40:02.000 For example, you can't have Drag Queen Story Hour.

00:40:05.000 You cannot put pornography in children's libraries and then say that those requesting it be removed, namely because there was never pornography in public children's libraries, that they're turning it into an issue.

00:40:19.000 The left, they love to use the word gaslighting because they're all pop psychologists.

00:40:24.000 This is that.

00:40:25.000 So we say, yeah, we want to focus on the economy.

00:40:27.000 We want to focus on immigration.

00:40:29.000 Oh, wait a second.

00:40:30.000 You want to make it so all states have to allow abortion? 1.00

00:40:33.000 Well, no, no, we're going to fight against that.

00:40:35.000 It doesn't mean that it's our priority.

00:40:36.000 It means that it's a non-starter.

00:40:39.000 And this sort of brings us to our next issue here, key issue, immigration.

00:40:44.000 We'll be talking with a Texas AG here in a few moments.

00:40:48.000 Students walking out of school to protest ICE.

00:40:53.000 Here's a montage.

00:41:03.000 I hate this sound.

00:41:12.000 He's divided right now.

00:41:14.000 Poor crutch guy's like, ah, today of all days.

00:41:17.000 No ice!

00:41:18.000 No KKK no fascist USA.

00:41:21.000 No ICE!

00:41:22.000 No KKK, no fascist USA!

00:41:25.000 No ICE!

00:41:26.000 No Koko Kung, no fascist USA!

00:41:28.000 No ICE!

00:41:29.000 No KKK, no fascist USA!

00:41:33.000 Where are they getting KKK?

00:41:35.000 I don't know.

00:41:36.000 That's two different states, by the way.

00:41:38.000 They're saying the same chant, these sheep, these Democrats' sheep, their shepherds are telling them to say KKK, fascist USA.

00:41:45.000 They needed a rhyme.

00:41:46.000 What?

00:41:47.000 They needed a rhyme, and they're completely unaware of that.

00:41:49.000 They should teach them about the KKK and who was.

00:41:51.000 It was a wing of the Democrat Party, but it's Trump Thurman.

00:41:54.000 Shut up. 0.95

00:41:56.000 And you also have students, by the way, it's made its way to Texas, which is generally seen as a reliably red state.

00:42:01.000 But, you know, look, kids obviously have the right to make their voices heard, as long as we keep in the back of our mind that kids are very often stupid.

00:42:26.000 What happened to United?

00:42:38.000 What?

00:42:54.000 Wait, how warm is it there that she was in jorts?

00:43:03.000 Just Chrysler 300 after Chrysler 300.

00:43:08.000 Um...

00:43:08.000 How much do you want to bet that those kids don't know what it is they're protesting?

00:43:12.000 They're looking for any reason to simply walk out of class.

00:43:15.000 And just so you know, the first change my mind that I ever did, it wasn't on campus, or either the first or second one.

00:43:21.000 It was just meant to take place.

00:43:22.000 We've done plenty of them on sidewalks.

00:43:25.000 The first one that I did on campus, I remember it's because they were talking about campus protests and the media was covering it.

00:43:30.000 They had it on a loop, like a morphine drip.

00:43:33.000 And so they were holding these people out as inspirations, as authorities on the subject.

00:43:38.000 And I said, well, okay, let's go down and see how much these inspired people know.

00:43:43.000 It wasn't specifically to debate campus students.

00:43:46.000 That's why we've also had an open call out to professors.

00:43:48.000 We'll be having that actually, as I understand it, in the next coming quarter.

00:43:51.000 A couple of months, yeah.

00:43:52.000 Is it going to be at UPenn?

00:43:54.000 As I understand?

00:43:55.000 That's where the talks are right now.

00:43:56.000 But it does matter because the left constantly uses the youth as pawns.

00:44:01.000 And they're really valuable pawns.

00:44:03.000 Well, they don't have skin in the game. 0.90

00:44:03.000 Why? 0.90

00:44:05.000 They don't pay taxes.

00:44:06.000 They don't know what that's like.

00:44:07.000 They don't have families.

00:44:08.000 They're very self-focused.

00:44:10.000 They're not thinking about their families and their families' future.

00:44:13.000 They're often very centered around immediate gratification.

00:44:15.000 They're very easy to manipulate.

00:44:17.000 And they want to leave their stamp on the world.

00:44:19.000 Right.

00:44:20.000 They want to leave their stamp on the world often before they have reached the point of their life where they're qualified to do it.

00:44:28.000 And it doesn't mean that young people can't change the world.

00:44:30.000 And it doesn't mean that there aren't some incredibly bright young people.

00:44:33.000 That's not what I was seeing out there.

00:44:35.000 And some of those walkouts, they prompted the AG, Ken Paxton, to launch an investigation into Austin ISD.

00:44:43.000 He put this on X.

00:44:44.000 He said, I'm demanding documents as part of an investigation into Austin ISD for facilitating student protests against lawful immigration enforcement activities.

00:44:54.000 And so we are going to bring AG Ken Paxton right here on the show.

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00:45:41.000 It's a knockout.

00:45:49.000 Oh, I thought you were gonna do this thing.

00:45:50.000 Hit the stinger. 0.99

00:45:51.000 Welcome, Ken Paxton.

00:45:56.000 Thank you.

00:45:57.000 Now, how should I refer to you as Mr. General, Mr. Attorney General?

00:46:01.000 How about just Ken?

00:46:03.000 I'm not going to do that.

00:46:03.000 And where is it?

00:46:04.000 When is it a program?

00:46:06.000 I'll tell you, the title is General, whatever your last name is.

00:46:09.000 So every attorney general is referred to as like General Paxton General.

00:46:12.000 Marshall, whatever.

00:46:12.000 All right.

00:46:13.000 Okay, I will go with General Ken.

00:46:14.000 And you are running for U.S. Senate against John Cornyn, the Republican primaries, March 3rd, right?

00:46:19.000 March 3rd, and early voting starts two weeks from today on February 17th.

00:46:22.000 Starts two weeks from today.

00:46:23.000 How are you feeling about the race?

00:46:24.000 I feel really good.

00:46:25.000 I know we're up.

00:46:26.000 John has spent $50, almost $50 million up to now.

00:46:30.000 Really?

00:46:30.000 I've spent $2,600.

00:46:33.000 The fundraising thing is the biggest scam that most Americans don't know about.

00:46:38.000 John McCain set up this bill.

00:46:40.000 It was called McCain Feingle, to get money out of politics.

00:46:43.000 Well, it did, but only on the challenger side because they have unlimited to $3,500 for the primary from anyone, which is really hard to raise enough money to put a commercial on TV at that level.

00:46:54.000 Right.

00:46:54.000 How do you raise $50 million at $3,500 if you're actually following the rules?

00:46:59.000 Their rules are completely different than mine.

00:47:01.000 Well, the fact that it's even close to this point, let alone you being up, that's, I mean, that's a good sign.

00:47:05.000 And people can go and support you at Ken Paxton, TX on X, kenpaxton.com.

00:47:10.000 Let me first ask you, I know you were mentioning Tallerica.

00:47:12.000 We'll get to that.

00:47:13.000 The walkouts.

00:47:15.000 Do you think that these are organic or do you believe they're organized by outside groups?

00:47:19.000 And if so, is there any evidence of it?

00:47:21.000 Because I know we've all suspected that and we've proven it in some past instances, but right now, what do you see?

00:47:27.000 I mean, I don't know, but my gut feeling is it's organized.

00:47:29.000 It always is.

00:47:30.000 It seems like in the end, we always find out it was organized by Soros or somebody like him.

00:47:35.000 And it just doesn't seem like organic.

00:47:39.000 Why would a bunch of high school students walk out in Austin?

00:47:43.000 A very liberal district, of course, but it just seems odd that they would all know to do that.

00:47:47.000 It just seems very odd, unless it's organized.

00:47:50.000 Right.

00:47:51.000 I do want to ask, so I want to, because you're attorney general in Texas, but you're running for U.S. Senate.

00:47:56.000 Let me ask you, this always is something that I'm curious about.

00:47:58.000 What is it that you feel you can do or think you can accomplish there that you can't accomplish as effectively with your current job title?

00:48:05.000 Because some people would say, that seems like you have more sway.

00:48:09.000 So part of it is that I think people, I'm serving my third term.

00:48:13.000 That's 12 years.

00:48:13.000 We've had 51 attorney generals.

00:48:15.000 Only one other person has served for three terms.

00:48:18.000 That's Greg Abbott.

00:48:19.000 I think that staying in jobs too long ended up being not a good thing.

00:48:24.000 And I just felt like I had a mission each time I ran for each term.

00:48:28.000 First time was go after Obama and stop his federal overreach and really trying to ruin the Constitution in the country.

00:48:33.000 Second time, I was going after big tech and big pharma and election integrity.

00:48:38.000 That's why we didn't have the same problems as other states.

00:48:40.000 Otherwise, we would have.

00:48:41.000 And third time was to take on Joe Biden, I assume, 107 times in four years.

00:48:45.000 I didn't have the same mission, and I felt like we were really missing out.

00:48:48.000 We've had the same senator for 24 years.

00:48:51.000 No one's ever run for five terms, not Sam Houston, not John Tower, not LBJ, not Phil Graham.

00:48:56.000 And it's so hard to beat these guys because they're so entrenched.

00:49:00.000 It's not like a regular incumbent like me.

00:49:03.000 They have these fundraising limits that make it so hard.

00:49:05.000 And if you don't have name ID in Texas, I felt like I was the only one that could eliminate a guy that had been wasting our time and voting against us and voting against Trump.

00:49:14.000 And I was the only person who could actually take him on a win.

00:49:16.000 Well, and I want to ask, because we just covered the two most important issues to Texas.

00:49:20.000 And it seems to mirror the country at large.

00:49:22.000 Immigration, obviously, is one in the economy.

00:49:24.000 And the economy in Texas has done pretty well compared to most states.

00:49:27.000 And the country is doing better.

00:49:29.000 But in Texas, we've all lived here for a while.

00:49:32.000 And not to put you in the hot seat, but the H-1B situation in Texas, what can be done about that?

00:49:39.000 And how much of this is above board?

00:49:40.000 Because in doing some research for an investigative piece, finding out that College Station has more H-1B enrollees per worker than any other municipality.

00:49:49.000 And I know it's primarily two companies like Cognizant and A ⁇ M. Some of us live in neighborhoods where we feel like strangers in our own neighborhoods.

00:49:57.000 Yeah, I think it's a good point.

00:49:58.000 This is a federal program.

00:49:59.000 So, I mean, it's not something that I've had anything to do with other than we are now investigating companies that we think are defrauding people that are not using it appropriately.

00:50:06.000 So we can do that sort of under our consumer protections.

00:50:10.000 Like if you're defrauding our people, it doesn't matter how you're doing it.

00:50:12.000 I have the opportunity to go in and so we're investigating certain companies, three of them right now.

00:50:16.000 And our plan is as we learn more about companies doing this.

00:50:21.000 But you're right, because it's being sold one way.

00:50:23.000 And I think some of these American jobs that, you know, teachers and science teachers and other jobs could be filled by Americans, it's supposed to be used for very high-level technical people, skilled workers that we can't get that we need.

00:50:37.000 And I think it's being way expanded.

00:50:39.000 There's a senator, Senator Schmidt from Missouri, who's going after these asking questions about this.

00:50:45.000 And I think, you know, given the opportunity, when I'm elected, this will be something I will be following up on as well at the federal level.

00:50:52.000 So what do you think can be – so nothing can be done on a state level even dealing with these companies?

00:50:57.000 No, I'm pursuing those for fraud, for deceptive practices, but I can't stop the program at this level.

00:51:04.000 At the next level, at the Senate level, I can have a say in trying to… The program itself.

00:51:09.000 So yeah, start asking questions, potentially change the program, at least start calling out and have an ability to actually do something about it.

00:51:16.000 Well, because I know, you know, Texas is a red state, and I will tell you the general temperature on Governor Greg Abbott, by the way, is that first off, people are often shocked to find out he's a wheelchair guy.

00:51:26.000 They didn't know it because he just, it's not like FDR where he made it his calling.

00:51:30.000 I remember the day he wheeled out.

00:51:31.000 I was like, are you, I had no idea this whole time.

00:51:34.000 So that surprises people.

00:51:35.000 But also, hey, it's mostly good.

00:51:38.000 But there have been some missteps.

00:51:40.000 I think property taxes are a big one in Texas that people feel are really high.

00:51:43.000 They definitely are very high.

00:51:44.000 And how the H-1B situation has happened this expansively, this rapidly.

00:51:51.000 I mean, if you've been to a Costco, anywhere in like the Dallas Metroplex area, Frisco, you've seen those videos.

00:51:55.000 It looks like little Bangladesh. 0.96

00:51:57.000 No, I agree with both of those.

00:51:58.000 First of all, property taxes.

00:51:59.000 I filed bills when I was in the Texas House and Senate to eliminate property taxes.

00:52:03.000 We could do it if we wanted to.

00:52:05.000 It's ridiculous that we have a Republican legislature and we can't get anything through that legislature.

00:52:12.000 It is, in my opinion, has been the biggest problem in Texas because it makes it really difficult.

00:52:17.000 You're renting your home from the government and it's an uncontrollable cost.

00:52:21.000 When you get a mortgage, you generally know what your cost is.

00:52:25.000 Generally, insurance has been fluctuating, but not to the level that property tax.

00:52:29.000 I moved into Austin and in four years, my property taxes went from $1,000 a month to $3,000 a month.

00:52:35.000 Well, my salary didn't go up at all.

00:52:37.000 What am I supposed to do?

00:52:38.000 We are captured by the government.

00:52:40.000 We are renting.

00:52:41.000 And if I don't pay that, the government takes my home.

00:52:43.000 I don't think the government should be able to do that.

00:52:46.000 We should be able to own our own homes at some point.

00:52:48.000 And so there is a way to eliminate property taxes.

00:52:51.000 I had a plan to do it.

00:52:52.000 And if I had that opportunity, I would get it.

00:52:55.000 You say there's a way to eliminate it.

00:52:56.000 Does that mean that we could eliminate it and we wouldn't have a revenue problem in the state?

00:52:59.000 In other words, pragmatically it can't be done.

00:53:01.000 Yeah, and here's the plan.

00:53:02.000 So it's a little bit sort of nuanced, but the comptroller of the state, before the legislature meets, within 30 days has to tell us an estimate for the next two years.

00:53:13.000 And we're not allowed to spend it.

00:53:14.000 Unlike the federal government, we are confined by that number.

00:53:17.000 Right.

00:53:17.000 Well, guess what?

00:53:18.000 The comptroller underestimates because the last thing you want to do is overestimate the budget because now you're into a two-year cycle and you're stuck, right?

00:53:25.000 So on average, the last study I saw, it may have changed a little bit.

00:53:29.000 11% is what the underestimate is.

00:53:32.000 Well, so what the legislature does is they stick on writers at the end of, well, if we get this money, spend it here.

00:53:36.000 If we get this money spent here.

00:53:37.000 What my deal would be is, no, if we get this money, it goes to property tax relief.

00:53:42.000 And over a 14 or 15-year period, you could eliminate school property taxes.

00:53:48.000 And I would throw in a little kicker.

00:53:49.000 Take 5% of that and give teacher pay raises.

00:53:52.000 Because now you've got the teachers who are incentivized to come down and lobby for less spending because the less we spend, the more money goes to teachers and the more money goes to property tax.

00:54:01.000 Well, actually, if anything, it would invert the incentive because they would have an incentive right now to keep property taxes because they see.

00:54:07.000 That's part of the problem because typically the education establishment fights it because they're like, we're losing on this.

00:54:11.000 Let's make it a winning issue for us.

00:54:13.000 And let's put the Democrats in the box of having to vote against property tax cuts and teachers.

00:54:18.000 Yeah, that's my idea.

00:54:20.000 But why hasn't it happened in Texas with a Republican governor?

00:54:22.000 And like you said, a legislature, like I'm sure you hear this from constituents, they kind of feel like that's a bit of a scam.

00:54:28.000 Like, yeah, if we get other Republicans, because this has been here for a long time, it shouldn't be.

00:54:33.000 I am so frustrated with property taxes personally because it was when I went down there, it was one of my top two or three issues.

00:54:40.000 And I kept filing these bills and they wouldn't even get heard.

00:54:42.000 This is a Republican leadership.

00:54:43.000 But remember, we've had trouble in the Texas House, particularly.

00:54:47.000 I served under Joe Strauss.

00:54:48.000 He was elected by mostly Democrats, right?

00:54:51.000 It was 11 Republicans that sided with the Democrats.

00:54:53.000 Well, of course, he doesn't want property tax relief.

00:54:56.000 The Democrats didn't want property tax relief.

00:54:59.000 I think the legislature has a responsibility to step up and stop giving us little tiny tax cuts that by the time they do the appraisal, they're gone.

00:55:09.000 It's actually the kind of thing I think that actually factors in when people are leaving these blue states.

00:55:09.000 It's a joke.

00:55:14.000 Property taxes are what come up a lot.

00:55:14.000 Where do we want to move?

00:55:16.000 When I have people saying, hey, I'm leaving California or leaving Washington or Oregon, they go, but the property taxes in Texas are rough.

00:55:22.000 It is very rough.

00:55:23.000 And if you compare us to other Republican states, particularly like Tennessee, they don't have a state income tax.

00:55:27.000 They have much lower property taxes.

00:55:27.000 And guess what?

00:55:29.000 Most Republican states have lower property taxes than us.

00:55:33.000 Can you imagine what wealth we will create if we can stop, because if we can lower property taxes, the value of our homes are going up.

00:55:41.000 Because now people have more money to put into their purchase, and we're going to become wealthier if the government would stop stealing our money.

00:55:51.000 Well, I think that the home prices need to regulate a little bit.

00:55:54.000 And obviously, with illegal immigration being dealt with, deportations, I think also people run into problems in Texas with, this brings us back to the H-1B situation.

00:56:02.000 I mean, we've all seen it where you'll have 15 family members living in one house and buying up these houses.

00:56:06.000 And then, of course, competing with these giant institutional investors, like there hasn't been enough building, and the market needs to recalibrate.

00:56:14.000 The home values have skyrocketed in a way that's not sustainable, where people in the homes are happy, but you have a generation of people who are not able to buy homes now, even close to some of these major municipalities.

00:56:26.000 Look, I've got kids in their 20s.

00:56:29.000 I've got a daughter who's a pediatric nurse.

00:56:33.000 She was a pediatric nurse at Stanford.

00:56:34.000 Her husband was a major in the Air Force.

00:56:36.000 They're relatively doing relatively well.

00:56:39.000 Of course, they were living out in California.

00:56:40.000 They could buy a house.

00:56:41.000 That is insane.

00:56:43.000 And you've got two relatively high wage earners who cannot afford. 0.80

00:56:47.000 But that is a function of a couple of things.

00:56:49.000 Joe Biden's inflation, which drove up the cost of everything.

00:56:52.000 It also drove up interest rates.

00:56:53.000 And so you've got two pig pieces: higher costs because now houses are more expensive because of inflation to build.

00:57:00.000 And you've got higher costs.

00:57:01.000 Cultural regulations, the regulatory regulations.

00:57:03.000 And that's another thing that happened during the Biden administration that Trump's been better at dealing with.

00:57:03.000 There's no doubt.

00:57:08.000 But he can't do it.

00:57:09.000 It's going to take time to address the inflation that was created by Biden because that was spending and those trillions of dollars are spent.

00:57:17.000 And then the interest rates are unusually high for the situation we're in.

00:57:22.000 Trump doesn't control those.

00:57:23.000 Jerome Powell does.

00:57:24.000 And he's hopefully going away.

00:57:25.000 Yeah.

00:57:26.000 Well, we'll say maybe going out with a bang, too, the way that it's looking right now.

00:57:30.000 It's not going to be a whimper.

00:57:31.000 Have you noticed, because you've been obviously in Texas politics for a while and the Republican Party, the major shift when people talk about how young men are going right is that they're unapologetic.

00:57:41.000 It used to be sort of like, well, hey, look, we need to deal with illegal immigration, but I think everyone who wants to come here legally, but now people are going, you know what? 0.91

00:57:48.000 That system's been abused and we need to be very selective.

00:57:52.000 And they lean toward close the books until we figure it out.

00:57:55.000 And a big part of that in Texas, you have young Republicans, young people looking to vote right, saying, hey, I think it's okay to culturally want Texas to feel like Texas because there are neighborhoods that are unrecognizable and feel like a third world country now.

00:58:09.000 And that's because the systems have been abused.

00:58:11.000 They've forced Americans out of the labor force. 1.00

00:58:13.000 And Texas really is one of, if not the worst offender in that with the H-1Bs. 1.00

00:58:18.000 Look, we look at Europe and what happened there and the overrunning of England and France and Germany and many of these countries have lost their identity.

00:58:26.000 They're not German anymore. 1.00

00:58:28.000 They're not French. 0.82

00:58:28.000 They're not going to control. 0.82

00:58:30.000 There's going to be a completely different cultural bent from there.

00:58:34.000 And England's not going to be England. 0.67

00:58:36.000 So look, there's nothing wrong with people wanting to retain a certain value system and a certain, you know, we're a Judeo-Christian country.

00:58:44.000 That's how we were founded.

00:58:45.000 There's nothing wrong with us wanting to retain that identity instead of saying, oh, you know, just let everybody come in here.

00:58:50.000 We don't care.

00:58:51.000 We don't have to be the same country.

00:58:52.000 It really matters that we reflect the values of our founders and we are a constitutional government that was formed with this idea that freedom of religion and this idea that could spread.

00:59:04.000 You could promote your faith and you could promote your political views.

00:59:07.000 That was very important to the founders.

00:59:08.000 What's in the First Amendment?

00:59:09.000 Well, even in Texas, I would say this.

00:59:12.000 Texas has been obviously pretty, I hate to use the term diverse, but you've had plenty of black Texans, you've had plenty of Hispanic Texans.

00:59:18.000 There's been a raging demographic shift, though, to South Asian Indian people like that coming in here, where that is new and it looks very different from the fabric of Texas. 0.89

00:59:28.000 And culturally, there are neighborhoods where there just are incompatibilities.

00:59:31.000 And then you look into these companies, you go, oh, it's really just about replacing Americans for far cheaper.

00:59:35.000 And then you have the placement agencies as well, where there are degree mills.

00:59:39.000 There are people taking cuts off the top, skimming.

00:59:43.000 It's something that I think the Republican Party is really going to have to grapple with because young people who are going to be voting for that party are going to say, yeah, but I also don't want my job sold out to a legal immigrant who's willing to do it cheaper and a company with people in positions of power taking advantage. 0.94

01:00:00.000 Yeah, look, who, I mean, some of these jobs should be American jobs, and we need to do a better job.

01:00:05.000 And that's why I like the fact that there is at least one senator asking the questions of this seems like it's gotten abused where now we're bringing in people to take American jobs at lower pay who are willing to live in a house with 15 people.

01:00:20.000 That's all wonderful, I guess, for them, but it's not good for Americans.

01:00:22.000 Why do you think Texas has become such a hotbed, though?

01:00:24.000 Because really it's places that you would expect like Palo Alto, but you could definitely argue that Texas is worse in many respects.

01:00:31.000 And certainly, why do you think Texas is such a hotbed for it?

01:00:34.000 It's simple.

01:00:35.000 We're a very appealing state to come to, except for property taxes, because people know there are opportunities here.

01:00:42.000 They know that there's freedom here.

01:00:44.000 People are voting with their feet.

01:00:45.000 Even people who can't vote are voting with their feet.

01:00:47.000 People are moving to Texas.

01:00:49.000 They're getting out of Louisiana, I mean, Illinois.

01:00:52.000 They're getting out of New York.

01:00:55.000 They're getting out of California.

01:00:56.000 And they're moving to red states.

01:00:57.000 And one of those main red states that is economically prosperous more than any other is Texas.

01:01:03.000 And the next one's Florida.

01:01:04.000 And others like Tennessee.

01:01:05.000 And even like really all across the South, whether it's Alabama, Louisiana, people are moving to red states because they have freedom and they have opportunity.

01:01:14.000 Yeah.

01:01:15.000 We issued on this show, I was trying to offer solutions like a six-point plan.

01:01:18.000 I always wonder why Republicans haven't done that, something that's really clear as far as if you come here, a remittance tax where you can't be coming here sending the money out.

01:01:25.000 Companies need to be penalized if they're replacing an American simply for a lower wage where someone isn't necessarily more qualified.

01:01:31.000 I'll tell you the reason young people have been really upset.

01:01:34.000 When this came out in Elon Musk and people who they thought were on their side said, we need to uncap H-1Bs. 1.00

01:01:39.000 And then Vivek, who's been right here in the studio, a very friendly guy, said, yeah, well, there just aren't enough Americans.

01:01:45.000 There aren't enough, like, look at our educational systems.

01:01:47.000 That's the problem.

01:01:49.000 We don't buy it.

01:01:50.000 We don't buy that Americans are too dumb to do these jobs that people are doing for 60, 70K a year.

01:01:54.000 Yeah, those jobs, there might be a few where we need some help.

01:01:59.000 Yeah, right.

01:01:59.000 A handful, sure.

01:02:00.000 Where we, you know, we benefit from like a guy like Elon Musk coming to this country, right?

01:02:04.000 We did benefit.

01:02:05.000 Yeah, of course.

01:02:06.000 So we don't want to like, when we're talking about that kind of talent that could actually make all of us better off.

01:02:12.000 But for the most part, I think that whole program is way beyond just doing that.

01:02:19.000 And so somehow it needs to be more refined, more scaled back to make sure we're getting Elon Musk to the world to benefit our country.

01:02:27.000 But we don't want to replace regular American jobs with people that are just coming in and do it for less money. 0.98

01:02:34.000 Yeah.

01:02:34.000 And I will tell you, it doesn't seem like it'd be that complicated of a problem to fix.

01:02:37.000 It just requires someone stepping up to do it.

01:02:39.000 And there's obviously a very strong contingency of big business groups who don't want to see that because they stand to benefit from it.

01:02:45.000 Well, they pay lower wages, right?

01:02:46.000 Yeah, I get it.

01:02:48.000 And then their answer is, well, that's because you Americans are too dumb to do it.

01:02:48.000 Yeah, absolutely.

01:02:51.000 You go like, okay, this is the thing that young men have heard, right?

01:02:54.000 When we used to talk about illegal immigration, people say, well, who's going to mow your lawn?

01:02:58.000 Who's going to pick your strawberries? 1.00

01:02:59.000 It's like, well, first off, that's racist.

01:02:59.000 What's the old thing?

01:03:01.000 Second, now they're saying, yeah, well, we don't have enough smart Americans.

01:03:04.000 So it's like, okay, so the low wage, or let's not say low wage, but the low skill manual labor jobs, well, those aren't for Americans.

01:03:11.000 They would say Americans won't do it.

01:03:12.000 That's not true.

01:03:13.000 Now they go, the highly skilled jobs that people have trained for, they're not good enough to do.

01:03:17.000 You go, okay.

01:03:18.000 So then what, an American who's gone through the system in Americas and everything right, just has to pick it right in the middle there, a sweet spot?

01:03:26.000 That doesn't seem very American.

01:03:27.000 No, it doesn't.

01:03:28.000 I think the whole reason people love Trump is America first.

01:03:32.000 Right.

01:03:33.000 So I think we need to run it through that grid.

01:03:34.000 There's nothing wrong with being America first.

01:03:36.000 Every other country is, right?

01:03:37.000 So why are we not?

01:03:39.000 Why are we like, oh, yeah, we need to take all these other countries?

01:03:41.000 And even like, you know, when we passed in-state tuition for illegals, Rick Perry, that was one of his big promotions as governor.

01:03:48.000 That was a Republican governor that passed it.

01:03:49.000 Right.

01:03:50.000 And I've tried to undo that the whole time I was in the.

01:03:52.000 Did you hear that?

01:03:52.000 Someone didn't put his phone on silent.

01:03:55.000 Admonish yourself.

01:03:55.000 That was too.

01:03:56.000 You get to witness a real-time admonishment.

01:03:58.000 Look.

01:03:59.000 He's going to admonish himself.

01:03:59.000 Here.

01:03:59.000 Watch.

01:04:01.000 Watch.

01:04:01.000 Do it.

01:04:01.000 Take it.

01:04:02.000 I wasn't ready with the.

01:04:03.000 Take our target.

01:04:04.000 Well, be ready when it's yourself.

01:04:05.000 There you go.

01:04:06.000 It's not even cool.

01:04:07.000 If we get something wrong on here, we admonish ourselves.

01:04:09.000 I like that.

01:04:10.000 And we make our references available.

01:04:11.000 So if we misread a stat, that's the only show where that's the case.

01:04:14.000 But I had the opportunity.

01:04:15.000 It took me, I couldn't undo it to the legislature.

01:04:17.000 It was like the Republican legislature kept what Rick Perry put in place.

01:04:21.000 And I worked out this situation where maybe the federal government sued me over it, and we signed a consent decree and it's gone.

01:04:27.000 And the stroke of a pen, we got it undone.

01:04:30.000 But this was, why are we giving in-state?

01:04:33.000 This means that we are giving away UT, Texas A ⁇ M seats to illegals over people who are residents. 0.96

01:04:41.000 And that was promoted and pushed through by a Republican government.

01:04:45.000 I know you're saying, well, but I don't have the answer.

01:04:46.000 That's why you're here.

01:04:47.000 I'm asking you.

01:04:48.000 I have business interests.

01:04:49.000 It has to be.

01:04:51.000 Why would Rick Perry do that other than there are businesses that promote that and want him to do that?

01:04:57.000 Well, that's not right.

01:04:59.000 If you're a taxpayer, you should have access to the educational system.

01:05:02.000 So then that goes back to one of your points.

01:05:04.000 Well, Americans aren't getting educated.

01:05:06.000 Well, if you're giving away their seats, it's school, one of the, you know, the top schools to illegals. 1.00

01:05:11.000 Illegals. 0.95

01:05:11.000 They're not here legally. 0.95

01:05:12.000 I know.

01:05:13.000 And Rick Perry passes a bill that says, hey, that's a good thing.

01:05:16.000 Let's give them more seats at our schools. 0.97

01:05:18.000 That's the thing with Texas.

01:05:19.000 People are like, yeah, it's a red state, but there's always a little bit of funny business that has us go, I don't know if they're one of us.

01:05:25.000 I don't know how there's that big of a disconnect between a policy like that from Rick Perry.

01:05:29.000 There have been some with Abbott.

01:05:31.000 I wouldn't say anywhere near as egregious, but spending a lot of time with people, with conservative voters, right-wing conservative nationalists, whatever term you want to use, and then seeing the representatives, there is a disconnect that people see.

01:05:43.000 And that's going to be changing generationally.

01:05:44.000 No, there's this thing.

01:05:47.000 It happens in politics.

01:05:48.000 I watched it because I went down there and I was like, what happens to these people?

01:05:51.000 And what happens is leadership, controlled by their own interests, will come in and try to get you to vote the way they want you to vote.

01:05:58.000 And they'll give you committee assignments and they'll give you money.

01:06:00.000 And there's a difference between real power and perceived power.

01:06:03.000 Well, most people want to be viewed as powerful.

01:06:05.000 So they want to be committee chairman.

01:06:07.000 No one cares, but they do because it feels like power because you're controlling legislation.

01:06:12.000 You're getting money.

01:06:13.000 Well, the reality is real power is keeping your vote.

01:06:16.000 And very few people realize the real power is not letting leadership grab your vote.

01:06:20.000 Because once you're in those positions, guess what?

01:06:22.000 You have to vote the way you're told.

01:06:24.000 Yeah, I would also say real power.

01:06:25.000 Well, one time I saw a man rip two phone books in half simultaneously.

01:06:30.000 That was pretty impressive.

01:06:31.000 But speaking of real power, because I have no idea what you're talking about.

01:06:35.000 Watch that man rip. 0.97

01:06:36.000 And then he blew, he popped a hot water bottle with his lungs.

01:06:39.000 And I said, well, it was a power team.

01:06:41.000 It was the name.

01:06:42.000 Yeah, they did it at churches.

01:06:43.000 Oh, yeah, I've seen that.

01:06:44.000 It was pretty cool.

01:06:45.000 We're going to continue here.

01:06:46.000 If you guys are not members on Rumble Premium, because I actually have a video that came up, and I know that you've been at the center, that's the EPIC center there, going on this sort of obviously a hot button topic, Islam.

01:06:56.000 But there's the president of the Wiley East High School Republicans who posted this video about an experience he had with Islam at his school that'll put a finer point on it.

01:07:04.000 Hey, if you guys are not a member, you can go obviously support Ken Paxton, get out and vote.

01:07:08.000 Early voting starts, but click that button, run and continue, and he will take actually chats from you.

01:07:13.000 Keep them PG-13.

01:07:15.000 I can't say PG.

01:07:16.000 I mean, this isn't the Disney network, but I can say PG-13 because he is running for office.

01:07:20.000 So, you know, just like when you go to a courtroom, put on a hat if you have green hair, tear out the nose rings.

01:07:26.000 Just treat him like the AG that he is.

01:07:28.000 Let's watch this video as we go to Rumble Premium from Wiley East High School.

01:07:33.000 I'm Marco.

01:07:33.000 I'm the president of the High School Republicans at Wiley East High School.

01:07:37.000 And today there was an organization called Why Islam that had a huge table booth in front of our school today.

01:07:44.000 And they were giving hijabs to Muslim girls out throughout the high school. 0.63

01:07:49.000 And they were giving out Qurans.

01:07:51.000 And they also had pamphlets about Sharia law and other Islamic things.

01:07:56.000 And they were giving out these bags.

01:07:58.000 And I had a discussion with the women that were there and we're trying to understand what's going on.

01:08:04.000 Was everybody in a hijab?

01:08:06.000 So they were passing out to as much girls as they could.

01:08:09.000 So that was their goal.

01:08:10.000 How many people, how many students took those baths?

01:08:14.000 I don't have an exact number of how many people took them, but I can say that they were trying to get as much out as they could.

Louder with Crowder - February 03, 2026

If Texas Turns Blue - What Happens to America: Ft. In Studio Guest TX AG Ken Paxton

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