Episode 140 LIVE： Border, Budget, Bureaucrats, Bidens – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz
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Join us as we catch everyone up on what's going on at the border and around the world, and what's happening in Washington, D.C. as we look forward to a productive 2024, and frankly, it needs to be better than 2023.
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matt gates the biggest firebrand inside of the house of representatives you're not taking matt
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gates off the board okay because matt gates is an american patriot and matt gates is an american
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hero we will not continue to allow the uniparty to run this town without a fight i want to thank you
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matt gates for holding the line matt gates is a courageous man if we had hundreds of matt gates
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in dc the country turns around it's that simple he's so tough he's so strong he's smart and he
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loves this country matt gates it is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you
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we will save america it's choose your fighter time send in the firebrand
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welcome back to firebrand it's 2024 we're here broadcasting live out of room 2021 of the rayburn
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house office building at the capitol complex in washington dc and i see already from the comments
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several of you have missed me haven't gone anywhere but over the holidays we give our team a little bit
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of a break but there have been a lot of negotiations uh we've been down to the border to continue to
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observe the disaster there and so really this is a catch-up episode for everybody regarding what's
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going on at the border these budget and and government spending negotiations uh the investigations
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into the bidens and hunters showing up in the circus-like atmosphere and and also uh what we see
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going on around the world and with our defense department so glad to have you back looking forward
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to a productive 2024 and frankly it needs to be better than 2023 2023 we saw the nation go in the
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wrong direction prices continue to rise and we saw a level of uh i think departure from the policies
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even more so during that year the biden administration the only lever of power that republicans have is the
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house of representatives so we have to use it we just have to we have to use the power of the purse
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the power of the subpoena and we've got to have the will to endure a little bit of political pain
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to deliver on what is necessary at this stage of the game to reverse the decline of the country and
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there's there's no disputing that so now let's go to the border i went to eagle pass texas recently
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a place that's been overrun by migrants migrants illegal aliens migrants what they call them but really
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they're illegal aliens coming into our country and here in this video you're seeing right now
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you're actually watching customs and border patrol cut the fencing that the state of texas put up along
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the rio grande there at eagle pass and they're cutting that fencing they're allowing the illegal
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aliens to come into the country and i've got a real problem with that there's currently a federal case
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pending where texas is trying to maintain their ability to protect themselves and to have these
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defensive barriers and we should not have your federal tax dollars going to remove those barriers
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established by the state of texas so what you're seeing was given to me it was video taken
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by someone who is a federal official and they shared it with me when i was down there to see
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there it is just real time how the wires are being cut the people are being brought in
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and you're funding your own invasion in a lot of ways but not enough according to one democrat congresswoman
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the situation in new york has gotten very dire you see their facilities being overrun
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their social services being strained uh and i just it it is beyond the pale that uh this is democrat
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congresswoman representative clark of new york saying what we really need are more illegal aliens
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she's calling for more illegal aliens from new york representative clark take a listen
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and from brooklyn new york we have a diaspora that that can absorb a significant number of these
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migrants and i that you know when i hear uh colleagues talk about uh you know the the the doors of the
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inn being closed um no room in the inn i i'm saying you know i i need more people in my district but
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just for redistricting purposes and those members could could clearly uh fit here
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don't you see the tell in that all that matters to some of these people in congress is what's going
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to preserve my political power she's talking about needing illegal immigrants in her district
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for the purpose of redistricting because if you're able to demonstrate larger people
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then you get more congressional districts that's what this is about and throughout america's history
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there's always been a time where people have tried to create some some mass suffrage
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or deprive mass suffrage in order to keep or limit political power of others we saw great debates in
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the congress over these questions in the time that america was grappling with the offals of slavery
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and how to count various slaves for the purpose of apportioning congressional districts and here
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you have these people who oftentimes are like in the slave trade because they're part of a human
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trafficking pipeline that ends up in a place like chicago or detroit or new york or miami
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and here you have congresswoman clark saying we can absorb them we can absorb them well how is that
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going we've got a report from james madison high school where children are no longer allowed to
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attend class in person because the very process of absorbing illegal immigrants that you just heard
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from representative clark isn't really going so well take a listen well students at a brooklyn high
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school had to learn remotely today after thousands of migrants were relocated to their high school because
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of the storm cbsu's natalie dudridge live in midwood brooklyn at james madison high school
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with more natalie outraged parents and some midwood community members argued students classes at james
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madison high school should never have been moved online to make room for migrants to temporarily
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shelter in their gym and auditorium during tuesday night's storm what i'm talking about the human issue
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here it's inexcusable to do this to the students of new york city high schools especially after all
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they've been through with covid they have to come up with another solution they cannot do this to the
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school kids tuesday city officials announced nearly 2 000 migrants would be bused from their tent shelters
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at floyd bennett field to james madison high school due to concerns over the tents ability to stand up to
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severe weather we are doing this out of an abundance of caution because of the high winds officials said
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migrant families were bused back to floyd bennett field at 4 15 wednesday morning a timing decision new
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york state assembly member michael novikov also questions along with the costs staffing and planning
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required to move hundreds of people i'm sympathetic for migrants too i mean uh i i have no idea why
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they were moved that during the night you know they're those people have kids why 4 15 in the
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morning the school is closed anyway so they could have stayed here until 6 or 7 a.m elected officials
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and community leaders say they can give the city a list of empty buildings much better suited to house
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migrants during the next storm than a high school would be meanwhile we are told this high school is being
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cleaned and sports practices they're still canceled today we are back live uh mike on facebook says
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this all really began when ronald reagan engaged in a mass amnesty and there's certainly a fair critique
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of the reagan amnesty to be had and levied and alan on getter with a critique of me saying matt why didn't
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you grow a spine and become speaker of the house the answer to that question is that i would not have been
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able to even garner double digit votes for such an endeavor on this podcast we have laid out
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extensively that i'm not a particularly popular person among house republicans it's not because
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i'm not conservative it's because i think that we have to change this system in order to save the
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country they just want to run the system that's all that matters to a lot of my colleagues just being
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in the majority so that it can be our hand on the wheel but if our hand is on the wheel as we're driving
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over the cliff that isn't exactly the win that some of them think it is but uh appreciate hey
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maybe alan will run for congress and vote for me for speaker one day then i'd have one vote maybe two
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um let's see i want to go now to uh some of the bravery that i saw on the border sasha go ahead and put
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up uh some of these images we have of this is florida fish and wildlife uh i was meeting with an eagle
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pass also met with florida highway patrol texas state police texas guard florida guard and i got
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to tell you we have got some real patriotic americans who are on that border who want the
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tools to secure us and they know how to do it you have highly effective water teams there that could
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establish a deterrent you have guardsmen who have volunteered for the opportunity to go there i met one
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florida highway patrolman from south florida he said when i heard that there was a chance to go to
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the border and to try to help defend my country i signed up right then and there and this was a young
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man of hispanic descent who really viewed it as part of his obligation for safety and security to
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volunteer for this mission and i didn't want to end my report on the border without giving great
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tribute to those from all over the country who who have the patriotism in their heart to do this job
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if we will simply allow them to do it and that's that's what ought to happen and it's what biden's
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blocking now we go to a segment we like to call around the world
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around the world today we address the evolving circumstances in ecuador and while there is all
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kind of media attention regarding the conflicts that are oceans away and continents away right here
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in you know the sphere of influence that we considered the american sphere of influence in
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the marshall plan we have a destabilized government armed gunmen taking over a national communications
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tonight this is the chilling moment armed men storm the set of a public tv channel in ecuador
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firing off guns and waving apparent explosives during a live broadcast
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the studio crew taken hostage for at least 15 minutes on air as the country watched
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police later surrounding the station arresting several suspects
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and across ecuador fiery blasts rocking multiple cities this one engulfing a police car
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the wave of violence beginning just hours after ecuador's president declared a state of emergency
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following a prison escape by notorious los choneros gang leader adolfo macias the government battling
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with what they say are at least 22 different criminal groups angered by that state of emergency
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tonight authorities say at least seven police officers have been kidnapped ecuador once known as one of
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south america's most peaceful countries seeing an explosion in recent years of organized crime
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related violence linked to mexican drug cartels
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we are back live and i want to talk about how to think about this destabilization in ecuador
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there's one theory of the case that it's a dangerous country and gangs rise up a little bit of violence but
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ultimately this is something where the government will prevail there's another thing a line of thinking
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that we are now entering an era where the drug cartels have been given such a permissive environment
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in mexico that they are now able to export their malign influence and destabilizing assets
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so the cartels having been given that home base in the sinaloa mountains throughout mexico now they're
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able to say all right our our most permissive environment to operate is where you have weak
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nation states weak borders and then as people or drugs or weapons are moving around there there aren't a
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lot of barriers to to that illicit movement and when you have those strong nation states it's problematic
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and they try to go topple them in a way it's the most devious iteration of the banana republic
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corporatization of governments in latin america that we saw in the 70s and 80s bananas is a great book i
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read about it and it kind of goes over how these companies like united fruit company and standard fruit
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company um that are now chiquita and dole they would do everything they could to get a captive
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government to allow them to do whatever they wanted with banana plantations to drive people off their
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land to be able to access various growing contracts and growing rights and so you'd have these fruit
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companies warring with each other over who got to install their puppet government well take away the
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fruit companies and insert mexican cartels because that seems to be pretty obviously what's going on
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right here the cartels want access to the thoroughfares and the infrastructure and they don't want a
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legitimate government to stand in their way and when one does and has a state of emergency to try to
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counteract that malign influence this is the reaction to retaliation you see i've also got experts on my team
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have briefed me that this could also be part of what you see with exporting more and more malign
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influence from venezuela you've seen maduro make the argument about why venezuela has a claim to like
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two-thirds of the country of guyana and the esikibo region we covered that last year on firebrand so this
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could be another outgrowth of that effort at venezuelan south american hegemony these things should concern us
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that's more than which guy in a sweatsuits run in crimea because whether or not we have stable
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legitimate governments in our neighborhood affects quality of life here the connection is far more
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tenuous in places where we seem to be a lot more interested one thing that i want to talk about is
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this latest scandal with secretary lloyd austin and breitbart picks up our call for a hearing
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to determine how the defense department after losing billions of dollars worth of assets in afghanistan
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after failing every financial audit that they've been put through can literally lose the secretary of
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defense lloyd austin was incapacitated i the reports are that he has prostate cancer he had a procedure
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associated with that prostate cancer we of course want the best for him in his short and long-term
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health but he was incapacitated for five days he was totally out and his deputy kathleen hicks
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didn't think enough of like being the acting secretary of defense for those days to terminate her
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vacation in puerto rico i'm not making this up like our military was being run by a lady on vacation in
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puerto rico and they didn't even tell the white house is joe biden so out of it and himself
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incapacitated that when other people are incapacitated they don't even feel the need to
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i don't know let somebody know that somebody else should be running the military who was in charge of
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the force protection posture in iraq where we're getting these these one-directional drone strikes
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coming from iranian-backed proxies the red sea is like on fire right now with houthis engaged in
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naval exercises against energy shipments this is the time to not tell your boss you're gonna be out
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for five days there could be something else going on here there could be a total breakdown
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in communication between the pentagon and the white house and this could just be one iteration of it
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we have to explore this and it's why i've called for hearings and i'll be giving you updates regarding
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how the chairman of the armed services committee plans to proceed i can tell you that uh there has
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been a joint expression of concern from chairman rogers and from the lead democrat on the house
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armed services committee who we've had on the program adam smith also the pentagon inspector general
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will probe the lloyd austin hospitalization this is news just coming in from a bloomberg government
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and uh that i think is uh is certainly an appropriate next action but we shouldn't
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outsource that to the inspector general we've got to have the hearings in uh in the united states
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congress as well we've uh we've also got a report regarding some of these uh really uh nasty
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and negative efforts from the january 6th committee to go and goose criminal prosecutions
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of president trump the the goal of a congressional committee is not to to try to create a yellow brick
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road for a prosecution of anybody and that may upset some of you some of you might think all we
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ought to be doing is setting up to get handcuffs on people and anything short of that is insufficient
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oversight it's not really our job our job is to use the power of the purse to make sure the law
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is being executed in accordance with our commands and if it's not don't appropriate money to those
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programs of those agencies anymore we don't do that but it's what we should be doing that would
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be nice but in this particular case we've got a report from politico and and i'll read from it in
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the spring of 2022 the committee staff and remember this is the committee staff handpicked by liz cheney
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and adam kinzinger they didn't just run through the typical capitol hill types they went and got people
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out of cia fbi state attorneys attorneys general they really assembled a legal dream team they helped
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fulton county prosecutors prepare for interviews with key witnesses georgia prosecutors probing
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donald trump's effort to subvert the 2020 election got an early boost in the spring of 2022 it came
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from another set of investigators who were way ahead of them the house january 6th select committee
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committee staff met quietly with lawyers and agents working for fulton county district attorney
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fanny willis in mid-april 2022 just as she prepared to convene a special grand jury investigation
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this is an improper use of the united states congress this is a corrupt collusion between
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benny thompson and liz cheney and fanny willis this reporting is something that we could have gotten to
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a lot quicker if former speaker mccarthy would have done as many of us demanded and as many of you on the
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live stream supported and that is use the january 6th committee for our purposes don't disband it
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put me on there put jordan on there put mtg on there find the truth out about this stuff and we would
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have gotten to this a lot faster but it took some uh some smart reporters at politico to get the job
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done and and thus we now know and we have to take we have to take action as a result of this to shut down
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the corrupt illegitimately produced and and invigorated prosecution of trump from fanny willis
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emanating from the january 6th committee now let's uh talk about hunter biden a little bit he was on
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the hill there was the contempt hearing both the house oversight committee and the house judiciary
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committee upon which i serve have passed resolutions of contempt against hunter biden for not agreeing to
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answer our questions this was hunter biden on the hill getting a question i don't think he was
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would you please i'll answer your question if you'd be quiet and let me make a statement okay
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mr biden why did you put your dad on speakerphone with your business orders if you had no involvement in
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all right so he wasn't expecting those questions and uh certainly it's concerning the way he's
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treated the congress and the subpoenas that finally we got out the door uh directed to him and his
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interests and his records and uh here's what i would have done if hunter biden would have shown up
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to a committee i was chairing to clown me i'd have told him to step behind that microphone i'd have
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waived the rules sworn him in and i'd asked him this question first did you facilitate bribes to
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your father he's either going to admit that he did he's either going to deny it which will function
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as a complete and total waiver of any executive privilege he would have or any fifth amendment
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privilege he would have or any other privilege he could conjure up because he would have denied it
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so then he's opened the door to every follow-up question or he would have taken the fifth which is
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entirely his right and just because someone takes the fifth it does not mean they're guilty but then
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he would have had to take the fifth in front of god and everyone instead we get more of this stuff
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and i i wonder if the accountability is ever going to catch these guys i really do it should but here we
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are a year into the republican control and so far the closest we've gotten hunter biden to the witness
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chair is sitting in the first row of the audience it's not good enough nancy mace was in fuego during
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that hearing take a listen and enjoy um first of all my first question is who bribed hunter biden to
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be here today that's my first question um second question you are the epitome of white privilege
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coming into the oversight committee spitting in our face ignoring a congressional subpoena to be
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deposed what are you afraid of you have no balls to come up here and mr chairman point of inquiry
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chair recognizes miss mace it does not matter who you are where you come from or who your father is
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or your last name yes i'm looking at you hunter biden as i'm speaking to you you are not above the law
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at all the facts in this case are crystal clear this committee used and issued a law for subpoena to
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hunter biden a critical witness in this committee's investigation into biden family corruption
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hunter biden his lawyers did not claim privilege of any kind because clearly he has none they didn't
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contest the legitimacy of our reasons for issuing the subpoena no reasons because they clearly
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are legitimate and yet he refused to comply uh trump's family members don trump jr he uh he did not
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defy a congressional subpoena he showed up multiple times for multiple depositions for several hours
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um in doing so you know hunter biden broke the law he did so deliberately you did so flagrantly
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you showed up on the hill on the senate side the day of that congressional subpoena to defy it and spit
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in the face of this committee that's what you did i believe that hunter biden should be held completely
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in contempt i think he should be hauled off to jail right now because it wasn't long ago two of my
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friends on the other side of the aisle um that you also believed in the the power of a congressional
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subpoena not long ago at all you believed in holding those who refuse to comply with congressional
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subpoena accountable let me be clear this should not be a partisan issue if congress issues a subpoena
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you show up period this is not a responsibility we take lightly it brings no joy for us to do this but
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the president's son broke the law and must be held accountable in the same way anybody else would
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i urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to do so and my last last message to you hunter biden
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i think we can call congresswoman mace a firebrand after that uh she read the riot act right to hunter
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biden explaining what questions she would want to ask him if he were willing to step forward and uh
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it was no nonsense and not to be outdone congresswoman green was up next she uh she was going to give a
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presentation that wasn't even going to result in hunter biden being able to stay in the room
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as mtg got recognized hunter to see literally got up and scurried away take a listen
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thank you mr chairman uh excuse me hunter apparently you're afraid of my words
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uh here goes oh i like to reclaim my time mr chairman
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wow that's too bad i think it's clear and obvious for everyone watching this hearing today that hunter
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biden is terrified of strong conservative republican women because he can't even face my words as i was
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about to speak to him what a coward a coward indeed certainly proud of the efforts of congresswoman
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green and congresswoman mace i do think we've got to turn up the heat and i don't think we can allow
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these guys to walk out of the room if we've got to send the house sergeant at arms to go and enforce
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congressional contempt with imprisonment well then that's what we should do because we've got questions
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that are central to whether or not our government's been sold out and we should get answers to those
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questions i want to now talk about where we are with budget negotiations and with the spending uh
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talks going on with speaker johnson chuck schumer joe biden all the rest of us uh but we have to set
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the stage here for why this matters the inflation the increasing in price for almost everything that
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you are seeing is a direct consequence of government deficit spending okay we are about to run
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two and a half trillion dollar annual deficits we are at a 34 trillion dollar debt that is causing
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interest rates to rise prices to rise cost of cars cost of homes cost of debt all of it and you pay it
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and so we don't fight against these spending programs because we're mean-spirited or we want to take
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people down we do it because we don't think you should have to feel the pain of the gutlessness
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in this town and that pain is real let's go to this uh breitbart report inflation reignites
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consumer prices rose at an even faster pace in december inflation accelerated more
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than december in december marking the 33rd consecutive month with annual prices rising significantly faster
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than the two percent target set as healthy by the federal reserve the consumer price index
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rose 3.4 in december from a year earlier so we're looking for the two percent we're still at 3.4 33rd
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consecutive month with prices rising above that goal and let me just give you an example of a few
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motor vehicle insurance up over 20 percent food from vending machines up over 13 percent uncooked beefsteaks
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up 11 percent transportation services up close to seven percent these are the things that americans buy
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these are the things that we need and it's not because you've done anything wrong it's that we
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won't subject the budget of the government of the united states to itemized review and so where we stand
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right now you've got schumer and johnson who have agreed to a top line spending number that is that is
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too high it is essentially here's how you think about it okay mccarthy made the deal with biden and
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schumer called the fiscal responsibility act i'll just call that the fra because we can't even call it
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fiscally responsible so they agree to an fra number then on top of the fra spending number mccarthy does
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50 billion dollars in secret side deals that he doesn't tell us he doesn't tell you
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that he doesn't even tell other members of the house leadership team so johnson gets in sits down
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schumer and biden say well this is this is the freaking deal it's what mccarthy agreed to it's what
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we're going to hold you to and mccarthy and johnson successfully takes 20 billion ish out of the 50
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billion plus in side deals and claws that back it takes another fairly big bite out of the irs
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so you've got conservative economists like stephen moore who we have a very high opinion of on in this
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office and on this program stephen moore says this is this is savvy this is this big win for johnson
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that he clawed back this 20 billion of the mccarthy side deals it's he's proving better than mccarthy
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and shrewd in that regard and then the wall street journal editorial board who hate me
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who totally disagree with the removal of mccarthy even they say sheepishly that mike johnson cut a
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better deal than mccarthy all of it bottom line for you it's not enough it is not good enough it is
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not even close to good enough okay if we'd have gone to kevin mccarthy and said it's 20 billion dollars
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in your side deals or your head he'd have probably done the same thing we need transformational
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change about how we think about the budget and continuing to trip along continuing resolution to
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omnibus with exploding caps and supplementals that fund ukraine or other foreign nations
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that is what has put us in this position where you're paying 10 more for beef or 20 more for
00:29:48.520
auto insurance it's linked back to the devaluation of the american currency that is driven out of
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washington dc that's why we're trying to change it so here's what a few of us said to the speaker and
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you know we had a relatively large group of members folks you know byron donalds cad kamik
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scott perry bob good chip roy marjorie taylor green we all went and met with speaker johnson
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and i felt the consensus coming out of that discussion is that we house conservatives are
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not going to tolerate a government funding bill while the border is open you have to shut down
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the border or we will shut down the government and i don't say that with any twinkle in my eye or any joy
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or any celebration for a shutdown i know some of you on the live stream want to shut down but i live in
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a district with a whole lot of troops a whole lot of government contractors who are not at fault
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for this the customs and border patrol who are actually following the law who care and love our
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nation they did not do this but they will have to disproportionately shoulder the burden of a
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shutdown okay and i don't think some airman abroad or some sailor on the high seas should have to
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disproportionately shoulder that i really don't but we have no choice right now there are no easy
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choices in front of us okay it is just hard choices and if we do not get this budget under
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control if we do not get this border under control we are not going to have a country to defend
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and so it's not joyful it's not a pleasurable experience to go through this but we have to we have
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to shut down the border or shut down the government and all these little games about you know modest you
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know little minor adjustments they function often to virtue signal not to alter the shape of this
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corrupt system so we will have more meetings later today with the speaker more discussions with cross
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section of our our conference we've had moderates and some of the big spending republicans say we
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don't want the border fight in the appropriations fight as a matter of fact one told me that just a just
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a couple hours ago said i i just want no chaos and no drama i don't want the border fight to be
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included in how we think about government funding it's just unrealistic that's going to lead us to
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being overrun and so we've got to build a reservoir of courage with house republicans to fight on the
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border and to cut spending and to go after the pines and to go after the bureaucrats if we do these
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things victory is in sight but if we do this schumer deal i won't be speaking to you next congress
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from the position of a member of the house majority if we do this deal that that uh chuck schumer is
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applauding we will be out of the majority because our own voters will look at us and say
00:32:44.700
what what have the house republicans done for me what did you fight for and we may fight and lose
00:32:51.300
we may fight and get rolled anyway that happens a lot here it's happened a lot to me over the last
00:32:58.200
seven years but if no one is making these arguments and and deploying this leverage to fix the border
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then what is going to be left to fight over or preside over
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anyway appreciate your help appreciate you guys being in the battle here's my ask here's your homework
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assignment reach out to your members of congress let them know that you want to shut down the border
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or shut down the government and if you do that just maybe we'll build enough courage among house
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republicans to be able to go to battle for you and to win because that is what you deserve thanks so
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