In this episode, we have a report from the Arizona-Mexico border, a look inside the culture war in Washington, D.C., and we even check in on a Democrat who is throwing some shade at Adam Schiff.
00:05:43.000It's a common conception that we are all very disappointed and frustrated with someone who has capabilities more than us women have
00:05:51.000to be able to compete at this level and take opportunities away from other women.
00:05:55.000Like, I have a teammate who did not make finals today because she was just bumped out of finals.
00:05:59.000And it's heartbreaking to see someone who went through puberty as a male and has the body of a male be able to absolutely blow away the competition.
00:06:09.000And you go into it with a mindset that you don't have a chance, if that makes sense.
00:06:14.000Like, it's hard to compete against someone with the aerobic capacity, the muscle development, the body of a man.
00:07:30.000From just a biology standpoint, that's false.
00:07:32.000From a capacity and capability standpoint, that's false.
00:07:35.000And I'm not asserting supremacy for one gender or the other.
00:07:40.000But certainly when it comes to the type of physical education and physical competition that you get from swimming, the Virginia Tech swimmer was absolutely right.
00:08:29.000I think folks want to see the realities that we live with certainly not evaporated at the expense of the vulnerable and at the expense of those that we've done a whole lot over the years in jurisprudence and in law to assist.
00:08:45.000We see in the war in Ukraine that the information space is an increasingly important theater in conflict.
00:08:53.000You have never seen before folks tweeting through wars or Skyping and FaceTiming through conflict like we do today.
00:09:02.000And there is a focus in the Congress to ensure that the United States, that our allies, that we win the information space.
00:09:10.000Now, Russia has a media arm, has a propaganda wing referred to as RT or Russia today.
00:09:19.000And what they're trying to do in places where they're engaging in resource extraction and political activity is to try to get distribution for RT in places like South America, in places like Africa, and then to try to use that information space to try to shape people's opinion and perhaps even engage in malign activity.
00:09:40.000Well, Congresswoman Jackie Speier, Democrat from California, is on to them.
00:09:46.000She understood at a recent hearing that we had with the leadership from AFRICOM that in Africa specifically, growing distribution and growing credibility for RT is a harm to America.
00:09:59.000It deprives us of access to our interests and our ability to try to spread neoliberal values, democracy, not through the sword, but through high quality information so that people can make reasonable decisions.
00:10:13.000And what Congresswoman Speier is most worried about is that RT may be gaining credibility.
00:10:55.000I completely concur with my colleague regarding the risk that RT poses, and it seems to appear more legitimate and objective when members of Congress go on RT.
00:11:07.000And so I associate myself with the gentlelady's comments, and perhaps she could share them with the gentleman from California who chairs the Intelligence Committee, who I've seen on RT, talking about legislation, giving them credibility.
00:11:23.000I only have a few moments, but I'd love to chat with you about it further.
00:11:26.000And of course, we couldn't close this segment without giving you the proof, without showing you the receipts.
00:11:32.000Adam Schiff going on RT to try to make a political point about legislation.
00:11:37.000Meanwhile, on the other side of Capitol Hill in the House of Representatives, efforts continue there as well to inject more oversight into the NSA's surveillance programs and the top-secret FISA court.
00:11:48.000One of those members of Congress leading the effort is Adam Schiff from California.
00:11:53.000He joined me earlier, and I asked him how his reforms to the FISA court will protect America's First and Fourth Amendment rights.
00:12:00.000Well, I think they'll have the cumulative impact of making the FISA court much more transparent, so the American people can understand what's being done in their name, in the name of national security, so that we can have a more informed debate over the balance between privacy and security.
00:12:15.000I think this can be accomplished while also maintaining sources and methods and not compromising some of the very real national security concerns at stake.
00:12:27.000Maybe Jackie Speier ought to reach out to Adam Schiff and tell him to actually be pro-America for once.
00:12:33.000It's quite fascinating to me that politicians in both parties act like they care about your rising gas prices, your rising grocery bill, your rising costs for food.
00:12:46.000But the reality is they continue to vote for policies in Washington, D.C. that actually exacerbate inflation and the increase of those very costs.
00:12:56.000It's one of the reasons why I'm voting with my constituents on any issues that would result in them having to endure more costs for the Russia-Ukraine war than the people who have actually prosecuted that war, than Vladimir Putin, who is at fault for that war.
00:13:12.000So I didn't vote with a majority of the Congress recently when they voted to end trade relations under our current system with Russia and Belarus.
00:13:21.000I was joined by seven other members of Congress, Lauren Boebert, Thomas Massey, Andy Biggs, Marjorie Teller-Green, Dan Bishop, Chip Roy, and Glenn Grothman.
00:13:32.000And I thought Thomas Massey had a particularly important take.
00:14:07.000I remember hearing that back during the Russia hoax impeachment.
00:14:10.000The reality is representatives have to read the legislation.
00:14:14.000We have to ask tough questions, and we have to look at the second and third order effects.
00:14:19.000And here, the legislation gives this broad discretion to Joe Biden to just, like, hammer anyone in the world that he would deem a human rights violator for any reason.
00:14:32.000Increasingly, our own State Department is more worried about whether or not other countries embrace wokeism than whether or not they're actually acting in the best interest of America.
00:14:41.000Of Americans, of American businesses, you know, to enrich our country, not theirs.
00:14:57.000What this bill did, if you read it and understood it, it actually allows our president to go to almost anybody in the world, and if they have a visa, he can take away their visa.
00:15:10.000He can freeze their assets, regardless of whether they have anything to do with Russia whatsoever.
00:15:16.000He gets to define what a human rights abuse is, and he gets to go after anybody who thinks might be committing some kind of human rights abuse.
00:15:24.000Now, we might say, well, that's what's happening in Russia.
00:15:47.000Why is it that Democrats always take an idea that most Americans support and then they stick it in with a couple of pieces of garbage to give themselves more power?
00:16:19.000Our political leadership truly ignoring something that is affecting all Americans.
00:16:24.000It's affecting the wage market, it's affecting labor, it's affecting our social service system, it's affecting our education system, it's affecting our criminal justice system, it's affecting our national security.
00:16:36.000And increasingly, as the federal government doesn't do its job, more and more pressure is building on state governments and even local sheriffs to have to deal with this national crisis.
00:16:47.000One of America's best sheriffs is Mark Lamb of Pinell County.
00:16:51.000He recently gave us an exclusive briefing regarding the tools that the smugglers are using, that the cartels are employing and the things we ought to be doing in Washington to stop this terrible violation of our country.
00:17:05.000Take a listen from the southern border.
00:17:07.000Take a listen from the southern border.
00:17:25.000This is the heart of the activity in this county right here.
00:17:50.000It's ten times worse today than it was five years ago.
00:17:55.000I'll show you when we get over to the other side outside of this, but you're going to be shocked because I can show you a hundred more spots like this.
00:18:04.000When you hear me talk about carpet shoes, these are carpet shoes.
00:18:12.000So what you do is they put them on over their boots and they tie them up and they walk across with these because you can't hear them and you can't track them.
00:20:43.000Like, can you tell people they have to get off the property?
00:20:45.000I always just tell people, look, if you can tell me that you felt in fear of your own life, of serious physical injury or death, then you can use physical force.