00:00:44.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:16.000Senate Republicans tell the House the debt ceiling fight is on you.
00:01:21.000Basically, the Senate Republicans are doing what they do best, which is to run to the hills and do absolutely nothing.
00:01:27.000So this is on the new House of Representatives to fight, to hold the line, and hopefully use the debt ceiling fight as a way to get and effectuate some meaningful change.
00:01:39.000Joining us now from the great state of Arizona is Andy Biggs.
00:02:01.000What's the game plan of this critical fight?
00:02:04.000Okay, so for people who don't understand this, the debt ceiling hit last week, and that's an estimation that we were going to run out of money.
00:02:12.000Now, the way that happens is that came on the 19th.
00:02:15.000And then from the 19th for about till July or August, we have enough money, but we have enough, we're going to take some special measures to get us through that.
00:02:26.000But before then, we're going to have to raise the debt ceiling so we don't default on our loans.
00:02:36.000The problem is the Democrats and some of my own Republican friends have spent this into oblivion to get there.
00:02:43.000And they believe in something called the modern monetary theory, Charlie, which means that you can just keep printing money and it won't have any effects.
00:02:49.000In other words, you can just keep borrowing money.
00:02:51.000So what we need to do is to counterbalance that, you're going to have to have a short-term increase in your debt in order to pay off all of your loans and other obligations, but you're going to have to reduce your spending.
00:03:06.000And the way you reduce your spending is you go through, first of all, and you find anything, just like you would in a normal budget.
00:03:57.000Because an example is in December, Charlie, we spent $82 billion more than we brought in in revenue.
00:04:06.000And we need to start reducing spending in order to balance our budget so that this generation and future generations knows that the federal government is going to be fiscally responsible and pay our debts and pay our obligations, but also reduce the size, scope, shape of government.
00:04:25.000So how likely is it to get to some of the meatier topics?
00:07:33.000I'm not going to go out of my way to defend Tom Tillis right now.
00:07:36.000Yeah, but Charlie, but it gets to the finer point, which is where are these guys?
00:07:42.000So the other good point is I actually will be sitting down with some senators later today about this very issue.
00:07:48.000So it's starting to, you know, there are some senators like, I mean, JD Vance is going to be a breath of fresh air, I think.
00:07:56.000So, I mean, there's going to be some real push in the Senate.
00:07:59.000So, if they will, if the Senate steering committee, which is the Republican Conservatives, push on this, I think we might get they might have our back, but it won't matter because the House has got to hold.
00:08:12.000And Kevin, by the way, Kevin has found a backbone, has found grit, and I'm hopeful that he'll be really successful.
00:08:21.000But he is talking the talk, and I think he's going to walk the walk on this particular issue.
00:08:26.000I think he's starting to understand leverage is as leverage does.
00:08:30.000And so, we can actually leverage the debt ceiling to reduce and move this way.
00:08:39.000And so, so with us doing that, it actually emboldens the Senate, I hope.
00:08:51.000Yeah, I mean, just like work in partnership or work in harmony or in tandem, or at least say we're not going to give them the votes to be able to break the filibuster.
00:08:59.000Is it a filibuster-proof debt ceiling?
00:09:05.000But I mean, if you keep 49, you're in better shape.
00:09:08.000Let's just put it this way: if Mitch McConnell were to say the same thing that McCarthy is saying, that there has to be meaningful reductions in spending, guess what there would be?
00:09:19.000There would be meaningful reductions in spending.
00:10:00.000We have one aspect of the legislative branch.
00:10:02.000So, Andy, any closing thoughts on the debt ceiling fight?
00:10:04.000I mean, how do you see this playing out?
00:10:07.000I mean, I could see that they're already fear-mongering.
00:10:09.000CNN saying experts say that the full faith in credit of the United States, but it's the opposite.
00:10:14.000The opposite is that if you keep on raising the debt ceiling without spending concessions, then that actually will obliterate the full faith in credit of the United States.
00:11:02.000And you take the low-hanging fruit and you do that immediately.
00:11:05.000I think that spending is becoming a top political issue for people.
00:11:09.000I mean, it kind of went, it was really in focus for years and then out of focus.
00:11:13.000I mean, we are suffering the consequences of massive deficit spending.
00:11:18.000As you say, it's a byproduct of modern monetary theory, which is just nonsense.
00:11:23.000I want to talk about the border, Andy.
00:11:25.000The border remains completely and totally wide open.
00:11:28.000We're being invaded on basically a daily basis.
00:11:32.000Have we seen any improvement or any changes from the Biden regime since the new house has taken over?
00:11:39.000Or are we really going to have to, we're going to have to really force the issue?
00:11:43.000Well, we're going to have to force the issue.
00:11:45.000There's a couple of things that are happening where the Biden administration is going to claim victory.
00:11:52.000And what they're doing, instead of actually stopping illegal immigration, they're going to set up and they're working, and this has been going on for several months.
00:12:01.000They're setting up centers south of the border where people are going to be waiting, and they're going to funnel them in through ports of entry to declare there.
00:12:10.000And what they're going to do to declare asylum and try to enter that way, what they're going to do is they're going to stop or not stop.
00:12:17.000They're going to reduce to some degree the between port of entry illegal entries.
00:12:24.000So what you're going to get is instead of saying, well, you know, in Yuma, they're getting 1,000 or 1,500 people a day, they're going to funnel some of those people to the port of San Luis and say, well, look, we took it down to 600 people a day in Yuma.
00:12:41.000But in the meantime, everybody's going to be funneled through the ports of entry and they're going to divert the attention that way.
00:12:46.000That's one of their schemes that they're putting in place.
00:12:50.000The other thing is that a lot of people don't realize this.
00:12:52.000They have now put up an app for illegal aliens who are coming over who can pre-register so they can get processed sooner and released into the United States sooner.
00:13:02.000And that goes part and parcel with this massive parole program that Alejandro Mayorkas has put in place, 300,000, over 300,000 last year, and 30,000, up to 30,000 a month from Venezuela, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Cuba going forward.
00:14:01.000So I'm trying to get him through in front of both judiciary and oversight.
00:14:08.000I'll be introducing soon my articles of impeachment on Majorkis, which we keep expanding to because he's doing so many things that are what I consider to be high crimes and misdemeanors.
00:14:20.000But yeah, we need to get him in there.
00:14:22.000There's just so many scandals in this administration from the classified documents to the weaponization of the DOJ and the FBI.
00:14:32.000So there's a lot for us to go through in those two committees.
00:14:35.000We will be working around the clock, Charlie.
00:14:39.000And I'm happy to say that because it really needs to happen.
00:14:43.000Yeah, I mean, from Majorkis to Cardona, the Department of Education, oversight, and there's there, you got some real good attack dogs on your committee.
00:14:53.000It's going to be, it's, it's going to be really fun to watch.
00:14:56.000And I hope subpoenas start flying because, you know, these people are, they're out of control.
00:16:58.000Steve, why don't you take an opportunity to introduce the organization and what you guys are able to do and the points on the board you're putting up?
00:17:06.000Charlie, thank you for having us on today.
00:17:08.000Yeah, the organization was founded in April of 2021.
00:17:14.000And the main mission at the national level is to engage the citizens in critical counties in the country and empower them with the tools that they need to go after this apparatus that's really trying to take our country down.
00:17:29.000So at the local level, they're focused on elections, anything to do with elections, education.
00:17:34.000We have a faith division and also just follow the money.
00:17:38.000And then at the national level, we have a legal team, we have a media team, we have information services where we can really do a lot of analytics and analysis to follow where this money's going.
00:17:48.000And then we have an administration team that helps them with all the administration side of their local county operation.
00:17:54.000And since we've started, Charlie, it's been, we can only give God credit for the results we've had so far.
00:18:00.000We're just really getting going, and we're really excited about what we're talking to you about today.
00:18:06.000And one of the counties you guys are involved in is a county in Texas in Nusis County.
00:18:14.000Nueasis County, yeah, to remove a George Soros-backed district attorney.
00:18:19.000Jonathan, you're involved in this in the great state of Texas.
00:18:23.000Walk us through this effort, which is really local focused, but has national implications.
00:18:31.000Yeah, thanks, Charlie, for having me on.
00:18:34.000It's a removal statute under not only under the Texas Constitution, but under local government code 87.
00:18:41.000It allows a local citizen to file a petition for removal on a county official, whether it's the district attorney, the county attorney, even a school board trustee within their county.
00:18:53.000So it goes all the way back to our Texas Constitution of 1876.
00:18:58.000It really is a citizen right that's in the Texas Constitution, but by statute.
00:19:07.000If there is official misconduct or incompetence within that term of office, then a citizen can file this petition for removal.
00:19:15.000It goes to a district judge, and then whether or not they kind of view the evidence initially, if it meets kind of a minimum threshold, they issue a citation to the official.
00:19:29.000And then at that point, the county attorney, which in Texas, some counties have a county attorney, some don't, would pick up the case and essentially prosecute the case for removal.
00:19:39.000So that's what's happened in Nueces County.
00:19:42.000I think CCDF is well positioned to look all over the state of Texas to find those officials that are not living up to their constitutional oath, whether it's the United States Constitution or the Texas Constitution to fulfill their duties.
00:19:58.000And we're going to look for those cases with misconduct or incompetence.
00:20:03.000And we're going to pursue those investigations and pursue those actions.
00:20:06.000But because at the end of the day, it's we, the people, consent of the governed.
00:20:12.000And we take seriously, I took my oath serious as a naval officer, as a Navy JAG, and I expect all government officials and public officials to take their oath equally as serious.
00:20:25.000Either Steve or Jonathan, you guys can chime in.
00:20:28.000Why is it a worthwhile effort to try to remove him?
00:20:31.000So I'll take the first crack at this, Charlie.
00:20:34.000So I think we need to take a step back.
00:20:35.000When you look at the state of Texas, it is critical to the nation.
00:20:40.000And then when you look at what these NGOs and the George Source Foundation organizations, the Tides Foundation specifically, they realize the weakness.
00:20:51.000And so Jonathan could get into this more detail, but that county, you know, the Texas Constitution takes the federalism concept all the way down to the county level.
00:21:02.000So when things go bad down there, the Attorney General himself, you've had Dan Patrick on your show, he cannot go into that county basically without an invite.
00:21:13.000So the enemies of freedom have found that out.
00:21:55.000So with Mark Gonzalez, look, we're going to pursue the case where the case is.
00:22:01.000So there's several instances of incompetence.
00:22:04.000He's had a vast increase in dismissals, felony-level dismissals.
00:22:10.000If you compare his numbers from 2021 in his current term to 2022, December 31st, 2022, to the tenure of the previous district attorney for that same two-year period, he's up 286% for felony dismissals.
00:22:27.000His site and release program, misdemeanors, site and release, that obfuscates a lot of the criminal activity.
00:22:34.000They're dismissing felonies down to misdemeanors.
00:22:37.000There are several high-profile cases in Nueces County courts that have been mishandled.
00:22:42.000You've got a case, the Breanna Wood murders, where five people have been indicted for over five years now, and the victim wants justice.
00:22:53.000The people of Nueces County and the people of Texas want to see the rule of law enforce.
00:22:58.000We expect our public officials to take their oath serious.
00:23:01.000We expect the highest ethical and moral standards.
00:23:09.000This is part of a larger growth of soft on crime approach that we've seen across the United States.
00:23:15.000I think this is related to what you see in Atlanta now.
00:23:20.000I mean, the soft on crime approach where no bail.
00:23:22.000All of these things are coming to a head.
00:23:24.000And I think a lot of the prosecutors are using their authority in Texas at the county level to essentially nullify the will of the Texas legislature that represents the people across the state and the governor that signs these laws into place, particularly with the abortion law that went into effect when Roeby Wade was rescinded.
00:23:48.000And you see, with the transgender care, I mean, Mark Gonzalez in particular has said on both those counts, I'm the district attorney.
00:23:56.000I have to invite in Ken Paxton, the attorney general of the state of Texas, to prosecute these cases, and I'm just not going to invite him in.
00:24:04.000So when you have that kind of mindset, that you're not going to follow the law, duly enacted law of the state of Texas.
00:24:11.000I think it's expected that you should have a petition for removal in your county because the citizens of the state and the citizens of your county expect you as the chief of law enforcement officer of your county to enforce the law.
00:24:25.000The soft on crime approach may work in San Francisco.
00:24:32.000And I will say, look, I have their book.
00:24:35.000I bought their book to find out their mindset because that's what you should do.
00:24:40.000And Mark Gonzalez is, and this is the Fair and Just Prosecution Organization where they want to reimage a lot of these counties through the district attorney.
00:24:50.000And look, that's just you're traveling to Fulton County.
00:24:58.000This is the blueprint, which is counties, local action, find where they've infiltrated and remove them one by one by one.
00:25:06.000Now, that's just one example of many things you guys do and the really important work you do.
00:25:11.000But you're going to Fulton County to try to get rid of some of these lunatics there.
00:25:18.000Our mission is to shine light on everything and transparency.
00:25:22.000And then when we find breaches of liberty or breaches of freedom, we try to resolve them quietly.
00:25:27.000If that doesn't work, we take on the media and we take that issue and take it nationally.
00:25:33.000If that doesn't work, we turn to our legal team and say, let's go after them.
00:25:37.000So our mission really is not to, it's just to hold our elected officials accountable to the founding documents, to the state statutes, the local statutes and ordinances.
00:26:18.000So at the national level, we said we have to put a strong team together.
00:26:23.000So when that mom or dad is talking to that school board about an issue where they're not following the law or the ordinance, they have to have some place to turn to for help.
00:26:35.000So that's what this whole CCDeaf concept is about.
00:26:39.000We want to help support and empower the citizen to take their country back.
00:26:44.000And all we have to do is hold people accountable to, in most cases, the rules and laws that are already on the books that the local folks are choosing not to follow.
00:26:53.000I encourage everyone in our audience to check out ccdfusa.com and get involved.
00:26:59.000And you guys can also text Texas to 53445.
00:27:16.000This is actually focusing on citizen engagement, on shining a light, having real action, not just this superfluous nonsense that happens far too often in our country.
00:27:26.000So, Jonathan and Steve, stay right there.
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00:28:47.000I'd like to give people hope and good news as well.
00:28:49.000So there's 3,343 counties in the nation.
00:28:53.000In 143 of those counties, 50% of our population live.
00:28:57.000So we've targeted 100 strategic counties that we need to be in in 10 states to make a major impact in the United States and turn the ship back to the right correct direction.
00:29:10.000Charlie, we're not tied to a political party.
00:30:48.000They're looking at them from the county level, at the grassroots level.
00:30:52.000And then if there's a legal finish, there's a legal finish.
00:30:55.000And that's why it's important to have an organization with a legal department, but also has those folks in the counties that are finding those problems so we can fix them as quickly as possible.
00:31:06.000Take the Matthew 18 approach, but we try and resolve them quietly without public fanfare and hopefully get the official back in compliance.
00:31:14.000If that doesn't work, then we bring legal involved and we have to.
00:31:18.000Unfortunately, that's where we are today.
00:31:21.000We have to counter lawfare with lawfare.
00:31:24.000And a lot of the problems we see are the effects of lawfare and using statutes and laws to work around the liberty of people and constitutional rights of people.
00:31:37.000So we're going to counter that every chance we get.
00:31:39.000So, Steve, in closing here, one of the themes we've been building out this entire hour is the fourth branch of government, is these unelected bureaucrats that do whatever they want.
00:31:51.000The counties can serve as a check and balance.
00:31:54.000The counties are sovereignly created, piece of infrastructure that often get overlooked.
00:32:04.000And they're municipalities that have huge amounts of influence for the trajectory of the nation.
00:32:25.000There was a curriculum that was coming down the pike that the United Nations actually created, went to the federal Department of Education, went through an NGO, and then tried to slip into a school board in Texas, another Texas case.
00:32:38.000And our people showed up and gathered a bunch of pastors and they voted it down 7-0.
00:32:44.000So you're telling me a citizens group took on the United Nations, the Federal Department of Education, a private NGO-funded operation, and shut it down.
00:32:54.000That's a prime example of the local action and why it's so important.
00:33:24.000And so just brick by brick, county by county, this is exactly what Soros and their Luciferian agenda has done for quite some time, where they put money into counties and they don't know.
00:33:36.000Now we have to take those counties back.