00:00:59.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:01:37.000The invasion is the number one issue happening in the country, number one issue.
00:01:41.000And the guy that is focused on it is a great friend, and we had his back 100%.
00:01:48.000And he is back on the saddle with some huge news.
00:01:51.000But also, remember that there's bad people that are trying to weigh him down, that are trying to interfere with his ability to enforce the law and uphold the law of the Great People of Texas, which is the centerpiece of all this.
00:02:26.000Yeah, so as you know, this has been a battle since my election when the Bush group, Carl Roe, came after me in a group called Texans for Lawsuit Reform, Dick Weekly, Dick Trabolsi, and they spent millions of dollars to beat me.
00:02:39.000We ended up overwhelmingly winning the primary, beating George P. Bush 6832.
00:02:44.000We overwhelmingly won our general election.
00:02:46.000I ended up spending about $16 million.
00:02:48.000And then when they had me down to no money and they knew I couldn't raise money during session, they impeached me so that I wouldn't have the ability to hire lawyers.
00:02:57.000I wouldn't have the ability to defend myself.
00:02:58.000That's why they chose that time period.
00:03:00.000And they came after me with this ridiculous impeachment where there was no due process, there was no evidence, and there were no witnesses that were sworn in.
00:03:08.000And we went through that saga, which the world got to see.
00:03:11.000And despite the fact that they took me through the whole thing illegally, it was an overwhelming win for me.
00:03:17.000That was the second attempt to get me out of office.
00:03:20.000And the third attempt has been this so-called whistleblower or rogue employee lawsuit that they started three years ago.
00:03:27.000We actually settled it over a year ago.
00:03:30.000And the reason we settled it is because we were in a jurisdiction, Travis County, Austin, where we didn't think we had much chance.
00:03:37.000And this is what Trump's dealing with.
00:03:38.000When you're in jurisdictions where the law and the facts don't really matter, you're going to spend a lot of money and lose.
00:03:45.000You try to figure out some way to resolve that because this isn't me getting sued.
00:03:49.000This is the taxpayers having to pay for this.
00:05:22.000We just sent a letter back to the Department of Justice yesterday where they threatened us because the governor, doing the right thing, took over this park that Border Patrol was using as a staging ground to allow legals to come across at will.
00:06:18.000This is the one where it's going to go up to the Supreme Court.
00:06:22.000And how would you prefer the Supreme Court rules on this?
00:06:26.000What is the argument that you hope that they receive?
00:06:30.000I can imagine that you want the Supreme Court to say that if and when the federal government does not do their constitutionally prescribed job, that the states are allowed to step up and do it.
00:06:42.000It seems like Shelby Park is a perfect opportunity to make that argument.
00:06:49.000The other is this wire-cutting thing, both of them.
00:06:52.000And then also our election or this legislation the legislature passed where they're basically saying we're going to deport people.
00:06:59.000So all of these are opportunities for the Supreme Court to back it up from their Arizona v U.S. case where they said that states can't do anything, even though the federal government fails to enforce law.
00:07:10.000And that just can't be right because there's too many consequences to my state to the country when the court adopts a policy or a position that allows the federal government to have laws, not enforce them, and then suddenly we can't do anything about it.
00:07:24.000And I hope that as we go forward on these cases, the Supreme Court will take one of them and say, no way, Texas has a right to defend themselves.
00:07:32.000And so the government, the federal government's going to have a tough time with this one.
00:07:37.000And what can you just, what is the argument that they're making that it's not happening, but it's good that it is, or that we as the federal government have the full right to not do our job?
00:07:48.000They're making the argument in this particular case that this they have the right to go on public lands, which they don't.
00:07:56.000These are not federal government lands.
00:07:58.000These are controlled by governments of Texas, and they have there's nothing in the law that allows them to just walk into our property, take it over.
00:08:07.000They're also arguing that we are interfering with their ability to enforce federal immigration law, which, as we all know, they aren't enforcing federal immigration law.
00:08:34.000And in some ways, Ken, as someone who really cares about the law, this is super irritating, I'm sure, because they think they've found a cute loophole where they just don't enforce it, or they passively enforce it, or they have 1% of an excuse to say it, where it's obvious what they're doing, that they control the bureaucracy.
00:08:56.000They control the federal branch, and they just do what they want without any sort of check and balance.
00:09:01.000And I just think we need to take a step back and remind people: the states created the federal government.
00:09:07.000The federal government did not create the states.
00:09:10.000And while we, of course, want to live in a federalist system where the federal government handles invasion type matters and handles foreign policy type stuff, if and when, morally, the law will align with this.
00:09:22.000But if and when they don't do their job, Texas doesn't just have a right.
00:09:27.000You have a moral obligation to do this.
00:09:31.000Charlie, I don't think you could have said any better.
00:09:33.000I mean, that's really the position we're in.
00:09:35.000We have a federal government that's just letting bad things happen, whether it's importation of drugs, whether it's just the cost of dealing with this, whether it's other crime that's going up in our state.
00:09:47.000We cannot be forced to sit on the sidelines while the federal government imposes this on our state.
00:10:12.000Any other issues or cases you have in front of you you want to make our audience aware of?
00:10:16.000Well, a huge one is our Pfizer case where we're suing them over the vaccine, the fact that they didn't tell us the truth about the effectiveness.
00:10:23.000They claim 95% wasn't even close to that.
00:10:26.000And then they tried to censor people who talked about it.
00:10:28.000And then in a year, we're going to be in trial with Google over their control of the internet advertising.
00:10:34.000And we think we've got both of those cases.
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00:13:24.000So this is your trigger warning graphic.
00:13:26.000You're about to see the wealthiest, most prosperous, greatest civilization ever to exist kill itself slowly.
00:13:35.000Of course, we're talking about this cut, PlayCut 93.
00:13:40.000How is diversity and diversity targets working into the Aviate Academy?
00:13:44.000We have committed that 50% of the class of the classes will be women or people of color.
00:13:50.000Today, only 19% of our pilots at United Airlines are women or people of color.
00:13:55.000And by the way, from all the data I've seen, that's the highest of any airline in the country.
00:13:58.000White males don't just dominate in the cockpits.
00:14:00.000Also, in the C-suite at United Airlines.
00:14:03.000Well, look, at United, I'm proud of the diversity that we actually have in our C-suite.
00:14:07.000I think if you look around corporate America, one of the things we do is for every job when we do an interview, we require women and people of color to be involved in the interview process.
00:14:17.000Now, the buried lead of this is just the questioning from Axios.
00:14:20.000The moral framework is already established, and Scott Kirby seamlessly enters into it as if there's no pushback, there's no questioning.
00:14:26.000And Axios is like, well, of course, Scott Kirby, remind us that you are doing the diversity thing.
00:14:30.000And Scott Kirby says, yeah, of course, we're doing this.
00:14:33.000By the way, Scott Kirby literally is a drag queen.
00:14:35.000There's viral video of him being a drag queen.
00:14:38.000And instead of totally rejecting it and putting merit and excellence above apartheid-style race-based hiring programming, Scott Kirby, by the way, this is a video of Scott Kirby, who's a drag queen.
00:15:08.000When it comes to flying an airplane, does that make you more reassured?
00:15:15.000The CEO of United Airlines dancing like that the next time you have to fly from Newark, New Jersey to Los Angeles or to go see a loved one at Chicago O'Hare International Airport.
00:15:24.000That clip right there is civilizational suicide.
00:15:27.000Scott Kirby saying, Yeah, half of all of our new pilots are going to be black women of color, people of color, or women.
00:15:43.000And just like we saw with the Harvard admissions, they have to lower the standards to try to meet the criteria of their cult of diversity.
00:15:52.000Now, of course, the Axios person is awful, not very smart.
00:15:55.000But if I ever got the opportunity to be interviewed by that Axios individual or the Scott Kirby person, just say, hold on, hold on, time out a second.
00:16:02.000Why is it, Scott Kirby, that so few women want to become pilots?
00:16:06.000Is it because that we live in a patriarchy or sexist?
00:16:09.000Or is it because that women have different needs, wants, interests, talents, desires than men do?
00:16:16.000That men gravitate more towards engineering, strategy, machinery, and that women gravitate more towards the empathetic instruction, teaching, education, healthcare.
00:16:30.000As I've mentioned a couple of times, I've had to keep revisiting a hospital this week, not fun at all.
00:16:36.000And I just, there was like a shift over and I had to leave the room for a second.
00:16:55.000No, it's just more women want to get into nursing.
00:16:57.000Their talent set, their skill set is more about helping, empathy, compassion.
00:17:03.000It's far more about how can I individually connect with you and look after you.
00:17:10.000It's almost kind of motherly in a certain way.
00:17:13.000It's not to say that there's no good male nurses or that men shouldn't become nurses, but you walk into almost any hospital ward of rank and file nurses, it will be a vast majority female staffed community.
00:17:28.000Is there a big push to try to change that?
00:17:30.000There shouldn't be a big push to try to change that.
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00:19:27.000Byron Donalds is on my short list for vice president.
00:19:30.000One of the reasons is this: If you really want to terrify the deep state operators, you have to potentially have somebody that can cast a 12-year vision, not just four years, but 12 years.
00:19:45.000Meaning, you then have a vice president who could win two more terms.
00:19:49.000That would terrify the internal operators at the deep state.
00:19:54.000Joining us now is Byron Donalds, Congressman Donalds.
00:20:19.000It feels as if we're running out of time and going towards a shutdown.
00:20:23.000So there's actually going to be a vote on the floor today about whether we're going to extend government funding to March 1st and March 8th, splitting a bunch of the appropriation bills into two segments.
00:20:36.000There's a vote in a couple of hours to see if we're going to extend government funding to March 1st and March 8th.
00:20:42.000There's a concern in the Republican conference that a majority of the conference doesn't support the continuing resolution.
00:20:49.000Not really sure where the votes are going to land, but we'll see in a couple hours.
00:20:53.000Yeah, so what is the argument to extend?
00:21:21.000I told that to the leadership and told that to our members and your viewers and everybody else.
00:21:26.000The issue at hand is if you're going to fund this government, what you're really telling Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell for that matter is that you're not willing to use every lever that you have in order to secure the nation's border.
00:21:40.000It is the number one thing that is causing serious security concerns in our country.
00:21:44.000It makes no sense that there have been now 7 million to 9 million encounters at the southern border in just three years during Joe Biden's presidency.
00:21:52.000And House Republicans have an opportunity to actually do something about it right now.
00:21:57.000And I believe that if you just continue to fund the government for another month or so while the appropriators figure out how to fund the government, you're not going to have any leverage in order to get border security done.
00:22:09.000And I think there's a dereliction of our duty as members.
00:22:12.000So I'm voting no, and I would encourage all of our members to vote no.
00:22:15.000I'm afraid, though, that there'll be 10, 20 moderate Republican members that are going to side with Hakeem Jeffries.
00:22:27.000You don't have this fear, but it feels as if this is a hostage situation where we get anywhere close to meaningful change, and then they go, shut down.
00:22:37.000And now this will be, we will be entering nearly six months of extensions of CRs.
00:22:43.000Before you know it, we're going to be in June and they'll be like, oh, we're in cycle.
00:23:00.000Are there going to be moderate defections here that keep this border, that keep things open and no changes to the border through March?
00:23:08.000I mean, look, Charlie, it's a possibility, but the point that I've been trying to make to the leadership team is that you have a golden opportunity to actually win the political argument of the day.
00:23:20.000And that question is, should our government remain open?
00:23:23.000Should we be sending money to Ukraine, et cetera, while our border is porously open?
00:23:28.000And I believe that the American people want our border secured, even if it means that tough choices have to be made up here on Capitol Hill.
00:23:36.000It's a mess when it comes to immigration and border security.
00:23:39.000He has lost all credibility with the American people.
00:23:42.000So you can win that political argument.
00:23:44.000I think if you're winning the politics of this, those moderate members, those swing district Republicans will actually stand with us to hold the Biden administration accountable to get this border secured.
00:23:57.000But if you don't take that leverage point, if you don't have that fight, you're not going to get this administration to change any policy.
00:24:04.000Because Charlie, you know, everything happening at the southern border is by design.
00:24:08.000This is what they have wanted, and they're doing it on purpose.
00:24:12.000The only way you change behavior in most people's lives is you change it with money and you change it with funding.
00:24:50.000I hope that this does not kick into March.
00:24:53.000And so, so, Byron, I want to just kind of also contrast this.
00:24:58.000How did the Iow results at all resonate with the members of your conference?
00:25:03.000That is a clear message that the Republican base, regardless of all the lawfare, all the nonsense, that immigration is a primary issue, that they want not just talk.
00:25:12.000In fact, some of the exit polls that CNN was, you know, freaking out over, they were saying, oh, my goodness, the Republican base wants transformational change in D.C. How is how were those results received by some of your colleagues?
00:25:26.000Well, one real quick thing about the vote itself: this vote is going to be on a suspension of the rules.
00:25:33.000So you got to have two-thirds, as I understand, you got to have two-thirds of the members in the chamber vote for this.
00:26:06.000And so the point I make to our colleagues is our voters want us to hold this government accountable.
00:26:13.000They do not want to have this demonstration of governing if governing means that you're going to do a slow walk towards the demise of America.
00:26:22.000You're going to move slower than the Democrats are moving, but we're going to govern.
00:26:26.000What our voters want is leadership and they want decisiveness.
00:27:19.000And, you know, they're making this big stink about how the FBI and how Treasury, their federal government, is flagging terms like MAGA and Trump, the financial institutions, and they're flagging things like Bass Pro Shop, Cabela's, and it's outrageous.
00:27:47.000Well, first, it is a fight that we can win because actually you have some of the progressive members want to see reforms to FISA as well.
00:27:54.000There's some other stuff that they want in there that we don't agree with, but generally speaking, they want reforms as well.
00:28:00.000There is broad agreement that we got to stop the FBI and other elements of our government from spying on the American people.
00:28:07.000But the opportunity that was missed was actually doing this short-term FISA extension.
00:28:12.000I firmly believed it then, and I even more so believe it now, that if we had sent our reform package over to the Senate and left before Christmas, then the Senate would have a responsibility to take that package up and pass it.
00:28:26.000And you would have actually seen significant reforms.
00:28:29.000I think there's an opportunity to do that.
00:28:32.000But what we're starting to see up here on Capitol Hill is that the Chuck Schumer strategy is to slow walk everything.
00:28:38.000And you said it earlier, Charlie, to slow walk us into the presidential cycle.
00:28:43.000And then you'll have enough members say, I don't want to do anything because now I have to go fight for my own reelection.
00:28:48.000And that's the most unfortunate part of what's happened with FISA and other things.
00:28:52.000But specific to 702, we can get that done and have a credible bill come out of the House that would actually pass with Democrat votes in the House and will also pass in the Senate.
00:29:05.000FISA is one of my top priorities, our top priorities.
00:29:08.000We can't let a renewal of FISA and never should have been extended even for the time that it was.
00:29:14.000But this 702 has been used and abused for political purposes from the Intel agencies to infiltrate MA movements and do other sort of clandestine opportunity.
00:29:24.000We have to de-fang the FBI beast, and it starts with the 702 fight.
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00:33:54.000In your first NFL season and a record-setting performance for you, what does this moment mean?
00:34:00.000I mean, it's been amazing being in this city for as short as I've been, but first and foremost, I just want to give all the glory and praise my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
00:34:34.000It obviously took deliberate planning and top-down decision-making because it was, I saw it when it was aired and I turned to Erica and I said, this is why I like this guy.
00:34:43.000Every time he mentions Jesus Christ, and C.J. Stroud, if you're listening, please keep mentioning Jesus.