The Department of Defense honors fallen heroes on the 4th anniversary of the attack that killed 13 members of the U.S. military in Afghanistan. Rep. Tim Burchett, D-Illinois, joins me to discuss the events that took place four years ago.
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00:00:57.960You know, these people have been fighting and killing each other since before the time of Christ.
00:01:02.780And our arrogance and our state department over there is going to, you know, put a Sesame Street show on or a drag show and think we're going to convert them or something.
00:01:11.520And that's with our billions of dollars.
00:01:53.620So I wanted to bring in Congressman Tim Burchett to discuss this, discuss what's changed since that fateful week in Afghanistan, which was obviously cost 13 members of our armed forces.
00:03:49.680You know, you've got these snipers, this Marine sniper who—and he was blown to hell.
00:03:54.360He'd had multiple surgeries since then and all that.
00:03:57.220But it was just—I just can't believe it.
00:04:01.780And then, of course, the media, again, rushed to cover this thing up because they had so much invested in an old man who was mentally not there.
00:04:37.440I mean, well, you saw—I mean, really what defines that era was just this general culture of incompetency.
00:04:43.760I mean, above all else, it was just incompetency.
00:04:46.360I mean, you've spoken—I mean, obviously, you've spoken to a lot of servicemen and servicemen in Afghanistan and then servicemen that were close to the situation.
00:05:50.660And I think we're very foolish across this great globe.
00:05:54.160It just shows us we need to start managing our own business.
00:05:57.940I'm not an isolationist by any stretch of the imagination, but we need to seriously consider our role in this world and where we're headed as a nation.
00:06:10.780I mean, I mean, that's kind of the big thing is, you know, a lot of people specifically in our in our side, they were saying, well, the problem wasn't necessarily withdrawing from Afghanistan.
00:06:19.800The problem was withdrawing from a position of weakness rather than a position of strength.
00:06:24.040We basically gave our cards to them and then withdrew.
00:06:28.420And then, I mean, obviously, you saw the cascading effects across the globe where a lot of conflicts kicked back off.
00:06:34.300And I think the general feeling was, well, the Biden admins, A, incompetent and B, asleep at the wheel.
00:06:41.080And so it kind of just gave them impunity to operate.
00:06:44.280I mean, what difference have you seen in how the world is behaving, broadly speaking, under Biden versus Trump?
00:06:50.360Well, one other thing I want to reiterate, we just armed our enemies with billions of dollars and assets we left on the ground there.
00:06:58.420But, yeah, I think you're not seeing you're not seeing the aggressive nature towards this country because Trump basically because he's not going to put up with any crap.
00:07:08.260He's not going to, you know, when he took out, I can't remember the guy's name now, Soleimani, I remembered, you know, it was leaked pretty quick, some classified pictures of how they identified Soleimani as basically by his ring finger because that was about all that was left.
00:07:25.300He had this ugly big old ring on his finger and there's pictures of him with that ring, you know.
00:07:30.080And so they could identify him through that.
00:07:32.980And Trump did it like you're supposed to do.
00:07:35.020He didn't take him out in a crowded airport.
00:07:36.880He didn't he didn't risk the lives of innocent civilians.
00:07:41.800They got him out on some isolated road somewhere.
00:07:44.540And I suspect one of our operatives put a laser pointer on his vehicle and then a missile came in, probably launched stateside even possibly.
00:10:26.280Well, I mean, the general theme I've seen from the Trump admin at large, which is just such a breath of fresh air, is just prioritizing Americans.
00:10:36.220But, I mean, you see just all these – it's just the little stuff too.
00:10:39.580It's all just slowly moving in the direction of reprioritizing the American people versus what we saw with Biden.
00:10:45.400Even going back further, what we saw with the Obama administration is where they just – it seems like they're always apologizing on behalf of the American people.
00:10:53.080And it's not even – because we're not apologizing.
00:10:54.840It's just like apologizing for who we are.
00:11:18.160Why are we not going to get our energy here?
00:11:19.840Why are we not looking out for our economic well-being?
00:11:22.120And, you know, why should we be spending millions of dollars for drag shows in Peru or Sesame Street to some Middle Eastern country that hates our guts?
00:11:34.400You know, our state – our state department should get back in the business of promoting two things, capitalism and democracy.
00:11:43.120And instead of all this other nonsense, drag shows and what have you, you know, it's just – to me, it's beyond belief that we've allowed that.
00:11:52.300And frankly, as a conservative, what we've done, we've turned over our colleges and our universities to the radical left.
00:11:59.180Public universities, you know, it's – I don't want to say it's a lost cause, but we've let them become so infiltrated.
00:12:05.980Any time they say something off, you know, they get blasted for it, the presidents and all the apologists come out and say, oh, that was just a person.
00:13:52.000Teach kids how to read, write, do arithmetic to get jobs and quit turning them into little socialist monsters that hate everything about this country.
00:14:07.020But, I mean, with your fellow congressmen and women, I mean, there has to be a bit of frustration because they've been prioritizing foreign interests and other interests and non-American interests for so long to see this reorientation.
00:14:20.040And now there's obviously a large cohort within Congress that is in agreement with the MAGA agenda.
00:14:25.460I mean, what's it like dealing with these cats on a day-to-day basis?
00:14:28.760Well, a lot of them are voting with their portfolios.
00:14:32.220That's why, you know, they pitch a fit when we talk about blocking stock trades of individual – yeah, here's what happened.
00:14:39.820When Biden gave Ukraine our missile defense system, which I didn't vote for.
00:14:46.520I haven't voted for a dime for Ukraine, but regardless, regardless of the situation, we had to replenish or immediately replenish our missile defense system, which we should have.
00:14:57.860It was a multi-multi-billion-dollar contract, no-bid contract.
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00:19:02.880It is an honor to be in the United States Congress.
00:19:05.480More people have been, have played professional baseball, brother, than have ever, than have ever worn that little congressional pin they give us.
00:19:16.180It's just, but it just, and I'm never going to quit being ticked off about it because we're crooked as a dog's leg and America needs to wake up about what's going on.
00:19:25.880I mean, there's so many, there's so many issues that Congress seems to just be comfortable stiff arming.
00:19:32.120I mean, one that strikes me, and it's a big difference, obviously, the Trump admins, you know, in full court press about it, that the Biden administration was totally asleep at the wheel is like CCP influence.
00:19:41.560I mean, you're seeing all these different, all these different attack vectors from, from the CCP and Congress is just more preoccupied with, you know, talking about, you know, Lesotho, you know, condoms and Lesotho or whatever.
00:20:26.100This was classified a while back, but apparently it's been released.
00:20:29.940I didn't go to the classified briefings on it because that's, that's a trap too.
00:20:33.620You go to a classified briefing, even if you know what they're going to say and you know what they said, you're not allowed to talk about it.
00:20:40.020So I just don't go to them anymore because that's primarily what they do.
00:20:43.200They tell me something I already knew or I could catch it on CNN or some Democrats leaked it in about 30 seconds after the meeting.
00:20:49.740So they, they do this, they buy all our genetic material and now we find out they're creating a genome, which is basically a genetic history of, of where we are as, as, as a people.
00:21:01.140So they're trying to isolate American women of childbearing ages to, to give them a virus.
00:21:08.540Now, if they can stop population growth in this country completely, you talk about a chilling effect.
00:21:15.200Um, that would be an incredible, uh, bit of engineering right there, maybe against pit one group against the other.
00:21:22.560And, um, I could, you could see how quick that could deteriorate and we know that.
00:21:27.460And yet we can't, and you know why we can't pass it because we're gutless because you've got staffers that are in bed with these K street lobbyists who are being paid by some shadow group.
00:21:39.140That's attached to the Chinese communist party.
00:22:33.220And then next year, we'll come back with your bill with all these facts.
00:22:37.700And then, obviously, by next year, you moved on to something else because it's, you know, because of the slow paced traction of Washington, D.C.
00:23:40.680When I write my book, compromise, Congress is compromised or something like that, there'll be a chapter on that because that is clearly what's going on.
00:24:01.800I'm sitting there on the house floor and somebody comes over that's in leadership or in the line of leadership, you know, usually a friend will come up to me and say, hey, Burchett, man, we need to talk.
00:24:34.700You know, and so that's what we're up against, brother.
00:24:37.360We have got to start calling this stuff out.
00:24:39.800And every time I hear a chairman say, I can't pass this bill because my staff wouldn't allow it, I realize the tail is completely wagging the dog.
00:24:50.740Well, I mean, with what you're saying, specifically with the CCP and the DNA and that sort of thing, I mean, I haven't heard anything about this.
00:24:57.740I mean, you can find out about it, obviously, especially through X, now that especially the free speech is in vogue again, which is very refreshing.
00:25:06.180But the press, it's like they just almost refuse to report on these sorts of things.
00:25:18.880We need to learn a lesson from the civil rights movement where they use the economic power and casting the dollar vote.
00:25:27.060We need to go to these people and say, hey, you know, whoever's at, you know, whatever car company or truck company, I saw y'all were advertising on this thing.
00:25:35.100You said, I was going to buy a truck from y'all, but I'm going to go some, I'm going to get somebody else's truck.
00:25:39.280I mean, that's what you've got to literally do.
00:26:01.900Well, I mean, one thing I want to ask you about, I guess this is more broadly at the party and the atmosphere of the party is I feel like with the admin, what we're seeing is very decisive foot on the gas, flooding the zone.
00:26:12.920You hear all these types of terms used, but then with the congressional GOP sitting on the hands, fear, cowardice, I would say would be an adjective to describe that.
00:26:22.960Why is there such a disconnect between the admin and the congressional GOP when it comes to, I mean, making moves?
00:26:31.840I must be the only guy who doesn't do this mainly because I've been doing this most of my life and I'm 61.
00:26:38.360I think everybody, when they get to Congress, they're looking at a path, a circuitous route to get to be the speaker.
00:26:45.320And that's what, and everybody's figuring that out.
00:26:47.920And everybody in leadership realizes their one or two heartbeats of, well, if this goes down and then I get this.
00:26:52.760And we get this, you know, I could be speaker.
00:26:55.040I must be the only guy in Washington who doesn't want to be speaker.
00:27:00.080I don't want to be on the road out begging people for money.
00:27:03.340And, you know, and that's what these once, I think, once valued jobs have devolved into and you're stuck that way.
00:27:13.300I mean, Mike Johnson has to raise the money and he has to get out on the road every single day away from his family.
00:27:19.580We're, you know, we're one flu season away from, from, from not being in the majority, literally one flu season, you know, three or four people get the flu, but we're out.
00:27:27.800And so, so it's just, you know, we've created a monster and, and to get there, you have to, you have to, to stay there, you have to do a lot of things.
00:27:39.480And, and I'm afraid, you know, I remembered the former leadership, I was complaining about, and this is one of the reasons I helped depose the former leadership, I was complaining about bills not getting to the floor.
00:27:54.080And they said, well, I don't set the agenda.
00:28:01.020And I said, Nancy Pelosi decided if you had single ply or two ply toilet paper on the house floor, if you're dadgum running the show, you need to run the dadgum show.
00:28:33.520And if you don't, the dark money fills in the gaps and you don't want that because that's what we've had in the past too, with our leadership running against Republicans.
00:28:40.940Republicans, conservative Republican, good Republicans, God fearing people running dirtbags against them using dark money to attack good people.
00:29:16.200I'm trying, I'm, I'm trying to, I'm trying to build a skateboard empire and, you know, and people are asking me that, which is another thing.
00:29:32.480And I've currently got about, I got them in my, in my, in my barn because I can't sell them because legally I've got to do all this, jump through all these hoops.
00:29:41.080I've got to get an attorney, you know, to sell skateboards.
00:29:44.240And I made, and I just give them away.
00:29:46.720I gave, I'm giving one to Tulsi Gabbard for her birthday, which was a few months ago.
00:29:51.060She outed me at the state of the union address.
00:29:52.900She said, Bertie, she said, my birthday's coming up.
00:29:57.540So there's a video of me riding a skateboard on the Capitol grounds and that's her skateboard.
00:30:01.220But, but anyway, you know, I mean, that just tells you the frustration and just the, this is a completely crooked nature of Congress.
00:30:08.500It's, it's designed to keep honest people out and, and, and people that are just trying to do, you know, I'm not trying to set the world on fire selling skateboards.
00:30:17.760It's just, for me, it's cheaper than a psychiatrist and, and I could help me pay for my daughter's school a little bit.