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00:00:57.960 You know, these people have been fighting and killing each other since before the time of Christ.

00:01:02.780 And 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.

00:01:11.520 And that's with our billions of dollars.

00:01:13.580 And that's their arrogance.

00:01:15.120 They have no clue.

00:01:16.000 And, you know, they just think they're super intelligent.

00:01:20.240 The Bible talks about professing yourself to be wise. 1.00

00:01:23.480 You became a fool. 1.00

00:01:24.700 And I think we're very foolish across this great globe. 1.00

00:01:28.000 It just shows us we need to start managing our own business. 0.96

00:01:31.940 This was today.

00:01:33.740 This was issued by the Department of Defense.

00:01:36.280 The Department of Defense honors fallen heroes on fourth anniversary of Abbey Gate attack.

00:01:41.440 This was obviously four years since the Afghanistan withdrawal, which was disastrous.

00:01:49.640 I mean, we all remember it well.

00:01:51.140 It was a national humiliation.

00:01:53.620 So 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.

00:02:07.700 I wanted to get into this story.

00:02:09.160 So this is obviously four years since the Afghanistan withdrawal.

00:02:12.500 We had the DOD honoring the fallen soldiers from the Abbey Gate Memorial.

00:02:17.360 I mean, I'm wondering what your thoughts are on the—

00:02:19.980 Yeah.

00:02:20.540 Well, I knew one of the families that was involved, their son, Ryan Knauss, Staff Sergeant Ryan Knauss.

00:02:28.080 They named the highway that my farm and home are on after him.

00:02:33.880 I know his mama and daddy very well.

00:02:38.020 You know, it was just an unnecessary tragedy.

00:02:40.540 I asked this question during the hearing, and it all goes back to this.

00:02:46.400 The bomber was—suicide bomber was spotted.

00:02:49.940 You know, the Marine sniper, in his testimony, said they called back, and they said, no, you cannot take him out, not once, but twice.

00:02:59.180 And they identified the guy, you know, by his clothing and what he was carrying and all this other stuff.

00:03:05.640 You know, and that should have been a national story.

00:03:08.800 That should have been the story.

00:03:10.620 I always say military intelligence is a whole lot like congressional ethics.

00:03:14.260 It really just doesn't exist.

00:03:16.480 And they—hence the insider trading that we're doing now.

00:03:20.040 But, you know, it just—it was totally unnecessary.

00:03:23.640 It was botched.

00:03:25.020 We were cut and running, and that's just not what Americans should be doing.

00:03:28.920 And it was a pitiful situation.

00:03:31.840 It's right at the feet of Biden's administration.

00:03:35.100 And the media, of course, in their attempt to cover for him, you know, really didn't cover it like they should have.

00:03:42.440 There's 13 brave Americans and countless others lost their lives.

00:03:47.160 And it was 100 percent avoidable.

00:03:49.680 You know, you've got these snipers, this Marine sniper who—and he was blown to hell.

00:03:54.360 He'd had multiple surgeries since then and all that.

00:03:57.220 But it was just—I just can't believe it.

00:04:01.780 And 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.

00:04:11.860 And so that's what we get.

00:04:13.880 And we've moved on to another bright, shiny object.

00:04:16.100 And those families are left to mourn the loss of their loved ones.

00:04:19.740 I mean, the wives, the father—I mean, you know, the kids of these brave service members.

00:04:25.960 You know, it's just totally unnecessary.

00:04:29.300 And it just makes me very frustrated about what we allowed to run our country for so long.

00:04:37.280 Yeah.

00:04:37.440 I mean, well, you saw—I mean, really what defines that era was just this general culture of incompetency.

00:04:43.760 I mean, above all else, it was just incompetency.

00:04:46.360 I 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.

00:04:54.200 I mean, what is their feeling?

00:04:55.140 It has to be a lot of anger, I would imagine.

00:04:56.700 Yeah, a lot of frustration.

00:04:59.120 And what the heck did we go over there for if we were just going to cut and run?

00:05:02.220 We didn't put anybody in charge that could have run the thing.

00:05:06.440 And we just—you know, I don't know.

00:05:09.140 It goes back to our original mission of I think we need to look in the future at what we are.

00:05:14.860 Are we going to be an occupying force?

00:05:18.040 And if not, we ought not be involved in any of these wars because that's all it ends up being.

00:05:22.780 And let's just be honest, brother.

00:05:24.800 These wars are about oil.

00:05:26.580 They're about oil.

00:05:27.560 If you dig down deep enough, it's always oil.

00:05:30.080 It's energy.

00:05:31.580 And, you know, Trump's a threat to the status quo.

00:05:34.960 He's we're going to get it all in this country.

00:05:36.520 They can eat their sand and their dad going, well, over there.

00:05:39.420 We're not going to fool with it.

00:05:41.820 And, you know, they just think they're super intelligent.

00:05:46.000 The Bible talks about professing yourself to be wise. 1.00

00:05:49.460 You became a fool. 1.00

00:05:50.660 And I think we're very foolish across this great globe. 1.00

00:05:54.160 It just shows us we need to start managing our own business. 0.55

00:05:57.940 I'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.

00:06:10.380 Absolutely.

00:06:10.780 I 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.

00:06:19.800 The problem was withdrawing from a position of weakness rather than a position of strength.

00:06:24.040 We basically gave our cards to them and then withdrew.

00:06:27.060 And then you get that result.

00:06:28.420 And then, I mean, obviously, you saw the cascading effects across the globe where a lot of conflicts kicked back off.

00:06:34.300 And I think the general feeling was, well, the Biden admins, A, incompetent and B, asleep at the wheel.

00:06:41.080 And so it kind of just gave them impunity to operate.

00:06:44.280 I mean, what difference have you seen in how the world is behaving, broadly speaking, under Biden versus Trump?

00:06:50.360 Well, one other thing I want to reiterate, we just armed our enemies with billions of dollars and assets we left on the ground there. 0.99

00:06:58.420 But, 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.

00:07:08.260 He'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. 0.84

00:07:25.300 He had this ugly big old ring on his finger and there's pictures of him with that ring, you know.

00:07:30.080 And so they could identify him through that.

00:07:32.980 And Trump did it like you're supposed to do.

00:07:35.020 He didn't take him out in a crowded airport.

00:07:36.880 He didn't he didn't risk the lives of innocent civilians.

00:07:41.800 They got him out on some isolated road somewhere.

00:07:44.540 And I suspect one of our operatives put a laser pointer on his vehicle and then a missile came in, probably launched stateside even possibly.

00:07:54.640 And it took that dirt bag out.

00:07:57.280 And and that's he didn't ask Pelosi's permission.

00:08:00.520 He didn't ask the United Nations.

00:08:02.140 I remember they all pitched a fit back then.

00:08:04.140 I was in the first administration.

00:08:05.540 They had this big hearing.

00:08:06.680 Why aren't we consulted?

00:08:08.120 You know, I'll tell you why you weren't consulted. 1.00

00:08:10.260 Because your dumb ass, big ass mouth would have ran to the media and exposed it. 1.00

00:08:16.140 And we wouldn't have gotten that dirt bag. 1.00

00:08:18.220 That's why you weren't told.

00:08:19.860 And it just it just drives me crazy that that, you know, we we what goes on in this world.

00:08:26.380 But yeah, it's Trump.

00:08:28.540 It's it's it's 100 percent.

00:08:29.780 Donald J. Trump is in the White House.

00:08:31.420 Look, I don't want him teaching my my daughter's dadgum Sunday school class at the Baptist church.

00:08:36.980 But I sure as heck love him at Pennsylvania Avenue, brother, because America is we're feared once again.

00:08:43.560 Our enemies are our enemies fear us and our friends love us.

00:08:47.180 And that's the way it should be.

00:08:48.740 And and there's very little in between.

00:08:51.240 And you're seeing that all over the world.

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00:09:56.820 And Trump gets it.

00:09:58.020 We're going to have a little bit of pain with these tariffs.

00:10:00.100 Sure.

00:10:00.380 And it's going to cost some people some money.

00:10:04.020 But overall, I think we're going to regain our spot because Trump also realizes that Congress is gutless.

00:10:11.900 We're not going to do anything.

00:10:12.940 And he has to do it through executive orders.

00:10:15.660 Then hopefully we backfill it by passing laws to make it permanent.

00:10:20.980 We get the guts to do that.

00:10:22.380 But it remains to be seen if we're going to do that.

00:10:25.660 Absolutely.

00:10:26.280 Well, 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.

00:10:34.380 I mean, it's such a radical thought.

00:10:36.220 But, I mean, you see just all these – it's just the little stuff too.

00:10:39.580 It's all just slowly moving in the direction of reprioritizing the American people versus what we saw with Biden.

00:10:45.400 Even 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.

00:10:53.080 And it's not even – because we're not apologizing.

00:10:54.840 It's just like apologizing for who we are.

00:10:57.020 And it's just embarrassing.

00:10:58.080 So, I mean, I imagine you've probably seen this same theme from the Trump admin.

00:11:02.340 Absolutely.

00:11:04.660 Absolutely.

00:11:05.360 They're not apologizing for anything, and they shouldn't.

00:11:08.120 We're putting America back where it should be.

00:11:09.960 America first.

00:11:10.900 And these – oh, that's so arrogant saying America first. 0.91

00:11:13.740 Well, dadgummit, we're Americans. 0.92

00:11:15.660 Why not?

00:11:16.340 Why are we not protecting our border?

00:11:18.160 Why are we not going to get our energy here?

00:11:19.840 Why are we not looking out for our economic well-being?

00:11:22.120 And, 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? 0.98

00:11:34.400 You know, our state – our state department should get back in the business of promoting two things, capitalism and democracy.

00:11:43.120 And 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.

00:11:52.300 And frankly, as a conservative, what we've done, we've turned over our colleges and our universities to the radical left.

00:11:58.280 There's no question.

00:11:59.180 Public universities, you know, it's – I don't want to say it's a lost cause, but we've let them become so infiltrated.

00:12:05.980 Any 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.

00:12:16.460 That was their individual viewpoint.

00:12:19.020 You know, it's sort of like when I was NPR.

00:12:22.640 You remember NPR's deal where they – you know, we cut their funding?

00:12:26.200 Let me tell you how some of that went down.

00:12:29.460 Marjorie Taylor Greene put me on that doge committee, and she and I talk pretty regular.

00:12:33.880 I was pulling – my daughter's dually, I was pulling into our farm, and I heard on the radio – I had it on NPR, I'm not sure.

00:12:42.060 Sometimes I just – I think I do opposition research, and I was listening to it.

00:12:47.260 Intel.

00:12:48.140 Yeah, or somebody was pointing a gun to my head.

00:12:50.060 I'm not sure which.

00:12:51.140 But anyway, so I'm watching NPR – or listening to NPR, excuse me.

00:12:56.120 And I'll never forget this.

00:12:57.200 They said – they asked one of the hosts, what is your definition of propaganda?

00:13:00.420 And they said, Lee Greene Wood singing God Bless the USA.

00:13:06.120 I nearly ran through the fence.

00:13:07.800 I was like, what in the world?

00:13:09.440 I thought, is it – am I – somebody setting me up?

00:13:11.700 Is this a joke?

00:13:12.480 Right.

00:13:12.720 And I remember I called Marjorie right then.

00:13:15.180 I said, Marjorie.

00:13:16.540 And she said, you're way ahead of me.

00:13:19.000 We're going to have a hearing.

00:13:20.380 I'm all over.

00:13:21.220 I'm on this like a cheap suit.

00:13:22.800 Yeah.

00:13:22.980 You know, we're going to hit this thing in a couple of weeks, and we did.

00:13:26.120 And, man, Marjorie, she let us unleash, and we did.

00:13:29.640 And I asked that very question, you know, and I talked about how they – the ugly things the head lady said about President Trump.

00:13:36.080 And she had no – she had no answer to that.

00:13:39.100 She – you know, they kept saying, well, these are employees.

00:13:41.400 And that's what these colleges and universities say.

00:13:43.400 But they keep hiring these people, brother.

00:13:45.060 And it's the indoctrination that you see. 1.00

00:13:48.620 You know, I don't want to know your stupid pronoun. 1.00

00:13:50.660 I'm tired of that stuff. 1.00

00:13:52.000 Teach kids how to read, write, do arithmetic to get jobs and quit turning them into little socialist monsters that hate everything about this country.

00:14:00.380 So –

00:14:00.780 Yeah.

00:14:01.220 Sorry I went to preach, and I've had two cups of coffee today, so I'm a little wired.

00:14:04.840 Hey, that's what it's all about.

00:14:06.400 No, we love it.

00:14:07.020 But, 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.

00:14:20.040 And now there's obviously a large cohort within Congress that is in agreement with the MAGA agenda.

00:14:25.460 I mean, what's it like dealing with these cats on a day-to-day basis?

00:14:28.760 Well, a lot of them are voting with their portfolios.

00:14:31.340 Let's just be honest.

00:14:32.220 That's why, you know, they pitch a fit when we talk about blocking stock trades of individual – yeah, here's what happened.

00:14:39.820 When Biden gave Ukraine our missile defense system, which I didn't vote for.

00:14:46.520 I 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.

00:14:57.860 It was a multi-multi-billion-dollar contract, no-bid contract.

00:15:03.820 And guess who owns stock in that?

00:15:05.480 Members of the committee that had governing jurisdiction of that.

00:15:09.080 Both parties, brother.

00:15:10.540 I mean, you know, listen, we're not voting for what's right.

00:15:14.340 We're voting for our portfolios.

00:15:15.920 And I guarantee you, most members of Congress, some of them couldn't even find Ukraine on a dadgum map.

00:15:23.280 And you know what?

00:15:24.060 I got an 18-year-old daughter.

00:15:25.940 And I'm thinking, am I going to send her off to some war that most of these jugheads couldn't find on a map? 1.00

00:15:31.620 You know, they're all puffed up. 0.86

00:15:33.200 Oh, we're going to go over there and stomp them. 1.00

00:15:35.240 You know what?

00:15:36.320 It ain't our business to be stomping anybody.

00:15:38.620 We need to be protecting right here in America.

00:15:41.160 And, I mean, isn't just some toothless redneck talking to you about this? 1.00

00:15:44.200 This is the reality of what we're doing in Congress and the crooked nature of both parties.

00:15:49.820 And please quit calling Washington, D.C. a swamp.

00:15:53.360 You know, a swamp is something pretty cool God created.

00:15:56.460 It's a, you know, it filters water.

00:15:58.500 The cattails take out the heavy metals and frogs.

00:16:01.180 And it's an ecosystem.

00:16:03.060 Washington, D.C. is created by man.

00:16:05.400 It is a sewer.

00:16:06.900 And it is wide open.

00:16:09.300 So, yeah, we got some real problems.

00:16:12.200 And the problems, a lot of it has to do with greed.

00:16:14.740 But a lot of it's public record.

00:16:16.120 And I hope America pays attention to what's going on with it.

00:16:18.840 Absolutely.

00:16:19.400 I mean, you hit on it there as the stock trading thing blows my mind.

00:16:22.600 But this is not, like, this is still an issue.

00:16:25.320 I mean, it seems like a no-brainer to me.

00:16:27.440 Yeah, you'd think that.

00:16:28.940 But here's what happens.

00:16:30.240 We'll pass a tough bill in the House.

00:16:32.120 And we'll say, yeah, yeah, look what we did.

00:16:34.340 And the Senate will pass a tough bill.

00:16:36.260 And they won't quite align.

00:16:38.120 And then, let me see if I can get that right.

00:16:39.540 Yeah, they won't quite align.

00:16:41.880 And so, and everybody will go.

00:16:44.140 And the Senate will say, oh, the House, they're, you know, they're not tough enough.

00:16:48.900 And the House will say, those old people over in the Senate. 1.00

00:16:51.680 And then next, you know, we'll find another bright, shiny object somewhere.

00:16:55.280 And we'll chase it.

00:16:56.500 And America loses its interest.

00:16:58.120 And that's what happens.

00:16:59.240 And it's unfortunate.

00:17:00.160 But we got to hold their feet to the fire.

00:17:02.660 I'd hope in the future we would pay attention.

00:17:05.060 I have a bill to do just that.

00:17:06.460 And I hope it, I hope in the next few weeks we see some movement on that.

00:17:10.980 We need, you know, these post offices, as I like to say, they're not going to name themselves.

00:17:15.240 That's what we do a lot of.

00:17:17.520 And we spend in our two-hour work days.

00:17:19.640 And they throw their Brooks Brothers jacket over their shoulder.

00:17:23.380 And they're walking around.

00:17:24.520 Look how hard we're working for the working people. 0.99

00:17:26.860 America's not buying that crap anymore. 1.00

00:17:28.880 We're not working. 0.99

00:17:30.420 Either party.

00:17:31.640 Let's just get out there and do something for the public.

00:17:34.480 And let's do what's right occasionally.

00:17:36.320 Yeah, absolutely.

00:17:37.360 Or at the very least, give us some stock tips, you know.

00:17:39.880 I mean, they're crushing.

00:17:40.940 You know what?

00:17:41.580 Somebody, I tweeted about one the other day.

00:17:44.420 One of our members, I think, got three or four, maybe 600% return on their investment.

00:17:50.340 And I said, you know, they're just rubbing it in your face.

00:17:52.560 And somebody said, they need to be arrested.

00:17:55.620 I said, for what?

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00:18:58.400 That's the thing.

00:18:59.400 That's what we got to change.

00:19:00.620 You shouldn't be doing individual stock trades.

00:19:02.880 It is an honor to be in the United States Congress.

00:19:05.480 More people have been, have played professional baseball, brother, than have ever, than have ever worn that little congressional pin they give us.

00:19:13.920 So, yeah, I'm ticked off about it.

00:19:16.180 It'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.

00:19:24.500 Absolutely.

00:19:25.880 I mean, there's so many, there's so many issues that Congress seems to just be comfortable stiff arming.

00:19:32.120 I 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.

00:19:41.560 I 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.

00:19:55.160 Yeah.

00:19:55.460 Can I, can I share with you one example of that real quick?

00:19:58.900 I have a bill, you know, these ancestry.coms or whatever you send a swab in and, you know, you're related to the King of England.

00:20:07.160 Nobody's ever related to a horse thief or anything.

00:20:11.160 It's always something glamorous.

00:20:12.340 But anyway, so, so what happens with all that data?

00:20:16.540 It goes, they end up selling it to China and I have a bill to make that illegal and I can't get any traction whatsoever.

00:20:23.960 And here's what the Chinese are doing. 0.96

00:20:25.280 This is released.

00:20:26.100 This was classified a while back, but apparently it's been released.

00:20:29.940 I didn't go to the classified briefings on it because that's, that's a trap too.

00:20:33.620 You 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.

00:20:40.020 So I just don't go to them anymore because that's primarily what they do.

00:20:43.200 They 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.

00:20:49.740 So 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.

00:21:01.140 So they're trying to isolate American women of childbearing ages to, to give them a virus. 1.00

00:21:08.540 Now, if they can stop population growth in this country completely, you talk about a chilling effect.

00:21:14.840 Yeah.

00:21:15.200 Um, that would be an incredible, uh, bit of engineering right there, maybe against pit one group against the other.

00:21:22.560 And, um, I could, you could see how quick that could deteriorate and we know that.

00:21:27.460 And 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. 0.93

00:21:39.140 That's attached to the Chinese communist party.

00:21:42.120 That's the problem.

00:21:43.620 And we don't have the chairman with the guts.

00:21:45.420 They'll say, Oh, I can't pass that because my staff's against it. 0.58

00:21:49.160 Well, who the hell elected their dadgum staff?

00:21:51.720 You know, it's beyond belief. 0.52

00:21:53.700 I mean, we have committees, literally Republican, limited growth, limited government with 50 staff members.

00:22:00.140 And then the Democrats have 50 staff members.

00:22:02.640 There is no way on God's green earth you can control all that.

00:22:06.620 So what you do is you're coming there, you're bright eyed, you're, you're idealistic, you know, Oh, I've got this great bill to do this.

00:22:14.400 And then the staffer says, Oh, I don't know.

00:22:18.180 I'm not sure if we can do this or not.

00:22:19.580 No, really?

00:22:20.020 Why not?

00:22:20.360 And I said, well, you know, we need to get the data on this thing.

00:22:23.640 And so you get the data.

00:22:24.840 Oh, okay.

00:22:25.540 Well, what do we do?

00:22:26.440 Well, we keep your name or your bill, but we're going to make it a reporting bill.

00:22:30.600 We're going to do the report.

00:22:31.660 We're going to do the research.

00:22:33.220 And then next year, we'll come back with your bill with all these facts.

00:22:37.700 And 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.

00:22:48.940 And then, you know, nothing happens.

00:22:51.340 And these reporting bills, brother, did you ever see that last scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where they're in that warehouse?

00:22:57.220 You know, that is where the reporting bills go.

00:23:00.580 I've been in Congress, and I've never seen a reporting bill reported back to me.

00:23:05.280 And I quit voting for those things because they spend $2 or $3 million, which is nothing in Washington terms.

00:23:12.120 And it pays for some group to do some study or whatever.

00:23:17.280 And then the money just goes down some black hole.

00:23:19.940 And there you have it.

00:23:21.100 And then you get to go home and say, I passed my bill.

00:23:24.000 And then, you know, your local newspaper, Tim Burchett passed, you know, the whatever anti-communist bill of the decade.

00:23:33.420 You know, and that's the title of the bill or whatever.

00:23:35.320 And they give it all these crazy names.

00:23:36.800 And it's very frustrating.

00:23:39.600 But it's very, I'm going to write it.

00:23:40.680 When 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.

00:23:48.720 And it's sickening.

00:23:50.720 It's sickening, but nobody's got the guts to do anything.

00:23:52.820 And he's chairman.

00:23:53.360 I call him out in our conference meetings.

00:23:55.340 And, you know, I'll have staffers come up to me and say, you're exactly right.

00:23:58.900 But then here's the kicker.

00:24:01.800 I'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.

00:24:12.200 Yeah.

00:24:12.640 He said, I've been sent over here to talk to you, man.

00:24:14.380 There's some people unhappy.

00:24:15.400 I said, really, about what?

00:24:16.420 Well, about what you just said on the Timcast or whatever.

00:24:21.180 And I'll say, oh, really?

00:24:22.900 And he said, what about it don't they like?

00:24:24.820 And then they'll tell you.

00:24:26.360 And I say, and then I said, last time I said, but it's the truth, right?

00:24:30.300 And he said, oh, yeah, it's the truth.

00:24:32.280 We just don't want you saying it anymore.

00:24:34.300 Right.

00:24:34.700 You know, and so that's what we're up against, brother.

00:24:37.360 We have got to start calling this stuff out.

00:24:39.800 And 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.

00:24:50.120 Absolutely.

00:24:50.740 Well, 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.

00:24:57.740 I 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.

00:25:06.180 But the press, it's like they just almost refuse to report on these sorts of things.

00:25:11.880 Absolutely.

00:25:12.660 They do.

00:25:13.300 And it's because they're in bed, too.

00:25:15.380 I mean, let's just get it.

00:25:16.340 Let's get to be honest.

00:25:17.160 They're advertisers and things.

00:25:18.880 We need to learn a lesson from the civil rights movement where they use the economic power and casting the dollar vote. 0.81

00:25:27.060 We 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.

00:25:35.100 You 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.

00:25:39.280 I mean, that's what you've got to literally do.

00:25:41.080 But we don't have the guts.

00:25:42.080 We don't have the organization.

00:25:43.240 We don't have the follow through because it's not sexy.

00:25:46.080 It's not making anybody a big bunch of money.

00:25:48.660 And, and, and frankly, we, and I've always said this and I'm guilty of this too.

00:25:53.840 America wants their pizzas in 30 minutes or less. 0.88

00:25:56.420 And that's about our dadgum attention span.

00:25:59.960 Yeah, that's absolutely true.

00:26:01.900 Well, 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.

00:26:12.920 You 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.

00:26:22.960 Why is there such a disconnect between the admin and the congressional GOP when it comes to, I mean, making moves?

00:26:31.840 I 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.

00:26:38.360 I think everybody, when they get to Congress, they're looking at a path, a circuitous route to get to be the speaker.

00:26:45.320 And that's what, and everybody's figuring that out.

00:26:47.920 And everybody in leadership realizes their one or two heartbeats of, well, if this goes down and then I get this.

00:26:52.760 And we get this, you know, I could be speaker.

00:26:55.040 I must be the only guy in Washington who doesn't want to be speaker.

00:26:58.480 I love my wife and daughter too much.

00:27:00.080 I don't want to be on the road out begging people for money.

00:27:03.340 And, you know, and that's what these once, I think, once valued jobs have devolved into and you're stuck that way.

00:27:13.300 I mean, Mike Johnson has to raise the money and he has to get out on the road every single day away from his family.

00:27:19.580 We'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.

00:27:27.800 And 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.

00:27:39.480 And, 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.

00:27:54.080 And they said, well, I don't set the agenda.

00:27:56.000 I don't set the bills.

00:27:57.020 I don't do this.

00:27:57.640 I don't do that.

00:27:58.340 I don't set the calendar.

00:27:59.460 I remember it was the word they used.

00:28:01.020 And 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.

00:28:10.940 Because Pelosi sure as heck did.

00:28:12.640 She ran the table every day.

00:28:15.000 And, but, you know, I, it's just so big and it's, and it's so compartmentalized right now.

00:28:21.820 It's just very difficult.

00:28:22.760 We need a total reorganization of the way we do things.

00:28:27.020 And I, and without the money though, you can't stay in power.

00:28:30.100 And that's part of the problem.

00:28:31.200 You got to go out and raise the dadgum money.

00:28:33.060 Yeah.

00:28:33.520 And 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.

00:28:40.940 Republicans, conservative Republican, good Republicans, God fearing people running dirtbags against them using dark money to attack good people.

00:28:50.420 Yeah.

00:28:50.880 I mean, yeah, that, you summed it up, the dark money.

00:28:53.400 I mean, and we're all seeing it.

00:28:54.980 I mean, I think us as the base, we see it.

00:28:57.720 Oh, yeah.

00:28:58.060 Yeah.

00:28:58.400 Yeah.

00:28:58.620 That's why you're such a threat, dude. 0.98

00:29:00.500 You're such a threat. 0.96

00:29:01.620 Yeah.

00:29:01.820 Because people like, I can't tell you any people are coming to me and said they heard something on your podcast or something.

00:29:07.920 Hey, did you see this?

00:29:08.720 And I, honestly, I, I hate to tell you this.

00:29:10.780 I just don't have time to watch everybody's dadgum podcast, right?

00:29:14.040 You know, like millions now.

00:29:15.260 Yeah.

00:29:15.840 Yeah.

00:29:16.200 I'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.

00:29:22.360 This is pretty funny.

00:29:23.400 And yeah, you can do insider stock trading in Congress, but here I am trying to sell some stock.

00:29:29.520 I make skateboards.

00:29:31.120 It's cheaper than a psychiatrist.

00:29:32.480 And 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.

00:29:41.080 I've got to get an attorney, you know, to sell skateboards.

00:29:44.240 And I made, and I just give them away.

00:29:46.720 I gave, I'm giving one to Tulsi Gabbard for her birthday, which was a few months ago.

00:29:51.060 She outed me at the state of the union address.

00:29:52.900 She said, Bertie, she said, my birthday's coming up.

00:29:55.020 Where's my dadgum skateboard?

00:29:56.320 So I had to make her one.

00:29:57.540 So there's a video of me riding a skateboard on the Capitol grounds and that's her skateboard.

00:30:01.220 But, but anyway, you know, I mean, that just tells you the frustration and just the, this is a completely crooked nature of Congress.

00:30:08.500 It'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.

00:30:17.760 It'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.

00:30:23.220 But anyway, I love that.

00:30:25.620 I love that.

00:30:26.140 No.

00:30:26.360 Yeah.

00:30:26.520 We, I mean, we have our skateboard brand here at the boonies.

00:30:29.580 So I know.

00:30:30.440 We know all about the skateboard salesman business, but, uh, well, I appreciate you coming on the chat.

00:30:36.360 We are, you know, we're running kind of to the end of our time here.

00:30:38.480 Where can, uh, where can people find more of you?

00:30:40.940 Oh, at Tim Burchard or Burchard for Congress.

00:30:43.600 I've got all kinds of cool swag.

00:30:45.220 I say dadgummit a lot cause it's cheaper.

00:30:47.220 It's cheaper for me than a cuss word.

00:30:49.020 I've got a, an, uh, an IOU jar, a cuss word IOU jar.

00:30:53.300 I mean, I got a cuss word jar full of IOUs and I sell my, my caps on there and stuff for, for the campaign.

00:31:00.200 But nothing personal, but yeah, you can get me on X at Tim Burchard.

00:31:03.860 That's the cool one where I do all the fun stuff, but yeah.

00:31:07.020 And I'm in all the social media.

00:31:08.460 I've got Instagram.

00:31:10.120 Um, I don't have a, what's the one that we banned?

00:31:13.480 Then we brought it back.

00:31:14.580 TikTok.

00:31:15.560 Yeah.

00:31:15.920 I don't have a TikTok.

00:31:17.380 There's one on there.

00:31:18.360 Somebody was me and I was like, Hey, I saw you on TikTok.

00:31:20.620 I go, really?

00:31:21.320 And I guess I don't have a TikTok.

00:31:22.920 And I said, yeah, but I said, yeah, boss, it's a bootleg when somebody's right or something.

00:31:27.860 Anyway, you can find me on Facebook and everything, but Hey, look, y'all, we pray for your country and please get involved.

00:31:34.060 Don't, don't let the other side shout you down.

00:31:36.160 It's a great country.

00:31:37.280 We just got to take it back.

00:31:38.720 Yes, sir.

00:31:39.420 Absolutely.

00:31:39.840 Well, I love it.

00:31:40.660 Thank you, sir.

00:31:41.140 You make me proud to be a Tennessean.

00:31:42.880 It's great.

00:31:43.440 It's great stuff.

00:31:44.720 Thanks brother.

00:31:45.440 Appreciate you.

00:31:45.900 Hey, what, what part of Tennessee are you from?

00:31:47.520 I'm from Memphis, suburbs of Memphis.

00:31:49.640 Yeah.

00:31:50.040 So West Tennessee, I'm East Tennessee.

00:31:51.900 We're on the other end.

00:31:52.880 Y'all make good barbecue over there.

00:31:54.160 It's true.

00:31:54.280 We got the barbecue.

00:31:55.000 You guys got the views.

00:31:56.020 So you got the pretty side over there.

00:31:57.440 Yeah, we do.

00:31:58.680 Mountains.

00:31:59.200 It's awesome.

00:31:59.800 Thanks brother.

00:32:00.560 Thank you, Congressman.

00:32:01.340 Until next time.

00:32:02.540 It's Tim.

00:32:03.300 See you brother.

00:32:04.000 Bye.

00:32:04.420 Bye.

00:32:06.120 All righty.

00:32:08.120 Well, that was Congressman Burchett.

00:32:10.780 He said to call him Tim.

00:32:13.100 All righty.

00:32:13.900 Might have to do that.

00:32:14.720 Well, that was fantastic.

00:32:16.580 The, uh, the CCP DNA stuff's crazy.

00:32:19.540 I mean, the fact that the press isn't all over that is pretty mind blowing to me because

00:32:22.860 that's a very disturbing.

00:32:24.420 Um, I think I did ancestry dance.

00:32:26.000 They probably have my DNA.

00:32:27.460 There's probably a clone of me in China right now.

00:32:29.980 Um, probably there's probably a take cast over there and it's all in Mandarin.

00:32:34.020 Who knows?

00:32:34.920 But, uh, anyway, that was fantastic.

00:32:37.520 Uh, that was a great interview.

00:32:38.840 I'm really happy with that.

00:32:39.740 That was a lot of fun.

00:32:40.960 Um, we're going to close out here.

00:32:42.660 We're running, running down the clock here.

00:32:44.080 Uh, so we'll take the knee here.

00:32:46.700 You can find me on X and Instagram at real tape Brown.

00:32:50.760 Uh, we will be back tonight for Tim cast IRL at 8 PM.

00:32:54.580 I also put a few segments up today on Tim cast news just to give you guys something.

00:32:58.620 I mean, it's not, I know I'm no Tim, you know, Tim is the master with that kind of stuff,

00:33:03.120 but you know, figure we can get something up for you while he's still recovering, but

00:33:06.720 hopefully we'll have him back soon.

00:33:07.920 And, uh, tonight's Tim cast IRL will be another post so cast.

00:33:11.960 So be there for that.

00:33:13.300 That's going to be a lot of fun.

00:33:14.900 Um, we still got to work out the rest of the panel.

00:33:16.260 I may be on the panel.

00:33:17.040 I'm not sure yet, but a post so cast be there.

00:33:19.460 It's going to be fantastic.

00:33:21.220 Um, follow me on X on Instagram, subscribe, like rumble.

00:33:25.360 We love it.

00:33:26.040 Um, until next time, we'll catch you later.

00:33:27.820 Bye-bye.

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The Culture War - Tim Pool - August 26, 2025

Congressman SLAMS Forever Wars, Says It's ALL ABOUT OIL ft. Rep Tim Burchett

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