The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Bill O’Reilly & Rep. Madison Cawthorn ｜ 1⧸29⧸21

00:00:00.000 Welcome to the podcast. It's a great show today. You don't want to miss it.

00:00:03.200 We have the one, the only Bill O'Reilly, who joins us for an hour today to go through what has gone on in the last week.

00:00:09.540 There's always a lot, and Bill always has a great perspective on it.

00:00:13.600 We then also talked to Madison Cawthorn. He's the youngest member of Congress, Republican.

00:00:19.520 He has been, of course, targeted that he's very much a threat to the left, and they have been coming after him.

00:00:25.040 We go through that, and we talk to small business owners from around the country that you have come together as an audience

00:00:32.100 to be able to help through the COVID craziness, people whose businesses were really on the verge of collapse.

00:00:41.840 You guys have stepped up and have helped them in dramatic ways.

00:00:46.360 We go through that with the people you've helped on today's program as well.

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00:01:29.020 Ladies and gentlemen, from his tour recently at Carnegie Hall,

00:01:36.260 Mr. Bill O'Reilly, the author of Killing Crazy Horse and Killing the Mob,

00:01:43.440 which I actually received this week, Bill.

00:01:46.820 I have it. Have the copy.

00:01:50.220 Yeah, I'm not going to get into it, but how difficult...

00:01:52.640 Thank God.

00:01:52.940 ...to get anything to you.

00:01:54.240 But first, I want to say that I'm going to offer up Mass on Sunday for your daughter.

00:02:00.880 No, thank you.

00:02:01.840 And then privately, of course, if there's anything I can do to help you.

00:02:05.840 Oh, no, no. There's not. I appreciate it.

00:02:07.660 You know, you never know. We have a lot of clout, but whatever you need.

00:02:13.140 No, she's in an amazing hospital, and it's just...

00:02:16.240 It's really odd with COVID that, you know, people aren't allowed to be with their loved one.

00:02:23.000 One person is allowed in, and so she selected her sister to be with her the whole time.

00:02:28.880 And we just have to wait, and...

00:02:31.940 I mean, we can't be at the hospital, can't be with her when she comes out.

00:02:34.560 It's just... It's a weird time.

00:02:36.880 Anyway, Bill, where do we even begin with this week's news?

00:02:40.720 All right, so I was surprised that Biden outed himself as this very enthusiastic progressive this week.

00:02:50.720 I thought he would ease into that.

00:02:52.960 My analysis on BillOReilly.com was that he really doesn't have any core values, Joe Biden.

00:03:00.740 And I'm not saying that with any malice, but if you look at his career, he's changed on every issue,

00:03:07.580 including abortion, which is really hard to change on that, unless you have an epiphany.

00:03:12.700 He had an epiphany the other way.

00:03:16.280 So, you know, my assessment of Biden was, and I said this throughout the campaign and after,

00:03:23.260 if you elect him president, you're getting a malleable guy.

00:03:27.940 You're getting a guy who's basically going to court favor with his party and the press.

00:03:34.920 And the two press that he is most enamored with are the New York Times and Washington Post.

00:03:42.240 What people don't understand is that Joe Biden wants the approval of these newspapers

00:03:48.340 and that they are guiding him, more so than Schumer or Pelosi or any of the others, the Obamas,

00:03:57.420 that he wants to see those papers praise him on a daily basis.

00:04:02.600 That is what he lives for.

00:04:05.660 So when you're going to take that turf, these are far left newspapers.

00:04:10.700 They're not moderate left.

00:04:13.580 They're far left.

00:04:15.440 The USA is a bad country.

00:04:17.500 It always has been from George Washington onward.

00:04:21.420 And we got to wreck it and build a new country.

00:04:24.640 So essentially what it explained to me, then, if he wants the approval,

00:04:30.640 he is now up to 40 executive orders.

00:04:34.000 The fascist dictator that didn't leave office, Donald Trump, did six, six in his first week.

00:04:43.360 Joe Biden has done 40, a world record for presidents of the United States.

00:04:51.940 And the New York Times came out their editorial board and said, stop, stop with the executive orders.

00:05:01.340 Yeah, but you didn't read the full thing.

00:05:04.140 I did.

00:05:04.620 I did.

00:05:05.060 It said stop because you're making it harder for us to get our progressive agenda passed in Congress forever.

00:05:13.780 Correct.

00:05:14.520 Because Americans are getting nervous. 0.57

00:05:16.420 It wasn't scolding Biden for being a progressive loon.

00:05:22.500 That's not what it was.

00:05:24.320 It was hold it.

00:05:25.980 Your strategy is not good.

00:05:29.160 Hold back a little.

00:05:30.860 So I little subterfuge in there. 0.57

00:05:34.000 Word of the day.

00:05:34.640 Well, it was it was more than that.

00:05:36.320 It was like, look, you're just undoing Donald Trump stuff.

00:05:38.820 The first few were just undoing Donald Trump stuff.

00:05:41.080 And if you want lasting change, you have to go through Congress.

00:05:43.660 But here's the here's the interesting point on this.

00:05:48.400 I don't think that anyone truly understands Joe Biden's real agenda or the or the the magnitude of force behind him.

00:06:01.280 They learned from Barack Obama, you have two years and you really have the first hundred days where everyone will give you a pass.

00:06:10.580 So you got to jam it in right now before something happens and there's a tea party organized or or anybody knows what to do.

00:06:20.700 Everyone's still talking about the last president.

00:06:23.540 Just do all of it right now.

00:06:26.420 I think that's what's really happening.

00:06:27.820 I don't disagree because they're very nervous, the progressives, that they'll lose Congress in two years.

00:06:36.560 So they want to jam everything up now, get it in stone if possible and drive the United States into a socialist state.

00:06:46.640 That's the goal.

00:06:48.760 I mean, they want the government to run the economy and dole out to the favored groups.

00:06:55.100 That's what the equity thing is.

00:06:57.060 Yep.

00:06:57.720 All the large yes that comes from Washington.

00:07:00.460 So I will tell you, Bill, I've had I've kind of have a different view on exactly what you just said.

00:07:06.680 And I've been saying the same thing.

00:07:08.000 We're headed towards a socialist state.

00:07:09.620 We're not.

00:07:10.640 We're actually becoming an oligarchy.

00:07:12.680 What what is happening right now is the the use of these divisions, the use of these favored status is very convenient right now.

00:07:25.800 But the money, the real money is not going to be going to those groups.

00:07:30.460 The real money is going to these oligarchs, these giant companies and CEOs and those with connections and those who will play ball with the new, you know,

00:07:41.260 great reset agenda of of climate change, union jobs, et cetera, et cetera.

00:07:48.580 I think that remains to be seen.

00:07:50.480 I think that these marginalized groups, as President Biden has described them, will receive a lot of favorability.

00:08:00.040 Yeah, I agree with that.

00:08:01.040 On the on the on the other side, I'm not convinced that there is a blueprint to enrich the social media titans by the federal government.

00:08:13.220 I think that they are they have an alliance, the left wing Democratic Party, certainly allies with Silicon Valley.

00:08:22.800 But you've got to remember that the the Amazons and the Facebooks and the Twitters, they develop something that people all over the world want.

00:08:35.140 And no one's going to divert that.

00:08:37.560 They've amassed trillions of dollars, an amazing amount of power because of what they developed in the capitalist marketplace.

00:08:46.120 They have anything to do with any politician.

00:08:49.680 Now, these people are incredibly powerful, as we saw with taking Donald Trump's megaphone away.

00:08:57.560 You can do that to the president.

00:08:59.620 You can do it to anybody.

00:09:01.340 So I've started a free speech movement, NACI, very, very early.

00:09:06.600 I'll tell you more about it next Friday.

00:09:09.800 It's gathering steam.

00:09:11.120 It's going to be like the Tea Party.

00:09:12.920 At least then Americans will know what's happening because Americans, you know, they're addicted to the phones and looking at the screen.

00:09:19.260 They don't really know what the big picture is.

00:09:21.420 But I'm not I'm not dialed in yet.

00:09:23.440 And you may be right, but I'm not there yet.

00:09:25.480 I have to see more facts that there is a collaboration between the federal government and Silicon Valley.

00:09:32.240 There is a sympathy and alliance, but I don't think it's an organized collaboration.

00:09:39.160 Well, I think let me give you this.

00:09:41.160 You know about the Made in America executive order that says the government agencies are going to have to work closer with U.S.

00:09:48.540 businesses rather than paying foreign businesses.

00:09:51.000 And it seems great on the surface.

00:09:53.180 However, the Made in America office, which the acronym actually is M-A-O, M-A-O, M-A-O, they are they say they are going to work.

00:10:09.020 Let me give you this.

00:10:10.320 Let me give you this exact quote.

00:10:12.040 This order is deeply intertwined with the president's commitment to invest in American manufacturing, including clean energy, critical supply chains, growing, good paying union jobs and advance racial equity.

00:10:26.880 So what they're what they're saying now is if you're not part of the clean energy, racial equality thing, if you don't have the right kind of people on your board, if you are not doing critical race theory, you're not going to get any federal money.

00:10:42.340 So they are.

00:10:43.520 Well, it's true.

00:10:44.540 I mean, look, changing businesses and bringing them into the fold.

00:10:49.380 But there are very few private businesses connected to the federal government.

00:10:53.980 It's not an overwhelming amount.

00:10:56.300 But if you want a federal contract, you're going to have to, you know, bring in a rainbow of people to sit there and say, yeah, yeah, we're having a great time working for Lenny.

00:11:07.040 So let's get the contract.

00:11:08.620 I mean, sure.

00:11:09.220 But I'm going to send you a rough I'm going to send you a rough copy on the same.

00:11:14.040 We're on the same path.

00:11:15.640 Yeah, but I'm not a conspiracy kind of guy, because I know how incompetent the federal government is and the state government, too.

00:11:23.720 Well, I mean, I just can't execute stuff like this.

00:11:26.620 I'm not a conspiracy guy either, except when there is a conspiracy.

00:11:30.460 It's not a theory.

00:11:32.520 It's a fact.

00:11:33.320 And I'm going to send you an early draft of the book on the Great Reset that I'm writing right now.

00:11:40.440 Bill, you have to see what they're doing in Davos this week.

00:11:43.860 It is that now they some of these people actually truly believe this is going to be great, but it's called stakeholder capitalism.

00:11:54.180 And it is I mean, they are saying this week capitalism is dead and it's going to be replaced with stakeholder capitalism.

00:12:03.120 And these are the titans of the world.

00:12:06.660 I mean, the build back better thing that's happening all over the world.

00:12:10.180 That is about stakeholder capitalism.

00:12:15.760 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:12:27.420 Let me go to Catherine Hill.

00:12:29.220 She is the owner of Miss Kitty's Lounge. 1.00

00:12:32.480 She was on with us about four weeks ago, I think.

00:12:36.520 She grew up an animal lover and an advocate and she rescues animals and she kept them or found them a new home.

00:12:45.900 She was doing this, you know, at the age of 13 and she's been doing it ever since.

00:12:52.300 Well, she opened up a neighborhood bar called Miss Kitty's Lounge in California named Miss Kitty because she saves cats. 0.99

00:13:02.620 The rent was always paid on time every month.

00:13:05.420 Everything was fine until the pandemic struck.

00:13:09.480 At the same time, she was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer.

00:13:14.480 She underwent six months of chemotherapy, 15 rounds of radiation and a radical mastectomy.

00:13:23.200 Cancer has been a tough journey.

00:13:25.680 She continues to fight and she kept her lounge going all the way through it. 1.00

00:13:31.200 She was managing all the way through.

00:13:33.200 When the pandemic struck, she was closed down by executive order.

00:13:37.840 She had no income.

00:13:39.180 She wasn't able to pay the rent.

00:13:41.300 And all of this started to really destroy her life.

00:13:46.360 Her efforts were destroyed.

00:13:49.480 And her her landlord was not exactly a friend of people who are struggling.

00:13:59.380 So she's on with us now.

00:14:01.040 Hi, Catherine.

00:14:01.540 How are you?

00:14:02.880 Hi, how are you doing?

00:14:04.320 Good.

00:14:04.620 The last time you were on, I think you were one of those that I had to cut short on your story.

00:14:10.160 And I love your story so much.

00:14:12.100 And I love the fact that when we told you that we wanted to raise some money, you were one of the businesses we selected.

00:14:19.800 You said, I don't want any of the money.

00:14:22.660 If you raise any money, give it to cancer.

00:14:27.380 So you selected a charity.

00:14:34.640 Can you tell me about the charity?

00:14:35.840 Well, it's all their profits go to research, cancer research for stage four, which I'm stage four now.

00:14:44.320 And so like very little cancer research money usually goes to stage four.

00:14:50.700 So Medivivor.

00:14:51.820 Why is that?

00:14:54.260 I don't know.

00:14:55.700 Okay.

00:14:56.840 And so.

00:14:58.060 So Medivivor, what do they do?

00:15:01.420 A hundred percent of the money goes to stage four cancer research.

00:15:09.340 And so that's, we're chasing the science right now.

00:15:11.860 I'm on a new drug.

00:15:13.400 We have a lot of hope for it.

00:15:15.180 The one I'm on now is, was just approved in April.

00:15:18.640 So we're just chasing the science.

00:15:21.140 So that's, you know, where it's at.

00:15:23.280 Well, I, um, I, I'm thrilled to say that this audience is just truly amazing.

00:15:31.340 They raised a total of $252,593.

00:15:36.580 Uh, we have four small business owners and something else I'm going to tell the audience about.

00:15:42.120 Um, but that means Medivivor, uh, is going to receive a check in your name for $50,000.

00:15:50.000 Wow.

00:15:50.840 So thank you for sharing.

00:15:53.180 How are you feeling?

00:15:54.900 I'm better like this.

00:15:56.100 The new treatment I'm on is, is, um, a lot easier than the last I was on.

00:16:00.880 So.

00:16:01.660 And what do the doctors say?

00:16:04.440 Um, we're just hope, you know, just we're, you grab onto whatever hope you can.

00:16:10.080 Yeah.

00:16:10.860 And live the best life now, you know, I'm with your family, hug them close.

00:16:16.740 Yeah.

00:16:16.980 So our, our, our, um, our thoughts and our prayers, and I know people ridicule that, but

00:16:23.080 I know this audience and they, uh, are praying for you and will pray for you and, and your

00:16:29.440 family.

00:16:29.980 God bless you.

00:16:31.520 Thank you.

00:16:32.540 Thank you.

00:16:34.440 Um, we, uh, have several people that we want to talk to quickly here.

00:16:41.700 Um, I don't know if you remember Joe Crowley.

00:16:45.720 He is, uh, uh, breakaway.

00:16:48.820 This is a, uh, he opened his first restaurant in 1993 and, uh, he bought this property just

00:16:57.360 20 minutes out of downtown Boston.

00:16:59.420 And it was a, I mean, it's a historic site.

00:17:03.320 It has, uh, uh, uh, uh, a great heritage and he really was working to bring it all back.

00:17:11.120 Well, then COVID, uh, happened.

00:17:14.920 Uh, they remain closed.

00:17:17.260 They are looking now at a March reopening.

00:17:19.720 Hopefully, uh, the founder and the owner of breakaway is Joe Crowley and he's with us 1.00

00:17:26.020 now.

00:17:26.320 Hi, Joe.

00:17:26.800 How are you?

00:17:29.420 Joe, are you there?

00:17:30.960 Yes, I am.

00:17:31.800 Hey, how are you?

00:17:33.220 I'm doing great.

00:17:34.240 Good to hear from you again.

00:17:35.400 Yeah.

00:17:35.720 So tell me what has happened since we last spoke.

00:17:39.320 You were in pretty dire straits the last time we spoke.

00:17:43.960 Yes.

00:17:44.460 Well, uh, Glenn, first and foremost, my health is getting better.

00:17:47.800 Uh, I know we spoke about, you know, I had a heart attack in the fall, uh, and, and

00:17:52.360 I'm getting stronger and better and, and my family supportive.

00:17:55.360 And, uh, we're very grateful, um, for that, uh, as, as an establishment, we're still closed.

00:18:01.940 Uh, we still have a full layoff of employees, uh, in, in the state, uh, we're, we're just

00:18:08.480 now looking to possibly, uh, have a March or an April opening, um, which we're not allowed

00:18:14.880 to have live entertainment in the building yet.

00:18:17.180 Uh, people really are not willing to commit to having functions and, and fundraisers and

00:18:22.920 gatherings.

00:18:23.380 So it's really a sit and wait.

00:18:25.880 The vaccine rollout in, in the state has been, um, very disorderly, very slow.

00:18:32.220 You're hearing stories about freezes being unplugged and thousands of vaccines, you know,

00:18:37.280 being thrown away.

00:18:38.440 Uh, the elderly and the school teachers are having trouble making appointments.

00:18:42.140 So we're waiting for food service to come up, uh, to protect our employees.

00:18:48.120 Um, and I think when they, when the vaccine roll rollout gets a little smoother, um, we

00:18:54.300 can start eyeing and reopening, uh, maybe having some outdoor concerts when the weather today's

00:18:59.960 90 degrees outside.

00:19:01.560 So, you know, we're not, we're not looking to get outside nine for so many reasons, Joe

00:19:08.900 come to Texas for so many reasons.

00:19:14.060 Um, my wife's a big fan.

00:19:15.640 She wants us to be down there.

00:19:16.880 Yeah, no, it's great.

00:19:18.100 Um, so Joe, I, I, I want you to know, uh, that we have, this audience has raised just a ton

00:19:26.780 of, uh, money and this doesn't make a dent in what you guys are facing.

00:19:32.840 Um, but, uh, we have divvied the money up and we have a check for you, uh, and breakaway

00:19:40.680 for $84,584 and 74 cents.

00:19:46.940 Oh, wow.

00:19:48.200 That's, that was completely unexpected.

00:19:50.920 Um, well, I, I, I have no words.

00:19:53.240 I, I, you know, I will let my crew know and my management know.

00:19:56.780 As soon as we come off the fire, no words, Glenn, um, you, you're, you're such an advocate

00:20:02.560 for small business and within the last year and, and your, your, your, your show and I'm

00:20:09.240 speechless and knowing everyone that knows me knows I'm never speechless.

00:20:13.040 Thank you.

00:20:13.940 You're, you're welcome.

00:20:15.280 It is the audience.

00:20:16.220 It's not me.

00:20:16.960 It's the audience.

00:20:17.840 We're all in this together.

00:20:19.980 Um, I, I mean, I, this audience is a small business audience and I grew up in the bakery

00:20:26.600 of my, uh, the back of the bakery of my dad's bakery and, uh, he lost his business in the

00:20:32.980 end.

00:20:33.300 And I know what it's, I know what it's like to struggle as an entrepreneur and a, uh, and

00:20:39.740 a small businessman.

00:20:40.560 And, uh, I'm lucky enough to be able to be a spokesperson for millions of Americans that,

00:20:47.060 uh, share your pain and understand it and wanted to help you out.

00:20:51.260 Well, I'll tell you, we, we're, uh, with this news that you're giving me now, we're going

00:20:56.780 to meet as a management group next week, and we're going to start making plans to, um, to

00:21:02.880 definitely get that spring open and maybe sooner than we would have before, maybe March, uh,

00:21:08.040 even if it means bringing a dozen employees back, we're going to get right at it with that

00:21:13.040 fund.

00:21:13.840 And, uh, I, I, I cannot thank you enough.

00:21:16.620 That's it's unbelievable.

00:21:17.940 It's great, Joe.

00:21:19.320 Thank you so much.

00:21:20.720 Pay it forward, brother.

00:21:21.800 Thank you.

00:21:23.760 Uh, man, it feels good.

00:21:26.600 Doesn't it?

00:21:28.280 It just feels so good.

00:21:31.340 I don't know why, uh, it's not that hard.

00:21:36.540 It's really not that hard.

00:21:38.080 I don't know why our governments and our, you know, they've put these people out of business

00:21:43.440 and how they're not helping is beyond me.

00:21:47.980 But when we all work together, um, we can do something incredible and something that

00:21:53.720 maybe governments shouldn't be doing, uh, anyway, unless they're putting us out of business.

00:22:00.900 All right.

00:22:01.580 I want to take you to California to the other coast.

00:22:03.720 Now, uh, cronies is a sports grill and, uh, the, uh, the owner or co-owner Dave folds is

00:22:15.280 a guy who started his first location 30 years ago in Ventura, California.

00:22:19.800 Uh, they say they have the coldest beer and the best Buffalo wings around.

00:22:23.600 He has, uh, five locations and they, last time we spoke, in fact, he's on with us now,

00:22:31.720 Dave, last time, black, good.

00:22:34.660 Last time we spoke, it was really a trouble for you.

00:22:39.620 You're still, uh, are you open with outdoor dining or can you, have you been able to open

00:22:45.280 back up yet?

00:22:46.720 Well, we have five stores, but the Agura store is the store that, uh, my partners and I chose

00:22:53.280 to defy the orders and, um, and, uh, they're allowing outdoor dining again, which is kind

00:22:59.400 of crazy because I think it was just an arbitrary decision.

00:23:02.620 Uh, but my other stores in Ventura County, uh, there, they have returned to outdoor dining.

00:23:08.480 Thank goodness, because we were losing thousands of dollars every day.

00:23:12.200 I'm not kidding.

00:23:13.200 People don't realize that.

00:23:14.240 I know.

00:23:14.460 And you have $21,000 in fine, in fines.

00:23:18.340 Right.

00:23:18.580 Actually, I just looked at it right now and it was, it's, it's probably about more like

00:23:22.200 $24,000 right now because, because even after they allowed us to, in LA County to have, uh,

00:23:29.620 outdoor dining again, they're still finding me now.

00:23:32.460 I, I, today is the official day that you can reopen outdoors.

00:23:36.000 I don't know why they waited a week, but I still stayed open.

00:23:39.860 And the crazy thing is, if you look at this, I just have these numbers here.

00:23:43.800 When they closed us down around November 29th, there were 2,049 people in the hospitalization.

00:23:52.600 Two days ago, there were 6,213 people.

00:23:56.280 It tripled, but now they just say, okay, now you can open.

00:23:59.460 It makes absolutely no sense.

00:24:00.820 I don't understand the logic.

00:24:03.280 Um, there is no logic.

00:24:04.780 You live in California.

00:24:06.320 Uh, no man, I know.

00:24:07.820 Uh, all right.

00:24:08.720 So Dave, we, uh, as you know, our audience, uh, has done a fundraiser for you and we're

00:24:16.540 divvying this, um, uh, divvying this money out and we have a check for you for $84,584 and

00:24:25.240 74 cents.

00:24:29.720 Well, thank you.

00:24:31.800 It is, uh, it's our privilege and, uh, and honor to stand with you.

00:24:42.120 Well, I'm sure I can share it with some other people too.

00:24:44.520 I, I, you know, we're in, we're in a bind man, but, but, um, I was very cool, man.

00:24:50.900 Good people.

00:24:51.600 Thank you so much, Glenn.

00:24:53.420 You're welcome.

00:24:55.020 Dave, let us know how things are going.

00:24:57.240 Make sure you, make sure you stay in touch so we, we can, uh, hear about the amazing

00:25:03.040 return.

00:25:04.340 Dude, you're the man, Glenn.

00:25:05.600 You have good people.

00:25:07.140 I hope the best for you.

00:25:08.500 You know, I've been following you for a long time.

00:25:10.840 Oh, thank you.

00:25:11.540 Solid man.

00:25:12.180 And I, uh, I, uh, I think I might even get a goatee going like you too.

00:25:18.440 Thanks so much.

00:25:19.760 I appreciate it, buddy.

00:25:20.660 Thanks so much.

00:25:21.400 God bless you.

00:25:22.100 Thank you.

00:25:22.600 Thank you.

00:25:23.020 Thank you.

00:25:27.240 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:25:39.460 Madison Cawthorn, an eighth generation resident in North Carolina's 11th congressional district.

00:25:46.980 2014, he nearly died in a tragic automobile accident, left him partially paralyzed and in

00:25:53.200 a wheelchair.

00:25:53.720 Uh, his ordeal, uh, really built his faith, made him a fighter, helped him appreciate every

00:26:01.420 day and inspired him to help everyone he encounters overcome whatever adversity they

00:26:07.040 face in their daily lives.

00:26:08.420 He's a constitutional conservative.

00:26:11.040 Madison is committed to defending the values of faith, family, and freedom.

00:26:15.900 He's the youngest member now of the 177th Congress, Madison Cawthorn, not only represents the residents

00:26:24.240 of, uh, North Carolina, but also young Americans across the nation who want their voices heard

00:26:30.420 in the highest halls of democracy.

00:26:32.020 He is under attack now, um, as an enemy of the state or the enemy of Congress.

00:26:40.040 We, uh, are joined now by Congressman Madison Cawthorn.

00:26:45.840 Madison, how are you?

00:26:48.020 Gwen, I'm doing well.

00:26:49.200 Thank you for having me on my show.

00:26:50.880 And it's no exaggeration that I am under attack by what I'd call the mainstream media and by

00:26:56.580 really the socialists in Congress.

00:26:58.300 You know, the, uh, the number one reason I think this is happening, and it's no surprise,

00:27:02.100 we knew this was going to happen, is because the people in my district, you know,

00:27:05.840 that they had a choice throughout every election, you know, you can send someone who wears tasseled

00:27:10.260 loafers and pleated pants and, uh, has soft hands and is going to go and, you know, get

00:27:15.180 along with everybody in DC.

00:27:16.760 And, uh, you might see his name in the paper when he signs onto a bill, but you know, uh,

00:27:21.000 really just, uh, uh, someone to go to DC and keep the status quo, or they could have chosen

00:27:26.840 to send somebody like me, somebody who wants to go there and destroy the administrative state,

00:27:31.660 get rid of what we call these swamp creatures, these bureaucrats who have, are not elected,

00:27:37.540 but they are appointed.

00:27:38.540 And then they're, they're promoted within these three letter agencies. 0.53

00:27:41.520 And then they pass ridiculous regulations upon me.

00:27:44.520 Uh, they don't, Congress doesn't want me in there because I'm someone who's going to speak

00:27:48.180 out against this radical agenda of being able to rule through executive order, uh, and being

00:27:53.120 able to tell the American people what to do and when to do it.

00:27:56.200 Uh, you know, Glenn, I stand against that.

00:27:58.380 And if I'm hated within Washington, DC, but beloved in my mountains of Western North Carolina,

00:28:04.240 then Glenn, I got to tell you, I think I'm doing something right, sir.

00:28:07.040 So, um, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez yesterday, um, responded to Ted Cruz, um, when he said,

00:28:18.460 Hey, we can work together.

00:28:20.360 Uh, she said, I'm, I'm, I'm happy to work with almost, uh, anyone other than the GOP, uh,

00:28:28.040 who's trying to get me killed. 0.62

00:28:29.900 If you want to help, maybe you can resign.

00:28:34.180 Uh, that's, are you dealing with her at all?

00:28:37.040 I mean, is there, is there any relationship there?

00:28:40.180 There is, well, there is not, and I think this speaks to the broader issue that we're

00:28:45.380 seeing, you know, in our culture, and now it's seeping into our government.

00:28:48.100 It's called cancel culture.

00:28:49.520 It says, Hey, you don't exactly agree with every ideological point that I do.

00:28:53.520 So I want to get rid of you.

00:28:55.280 Uh, you know, the, the Congress has been calling it Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden.

00:28:59.760 You've heard it over and over.

00:29:01.220 They've been calling for, I'm using air quotes here, unity.

00:29:05.000 Uh, but Glenn, I've said this many times, my friend Charlie Kirk said it as well.

00:29:09.740 They're not talking about the American unity we imagine, uh, that was under Ronald Reagan

00:29:15.620 or, or, you know, on, uh, December, December 12th, right after the Twin Towers fell, that

00:29:20.840 kind of American unity.

00:29:22.460 Glenn, they're talking about Soviet unity, the kind of unity where you've silenced every 0.97

00:29:27.520 single voice of dissent.

00:29:29.080 You have absolutely no diversity of thought, and therefore everybody agrees with you.

00:29:33.240 It's like the Imperial Romans. 0.97

00:29:34.660 You know, they would, they would go in somewhere where there were enemies.

00:29:37.600 There was an uprising. 0.65

00:29:38.420 They would kill everybody, create a desert.

00:29:40.520 And then they would go back home and say, look, I brought peace to the region.

00:29:43.660 That is what these people mean by unity.

00:29:46.160 And I'm telling you, it's wrong.

00:29:48.040 And it's not, it's not conducive to a healthy and prosperous society.

00:29:53.260 You know, having dueling ideas is what leads us to making better decisions for the American

00:29:58.060 people.

00:29:58.340 So Madison, um, you know, we can, and we have unified before.

00:30:04.660 Um, but we have to have principles in common.

00:30:09.340 We don't have to have policies in common.

00:30:12.300 We don't have to have faith in common.

00:30:14.200 We don't have to have anything really in common except a few principles.

00:30:17.880 And those principles, everybody raises their hand to say, I will protect and defend those

00:30:23.580 principles.

00:30:24.940 Um, are they, are there principles we can unite on Madison?

00:30:30.860 If we don't, if we don't agree on the constitution and bill of rights?

00:30:36.600 No, that there are no principles we can agree on.

00:30:38.760 Cause you know, people will say like oftentimes like to refer to people like myself, Josh Hawley,

00:30:43.840 Matt Gates, Ted Cruz, they say we're far right.

00:30:46.780 But I kind of wince when I hear that, because as you know, there's no such thing as far right

00:30:52.380 for me.

00:30:52.760 There's no such thing as center right for me.

00:30:55.260 There is only the constitution.

00:30:56.820 That is the only thing that guides me.

00:30:58.380 And if you do not agree with that document, then you and I do not see eye to eye.

00:31:01.860 We cannot govern together.

00:31:02.960 Uh, the, the problem is, I mean, you see, uh, AOC, to bring her up again, she has literally 0.92

00:31:08.900 said that perhaps it's time to start a commission to look into, uh, this, this journalism that's

00:31:13.880 so dangerous.

00:31:14.560 That means getting rid of freedom of press, the press, uh, these people want to censor

00:31:19.480 what we can say so that they, they can control what we can think about.

00:31:23.500 And you can see throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, they're trying to control when we can congregate,

00:31:28.100 when we can worship, where we can get together.

00:31:29.860 Uh, you know, in 1776, the way the seeds of, uh, of, of our, of our freedom were planted,

00:31:37.440 it was done in taverns.

00:31:38.720 It was done in churches and it was done in town squares.

00:31:41.420 Uh, but they've gotten rid of the new town square.

00:31:43.640 So you can't really speak your mind there on social media.

00:31:45.760 You can't go out to a bar anywhere in the country.

00:31:47.940 And I'm telling you, they won't even let us go into church.

00:31:51.600 So what do you see as the, the main fight for you?

00:31:55.840 Where are you, what are you going to concentrate on?

00:31:58.120 Because it's everywhere.

00:32:00.900 So what is the thing that you say, this is where I can be most effective?

00:32:07.400 Well, you know, there's multiple points.

00:32:09.100 So on one side, I'm elected to help the people of my district.

00:32:12.620 And now that we're moving into the era of big government under the Democrats, you know,

00:32:16.620 my goal is to get as much money as they are.

00:32:18.800 We can give back to my district.

00:32:20.360 Although I completely disagree with it.

00:32:22.020 And I think it's bad for the entire country's economy and prosperity in the long term.

00:32:27.400 Uh, and so, you know, I'm going to be working on infrastructure reform, trying to get more

00:32:30.700 rural broadband, but you know what, where I'm really trying to cross, uh, cross boundaries

00:32:35.360 and break into new people groups that don't normally think conservative thoughts is I'm

00:32:39.880 wanting to present these big conservative ideas of limited government, of, uh, self self-determinance,

00:32:45.740 of, of, uh, personal responsibility.

00:32:48.580 I'm wanting to bring those and package them well on social media so that people in my

00:32:53.180 generation have been deceived by socialism can realize that, you know, our, our policies

00:32:57.540 work, our ideas work, uh, because right now you are many people in my country, in this

00:33:02.800 country, uh, they are only being exposed to what the left is telling them.

00:33:06.860 And, you know, the left is telling them that everyone on the right is xenophobic, bigoted,

00:33:11.560 racist, and that we're all uneducated.

00:33:13.460 But my friend, you know what, I, if they want to attack people for not having a college

00:33:17.080 education, I got to push back on that and say that I think that if we had less people

00:33:20.920 wearing suits and ties and more people wearing work boots, making legislation decisions in

00:33:25.120 our country, we'd be doing a whole lot better.

00:33:28.280 Um, what has your life been like since the election and, and, uh, entering into Congress?

00:33:37.400 Anything you've been surprised by?

00:33:39.240 So I'll say it's been, it's been a tale of two cities, you know, on one side, I have

00:33:46.920 created a lot of enemies inside the beltway of Washington, D.C. Uh, the establishment on

00:33:52.020 the left detests me because I'm willing to stand up and speak out against them. Uh, they

00:33:56.340 know that I've got my own platform, so I, I, I don't need to bow down to these journalists

00:34:01.080 who, uh, think that they can determine everything that happens in this country. Uh, and so sometimes

00:34:06.240 when I go to Washington, I feel pretty despised. But then as soon as I come back to Western

00:34:11.000 North Carolina, I, I'm greeted with love and thankfulness from people because they're excited

00:34:16.120 to have someone that actually represents their viewpoint. And people are starting to realize

00:34:20.240 just like you saw how, uh, the SEC is not allowing, you know, just normal everyday Americans

00:34:25.540 to be able to beat these hedge fund managers. Uh, just as you saw throughout the election, uh,

00:34:30.220 they didn't want normal everyday Americans in Wisconsin or Arizona to be able to determine

00:34:33.980 the election outcome. Uh, and when I go up there and speak out against this, these people

00:34:38.960 that detest it, but the people in Western North Carolina, the people I was elected to represent,

00:34:43.180 they love it. And it is the honor of a lifetime to get to serve them.

00:34:46.280 You know, I tell you that we've, we've talked about it on this program several times,

00:34:49.860 really since nine 11, if you, you know, Nancy Pelosi is talking about building a fence around

00:34:55.780 the Capitol and that she is, uh, feels the enemy is within. I got to, got to believe that

00:35:01.420 makes the Republicans feel good. The enemies are within, uh, they're surrounded by people

00:35:06.140 in Congress that want them, uh, dead according to Nancy Pelosi. And the best way to keep Congress 1.00

00:35:13.140 safe and for the continuation of our, of our, of our system, of our government in case of a horrible,

00:35:19.220 uh, terrorist attack or something else, uh, you know, God strikes the building with lightning or

00:35:25.360 something. Um, the best way to protect is to send all of the Congressman in the Senate home.

00:35:33.240 We can do all that you do electronically and you then are more responsible and more plugged in to

00:35:42.640 your local area and you don't lose touch with those people. And those people can actually not

00:35:48.820 lose touch with you. They don't have to go to the hallowed halls and, uh, see everybody all puffed up

00:35:55.000 in their big offices in, uh, in Washington DC. They're protected for continuation of government.

00:36:02.700 They're protected from corruption, at least easy corruption. It makes the lobbyist have to spend 0.90

00:36:08.360 a lot more money flying all around the country. I don't know why we haven't proposed this in Congress

00:36:14.220 yet. Well, you know what? I do think that there is something to be said for all of us, uh, coming

00:36:20.160 together and sitting down and creating relationships. Uh, I do understand what you're

00:36:24.780 saying. And, you know, Glenn, I've actually made the decision, although it creates a lot

00:36:28.260 more stress on me and a lot more travel time. Uh, I do not live in Washington DC. I don't have

00:36:33.100 a residence there. I sleep in my office. And the reason is because of exactly what you just said,

00:36:37.780 uh, Glenn, I don't want to be inundated inside of Washington DC. I don't want that to be my home.

00:36:43.980 I don't want to feel like that's normal. So I've decided to live back home in my district. So I've

00:36:48.220 got to fly a whole lot more. My life is here. Uh, my life is here, my, my church, my friends.

00:36:54.440 And you know what? I've got to go out to Cracker Barrel. I've got to go to the gun show. I've got

00:36:58.080 to go to church and my constituents can look me in the eye and say, Hey, why did you vote on this

00:37:03.560 bill? Why are you doing this? Why are you backing down? Why don't you have a backbone? And you know,

00:37:07.920 I think there's a lot to be said for that. So I don't think we should allow our congressmen and women 1.00

00:37:11.800 to be able to live in Washington DC. I think that's the reason they put it on top of a swamp.

00:37:16.320 It is. Um, yeah, the, the only thing is I do have a little bit of concern about doing

00:37:22.800 Congress through electronic means. Uh, you know, when, if I look back to history and look at

00:37:28.120 really when the death throes of the Royal Republic were happening, it was right towards the end

00:37:31.940 to the fall. There's really a lot of centralization of power in almost nearly what they would call

00:37:37.140 proxy voting. And so Glenn, you know, I got to give that some more thought, but there is something

00:37:41.500 to be said for living in your district, which I committed to do for the rest of my term in

00:37:45.140 Congress.

00:37:46.120 Madison Cawthorne. Thank you so much. Uh, best of luck and, uh, keep up the, uh, proverbial

00:37:54.420 and, uh, metaphorical fight in Congress. Thank you so much.

00:38:00.340 Uh, Glenn, you're a patriot. Thank you for fighting for all of us. Talk to you soon, sir.

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