Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Texas AG Ken Paxton & Rep. Victoria Spartz ｜ 9⧸21⧸23
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Glenn Beck sits down with former Texas AG Ken Paxton to discuss his acquittal in the Texas Attorney General case, the scandal surrounding his handling of the scandal, and the ongoing investigation into him by the Justice Department. He also talks about the border crisis and the need for a border patrol force.
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Ken, welcome to the program. I'm glad this is all uh behind you. Uh it seemed to me to be an
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absolute witch hunt. Um but I I wanted to ask you one question uh on this because I know you
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covered a lot of this with um Tucker Carlson uh yesterday but let me let me go into the Wall
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Street Journal. Why Ken Paxton was acquitted uh and it's by the entire editorial board and it's just
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ridiculous but listen to this. It says Mr. Paxton's defenders are spinning that he was saved by a
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populist national conservative groundswell to put an end to the Bush era in Texas. What a joke. There
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is no longer a Bush era in Texas or anywhere else. George P. Bush, Jeb Bush's son, lost to Mr. Paxton.
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Yeah well yes. So how is that the end of the Bush? These people. What really happened on Saturday is
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that Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick uh chose to rescue in a rebuke uh of his rival House Speaker
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Dade Phelan. The acquittal is perhaps a satisfying victory for Mr. Patrick over his house rival but it
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may not play out so well for Texas Republicans in the longer run. A federal investigation into Mr.
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Paxton is continuing amid reports that a grand jury has been impaneled. What do you know about that Ken?
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Well first of all let me I do have to thank the people of Texas thank my wife Angela and my kids
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I am here because by the grace of God and and those people that I just mentioned look the Biden
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administration I've seen him 48 times in two and a half years I said the Obama administration 27 times
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in 27 months this was organized by the Biden administration they and that people how could
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that be. It happens because in Texas the speaker is elected by 65 Democrats and 10 Republicans that's
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all it takes and what the Democrats do is they block vote they figure out which Republicans going to give
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them the most it's a speaker and they pick Dade Phelan and why because Dade Phelan agreed to this deal
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with the Biden administration went straight through the Texas Democrats and they came after me and shoot I've
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been investigated ever since the day I walked into this office and I have no doubt that the Biden
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administration would love to find some way they've been working on it for years to get rid of me and
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part of that process was the impeachment. So I have to tell you I think Phelan should be impeached
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himself this was just such a sham of everything that was going on but let me talk about the border here
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because Ken while you've been away Texas has been a wuss in many cases. Yesterday the razor wire in Eagle
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Pass was cut we have this gigantic colony in Houston which is you know they're they're chaining girls up
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and raping them one escaped tried to and was killed both of them ended up dead there's all kinds of
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cartel activity going on this is a colony in Houston the size of Washington DC more people are on the way
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when is Texas going to become Texas? So I literally had my first briefing on all of this stuff yesterday
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and from my office we spent obviously I've missed four months and I have people that have left I there's
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lots of stuff that I didn't know what was going on because I wasn't allowed to get information from my
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office and so yesterday I spent more time talking about immigration and what's going on along the
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border what can we do and so we're in the process of looking at potential lawsuits I don't have an
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army of soldiers that can go out and do anything about it I know it's not what the legislature gives
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me all I can do is what I can do in court and so you know we already had a bunch of lawsuits filed
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against Biden administration but we're definitely looking at more and we're trying to figure out how can
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we stop this travesty uh with which the Biden administration is promoting and it's pretty clear
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to me they do not care about the American people this is it so horrible and the consequences for
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people on the border that are that are U.S. citizens and for our state are devastating and those
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consequences with drugs and crime are going to be felt in this country for a long time to come
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so did the governor reach out to you yesterday at all about the wire cutting I had I did not hear
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from his office yesterday my staff may have but I did not okay I didn't know about it until you just said
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something no one no one from the governor's office called you about the federal government cutting the razor
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wire wire and letting thousands of people in across our border at Eagle Pass no one called you I heard
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about that story on right before your show started as I listened to the news that's when I heard about
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the wire cutting I did not know okay uh the um you said to Tucker yesterday in your interview with him
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and just kind of it just kind of just went and he didn't follow up and I found this quite important
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the court of appeals in the state of Texas apparently now you cannot prosecute voter fraud in Texas
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is that true yes that is correct they struck down a law from 1951 and by the way what I have four
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things that I'm supposed to do in the constitution the final thing is such things as are required by law
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and in 1951 the legislature directed the attorney general it's the only thing I have original
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jurisdiction on as it relates to criminal matters was voter fraud and the court of criminal appeals all
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republican by the way and by the way nobody knows who they are this is why I think they've been put
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there and I'm convinced they're they're they're not republicans because they struck down this law and
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it said that I don't have the authority to go to court as attorney general because I'm in the executive
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branch that was their rationale for striking down things unconstitutional for the attorney general
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to be in court and I'm like is that the most insane decision ever but they did it and now it's up to
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the local DAs to prosecute it oh my gosh the Travis county the Dallas county the Harris county which
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Houston Bear County sent out they're not going to prosecute voter fraud guess what they just opened up
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voter fraud and the the people of Texas need to know that and there's three of the nine members up
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coming up in March for a primary we have to find people to run and we have to beat those people or
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we are going to lose the state because I tried to get this law passed again so that I would have I
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could start doing it again and make them strike it down again and guess who killed it Dade Phelan I
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called them he never returned my calls but he I was told by his team that they had they didn't have
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time to pass this law even though I got it oh my gosh that's where we are with Dade Phelan that's
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where we are with the Texas house and that's where we are with the court of criminal appeals that no one
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knows and by the way that is our highest court it's like our supreme court we're only one one of
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two states that has this for all criminal matters so I have no appeal right so when they strike down
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this as unconstitutional and say I can't prosecute voter fraud I have no ability to get around that
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I'm stuck and that's what I'm trying to fix okay so who needs to be called the the house
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the house needs to pass this next time it's a lost two years that I can't prosecute voter fraud
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and in March I'm I think we're I think we're going to have three people to run against the
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members of the court of field we've got to get those people elected because we lost eight one
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and if we can get three new members we'll at least be five four and we'll be sending the message you
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cannot strike down uh who are those three members who are the three members that are that are I do not
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have it I don't have it look I yeah I bet you yeah three members are going to be up this time I think
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uh one of them's like uh Michelle Slaughter I think Barbara Hervey and I'm trying to remember the
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third one I think those are the three that are up okay we'll find out and uh I don't think there's
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any more important issue than making sure we fix that court because why did this happen how did this
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happen okay so I think George Soros is my opinion he's not he was trying to do three things one get
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the DAs elected in these liberal counties so he he beat all these Democratic DAs that were prosecuting
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crimes he did in Travis County and unseated Democrat there that he didn't it was actually
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prosecuting crimes he did the same thing in San Antonio so he got control of that knowing full
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well that this would affect voting second he put he helped put nine members on the Supreme Court
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actually eight Kevin Urie is awesome uh the other eight no one knows who they are and I think he
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because Republicans don't know who these people are um he was able to get these members of the court
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to strike down this law and then the third strategy was get rid of me and then there's no hope
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there's nowhere to go so that was the goal they didn't get rid of me so there's still hope and
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we've got to change the court of criminal appeals and we've got to get the house next time to pass this
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law you know Donald Trump said yesterday let me see if I can actually quote him on uh on something uh
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he said yesterday uh that we if there is a defeat in 2024 um it will mean the end of the country the
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2024 presidential election will be nothing less than the final battle for the U.S. I'm beginning to
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think that that is absolutely true if we make it to 2024. I told him uh when he was running for
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re-election in May that I was fighting a battle to stop massive mail-out ballots in all the biggest
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counties Travis County which is Austin Harris County which is Houston we had 12 lawsuits and I said if I
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don't win every single one of those lawsuits you're going to lose Texas he's like what that's not
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possible I said it doesn't matter what your polling says if they can send out six or seven million
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ballots or just one county say Harris County sends out 2.5 million ballots you won by 600 votes
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600,000 votes you're not going to win Texas they will count votes because we can't verify if they
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just mail them out to everybody and there's no signature verification which is still not even
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the best way to make sure people are voting right and we have no way to verify they're going to be
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able to cheat count as many ballots as they want they'll figure out how much what their numbers are
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and guess what we stopped every one of those 12 lawsuits even though we were we were in terrible
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places with terrible judges and I watched election night and I was like this is exactly they're
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gonna they stopped counting votes for a couple days why so they can figure out how many votes they
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needed to count with these mail-in ballots and that's exactly what happened in these other states
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and whenever I bring it up they say I'm crazy but that's exactly what they did you know one thing I
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really worry about is the number of uh illegals in our country the ones that we don't even know about
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we already since biden got into office we have already passed the population of 15 different states
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combinations of three states uh would equal the amount that has come in um it it is it's
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you're seeing crime and everything else and we're only seeing the surface of this um I I wonder if
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Texas can stand how much is this changing if they can just uh register uh or or get people in here to do
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uh voting which is their plan beyond that the crime the uh social services the hospitals
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I I I we're so close to the border if we don't get this border sealed we're done
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no this is the plan you know people are like why is Biden doing this two reasons one is the first
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reason voting getting as many of these people into republican states that they can become voters whether
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it's legal or illegal right now they can vote illegally and no one's going to do anything about it won't
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matter second they wanted to get as many people uh illegals into these republican states because guess
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what we're doing better than democratic states we have low taxes less regulation more opportunity
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better governance and they want to bring in more problems they want to take us down because the
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story is too good for texas and florida and tennessee and utah the republican states are successful
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the democratic states are losing people because people are voting with their feet and the biden
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administration said okay we'll make you pay for it we're going to make you pay for all this stuff
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schooling health care law enforcement crime your kids are going to die we're going to get you and
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that's what the biden administration is all about
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well uh any good news to report uh yeah there is a god and there's always hope
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yeah yeah well i i have to tell you um it looked uh it looked like they were going to be able to
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railroad you and look i know you're not a perfect person um but uh you know that i had a real problem
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when they came uh to the impeachment hearings after promising just like the democrats do all kinds of
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evidence all kinds of and then literally nothing uh they said their lawyers when said it was going to
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be 10 times worse than the public knew and and guess what it was 10 times less they tried to railroad me
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out by doing having no due process no sworn testimony which is required by law no due process
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no chance to for me to refute any of this stuff all done secretly no transparency done in three days
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and designed to smother me because now i'm out of office i have no resources i spent all my money on
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the campaign i had no i had no lawyers i had three months to figure out what they had and they kept
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hiding the information even though they were required to turn it over they and then of course i had a gag
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order so i couldn't defend myself i couldn't go out and talk i couldn't call you on the other hand
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they had they were able to leak information to the press and every day i was getting pounded
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all of that was was against me and yet because of the people in Texas because of my strong family
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support my wife's support and because by the grace of god you know i just decided i'm going to
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fight this to the last second i will not resign because if they win this then they can just do this
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to anybody they want i will not let the voters down so so who's going to pay for this i mean is
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any is any investigation i don't want revenge i want this not to be able to happen again no so
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dan patrick god bless him for this he he called for an audit which i think is fair because they were
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trying to hide how much money they were spending so i think we're going to find out how much money
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they spent which is millions and look it's totally unfair to push somebody out of office with no
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proof and then i've got to go pay for it and i could lose just because they have all the money
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from the taxpayers and i'm left with just nothing most people would not have made it through that
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with no resources and that is unfair for the house to be able to like suspend me with no proof
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and then take away glenn hager the comptroller illegally cuts my salary off to punish me
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even though he had no authority to do that he still hasn't started my salary back and i'm supposed
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to survive this they did everything they could to make it impossible for me to get the truth out and
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to survive this is so we're we're becoming the voter against the will of the voters we are we are
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becoming uh an old soviet state it's terrifying this is texas glenn texas oh i i know i know ken thank
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you very much i appreciate it this is the best of the glenn beck program peter navarro uh joins us
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peter navarro was with the trump administration former assistant president trump white house trade
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advisor he was behind our china policy and data and uh and a lot of the good things that happen to
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our economy happened through peter navarro uh we're glad to have him on uh today's uh broadcast i i peter
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before we move on let me just ask you um in the 1980s we had the same kind of policies from jimmy carter
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and we had we had to jack up interest rates to 19 percent to be able to suck all that money back in
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and destroy it there's a lot more money in the system now and we're still spending like crazy
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what is it going to take can this be conquered at this point well let me tell you the most important
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action item for your listeners right now um the debt limit debate is happening as we speak
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and it's probably our last exit ramp before the presidential election to force the democrats
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to cut back on some of that massive spending they've baked in to our economy right now it's just
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destructive spending because it's it's debt financed it's inflationary it's going to just overburden
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everything right that's kind of what we can do right now you know let kevin mccarthy know no deals
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with the democrats this is the time to cut back again take the money away so they gave the irs take
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the money away from these these um ev mandates there's just a whole bunch of stuff we shouldn't
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be spending on because we don't have the money glenn because we have don't have the money if this is
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what happened in the 1970s um is they just kept kept and make mistakes after mistakes after some
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mistakes and it was the same scenario they were overspending changing stimulus to stimulate an
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economy that was suffering but then it created inflation so the fed kept raising interest rates
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and you're absolutely right i mean 19 percent how you tell people that glenn you tell people that
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mortgage rates were like at 10 or 12 or 15 percent just a few decades ago and they look at you like
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crazy right we've had it so good for so long which but that's all another story entirely but look this
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is this is financial armageddon you know one of the things i do is like uh i'm not giving stock market
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advice but i've always as an economist forecasted the stock market because it's a leading indicator of the
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economy right and right now we're on the verge of of a market correction the last five weeks have been
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just just a nightmare in the s p 500 and what's happening is both main street and wall street
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are going to get clobbered the only people who make money on on this misery are the big hedge fund
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program traders who will make billions regardless if the market's going up and down because they can play
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both sides okay everybody else i mean people who are working for a living right now are going to see
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wage increases but inflation is going to eat most or all uh or more of that away that take that to the
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bank and then people with their five 401ks and iris and things like that hey that we did a beautiful
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thing during the trump years building up the stock market and it's just i mean people look at that stuff
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and they go wow that's going to take me another five years now before i can retire well guess what
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it's going to be another 10 years at the rate we're going so the point here i think is elections matter
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and we need somebody to understand how economies grow and it ain't the guy in the office right now
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okay so so help me out on this peter um yeah i know that donald trump always bets on the future he
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does and and it's smart i mean i when i buy a house i try to keep within reason but i bet on
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i'm going to do better down the road and this won't break my back even at this time but it'll be a lot
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easier as i as i grow um and i think that's the way donald trump looks at the economy he doesn't mind
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spending money if we're going to grow past it however we are we're way way out of whack he wasn't
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the best on spending can we count on um him to do spending cuts yeah you have to i mean he's crazy
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like let's start with the ev mandates i mean they are basically the full employment act for communist
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china okay why would you do that why why would you do that and the reason why the bidenites do it is
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because they worship at a global altar uh where they don't understand the economic implications
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of their utopian green new deal they just don't get it they just don't get i mean aoc
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democracy is is is blank upstairs on economics um as you can ever imagine these are the people
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leaving us glenn you know elections have consequences now when trump gets in in 2025
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um absent look right now right now over the next 30 days we've got a chance to at least negotiate
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some of that excess spending now okay so tell me because tell the average person why the government
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shut down you shouldn't fear it because the alternative is the continued reckless spending
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that's going to destroy this country as we know it and that's not hyperbole that's just fact
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that's just fact if you i look you got to remember biden as vice president obama in eight years
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doubled the national debt from 10 to 20 trillion okay think about that and the 22 they doubled it
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in their eight years what biden is doing to the debt as we speak is going to be even worse than that
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and we're only like what three years into this not just it's like um and it's all loaded in there and
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and mccarthy good god i don't know what that man was thinking when he agreed to everything he agreed to
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him and mcconnell it's like it was a it was you know the the corporate uniparty basically pushing us that
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so my point here glenn i get one action you know they want to give them some action it's like tell
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the congress um to cut back on their spending as part of the debt limit deal and don't fall prey to
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the sky's falling crap that's happening uh that they're going to say it's going to happen and it's
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very simple so you see a uh a crash coming or not a crash but a correction coming in the stock market
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um how long one man's correction is another man's crash right we're losing we're going to lose
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anywhere from 15 to 30 percent of value holy cow we've already lost look the last five weeks
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um you know we're down another percent today as we speak i mean you know maybe a thousand but
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look um why would the stock market go up other than the fact that we've been throwing too much money
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fiscally into and there's just a lot of money sloshing around okay it's a it's a faux bull market
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okay it's just it's a faux bull market how how full stop how much time does the dollar have
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as as the global world reserve currency and actually being something that uh has value
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well there's two competing forces there and it's like the kentucky derby you know like you can watch
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them kind of kind of going around the track on the one hand you've got all the rogue nations that don't
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want to get sanctioned by the u.s government for their bad behavior trying to establish their own
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currency with principally the communist chinese currency and that's the brick countries you got
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you got russia you got china you've got all the oil emirates you don't want to be on the dollar you
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got india stabbing us in the back and from a population standpoint it's it's well over half of
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the world right right um so that's going on but the the problem is also for people who want to get
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sucked into that that that has its own risk so you know the dollar it's it's kind of like like
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the the lesser of of all the evils right even though things are getting more and more unstable
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here they continue to get even more unstable in the world i mean you look at communist china right
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it's like money corporate money except dumb elon musk the smartest dumbest guy i've ever seen
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he's like a lot of that corporate money is coming out of china now because they know that china is about
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to invade taiwan you know maybe tomorrow maybe next year certainly within the next five years
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what's that going to do okay it's going to put a you know there are going to be seasoned tesla plants
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uh there when that happens and it's going to hit the fan so point is you ask me where does dollar
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goes it's like well it's it still has attractiveness because everywhere else has so much unattractiveness
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but china's coming hard with their brick zone on us and look um people to preserve their wealth
00:27:37.560
to protect their job they need to be financially and economically market literate and that's a tall
00:27:44.520
order okay because yeah i've got good friends now who look at their 401k and it's like they've lost
00:27:51.220
you know i like a third of it and they they ask me i go i look at it go wow your stockbroker's got
00:27:59.180
you in highly speculative investments and you're you're 55 years old what why do you do that well
00:28:06.260
you know that's what these guys do so anyway i don't want to be mr gloom and doom i'm not bad guy
00:28:13.060
okay i know that's me that's my job in this country is the strongest in the world but but under proper
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stewardship and i can't think of of somebody worse running the white house right now than joe biden
00:28:29.040
because everything he is doing is wrong geopolitically and economically so in terms of what you can do in
00:28:37.300
the short term it's like call your congressman and say hey reduce the spending or don't vote for that
00:28:44.620
debt limit increase okay that that's that's the deal it's like we got to cut trillions off future
00:28:52.000
spending or or we're going to be in trouble okay um and then in the meantime 2024 november 2024
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pick pick pick your candidate you know who mine is it's donald john trump and go ahead thank you for
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the defend peter.com plug there defend peter.com i you know i see this in real time and it we've
00:29:13.320
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00:29:23.640
peter thank you very much godspeed you're a patriot sir thank you you're a patriot you're listening to the
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best of the glenn beck program i want to play a highlight from yesterday with the attorney general
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testifying in front of the house committee uh this this is some of i mean there's only a play about a
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minute of it you have to look it up we'll tweet it out this is the most satisfying five minutes i've
00:29:51.880
heard in a long time it's uh representative victoria sparts uh she grew up in the soviet union
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and she had a thing or two to get off her chest listen to this attorney general you had a very moving
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statement about your grandparents coming here uh from belarus to live in the country without fear of
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prosecution i grew up in very similar country ukraine now and when i came here as a young person
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i believed in the value as an american not to be afraid of my government but i wanted to tell you and
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i want to share with you and get your thoughts on that are you aware that a lot of americans are now
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uh afraid of being prosecuted by your department are you aware about that i think that uh constant
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attacks on the department and saying it's not a task well let me let me give you an example i don't know
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talk about january 6 people i'm sorry yeah there are some people came on january 6 there are probably
00:30:56.400
some people that came on january 6 here you know that had bad intent but a lot of good americans from
00:31:03.900
my district came here because they are sick and tired of this government not serving them they
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came with strollers and the kids and there was chaotic situation because the proper security wasn't
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provided that's a question that was answered really why why we debated for 55 minutes on the floor
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and didn't stop the debate after the people broke in into the capital but these people came they were
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throwing the smoke bombs into the crowd with strollers with kids people who showed up you know fbi agent
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to people's houses you had in my district in my town fbi phone numbers all over the district please call
00:31:45.640
call that people are truly afraid i just want to make sure if you're not aware that you are and this
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is a big problem when people are afraid of their own government he went on to give a non-answer answer
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and don't think it moved uh him very much but it certainly moved me and uh congresswoman sparts is uh
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with us now hi victoria hi thank you for having me i i have to tell you i i thank you there are there
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are americans and then there are the americans that really understand what we're up against and
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they're usually the ones that have come from a communist country a communist china vietnam or
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anywhere in the uh former soviet union you know what's happening and uh and for him not to respond to
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you i you know george washington said you know when the um when the government fears the people
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there's liberty when the people fear the government there's tyranny and we're there
00:32:56.220
well i'll be honest with you glenn you know maybe i came with idealistic ideas because i read about
00:33:04.360
america from alexis de tockville and friedman and hayek and grown up when you know in a failed
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system and known what it's take i probably was a little bit young and naive but i'm not going to
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accept one thing i'm not going to accept for this republic to fail because if we become a dictatorship
00:33:25.540
and we are moving in that direction there is no hope for anyone else in the world and i will tell you
00:33:32.000
something that is very dangerous we can have a difference in opinion and it's okay it's healthy
00:33:37.560
to have a difference in opinion but when people are afraid to express their opinion that is called
00:33:44.580
dictatorship this was exactly under totalitarian dictatorship of communists in soviet union where
00:33:51.100
people were afraid to express an opinion no we don't have a right you look to hurt each other but we
00:33:58.440
have a right to stand on opinion we don't have a right to harm each other and but we don't do have
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a right to disagree with the government that is the core fundamentals of this republic if people are
00:34:10.940
not willing to come listen i don't like that people come and scream me in town halls i don't like that
00:34:15.560
people disagree with me but if i'm going to go to this office i have to hear the people and where we are
00:34:21.580
right now as a country the frustrations of the people are real the gift government is not serving
00:34:29.520
the people we have a big machine that's serving big money and people are sick and tired and we are
00:34:36.060
bankrupting our future generation and a lot of people died for our freedoms i am not willing to
00:34:42.540
accept it i know it's hard i know these battles you know not easy but we have to win them we'll lose
00:34:50.280
this war and you know i'm telling you sometimes maybe you know being young and idealistic you know
00:34:58.220
it's bad but sometimes you know coming here it's like you put a frog in the hot water you know i came
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here and i believe in all of the value americans and i truly believe we are not going to destroy our
00:35:09.980
republic this is the greatest country ever existed in the history of the world and we as americans are
00:35:16.780
going to get together to save it no but what the department of justice is doing is disgrace
00:35:22.360
um we need more people like you in the house and the senate and you're not going to run for
00:35:30.200
re-election to the house and there were hopes that you would run in indiana for senate but you're not
00:35:35.160
going to do either of those things you're just you're getting out of politics well i need to regroup
00:35:40.700
reinvigorate and really spend more time to get more americans because this government
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don't underestimate still the power of americans listen with all of the bad things i probably
00:35:51.660
wouldn't be where i am you know if it would be for the american people i fought my own party more
00:35:57.840
than other party i didn't even have time for them so i was here only because good hard-working
00:36:04.980
americans stood with me and fought against my own party with me americans that care about that
00:36:11.640
and we need to get more americans to understand what is at stake and talk to them so we have to
00:36:17.620
have more allies i need to regroup to figure out you know i honestly disappointed where my party
00:36:22.820
is and lack of leadership because unfortunately the other side is so far gone if we don't fight and
00:36:30.360
win not just be talking head on tv or writing books and go do grandiose statement but actually
00:36:36.960
deliver and this is a real war and we need to come after other side but it takes leadership and i'm
00:36:43.620
responsible for my party my leadership you know so i need to figure out how i can regroup and get
00:36:48.580
you know some energy back because i've been for decades fought my own party and another one too i had
00:36:55.200
some very tough battles so i am battle tested but i think this battle needs to be won with america
00:37:00.340
people and don't underestimate the power i truly believe these people are afraid of american people
00:37:06.040
they're afraid of american people and right now they're trying to oppress it but i think american
00:37:11.580
people are very strong and they're not going to allow washington dc corruption to take over and
00:37:17.680
destroy the country so i've appreciated people like you are you know listen i listened for you for a long
00:37:23.100
time you've been in the trenches i and i don't accept you know what they do and they try to really
00:37:29.060
demonize every american so people are afraid now to come and say to dc oh my gosh we'll have
00:37:34.740
you have a peaceful demonstration oh no they'll say we're insurrectionists we are awful people
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mom this is terrible this is like dictatorship i cannot believe it happened in the united states
00:37:45.260
of america well i just wanted to encourage you because i read um in uh i think this was not a
00:37:51.020
politico this was from the hill i think and it said uh that you never planned on having a long
00:37:56.880
career in politics i have a lot of my own things i wanted to do in my life and i'm gonna get some
00:38:01.580
stuff done and get the hell out of politics for sure i appreciate that but that's something i say
00:38:06.400
to myself almost every day there's so many things i want to do i mean how much how much longer and i
00:38:11.960
we just have to continue to do it if if that you feel that is the best way to help so i would like
00:38:18.700
you just to consider a plea from me that if there's any way to run for senate if you think you could
00:38:25.200
win we need that i mean you're right the party is completely uh off track um let me let me switch
00:38:34.080
uh gears with you on um zelinski what is what is happening in the house is this real that we're not
00:38:45.360
going to give the aid uh any more aid until we start getting some answers are we going to hold
00:38:51.520
the line on the budget do you have any idea well let me tell you something it's so unfortunate you
00:38:58.360
know that you know when i last year i was a standalone and you know listen i sometimes feel like
00:39:05.240
oh you know like we know one woman standing okay but it's okay even if i have to be one woman
00:39:11.480
stand and i will stand there i'm okay with that if i'm going to be attacked i was attacked last
00:39:16.900
summer by republicans and democrats i was dragged through mud on all media when i said we must demand
00:39:24.200
accountability you understand what country we're dealing we need to make sure this hard-earned money
00:39:29.780
americans are generous people americans won a lot of wars and freed a lot of people around the world
00:39:36.180
but americans are not stupid and americans are not going to be betrayed and i mean we need to know
00:39:42.520
we need to make sure where this aid goes we're dealing with very complicated corrupt countries
00:39:48.560
and we need to make sure that we have accountability or it actually might get in the people that you're
00:39:54.560
trying to fight because this is a challenge when you have we saw what's happened in afghanistan
00:39:58.960
we saw what's happened with a lot of countries we failed because we did not have proper accountability
00:40:04.720
and congress didn't hold executive branch of crime until i cannot believe congresswoman asking
00:40:10.880
accountability for taxpayers money this is being pro-putin i think not asking is pro-putin you know
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and i was very disappointed how i was attacked but it's okay listen i you know if i would have be
00:40:25.080
offended really easily i wouldn't survive this world okay i don't get offended that easily and i held
00:40:30.400
the ground on that we did a little bit better but we didn't do it a good job and now
00:40:34.300
a lot of americans are asking questions and i said if president biden needs to make the case
00:40:40.000
why it is a national interest of americans you know to help ukraine to win that war and show what
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is happening he has not communicated for congress there is frustration from both sides forever he
00:40:52.520
doesn't even come to congress you are not going to go to all of this international they talk about
00:40:57.680
country i'll just tell you one thing if americans don't lead everything is gone we're the only
00:41:03.100
country i hate i hate to say the only country who can lead around the world if we're not doing
00:41:07.400
something everyone going you can do grandiose statement but if we don't do any actions nothing
00:41:12.660
is going to happen unfortunately we don't have strong leadership you know and that's why we have
00:41:17.840
all this war strong america is actually peace for everyone that's why we have to keep our country
00:41:23.600
strong and get our act together you know otherwise our adversaries included like china will be
00:41:29.380
destabilizing the country and that is our responsibility of republicans so i think he put
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himself now in a very tough situation where a lot of americans are asking right questions and he needs
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to figure out now with the senate how he's going to answer them victoria sparts uh from indiana
00:41:47.880
uh congresswoman uh we need more people like you um thank you so much for everything hope to talk to
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again thank you appreciate having me you bet i have a friend uh who's sounds exactly like that
00:42:03.880
the husband is a little softer spoken and she'll just go i want ukrainian women and eastern block
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women to get to washington because nothing stops them nothing stops them