When a politician says, "When I'm elected, I'm going to fight for you, the little guy, and work for you," isn't that your reaction? Rolling your eyes like, "Uh-huh?" Well, there are a few exceptions to this. And the guest today is a Congressman who has a solution.
00:00:00.000Politicians are notorious for promising everything and then doing nothing.
00:00:05.380When a politician opens his or her mouth, says, when I'm elected, I'm going to cut spedding, fight for you, the little guy, and work for you.
00:00:15.000Right? Isn't that your reaction? Rolling your eyes like, uh-huh.
00:01:41.760By letting a woman see her baby on an ultrasound and hear the heartbeat, you bring the chances of her choosing life for her baby up to a staggering 80%.
00:01:52.400Preborn partners with clinics in the highest abortion rate cities and regions.
00:01:57.080They have the passion of saving babies and saving women.
00:02:01.440Over the past 15 years, they've counseled over 340,000 women who are considering abortion.
00:02:07.180More than 169,000 babies have been saved.
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00:03:22.000I think I've shared with you before, Glenn, I've had, that's like one of the number one questions I get, and I always remember this occasion.
00:03:29.420I think it was the Tulsa airport, but I can't remember for sure what airport it was.
00:03:33.120But I literally walk out of the restroom, and there was a guy like just looking at me, big old guy with a cowboy hat, just kind of staring me down.
00:03:40.720And I'm thinking, I don't know if this guy's a friend or foe here.
00:03:43.800And so I kind of walk over toward him.
00:03:45.580He starts moving to me, and when he gets close, he doesn't say hi.
00:03:48.180He doesn't say anything. He just looks at me with his finger and says, when is someone going to jail?
00:03:51.900And it's because it resonates with the American people.
00:03:54.720We get fairness, and we understand when there's one set of rules for the elite, the fancy people here in D.C., and a different set for all us regular folk, that's not how it's supposed to work.
00:04:06.320So whether it's Lois Lerner, whether it's Amy McCabe, whether it's Jim Comey, whether it's Hillary Clinton, people are fed up with it.
00:04:12.040And, yeah, it's one of the questions I think is key, and I write a lot about that in the book, particularly some of the big investigations like the IRS, the Benghazi investigation, and, of course, the Trump-Russia investigation.
00:04:24.720Because you do go into it in the book.
00:04:25.880And I would like to know your answers, because there are, I mean, for instance, you're instrumental in exposing Merrick Garland and this National School Board incident.
00:04:40.500Now, I haven't seen all the evidence of it, so, I mean, it needs to process through.
00:04:45.240But there's a lot of things, Hunter Biden's laptop, Hunter Biden's art, you know, plus everything that happened in the last administration.
00:05:27.160But it never seems like people who kind of come from the left ever get held to account.
00:05:31.640So the short answer is we've got to have a Justice Department that's willing to prosecute people who do wrong.
00:05:36.660Now, maybe there's still a little hope with the Durham investigation because, you know, there has been indictments on Mr. Zussman and Mr. Dan Chinco.
00:05:48.440But all we can do in Congress is draw attention to the truth, have the hearings, do the investigations, do the oversight, get the information to the American people.
00:05:57.700But in the end, you've got to have an attorney general who's willing to prosecute and willing to hold these people accountable.
00:06:04.160And so far, we really haven't seen that.
00:06:07.040We're never going to get anywhere unless we I mean, I I remember in 2016, I talked to a lot of people who voted for Donald Trump and I was not at the time for Donald Trump.
00:06:17.020And one of the reasons was I kept hearing this from people who supported him.
00:06:20.460We just need to burn the whole system down.
00:06:22.640And I'm like, no, that's a really bad idea.
00:07:41.520And again, you got in a new administration, you're going to have to have an attorney general who's willing to hold people accountable, willing to indict people who did wrong.
00:07:51.000Like Lois Lerner, who set up the whole system and systematically targeted people, you know, people who will follow your podcast, listen to your shows.
00:07:59.820Good people all across this country are going to have to go after people in the Garland Justice Department who are targeting moms and dads.
00:08:06.960And I think we talked about this earlier, Glenn.
00:08:10.580I actually don't think the thing started, the school board situation.
00:08:15.360I don't think that started with the letter from the school board.
00:08:18.400I actually think it went the other direction.
00:08:20.780I just think the letter from the school board was the excuse for the Garland administration, Justice Department, the Biden administration, the excuse and the pretext they wanted to go after parents.
00:08:32.460And much like the dossier was the excuse Comey needed to go spy on the Trump.
00:08:37.380He wanted to spy on the Trump campaign.
00:09:12.540I mean, I was really disheartened with Benghazi because I know what the military could have flown jets very low, full afterburners and blown the windows out.
00:09:25.160Of everything and scared those people half to death and they would have gone.
00:09:38.400But I mean, how dead are we in the Pentagon now?
00:09:44.660Yeah, it's funny you bring it up because I write about that in the book as well.
00:09:47.520When Tyrone Woods was still on the annex fighting for his life, defending his fellow citizens, we had yet to send anything to really help him.
00:09:58.040I mean, that's this is hours of fighting.
00:10:00.900I mean, it's unbelievable what those guys did and those those four Americans who gave their life for our country.
00:11:17.640I think that there are tons of good signs.
00:11:20.240I, you know, over the summer, I had almost no faith that we could turn this around because I wasn't seeing the American people standing up.
00:11:30.280I think they're going to stand up and I think they're going to.
00:11:32.920I mean, they know who's responsible for the gas prices.
00:11:37.220They know who's responsible for inflation.
00:11:41.540You know, they know who's responsible for meat prices.
00:11:45.920And all of these things did not have to happen.
00:11:49.420And, you know, they know who is responsible for Afghanistan.
00:12:44.800You're seeing what what Georgia did with their election law.
00:12:47.080You're seeing what what Texas is did with their election law and how they're cleaning it up with what Mississippi did with this pro-life legislation.
00:12:55.000So that is a good sign. And frankly, I spoke with Governor DeSantis a few weeks ago and it was interesting because he said when he ran in one in twenty eighteen,
00:13:05.900there were, I think, three hundred thousand more registered Democrats in the state of Florida than than Republicans.
00:13:13.080Today, it's even or slightly in favor of Republicans.
00:13:17.020And it's not simply because some people are switching parties or independents are now registering.
00:13:21.280There's some of that. But it's mostly because people are moving with their feet.
00:13:25.580They're saying, I'm going to where freedom exists. I want to I want to move to freedom.
00:13:28.860And they're moving in. So this this concept of of 50 states, I think it was Governor DeSantis got a question at a press conference recently.
00:13:38.080And one of the reporters asked him if a local community wants to do something different on vaccine mandates than what you want or they want to have some local control.
00:13:46.920You know, you're a conservative, you're a Republican. Why aren't you for local control?
00:13:50.680And the governor said, because it's not the United Counties of America, it's the United States of America.
00:13:56.980And it's a compelling point. And we're seeing that play out so that that is happening.
00:14:02.240If we get back in power, though, we're going to have to do our job here in Congress.
00:14:05.540We're going to have to fight. We're going to take on the DOJ.
00:14:08.220We're going to have to do the oversight investigations that need to happen with Fauci in China and gain of function with Hunter Biden,
00:14:13.260with what the DOJ is doing to parents and on and on. That's going to be a critical function when we're in control of Congress and Joe Biden is still in the White House.
00:14:20.500Do you think the GOP gets it? Because I think the Freedom Caucus does, you know, but then, you know, I don't even know why Dan Crenshaw says,
00:14:31.000oh, Freedom Caucus, we've got a lot of these people who are grifters. Really? Really?
00:14:35.920Because pot may be calling the kettle black here. The Freedom Caucus seems to be the only one standing up for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights,
00:14:46.460which all of our problems stem from the ignoring of those things.
00:14:52.100Do the Republicans get it? Are we going to just have more of the same bullcrap in the House and the Senate from McCarthy and McConnell?
00:15:03.020I think I think Leader McCarthy has done a good job of keeping us together.
00:15:08.320I'll go back to the first impeachment. The conventional wisdom was that every Democrat was going to vote to impeach President Trump.
00:15:17.060And some Republicans would join in that effort in the House of Representatives.
00:15:20.680When it all came down to the vote, it was actually just the opposite.
00:15:24.100Every Republican voted not to because it was ridiculous what they tried to do to the president.
00:15:27.960And we had three Democrats join us and one Democrat switch parties.
00:15:32.080And so I feel like we have we have come together.
00:15:34.960But that's not McCarthy. That was that was honest people looking at that going.
00:15:39.420This is ridiculous. Was that McCarthy that did that?
00:15:43.400It was ridiculous, but I think he made some some good moves.
00:15:46.360And as and as and more than any leader, certainly I talk about this in the book.
00:15:50.960John Boehner never worked with the Freedom Caucus. Yeah.
00:15:53.540Paul Ryan did it. But Kevin McCarthy understands we had better come together if we're going to deal with the Democrats and what they want to do to the country.
00:16:02.120And I tell my I tell my colleagues, both Freedom Caucus and folks who aren't.
00:16:06.040I said any differences that the Freedom Caucus may have with other members of our conference pale, pale in comparison to differences between us and the Democrats of today.
00:16:17.460They don't the Democrats of today. They don't like America.
00:16:20.480They want to fundamentally change America.
00:16:22.640And they have got us on this accelerated march to communism that we have to come together to stop that if we're going to save the country.
00:16:30.180And the scariest thing of all is what you just mentioned, what they're doing to the First Amendment.
00:16:35.160It used to be that the left actually cherished the First Amendment as much as you and I do, but not today.
00:16:40.540They say, oh, oh, if you don't agree with me, you're not allowed to speak, Glenn.
00:16:44.860And if you try, we're going to call you a racist and we're going to try to cancel you.
00:16:49.200That is scary, but that's who they are.
00:16:51.260So we had better come together as a party to stop what they're trying to do to the Bill of Rights and specifically to the First Amendment.
00:16:57.740Those of us in talk radio and online now, they chased us out of mainstream corporate media.
00:19:03.520So I think that the party gets it, that we're going to have to come together to stop that,
00:19:08.860because if we don't, if we don't, then then we are no longer America.
00:19:13.540Because if you can just go get your political enemies and not let them speak and use the law enforcement arm of government
00:19:21.920to silence any any criticism or any dissent, then you don't have a First Amendment.
00:19:27.780You don't have a United States of America.
00:19:29.300And that that to me is the fundamental problem, because we can recover from all the stupid policies on taxes and spending and regulation and all this.
00:19:40.180But you can't recover if you don't have a First Amendment.
00:19:43.080The Davos crowd believes the biggest challenge to democracies around the world is the system of government,
00:19:57.340really, that in some ways Mussolini pioneered and China is perfecting this this state that is basically all hands in to the corporations.
00:20:11.200And they believe that we have to be something like that, except not so spooky.
00:20:19.200I know you're against the Great Reset or the Build Back Better bill, but you've got a lot of Republicans that voted.
00:20:28.760Do they know what they're doing, what they're facing?
00:20:32.160Are they why are they breaking and voting for things like that?
00:20:36.860Well, I'm not sure why some of them I think some of them legitimately thought it was going to help.
00:20:42.380You know, the what little bit of infrastructure was in that first part of this bigger package, kind of step one to the Build Back Better plan.
00:20:50.120I think they thought there was actually some some legitimate infrastructure that would help in their in their district.
00:20:54.880I disagreed because all I saw it as simply setting the tone or setting the stage for this crazy Build Back Better package that they're trying to pass through the United States Senate right now.
00:21:04.480And let's hope Senator Sinema and Manchin do what they said they would do and not not not support that.
00:21:10.640So I'm hopeful we can stop it, at least the worst, worst part of it.
00:21:16.100But I do think, as I've said now a couple of times, that Republicans are beginning to understand you're going to have to stand up to the left and not and fight everything.
00:21:26.180Gone are the days where you can work with them because of we now know where that the left, which controls the Democrat Party, where they want to take the country.
00:21:35.000And so you've got to fight them. You've just got to fight them every step of the way.
00:21:40.980And I think people are again, more members are beginning to to realize that.
00:21:45.900No, not one single Republican voted for the Build Back Better.
00:21:49.400Thank goodness for that, even though a handful voted for the the first part that sort of set the stage for it.
00:21:55.680Um, what is it that you have a we almost have a perfect conservative score, except with the Patriot Act and FISA.
00:22:09.340That's what brings you down every time. Otherwise, you're 100 percent.
00:22:14.500Why will you not reevaluate or look at what is it about the Patriot Act in the FISA thing?
00:22:20.640Oh, no, I've I've I've already reevaluated and decided I'm I'm for letting FISA expire because when we supported that years ago when I first got here, that was that was before we saw what what the FBI did.
00:22:36.560That was before we saw what what what Merrick Garland is now doing.
00:22:40.380So, yeah, I'm for letting this. That was before we got the Horowitz report.
00:22:44.280OK, two years ago, that said twenty five randomly selected FISAs.
00:22:48.800There were problems with every single one of them.
00:22:51.640The Woods file that's supposed to accompany that, which is the sort of the underlying evidence for why you go for the FISA in the application itself.
00:22:58.920They said there were problems with every single one and four of them for those twenty five randomly selected FISA applications that the inspector general looked at.
00:23:12.140So you have with the FISA law real concerns with does it even fit with the Constitution, which now after seeing how it's played out, it doesn't, doesn't even fit with the Constitution.
00:23:23.660And so so I don't think it follows the Constitution.
00:23:26.640And then the guidelines that the FBI has set up for people who what you have to go through, the rules you have to follow to get a FISA.
00:23:33.280They don't follow their own rules either.
00:23:36.020So, like, well, why it's time for this to go.
00:23:39.820So, yeah, I think so many Republicans have had a change of heart on so much of this because we see how it is being used to go after the left's political opponents.
00:23:51.040Somebody told me a very experienced Washington, a former politician who said nobody's ever going to turn that around.
00:24:00.360Nobody will ever really get rid of that because it provides too much information and you don't want to close that door because the rest of the world has that kind of information, et cetera, et cetera.
00:24:19.400I think there are folks in this town who think that.
00:24:21.680But, I mean, our best argument is, you know, tell me how it complies with the Constitution and tell me how you're going to prevent what we now know happened.
00:24:31.480Even The Washington Post has admitted, oh, we were wrong about reporting on the dossier.
00:24:36.260We were wrong about reporting on the Trump-Russia.
00:24:38.260When The Washington Post admits they were wrong about something that was going after President Trump, you know how serious and how wrong it was and how bad it is.
00:24:45.620So that's the context now, and we all fully get that.
00:24:49.680So if we can't change it now, well, you know, I don't know when we are.
00:25:22.020I can't ask for any details on anything.
00:25:25.440It's a house-run police department that seems to be now becoming an intelligence arm that is opening up an office in California and Florida.
00:25:37.720If you've got a concern about something, that's the FBI's job.
00:25:48.020We've got metal detectors that members have to walk through to go do their constitutional duty on behalf of the citizens in their congressional district because Pelosi did that.
00:25:55.860Pelosi won't give the information over about all the information she had that she knew.
00:26:01.940That's the one area that wasn't really investigated by the Senate report.
00:26:05.320And we know the January 6th committee is not going to look into that.
00:26:08.620So I think all that changes when we're back in control and we have Speaker McCarthy as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
00:26:15.900I don't think you have that kind of stuff going on, which is exactly where it needs.
00:26:19.320I hope on January 3rd, 2023, Lord willing, we win the majority.
00:26:25.660The moment the gavel gets handed to Speaker McCarthy, I hope we hear the workers outside the chamber taking down the metal detectors.
00:26:36.380And I hope on January 3rd, certain people get fired right away who are part of the Pelosi regime.
00:26:44.940So I hope all that happens right away.
00:26:46.980And frankly, if Democrats are going to continue to cross this bridge and go after their political enemies, I don't think you should do that.
00:26:56.760But if it's good for one side, frankly, it's good for the other.
00:26:59.760If they're going to hold Mark Meadows in contempt for exercising executive privilege, a 200 plus year precedent we've had in this country, then frankly, same should go.
00:27:09.480Same should apply when when our side's in charge.
00:27:13.840Dude, I don't like becoming all the things that we despise, but I like the spirit of that.
00:27:20.280One of the big problems is that, you know, I heard you talking to an aide before we started and they said, you know, you have such and such time.
00:27:29.720You said, I want to I want to be able to get down onto the floor to say a few words.
00:27:34.160I was watching Chip Roy the other day, who I just adore, and he was speaking out and there wasn't anybody in the chamber and nobody in the chamber.
00:27:45.360You guys aren't I mean, and I don't mean it to be you, but this was with Boehner.
00:27:49.760This you've got a few people that are making all the decisions.
00:27:53.300Nobody said I don't know the last time I do.
00:27:57.680I think the last time I saw people in those seats was when the television cameras were on for the last the last State of the Union address.
00:28:08.260This isn't really that there's no real debate going on anymore.
00:28:12.440It's decided by a bunch of insiders at the very top.
00:28:19.560Yeah, and there is real debate in committees.
00:28:22.260You know, if you come to the Judiciary Committee, we got to seem like there's a fight going on in there every time we have a hearing, every time there's a subcommittee hearing.
00:28:31.440So there is real debate that happens there.
00:28:33.880There are sometimes on the floor there.
00:28:35.480There's as you point out, there's just no one in there.
00:28:37.780There's a few people debating some bill.
00:28:40.060Maybe it's a suspension bill that's maybe not quite as important as some other legislation.
00:28:46.420But there are times, too, when there are members in there.
00:28:51.160And I kind of frankly enjoy that because my background is a sport of wrestling.
00:28:54.660I kind of like when it's a little more combative.
00:30:36.520When is Congress going to be excited about doing their job?
00:30:40.360Because I think I think it's it's weasel town.
00:30:45.740Nobody wants to be responsible for anything, which makes it impossible for the people to actually get representation, because who's responsible for that law?
00:30:56.000Who's responsible for that that that person coming to my house and saying I have to do this?
00:31:46.580That belongs to the commander in chief whose name is on the ballot and gets elected president.
00:31:50.660Did Dr. Fauci ever put his name on a ballot and run for office?
00:31:53.700No, but it's funny you bring us up, Glenn, because we had a hearing last week on the Administrative Procedures Act and Democrats want to go the wrong direction.
00:32:03.060They want to give more power to the bureaucrats in the agencies.
00:32:06.700And so I was questioning the witness and I said, who does Dr. Fauci answer to?
00:32:11.060And the witness says, well, in the end, in the end, the answers to the president of the United States.
00:32:16.860I said, well, not really, because remember, just last Sunday, two Sundays ago, Dr. Fauci said, basically, I represent science.
00:33:43.160Here's here's the problem, too, is if you stand up and fight for the things that the voters sent you here to do, if you actually get to this town and do what you said you would do, you are going to get attacked.
00:33:56.440It is so much easier to just keep your head down.
00:34:08.420But I tell my colleagues all the time, I said, look, here's the nature of this business today with the left as crazy as they are and them fundamentally trying to change our country and marching us on this accelerated direction in this accelerated way to communism.
00:35:15.800I spoke to the New Mexico Republican Party in Amarillo, Texas, because they had to go to Texas to get freedom because their crazy governor wouldn't let them get together in more than 150 people at a time.
00:35:30.300And they wanted to get 450 people together.
00:35:32.600So they had to go to Texas to exercise their right to assemble, to exercise their First Amendment.
00:45:14.480And we're starting, as you point out, starting to see where with a with an FBI and a DOJ that is willing to target parents for speaking out.
00:45:23.080And then a bill that gets introduced that has this component on banking and any transaction over six hundred dollars has got to be reported.
00:45:29.580And the government gets to see it like and of course, it's always for a good reason.
00:45:32.960It's because we don't want people cheating on their taxes.
00:45:51.440And again, I'm encouraged by the fact that we push back on that crazy thing, even with Democrats in control of all government on the banking issue.
00:46:52.600You can't even do business with companies that have lower scores than you.
00:46:56.540They just came out this week and talked about you're not going to get a loan.
00:47:03.220And if you are a brown company or you are a person that you're not looking at the environment or social justice in the same way, we can't give you a loan.
00:47:19.980And it's and it's it's it's it's a it's a it's a it's related to what what many folks try to do to Israel and say, we're not going to invest in the great state of Israel.
00:47:29.840So because, you know, the whole Palestinian argument, which was just completely divestment issue in there, which was so wrong.
00:47:36.980So it's it's the same kind of this stuff is bad.
00:47:39.940Corporations, I thought they were focused on return on investment and, you know, answering to their stockholders versus this this woke agenda that they have.
00:47:51.580It's why the Financial Services Committee and who who runs that Republicans in charge of that versus Maxine Waters is a is the is is one of the things we need to happen to stop that kind of that kind of move from from from getting a full grip and a full hold.
00:48:11.040What should Republicans, I mean, do what you said you would do.
00:48:15.500I'm not sure where I would even start if I were making a list, because we are we are on fire almost everywhere and it's critical that we can begin putting it out.
00:48:31.840I'd love to see a contract for America.
00:48:34.460I'd love to see a list of things that I can say that's what you're going to do.
00:49:04.760Three quick one is what we've been talking a lot about is is full sort of defense of the First Amendment, the Constitution, Bill of Rights.
00:49:12.200Definitely. What do you put into motion or repeal?
00:49:17.400Yeah. Well, I think you you first of all, do everything you can do to hold DOJ accountable where they've been violating those those fundamental principles.
00:49:25.700Second, you pass legislation that you can.
00:49:28.680But knowing that President Biden's not going to sign it.
00:49:31.360Sure. So you you take away the liability protection big tech has as as you just pass that bill.
00:49:36.840You pass a bill that says any antitrust action, we're going to get it to the Supreme Court in a much an expedited manner.
00:49:42.560So we can get a ruling on these big tech companies and the antitrust seems to me.
00:49:46.880Justice Thomas has given all kinds of indications he wants to.
00:49:50.240He wants a case on that. So you you you try to set up a system where you you get those cases.
00:49:55.340Remember, the Trump administration sued big tech on antitrust to two suits.
00:49:59.040So you want to get that to the to the Supreme Court in the in the in the big tech area on the on the border.
00:50:06.760You you have to pass something that says we will not fund catch and release because we should build the wall.
00:50:14.680We should do everything. But if people come across the wall and the border agents are there and then we're just releasing them into the country.
00:50:21.300OK, the wall slowed them down. But the catch and release is what's that's why people are coming because they know they're going to get released to the country.
00:50:28.020You have to stop catch and release. And the way to do it is say we are not going to you just make that illegal.
00:50:34.460You cannot do catch and release and then get more agents there so you can actually secure the border, build the wall, do what you have to do.
00:50:41.400School choice. I am so adamant on this.
00:50:44.380The federal government to voters out there, I say, do not support any candidate who is not for letting moms and dads select where their son or daughter will get the best education.
00:50:55.840I don't care if it's a Republican candidate. If they're not for school choice, don't help them.
00:50:59.380Go find a Republican who's for school choice.
00:51:02.020We have if we're going to get rid of this crazy thinking out there in this hate America curriculum,
00:51:07.260then you're going to have to create competition because what will happen in our public schools is they'll just call it something else.
00:51:14.380And teach it again. We so at all levels of government, we have to elect people who are solely on the side of moms and dads selecting where their kid gets an education.
00:51:23.580We have to full throated support for endorsement of school choice at the federal level.
00:51:28.740What we can say is we're not going to send any money. Federal government doesn't do much money on funding of education.
00:51:34.560But the money we do have is not going to go to schools that do school districts that don't offer school choice to the to the kids.
00:51:40.400And that we have to have that long term to to fix things.
00:51:44.980So I think those are three right at the start. And then.
00:51:49.400Maybe just more more basic here. If we win, we have to do oversight.
00:51:54.300The Ways and Means Committee has to figure out how was it that thousands of Americans tax returns became public?
00:52:00.660How that happened? We need to know the Judiciary Committee.
00:52:04.980Mayor Garland, what did you really do? What communications really took place between the Attorney General of the United States and the School Board Dissociation prior to the launch of this letter?
00:52:13.740Because remember, that letter sent on the 29th of September and five days later later, we got a memo enacting everything that letter wants it to do.
00:52:21.340And in between that, you got the director of counterterrorism at the FBI, Tim Langan, having conversations with the DOJ.
00:52:26.700And the person who wrote the letter, Viola Garcia, at the School Board Dissociation, gets a plum assignment on October 1st.
00:52:31.740Two days later, a plum position with the Department of Education Board.
00:52:35.500I mean, when have you ever seen government move that fast in five days?
00:52:38.320I've never seen federal government move that fast.
00:52:40.300So what all happened before? We have to get answers to that question, the Fauci question.
00:52:44.960How about the Penn Center or excuse me, the Biden Center up at the University of Pennsylvania and the China money that came into the Biden Center?
00:52:52.340Where's that investigation, for goodness sake?
00:52:54.560So the Education and Labor Committee with Republicans in charge should be doing subpoenas and asking questions and finding out, because I think that is just like the Clinton Foundation was.
00:53:03.300I think there's a bunch of money that went there.
00:53:04.860We don't know until we do an investigation. So the oversight function, which is our constitutional duty, has to be front and center in 23 and 24 as we move into a presidential election that I think will decide, are we going to have are we going to save America or not?
00:53:20.860That's how you frame it up. That's how I think that's our fundamental mission.
00:53:24.260Is there a chance of being even bolder on things like why do we have the Department of Education?
00:53:33.020Yeah. Why do we have the Department of Education?
00:53:36.100Like four or five thousand people over there making making twice as much money as a teacher in a classroom.
00:53:40.840Actually, it's always funny in education. The further you get away from the kid, the more money you make.
00:53:45.140And you get all the way to Washington, the Department of Education, you're getting paid one hundred twenty thousand to make life miserable for the good school districts that are trying to teach people.
00:53:51.440Right. It's crazy. And I mean, I I've always said I really want the president who will say for all of those who own property in Washington and Virginia and Maryland around the D.C.
00:54:05.760area, you're going to hate me because your property is going to lose a ton of value when I get in because I'm just shutting this stuff down because it give it back to the American people and give that power back to the states.
00:54:23.060But I don't know if I'll ever see that guy, which brings me to back to Donald Trump.
00:54:28.840I think I think Trump, at least his staff, knew at the end we needed to fill those posts.
00:54:40.200We needed to pay more attention to what is called the deep state, which is just the bureaucracy and the people who don't care about who's president.
00:54:49.120They're going to do it their way and I'll outlive you.
00:54:52.500So two questions, if Donald Trump is elected, he'll only have four years.
00:55:01.860That wasn't enough to do it last time.
00:55:06.560Is is there a way is there going to be a team that will be able to flush this deep state and make the changes deep enough if we only have four years?
00:55:19.720Yeah, I think they will, because you're right.
00:55:24.800They came in in 17, not realizing how deep the state was and what they were up against and how everyone in the bureaucracy was out to stop him.
00:55:33.500I always point out, though, in spite of that, in spite of every Democrat being against him, everyone in the mainstream press against him, half the Republicans against him and all the bureaucracy against him.
00:55:42.900He got more done than any president in our lifetime.
00:55:44.400So so this is the guy we need for the job.
00:55:47.800But, yeah, he'll hit the ground running in 2025 and he'll understand we can't we can't make the same mistake last time, kind of trying to figure things out.
00:56:21.200You had the biggest distraction of all time.
00:56:25.180You could have you could have abolished Roe versus Wade and nobody would have been talking about it because they would have talked about his tweets.
00:56:34.360You had this golden opportunity and the Republicans just wasted it.
00:56:53.760I mean, I mean, since since since he's left office on January 20th, 2021, I've been ready for him to run again.
00:57:02.820And I hope he does, because he's proven he can take the heat, stand up to the pressure and forge ahead and do what he like I said, do what he told the American people he was going to do.
00:57:13.880I write a lot about him in the book and the interactions I had the privilege of having with him.
00:57:18.620Give me give me give me give me give me an example from the book on.
00:57:23.140And on that, because, you know, Ron DeSantis seems like he's cut from the same cloth, but yeah, it's a different you're you're playing for a stadium when you're the president of the United States, not a local theater.
00:57:39.020And I know the state of Florida is a big deal and he's taking a lot of heat.
00:57:42.400But Donald Trump seems to have this thing where he doesn't give a flying crap about anything.
01:00:47.680They're going to do, first of all, the main point is they're going to do that to whoever our nominee is.
01:00:52.040If Glenn Beck's our nominee for president, they're going to lie about you.
01:00:56.120They're going to make you the most hated guy in the country.
01:00:58.040If Ron DeSantis, who's done an outstanding job as governor, one of the original nine members of the Freedom Caucus, when we formed that group, if Ron DeSantis was our candidate, they've already started on DeSantis.
01:01:22.340So it doesn't matter who our nominee is.
01:01:24.680They're going to do it to that individual.
01:01:26.260What I know about President Trump is he can take it, and he did more what he said he would do than any president, maybe in history, maybe certainly in my lifetime, and he did it with everyone against him.
01:01:38.840And he didn't have the full weight of the Republican House and Senate supporting him all the time, and he's still got so many great things done.
01:01:54.420How does he get the Republicans, who are mealy-mouthed, worthless, kind of rhino anyway, that don't see the big vision here of we're about to lose the country, what does he have to do to get the lockstep support?
01:02:13.760He doesn't just need their silence or their compliance.
01:02:23.420Well, I think it'll be there because it's a different context.
01:02:28.880I know you wrote a lot about this, when the whole framework or the whole window moves, then suddenly people have to reevaluate it.
01:02:36.080Well, the window has moved because now we have Joe Biden, who is the worst president in our lifetime, maybe the worst in history.
01:02:42.360Everything he's done has been a debacle.
01:02:43.960So in that context, with the guy who can fight it, so think about it, he won in 2016, coming off Obama when Obama wasn't even close to anything close to as bad as where Biden is.
01:02:55.380So I think the framework, the window has moved and people are going to say, we need this guy again.
01:03:06.880We definitely need him to come in and pick.
01:03:09.040So I think that, along with his proven ability to take him on, I just know deep in my gut, and I think you do as well, Glenn, we have to have him, that kind of guy, in the White House at this critical moment in American history.
01:03:23.820The name of the book is Do What You Said You Would Do.
01:03:26.540And, Jim, I want to thank you for actually living that title.