In this episode of the Blaze Media Podcast, we sit down with Florida Congressman Corey Mills (D-7th District) to talk about how he became the Real Life Batman, Superman, and how he got to where he is today.
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00:30:06.060I went with one other person in Tajikistan, and then we did a border trek in the Vodakshan and all the other areas.
00:30:12.040There's a whole story behind that on how we did all this, convincing the taxi cab driver that we were tourists looking at the river layouts.
00:30:19.500And that, you know, going through this whole rigmarin, utilizing sat phones to talk to the Taliban leader so that we could actually get her across and the kids because we convinced them we were part of the Qatari negotiation.
00:30:30.580Because here's the thing about sat phones.
00:30:33.500It's not like with your cell phone where when you call it automatically adds a plus one.
00:30:36.740With a sat phone, whatever the first number is, it pulls it over as the country code.
00:30:40.700So we had some 808 sat phones that would come over as a plus eight, and we had a guy named Yusuf who spoke fluent Tajik, Pashtu, Dari.
00:30:49.420And so we convinced them that it was part of the negotiation.
00:30:51.640I was the husband of the woman, Maryam, and that those were my kids.
00:30:54.920And I remembered their passport numbers, when they were born, their dates, things like that, in case I was questioned.
00:30:59.560And when we went across to actually get the family to get them out, but this is zero government support and help.
00:31:06.060As you saw, they were working against us because they knew what was going on.
00:31:12.320David Fox, who was an American trapped in Kabul, had said he'd gotten sent a blank visa that had no name, no barcode, and no actual serial number on it.
00:31:22.360That a thousand other Afghans had gotten as well that were then being photocopied for this great American operational airlift,
00:31:28.520where they had thousands upon thousands upon thousands who had never been vetted, never had SIV, anything.
00:32:26.300Well, one of the things I was doing was when I realized that the Torkum border crossing was an available asset and that I could sponsor visas for Afghan, you know, and Americans through my SECP license there.
00:32:38.420Then what we did was we started running them through the Torkum border.
00:32:41.420The reason why is because Karachi actually had the ability to do the biometrics, the medical, and the security reviews.
00:32:49.100And that was being run by one of the state, excuse me, State Department agents named Zach Ziddle, who I knew from my time in northern Iraq, who he was the regional security officer.
00:32:58.060So I was able to get people into Islamabad to then be processed, who were our allies and working with people like Chad Roachow and others to be able to make sure that we can help those in need.
00:33:08.440And so that was really how that opened up.
00:33:10.500And again, Glenn, the thing about it is, and you've seen this, I don't always have the perfect solution to the perfect plan, but God opens doors for me in some ways.
00:33:20.060And that wasn't even what we thought about originally.
00:33:21.840We thought that was going to be a completely closed border because of the fight that goes on between north-south Waziristan and what occurs in Afghanistan.
00:33:27.760And that became one of the avenues after we had gotten through Piange and got them back to Dushanbe for the very first rescue and started getting Americans that way.
00:33:35.160So it's like anything, whether it was the Israel rescues, whether it was the Haiti rescues, whether it's what we did in western North Carolina or here, get on the ground and figure it out.
00:33:44.340Get on the ground, look at the solutions, look at the assessments, and then just make it happen.
00:33:48.500I tell you, that is the thing that gives me so much hope that, and it may be the reason, you know, we gave Afghanistan back to the bad guys.
00:34:00.600And that has got to be something, if I fought over in Afghanistan, I'd be like, what was all that loss of life for?
00:34:10.060And our suicide rates spiked immediately, by the way, Glenn, as a result of that.
00:34:13.820I mean, people fail to understand how that impacted so many of our brave veterans.
00:34:17.840But I'm the first to tell every single combat veteran out there, if you served in Afghanistan or you served in Iraq, you did it honorably and you can hold your head proud because this wasn't the boots who failed.
00:34:47.440They knew how to make a makeshift airport.
00:34:49.840All the stuff I wouldn't have known and most of us wouldn't know.
00:34:53.460I think this could turn out to be a blessing that we have all of these vets who fought in war, that when things go nuts, they're not fighting.
00:35:07.120They're doing things that the average American couldn't do.
00:35:10.460Well, and because it's all a veterans-based understanding of find a solution, understand leadership, and then guaranteeing that you can make things happen because you're unwilling to fail the operation or the mission at hand.
00:35:23.900And that applies regardless of combat or helping those in need.
00:35:29.740The one thing America has that the rest of the nation wants is that we have a noncommissioned officer corps within our military of solution-driven enlisted men.
00:35:40.160And we have veterans, largest volunteer, strongest volunteer force in the world, who understands what it is to serve its country, to serve the people of America.
00:35:49.780And that's all we do when we're in the military.
00:35:51.080We're there to serve the country, not serve any political agenda or anyone who sits at 1600.
00:35:56.120And these are the veterans who are going to step up.
00:36:27.700So as we all know, Jimmy Chavier, who is known as Barbecue, ran something called the GS9 Gangs.
00:36:33.420He was very, very strong to the former president who was assassinated and was actually part of the national police there in Haiti.
00:36:38.720He led an attempted coup, which was successful in ousting the power that was within Haiti and formulating all these gangs who terrorized the entire country.
00:36:48.820I mean, this is an individual who was so barbaric in his way of trying to terrorize that he would carve individuals up in the middle of the street and leave their bodies there.
00:36:57.540There was pictures and videos of cannibalism in an attempt to try and, you know, essentially threaten and scare and terrorize those who are around the country.
00:37:05.580And so what happened was is that I looked once again, what is the country going to do?
00:37:10.700I watched the failure in Afghanistan and we shamed them into doing something.
00:37:14.020I watched the failures in Israel where we pulled out 255 Americans before the federal government did anything and we shamed them into do it.
00:37:20.680Certainly they're going to do something now.
00:37:22.840Well, the response from the State Department was we have no plan and or intent of rescuing Americans from Haiti as we've been warning them that it's a level four threat country to begin with.
00:37:34.100Hey, sorry, America, those taxpayer dollars.
00:37:36.620Sorry, the take care clause in the Constitution by our executive branch.
00:37:39.740We don't we don't feel we need to take care of you.
00:37:41.780That was the answer by the federal government.
00:37:43.460So once again, I called veterans and I called partners of mine and said, we have to do something.
00:37:51.540And let me tell you, every single individual I've ever rescued, Glenn, whether it was Afghanistan, Israel, Haiti or people I've helped in Florida or North Carolina, wherever.
00:37:59.440I never knew them until the moment that I met them in person.
00:38:02.140I didn't care what their political affiliation was or who they voted for.
00:38:05.260I didn't care what state or for which constituents they are of which district.
00:38:09.140I cared if they were Americans in need.
00:38:11.060And so we flew over there and actually did night operations in Haiti out of the Dominican Republic, out of Porta Plata and out of Santo Domingo.
00:38:19.860And we rescued 13 on the very first rescue landing in a 100 by 100 backyard, spending about 62 seconds on the ground before we were able to get them out in about 3 a.m.
00:38:30.800And then the next day we ended up rescuing another 13 out of or 10 the first time, another 13 the second time out of a church where they were hiding.
00:38:45.460And then the best part, after getting the 23 Americans out, the federal government started to step up and wanted to do things to try and then help opening up Cap-Haitien, opening up the World Gas Program, things like this.
00:38:58.020But then I partnered with Tim Tebow and the Sentinel Foundation and we were able to get 59 and Mercury One, 59 children who were mentally and physically disabled in Haiti, who the gangs didn't feel that they were good enough to shoot.
00:39:11.300So they would take their medications and they would take their food and they were going to let them just stay there and starve and die from either malnutrition or infection.
00:39:18.660And we were able to get them into Haiti or into Jamaica to resettle.
00:39:23.120And every one of them survived and are doing better now than they were originally.
00:42:05.320Do I go back to the hotel in Amman, wait for my team to refit?
00:42:11.560We can get a better plan in place tomorrow and I'll be safe.
00:42:17.080And then you're stuck with that decision, though, Glenn, where it's like, I have that opportunity.
00:42:22.340But what about the tomorrows at every single person that's there?
00:42:24.800What happens if I go back to that hotel and they launch one of the anti-tank missiles that Hezbollah was firing that hits that hotel where these people are waiting for me?
00:42:33.240And then they don't have there tomorrow.
00:42:36.260And I remember that I saw a bunch of taxi cabs that was there.
00:42:39.340And I remember I went over to some of the taxi cab.
00:42:40.920You're kind of looking like, all right, this guy's paying way too much attention to me.
00:43:33.680But what motivates me is what I saw when this young lady named Silver Prout, who was there on a missionary trip, was sitting in the lobby with the rest of the people.
00:44:45.300And that day on October 11th, only days after the horrendous incident that occurred by the terrorist organization of Hamas, we rescued the first 32 Americans and got them out of Israel.
00:44:56.440One minute away to the final chapter with Corey Mills.
00:49:24.300I'm a seven article, 27 amendment constitutionalist who believes in physical responsibility, limited government and more American rights.
00:49:31.200The 17th Amendment, two things happened in 1913.
00:49:34.800And one was the 16th Amendment, which is federal income tax, which they justified in helping to build roads and schools and bridges and a strong military.
00:49:42.180As if we didn't have that previously, by the way.
00:49:44.660But what the real nefarious cause is when you pair the 16th and 17th together.
00:49:49.360A lot of people don't know that our United States senators used to be elected by our state legislators.
00:49:53.580The brilliance of this is that it guaranteed the protection of our 10th Amendment, which is one of my absolute most important.
00:49:59.700I'm his absolutist when it comes to the 10th Amendment, which is your state and individual rights and freedoms.
00:50:04.600What they realized is that back then, if the federal government was going to pass a bill that disenfranchised or minimalized the amount of freedoms and rights and liberties under the 10th Amendment, the state legislature would pick up the phone and call the senator and say, hey, senator, do you like your job?
00:50:18.900Because if you vote for this, you're not going to have it.
00:50:21.940Well, politicians who are very slippery-tongued individuals said, why should politicians elect politicians?
00:50:29.000That should be the role of the American people.
00:50:31.340And when you hear this, it's very convincing as an argument.
00:50:34.600But what we failed to understand is that that was our only real state and federal check-in balance that we had with that 10th Amendment.
00:50:43.880Now, why did they do that together with the 16th and 17th?
00:50:49.840Not only am I going to disenfranchise our individual states and our individual American citizens, but I'm going to use your money to fund our power grab agenda.
00:50:56.980So now it was about this was the pivotal turning point of D.C.'s power greed grab was under Wilson in 1913 to steal your money to feed their power and agenda while disenfranchising your state legislators and your individual rights.
00:51:12.960Our God-given and native rights, not our government-privileged and provided rights.
00:51:18.440That's what our first 10 true amendments were about.
00:51:21.020And so the 17th Amendment, in my opinion, was the pivotal turning point of the swamp.
00:51:30.740But, you know, it's funny because the reason why congressmen have to be reelected all the time, it feels like you must feel like you're always running, is to control the purse.
00:51:42.580Congress is supposed to be the one that holds the money.
00:51:45.240And our founders said if they're if they have to answer every two years to people back home, they're not going to let out of control spending happen because the people will say enough is enough.
00:51:56.760But if they do, OK, some money, then there has to be another check because it might give the government too much power and and reduce.
00:52:10.000And so what they did is they took all the senators out.
00:52:17.640Well, but if you think about it, and this is why I always remind people about the brilliance of our Constitution, you know, Article one, two and three is our legislative, executive and judicial branch roles, responsibilities.
00:52:50.640Because you get to touch that individual, thanks to the 22nd Amendment, every four years.
00:52:55.860And so then you look at what their limited roles, responsibilities are, and which has been abused by the executive privileges we know, or executive orders, I should say.
00:53:03.880But then you've got the third, which is the fewest responsibilities, roles, and authorities under the judiciary branch because it's a lifetime appointment.
00:53:12.400The brilliance and what our founding fathers have put together is what we're trying to protect here because it's our God-given rights.
00:53:19.560It's our American citizens' freedoms, liberties, but it's also protection of our Constitution.
00:53:23.900And again, I want to remind people, Article four, section four sets it out very clearly that we are a constitutional republic, not a democracy.
00:53:31.240A democracy is what the left wants with mob rule.
00:53:33.620What we are governed by is the rule of law.
00:53:35.940And so we've continued to abdicate our roles and responsibilities in our Article one so much, Glenn.
00:53:42.460I mean you look at these authorized use of military force, this carte blanche warfare that we have, these AUMS from 1957, 1991, 01, and 02, which are still in existence but don't serve their intended purposes other than presidential authority to declare war.
00:53:57.240That's an abdication of Article one, section eight, clause 11 through 13 of the legislative branch's war power authorities, or even the 1973 war power authorities.
00:54:10.200We continue to give power to the executive branch.
00:54:13.800We continue under things like the 17th Amendment to disenfranchise our state individual rights.
00:54:19.260And then we wonder, where's the America that we once recognized?
00:54:23.700Where's the citizens who would revolt over a one-cent tea tax who's okay with 60% going to foreign nations and criminal migrants?
00:54:31.660We're just not the America we used to be, and that's what I fight to try and get back.
00:54:34.840And that's why I do these types of things, one, because it's right, but two, I want to bring confidence back in government to the American people that we're not all like this.
00:54:41.860Let me go, since we're talking about spending, let me go back to where we started, really, with FEMA.
00:54:48.820Let me read FEMA's response to people saying they diverted funds to migrant resettlements.
00:54:54.540Quote, no money is being diverted from disaster response needs.
00:54:58.800FEMA's disaster response efforts and individual assistance is funded through the Disaster Relief Fund, which is a dedicated fund for disaster efforts.
00:55:07.060Disaster Relief Fund money has not been diverted to any non-disaster-related efforts.
00:55:19.680Well, that's the legal and political response, which is that, no, no, no, no, we didn't touch that tranche of money.
00:55:26.560We just sold all of your other taxpayers' money to resettle the immigrants.
00:55:30.700But no, no, no, no, we still kept that little tranche.
00:55:32.480But remember, this is the same individual, Glenn, Secretary Mayorkas, who, one, has kept our borders open with tens of millions of people who's come across.
00:55:40.300But also, this is a guy who said, we have no more money left in FEMA.
00:55:43.840Then when organizations like yours and others started stepping up and that veteran community started stepping up, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:55:49.540Actually, no, we have $22 billion now all of a sudden that we can spend to try and help out.
00:55:53.560It's like, so wait a second, we understand that the DOD hasn't passed an audit internally since the administration that's in place has taken over.
00:56:01.740But now we've got the Secretary of Homeland Security who said, we don't have any money, we need an immediate spend up.
00:56:06.660Oh, wait a second, now I have $22 billion.
00:56:09.240I mean, look, the American people are not stupid.
00:56:16.080I want the OIG to go in and do a complete review.
00:56:19.200I want everything, whether it's FEMA, whether it's CBP, whether it's our State Department and their utilization of our money.
00:56:26.440By the way, some of the U.S. aid and State Department funding that our taxpayers have was going towards things like studying anti – just the idea of the idea that we should be studying anti-Christian ideology and that we should be supporting the idea of this.
00:56:41.300I mean that we were doing genders – $25 million of gender study review for Pakistan.
00:56:46.500This is how the American people want their money.
00:56:53.480If you want to find the problem of overspending, the first place you have to look is D.C.
00:56:58.080Let's look at the departments, the agencies, and the bureaus that are there that no longer serve the American people or their intended purpose and eliminate them.
00:57:05.040Let's take the Department of Education, get rid of it, and return it to the states.
00:57:08.080Let's get rid of EPA and allow us to actually not be overregulated and overpermitted so that our private sector can thrive and we have economic growth.
00:57:16.820Get rid of the spying and prying on the American people when you talk about things like FISA 702 Title I that was abused 287,000 times by the FBI that they admitted to.
00:57:29.360So if you want to cut funding, let's cut out 60% of D.C., return powers to the state and individuals, and start helping an economic growth strategy by looking at energy as our global currency.
00:57:51.620If you're living in the D.C. Beltway area, you should put your house up for sale now because after I'm elected, your price of your home is going to plummet because I'm firing so many of these people.
00:58:10.940I hope he actually I think that he will, Glenn.
00:58:15.080He's I truly believe that, especially when he talks about Elon and especially when I look at he learned so much in his first term about the deep state, the admin state and the nanny state.
00:58:25.640And let me tell you, be just as scared about the nanny state as we are of the deep state and admin.
00:58:37.000There was a bill that was going to be a federal mandate for companies who make baby wipes or toiletry wipes or things like this, that they had to change all of their packaging to say, do not flush.
00:58:52.380Now, tell me where that is a federal government responsibility to tell private sectors that you shouldn't you shouldn't put this into your toilets.
00:59:03.200Why is that a law that any American should be OK with?
00:59:08.260We shouldn't even have to be voting on things like that.
00:59:10.520And by the way, that wasn't a Democrat bill.
00:59:13.700So we have just as much finger pointing that we need to be doing on the internal as we do on the external.
00:59:20.460But I can tell you that you're 100 percent right.
00:59:22.760And I think President Trump learned enough about it.
00:59:24.280We will eliminate and do massive cuts because the solution for the federal government is that if this individual fails, we should hire five more individuals to do his job.
00:59:33.160When they fail, we hire 10 more individuals.
01:01:53.380They're willing to go ahead and say, you know what, work as hard as a soldier so you don't recognize the general.
01:01:58.320It's time for our elected officials to be encouraged to do what is right.
01:02:01.900And I try to be not shaming them into doing what's right, but being able to be loud and vocal enough where they see what I'm doing.
01:02:08.460And I hope that it encourages them to do the same.
01:02:10.860Look, we wouldn't need term limits on Congress if people did their job and worked as hard as they were supposed to.
01:02:16.460Because you would burn yourself out and want to hand the torch over.
01:02:19.860But the reality is, is that the same way that women's sports has become a plan B for failed male athletes is the same way that the federal government has become a plan B for failed entrepreneurs.
01:02:30.680People are making more money in federal government than they make in the private sector.
01:02:35.180And that's why I proposed two things that I thought would have been very good, Glenn, and it's not popular on either side.
01:02:41.980The two things I proposed is, is that we need to get into control of campaign finance reform, where it's not about how much you spend, but about meritocracy and the best candidates.
01:02:51.160And so how we do that is that we actually make it to where you can only raise funds within your own district.
01:02:57.160We don't need a blanketed, we don't need a blanketed $174,900 to every member of Congress.
01:03:02.680What your salary should be determined upon is every member of Congress and senators should be paid on the family median income of the people you represent.
01:03:13.560So that when you make a decision that impacts your pocketbook, it impacts the people you represent as well.
01:04:06.340This was a flip seat last time from Stephanie Murphy.
01:04:09.420But I believe in the fact that, one, out of 28 congressional districts in the state of Florida, with much more senior individuals than myself,
01:04:16.420I lead the entire state, my team does, in constituent services and money brought back from the federal government bureaucracies that's been held for weeks and months and years.
01:04:25.400I believe that if we truly believe in meritocracy and we continue to utilize that as our narrative, then let's live it.
01:04:36.440It's by doing what is right and saying, you know what?
01:04:38.940I'm not out there to campaign and tell you what I'm going to do or what I would have done.
01:05:03.360I can be a secretary of defense advisor.
01:05:06.280I already carry the best title that I'll ever hold in my life, which is dad.
01:05:09.560I have a 10-year-old boy, and that's what matters, and that's my why.
01:05:13.960And so when I look at what matters most to me, whenever—and I told you this, I said, whenever I die, God's not going to look at me and say, you know, you should have ran a better campaign.
01:05:26.340But what he will say is, is that as C.S. Lewis used to talk about your talents, he's going to talk about the fact, with the talents that I gave you, here's what you've been able to do with it.
01:05:36.280Here's how many lives that you touched.
01:05:37.800Here's how many people that you saved.
01:05:39.220Here's how many people you encouraged to get involved and do more.
01:06:14.120What you've done in Afghanistan, what you've done in Israel, what you've done in Haiti, what you did for Western North Carolina, what you did for my district.
01:06:19.680I don't think anyone can ever thank you enough for what you and J.P. Decker and all of your team has done.
01:06:26.560I mean, even the folks at Blaze have been so amazing, whether it was Jill or Julio or any of the others, just covering the story and getting the facts out.
01:06:33.860You're greatly appreciated, and I consider you a true friend, and so I'm here anytime you need me, Glenn.
01:06:38.420Well, I'm going to need you soon as I keep looking at that ocean behind you.