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00:09:57.000And in fact, let's have a government that thinks they know better, thinks that they are God.
00:10:04.000And so they're going to reduce the oil that we can pump, starve us for anything that we know historically works, to give us a bunch of crap that doesn't work.
00:10:18.000That we still have to have the energy to propel.
00:10:22.000We still have to make electricity so the car can plug in.
00:11:07.000How dare France separate itself from the collective?
00:11:11.000And meanwhile, on MSNBC, Chris Matthews on Wednesday claimed that, and I'm quoting, rural Americans are essentially members of a cult who will vote in, quote, their craziness if Democrats don't show up at the polls.
00:13:38.000They're lining up at the border and we let them through.
00:13:41.000And boy, it's really crazy to ask why the Biden administration said, oh, if they're from China, pretty much just let them through.
00:13:52.000Did we learn nothing from 9-11 or did I just dream that up in a crazy fever dream, Chris?
00:13:59.000Is it crazy to insist the Constitution be followed and the Bill of Rights that maybe we don't have secret courts?
00:14:09.000Maybe we're not spied on that our CIA and other intelligence agencies don't conduct cognitive operations, quote unquote, on our fellow citizens.
00:14:21.000Is it crazy to say we need to be energy independent at a time when oil tankers are being hijacked by Iran, when whole fleets of electric cars are being sold and the old combustion engine is back because the tech isn't there?
00:14:38.000Is it too much to ask in a country like ours to allow the citizens of the country, a republic, to make their own decisions on what they buy, what they eat, what medicine they inject in their own bodies?
00:14:53.720Is it really all that crazy to demand that the government rein in spending when we're at $34 trillion in debt and our deficit, just our deficit in December alone, was 50% higher than they said it would be?
00:15:12.580Is it really crazy to question authority, when that authority has lied to you about serious issues, too many to even count?
00:15:24.380Corruption at the highest levels, laptop, Russia, Clinton servers, January 6th, Ray Epps, ESG, collusion with big tech, to silence and censor those that do question?
00:15:38.440Is it really, is that really crazy, Chris?
00:15:40.980Because to me, it doesn't sound all that crazy.
00:18:24.600Okay, so last week we found out the National Park Service announced plans to permanently remove a statue of William Penn.
00:18:45.360This is in Welcome Park to get to know Pennsylvania.
00:18:49.220So it had a replica of his home and a statue of him in front, but they wanted to expand the interpretation of the Native American history in the region.
00:19:00.720You cannot tell the story of Pennsylvania and the Native Americans without William Penn.
00:26:24.600So, I'm glad to see that we are actually asking people to step down, get out of our way, let Texas secure the border, because you aren't doing it.
00:26:37.160Meanwhile, in Washington, they're having a big fight over the budget.
00:26:43.080And I don't understand why more people are not up in arms.
00:26:46.760You have people in New York City now whose kids have been removed from their schoolhouse because they needed space for illegal immigrants.
00:26:58.560And if you think, oh, poor New York, screw you.
01:44:45.240I'll tell you, he better not question my intelligence. I'll tell you that right now. Thomas Massey is with us, who's just on CNN, questioning the intelligence of some of the anchors there. I don't know how you could possibly do that, Thomas Massey.
01:45:03.600Well, I just questioned their preparedness. Now, I never questioned that about you or your staff.
01:45:11.080And we're the ones you should, really.
01:45:14.220No, she claimed, she referenced 19 different things I had voted on and claimed she had spent a whopping two minutes studying one of them, and it made her an expert.
01:45:25.220Okay, we want to talk to you about what's happening overseas with the Houthis.
01:45:31.380Uh, I am, I'm really torn on this because I feel as though we are backing in to yet another war. I also think there are people in this administration that want war. I also know that this administration continues to send money over to Iran. So, uh, you know, our, our literal enemy in this, we're helping fund. So this isn't serious on anybody's part.
01:45:56.500However, however, however, they are shooting at us, launching missiles at our Navy, and aren't we defending ourselves? How should we look at this?
01:46:09.420Well, first of all, you should look at it as this is election season. And, uh, when you're at war, you know, there's a greater tendency to vote for the commander in chief who's, who's waging the war.
01:46:21.460And I am worried that he's going to draw us into a war with this. Now, I believe that he has an obligation to come to Congress. And I think he had time to do it. If he had time to organize an international coalition, or at least with Great Britain to pull this off, he had time to come to us.
01:46:38.540And, you know, the, you know, the war powers act, uh, requires him to do that. It allows him to respond defensively in the case of emergency, but that would be like an imminent attack. It wouldn't be something where you plan, uh, you know, some kind of retaliation for things that have gone on for months.
01:46:58.600So, so the war, can we talk about the war powers act here for a second? Because I believe the war powers act is correct in a world where we have missiles. If somebody is launching a missile, the president does not have time to go to Congress and say, Hey, I want to make my case here that in 12 minutes, we're all going to be vaporized.
01:47:17.860However, like you said, it's been 90 days, 90 plus days since this happened. We've watched it happen. They've been, they've been fighting and shooting against us, et cetera, et cetera. The, the president has a responsibility to go in front of the American people and Congress and make his case and Congress needs to decide.
01:47:43.260Correct. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. You are absolutely correct. We have abdicated though, our authority. We've, we've been involved in Yemen. Here's what I don't see reported in the news since about 2015.
01:47:56.620And in 2018, I teamed up with Ro Khanna and tried to get a war powers resolution passed to, to get us back out of Yemen. This was in 2018. Paul Ryan did a parliamentary trick.
01:48:11.820He hid the vote on our war powers resolution in the farm bill. And then, so people voted for the farm bill and put our war powers resolution to bed. So we tried again and he hid it in the manage our wolves act.
01:48:26.960If you voted for the manager of wolves act to come to the floor of the house, you voted against the Ro Khanna Thomas Massey war powers resolution, according to the war powers act to get us out of Yemen.
01:48:39.120Think of this. Our Congress is voting on management of wolves, but not whether or not we go to war.
01:48:46.960Correct. And then, so a year later, we were able to get it to the floor. We passed it in the house. We followed, you know, I don't even agree completely with the war powers act that was passed in the 1970s, especially not the interpretation that people have of it.
01:49:04.500But we were able to get a resolution passed to get us out of Yemen in 2019. And then it went from the house to the Senate and they passed it with 53 votes, but Donald Trump vetoed it.
01:49:15.860Now it was, you know, it's within his authority to veto it, but that demonstrated to me how ridiculous the war powers act is because effectively it takes, it takes two thirds of us to override a president's veto.
01:49:29.520So what it means is the war powers act, if you believe in it with 33% of Congress, the president can go to war because they, it takes two thirds to stop him. It's ridiculous.
01:49:39.820Hmm. So what are you, what are you hearing, uh, up on the Hill about all of this? Where are we headed, Thomas?
01:49:49.400Um, I mean, I am, I am worried that we're going to be expanding conflicts in the middle East, that this is, uh, there's some people up here that are just begging for a war with Iran.
01:50:00.840Um, and, um, whether it's an, something that grows out of Gaza or whether it's something that grows out of Yemen. Uh, and I think we need to take a step back and look at this and say, does it, is that in the best interest of our country to have a full blown war with Iran?
01:50:16.200And I'm worried that this president would like to have it, have something hot going on before the election or during the election.
01:50:24.040Well, the national intelligence agencies came out today and warned that, uh, the, uh, that Hezbollah has assets here in America and that they're concerned that this, uh, could mean a, uh, a direct strike here in the homeland, which I don't think would play well for all of those who had an open border.
01:50:44.780I mean, this is the, the big exposure we have at the open border. Not, not only are we going to economically destroy our country by bringing so many illegal immigrants into the country so quickly, it's so porous that, you know, uh, Hezbollah can walk across the border and no doubt they are here.
01:51:06.380They could activate. I mean, the, what was it? 15 of the 19 hijackers were actually from Saudi Arabia and we're here legally for the most part, I think.
01:51:19.140But, uh, now we're looking at a different threat and it only takes 19 to, you know, do something very bad in this country as we saw on 9-11.
01:51:30.020Nikki Haley, um, during the last debate, basically called you an anti-Semite. Why do you hate the Jews so much?
01:51:39.560Oh my gosh. As, as Ron DeSantis says, that's cheap garbage. And as I tweeted, I'm living rent-free in her head. And trust me, there's lots of empty space in here.
01:51:49.280Uh, she had her understanding of the bills that I've been voting on is one inch deep.
01:51:57.300Whereas, you know, Ron DeSantis, even though he and I disagree on this issue, he understands where I'm coming from and he's, he's not astroturf like Nikki Haley is.
01:52:09.900This is why she stopped taking questions at town halls. If you go more than one question deep, she doesn't know what she's talking about.
01:52:16.380But, um, she was attacking me on votes. For instance, I didn't vote for the $14 billion, uh, financial package to Israel.
01:52:25.940Now we can have a discussion about that, whether we should, we can afford that and whether we should be doing that or not.
01:52:32.340But she claims that I'm anti-Semitic or anti-Israel because I'm not voting for foreign aid.
01:52:37.640But here's the thing. I've never voted for foreign aid to any country. I'm not picking on any country.
01:52:43.660And then there were some resolutions where we can have legitimate disagreements about whether it infringes on free speech.
01:52:49.760And then, um, there were, there was a vote that I took that against a resolution that says anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism.
01:52:57.560Now it's true that a lot of anti-Semites are against Israel just by definition, but it, but it's not true that if you have harsh criticism of Israel, or even if you don't believe in Zionism, that you are also an anti-Semite.
01:53:13.720Well, if that works true, there'd be a lot of Jews who are anti-Semite.
01:53:16.560I know. I was going to say a lot of the, uh, Hasidic Jews here in America despise Israel.
01:53:23.740Say it's a, an abomination of a state because it's not a religious state. So are they anti-Semites too?
01:53:33.620I don't think Gerald Nadler's anti-Semite Jewish. He spoke against that resolution on the floor.
01:53:40.180You know, the sad thing is we've had 19 votes like that since our new speaker became speaker.
01:53:46.680And what we should be focusing on is our own spending bills and cutting spending and said, we passed these resolutions, which are frankly, political gotchas.
01:53:55.580The Republicans are trying to use that issue to catch the Democrats up in votes and then use it to get them unelected.
01:54:02.020And I'm just, I just don't have an appetite for that when we should be focused on our fiscal issues right now in the house.
01:54:10.440We are about to throw away all the spending caps that were put in place this summer.
01:54:16.300I was on your show talking about this, taking heat from you.
01:54:20.980Cause I said, Oh, I remember when I was young and naive.
01:54:51.040The problem is that somebody illegally blocking or something.
01:54:55.020They are about to, what happened is the Senate and the white house had buyer's remorse and the military hawks here and the appropriators on the Republican side are forcing Mike Johnson through, I'll call it violence, you know, parliamentary violence.
01:55:12.880They're, they're just like, well, you know, we'll, we'll cause the government to shut down and you'll be blamed for it, Mike, if you don't undo the deal from this summer.
01:55:43.260I agree with you, but there's, there's another option that they agreed to this summer, which is if they would do what Jim Jordan and Warren Davidson, I prescribed and they agreed to, which is a long-term CR, it would, there would never be a threat of a shutdown, but there would be a 1% cut on April 30th to every department in the United States of America's government.
01:56:02.460And I, there wouldn't be the chance of a shutdown, but that would motivate, I think, people to come to the table and get policies like securing the border without a shutdown.
01:56:13.620Here's what happens when you have a shutdown, we got, and you know, this as well as I, there's at least a dozen members here in the GOP conference who will cross the aisle and sign something with the Democrats to, you know, stiff us on this.
01:56:25.760It's, it's, it's deplorable, but they'll do it.
01:56:28.940And some of them have already announced their retirement, so they don't care.
01:56:44.320We're going to go back to Jason here in a second, because I want to get his military analysis of what's happening in Iran and what could possibly come next, what we should watch for.
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01:57:23.100And they do all of the work here in the United States.
01:57:26.240They have a team of over 200 trained technicians.
01:57:28.940I've used them to help preserve my own family members.
01:57:31.580And I have to tell you, getting people to let go of those pictures, am I going to get the originals back?
01:58:35.420He also has military experience, was in military intel for years, and watches over our foreign affairs and wars.
01:58:46.620What do you take of our launching against the Houthis, and what should we be watching for to see escalation?
01:58:57.800I actually agree with some kind of strike.
01:59:00.100I'm not saying that the United States should be bearing the brunt of that.
01:59:02.380I do think that there should be some kind of realignment in how who decides, you know, who polices these straits.
01:59:08.240This is an absolute vital choke point in the world.
01:59:12.400So you have those two straits, the Bab-El-Mandeb Strait, which is on the Yemen side right there, and you have the Strait of Hormuz that's on the other side, where Iraq and Iran are.