500,000 ILLEGALS TO OVERRUN OUR BORDER
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Rep. Andy Biggs was the driving force in the battle for the speakership of the 118th Congress, and he led the reformers to victory. And he'll be telling us how it's going on the border as well.
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Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and thanks, my friends, for joining us here on The Great
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America Show. Today, we're talking with a congressman who sponsored more than 500 bills
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in one day. How did he do that? And in doing that, how did he set up Congress to save the
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taxpayers as much as a half trillion dollars? Our guest is Congressman Andy Biggs. He was the
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driving force in the battle for the speakership of the 118th Congress, and he led the reformers
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to victory. And he'll be telling us how it's going on the border as well. It's not going well for
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken. We now know he was the point man on the infamous letter signed by
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51 former intel veterans, including five former directors of the CIA and several of those officials
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members of the Obama administration's intel group. James Clapper and John Brennan among them,
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who declared Hunter Biden's laptop to be Russian disinformation, which was in itself disinformation.
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They all were lying. And doing so, they elected Joe Biden. They not only lied, but in so doing,
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changed history. Without a doubt, they were a principal factor in cheating Donald Trump
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out of re-election as president. Top Republicans are calling for Blinken now to resign for his part
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in the orchestration of that big lie, the disinformation campaign against the American
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people and Donald Trump. And Congress must reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence
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Surveillance Act. Or it will lapse. And that would end the authority for warrantless surveillance of
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American citizens. We'll be taking that up here in moments as well. We'll take up that wide open
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border and the possibility, indeed the probability, that Biden will have brought into the United States
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by the time his term ends 10 million illegal immigrants. The southern border is wide open,
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and why not? The cartels are making a fortune smuggling illegal immigrants, human smuggling,
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deadly drugs like fentanyl, and sex trafficking. And making it all possible ever so easy is the
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Biden regime's refusal to secure our border with Mexico, to shut down the cartels. Instead,
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Biden is in league with the cartels. But the Marxist Dems lie about it all. Listen as they tell America
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that our wide open southern border is secure. Here are the Marxist Dems in full-throated lies.
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It is my testimony that the border is secure. We have a secure border in that that is a priority
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for any nation, including ours and our administration. We have taken unprecedented action
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over the past year and a half to secure our border. And we have a process in place to manage migrants
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to the border. We're working to make sure it's safe and orderly and humane. The border is closed.
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We agree that the border is secure. We're executing a comprehensive strategy to secure our borders.
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One of our highest priorities is to ensure that we have a secure border. And that is what we are doing.
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The border is secure. Joining us now is Congressman Andy Biggs. Biggs represents Arizona's 5th
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district. He's in his fourth term. Biggs is a member of two powerful committees, the House Judiciary
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Committee and House Oversight Committee. He's also the chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee
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on Crime and Government Surveillance. It's great to have you back with us here on the Great America
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Show, Congressman. You're making headlines of all sorts on a number of important issues and subjects.
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Let's get to those incredible 521 bills you just sponsored in one day. Serious business in it all.
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Tell us about it. Well, it's always great to be with you and you do such a great job. And I will just
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tell you, one of the things that was driving me crazy is that we don't look at line item budget spending
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here. And when you don't look at line item budget spending, guess what? That means that you really
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don't ever have a chance at taking out mismanaged programs, duplicative programs, waste and fraud.
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You really need line items. So what we did is we said, let us run a bill on as many of the lines
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that we can find in discretionary spending. So we can point these out to the appropriators,
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the people who sit on Appropriations Committee and my colleagues, that these are places that you could
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eliminate or reduce spending to try to get us back down to where we don't spend, well, we don't have
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deficit spending anymore. That was the goal. And that's really what I was trying to do. And so we found
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500, 521 actually, to be exact. And we, I didn't know it was going to be such a monumental thing.
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We thought we were just doing something that should be done. And my great staff worked long hours. And
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between us, we found ways to find different programs, agencies, departments. You know,
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there's more than 1,200 programs, departments and agencies that aren't even authorized that are
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receiving about $500 billion a year to support those programs, agencies, and departments.
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My gosh, to go through that. Now, you've passed those bills, and this is effectively a legislative form
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of the line item veto, isn't it? If you can get this passed and actually get the appropriators to
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Yeah, that's exactly right. I mean, we would be able to, if we had help from leadership and we got
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out of the House and got through the Senate, guess what? The president would have to go through and
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say, no, yes, no, yes, and would be ultimately responsible. This body would be responsible.
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And this transparency to the American public would be remarkable. This is one of the things,
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Well, congratulations. The 118th Congress, Congressman, is showing me something, and I
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think all Americans, you guys have done, I think, in many ways, more work in the first few months of
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the 118th Congress that I've seen even efforted in previous Congresses. Am I overstating something?
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No, I think you're right. The last time we had this kind of enthusiastic work ethic was probably
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in 2017, right after President Trump was elected. Now, we were dealing with some leadership guys who
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didn't really want to get as much done, but the body, the rank and file was working hard
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trying to do everything from repeal Obamacare, although that was a joke, to trying to get a
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good tax package, and we got a decent tax package out. So there was stuff going on. But this particular
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Congress, everybody's come there, rolled up their sleeves, and has been working. Now,
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we've debated and kicked each other around a little bit, but that's okay. That push-me-pull-you,
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that tug-of-war that goes on internally. And I'm hopeful that as we continue to do, say,
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the Oversight Committee work and the Judiciary Committee work on oversight, we're finding out
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more and more stuff, Lou, and it's good to be with people who are anxious to work hard.
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Yeah, always. And I don't care what you're doing, whether you're digging a ditch or
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making laws for the American people or, you know, sitting at a microphone, working with people who
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are enthusiastic about what everyone is doing makes all the difference in the world. And to be have,
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to have, I personally, I can't imagine not being enthused and energized working in the Congress of
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the United States, whether it's a staffer or a representative. But I have seen the fact that
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there are people there who seem to be just taking up space and occasionally just breathe through their
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teeth. It's, there are only a handful, but at least there are some. Your thoughts about,
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if you will, let's digress just for a second. Going back to that Congress,
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the previous Congresses and the leadership that didn't necessarily want to get anything done.
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I have to say that battle that you had, the, the, the group from the Freedom Caucus,
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the, the so-called 20 who stood up and said they were not going to do anything less than reform the
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118th Congress before it's actually convened. What you guys established there was, you know,
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wide open. It was a brouhaha, if you will. But it was, frankly, it was polite. It was energized and
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energetic. And I think inspiring to most people who are watching it. And to hear you talk about
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what's going on now with legislation in the 118th Congress, I say, hallelujah, and turn on the cameras
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and let's see more of it. Because I think the American people need to see it because they're not
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getting civics lessons from their high schools and their middle schools and their left wing
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indoctrinators who are opposing as teachers. Your thoughts?
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Lou, I agree with you a hundred percent. And one of our goals was to actually open up the process.
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We wanted more transparency. You know, Gates did a bill to allow the C-SPAN cameras more access. We saw
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some interesting angles the other night, but, but the reality is we've done some stuff that I had never
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done in Congress. And that is to actually go down to the floor. A lot of people submitting amendments,
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debating those amendments, and then taking a roll call vote on those amendments. That is exactly what
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should be happening. And the American people should be able to turn that on anytime and see what bills,
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what legislation is going on and, and determine whether they're getting adequate representation.
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I think that's the only real concrete way to get people more involved in this is for them to hear
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the representatives and say, either I don't like what my representative is doing, or I love what my
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representative is doing and participate. That's what we were trying to do. And not only trying to do that
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though, but also trying to make it the place more democratic from the inside. And I hate to use that
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word democratic, but more open, if I can, you know, more Republican, diffuse power away from the center,
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away from the leadership and get it to the members. And so you've got, we've got people on
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committees that you've never seen conservatives really on before. You've got the promise of
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appropriations doing 12 bills, which we hadn't seen in, I don't know how many decades, you know,
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where you really have the 12 bills considered. All of those things were designed that we were
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fighting for was designed to actually make the place resemble what I think the founders wanted.
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And that was a more deliberative body where everybody has a say. And then at the end,
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you would get a better product because you would, you would have a much more input. You'd get rid of
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some of the bad stuff and, and try to get better product through instead of just lousy stuff.
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Yeah. It's, it's interesting to me that there's this idea about the Congress that it doesn't have
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to work. You're overcoming a great deal of inertia and outright indolence, I think, on the part of many
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of the representatives in the house who've been there for a long time in particular. I think about
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the Senate, maybe it's easier and more comfortable for you to talk about the Senate. But when I think
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about those people being governed by this little squad of Thune and Barrasso and McConnell and,
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and whomever else, I'm missing two or three of them. But I mean, these are the grand old men,
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but they are old guys sitting there just hanging on like for dear life to their jobs and acting like
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they've got all of the ideas, all of the smarts, all the knowledge. When in fact, there are nothing,
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to me, they're nothing more than establishment hacks doing precisely what their donors have ordered
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Yeah, I agree with you. I mean, look, after we got through that, a lot of people were highly
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critical of me, as you might suppose. But once we got through there, Paul Ryan went on TV and actually
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said, yeah, when I was Speaker of the House, I thought I had too much power.
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Paul Ryan is as indolent and twisted up. He's not just crooked, he's twisted up.
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I'm just saying to you, I can't even hear what even sounds like a vaguely complimentary remark about
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him. He thought he needed it. You remember what else he said? He didn't want to be Speaker.
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He had too much power. He had too much responsibility. He had way too much responsibility,
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too much authority for anyone as mediocre as he is. He is the least talented Speaker in ages.
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My gosh. Anyway, you know what? This is a great place to take a quick break. We're going to hear
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from our sponsors, and we'll be right back. I'm talking with Andy Biggs, and we're talking about
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Paul Ryan. Darn his hide. We'll be right back. We're back now. We're talking with Congressman Andy
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Biggs. Congressman, it is great to be talking with you today. Appreciate your time. We were talking about
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Paul Ryan. I was going to talk about him when you said his name. It's like putting a red flag in front
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of him. Yeah, I know. Because the man did so much damage to the Republican Party. He is a fraud and a
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fakester, and there's just nothing that will ever obviate his record as Speaker. It was a horrendous
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moment in American history. Your thoughts? Yeah, look, I don't disagree. I cannot begin to tell you
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how frustrated I was, and I know I've shared experiences with you before that I had with
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him, but my point wasn't to say that he was a good Speaker. My point was to say at least somewhere,
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somebody on the other side, no matter how disingenuous it may have been, understood that
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he had too much power because the Speakership, the leadership has had too much power for decades,
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and that means when you have somebody who doesn't really want to close the border wall,
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he's going to sign your bill to seven committees. That's what he did to me on a border wall bill.
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The point is, the leadership and their control, as you mentioned, by lobbyists,
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it is just too, too powerful, and we were trying to break up that monopoly of power in Congress,
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and that's really what the purpose was, and I think we kind of got there to a certain degree.
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We have to watch the rest of it, Lou, to see how it plays out, the debt ceiling to budget and
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everything, but I think we laid the groundwork to make change. Yeah, I grant you all of that,
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and I understand, but take credit for what you've already done because what you've done is historic.
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You have turned the direction of the legislative body, the House of Representatives, and that is
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such a service to the nation. You know that, Congressman, as well, better than I do. We need
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to talk about a couple of other issues, too, here. I got a kick out of something, and you sit on all
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these important, powerful committees, you know, including judiciary, but FISA 702 is up for renewal,
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and do you know what I just saw the other day? The NSA and FBI have reduced their number of
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warrantless searches of Americans. They've dropped them from over 3 million down to 120,000 last year.
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Do you think that's coincidental with the fact that Congress needs to renew the FISA Act?
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It's not coincidental at all, and I don't even know that I believe that they've reduced it to 120,000.
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I would, my guess is- I guarantee you, I don't believe them. I don't believe them for a minute
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because they lie about everything else. Yeah, yeah, and you know what? Remember this,
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the last time 702 was reauthorized, two weeks after that was reauthorized, that's when the
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inspector general's report was released showing all of the fraud and the scam and everything that
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was going on, the spying on American citizens through the abuse of the portions of the FISA Act.
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And I just got to tell you, I view this with such skepticism, and it's odd because this may be,
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and I said this in the hearing the other day, this may be the only place where we find true bipartisan
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feelings and animation on a subject. Nadler, Jayapal, Lofgren, these very hard leftist Democrats,
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Ro Khanna, they all agree with the conservatives that 702 should go away. And if we can't do away
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with it because we got to deal with the neocons and the war hawks of the Democrats, then what we're
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going to have to do is have an amazingly robust and strong set of reforms to try to take it out,
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because I'm telling you, this program is being abused, has been abused, will continue to be
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abused as long as you have secrecy, secret courts, and no real oversight.
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And given that, all of the abuse, the fact that they were complicit in a plot to overthrow the
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president of the United States to block his election, that they were then culpable in the
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letter of 51 former intel officials who created a disinformation campaign against the American voters
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by saying it was a disinformation campaign to suggest that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian
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disinformation. I have to ask you, Congressman, under what pretext would any sitting representative
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or senator not insist that the 702 section be stripped from the FISA, as well as 215, as far as
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I'm concerned, get rid of it. By the way, I'll go all the way back to 1978. FISA should be eliminated
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altogether. It is an un-American institution. It is run by corrupt and dastardly evil people, whether they're
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in the Department of Justice, whether they're on the bench, or whether they are FBI agents or other members of the
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Well, Lou, I would like to eliminate FISA altogether myself. I agree with you. I think it is un-American.
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I think if you want to surveil an American citizen, then you need to go in with an affidavit to an Article III court
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and present your case with a sworn statement and let the court just make the determination just like you would
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on every other potential crime. That's what should happen. But for people who don't understand what we're
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talking about necessarily, these FISA provisions allow massive amounts of data to be picked up.
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And then if that includes American citizens having their information swept up and then looked at and
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ostensibly, they're supposed to go, the FBI or whoever is supposed to go to a court and get a warrant
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to search. But there's really no oversight there. There's no transparency there. And so it's been abused
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incredibly. And I think they used it against a president of the United States.
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Yes. Yes. Against a president of the United States. And there is there is there should be no Republican
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in the House or the Senate who in the in their worst nightmares would think of ever renewing that 702
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section. And I think every one of you should get rid of it. It's either we're going to be an American
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government or we're going to continue with this corrupt, deep state alliance with Marxist Dems who are
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turning the country toward the path to hell. Yeah, I agree with you. I just you know, just for your
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listeners, though, I've already had people come up to tell me on our side of the aisle that they're not
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going to they would never support a an elimination of 702 or the FISA at all. And and you know how they
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pitched this, Lou, you know, they pitched this as as as without FISA, then we're going to be subject to
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massive amounts of of international spying. That's that's how they sell it. We are anyway.
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Well, yeah, well, that's I've got a question. OK, now I'm going to ask you who these geniuses are
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who've walked up to you and said they're never will support the elimination of 702. I will ask you
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that. But I want to say this first. Why don't you ask these geniuses how it is that the Chinese can
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successfully run 100 Confucius Institutes in this country, run 3,500 front companies in this country,
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how they can steal 600 billion dollars of intellectual property and American technology
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each and every year. And they've disbanded the FBI task force that was supposed to be targeting those
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people quite unsuccessfully, obviously. How can anyone even imagine that these people are not not only
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corrupt, but they are directed away from interfering with the Chinese Communist Party and China and its
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strategic interests? How do you ask them how it is we have a president who just drew down the strategic
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petroleum reserves by 60 percent, the lowest level in 40 years just when we need oil that we've shipped
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ammunition after ammunition and munitions to Ukraine, but now can't find a way to replace it. We have a
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dire military readiness issue. We have a military that's woke, but it's utterly, utterly unconscious
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when it comes to the threats of the CCP and Russia, Iran, and other state actors around the world.
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This is a folly writ large, this Biden administration.
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It's worse than a folly. It is calamitous and dangerous, not just the U.S., but the entire world,
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because we are so weak and in such a precarious position that all the bad guys in the rest of the
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world can take it out on us. And look, I've tried to have these conversations, but people kind of pat
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me on the head and say, go away. You obviously don't know what's going on. And I rebut that by saying,
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I think I have a pretty good idea what's going on in Northeast Asian security issues.
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Well, I think you do, too. And I think that it's really important that your voice be heard by these
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nincompoops who apparently are either colleagues or part of the permanent bureaucracy, the deep state
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rejecting your views. I said I was going to ask you about who those folks were, these very bright folks
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who said they'd never vote against the 702, Section 702 of the FISA Act. We're going to find out.
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Well, I don't know if we'll find out, but I'm going to ask. I'm going to ask Congressman Andy Biggs who
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those folks are when we return right after these quick messages from our sponsors. Stay with us.
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The Great America Show continues in one moment. And we're back now with Congressman Andy Biggs.
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Congressman Biggs is, I respect mildly, I think he's one of the finest, not only the finest
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congressman in Washington, D.C., I think finest public servants. I've known him a long time,
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and I can tell you what a great, great gift he is to the to the national interest in Washington
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and a great representative for the people of his district in Arizona. Congressman, I said I was going
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to ask you, and I hope you'll give us a few names of people who just can't bring themselves,
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just can't bear to bring themselves to act in the national interest and get rid of 702.
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Well, I don't want to give up the names because I am, you know, as cynical as I am,
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I still believe as we produce more and more information, like we had another hearing last
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week, as we produce more and more information, I can get some of those people to come around and
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see things our way. And I don't want to burn them yet. There will be a time to burn them,
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but it won't be until they irrevocably dig in so deeply that we don't have a shot at eliminating 702.
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Well, let's talk about what you guys are learning. The House Investigations Committees are doing a
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wonderful job. You all have done magnificent work for the people already. I was afraid you would not be
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moving as fast, fast enough. I think right now you have picked up the pace, you and your colleagues,
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the Jordan Committee, the Comer Committee, the Weaponization Committee, immigration.
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You know, we're facing another surge at the border. You have been calling for a wall for years. You've
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been calling for border security. Give us your sense of what it means when we have 24,000 people,
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according to Governor Greg Abbott, crossing in two weeks into Texas alone from Venezuela for crying
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out loud. Your sense of what's happening at that border. Okay, so that that 24,000 is just a drop
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in the bucket of where we're going to get in about 10 days. There are probably at least a half a million
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people waiting to come across when the cartel gives them the go-ahead after Title 42 goes away.
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I will just tell you, let's just give you the straight skinny on this. I talked, my source tells
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me that the Border Patrol agents are going to be overwhelmed. The detention facilities are going to
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be even more overwhelmed. And what's going to happen is they're going to move to straight street
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releases. And what a street release is going to be, that means that if, let's say, you lived in
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Nogales, Arizona, or Yuma, Arizona, where you sit right on the border, you've got a sister city on the
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other side. As people are coming in between the ports of entry, the CBP will have no place to put them.
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They're going to do a minimal ID. So they're going to take a picture of somebody and whatever they
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tell them their name is and their birth date, they're going to take that, put that in their
00:28:38.920
record. They're going to release them right into those border communities. That's what's going to
00:28:42.860
happen, Lou. That's what I've been told is going to happen. And that's just a tip of the iceberg
00:28:50.900
because down in the Darien Gap, the number of people coming through, and that's in Panama,
00:28:55.340
coming on up, has increased in the last month by over 500%. And so, Lou, you're going to see
00:29:04.800
not 2 million people illegally enter the country this year, plus another million, million and a half
00:29:12.020
getaway. You're going to see somewhere north of 3 to 3.5 million plus. So you're-
00:29:22.480
That'll be the balance of this. That could be within six to seven more months. I'm taking the
00:29:28.760
whole fiscal year, but by and large, the bulk of that's going to come in the next six or seven
00:29:33.940
months. Why? Because Title 42 goes away and this administration says, oh, we're going to deal with
00:29:39.360
it by doing immediate deportation, immediate removal. That doesn't work because what happens
00:29:49.540
when you're going to put somebody out on immediate removal, all they have to say is, I request
00:29:54.200
asylum. They will then be allowed to be released into our country. We don't have enough places for
00:30:01.300
them. And right now, we're making big hay over 85,000 children misplaced by ORR. Well, guess what?
00:30:11.020
It's going to blossom. It's going to blow up like you can't believe.
00:30:15.380
So where are those 85,000 children? Why isn't this administration that took Trump to task
00:30:22.900
repeatedly for his policies, they've lost 85,000 children to sex traffickers for all we know
00:30:30.360
operating at that border. The Mexican drug cartels are not exactly an altruistic set of organizations.
00:30:38.400
They are smuggling death into this country every day. They're smuggling illegal immigrants,
00:30:43.800
human smuggling, sex trafficking, and by the way, working hand in hand with the Chinese communists.
00:30:50.920
Let's be straight up. And every American who dies is a pin in their board in the cartels and,
00:31:00.580
of course, in Beijing as well. And we've got people walking around saying they want the 702
00:31:05.740
when they don't even know what the hell is happening right in front of them. They don't need to eavesdrop
00:31:11.060
on anyone. They need to look at what is happening honestly and straightforwardly, and that is that
00:31:16.780
the Biden administration is working in total cooperative alignment with the Mexican drug
00:31:23.780
cartels. And this president is so compromised and impaired that he wouldn't dare cross President Xi
00:31:31.880
Jinping if his life and ours depended on it. Your thoughts?
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Yeah, I agree with you 100%. We actually had a worker whistleblower come into my committee this week
00:31:43.880
and testify that the U.S. is the middleman for the logistics for sex and human traffickers, which we knew.
00:31:51.260
Lou, you and I have known this for a long time. And it's just trying to get enough momentum.
00:31:57.880
Again, the frustration I have. We've got a pretty strong border security bill that we're ready to roll
00:32:07.740
out. But there's some weak stuff in there because we've got some members, and you'll figure out who
00:32:13.800
they are, who are demanding that some of this be weakened a little bit. And I'm like, how can you
00:32:19.640
weaken this thing? Do you not know what's about to hit, what has been hitting us for two years?
00:32:23.920
And Lou, I'm just going to tell you, our national security is at peril. It is at peril. When you get
00:32:32.240
to start bringing in Venezuelans, the 24,000 in Texas, Lou, that almost eats up the full 30,000
00:32:41.940
allotment that Mayorkas was putting in place with his foreign nation strategy. So Nicaragua,
00:32:52.160
Haiti, Cuba, and Venezuela, they get up to 30,000 paroles a month just for those four countries.
00:33:00.480
And then you have another 30,000 paroles a month or so.
00:33:06.820
All of the oversight, everything in Congress, we don't know what our FBI is doing.
00:33:12.920
What we do know, it's corrupt. We don't know what the Department of Justice is doing. We don't
00:33:18.920
know, but it's corrupt in the instances where we have public knowledge. We don't know what the
00:33:24.940
Department of Homeland Security is doing, but we do know one thing. They're lying through their teeth
00:33:29.980
about everything, whether it's border security, whether it's cybersecurity, whether it's
00:33:34.140
infrastructure. We have a raid against the American people, an entire federal government
00:33:40.120
that doesn't give a damn about the American people, doesn't in any way even pretend it's
00:33:46.280
interested in national security, at least the national security of the United States
00:33:50.400
of America. At what point do we say to ourselves, we have a Senate that is in the pocket of the
00:33:57.220
Democrats and a Senate majority leader who is worse than most Democrats in most respects.
00:34:04.720
At what point do the American people just say the hell with this and just go about our business
00:34:10.720
and let what will be, be? I mean, we have patriots that are begging for leadership and for action,
00:34:20.060
and what we're being told is we have woke policies that really need to be at the priority in the
00:34:26.560
Department of Defense, says Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defense, says Mark Milley, the Chairman of the
00:34:34.240
Joint Chiefs of Staff. We can't even get a ship for Marines. For our expeditionary,
00:34:40.380
units in the Pacific. We can't even get them on a ship, let alone train them. What the hell are you
00:34:46.900
people doing? You know, Lou, I agree with you. I mean, what has to, in my opinion, what has to
00:34:53.440
happen is you start, you have to dismantle and defund this government in so many ways. And that's
00:35:01.340
part of what those 500 bills that I introduced were, is to try to defund and dismantle as much
00:35:07.640
of this federal government that is arrayed against us in every institution. And as they come against
00:35:16.020
us, if we can stop funding them, then they will naturally shrink and shrivel. And maybe my colleagues
00:35:24.500
will join me in actually eliminating everything from the Department of Education. ATF is going after
00:35:32.620
people. I mean, the federal police state apparatus is after Americans. The border is a national security
00:35:41.960
threat. I beg my colleagues constantly, join me in defunding these agencies. Join me. And if you think
00:35:52.600
you got to have an FBI, tell me what you think is working. And then let's shrink the FBI down to that.
00:35:57.300
Don't give them a $3.5 billion to $4 billion new Taj Mahal. Don't do that. And it's, you know,
00:36:06.800
I'm straining at a nap, I guess. Well, I think that it'd be great if you guys can stop that $300
00:36:13.960
million boondoggle. Imagine that. Imagine $80 billion for $80,000 new IRS gun-toting
00:36:27.000
agents. This is obscene. And I guess, please come back soon, would you? There's so much to talk
00:36:35.300
with you about. And I appreciate everything. And let's start naming names, because the public needs
00:36:41.980
to know who are the enemies of this great country. There can be no more deals. There can be no hiding
00:36:50.580
in the shadows for these rhinos who mean this nation harm. They don't even mean to just be
00:37:00.300
protecting themselves in the shadows. They really want this country to be something other than it is
00:37:06.480
something other than the founders wanted it to be. Andy Biggs, you are a great American. You are a
00:37:13.340
delight to talk with. And you are a great, great public servant, as I said. Your final thoughts as we wrap
00:37:19.680
up here, if we may, Congressman. I would say never give up. We can't just go back and believe me,
00:37:26.380
I want to a lot. We got to keep fighting. Amen, brother. And keep fighting. You and I,
00:37:33.800
we need to remind each other of that once in a while. Yes, we do. Thanks so much. I appreciate
00:37:38.980
it, Congressman Andy Biggs, as I said, more than once, and because it needs to be said again,
00:37:45.580
a great American. Thank you, Congressman. Thanks so much. Congressman Andy Biggs,
00:37:51.140
great American, also one of the hardest working congressmen in the House. And join us here tomorrow,
00:37:57.020
our guest will be Mr. New York himself, Mark Simone. And this week, with artificial intelligence
00:38:02.300
exploding as a disruptor of just about everything, we'll be joined by our guest,
00:38:07.280
cognitive scientist James Burratt, talking about AI and its dangers. Thanks for being with us for now.