The Great America Show - June 09, 2022


ALL OF BIDEN’S POLICIES WEAKEN AMERICA AND THE RESULT IS TOTALITARIANISM SAYS SEN. RON JOHNSON


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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-NJ) joins Lou Dobbs on the Great America Show to discuss the January 6th hearings by the Democratic National Committee investigating the January 4th "pro-Russia" protest by President Trump in DC.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to the Great America Show. Great to have you with us.
00:00:05.160 The January 6th committee is beginning its hearings, and with them comes a new chapter in the iniquity and evil of the Marxist left in America,
00:00:14.880 a continuation of their politics of destruction and deceit.
00:00:19.120 There is, of course, the question of whether the committee itself is lawful,
00:00:22.900 as Speaker Pelosi ignored the clear requirements of establishing such a committee when she rejected two congressmen selected by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
00:00:33.320 Pelosi then appointed two RINO congressmen who are party outcasts, Liz Cheney and Adam Kensinger.
00:00:40.900 They are also the only Republicans to vote for creation of that committee, and the Republican National Committee censured them for doing so.
00:00:49.700 And there are many questions the committee itself hasn't answered, including why Pelosi has refused to release all video relating to the Trump rally and the Capitol Hill intrusion.
00:01:01.560 And, of course, questions about the Capitol's security on January 6th.
00:01:06.620 And the questions go on.
00:01:08.220 The fear among some Republicans is that the committee's true purpose is to create just a pretext to make a criminal referral against President Trump to the politically corrupt Justice Department.
00:01:21.940 That fear is understandable, given that DOJ has been an eager accomplice with the Marxist Dems political persecution of President Trump for the past six years,
00:01:33.160 including three years of FBI investigation, almost two years of a special counsel investigation, and two impeachments, all of which produced absolutely nothing.
00:01:47.180 We are witness, ladies and gentlemen, to the Democrat Party and the deep state possessed and led by the Marxist left in full assault against a man before, after, and during his term as president.
00:02:02.220 With the full complicity of the corporate national media and members of his own party, including some in leadership.
00:02:10.960 And with these hearings, the madness goes on, unchecked.
00:02:16.180 And, of course, President Trump is still being persecuted by local prosecutors as well.
00:02:21.680 The Attorney General of New York, the Manhattan DA's office, and the DA of Fulton County, Georgia, all politically motivated and relentless.
00:02:31.060 The power of district attorneys recognized by billionaire leftist George Soros, who's been funding like-minded leftist prosecutors' political ambitions for years.
00:02:42.840 In so doing, Politico now credits him with the anti-law and order progressive overhaul of the entire American justice system.
00:02:51.940 Breitbart reports the Law Enforcement Defense Fund found that Soros had spent $40 million sponsoring those leftist prosecutors and now can claim to have successfully placed 75 radical leftist prosecutors in office around the country.
00:03:10.320 The left is advancing, and police and sheriff departments are struggling to retain and recruit law enforcement officers.
00:03:17.800 There's no question that the Marxist left is driving the Biden White House, the radical Dems, and their agenda.
00:03:26.080 An agenda and objective authored by former President Barack Obama two presidents ago now.
00:03:33.140 The fundamental transformation of America.
00:03:36.660 Our guest today has been on the front lines of the battle for the future of America.
00:03:41.480 Our guest is Senator Ron Johnson.
00:03:43.520 He sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, the Committee on the Budget, and he's ranking member of both the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
00:03:59.860 And I have to say, all of those assignments are important and prestigious, and I also must point out, they carry with them a tremendous burden, a tremendous responsibility to the nation, and the senator's workload is extraordinary.
00:04:16.540 And certainly, I appreciate all he does for this country.
00:04:21.020 Senator Johnson, it's great to have you back with us here on the Great America Show.
00:04:25.600 So, I want to start first with the Biden administration and what we're looking at in poll after poll after poll is devastating for this president and for the Democratic Party.
00:04:39.240 I'd like your reading on what is happening in this country politically and what you're expecting in November.
00:04:47.280 Hello, Lou.
00:04:47.680 It's great to be back.
00:04:48.740 Well, first of all, what we are witnessing is what President Biden talked about fundamentally transforming America.
00:04:55.600 Now we see what that fundamental transformation looks like.
00:04:58.720 Open borders, a flood of illegal immigrants, 40-year high inflation, record gasoline prices, rising crime, the indoctrination of our children through way too many schools. 0.98
00:05:09.800 They're fundamentally destroying this country.
00:05:12.060 I think what amazes me is that his approval ratings are as high as they are.
00:05:16.460 How can any American take a look at this disaster that is Democrat governance, the weakening of America that, quite honestly, tempts tyrants like Putin to invade and take advantage of American weakness, our lack of resolve and invade a country like Ukraine?
00:05:32.240 I mean, this is a result of Biden governance, Democrat policies, Democrat governance.
00:05:39.580 This didn't just happen.
00:05:41.040 This is the result, and in many cases, the desired result of their policies.
00:05:46.540 They want open borders.
00:05:47.620 They want a flood of illegal immigrants. 1.00
00:05:49.300 They want high gasoline prices.
00:05:51.100 So they were all forced into more expensive electric vehicles.
00:05:55.640 This is their vision of America.
00:05:57.980 It's not most Americans' vision.
00:05:59.620 It is a totalitarian vision as well, and I think it's very clear now to even casual political observers that this is a Democrat party that is now driven by Marxist Dems, and they mean business, as you've suggested.
00:06:20.260 I think I remind the audience every once in a while, we've only had this man in the White House for 17 months, and the catalog of destructive policies and initiatives and decisions on the part of this president are stunning.
00:06:35.980 One would think that it would take at least a full term to achieve the devastation that he has, but he's done it in 17 months, and we're now expecting on our southern border another 5 to 7 million illegal immigrants to cross that border in the second year of the Biden presidency.
00:06:58.360 I would say, your thoughts.
00:07:00.080 Well, first of all, your listeners need to understand that radical leftists, which by and large is now the Democrat Party, they are relentless.
00:07:09.460 This is the same cast of characters.
00:07:11.980 I mean, people that served in the Obama administration are serving the Biden administration.
00:07:16.040 They sit, and when they're out of power, they plot for the next moment when they're in power, and they strike immediately.
00:07:22.540 They flood the zone, and so people have to understand that they are driving toward one-party rule.
00:07:30.240 Why do you think the first House bill, H.R. 1, is about a national takeover of our elections?
00:07:36.600 They know full well the results of the Baker-Carter Commission on Elections that said that absentee balloting presents the greatest threat toward fraudulent elections, and that's what they're driving toward.
00:07:48.400 If they use COVID to double the number of absentee ballots, they want mail-in ballots.
00:07:53.000 They want a flood of illegal immigrants. 1.00
00:07:55.620 Again, you can't fully explain why.
00:07:58.200 When you try, you get accused of being a racist, but the fact of the matter is it is changing America, and it is fundamentally transforming it.
00:08:10.180 And as I said before, it's the fundamental destruction of this country, and I hope more Americans are waking up.
00:08:16.900 But the problem is we've got a mainstream media that is also populated with a bunch of radical leftists.
00:08:22.780 They installed President Biden, a guy who campaigned from his basement.
00:08:27.100 They made him president.
00:08:28.440 They will continue to cover up for him as they move down this road to socialism.
00:08:33.540 And as you say, they covered up for him, but it was even a stronger relationship than that, I believe, Senator.
00:08:43.020 It was complicity at all levels, whether they're the corporate media outlets, whether it be the intelligence agencies, particularly under President Obama, and the impact that they had lasting through to the 2020 election.
00:08:59.500 It's outrageous what we witnessed, and the president, as vice president, a former vice president running for president, stood in front of the American people and lied through his teeth.
00:09:11.320 And about the laptop, his son's involvement and his family's involvement in corrupt schemes, which is now a matter of public record.
00:09:22.720 And the American people now are extremely distrustful, I think, really, of both parties, but certainly the Democrat Party for all that they've done.
00:09:32.000 So what do you think the implications are for this November?
00:09:36.580 Will it be a wave?
00:09:38.360 Will it be a historic election?
00:09:42.500 Well, it certainly should be.
00:09:43.820 I mean, Democrats deserve to be swept from power.
00:09:47.280 But if you really just take a look, you know, dating back into the 2016 election and the corruption of Hillary Clinton, first of all, her email server, and then the corrupt exoneration, you know, the exoneration email, the corrupt editing of that where James Comey left her off the hook.
00:10:04.600 And we find out that Hillary Clinton approved of, you know, this leaking of a story, completely false, completely made up of old cloth, that Trump was somehow had a relationship with Alphabank.
00:10:16.420 And, of course, the Steele dossier, which now we know the FBI knew was Russian disinformation as early as October 2016.
00:10:23.960 And yet they kept this this false narrative, this hoax going for years.
00:10:29.520 I mean, this is the most destructive political dirty trick in U.S. history.
00:10:35.120 It resulted in a basically attempted coup of a sitting president and certainly harmed his reelection chances.
00:10:42.140 But this was all started by Hillary Clinton.
00:10:46.120 And we still, to this day, don't know whether Russia actually did hack the DNC server.
00:10:50.460 But that sure was a good distraction over the nasty emails that that revealed.
00:10:55.300 And then, again, accused Russian collusion, whether it was the Steele dossier, the Alphabank hoax.
00:11:01.540 They went so far as senior Democrats produced a intelligence product, had it classified, then lead to the media accusing Senator Grassley and myself of soliciting and then disseminating Russian disinformation.
00:11:14.100 Nothing could have been further from the truth.
00:11:15.760 But the press was complicit in that Russian collusion narrative as well.
00:11:21.700 So this is tried and true.
00:11:23.480 These are diversionary tactics.
00:11:25.040 I always go back to that Lisa Page, Peter Strzok text.
00:11:29.240 And, by the way, it was my committee work where we made those texts public.
00:11:32.620 But in December 2016, there was one text that certainly caught my attention.
00:11:37.460 Think our sisters are leaking like mad. 1.00
00:11:39.580 This is struck to page.
00:11:41.360 Think our sisters. 0.69
00:11:42.380 The sister agencies are leaking like mad, scorned and worried and political.
00:11:47.580 They're kicking into overdrive.
00:11:49.220 I think that was pretty descriptive of what was happening.
00:11:51.940 They wanted to cover their tracks.
00:11:54.100 And once the wrong guy, from their estimation, got elected president, they had to start a diversionary operation of what they had done during the 2016 election.
00:12:02.020 Again, we don't know all the details.
00:12:03.540 We may never know all the details.
00:12:05.180 But I do credit John Durham as much as I disliked how slow he moved.
00:12:11.540 These investigations are difficult.
00:12:13.400 But what he revealed in his indictment and trial of Michael Sussman, I hope every American is paying attention to because it just shows the utter corruption of Hillary Clinton, her campaign, elements high in the FBI, our Department of Justice.
00:12:27.780 You know, I would say even our intelligence services, you know, Chuck Grassley, and we wrote a letter to Gina Haspel, you know, laying out specific pieces of information we wanted.
00:12:35.820 This is during the Trump administration.
00:12:37.320 She was serving President Trump.
00:12:39.180 He wanted this stuff made public.
00:12:41.340 She didn't give us one piece of paper.
00:12:43.780 She wouldn't even return our phone call.
00:12:46.540 Never talked to us.
00:12:47.440 Just never complied.
00:12:48.960 Thumbed her nose at legitimate congressional oversight.
00:12:51.940 The deep state is deep.
00:12:53.440 It's pervasive.
00:12:54.580 It's populated with radical leftists.
00:12:56.840 And that's a real problem for our nation.
00:12:59.680 It is a tremendous problem for our nation, as you just said.
00:13:04.720 And I don't believe people have quite come to terms with the fact that these are Marxist leftists driving the Democrat Party now.
00:13:13.520 This is a group of people within the deep state, the permanent bureaucracy, who mean to align themselves on every issue with the Democrat Party.
00:13:23.120 And devil take the hindmost, and Republicans are defenders of the status quo.
00:13:29.780 And that is not going to stand for these radical leftists, as you described them, because they mean to fundamentally transform, as President Obama famously said, this great nation.
00:13:43.400 And we are watching, and we are watching, we are reaping the whirlwind right now.
00:13:48.880 There isn't one element of public policy in this country at which President Biden is touched that isn't the worst for it.
00:13:58.040 And the pain is being felt by millions of Americans, whether it's almost $10 a gallon gasoline in California, whether it is a border that is wide open, and a president who is failing in his duty in every aspect.
00:14:15.660 I seriously cannot think of a single public policy choice he's made, or decision that he's taken, that is to the benefit of the United States' national interest.
00:14:26.080 Can you?
00:14:27.000 No, all of his policies have weakened America.
00:14:30.520 And again, we don't have to theorize what socialism results in.
00:14:35.580 It results in totalitarianism.
00:14:37.740 Tens of millions of people have died, have been murdered by these totalitarians through history, whether it's the Soviet Union, Cuba. 0.96
00:14:44.060 Take a look at Venezuela.
00:14:45.660 I saw a recent meme on social media laying out the timeline in Venezuela, where not that many years ago, they were the third largest economy in the Western Hemisphere, the second largest purchaser of Ford F-150 trucks.
00:15:05.240 And then they elected Chavez.
00:15:06.800 They drove toward income equality, which means you have equal misery.
00:15:12.200 And we've seen what happened.
00:15:13.820 Now they have starving.
00:15:15.420 They took away guns.
00:15:17.180 They started murdering their own people.
00:15:19.760 It didn't take long.
00:15:21.020 It took less than a generation to destroy Venezuela, which should be a rich nation.
00:15:26.880 Quite honestly, as Cuba should be an island paradise.
00:15:29.340 But because of socialism and communism, it destroyed those nations.
00:15:34.060 And as Ronald Reagan said, our freedom is but one generation from being lost.
00:15:40.240 And we have to take that seriously, particularly with the current crop in power here in Washington, D.C.
00:15:46.760 I couldn't agree with you more strongly.
00:15:51.700 Absolutely.
00:15:52.940 And I don't believe most people really appreciate the dimension, the depth, and the profundity of that existential moment in which we now live.
00:16:02.820 This is that generation in which it could be lost, in my opinion, because the Marxist left is in control of our courts, our FBI, the Department of Justice, most of the executive departments in the country, certainly the White House. 0.62
00:16:23.280 Our Supreme Court is highly politicized, and we will see what they create, what is the result of these decisions as we conclude the term this summer.
00:16:39.760 It's a military that is also corrupted and ineffective.
00:16:44.540 The leadership, I would say, the top two levels of our general officer staff is just woe be gone.
00:16:52.140 Again, they are politicized, and they are devastating in their leadership, so-called leadership, in the military.
00:17:02.100 I don't know where an American citizen right now turns to say, you know, this is a government I'm proud of.
00:17:07.880 This is a government that has not declared me as a citizen of the United States its enemy, because this government, Senator, across the board, political corruption permeates,
00:17:20.220 and the American citizen, whether you're a parent with the government trying to intrude in the relationship between you and your child and the school,
00:17:29.420 whether you are buying a product that has a label Disney on it,
00:17:35.780 you again are being accosted by a wretched and, again, corrupt intervention in the relationship between our families and the welfare of our children by corporations,
00:17:51.920 by the government, by our schools.
00:17:53.860 It goes on and on.
00:17:55.180 Your thoughts?
00:17:56.180 Well, you certainly don't want to grow the federal government.
00:17:58.380 The long-term solution is to devolve the power back to the people, back to the states, back to local government.
00:18:04.800 That was the really foundation premise of this nation is government close to the government,
00:18:08.340 where it's going to be more accountable, more efficient, more effective.
00:18:10.940 But, Lou, the masterstroke of the left occurred in the 60s.
00:18:15.180 As you recall, you're old enough, as am I.
00:18:18.720 We lived through the Vietnam War protests when college administrations capitulated to the radical left.
00:18:23.780 And so I always point out three colleges particularly that they control, journalism, education, and law.
00:18:31.220 So they've had control of these institutions now for most of them for decades.
00:18:36.100 And so they're cranking out lawyers and become activist judges.
00:18:39.700 They're graduating educators who are indoctrinating our children into leftist views.
00:18:46.980 I go on mainstream media, people like Chuck Todd.
00:18:50.440 It's not an interview.
00:18:51.380 It's an argument that they're advocating.
00:18:54.840 They're not journalists.
00:18:55.940 It's not an unbiased media anymore.
00:18:58.460 Now, we certainly still have a free press, and we have outlets, obviously, like this show and others.
00:19:04.020 But in terms of the percentage of the American public that watch this versus most people get their news feeds now from our big tech social media giants,
00:19:16.900 their radical leftists, look at what Mark Zuckerberg did in Wisconsin.
00:19:21.460 He took over the election system in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
00:19:25.180 His political hack had the key to the absentee ballot room.
00:19:29.500 And yet people go, oh, nothing went wrong in that election.
00:19:33.420 You know, we see the Dinesh D'Souza's movie, 2,000 Mules.
00:19:37.880 Oh, that's just how we design our elections to be run.
00:19:40.640 I mean, it's just jaw-dropping, the state of denial in our media and, you know, from liberals in general.
00:19:48.580 They're just in a state of denial in terms of the harm their policies are causing in this nation.
00:19:54.400 You know, Senator, I think they now know and fully appreciate what they have done.
00:20:00.600 And I think maybe they're quietly, secretly very proud of what they're achieving.
00:20:08.300 They've destroyed confidence in our elections.
00:20:11.620 2020 was rigged.
00:20:12.960 There's no doubt about it.
00:20:14.500 Was it fraud in various points?
00:20:16.620 You know, there were pockets of it to the degree to which the outcome would be changed.
00:20:21.000 We know for a fact.
00:20:23.060 A vice president of the former vice president of the United States lied to the American people.
00:20:27.920 A sitting U.S. attorney general refused to bring that to the attention of the American people,
00:20:33.580 even though he knew it wasn't Russian disinformation,
00:20:36.740 even though he knew there was a campaign to deceive the American people in the election.
00:20:41.920 He refused to intervene.
00:20:43.740 He said he didn't want to intervene in an election, but by so doing, he intervened in favor of Joe Biden.
00:20:50.520 That moment alone changed history, in my judgment.
00:20:56.840 And what is going to happen this week, January 6th committee, a Stalinist architecture, if there ever was one.
00:21:05.080 And we're supposed to pretend that, one, the president of the United States is not impaired,
00:21:10.800 that Kamala Harris is somehow qualified for the job she holds,
00:21:14.420 and that the January 6th committee is somehow a legitimate inquiry,
00:21:18.680 when it is nothing more than a partisan attack organized by the Speaker of the House.
00:21:26.800 What are we to do?
00:21:28.000 And, of course, now it's becoming very obvious that we don't have a, you know, one system of justice.
00:21:33.020 We have a two-tiered system.
00:21:34.820 You know, one that coddles Democrats and their political friends, their buddies, the elite,
00:21:41.340 and then one for the rest of us.
00:21:43.180 I mean, you know, we've seen Michael Sussman, who clearly lied to the FBI, you know, get off the hook.
00:21:48.580 He was, you know, found not guilty.
00:21:51.400 You see the, you know, the SWAT team arrests of people like Roger Stone.
00:21:56.780 Some of the people that showed up on January 6th committed no violence, never even went in the Capitol,
00:22:00.380 but were just there.
00:22:01.780 And you get SWAT teams coming out to their farms and ranches to round them up,
00:22:06.860 and you'll haul them in.
00:22:07.940 And then, you know, Peter Navarro, who, if all they had to do is go, you know, you're under arrest,
00:22:12.820 and he would have voluntarily gone in and, you know, present himself to authorities,
00:22:16.160 because he's a law-buying citizen, you know, they have to cuff him at an airport,
00:22:21.700 you know, put him in leg irons, put him in jail.
00:22:24.740 Again, this is outrageous.
00:22:26.340 This is obviously a justice system now that is going after their political rivals.
00:22:34.320 So there are so many things happening within the deep state with big federal government
00:22:38.920 that people have lost confidence in it legitimately.
00:22:42.720 And that's a real danger.
00:22:43.840 That is a danger to our democracy.
00:22:46.160 You know, it's really interesting, too, because the corporate media is saying things like
00:22:52.960 President Trump's allegations of a rigged election, which have been debunked or proved false,
00:22:59.800 is pure nonsense.
00:23:01.760 It's a lie. 0.98
00:23:02.580 And they keep repeating the lie.
00:23:04.380 And they keep talking about, well, that's an attack on the confidence in the electoral system.
00:23:09.300 The attack on the electoral system was led by Mark Zuckerberg.
00:23:13.240 It was led by Joe Biden's campaign, picking up from Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2016.
00:23:22.040 It was led by the FBI, the Department of Justice, various actors, all on the left.
00:23:29.240 And people want to say that we should hush and not mention the 2020 election because it will destroy
00:23:38.300 confidence in our electoral system.
00:23:40.580 And I would say to you, Senator, if anyone's got confidence in this electoral system, we're
00:23:44.480 now less than six months to that election on November 8th.
00:23:48.040 This is this is a moment where I have no confidence and I'm not certain because to go back to your
00:23:54.820 answer to my question about what will happen in November, you couched it.
00:24:00.740 You know, you should win this thing in a landslide.
00:24:03.560 But given what we know of the Democrats and what they have done to our election system,
00:24:09.900 none of us can be sure that what we should be will be.
00:24:13.560 And of course, as is always true, Democrats always start this.
00:24:18.940 Remember, it was in 2016 that Hillary Clinton literally would not concede the election.
00:24:23.020 She didn't lose.
00:24:23.920 It was just Russian interference that awarded the election to President Trump.
00:24:28.340 So you had half of America not believe that President Trump is a legitimate election.
00:24:33.260 Fast forward four years.
00:24:34.460 Now, the other half doesn't believe it's legitimate.
00:24:37.460 And of course, it's impossible.
00:24:39.220 It's impossible to prove fraud in so many cases.
00:24:42.420 It's very difficult to do.
00:24:44.020 But it's obvious there are all kinds of irregularities in Wisconsin alone.
00:24:47.860 I mean, we had absentee ballots that were cured by election clerks.
00:24:50.420 That's not allowable under state law.
00:24:52.760 We had people voting for folks in retirement communities, people that were incapable of voting. 0.96
00:25:00.480 That's not allowed.
00:25:01.380 We had, you know, an expansion of indefinitely confined where people didn't have to provide voter ID.
00:25:10.900 Right.
00:25:11.260 Early voting in the park.
00:25:12.420 I mean, there's Zuckerberg taking over, you know, Green Bay, but also impacting three or four other large Democratic strongholds.
00:25:19.640 Of course, then Milwaukee.
00:25:21.020 The five largest in Wisconsin.
00:25:22.960 And like so many other large jurisdictions, Milwaukee can't get their votes counted like the rest of America can.
00:25:29.560 And the vote comes in the next day when they know exactly how many votes they need.
00:25:34.320 Now, again, you can't prove exactly how many votes, but it just looks suspicious.
00:25:39.560 It reduces confidence.
00:25:40.860 And, Lou, I think our goal should be to restore confidence into our election system that no matter who wins, Republican, Democrat, or Independent, we all agree that's a legitimate result.
00:25:51.280 That's what we want as Republicans.
00:25:53.340 That's not what Democrats want.
00:25:54.860 Democrats want to push the envelope.
00:25:56.880 They want to make it easy to cheat.
00:25:58.700 It's obvious that's what they're trying to do with H.R. 1, with all these mail-in ballots, the explosion of absentee ballots.
00:26:06.980 It's obvious what they're trying to do here.
00:26:09.820 Well, speaking of what they're trying to do, Susan Rice is there at the, you know, the domestic council, domestic policy council.
00:26:19.140 And she's very interested in this election, isn't she?
00:26:22.680 And no one seems to want to talk about what she is up to and what this administration is up to.
00:26:29.840 And I get increasingly worried because no one is asking those questions of the White House and coming up with the answers.
00:26:38.280 And further, Biden isn't changing a policy. 0.96
00:26:42.620 They're just nuts when it comes to public policy.
00:26:46.600 Well, the good news is you have also 80% of the American population that actually do want voter ID. 0.86
00:26:54.660 As much as the Democrats scream that's racist, no, most people don't want their legitimate vote canceled by an illegitimate vote.
00:27:01.280 You know, what I can tell you what we're trying to do in Wisconsin is just, you know, be aware of what happened.
00:27:06.540 You know, I kind of went down the laundry list of like three different investigations.
00:27:12.540 It pretty well come up with the same thing.
00:27:13.640 There are all kinds of guidances issued by Wisconsin Election Commission and election procedures carried out by election officials that were contrary to state law.
00:27:23.520 So the first thing you do is you just make election clerks and Wisconsin Election Commission follow the law.
00:27:30.320 You know, there should be no excuse.
00:27:32.040 There should be no COVID pandemic this time that won't allow those election officials to follow the law.
00:27:40.060 Well, we've actually got some pretty good laws.
00:27:41.840 There are things we need to strengthen.
00:27:43.500 But that's the first thing.
00:27:44.460 But the overall goal is we have to restore confidence in our election system.
00:27:49.440 And that should be a completely bipartisan effort.
00:27:52.340 And again, the fact that 80% of Americans back voter ID tells you it certainly can be bipartisan.
00:27:59.380 But that's not what Democrats want.
00:28:01.320 So tell me this, Senator, why is it the Republicans have such a hard time understanding that their number one priority should be to put in voter ID?
00:28:11.260 And I want to put this in parentheses next to that question. 0.88
00:28:14.140 Mexico has a absolutely terrific, idiot-proof system of voter ID and requirement for certification, valid identification when they go to vote. 0.95
00:28:30.360 People don't realize it. 0.99
00:28:32.020 Mexico has an advanced system.
00:28:34.980 And we think of Mexico as a third world nation.
00:28:37.420 We're the third world nation.
00:28:38.620 All but one country in Europe has voter ID, and yet we listen. 0.99
00:28:43.320 Our Republican leaders listen to these idiots on the left and don't call us racist because we want voter ID, ignoring the fact you have to have voter ID for everything. 0.99
00:28:53.820 I mean, you have to have identification for everything in this country. 1.00
00:28:56.720 And what is this condescension that isn't considered bigotry on the part of the left?
00:29:01.640 They're saying that their coalition of constituents and voters isn't smart enough, can't have voter ID.
00:29:11.700 What is the reason they can't have voter ID, and why not pay for it?
00:29:16.120 I mean, the ignorance of the situation is overwhelming.
00:29:19.480 And that's what's sickening American voters and American citizens right now.
00:29:25.280 Well, it's interesting.
00:29:26.020 I'm sitting on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
00:29:27.660 We've held hearings on the European subcommittee.
00:29:31.100 And some of these countries that are trying to shed the corruption, the corrupt legacy of the Soviet Union, we're always pushing them for election reforms and other legal reforms, judicial reforms.
00:29:44.680 And we're trying to impose on them much tighter controls on their elections than we impose on ourselves here.
00:29:51.640 We have far more lax laws when it comes to elections, more early voting.
00:29:56.660 A lot of people just, a lot of countries don't allow early voting at all.
00:30:00.300 It's like you show up on election day.
00:30:02.320 By the way, that's the best way to control voting.
00:30:05.360 It's when you start allowing early voting and absentee balloting and mail-in balloting, that's what opens up the potential for fraud.
00:30:12.360 And again, it's hard to prevent fraud in those situations, and it's even more difficult to prove it.
00:30:17.620 Once the ballot is separated from the absentee ballot envelope, now what do you do?
00:30:25.640 So it's very difficult after an election to prove all these things, which is why you have to prevent it on the front end with the kind of controls you're talking about.
00:30:34.400 The first one is voter ID.
00:30:35.820 And again, the good news is 80% of Americans agree with voter ID because they don't want their legitimate vote canceled by a fraudulent one.
00:30:43.360 The Republican Party isn't delivering on what they want.
00:30:46.920 And that has to change, and I hope it can change by this November.
00:30:51.840 The other part that has to change is we've got to have Republican volunteers in every polling place in the country.
00:30:59.260 We've got to have aggressive lawyers sitting in every position that they can, poll watchers and full participants volunteering from the Republican Party,
00:31:09.640 because anything less is going to result in more fraud and a rigged election once again.
00:31:15.840 And by the way, this is exactly what the left wants.
00:31:18.680 They want to beat down Americans, so they give up, and Marxists can take over.
00:31:23.040 That is precisely the plan.
00:31:24.580 And how many states have gone to one-day election, Senator?
00:31:29.380 The number of states that have taken one day of elections, which is in the Constitution, one day and turned it into a voting season, for crying out loud.
00:31:39.500 You talked about the absentee ballots, the most potential for corruption.
00:31:46.360 But the idea of adding days and weeks, and in some cases months, to the election is madness itself.
00:31:55.680 Well, the voters certainly don't have all the information they should have, that they would have if they waited to vote on Election Day.
00:32:03.500 So, listen, there's a legitimate reason to have absentee ballots.
00:32:07.580 I now find myself having to generally absentee ballots because I'm here in Washington, D.C. on Election Day.
00:32:11.660 But, you know, in Wisconsin, that's a privilege.
00:32:14.960 It's not a right.
00:32:15.540 It's a privilege.
00:32:16.720 And I think we need to tighten up controls across the board on elections, again, to make sure that we restore confidence in them.
00:32:24.560 Voting is pretty darn easy.
00:32:26.380 I think what's even, in many cases, more outrageous is all these elected officials that are howling about how Georgia changed their laws.
00:32:36.460 You take a look at the voting restrictions in their own states, far more restrictive than anything Georgia enacted. 0.98
00:32:43.420 So, again, here's a shocker, newsflash, Democrats are hypocrites.
00:32:47.740 This is just an appalling circumstance, and we're left in the position, really, I think, Senator, of hoping, hoping that we can get enough local volunteers and state organizations energized and led by intelligent, well-meaning patriots who will assure that their citizens' vote counts.
00:33:10.500 It's going to take an almost 180-degree turn in the attitude of Republicans to get that engaged, that involved, and be full-on participants in democracy.
00:33:20.900 But I hope this is the year it happens.
00:33:23.340 Senator Johnson, we always give our guests the last word here, and I want to turn to you now for your concluding thoughts as we wrap up here.
00:33:31.420 Well, to give your listeners some hope, in Wisconsin, we've actually beefed up and had a lot more people voluntarily sign up to be election workers, poll workers.
00:33:41.000 Right.
00:33:41.380 Plus, it'll have poll observers.
00:33:44.020 It's two different.
00:33:44.780 One is a job you train for.
00:33:47.700 The other one, you show up and you just observe.
00:33:49.480 So, we really have made a pretty good effort there.
00:33:51.780 We have voter ID in Wisconsin.
00:33:53.740 We take this seriously.
00:33:54.680 Hopefully, this will be the election where we get a Republican governor so that we can enact into law, have a governor that signed the law that our legislators already passed to, again, increase the controls over our election system so that we restore confidence in it.
00:34:11.020 That's the main goal here.
00:34:12.020 And that should be a completely nonpartisan goal that we all should share.
00:34:15.840 Every American, every Wisconsinite should be confident in the result of our election.
00:34:19.960 I think we're moving that direction, Wisconsin.
00:34:22.740 Well, that is encouraging news.
00:34:24.540 And, Senator, it's been great talking with you, as always.
00:34:28.320 We thank you for being with us, Senator Ron Johnson, a great American.
00:34:31.940 And God bless you, Senator.
00:34:33.980 God bless you.
00:34:34.560 Take care.
00:34:35.820 Senator Ron Johnson, a great American.
00:34:39.580 Here tomorrow, our guest will be one of the Republican Party's leading strategists and pollsters, John McLaughlin.
00:34:46.220 And we'll be talking about what now appears to be a rising red wave of an election victory this year for the Republicans.
00:34:53.160 We'll get his judgment on the races and the election outcome.
00:34:58.080 Please join us.
00:34:59.260 Till then, God bless you and God bless America.