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A new metaphor for the political chaos in the United States: A volcano in Mexico is erupting, and 22 million people are on high alert. Meanwhile, a second IRS whistleblower has come forward with new information on the DOJ investigation of Hunter Biden. A Marxist-dim New York judge is presiding over the Trump-Stormy Daniels trial, and has set a date for the beginning of that trial. Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to make clear his presidential aspirations, and real clear politics has Trump up 37 points in the race for the Republican nomination.
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Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and this is The Great America Show. Welcome. Great to have you
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with us today. There's a new metaphor for our political chaos in the United States.
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It's a volcano in central Mexico, less than an hour from the capital, Mexico City.
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It's threatening 22 million people. Three million are now on alert to evacuate.
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The eruption is getting stronger. The volcano rumbling, creating geysers of steam and ash,
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rattling, thundering, rock blasting from its throat, crashing down over lava,
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flowing out over the rim, and red-hot gravel falling from the sky above the summit.
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Steam and ash spewing from the volcano's throat, and geologists say they can't predict what happens
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next. In our capital city, frayed nerves as well. A new whistleblower has emerged. New documents sent
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to Congress this week reveal a second IRS whistleblower has come forward with new information
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on the Department of Justice probe of Hunter Biden's tax fraud case. This new whistleblower,
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the second IRS whistleblower, is a special agent in the IRS International Tax and Financial Crimes
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Division. The whistleblower alleges that two of Joe Biden's appointees at the Department of Justice
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interfered in the IRS investigation, trying to block charges against Hunter Biden for tax violations.
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They, along with another whistleblower, are expected to appear Friday before the House Ways and Means
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Committee, where they will testify about the rampant corruption at the DOJ, and what they know about
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interference in the investigation of the president's son. Meanwhile, a Marxist-dim, New York Judge
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Juan Merchant, is presiding over the Trump's Stormy Daniels case and has set a trial date now. And as
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expected, his choice of date for the beginning of that trial, highly political. The date right in the
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midst of the presidential primary season. March 25th, 2024. President Trump is said to be livid,
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outraged at what is classic judicial intervention in the electoral process. And I believe this is clear-cut.
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Election interference by a judge. I don't know what else it could be called. And speaking of the 2024
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election, we're expecting Governor Ron DeSantis to make clear his presidential aspirations.
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The governor expected to announce at 6 30 p.m. on Twitter with Elon Musk that he's running for the
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2024 Republican presidential nomination. We take that up with our guest today, Congressman Corey Mills of
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the great state of Florida. We'll get Congressman Mills' reaction to it all. DeSantis facing an uphill
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battle, even with big money from the likes of Elon Musk. The latest polling for morning consult has
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President Trump beating DeSantis by nearly 40 points in a primary. And real clear politics has Trump up 37
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points. A long road ahead for the GOP nomination. Joining us now, Congressman Corey Mills,
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who represents Florida's seventh congressional district. He sits on the House Armed Services
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and Foreign Affairs Committees. Congressman Mills, it's great to have you back with us here on the
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Great America Show. Before we take up Trump versus DeSantis, I want to first turn to what's on everyone's
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mind. And that's the debt ceiling negotiations, those talks between President Biden and the House
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Speaker. Your sense on what's happening and where we're headed.
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Well, I think that right now, the Republican Party as a whole, you know, Joe Biden and the Dems didn't
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think that we could come together to get the necessary votes to pass a debt ceiling. And they
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did the same mistake by H.R. 1 and H.R. 2 and even in the parental rights bill and the D.C. crime bill.
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So once again, they've underestimated that we're willing to stand for conservative principles.
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And we've come together now and passed one of the most conservative and physically responsible
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debt ceiling increases that I've seen in my lifetime. Things like going back to fiscal year
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22 as our baseline numbers, looking at instead of doing a three and a half or four percent increase,
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but a one percent increase per year, looking at calling back appropriations or allocations that
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are not used like things in the COVID vaccine or COVID pandemic, where there's hundreds of billions
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of dollars that are out there. The executive order that Joe Biden signed that is a complete bypass
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of legislation to the tune of 500 billion dollars in tuition bailouts, the 87,000 IRS agent allocations
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and some of the funding in the IRA. You know, these are all things that are not the D.C. dance of five
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to 10 years down the road. But these would be clawbacks to the tune of one point two trillion dollars
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in fiscal year 24, knowing that it's only a one point four seven trillion dollar increase to begin
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with. So when you look at this and you look at how we've rebalanced our baseline finances to 22
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with that one percent, you're talking about a nearly four point eight trillion dollar
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decrease in our budget, which is a lot of money, as you know. And so when you look at that,
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you start looking at the RAINS Act, which stops overregulation of businesses.
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You start looking at securing our borders so that we can slow down on draining down some of the social
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programs that need to exist, like our Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. These are things
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that have to occur to allow the GDP to exceed our national debt spending. And Speaker McCarthy
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has stood strong on this, as has Republicans who are in solidarity and unified. And we're not going to
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deal with the threats of defaulting. If Biden wants to default and the Democrats want to default,
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that is on them. But we are at the table willing to negotiate to get a solution in place. And I
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don't care if Hakeem Jeffries wants to bring his discharge petition, which he doesn't have the
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numbers for, but we will not sign a clean debt ceiling to draw more money and more stress where
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every child being born right now is saddled with one hundred thousand dollars in debt per person.
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Yeah, it's this is a crisis and no one wants to acknowledge it because corporate America is having its way
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with the Biden regime. Those borders are wide open. The the what we got. We have an estimate of six
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to eight million illegal immigrants will have been allowed into this country by the end of this year.
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That's extraordinary. It is punishing to taxpayers and they are outright competitors for wages
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with working Americans and their families. It's outrageous. And you guys and I should say it
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differently. All of you in the hundred and 18th Congress are making a real difference right now
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in just the tone you're setting and these investigations and standing fast. I want to point out to a lot of
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folks having raised in this bill spending to a trillion and a half dollars with those conditions
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is smart because the way for Joe Biden to get that debt ceiling raised is simply sign that bill. Right.
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Right. That's exactly right. And one of the things that you just touched on, I want to reiterate to all the
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listeners here, is that, you know, you talked about getting control of the six point one million people who's
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crossed our borders since Joe Biden has taken control and how that threatens certain job
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competition. Well, that's why it was so important for us to ensure that work requirements was entered
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into this debt ceiling, whereby if you are an able bodied man and woman who is able to get out into the
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workforce, you shouldn't be incentivized by the federal government not to work. You should be given the
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opportunity to actually have jobs that allow you to work to get yourself out of poverty. And so, you know,
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the idea that, you know, Joe Biden's threatening to veto this just based on work requirements. Now,
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bear in mind, this is the same individual who proposed the 20 hour work requirements back when
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he was a senator. But it's also the same guy, you know, that in the videos are out there who threatened
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to get rid of Medicare, Medicaid, not three times, but four times as he's actually shown and proven.
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So the hypocrisy, which probably isn't even a hypocrisy at this point, because he can't remember what he had
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for lunch. But the reality is that Joe Biden has actually requested the very things that are in
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our bills and now threatens to veto them when it's protecting the American workers.
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Well, I'm going to have to remind everybody that I'm the guy who said, I don't think that there
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should be a fight over the debt ceiling for one reason. Well, actually, two reasons, but one principal
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reason. One is that this president, I don't think anybody can name a single instance in which
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President Biden has acted, initiated, or made any decision that is in the national interest.
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And I can't help but suspect that he is absolutely indifferent to whether or not we see a catastrophe
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in the markets as a result of a debt default if it comes to that. That, to me, is the great mistake
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in this discussion, because it's giving him credit for caring about something I think he would, in fact,
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intend. I hope I'm wrong about that. And I think that you and everyone in the 118th Congress
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are right to pursue it. But this man is not rational. He is nothing more than an impaired puppet for the
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Marxist Dems, who run the Democrat Party and himself. It's a very high stakes issue. But you
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had to do something because otherwise the country will be even further down a chasm of disasters
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created by this president. Well, that's exactly right, Lou. And again, if the president was serious
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about trying to get a debt ceiling increase, then why did they not come up with a single plan?
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You know, the Republican Party and the House are the only ones who are passing real legislation.
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Let's talk about what the Senate has done under the Democrat leadership and Chuck Schumer.
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They passed one major bill, and that major bill, in my opinion, they proposed was to make March,
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I think it was, or May, I can't remember which month, Maple Syrup Month. I mean, that's the importance
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of what the Senate is doing right now. And meanwhile, they want to attack a conservative debt ceiling
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bill that gets the job done. But to your point, Lou, I think you're right. He doesn't care if it
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falls into the quagmire of a debt default. It almost works to his advantage as he continues to try and
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weaken us militarily, economically, and politically. But I think the bigger issue that we're going to
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face here is that it's continual lies. I know Secretary Yellen has said that the fiscal cliff is on
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June 1st. But I actually think that if you look at when this debt sitting is occurring, one of the
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questions that I had is that, does that take into account all of the actual federal taxes that the
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U.S. government is going to be taking in, and how that actually starts to reflect moving out. So this
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could be something where they're telling everyone in a fear-mongering tactic that June 1st is this
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scary day, which, hey, if it is, let's get the deal done. But I still think that they're exaggerating
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that. And it could be mid-June to early July, if you think about what type of income actually is
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received by the federal government to what our expenditures are. But here's the scary part,
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and I'm just going to put it this way. We've already paid, to date, almost $600 billion just
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this year in interest payments alone, no principal. You're now starting to talk about the fact that
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we're spending a trillion-plus dollars a year in interest, not on principal. This is a real issue
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that should not be a Democrat or Republican issue, but an American issue. So we have to get control
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of the federal government and their overspending. We have to get the checks and balances in place,
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but we also have to return and allow industry and market to drive policy that sees domestic
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production growth and stop the reliancy on nations like China, Russia, and other adversaries that are
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flooding our market with their goods, but not promoting American production, which enables us to
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be able to exceed. Again, I'm a former business owner. My account payables cannot exceed my account
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receivals. If it does, it's called insolvency. That is what we have been for far too long. So it's
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time to get control over it. It's time to put the reins on things and start actually steering it and
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get course correction. And that's what this debt ceiling increase that the Republican House has
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provided. I couldn't agree with you more. We are talking with Congressman Corey Mills. We're going to
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take a quick break as The Great America Show continues. Stay with us. We're coming right back.
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We're back talking with Congressman Corey Mills. Congressman, you were just talking about this
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should be a Democrat and a Republican issue, as is the case for so many issues, including the border
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foreign policy. It isn't. We are watching a president who seems determined to destroy this
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country with every act that he undertakes. Every step he takes seems designed to do the worst for
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America. I think the days of Republican and Democrat are pretty much over. We're looking at Marxist
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Democrats. We're looking at Republicans who are divided between RINOs and conservatives, some moderates.
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But it's a different world. And I just don't think that we can count on the goodwill of the loyal
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opposition, because it's neither loyal and not simply opposition. It's an adversary.
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Well, I think that you're exactly right, Lou. And I made this exact comment when I was on the trail
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during my campaign to 22. And I said, we have to look at things for what they really are today.
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It's no longer Republican versus Democrat. It's no longer conservative versus socialist. It's now
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America versus anti-America. And that's really where we are right now as a nation. We have to start making
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decisions whereby each of our thoughts is based on constitutionality and the principles that allow us to
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get back to American exceptionalism. We have to start thinking about the ideas of securing and
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protecting our sovereignty to making sure that our streets are being properly policed and that we are
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not seeing crime run rampant to where our American citizens are scared to actually do their day-to-day
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duties. We have to provide opportunity. And again, we're a nation which is about equal opportunity,
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not equal outcome. That is the difference between equity and equality. Equality is about the ability
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and the outcome that you are allowed to get based on your work performance. Equity is nothing more
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than a socialist ideology that talks about redistribution. And so, you know, I think that
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you're spot on when you talk about, one, the fact that there isn't really a Democrat-Republican side.
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It's the America-anti-America side. But also, I would say that in this 118th Congress, and especially
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with the freshman class that we had coming in, of which a large majority were combat veterans such as
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myself, you know, we're really constitutionalists at the end of the day. You know, we respect and
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understand that the seven articles and 27 amendments are our safeguards and our guardrails,
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if you will, to how we perform and operate for the American people. But again, I go back to the
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original thing, which is that I will never be a politician. It's time to be statesmen. It's time
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to be real representatives. It's time to look at what is best for the American people, not an ideology
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or a political agenda that drags us into the abyss. And so, we have to start now getting back to that.
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And, you know, I'm proud to say that, you know, being a part of this conference, being a part of the
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118th Congress, I really, truly believe if you look at the bills that we're passing and we put on the
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floor, that's exactly what we're doing. Securing our borders, getting our debt under control, making sure
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there's no over-regulation of businesses so they can thrive, making sure that we protect life, making sure that we
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stop the unelected bureaucrats who think they're lawmakers from violating our rights and our liberties
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and start actually holding adversaries accountable and stop calling them competitors and start calling
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them for what they are. Stop this interventionist ideology or mindset, but also not getting into the
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difficulties of being an isolationist, being protectionist, building our military, stopping the
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DEI and the CRT and the ESG, stopping these social experimentations and the, you know, this predator-prey
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mechanism whereby our children are being utilized. So that's what this 118th Congress stands for,
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and I think that you see it. I think that great representatives like Congressman Jim Jordan and
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others see it, and I'm very proud to be a part of this. Well, it's good of you to include me in that
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illustrious list. I have to say, I am so fearful of Joe Biden. Right now, he has got this country,
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as we used to say out West, by the tail with a downhill drag. I don't see how we can do anything
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very expediently, very quickly to stop what is a march toward disaster. What are we going to do?
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Deport eight, 10 million illegal immigrants? I mean, is that what we're going to do? No one wants to even
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talk about that. That's how intimidated the Republicans are on the issue of illegal immigration
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and border security. We have to secure that border. You mentioned fentanyl. My gosh, this is, you know,
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100,000 Americans a day, a day. It's bad, but not that bad. 100,000 Americans a year are simply
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collateral damage, and there's no war on drugs. There is a wide open border, and Joe Biden, for
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all the world, looks like he has signed a treaty with the drug cartels. He's turned over control
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of our southern border to the cartels. That's exactly right, and let's just go ahead and paint
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the picture with facts on this. You know, in 2018, these same Mexican drug cartels had about a $500
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million a year revenue stream. Let's go to last year under Joe Biden for the full year of 2021,
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whereby it's now increased to a $13 billion a year industry, of which 40-plus percent is just in the
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child and human sex trafficking. You know, we talk about, and the Democrats want to say all the time
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that they care so much about the health crisis. You know, that's why the pandemic was so important,
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and, you know, COVID was such a pivotal moment. Well, why don't we talk about the fact that we spend
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tens of billions of dollars to treat infectious diseases around the world by USAID and all these
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other organizations, and yet we're allowing our borders to be open right now. That's allowing
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some people from countries that have the highest transmission rates of tuberculosis. I mean, we have
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a human crisis at our border. We have a national security crisis at our border. We have an economic
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crisis at our border. I mean, we're allowing more people to come across per day than we utilize
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during the D-Day invasions. We have to recognize this for what it is, and that's why when it came
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to HR2, which is the most conservative border bill that's ever come to the floor, that was even
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echoed by Congressman Chip Roy and the Texas delegation. This really gets us back to those
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Trump policies, if you will, the remain in Mexico, the finishing the wall, the supporting and providing
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a more robust asset and allocation and manning for our CBP and our ICE, you know, ensuring that we can
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actually stomp out what is going on and label under the FTO, the Foreign Terrorist Organization,
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you know, things like our Mexican cartels that are actually here to do us harm. But this is not just
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the Mexican cartels. This is a bigger picture of things, and I've warned about this for five-plus years.
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China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, some of our greatest adversaries, they are using these open
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borders in an effort to try and go ahead and attack and kill Americans through the utilization of
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fentanyl. And we know that in the Darien Gap, there are mainland Chinese who are printing fentanyl pills
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in between Honduras and Panama who are allowing these to be mulled in at a, we will pay your fee,
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it's for the ferry, if you will, to come in and utilize that to poison Americans. And as you alluded to,
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100,000 Americans are dying a year. That's more than any war that we're involved in or any war
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that we're trying to utilize as a proxy. We need to start understanding that the real threat to our
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democracy, the real threat to our American sovereignty, and the real threat to the American
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people is here on our own shores. And that's why our founding fathers understood that we must protect
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our constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, domestic being the key right now.
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And so securing our border, as you said, Lou, is such a critical thing in order for us to try and
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Well, we are getting word that there's going to be a very interesting development
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with Governor Ron DeSantis, who's announced that he is going to be announcing for president.
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With him, apparently, to announce his run is going to be none other than Elon Musk. Now that's early
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reporting. We'll see what that means. And we'll get your reaction, Congressman, if we may, right after
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this quick break, we're talking with Congressman Corey Mills. Stay with us. We'll be right back.
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And we're back with Congressman Corey Mills. Congressman, your thoughts about the latest
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entrant into the Republican presidential sweepstakes. And that, of course, is Governor Ron
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Well, you know, look, I'm very blessed. As Warren Buffett said, if you were born in America,
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you'd already won the lottery. I would go one step further to say if you were born in Florida,
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you'd hit the jackpot. Look, I live in the freest state in the country. I'm very proud to be a
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multi-generational Floridian, greatest state I've ever been in. I think we have an amazing governor.
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I think that he's done a great job kind of keeping things on the rails and helping to go after
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CRT and some of the indoctrination in our schools, the K-3 parental rights bill, though I would argue
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it should have went through K-12. But the reality is that even with Governor DeSantis wanting to get
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into this race, you know, we don't need a four-year or an eight-year solution. We're going to need a 12-year
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solution. And Florida needs to, we've elected a governor for four years, not to run to build up
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your national profile. What we really need, and I've endorsed very early on, I was one of the first
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four in the Florida delegation who endorsed our president, Donald J. Trump. What we need is someone
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who understands truly how the D.C. swamp operates and the big establishment. We need someone who has
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a proven foreign policy track record. When you look at President Trump's policies, you look at things
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like replacement of the U.S. or the NAFTA with USMCA. You look at the Abrams Accord. You look at the
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China phase one deal that saw hundreds of billions back into our agriculture and our farmers in the
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Rust Belt and across America, understanding food security as national security. But you have
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something that is even far more powerful. President Trump, unlike anyone else who's entering in this
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race, regardless of how crowded the field gets, he doesn't have a re-election looming over his head
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whereby he can make the necessary aggressive course corrections to get America back on track
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without the fear of a re-election looming or trying to impede him from his decision-making process.
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Everyone else who runs in this field, they're going to be thinking about, how do I get elected for my
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second term if they come into office? With President Trump, you get an America First agenda.
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You get back to the same policies we're trying to pass right now when it comes to H.R. 2 and the border
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bill. The same policies that we're trying to pass with this debt ceiling that allows our GDP and business
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owners to actually thrive and increase past our national debt ratios. The same guy who was willing
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to hold our adversaries accountable and take out individuals like Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of ISIS or
00:26:30.680
Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mariyah al-Mahandis of the Iranian regimes, but also a person who stood for
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holding our allies accountable as well, like making sure that Germany and Italy and France, who don't do
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it now but did under President Trump, paid their 2% of GDP for NATO. We started getting back to a real
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America First government that allowed us to be able to put the American people as our priority while
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simultaneously allowing us to be very strong and very respected on the world stage, something we don't have
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any longer since Biden's botched that damn withdrawal. I personally don't see whereby Governor DeSantis can
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provide the same level of governance and the America First principles as we can under President Trump.
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And so what I'd like to see is our great governor to go ahead and remain as governor, and he's welcome
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to come in in 2028. But right now, what America needs is a proven tracker, a proven CEO, and a proven
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America First conservative, and that's President Donald J. Trump.
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And there's going to be a lot of talk about DeSantis stepping in. And somewhat disrespectfully,
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I think most people would say, because he was, of course, endorsed by President Trump, very important
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to his being elected initially as governor. And his entire governor is a gubernatorial campaign on
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President Trump. And he is America First, posting himself up as a Make America Great Again candidate.
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You would think you were listening sometimes to the Trump agenda, word for word.
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But we also have now Elon Musk saying that he will support DeSantis. And I think I'd like to get your opinion
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of what you think the impact of an Elon Musk. He's got, what, I think 140 million followers on Twitter,
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which he also owns. That's a powerful, powerful person to have their support.
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It's a very powerful person to have. I mean, look, it's the equivalent of, you know, when you saw in Florida
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where the majority of Florida delegates actually started endorsing President Trump, even though
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the governor himself is supposed to be representing the state of Florida, that was a very powerful
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message. I think that Elon Musk, who is an incredible businessman, he has done the right thing
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with the Twitter file drops. He's an individual who definitely can move the needle in some regards.
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But now you're talking about Governor DeSantis getting into a race whereby he's 30 plus points
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down. You got a guy who cannot win the Rust Belt when you think about the fact that President Trump
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put hundreds of billions of dollars into farmers' pockets. You've got a guy who, in my opinion,
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I don't think that he would be able to go toe to toe with someone like President Trump when it comes
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to the debate stage. And so while it's important, the thing that I know a lot of people are going to be
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concerned with is, well, how does this work with Twitter, who we knew prior to Elon Musk's purchasing
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was shadow banning, was intentionally suspending those who had a different mindset, was really
00:29:32.380
targeting conservatives, things like that. I don't think that we would have that same concern because
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I will say that I appreciate that Elon Musk is really about free speech. I think what Elon is
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thinking is that there's a misconception that President Trump, while he can easily win the
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primary, couldn't win the actual general. I disagree with this. I think it's a false narrative.
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I think that he has the best chance of actually defeating President Biden. And I think that what
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we need right now is to understand where were we when it came to all the Republicans who was talking
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about tax reform. You know, there were so many presidents who came before President Trump who
00:30:07.680
claimed they were going to do something. President Trump actually did it. Where was the rest of the
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presidents, Democrat and Republican alike, when they said they were going to recognize Jerusalem as its
00:30:15.480
rightful capital? No one did it. President Trump stood up there and he got it done. Where was
00:30:20.320
everyone on the Abrams Accord, which hadn't been done since 1994 and 1979 prior to that with Egypt
00:30:25.900
and trying to get and ensure the prosperity and stabilization of the Middle East? President Trump
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did that. So when we start looking at this as influential as Elon Musk is, and as much as I respect
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his fight for free speech, I just don't think that it's going to move the needle enough where we're
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going to see Ron DeSantis even come close to etching out the Republican nominee. We need to unify right
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now. We need to unify behind President Trump and a conservative agenda that allows bold course
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corrections for a president who already understands how the swamp operates, who already knows he has no
00:30:58.740
reelection, can make the decisions that need to be made unpopular or not, and a president who will hold
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our adversaries accountable and get us back to where we are being respected on the world stage. If not, we better start
00:31:09.520
learning Mandarin real quick because we already know that this government is compromised and it is
00:31:15.120
moving towards an America-last agenda that actually advances China, Russia, Iran, and their geopolitical
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alignment gains and strengths. And so we have to start thinking about a president who can do the right
00:31:24.780
things to hold him accountable. In my mind, that's undoubtedly President Donald A. Trump.
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I think there are a host of reasons why Donald Trump is the preferable candidate for 2024.
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Chief among those is he has endured eight long years, almost eight long years now, of political persecution by the
00:31:47.220
Marxist left without anybody standing up and breaking this cycle of ignorance and viciousness on the part of the
00:31:55.660
Democrat Party. Not one leader in it has stood up for Donald Trump. Very few leaders have stood up for President Trump in
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his own party. And I think the American people understand fully who are the good guys and who are the bad
00:32:11.000
guys here. And only one of them is wearing a white hat among, as far as I'm concerned, among those people
00:32:17.080
looking to be president at 24, Democrat and Republican. I just can't even imagine why we wouldn't put Donald Trump in
00:32:25.200
the White House by acclimation, unanimous acclimation for all that he has done for this country and for all
00:32:32.000
that the left and the RINOs have done to him. But I'm pretty sure that there will be a real hard knuckle fight
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over 2024. I just can't. And by the way, among the questions that will be asked if Elon Musk is going to put
00:32:48.160
himself in position of being shoulder to shoulder with DeSantis is, you know, just how free of Chinese
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influence is he? He has Apple, for example. They have basically their whole company tied up in China.
00:33:03.960
How complicit will they be with Chinese policy? I find it very difficult to embrace the idea that you
00:33:14.720
have anyone who is so conflicted as an Apple or a Tesla. And I give, by the way, I respect deeply
00:33:25.040
Elon Musk. All that he's accomplished with SpaceX, with Tesla, it's remarkable. But I don't want to
00:33:35.680
see that kind of conflict near the president of the United States, or we'd have just basically what we've
00:33:40.800
got now. This president compromised by China, compromised by God knows how many countries,
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and all of Wall Street and corporate America as well. And Congressman, this is where we always give
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our guests the last word. And if I may, we'll ask for your concluding thoughts.
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Well, thanks again for allowing me to be on, Lou. It's great to be able to be on The Great American
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Show with you. You know, again, I talk about the 118th Congress and our conservative principles.
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I talk about the fact that we will stand in solidarity and unification when it comes to
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our debt ceiling, with the fiscal responsibilities, with ensuring that we secure our borders,
00:34:18.960
with holding those accountable for their malign activities, whether that be China or whether it
00:34:24.240
be our own government, as the FBI and State Department, as you know, has refused multiple
00:34:28.480
times to share key documents from the American people and transparency. We will look at making sure
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that, you know, Biden does not continue on his interventionist path, but that we look at an
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America First agenda. And through hard work, through determination, through the America First
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way, we will see our president, President Trump, back in the White House in 2024 and leading us
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towards prosperity, which is what we need. And I appreciate you being a part of that and for
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advocating so heavily. So thank you again, Lou. I'm always here. God bless. If you need anything,
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please don't hesitate. Congressman, thank you so much. We appreciate it, Congressman Corey Mills.
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And that's all for us today. Please join us back here tomorrow. Our guest will be Professor Paul
00:35:11.120
Bracken, Yale professor, brilliant author of numerous books and articles on political science,
00:35:16.640
business and defense. And one book in particular, The Second Nuclear Age. We take that up with Professor
00:35:24.160
Bracken here tomorrow. Please join us for that and more. Until then, thanks, God bless you, and may God bless America.