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00:01:18.340 Hello everybody, I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to the Great America Show and thank you for being

00:01:27.120 with us. Great to have you here. The House of Representatives under Speaker Mike Johnson

00:01:31.580 is off to a fast start. Taking votes, working long hours and the Republicans seem to be loving

00:01:37.760 it. Despite those long hours and a lot more work, the House approved sending more than $14

00:01:43.640 billion in USAID to Israel. The vote, 226 to 196. That vote Thursday, 12 Democrats actually

00:01:52.640 joined with Republicans. How about that? Let Hakeem Jeffries explain why Democrats wouldn't

00:01:58.780 support Israel. Under the bill, funding will be reallocated from money that had been in Biden's

00:02:04.920 IRS budget and the infamous Inflation Reduction Act. This was Speaker Mike Johnson's defiance of

00:02:11.260 President Biden and it appears to be just the first of what will be many. The puppet president

00:02:16.860 then threatened to veto any funding for Israel that doesn't include money for Ukraine. Well,

00:02:23.160 just mere hours before passing the standalone Israel funding, Speaker Johnson held a press conference

00:02:28.720 to tell the country and the president what he was going to do and what he thought of Biden's

00:02:34.900 proposition. Follow up. You stress the need to be able to pay for the Israel funding. As you know,

00:02:41.880 President Biden has issued a veto threat on this bill. Would you consider putting a bill on the

00:02:47.120 floor that includes funding for Israel, but does not have spending cuts? Or is that a non-starter?

00:02:51.500 No, listen, we are in dire straits as a nation. And if you talk to leaders at the Joint Chiefs of

00:02:57.500 Staff, the Pentagon, sometimes even in recent years under oath, they've testified before the House

00:03:02.020 Armed Services Committee, where I served until since last week. If you ask them what the greatest

00:03:06.920 threat is to our national security, you would expect most people expect they'd say China, Russia, 0.99

00:03:11.060 Iran, terrorism. They say it's the national debt. We have to address it. We have obligations and we

00:03:16.740 have commitments and we want to protect and help and assist our friend Israel. But we have to keep

00:03:22.680 our own house in order as well. And I think people at home, I think the American people understand that

00:03:27.540 at home, you have to balance your budget at home. You have to make tough decisions. And

00:03:31.880 Washington should run the same way. And so we are here to change the environment, to change the

00:03:37.040 paradigm the way Washington thinks. If we continue on the trajectory we're on, it's going to hurt our

00:03:41.940 country terribly. And it's going to hurt hardworking Americans even more, seniors and the rest. So we

00:03:46.600 have to, while we take care of obligations, we've got to do it in a responsible manner. So I made this

00:03:51.580 very clear to the president, myself, in our cordial meeting that we've had. I've made it very clear to

00:03:55.740 our colleagues, House Republicans, I spoke at their, I mean, Senate Republicans, I spoke at their

00:03:59.800 luncheon yesterday, to every cabinet official I've spoken to all the way down the line, that we're

00:04:04.700 going to do this in a responsible manner. And that's a very important principle for us.

00:04:08.100 As I said, just hours after holding that press conference, Johnson called Biden's bluff and

00:04:12.800 brought the standalone bill to the floor and passed it. That's a breath of fresh air in our Capitol,

00:04:18.020 a speaker who means what he says and says what he means. How about that?

00:04:22.420 In a lengthy televised conference yesterday, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah

00:04:28.620 warned Americans will pay for the United States' involvement in the war in Gaza,

00:04:34.120 the threat likely to bring even more U.S. assets into the region to defend our troops and Israel.

00:04:40.560 The United States flying unmanned drones now over Gaza in support of the hostage recovery efforts.

00:04:46.640 NSC spokesman John Kirby was asked about Biden's comments about Israel

00:04:51.200 respecting human rights and following the rules of law. He was asked why Biden never said

00:04:57.520 anything like that to Ukraine about the Russia-Ukraine war.

00:05:02.900 We've been saying it since the very beginning, Nancy, that we want to see our good friend and

00:05:07.700 partner abide by our shared commitments to the respect for civilian life and the respect for

00:05:13.100 the law of war. We've been saying that since dang near the beginning of it. 0.88

00:05:17.820 I've never heard him say that Ukraine needs to follow international law. So he seems to be making

00:05:22.640 a point of this, particularly when it comes to Israel. Does that signify that he has...

00:05:26.980 Well, these are different conflicts. And Ukraine was the victim of a massive invasion by a neighboring

00:05:33.240 nation. And their military operations have been, with the exception of the counteroffensive where they're

00:05:40.940 going after Russian positions. It's been largely defensive in nature. It's a different situation

00:05:46.080 than what the Israeli defense forces are doing inside Gaza going after Hamas terrorists in a fairly

00:05:53.120 aggressive way. Kirby's blather babble, just about what we've come to expect from the Biden regime in

00:05:58.620 every instance. And you don't suppose all that money Biden made in Ukraine has anything to do with it,

00:06:03.960 do you? And speaking of dirty money, New York Marxist Mayor Eric Adams is under a federal

00:06:09.760 investigation for alleged corruption in his 2021 mayoral campaign. The issue is illegal donations

00:06:16.920 from Turkey. Thursday, the FBI raided the Brooklyn residence of Breonna Suggs, the 25-year-old chief

00:06:24.800 fundraiser for Adams. Suggs raised over $18 million for Adams in the 2021 campaign and has raised already

00:06:33.100 $900,000 for his 2025 re-election bid. So we'll see how this investigation works out for Mayor Adams.

00:06:42.260 Joining us now is Congresswoman Claudia Tenney. She sits on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee

00:06:47.280 and House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Congresswoman, a great delight to have you back with

00:06:52.900 us on The Great America Show. And congratulations. We've got a Speaker of the House and he looks like

00:06:58.140 the real deal. What's your sense of what we should expect from Speaker Mike Johnson?

00:07:03.240 Yeah, I think he's a great guy. It's great that we have a Speaker who is really just so smart and so

00:07:10.820 thoughtful and someone that all the members are going to rally around. I think you're going to find

00:07:15.940 someone who's going to unify everyone. And he's been a good friend of mine since my first term in

00:07:20.720 Congress. And he is a fighter. As you know, he's got a background of fighting for our principles. He's

00:07:28.000 deeply religious, but he also understands that we have to stand up for our Constitution and he is

00:07:34.260 going to do that. And he also started something that no one's talking about yet, is he started a

00:07:40.240 commitment to civility in my freshman class in 2017. And he got all but three Democrats, all the

00:07:47.080 Republicans to sign on to really just so that we work together, that we're not going to agree on

00:07:52.460 policy, that we work together in a way that is as civil and productive and representative of our

00:07:57.820 government. And, you know, I thought that was it was something that I thought, oh, that's not going

00:08:02.340 to work. But it actually did work until, of course, AOC got elected in 2018 and the fireworks began.

00:08:07.960 But he he's a great guy and he's going to be a good leader. And you can just see already that he's got

00:08:12.820 a lot of common sense. I think he's very Reagan-esque in so many ways. And I think everyone's

00:08:18.280 going to learn that about him. He's he's a lot tougher than than people think. He's just a little

00:08:24.480 bit more mild mannered. I think that's what makes him so stealthy and so effective. Well, great. It's

00:08:31.280 good to have I could say this any number of ways. So I'll just say this. It's great to have a talented,

00:08:38.140 intelligent and committed conservative in his Speaker of the House. And he everything he's done

00:08:45.360 to this point. Admittedly, early days, I applaud. And most particularly, I'm thrilled that he's

00:08:52.760 sticking to to the issues of single subject bills, bringing 12 appropriations bills and not

00:09:00.000 and not in any way submitting to the omnibus crowd, including led with led by a group, including

00:09:10.220 Mitch McConnell, as you know, that is still the case, is it not? I know things change quickly in

00:09:16.000 Washington. So I just want to double check. No, our new speaker, Mike Johnson, is working very hard.

00:09:21.720 It's really important to him. And it's important that we go back to that formula. And it's going to be

00:09:27.460 challenging for him because no longer are these omnibus bills going to be leverage points.

00:09:32.280 He's going to have to be persuasive. And we're going to have to get people to actually vote on

00:09:36.080 bills and issues as they are. And I think that's going to be a good thing, a new thing. It's going

00:09:41.520 to be challenging for a lot of members who, you know, look, these omnibus bills always have something

00:09:46.580 in it that you like and something you don't like by design, because it leverages the member to vote for

00:09:52.560 something they don't want to vote for. But it has something that they know is good for their

00:09:56.540 district in there. So they end up voting for something they don't like. The single issue

00:10:00.400 bills is something I always wish we did in the New York state legislature was never done. Of

00:10:04.660 course, the Democrats run everything. And they also abuse power, just like Nancy Pelosi did when 1.00

00:10:08.780 she was speaker. So I think this is going to be challenging. We may not get bills passed right

00:10:13.560 away. We may have to have some amendments and that type of thing to get things passed. But that's

00:10:18.020 the point of the process. You know, a lot of people keep talking about the chaos of us going through

00:10:22.920 the arduous task of electing a new speaker. We ended up doing really well in the end through

00:10:27.480 a typical process. We didn't anoint a king or a queen like the Democrats, like a Nancy Pelosi,

00:10:32.900 who's going to, as I said, abuse power. We put forth a true constitutionalist, something,

00:10:37.680 somebody who really believes in the principles of our of our government and preserves in protecting

00:10:43.080 freedom and individual rights of the American people. And so he's always going to be guided by

00:10:48.080 that compass. And we may not get 100 percent of everything we want right away. But you know that

00:10:53.860 he has got a true course and he is committed to that and he's going to get and do everything he can

00:11:00.320 to persuade the rest of our conference and even maybe some Democrats to understand what he's trying

00:11:05.980 to do in preserving our country, which is so far on the brink right now of what I think is almost

00:11:12.360 irreversible damage that's been done by the Biden administration. Absolutely. And I want to turn to

00:11:19.000 a date that's coming at us rather quickly as well. And that is November 17th. The CR runs out

00:11:25.260 and no more omnibus and we're not going to have any more nonsense. So what does that mean for funding

00:11:33.920 the government forward from the 17th of November? I think it's going to be tough to do. Look, I know

00:11:40.620 there's a lot of people out there that advocate for shutdowns and they think shutdowns are leverage.

00:11:45.220 Right now, a shutdown is leverage for the Democrats. They control the executive branch.

00:11:50.660 They also control the Senate. But think about what the executive branch is. The executive branch

00:11:54.820 isn't just the White House. It's all the agencies in Washington and across the country that can

00:12:01.420 really inflict harm on the American people in the event of a shutdown. And we can do nothing about it.

00:12:07.780 We don't have President Trump or Republican controlling that branch. We also don't control

00:12:13.740 the Senate. So it would put us in a terrible situation where the Democrats would get all of

00:12:18.680 their priorities. We would get none. So all of us dislike, at least most of us, at least on the House

00:12:24.980 side, especially the conservatives, any talk of a continuing resolution. But if we can't get bills out

00:12:31.800 of the appropriations process on time, we do have to try to avoid a shutdown. In this case,

00:12:37.820 they have not been as catastrophic. When we control the White House, it's a very different

00:12:42.160 situation. Sure. It's a disaster when we had Obama. So we can do everything we can to try to avoid it.

00:12:48.760 We're talking with Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, great American. We're going to be right back with her.

00:12:53.560 Stay with us. We're back. We're talking with Congresswoman Claudia Tenney of New York.

00:13:04.200 And so we were talking about no CRs. What's going to happen? What will be the posture?

00:13:12.580 It seems to me you have to either get the appropriations bills done or you're going to be

00:13:17.400 stuck with some really bad choices. Yes. And the bad choice, again, is the shutdown and the CR is

00:13:23.640 almost as bad. But the situation is I wish we controlled the White House and we can control

00:13:29.380 the narrative here. But we have a very slim four seat majority could even go down more this week in

00:13:35.620 the event of we lose another member because we're down to three, three or four. We've got to find a

00:13:41.300 way to get some of these appropriations bills passed. Now, remember, we are not going to get the

00:13:46.960 Senate to go along with us or the White House. So what we did is put something.

00:13:53.720 Absolutely. We do. We can't if we put if we pass bills and the Senate, we send them to the Senate

00:13:58.660 and the Senate doesn't the Senate doesn't pass them. The government shuts down.

00:14:03.480 Well, that's on the Senate. The question is that's exactly what we need to do is make sure that we pass

00:14:09.140 something and put it on the Senate, which, by the way, is what we actually did to get where we are

00:14:14.420 today is we forced the Senate to go and vote, though it wasn't pretty. They did have to vote

00:14:19.840 on a CR to avoid a shutdown. And we put it in their lap. So I think we've got to have a similar

00:14:25.560 strategy, although we've really got to stick to what what we need to do is those single

00:14:30.280 appropriations bills, the ones that are left, by the way, added to the ones we got passed.

00:14:35.260 You got 75 percent. Yeah, we've got about 75 percent of the budget, basically 80, almost 80 percent.

00:14:42.140 So the last 20 percent we're going to do in the next couple of days and the five and five bills

00:14:47.600 passed seven to go. You again, this is the percentage of the discretionary budget, 75 percent of it.

00:14:58.920 That's great. But, you know, it's like rat poison. You know, only two percent of rat poison,

00:15:04.120 you know, is actually poison. The rest is oatmeal. So those percentages get to be a little tricky.

00:15:10.700 So well, it's tough to remember something we have. So let's talk about leadership for one minute.

00:15:16.420 I served in the state legislature sitting next to me across the aisle, right, literally like a foot

00:15:21.820 from me or a couple of feet with Hakeem Jeffries when he's a state assemblyman. I never imagined he would

00:15:26.240 ever be a minority leader in the House at all. He never showed any any kind of leadership ability

00:15:32.000 to do that. And I don't think he shows it now. And then he's very political. You know, he's got a

00:15:36.920 kind of kind of a controversial background. And then we go across the Capitol. And who do we have?

00:15:41.880 Chuck Schumer, who got his start in the state legislature, who's never done anything but serve

00:15:46.160 as a career politician. So Mike has got a tough road, our speaker, to try to get these two guys to

00:15:53.220 agree to something to prevent this government from shutting down. And at the very least, at least

00:15:57.440 we can put it on them to vote to shut the government down, because then it's their fault.

00:16:02.360 And I but again, I don't want to see the American people suffer. I do think as a Republican conference,

00:16:07.900 Mike Johnson was unanimously supported by our conference. He needs to get at least almost

00:16:12.860 unanimous support on passing tough legislation that's going to have cuts in it. We're going to

00:16:18.100 have to make hard cuts. Now, whether we can get the Senate to pass it, once we put it in their lap,

00:16:23.340 it's up to them to say to the American people, we're going to continue to spend, we're going to

00:16:27.500 continue to cause inflation, we're going to continue this ridiculous green energy agenda that is

00:16:32.200 really harming us, has really thrust us in. It's the core of why we have a war in Israel and a war in 0.97

00:16:39.360 a war in Europe right now is this terrible energy policy. And if you really scrape away all the

00:16:45.520 peels and the layers of this onion, that's the heart of it. It's energy.

00:16:50.240 I think the heart of it is, frankly, the Democrats cheating and rigging an election in 2020

00:16:55.980 and putting an absolutely illegitimate man in the White House. I mean, by the way.

00:17:02.960 But their weakness. Yeah, their weakness on energy, something that President Trump,

00:17:07.720 I mean, you know, right now, today, we would be the number one producer, continue to be the number

00:17:11.740 one producer of fossil fuels and natural gas and energy in the world right now if we had stayed

00:17:17.720 with President Trump. This is a disaster. You know, the money that the Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad

00:17:26.300 comes from money that is being sold, money to the Iranians from oil that has been released because

00:17:34.240 the Biden administration released sanctions on their ability to sell oil and to generate cash to use

00:17:40.340 for their terrorism. And that's one of the reasons. That's where where this energy is a big part of

00:17:45.140 that issue. The same thing that is happening in Ukraine. We gave the Russians the power using 0.95

00:17:51.760 energy and leverage over these smaller countries or other countries in Europe and Eastern Europe and

00:17:57.320 down to the Balkans, that whole region. They're all dependent on Russia for natural gas that we

00:18:02.360 leveraged and allowed that to happen instead. And that was partly the Europeans fault. We allowed all 1.00

00:18:07.340 that to happen because we have a weak, feckless president who is obsessed with climate change 1.00

00:18:13.640 and, you know, or the fact that man-made climate change and energy issues. So the real issue then,

00:18:19.640 as I said, is we have an illegitimate president of the White House. We have a, and in all of this,

00:18:28.320 the weakness of the chief executive to the energy dependent still on OPEC amounts to the consequence

00:18:36.280 of having permitted the Democrats to cheat another election. And we're coming up on exactly another

00:18:43.640 election, which looks like it'll have the same result because the, the, the Republican leadership

00:18:49.760 is so feckless that it hasn't done a thing, excuse me, a thing to reform our elections and the election

00:18:58.640 system. We're talking with Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, great American. We're going to be right back

00:19:03.900 with us. Stay with us. We're back with Congresswoman Claudia Tenney. And Congresswoman,

00:19:14.160 we were talking about what's going to happen on the 17th of November. My statement still holds true.

00:19:19.740 If the Republicans in the House pass those appropriations bills and do exactly what Mike

00:19:27.040 Johnson did, which is divest Israel from the Ukraine is Israel bundling that the, the Biden

00:19:36.660 administration attempted. I think that's a brilliant move. I think it's great. And I think

00:19:40.760 you ought to do the same thing with every appropriations bill. And I think the house

00:19:44.380 should show that it can actually work and get these appropriations bills out by the 17th of November

00:19:49.740 and cut the crap. How's that? Yeah, I agree with you. By the way, it was, I actually introduced the

00:19:55.520 bill last week. It was the only one on the floor that actually separated Ukraine from Israeli funding.

00:20:01.140 He added the, you know, he tried to offset it because of the spending using the money the Democrats want

00:20:06.160 to spend on bulking up the IRS, which I thought was also a good move. But let me get back to the

00:20:10.320 elections, which I think you touched on an important thing. The Republican National Committee is spending

00:20:15.020 money on lawsuits and other things. But one of the things that Republicans have to do, I founded the

00:20:19.280 Election Integrity Caucus. You know, my story, I came back in 2020, I was up 28,422 votes,

00:20:26.340 as was President Trump. And I went through 100 days of counting and ended up winning by only 109.

00:20:32.400 We have got to get on top of this. Mike Johnson is a huge supporter, a member of my Election Integrity

00:20:36.780 Caucus. Some of the other members of leadership before were not, nor were, but, but Steve Scalise and

00:20:43.660 Mike Johnson were, were original and strong supporters. We have got to get out and make sure

00:20:49.060 that we, in the swing states, we got to do it everywhere, but in the swing states, we have got to make

00:20:54.740 sure that we counter the nearly a billion dollars that the Democrats are spending to manipulate the

00:21:01.420 elections, whether it's through vote harvesting, in some cases it's legal, but we have to either do the

00:21:06.280 same, early voting, absentee ballots, manipulating the system, priming the pump, doing everything they can

00:21:12.960 because that whole election came down to those, those, you know, bizarre set of circumstances in

00:21:18.320 those swing states. We have got to be aggressive now. It's almost too late, but yet it's never too

00:21:22.920 late. We've just got to invest the money into making sure that we are countering everything

00:21:28.000 they're doing. And also some of the executive orders coming out of the Biden administration,

00:21:32.360 using our executive agencies to vote harvest, which we are opposed to. That's one of the things

00:21:37.960 which they've been doing for almost 20 years. And the Republicans are only rising up to what you

00:21:47.520 can do with a domestic council, what you can do with the internal resources of the White House.

00:21:53.540 No one has taken it to the art form, as have the Marxist Dems who run this puppet president. 0.53

00:21:58.820 I mean, this is something to behold. Susan Rice has been absolutely a powerful force

00:22:08.520 in a clandestine operation, and we're seeing already the results of it.

00:22:15.940 Yeah, no, we've got to get on this right away. But I wanted to say thank you so much for being a great

00:22:19.860 American, for fighting the fight. It's going to come down to election integrity. We have got to win

00:22:24.600 on that. We have got to get our voters out. If they don't vote, and they don't vote in the numbers

00:22:29.780 they should be, we aren't going to be able to squeak past. And look, New York, you know,

00:22:34.380 President Trump's not going to win New York, but he could very well win those states, and he must win

00:22:38.280 those key swing states. And we've got to put, we've got to address those issues. We've got to put money

00:22:43.520 into those issues. We've got to be vote harvesting. That's what I did, Lou. I went from winning by 109 votes,

00:22:49.380 moved to a new district that was a little better, not hugely better. And I actually improved my lead

00:22:54.500 to almost 34 points. I doubled the Trump turnout because I use legal vote harvesting. And I went

00:23:01.560 to voters and got voters out that had not voted or weren't regular voters. We have got to do that

00:23:06.720 every single place that we can in order to win the presidency back, maintain a majority in the House

00:23:12.420 and grow and create a president, a majority in the Senate. It can be done, but we have to be on this

00:23:18.360 very aggressively right now. And there are a few entities that are doing it, but we need to do it

00:23:23.300 all as a team from the RNC, NRCC, to all the state legislatures all on down. It's really critical.

00:23:31.460 It's the only way we're going to win.

00:23:33.060 One last question. Who's leading that effort for the Republicans?

00:23:37.560 Right now, RNC is actually leading it on that side, on our side of the, and our NRCC is actually

00:23:43.680 investing in that. We are also actually in New York state. We've got some election integrity money

00:23:49.680 that we're using actually to, right now, where that money is being devoted to making sure they

00:23:54.100 don't overturn the redistricting that we had last year to try to manipulate that in favor of the

00:23:59.360 Democrats. So we're fighting that New York state side of that will affect the majority in the House,

00:24:05.120 but each state has to get involved with this. I've got, you know, we just hired, we just elected,

00:24:10.220 the governor-elect Jeff Landry in Louisiana is one of the leaders on election integrity.

00:24:14.680 He has been fighting and on the forefront of this, and we've got to continue to use great AGs,

00:24:20.820 now governors, around the country, especially in those swing states where we can, where it really

00:24:25.880 comes down to just a few thousand votes. We've got to win those, and we've got to empower those

00:24:30.780 people, and we are doing everything we can with the election integrity caucus to get everyone

00:24:35.200 informed as much as possible. Representative Claudia Tenney, thanks for being here. Great American.

00:24:41.280 Thank you. Thanks so much.

00:24:42.640 Our guest here tomorrow on The Great America Show will be former Trump attorney John Eastman,

00:24:47.680 who's been fighting to keep his law license in California. He's been in a 10-week bar trial in

00:24:53.500 California, and his crime, he represented President Trump. Marxist Dems control our legal system in 1.00

00:25:00.660 this country, and they mean to destroy anyone, and I mean everyone, who would represent a conservative.

00:25:07.280 Please join us for John Eastman here tomorrow. A fascinating story. Join us each and every

00:25:12.540 day. And thank you everybody for being with us. God bless you, and may God bless America.

The Great America Show - November 04, 2023

BIDEN’S ENERGY POLICY FUELS HAMAS & RUSSIA

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