The Great America Show - May 25, 2023


BIDEN’S REGIME WEAPONIZED TO TARGET CONSERVATIVES


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Ron DeSantis enters the race to become the next president of the United States. Congressman Ben Kline joins Lou Dobbs on the Great America Show to discuss the latest in the ongoing scandal involving the FBI and the Trump administration.

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00:00:30.000 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and this is The Great America Show.
00:00:33.620 Great to have you with us today.
00:00:35.200 Ron DeSantis has entered the 2024 presidential race now with an announcement on Twitter.
00:00:41.960 Hosted by Elon Musk, he was the star attraction on Twitter.
00:00:46.120 The announcement was delayed due to a crash on the Twitter Spaces platform.
00:00:51.100 The audience at its peak was just under 700,000 people,
00:00:55.420 well short of President Trump's announcement on television with millions watching.
00:00:59.260 DeSantis at points seemed to be reading a script, but perhaps it was his monotone.
00:01:05.520 And just moments after the announcement, President Trump released a statement on his Truth Social account.
00:01:12.720 The Washington-established politicians like to talk about how they can be just like Donald Trump.
00:01:20.080 The truth?
00:01:21.920 There's only one Donald Trump.
00:01:24.580 There's only one who gave us the largest tax cuts in history,
00:01:29.240 who gave vets the health care they deserve,
00:01:32.500 and stood up to China and protected your job.
00:01:36.800 Only one who kept us out of endless wars while destroying our terrorist enemies. 0.58
00:01:42.260 Only one who fundamentally changed the Supreme Court was called the most pro-life president in history
00:01:50.100 and relentlessly protected our Second Amendment rights and our borders.
00:01:55.900 Why would we ever settle for Trump imposters?
00:01:59.420 Make America great again.
00:02:01.800 When there's only one, starting day one, who can make America great again.
00:02:09.980 I'm Donald J. Trump, and I approve this message.
00:02:12.520 Governor DeSantis knows he faces nothing short of an uphill battle
00:02:17.040 trailing Donald Trump by more than 40 points in some polls.
00:02:21.560 Turning now to the corrupt FBI.
00:02:23.540 The FBI's Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence testifying on Capitol Hill this week.
00:02:30.060 She was asked about the Durham report that exonerated again President Trump
00:02:34.700 and condemned the FBI, casting another shadow over the agency.
00:02:40.700 Listen to Congressman Dan Bishop questioning the Assistant Director on whether she read the report.
00:02:47.260 I'm just without words that the FBI is unconcerned.
00:02:51.020 Do you know whether anybody at the FBI has read the Durham report?
00:02:55.980 I'm sure people have read the Durham report, sir.
00:02:58.940 Can you name anybody that you know has read it?
00:03:01.300 No, sir.
00:03:03.120 Do you intend to read it?
00:03:04.900 I do intend to read it.
00:03:07.140 Does the FBI intend to undertake any changes in the way it conducts counterintelligence operations
00:03:13.280 based on the Durham report?
00:03:15.160 I can't answer that, sir. I can take that question back.
00:03:17.680 Such arrogance, such extraordinary arrogance and insult to Congress.
00:03:23.560 Our guest today is Congressman Ben Kline.
00:03:25.900 He sits on three very important committees, the House Judiciary, Appropriations and Budget Committees,
00:03:33.440 as well as on the Republican Study Committee.
00:03:36.720 Congressman Ben Kline, it is great to have you back with us here on The Great America Show.
00:03:41.440 The country is watching, obviously, the debt talks between the Speaker and President Biden.
00:03:47.260 Give us your sense, please, of where we are and where we need to be.
00:03:51.500 Well, we are standing united behind Speaker McCarthy, who's doing a great job of fending off the efforts by Joe Biden
00:03:59.400 to avoid accountability for not even engaging in negotiations for months and months.
00:04:06.340 You know, Speaker McCarthy, from the minute he was sworn in as Speaker,
00:04:11.460 was very focused on the need to ensure that we raised the debt limit and didn't allow our economy to go into crisis.
00:04:25.720 But the president thought he could just muscle the Speaker, I guess, into approving a clean debt ceiling,
00:04:35.700 which is what they like to do when they just want to keep spending more and more.
00:04:40.520 And fortunately, the caucus came together and passed a bill that does increase the debt limit a little bit,
00:04:49.240 1.4 trillion, which is no small change, but it gets us till next year, till next March.
00:04:56.320 And the president doesn't like that, but he also doesn't like the half a dozen conservative reforms that we put on there
00:05:05.420 that are going to be absolutely necessary to bring this inflation to heel, to stop this wasteful spending
00:05:13.420 and to start to to begin to right the fiscal ship of this nation.
00:05:17.620 Well, those are all laudable goals, and I think certainly every conservative, every Republican in the country
00:05:25.540 and all right thinking people in the country would agree with the with your goals.
00:05:32.340 We also have a president who likes to spend like a I don't think there is an analog for that.
00:05:38.440 This man is unprecedented in his reckless and hyper, hyper influence decisions to to raise to spend more money without raising more money.
00:05:52.880 But now he's talking about just raising taxes, at least in the early going.
00:05:59.020 How's that going to work?
00:06:00.400 Well, he wants to shift the focus to spending instead of on spending and on his reckless spending.
00:06:10.320 And like you said, he I would say he spends like a drunken sailor, but that would be given drunken sailors a bad name.
00:06:16.820 So he's he spends at such a clip.
00:06:19.520 And Nancy Pelosi was helping him here for the past two years.
00:06:25.380 And now he's got a House of Representatives full of and led by Republicans who recognize that all of this wasteful spending contributed to the inflation crisis that we see,
00:06:38.860 contributed to Americans spending more at the pump, at the grocery store, farmers spending more on input costs.
00:06:45.360 It means that we just can't keep spending the way we have been.
00:06:51.820 And he's got to come to terms with the fact that we are not going to agree to increase this debt ceiling until we get a deal in place,
00:07:00.920 reforms to rein in spending and actually reduce spending so that these trillion dollar deficits that we incur every year are not repeating themselves
00:07:12.520 and driving us further and further off the fiscal cliff, driving us off a fiscal cliff, as you put it.
00:07:20.180 But at the same time, insisting on raising taxes, which, again, if there is a reason in the world to raise taxes here,
00:07:28.600 with all of the money that is being raised through taxes, I don't know where we're headed other than making this entirely a country of government.
00:07:40.820 All of us will be federal employees in one way or another if this keeps up.
00:07:47.060 We're talking about people paying 35, 40, 55 percent of their salaries every year going to the government.
00:07:58.180 It's just got to stop.
00:07:59.960 And the spending is so wasteful and misdirected and with awful purpose.
00:08:06.060 That budget is the architecture, if you will, of much of what ails our society, in my opinion, in this very day.
00:08:17.900 Absolutely.
00:08:18.840 His budget that he put forward in the spring just is more of the same deficits into perpetuity, adding to the debt and more of this wasteful spending.
00:08:30.080 You know, they called my bluff when I asked Speaker McCarthy to focus on the wasteful spending.
00:08:37.900 They said, fine, we're going to put you on the budget committee and the appropriations committee and let you go to town.
00:08:43.520 And I tell you what, pulling back the curtain on on this wasteful spending, it is abhorrent.
00:08:49.960 The waste, the mismanagement that goes on, you know, we still have just billions in COVID dollars that haven't been spent, even though we've finished the pandemics over and the president signed the bill ending the pandemic.
00:09:09.140 But we still have COVID money out there and he just wants to let them let these agencies continue to spend taxpayer dollars like they're not the hard earned dollars of taxpayers, but instead some kind of monopoly money that he can create out of thin air.
00:09:24.780 And that's the main problem with the liberal left, these these ridiculous modern monetary theorists who have come out of, I don't know where, some fantasy land where they think that you can spend as much as you want because you can print as much as you want.
00:09:43.500 And somehow it's not going to lead to inflation, interest rates going up, bank crises like we've seen, because you have poorly managed banks that are not anticipating these interest rate hikes.
00:09:56.860 It's it's cascading across our economy and it's just got to stop.
00:10:00.880 It has to stop and it will stop.
00:10:04.180 It'll either stop because of responsible management of fiscal policy or it will stop because of a disaster in our markets and economy.
00:10:15.500 We and we have seen the early stages of that.
00:10:20.280 And what is without question to me, hyperinflation, anything over five percent, I would consider hyperinflation.
00:10:27.920 And I know people argue about the definition, but it's an extraordinary period where you have hyperinflation.
00:10:34.180 And a federal reserve that is, for some reason, using just interest rates as a way to combat inflation inspired by Biden's mess.
00:10:46.860 And by the way, that congressman, I would hope that Speaker McCarthy makes it clear to all Americans every day.
00:10:54.680 This is Biden's mess and it's up to him whether or not he wants to fix it because he has gotten away with some of the most destructive, devastating policies, all of them, without being held to account.
00:11:12.000 And this is one opportunity to make it clear to the country whose mess this is.
00:11:16.880 And it is, without question, Joe Biden's.
00:11:19.920 Absolutely. And, you know, we have two responsibilities here in Congress.
00:11:25.100 One is to be appropriate and responsible stewards of the taxpayer dollars.
00:11:30.860 And Lord knows we haven't done that in years.
00:11:33.320 But the other is to provide oversight over the government and to hold the executive branch especially accountable for how these tax dollars are administered.
00:11:46.380 And, you know, it concerns me that this administration has, over the last two years, engaged in activities across the board when it comes to either immigration, failing to enforce the laws.
00:12:04.280 Because you talk about inflation and energy independence actually moving in the opposite direction to address inflation or energy independence, trying to make us more dependent on the Chinese and on the sheiks in OPEC. 0.98
00:12:21.620 But then you have the weaponization of government in various agencies.
00:12:28.460 Just about every agency has been weaponized to either target conservative viewpoints for destruction or essentially elimination or trying to pursue a woke agenda from the left,
00:12:46.560 trying to take agencies that were never meant to engage in these woke behaviors like the federal insurance office, which is a legislation I've put in to eliminate this agency because it was created under Dodd-Frank 10 years ago.
00:13:01.900 It was designed to really oversee insurance products in this country, which states were doing a fine job of initially.
00:13:13.260 But now it's being weaponized to pursue a clean climate agenda to make sure that insurance products are green enough.
00:13:23.880 And, you know, the agency is a good example of bureaucratic largesse that didn't need to be created in the first place.
00:13:33.760 But now that it's being weaponized against small businesses and consumers and folks for a green agenda, it's a perfect example of the kind of agency that just needs to be eliminated entirely.
00:13:48.440 You're listening to Congressman Ben Klein and when he said that Speaker McCarthy had called his bluff on on a number of his interests, including the appropriations process, the budget itself and the judiciary.
00:14:06.380 Well, the congressman found himself one of the hardest working men in Congress on all three committees.
00:14:13.080 We're going to talk about and three of the most important committees in the House of Representatives.
00:14:19.020 We'll continue our discussion with him about what is ahead for the country and what this 118th Congress is doing about reaching a sensible budget and reaching, of course, some answers about weaponization of a federal government of America against American citizens.
00:14:38.340 And continuing the investigation of what is a deep state that is obviously a raid against Republicans and conservatives, citizens all across the country.
00:14:50.560 We'll continue with Ben Klein right after these quick messages.
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00:16:18.220 We're back with Congressman Ben Klein.
00:16:20.700 And Congressman, before the break, I was talking about the number of committees you're on,
00:16:26.120 and amongst those, the budget and appropriations.
00:16:29.740 Give us your best judgment here about how much leverage the House of Representatives actually has
00:16:37.680 to bring some sort of pressure on the bureaucracy to conduct itself appropriately to back away from what has been a period of political persecution
00:16:51.380 on the part of the deep state and the Marxist-dim party for now, the better part of eight years.
00:16:58.380 Well, the power of the purse is one of Congress's most important powers.
00:17:02.640 It enables us, especially when you're facing a dynamic like we're facing with a conservative House
00:17:08.260 facing off against a spend-happy Senate and a president that knows no bounds in deficits and debt.
00:17:19.680 And we have the ability to essentially say full stop until we get some changes to what we want
00:17:28.700 to see from the government.
00:17:31.140 Now, usually we see a budget put forward by the president.
00:17:37.180 He was late with his, and he pushed it into these debt ceiling talks.
00:17:41.920 But then we see appropriations process take place, and then we see a reconciliation bill.
00:17:47.760 All of that has been kind of dislodged by the debt ceiling fight.
00:17:51.660 But we took it upon ourselves to recognize the threat that failure to raise the debt ceiling would cause.
00:17:58.580 So we are the only body to have passed a debt ceiling increase.
00:18:03.400 And we did it with a majority of Republicans.
00:18:08.160 And it includes a number of important reforms.
00:18:11.740 But the appropriations process is happening now.
00:18:15.560 And the committees at work targeting all of the woke and weaponized government and using the power of the purse to either eliminate those programs 0.94
00:18:26.240 or turn them in the right direction and really focus them on what they were meant for and not allow them to be mismanaged.
00:18:37.140 You know, some of these projects that were approved by Nancy Pelosi's Congress, some of these earmarks were some of the most egregious, wasteful spending that we've seen.
00:18:48.420 And not just because they were on projects that could be done by the private sector,
00:18:54.500 but also because they were done in a way to force their either climate agenda, their liberal social agenda on the country, on hardworking Americans.
00:19:10.920 And we are putting it to a full stop.
00:19:14.740 So you're seeing all of this take place now.
00:19:17.800 Now, it's a mess.
00:19:18.860 You know, sausage making is a messy process.
00:19:20.980 But we're going to get it done.
00:19:23.140 And that's because the country depends on it.
00:19:26.960 Well, you're talking about a mess.
00:19:29.160 And again, it's Biden's mess.
00:19:32.540 And but you didn't mention the political corruption of our bureaucracy, the so-called deep state.
00:19:38.680 We're looking at two examples very quickly.
00:19:42.280 And that is the FBI and the Department of Justice.
00:19:45.500 Most of the resources of the Department of Justice for two years were dedicated to the January 6th prosecutions and persecutions that is ongoing.
00:19:56.960 It was devoted to a host of political purposes.
00:20:04.340 And the FBI, we now know from the Durham report, we've known before that, but again, validated the level of corruption at the FBI.
00:20:12.560 It is absolutely pervasive through those two institutions, and it reaches in as well to the court system itself, the federal court system.
00:20:24.020 It's indeterminate right now, just how far it is, but it's extensive.
00:20:29.780 Will you consider pulling the budgeting for the FBI, first and foremost, because it is a police arm of a surveillance state that is dedicated to the Democratic Party, to the Marxist Dems who are running this government and this White House?
00:20:50.100 Well, you're absolutely right.
00:20:54.000 The greatest example of the weaponization of the government against conservatives is the misuse of power in the FBI and the Department of Justice.
00:21:03.560 And so it's an honor for me to be on the Judiciary Committee with Chairman Jim Jordan, who has been fantastic in chairing this new weaponization subcommittee.
00:21:15.060 And while I'm not on that subcommittee, he tasked me with chairing a smaller subcommittee that dovetails with it to essentially require compliance with the oversight, the information requests coming out of the weaponization committee.
00:21:32.020 So as they've been sending out subpoenas, we are judging which agencies are working with us to provide us the information about schools in Loudoun County and Northern Virginia and parents that just want to testify at their school board meetings being targeted by the FBI as terrorists or Catholics in Richmond who are being targeted by the FBI for infiltration and investigation.
00:22:02.020 Before they pulled that proposal back.
00:22:06.360 But the Durham report is the latest example of the weaponization of the FISA process, the warrants that enabled the FBI to spy on millions of Americans.
00:22:21.480 You know, the original numbers that were thrown out there were over a million warrants being requested.
00:22:32.700 And now they're down to 200,000, which is still hundreds of thousands too many.
00:22:39.840 But the idea for FISA was originally for foreign terrorists and not for domestic surveillance.
00:22:46.460 So there's the question now that FISA needs to be reauthorized in the fall, whether the FBI should even be able to take advantage of it or whether it should be limited to just the CIA.
00:22:56.640 And and I don't support reauthorizing FISA without major overhauls and restrictions so that the FBI can't do what they did to the Trump campaign back in 2016.
00:23:10.380 Yeah, to me, Congressman, I have to say there is no way in the world that Congress should should renew this Section 702.
00:23:23.900 That's this is a FBI that is out of control.
00:23:27.820 And that in point of fact, all of our intelligence agencies seem to be.
00:23:31.380 We've got 18 of the most of them in the Department of Defense and those I would probably leave alone.
00:23:38.780 But everything else that is going on, there has to be a reckoning that this this reflex of the rhinos to say, well, we've got to do it because the national security depends on it is pure hogwash.
00:23:50.520 Because it appears to me that the heads of the CIA, the the FBI, these these agencies have spent more time on domestic politics than they have foreign adversaries.
00:24:08.600 I don't think there's any question about it.
00:24:10.940 And it's it's deeply, deeply troubling to all Americans.
00:24:14.600 And we can't just keep saying we're going to keep keep on doing what we've done.
00:24:20.520 This is a you you said it.
00:24:22.240 We have a surveillance state.
00:24:23.860 This isn't a process toward which we're headed.
00:24:27.340 We're there.
00:24:28.660 And it has to be brought brought under control.
00:24:31.900 Are the the very idea of a free citizen in this country is is dead and gone.
00:24:39.200 And that's right.
00:24:39.820 And to look at what they have done with Twitter files.
00:24:45.740 You look in there at what the FTC was doing with Twitter, demanding reporters names and sources.
00:24:54.560 It's it's Orwellian.
00:24:56.680 It's it's Soviet style governance.
00:24:59.020 And the idea that back in 2016 that you had Comey and Page and McCabe and Strogg lying to the American people and essentially using a Steele dossier that they knew was false, that they knew was not reliable to obtain these warrants, to spy on the Donald Trump campaign, to interfere in the 2016 election.
00:25:24.300 And then to find out not only that Hillary Clinton knew about it, but in Barack Obama's White House, that Vice President Joe Biden knew about it, too.
00:25:33.120 They knew that it was all a baseless lie.
00:25:37.100 And they continue to mislead and use the media to mislead the public by pushing this Trump Russia collusion for more than six years.
00:25:45.240 We're talking with Congressman Ben Klein, and we have much more to discuss with him.
00:25:52.840 Fascinating, hardworking representative of the of the great people of Virginia.
00:25:59.980 It's just stunning the amount of work that he does put in serving on three committees.
00:26:04.380 I don't know even how many subcommittees and caucuses, but we'll continue with Congressman Ben Klein here in just a moment.
00:26:14.020 Stay with us. We're coming right back.
00:26:15.840 We're going to find out just just what the Republican Party wants to do about a country that is in deep turmoil because of this impaired puppet president and his regime. 1.00
00:26:29.060 Stay with us. We'll be right back.
00:26:30.320 We're back with Congressman Ben Klein.
00:26:38.500 Congressman, we were talking about the Judiciary Committee chaired by, as you said, Jim Jordan, who is, I think, a congressional.
00:26:47.560 He's a hero to to all of government and the American people for what he has been trying to do, as are you and your colleagues.
00:26:56.500 What can be done here? What do you expect to be done when you have a border that is wide open through the what is a government being a presidency that is using the power of fiat rather than following the Constitution to open the border and to bring in what now are an estimated six to eight million illegal immigrants in this country without the approval or even notice to the U.S. Congress?
00:27:26.500 Well, we have some tools at our disposal.
00:27:30.420 The best tool that Americans have is the vote.
00:27:34.260 And next November, we hopefully will have an administration that actually enforces the law rather than avoids the law and enforces the border and secures our border.
00:27:46.520 But in the meantime, we have the power of the purse, which we are using aggressively to bring this administration to heal and to curb the wasteful spending and to make the spending that is there contingent on this administration reforming and changing the way that it operates.
00:28:06.000 When you have a Republican Congress that wants to limit spending or house that wants to limit spending and an administration that wants to spend more, that dynamic essentially pushes us to make these spending changes contingent on reform.
00:28:24.200 And the administration, if they want those dollars, which they love so much for their bureaucracy, they have to make these changes or they just won't see the types of spending that they want to see.
00:28:37.580 And so we're doing our best to use the power of the purse.
00:28:41.680 And then we're also using our legislative process with the media pushing back on this media narrative and essentially things that we didn't know whether we could get through or not.
00:28:59.160 For example, this crime bill that rejected the District of Columbia's effort to reduce their mandatory minimum sentences and and reject cash bond and all of these changes that are really making D.C.
00:29:18.020 a very crime ridden city.
00:29:22.180 Eventually, with enough pressure, we got the president to back off of his threatened to veto it and sign it.
00:29:28.600 So we know that we can get his cooperation on these issues if we push enough.
00:29:36.080 And then finally, we have a new tool, which Speaker McCarthy agreed to during his many rounds of elections, which essentially allow us to line item out individual salaries of bureaucrats in the administration.
00:29:50.560 And so for someone, you know, for someone who may be egregious in his malfeasance, and I'm thinking of some individuals, whether it's in the FBI or the DOJ or the NIH.
00:30:07.480 There are many people who we would like to relieve of duty and and by zeroing out their salaries, we could do that.
00:30:17.180 So we've got many tools at our disposal.
00:30:18.700 We just have to use them.
00:30:20.400 And how soon can you use them?
00:30:23.180 We're using them right now.
00:30:24.480 The power of the purse is the Appropriations Committee's drafting legislation that hopefully the American people can be proud of that will scale back spending.
00:30:35.300 You know, we have not ever in the history of Congress reduced spending year over year.
00:30:42.980 And that's pretty remarkable when you think about it.
00:30:45.240 I couldn't believe it when I first heard it, but we're aiming to do that this year and we'll be able to do that if we flex our muscles and use this power of the purse.
00:30:56.440 We look forward to you flexing that muscle assuredly.
00:31:01.240 You were talking about the power of the purse and targeting line items down to salaries. 0.58
00:31:07.180 The FBI has basically told you all to to go to hell.
00:31:11.160 The Judiciary Committee, the House Oversight Committee, this this is a remarkable statement by the FBI.
00:31:20.040 And it's and it's part of what has been the experience of Congress for the past eight years.
00:31:25.980 There has been no cooperation.
00:31:28.460 It's oversight is oversight in name only until the 118th Congress.
00:31:32.700 And I hope that it turns out to be oversight with power and purpose and result.
00:31:41.160 Because this is just ignorance, what Christopher Wray is doing.
00:31:45.420 I know he's going to appear before your committee.
00:31:47.640 I know you want and are working to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security, as he should be.
00:31:56.040 And I think there should be further consequences.
00:31:58.600 But let's start there.
00:32:00.720 The American people have got to see that there is a consequence.
00:32:05.200 And these these miscreants, these Marxist Dems who are destroying this country have to understand there will be an accounting.
00:32:16.340 Well, that's true.
00:32:17.160 And we need to impeach Mayorkas. 1.00
00:32:19.980 We needed to impeach him a year ago when he was lying to Congress, when he was lying to the American people about his failures to secure our border, the effect of which is now clear.
00:32:33.400 And it's created a situation where every community is now a border community, including mine in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where we have fentanyl killing people, where we have human trafficking, sex trafficking.
00:32:47.140 You just talk to the troopers who pull over vans on the interstates that run through my district, and they'll tell you that the border is open and that it's contributing to some of the worst humanitarian crises we've ever seen.
00:33:01.420 So we have to impeach Mayorkas. 1.00
00:33:03.520 We will have Director Wray in front of us next month or two.
00:33:07.660 And we are salivating at the chance to actually get some answers from him because his future also depends on how he answers the questions in front of the Judiciary Committee.
00:33:20.460 And we have some talented attorneys who are ready and waiting to ask him those questions.
00:33:25.760 And so we will have this administration be held accountable.
00:33:30.960 We will find out just how much things went to the top and how much the president knew about what was going on, the abuses that were going on, and make sure that he is held accountable as well.
00:33:44.440 And hopefully the voters will act to hold him accountable in November of next year.
00:33:51.540 Well, you mentioned the president, referring to Joe Biden, I'm sure.
00:33:58.040 But I believe firmly that President Obama had to be aware of what his intelligence chief, the DOJ, and the FBI were doing in framing President Trump going back to 2016, maybe as early as April of 2016.
00:34:18.980 And there's been no accounting.
00:34:20.600 And this Congress has to have, I hope, the will to get to the bottom of all of this.
00:34:31.460 Because what you've already done is historic to get this information in front of the American people.
00:34:37.380 I just want to say to you, we're pulling for you.
00:34:42.340 We applaud all that you're achieving and all your hard work for the American people.
00:34:47.780 We always give our guests, Congressman Klein, the last word.
00:34:51.080 And if I may, your concluding thoughts today.
00:34:55.120 Well, thank you for having me, Lou.
00:34:56.520 And this Congress, this House of Representatives, is pursuing a conservative agenda that is responsible, that is going to raise our debt ceiling responsibly with the necessary reforms,
00:35:09.840 but also provide the oversight to make sure whether it's the Biden family, the China connections, the family business and their exploits, that they are held accountable,
00:35:22.540 that our intelligence misactivities are held accountable, that we reduce spending and create an atmosphere that enhances freedom for Americans rather than aggressive government paternalism.
00:35:42.640 Congressman Ben Klein, we thank you for being with us.
00:35:45.920 You're a great American, and God bless you.
00:35:49.120 Thank you, Lou.
00:35:49.620 Congressman Ben Klein, that's all for us today.
00:35:54.060 Thanks for joining us.
00:35:55.040 Please join us here tomorrow.
00:35:56.780 Our guest will be Professor Paul Bracken of Yale.
00:36:00.720 We'll take up what he calls the second nuclear age.
00:36:05.160 We hope you'll join us for that.
00:36:06.840 Until then, thanks for being with us.
00:36:09.080 God bless you, and may God bless America.
00:36:11.560 Thank you.