BURCHETT： D.C. IS NOT A SWAMP, IT’S A SEWER
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The Marxist left is in decline, and the Marxist right is in freefall. President Trump is wasting no time in this new year, with a new ambitious plan to contest Marxist strongholds in the election, including those Dems in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, New Mexico, and Minnesota.
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Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs and welcome to The Great America Show and happy 2024. It's great to
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have you with us and I hope everyone's new year is off to a great start. 2023 is now in our rearview
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mirror, but still very much with us is Joe Biden. He's the principal reason 2023 was such a tough year
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for many Americans, but it's an election year this year and maybe just maybe we can change leadership
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in Washington. The polls show across the board President Trump dominating the primaries and
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dominating Joe Biden, whose poll numbers are in freefall. There are also any number of signs that
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not only Biden, but the entire Marxist left is in decline. Already 2024 isn't looking good for those
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Marxist stems. Not a good start at all for the anti-Semitism, the plagiarist and fraudster,
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Claudine Gay. She is now the former president of Harvard University. She resigned yesterday
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afternoon, bringing an end to her tenure in the shortest presidency in the university's almost
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400-year history. Recommended to Harvard Corporation by none other than President Barack Obama. She lasted
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only six months and two days. And there are reports she only lasted that long because Obama
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was urging the Harvard Corporation Board to keep her in place despite it all. And you should know,
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even though the Marxist national media didn't let on, Obama's former Secretary of Commerce is none
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other than Penny Pritzker, the chair of the Harvard Board. Gay was notable after she put out a video
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statement endorsing anti-Semitism on the Harvard campus, telling the pro-Hamas students on campus
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they're free to go about the campus spewing their anti-Semitism and that it's for the best they
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express their toxic, hateful views. Our university embraces a commitment to free expression. That
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commitment extends even to views that many of us find objectionable, even outrageous. We do not punish
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or sanction people for expressing such views or sanction people for expressing such views, but that is a far
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cry for endorsing them. It's in the exercise of our freedom to speak that we reveal our characters and we reveal the
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character of our institution. We can issue public pronouncements declaring the rightness of our own points of view and
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vilify those who disagree. Or we can choose to talk and to listen with care and humility, to seek deeper
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understanding and to meet one another with compassion. From there, Gay's short tenure was all but assured, even
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though the board was in denial. She was accused of plagiarizing 50 times, including for her PhD thesis.
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As a Harvard alum myself, it was shocking that the university allowed a plagiarist to keep her job,
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while certainly no student or professor could have expected to survive such wanton, flagrant dishonesty.
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The board has much to answer for now, and they must end the DEI, the diversity, equity, and inclusion
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Marxist culture that they've built and inculcated throughout what was once a great university.
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Arguably the greatest in the world. Hopefully, the board will begin that restoration immediately.
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President Trump is wasting no time in this new year. In a recent interview with Breitbart,
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President Trump laid out a new ambitious plan. His plan is to contest the Marxist Dems in their own
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backyards. Trump says he'll be targeting Marxist strongholds in the 2024 election, including New York,
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New Jersey, Virginia, New Mexico, and Minnesota. Trump believes Marxist President Joe Biden has so
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badly damaged this country that even those Dems strongholds are now in play. And I think he's
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right. The new plan will combat the Marxist Dems as they try to take Trump off the ballot
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in Marxist Dem-run states. Their Marxist ideology is if you can't beat him, remove him. Marxist sociopath
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Congressman Jamie Raskin on CNN this week said removing Trump from the ballot is not undemocratic.
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Raskin, in a numbing display of illogic, argues if it's not undemocratic to not allow
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non-natural-born citizens to run for president, then it's not undemocratic to remove Trump for a fake
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insurrection. I think that the urgency is for the Supreme Court to act. But I think it's going to be
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tough for some of them if they want to keep Trump on the ballot, if they're falling for the argument
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that this is undemocratic. I mean, is it undemocratic that Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jennifer Granholm
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can't run for president because they weren't born in the country? If you think about it, of all the
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forms of disqualification we have, the one that disqualifies people for engaging in insurrection
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is the most democratic. Quite a boy, Congressman Raskin. The big news, the imminent release of a
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list containing about 180 names of people who were connected to Jeffrey Epstein, names that have
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previously been redacted or identified only as John or Jane Doe in lawsuits. Among the most prominent
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people expected to be revealed on that list, former President Bill Clinton, oligarch Bill Gates,
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and Prince Andrew, and perhaps many others. Among those disgusted by those on that list is our guest
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today. Our guest is Congressman Tim Burchett of the great state of Tennessee. He sits on the House
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Oversight, Foreign Affairs, and Transportation and Infrastructure Committees. Congressman, first of all,
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Happy New Year. Thank you for being with us, and it's always great to have you with us.
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Good to see you. Let's start with Epstein. This is a long-awaited revelation of about 180 names.
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Do you expect to see any members of Congress or the Senate on that list?
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I suspect there's some, but, you know, I think it'll be a cover-up, Lou. This thing is, you know,
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the most talked-about prisoner probably in the world is allowed to commit suicide. I remember I was at the
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beach with my wife and daughter. We're getting ready to leave, and I tweeted. I said, I hope he's not
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allowed to, he's not suicided or something, and that guy, 30 minutes later, they were tweeting
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out that he was dead. You know, this thing is, it's, you know, you have, it's New York, so you know
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that's not going to be corrupt. I didn't catch that, and, you know, you know, I think about
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suicide watch, though. I know a little bit about it. They, you literally will have somebody sitting
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outside of the cell looking in, and, you know, you don't have a belt. You don't have shoestrings.
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You don't have anything, but somehow he's allowed to hang himself, and then, you know, the whole
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thing just stunk, and I'm not really worried about the flight records. Everybody's, that's kind of
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already been leaked. Everybody knows Prince Andrew, Clinton, whatever, you're going to be on there,
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Bill Gates, the rest of them, but I want the client list. I want the little black book. I want what
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was taken out of that. I want this in the public domain. I don't want it personally.
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That was taken out of that New York, they call them apartments. We call them condos
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that they raided. I remember they just carried out like a shoebox full of stuff,
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and obviously that was it, and that's what I want, because that's where your client list is.
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That's where people will have to prove something, and, you know, I keep, it's a misnomer to say they
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flew them over there to have sex with kids. They weren't having sex with kids. Kids don't have sex.
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They had violence with those kids. They ruined little girls' lives and possibly little boys,
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and to me, it just shows really how far we've fallen as a society that the elites are allowed
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to do this, and it was talked about. If you remember, there was a well-placed lady was on
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the news. She was talking about it and how she, and they caught her on a live mic, and she was saying
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she was a reporter, and she was saying how that she went to the, her bosses at whatever the big
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TV network it was. It was ABC. What was it? ABC. Yeah, yeah, well, American Broadcasting, so yeah,
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and, you know, it was hushed up then, because they didn't want to rock the boat, and, you know,
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the national media has so much invested in these people like Joe Biden. That's why they don't talk
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about how terrible a job he is or that czar vice president we have, you know, because they've got
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so much invested in them getting them there and wrecking this country and telling us how great it
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is when we're just going down the tubes. And morally, I mean, you know, I'm not trying to
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proselytize here. I'm a Christian. I'm not a very good one, but I'm pretty sure I've read in the Bible
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about a mill, you'd rather a millstone be wrapped around your neck. And surely if we can't, if we
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cannot look after these kids and prosecute these people, that we are doomed as a society. And I
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don't know how much longer, honestly, how much longer God's going to allow us to exist in this
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state we're in, because this is just pure filth. And we're compromised. If there's members of Congress
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on there, Republicans or Democrats. As I used to say in the Pacific, when my dad was with a guy that
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had a flamethrower, he said, burn them, burn them all. And I hope they burn every damn one of them,
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because, you know, excuse my language. Well, I think you're probably, you know,
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people are raising their hands in unison with your sentiment all over the country as they're
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listening to you right now, because you're right. This is filth. We
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laugh about some of it. And then when you actually think what was going on there,
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and how many years it's taken from the death of Epstein to get to this point where we're just
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finding out what's on one list. There are a lot of other lists that need to be exposed. And thanks to
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the judge, we're going to apparently see at least this list. But there's a lot more to be seen,
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and a lot more that has to be explained. And you laid it out. This is a man on suicide watch in a
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cell, a federal prison. And he manages to commit suicide with two guards watching cameras that
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break down, and no one apparently attending to the man. This is just, this is too much for even the
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American people to accept as on face value. Yeah, it is something like I'm a third world country.
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You know, something you'd figure down in Central America or something or in Russia would happen,
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not in the United States. And, you know, Lady Justice is no longer blind. She's got blinders on
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and she pops them up every now and then apparently just to take care of the elite and the wealthy and
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the powerful in this country. And, you know, honestly, Lou, I hope, I hope that there are
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members of Congress on there because I want them all caught. If they're involved in this thing, I want
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to take them out. I don't care if the Republicans are Democrats. I don't care. They're in the White
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House. If they were in the White House or if they're going to be in the White House, take them
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all. The American public needs to, needs to stand up to this kind of stuff. And, and I,
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I'm very passionate about this issue, you know, and, and transparency. It's just, we don't,
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you don't trust a government that doesn't trust its people. And right now our government is not
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worth trusting. Well, it, you know, I couldn't agree with you more. And I know most, I think most
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Americans are awakening to the, to the, to the fact that our courts, our, our Congress, our Senate,
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the executive branch, all are corrupt in some way. And, and it's, it's sickening to step back
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and look and see what is happening. We start with just the recent announcement, Sam
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Begman Freed, the, the, the guy who rook people out of, cheated people out of, defrauded them of
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billions of dollars. And he's getting a pass from the justice department. What do you make of that?
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I mean, this justice department is corrupt in every direction. It seems to me.
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It seems to me too, Lou. They, I, I was asked about that on a statewide here in Tennessee radio
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show earlier. And I said, the only thing I can think is that we're just corrupted. You know,
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this is a guy who stole billions and these politicians ought to be forced to give it back. I'm,
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I'm going back through my stuff to make sure there wasn't a pack or something that I gave up to,
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because we're giving it back to whoever, because it is ill gotten gains. I don't want it.
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I don't want anything to do with it. I'm sick of this kind of nonsense and we've got to do better
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as a country. If this was allowed, apparently it was given to some Republicans even, which is more
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disturbing. I expect, you know, I guess down deep, you kind of want the crooks to be given to the
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Democrats. You kind of expect it. But then when the Republicans take it, and apparently some of
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those Republicans were using that money in Republican primaries to beat conservatives.
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And then you ask yourself, and I've talked to five that had Republican money against them by some
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members of our leadership in Congress that were elected in the last couple of terms, cycles, I guess
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they call them that Republican leadership had, had worked against them. And they claim they didn't
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because they didn't use the official money. What they use is this dark money. So what, and, you know,
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we were supposed to have three, we were supposed to have 30 or 40 member majority. We had a, we've
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got a three or a four member majority right now. And the reason is, is because we ran weak candidates
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in, in districts we should have cleaned up in. Trump carried those by a large margin and Biden's
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numbers are sinking so fast. They can't steal enough votes to keep these people. And yet,
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what did we hope you're right about that? Yeah. Well, what did we do? We put, we put three or four
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in above the number and, and we've, we've got a, you know, it's just a, it's just tough to pass anything
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of any, of any measure in Washington right now, because of that, you're not going to get anything out of
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Schumer. He's sitting there with HR two, which would close the border on his desk, but won't
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touch it. All right. We're talking with Congressman Tim Burchett, and we're going to come right back.
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And when we do, we're going to get some more of the Congressman's perspective on what some call the
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swamp. He says is a, is an open sewer. We'll be right back. We're back with Congressman Tim Burchett
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Congressman. Congressman, you're talking about all that is assailing, really the senses and the morals
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and the, and, and the hearts of Americans. When we talk about our nation's capital and the level of
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corruption that we see, it's not just Marxist dem corruption, predominantly. So, but it extends,
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as you say, across the party lines. There is, you have a new speaker, obviously for the 118th Congress,
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uh, he's a man who is, uh, speaking frankly, disappointed me. Uh, he has done things that to
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me are underhanded, uh, as well as, uh, not wise, uh, your sense of this man and your, your outlook
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for what he can, can get done now. Well, I think it's moral foundation is firm, Lou. I really do. He's a
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family man. Um, he loves the Lord. And I think what we've got to do as conservatives is rally around
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him and let him know we support him because on this border, for instance, Lou, uh, yeah, it's not
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just a slogan. You either shut the border down or we're shutting the government down. We are not going
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to pay for any more funding of any more of this garbage. I'm not going to, I'm not going to vote
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for anything unless we can get this border shut down. We've got the state of Tennessee has around
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between seven and 8 million people. That's the number of people that have come over this border
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since Biden's been in office. And they're wanting to negotiate by allowing a million a year through
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like, um, you know, that's choosing the number of, of, of loops in your news. You know, you're
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going to take seven or eight. It doesn't really matter. You're going to, you're going to snap my
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neck either way. And, and so I think we, as conservatives, we've got to step up a little more
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and let Speaker Johnson know where we are at and where we're not at and give him that foundation
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because it's, it's, uh, you know, one day he's literally, uh, organizing the speeches on the
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floor to give a little award. They give a baseball bat or a Thomas Jefferson head. I got a Thomas
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Jefferson head one time, which is pretty cool. Um, but for giving enough speeches on the floor
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over, over our topics that, you know, that are current and that present the Republican point of
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view. And the next day he's on a jet to, to Israel to speak with Netanyahu representing this great
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country. So, you know, he's probably thrown into the deep end and, and the, and that sewer that we
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call Washington DC is all encompassing. And it just, as the sludge of the sewer, it just, it just gets
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it from all angles. And I think we, as conservatives, we've got to stand up and say, this is not,
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this is not what we're going to, this is not what we're about. And if indeed I'm not worried about
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the press, I'm worried about us losing our dadgum country, Lou, and all sincere, uh, this is some
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Archie bunker moment. This is reality of where we are at 33 trillion, $34 trillion in debt. We take
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5 trillion. We spend 7 trillion. That's, that's un, uh, unmanageable. And yet again, you know, our,
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our Pentagon, they're not transparent. They won't come forth with things. Um, a lot of shady business
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dealings going on with Congress and, and contractors cat just jumped up on me. Um, and, and yet we reward
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them with billions more dollars. And if you don't, you're not a patriot, you know, that's bogus.
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We, you know, we've got this woke military allowing for, you know, uh, transgender surgeries,
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for instance. And there's my daddy. I've got these two guns, or there's three, actually. These are
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Japanese rifles that he literally took off of Japanese soldiers that he killed literally. And
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the sacrifice that he made in the United States Marine Corps and my mama losing a brother fighting
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the Nazis to think that their once proud military is involved in that kind of shenanigans. You know,
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that's the kind of thing we've got to stand up for. And we got to say enough is enough.
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And if we have to shut the government down over this stuff, we need to, I think it's that important.
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I really do. And we're going to, we're going to lose the country, Lou. One way of the anarchy of this,
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this border situation or the, the fiscal immaturity that we've shown. And so to answer your question,
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let's just rally around this speaker. Let's tell him what we think. Let's say, we're not going to
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stand for it anymore. Let's give him that backbone. That's what I'm going to be doing.
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Well, I, I, that's admirable. And, uh, I would expect it of you. Uh, I'm not questioning his,
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you know, his, uh, faith. I'm not questioning his principles as a family man. I am questioning why he
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would turn, uh, turn over, uh, his speakership to the surveillance state, uh, when he included
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buys it in the, in the national defense authorization act, that was an act of a trail.
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Now, is he a less a traitor because it could be for only five months or is he a traitor period?
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Is it absolute or is it relative? And at what point there is everybody going to talk straight?
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The man has not done what he said he would do. Those videos of January 6th that he said he would
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release in 90, he did release, but now they're 40, just about 40,000 more. And a lot of people need
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to see that truth. And you and I both know, and he knows most certainly that lives could be saved and
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right. They could be, uh, immense, a number of right wrongs, righted if he would do so.
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I do not understand how anyone of conscience can do what two speakers in a row have done. And that
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is not act in the public interest for those poor souls who are still in prison, uh, many of them
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without trials or trial dates three years later. I can't excuse it on the part of this speaker or any
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other. Your thoughts? I can't argue with any of that, Lou. I can't argue with any of that. I just,
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I'm kind of playing the cards I'm dealt right now and we're in a bad situation. I'm gonna,
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I'm gonna have a heart to heart with him. And if he doesn't, if I don't get the right answers,
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I'm going to start looking for another speaker again, because we can't, we're just, we're just in,
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we're in, we're in such a bad way in this country and it's just, it's time to take a stand. It is
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just, it's past the part of it. I think I saw in the former speaker is, you know, the star appeal.
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It just, it just blows you away that, you know, all of a sudden you're, you're invited, you're on
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the front row, you're with the movie stars, you're with the world leaders, you're in the national news
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with everything. And, you know, in the left, he doesn't owe the left anything. They've been brutal
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to him. They've gone after him. They've gone after his family and a kid that they, him and his wife
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took under their wing. I don't, I honestly, I don't get it. I'm with you on that. I do not get it.
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And I'm, I'm very disappointed in that FISA. That's why I didn't vote for the NDAA. One of the reasons
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anyway. But yeah, the FISA thing, it's so, it's so wide open, Lou. Say you have a fella,
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a Hispanic fella that mows your yard or something. I'm not being stereotypical. I'm just being,
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give an example. And they want to investigate you. So they say, well, I'm going to investigate
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this guy mowing his yard. And so they get in that trap without a, and that's why FISA works,
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without a, without a search warrant, without a public trial or anything. And they, they've done it
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over thousands, thousands. I forget the number. I should write it down, but it's thousands of times
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that they've admitted to doing it. So to me, it's, it's unconscionable.
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We need a Ronald Reagan. It's what we need in this world, but I don't know that we've got one.
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Well, let's start searching. Tim Burchett, we appreciate it. We're going to come right
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back for a few concluding thoughts with Congressman Tim Burchett, great American. Stay with us.
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We're back. We're talking with Congressman Tim Burchett and Congressman. It's, you know,
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as at the beginning of a new year to see all that this country faces, it's overwhelming. It truly is.
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We have an economy in need of repair. We have a society in need of restoration. We have souls that
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need saving. And I mean, it is every which way you look, we're in a world of hurt in this country.
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The cartels run our border. This president doesn't seem to know what is the national interest,
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let alone how to act in the national interest. You know, whatever you can do to give us a
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a little pick me up for the year that's about to unfold would be much appreciated by us all.
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Well, I'll give you one story real quickly. I was a young political operative. I can't remember
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which campaigns I was working on, but I remembered it was the night of when Bill Clinton was going to
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win the White House. And there was a draft dodger. Didn't know how bad he was going to, how bad a person
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him and his wife were, but we sure found out quick. And my daddy and I were in our old house at 8220
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Bennington drive right there on in Knoxville. And we, as I like to say, we were having a traditional
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Italian meal. We've gotten a takeout Mr. Gaddy's pizza and we're eating it, getting ready to eat.
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We had the little, remember those old portable color TVs. We thought we were so cool. We got one
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about this big and it must've weighed about 40 pounds. You know, as a kid, it was tough for me to
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carry, but we had it sitting there on the table, just me and daddy. And daddy said, I'll say the
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blessing because we always say the blessing. And he said this simple prayer. He said, Lord,
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and I sit there and I looked and I thought, and I can tell my dad's heart was just breaking.
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There he is, a World War II veteran, Marine Corps, Pacific in Peleliu, Okinawa. He fought the
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communists in China and was fighting for the right side of his whole dadgum life. And he said this
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simple prayer. He said, Lord, please don't let us lose our country. Amen. And that was his prayer.
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And I say that prayer every night and I tell people to pray for their country. And I would hope that,
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folks, that would be your simple prayer. It's a simple thing, but I think that we're past this
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thing of reason and it has entered the spiritual realm, I believe, with this country. We are,
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you're seeing virtual good and virtual evil being just topsy-turvy. We're allowing
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people to literally massacre little children and change their so-called sexual identity,
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make changes that will be permanent. Governments are paying for that. The Bible talks about right
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is wrong and wrong is right. And we're in that time. And in my lifetime, anyway, I'm only 59. I know
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you're, what, 62. 57. Okay. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. I thought we went to junior high school together.
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But no, I think it's that. And, you know, preachers and people of faith of all denominations,
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I think they need to start standing up for what's right. And quit worrying about our constant,
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you know, they're going to take my tax-exempt status. Well, badgummit, it ought to be worth that.
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Let's our country. We are that, as Reagan said, that shining example on a hill. And let's bring
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back that hope to this country. We need a leader, Lou. We don't need any more of these little get
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along negotiators. Those negotiators have gotten us $34 trillion in debt and run us down this rat
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hole. So, and one last thing, Lou, I wish my folks were still alive and could see me on here with you.
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They were straight talkers like you, and they always enjoyed watching you. And they would be
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beaming right now if they were alive and watching this, because they would,
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if their little boy was talking to somebody like yourself, because unfortunately today, the media
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is, they're, they're doing opinion polls and they're just trying to, you know, get along,
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go along to get along. You were an exception to that rule. You just told the dadgum truth.
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And I think that is greatly missing, at least out of the big three nowadays. It's, it's pathetic,
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just how far they've fallen. And I, you're a, you're a tribute to your craft, Lou.
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Well, I certainly appreciate those kind words. And I always appreciate
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your perspective and your knowledge and wisdom emanating from, from the nation's capital.
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Well, we love talking to you and hearing your, your thoughts and just to those folks of yours,
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and your daddy's prayer. All I can say is amen. Thank you very much, Congressman. We appreciate
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it and God bless you. Thank you, Lou. Congressman Tim Burchett. Thanks everybody for being with us
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today. Our guest tomorrow on The Great America Show, attorney Mike Davis, founder of the article three
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project on why he believes Donald Trump has absolute immunity in all the political trials
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everybody. God bless you and may God bless America.