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00:01:14.940 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs and welcome to The Great America Show and happy 2024. It's great to

00:01:24.180 have you with us and I hope everyone's new year is off to a great start. 2023 is now in our rearview

00:01:31.020 mirror, but still very much with us is Joe Biden. He's the principal reason 2023 was such a tough year

00:01:37.580 for many Americans, but it's an election year this year and maybe just maybe we can change leadership

00:01:44.360 in Washington. The polls show across the board President Trump dominating the primaries and

00:01:51.120 dominating Joe Biden, whose poll numbers are in freefall. There are also any number of signs that

00:01:57.680 not only Biden, but the entire Marxist left is in decline. Already 2024 isn't looking good for those

00:02:05.220 Marxist stems. Not a good start at all for the anti-Semitism, the plagiarist and fraudster, 0.93

00:02:12.020 Claudine Gay. She is now the former president of Harvard University. She resigned yesterday

00:02:19.300 afternoon, bringing an end to her tenure in the shortest presidency in the university's almost

00:02:25.760 400-year history. Recommended to Harvard Corporation by none other than President Barack Obama. She lasted

00:02:33.280 only six months and two days. And there are reports she only lasted that long because Obama 0.99

00:02:39.300 was urging the Harvard Corporation Board to keep her in place despite it all. And you should know,

00:02:46.860 even though the Marxist national media didn't let on, Obama's former Secretary of Commerce is none

00:02:53.580 other than Penny Pritzker, the chair of the Harvard Board. Gay was notable after she put out a video 0.99

00:03:00.620 statement endorsing anti-Semitism on the Harvard campus, telling the pro-Hamas students on campus

00:03:07.320 they're free to go about the campus spewing their anti-Semitism and that it's for the best they 0.96

00:03:13.620 express their toxic, hateful views. Our university embraces a commitment to free expression. That

00:03:21.960 commitment extends even to views that many of us find objectionable, even outrageous. We do not punish

00:03:30.820 or sanction people for expressing such views or sanction people for expressing such views, but that is a far

00:03:35.420 cry for endorsing them. It's in the exercise of our freedom to speak that we reveal our characters and we reveal the

00:03:45.680 character of our institution. We can issue public pronouncements declaring the rightness of our own points of view and

00:03:53.700 vilify those who disagree. Or we can choose to talk and to listen with care and humility, to seek deeper

00:04:04.220 understanding and to meet one another with compassion. From there, Gay's short tenure was all but assured, even 1.00

00:04:12.280 though the board was in denial. She was accused of plagiarizing 50 times, including for her PhD thesis.

00:04:19.980 As a Harvard alum myself, it was shocking that the university allowed a plagiarist to keep her job,

00:04:26.840 while certainly no student or professor could have expected to survive such wanton, flagrant dishonesty.

00:04:33.980 The board has much to answer for now, and they must end the DEI, the diversity, equity, and inclusion

00:04:42.560 Marxist culture that they've built and inculcated throughout what was once a great university.

00:04:48.860 Arguably the greatest in the world. Hopefully, the board will begin that restoration immediately.

00:04:56.020 President Trump is wasting no time in this new year. In a recent interview with Breitbart,

00:05:01.480 President Trump laid out a new ambitious plan. His plan is to contest the Marxist Dems in their own

00:05:07.820 backyards. Trump says he'll be targeting Marxist strongholds in the 2024 election, including New York,

00:05:15.400 New Jersey, Virginia, New Mexico, and Minnesota. Trump believes Marxist President Joe Biden has so

00:05:23.160 badly damaged this country that even those Dems strongholds are now in play. And I think he's

00:05:30.180 right. The new plan will combat the Marxist Dems as they try to take Trump off the ballot

00:05:35.980 in Marxist Dem-run states. Their Marxist ideology is if you can't beat him, remove him. Marxist sociopath

00:05:44.620 Congressman Jamie Raskin on CNN this week said removing Trump from the ballot is not undemocratic.

00:05:52.800 Raskin, in a numbing display of illogic, argues if it's not undemocratic to not allow

00:05:59.660 non-natural-born citizens to run for president, then it's not undemocratic to remove Trump for a fake

00:06:07.000 insurrection. I think that the urgency is for the Supreme Court to act. But I think it's going to be

00:06:15.320 tough for some of them if they want to keep Trump on the ballot, if they're falling for the argument

00:06:20.500 that this is undemocratic. I mean, is it undemocratic that Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jennifer Granholm

00:06:26.520 can't run for president because they weren't born in the country? If you think about it, of all the

00:06:31.120 forms of disqualification we have, the one that disqualifies people for engaging in insurrection

00:06:36.220 is the most democratic. Quite a boy, Congressman Raskin. The big news, the imminent release of a

00:06:43.580 list containing about 180 names of people who were connected to Jeffrey Epstein, names that have

00:06:49.820 previously been redacted or identified only as John or Jane Doe in lawsuits. Among the most prominent

00:06:57.120 people expected to be revealed on that list, former President Bill Clinton, oligarch Bill Gates,

00:07:03.380 and Prince Andrew, and perhaps many others. Among those disgusted by those on that list is our guest

00:07:10.280 today. Our guest is Congressman Tim Burchett of the great state of Tennessee. He sits on the House

00:07:16.120 Oversight, Foreign Affairs, and Transportation and Infrastructure Committees. Congressman, first of all,

00:07:22.440 Happy New Year. Thank you for being with us, and it's always great to have you with us.

00:07:26.520 Good to see you. Let's start with Epstein. This is a long-awaited revelation of about 180 names.

00:07:34.020 Do you expect to see any members of Congress or the Senate on that list?

00:07:38.680 I suspect there's some, but, you know, I think it'll be a cover-up, Lou. This thing is, you know,

00:07:43.060 the most talked-about prisoner probably in the world is allowed to commit suicide. I remember I was at the

00:07:48.780 beach with my wife and daughter. We're getting ready to leave, and I tweeted. I said, I hope he's not

00:07:53.380 allowed to, he's not suicided or something, and that guy, 30 minutes later, they were tweeting

00:07:58.160 out that he was dead. You know, this thing is, it's, you know, you have, it's New York, so you know

00:08:03.140 that's not going to be corrupt. I didn't catch that, and, you know, you know, I think about

00:08:09.180 suicide watch, though. I know a little bit about it. They, you literally will have somebody sitting

00:08:13.980 outside of the cell looking in, and, you know, you don't have a belt. You don't have shoestrings.

00:08:19.400 You don't have anything, but somehow he's allowed to hang himself, and then, you know, the whole

00:08:24.820 thing just stunk, and I'm not really worried about the flight records. Everybody's, that's kind of

00:08:29.640 already been leaked. Everybody knows Prince Andrew, Clinton, whatever, you're going to be on there,

00:08:33.840 Bill Gates, the rest of them, but I want the client list. I want the little black book. I want what

00:08:40.900 was taken out of that. I want this in the public domain. I don't want it personally.

00:08:45.400 That was taken out of that New York, they call them apartments. We call them condos

00:08:49.020 that they raided. I remember they just carried out like a shoebox full of stuff,

00:08:53.660 and obviously that was it, and that's what I want, because that's where your client list is.

00:08:59.480 That's where people will have to prove something, and, you know, I keep, it's a misnomer to say they

00:09:04.760 flew them over there to have sex with kids. They weren't having sex with kids. Kids don't have sex. 1.00

00:09:09.900 They had violence with those kids. They ruined little girls' lives and possibly little boys,

00:09:15.460 and to me, it just shows really how far we've fallen as a society that the elites are allowed

00:09:21.880 to do this, and it was talked about. If you remember, there was a well-placed lady was on

00:09:28.120 the news. She was talking about it and how she, and they caught her on a live mic, and she was saying

00:09:33.540 she was a reporter, and she was saying how that she went to the, her bosses at whatever the big

00:09:39.020 TV network it was. It was ABC. What was it? ABC. Yeah, yeah, well, American Broadcasting, so yeah,

00:09:49.040 and, you know, it was hushed up then, because they didn't want to rock the boat, and, you know,

00:09:54.320 the national media has so much invested in these people like Joe Biden. That's why they don't talk

00:10:00.480 about how terrible a job he is or that czar vice president we have, you know, because they've got

00:10:07.400 so much invested in them getting them there and wrecking this country and telling us how great it

00:10:11.420 is when we're just going down the tubes. And morally, I mean, you know, I'm not trying to

00:10:17.160 proselytize here. I'm a Christian. I'm not a very good one, but I'm pretty sure I've read in the Bible

00:10:21.960 about a mill, you'd rather a millstone be wrapped around your neck. And surely if we can't, if we

00:10:27.840 cannot look after these kids and prosecute these people, that we are doomed as a society. And I

00:10:35.480 don't know how much longer, honestly, how much longer God's going to allow us to exist in this

00:10:39.180 state we're in, because this is just pure filth. And we're compromised. If there's members of Congress

00:10:45.400 on there, Republicans or Democrats. As I used to say in the Pacific, when my dad was with a guy that

00:10:52.400 had a flamethrower, he said, burn them, burn them all. And I hope they burn every damn one of them,

00:10:58.380 because, you know, excuse my language. Well, I think you're probably, you know,

00:11:03.780 people are raising their hands in unison with your sentiment all over the country as they're

00:11:09.080 listening to you right now, because you're right. This is filth. We

00:11:15.060 laugh about some of it. And then when you actually think what was going on there,

00:11:21.460 and how many years it's taken from the death of Epstein to get to this point where we're just

00:11:30.840 finding out what's on one list. There are a lot of other lists that need to be exposed. And thanks to

00:11:37.400 the judge, we're going to apparently see at least this list. But there's a lot more to be seen,

00:11:43.960 and a lot more that has to be explained. And you laid it out. This is a man on suicide watch in a

00:11:50.440 cell, a federal prison. And he manages to commit suicide with two guards watching cameras that

00:12:00.460 break down, and no one apparently attending to the man. This is just, this is too much for even the

00:12:08.140 American people to accept as on face value. Yeah, it is something like I'm a third world country. 0.83

00:12:15.040 You know, something you'd figure down in Central America or something or in Russia would happen,

00:12:19.620 not in the United States. And, you know, Lady Justice is no longer blind. She's got blinders on 1.00

00:12:26.620 and she pops them up every now and then apparently just to take care of the elite and the wealthy and

00:12:32.240 the powerful in this country. And, you know, honestly, Lou, I hope, I hope that there are

00:12:37.240 members of Congress on there because I want them all caught. If they're involved in this thing, I want

00:12:42.900 to take them out. I don't care if the Republicans are Democrats. I don't care. They're in the White

00:12:48.140 House. If they were in the White House or if they're going to be in the White House, take them

00:12:51.860 all. The American public needs to, needs to stand up to this kind of stuff. And, and I,

00:12:57.360 I'm very passionate about this issue, you know, and, and transparency. It's just, we don't,

00:13:04.340 you don't trust a government that doesn't trust its people. And right now our government is not

00:13:07.900 worth trusting. Well, it, you know, I couldn't agree with you more. And I know most, I think most

00:13:14.560 Americans are awakening to the, to the, to the fact that our courts, our, our Congress, our Senate,

00:13:21.880 the executive branch, all are corrupt in some way. And, and it's, it's sickening to step back

00:13:31.540 and look and see what is happening. We start with just the recent announcement, Sam

00:13:38.240 Begman Freed, the, the, the guy who rook people out of, cheated people out of, defrauded them of

00:13:46.380 billions of dollars. And he's getting a pass from the justice department. What do you make of that?

00:13:53.920 I mean, this justice department is corrupt in every direction. It seems to me.

00:13:57.440 It seems to me too, Lou. They, I, I was asked about that on a statewide here in Tennessee radio

00:14:05.220 show earlier. And I said, the only thing I can think is that we're just corrupted. You know,

00:14:09.720 this is a guy who stole billions and these politicians ought to be forced to give it back. I'm,

00:14:15.300 I'm going back through my stuff to make sure there wasn't a pack or something that I gave up to,

00:14:21.040 because we're giving it back to whoever, because it is ill gotten gains. I don't want it.

00:14:25.760 I don't want anything to do with it. I'm sick of this kind of nonsense and we've got to do better

00:14:31.900 as a country. If this was allowed, apparently it was given to some Republicans even, which is more

00:14:37.080 disturbing. I expect, you know, I guess down deep, you kind of want the crooks to be given to the

00:14:41.520 Democrats. You kind of expect it. But then when the Republicans take it, and apparently some of

00:14:46.260 those Republicans were using that money in Republican primaries to beat conservatives.

00:14:53.380 And then you ask yourself, and I've talked to five that had Republican money against them by some

00:15:00.180 members of our leadership in Congress that were elected in the last couple of terms, cycles, I guess

00:15:06.560 they call them that Republican leadership had, had worked against them. And they claim they didn't

00:15:12.500 because they didn't use the official money. What they use is this dark money. So what, and, you know,

00:15:18.360 we were supposed to have three, we were supposed to have 30 or 40 member majority. We had a, we've

00:15:23.680 got a three or a four member majority right now. And the reason is, is because we ran weak candidates

00:15:29.440 in, in districts we should have cleaned up in. Trump carried those by a large margin and Biden's

00:15:36.280 numbers are sinking so fast. They can't steal enough votes to keep these people. And yet,

00:15:42.060 what did we hope you're right about that? Yeah. Well, what did we do? We put, we put three or four

00:15:46.780 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

00:15:53.280 of any, of any measure in Washington right now, because of that, you're not going to get anything out of

00:15:57.680 Schumer. He's sitting there with HR two, which would close the border on his desk, but won't

00:16:02.420 touch it. All right. We're talking with Congressman Tim Burchett, and we're going to come right back.

00:16:07.740 And when we do, we're going to get some more of the Congressman's perspective on what some call the

00:16:14.280 swamp. He says is a, is an open sewer. We'll be right back. We're back with Congressman Tim Burchett

00:16:26.100 Congressman. Congressman, you're talking about all that is assailing, really the senses and the morals

00:16:34.780 and the, and, and the hearts of Americans. When we talk about our nation's capital and the level of

00:16:42.420 corruption that we see, it's not just Marxist dem corruption, predominantly. So, but it extends,

00:16:48.240 as you say, across the party lines. There is, you have a new speaker, obviously for the 118th Congress,

00:16:55.780 uh, he's a man who is, uh, speaking frankly, disappointed me. Uh, he has done things that to

00:17:03.520 me are underhanded, uh, as well as, uh, not wise, uh, your sense of this man and your, your outlook

00:17:13.560 for what he can, can get done now. Well, I think it's moral foundation is firm, Lou. I really do. He's a

00:17:21.580 family man. Um, he loves the Lord. And I think what we've got to do as conservatives is rally around

00:17:28.700 him and let him know we support him because on this border, for instance, Lou, uh, yeah, it's not

00:17:34.040 just a slogan. You either shut the border down or we're shutting the government down. We are not going

00:17:39.240 to pay for any more funding of any more of this garbage. I'm not going to, I'm not going to vote

00:17:43.820 for anything unless we can get this border shut down. We've got the state of Tennessee has around

00:17:49.040 between seven and 8 million people. That's the number of people that have come over this border

00:17:53.280 since Biden's been in office. And they're wanting to negotiate by allowing a million a year through

00:17:58.100 like, um, you know, that's choosing the number of, of, of loops in your news. You know, you're

00:18:04.520 going to take seven or eight. It doesn't really matter. You're going to, you're going to snap my

00:18:07.820 neck either way. And, and so I think we, as conservatives, we've got to step up a little more

00:18:13.780 and let Speaker Johnson know where we are at and where we're not at and give him that foundation

00:18:19.980 because it's, it's, uh, you know, one day he's literally, uh, organizing the speeches on the

00:18:26.880 floor to give a little award. They give a baseball bat or a Thomas Jefferson head. I got a Thomas

00:18:32.220 Jefferson head one time, which is pretty cool. Um, but for giving enough speeches on the floor

00:18:37.720 over, over our topics that, you know, that are current and that present the Republican point of

00:18:44.380 view. And the next day he's on a jet to, to Israel to speak with Netanyahu representing this great

00:18:52.600 country. So, you know, he's probably thrown into the deep end and, and the, and that sewer that we

00:18:58.680 call Washington DC is all encompassing. And it just, as the sludge of the sewer, it just, it just gets

00:19:04.240 it from all angles. And I think we, as conservatives, we've got to stand up and say, this is not,

00:19:09.600 this is not what we're going to, this is not what we're about. And if indeed I'm not worried about

00:19:14.380 the press, I'm worried about us losing our dadgum country, Lou, and all sincere, uh, this is some

00:19:20.360 Archie bunker moment. This is reality of where we are at 33 trillion, $34 trillion in debt. We take

00:19:27.640 5 trillion. We spend 7 trillion. That's, that's un, uh, unmanageable. And yet again, you know, our,

00:19:35.800 our Pentagon, they're not transparent. They won't come forth with things. Um, a lot of shady business

00:19:43.000 dealings going on with Congress and, and contractors cat just jumped up on me. Um, and, and yet we reward

00:19:50.540 them with billions more dollars. And if you don't, you're not a patriot, you know, that's bogus.

00:19:54.780 We, you know, we've got this woke military allowing for, you know, uh, transgender surgeries,

00:20:00.640 for instance. And there's my daddy. I've got these two guns, or there's three, actually. These are

00:20:04.880 Japanese rifles that he literally took off of Japanese soldiers that he killed literally. And

00:20:11.260 the sacrifice that he made in the United States Marine Corps and my mama losing a brother fighting

00:20:17.260 the Nazis to think that their once proud military is involved in that kind of shenanigans. You know, 0.74

00:20:23.340 that's the kind of thing we've got to stand up for. And we got to say enough is enough.

00:20:27.360 And if we have to shut the government down over this stuff, we need to, I think it's that important.

00:20:32.300 I really do. And we're going to, we're going to lose the country, Lou. One way of the anarchy of this,

00:20:39.080 this border situation or the, the fiscal immaturity that we've shown. And so to answer your question,

00:20:47.160 let's just rally around this speaker. Let's tell him what we think. Let's say, we're not going to

00:20:51.720 stand for it anymore. Let's give him that backbone. That's what I'm going to be doing.

00:20:55.840 Well, I, I, that's admirable. And, uh, I would expect it of you. Uh, I'm not questioning his,

00:21:02.220 you know, his, uh, faith. I'm not questioning his principles as a family man. I am questioning why he

00:21:10.360 would turn, uh, turn over, uh, his speakership to the surveillance state, uh, when he included

00:21:17.260 buys it in the, in the national defense authorization act, that was an act of a trail.

00:21:24.420 Now, is he a less a traitor because it could be for only five months or is he a traitor period?

00:21:31.400 Is it absolute or is it relative? And at what point there is everybody going to talk straight?

00:21:37.740 The man has not done what he said he would do. Those videos of January 6th that he said he would

00:21:44.200 release in 90, he did release, but now they're 40, just about 40,000 more. And a lot of people need

00:21:51.960 to see that truth. And you and I both know, and he knows most certainly that lives could be saved and

00:22:00.760 right. They could be, uh, immense, a number of right wrongs, righted if he would do so.

00:22:08.200 I do not understand how anyone of conscience can do what two speakers in a row have done. And that

00:22:15.080 is not act in the public interest for those poor souls who are still in prison, uh, many of them

00:22:22.440 without trials or trial dates three years later. I can't excuse it on the part of this speaker or any

00:22:28.600 other. Your thoughts? I can't argue with any of that, Lou. I can't argue with any of that. I just,

00:22:35.480 I'm kind of playing the cards I'm dealt right now and we're in a bad situation. I'm gonna,

00:22:42.280 I'm gonna have a heart to heart with him. And if he doesn't, if I don't get the right answers,

00:22:47.640 I'm going to start looking for another speaker again, because we can't, we're just, we're just in,

00:22:52.200 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

00:22:58.920 just, it's past the part of it. I think I saw in the former speaker is, you know, the star appeal.

00:23:07.160 It just, it just blows you away that, you know, all of a sudden you're, you're invited, you're on

00:23:11.800 the front row, you're with the movie stars, you're with the world leaders, you're in the national news

00:23:15.960 with everything. And, you know, in the left, he doesn't owe the left anything. They've been brutal

00:23:20.760 to him. They've gone after him. They've gone after his family and a kid that they, him and his wife

00:23:25.720 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.

00:23:31.800 And I'm, I'm very disappointed in that FISA. That's why I didn't vote for the NDAA. One of the reasons

00:23:37.080 anyway. But yeah, the FISA thing, it's so, it's so wide open, Lou. Say you have a fella,

00:23:44.760 a Hispanic fella that mows your yard or something. I'm not being stereotypical. I'm just being,

00:23:50.200 give an example. And they want to investigate you. So they say, well, I'm going to investigate

00:23:55.560 this guy mowing his yard. And so they get in that trap without a, and that's why FISA works,

00:24:01.960 without a, without a search warrant, without a public trial or anything. And they, they've done it

00:24:07.800 over thousands, thousands. I forget the number. I should write it down, but it's thousands of times

00:24:13.400 that they've admitted to doing it. So to me, it's, it's unconscionable.

00:24:18.920 It is. It is without question.

00:24:21.560 We need a Ronald Reagan. It's what we need in this world, but I don't know that we've got one.

00:24:26.440 Well, let's start searching. Tim Burchett, we appreciate it. We're going to come right

00:24:33.240 back for a few concluding thoughts with Congressman Tim Burchett, great American. Stay with us.

00:24:38.840 We'll be right back.

00:24:45.560 We're back. We're talking with Congressman Tim Burchett and Congressman. It's, you know,

00:24:52.280 as at the beginning of a new year to see all that this country faces, it's overwhelming. It truly is.

00:24:59.080 We have an economy in need of repair. We have a society in need of restoration. We have souls that

00:25:04.440 need saving. And I mean, it is every which way you look, we're in a world of hurt in this country.

00:25:13.480 The cartels run our border. This president doesn't seem to know what is the national interest,

00:25:19.480 let alone how to act in the national interest. You know, whatever you can do to give us a

00:25:25.080 a little pick me up for the year that's about to unfold would be much appreciated by us all.

00:25:32.120 Well, I'll give you one story real quickly. I was a young political operative. I can't remember

00:25:37.800 which campaigns I was working on, but I remembered it was the night of when Bill Clinton was going to

00:25:43.480 win the White House. And there was a draft dodger. Didn't know how bad he was going to, how bad a person 0.52

00:25:49.080 him and his wife were, but we sure found out quick. And my daddy and I were in our old house at 8220

00:25:55.160 Bennington drive right there on in Knoxville. And we, as I like to say, we were having a traditional

00:26:00.040 Italian meal. We've gotten a takeout Mr. Gaddy's pizza and we're eating it, getting ready to eat.

00:26:05.320 We had the little, remember those old portable color TVs. We thought we were so cool. We got one

00:26:11.480 about this big and it must've weighed about 40 pounds. You know, as a kid, it was tough for me to

00:26:16.760 carry, but we had it sitting there on the table, just me and daddy. And daddy said, I'll say the

00:26:20.840 blessing because we always say the blessing. And he said this simple prayer. He said, Lord,

00:26:25.800 and I sit there and I looked and I thought, and I can tell my dad's heart was just breaking.

00:26:30.200 There he is, a World War II veteran, Marine Corps, Pacific in Peleliu, Okinawa. He fought the

00:26:37.240 communists in China and was fighting for the right side of his whole dadgum life. And he said this

00:26:42.440 simple prayer. He said, Lord, please don't let us lose our country. Amen. And that was his prayer.

00:26:48.760 And I say that prayer every night and I tell people to pray for their country. And I would hope that,

00:26:53.960 folks, that would be your simple prayer. It's a simple thing, but I think that we're past this

00:27:02.520 thing of reason and it has entered the spiritual realm, I believe, with this country. We are,

00:27:08.360 you're seeing virtual good and virtual evil being just topsy-turvy. We're allowing

00:27:16.840 people to literally massacre little children and change their so-called sexual identity,

00:27:25.400 make changes that will be permanent. Governments are paying for that. The Bible talks about right

00:27:32.600 is wrong and wrong is right. And we're in that time. And in my lifetime, anyway, I'm only 59. I know

00:27:38.200 you're, what, 62. 57. Okay. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. I thought we went to junior high school together.

00:27:45.320 But no, I think it's that. And, you know, preachers and people of faith of all denominations,

00:27:53.800 I think they need to start standing up for what's right. And quit worrying about our constant,

00:27:58.600 you know, they're going to take my tax-exempt status. Well, badgummit, it ought to be worth that.

00:28:03.400 Let's our country. We are that, as Reagan said, that shining example on a hill. And let's bring

00:28:12.360 back that hope to this country. We need a leader, Lou. We don't need any more of these little get

00:28:17.720 along negotiators. Those negotiators have gotten us $34 trillion in debt and run us down this rat

00:28:23.880 hole. So, and one last thing, Lou, I wish my folks were still alive and could see me on here with you.

00:28:29.880 They were straight talkers like you, and they always enjoyed watching you. And they would be

00:28:36.600 beaming right now if they were alive and watching this, because they would,

00:28:41.480 if their little boy was talking to somebody like yourself, because unfortunately today, the media

00:28:48.040 is, they're, they're doing opinion polls and they're just trying to, you know, get along,

00:28:52.280 go along to get along. You were an exception to that rule. You just told the dadgum truth.

00:28:56.520 And I think that is greatly missing, at least out of the big three nowadays. It's, it's pathetic,

00:29:02.760 just how far they've fallen. And I, you're a, you're a tribute to your craft, Lou.

00:29:08.200 Well, I certainly appreciate those kind words. And I always appreciate

00:29:13.080 your perspective and your knowledge and wisdom emanating from, from the nation's capital.

00:29:19.960 Well, we love talking to you and hearing your, your thoughts and just to those folks of yours,

00:29:27.080 and your daddy's prayer. All I can say is amen. Thank you very much, Congressman. We appreciate

00:29:34.680 it and God bless you. Thank you, Lou. Congressman Tim Burchett. Thanks everybody for being with us

00:29:41.080 today. Our guest tomorrow on The Great America Show, attorney Mike Davis, founder of the article three

00:29:46.760 project on why he believes Donald Trump has absolute immunity in all the political trials

00:29:53.640 that he now faces. Please join us each and every day on The Great America Show. Follow me on Twitter

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00:30:05.800 everybody. God bless you and may God bless America.

The Great America Show - January 03, 2024

BURCHETT： D.C. IS NOT A SWAMP, IT’S A SEWER

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