The Great America Show - CHRIS FARRELL—DHS TRIES TO REGULATE FREE SPEECH; ED DURR BACKS CANADA’S FREEDOM CONVOY

00:00:00.000 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Great America podcast with Lou Dobbs,

00:00:04.200 always in the fight for truth, justice, and yes, our American way of life.

00:00:09.240 And now here he is, the Peabody award-winning voice of truth, the great Lou Dobbs.

00:00:14.380 Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Great America show. We're delighted you could join

00:00:19.000 us today for what is shaping up to be an incredible day of developments. Developments

00:00:24.800 that I confess has me more than just a little startled by a number of Republican House members

00:00:29.980 that's right, they've gone full-on rhino. We've been talking for days now about the toll that

00:00:36.160 rhinos take on the Republican Party, and in particular, over the past five years, those

00:00:41.700 rhinos have done all sorts of mischief and damage. Well, just wait until we tell you what's going on

00:00:48.460 now with six of them, count them, six House Republicans, who are lining up with a Biden

00:00:54.100 open borders policy, lining up with the radical Dems and Biden and Speaker Pelosi's plans

00:01:00.080 to spend just tons of your money on that open borders policy, bringing in illegal immigrants 1.00

00:01:07.780 and transporting them to the, well, the city of choice in the dead of night, settling them in at

00:01:14.480 great expense. And after that, we have no idea what is happening. Speaking of the Speaker,

00:01:21.520 Pelosi is claiming sovereign immunity from all those secreted January 6 videos and emails,

00:01:27.540 you know, that, that witch hunt that she has underway. Judicial Watch has sued the Capitol

00:01:34.640 Police to get access to that material. And we'll be talking with Judicial Watch's Chris Farrell about

00:01:40.920 that and a whole lot more today. And oh, yes, it turns out that the Department of Homeland Security

00:01:47.440 now has detected a threat to the homeland, as they call it, the homeland. Doesn't that sound like

00:01:53.420 something out of a 1930s movie? Doesn't that sound vaguely Teutonic rather than American? You remember

00:02:00.360 in the old days, pre-September 11th, that we called the homeland America? We called it the United States.

00:02:08.600 Now it's the homeland. I don't like that. As a matter of fact, I hate that. I like America.

00:02:17.200 Interestingly, the Department of Homeland Security has put out a terrorism advisory bulletin. Now,

00:02:23.180 that's a mouthful, isn't it? That's a terrorism advisory bulletin. We'll be talking about the DHS

00:02:29.140 description of that so-called threat. It's called misinformation, disinformation,

00:02:35.240 misinformation. Wait till you hear the term that the DHS has come up with for that in their

00:02:41.900 communications, their official communications. It's absolutely dismaying. Let me say, you may be

00:02:49.460 shocked to learn that the DHS interpretation of that threat could easily be interpreted as a threat

00:02:55.520 referring to everything from high school assemblies to the Oval Office of the White House itself.

00:03:02.440 We'll take that interpretation issue up with Chris as well. The Biden White House is simply out of

00:03:09.720 control. And that brings us to another concern, the president's cognitive well-being. Whatever

00:03:15.300 happened to the Republican call for Biden, who is obviously not functioning normally, to take a test

00:03:22.420 on his cognitive ability? Ronnie Jackson, President Trump's doctor and now congressman,

00:03:31.220 had called upon him to take a test last summer. Well, now 40 Republicans are doing so again.

00:03:39.560 President Trump took the test when the Dems asked him, why isn't Biden taking that test now that

00:03:46.400 Republicans are asking him? Well, we'll find out. Lots of questions today. We'll be working hard to

00:03:53.320 get you the answers. And a man who has made a career out of getting answers joins us today. He brings us to

00:04:00.420 Chris Farrell, head of investigations and research for Judicial Watch, also author of a terrific book,

00:04:06.740 Exiled Emissary, and host of a new podcast, which we recommend to you highly, Chris Farrell's On Watch.

00:04:14.060 The title again, Chris Farrell's On Watch. You're staying busy, my friend. Great to have you with us.

00:04:20.660 And I'd like to start with the DHS terrorism bulletin. Great to be with you, Lou. I can tell

00:04:27.360 you that the Department of Homeland Security under the Biden administration continues to outdo itself

00:04:33.540 with every new bulletin and announcement. And so now, as of yesterday, quote, online proliferation of

00:04:42.280 false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud

00:04:49.220 and COVID-19, those actions, quote, undermines public trust in U.S. government institutions.

00:04:59.340 And that is the number one factor contributing to the threat environment. I think they have gone

00:05:07.980 completely out of their minds. I would agree with you. And it's why, you know, I'm so fascinated by

00:05:14.520 this document, because it really could be anyone who's determined to put out misinformation, disinformation,

00:05:21.860 or malinformation. I mean, DHS has even come up with this new acronym, which is almost like WMD,

00:05:31.860 weapons of mass destruction. This one, though, it's called, when focusing on false or misleading

00:05:39.360 narratives and conspiracy theories, as the DHS puts it, MDM, mis, dis, and malinformation. I mean,

00:05:51.800 that is so amateurish and silly. It's hard to imagine that a serious agency charged with so much 0.97

00:05:59.760 responsibility as DHS would even use such, you know, crappy language.

00:06:05.900 Well, it's what's more disturbing is that it is straight out of George Orwell's 1984. This is

00:06:11.900 Newspeak. And so we, you know, Ingsoc, it's the, it's all the crazy terminology and language and the

00:06:20.080 manipulation of language that allows these institutions and Biden administration officials

00:06:26.600 to create their own new reality. They manufacture language, jargon, terminology, and assign meaning

00:06:36.320 to it that allows them to do whatever they damn well please. And in this case, Homeland Security

00:06:42.180 has manufactured an entire, they're essentially criminalizing thought. If you have the legitimate

00:06:49.680 concern over election irregularities and various shenanigans, various shenanigans having played out

00:06:58.040 in Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, if you bring that up, you, you are undermining faith

00:07:06.060 in government and they view that as a crime. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's really stunning how this reads.

00:07:13.660 Uh, they refer to foreign terrorist organizations, domestic threat actors, uh, who continue to amplify

00:07:21.540 preexisting false or misleading narratives designed to sow discord and undermine public trust and

00:07:28.320 government institutions there. That expression is again, if you are undermining public trust and

00:07:33.880 government institutions, that's quite subjective, isn't it? Uh, I personally, I've, I've always felt that

00:07:41.100 one of my roles was in point of fact, to be a skeptic when it comes to government. As a matter of fact,

00:07:46.840 I think that's, that's a duty of every citizen to be skeptical about government. That's who we are as

00:07:53.420 Americans. And by the way, to be critical as hell of all these pompous, uh, uh, presumptive, uh, royals

00:08:02.040 who now are Americans, uh, turned to autocrats and authoritarians. And I include at the top of that list

00:08:09.660 right now, one, Joseph Robinette, Biden Jr. You are exactly correct. We're supposed to be asking all

00:08:17.240 sorts of unpleasant, awkward, inconvenient questions. And that's what we're paid to do.

00:08:23.040 And when we, uh, when we, so how concerned should I be about, uh, my domicile? If I am sitting here

00:08:31.460 sowing, uh, sowing, uh, concern about government, its ability. Uh, I mean, I've got some pretty good

00:08:38.820 evidence though. I think, uh, Chris, I mean, I really do. I've got, I've got the, for example,

00:08:43.360 uh, the government now has a national debt in excess of $30 trillion. The economy is slower than that

00:08:51.700 and smaller than that. It's growing faster than our economy. And oh yeah, we do have record trade

00:08:59.540 deficits with communist, a communist nation, communist China, a record, almost $900 billion

00:09:07.880 deficit. Uh, we continue to be abject fools. Our government does, uh, and our leading institutions, 1.00

00:09:17.020 whether they be business or governmental or educational are engaged in a, a massive indoctrination

00:09:24.980 program. It's called, uh, EDI. It's called, uh, it's called CRT. Uh, it's being practiced now,

00:09:33.520 not only in universities, but it's, it's moved to government. Uh, it's moved to local government

00:09:38.520 as well as the federal government. Uh, and it's a battle Royal. And we have an attorney general who

00:09:44.340 calls parents who are upset at a school board meeting, domestic terrorists. You can, I mean,

00:09:50.220 this is, I think, primary facing evidence of a terrorist plot against the American people.

00:09:58.000 What do you think? Well, I mean, let's also, let's never forget the Biden administration's

00:10:04.000 surrender of Afghanistan to the Taliban. You want to talk about a failure of government.

00:10:09.760 You want to talk about, you know, 20 years of blood treasure, time, energy, effort, uh,

00:10:17.880 trillions of dollars away in a reckless manner that costs more and more lives. Uh, I mean,

00:10:24.720 you're talking about government incompetence, that's a failure up and down the chain of command. And,

00:10:29.280 uh, it's a national humiliation and you're supposed to applaud that. I mean, these are the same

00:10:35.040 creatures who had the guts to point at the collapse of Afghanistan and say that it was the greatest

00:10:42.000 success since the Berlin airlift. You want to talk about redefining reality. Uh, and, but they have the

00:10:50.000 guts to stand in front of a podium and say how fabulous it is when it was a national humiliation

00:10:55.160 on a scale since, I don't know when, since I guess the fall of Saigon, but, um, and, and what,

00:11:02.020 and what were the consequences? Who lost their job? Who was, who was court-martialed? Who was called on the

00:11:07.700 carpet? Nobody. Yeah. I tell you, you know, who was one Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel who had the guts

00:11:15.380 to criticize the whole thing and asked for accountability. He was the sacrificial lamb,

00:11:19.980 a guy named Stu Scheller. Everybody else got a pass and walked away and congratulated themselves.

00:11:25.580 Yeah. Scheller, uh, we've talked with him on this, uh, on this podcast. We, he's a standing fellow.

00:11:33.760 Uh, he is still, I really believe, uh, in disbelief that his, his country, his government could treat him

00:11:41.960 as they did, but he was, he is also a man of immense courage because he's not only fought

00:11:48.640 against the enemies of this country, he's had to fight the general staff of the U S military,

00:11:54.280 uh, particularly the, the Marine Corps and the army. And the way they responded is disgusting.

00:12:01.400 And I, and I personally will never, and I don't believe the, uh, most of the audience, uh, of this,

00:12:06.760 uh, of this podcast will ever forget, uh, how they treated him, uh, one of their own, uh, because he

00:12:14.600 questioned the lack of accountability in our military. Meanwhile, meanwhile, General Milley

00:12:21.520 is still sitting as the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. And he's called over to his Chinese

00:12:26.920 counterpart and promised to give him a heads up. If we were going to take any military action,

00:12:31.700 I still do not understand how he got away with that. Do you, I do not, but I can tell you that

00:12:40.240 we're in federal court suing to get the transcript of his call with Nancy Pelosi, because we know for

00:12:47.500 a fact that the Pentagon, uh, transcribed the call. And I'm very interested to see what Nancy Pelosi 0.91

00:12:55.420 said to him. And I'm even more interested to see what his reaction was or what his comments

00:13:01.560 or commitments to her were, uh, cause Pelosi was essentially saying, don't follow the orders of

00:13:08.060 the president, uh, trying to disrupt or break, or in some way, uh, intercede in the, in the chain of

00:13:14.540 command. Pelosi is not part of any chain of command. In fact, for that matter, uh, Milley, frankly, isn't

00:13:20.500 really part of the chain of command. He's the president's senior military advisor, but nonetheless, uh,

00:13:26.220 what did Pelosi say to him? How did he respond? If he's calling the Chinese and offering to give

00:13:32.180 them a heads up, Lord knows what he told Pelosi, we're going to get that transcript.

00:13:37.940 Well, I, I can't wait because it ought to be a fascinating reading. Uh, I want to turn to a

00:13:43.720 host of issues that, that, well, uh, inter, you know, intersect with the interests and focus,

00:13:50.460 uh, of judicial watch, which does, uh, as everyone, I think, uh, understands a terrific job,

00:13:55.800 uh, looking, uh, looking at, looking out for us, uh, mayor citizens, uh, against the immense power

00:14:03.020 and, uh, sometimes misconduct of, uh, the U S federal government, uh, this, and one of the places

00:14:11.660 that it's most obvious is at the border with Mexico wide open millions of illegal immigrants coming

00:14:18.940 across that border being flown in the dead of night, many of them, uh, to communities where

00:14:25.120 they're going to be settled by the federal government at federal expense. No one knows,

00:14:29.320 including the mayors and the city councils and the County board of supervisors or the state governors

00:14:35.580 that dozens upon dozens, hundreds upon hundreds of illegal immigrants are being brought into their

00:14:43.300 communities being settled and no one ever the wiser your, your reaction to how this has become a, uh,

00:14:51.200 a bigger and bigger rising problem. Well, it's really, I mean, it's a, I think it would start

00:14:57.520 of that frankly, as a clandestine operation, they wanted to funnel these people into small, uh, you

00:15:04.420 know, County airports outside of major metropolitan areas. And frankly, some, some not so major metropolitan

00:15:11.260 areas, but they were using, uh, you know, County airfields or, or regional airports and, uh, you

00:15:19.220 know, displacing or, or, or, or, you know, moving about and, and, and relocating hundreds and hundreds

00:15:25.880 of people, uh, on a, on a nightly basis. And this, I think, I mean, think about this, this is our

00:15:32.400 government rounding up folks who had come here unlawfully and then, uh, scooting them around the

00:15:39.640 country always at night, which is always interesting because that shows you sort of under the cover of

00:15:44.400 darkness routine, flying into County airports or regional, uh, airports, and then dropping these

00:15:50.960 people off, busing them into, uh, areas where they could then further move on to wherever they're

00:15:56.320 going. And, uh, increasingly, uh, the, the initial explanation was, oh, we're just trying to reunite

00:16:02.940 families. And that's a load of garbage because there's now substantial video from all over the

00:16:07.900 country, different County airports. A lot of this video, frankly, is shot from the body cams of 0.96

00:16:12.860 various County sheriffs and law enforcement showing essentially, uh, you know, military age males,

00:16:19.440 right. Folks between, you know, 15 and 50, let's say, uh, coming off these planes. And this is, uh,

00:16:27.660 you want to talk about, uh, you know, something that's epidemic. This is going on all over the country

00:16:32.420 and there's a little, little or no accountability. We have no idea who these people are. And, uh,

00:16:39.060 and frankly, they're getting away with it. You know, everyone throws their hands up and goes,

00:16:43.020 oh my goodness. Uh, but do you see any real action, any real leadership on the Republican side of the,

00:16:49.300 of the operation saying, Hey, listen, we got to do something about this. They're all silent.

00:16:54.480 They're all silent. The Republican party has been dynamic, uh, since John Boehner and then Paul Ryan,

00:17:02.780 uh, and Kevin McCarthy. I mean, these are dynamic, uh, strong conservatives leading with

00:17:11.000 and power and, uh, and great character. These are all guys, every name that you just came up with,

00:17:18.880 each one of them has never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity in their lives.

00:17:23.760 Yeah. And, uh, by the way, they don't miss many funding opportunities either from big business,

00:17:29.180 big money, uh, big donors. And then they know how to cash in. They suddenly,

00:17:35.080 their IQ increases 30% when it comes to that, which, which by the way, still requires decibels.

00:17:44.460 The, the, the truth of this is we've got a Republican party in great pain. I would put it that way.

00:17:51.060 Uh, I talking with Congressman Matt Gates here, uh, the other day, he said that the Republican party

00:17:57.740 is desperate for vision. Uh, he, he said it's going through an identity crisis. And I think

00:18:03.440 that it has been for some time, but I do think as Congressman Gates put it, uh, people are just now,

00:18:09.420 uh, awakening to how severe it is. Uh, when you have rhinos that have done what, uh, Mitch McConnell

00:18:17.700 has done to the Senate to president Trump when he was in office, uh, and now, uh, as he is spewing

00:18:25.220 bile at, uh, at the Republican national committee, because they had, they had the temerity, uh, to

00:18:34.120 censure, uh, Liz Cheney, uh, and Kensinger. Uh, it's, you know, when I think they should have been

00:18:41.540 thrown the hell out of the party, uh, it's really quite something to watch. Yeah. I mean, I don't

00:18:46.920 know why not throw them out. Why not, you know, pull their Republican, uh, you know, meal ticket or

00:18:55.520 dessert card or whatever they call it. Why not just bounce them out? What is the point of pretending

00:19:00.540 that either of them have anything to do with, uh, the goals and objectives of that particular party?

00:19:07.340 Um, I, I, I guess, unless it makes them martyrs, they're, they're martyrs to the cause somehow,

00:19:12.800 if they do that, I don't understand it. Yeah. I, and it, by the way, it's inexplicable,

00:19:17.400 except in terms of money, uh, they are important to some of the money it enters, particularly the

00:19:22.060 chamber of commerce, a business round table who are lackeys, uh, for wall street banks, uh, for

00:19:27.480 commercial banks, uh, the, the big ones, especially, uh, and, and, uh, us multinationals. So those,

00:19:36.040 those two are lackeys for them and therefore they get a preferred treatment. If you want to get money

00:19:41.860 at all, of course, McCarthy says they don't want any money from the chamber of commerce. While

00:19:46.300 I'll make you a, uh, a bet of a dollar to a donut hole, uh, that, uh, he will be using some of that

00:19:54.160 money in one form or another directly or indirectly, uh, and copious amounts of it.

00:19:59.880 Well, McCarthy, I mean, McCarthy owes his position to being a fundraiser. I mean, that, that purportedly

00:20:06.840 is his greatest, uh, ability and he got the job because he's able to, you know, have cash show up.

00:20:14.240 A friend of a friend sent an email invitation to a Liz, uh, Cheney, uh, fundraiser and the, the,

00:20:22.560 the all-star lineup of folks who are, uh, you know, involved in that were sort of the,

00:20:29.200 the George W. Bush Romney club of, uh, you know, all sort of Bush administration used to be

00:20:37.520 former, this former, that kind of folks. So that's, I mean, they're all in line. That, that,

00:20:43.060 that is the, those are the Cheney supporters. Um, I mean, it, it really, it almost, it almost defines

00:20:52.000 itself. It's everything from, from the, the people that were perfectly fine coming in second place

00:20:58.520 perpetually. Those are the folks that are supporting this. Right. Well, they're, they're

00:21:03.240 also now, it turns out there are six, count them, six, uh, GO peers who are lined up in the house

00:21:09.920 with Maria Salazar, uh, Congress, uh, Democrat, uh, Republican Congresswoman, uh, from Florida.

00:21:16.980 She wants amnesty for illegal immigrants. What a novel idea. And so she has lined up, uh, 0.73

00:21:25.000 Dan Newhouse from Washington, John Curtis, Utah, Pete Sessions, Texas, uh, Jennifer Gonzalez-Colon,

00:21:34.500 uh, from Puerto Rico, uh, Tom Reed from New York, uh, Peter Meyer from Michigan. These are, by the way,

00:21:42.440 these people are about as left as a Republican can get and still not be embarrassed to carry

00:21:47.860 around a, uh, an R behind, uh, in front of their name. So, I mean, right here, Kevin McCarthy has not,

00:21:55.820 has allowed them to do this. They won't do this unless Kevin McCarthy stamps it. That is the guy

00:22:01.040 that a month ago, uh, and this I'm quoting Breitbart, uh, said that the, uh, that, uh, we know first and

00:22:08.880 foremost, uh, our greatest strength is the rule of law, said Kevin McCarthy. So you have to have an

00:22:14.980 immigration system based upon the rule of law. More bull emanating from the minority leader's 1.00

00:22:22.120 office as he seems to be campaigning by very careful triangulation about a host of issues that

00:22:30.000 he's been on the wrong side of for years. Yeah. I mean, this is the only problem with this sort of

00:22:36.380 dead on arrival, uh, proposal is that, uh, you know, you'll have some Democrats glom onto it and

00:22:43.660 call it bipartisan and then ram it down their throats. Right. So as, as stupid as it seems,

00:22:49.760 the problem is, uh, that, you know, uh, a, the Pelosi sort of reptilian thinking on this would be, 1.00

00:22:57.480 aha, we have six and this is essentially what they want anyway. You know, we've got this

00:23:04.460 absolute meltdown at the border and the solution from these, this collection of Nobel prize laureates

00:23:11.600 is that, Oh, well now we need to legalize it. Let's make it even crazier, even better than it was.

00:23:17.680 Well, crazy brings us to one of the craziest, uh, uh, deals I've ever seen in Congress.

00:23:25.380 And that is the January six committee, uh, Pelosi now is claiming sovereign immunity in federal court

00:23:33.840 to keep secret. Those January six, uh, videos and emails, judicial watch suing to get them,

00:23:41.840 uh, and saying first it's, you know, that's not public information. The public has no interest. And by the

00:23:48.620 way, we're also the sovereign. I love it when they just say it out loud like that, you know, the,

00:23:53.880 the, the speaking part gets pretty dirty when they claim sovereignty, uh, that you can tell who they

00:24:01.880 want to be. It's one of the reasons they like, uh, you know, Harry and Megan so much. They like the

00:24:07.040 idea, even though he's a, uh, malcontent, uh, rogue, uh, piece of royalty, at least he's royalty and,

00:24:14.180 and they can align with their betters. I mean, it's just disgusting what, uh, what she's doing and 1.00

00:24:20.540 what the democratic party is doing about the public's right to know. We do still have that

00:24:26.160 right to know. Don't we, don't we? We do. And it's, uh, it, the, the hypocrisy here is rich.

00:24:32.240 And so Nancy and her buddies have created this kangaroo court, this phony January six commission

00:24:39.400 that is, uh, looking at what they repeatedly refer to as, you know, this, uh, the worst thing since

00:24:47.040 Pearl Harbor, all kinds of hyperbolic language about it, but it's interesting. They're so worried

00:24:52.740 and so afraid and so excited about it. And there's such desperate, you know, dangerous

00:24:58.540 insurrectionist activities that they want to create a commission. But at the same time, when we say,

00:25:05.080 look, release all the video, this is probably one of the most videoed places on the earth,

00:25:09.360 right? There's cameras every which way around the Capitol. So instead of just playing patty cake,

00:25:15.740 look, release everything, just get it out in the public. Um, this is history. You're not going to,

00:25:20.980 you know, undo it or pretend there's something pending or make it public. And they have the

00:25:27.240 incredible arrogance. And of course, the other thing that they're really afraid of is we want

00:25:30.880 all their emails, right? All the stuff where they were provided advance warning and notice all the

00:25:36.140 coordination back and forth, the conversations with the park police and Metro PD and Homeland Security.

00:25:41.980 The last thing they want is documentation showing that they had all sorts of advanced notice and

00:25:47.740 warning. Um, and then the video itself, if everyone can look at the video, that's terrifying to them

00:25:53.820 because they're going to see video where police open doors, where they basically treat them like

00:26:00.460 they're tourists wandering around the building, looking at things. Uh, maybe we'll get more video of

00:26:06.820 Lieutenant bird shooting Ashley Babbitt, the only homicide that day. That would be interesting to

00:26:12.360 see. Maybe there's more video of that. I've never seen that. I've never seen the likes of this, an

00:26:17.620 unarmed woman shot dead, uh, by a, a police Lieutenant who apparently is, uh, I mean, I can't even begin to

00:26:28.280 describe what I think of his intestinal fortitude, uh, his judgment, uh, and his character. And there has

00:26:35.200 been not a talk about a whitewashed investigation. Come on. Uh, what happened there? It's totally

00:26:43.560 wasn't there an immense hearing on it. Yeah. And, and all the documentation around that shooting,

00:26:49.560 uh, again, uh, we obtained that through a lawsuit and all, if people want to read the interviews,

00:26:56.540 they want to see the crime scene photos all on judicial watch.org. We obtained all sorts of records

00:27:03.640 by suing to get the Ashley Babbitt material that, uh, that the Capitol police and the medical

00:27:09.920 examiner's office had. Um, but so we pressed for these videos. And the thing that's so stunning is

00:27:15.480 the continued arrogance where, you know, number one, they say those are not public records, which is

00:27:21.720 preposterous. Number two, they claim there's no public interest. If that's true, then they should

00:27:26.860 close up this kangaroo court phony January 6th commission. Right. And then third, as you pointed out,

00:27:33.120 they uttered the words that they have sovereign immunity. I mean, this is literally something

00:27:38.780 from the middle ages where the King could do no wrong. Therefore you can't sue the King. And that's

00:27:44.340 what they're saying, that they will not permit themselves to be subject to a lawsuit in court.

00:27:49.280 They will not, you know, uh, you know, make themselves subject to a judicial ruling. It is the

00:27:55.360 very height of arrogance. Yeah. It's the height of arrogance, but it's also a very comfortable

00:28:01.840 arrogance because the left-wing national corporate media, uh, supports everything. The radical dims

00:28:07.840 do. It doesn't matter how vile, uh, how disgusting their conduct, uh, there isn't, uh, you know, 0.91

00:28:14.200 the Washington post is there to provide the comfort and succor, uh, to these, uh, to these radical dims.

00:28:21.900 And it's, it's, it's absolutely appalling what the American people are putting up with, uh, whether,

00:28:29.200 you know, CNN, I mean, the CNN anchors are going nuts right now because they suddenly lost their

00:28:34.920 cover. Uh, Jeff Zucker, uh, had a direct line into Nancy Pelosi, Schumer, uh, and Biden, he was their,

00:28:44.420 uh, bidding a boy, whatever he, you know, they bid, he did. I get it. And you gotta wonder,

00:28:50.800 you know, certainly the dirty, grimy little, the real story behind Zucker's departure. Um,

00:28:58.760 you can, the mind, the mind reels at the, the possibilities for the real story behind his

00:29:06.560 departure, because certainly the phony cover story doesn't add up. Well, there is the little matter

00:29:12.060 where he, he destroyed CNN. Uh, I mean, they, they lost audience. Uh, I think in every consecutive

00:29:20.580 year he was there, it was, it just got worse and worse and worse. Uh, Fox has been, uh, out, uh,

00:29:28.620 outrating MSNBC and CNN, uh, for, uh, forever. Uh, I think 25 years is pretty close approximation.

00:29:38.060 Yep. I, and I guess they just think that, you know, uh, they never seem to want to consider the

00:29:45.680 possibility that just doing news would be a good idea instead of left-wing radical propaganda and,

00:29:51.500 and doing the bidding of every, uh, investment banker, uh, wall street brokerage, uh, and multinational,

00:30:00.700 uh, in the country. It's just, it's obscene what we've seen. And you've got a, you've got a

00:30:06.940 perspective like nobody else, Lou, because you're an original plank holder back in the day. So you've 0.98

00:30:12.440 seen it from A to Z, the full spectrum. Well, I have. And, uh, I've also seen the power of the

00:30:19.640 corporate media up close and personal when, uh, you, uh, speak out of line to their interest and

00:30:25.760 their preferences. It's almost as bad as Homeland Security. Uh, well, I, I think I may have actually

00:30:34.920 been more of a threat at the time. The Homeland Department, Homeland Security Department is

00:30:41.780 detected out in the, uh, the amorphous, uh, field that they're describing in that, uh, terrorist bulletin.

00:30:49.160 Uh, I want to say to you that it is an absolute pleasure to have you with us. I want to talk

00:30:55.860 just a bit, if we may, about, uh, the sudden, the sudden interest on the part of big, big blue state

00:31:05.080 governors, uh, and getting rid of masks. Suddenly they, they've done something that a person could

00:31:11.660 go to jail for, uh, if they were to go out and say, you know, I'm not going to pay attention to your

00:31:18.320 mandate. Uh, if I'm not going to get a vaccination, all of a sudden there is a turn here. That's

00:31:25.540 palpable. It's obvious. And it is breathtaking to watch. For example, the city of New York has just

00:31:32.380 said there will be no requirement for business as of this Thursday, uh, two days from, uh, well,

00:31:40.020 a day from today. And, uh, you know, just out of nowhere, what do you make of it?

00:31:47.340 Well, I think, you know, it's been kabuki theater for a long time. And when, uh, the United Kingdom

00:31:54.840 and Denmark say, look, we're done, this is preposterous. It becomes increasingly difficult,

00:32:01.520 uh, for even the most rabid fear mongers to, to keep their clutch on the medical emergencies and the

00:32:10.500 warnings and the threats and the, because it just doesn't hold up. And, and increasingly even the

00:32:15.980 medical evidence of, of, of coronavirus kind of running its cycle, you know, um, keeping people

00:32:24.840 at a heightened state of alert for now two years and using fear and, you know, the people have

00:32:31.700 realized that, you know, what, something like 99% of people who get COVID, uh, survive and, uh, have

00:32:39.240 there been deaths? Of course, is it a very serious medical issue? Of course it is. I'm not,

00:32:43.920 I'm not discounting or doubting any of that, not for a second, but, uh, you know,

00:32:49.140 People forget as many as a hundred thousand people in a year have died from flu as well.

00:32:54.000 That is also correct. And, and people have lost all sense of proportion.

00:32:58.980 Yes. And it came, you can look at, you can look at traffic accident, you know, fatalities,

00:33:03.760 and you'd never get in the car again. I mean, the perspective is required, but the, you know,

00:33:09.880 the really perverse thing about the New York, uh, indoor mask mandate being lifted is that

00:33:15.500 they're making kids keep masks on in school. Yeah. Which, which is really a perverse twist

00:33:21.400 because kids don't, they're not subject to the virus. And I can't tell you how many doctors

00:33:26.960 we've talked to who say the kid should not be in a mask because it does inhibit their breathing.

00:33:33.600 Uh, they are not likely to get any kind of serious case or are in point of fact,

00:33:40.160 any case at all, uh, in most, in the vast majority of cases, wonderful immune systems,

00:33:46.100 uh, and developmentally, it screws them up, I think, cause they don't, they're, they're,

00:33:52.280 they're soaking up facial recognition and reaction and emotional, uh, developmental things

00:33:58.740 that I think are cut off. Socialization. Uh, it's, and by the way, also the joy of learning,

00:34:04.640 uh, remote learning is wonderful, but it doesn't in any way, uh, make up for what is lost. I think,

00:34:12.800 uh, by going to a school and, uh, having interaction and being in the freedom, uh, to go, uh, go out the

00:34:20.440 door and play and do everything else. Go be a kid. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And, and, and people have

00:34:27.300 forgotten to, uh, how so much of this is manufactured, the, uh, the reflexive, uh, crushing of, uh,

00:34:35.600 uh, uh, personalities, uh, big, uh, personalities like Joe Rogan. I mean, my God, because he had a

00:34:42.540 few doctors on his podcast, the most successful in all the world. They, the left has come after him,

00:34:49.920 uh, like, uh, the, the vicious, uh, ideological cannibals. They are. That is correct. The left, 0.54

00:34:56.360 they want two things. They either want something to be, uh, forbidden or they want something to be

00:35:01.300 mandatory. That that's the only thing that they understand. Absolutely. Well, destroyed or made

00:35:08.080 left. It's only two ways to go. Uh, but thankfully it looks like we're coming out of these dark days and

00:35:14.620 emerging as, uh, as we should be. I want to quote, uh, here before we, uh, wrap this up,

00:35:21.480 whereas president Trump, as he so often is, uh, saying it just exactly the way it is. He said,

00:35:28.980 they referring to the left are so desperate to hide the truth. They will make it criminal

00:35:35.660 to speak the truth. Uh, I mean, that's profound and it's true. Uh, and the Marxists are going after

00:35:44.340 free speech in a way that we, I, I never thought we, I couldn't imagine it a few years ago that they

00:35:51.060 would be this open about who they are, what they are and what they want to achieve, which is frankly,

00:35:56.380 turning this country inside out, uh, destroying our founding values and freedoms, uh, and moving on.

00:36:04.120 Uh, and, and frankly, they want to be more like a communist China than they want to be like, 0.72

00:36:09.820 uh, like America in the 21st century. You're exactly correct. Um, and I think that what we

00:36:17.340 let off with that, uh, completely creepy totalitarian sounding Homeland security terrorism bulletin

00:36:25.540 is exhibit one. There's a determined and decided effort to squelch free speech, to squelch people

00:36:34.420 asking reasonable questions, uh, for, for asking for records and documents that the government would

00:36:41.500 rather you not see from bringing up inconvenient facts and all sorts of unpleasant, uh, questions

00:36:49.260 that, uh, really, you know, shows them to be the frauds that they are or calls them to account,

00:36:56.760 forces them to take responsibility for decisions and actions that were either reckless, um, you know,

00:37:04.180 negligent or that shows that they were complicit with some wrongdoing in some way. Um, uh, you

00:37:11.020 know, Ron DeSantis down in Florida has got a great, uh, uh, uh, advertisement or commercial of some

00:37:17.020 sort might be for his political, uh, one of his political adventures where he shows all the flip

00:37:22.920 flops from Fauci, where he says one thing and then does a 180 and then shows another and does another

00:37:28.100 180 back and forth, back and forth. Um, I mean, it's really, it shows them. It shows

00:37:34.040 really the, the Marxist, uh, ideology behind this all. Yeah. And Fauci, by the way, has become a

00:37:41.020 caricature. Uh, he, uh, he may not know it, but Fauci is, I mean, he's done, uh, his credibility

00:37:47.700 is, uh, absolutely de minimis. He's, uh, he's no longer effective for the left and, and their

00:37:54.880 authoritarian dreams. So he shall, he, I would wager he'll be fading very quickly in a, in a few months

00:38:01.740 from the scene. History will not be kind. Yeah, no, it will not. And, uh, but, uh, the country's,

00:38:08.520 uh, emerging from this and from that, I hope will come great things for this country and for, uh,

00:38:14.660 all of our fellow citizens. Uh, Chris Farrell, we thank you for everything you do and, uh, all that

00:38:20.220 judicial watch does. We appreciate your being with us and, uh, thanks again.

00:38:26.400 Lou, my pleasure. Thank you very much. Thank you. And we will continue with the great America show

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00:39:09.700 Lou Dobbs.com. Once again, we appreciate it. We continue with the great America show now with one

00:39:16.940 of my very favorite politicians in part, because he drives a truck for a living and has for many

00:39:23.580 years in part, because he calls himself a simple guy who wasn't a politician until he decided to

00:39:30.740 run as a Republican against a professional democratic politician in the very blue state of New Jersey.

00:39:37.820 And because he won election last fall by defeating the longest serving Senate president in state history.

00:39:45.520 His name is Ed Durr. He's a trucker still, despite being one of 15 Republican senators in the state

00:39:54.060 capital of Trenton. Ed, it is great to have you back with us here on the great America show.

00:40:00.380 I, I am just dying to ask you how it feels now that you realized your dream and your goals of getting

00:40:09.500 elected to be a New Jersey state senator. I don't know how to describe it there with you, Lou. I mean,

00:40:17.900 it's, it's still is somewhat surreal. It's like, am I really in a dream? But no, I've officially been

00:40:25.620 sworn in. I've done the whole thing. I've, I've, you know, went to the state house. I've actually even,

00:40:32.260 you know, placed votes on bills and committee because last week was my first committee and the

00:40:37.300 health, you know, committee. And I actually had placed votes there and it was, it's very interesting,

00:40:44.300 but I'm very happy about it. And I'm glad that the people are still behind me.

00:40:49.740 Well, it's, it's great. And I, you know, I'm amongst those, as you well know,

00:40:54.300 uh, behind you, supporting you and cheering for you. And I salute you for getting, uh, being there

00:41:01.700 and, uh, government service for the people. And I know that you're one of the senators who is working

00:41:07.160 for the people and it's much appreciated. I know by them and certainly by me, I want to turn to a

00:41:14.320 couple of things real quickly because, uh, things are happening, uh, that you've introduced a bill,

00:41:20.280 uh, which is a privacy bill preventing any agency from requiring or asking the health status of a

00:41:28.840 person, uh, and, uh, not permitting any discrimination or refusal of service at the same

00:41:35.540 time. How, what's the outlook for that bill? Well, it's, it's hard to say, see, because I left the

00:41:43.300 bill very broad. I didn't want it to center on the COVID vaccination or the, you know, boosters or

00:41:51.520 anything like that. I wanted to leave it broad on a health status thing. So for to kind of cover for

00:41:56.840 future. Now we, you know, are in the minority, so we need the Democrat Senate president to post the

00:42:03.860 bill, but I've been hammering, trying to get support, getting people to call him up, email him

00:42:10.280 and trying to find somebody on the democratic side to coast co-sponsor it. And then I'd have a

00:42:16.320 bipartisan bill, you know, cause it would be really nice to get it, but you would think, you know, post

00:42:21.820 it and get their vote on it. You would think that even a Democrat could support that. Uh, is that the

00:42:28.980 case or are you finding it difficult to find a partner on that? Well, I haven't had a really an

00:42:36.260 opportunity to talk to anybody because, you know, we just started a new session, so we've only had a

00:42:41.240 couple of committee meetings and I only have a few of their numbers, you know, so I'm trying, you know,

00:42:46.820 trying to go down the list and work my way until I find somebody who's, you know, receptive to my

00:42:52.560 plans. And the other bill that you're involved in is a parental rights bill. And I have to tell you,

00:42:59.160 I, it makes all the sense in the world too, giving only the parent the right to decide when a medical

00:43:05.720 device is used on their child. And I love the thinking you're thinking on this bill, because

00:43:14.160 as you have told me, a mask is considered a medical device by the FDA. So this would be a wonderful

00:43:21.860 piece of legislation. I think every parent would want it passed. I would, I know that every parent

00:43:29.960 wants it passed. Uh, and I would believe that it would be very hard pressed for Democrats to fight

00:43:36.700 this because they say they're for the people and they're for the families. Well, put your money where

00:43:41.380 your mouth is and get on board and let's get this bill passed because that's, that's the way it's got to

00:43:47.060 go. I mean, I talked to the chairman of the health committee and he's going to take a look at my bill

00:43:53.080 and he's going to see if he wants to get on board. So I'm hoping he does.

00:43:57.380 Well, it appears that you've done exactly what I expected from you. Yeah. You've rolled up your

00:44:03.060 sleeves. You've, uh, gone right to work and, uh, you're making a difference. I also understand that

00:44:10.240 your endorsement already is in high demand. Uh, you haven't been there very long and you're already

00:44:16.280 a kingmaker. Uh, tell us about how, how, how that's going. Well, I wouldn't say a kingmaker,

00:44:24.100 but, uh, yeah, I've, I've, I've, I've made a couple endorsements. One, you know, one was to my

00:44:30.300 very good friend, Claire Gustafson, who has been, you know, supporting me from day one, when I first

00:44:36.700 ran back in 19 as an assembly candidate, she has been there helping me, supporting me, standing by my

00:44:43.520 side. So it was kind of a no brainer to support her in her run against Donald Norcross and CD one

00:44:49.340 here in New Jersey. And then the other one was a new acquaintance. I, you know, just kind of,

00:44:55.220 you know, ran into through common circles and we, you know, got to know each other and we share a lot

00:45:01.160 of the same views of America first, you know, in very conservative views. So I endorsed Rob COVID

00:45:06.880 for, you know, CD 11. Well, that's great. And you're making sure, uh, because that's one of

00:45:13.240 the things that we, you and I both know. Uh, and I think most of the country does now, uh,

00:45:18.980 that the Republican party can't afford many more rhinos. Uh, what do you think?

00:45:26.080 Well, you know, I, I have my, actually my consultant hates that word and I,

00:45:31.620 well, you tell your consultant, you tell your consultant, he needs to listen to the great

00:45:37.140 America show and kind of expand his vocabulary. There you go. There you go. There you go.

00:45:42.180 There you go. But you know, I, I, I am definitely trying to be very, you know, selective, you know,

00:45:51.160 because one, you know, people have endorsed me with, by voting me in, and I'm not just going to

00:45:58.460 throw my name away on somebody that I don't feel shares my views and my beliefs, you know,

00:46:05.520 just so they can get in office or what have you. It's going to be somebody that I know stands on

00:46:11.760 the same values I stand on. Uh, let me ask you this because this is, and that's wonderful. Uh,

00:46:17.980 and I would have expected no less of you, but I had to ask, uh, you're, I almost said your governor,

00:46:25.020 uh, our governor, uh, uh, Murphy, uh, wants to end the school mass mandate in a move to what he calls

00:46:33.960 normalcy. Can you imagine that? Good old Phil Murphy, uh, left wing as they come has now decided

00:46:42.760 that maybe he wants to recognize that he lives in America. What do you think of that, uh, that

00:46:50.560 announcement by the leading Democrat in the state? Well, uh, when I heard about the possibility of

00:46:59.040 him announcing it Sunday afternoon, I says, well, right behind that announcement, he's going to

00:47:03.900 reinstate demand, you know, the executive emergency health order. And sure enough, that's exactly what

00:47:10.000 he did because when he was saying March 7th, well, it would have ran out this Friday. So he had to

00:47:16.800 extend it to keep the mask on the kids. Uh, he talks about normalcy last week. I think he was on a talk

00:47:23.220 show and he said that we're, we're not going to defeat this virus. We're going to have to learn to

00:47:30.660 live with it. Okay. Then where's the emergency? Why are we in an emergency health palace? You know,

00:47:37.660 why, why are we under an emergency? So that, uh, he can keep those masks on those kids,

00:47:43.440 right? Yeah. Well, he, he turns around and goes out and does things without a mask.

00:47:50.080 And you see it with all, you seen it with state, the aprons. She, you know, the people are hypocrites 0.99

00:47:56.440 when they talk about this, they want the kids to pose with the mask on, but there it's okay. I see 0.96

00:48:01.140 it with school boards. I see it with teachers. They're all not wearing masks, but they have the

00:48:05.540 kids on it. My, my daughter just told me how she's all a wrestling match and nobody was wearing a mask, 1.00

00:48:12.140 but in the daytime, when my kids, when my grandkids are going to school, they got to wear a mask.

00:48:17.300 Explain this to me, please. Somebody stop the madness. I have not, I have not had such a visceral

00:48:24.600 reaction to a photo in a very long time as I had to that picture of Stacey Abrams sitting at the

00:48:32.780 front of the class, if you will, in a room full of little children. I'm going to guess they were four

00:48:37.920 or five years of age, all of them with masks, which, uh, you know, our family does not believe

00:48:43.980 children should ever put on masks. Uh, what other families decide is their business, but that's what

00:48:49.620 we believe because we've just read enough that it tells us that goes back to the parental rights.

00:48:53.600 Yeah, yes, absolutely. And, and, and the kid's health has to come first. And there, this woman who

00:48:59.380 wants to be president of the world is sitting without a mask. The hypocrisy, as you say, it's, 0.87

00:49:06.140 it's even worse than hypocrisy. I think it is a level of disregard for, uh, the, at least

00:49:16.020 you can say evil, you can say evil. You're right. That's what it is. It's elitism. It's everybody 0.53

00:49:24.200 that, uh, you know, the elites decide they don't have to. And the poor kids who shouldn't have their

00:49:30.260 be deprived of any oxygen are sitting there with those, uh, those masks on. And they're the least

00:49:36.740 vulnerable population in our society to this virus. Absolutely. Absolutely. And did you hear what her,

00:49:44.560 the one guy went and said to defend her? He went and said, well, Stacy's not out to intentionally hurt

00:49:53.200 anybody. So basically in a backhanded insult, he's saying that people who choose not to wear a mask

00:50:00.660 are intentionally out to hurt people. That's what he was saying in a backhanded way. Yeah. So he's

00:50:07.000 accusing anyone who doesn't wear a mask as intentionally trying to hurt somebody. Yeah.

00:50:11.740 And the other part of it is if she is oblivious to, to the consequences of her actions, it makes those

00:50:17.760 actions okay. I mean, that's a very left-wing attitude too, about personal responsibility,

00:50:22.920 which there is none, but Stacy Abrams is going to find out. There's a great deal of consequence and

00:50:28.580 responsibility for what she did with those kids. That picture is going to live for a very long time

00:50:34.040 in the public consciousness. In my opinion, what do you think? Absolutely. I mean, think,

00:50:40.500 think about this, you know, as you said, elitist, you know, rules for me or rules for thee,

00:50:47.240 not for me. Well, it comes no truer than that picture right there and pictures last forever.

00:50:54.300 You know, it's, it's never going away. So yeah, I'm going to enjoy, you know,

00:50:59.780 well, do you think, do you think that, uh, Phil Murphy, the governor pulled the, the mask, uh, mandate,

00:51:09.300 uh, at least, uh, rhetorically because the Democrats are taking so much heat. Now the polls are just

00:51:16.660 slaughtering them, uh, for being, uh, the authoritarian party that we've known they were

00:51:23.160 for a very long time, but they've made it so obvious. Now, uh, they look like, they look like

00:51:28.660 left-wing fascists or Marxists because in most cases, that's what they are.

00:51:34.980 Well, I think what has happened and some people are trying to say, Oh, it's the midterms. It's the

00:51:40.520 midterms. No, what I think that happened is governor Murphy heard or read about a statement

00:51:48.440 made by our Senate president, Nick Scatari, who said that he is going to have to revisit the 2005,

00:51:56.080 uh, legislation act that gives governor Murphy these emergency health powers that maybe we're

00:52:03.480 going to have to, you know, reign these in. And right away, that's when he said, Oh, if I lose the

00:52:08.960 Democrats support, I I've lost my second term. So he needs to keep them on board. So he's going to

00:52:16.680 ease back a little, you know, it's not because he cares or he's worried or no, he didn't want to,

00:52:23.560 he's already a, you know, a lame duck governor in the second term. He didn't want to lose it this

00:52:28.720 early on. You know, we're only in the first couple of months. Yeah. But at the same time,

00:52:33.920 we're looking at all these, uh, these blue States, big blue States that suddenly on the same

00:52:39.560 weekend are pulling their mandates and talking down, uh, all of the orders that have been issued

00:52:46.580 by these, uh, authoritarian governors. Uh, and suddenly the Democrats are on the run because

00:52:52.160 they're looking at the same polls that I am, that you are, that shows that the Democrats are going to

00:52:57.560 take a beating like they perhaps have never had this year. Well, you know, it's, they are in real

00:53:03.960 trouble because Biden, uh, is leading that party, uh, into an absolute apocalypse. It looks right now.

00:53:11.440 If these poll numbers, uh, continue on this, uh, current trend, your thoughts.

00:53:17.780 Well, I, uh, you know, I want what's best for the country, but at the same time, I'm enjoying

00:53:24.380 seeing the disarray in the democratic party and how they are continuing to slip in the polls because

00:53:30.420 it only means good things for the future ahead. You know, I, I count on seeing some congressional

00:53:37.700 seats take place in here in New Jersey, uh, not only in the country, but here in New Jersey. And then

00:53:44.420 hopefully in 23, we might gain either the assembly or the Senate, you know, both would be great,

00:53:51.760 but at least if we get one, you know, and then maybe 25, we take a Republican governor.

00:53:56.720 Yeah. It's so the possibilities are suddenly, uh, uh, suddenly, suddenly they're in front of us

00:54:03.540 and they weren't even, uh, in, in a parent existence, uh, before last year, suddenly Virginia

00:54:10.600 has, uh, a state that is not reliably blue. In fact, they're, they're top official are all

00:54:16.640 Republican suddenly because they went after parents, uh, in front of school boards and 0.98

00:54:22.140 were ignorant beyond belief. Uh, I think they had decided that they had a free, uh, free range 0.85

00:54:28.900 to do whatever they wanted to push this country as far as they wanted. Yeah. I mean, in a Marxist

00:54:34.840 left-wing direction. What do you think? Well, yeah. And as I said before, and I've said it many times,

00:54:41.980 you, it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or Republican or independent, when you mess with a

00:54:47.540 person's family, you've messed with the wrong thing and people will go to the wall for their

00:54:52.020 families. So yeah, they, they definitely went too far when they started messing with the families.

00:54:58.420 It's one thing to mess with raising taxes, messing with the business, you know, saying, okay,

00:55:04.400 with the board or whatever. But when you start messing with the person's family, man, you put a new,

00:55:10.380 uh, the game in play. And of course, yeah, absolutely. I agree with you a hundred percent.

00:55:16.400 And, uh, and look at what's happened to our public schools. Talk about messing with the family, 0.97

00:55:21.900 messing with those kids and denying them, uh, all that they desperately need. Uh, that is

00:55:28.060 socialization, education, instead of indoctrination and remote learning, because the teachers unions

00:55:34.540 were uncomfortable in the, uh, in, in, with COVID, uh, those kids are healthy and strong,

00:55:40.860 their immunity system. They were going to be fine. The teachers saw a chance for a very long vacation

00:55:46.360 and, uh, no one should mistake that. Uh, I think you're exactly right. And Americans are really

00:55:52.760 recoiling against these mandates and nonsense. And in that regard, I've got to ask, I was eager to talk

00:56:01.640 to you about that truckers strike up in, uh, and protest up in Canada. Uh, those folks are talking

00:56:08.080 about taking care of business on a mandate. Uh, they're telling that left wing government of

00:56:13.580 Canada's, they're not going to put up with it anymore. Your, your, your thoughts about that

00:56:18.520 strike and how effective it is and how important truckers are. Well, absolutely. I support them for

00:56:26.760 standing up for their rights because this is not about a contract or anything. This is about your

00:56:32.360 inalienable rights to decide your own health. And they're being told to, they need to get the

00:56:38.480 shot to do their job. And so I applaud that and yeah, across the border, you need, you, you, you need to

00:56:49.120 have a vaccination guard to get in and out. And it doesn't even matter about a test. It's just a

00:56:55.300 vaccination guard, which we all know that it's come out that people vaccinated are the ones

00:57:00.580 carrying and transmitting the virus just as much. So to that point, it doesn't make any sense. It's

00:57:07.500 just politics being played here. But as far as truckers go, you know, obviously I'm a 25 year

00:57:14.020 truck driver, you know, and I support them wholeheartedly and I've, I've done my runs up in the Quebec.

00:57:21.240 So I know what it's, how cold it is. So I applaud them for tolerating being out there in the cold

00:57:27.360 like that and making their voices heard. And as I said in a tweet, when the wheels stop, the world

00:57:34.120 stops. So just remember that without a truck, nothing gets moved. Nothing gets delivered.

00:57:40.240 Nothing gets taken to the store. Nothing gets taken to, you know, from the warehouse to the freight

00:57:46.320 yards to the planes, nothing. You need truck drivers. No question about it. And when my wife 1.00

00:57:54.180 and I are on the road and we see all those big trucks rolling, I mean, they're, I just think it's

00:58:01.100 amazing. People don't appreciate what truckers are doing right now, keeping this country moving,

00:58:07.160 as you say, but they're doing it. I was worried, frankly, that we're going to see a lot of truckers

00:58:12.880 who didn't know because there were so many people, young people that were taking the wheels

00:58:16.960 of those trucks. I'm worrying about them, you know, being as courteous as they should be being

00:58:22.680 as diligent as they should be behind the wheel of one of those big 18 wheelers. You know, drivers

00:58:29.660 we see when we're on the road and we're on the road for a good piece every few months. I mean,

00:58:36.540 they're courteous. They handle themselves, I think, beautifully in addition to getting the job

00:58:41.220 done professionally. And I really think it's a credit to, to the trucking companies, the truck

00:58:47.080 drivers, uh, independence and everyone else on that road. They're doing a great job for all of us.

00:58:55.940 Well, I, you know, I, I agree with you there. The truck drivers, you know, that they literally are

00:59:02.240 professional drivers that, you know, you, when you're spending eight, 10, 12 hours, you know, in,

00:59:08.500 in a truck, you know, running down the road, you know, you, you become very skilled at it. I mean,

00:59:14.320 I'm a little worried about how they've opened up the driving pool to the young people, you know,

00:59:20.600 but hopefully they will take their time and pay attention. You know, the, the whole thing with the

00:59:27.860 vaccine passport, it seems also ridiculously because truck drivers have been social distancing long

00:59:34.700 before it became a new fed. I mean, we're in the cab, you know, for hours on end, weeks on end.

00:59:40.900 So the, it just seems ridiculous for that point, but you know, we, we definitely need to put our foot

00:59:49.700 down as far as these government overreaches. And I, I, I hope that they stay strong and they hold their

00:59:58.080 line. And I really would hope that any law enforcement would see that taking a bad order

01:00:07.080 does not excuse doing it. You know, I was just following orders as a bad excuse.

01:00:14.700 Yeah. Please don't, please don't, you know, do anything to these people who are just doing what

01:00:20.660 is best for their family. Yeah. I, I would urge all of our friends in Canada to be listening to

01:00:27.160 Ed on that. It's a shame and to hear, and I'm going to be the opposite of you. I'm not going to

01:00:34.380 be very classy in what I say as you did. I, I'm going to tell Trudeau that, you know, he is a silly 1.00

01:00:43.700 little SOB who really needs to start paying attention to his fellow citizens. And those are people who make 0.98

01:00:51.600 Canada work and they do a lot more for that country than he does because he is just a complete

01:00:57.140 joke of the laughingstock of the world in point of fact. I told you, I wasn't going to be as classy

01:01:04.720 as you, but I, I was, I'm trying to be a professional communicator to Mr. Trudeau.

01:01:13.200 And let me, let me just say that as we look at this, all of these mandates, all of the politics

01:01:21.440 that we've seen being played in Washington right now, how could, give us your view, how optimistic

01:01:29.660 you are about being able to shape something new with these upcoming elections. You've got a great

01:01:35.580 sense of the politics and the currents of the political world in the, particularly in New Jersey

01:01:41.780 and beyond. What do you think these, uh, these midterm elections will result in?

01:01:48.280 Well, I think it is vital for the Republicans to win the house back because that gives us a roadblock to any

01:01:57.220 further horrendous actions that have been taken. I mean, we can't reverse anything, but we can stop any

01:02:05.180 further in troubles from going down the road because they need to be able to go through both houses to

01:02:12.260 pass laws. And if we have the one, if it's a bad law or rule or anything, a budget, what have you,

01:02:19.440 we can stop it. And so I'm hopeful that we are going. And like you said, I think we're going to do a lot

01:02:27.100 better than they really think we are. You know, we, we could really turn some numbers this year.

01:02:32.580 If it just plays out the way I think it does. Well, let's hope the Republican party at the

01:02:38.820 national level, the RNC, uh, gets their act together, get some leadership in there, some new

01:02:45.220 blood and some new energy, because we've got, uh, but now nine months about, uh, to that election.

01:02:52.000 And they certainly weren't prepared in 2020. Hopefully, uh, the Republican parties in each of

01:02:57.160 these states will be prepared and ready to go. Uh, give us your sense of how Republicans are doing

01:03:04.180 in this state as we, as we conclude here at, well, uh, based on the messages that I get from people

01:03:13.660 email or through Twitter or what have you, a lot of them have renewed hope. And, you know,

01:03:22.160 I'm not trying to take credit for that, but they do have renewed hope seeing that a vote did make a

01:03:28.500 difference and did win an election that everybody said where there was no way I would win. It did

01:03:34.580 happen. So it proves, it proves the fact that if they just keep working hard, things can change.

01:03:41.680 So it's given a lot of people saying, you know, and, and I, and I don't like the term cause they go

01:03:47.060 and say it to me. They say, cause I just heard it yesterday. And the woman said, Oh, you're,

01:03:52.780 you're my hero and you're my son's hero. And I said, please stop. I'm not a hero. That's that's

01:03:57.580 for the military. That's for the firemen. That's for the cops. And for them men and women who,

01:04:02.560 who lay their life on the line, I'm just a guy who was fortunate to win an election based on the

01:04:09.380 people voting for me. I'm not a hero. I'm just a, I just want to be a representative of the people

01:04:15.400 for the people, by the people. Remember that, right? Amen, brother. Amen. And, uh, I can,

01:04:23.120 I, whether you like it or not, I've got a, I've got an expression for you that you're just going

01:04:28.460 to have to live with. Uh, I, I call that a great American. Uh, and I also call him Senator and that

01:04:36.840 really feels good. And thanks for being with us and appreciate it very much. And I hope you'll come

01:04:42.680 back soon. Thanks so much. State center. Thank you. State center, a great guy, as I said, a great

01:04:51.980 American. And, uh, that's it for this episode of the great America show. We thank you for being

01:04:57.540 with us. I hope that as a result of our discussions here today, and, uh, and a few thoughts about what

01:05:03.720 is going on in the world, uh, that you are like me, uh, hopeful that we will turn things around in

01:05:11.400 this midterm election and that better times lie ahead tomorrow. We'll be joined by one of the

01:05:16.660 country's leading pollsters, GOP strategist and pollster Robert Cahaley with us. We'll be talking

01:05:23.760 about what looks to be a wave election. Will the Republicans take back the Senate and the house?

01:05:30.540 It looks that way, at least to Robert Cahaley. Please join us tomorrow here on the great America

01:05:37.400 show. Thank you. God bless you. And God bless America. Join us again tomorrow for the great

01:05:44.280 America podcast. Stay in the fight. Truth, justice, and the American way will prevail against all enemies

01:05:50.560 against all odds.

The Great America Show - February 17, 2022

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