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The end of the road for Nikki Haley has come far sooner than she had hoped. Founder of LinkedIn and billionaire Reid Hoffman has reportedly told his allies he doesn t plan to give Haley another dollar after her loss in New Hampshire. Kamala Harris says we could lose this democracy if we elect a President Joe Biden.
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Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to The Great America Show. Thanks for being with us.
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The end of the road for Nikki Haley has come far sooner than she had hoped. Founder of LinkedIn and
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billionaire Reid Hoffman has reportedly told his allies he doesn't plan to give Haley another dollar
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after her loss in New Hampshire. Perhaps the most interesting part of it is Reid Hoffman is a Joe
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Biden supporter. He's a Marxist dem through and through. The man has such a bad case of
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Trump derangement syndrome. He was willing to dump all kinds of money into an obvious loser
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like Haley just to not see Trump win. And Donald Trump reacting to the news of Haley donors fleeing
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the scene of a failed campaign. President Trump saying, quote, when I ran for office and won,
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I noticed the losing candidates donors would immediately come to me and want to help out.
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This is standard in politics, but no longer with me. Anybody that makes a contribution to Birdbrain
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from this moment forth will be permanently barred from the MAGA camp. We don't want them. We'll not
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accept them because we put America first and always will. And Marxist dem co-dictator with puppet
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President Joe Biden. Kamala Harris says we could lose this democracy, as she put it, if we elect a
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president who would weaponize the DOJ and go after their political enemies. You know exactly what Joe
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Biden is doing. This woman is very seriously impaired. She was twitching and turning and twitching as she
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managed to get those few words out. Here she is. November of 2024, binary. And on the other side,
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you've got someone who has said that if he were back in office, he would weaponize the Department
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of Justice. Someone who has openly applauded insurrectionists as patriots. Someone who has said
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that they will go after their political enemies and applauds dictators, indicating that he would be one.
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So let's be really clear about what's at stake. And then yes, of course, there is then a desire that
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let's get out there because we can't lose this democracy. We can't. Can you imagine Harris saying
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that with a straight face as she watches the Biden regime persecute our favorite president? Her comments
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would be actually funny if what she said weren't actually happening in real time to innocent
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Americans and her party, the perpetrators. Take, for example, former Trump White House official Peter
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Navarro, special assistant to the president. He was sentenced to four months in jail yesterday.
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Navarro was given a raw deal by a corrupt justice department and a corrupt judiciary.
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Peter's a friend of the show. He truly is a great American. Now he faces millions of dollars
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in legal fees because of these Marxist Dems witch hunts. If you'd like to donate to Peter's legal defense
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fund, please go to give send go dot com forward slash Navarro. That's give send go dot com forward
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slash Navarro. Navarro appreciates everything that you can do, whatever you can send. Please do so
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to give send go dot com slash Navarro. That's N-A-V-A-R-R-O. Every dollar counts as Peter is
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appealing this four month sentence. Well, one of the largest labor unions in the country, the United
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Auto Workers Union endorsing Joe Biden unexpectedly this week. I'm kidding about the unexpectedly part.
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It comes as no surprise the union is led by a Marxist Dem named Sean Fain. Fain was on Fox News
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after endorsing Biden and much like the puppet he just endorsed, he suddenly got a little confused.
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Fain says he believes most of his members will be voting for Trump because they care about their
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paychecks. Let me be clear about this. A great majority of our members will not vote for President
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Biden. Yes, some will. But that's the reality of this. The majority of our members are going to vote
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their paychecks. That's funny. Fain must have remembered it was President Trump who actually
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went to Michigan to support the striking workers. It was Donald Trump who brought car manufacturing back
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to America. And it is Donald Trump who is standing up to the Marxist left's demands for electric vehicles
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that will be costing Americans a lot of jobs. I want you to listen again to the president of the
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UAW saying once more, the majority of his members will be voting for President Trump. Here he is.
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Let me be clear about this. A great majority of our members will not vote for President Biden.
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Yes, some will. But that's the reality of this. The majority of our members are going to vote their
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paychecks. And to that, I say, let's make America great again. Our guest today, Congressman Eli Crane.
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He sits on the Homeland Security Veterans Affairs and Small Business Committees. Congressman, great to
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have you with us. I have to say, it's so great to have your voice in the public arena, the public debate
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on so many important issues. And I just want to let you know how appreciative I am, and I'm sure how
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appreciative this audience is. Let's turn to first what's happening with the Supreme Court,
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a 5-4 decision deciding they're going to align themselves, not only with President Biden,
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this corrupt administration, align themselves with the Mexican drug cartels, and then permit
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continued control of the entire 2,000-mile stretch of our southern border. Your thoughts on that and
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the fact that Governor Greg Abbott is actually saying to the Supreme Court, effectively, right now,
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go to hell. Thank you for having me on, Lou. I really appreciate it. Thank you for the kind
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words. When it comes to Governor Abbott, right on, brother. Please keep doing what you're doing.
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This is the time in the country right now, Lou, where we don't need more constitutional scholars.
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We need men and women with backbone who know what's right and what's wrong and who are willing to put
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themselves in a tough spot and take tough votes and take tough positions and, you know, go against
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the powers that be, you know, for the betterment of this country and the people who are citizens who
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live here and who count on us to do that. So, you know, I'm all about what Governor Abbott's doing,
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and I commend them for the courage that he's showing. I believe it's a complete disappointment
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by the Supreme Court. You know, Lou, and this is something, I'm on the Homeland Security Committee,
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so, you know, I'm constantly, you know, battling it out with my Democratic colleagues
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on, you know, border security and what a joke this administration has been. You know, and it's
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unbelievable to me, Lou. When I read the Constitution, Article 4, Section 4 of the Constitution,
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often known as the Invasion Clause, it says that the federal government shall protect each state
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from invasion. It's very clearly spelled out, Lou, and some of the folks on the other side will say,
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well, that's not what it was about. They were talking about, you know, you know, soldiers coming
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across the southern border, and it's like, Lou, do you think it's possible that any of our adversaries
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around the world are smart enough, you know, knowing that we have the history of the Trojan horse and
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deceit and deception within warfare that they might be smart enough to exploit this southern border
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crisis that we're having, sending, you know, some of their soldiers, you know, over our southern border
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and telling them when they encounter our border patrol that they're just innocent immigrants who
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want, you know, a better life? Do you think that's possible? You know, and I'm going to tell you,
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Lou, it is possible. It's happening, you know, and I've been in some of the classified briefings
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where we talk to the FBI, the CIA, and they tell us the individuals that they're encountering
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at our southern border, you know, many of them are on the terror watch list, and it's just a matter
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of time, Lou, before we see another 9-11-style attack or many on U.S. soil because of the complete
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dereliction of duty, the complete betrayal of the Biden administration, Secretary Mayorkas,
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you know, as far as their responsibilities to protect and defend the United States of America.
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What is your sense? Does the CIA, does the FBI, do those agencies actually know what's going on
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in your judgment on the southern border? Because it seems like it's a far more straightforward
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proposition than we're, you know, than the government is pretending. This is without question
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an invasion of military age males coming from all sorts of countries, but primarily from Central
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America and South America, and without women, without children. And I can't imagine why that would be
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unless there were strong reasons for uniformity among the demographics from all over the world,
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whether it's Africa, Asia, or South America. They're military age, primarily military age males.
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And that is very suspicious to me. You're thinking.
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Yeah, I don't think that our intelligence agencies, you know, and our law enforcement agencies have a
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handle on this scope of this, of this invasion. I think that they have, I think that they have a tiny
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snapshot of it, but they don't have, they don't even have the resources to deal with it. And that's
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why you have, in my opinion, that's why you saw Director Wray from the FBI coming out a couple months
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ago. And, you know, telling people that he's never seen more threats against the homeland as, you know,
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as he has right now. I think that was him kind of covering, covering his tail. But I don't think
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they, I don't, one, think that they have the, the bandwidth to deal with the situation. And two, I don't
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think that they've been directed to deal with the situation or, you know, be on top of it. I think
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their direction, based on what I've seen, is more tailored and targeted at, you know, you know,
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Christian right-wing extremists who, you know, go to school boards to try and keep pornography out of
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their kids' classroom. I think that that's, I think that that's where the higher-ups in the FBI and some
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of our, you know, once, once revered institutions are focused, you know, the most on. And, and I think
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it's, I think it's awful, Lou, and I think it's going to lead to very hard times for this country.
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But what's that old saying, Lou? Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good
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times create weak men. Weak men create hard times. And we have a bunch of weak men and women that,
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because of their foolishness and their arrogance and ignorance, are creating hard times for Americans
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of all stripes. And you're right. And unfortunately, America, we find ourselves on the,
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on the ebb of that cycle of good, good men and hard times. We have a, we have a real fight on our
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hands. We're talking with one of the, the country's great warriors in the public arena, working for
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America and Americans, Congressman Eli Crane. We're going to continue our conversation right after this.
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We're going to talk about a fellow named Mayor Mayorkas and impeachment. And that impeachment
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just has a sweet musical ring in my ears. We'll be right back.
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Lou Dobbs here. I'm delighted to let you all know that the program Lou Dobbs tonight has returned to
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the air. That's right. Lou Dobbs tonight is back. We're live each and every weeknight at 7 p.m.
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Eastern Eastern and 6 p.m. Central on rumble.com slash Lou Dobbs. That's rumble.com
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slash Lou Dobbs. I hope you'll be joining us for Lou Dobbs tonight as our fight to save this country
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We're back now talking with Congressman Eli Crane. Congressman, a date has been set for the
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impeachment of, uh, to draft the articles of impeachment against Alejandro Mayorkas. Uh, one of
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the most, uh, dishonest people I've ever seen in government. There may be others more corrupt. I
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don't know, but I've never seen a man who was so gleefully lying straight through his teeth, uh, to the,
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to the United States Congress and those who have responsibility for oversight.
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Tell us where you are on impeachment of secretary Mayorkas.
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Well, thanks Lou. Uh, honestly, I was ready to impeach secretary Mayorkas. The moment I got to
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Congress, uh, I think the first month I was there, I co-sponsored Andy Biggs, his articles of
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impeachment since that, you know, there's been multiple members who have dropped their own
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articles of impeachment. Honestly, I don't care whose articles of impeachment, you know, end up getting the
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job done. I just want to get it done. And like you, like you said, Lou, it has sweet music. It's
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sweet music to my ears. And Lou, it's not because I think that he'll be replaced with somebody better.
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I don't believe that for a second. Um, there, I want it to be on his resume. I want that to be part
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of his legacy. He, he did such a horrible job. He betrayed the American people. You know, his job title,
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Lou is secretary of Homeland security. He has done the exact opposite Lou. He has made it,
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you know, with this wide open border, he has put every American in danger. And so I want that
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on his resume for the rest of his life. And you know what I say, Lou, we'll deal with the next
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individual that comes that follows secretary Mayorkas if we're able to get this over the finish
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line. But I want, I want him to see that vote cast. I want him to, you know, I want his friends,
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his family, and everybody in a circle talking, you know, about, Oh, did you hear Alejandro got
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impeached today? I want that stigma and that stink on him the rest of his life.
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And I, and I want his removal. I really do. I do too. I do too. To think that this man,
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there has to be a handshake. I'm going to say it's a figurative handshake between Alejandro Mayorkas
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and the Mexican drug cartels, or none of this could have proceeded to this point as it has.
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We have withdrawn. We, let me try that again. The Biden administration has withdrawn the border
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patrol from the border, has relegated the internal enforcement of our immigration laws through,
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through ICE to a, a stand down position and has invited in millions. There was a great report
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yesterday. So over 6 million people, illegal immigrants brought into the country in the last
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three years. And we all know that's a cock and bull story. That is at the, about the 50% level as to
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how many the estimates are that I hear from knowledgeable people about how many have illegally
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entered the country in three years. And that number is 10 to 12 million people. So, and the,
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to watch this, what's going on, the sex trafficking, the, the deadly drugs that are being imported by
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into this country, exported by the cartels, thanks to the precursors used by the Mexican drug cartels from
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China and China, by the way, would have the opportunity to reduce that. As a matter of fact,
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Joe Biden was very proud of the fact he actually raised the issue in talking with Xi Jinping.
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You know, this is where, this is the miserable state of our border. And, and we've got to do
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something about it. And I really, frankly, Congressman, I don't know why it's taken the
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No, I don't either, Lou. And honestly, we, we had another opportunity last week when I was up in
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Washington, DC, Lou, the biggest power that we have in Congress is the power of the purse.
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Once again, we came down to another, you know, one of these pressure points where this administration
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needed that, you know, the house of representatives to authorize more money so that the government didn't
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shut down, they needed us, they needed what we had. And instead of saying, okay, if you want to
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keep this government open, you know, we're going to, you know, we're going to, we're going to make
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some cuts, you know, to the out of control spending that's been going on in Washington to,
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to deal with this $2 trillion annual yearly deficit that we have. But we're also, you're going to secure
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the border if you want to keep the government open. And we, we have every confidence that we will win
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that PR PR fight with the American people because they understand this is the number one issue is the
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border. But instead of using the power of the purse as leverage, Lou, what we did was we do what
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Republicans usually do. We caved, we kicked the can down the road, we refused to fight on it. And our
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leadership listened to all the naysayers who were telling them why we can't fight at this juncture. Oh, it's an
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election year. President Trump doesn't want to be campaigning during, you know, you know, a
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government shutdown. Oh, if, if, if, if we go into a government shutdown, you know, or if we attach
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border security to, you know, this, this funding package, then, you know, the defense industry isn't
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going to get, you know, we're going to stop our work on hypersonic missiles. And this Australian ship
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contract is not going to be, you know, going to be kaput. Those are all, those are all of the
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excuses that I heard my other Republican colleagues telling Speaker Mike Johnson, why we couldn't,
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why we couldn't die on this hill, why we couldn't fight for the American people. And this Lou is why
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your audience needs to, you know, get on their phones. And I know that they do light up their
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representatives, tell them how important this issue is, and that they're, they're willing to do
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whatever needs to be done to secure this Southern border.
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Well, let me, let me give everybody that, that number that we encourage everyone to use.
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It's 202-224-3121. That's the number for the capital switchboard. That's 202-224-3121.
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And just tell them that you want to talk to your representative, your senator,
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and make your voices heard on the issue of immigration. By the way, immigration right now,
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in the latest polling is the number one issue for voters across the country. The number one.
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Hey, Lou, can I, can I say something real quick?
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On that note, guys, for those of you that, for those of you that are better than me at technology,
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if you're comfortable downloading apps on your phone, there is an app and it's called Bill
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Blaster. Okay. And you can download that app. I'll repeat it. Bill Blaster. You can download that app
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on your phone and it will, you don't have to go through the switchboard. It will give you the
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individual phone numbers for every rep of Congress that you want to look up. You can call their office
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directly without going through the switchboard. It also gives you their social media platforms if
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you want to go light them up on social media as well. So that's another great tool for you,
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you know, in your activism to, you know, help us out in this fight.
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Yeah. We're talking with Congressman Eli Crane and we're going to be talking Mike Johnson.
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We're back now with Congressman Eli Crane and Congressman, I want to turn to Mike Johnson
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and your assessment of him and where we are on so many important issues with his speakership.
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But I want to first say that Bill Blaster, as Congressman Crane was saying, Bill Blaster is
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an app. And this has been explained to me during the commercial break here. It is an app. It doesn't
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make any difference if it's Apple or Android. Go to your app store and get Bill Blaster. And that'll
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take you. Did you say to each each representative and senator directly?
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That's that's correct. It's a very intuitive tool that will help you get right to who you want to
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speak to. Now, I have to tell you, intuitive for me and my technological level of
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drapeness. There's there's nothing intuitive about technology for me, unfortunately. I hope everybody
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else gets luckier than I do with technology. So let's go to Mike Johnson. Mike Johnson, I can't
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tell you how many people I hear say on the Hill, he's a nice fella. He's a Christian fella. He's a man
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of faith. And then I hear him sort of cussing under their breath after the latest maneuver, whether it's
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the continuing resolution, whether it's talking with the what do they call him, the big shot for the
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Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell. And of course, Mike Johnson, the latest
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entry. I mean, they sound like a actually a bunch of adolescents trying to play big shot in high school.
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You don't know what's going to come of it, but you're pretty well. I just like to get your assessment
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of him and what the odds are that he's going to lead for the benefit of the American people.
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Well, you know, thanks. And I'm just going to be honest with you. You know, I'll be Mike Johnson's
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biggest cheerleader when he does conservative things. I mean that, you know, when he came out,
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one of the first things that he did was he you know, he said, hey, we're going to pay for this
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Israel supplemental by taking money away from the IRS. I was out there banging the Mike Johnson drum
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and telling people, hey, I think we just got a serious upgrade here. But since that happened, I haven't
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seen him do really anything that I'm impressed with or more importantly, that I think is good for the
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American people. And I've been in the room, Lou, you know, when we have a couple of conservatives in
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the room and we have a couple of the war hawks or neocons in the room and they're all we're all talking to
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Mike Johnson and we're all trying to pitch him on how we think the country should progress and how we think
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that, you know, we can use, you know, the power of the purse and our powers, you know, in Congress to,
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you know, move the country in the right direction. And unfortunately, Lou, he seems to be listening to
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the wrong people. You know, he's he's listening to the people that tell him why he can't why we can't
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fight at this time, why we have to kick the can down the road. You know, and I've heard all the
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excuses and it's hard. It's it's tough to listen to, you know, but at the end of the day, this isn't
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a popularity contest. Mike Johnson is one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet, you know, and I'd
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love to do a Bible study with him. I'm sure I'd learn a ton. But this is a that's not what this
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is about, Lou. This is about are we going to save the country or are we not? And I'm going to tell
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you this right now, Lou, the American people don't always expect us to win, but they expect us to
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fight. And that's not something that we're seeing out of Mike Johnson. And that's my problem.
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That's my problem with him. And, you know, Lou, a lot of people thought that, you know,
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when we ousted Kevin McCarthy, that was personal. It was not personal. It was because we knew
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that he could not get the job done. We knew that he we knew that he made deals with multiple people
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and that he never intended to honor and that he lied to us. OK, and that's why he was ousted.
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OK, so I want to be I want to be a representative that calls balls and strikes. And I want to be
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a representative that's even willing to be critical of my own side when they need when they need it.
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And right now, you know, right now, Mike Johnson has an opportunity to be a transformational speaker,
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but he will not be that if he keeps listening to the, you know, the House moderates and the neocons
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who are afraid to fight because it is fourth and 60. We're losing this country, Lou. And if we don't
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have men and women in leadership step up and are willing to fight, not knowing what the outcome will be,
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we will not save this country. The first requirement to turning this country around is being willing
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to stand in the gap and fight. And when you fight, Lou, whether it's on a foreign battlefield
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or it's in the halls of Congress, you don't always know what the outcome is going to be.
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But if you aren't even willing to fight on principle and for what the right thing is,
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you will you will lose every time. And Mike Johnson, because of his worldview,
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he knows what's right. He knows what needs to be done. And so far, I haven't seen him do it.
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Unfortunately, I think we're all seeing much the same thing right now. When we look at
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look at Mike Johnson, he's he's I mean, we can just start with he hasn't released the January 6 videos.
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He's being cautioned by that, as you say, listening to the wrong people releasing those videos could
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change history right now. It should have been done before. But at least the last two speakers,
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Republicans, have refused after saying they would release them to release them. They are cowards
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and they are absolutely. And I think breach of their moral obligation to the American people to
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release those videos and tell everyone else to go to hell. The this is infuriating to me. Is he
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afraid? Is he intimidated? It's the same feeling I have when I look at Amy Coney Barrett and Justice
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Roberts siding with cartels and a vote in the Supreme Court of the United States. I get furious and I get
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furious. And I want to ask you this as we're concluding here today. Two Navy SEALs die off the
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coast of the coast of Somalia. And they died for what? They died for an interdiction against
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missiles, warheads, weaponry sent by Iran to on its way to the Houthis. And they died off the coast
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of Somalia. What in the hell, Congressman, are we doing with our SEALs on a mission that could have
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been taken care of by a drone, by a missile, by a ballistic missile or guided missile, any number of
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ways. But to put our SEALs at risk in that situation, instead of fighting the enemy, which is
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Iran, I'm furious to see what the leadership of the Pentagon and our military did and is doing.
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I'd like to get your thoughts as a former SEAL on the challenge we face from our own military command.
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Yeah, so that's so unfortunate what happened to my brothers, you know, overseas on a VBSS,
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which stands for Visit Board Search and Seizure Operation. You know, and I don't know what the
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commander's intent. That is a mission set that SEALs tend to be the best at. That's probably why
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they got the tasking for that ship that was carrying, you know, missiles bound for the Houthis
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who continue to use them to stop, you know, global trade. My biggest problem, Lou, is my biggest problem
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right now is with this administration. I don't know about you, but I don't have any confidence
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in their ability, you know, to wage war against the proxies or the country providing the resources
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to these proxies. Iran, I don't trust this country after what I saw in Afghanistan, after I've seen what
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they've done to our military, turning it into a social experience. I don't I don't trust these these
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guys after I saw what happened with Austin and how they didn't even know where he was while he was
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getting surgery that we were told was elective. I don't trust these guys to take on Nicaragua, let alone
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Iran or deal with Russia or deal with the Chinese who are looking at, you know, you know, making a move
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on Taiwan very soon. You know, and that's my concern is that we have the world is on fire right now
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and we have the exact opposite of peace through strength because, you know, that only comes with strong
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leadership where our adversaries around the world know, do not mess with the United States. Their
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leader, you know, carries a very big stick and is not afraid to use it. And all they see when they look
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at this administration is, you know, you know, they just see chaos and incompetence and they see a chain
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of command that often they don't even know where each other's at. So that that's my big issue.
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That's my big issue. You know, moving forward is that, you know, it really concerns me for my brothers
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and sisters that still wear the uniform are still serving this country. They don't they don't get to
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make the orders or set the agenda. They just have to go into harm's way. And I do not trust this
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administration. And because of that, I think we should be very cautious at this point in doing
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everything that we can to stay out of another, you know, forever war.
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Amen. Congressman Eli Crane, thanks for everything that you're doing. We appreciate it.
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And we thank you for sharing part of your day with us here on The Great America Show. Thanks so much.
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Thank you, brother. Appreciate you, Luke. God bless you, too. Bye bye.
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