00:00:00.000Hello, everybody. Russia has hypersonic missiles that fly at 9 to 12 times the speed of sound.
00:00:07.680China has them as well. The United States doesn't.
00:00:12.100And Russia reportedly fired some of its hypersonic missiles into Ukraine last week.
00:00:18.140Ukraine President Zelensky wants to talk directly with Vladimir Putin.
00:00:22.820Meanwhile, Russia attacks on Ukraine are unrelenting and the refugee crisis worsens.
00:00:28.940President Biden talked to China President Xi Jinping, and we still don't know exactly what they said.
00:00:35.400The New York Times admitted that Hunter Biden's laptop is authentic, which means the Times, the Bidens, leftist corporate media, big tech, social media, and the intelligence community, especially the FBI, are less than authentic, and perhaps exactly what President Trump called all of them, criminals.
00:00:55.380I'm Lou Dobbs, and this is The Great America Show.
00:01:00.000Welcome, and we thank you for being with us.
00:01:01.900I want to say at the outset, the news from Ukraine isn't greatly improved, and the Russians appear stalemated and remain stalled in attempted advances on most major cities.
00:01:13.740President Zelensky is trying to persuade President Putin to negotiate a ceasefire, but to this point, without luck.
00:01:20.880And the United Nations, the European Union, the Biden administration, all clearly not exerting sufficient effort toward bringing Zelensky and Putin together for peace talks.
00:01:32.240And I believe it is their responsibility to do so.
00:01:36.260But in my opinion, Biden neglects most of his obligations as president, and those he does attempt to perform, he does so ineptly.
00:01:44.780We, my friends, are caught in a dilemma, a dilemma of historic weight and consequence.
00:01:51.600Most Americans say in polling that Biden is unfit for the high office he holds.
00:01:57.280In polling as well, more than that number believe the country is headed in the wrong direction.
00:03:08.360To take up the Republican Party's prospects and its historic opportunity this fall to win back the House and the Senate, we have with us the chairman of the Conservative Partnership Institute, Jim DeMint.
00:03:21.420Jim has served as both congressman and senator from the great state of South Carolina and is a former president of the Heritage Foundation.
00:03:30.520Thanks for being here on The Great America Show.
00:03:34.080Jim DeMint, I can't tell you how great it is to be talking with you.
00:03:37.400It's been a while, and I want to compliment you on the article that you wrote for The Federalist.
00:03:43.040I was reading it, and I'm thinking, my goodness, it's good to have Jim DeMint's voice is always in this arena, but particularly taking on the orthodoxy that is the Republican Party right now.
00:03:57.900Well, Lou, thank you, and it's great to be back with you.
00:04:00.840I appreciate you staying in the arena yourself.
00:04:03.300And I couldn't resist writing a defense for Senator Rick Scott because I went through the same thing so often, is just wanting to tell people what we were going to do and then doing what we say.
00:04:16.440And I see Rick, who is responsible for electing new Republicans to the Senate, did what I think is common sense.
00:04:25.640He says, here's an example of what we'd like to do if we get the majority.
00:04:29.140But not only did the Democrats pounce on him, but the Republican leadership did as well.
00:04:35.680And so I just wanted folks to know that while you may not agree with every point or you want to add two or three yourself, we owe it to the American people to tell them what we're going to do if we get the majority.
00:04:49.680Well, and Rick Scott, first of all, good on you for doing so.
00:04:55.580And good on Rick Scott for laying out 11 points that constitute right now the agenda of the Republican Party.
00:05:03.080Because as you pointed out in your article, no one else has put anything out there.
00:05:07.260And heaven forbid that Mitch McConnell should even think about it.
00:05:12.000Yeah, I know Mitch's philosophy is don't be the issue.
00:05:15.860And he wants to run the Republican campaign on how bad Biden and the Democrats are.
00:05:21.940And I have to admit, this year, it's probably a reasonably good strategy just to talk about how bad the other guys are.
00:05:29.960But that's not going to take us anywhere.
00:05:32.460And releasing your own agenda commits you to do things.
00:05:36.000It allows people to hold you accountable to things that you said you were going to do, not just stop what the other guy's doing.
00:07:20.340But we're giving away our wealth, our prosperity, our opportunity, even our security in so many ways, from the border to weakness in foreign policy,
00:07:32.860letting our military decline in ways that is beginning to be exposed because we're running out of armament to supply the Ukrainians.
00:07:41.200But I know from my time in the office, in the House and the Senate, working with foreign leaders, is that when America is weak, the whole world becomes destabilized.
00:07:51.980And so we're backing our way into bigger wars.
00:07:55.000And I would just say outright, and I hope we can talk a little bit about Russia and Ukraine, the only way for the U.S. to defeat tyrants like Putin and the communist Chinese and the mullahs in Iran and the crazies in North Korea is for us to be an energy and economic superpower.
00:08:17.000We've got enough energy to supply ourselves and our allies for 100 years and at the same time make ourselves wealthy, lower prices.
00:08:28.700But this whole climate change agenda is going to back us into some type of huge conflict and perhaps even a nuclear conflict because it just brings us to our knees.
00:08:41.760Yeah. And one of the things we have to be really honest about, the Republican Party shares every bit as much blame as does the Democratic Party.
00:08:52.540For 50 years of energy dependence, with the exception of the four years of Donald Trump, for 50 years we have been dependent on OPEC.
00:09:03.700It was a choice, it was a choice, it was a rationalization by our globalist elites, it was a choice by Wall Street, the Business Roundtable, Chamber of Commerce, the vested establishment interest in this country.
00:09:20.700And we have to be honest about that, we've had these amazing reserves of gas and oil throughout that period, and only in the last 10 years have we really begun to focus, and we're still not energy independent, we're back to dependency in a big way.
00:09:38.740But we have at least started to focus on how to get there and what to do and what policies work and what don't.
00:09:46.140And in 15 months, this president has showed us what doesn't work, right?
00:09:54.060And it's been hard for me to watch this professional liar in the White House, Psaki, saying that things like the pipeline are not going to make any difference in the prices and things like that.
00:10:07.260I've watched this for over 20 years, and every time America makes a commitment to expand its energy supplies, the energy suppliers around the world, OPEC and Iran and others, increase their production and lower their prices so that it will reduce the financial incentive for America to produce more.
00:10:31.520Not only have we not done the exploration we could have, we've even capped our wells at different times over the last 20 years because the price got so low.
00:10:40.700And you saw that happen with Donald Trump.
00:10:42.760He came in and immediately released the development of the Keystone Pipeline, and it would probably be close to operational now if Biden hadn't killed it.
00:10:52.400But as soon as Trump reduced regulations, opened up the completion of the pipeline, you saw gasoline and oil prices go down.
00:11:03.560That's because the producers around the world want to reduce our incentives to be energy independent.
00:11:09.900And, by the way, the left is insistent that we be dependent.
00:11:17.840That's why he's – I mean, we've got to be very clear about this.
00:11:22.420This is a president and an administration whose entire purpose is to destroy everything that Trump achieved, to then destroy everything over the course of the last 50 years, the last half century that's been achieved in this country.
00:11:39.640They don't want us to be militarily superior.
00:11:43.320That's reflected in the budgets that have been passed.
00:11:46.240It's reflected in the debt that they've run up, the spending that they've created.
00:11:50.700We're talking about over $30 trillion now in national debt and deficits that will be a trillion dollars into as far as we can see the future.
00:12:00.200This is a disaster for national security, which you, of all people, know best.
00:12:07.080Our national security is utterly dependent on a strong, healthy, growing economic base, and we don't have it.
00:12:18.380And I'll tell you, if we ever did the research, we would probably find that China and Russia and their propaganda machines are behind this whole climate change agenda and effectively getting America to disarm by removing our own energy production, including nuclear.
00:12:37.140We're not opening new nuclear plants in America, which are zero emissions.
00:12:46.040And the reason Germany and most of Europe is dependent on Russia is they've closed their nuclear plants, and they have to get their energy from Russia.
00:12:55.220And it's really silly for us to think that burning Iranian and Russia and Venezuelan oil is somehow better for the environment than having our own.
00:13:08.920Nothing that the Germans have done in decades has made sense.
00:13:13.240They brought in five million immigrants from the Middle East, from the Mediterranean regions, and they shut down their nuclear power plants, and they run a mercantilist economy that is utterly dependent on huge trade surpluses with the United States and the rest of Europe, indeed, the Western world.
00:13:39.900That's not exactly a blueprint for success long term, and we're seeing it unravel now as Germany and the rest of Europe confront an invasion by Putin into Ukraine.
00:13:53.060We have a president who doesn't seem to know what to do.
00:13:59.400He's dispatched, of all people, his vice president, who can barely put a sentence together, but a sentence that has no semantic purpose whatsoever.
00:14:10.500She does not know what she's talking about.
00:14:13.720And these are the people, and Tony Blinken, the secretary of state, Jake Sullivan, the national security advisor.
00:14:19.600I don't want to go to war with these people at the helm.
00:14:24.300It's one of the most frightening possibilities that I can contemplate.
00:14:28.400I agree with you, and I've said many times in the last two months or two, I don't think any American soldier should have to fight a war under the command of Joe Biden.
00:14:39.620Because they would not let them win and go in and do what they can do.
00:14:46.900The only way that we're going to get out of this, as I said before, is to make a major kind of moonshop type commitment, not only to energy independence, but our allies should be getting compressed natural gas from us and our tankers every day.
00:15:03.580It's a third less polluting than oil, and we've got enough of it so that they could make the Russians drink their oil.
00:15:12.180We're just not being smart about this, and it's not good for the environment.
00:15:17.000It's certainly not good for the economy.
00:15:18.560But the biggest issue right now we should see, it makes us so vulnerable to tyrants who have nuclear weapons, not just the old kind of nuclear weapons, but tactical nuclear weapons that can be used in theater.
00:15:31.980And I'm just, I'm so worried that Putin is just itching to show us he will use those tactical nukes that we've let him develop over the last 10 years through this START treaty that Obama and some just unfortunately ignorant senators passed about 10 years ago.
00:15:56.620Well, what do you think of this letter that Mitch McConnell organized and sent to the president demanding that he authorize the transfer of those Polish MiG-29s to be delivered to a Rammstein Air Base in Germany?
00:16:15.320That's a U.S. base, by the way, folks, to be dispatched then into Ukraine.
00:16:23.220It's 40 U.S. senators, Republicans, actually wanting to create the risk of World War III.
00:16:32.080Well, Lou, I think the Ukrainians should be able to fly or drive anything they want in their own country.
00:16:39.020Unfortunately, we've waited too late to do this at this point.
00:16:44.800If we wanted to help supply them, I mean, the Russians showed us for a couple of months before they invaded what they were going to do.
00:16:52.660And to try to come in at this point with planes, perhaps it could help.
00:16:58.660But as I said before, I think at this point, Putin is getting desperate.
00:17:03.260He's looking for an excuse to show that he would use tactical nukes.
00:17:09.460And so we need to be careful because with Biden at the helm, there is no sense of strength.
00:17:18.780And I don't think any country would believe that he is actually going to follow up if Russia did use a nuke.
00:17:27.380And NATO is not going to know what to do without American leadership.
00:17:31.380And I've heard this from foreign leaders for decades, that when America doesn't lead, the whole world devolves into chaos.
00:17:39.760And we don't have to lead by being in wars.
00:17:42.880We just have to lead by being economically strong, militarily ready, and talk tough.
00:17:50.580Trump didn't get us in any wars because everyone around the world believed that he would do it if they came, if they violated anything he said.
00:18:00.940Now, knowing him personally, he's the last person that would push the button that would get any American troop in harm's way.
00:18:08.980And a lot of people may not believe that, but he did everything he could to keep us out of wars and to get us out of wars.
00:18:16.860But he was tough, and people believed he would do what he said.
00:18:30.080And it's also clear that President Biden could back into a war, that Anthony Blinken is making statements that, for example, Colonel Douglas McGregor here on this podcast said it's the craziest thing he could have done.
00:18:49.820And because he can't back up the threat, Blinken can't back up the threat, Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor, can't back up the administration's threat for potential consequences for China if they were to supply Russia.
00:19:03.660We have an administration that is awkward, bumbling, and wrong on so many issues when all they had to do was anticipate and to pay attention to the intelligence they developed at the beginning of the year and then had the genius to share with the Chinese, expecting them not to share that with their new strategic partner, Russia.
00:19:29.740No, and as you mentioned earlier, we don't think about it, but the debt that we have, the printing of money and the projected deficits puts China and Russia, Iran, and our adversaries in a great position to take down our dollar.
00:19:46.200And, again, that combined with energy dependence and just having bad leadership puts America in a very vulnerable place right now.
00:19:58.780And we've got to get the word out to Americans.
00:20:01.860We cannot allow what happened in this last election, whether it was honest or not, and I frankly don't believe it was.
00:20:08.100And I think we'll know more in the next year or so about what really happened.
00:20:14.700But we've got to get Americans focused on what policies will make our country better and their lives better, and it sure isn't coming from the Democrats.
00:20:25.360And the American people clearly know that because in poll after poll, that's reflected, talking with Robert Cahaley, talking with John McLaughlin here about the poll numbers.
00:20:38.920They all point in the same direction, and each of them is very cautious about this because I characterize it as pointing in the direction of a historic landslide in November.
00:20:50.780And both of them, of course, want to caution me and say, oh, no, no, it's going to be very tight.
00:20:55.880It may be, but they point in that direction right now.
00:20:59.780And I take nothing for granted, not after 2020.
00:21:06.740Your judgment, if you will, of both the tired leadership and the charge of the Senate and Rick Scott's 11 items, let's talk about that.
00:21:20.280What do you think is the most important among them?
00:21:23.960Well, I would encourage your listeners to go to RescueAmerica.com and look at Rick Scott's points.
00:21:33.160I think if you're an American-first type person, you're going to like all of them.
00:21:38.320But whether you like all of them exactly the way they are or you want to add, you will see that these are things that make America stronger, make our future brighter.
00:21:49.980And we owe it to Americans when we're running for office to tell them what we're going to do so that they can hold us accountable to those things.
00:21:59.260And so I like the points that Rick makes.
00:22:02.680But more than anything, I like the fact that he's willing to put it out there.
00:22:06.480And, you know, the consultants in Washington are telling McConnell and others, don't put anything out there that the Democrats can attack.
00:22:14.540And if people go online, they'll see that all the liberal media are attacking his points.
00:22:19.940They're, you know, kind of misrepresenting them and criticizing them.
00:23:11.580And so there is a whole lot behind that serious face that Rick carries around.
00:23:17.180I also want to compliment you for your title of your piece in The Federalist.
00:23:21.460And I recommend everybody go to TheFederalist.com and read The GOP Establishment Wants to Take Congress This Fall Without Telling Voters Why They Should.
00:25:13.260Choose the school that best fits them.
00:25:15.880And that's just a good start for a good education agenda, particularly focusing on school choice.
00:25:23.540And I think if the liberals, the left, don't want to learn the Pledge of Allegiance, then support school choice so they can send their kids to schools that teach that Russia is great or whatever they want to do.
00:26:48.920Government workers should not be allowed to form a monopoly against the taxpayers.
00:26:53.260And in this case, teachers who are paid by taxpayers should not have a monopoly union against parents.
00:27:01.600And so I agree with Roosevelt, who was almost a socialist as far as I'm concerned, but he did not think government workers should be unionized.
00:27:13.780And again, if decisions were being made by local school boards and the unions weren't involved at the national level, you'd see parents have a lot of influence.
00:27:24.320And like you said, that would help us make our public schools better for everyone.
00:27:31.300Anyway, well, that's what Rick's saying.
00:27:33.320But what we have seen just in defense of school choice is that when there are more choices offered, the public schools get better.
00:27:40.200We've seen that in Florida for almost 20 years.
00:27:44.140And I think there are lots of ways to give every child the best opportunity they have, because we're spending from 15,000, in some cases, 20,000 a year on public school students.
00:27:57.700And with that amount of money, we could give them a world-class education.
00:28:09.140Our teachers are worsening every year.
00:28:12.000It's time for us to take control of that public school.
00:28:14.660Jim, I truly understand what you're saying.
00:28:16.680And by the way, it's a great number two for me.
00:28:19.660But number one is take charge of these schools, give these parents and these citizens and each community control over their schools, and let's get this thing straightened out.
00:28:34.040Go straight at the issue, straight at the problem.
00:28:36.760These children are being indoctrinated by the left because they mean to take over this country, if not this year, if not next year, then 10 years to 20 years down.
00:28:46.560We already are seeing it in the polling for the two youngest quintiles and demographics.
00:28:53.680Those folks under 30 truly believe that they would run, according to the latest polling in the Quinnipiac poll, the Democratic children in that say that they would run from the Russians if they invaded the United States.
00:29:08.680I mean, that's the most appalling statistic I've seen in a long time.
00:30:15.820I found in the House and the Senate, if you ever tried to do anything to change something in public schools, the teachers' union would come out in force to try to mislead people in your state that you were trying to destroy public education.
00:30:30.440And so we just need to – again, they should not be unionized.
00:30:34.980I don't mind them having associations and sharing information.
00:30:39.100But this collective bargaining tool, it should not be allowed in public schools.
00:30:56.160The only place that unions exist with any strength and any numbers is in the public sector, local and state and county and federal government.
00:31:06.780And you pull out those unions, our taxpayer dollars are paying for the principal representation of those workers who are in civil service,
00:31:17.540working and public employee jobs as union members.
00:31:48.840Why are we trying to bring color, skin color, back into the equation on almost everything we're doing now?
00:31:56.940And it's very divisive and it's intended to be.
00:32:01.620And if I could just draw one parallel, because there is a parallel between what Russia has been doing in this racism thing,
00:32:10.660because, I mean, I've spent some time in the former Eastern Soviet Union from Latvia to Estonia all the way down to Ukraine, Kyiv.
00:32:20.880And even 10 years ago, they were saying Russia has got the biggest propaganda machine in the world.
00:32:27.780They're trying to meddle in their elections.
00:32:29.940They're destabilizing their government.
00:32:31.740But they're they're trying to stoke this idea of racism because there's so many ethnic Russians living in Ukraine and Latvia and Estonia and Belarus.
00:32:42.840And they're they're just essentially saying that these countries are racist.
00:32:46.820And that's why Russia needs to come in and take over.
00:32:50.580They're not racist, but that's what Russia is doing.
00:32:54.240So anyone who doesn't think that Putin's been trying to I mean, took Belarus over years ago in 2010, the Ukrainian people revolted against a puppet government of Russia there in Kyiv and install their own prime minister who Putin quickly tried to poison.
00:33:16.680And so this has been going on a long time and the West has certainly not integrated these countries into our economic system in a way that would have helped keep this whole Russian invasion from happening.
00:33:37.380And and we can add one other panel to this, and that is what the United States government has been doing in that period.
00:33:43.800In the case of the Obama administration with 2000, his election in 2008, by 2010, we were signing away 20 percent of our uranium reserves with his signature to to Russia.
00:33:59.560Why is that and why hasn't that ever been explained?
00:34:02.740It's ridiculous because we have to import nuclear fuel into this country.
00:34:06.800Why are we giving up 20 percent of our reserves, most of which are in the the Western states?
00:34:14.720It's it's stunning to me to see the things that we've done where we had an opportunity following Perestroka and Glastos in the early 90s.
00:34:23.760Why didn't we step up to invest in Russia?
00:34:28.740Why did we instead invest in China and why did the United States build a communist empire headquartered in Beijing instead of bring Russia into Europe and create trade balance trade relationships that could sustain an enduring peace?
00:34:49.480Why aren't those questions discussed and what a failure of leadership it is in both parties over the course of those 30 decades?
00:34:58.020It's I mean, 30 years and and with that, we were sitting here now facing the prospect of even greater and broader war as a result of what's happening in Ukraine.
00:35:10.340You said you wanted to talk about that.
00:35:12.720And I think this would be a great, great opportunity, Jim.
00:35:16.940Oh, yeah, I'm afraid, as you indicated, we have kind of lost Russia and many of these former Soviet republics years ago by not incorporating them into the world's economic system.
00:35:31.840And so certainly the European countries were not ready.
00:35:35.900And again, that's what you would hear as far away as Latvia and Estonia is that they were just begging to be more of a part of the free capitalist system in the world.
00:35:53.780And we've we've allowed Russia again to develop and corrupt and put leaders like Putin in who, again, now, like you indicated, we are probably in as much danger of nuclear war now as we were when the Soviet Union was behind the Iron Curtain.
00:36:12.300And so but it goes back to I don't want to just talk about the problems because the solutions are right in front of us.
00:36:19.020Russia became rich selling oil to Europe because that's where Europe had to get it and largely because of the climate agenda, which encouraged them not to produce their own energy, the same with the United States.
00:36:35.320And so we have fallen into exactly what our adversaries want us to do, to be weak, to be dependent.
00:36:44.880And that's what brings tyrants to the forefront.
00:36:49.020And we're facing that now, not just in Russia, but as you indicated, in China, we're dependent for our military equipment on many components that come from China.
00:36:58.640A lot of the minerals that are so essential to today's technology, solar and others, China has has bought control of or taken control of around the world.
00:37:11.640Uh, these things all have solutions, but it goes back to, okay, what can we do to make America better, stronger, more prosperous, put America first.
00:37:22.640And when we do, the world is a lot safer and more peaceful.
00:37:26.820And all of our allies will agree with that.
00:37:29.580If America doesn't lead the world falls into chaos.
00:37:34.540Well, we're certainly watching that now.
00:37:36.980Uh, give us your sense of what's going to happen.
00:37:39.720Uh, China has also said, uh, in addition to resisting understandably the, the, the warnings and the threats from the Biden administration, they've also said they do not want to, to find themselves sanctioned by the world.
00:37:56.220And therefore that suggested me that they're not going to support Putin going forward.
00:38:01.100I would be surprised if that happens, but I've been surprised many times in my life, but this one does not make sense for what has been a very smart man and a very smart leadership in China.
00:38:11.180He knows that he opens himself up to unpredictable chaos.
00:38:15.180If he were to, uh, side up with Vladimir Putin on Ukraine, an absolute, uh, criminal act against humanity in Ukraine for which Vladimir Putin will never recover, uh, irrespective of the immediate outcome in Ukraine.
00:38:34.920I think, um, unfortunately the word Russian will be a scourge on the earth for generations.
00:38:41.080And that's certainly not fair to a lot of good people.
00:38:44.520There are a lot of great Russian Americans in there.
00:38:46.800So people in Russia dying, protesting, um, uh, dying and disappearing.
00:38:52.600Uh, but, um, the word Ukrainian will, will be a word of, of courage, uh, in nobility just because of their willingness, uh, to fight for their own country, uh, to die bravely.
00:39:05.640But this is a proxy war that unfortunately Ukraine is in the middle of.
00:39:10.220This is a war between good and evil, as you mentioned, and people don't understand that.
00:39:15.620I think we're forgetting that a lot of the difference between the left and the right is a difference between secularism and people of faith.
00:39:23.560Our founders understood that is, is that, you know, either you're dependent on God, uh, or you're going to be dependent on, on some government.
00:39:33.600And that's why, uh, people like Putin try to throw out religion and Christianity is because it's, it's an alternate, uh, authority that people look to.
00:39:46.400And once you have the spiritual freedom that comes from the, the peace of knowing God, uh, you demand economic freedom and all kinds of other freedom, uh, which, uh, is, is very threatening to tyrants.
00:39:59.020So the book, Satan's dare is a novel, but it's about truth and it's about the Bible.
00:40:05.500It's about suffering and why we go through it.
00:40:08.080But I just want people to have more confidence in what we believe on the faith side, because I see that the lack of confidence and in our schools being taught that this whole universe is an accident is not scientifically based.
00:40:23.740And that's what I show in the book, but if our kids come out of that, not believing that there is a God that we're randomly created by accident, uh, they're not going to be conservatives who are longing for freedom.
00:40:53.860I think that people who don't understand this now as a contest, uh, a war between good and evil right now on this planet, uh, desperately need to, to read another book too, uh, that we're all familiar with.
00:41:10.320Uh, it's, uh, it's, uh, this is a difficult, difficult time.
00:41:15.880Uh, we, none of us can predict what will happen, but we do know one thing.
00:41:19.800A lot of evil is at work in the world.
00:41:21.960And we have to, uh, if we consider ourselves good people stand up against it, uh, it's a very difficult thing, uh, because so much is happening.
00:42:09.840Well, Lou, I want to thank you and I want to thank your listeners because I can just tell your listeners, if they're listening to Lou Dobbs, uh, they're getting the truth about issues and, and a perspective that doesn't come from fear or sponsors.
00:42:31.240I do want to encourage folks to seek the truth, um, as it comes to the political decisions we have to make.
00:42:38.860And again, the reason that I'm focusing on good and evil and Satan's dare is a defense of the Bible.
00:42:44.980Is there choices that we have to make today?
00:42:47.880And, uh, if we look to government and people like, whether it's Republicans or Democrats, they're not going to save us.
00:42:54.480Um, but if we have a country that's based on, um, faith and morality and a belief in God, while we all may have our different versions of that, um, it's so different than what we're seeing coming out of Russia and China and other places in the world.
00:43:12.640Uh, so I would just encourage people to stay engaged, um, but this country is so special.
00:43:20.320I consider it a garden called America that God gave us, and we are stewards of that garden.
00:43:26.560And that's why I'm still in the arena, Lou, is I'm, I'm there, not, not for myself, but my whole organization, the conservative partnership is there to support people in the arena who are trying to save this country and do the right thing.
00:43:40.280So appreciate you and all your listeners and, and thanks for the opportunity to be back on your show.
00:44:06.020I want to say Jim DeBendt is the chairman of the conservative partnership Institute.
00:44:10.500Uh, you can go to the website, CPI.org that CPI.org, the conservative partnership Institute.
00:44:19.940Jim DeBendt is chairman, uh, his recommendation for rescue America.com Rick Scott's, uh, 11 item agenda, uh, for getting this country rolling again and in the right direction, rescue America.com.
00:44:34.220So we thank you again, Jim DeBendt, we appreciate it.
00:44:37.860You're a great American and we thank you for being in the arena.