DEMOCRATS CAN'T RECOVER FROM BIDEN'S BOTCHED FIRST YEAR
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Why are the World Health Organization, some U.S. public health officials, and of course, radical Democrat politicians running around like their hair is on fire, screaming, Omicron, omicron. What is that, you ask? Well, don t be embarrassed to ask, even though the national leftist media acts like you and I and every American should know that. That's a three-syllable word, and it sounds like a guy who played for the Detroit Lions.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Great America Podcast with Lou Dobbs,
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always in the fight for truth, justice, and yes, our American way of life.
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And now, here he is, the Peabody award-winning voice of truth, the great Lou Dobbs.
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Hello, everybody. It's wonderful to have you with us on the Great America Show.
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Today, we'll be asking some very important questions that no one in the Biden administration
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is answering. No one anywhere seems to be answering these questions. No one that is,
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except for one poor, lonely doctor in South Africa. We'll get to her a little later.
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You'll find her fascinating. So let's talk first about the questions that our public health
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bureaucrats aren't answering. Let's ask ourselves today, why are the World Health Organization,
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some U.S. public health officials, and of course, radical Democrat politicians running around like
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their hair is on fire, screaming, Omicron, Omicron, Omicron. What is Omicron, you ask? Well, don't be
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embarrassed to ask, even though the national leftist media acts like you and I and every American should
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know that Omicron is the 15th letter in the Greek alphabet. And everyone who works at NPR knows the
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entire Greek alphabet, of course. Want to have a little fun with a smart-alecky NPR, folks? Quick,
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NPR. Name the 15th letter of the English alphabet. Gotcha. It's O, dummies. O. Take that. A blow for
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patriots everywhere. But wait a minute. Let's examine this 15th letter of the Greek alphabet,
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Omicron. You can't fool us. That's not a letter. That's a three-syllable word, Omicron. And it sounds
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like a guy who played wide receiver for the Detroit Lions. Wait, that was Megatron. So why is the World
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Health Organization using the Greek alphabet to label variants of the China virus? They say to make
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it easier for all the world to understand. Got that? China virus, Greek alphabet. Makes sense, doesn't it?
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Greek isn't an international language like English or Arabic. There are only 13.5 million people who
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speak Greek in two Greek-speaking countries, Greece and Cyprus. So the WHO picks Greek for better
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understanding. When there are just under 8 billion people living on this planet, and most of us speak
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what language? The answer is English. So it makes what kind of sense that the WHO would choose Greek
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to make themselves better understood around the world? And the WHO calls the China virus COVID-19
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because they don't want to stigmatize China. But we'll name all the variants of the China virus
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with the letters of the Greek alphabet. Talk about tortured political correctness. And then the World
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Health Organization skipped two letters in the Greek alphabet, new. That's N-U because it sounds too much
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like an English word, new, N-E-W. Unbelievable. And then they skipped Xi, X-I, because it's a common surname,
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they say. The fact is they skipped Xi because it's a very common surname for absolute dictator of the
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world's largest communist totalitarian country, known commonly as China. Or perhaps the WHO acted
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misogynistically, choosing to skip Xi, ignoring the only feminine pronoun in the English language.
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And I should point out to those wondering where the word alphabet originated, it is the combination
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of two words, alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, of which we now know there are
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24 letters or words in all. Remember that South African doctor I mentioned at the top of the show
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who actually knows quite a bit about the China virus, COVID-19 virus, if you will, variant. That variant
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is now known as Omicron. She's the doctor who actually has answered questions while the rest of the world's
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public health officials seem determined to scare the public, even though they know almost nothing about
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the Omicron variant. The doctor is Angelique Coetzee. She's the chair of the South African Medical
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Association. She's personally treated patients infected with Omicron, and she describes her patients
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this way. She says none of her patients, most in their 40s, and about half of them vaccinated,
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have required hospitalization. None of them. And Dr. Coetzee says their symptoms are very,
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very mild. I'll repeat, very, very mild. Quite a contrast to the melodramatic and unprofessional
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alarms being raised by Dr. Fauci, who is obviously now overwrought with the burdens of ego and partisan
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celebrity. Joining us today on the Great America show is a great American, one of America's most popular
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broadcasters. He's watched and listened to by tens of millions of Americans each day on radio, television,
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his website, his podcast, and on social media. Listen to him on 710 WOR Radio in New York, nationally on
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iHeart Radio, and here with us today, our good friend, Mark Simone. Mark, let me begin with the
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extraordinary catalog of failures that now make up the Biden administration in less than a year
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How long is this show? I don't know if we have enough time.
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It's going to be like a telethon. Well, first of all,
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Joe Biden will be, this will be taught in business schools for decades. He is the worst
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personnel director in the history of the world. You know, whenever you have a bad president,
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like a Jimmy Carter, you look at that cabinet, and there were some very prestigious names and some
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old Washington hands that were pretty good. But you look at this administration, everybody in the
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cabinet is a total incompetent. This Jennifer Granholm asked about high energy, but just giggling,
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laughing. Kamala Harris, I think we, I don't even need to explain that that's how bad she is.
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Worst vice president ever. This Buttigieg is making a photo op, a little promotional video
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of him visiting a store while the whole supply chain is clogged up. If it were you, if it were
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Donald Trump, you'd be in California on the dock right now, screaming at everybody, getting this
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unclogged. He's not doing a thing. I think we can agree to Lloyd Austin. Waging a war is a major
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task, but just leaving, just moving out, that's a pretty simple one. Just pick up the weapons and go.
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He bungled that up. Even the supply chain, this is not like landing on the moon. It's just taking
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crates off a ship. How hard is this to figure out? You know, it looks pretty bad. We couldn't win a
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war for 21 years and, uh, in Afghanistan, and then we couldn't even win the retreat and surrender.
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Uh, I mean, that that's pretty bad, isn't it? Well, I could see the difficulty of asymmetrical
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warfare in Afghanistan and how difficult it was to fight the Taliban. But, uh, so maybe give those
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generals a little leeway, but you couldn't figure out how to leave. And I'm not a, I'm not a war
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expert. I'm not a general, but the first thing I'm thinking, I would have the civilians leave first,
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then the military. I wouldn't have the military leave and then figure out how to rescue these
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civilians. Uh, and then it turns out we left quite a bit of our military there as well. And, uh, and it
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just goes on from there. And, and there's greater irony here. It seems too, in that, uh, the geniuses
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in particular, general David Petraeus who wrote the long war doctrine that, uh, so many of our military
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who couldn't win that war in 21 years, uh, followed, you know, so you've got the long war,
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uh, and then the new doctrine is for surrender. It's a quick surrender. Uh, just get out before
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anybody realizes who won. Apparently it was the view. Uh, it's awful. And this administration has
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a 38%, 36% of the most recent Quinnipiac poll, uh, approval rating. I mean, this president is a
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disaster and his, his vice president, uh, a bigger disaster. So they're not leaving us, uh, much, uh,
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here to, to applaud, are they? Well, Joe Biden will get credit for one thing. You know, Obama,
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it was steady. He didn't want anybody to overshadow him. He didn't, he wanted a really bad vice
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president. So he picked Biden knowing that's insurance against any type of impeachment. Now,
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when Biden takes over, he wants to do the same thing. How does he find somebody worse than him?
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That is a real challenge. And he came through, he found somebody even more competent than him.
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So I think, I think the country, I think the country may mark be even more afraid, uh, of Kamala
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Harris than they were Joe Biden. But with, with, with the package, the Biden Harris package,
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uh, it's a truly troubling moment in history, isn't it? Yeah. And so the scariest part of this,
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I always assumed from the beginning, somebody was secretly running this, that Biden was the
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puppet. Maybe Obama was the puppet master, maybe some George Soros type, somebody, or maybe a
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committee of these George Soros types. Now we're starting to realize there's nobody running this.
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There's no mastermind of any kind. Uh, there's nobody that knows what they're doing. So you'd have
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to figure out first how to get rid of Kamala Harris. Uh, I don't know what you could offer her to step
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down. Uh, the only time I remember this was Spiro Agnew, but he got caught in a crime,
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easy to get him out. They're going to have to get Kamala Harris out and put somebody competent in
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there. I know Democrats are in total fear of going into 2024 with Kamala Harris as their candidate. So,
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um, and again, the weak bench, the totally incompetent cabinet, there's no obvious replacement.
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And now we have with us a new variant of the COVID-19 virus. Uh, and I swear they've come up
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with a name Omicron, uh, the 15th letter in the alphabet to describe this variant. And they don't
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know anything about it, but already the governor of New York has declared an emergency for a variant
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that we don't even know what will be the effect of vaccines, uh, or whether it'll be even necessary.
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Yeah. You know, Democrats always go too far, get too nuts at this time. It's unbelievable. You know,
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everywhere I'm in New York city right now, everybody's terrified to take the subway. You'll
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get stabbed, pushed, shot, you get robbed. You get, and she's declared an emergency over a virus
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that might be here in 10 weeks. Uh, I mean, where was the emergency over this crime wave where we had
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riots all over New York and, you know, we have no media operating in this country right now,
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except for you. We have no media. We've had more virus deaths this year under Biden than we had
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under Trump. And that's with the vaccine. So when Joe Biden told us way back when I have a plan,
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I haven't seen it yet. Have you? Yeah, no, I, I really have not. Uh, and, you know, but I have
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seen Biden on display, uh, you know, last year, uh, he went after, uh, uh, president Trump in 2020
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for the travel ban saying that, uh, you know, it was racist and xenophobic. Uh, he declares the same
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thing, shutting down South Africa and six other nations to inbound, uh, us, uh, traffic. Uh, and it's,
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it's just being reasonable and following the science. I mean, the man is, there just is no word to
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describe the level of hypocrisy that he rises to, uh, at the drop of a hat. Yeah. Again,
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taking crates off a ship. That's pretty simple. Leaving Afghanistan, pretty simple. And look at
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this problem. He decides he'll shut down some borders 7,000 miles away in some little countries
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while leaving our entire Southern border wide open. What is the logic of that? That's like closing
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the upstairs window and leaving all the doors open. It makes absolutely no sense at all.
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Absolutely. And, and to think that they estimate a number of illegal immigrants by the time the
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president has been in office for his first year, uh, of his term, uh, it will be 2 million illegal
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immigrants who will not have been, uh, tested, uh, for the virus or any other disease. They will not
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have, uh, any vetting, but they will be, and are being welcomed into our country and shipped off,
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uh, to the, uh, uh, uh, inner America, uh, in the dead of night flown everywhere. It's it. You just
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can't make it up. Well, you know, you're the media expert. I don't know where this all goes to not
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have, this is how you kill a democracy, not have a real working media. These secret flights are
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dropping off, uh, immigrants at Westchester County airport here near, near New York and airports all
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around the country. That airport is closed from midnight to six. So these flights are landing at
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3am and a closed airport landing. Where's the media? Can you imagine if Donald Trump drove one
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person in a car? Uh, it would be front page news for weeks. This is thousands and thousands by plane
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and no coverage. How do we survive this? Yeah, I, I really don't know the answer to that,
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but, uh, but I do thank you for making me an expert on the media. Uh, I, I, I, I seem to have
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just conformed to, you know, the usual status of most, most experts. I don't know enough.
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You've started networks. You worked with Ted Turner. Can you imagine if you said to Ted Turner,
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let's not cover half the news. In fact, if, uh, this guy gets an office, let's not cover or anything.
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What would he have said? Yeah. It's really quite a different era because in those days we were scrambling
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to cover everything that happened, uh, no matter sometimes, uh, how pedestrian, uh, it, it, it got
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our attention because we had 24 hours for the first time in history to, uh, you know, to cover, uh, the
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news. Uh, and it was a beast that had a, it took a lot of feeding, uh, uh, uh, these days, it doesn't
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seem to matter, uh, to the, to the New York times or the Washington post that so much escapes their
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attention. But one of the things that's escaping their attention right now is the Omicron virus,
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as it's called. And no one knows anything about this. And already you've got Dr. Fauci, uh, Lord
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Fauci, uh, out on the Sunday talk show host saying that we'll do whatever it takes to stop this
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variant. Meanwhile, we are hearing from South Africa that the symptoms so far have been very,
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very mild and that the principal symptom is, uh, uh, fatigue, extreme fatigue for two days.
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This does not sound like the stuff, uh, for which, uh, you know, Lord Fauci should have his hair on
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fire. Uh, no, but, uh, any excuse to get on television, we've never seen anything like this.
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He's, uh, uh, you know, he calls all the anchors. I know he talks to Lester Holt. He calls these people
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and George Stephanopoulos, he butters them up all day. And that's why they call him the nation's
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leading infectious disease expert, which he hardly is. If you went to Weill Cornell or Johns Hopkins,
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or that's where you're going to find our best infectious disease experts, not this, uh, this
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guy, this government bureaucrat, he's been there 40, 50 years. He is basically J Edgar Hoover with a
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stethoscope. That's all he is. That's a well said that is well said. Uh, and, uh, you're not suggesting
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that he has files on all those people that, that you mentioned, are you? Uh, I I'm suggesting that
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he just, he does the opposite of Hoover. He just butters up these people and Pete Buttigieg looks at
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him and says, I could do that too. I could just spend all day trying to get on every talk show I
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can get on and not do any work outside of that. Well, and I love the fact that the man has two
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answers for every question. Uh, and I don't know if any of them are correct, but he's always got,
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uh, contradictory answers to, uh, to provide. And I, I don't know why no one holds him to account.
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He was against, uh, international travel bans. Then he was for it. He was against masks. Then he
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was for it. And now he won't let you take your mask off. Uh, and really would like everyone to,
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you know, I, he's just short of, uh, wanting everyone to have a file at the FBI. Uh, who knows,
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maybe we do. Uh, the FBI is going in strange directions as well. Uh, and the, and the holiday
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is going in strange directions as well, Mark, the salvation army, not all now only, they not only
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want your money, uh, and to make a generous donation, but they're also asking white people
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to apologize for being white. Have you, I mean, you can't, the saying is you can't make it up,
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but please tell me somebody just made this up. Well, this is a very sorry story because if you
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look, uh, you know, all, we all want to donate clothes or donate money or there was no finer
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charity for years than the salvation army, as far as where the money went in the most awful spots in
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the world. They were the first in last out. I love the salvation army. I've raised a lot of money for,
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I am stunned, stunned at this. They're the last people I would expect to get involved in this.
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I could see a major corporation that were worried about sales or boycotts or, but they don't have
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to, I don't know what the reason was for this. And, and to, there's nothing more racist than
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attacking a whole race. And these companies, this, uh, going after white people, this is a rejection of
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everything Martin Luther King fought for, which was don't judge anybody by the color of their skin,
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just go by their character. And I would imagine people that are donating and working
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for the salvation army to raise money or give donate. I, I would assume they're people of very
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fine character. Why would you call them racist? And again, where's the media on this? It's their
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fault. Yeah. Well, the media is as usual, uh, behind much of the, uh, the atrocity that, uh,
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was once journalism, uh, and we should point out the salvation army as zero hedge put it,
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uh, Tyler Durden wrote that, uh, salvation unwrung that bill, uh, no longer, uh, apparently willing to
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stand up to the backlash they face, uh, and demand that white people apologize for their racism.
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Uh, we have reached a point where the salvation army is destroying, uh, that charity that has been
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around here for centuries and, and, and to think what they've just done to people who need it,
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because there will be people so angry with the salvation army that they will never give them a
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dime. Uh, there won't be much ringing of bells, uh, is my guess, uh, this Christmas, uh, because of the
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salvation armies, uh, arrogance, uh, and it's just utter racist nonsense. I mean, it's racist what
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they did, as you said. Yeah. And this to me was the greatest violation, Joe Biden, uh, of his mandate.
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You know, he always talks about this mandate, what got him elected. If you go back and watch that
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campaign, he kept promising to heal us, to not be a divider, to bring us together. As soon as he's
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elected, everybody's a white supremacist. If you, I haven't heard that word white supremacist in
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decades, uh, there was one media organization, you know, they decided let's interview some white
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supremacists. They couldn't find any, they didn't know where to look. How would you find one? If
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you, you know, the police commissioner of New York was on a show to talk about these attacks on Asians
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and the host said, are these white supremacists? And he was very thoughtful. He said, let me, I'm going
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to look into this. I'll report back to you tomorrow. And he sent them his report. He said,
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none of the attackers were even white. And he said, our department has not encountered a white
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supremacist in years. We don't know of any. So, uh, let me ask you a serious question. Have you
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ever met a white supremacist? No, I would. If you said, let's interview one, I would know how to find
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one. I assume that somewhere in some mountains, somewhere with a couple of white supremacists,
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I guess if you went into some prison somewhere, there might be a group calling themselves outside of
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that. Uh, there are no white supremacists. I have something of a, I've never met one. And, uh,
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and I, in my, to my knowledge, I've never even been in, and I've covered prisons. I've covered the
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border. Uh, to my knowledge, I have never, uh, even heard about such a group. Uh, at least, you know,
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I'm talking about in the real world. Uh, we hear from the Southern poverty law center all the time about
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the supremacist, uh, white supremacist group. Uh, but they usually have a, uh, whatever group
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they're talking about usually has a membership of something like a dozen, uh, which is usually in
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a prison, as you say, or somewhere, I don't know. It's just madness. And to see it gobbled up and,
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and loved, lapped up by the national left-wing media is just ridiculous, which is, you know,
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the media itself is becoming more ridiculous by the day. They don't cover important things like
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how dangerous is the Omicron virus and why aren't we getting some sort of information about it,
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uh, that is scientific. And why do we have officials like Fauci walking, uh, walking into a studio and
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declaring himself to be science? He is the personification of science says he, as I said,
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he's, he's been wrong 50% of the time that he says something and you never know which 50% he's on.
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It's, it's just, uh, uh, amazing what the media is doing and what they're permitting and what
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they're fostering. Uh, it's, it's just on to me, inexplicable. Yeah. This, uh, racism, white
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supremacist, this all goes back to one thing. The Democrats, they vote charts and graphs of what they
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have to win to win a presidency. And it's a certain percentage of the black vote, something like
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89% or they can't win. And Donald Trump's scared the hell out of them. Cause he did very well in
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African-American voters really well enough to change the whole result of the election. So that's
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why they had to target this group to get them back. And they always pander, but in this case,
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they just went crazy with the racism and the white supremacy. I found this great video. It's Malcolm X,
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the great civil rights leader from the 1960s. And he warned African-Americans don't fall for Democrats.
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A pandering. They'll tell you everything you want to hear. They don't mean it. They won't deliver.
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Don't be fooled by Democrats. It's all just talk with them. Yeah. Well, I wish that I wish that they
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were more just talk. Now they are, it seems engaged in, uh, destroying this, this great country's values,
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turning us over to, to the enthusiastic, uh, Marxists who hate the country, but would love to run it,
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you know, figure that one out. Uh, they think the rest of us should just go along with, uh, uh,
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with everything. Now I want to turn to just where we're headed with the, the election of 2022,
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uh, and, uh, uh, president Trump, who seems to have a dominant, uh, first position and influence over the
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Republican party. The reality is this is still the party of Trump. Is it not the GOP?
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Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. You know, uh, the other name here is Rhonda Santis, but, uh, really it was
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Donald Trump to kind of put him on the map. Uh, but, uh, what we're seeing now is total incompetence.
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Can't, can't even unload ships, can't even pull the weapons out of when they leave in Afghanistan.
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And then we compare that to Donald Trump who, whatever you liked or didn't like, he was a hell
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of a manager. He was an efficiency expert. Uh, you know, when you build a hundred story skyscrapers
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left and right, you got to know how to run your supply chain. Cause that's what it basically is
00:24:52.920
getting a million bricks delivered, 10,000 windows delivered. He was amazing. If, if he were president
00:24:59.640
now, he'd be on the dock in California with all the union leaders, all the truckers screaming
00:25:04.580
and everybody, he wouldn't leave until it was settled. So the contrast is going to be
00:25:10.280
unbelievable. And when people are paying, uh, $7 a gallon by 2024, and, uh, you, you can't
00:25:16.700
go anywhere because of the crime and you're watching, uh, robbers, you know, they used to
00:25:20.560
loot, they'd break the appliance store window and take a TV. Now they show up with 20 cars
00:25:25.100
and completely ransack an entire Neiman Marcus. This, I think this crime wave is the one that'll
00:25:30.240
do in Democrats in 2024. Yeah. It's, it's, it's going to be interesting. And the Republicans
00:25:36.360
are already starting to, uh, you know, talk big in some cases, talk tough. I sort of dismissed
00:25:42.740
their tough talk because they've done that before, but there's starting to talk rather
00:25:47.660
energetically, uh, about gaining control of the house of representatives and talk about early
00:25:55.480
days. It certainly is, but there apparently have won, uh, they've apparently won a number
00:26:00.480
of, uh, uh, redistricting contests, uh, have managed to, uh, improve their, uh, their odds,
00:26:07.780
uh, for 2022 and in taking the house, your thoughts. Oh, I think it's going to be the biggest
00:26:15.220
slaughter we've ever seen. You know, it's always the case where, uh, the Democrat takes every,
00:26:19.160
they take everything. And then in the midterm, uh, they lose the house and Senate happened with
00:26:23.340
Obama happened with Clinton, but this is going to be different. This is going to be, uh, 50,
00:26:27.860
60, 75 seats swing in the house and dozens of seats in the Senate. I think, uh, uh, and this
00:26:34.560
is what happened after Cardi. You remember you had Reagan and Bush, you had 12 years. I think
00:26:38.340
you're going to see the same thing. I think you can see a backlash that could last multiple terms
00:26:42.960
in the white house and Congress. And, uh, president Trump himself, will he run? Uh, what do you think?
00:26:50.740
Uh, absolutely. Absolutely. You know, the best thing was to take over after Jimmy Carter. The
00:26:57.240
numbers were so low. Uh, how could he resist the, everything will be just a shambles, uh,
00:27:03.840
Joe Biden's poll numbers. Uh, of course he'll run. It'll be so easy then, you know, if you look at
00:27:09.300
Carter, he was not bad for the first or second. It was like the third year. It started to catch up
00:27:13.280
with him. Joe Biden. I've never seen anything like this. Even our horrible mayor in New York,
00:27:17.560
Bill de Blasio wasn't until the third or fourth year. It started to look bad. This guy in the
00:27:21.420
first few months, it was a disaster. You look at all the wreckage. We're only eight, nine months
00:27:27.100
into this thing here. You imagine in two years. Yeah, I, I, I can't imagine. I, I, I really,
00:27:34.840
uh, no, I talked to him just, uh, you know, a week or so ago. Uh, and, and he said, he sounds
00:27:42.920
great by the way, he's, he's, but he's, he wouldn't give me the inside scoop. He wouldn't
00:27:48.540
declare even to me quietly just between, well, you know, the two of us, uh, which I thought was
00:27:55.700
rather selfish of him. Well, he was, I promise I wouldn't have, I wouldn't tell anybody on this
00:28:01.240
podcast. Uh, no, but he was saying it for a while. And then I, from what I understand a few
00:28:07.900
months ago, it was explained to him. He can't say that anymore. Otherwise all kinds of, uh,
00:28:12.220
financial requirements and filings and things kick in, uh, outside of that, I think he would
00:28:17.260
be saying it. Yeah, I, I, I, I'm just kidding. I would never, uh, first of all, I would never ask.
00:28:23.500
Uh, and I know that he can't tell because the federal elections commission would be all over him
00:28:27.940
and lots of unpleasant things would happen in terms of fundraising. It would kick in, but, uh,
00:28:33.720
but it is, I would like to see a signal that sort of pushed me one way or the other. And, and I,
00:28:40.000
and it's, I, I think he definitely wants to, but I think he recognizes that a lot of things have to
00:28:45.420
fall into place, uh, going into that. Uh, I do know this, if any man ever deserved to be president
00:28:52.100
of the United States, it is him, uh, because of what he has done, the punishment that he's received
00:28:59.120
at the hands of the Democrats, the political persecution he's still going through.
00:29:03.720
Unbelievably without comment from the establishment Republicans, uh, by the Democrats, uh, by the
00:29:10.180
Marxist left, by the national, uh, liberal media. I mean, they continue to hound this man after two
00:29:17.560
impeachment efforts, uh, putting him on baselessly under investigation out of design by Hillary Clinton
00:29:24.840
for crying out loud, the, the Russia hoax, uh, all of the nonsense that he went through. Uh,
00:29:31.760
I think the man would probably be elected by acclimation almost, uh, if he were to decide
00:29:38.880
to run in 2024. Oh, absolutely. You know, he's like a football coach who's 16 and 0. And the owner
00:29:45.680
says, yeah, I don't like his tweets. I don't like his attitude. Yeah. Nobody would say that. Uh,
00:29:51.500
exactly. And I think the other problem, you know, for a million years, I've always heard everybody
00:29:57.580
say, well, if only we get all the talent in the private sector, they talked about Lee Iacocca running
00:30:01.880
or Jack Welch would run. They used to talk about you running and just get some great, uh, person from
00:30:07.240
the private sector. That was always thought that that would be a better way to do things. Well, it
00:30:11.160
finally happened. And we saw what the swamp and the deep state did to make sure nobody from the private
00:30:16.380
sector ever tries this again, but who could go through that? Yeah. It, uh, the, uh, the sugar
00:30:22.900
train stops in a hurry for the establishment, uh, for the leadership of both parties, uh, and of course
00:30:29.180
for corporate America, wall street, and all of the hangers on, uh, down the line. Uh, it's, we've just,
00:30:36.220
we've had a great history lesson. Uh, the problem is there was so much pain attached to a, uh, a man
00:30:42.220
who deserved, uh, you know, our, uh, accolades, uh, instead of persecution at the hands of the opposing
00:30:49.240
party and the deep state. Mark Simone, it is great to have you with us, uh, as is our custom. You always
00:30:56.300
get the last word on the great America show. Uh, Mark, I love this podcast. I listened to it all the
00:31:04.240
time. This is probably the only one I won't listen to because I'm on it, but otherwise this is one of
00:31:08.120
my top podcasts, must listening all the time. Well, you're very kind and generous as always.
00:31:14.600
Mark Simone, uh, one of the greatest radio personalities in American broadcasting history,
00:31:21.800
I must say. Wow. And as always a great American and a great friend, Mark, thanks so much.
00:31:29.020
Thanks for having me. We're coming right back with more of the great America show
00:31:34.040
stay with us. No nation has ever done more than America for its citizens. And for the entire
00:31:41.360
world, we're proudly Americans and for the dark forces of totalitarianism that are all around the
00:31:48.580
world. We're a huge problem because no other economic system, no other nation has ever created
00:31:55.060
the prosperity, the opportunity, and the security for its people as has America. We are the most powerful
00:32:02.340
nation on earth, and we are the most generous, but that doesn't matter to our enemies. And what has
00:32:09.360
become a raging cold war were the world's two largest and most powerful totalitarian governments
00:32:15.500
that is communist China and Putin's Russia. It was no accident that she and Putin have just announced
00:32:22.760
closer military ties and a deeper strategic agreement between the two totalitarian States.
00:32:29.720
Xi Jinping threatening President Biden directly, declaring that including Taiwan and the
00:32:35.980
president's upcoming online democracy summit was provocative. The CCP demands the United States
00:32:43.220
stop providing a platform to Taiwan's independent forces and threatened the United States with these
00:32:49.160
words. Those who play with fire get burned. In my opinion, it's time for Biden to tell China
00:32:56.020
they're the ones playing with fire. And if Biden could muster the will and the time, he might say
00:33:02.320
the same thing to Putin, who's building up tens of thousands of troops on the Russian Western border,
00:33:08.420
moving in heavy military equipment, moving in tanks. And the best the NATO secretary general could do in
00:33:15.020
response was to warn Moscow that if they invade Ukraine, the invasion would be costly. Now, there's a
00:33:23.480
fearsome word. You can imagine Putin quivering in his boots at the word costly. Not much of a warning,
00:33:30.820
is it? Well, meanwhile, the president and first lady spent the Thanksgiving holiday on the estate of
00:33:36.560
billionaire David Rubenstein on Nantucket Island. That, as we receive word from the World Health
00:33:42.800
Organization that there is a new and potentially deadlier China virus that's mutated at an alarming rate.
00:33:50.080
And some virologists fear it could be highly transmissible and that there may be no available
00:33:57.180
vaccine against it. I'm not trying to be an alarmist when I repeat what the World Health
00:34:02.820
Organization is saying. And yes, they are trying very hard to instill fear in the West and doing so
00:34:09.780
with almost no solid evidence or research about the new virus. My point is we should be deeply skeptical
00:34:16.680
about what we're being told about almost everything and certainly anything that emanates from the World
00:34:22.320
Health Organization and watch closely as we on the Great America Show watch very closely everything
00:34:29.220
that the Biden administration does and does not do and what the CDC does and does not do. Well,
00:34:36.540
a member of this government now is Congressman Burgess Owens. He's a former NFL star,
00:34:41.500
All-Pro and Super Bowl champion. He sits on the Committee for Education and Labor, the Judiciary
00:34:47.280
Committee. He's the ranking member on the National Republican Congressional Committee.
00:34:52.180
Congressman, first, I just want to say thank you for being elected. The people of Utah have done the
00:34:59.660
nation a great service and it's a delight to have you with us here on the Great American Show.
00:35:05.020
Thank you so much, Lou. And once again, remarkable summary, my friend, of what we're up against.
00:35:09.560
And let me just kind of, as we get started, this has been an honor to say the least to represent this
00:35:14.600
great state of Utah. But what I've come to understand is that there's a powerful, those powerful three
00:35:20.020
words, we the people. It's amazing what we do in our own ways, in our own positions, whatever we can
00:35:25.200
bring to the plate that always brings our country back from the brink when we need it. And that's
00:35:30.640
what's happening now. And I appreciate your platform because your platform is as important or probably
00:35:35.840
more important than what I can do because it's about getting people educated. And the more we
00:35:39.920
know about who we are, what our background is, what we're up against, the more we can talk together,
00:35:44.540
we just win. And so I appreciate the opportunity, my friend, really, to talk with you again.
00:35:49.280
Well, I'm thrilled, as I said. And again, I'm just deeply grateful for your service to the people
00:35:56.880
of Utah and the nation. I want to start, too, by pointing out what committees you sit on and what
00:36:03.680
issues are critically important for the country. Congressman Burgess is on the Committee for
00:36:10.360
Education and Labor. As you know, both subjects near and dear to my heart, the Judiciary Committee,
00:36:15.920
the ranking member of the National Republican Congressional Committee, which is charged with
00:36:20.360
the responsibility of getting Republicans elected to Congress. And that's pretty important because next
00:36:26.360
year, it means regaining a majority in the House. We've got a lot to cover. I just want to say,
00:36:33.260
again, this coordinated effort to threaten and to intimidate the Biden administration and the
00:36:39.320
American people, whether it's China warning Biden not to play with fire, whether it's Russia amassing
00:36:45.280
troops on Ukraine's eastern border, whether it's the World Health Organization all but yelling fire
00:36:50.460
over the holidays, announcing a new China virus. I have no doubt, Congressman, that that's a coordinated
00:36:58.780
effort. And do you agree? Absolutely. You have to keep in mind, the biggest thing we can do is learn
00:37:05.680
our history, know what that's all about. And our history shows us that China and Russia have never
00:37:09.900
been really close friends. They do have a common enemy. And that common enemy now is the United States
00:37:16.280
America, a weakened one, one that they could not have done the things they're doing now just two
00:37:21.480
years ago, just a year ago. They understood we had a president that understood what bullies were all
00:37:28.340
about and how to deal with them. And unfortunately, now at a point where the president we have now in
00:37:34.120
administration is a polar opposite. So there's no question, we know that the enemy is out there.
00:37:42.120
I think the thing that I'd like to kind of point out, Lou, that, and this keeps me optimistic.
00:37:48.920
Again, I mentioned earlier, the most powerful three words in history may encounter, we the people.
00:37:53.080
And it's nothing more powerful than when Americans start talking and we start communicating together.
00:37:58.160
It's that harmony we have. It's those things that brings us together so we can find ourselves on the
00:38:02.280
same team. And it doesn't matter whether we're Democrats or Republicans or Independents. Right now,
00:38:06.340
we have so much to talk about that we're actually going through that it's going to strengthen us.
00:38:11.200
And I think as we, the people stand strong, as we're starting to see across the country,
00:38:16.140
so many different areas, we will begin to put in place the right people to stand strong against
00:38:22.220
the Biden administration and their lack of understanding of how to move this thing forward.
00:38:27.860
And we'll be a stronger voice for the American people as we move into 2022 and beyond.
00:38:32.560
Well, we have so many issues right now confronting the country. Even if we just turned a blind eye
00:38:41.340
toward China and Russia and the Middle East and just looked at what we have to deal with right now
00:38:47.640
within our borders, it's daunting to say the very least. We have an education system that is failing
00:38:56.460
millions of students. We have a judiciary that is not inspiring confidence that Lady Justice is blind at all.
00:39:09.040
But rather, those scales have a heavy hand of partisanship and ideology resting on one side or the other.
00:39:18.680
We have an economy that, while strong, is being attacked every day by Marxist leftists in this country
00:39:30.880
trying to upend this free enterprise, capitalist economy, and trying to rewrite history in such a way
00:39:40.380
as to dismiss our heritage and our values as a people. Your reaction?
00:39:48.560
Well, you know, what Karl Marx said back in the 1800s, and it is very true,
00:39:55.680
he said the first battleground rewriting of history, what the left, and you know, we're seeing words now,
00:40:02.540
Lou, that is pretty significant. I mean, we always talk about socialism.
00:40:05.620
We're now talking about Marxism. And to educate ourselves and to say those words,
00:40:11.420
people begin to wonder, say, well, what does that really mean? Because it's not being taught in our
00:40:15.040
school system. To know that Marxism is everything we stand against. It's anti-family, anti-God,
00:40:22.520
it's anti-business, everything we stand against. And we're finally having a conversation about what
00:40:26.580
that looks like, and people are seeing it. It's not hypothetical anymore. But it was Karl Marx to say
00:40:31.580
the first battleground rewriting of history, because what the Marxists know, the left knows,
00:40:36.340
and it's a fight we've been fighting for a long, long time. You steal American history. You steal
00:40:41.140
everything that makes us who we are. They steal the pride in our past, the appreciation for who we are
00:40:46.820
today, and any vision of what we can become, because our history tells us our possibilities,
00:40:52.880
our potential. And so that's what we're now fighting. And I guess the upside, this is why,
00:40:57.760
believe it or not, it's as crazy as things are right now. I've never been more optimistic than I am
00:41:02.940
today. Because what's happening, the American people are waking up. The CRT that's been going,
00:41:07.460
it's been, it's like little, there's been little termites, these elitists, these educators, that
00:41:12.120
they get into these safe spots. They get into these places where they can't get fired. They can attack
00:41:16.020
our youth without any consequences. And they just stay there for years and years as they change our
00:41:21.080
culture from within. Well, now we know about them. We're talking about CRT, parents. And this is,
00:41:27.080
you know, they can take away, they can take away their attack, our attempts to come together with
00:41:31.540
our flag, attack our attempts to come together with our sports. But what they can't do is they
00:41:36.960
can't attack parents and their love for their kids. And what's happening right now, parents are waking
00:41:41.220
up, realizing their kids, black, white, Spanish, it doesn't matter what the color is, are being taught
00:41:46.440
to be racist, are being taught to be either feel as an oppressor or a victim. And that is nothing
00:41:53.100
close to the American way. So I am, I'm very excited to see parents standing up. I'm very
00:41:58.200
excited to see what time, we're now our kids have a chance to experience inflation. You know,
00:42:02.100
keep in mind, Lou, you and I, we remember the Carter days. We remember back when we had to stand
00:42:07.560
in line to get a gas, to get gas, to fill our tanks. A lot of kids have no idea what inflation
00:42:12.260
is about until now. So the fact we're feeling these things, we're emotionally seeing the uptick in crime
00:42:18.320
and the fear that we're, we can't go out to a big city anymore, plan on having a good time and
00:42:22.800
vacation. All those things allows us to have this common, commonality of a conversation that this
00:42:30.620
is not what I signed up for. And so you're seeing it now with the left, they're losing in so many
00:42:35.080
different ways. And I think the desperation, they're going to try to, to put the pedal to the
00:42:38.640
metal because they know they're running out of time. And those students who didn't have an experience,
00:42:45.940
quote, unquote, runaway inflation, as it was often called, who are now, they're also still being
00:42:54.220
indoctrinated by the left. And it's striking to me that no one wants to take on the National
00:43:01.400
Education Association, the Federation of Teachers, because their marching orders are CRT, critical race
00:43:10.160
theory, to teach that white people are racist and the, and the, and the foundation of everything that
00:43:18.880
is flawed and imperfect in our society, to put it kindly. When, when we're unable to talk about
00:43:29.500
those two unions, they are the key drivers of this within the educational system. And with,
00:43:37.560
and within the workplace, corporate America has been the key driver through its HR departments
00:43:43.640
of critical race theory, of whether, and also EDI, any number of these fictions that are posing as
00:43:54.180
some sort of evolutionary insight into human nature, which they are the, obviously the opposite.
00:44:05.160
And here's the thing, Lou. First of all, we've been under attack for a long, long time.
00:44:10.300
You know, I know a lot of people are trying to figure out what, what this CRT thing is all about,
00:44:14.340
and why we can have kids that literally leave a community, make $50 million a year, can still
00:44:21.300
cannot stand for a flag. And now we're seeing why. This has been something that's been going on for a
00:44:26.180
long, long time. And, and the, the upside, very simply, we talk about how can we get a change.
00:44:32.220
We have a way, our country has a way of, of, of, of getting back on track. We don't, we don't do it
00:44:39.340
immediately. We have, we do it through a process of order. And in 2022, you can see the American people
00:44:45.120
in an orderly way, stand up against everything you just mentioned. They're going to stand up against
00:44:49.500
these coward and bullies, uh, uh, professors who, who, who, who, who, who keep these jobs for 30,
00:44:55.300
40 years. And all they have to do is sit there and just teach this, this mess. And they, and they,
00:44:59.260
they thrive. They're standing up against, uh, uh, a, a, a system in which the board is now coming
00:45:04.400
just wide open. We're now finally understanding what the left means when they say open borders,
00:45:08.720
as every single city around our country now can literally be a border town as we see uptick and,
00:45:14.260
and fentanyl and, and, and crime and everything else. Uh, so what, what I see,
00:45:19.500
happening, I know it's a very tough thing to go through, but we're waking up because of the
00:45:24.620
contrast that we all, all have a tendency of wanting to be free and, and have an opportunity
00:45:29.620
and we're not seeing the other side of it. Uh, and can, can I just bring this little, little quick,
00:45:33.780
little quick piece in there too, because we're, we're, we're celebrating, uh, this year, the 400th
00:45:38.300
anniversary of the Pilgrims landing, um, uh, in America. And, and this is something that has not been
00:45:44.940
talked about because not too much, uh, the, the, the left does not want to teach the power
00:45:50.220
of that process, the, the faith that it took, uh, these, these farmers to decide to just pull up
00:45:56.740
from, uh, uh, from where they were. They were in Holland, by the way, they weren't in England.
00:46:00.420
They, they could have stayed there, but they saw their future. They saw their kids, their future
00:46:04.500
is being changed and corrupted. So they took the chance. They took the faith to go to a place where
00:46:10.000
you can start anew and take their faith with them. And before getting off that ship, they penned
00:46:14.680
something called the Mayflower Compact. The first time that a, a, a society was designed, a, a, a,
00:46:20.640
a community was designed on rule of law. These are the things that the, if you understand that it's
00:46:25.880
not an accident that our country is as free as it is, because we start off with Judeo-Christian values
00:46:30.780
that have made us such a unique place that no, another place in the history of mankind. If we go back
00:46:36.420
to, to recognizing that that's where we began, that we can have the faith that we have, we are not at
00:46:42.240
the end of our, of our journey, that we still have a God in heaven who's going to bless us, even though
00:46:46.860
we have to go through tough times and sometimes wake up and see it, that's kind of how it works.
00:46:51.160
Contrast is important. And that country crossed the board. There's no one not impacted by the, the,
00:46:57.820
the remarkable failure of this administration. No one can say, I'm not touched, whether it be,
00:47:04.700
um, Afghanistan, you see, uh, Americans left behind, whether you have young people that's
00:47:11.300
being touched on every single ideology dying, but with these, this, the drugs come through to the
00:47:16.240
borders. So I I'm, I'm optimistic because I know that through these dark times, the light is coming
00:47:22.580
and it's going to be 2022. And American people can speak as collectively that we don't want
00:47:27.740
Marxism. We want freedom. And now we can start having conversations about what that looks like.
00:47:31.940
Right. Uh, I, I have to say, I've been talking about some of these issues, whether it's, uh,
00:47:39.460
uh, open borders, uh, illegal immigration, public education, uh, for 20 years at least. And what I
00:47:48.000
have seen instead of what I had hoped for, and I'm an optimist just like you, but I have seen the
00:47:55.080
democratic party shift farther and farther left. Uh, they are not only radical Dems. Now they have a
00:48:02.680
strong Marxist, uh, influence within the party. Uh, and that's clear as this administration
00:48:10.300
demonstrates almost daily, uh, in its conduct and in its statements. And also those it supports
00:48:18.080
what I am concerned about is a Republican party that has from 2012, you remember, uh,
00:48:26.080
Reince Priebus was a chair of the RNC. And he insisted that there be an autopsy after what
00:48:33.180
should have been a no brainer for the Republican party to have won with an economy in the state that
00:48:38.540
it was. And the low poll numbers, people forget this, uh, Barack Obama, but in point of fact,
00:48:44.800
the Republicans screwed it up to put it just as kindly as I can. And that autopsy revealed very
00:48:53.240
little, except it did engender promises from the succeeding chair of the RNC, uh, Ronald McDaniel,
00:49:01.020
that it wouldn't happen again, uh, in 2020, but there is no autopsy. There's been no examination of why
00:49:09.860
the Republicans lost and what happened. And it wasn't just mean tweets. I think you would agree.
00:49:16.660
And right now we have a Republican party and an RNC and you were on the, uh, on the Republican,
00:49:23.640
uh, campaign committee in the house. I don't understand why this leadership would remain the
00:49:29.960
same at the RNC after having lost an election makes no sense at all. I, and by the way,
00:49:36.040
Ronna McDaniel, I think is a dear person. Uh, she, she told me things about what was going to happen
00:49:42.940
in the 2020 election that didn't materialize at all, including the availability of, uh, ground troops
00:49:50.420
to be there, to represent the Republican party and in polling, uh, places all over the country,
00:49:56.260
uh, very, I mean, huge mistakes were made. I want to get your thought about it.
00:50:02.140
I'll tell you what, I guess we, I think the first thing I would say is, uh, when we look back on
00:50:08.920
2020 is a very disappointing, uh, where we did, we lost this Senate, we lost presidency,
00:50:13.860
but here's some of the inner work of the behind the scenes things that I see happening because
00:50:18.120
I'm part of it. I can understand. I think I have a good, I really feel of it. Uh, we did something
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that was miraculous. We flipped 15 seats, uh, and did not lose one incumbency. We did something that,
00:50:29.520
uh, that literally again, in the bigger screen of things have, we have, well, we haven't seen,
00:50:34.180
first of all, for, for decades and we have such a small margin. This is really what's coming out of
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the margin we now have because we, we were successful in flipping those seats and holding
00:50:43.020
on to the incumbency. There's only a five seat margin. And what that means very simply is that
00:50:48.900
we can literally see what the left wants to do. If they had the power, they are, they are,
00:50:52.900
they're, they're unashamed about it. They, they, they, in your face, they want to, uh,
00:50:57.060
they want to pack the court, the courts, they want to add another two states. They, all these
00:51:00.980
things, they want to federalize federal, uh, uh, election laws, but because it's so close
00:51:06.580
and because the, the moderates quote moderates, if there are such things want to stay around,
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they can't get so much done. So not only can we see what they're doing, but we have the power
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in the numbers that they can't get accomplished. So America has a chance to kind of understand,
00:51:22.260
uh, from their own, their own messaging, what their vision of America is. And, and, and I'll say
00:51:28.360
this, I think we're going to be adding on to what we have right now. Uh, Lou, I, I'm, um, I've had a
00:51:33.980
chance to talk to some of the, the, the, the new folks that are looking at, at running this time
00:51:38.240
around. We're going to continue to improve on our, on our, uh, uh, diversity. When I say diversity,
00:51:43.860
I mean it in this way. Diversity means in my sense, first of all, we all have this,
00:51:48.900
the, all of us, those of us came on, we have the same end game. We love our country. We have a
00:51:53.980
different culture. We have a different vantage point, but we all come to the same conclusion
00:51:57.460
that this is the greatest place in the history of mankind. And we're going to fight for it.
00:52:00.680
We're not ashamed of it. We're going to have more of that happening as we get into 2022,
00:52:04.660
more black Americans, more Hispanic Americans, more Asian Americans, more veterans that is coming
00:52:09.200
on board. And that's really what I think is, is, is the, the, the win of 2020. You see the Trump
00:52:16.720
effect of 2020 that we're not, we're not ashamed anymore of, of who we are.
00:52:22.200
Well, I would hope not. I mean, the very idea that anybody would be just makes me,
00:52:26.780
I'll tell you, that just makes me furious to think that somebody would be ashamed of being an American.
00:52:32.860
I'm ashamed of what I'm watching happen in this country. Uh, you know, you're talking about more
00:52:37.820
Republicans get elected. I'm not sure that's a good thing because I want to know who they are
00:52:42.500
and what they think and what they believe, because I hear one more Republican come up
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and turn into these whimpering, whispering Republican in name only. These rhinos are
00:52:54.000
killing the Republican party, Burgess. They're killing you. 13, 13 Republicans turn, turncoats
00:53:03.180
pushed through the Biden infrastructure bill. 13 of them. Your house minority leader,
00:53:09.500
Kevin McCarthy assured the American people, but that wouldn't happen. And we get lied to every,
00:53:17.420
not every time, but in every major issue, the Republicans disappoint. I am not one of those
00:53:24.120
people who goes around, you know, applauding when a Republican gets elected because it's important to
00:53:29.160
me who he or she is. And they had best be a Republican to their soul, you know, conservative.
00:53:37.440
And importantly, committed to public education and to prudent, uh, management. And the fact is,
00:53:46.540
how can there be freedom as Ronald Reagan, uh, put it, if we, if we don't have limited government,
00:53:53.300
we have a government that's exploding in size. Uh, you were talking about parents taking back their
00:53:59.240
schools. It's begun, but it hasn't happened. And I don't see the Republican party being an ally of
00:54:05.880
that effort right now because they're scared to death. Their leadership is scared to death
00:54:10.560
of, uh, of standing up for the principles that make this country great.
00:54:16.680
Yeah. Let me just, let me say from the inside, from what I'm seeing, because, uh, the, the downside
00:54:20.820
of, uh, of the elections, if you're in a minority is that there's a little bit you can really do, but,
00:54:25.600
but, but put the message out. Uh, I'll, I'll say this, uh, right now. And I've been in meetings
00:54:31.900
because again, I'm on the, the, uh, education and labor committee. I'm the ranking member,
00:54:35.460
uh, for, for pre-k through 12. And I know that education is our major, major thrust coming into
00:54:42.160
2022. We have task force that the leaders put together right now that so that when we come
00:54:46.760
together in 2022 and winning, we're not just talking anymore. We're actually pulling the
00:54:50.740
trigger and making things happen. And, and I tell you, I get it. First of all, I'm the guy that never
00:54:55.240
thought I'd be in this position. Never thought I'd be a politician, very frustrated by the promises
00:54:59.920
made by Republicans of old. What we did, and this is the, the shade of the shade of the, of,
00:55:05.100
of, of, of President Trump is that the people that came in the 15 that flipped seats. Now keep
00:55:11.120
in mind, some of them are in areas in which is, is they have to be, you know, it's, it's still kind
00:55:15.800
of purple. And I, I, what I respect are those who can navigate that process, still hold on to our
00:55:22.680
values, but navigate being in a position where if they, if they are, if, for instance, they speak as
00:55:28.280
bold as I do and a, plus a Republican 12 place, they will not survive. So, so we have to understand
00:55:36.260
what we have is two types of parties here. The, the, the, the Democratic left is, is controlled
00:55:42.120
by an iron hand, typical of Marxists and socialists. They have a leader who would, who will destroy
00:55:47.060
anybody who steps out of line. The other side, our side are pretty much entrepreneurs. We have a lot of,
00:55:52.440
a lot of different ways of thinking at it. We, we're very passionate the way we think, and we don't mind
00:55:56.460
bringing it to the plate. And it's almost like herding cats because we're not the party that's
00:56:00.380
going to be pushing and, and, and hitting people over the head and destroying lives. We're going
00:56:04.800
to push as hard as we can and then hope and give the message that the American people can put, give
00:56:10.640
more of us more, more Republicans like the 15 that came on board this last time. Yeah. I understand what
00:56:17.880
you're saying. I think, but, but what I, what I don't know is how the Republican party thinks it
00:56:26.360
can survive by tiptoeing through purple States and pretending to be something that the American
00:56:33.660
people don't want. We want a country that we're, we're the Republican party is still the party of
00:56:39.180
Trump, whether anyone likes it or not. Yeah. Yeah. We're still America first. We're still all about
00:56:45.260
standing up for this country. And we have leaders who frankly quake in their boots. I mean, Mitch
00:56:52.320
McConnell is a joke. Kevin McCarthy doesn't have the votes. We're told by so many members to even
00:57:00.220
think about being speaker of the house and the rhinos are dying around, around Capitol Hill. They are
00:57:09.460
because Republicans have had a belly full of them. We need to, you know, your committee on
00:57:15.060
education. If it doesn't have an answer for what to do with the national education association and
00:57:20.560
the federation of teachers, your committee hasn't done anything because those two unions are a huge
00:57:27.720
part of the problem. And if they don't do something about inspiring parents and citizens of their
00:57:34.740
communities to sit on those school boards, they're getting nothing done because that is where
00:57:40.500
the American dream resides in our public education system. You know, this, it is the great equalizer
00:57:47.220
in our society. And it's right now, it's a disaster for too many children. We're losing immense potential
00:57:54.320
for this country. It's not a shame. It's a sin. What's happening? Well, I'll say, I'll say this. First of all,
00:58:00.440
we have a time of reckoning and that's I think 2022. You're going to start to see where we really stand.
00:58:07.600
Keep in mind, Lou, and I know it's frustrating. And if I wasn't sitting in these meetings and
00:58:11.780
understanding what we're trying to get accomplished, I'd be just frustrated too. But we are in a
00:58:16.160
position that we, first of all, understand where our country, where our country wants to go. And
00:58:20.220
we're going to have in 2022, even a stronger bench coming off, folks coming off the bench to add into
00:58:26.800
this, into this love America, being not afraid to say who we are. That's what's coming on board.
00:58:34.740
And I'll say this. I know it's a little frustrating. I don't know if you heard the
00:58:39.640
filibus that Kevin did this last week. Remarkable. And I personally, I believe he sealed in
00:58:47.960
the leadership. And I know it's a little frustrating with folks, particularly when we're not in power.
00:58:55.540
But I tell you what, what I'm seeing personally with someone who's a very, very strong conservative,
00:58:59.480
who believes in running after bullies and hitting them as far as I can, being someone who really
00:59:06.220
appreciated with President Trump, how he approached this anti-American philosophy. I feel more confident
00:59:13.860
with what we have going on today and what we're bringing on. And then after 2022, let's see then,
00:59:20.240
let's see then if we've held up to the problems we're making. I believe we will.
00:59:24.060
Well, Congressman, I hate to say this, but we don't have time to wait and see. This has got to
00:59:31.140
happen and the people have got to see it happen. We've got to see what your committees and what your
00:59:36.440
caucuses do about education. And by the way, those steps have to be taken now. A year from now is too
00:59:45.280
late. And the fact is, I've got to say to you point blank, I think Kevin McCarthy is a very nice fellow.
00:59:51.980
He is not a man who's going to lead the Republican Party in the direction which it goes. And what I'm
00:59:58.160
going to beg you in all of your committee assignments and in the important role that you have,
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please don't let that committee put forward any more rhinos because that will kill the Republican
01:00:13.040
Party. And this nation can't afford to lose the Republican Party. Absolutely. Absolutely.
01:00:18.800
agree. I'll say this. The task force that we're putting together that I'm actually part of on
01:00:24.040
the education, for instance, we're going to be reporting to the people next, I think it's next
01:00:29.180
spring, so that we'll know exactly where we stand for, where we'll be standing, what we'll be
01:00:35.200
actually fighting for. Just like Newt Greenwich did back in the day, we're going to have that type
01:00:40.680
of commitment so that American people can understand what the Republicans will be standing
01:00:44.420
for. And I don't think we're going to disappoint at all. I really think we're going to step forward
01:00:50.380
and be able to pull triggers in 2022 instead of just talking to that point about what we should
01:00:56.540
Burgess, I can't tell you how happy I am to have you in those meetings and on those committees
01:01:01.160
and on the task of turning this country around. It's been great talking with you. I hope you'll
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come back soon. And I wish you all of the best of luck as you take on so many challenges and
01:01:15.820
threats that face the nation. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you, Lou. And thanks for your
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platform, my friend. It's imperative. Let's keep it going. Appreciate your voice. I really do. Thank you
01:01:24.280
so much. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it, Congressman. Congressman Burgess Owens, a great American,
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a great man. Join us again tomorrow for the Great America podcast. Stay in the fight. Truth,
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justice, and the American way will prevail against all enemies, against all odds.