The Great America Show - DEMOCRATS CAN'T RECOVER FROM BIDEN'S BOTCHED FIRST YEAR

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

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

00:00:09.220 And now, here he is, the Peabody award-winning voice of truth, the great Lou Dobbs.

00:00:14.520 Hello, everybody. It's wonderful to have you with us on the Great America Show.

00:00:19.680 Today, we'll be asking some very important questions that no one in the Biden administration

00:00:24.340 is answering. No one anywhere seems to be answering these questions. No one that is,

00:00:29.820 except for one poor, lonely doctor in South Africa. We'll get to her a little later.

00:00:36.140 You'll find her fascinating. So let's talk first about the questions that our public health

00:00:41.420 bureaucrats aren't answering. Let's ask ourselves today, why are the World Health Organization,

00:00:48.880 some U.S. public health officials, and of course, radical Democrat politicians running around like

00:00:54.540 their hair is on fire, screaming, Omicron, Omicron, Omicron. What is Omicron, you ask? Well, don't be

00:01:03.020 embarrassed to ask, even though the national leftist media acts like you and I and every American should

00:01:09.100 know that Omicron is the 15th letter in the Greek alphabet. And everyone who works at NPR knows the

00:01:16.960 entire Greek alphabet, of course. Want to have a little fun with a smart-alecky NPR, folks? Quick,

00:01:23.980 NPR. Name the 15th letter of the English alphabet. Gotcha. It's O, dummies. O. Take that. A blow for

00:01:35.420 patriots everywhere. But wait a minute. Let's examine this 15th letter of the Greek alphabet,

00:01:42.000 Omicron. You can't fool us. That's not a letter. That's a three-syllable word, Omicron. And it sounds

00:01:50.440 like a guy who played wide receiver for the Detroit Lions. Wait, that was Megatron. So why is the World

00:01:58.420 Health Organization using the Greek alphabet to label variants of the China virus? They say to make 1.00

00:02:04.960 it easier for all the world to understand. Got that? China virus, Greek alphabet. Makes sense, doesn't it?

00:02:13.920 Greek isn't an international language like English or Arabic. There are only 13.5 million people who

00:02:20.420 speak Greek in two Greek-speaking countries, Greece and Cyprus. So the WHO picks Greek for better

00:02:29.800 understanding. When there are just under 8 billion people living on this planet, and most of us speak

00:02:37.260 what language? The answer is English. So it makes what kind of sense that the WHO would choose Greek

00:02:46.000 to make themselves better understood around the world? And the WHO calls the China virus COVID-19

00:02:54.380 because they don't want to stigmatize China. But we'll name all the variants of the China virus

00:03:01.500 with the letters of the Greek alphabet. Talk about tortured political correctness. And then the World

00:03:09.460 Health Organization skipped two letters in the Greek alphabet, new. That's N-U because it sounds too much

00:03:16.580 like an English word, new, N-E-W. Unbelievable. And then they skipped Xi, X-I, because it's a common surname,

00:03:27.540 they say. The fact is they skipped Xi because it's a very common surname for absolute dictator of the

00:03:36.160 world's largest communist totalitarian country, known commonly as China. Or perhaps the WHO acted

00:03:44.660 misogynistically, choosing to skip Xi, ignoring the only feminine pronoun in the English language.

00:03:52.980 And I should point out to those wondering where the word alphabet originated, it is the combination

00:03:58.680 of two words, alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, of which we now know there are

00:04:07.040 24 letters or words in all. Remember that South African doctor I mentioned at the top of the show

00:04:15.360 who actually knows quite a bit about the China virus, COVID-19 virus, if you will, variant. That variant

00:04:23.380 is now known as Omicron. She's the doctor who actually has answered questions while the rest of the world's

00:04:29.880 public health officials seem determined to scare the public, even though they know almost nothing about

00:04:35.960 the Omicron variant. The doctor is Angelique Coetzee. She's the chair of the South African Medical

00:04:44.180 Association. She's personally treated patients infected with Omicron, and she describes her patients

00:04:51.340 this way. She says none of her patients, most in their 40s, and about half of them vaccinated,

00:04:58.820 have required hospitalization. None of them. And Dr. Coetzee says their symptoms are very,

00:05:05.760 very mild. I'll repeat, very, very mild. Quite a contrast to the melodramatic and unprofessional

00:05:14.340 alarms being raised by Dr. Fauci, who is obviously now overwrought with the burdens of ego and partisan

00:05:23.780 celebrity. Joining us today on the Great America show is a great American, one of America's most popular

00:05:32.100 broadcasters. He's watched and listened to by tens of millions of Americans each day on radio, television,

00:05:40.480 his website, his podcast, and on social media. Listen to him on 710 WOR Radio in New York, nationally on

00:05:50.180 iHeart Radio, and here with us today, our good friend, Mark Simone. Mark, let me begin with the

00:05:58.060 extraordinary catalog of failures that now make up the Biden administration in less than a year

00:06:04.440 in office. Your thoughts?

00:06:07.520 How long is this show? I don't know if we have enough time.

00:06:10.200 We'll make time for you. Guaranteed.

00:06:13.360 It's going to be like a telethon. Well, first of all,

00:06:16.900 Joe Biden will be, this will be taught in business schools for decades. He is the worst 0.94

00:06:22.960 personnel director in the history of the world. You know, whenever you have a bad president,

00:06:27.840 like a Jimmy Carter, you look at that cabinet, and there were some very prestigious names and some

00:06:32.600 old Washington hands that were pretty good. But you look at this administration, everybody in the

00:06:38.100 cabinet is a total incompetent. This Jennifer Granholm asked about high energy, but just giggling, 0.62

00:06:44.020 laughing. Kamala Harris, I think we, I don't even need to explain that that's how bad she is. 1.00

00:06:48.620 Worst vice president ever. This Buttigieg is making a photo op, a little promotional video

00:06:55.120 of him visiting a store while the whole supply chain is clogged up. If it were you, if it were

00:07:00.120 Donald Trump, you'd be in California on the dock right now, screaming at everybody, getting this

00:07:04.440 unclogged. He's not doing a thing. I think we can agree to Lloyd Austin. Waging a war is a major

00:07:11.520 task, but just leaving, just moving out, that's a pretty simple one. Just pick up the weapons and go.

00:07:17.380 He bungled that up. Even the supply chain, this is not like landing on the moon. It's just taking

00:07:23.920 crates off a ship. How hard is this to figure out? You know, it looks pretty bad. We couldn't win a

00:07:28.760 war for 21 years and, uh, in Afghanistan, and then we couldn't even win the retreat and surrender.

00:07:35.880 Uh, I mean, that that's pretty bad, isn't it? Well, I could see the difficulty of asymmetrical

00:07:42.160 warfare in Afghanistan and how difficult it was to fight the Taliban. But, uh, so maybe give those

00:07:48.660 generals a little leeway, but you couldn't figure out how to leave. And I'm not a, I'm not a war

00:07:53.260 expert. I'm not a general, but the first thing I'm thinking, I would have the civilians leave first, 0.99

00:07:58.180 then the military. I wouldn't have the military leave and then figure out how to rescue these

00:08:02.280 civilians. Uh, and then it turns out we left quite a bit of our military there as well. And, uh, and it

00:08:10.600 just goes on from there. And, and there's greater irony here. It seems too, in that, uh, the geniuses

00:08:17.280 in particular, general David Petraeus who wrote the long war doctrine that, uh, so many of our military

00:08:23.940 who couldn't win that war in 21 years, uh, followed, you know, so you've got the long war,

00:08:30.480 uh, and then the new doctrine is for surrender. It's a quick surrender. Uh, just get out before

00:08:35.660 anybody realizes who won. Apparently it was the view. Uh, it's awful. And this administration has

00:08:43.020 a 38%, 36% of the most recent Quinnipiac poll, uh, approval rating. I mean, this president is a

00:08:52.820 disaster and his, his vice president, uh, a bigger disaster. So they're not leaving us, uh, much, uh, 0.78

00:09:01.200 here to, to applaud, are they? Well, Joe Biden will get credit for one thing. You know, Obama,

00:09:07.040 it was steady. He didn't want anybody to overshadow him. He didn't, he wanted a really bad vice

00:09:11.200 president. So he picked Biden knowing that's insurance against any type of impeachment. Now,

00:09:16.180 when Biden takes over, he wants to do the same thing. How does he find somebody worse than him?

00:09:20.240 That is a real challenge. And he came through, he found somebody even more competent than him.

00:09:26.580 So I think, I think the country, I think the country may mark be even more afraid, uh, of Kamala

00:09:34.340 Harris than they were Joe Biden. But with, with, with the package, the Biden Harris package,

00:09:40.420 uh, it's a truly troubling moment in history, isn't it? Yeah. And so the scariest part of this,

00:09:46.440 I always assumed from the beginning, somebody was secretly running this, that Biden was the

00:09:51.140 puppet. Maybe Obama was the puppet master, maybe some George Soros type, somebody, or maybe a

00:09:56.480 committee of these George Soros types. Now we're starting to realize there's nobody running this.

00:10:01.440 There's no mastermind of any kind. Uh, there's nobody that knows what they're doing. So you'd have

00:10:06.400 to figure out first how to get rid of Kamala Harris. Uh, I don't know what you could offer her to step 1.00

00:10:11.680 down. Uh, the only time I remember this was Spiro Agnew, but he got caught in a crime,

00:10:15.980 easy to get him out. They're going to have to get Kamala Harris out and put somebody competent in 1.00

00:10:19.920 there. I know Democrats are in total fear of going into 2024 with Kamala Harris as their candidate. So,

00:10:26.120 um, and again, the weak bench, the totally incompetent cabinet, there's no obvious replacement.

00:10:31.760 So I don't know what you would do here.

00:10:33.540 And now we have with us a new variant of the COVID-19 virus. Uh, and I swear they've come up

00:10:45.480 with a name Omicron, uh, the 15th letter in the alphabet to describe this variant. And they don't

00:10:54.100 know anything about it, but already the governor of New York has declared an emergency for a variant

00:10:59.560 that we don't even know what will be the effect of vaccines, uh, or whether it'll be even necessary.

00:11:07.500 Yeah. You know, Democrats always go too far, get too nuts at this time. It's unbelievable. You know,

00:11:12.760 everywhere I'm in New York city right now, everybody's terrified to take the subway. You'll

00:11:15.700 get stabbed, pushed, shot, you get robbed. You get, and she's declared an emergency over a virus

00:11:20.060 that might be here in 10 weeks. Uh, I mean, where was the emergency over this crime wave where we had

00:11:25.560 riots all over New York and, you know, we have no media operating in this country right now,

00:11:30.020 except for you. We have no media. We've had more virus deaths this year under Biden than we had

00:11:35.480 under Trump. And that's with the vaccine. So when Joe Biden told us way back when I have a plan,

00:11:41.660 I haven't seen it yet. Have you? Yeah, no, I, I really have not. Uh, and, you know, but I have

00:11:48.960 seen Biden on display, uh, you know, last year, uh, he went after, uh, uh, president Trump in 2020

00:11:57.520 for the travel ban saying that, uh, you know, it was racist and xenophobic. Uh, he declares the same

00:12:03.360 thing, shutting down South Africa and six other nations to inbound, uh, us, uh, traffic. Uh, and it's,

00:12:11.100 it's just being reasonable and following the science. I mean, the man is, there just is no word to

00:12:17.500 describe the level of hypocrisy that he rises to, uh, at the drop of a hat. Yeah. Again, 0.87

00:12:25.540 taking crates off a ship. That's pretty simple. Leaving Afghanistan, pretty simple. And look at 0.94

00:12:30.600 this problem. He decides he'll shut down some borders 7,000 miles away in some little countries

00:12:36.040 while leaving our entire Southern border wide open. What is the logic of that? That's like closing

00:12:42.500 the upstairs window and leaving all the doors open. It makes absolutely no sense at all.

00:12:47.500 Absolutely. And, and to think that they estimate a number of illegal immigrants by the time the

00:12:54.220 president has been in office for his first year, uh, of his term, uh, it will be 2 million illegal

00:13:01.560 immigrants who will not have been, uh, tested, uh, for the virus or any other disease. They will not 0.97

00:13:09.100 have, uh, any vetting, but they will be, and are being welcomed into our country and shipped off, 0.95

00:13:16.140 uh, to the, uh, uh, uh, inner America, uh, in the dead of night flown everywhere. It's it. You just

00:13:24.160 can't make it up. Well, you know, you're the media expert. I don't know where this all goes to not

00:13:30.900 have, this is how you kill a democracy, not have a real working media. These secret flights are

00:13:36.200 dropping off, uh, immigrants at Westchester County airport here near, near New York and airports all

00:13:41.220 around the country. That airport is closed from midnight to six. So these flights are landing at

00:13:45.460 3am and a closed airport landing. Where's the media? Can you imagine if Donald Trump drove one

00:13:51.360 person in a car? Uh, it would be front page news for weeks. This is thousands and thousands by plane

00:13:56.540 and no coverage. How do we survive this? Yeah, I, I really don't know the answer to that,

00:14:01.880 but, uh, but I do thank you for making me an expert on the media. Uh, I, I, I, I seem to have

00:14:08.400 just conformed to, you know, the usual status of most, most experts. I don't know enough.

00:14:14.100 You've started networks. You worked with Ted Turner. Can you imagine if you said to Ted Turner,

00:14:17.780 let's not cover half the news. In fact, if, uh, this guy gets an office, let's not cover or anything.

00:14:22.000 What would he have said? Yeah. It's really quite a different era because in those days we were scrambling

00:14:28.020 to cover everything that happened, uh, no matter sometimes, uh, how pedestrian, uh, it, it, it got

00:14:35.420 our attention because we had 24 hours for the first time in history to, uh, you know, to cover, uh, the

00:14:42.340 news. Uh, and it was a beast that had a, it took a lot of feeding, uh, uh, uh, these days, it doesn't

00:14:48.380 seem to matter, uh, to the, to the New York times or the Washington post that so much escapes their

00:14:55.820 attention. But one of the things that's escaping their attention right now is the Omicron virus,

00:15:01.660 as it's called. And no one knows anything about this. And already you've got Dr. Fauci, uh, Lord

00:15:10.120 Fauci, uh, out on the Sunday talk show host saying that we'll do whatever it takes to stop this

00:15:16.180 variant. Meanwhile, we are hearing from South Africa that the symptoms so far have been very,

00:15:23.300 very mild and that the principal symptom is, uh, uh, fatigue, extreme fatigue for two days.

00:15:30.820 This does not sound like the stuff, uh, for which, uh, you know, Lord Fauci should have his hair on

00:15:36.740 fire. Uh, no, but, uh, any excuse to get on television, we've never seen anything like this.

00:15:42.860 He's, uh, uh, you know, he calls all the anchors. I know he talks to Lester Holt. He calls these people

00:15:49.560 and George Stephanopoulos, he butters them up all day. And that's why they call him the nation's

00:15:54.140 leading infectious disease expert, which he hardly is. If you went to Weill Cornell or Johns Hopkins,

00:16:00.020 or that's where you're going to find our best infectious disease experts, not this, uh, this

00:16:04.960 guy, this government bureaucrat, he's been there 40, 50 years. He is basically J Edgar Hoover with a

00:16:09.900 stethoscope. That's all he is. That's a well said that is well said. Uh, and, uh, you're not suggesting

00:16:17.480 that he has files on all those people that, that you mentioned, are you? Uh, I I'm suggesting that

00:16:23.620 he just, he does the opposite of Hoover. He just butters up these people and Pete Buttigieg looks at

00:16:29.400 him and says, I could do that too. I could just spend all day trying to get on every talk show I

00:16:33.320 can get on and not do any work outside of that. Well, and I love the fact that the man has two

00:16:38.760 answers for every question. Uh, and I don't know if any of them are correct, but he's always got,

00:16:44.380 uh, contradictory answers to, uh, to provide. And I, I don't know why no one holds him to account.

00:16:51.860 He was against, uh, international travel bans. Then he was for it. He was against masks. Then he

00:16:58.020 was for it. And now he won't let you take your mask off. Uh, and really would like everyone to,

00:17:03.880 you know, I, he's just short of, uh, wanting everyone to have a file at the FBI. Uh, who knows,

00:17:10.760 maybe we do. Uh, the FBI is going in strange directions as well. Uh, and the, and the holiday

00:17:17.420 is going in strange directions as well, Mark, the salvation army, not all now only, they not only

00:17:25.000 want your money, uh, and to make a generous donation, but they're also asking white people

00:17:31.300 to apologize for being white. Have you, I mean, you can't, the saying is you can't make it up, 0.99

00:17:38.960 but please tell me somebody just made this up. Well, this is a very sorry story because if you

00:17:45.300 look, uh, you know, all, we all want to donate clothes or donate money or there was no finer

00:17:49.880 charity for years than the salvation army, as far as where the money went in the most awful spots in

00:17:54.600 the world. They were the first in last out. I love the salvation army. I've raised a lot of money for,

00:17:59.080 I am stunned, stunned at this. They're the last people I would expect to get involved in this.

00:18:05.820 I could see a major corporation that were worried about sales or boycotts or, but they don't have

00:18:10.440 to, I don't know what the reason was for this. And, and to, there's nothing more racist than

00:18:15.440 attacking a whole race. And these companies, this, uh, going after white people, this is a rejection of

00:18:22.980 everything Martin Luther King fought for, which was don't judge anybody by the color of their skin,

00:18:28.740 just go by their character. And I would imagine people that are donating and working

00:18:33.600 for the salvation army to raise money or give donate. I, I would assume they're people of very

00:18:39.020 fine character. Why would you call them racist? And again, where's the media on this? It's their

00:18:44.020 fault. Yeah. Well, the media is as usual, uh, behind much of the, uh, the atrocity that, uh,

00:18:52.380 was once journalism, uh, and we should point out the salvation army as zero hedge put it,

00:18:59.580 uh, Tyler Durden wrote that, uh, salvation unwrung that bill, uh, no longer, uh, apparently willing to

00:19:07.400 stand up to the backlash they face, uh, and demand that white people apologize for their racism.

00:19:14.400 Uh, we have reached a point where the salvation army is destroying, uh, that charity that has been

00:19:21.860 around here for centuries and, and, and to think what they've just done to people who need it,

00:19:27.500 because there will be people so angry with the salvation army that they will never give them a

00:19:32.380 dime. Uh, there won't be much ringing of bells, uh, is my guess, uh, this Christmas, uh, because of the

00:19:39.900 salvation armies, uh, arrogance, uh, and it's just utter racist nonsense. I mean, it's racist what 0.89

00:19:48.820 they did, as you said. Yeah. And this to me was the greatest violation, Joe Biden, uh, of his mandate.

00:19:55.700 You know, he always talks about this mandate, what got him elected. If you go back and watch that

00:19:59.480 campaign, he kept promising to heal us, to not be a divider, to bring us together. As soon as he's

00:20:05.640 elected, everybody's a white supremacist. If you, I haven't heard that word white supremacist in

00:20:10.360 decades, uh, there was one media organization, you know, they decided let's interview some white 0.77

00:20:15.980 supremacists. They couldn't find any, they didn't know where to look. How would you find one? If

00:20:20.900 you, you know, the police commissioner of New York was on a show to talk about these attacks on Asians

00:20:25.480 and the host said, are these white supremacists? And he was very thoughtful. He said, let me, I'm going

00:20:30.420 to look into this. I'll report back to you tomorrow. And he sent them his report. He said,

00:20:33.780 none of the attackers were even white. And he said, our department has not encountered a white

00:20:39.340 supremacist in years. We don't know of any. So, uh, let me ask you a serious question. Have you

00:20:46.440 ever met a white supremacist? No, I would. If you said, let's interview one, I would know how to find

00:20:53.660 one. I assume that somewhere in some mountains, somewhere with a couple of white supremacists,

00:20:59.180 I guess if you went into some prison somewhere, there might be a group calling themselves outside of

00:21:03.240 that. Uh, there are no white supremacists. I have something of a, I've never met one. And, uh,

00:21:11.460 and I, in my, to my knowledge, I've never even been in, and I've covered prisons. I've covered the

00:21:17.880 border. Uh, to my knowledge, I have never, uh, even heard about such a group. Uh, at least, you know,

00:21:26.400 I'm talking about in the real world. Uh, we hear from the Southern poverty law center all the time about

00:21:31.700 the supremacist, uh, white supremacist group. Uh, but they usually have a, uh, whatever group

00:21:38.700 they're talking about usually has a membership of something like a dozen, uh, which is usually in

00:21:44.300 a prison, as you say, or somewhere, I don't know. It's just madness. And to see it gobbled up and,

00:21:50.320 and loved, lapped up by the national left-wing media is just ridiculous, which is, you know, 0.94

00:21:57.900 the media itself is becoming more ridiculous by the day. They don't cover important things like 0.85

00:22:03.760 how dangerous is the Omicron virus and why aren't we getting some sort of information about it,

00:22:10.680 uh, that is scientific. And why do we have officials like Fauci walking, uh, walking into a studio and

00:22:18.320 declaring himself to be science? He is the personification of science says he, as I said,

00:22:24.620 he's, he's been wrong 50% of the time that he says something and you never know which 50% he's on.

00:22:32.300 It's, it's just, uh, uh, amazing what the media is doing and what they're permitting and what

00:22:37.920 they're fostering. Uh, it's, it's just on to me, inexplicable. Yeah. This, uh, racism, white

00:22:44.960 supremacist, this all goes back to one thing. The Democrats, they vote charts and graphs of what they

00:22:49.800 have to win to win a presidency. And it's a certain percentage of the black vote, something like

00:22:54.200 89% or they can't win. And Donald Trump's scared the hell out of them. Cause he did very well in

00:23:00.240 African-American voters really well enough to change the whole result of the election. So that's 0.98

00:23:05.820 why they had to target this group to get them back. And they always pander, but in this case,

00:23:11.720 they just went crazy with the racism and the white supremacy. I found this great video. It's Malcolm X, 0.96

00:23:17.000 the great civil rights leader from the 1960s. And he warned African-Americans don't fall for Democrats.

00:23:24.200 A pandering. They'll tell you everything you want to hear. They don't mean it. They won't deliver.

00:23:28.500 Don't be fooled by Democrats. It's all just talk with them. Yeah. Well, I wish that I wish that they

00:23:36.700 were more just talk. Now they are, it seems engaged in, uh, destroying this, this great country's values,

00:23:44.860 turning us over to, to the enthusiastic, uh, Marxists who hate the country, but would love to run it,

00:23:52.860 you know, figure that one out. Uh, they think the rest of us should just go along with, uh, uh,

00:23:58.980 with everything. Now I want to turn to just where we're headed with the, the election of 2022,

00:24:06.320 uh, and, uh, uh, president Trump, who seems to have a dominant, uh, first position and influence over the

00:24:14.320 Republican party. The reality is this is still the party of Trump. Is it not the GOP?

00:24:22.180 Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. You know, uh, the other name here is Rhonda Santis, but, uh, really it was

00:24:27.940 Donald Trump to kind of put him on the map. Uh, but, uh, what we're seeing now is total incompetence.

00:24:34.680 Can't, can't even unload ships, can't even pull the weapons out of when they leave in Afghanistan.

00:24:39.000 And then we compare that to Donald Trump who, whatever you liked or didn't like, he was a hell

00:24:43.220 of a manager. He was an efficiency expert. Uh, you know, when you build a hundred story skyscrapers

00:24:48.700 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 0.97

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 0.99

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. 1.00

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, 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.89

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.

00:44:02.340 But they are just propaganda.

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, 0.92

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, 0.99

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

00:50:22.860 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

00:50:39.120 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,

00:51:11.500 they can't get so much done. So not only can we see what they're doing, but we have the power

00:51:17.200 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

00:52:47.260 and turn into these whimpering, whispering Republican in name only. These rhinos are 1.00

00:52:54.000 killing the Republican party, Burgess. They're killing you. 13, 13 Republicans turn, turncoats 1.00

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 0.76

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,

01:00:04.620 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

01:00:54.660 be doing next.

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

01:01:07.900 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

01:01:19.060 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,

01:01:29.900 a great man. Join us again tomorrow for the Great America podcast. Stay in the fight. Truth,

01:01:36.360 justice, and the American way will prevail against all enemies, against all odds.

The Great America Show - December 02, 2021

DEMOCRATS CAN'T RECOVER FROM BIDEN'S BOTCHED FIRST YEAR

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