GOP SHUTTING DOWN MARXIST DEMOCRATS
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Former Navy SEAL and Great American Rep. Eli Crane (R-VA) joins Lou Dobbs on the Great America Show to talk about his new role as House Speaker and what he plans to do to hold everyone in Congress accountable.
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Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Great America Show. I'm Lou Dobbs, and thanks for
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being with us. More whistleblowers coming forward to assert that the FBI is targeting agents whose
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political beliefs don't align with the FBI leadership. The Washington Times reports the
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agency leaders are going after, in particular, former Marines and other veterans because they
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fit the profile of supporters of President Donald Trump. The two highly placed agents, Jeffrey Valtry
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and Dana Perkins, are accused of stripping agents of their security clearances. The two retaliated against
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veterans by declaring they were, quote, disloyal to the United States. The whistleblowers giving their
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evidence to the House Judiciary Committee and their revelation just a day after House Speaker
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Michael Johnson said the investigating committees don't at this moment have sufficient evidence to
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impeach President Biden, which obviously is a setback to the investigating committees, who, in my view,
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have more than enough evidence to bring charges of corruption and bribery against President Biden.
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Our guest today is Congressman Eli Crane, former Navy SEAL, Great American, and he says the time has come
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to hold everyone in Congress accountable, including Republicans. Congressman, great to have you back
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with us. Always good to talk with you. Let's begin with your impressions of your new speaker, Mike Johnson.
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How's he doing in these early days? Well, I think he's doing pretty good, Lou, and thanks for having me
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on your show. I think he's doing pretty good considering what he's up against. I mean, you know, he is, he did come
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into a job that I don't think he really wanted with a financial clock that was ticking, and he's got to
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work with a bunch of different factions in the Republican Party, just as the speaker did before him.
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I think the difference that you're going to see, I think you're going to see a speaker that's
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less transactional and more conservative. So what my hope is, and I'm trying to be realistic about this,
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I do think you're going to see a couple degrees shift in how this conference proceeds going forward,
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and I think it's going to be good for the conference, and I do think it's going to be
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good for the American people. You know, I have to say, the beginning that you guys have set here
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under his speakership, I mean, you're passing bills, you're working late. It's really, I think,
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remarkable. And I understand there's just a very good chance that you'll have all of the
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appropriations bills, separate bills, in by the time we get to November 17th.
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Yeah, you know, and I often, I talk to some of my colleagues that have more experience have been
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up here for a lot longer than I have, and they'll tell me, Lou, that they've never seen anything like
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this happen up here before, where we're actually doing the appropriations bills. They tell me that
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oftentimes, well, almost all the time, the way it works up here in Washington is we govern by CR,
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continuing resolution, or omnibus, which just basically funds the government with an up or down
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vote. And we've passed many of the appropriations bills. We're still working through the rest of them.
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But when I jump up to the 30,000-foot view, Lou, what this is really about to me is this is about
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the only way this town is going to change is through force. I think Republicans, we've done a
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really poor job at continuing to kick the can down the road and try, you know, act like we're going to
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fight, oh, you know, once we get the Senate or once we get the presidency back, you know, that,
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in my opinion, sir, those days have got to be over. The American people can't afford it anymore.
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They can't afford the weakness of the Republican Party, you know, not standing up today and fighting
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for them. And, you know, that's what the speaker fight was about back in January. That's what the
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motion to vacate was about a couple of weeks ago. And, you know, I'm just trying to represent my voters
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who I feel the same way. I think many of the people that listen to your show feel that you guys can't
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quit kicking, kicking this can down the road. You have to, you have to fight for us. You have to
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stand up and fight for us today. And, you know, it's like, Lou, when you get in a fight, there's
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never a guarantee. There's never a guarantee that things are going to go the way you want them to
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go. But when you look at the situation that we're in with $33 trillion in debt, a $2 trillion annual
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deficit, a wide open Southern border, I mean, Lou, I think we've had 13,000 illegals come through,
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you know, you know, Arizona in the last couple of days. And there's, you know, over 250 people on
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the terrorist watch list in the last two years. If you go back and look at the Trump years, sir,
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that those numbers were always single digits. I went to a briefing, a classified briefing last week.
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And the stuff that I was reading about in that skiff under the Capitol would really concern a lot of
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Americans about just who's in this country and, you know, and what, what their intentions might be.
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And so it's like, we're playing with fire and this idea that we can keep doing things the way we've been
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doing them. Sometimes I just, you know, I can't even believe some of my colleagues that just think
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it's business is normal up here. It's not, and it can't be. So many Americans, I think, also believe
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it's business as usual, despite dealing with runaway inflation, despite all of the, the issues
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with the economy, despite 10 million illegal immigrants being brought into this country by
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this administration, just since they took office, not even three years ago, we're talking over 10
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million people. And that is, as you well know, that's an extraordinary burden, not only on a
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border state, but as the cliche goes, every state now is a border state because Joe Biden is distributing
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them in charter aircraft and charter buses all over the country in the dead of night. We don't even know
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where they are or who they are or what they're doing for that matter.
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No, you're absolutely correct, Lou. And I get asked a lot of times by reporters if, you know,
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I think, you know, it's going to lead to, you know, any disasters here in the U S like maybe another
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nine 11 and I hate to report, but yes, it will. It's not a matter of if it's only a matter of when
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and that's how foolish we've been. You know, we can hope and pray for the best, but if you play stupid
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games for a long enough period of time, you're going to win stupid prizes. And that's, that's what we see
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going on with this administration. I mean, just look at Israel, look at what just happened in
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Israel that we, there are plenty of evil people around the world that want to do harm to people
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that, you know, just want to live their lives and be free. And if you look at the border of Israel,
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I think it's like 25 miles long. Our border is 2000 miles long. And you know, it's, it's pretty
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and Lou, when I, when I talk about this type of stuff, that doesn't even consider the, the, you know,
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the 90,000 people that are dying annually of fentanyl, right. It's just, it's, it's almost
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like, you know, we, we live in a clown world where nothing makes sense. And there's this little
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bubble around this town and the people in it. Um, and you know, it's, it's almost like, uh,
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there's such a detachment from reality and, and from the lives that people have to lead lead because
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of the foolish mistakes and policy made in this town, um, that sometimes it's, you feel like
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you're living in la la land when you're up here. It must be extraordinary. Just, just going,
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walking through the swamp is enough for me, uh, to walk through and see what is happening sometimes
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in Congress and the Senate, uh, and to, to report on it, uh, every day as we do here, I have to tell
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you, I, it is, it is reached a level that I could never have imagined possible. Uh, there is no
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pretense now on, on the part of the Marxist Dems. They mean to take over the country. They've taken
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over the federal government, every agency, uh, and we're going to talk more about that. And I'd like
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to get your thoughts about how do we get the discussion to real terms? How do we talk about
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basic reality here to the American people? Because right now, uh, not many people outside the
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Republican party are doing that. And I am talking about president Biden and the Marxist Dems. We'll
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be right back with Congressman Eli Crane. Stay with us. We're back with Congressman Eli Crane and
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Congressman, you were talking about the fight. And for the first time, I get the sense that you have
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a speaker that who is a fighter, uh, on a, in a different level. I don't know if he's ever been
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punched in the nose, but I do know that he seems to have the right instincts, but I do know the rest
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of us have been punched in the, in the nose. So we're, we know what we're into. And the, and the fact
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is, uh, we have got a bunch of people talking, uh, stuff, uh, that I don't think they mean. And they're
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talking stuff that, uh, they don't comprehend it. I'm talking about Joe Biden. He talks about taking the
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president out and whipping his butt in the back alley or behind the gym or whatever. Uh, I don't
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think the man ever got hit in the nose or he wouldn't talk like that. Uh, you, you've got a
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whole administration of people, Alejandro Mayorkas, he doesn't, uh, secure the border, but he'll lie
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straight to your face. Uh, I don't know what we've got here, but we've got to fix it. So there are
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consequences when, when men and women lie to each other, like the Marxist Dems are lying to the
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American people and they do it every day. Yeah, no, you're right. We do have to hold people
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accountable. And you were talking about realism before the break. And, you know, this is one of
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the things that, um, is hard to learn when you come up here, but the situation, um, is so bad up
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here that, you know, sometimes the best you can get is a, you know, turning the ship a couple degrees
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at a time. Um, but that's one thing that I hope the American people, uh, notice, um, in this
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Congress, um, you know, this is the first time a speaker's ever been, uh, fired and we brought in
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a new one. And the reason we did was because Kevin McCarthy made a deal with, uh, members, um, of the
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House Freedom Caucus and other members that he didn't, he didn't follow through with. And so, um,
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and it wasn't just a deal so that one of us could get a bigger office or that one of us could be on a
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committee. It was a deal that would have allowed us to do our appropriations bills at a, at a level that
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would have saved the American people money. That's what this is. That's what that was about.
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So it wasn't a, it wasn't a selfish, you know, uh, ask that we had Lou. Uh, and, and, and I know
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the American people are tired of watching politicians who, um, you know, tell the people one thing and
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then go behind closed doors and do the exact opposite. And then they get a promotion for it.
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And that's usually how this town works. Um, well, this is one of those situations where that's not how
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it worked. And I hope that the precedent has been set, you know, for future leaders that, um, you
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know, we'll take a look at what happened this year. And I hope it puts a little, you know, a little bit
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of the fear of God in them that, Hey, um, there might be a new, there might be a new party in town,
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some new people in town that actually mean what they say. And they're actually, they're not just
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talking about fighting. They're willing to actually fight and put their political careers on the line.
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And they're willing to take the hard vote and be called crazy by everybody in, you know, in the
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media all around the country so that we can actually get some different leadership. That's
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serious about turning this back around. I see the, the effects of what you all did, uh, at the
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beginning of the 118th Congress, uh, in a 15 vote, uh, negotiation to put McCarthy eventually in
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as a speakership, but the, how you democratize Congress, uh, decentralized power, uh, was
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important. And I think this step that you've taken, uh, with the motion to vacate, uh, and bring in
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Mike Johnson, let's go to that issue. And, and that means the motion to vacate, are you going to get
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rid of it? Uh, are you going to keep it? What's, what will be the, the fate of the motion to vacate?
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Well, I, I can't tell you what the fate is going to be, Lou. I can tell you where I stand on it. I
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don't think that we should get rid of it. It's a precedent that stood for, um, a very long time
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in, in, in Congress, I think well over a hundred years. And I think Nancy Pelosi was the one that,
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you know, got rid of it because she didn't want, she didn't want to have a check on her authority.
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And I do think it's important to have in case a, you know, a speaker or a leader, um, you know,
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goes off the rails or in, in the case that we saw this year was making deals with, you know,
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multiple people and then not honoring those deals. Um, so I, I, I want to see it stay around
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and Lou, I'd like to say something real quick. Um, the deal that I'm talking about, isn't the only
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deal that was made that wasn't followed through with. If you notice, uh, Nancy Mace was one of the
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people, one of the eight people that, um, you know, voted to, uh, vacate the chair. She had a
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completely separate deal with, uh, Speaker McCarthy that wasn't honored. And, you know, those are just
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two examples of deals that were made that weren't honored, um, that would have been good for the
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American people. And so, um, I don't want to see it go away because even though I really like so far
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what I see of Speaker Johnson, uh, this isn't a, this isn't a popularity contest. This is about
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principles. This is about leadership and this is about turning the country around. And if,
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if we need to use it again and God forbid, I hope we don't, but if we need to use it again,
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I hope it's, I hope it continues to be a tool that, uh, the representatives here in Congress,
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uh, can use. I have to say, I, I concur with you entirely on the motion to vacate. Uh, it is,
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uh, as you say, it's a sharp edge tool, uh, but, uh, Lord knows, uh, Congress needs some sharp edges,
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uh, and some sharp elbows around there to, to drive the agenda. Uh, when we come back,
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I'd like to talk to you about, uh, something that, uh, judiciary chairman and weaponization
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chairman, Jim Jordan brought up, and that was the DHS, uh, consortium, uh, with, uh, with the
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outfit, uh, the election integrity, uh, partnership, uh, and censuring, uh, American
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citizens, particularly Republicans and conservatives. We're talking with Congressman Eli Crane. We'll
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be right back with more of the great America show. Please stay with us.
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We're back with Congressman Eli Crane. I mean, I think represents, uh, not only a great constituency,
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but also the standards and the values of this country. And we need more representation like
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that. And, uh, in our Congress and certainly in our Senate, uh, Congressman, I'd like to turn
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to the, the election integrity, uh, partnership that, uh, Congressman Jim Jordan, the chairman
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of the judiciary and the weaponization committee brought up, uh, going after the censorship industrial
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complex, as he put it, uh, to see the government actually involved in shutting down American voices,
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uh, particularly conservatives, uh, whether it's a 2020 or as recently as the, is the last election.
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This is outrageous. What this administration has pulled, uh, and what the one, uh, what the previous
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election revealed as well, your thoughts on what we have to do to straighten up this government and, uh,
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uh, get rid of the idea that you're going to censor one new group of people in this country or any other.
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Well, I think, I'm glad you brought it up, Lou. I think the first thing that we have to do is we
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have to grow a backbone as a party, um, and quit thinking that this, like I said, business as usual.
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Um, you know, most totalitarians understand that the first thing that they must do, um,
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to control a populace is to control the media and then they must disarm the populace. Those are
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plays one and two, um, uh, basically every dictator. Um, and so when you talk about this censorship,
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you know, that we see going on, uh, with election integrity, it's not the first time and it won't
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be the last time we, we saw the same type of thing going on during COVID 19. Um, and I think the
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American people are becoming more and more aware of just how flagrant, um, our, our government has
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become in their efforts to censor, censure the populace and to try and control what they can and
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can't say, what they label as misinformation, conspiracy theory, et cetera. And, uh, that
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first amendment is, is number one for a reason. It is so important. And, you know, um, you know,
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there was a time in this country where we, we fought, you know, we would fight for people's right
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to say even the dumbest, most heinous, you know, disgusting thing out there because we, because we
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understood how important it was to protect that first amendment, right. And now as we've gone close,
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we've gotten closer and closer to, you know, Marxist, communistic, totalitarian, top-down control,
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you see, it's becoming more and more acceptable because it furthers that agenda. And it's very scary,
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Lou. It's one of the reasons that I, you know, I, um, left the business world and got into politics
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myself because, um, I realized that my little girls and the next generation and the next generation
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aren't going to have the same life experience that you and I did, where we grew up in a place
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where we could say something, you know, we could say something that was controversial. We could say
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something that was inflammatory. We could even say something that was downright disgusting.
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And we, we still had the right to say it. Now I'm not saying you should, but I'm saying that,
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you know, that's, that's what, you know, one of the greatest things about this country.
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And as most Americans that I'm sure watch this show understand is that that is going away and
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it's death by a thousand cuts. And if we don't grow a backbone in this party, in this party,
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not talking about the Democrats right now, if we don't grow a backbone in this party and stand up to
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it, um, the American people don't have a chance. Let me turn to Rashida Tlaib and freedom of speech.
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And which I find her absolutely repugnant. I enter anti-Semitism and her pro-Palestinian
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Hamas, uh, rhetoric. Uh, but I would, I think she should be censored by the U S Congress.
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Well, I agree with you, Lou. I, I find her comments, uh, pretty disgusting and, uh,
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very alarming as well. I think, uh, the American people, most of us at least can agree that,
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you know, that the, uh, the attacks on, uh, the state of Israel and the Jewish people within,
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uh, several weeks ago was completely uncalled for and quite, quite frankly, sadistic and disgusting.
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And to see individuals, uh, here in Congress defending, um, you know, to defending that,
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those atrocities, um, you know, the, the people that, the people that carried it out, um, you know,
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it's, it's beyond, it's beyond words, you know, it's tough to find words to describe, um, you know,
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what, what we're seeing. But what I can tell you is that right now we just had a motion to table,
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um, that, that motion, uh, the Democrats tried to table it and we voted it down. So I think we're
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going to vote on it tonight. I don't know how it's going to come out. I know that there are
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some Republicans that hate seeing the back and forth. Hey, we'll censure this person. You guys
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censure this person going back and forth. But at the same time, you know, when you look at that action
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alone, I think, uh, you know, I think it's definitely worthy of the censure and I think
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it's unbecoming of a representative of Congress. Amen. And when we're looking at the level of
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demonstrations and protests, the outright evil on our college campuses, our university campuses,
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those young people need to know that their government, uh, is a leader, uh, on, and what will
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be tolerated in this country. Uh, the, the massacre of October 7th, uh, there's no, no greater moral
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clarity, uh, in recent years than that event. And there to be any discussion about being pro Hamas
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versus pro Israel, uh, pro, uh, Israeli, uh, it's, it's just mindless to me that we were putting up with
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this nonsense on our campuses, because this is ignorance. Congressman, I just want to say how
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much we enjoy having you with us. Uh, we thank you so much. And you're setting a standard that, uh,
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the, the country needs in the, in that U S Congress. And, uh, as always, we'd like to give our guests
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the last word. And if you will, your, your concluding thoughts here. Well, thank you again,
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Lou, for having me on. Um, you know, my concluding thoughts are this, I appreciate everybody that stood
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with us in that this recent fight where we ousted the speaker and brought in a new one. Uh, I can't
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tell you Lou, there were many people during the process that I could tell we're getting battle
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fatigue. Uh, I think they were watching a little too much Fox news, to be honest with you. Um, but
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that being said, guys, this country's in trouble. We have to change the direction, the trajectory of
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it. Please hang in there with those of us that are trying to do it. This took decades to, you know,
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to manufacture, it's going to take time to undo it. So please stick with us, be patient.
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We're fighting. We're working up here, but please keep holding us accountable. Myself included.
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Get on the phone, call your representatives, email them. I, I talk to my staff all the time,
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trying to figure out, you know, often on some of these, uh, complicated bills, where you guys stand,
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because that's why I'm up here to represent y'all. Um, so thank you, Lou, for everything that you do.
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I know that you could have ridden off into the sunset and retired, um, you know, long ago,
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but I appreciate you staying in the fight and, uh, you know, mentoring and educating, uh, the next
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generation coming up, trying to make a difference. Very kind of you. And thank you. We thank you for
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your service for this country throughout your entire life. Congressman, thanks so much. We appreciate
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it so much. God bless you. Thank you, Lou. God bless you too, brother. Congressman Eli Crane.
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Thank you. And thank you everybody for being with us here tomorrow. Our guest is Roger Stone,
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bestselling author, political strategist, podcaster, radio talk show host on 77 WABC news,
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a great colleague of mine there and advisor to president Trump. Please join us each and every day
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here on the great America show. Thanks. God bless you. And God bless America.