HELP! This is the ONLY WAY Republicans in Congress can save Themselves!
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Why don t we all need a wake-up call from the people who tell us they're tolerant, that they're the ones that will save us from the intolerant left? Why don't we all wake up to the fact that the people they tell us are tolerant are the ones who are going to save us, are they?
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hello everybody and welcome to the great america show it's great to have you with us on this
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beautiful day in america thanks so much for spending part of your evening with us here
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we've got a terrific show lined up for you tonight uh if you're joining us on rumble or twitter or
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youtube uh special announcement tonight after the show we're going to be doing some stuff over on
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youtube our youtube channel at the great america show on youtube uh breaking down what happened
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on capitol hill today with jack smith the former junkyard jackal special counsel uh who persecuted
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president trump uh we now find out wasn't supposed to be i mean we knew but we're not finding out
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uh the fbi wanted nothing to do with it jack smith says push on merrick garland they're gonna have to
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answer some questions so we're gonna be doing that tonight on youtube so be sure to head over there
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um after the show to check that out let's get into some news of the day why don't we
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you know every time i feel like my faith in humanity is dwindling comes right back and uh
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it's restored if you haven't seen it yet it's a video we're gonna bring it to you
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there's two people you don't mess with folks it's elderly people and children you just
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you don't bully them you leave them alone you don't do anything to them you just let them be
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well a political activist a far left-wing activist by the name of michaela ponce who's a
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a nurse and a far left activist unleashed a tirade on this elderly lady who worked at target
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for simply wearing a charlie kirk shirt that says freedom on it now we've got the video for you
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so you can uh check it out if you haven't here it is why they let you wear that shirt shirt yes
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why are you taking my picture why are you wearing that shirt you're working
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it's a red shirt i can wear red any red shirt it's not a plain shirt it doesn't have to be a charlie
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kirk shirt yes oh yes i know are you fucking stupid no why the fuck would you wear that you're
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at work at target that's not target shirt it's not a plain red shirt you support a racist
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i mean it's not racist you support a racist he's not a racist yes he is yes he fucking is i'm sorry
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but i'm not going to stand here and argue with you're not you should go get your manager you should
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not be allowed to wear the at work unacceptable unfucking acceptable that's your opinion the
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opinion is he's a fucking racist and you support him that's your opinion and you should you should
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not be allowed to wear that this is going to be taken above your fucking head that's insane
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sick folks sick well after seeing that video my faith in humanity seemingly lost and then i found
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out the nice things that were being done for that elderly lady who goes by the name of janine
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she uh is being uh is being fundraised for on give send go and as of just a few moments ago
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152 000 has been raised for this lady to give her a little vacation from target that's where my faith
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in humanity has been restored the democrats folks the ones who tell us they're tolerant
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that they're the ones that are going to save america that's the intolerant left what we saw right
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there picking on some innocent old woman who's stocking shelves at target over the shirt she's wearing and
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then goes on to call charlie all those names i mean it's another thing you don't do is speak ill of
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the dead those are the democrats folks those are the democrats
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they need a wake-up call it's not just me saying it new polling out shows 18 percent of the voters
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approve of the way the marks of stems of congress are handling their job
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73 percent disapprove it's a new record low job approval for them according to a new quinnipiac poll
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quinnipiac has began doing this poll back in 2009 the previous law was in july of 2025
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when 19 of voters approved of the job the democrats are doing 72 disapproving this poll that's out today
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among democrats 42 percent approve of the way that members of congress are doing the job 48 percent
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disapprove these are the dems folks quinnipiac's poll back they'd done the same polling uh in october of
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20 uh october 22nd of this year 58 percent of the democrats approved of the way that they were
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handling congress for 36 disapproved 35 percent of the voters approved the way the republicans are
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handling congress while 58 disapproved a little bit better by double not much better but a little bit
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and then the polling in congress is always historically low but they've somehow managed
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folks to do this and we go off to the republicans because they've definitely got to get their act
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together and we're gonna have a special guest on in just a few moments someone who's running for
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now gallup who's been tracking for years doing their tracking of congressional approval has congress
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15 percent approval rating folks that's where they're at now this all comes as more than 10 percent of
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congress won't return to their seats after 2026 we've went through it it's a mix of democrats it's a mix
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of republicans some running for higher office so i'm getting the heck out of dodge
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but it's time to bring new faces into congress folks the time is now and we're going to be talking
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about that uh with our guest today before we we bring him in um dan bongino the president trump
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confirming just moments ago uh to depart from his role with the fbi
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oh dan dan did a great job i think he wants to go back to his show
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president trump saying bongino just wants to go back to his show
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i guess we'll figure out if that's the case uh when dan departs but uh no time on it yet but
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bongino reportedly uh leaving the fbi folks our guest today is going to be joining us in just a
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moment after this quick commercial break goes by the name of mark to share out now for those of you
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are baseball fans or new york fans or new york yankee fans an absolute unit of a player three-time
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all-star five-time gold glover 2009 world series champion with my new york yankees um
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pretty pretty damn good baseball career could have went off into the sunset retired from baseball and
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from everything but deciding he wants to now throw his hat in the ring for a congressional seat down in
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texas chip roy who's uh departing that seat texas 21 the austin area south of it uh
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tashara mark tashara says he wants to run he's going to join us on the other side of this quick
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break folks i'm excited for this some fresh new blood heading to congress it's exactly what we need
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it's exactly what we talk about each and every day right we're taking a quick break we're going to
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be back on the other side of this quick break uh in less than 60 seconds so please stay with us
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mark tashara new york yankees legend and congressional candidates going to be joining us on the other
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side please stay with us we're coming right back
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thanks everybody for staying with us here on the great america show now as promised i told you folks
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one of my favorite yankees seems to be a great stand-up man throughout his entire career but we're
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going to find out together the great mark tashara mlb legend now deciding to probably make one of
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the worst career decisions in history and get into politics after having such a great career uh mark
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it's an honor it's a pleasure to have you with us tell the audience if you will what what made you make
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this i mean just terrible career decision well first of all john thanks for having me on and um i get
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that reaction a lot you know a lot of people are saying hey tex what are you thinking you've got a
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great life like you grinded for your entire life to make it in the big leagues um enjoy your retirement
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enjoy time with your family but listen i'm a christian my my entire life has been you know all of my
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success um the family that i have the wonderful wife and kids uh my success on the field is because
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god has blessed me in so many ways and listen the bible doesn't say have a great career raise your
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kids and go on vacation it says serve and and i love this country this country went through the
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ringer four years under joe biden um and and i looked at that as we need new types of leadership
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in washington dc and thank goodness that president trump got back into office and he's trying to turn
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things around but he needs allies that are young um that are willing to fight that are tenacious that can
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go out there and try to turn this country around yeah sonia before before we got on the show i'm just
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so tired mark of seeing members of congress walking down the hallways with wheelchairs with walkers i
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mean it's terrible it's terrible to see you it's all going to happen to us one day it's the evolution
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of life you know we're going to be there but we shouldn't be the people running our country it
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shouldn't be these people who need to take naps all day long as we show under joe biden and some
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members of congress we need young blood like you who are going to go in there and and
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it used to be mark where you had to be somebody to become a politician you had to know somebody
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you had to be inside the political realm and donald trump really turned that upside down in 2015
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when he said screw you guys i'm going to beat 16 you guys on the stage you don't need to to kiss the
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boots of this guy you don't need to ride the coattails of this guy to become a politician anymore
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you just got to raise some money and be a good person and i think it opened the voters eyes mark
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to something way different i think people like you who come from the outside are far more qualified
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than someone who's a lawyer or a lobbyist you're exactly right john and and that's one of the
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reasons that my campaign has gotten off to such a great start why i i have so much traction so many
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people are supporting me whether publicly endorsing or helping me raise money because you know we do have
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a problem in government with people being there too long i believe in term limits not you know i'm not
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going to do this forever i'm not going to be there when i'm in my 80s as you say right so i believe in
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term limits i believe in going in doing a job and getting back out and letting new blood come in and
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you're right bureaucrats have have ruined washington uh there's some really good people in government i've
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met tons of them but unfortunately there are layers and layers of bureaucracy that kind of overshadow
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everything that we're trying to do in government and if you've been in government for 40 years
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that's just the way it is well for me i don't accept that as an outsider donald trump didn't
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accept that and so as president he's trying to slash all that bureaucracy and get us back to um you
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know spending money the right way and serving the american people yeah you know the other thing we see is
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we see mark we see people go in there dirt poor making under 74 000 a year and somehow they come out
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and their their their paychecks look like yours did when you were in the mlb you to the best of my
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knowledge you have no reason to be going in there to make any money yet a hell of a career uh you know
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major money and and your rationale to go in there is to help people it's not to turn uh 174 000 a year
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into two and a half million dollars a year and to start trading stocks and doing this and do that it's
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it's really become mark a laughingstock of an institution the great lou dobbs used to tell me
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he used to say what do you want to do and when i first started working for a market i go i don't
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know man i want to be a congressman he goes no you don't those people are only there because they're
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not qualified to do anything else and i just say you're crazy what are you talking about and lo and
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behold that's what it's become mark yep yeah there's a bunch of them out there and like i said um
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you know i love my texas delegation you know we've there's a reason that the state of texas is so
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successful because i do believe we have those that want to actually serve in texas but you look
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across the country look what's happening in minnesota you know how does ilan omar become go
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from um you know having you know pretty much zero net worth to being worth 30 million dollars oh there's
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a billion dollar scam that happened in her state where ngos were getting our taxpayer dollars sent to
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minnesota to um to quote help help the poor right that's what democrats always say well you got to help
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the poor gotta help the poor well they're skimming off the top and we know this is happening john and
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and this is one of the reasons that that i want to go to congress because like you said i i'm not
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doing this for the money i'm gonna i'm gonna end up giving away way more way more than i uh than i
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bring in in congress so that's not why i'm going i'm going to serve the people and make sure that they
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know that that the republicans in congress want to work for them um you know we have a whole bunch of
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dems on the other side that want to make us a socialist country and want the people to work
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for them i think republicans want it the other way you know the problem is too mark it's funny you
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said ilan omar i wasn't going to go there i didn't want to bring it down that role but now you brought
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us there so it's like it's so funny you get the republicans mark where you get clean cut guys like
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you who've had great jobs made good money who speak succinctly who speak with class and elegance
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and then the other side of the aisle you look and you've got rashida talib you've got ilhan omar
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you've got chuck schumer you've got all these bottom feeders who are just they're just garbage
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i think that's the word donald trump used they're garbage there there's no elegance about them
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they disrespect the institution uh you walk down the hallways of congress i don't even know if you've
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been there yet but when you go take a walk down the hallways these congress transgender flags
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outside here this is not what this country was based on this is not what this country was built
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on mark it was built on hard-working americans like you and i to do a good job and now the whole
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thing has just become a race to the bottom uh to be social experiments and we've really taken a bad
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turn here in my opinion well and and you hit on you hit on a bunch of our cities and traveling my
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entire adult life going to these these once great american cities playing baseball and working for espn and
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all the business endeavors that i've been involved in like i used to go to seattle washington and san
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francisco and absolutely love those places they were beautiful uh clean i would bring my wife we would
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have a a nice time before games or go out to dinner after games now i wouldn't want to bring my family
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close to seattle or san francisco and and democrats have let progressive policies have ruined our
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downtowns all over the country and that's because of progressive policies paying people to stay poor
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keeping them poor and then you have representation out of those places like those those folks you just
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talked about um and unfortunately uh our cities are in trouble and and i believe that that you know
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when you have a socialist mayor in new york like we just we just uh had elected when you have a socialist
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mayor in seattle this is the tip of the iceberg and if we don't stop what's happening in our cities
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it's going to spread all over the country and we're going to lose this country tell us a little bit about
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your district that you'll be representing hopefully um in less than a year now in texas
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yep so district 21 it is chip roy's current district it's essentially southwest austin down the
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i-35 corridor to san antonio i get the north san antonio suburbs and then all the way out to the
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hill country it is the most beautiful district in texas um i was in fredericksburg texas last night
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for an event just absolutely gorgeous really good people very christian very family focused uh i think
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chip won by about 20 points last year trump carried it by 20 points um so very conservative these are i say
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these are folks that go to church on sunday they barbecue afterwards they want their kids to have safe
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neighborhoods and good schools uh and they want to be builders of this country um and so it would
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be an honor of my lifetime to represent these folks because you know these are good patriots
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i often say mark the wrong people get ahead the wrong people in some cases uh get endorsements that
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they don't deserve i i mean it's i can't reiterate it enough more uh that outsiders like you need the
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endorsements of president trump outsiders like you need the endorsements uh of the people who make this
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country great to not let in people who are going to destroy this country what would you say your
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biggest issues are your biggest agenda issues obviously texas is a big border state uh your
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district a little bit more safe than uh the you know the ones down in brownsville or my friend myra
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flores is running for down there uh what are your big issues what was it that really made you say i i gotta
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get up you know i gotta get off the couch and i've got to really help uh texas 21 the the biggest issue
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still is border security because even though the border is closed it's not fully secure and god forbid
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we have a president newsom or a president pritzker in the in the future president whoever they're going
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to open the border back up if it's not permanently secure and you can look at all of the issues in our
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country right now and they have something to do with the border being open overrun health care system
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schools that are failing drugs 100 000 people die of drug overdoses every year in our country
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um you know you you have you have cities that just aren't safe so all of these issues debt upon debt
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housing issues right so the people in my district understand we're kind of in the middle of texas right
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but we understand the four years of biden when the border wasn't secure when it was wide open
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what that did to our state and to our country and so all of the other things we that i care about you
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know which is education and health care and religious freedom all these things if we just
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have an open border and people can come in here unvetted nothing else is ever going to get fixed because
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we'll always be chasing our tail yeah you're absolutely right i want to let you know a little fact
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you say 100 000 people i totally agree with you but i think it's it's way more than that because the
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cdc is not able to report people who don't autopsy but yeah the fentanyl problem it could be upwards of
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150 000 it's a very very scary thing i'm gonna let you in on a little secret and i don't know you may
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know this you may not know this but it's what you're getting yourself into a gallup who tracks
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congressional approval they've been doing it for the longest time ever currently has the congressional
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approval at about 15 15 15 of americans approve of congress another new poll that's out actually
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today is from quinnipiac it gives the democrats in congress a record low job approval but voters still
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say they may vote for them in 2026 uh because they think that donald trump's presidential power
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goes too far and i guess it's based on his executive orders because he doesn't have a congress
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that gets their act together he doesn't have a congress that pushes forth america first the
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republican party doesn't realize something mark there was a mandate on november 5th when donald trump
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won it was that people wanted those borders secure people wanted inflation down people wanted
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deportations down people don't realize this these democrats when they go out on the view they don't
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realize americans overwhelmingly still support this but there are these democrats who are just so out of
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touch or reality so you'd be heading into congress right now i don't think it's going to get any
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better with the approval rating at the lowest point in history mark yeah and and listen i don't blame
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the average american for saying that congress isn't doing enough again layers and layers of bureaucracy
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folks that that are more interested in their politics than good policy and that's the beauty of me being an
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outsider i am an unabashed outsider i tell everybody i've never lived in politics i've never had a job
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in politics never been a bureaucrat you know i'm a i'm a christian father and husband that had a really
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cool job because i worked my tail off and everything i have is because of hard work it's because of god
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given talent and hard work so like i lived the american dream because of because of the sweat that i put into
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it unfortunately there's a lot of folks out there that just think that government is there to kind of take
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care of them and democrats have given so much given away every time there's an opportunity they're
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going to spend money and give people things so when when times are a little bit hard you know when maybe
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uh your your electric bill is a little bit too high you go oh i'll elect a democrat and see if that
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if they make it better they'll probably if i elect a democrat they'll probably pay for my electric bill
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and we've got to get out of that mindset john that that government is there to take care of our
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problems yeah if we go down that road we will become a socialist country and senator ted cruz
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asked me this last week when i was in dc for a couple days he said text what gets you out of bed
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and no one ever asked me that on the trail when i was playing baseball obviously i knew what i was
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getting out of bed i want to beat the red socks you know when to win a world series there you go and i
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i hesitated for one second and i said to fight socialism because that is where the democrats want
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to take us and i know congress doesn't have a great approval rating right now but we do need to pass
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legislation talk about policy not politics pass legislation as republicans that actually help the
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american people let's get some wins let's throw some wins on the board president trump loves winners
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i i am behind him 100 on his executive orders now if he goes too far the supreme court's there to tell
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him hey president trump can't do that all right fine haven't done so yet though mark yeah at least he's
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trying to get things done and and we need a congress to back him up you talked about his mandate we need
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you know the thing mark i'd say probably a good 90 of it boils down to messaging with the republicans
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just have a terrible time of doing because they have a hard time uh you know relating to the voters
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this is what has to get done even though they intend mostly on doing a good job the border issue
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it's so simple we all have hearts mark we you know it sucks that this is what it's come down to it sucks
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that these people have to be deported because they came here illegally but you can't sit there and
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blame tom homan and donald trump for deporting women and children and families you could blame the
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parents who brought these kids to america illegally knowing you're putting them in this situation
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that one day they will be deported one day there's a chance you will be deported where's the blame on
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the parents for bringing them here illegally where's the blame on the parents for what we're going to
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see now in the supreme court uh of uh i guess the um the term is anchor baby of bringing them here
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getting pregnant having a child and then all of a sudden they're american citizen which is
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not the damn case in any other country yeah yeah that's a loophole in the comp in the constitution
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by the way birthright citizenship and here's the thing what if what if we just all agreed to follow
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the law yeah imagine our country if we just followed the law and we talk about we need these laws
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and need these laws and these laws well we don't follow the first one that is causing all the
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problems for us to need the other ones so so why do we think if we pass all of these new laws and all
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these new you know immigration reforms or whatever that people are actually going to follow the law
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it's all about enforcement and that's what i i give president trump so much credit and i give um whether
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you're a da or a judge or or any any law enforcement all over the country that actually sticks to finding
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criminals processing them and getting them out of here like that was the that's been the law since day
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one um and and this is a huge problem not just in immigration but we just love in government to layer
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laws on top of laws because people don't follow the rules to begin with and and enforcement
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laws are it doesn't matter what we have on the books if if you can't enforce them so um so kudos
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to president trump and tom homan for doing their job yeah it's you're coming in an interesting time
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mark more than 10 percent of congress won't return to their seats after 2026 so this could be the new
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wave of people and it's you know the left saying well there's a purge in the republican party they're
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leaving well now you look at some of the people are leaving uh they were kind of shit bums to begin
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with don bacon and some of these people who voted for impeachment because they didn't like a phone
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call that donald trump had with uh vladimir zelinski or they didn't like that uh there was this uh
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quote-unquote insurrection at the capitol not caring about government whatever whatever you get into all
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of it but you know there is a big purge coming congress and now is the time uh for fresh blood folks
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like you to come in um before we wrap mark let's talk have you heard first of all let's go back when you
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were in baseball when you're in the mlb things weren't as political as they are now today it
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kills me i love football lou dobbs love football but it couldn't stomach him to turn on the tv
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to look in the back of an end zone and see black lives matter which we now know to be one of the
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biggest criminal organizations they might as well have been in uh minnesota with this somali uh scam
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that went on over there you turn on baseball or what and it's it takes all of us or end racism
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and all this nonsense that wasn't around when you were in baseball right did you guys even talk
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politics in the club no we didn't um so i i retired in 2016 and it was really remember the 2020 was a
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was a bad year for america for a lot of different reasons and i think that was kind of when it turned
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when when dei i'd never heard of dei until 2020 i never heard of some of these different multi multi-letter
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groups uh until 2020 and someone asked me the other day i actually give the texas rangers my
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first team drafted me you know um that's why i fell in love with the state of texas lived in dallas
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fort worth for eight years and they asked me they go hey hey tex is aren't the rangers the only team
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that didn't have a pride day and i said i believe so and i'm darn proud of the texas rangers if somebody
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would have told me i don't care what team i was on when i had to go out into batting practice and
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wear a rainbow shirt for batting practice i would have said no and you can find me you can suspend
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me you can do whatever you want but no i'm not doing that and luckily i think we have gotten off
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it a little bit but it's still there john to your point it is still like we are force-fed this stuff
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and especially as athletes most athletes we are like we love meritocracy we love you get the job
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done you get paid you you score more points you win the game this this is not a a touchy-feely
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business it is cutthroat in major league baseball and professional sports i mean we have some animals
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out there that you know you would think wouldn't you know want to play around all this touchy-feely
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stuff and let's just give everybody a trophy and let's give everybody money because we love them
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um my guess is if you really asked everybody an honest opinion most athletes in the united states of
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america are conservative they they because they they value hard work you know they they value their
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family and the teammates and like that bond that you have with your team um now whether it comes
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out on television or not um if you really ask them deep down they might have conservative
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value they might say they're a democrat but their values are probably conservative yeah you know
00:29:07.200
one of your former teammates alex rodriguez went out campaigned for joe biden campaigned for kamala
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harris and i'm like like are you this stupid and it's like he's just one of them you got steph curry
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you mentioned california out there these people go out there their houses i don't know if you've
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seen but a slew of nfl players their houses been getting broken into these people go out there
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they make millions of dollars a year and there's nothing wrong with that you guys deserve every
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penny you made you guys are putting on a show for people you guys are doing irreparable harm to your
00:29:37.420
body and damage to your body that you live with for the rest of your life you guys deserve to make
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the money um but you make all this money you pay 60 taxes i don't know where you lived when you were
00:29:47.080
in new york you know new york or connecticut or whatever you pay 60 taxes and what do you get back
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to show for it that's the thing mark that kills me all politics aside whether you don't want to
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talk about abortion you don't want to talk about social issues the money thing alone how do these
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people justify mark in a clubhouse paying 60 tax on their money and going home to crime ridden cities
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of crap hole new yorks or somewhere in connecticut or wherever you guys lived when you know played for
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the anguys yep i i've got no problem paying some some taxes if i feel like if i'm getting if i'm
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getting my money's worth like we the only thing we do well in our country is is defense national defense
00:30:31.020
everything else we've ruined we've ruined education we've ruined health care the federal government has
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ruined housing every time that they take more money from me and and put it into things that we
00:30:42.620
shouldn't be involved in anyway that's when i get upset and so for me i man we should have a lean
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mean uh fighting machine in in defense like my father was a navy pilot i have no problem spending
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money on defense i have no problem investing in infrastructure to help jobs of the future but
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wasting money that you know is getting skimmed off the top that you know on programs that don't have any
00:31:08.840
return on investment sending it to foreign nations that don't do any for anything for us and actually
00:31:14.140
hate us why are we spending money on this type of stuff so you know we do have a taxation problem i
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mean like my elevator pitch john is is secure the border lower taxes shrink the government grow the
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economy protect life protect the second amendment if that's all we did if that's all we did in our
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country we would be fine and and that's something that that i will i will say every day on the
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campaign trail because um as a conservative as a christian father and husband uh those are those
00:31:44.540
are things i need to live by how about you add one into there mark and i'm sure you'll be on board with
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this one let's get out of everyone's business overseas i mean who cares if this country wants to
00:31:55.100
throw rocks and stones at this country and shoot our bow and arrow i mean that's an issue of government
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you know to me that's part that's part of shrinking government is we don't have to do that that and
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that so we can save some money and and not have so many bureaucrats telling people overseas what they
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should and shouldn't be doing yeah it's a nice ring to it mark i want to give you the last word here i
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want you to give people the the website where they can go to follow you where they can go to donate
00:32:23.320
it's a grassroots campaign which means it takes every single one of us to uh to give to the campaign to
00:32:29.820
to give mark the money he needs to fight against the marxist democrats uh texas is one of like the
00:32:36.300
last safe havens in america i'm up here in new york and uh i mean people are fleeing to texas they're
00:32:42.920
fleeing to florida they're fleeing to tennessee to get the hell out of these places these hell ridden
00:32:47.680
places now with people like mondani you get the last word here mark in there please give the the
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audience where they can go to donate and support your campaign well well first of all thank you john for
00:32:59.220
the time this was this is a lot of fun i'll do it anytime you want um but yes i live in the greatest
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state in the union uh texas we have people that love this country and if if people all over the united
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states of america want to support go to text for congress.com text for congress.com i want supporters
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all over the place because what i tell folks is even though i'm a texas representative my vote in
00:33:26.980
congress counts the same as wherever you live my one vote counts the same as michael allers in new
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york and so um patriots everywhere go to text for congress.com uh love you god bless america
00:33:40.220
text for congress.com folks the great the great mark to share if you've never seen mark swing a bat
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from the left to the right go to youtube we can't put it in here because they'll flag the video but
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go to youtube folks one of the greatest yankees to ever do it mark to share come back soon thank you
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john will do thanks to mark to share folks and thank you all uh for being with us tonight here on the
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00:34:14.960
campaign lawn signs uh all that good stuff uh it takes all of us folks it takes each and every single
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one of us uh to get the word out of each each and every one of us uh to to get people elected
00:34:27.080
who will actually make a difference who are not there to go stock trade and and become uh the
00:34:32.720
gordon geckos of the war the jordan belforts of congress folks we need people to go in there who
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want to do the right thing and it's people like my opinion mark to share folks please be sure to join
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