The Great America Show - July 11, 2022


HUNTER BIDEN IS NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT SAYS REP. ISSA AFTER SEEING LAPTOP


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Rep. Darrell Issa takes action to protect the families of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the rest of the high court s families from anti-abortion protesters who want to remove them from public view. Lou Dobbs talks about the Supreme Court's recent ruling on abortion and gun control.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. Thanks for being with us here on The Great America Show.
00:00:05.060 Let's begin with a now constant drumbeat from the Marxist left as they try to take away our guns.
00:00:12.000 It's now that drumbeat incessant and drives out any intelligent discussion of what actually caused
00:00:18.560 most, if not all, of the mass shootings over the past two decades. Vice President Kamala Harris
00:00:25.140 Sunday was on Face the Nation, pounding away at our constitutional right to bear arms and to keep
00:00:32.980 our guns, no matter what ill-informed, mostly incoherent political hacks demand. Harris said,
00:00:39.080 quote, we have to stop allowing those weapons to be available to civilians, end quote. The vice
00:00:47.260 president is every bit as authoritarian as her boss and almost as incoherent. We civilians,
00:00:54.440 as she put it, are actually citizens. And as citizens, the Second Amendment of the Constitution,
00:01:01.400 quote, unquote, allows us to have to keep our guns, not the Biden puppet presidency, not the Washington
00:01:08.560 permanent bureaucracy, because the political elites, as President Trump once said, aren't that elite,
00:01:16.060 but they are that indifferent to our rights as American citizens. Sometimes they're hostile to
00:01:21.420 our rights, certainly hostile to our Second Amendment rights, and the Marxist left is power mad, 0.66
00:01:27.880 whether the radical Dems or the deep state. Harris then called for renewal of the 1994 Federal Assault
00:01:35.180 Weapons Ban, which had no measurable impact on gun violence in the 10 years that ban was in effect.
00:01:42.460 The vice president, of course, did not mention that fact, nor did the Face the Nation host.
00:01:47.620 But as usual, neither the left or the leftist media want to discuss the mental health of the shooters
00:01:53.860 or the failure of families, schools, police, and communities to identify and help the mentally ill
00:02:00.700 who carry out these gruesome mass murders. That would just go too far against the Democrat and leftist
00:02:08.000 media narratives. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was forced to leave a Morton steakhouse in
00:02:14.420 Washington last week when a group of pro-abortion protesters called on the restaurant to remove the
00:02:20.960 justice. Kavanaugh and his security detail had to exit Morton's through the back door. And the intimidation of
00:02:28.740 conservative justices goes on, despite the fact it's against the law to do so. The White House hasn't been
00:02:36.020 sympathetic, to say the least, nor the D.C. Police Department. But our guest today is Congressman
00:02:42.100 Darrell Issa, and he took action to protect the families of the justices as well as the justices
00:02:48.800 themselves. Issa won overwhelming support in Congress and the Senate for his bill to improve
00:02:55.580 security for the Supreme Court. President Biden signed the bill, and the law now provides justices
00:03:02.460 and their families full security protection. Congressman Issa, always delighted to welcome you
00:03:09.100 back to the Great America Show. Congratulations on moving your bill to protect the families of
00:03:14.500 Supreme Court justices to law and to do so, so quickly. Well, thank you. And I was pleased when
00:03:21.960 Nancy Pelosi, who has a whole team guarding her, finally allowed that bill to come to the floor 1.00
00:03:27.980 after a month's delay. And then, of course, it passed overwhelmingly, as it should. It should not
00:03:36.760 be a confrontational event every time you want to do things that common sense says you need to do,
00:03:43.760 like protect people who are in direct and imminent danger, as our justices and their families were at
00:03:52.560 that very moment. You know, I want to get your reaction to what was, by any definition, a historic
00:03:59.120 eight days for the Supreme Court on gun freedom, the Second Amendment, on abortion. I mean, you go
00:04:12.760 through the list, religious freedom, private speech, but in public, the list just keeps growing of
00:04:19.140 accomplishments on the part of this court and these five brave constitutionalist judges, justices.
00:04:27.860 It's what a period of time we've experienced. Your thoughts? Well, I'm pleased that we do have
00:04:35.260 five and a half conservatives on the bench. And I'm being cynical, as you might imagine. But Justice
00:04:42.820 Roberts continues to split his conservatism in various ways. And I'm okay with that, because at
00:04:51.920 the end of the day, the bench is making good decisions. The New York case, you mentioned the
00:04:57.740 Second Amendment. For 100 years, people in imminent danger, people carrying large amounts of cash,
00:05:05.140 people closing up their shops late at night in bad neighborhoods or in any neighborhood were told by
00:05:11.600 law enforcement who carry guns, told by district attorneys who carry guns, that they didn't meet
00:05:20.340 the requirement to carry a gun because they were not in enough danger in the opinion of somebody who
00:05:27.220 gets to carry a gun. And the Supreme Court rightfully said no. The right to bear is one that is primarily
00:05:36.940 determined by the individual. And so in reversing the bias from you must prove in this overwhelming
00:05:44.880 way in order to get a concealed weapons permit. And of course, in these are states where they don't
00:05:50.660 allow you to carry open. Now, finally, New York has some sensibility and that should translate
00:05:58.000 into other states, including my own. And the idea that somehow it's okay to have weapons in your home
00:06:07.960 to defend yourself, that makes sense to everybody. But somehow there has grown up this amazing
00:06:14.860 perception that just because you're safe at home doesn't mean you should be safe when you're out on
00:06:22.360 the street or driving your car or whatever. It's just a maddening contradiction and inconsistency of
00:06:30.260 logic that has existed, as you say, in New York State for 100 years. Oh, absolutely. And of course,
00:06:38.340 in New York State, even places of business that have been robbed often find themselves unable to legally
00:06:44.120 have a weapon. So if they get robbed again, and they do have a weapon, they get charged and the
00:06:51.480 other guy gets away. So we are seeing some common sense, except I have to take back the word common
00:06:58.400 when it takes 100 years to bring a case like that, just as Heller took decades and decades and had to
00:07:05.800 be, you know, relitigated effectively because the District of Columbia still thought it was above the
00:07:11.920 Constitution. But these are important issues. There are many more that have to be taken up, including
00:07:19.060 what is our right of free speech, when you get systematically taken down by what is supposed
00:07:26.140 to be a common carrier, like Twitter or Facebook. Those cases haven't gone before the court. But we need
00:07:33.580 to get them before the court, because I believe that many of the things that we talk about in Congress
00:07:38.700 actually are already enshrined in our Constitution. We simply need to remind people that, you know,
00:07:47.040 the right to keep and bear arms is pretty self explanatory. The right of free speech, which shall not be
00:07:53.500 abridged, is pretty straightforward. And of course, speech and religion finally came together on this 50
00:08:01.300 yard line decision on a coach who just simply kneeled after after the game. So it's been a great time for,
00:08:10.100 as we like to say, SCOTUS, for the Supreme Court, and we are pleased.
00:08:15.040 Well, it's just an amazing period of time. And this court, you know, God save this court and God bless
00:08:22.560 this court for all that it has done in eight days time. And it's just a wonderful moment in American history.
00:08:30.540 Another bill, your bill to combat human trafficking, getting through judiciary.
00:08:39.540 You know, when we're talking about human trafficking, we're talking about human smuggling.
00:08:43.980 We're talking about the deadly drugs, 100,000 overdoses, young people, 18 to 45, leading cause of death, overdose.
00:08:53.400 And we can't seem to come together on stopping drugs at the border. Why is that?
00:09:03.400 You know, because unfortunately, the border has become an issue of who who is going to be the face of America.
00:09:12.300 And I'm not saying anyone in particular, but it's pretty clear that it's not an accident that our border is open,
00:09:20.420 contrary to what the White House will say about the border being closed.
00:09:24.860 And that means that those 52 that died in that trailer, they're just collateral damage to those who want to have two, three,
00:09:34.700 four million people come here disproportionately from places that are not historically the majority of Americans.
00:09:44.360 Americans, the British are not coming, the Canadians are not coming, not even the Germans. 0.98
00:09:49.880 But they are changing the face of America.
00:09:52.960 And it's pretty clear that many of my colleagues on the left are pleased with that.
00:09:57.720 I don't have a problem with the changing face of America.
00:10:00.620 Mine is a face that is different than our founding fathers.
00:10:03.520 But there's a right way to get here.
00:10:05.840 And there's a rule of law.
00:10:07.380 And that's been thrown out the window by this president.
00:10:11.020 And and what we're really talking about here, but it seems the left will not take up the issue of the cartels.
00:10:19.600 That border is controlled by the cartels.
00:10:22.040 It's not it's not controlled by the Border Patrol, nor the provincial police or the the federales of Mexico.
00:10:30.080 It is controlled by the cartels.
00:10:33.520 Period.
00:10:35.140 Full stop.
00:10:36.060 And no one has the guts.
00:10:38.060 The last person who had the guts to talk about the cartels and actually going to war against the cartels was Donald J.
00:10:45.400 Trump.
00:10:45.940 And he has been silenced, hasn't he?
00:10:49.700 He has been silenced and in both literally and figuratively by all the media.
00:10:56.720 They won't cover him.
00:10:58.240 They won't they won't they won't honestly talk about his accomplishments.
00:11:01.840 And that's that's just the way it's going to be.
00:11:05.260 It's going to be up to his family and those who were part of of an amazing time that I got to live through in which we effectively made the border a controlled area.
00:11:17.840 We negotiated with our neighbors near and far to take responsibility for their own citizenry, particularly, you know, people forget the criminal aliens that used to not be sent back and had to be released into America because their countries wouldn't take back their own criminals.
00:11:37.260 That that that changed under Trump, obviously changed back or even for the worse under under President Biden.
00:11:45.100 It's it's what President Trump accomplished in four years is remarkable.
00:11:51.740 What was done to him throughout the course of his presidency for six months before that as a candidate and in the time since he left office a year and a half ago, he is still being persecuted.
00:12:04.260 He is still being politically persecuted by the Marxist Dems that it goes on.
00:12:10.680 The January 6th committee is a complete and utter farce that is only as the two impeachments and a special counsel revealed a whole country.
00:12:20.480 They are nothing more than the most primitive of Stalinist show at theatric political theatrics.
00:12:33.200 They're really rather amateurish, yet they have the power because of the deep state, the permanent bureaucracy, the alignment with the Marxist Dems leadership of the Democratic Party and, of course, our national corporatist media.
00:12:47.140 They they're a formidable lot to come up against, aren't they?
00:12:52.500 They are. And we saw this just yesterday when they paraded out their one sided statement about what supposedly happened and supposedly what President Trump did and said only today, only covered on Fox and Newsmax and by people like yourself.
00:13:10.860 But, you know, the mainstream media is ignoring the fact that every Secret Service agent, Secret Service agent has said that didn't happen.
00:13:21.660 I was there. I didn't say it to her. It isn't true.
00:13:24.860 Now, you know, when you look at somebody who's currently detailed to this president saying that that person has something to lose by telling the truth, and yet they're they're saying it didn't happen.
00:13:37.540 But you never heard that yesterday. Why? One, because they didn't ask.
00:13:42.420 And two, because there was no offsetting question. No Jim Jordan there.
00:13:48.660 No Trey Gowdy in the old days. We had we had no other side.
00:13:53.960 And certainly Liz Cheney wasn't going to say, by the way, if we ask the Secret Service, are they going to corroborate that?
00:14:01.520 But, you know, she wasn't going to say it because they should have already done it.
00:14:05.340 You don't parade somebody out that you had an earlier interview with without checking exactly what she says.
00:14:12.240 As a matter of fact, your years of seeing journalists, the first rule on a journalist is if somebody says something, you call the original source for corroboration before you go to print.
00:14:22.400 Didn't happen. Won't happen. That's the world we live in.
00:14:26.000 Right. And to listen to Brett Baer on Fox, let's play Brett Baer's response to Hutchison's, the 25 year old's testimony that was hearsay and rumor that she was reporting to the J6 committee.
00:14:47.780 If we could play that, please.
00:14:49.740 This testimony was very compelling from beginning to end.
00:14:55.040 She obviously had access to all of the players.
00:14:57.980 We are now hearing from the former president on various posts where he questions her accuracy.
00:15:05.480 He goes after her directly, says he doesn't know who she is and said he didn't lunge at the Secret Service agent in the beast.
00:15:13.020 That didn't happen. He says he didn't throw his lunch against the wall.
00:15:16.480 That didn't happen. And that she's lying. Cassie Hutchinson is under oath on Capitol Hill. 0.93
00:15:23.260 The president is on Truth Social making his statements.
00:15:27.320 What was so compelling, I think, is is how it was laid out.
00:15:31.560 We always point out that there's not a pushback and it would have been great to hear Jim Jordan or some congressman say some other angle to this.
00:15:39.700 But the testimony in and of itself is really, really powerful.
00:15:45.060 Really, really powerful.
00:15:46.680 Did that sound like Fox was going right down the middle, fair and balanced?
00:15:50.160 You know, it sounds like they they sort of gave you half the story, which is saying it fairly well.
00:15:58.760 If you only tell half the story, if you only have one side and if you do not cross examine, it will sound compelling.
00:16:07.240 Well, you know, if you listen to the opening statement by a defense attorney, every one of their clients is absolutely innocent.
00:16:16.080 But that is not evidence. That is not what a jury should consider.
00:16:21.160 And ultimately, the American people are being asked to try and convict the former president based on the opening statement, if you will.
00:16:31.900 Forty five minutes by Liz Cheney, you know, talking about what what they're going to show and what happened.
00:16:39.240 You know what? I've been watching it. I've recorded it.
00:16:41.720 It's painful. But I want to make sure that I've I've seen their so-called evidence and seen what what I see all the time,
00:16:48.620 which is one side, no contradiction. Guess what? It's believable.
00:16:53.520 It's not believable, though, when there's even so much as she named a Secret Service agent.
00:16:59.300 He said it didn't happen. He's his job is on the line saying that he is.
00:17:05.000 All of these Secret Service agents have said they'll go on the record.
00:17:07.920 They'll swear in. They were never asked why.
00:17:12.320 They didn't want to know. They didn't want anything that would contradict what this juicy tidbit.
00:17:17.900 And you mentioned a 25 year old. Age is not the only indicator, but let's let's break it down.
00:17:24.980 This was her third job that I know of since she came to Capitol Hill.
00:17:30.160 She moved around a few months here, a year there.
00:17:33.320 She gets her dream job near the end of the administration.
00:17:38.800 What I didn't think it was at the end, but near the end of it.
00:17:41.560 And what does she do? She's in the outer office at a desk for the chief.
00:17:47.000 Now, that does make her very knowledgeable about people going in and out.
00:17:51.920 It it appears as though it gave her an opportunity to talk to people who talk to people who talk to people.
00:17:58.360 But there's a reason that hearsay has to be corroborated or it's not admissible.
00:18:03.840 She clearly didn't get what she said she got from a Secret Service agent.
00:18:08.520 She might have gotten it from somebody who said that somebody said that the secret agent said it.
00:18:14.000 But that's just not right.
00:18:15.920 And now that we know the truth, what we know is she's not a credible witness.
00:18:19.900 Her sources, which were secondhand to begin with, turn out to be thirdhand, which means she wasn't telling the whole truth about where she heard these things.
00:18:27.680 And she wasn't telling the truth.
00:18:30.960 She was lying because she was repeating rumors.
00:18:34.300 But the January 6th committee had a responsibility before putting her on live national television to have corroborated her story or found it wanting.
00:18:47.060 And they didn't do that.
00:18:49.280 They didn't talk to that security agent.
00:18:51.660 They didn't validate anything that she did.
00:18:54.660 And they put it up because it was damaging to President Trump.
00:18:58.160 It's a replay of two impeachments of President Trump by the same radical Dems.
00:19:03.460 Are you going to believe Adam Schiff or are you going to believe Donald Trump?
00:19:09.540 For example, Brent Fair didn't ask that question.
00:19:12.920 He didn't ask, who is the more credible here?
00:19:16.360 A man, Adam Schiff, who lied for a period of six years and is still lying?
00:19:21.100 Or Donald Trump, who was persecuted through two impeachments, a special counsel, three years of FBI investigation, and now the J-6? 0.88
00:19:30.780 And by the way, he hasn't been caught in a lie yet.
00:19:33.960 Furthermore, he hasn't been convicted of a crime.
00:19:36.680 But Adam Schiff has been absolutely caught lying throughout.
00:19:42.480 And yet the media wants to pretend that all of that history doesn't exist, that that comparison is not appropriate, when in point of fact it is exactly material.
00:19:52.740 Well, Lou, we could go on and on about Adam Schiff.
00:19:59.340 Let's just say that when third parties' evidence came forward, it vindicated President Trump before the accusations, during the accusations, and now, of course, afterwards.
00:20:12.160 Adam Schiff knew, just as the FBI knew, that there was no Russian collusion before the election.
00:20:21.420 Okay.
00:20:22.420 So the American people were lied to before, during, and after.
00:20:26.940 And, of course, now they still act that way.
00:20:29.460 It is interesting.
00:20:30.540 I'll just give you an off-subject tidbit.
00:20:32.560 It's one that's topical.
00:20:33.880 Well, Vladimir Putin is getting more money today than he was before his invasion because this president's failed to rally the, you know, offsetting oil production.
00:20:45.660 So even though they're sending less oil out of Russia today, they're getting so much more money for it that they're, in fact, making as much money.
00:20:56.260 That could stop.
00:20:57.720 But you want to know who's a friend of Russia?
00:21:00.820 He's sitting in the White House today.
00:21:03.380 This is a man who is allowing him to finish off what he started under the Obama-Biden administration, which is the taking of Ukraine.
00:21:12.900 Absolutely.
00:21:13.380 And further, you know, because I know that Joe Biden is a very serious and honest person, and he would not try to game the American people.
00:21:24.020 The sanctions that he put on initially were so ridiculously soft that they might as well have not been applied at all.
00:21:33.000 The sanctions we have on now, and you know this very well, Congressman, economic sanctions do not work.
00:21:39.520 It's that simple, and particularly against powers like Russia, against China, or any other major developed country.
00:21:50.440 But guess what they did?
00:21:51.840 They forgot to do over at the Biden White House.
00:21:55.100 Congressman, did you know that they didn't stop the import of Russian gold until today?
00:22:01.100 That shows a certain seriousness about sanctions, doesn't it?
00:22:07.180 Well, seriousness about allowing free people to survive is something he hasn't done, he isn't doing.
00:22:16.520 And unfortunately, you know, we're fighting today to the last Ukrainian. 0.78
00:22:21.500 And I mean the last Ukrainian, if we don't change what we're doing. 1.00
00:22:27.500 And that irritates me beyond belief.
00:22:30.560 You know, I served for 20 years, first active and then a reservist.
00:22:34.700 And one of the little truisms that we grew up on in my days in the military was a quote by Douglas MacArthur.
00:22:47.260 And it came out of his knowledge of the World War II versus Korea.
00:22:51.560 And it said, it is fatal to enter a war without the will to win it, period.
00:22:57.280 And we have entered a war and we're giving the Ukrainians just enough to lose slowly. 0.82
00:23:05.480 How dare we do that?
00:23:07.360 Do not do that.
00:23:08.660 It's just extending their misery.
00:23:11.640 Today, we added two more countries to NATO, but no intention to actually make Russia stop.
00:23:18.260 I was I was not pleased to write a 40 billion dollar check for a war, knowing that it was just a down payment on a slow and long war.
00:23:29.340 If we'd had the will to stop this beforehand or the will to stop it early on, we could already have the people of Ukraine returning to their normal lives instead of dying on the streets.
00:23:41.080 And I think it's important to put that at the feet of Joe Biden.
00:23:44.320 It was his administration that insisted on inviting Ukraine into NATO, which was an absolute red line for Vladimir Putin.
00:23:56.160 They knew it.
00:23:56.920 They persisted.
00:23:58.080 And Ukraine crossed that line in seeking seeking NATO membership.
00:24:03.540 Then that was through 2021 to 2022, knowing full well that he was about to invade, Biden persisted in doing nothing.
00:24:18.260 There were no diplomatic overtures.
00:24:20.300 There were no reciprocal red lines on the part of the United States.
00:24:24.980 This administration led Zelensky and the Ukrainian people into devastation and war.
00:24:32.400 And I'm not taking anything away from the responsibility of Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine and massacring these people.
00:24:41.820 But it is important that we understand what Biden did in his culpability and at all.
00:24:48.260 Oh, you're absolutely right.
00:24:49.620 The evening that I learned that he'd had a 65-minute conversation with Putin, I knew that we were going to war.
00:24:57.340 And I knew it because it takes five minutes, maybe 10 at the most, to say essentially what was said in World War II, which was nuts, famously the general, his answer to surrender.
00:25:10.560 If we had been willing to say this is a red line, it takes a few minutes.
00:25:14.640 And by the way, if it's not negotiable, you don't need 65 minutes.
00:25:19.320 Knowing that it was over an hour, I knew that Putin had basically gotten a green light because he saw a weak, cognitively challenged president who couldn't quite understand that Putin was lying and didn't call him out on it.
00:25:38.580 You know, we're just doing maneuvers.
00:25:40.440 We're just doing this.
00:25:41.360 We're pulling back.
00:25:42.200 At some point, it takes five minutes to say, Mr. Putin, this will be devastating to the world, but it will be more devastating to you because we cannot, we and NATO cannot allow this.
00:25:56.440 If you want to negotiate, negotiate.
00:25:59.200 But if you don't pull back your troops, there will be consequences.
00:26:04.740 I just took more time than he should have taken.
00:26:07.680 I take your point entirely.
00:26:09.280 I think you're exactly right.
00:26:10.460 And I do believe that we have reached a point in this country where people are not being plain spoken.
00:26:18.300 They are not principled.
00:26:20.800 And they are not willing to take the consequences for both their statements and their acts.
00:26:27.620 We have a former attorney general, William Barr, who admits that he knew that Joe Biden was corrupt, that his family was corrupt, that the laptop was not Russian disinformation.
00:26:42.340 And he chose not to say a word during the second and final debate and thereby changed American history.
00:26:49.720 Bill Barr changed American history because.
00:26:53.720 I don't know his motivation, but I do know the consequences, as you put it, of what he did do and what he did not do.
00:27:02.700 And this is where America is right now.
00:27:05.620 We are caught in a period of ambiguity and too many failures on the part of our public servants to stand up for American values and principles.
00:27:16.600 Well, I don't know if Attorney General Barr actually looked at any part of the Hunter Biden laptop, but I have.
00:27:25.380 And there were two things that I got out of it.
00:27:28.360 One is I got sickened with this deviant pervert and his what was on there that the American public should never see.
00:27:37.400 It's not even X rated.
00:27:39.040 It's beyond that.
00:27:40.160 The other thing I became aware of was that this president is deliberate, deliberately covered up and was in partnership with a corrupt individual who was making millions of dollars.
00:27:52.620 But by the way, making millions of dollars while being a sick drug addict, that is that is an interesting anomaly.
00:28:01.960 You know, if if you're if you're going to have a business partner, you certainly could choose a better one than somebody who's strung out on drugs regularly, who disappears for days at a time.
00:28:13.320 And the list goes on.
00:28:14.880 But this is who Joe Biden is.
00:28:17.140 He's they call him the big guy.
00:28:19.080 But you know what?
00:28:19.960 He's a pretty little guy to send his his son out to earn money off of his name, even fly him on Air Force Two when he was vice president.
00:28:31.560 Your judgment, if I may, Congressman, is Hunter Biden, based on your reading of the laptop and its contents, is he a national security threat?
00:28:42.420 His drug addiction alone is one of the national security threats, his addiction to watching and recording pornography, even of himself, would would cause any competent investigator to not grant him a clearance.
00:29:04.060 But his activities on, you know, you know, he was never registered for an agent.
00:29:14.020 That alone is a criminal violation for which they regularly charge people with it, including friends of President Trump.
00:29:22.140 And they do so under this this act where you have to register.
00:29:26.940 Well, Hunter Biden did not get millions of dollars, including from the wife of the mayor of Moscow, without having a foreign connection.
00:29:35.620 Clearly, he did and that and that he never registered.
00:29:39.600 And who did he lobby, among others, the now president of the United States and did so very effectively.
00:29:45.560 If you remember, you know, him, President Biden, when he was vice president, directly intervening in Ukraine to protect Hunter and his partners.
00:29:56.720 Absolutely, Congressman, it's just a it's a sickening moment in American history, this and this moment in history should have been written by Donald Trump, not by President Biden and whomever are his puppet masters.
00:30:15.560 I do want to say as we wrap up here, what a delight it is to talk with you, always educational, always thoroughly, thoroughly illuminating.
00:30:28.300 It's always our convention here to let our guests have the last word.
00:30:31.980 And if you will, Congressman, your your concluding thoughts.
00:30:36.280 My concluding thoughts go with my age.
00:30:38.920 I was a young lieutenant in the Jimmy Carter military, the hollowed out military, and I saw how fast America, with its ingenuity, given an opportunity, can come back.
00:30:51.500 So I'm optimistic that in the next election and the one to follow, the American people will speak loudly.
00:30:59.380 We will return with the kinds of people who finally can return us to what President Reagan did for us and, quite frankly, what President Trump did did for us, which is unleash the American people to do what they do well.
00:31:15.400 And that includes our U.S. military, but it also includes our ability to get our economy rolling again.
00:31:21.460 So that's that's the next step.
00:31:23.420 We just need to to get to it sooner rather than later.
00:31:27.620 Congressman Daryl Issa, thank you very much.
00:31:31.560 We appreciate it.
00:31:32.580 God bless you and look forward to our next discussion.
00:31:36.180 Thank you, Lou.
00:31:37.280 Thanks, everybody, for being with us today.
00:31:39.540 Here tomorrow, we'll be talking with Breitbart Senior Editor-at-Large, Joel Pollack.
00:31:44.940 Please join us here tomorrow.
00:31:46.960 Till then, God bless you and God bless America.