The Great America Show - July 15, 2022


IF TRUMP RUNS, HE’LL WIN BECAUSE HE KEEPS HIS PROMISES & HAS ALREADY MADE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN


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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) joins Lou Dobbs on The Great America Show to talk about his upcoming primary challenge against Joe Biden in the upcoming primary election and what the Republican challenger should do to take control of the House of Representatives.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and welcome to The Great America Show.
00:00:04.120 Let's start with the good news today.
00:00:06.240 After a number of failures, the Pentagon has confirmed it successfully test-fired two hypersonic missiles.
00:00:14.440 The United States still lags Russia and China in the hypersonic missile race.
00:00:20.420 Russia has fired two variants of its hypersonic missiles at targets in Ukraine.
00:00:25.400 China is believed to still have a significant lead in the arms race,
00:00:30.160 but the United States is now developing hypersonic missiles under top-secret raps for all branches of our military, including the Space Force.
00:00:40.300 America's military may not always be in the lead, but it always does more than just catch up.
00:00:46.460 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent out a tweet alerting us to President Biden's attempt to defy the Supreme Court decision
00:00:54.620 that nullified Roe v. Wade.
00:00:57.660 Health and Human Services Secretary Javier Bracera ordered hospitals and medical emergencies
00:01:03.840 to offer abortions irrespective of state abortion laws.
00:01:08.840 A.G. Paxton has already sued the Biden administration.
00:01:12.900 And Gateway Pundit reports some illegal immigrants are being trafficked through major airports on commercial flights
00:01:20.460 as well as private charter, given tickets cleared through premium lanes without identification.
00:01:26.880 And the massive distribution of illegal immigrants across America will go on for some time.
00:01:33.500 Millions more illegals are expected to cross into the United States over just the next year.
00:01:39.800 It's all in our face.
00:01:41.340 The Marxist left means to fundamentally change America,
00:01:44.900 and they aren't trying to disguise or hide any of their efforts.
00:01:48.860 Our guest today is Congressman Jim Jordan.
00:01:52.320 Congressman Jordan is a great American, one of the Republican Party's most respected leaders in the House of Representatives.
00:01:59.380 Congressman Jordan, welcome and great to have you back with us here on The Great America Show.
00:02:04.180 The Marxist Dems aren't making a secret of their designs to just tear this country up.
00:02:10.020 What will the Republicans do?
00:02:12.200 Well, a couple of things.
00:02:13.280 I guess, you know, first of all, we're still the greatest country ever in spite of Joe Biden, in spite of the Democrats, in spite of the left.
00:02:19.520 And, you know, we just celebrated 246 years since that Independence Day back on July 4th, 1776.
00:02:25.960 And it's still just an amazing country, greatest nation ever.
00:02:28.840 But you're right.
00:02:29.660 Everything this administration has done is terrible.
00:02:32.260 If, in fact, the American people put us back in power, we've got to try to do everything we can to hold the Biden administration in check, pass the legislation that needs passing.
00:02:40.700 He won't sign it.
00:02:41.560 But at least we frame it up and we show the country the difference between where Republicans would take the country and where Joe Biden and the Democrats want to go.
00:02:50.400 And then we help frame up the 2024 presidential race where, as we've talked before, Lou, I think President Trump's going to run.
00:02:57.740 I hope he does.
00:02:58.500 I want him to win because he's a guy who has proven he will do what he said, and he's truly made America great again when he was president.
00:03:05.700 And then in addition to all that, if we win this fall and four months from now, we need to also do the investigations that need to be done to just highlight to the country the facts and the truth about all the ridiculous things that the Democrats have been up to.
00:03:21.980 The ridiculous things.
00:03:23.480 They've been up to it now for six years.
00:03:25.320 We've entered actually the seventh of the Trump persecutions from the Marxist left authored by none other than Hillary Clinton.
00:03:36.440 All of these are known facts, and yet there is no accountability for the Democratic National Committee, for the Hillary Clinton campaign, for Hillary Clinton herself, for the FBI, the Department of Justice,
00:03:48.700 who were all knowledgeable about the lies and the farce that was the Russia collusion.
00:03:57.940 And we've got to do something about it because this can't just linger, lie there, fetid in history.
00:04:06.220 Yeah.
00:04:07.340 The great irony or the great injustice is no one seems to ever be held accountable from the left, like the Strzok, the Page, McCabe, Comey, Clinton.
00:04:19.020 All these people, all these people who were involved in going after President Trump.
00:04:22.760 No one ever seems to be held to account for all those actions.
00:04:25.880 But meanwhile, the Garland Justice Department is spying on moms and dads, using counterterrorism measures against parents.
00:04:32.320 And that's – it's that double standard that so bothers the American people.
00:04:37.780 And, well, it should because in our great country, it's supposed to be equal treatment under the law.
00:04:41.660 It's supposed to be the same rules for everyone.
00:04:44.240 But instead we have one set of rules for the, you know, the, quote, elite, the Clintons and the Comeys and the McCaves, and a different set of rules for us regular folks.
00:04:53.080 And it drives the country crazy, as you would expect.
00:04:58.360 So this is why I'm committed, if in fact we win, to do the investigation on the border situation, which has to be investigated.
00:05:06.280 This is intentional, what Mayorkas and Biden are doing to our southern border.
00:05:08.980 We no longer have a border.
00:05:10.360 Do the investigation needs to be done on the Justice Department's treatment of moms and dads and the political nature of the Garland-Biden administration Justice Department.
00:05:18.720 Do the investigation, Lou, on the ways the Means Committee needs to figure out exactly how did thousands of Americans' tax returns get public.
00:05:26.440 We need to know that so that it doesn't happen again.
00:05:28.780 So all those – the Hunter-Biden situation, all these things, the country deserves the truth and the facts.
00:05:35.100 And if we don't have a Justice Department that's going to hold people to account, at least we owe it to the country to give them every single fact, every single piece of evidence to show what exactly took place with these guys.
00:05:45.680 And if I may, Congressman, it's also clear that the Marxist Democrats are leading the Democratic Party, that the Democratic Party is in control of our federal government. 0.86
00:06:00.380 There is no doubt.
00:06:01.600 You talked about a two-tiered system of justice.
00:06:05.400 There's really only one, and that is the government is now the enemy of Republicans, conservatives, and independents.
00:06:13.600 And they are complicit with the Democrats.
00:06:17.260 That's the two tiers, in my opinion.
00:06:21.340 I think you're accurate here.
00:06:24.240 The scary thing is that we now have the left, which controls the Democrat Party.
00:06:29.660 The left doesn't like the country, and the left doesn't like those of us who do love the country.
00:06:33.800 And because of those two facts, they are willing to weaponize the government against it.
00:06:38.600 And we saw it with the IRS 10, 12 years ago when they targeted conservatives and folks who listen to this great podcast.
00:06:43.960 We saw it with – excuse me – with what the FBI did to President Trump five, six years ago when they targeted his campaign.
00:06:50.460 We've seen it now with the Biden Justice Department going after moms and dads who show up at school board meetings to speak up for their kids.
00:06:58.100 So the weaponization of government against the people who love the country and love what made this nation the greatest nation ever, that's what the left is out to get.
00:07:08.920 And the other thing the left doesn't like is they not only don't like the country, they don't like us, they don't like elected officials making the decision.
00:07:17.440 They want the bureaucrats. 0.63
00:07:18.720 They want the, quote, experts.
00:07:19.840 They want the Fauci's of the world making the decisions, not the people who put their name on the ballot and actually get elected to the United States Congress. 1.00
00:07:26.480 I love the idea of the investigations until I stop and I think, okay, the Republicans are going to investigate the corruption, the rampant corruption our federal government does.
00:07:38.920 Who will be doing the investigating?
00:07:40.800 That will be the Department of Justice and FBI.
00:07:45.000 How in the world can you find facts or justice when those two corrupt entities are the only ones available to the good guys even?
00:07:56.260 Well, that's – again, if we win, we will do the congressional investigations.
00:08:01.880 We will bring out the truth and the facts.
00:08:03.800 What the Garland Justice Department does is up to them.
00:08:06.100 I don't know that they'll press and do the things that you and I would want them to do or, frankly, the things that weren't being done.
00:08:13.580 But what I do know is if we do the – if we point out the facts and the truth to the American people, that just adds more weight to the decision in 2024 about who's going to be our next president.
00:08:23.220 And I think that will just reinforce the focus and the push to make sure President Trump is back in the Oval Office leading this great nation.
00:08:31.040 And then when he can then put in place the right attorney general at the Justice Department who's going to do what needs to be done.
00:08:39.120 That's the way the American political system works.
00:08:41.640 And, frankly, if you want to make real change, particularly in the modern American politics, you want to exact real change in the country, you have to have the White House.
00:08:49.360 You have to have the executive branch.
00:08:51.140 And so I think a lot of what we're going to have to do is frame up that 2024 race when President Trump – I think he's going to run so that – we frame it up so that he can – he has a better chance of winning.
00:09:02.120 I think he's going to win, and then we can do the things that need to be done.
00:09:07.640 I, as you know, want Donald J. Trump back in the White House as much as anyone in this country.
00:09:15.660 My great, deep, and rising concern is that we don't have until 2024.
00:09:22.140 Look at the damage that Joe Biden has done in 18 months.
00:09:26.960 We have almost three years to go before 2024.
00:09:32.120 I don't know if the country can survive these Marxist Dems, what they've done with the deep state, working with the complicity of the corporate news media.
00:09:43.960 We have no choice but to win 2022.
00:09:49.000 We're in – we have just crossed a very difficult, difficult divide.
00:09:55.960 Yeah.
00:09:56.680 No, I think I may have shared this with you before, Lou.
00:09:59.000 This was several months ago.
00:10:00.560 But – so then it would only have been a few months of Biden in office, and I was doing a little kind of small little town hall type of event.
00:10:07.120 And there was an older lady in her 80s sitting on the front row, and she finally knew the end of the event, spoke up. 0.93
00:10:13.880 And she actually had kind of – her eyes were kind of glassy-eyed, kind of teary-eyed almost.
00:10:18.340 And she looked at me, and she said, I never thought it could get this bad this fast.
00:10:23.120 And that is the sentiment of so many Americans.
00:10:25.580 And it's scary when you look at literally, and as you point out, Lou, in 18 months, we went from a secure border under President Trump to now complete chaos where we have no border at all.
00:10:36.440 We went from stable pricing to the 41-year high inflation – highest inflation we've seen in four decades.
00:10:42.500 We went from safe streets to crime up in every major urban area, and we went from energy independence to now $5 gas in most states, $6 gas in some places.
00:10:52.860 And the president of the United States begging OPEC, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela to increase production all while he tells Americans, suck it up, get used to it.
00:11:01.440 This is someone else's fault.
00:11:02.480 I mean, that is what has happened in 18 months.
00:11:05.300 So you're right.
00:11:05.840 This is serious.
00:11:06.820 It is bad.
00:11:08.120 But, again, the answer is you get – the way it works in our great system is you put new people in office.
00:11:13.480 If Republicans take back control of the Congress, we can put a check on Joe Biden as best we can.
00:11:17.940 And then we get through it.
00:11:19.560 American – we get through it like Americans always do, and we get to the next presidential election.
00:11:24.320 I want to conclude with a question about Joe Biden, and that is, are you shocked, surprised?
00:11:33.800 What was your reaction when his director of the Economic Council, the National Economic Council, declared outright that we're going to have to just suck it up, basically, deal with these high gasoline prices,
00:11:51.880 all in support of the liberal world order.
00:11:56.020 These are one-worlders.
00:11:58.420 I mean, this is an extraordinary statement by the Biden administration, not qualified, not in any way withdrawn, that they are about one-world government.
00:12:11.440 It's that simple.
00:12:12.800 And what in the world are we to do?
00:12:15.460 Yeah, it's just an attitude that so frustrates, I think, so many Americans, Lou.
00:12:22.840 It's this attitude that the elites who are in power are so much smarter and better.
00:12:27.720 Remember when Buttigieg said, oh, if gas goes to $4 a gallon, just buy an electric vehicle,
00:12:33.800 as if every American in the heartland who – in farming and construction and trucking, as if they could all afford electric vehicles.
00:12:39.980 And Colbert said, I don't care if gas goes to $15 a gallon because I drive a Tesla.
00:12:44.460 Well, not everyone can drive a Tesla.
00:12:45.780 So this is this elitist, arrogant attitude that they have, that they're so much smarter and better than us country folk who live in the heartland where people actually do go to work every day.
00:13:00.480 So that's what I think bugs Americans so much.
00:13:04.580 And frankly, though, I think it's the reason they're going to lose, this arrogance and this idea that we don't care what the facts are.
00:13:11.560 We're going to just suck it up and pay $5 for a gallon of gas and make it tough on your – 1.00
00:13:15.960 and that attitude is going to be what's going to cost them and why Republicans are going to win this midterm election.
00:13:21.840 And with that forecast, which we hope is as accurate as it can possibly be, Congressman, we appreciate your time.
00:13:33.460 We always give our guests the last word.
00:13:37.220 And if you will, your concluding thoughts on where we are today.
00:13:41.400 It's a great country.
00:13:42.540 We've had a Supreme Court that, you know, God bless them.
00:13:45.320 They basically said over the last several weeks with these key decisions that came down that the Constitution means what it says.
00:13:52.320 And I had a chance to call President Trump a week ago, and I thanked him.
00:13:56.560 I said, Mr. President, these great decisions from this court do not happen if you're not president.
00:14:03.280 If you're not willing to put up the kind of people you said you were going to put up for the court, if you're not willing to stick with them when they lied about Justice Kavanaugh,
00:14:09.660 so many other presidents would have backed away from Justice Kavanaugh after what the left tried to do to him.
00:14:13.700 But President Trump hung tough, and I told President Trump, this is part of your legacy, this decision on the life and the sanctity of human life.
00:14:21.760 So it's a great country in spite of the left, and we need to keep that attitude as we move forward and head into this midterm election.
00:14:31.200 Congressman, thanks so much.
00:14:32.460 We appreciate you being with us, and we appreciate those words.
00:14:36.300 Thanks so much, and God bless you.
00:14:37.920 Take care.
00:14:38.880 You too.
00:14:39.260 Congressman Jim Jordan, great Republican leader, great American.
00:14:44.720 And now we welcome to the show Dr. Mamet Oz, also a great American, and Dr. Oz is running for the Senate in the great state of Pennsylvania.
00:14:53.840 He's in the battle for the Senate seat with one of the most left-wing radical politicians in the country, Democrat Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman.
00:15:03.020 Dr. Oz, you won one of the toughest primary battles in the country.
00:15:07.800 Now you're in a tough campaign with less than four months to go before the big election in November.
00:15:13.040 You've succeeded throughout your life.
00:15:15.440 So what's driving you now as you campaign across a very big, diverse, and great state of Pennsylvania?
00:15:22.920 Thank you for the kind words.
00:15:24.220 And I recognize that we spend a lot of time as Republicans picking the right candidate to represent us, and I'm honored with that opportunity.
00:15:32.760 My opponent in this race did not have to have a difficult primary, so he's been sitting on his heels collecting money, getting ready to come against me.
00:15:41.000 So we have some strategic needs.
00:15:44.000 The most important goal in any campaign is to get the word out.
00:15:47.740 So that's where a lot of our effort will be spent.
00:15:50.000 But let me talk about the strategy high level, and then for folks who are curious, there's all kinds of different ways you win these races.
00:15:57.120 And I'll say up front that I think I'm a better candidate.
00:16:01.400 So the issues that he's going to run on I don't think will help as much this cycle because so much of what dominates the attention of Pennsylvanians is inflation because they're robbing our savings, especially seniors.
00:16:15.200 There's energy prices, which is, you know, we're an energy state.
00:16:18.280 We have more natural gas under my feet here than we'd ever could use in 200 years in America.
00:16:23.940 And yet we're paying over $5 a gallon like everyone is on average in America.
00:16:28.140 That's become a catastrophe because it also hurts our communities.
00:16:31.600 So we're hurting our people, paying more for the right to not have employment in our communities, and then compromising our national security.
00:16:39.920 None of this makes sense in Pennsylvanians.
00:16:41.640 Crime is a massive problem in Philadelphia.
00:16:45.200 We broke the record for all-time murders last year.
00:16:47.760 We might exceed it this year.
00:16:49.120 There's a recall taking place for the district attorney whose name is Krasner.
00:16:53.340 He was elected based on George Soros funding, and he has been against the cops being able to do their jobs, which, of course, destroys their morale.
00:17:02.640 Not a new story for the country.
00:17:04.620 It's happened in San Francisco where they recall the DA in L.A. and New York.
00:17:07.980 But the fact that it's happening to this degree in Philadelphia, which is the largest poor city in America, right?
00:17:13.540 It's the fourth number four city, but has had fiscal challenges, which makes crime even that more likely.
00:17:21.160 And finally, people are furious about the border, which is porous, and together with the human trafficking that's made a ton of money for the cartels, they're now bringing opiates across, which led to 100,000 deaths.
00:17:32.220 And one of the drug capitals of the country is in Philadelphia, a place called Kensington, and people here all know about it.
00:17:41.160 They're following it.
00:17:41.840 They're wondering, why can't the liberals figure this out?
00:17:44.040 And I tell them whenever I give my rallies, and I did this morning, they have no agenda for prosperity.
00:17:49.940 They're not taking us to the promised land.
00:17:52.380 There's no shining city on the hill in their stories.
00:17:56.660 And I think, although many argue that it's dimmed, if we look in the eyes of Pennsylvanians, you see just as much brightness as it has ever been there.
00:18:04.060 So I'm optimistic Pennsylvanians know that we have it in us, and that we can talk about why the liberals have lost confidence in us.
00:18:11.260 The polls show most of the countries lost confidence in the Biden presidency.
00:18:15.740 Almost eight in 10 now say the country's headed in the wrong direction.
00:18:20.280 What you're describing in Pennsylvania is happening all across the country.
00:18:24.220 Sky-high inflation, sky-high prices for gasoline.
00:18:28.600 We know diesel prices are through the roof, but now we're hearing talk of shortages of diesel fuel in various places across the country.
00:18:36.400 All these shortages, whether food, fuel, or baby formula, are tied to the Marxist-dimmed policies of this puppet president.
00:18:44.920 Well, Lou, you're the first person who's brought up the shortages issue with me.
00:18:49.580 I brought it up of late only because I began hearing about it over the last week.
00:18:54.220 Companies that make big stores for distribution centers, trucking companies, they're telling me what you're saying now, which is their primary source of fuel doesn't have fuel anymore.
00:19:07.060 So they're going to second or tertiary or quaternary sources of fuel.
00:19:10.460 This is probably, you have to drive a long way to get to those sources.
00:19:13.160 And then fuel oil, which they need, obviously, just to put the engines, that's in short supply.
00:19:18.120 And what I was shocked by is the narrative that this is all caused because greedy energy companies are raising prices.
00:19:26.000 And this came up yesterday at an event that I was at, and that person blamed the industry.
00:19:30.320 I said, ma'am, you're right that energy companies are raising prices.
00:19:33.020 They're doing it because they can't find enough energy.
00:19:34.940 And so the realities of supply and demand are if you don't have the energy, you're going to charge more for it.
00:19:41.040 So people have to pay extra.
00:19:43.260 But if we had enough energy, which we controlled, Joe Biden specifically could allow us to drill in federal lands, which you and I and everyone listening controls and owns.
00:19:50.820 If we could access those federal lands, that's one third of all energy in the country.
00:19:54.340 It would actually help with these energy prices.
00:19:56.380 It would immediately signal that there's a desire by the U.S. government to procure more energy.
00:20:01.480 But we're sending the opposite signs and signals out there.
00:20:04.920 And I only bring this up because I can already tell my own campaign that's going to be narrative because my opponent, John Fetterman, who's never worked in a private sector job, doesn't understand the machinery of how countries run and how companies run.
00:20:19.700 You have to be able to show up at work on time and make payroll and hire and fire people.
00:20:23.840 These are challenges.
00:20:24.640 And because he doesn't understand it, nor does Joe Biden, you end up with these big government solutions that do not fare well.
00:20:33.080 But they're already throwing out this story that it's greedy companies once again taking apart American savings.
00:20:40.780 And it's class warfare.
00:20:42.320 It's not right.
00:20:44.080 Class warfare, as you know, is a hallmark of the Marxist Dems.
00:20:47.380 Biden obviously believes he can get away with destroying family budgets, effectively pricing our working men and women and their families right out of the American dream.
00:20:57.820 Tens of millions of Americans are in deep financial pain right now because of the Marxist Dems who know nothing about economics or business.
00:21:07.840 I think part of it, again, my job is to give America a dose of reality, just using my medical credentials.
00:21:15.400 And I do that in part by just trying to figure out, you know, why would he do this?
00:21:19.360 And I'm an outsider.
00:21:20.540 You know, I bring my Pennsylvania values to these equations.
00:21:22.780 I imagine, you know, I've never been in politics before, as you know.
00:21:25.760 So I'm just looking at it from my perspective.
00:21:28.280 I think Joe Biden has lost confidence in the ingenuity of the American people.
00:21:32.060 He no longer trusts in our grit.
00:21:34.100 And if you don't trust in the ingenuity and the innovativeness and the grit of Americans, you don't trust in America.
00:21:40.080 And that's why, you know, build back better.
00:21:42.420 I mean, the only thing he's building back better is the Republican Party.
00:21:44.980 And my opponent, John Fetterman, is further to the left of Joe Biden, pulling him to the left.
00:21:50.020 He's, you know, he endorsed Bernie Sanders.
00:21:52.660 He actually said that he and Sanders are the two most progressive candidates in the country.
00:21:56.860 They both believe in socialized medicine and, you know, Medicare for all.
00:22:00.920 Now, very risky propositions, and the government has not been impressive in how it's managed a lot of the challenges we face,
00:22:07.060 ranging from COVID to our energy industry, as you mentioned.
00:22:10.820 But it gets worse than that.
00:22:12.680 I mean, he's soft on crime in that he wants to release one-third of the prison population.
00:22:17.140 And I'm thinking, how can you do that when we had 562 murders in Philadelphia last year and for safe streets?
00:22:23.600 He wants to open the borders and have sanctuary cities.
00:22:26.200 I want a secure border, and I don't want cartels profiting off Americans and running drugs across.
00:22:32.000 He wants a government take over medicine.
00:22:34.240 I say, no way.
00:22:35.360 I want nothing between you and your doctor.
00:22:37.640 And then the worst, in some ways, is education, where they do not believe that parents should be driving choice of schools or the value is taught in those schools.
00:22:47.380 And parents in – I'm talking about parents from the inner city, you know, urban Philadelphia, to the most rural parts of Pennsylvania.
00:22:53.940 They do not like giving up the safety of their children ideologically to people who have not proven themselves to be trustworthy.
00:23:02.040 Whether we're talking about teachers' unions or the Marxist-dim mayors of our largest cities, they're destroying public education.
00:23:09.680 They've created our highest crime rates in decades.
00:23:12.940 In my opinion, the Democrat Party has gone mad, whether local government or federal.
00:23:18.300 Well, if any government is strong enough to give you everything, it's powerful enough to take it all the way.
00:23:22.320 And that's what I think more and more Pennsylvanians, anyway, are appreciative of.
00:23:26.740 And we need change.
00:23:27.700 And the question is, who are the experienced fighters against special interests who can accomplish this?
00:23:33.540 I mean, as you know, I fought big pharma, big tech, big agrochemical companies that took on the U.S. government.
00:23:37.780 I have the scars to prove it.
00:23:39.180 And I cannot be bought.
00:23:40.400 There are others like me who are coming forward.
00:23:42.760 Now, many out of the private sector are like me who never thought they'd be running for government.
00:23:46.240 But we felt compelled because we sensed the national anxiety.
00:23:49.580 But here's the good news.
00:23:50.920 I know that, you know, you tend to focus on the fixes, solution-oriented.
00:23:55.860 I think what's holding us back is the belief that we can take it back.
00:24:00.180 This is not what anyone ideologically thought was even possible 25 years ago.
00:24:04.680 Certainly when I was in school, I didn't think I'd be having these conversations.
00:24:07.560 And if I look back in history, it's happened before during crises.
00:24:11.620 What's surprising this time around is that we haven't given the Republicans confidence that they can say what they say.
00:24:17.380 And what I tell audiences is, and I know this is, in my case, I played football in college.
00:24:22.500 And just before we ran out in the field, they played the national anthem.
00:24:25.640 So I wasn't focused on the last few words.
00:24:27.960 You know, it's home of the brave.
00:24:30.000 And bravery is actually the last word, not freedom, because you have to be brave to be free.
00:24:34.360 You won't be free if you're not brave.
00:24:35.740 This is a time that tries men's souls. 0.85
00:24:38.300 It's more than ever, we have to be brave enough to say what we see, even though we risk getting canceled,
00:24:42.600 supporting our families, making sure they know what we know in our hearts to be true.
00:24:45.720 I mean, I just saw Leah Thomas, the Penn swimmer, who self-identifies as a female.
00:24:50.660 She won all the NCAA tournaments, but the international group, that federation,
00:24:55.720 is not letting her or other transgender athletes compete with women.
00:25:00.880 They're saying biologic men should not play against women.
00:25:03.780 Because you can't change who you are that quickly.
00:25:07.540 You know, if you've already gotten, you know, the big muscles and the wingspan, no one thinks that's fair.
00:25:14.420 And yet no one, not the NCAA, not my alma mater Penn, did anything about it.
00:25:19.320 It took the parents of these kids to step forward.
00:25:22.400 And Democrats, conservative Democrats, independents, Republicans, all feel it wasn't right.
00:25:28.260 I don't want to hurt transgender folks. 0.94
00:25:30.440 I want them to be happy and fulfilled in their lives.
00:25:32.560 But there's a wronged party here.
00:25:34.740 Those young women who spent all those years going to swimming pool races at 6 in the morning with their parents,
00:25:39.920 driving them banklessly.
00:25:41.220 And now the parents are the ones that have to stick up and say, wait a minute, my daughter didn't get a chance.
00:25:44.840 She got chipped out of a medal because someone who's not physically, that was the whole purpose of Title IX, right?
00:25:50.400 It was to allow women the opportunity to excel, to know what it feels like to be the best.
00:25:55.360 And you're taking that away.
00:25:57.060 The world once thought of Americans as hardworking and genius and plain speaking.
00:26:02.360 But I don't think that's any longer the case.
00:26:04.400 The Marxist Dems use our language to obfuscate every issue, every policy, instead of clarifying.
00:26:11.320 The Republican Party should be the party of clarity and specificity and straight talk because nothing,
00:26:17.760 nothing scares the radical left in this country more than honesty, common sense, directness, decency and clarity.
00:26:25.460 Well, thank you.
00:26:26.400 I like the way that you specify the radical left Dems because I'm talking to a lot of Democrats in Pennsylvania.
00:26:33.180 Obviously, it's a purple state.
00:26:35.640 And they're not happy.
00:26:37.260 This is not what they signed up for.
00:26:38.800 There are other issues that they're proud of in the Democratic Party that, as a Republican, we can argue about.
00:26:44.660 And, you know, I can see their point and vice versa.
00:26:47.100 But no one likes hurting our children, even if it's done inadvertently.
00:26:51.360 No one likes making rules that are made to grandstand, to virtue signal.
00:26:55.260 In fact, quite often the largest companies that take the strongest stands on these issues are the ones that have the most to hide.
00:27:00.840 They have the most guilt, which is why they're doing these things.
00:27:03.660 And this is a bigger concern.
00:27:06.500 We want to make decisions as a democracy.
00:27:09.440 So if we decide – I'll give you an example.
00:27:11.560 If we decide that energy companies are hurting the environment and we want to pass rules to govern how they're doing those things, that's one thing.
00:27:18.940 But if you purposely delay permits so they can't work, that doesn't help anybody.
00:27:24.700 That causes unemployment.
00:27:26.880 Well-meaning Americans are not allowed to trust the rule of law.
00:27:31.640 The companies are unfairly treated as their shareholders.
00:27:34.500 Again, if you want to shut them down, decide to shut them down.
00:27:36.940 Be overt in it.
00:27:37.820 Say it.
00:27:38.260 And then everyone can talk about it.
00:27:39.660 Don't do it backhandedly.
00:27:41.540 And likewise, they're now going to financial institutions and making it – that's shilling this institution.
00:27:47.920 They're not letting them loan money to these endeavors.
00:27:51.060 Again, as an American, you say, okay, I've decided that natural gas is a force for good because it actually reduces our carbon footprint and protects our environment better than anything else we could do.
00:28:03.920 We don't have enough of the renewables yet.
00:28:05.460 So we've all agreed we're going to go forward.
00:28:06.800 Well, then you have to let the banks loan to them.
00:28:09.140 You can't shame funding institutions.
00:28:11.240 Otherwise, you're not – that's what communist countries do.
00:28:13.940 They won't make the law.
00:28:15.360 They'll make it impossible for what they don't want to happen to happen.
00:28:18.280 Dr. Oz, I want to ask you your thoughts about the integrity, the security of this upcoming election, whether voters can count on an election in Pennsylvania or nationwide that isn't rigged by the left.
00:28:30.860 Well, we need voter ID here.
00:28:33.040 Most people, Republicans and Democrats, realize that it's important.
00:28:37.420 And unfortunately, we've not been able to get it through a Democratic governor.
00:28:41.360 But that will hopefully change when we elect a Republican in the fall.
00:28:45.300 There are other tactics we're focusing in on to make sure that there is election integrity.
00:28:51.380 It's impossible to make any election perfect.
00:28:55.540 But we all owe it to each other, and Republicans especially, because we're the party of solutions.
00:29:01.160 So my father told me when I was a young boy when he told me we were Republicans because Republicans have better ideas.
00:29:05.900 We need better ideas for broader integrity to ensure that signatures are verified, that the ballots are actually submitted by the person who filled them out, that there's not harvesting of ballots.
00:29:15.320 But there's a lot of programs now, our campaign and others are at the national party level, pursuing to make sure that the elections are fair.
00:29:24.800 We don't want anything, you know, there's no favoritism here.
00:29:27.580 Just trying to do it right so everyone feels that their vote's worth exactly the same, but no more than anyone else's vote.
00:29:32.620 I'm optimistic we'll get there, but certainly in Pennsylvania we need a few changes to make everyone more comfortable.
00:29:38.160 That's only going to happen if we have Republican leadership.
00:29:40.960 Well, Dr. Oz, we expect you to be part of that leadership.
00:29:44.180 We know you have some hard battles ahead of you in the fight against these Marxist Dems.
00:29:49.160 We thank you for all you're trying to do for this country and wish you the best of luck.
00:29:54.280 We're looking forward to our next discussion.
00:29:56.820 Thanks for being with us and God bless you.
00:29:59.620 Thanks, everybody, for being with us.
00:30:01.300 Our next episode features a great American who's making a difference in assuring electoral security this fall.
00:30:07.800 MyPillow's Mike Lindell will be our guest Monday leading off the week.
00:30:12.520 Please join us and have a great weekend.
00:30:15.540 God bless you and God bless America.