The Great America Show - KARI LAKE SAYS BIDEN GAVE U.S. BORDER TO NARCO TERRORISTS

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

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

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

00:00:14.460 Hello, everybody, and God bless America. And you, thanks for being with us today.

00:00:20.100 We're having quite a day here on the Great America Show. We set all sorts of audience

00:00:24.180 records with our interview of President Trump. Perhaps I should rephrase that statement just

00:00:29.700 slightly. President Trump set all sorts of audience records here on the Great America

00:00:35.420 Show. And by that, I mean, he blew the doors off. Man, oh, man, it's one thing to see those huge

00:00:40.480 rallies on television, the crowds he draws, but it's quite another to see those big audiences

00:00:47.660 tune in and keep coming to this podcast. It was just amazing. As a matter of fact, I've always

00:00:53.700 known his innate media power. The left-wing corporate media is still struggling in the

00:00:59.640 ratings without him in the White House, believe me. But to see it in action with our audience was

00:01:04.860 simply a hoot. And President Trump still has it, believe you me. And Mr. President, if you're

00:01:10.300 listening, thank you again. And what are you doing next Tuesday? We've got some space here on the

00:01:16.560 podcast. It was great to talk with him. And if you missed our interview, just go to the list of our

00:01:21.640 episodes and click on President Trump on Biden, RINOs, and winning. You really will enjoy hearing

00:01:29.060 the president again in top form, high energy, straight talk, always putting America first.

00:01:35.180 And yes, you'll miss him more than ever, not being on the White House right now.

00:01:38.760 And man, do we need him badly. So today's podcast is all about politics, and in part about how

00:01:45.500 President Trump is working hard to shape the 2022 campaigns and elections, and primary and defeat

00:01:53.320 as many RINOs as possible. And then in the general election in November, put as many of those radical

00:01:58.960 Dems in the ditch as possible, and put as many America first Republicans in the House and Senate as

00:02:04.780 possible. Of course, all the House seats are up for election this midterm. There are 15 Republicans

00:02:09.900 up for election in the Senate, 13 Democrats. The Republicans say they're confident they'll take

00:02:15.900 control of the House, even though they have more seats up for election than the Democrats. They say

00:02:21.280 they have a good chance to win the Senate as well. And by the way, history does favor the Republicans

00:02:26.940 as well this year. Over the last three quarters of a century, the incumbent president's party has lost

00:02:34.180 on average in the midterm elections 26 seats in the House, and four seats in the Senate. If history

00:02:40.740 holds true, the Republicans will retake both the House and the Senate in the November elections,

00:02:46.020 nine months from now. And one of those Democrat seats is in Arizona, where incumbent Dem Senator

00:02:54.420 Mark Kelly is going up against the winner of the GOP primary, the general election is expected to be very,

00:03:01.220 very close. There's no incumbent in the Arizona race for governor, but the Republicans have a crowded,

00:03:07.540 lively primary contest lined up for us. And with us today, the candidate endorsed by President Trump.

00:03:14.180 She appeared with the president at his recent Arizona rally. She's considered the front runner for

00:03:18.980 the GOP nomination in that primary contest. She's a Trump fan, a MAGA candidate, and a great American

00:03:27.060 who's not a professional career politician, but she is America first all the way. Welcome Carrie 1.00

00:03:33.540 late to the great America show. Carrie, great to have you with us. Thanks for being so honored to be

00:03:38.980 on Lou. I've always watched your show. I've been a fan of yours for a long time, and I'm just so glad

00:03:44.180 you're back in action. I am a professional American. That's how I would like to myself.

00:03:50.020 I like it. And the Trump Republican. Well, that's wonderful too. And I think it's a great combination.

00:03:58.580 And you were, let me say, unabashedly, you were terrific at the rally. It was just a terrific

00:04:08.260 rally for the president and for you. And good luck to you in this primary and the race.

00:04:14.180 The energy was so amazing at that rally, Lou. I hope it came across through the airwaves because

00:04:21.380 in person, it was so strong, so loving. The people to get to Florence, Arizona,

00:04:28.740 you probably don't understand it if you don't live in Arizona. It's a good hour,

00:04:32.500 hour and a half drive for most locations. They sat in 20 mile of line traffic. They parked a half

00:04:40.340 mile away. They walked. It was cold and windy and they stayed for hours. The love for this president,

00:04:46.340 the love for America first, and the principles behind it is so deep. I can't tell anybody,

00:04:53.540 tell you anybody I'd wait that long to see other than President Trump. It's truly amazing.

00:04:58.820 Until people see it, to see it expressed. These rallies from 2015 forward have been exactly the same.

00:05:11.940 Overwhelming, always surprisingly huge. And as you said, energetic, loving, the spirit is amazing.

00:05:20.420 And you kind of scratch your head of what happened in 2020, but we'll figure that out another day.

00:05:27.700 The president was great here. We talked with him recently. And man, he's still got it. The numbers,

00:05:36.180 those ratings, I wasn't kidding. He can have top billing and sit down next to me every day,

00:05:44.740 Monday through Friday, should he like. I do hear he's got lots of other things to do though, darn it. 0.97

00:05:50.660 Let's turn to your race. This is, first of all, how did you decide a professional broadcaster, 0.96

00:05:58.820 the top anchor in Phoenix for 20 years? How did you decide to take this on?

00:06:05.940 Well, I've been covering Arizona, the people, the issues for 27 years, 22 at the Fox station,

00:06:12.420 number one, top rated, top paid, had a great career. But I was becoming increasingly disillusioned

00:06:20.900 and disappointed with where journalism was going. It became activism, leftist activism. And during

00:06:26.580 COVID, it became not so much unethical and biased. I've really started to feel it was immoral,

00:06:33.460 the work that was being done to divide this country, to scare people into their homes,

00:06:37.540 to refuse to give any information that could help people get better. And I just decided I

00:06:42.980 no longer want to lend my voice, my spirit, my heart, my mind to this immoral line of work.

00:06:49.700 And so it was difficult, but I walked away from a large paycheck and a comfortable life and just said,

00:06:54.820 I'd rather do anything else, just something that is helping my community. And when I left,

00:07:00.500 I put out a video telling the people of Arizona why I was leaving. And it was amazing. Overnight,

00:07:05.860 that video went viral and hundreds, thousands of people, Lou, reached out and said, we're going

00:07:10.100 to miss you. We appreciate you. The coverage was always fair. We understand why you're leaving,

00:07:15.300 but would you consider running for office? We need some honest politicians with integrity.

00:07:20.900 And it wasn't just one or two, it was dozens upon dozens of people stopping me on the street when I

00:07:25.700 was walking or, you know, going to the grocery store. And so I finally felt like maybe I need to look

00:07:31.220 into this with enough people reaching out, asking me to be a politician and run to help turn this

00:07:37.940 state around. And I talked to a few people who I respected. I looked at the field of people running

00:07:43.460 and it was full of lobbyists and career politicians, rhinos. And I realized looking at the field of 0.74

00:07:50.500 Republicans running, if I don't run, we're going to lose in November and we're going to turn blue.

00:07:55.940 We're going to turn into a socialist state like California with the people on the left who are

00:07:59.940 running. And I really felt like it was my duty to take my relationship with the people of Arizona,

00:08:06.580 my love for this state. I don't want to rent a U-Haul and load up my family and look for another

00:08:13.780 red state with common sense. We're going to do everything we can to save it. So I threw my hat

00:08:17.620 into the ring and we are, we're just going gangbusters. I mean, we've got President Trump's

00:08:22.420 endorsement, General Michael Flynn. We have Paul Gosar, some of the great people behind the America

00:08:30.180 First movement, Mike Lindell, of course, and many, many others, Larry Elder. Many others are supporting

00:08:35.940 our candidacy because they know I will represent the people of Arizona, the hardworking people of

00:08:40.660 Arizona, and put Arizona's needs first. And I'm just amazed at the movement we have.

00:08:47.460 Lou, young people are becoming conservative in record numbers. We have so many young people,

00:08:54.100 part of our movement, that are worried about the direction this country is going.

00:08:58.340 And I'm thrilled with it. We're up more than 30 points. The other people are, you know,

00:09:02.100 you add up everybody else and you double what they've got and we're still up.

00:09:05.060 Well, I'd say that's a pretty good position to be in, Gary. I like hearing that. I also like the fact

00:09:14.820 that you're not a career politician. I also like the fact that you're a broadcaster. And by the way,

00:09:22.660 I don't know if you know this, but my first big assignment, big job was at KBLU TV in Yuma, Arizona.

00:09:33.140 And I have to tell you, I love that job. I love that part of the state. I love the whole state.

00:09:40.580 But Arizona, that high desert, I tell you what, a great, great way to grow up in the business.

00:09:46.820 Oh, it's a beautiful, beautiful, wonderful state. And geographically, we have everything. We've got

00:09:52.180 tall Ponderosa pines. We have low deserts. It's just, it's such a spectacular state. We've got

00:09:59.380 agriculture, ranching, mining. We have everything. And we just need to start focusing on Arizona and

00:10:06.180 making sure that we can protect our state from the government because the federal government has

00:10:10.660 completely dropped the ball at our border. I covered the state for 27 years. I've never seen that border

00:10:16.260 more secure and effective than under President Trump. And then Joe Biden comes in on day one,

00:10:22.020 and it's really an assault on the people of Arizona, what he's done.

00:10:25.860 Yeah. When I was a cub reporter, that border was a mess. We had the Chavistas. We had 1.00

00:10:35.300 Green Carders crossing from Mexico to come up and do work in citrus. And drug dealers moving

00:10:43.540 marijuana, cocaine, you name it, across that border, just as they are today. And I think about

00:10:51.700 that 50 years has gone by and the problem is only worsened rather than improved. And that's

00:10:57.940 horrible. And that's wrong because, as you said, President Trump had had the bad guys on the run.

00:11:03.540 He took on the cartels directly. And I was also thinking of another thing you just said,

00:11:08.500 uh, and maybe we'll sort of explain things about President Trump, uh, not being a professional

00:11:16.180 career politician. He had both parties scared to death of him. Uh, and it took, and it took a lot

00:11:24.500 out of him to those intramural fights with the rhinos, the fights with the disloyal opposition,

00:11:31.380 the Democrats, uh, and the deep state. What are you finding in terms of the flack you're taking,

00:11:38.100 the incoming, the opposition, because you are not a career politician?

00:11:43.380 Well, thank, thank God that President Trump kind of paved the way because I don't know that anybody

00:11:48.500 else would have the guts to get in this, but we saw what they did to him. They're doing the same

00:11:52.260 thing to me. I've got the, the swamp. We have a huge swamp by the way, here in the desert, believe it or

00:11:57.540 not. And I've got the, the McCain establishment types, the Ducey establishment types. They're all

00:12:03.140 coming after me that I have the left coming after me every day, Lou. We've got the, you know,

00:12:09.460 corrupt media in Arizona and frankly, all over the country, reaching out to us, trying to do another

00:12:14.180 hit piece on us. They're trying to call us all these slurs, racist, not, you know, the typical

00:12:19.140 Nazi stuff, but people are onto it. They're over the mainstream media. And I'm just to a point where I

00:12:26.980 don't care what they say about me. The people of Arizona know me. They invited me into their home

00:12:32.020 for 27 years every night. I was in their living room. Sometimes they watched me from their bedroom.

00:12:38.100 Doesn't get more intimate than that. And they know I'm not what these newspapers are calling me.

00:12:43.620 They're scared to death of us because they know that we are an existential threat. The establishment

00:12:48.420 is on its last gasps of air and they have to either realize that America first is here to stay 0.51

00:12:55.460 and work with us or move on. But we're not going to have a bunch of rhinos leading us into the ditch 1.00

00:13:01.840 anymore. The American people have wised up and so have the people of Arizona. And Joe Biden has

00:13:08.740 actually talked about the best thing that could happen to the Republican party. People are not just

00:13:13.800 walking away from the Democrat party. They're running away from it now. And I say, we welcome each and

00:13:19.380 every one of them, open arms, welcome to the party of common sense of ideas that work and

00:13:25.060 of a pathway forward. But it's stuff that you've been talking about, Lou, even before President

00:13:30.660 Trump came on the scene. When are we going to start putting the American worker first?

00:13:34.820 When are we going to start putting the American family first and stop selling out 1.00

00:13:38.340 our country, our companies to China? China is nothing without us. And the minute we walk away from them 0.94

00:13:45.380 and say, we're taking a manufacturing back, we're taking our companies back, and we're going to start

00:13:49.780 things back up here in Arizona or whatever state. They will crumble without us. They will crumble

00:13:57.380 without us. And we just need bold leaders who are not afraid. And I don't want to be a politician. I

00:14:02.580 got into this to save Arizona because I love the people of the state. And so I'm not trying to get

00:14:07.620 fame. I've already had that. I'm not trying to get rich. You don't get rich in politics unless you're

00:14:12.820 corrupt. I'm truly doing this for the noblest of reasons, because I want to save the state

00:14:18.260 from bad actors who want to drive us into the ground and who are using their greed to help their

00:14:26.260 buddies. My buddies are the people of Arizona. That's who I want to help. Good for you. And you're

00:14:33.060 at the epicenter of the north side of border corruption, Texas and New Mexico and Arizona,

00:14:43.220 California. Those states are right on the front line. Their whole country, in point of fact,

00:14:49.540 is now beset by the drug cartels, the MS-13s, the Dominicans, you name the gangs that are

00:14:57.620 carrying drugs, sex trafficking, you name it, and death and destruction and devastation to

00:15:02.980 this country. It's time for people to understand the establishment is really one bird with two

00:15:12.260 wings, the Republicans and the Democrats. And the only thing we do get from that is the bird,

00:15:19.300 if you're a working man and woman and your family is dependent upon your efforts. The Republicans need

00:15:26.260 to quit talking about family values and support the American family. It's madness what we're doing to

00:15:31.460 ourselves in this country and letting others do to us, including those cartels. It's terrible. Joe

00:15:37.460 Biden handed over control of our border to the narco terrorists. And they're a lot worse than 1.00

00:15:43.220 they were probably 50 years ago when you were down in Yuma, a lot worse there. They're working with

00:15:47.620 China. China's bringing fentanyl in to Mexico, using Mexico to traffic it up through Arizona. 40% of the

00:15:54.420 the drugs are coming in from Arizona. We've got human smuggling, child trafficking, and we don't want

00:16:00.020 to have that stain here in Arizona. We don't want to be known as the gateway to fentanyl, which has been

00:16:06.500 pushed in from China to poison this country and weaken this country. We have a national security crisis 1.00

00:16:13.140 and a humanitarian crisis at our border. And Joe Biden's looking the other way. He's part and parcel to

00:16:19.380 this. And he frankly has blood on his hands. I was just talking to a rancher at the border about a

00:16:24.420 month ago. He said, Carrie, since Biden took office, I found four dead bodies on my property.

00:16:30.020 It's terrible what's happening. We've, we have to stand up. And that's why I released my border plan.

00:16:34.900 And I, you know, you've probably heard of Ken Cuccinelli. I think you probably had him on your

00:16:38.180 show before. He's got a tough border plan. We have a tough border plan, much like his, but it's more

00:16:43.380 Arizona centric. And we're going to take on the federal government. They failed us. They failed

00:16:49.140 us. They're not protecting us. Like they're required to do in the U S constitution, article

00:16:53.700 four, section four, the guarantee clause, they're supposed to protect us from invasion. And they

00:16:59.220 have dropped the ball. And I think they've done it intentionally. And there's a remedy right there

00:17:04.340 in that beautiful document, article one, section 10, we need to protect ourselves. And we're going to do

00:17:10.820 that the day I take office, I will lift my hand from taking the oval law or the oath of office.

00:17:16.820 And I will issue a declaration of invasion. And we're going to get the ball rolling. We're going

00:17:21.460 to form an interstate compact with Texas and other states. Cause frankly, you, you said it,

00:17:26.260 all of us are border States now with what's happening. And we're going to start arresting

00:17:32.260 people coming across illegally, detaining them. And we're going to send them back. 1.00

00:17:36.740 We will send them back. They will not stay. We will not stand for this.

00:17:41.060 And we've got to remember the constitution supersedes federal statute.

00:17:45.860 And we've just forgotten who we are. We're, we're sovereign estates. We're not serfs.

00:17:50.660 And it's about time we start acting like it because we can't afford three more years

00:17:56.260 of Biden allowing the cartels to control our state. So it's going to end January of 23 when I win.

00:18:05.140 And I'm not going to back down. I'm not afraid of these people. This is a hill worth dying on to save

00:18:10.980 our country. Well, that, that is absolutely, uh, you know, to me inspiring. It is, uh,

00:18:19.460 happens to be reassuring to the people of Arizona. Uh, give us a sense of the primary issues, uh, that

00:18:27.700 will separate you from the field, uh, and give you the Republican nomination to do battle in November.

00:18:34.900 Well, it's funny because I mentioned I'm up against some rhinos and one of them, somebody said

00:18:39.380 they heard her on the radio the other day, and it sounded like she took us, you know, the script,

00:18:43.300 it just copied everything I've been saying. And she's actually a very moderate rhino Republican, 0.77

00:18:50.420 but she knows that she can't even come close to getting votes with that because nobody wants that.

00:18:55.860 That's what got us into the mess we're in. So I just think being a tough leader and, and taking

00:19:01.620 the stance on the border tough. I've been outspoken about the 2020 election from day one,

00:19:07.220 from the minute I was covering it on the air, November 3rd,

00:19:09.940 we had a shady, shoddy, corrupt election, and we're not going to let that stand.

00:19:15.620 And I've been very outspoken about that. We did a forensic audit here. The great people of Arizona

00:19:21.620 said, wait a minute, wait a minute, what happened there? What happened on election night and leading

00:19:26.660 up to it and the days after was not right. And thankfully we have some courageous, strong leaders

00:19:31.940 who listened to the people of Arizona. They got a forensic audit and we learned a lot about how

00:19:37.540 cheating and corruption happens in our election. Now the mainstream media wants to act like it was

00:19:42.340 a bad audit. It was not, it was a forensic audit and it can be used in a court of law. And I hope

00:19:49.220 someday it is because we're not going to just act like 2020 never happened. We will find and seek

00:19:55.700 justice for anybody who defrauded the voters of Arizona. And, and because of that, you know,

00:20:01.380 we learned a lot about how corruption happens in our election. And I believe in 2022, when I'm running,

00:20:05.940 we're going to be much more keen to how they are manipulating the system to try to take these

00:20:12.020 elections from the people. So that's one thing that really separates me, my bold moves on the border

00:20:17.940 with my border policy. A lot of the other people are now trying to kind of take some of those ideas,

00:20:22.980 which is fine with me because they're great ideas and I want them implemented. I'm, I've been very

00:20:29.220 outspoken about the vaccine mandates and the loss of medical freedom and medical privacy that we have.

00:20:36.660 I I've been at rallies on the front lines with people. These are hardworking people who just want

00:20:42.820 to put food on the table and they don't want their boss to be able to tell them they have to do

00:20:46.740 something medically in order for them to work. So I, there's a lot of issues that I'm outspoken on.

00:20:52.260 I'm just taking a very bold stand because I want to get in there, do the job. And then I,

00:20:56.420 I frankly want to get out of politics and get on with my life. So we got to go in and do it fast,

00:21:01.380 like president Trump did. Well, you know, if the, uh, I love your, I love your style and I love what

00:21:09.540 you're saying. And I love the fact that you are America first. And I also want to comment on

00:21:14.980 something you said at the rally, which was you want to lock down that liar, Dr. Fauci,

00:21:21.620 the crowd seemed to appreciate your view on that. I didn't know that would be a big line. I really

00:21:27.460 didn't. Um, he's done so much damage. Is he, he's, is he supposed to be some bastion of, of health

00:21:34.100 knowledge? Because the advice he's given us has not only destroyed our economy,

00:21:38.740 hurt middle, the middle class. It's hurt our health. We've, we've seen, uh, and I'm not, 1.00

00:21:45.460 I'm preaching to the choir here, but this isn't even a Republican Democrat issue. We've seen a

00:21:50.580 suicide rate go up. We've seen the drug and alcohol addiction rates going up, um, abuse going up,

00:21:57.060 child abuse going, uh, skyrocketing and the overdose deaths have reached a critical mass and a level that

00:22:04.740 we've never seen in this country before the isolation, the depression, this man is almost

00:22:11.700 demonic in the stuff he was pushing on us. And the fact that he pushed those filthy masks as a mother,

00:22:18.180 I got a real problem with that to see my children with a filthy mask on their face every day. We

00:22:24.580 wouldn't let, we wouldn't allow it, but every time I drive by a school and see these little ones coming

00:22:29.140 out with these masks on, it breaks my heart. And these young adults who lost so much, they weren't

00:22:35.940 able to have a prom. They weren't able to ask the girl out to have their first kiss. They had all these

00:22:41.460 restrictions put on them and nobody Lou has been standing up and speaking out for them. I, I almost

00:22:48.500 get emotional thinking about what they've lost. And that's why these young people are becoming

00:22:53.300 conservatives. We're seeing them in our movement. We've got a true movement here. You know,

00:22:57.700 we started holding rallies kind of president Trump style back in July, and immediately we're drawing

00:23:02.180 record crowds like they've never seen before in this state with the statewide candidate.

00:23:07.380 And a lot of them are young people who are realizing the future is very grim if they continue along with

00:23:14.260 the dead end policies of the left. And they recognize that they have to get involved to save this country

00:23:19.780 because it's their future. So I'm standing out as a mom, just saying, we got to stop this nonsense.

00:23:25.380 And Fauci has lied. That's a, that is a fact. He has lied and he needs to step down. And I hope

00:23:31.860 someday he faces some justice, frankly, for what he's done to this country and the great people

00:23:39.620 of this country. Senator, Senator Rand Paul, uh, swears that if, if the Republicans take the Senate,

00:23:46.820 that he will lead the health committee in a full investigation of Dr. Fauci and the reasons for the

00:23:52.820 decisions he made and the positions that he took because he seems compromised. He seems compromised.

00:23:59.220 When you look at his investments and his ties, I mean, how does a guy in public office make that much

00:24:05.460 money? And why is an 81 year old man in the job to begin with? Why would that be permitted? Uh, and 0.95

00:24:13.140 why the decisions that he's taken with the CCP and in China, it doesn't make any sense. It bears

00:24:19.620 examination. As a matter of fact, to your point earlier, uh, the entire investigation, the entire

00:24:25.780 election of 2020 bears investigating, and we need to have that happen. Uh, not that I know anything one

00:24:33.380 way or the other, or whether that investigation would change the outcome, at least in history. Uh,

00:24:39.620 I don't know, but I do. Well, it's surely there are too many, there are too many unanswered questions.

00:24:45.780 The COVID and the policies and, uh, the way that it was approached surely had an effect on our

00:24:53.540 election because we were talking about COVID and people couldn't get in line and we needed more

00:24:58.740 mail-in ballots. It definitely played a role in our election and whether it was intentional,

00:25:04.260 that's the question. What were the motives behind these, these measures that were taken?

00:25:09.860 Because a lot of stuff happened here in Arizona where people were making and changing election

00:25:14.100 laws and they usurped the state legislature, which is the only entity that can make, uh, election laws. 0.62

00:25:21.060 A lot of people were calling out, uh, ways they wanted to approach our election who didn't have the

00:25:26.180 authority and especially Fauci. I mean, Fauci, he's not the, the, uh, president. He's, he doesn't make

00:25:33.620 laws. We've, we've handed over so much control to these medical and health department bureaucrats.

00:25:40.660 And that's one thing I want to look at here in Arizona. I don't ever want to see a health

00:25:45.140 department official trying to shut our businesses down, pushing to mask our kids, shutting down

00:25:51.620 churches. They don't have that authority. And we needed a governor or a leader to stand up and say,

00:25:58.980 Hey, I know what you're saying. I understand what you're saying, Mr. Health bureaucrat,

00:26:03.140 but you don't have the authority to shut down our businesses, our schools, and our churches.

00:26:08.580 And we were looking for a leader like that. And unfortunately there weren't many of them

00:26:12.740 standing. We had one, and I think president Trump, and I liked how Christy Noem handled

00:26:18.260 COVID where she presented the facts to the great people of South Dakota and said, okay,

00:26:22.740 now you go with this information and you make the best decision for your health and your family

00:26:27.220 and your business. Yeah. That's the American way. And, and to think that in America, we permitted

00:26:36.180 to large, the two largest teachers unions, health bureaucrats to tell us that we were going to shut

00:26:44.020 down our schools, shut down our, our churches, that we permitted it. That tells you something about 1.00

00:26:51.140 the state of the American mind as a society. That's not who we are. And we've got to be better

00:26:57.860 than that. Uh, we can blame Fauci. We can blame the teachers unions, but we're the damn fools who

00:27:03.860 let them run roughshod over this great constitutional Republic, uh, and this free people. 0.99

00:27:09.940 Well, but not everybody, not everybody realized that. And we're learning that. And, and, and I

00:27:15.380 always say shame on the corrupt media for not putting more stories about that out. You know,

00:27:20.020 our, we just, when we got our kids out of masks last year to the point where if you saw some of

00:27:24.340 the viral videos, the kids who just broke down in tears when they found out, oh, good, we don't need

00:27:28.660 to wear these gross masks anymore. And then boom, school year starts up again. And we find out that

00:27:34.980 they're going to force masks on our kids. I mean, I stood up in middle of ASU stomped on my mask and

00:27:41.060 said, shame on Michael Crow, the president of this university for this. He can shove this mask where the

00:27:46.420 sun doesn't shine. But we, we found out that it was the teachers union pushing the CDC. Why do they

00:27:54.980 have that control? And it really has taken this disastrous couple of years in our history for people

00:28:00.980 to wake up and learn how to find out who's really been behind some of these terrible policies that

00:28:06.500 have hurt us. Thankfully we're waking up. And the, and the school board association being asked by the

00:28:13.940 education secretary to complain to the attorney general about parents and school board meetings,

00:28:21.380 who they wanted to have designated. They being the attorney general and his department wanted to have

00:28:28.580 parents designated as domestic terrorists the hell with him. Why in the hell Merrick Garland isn't

00:28:36.100 charged? I don't know. And why in the world there aren't demands that he be thrown the hell out of

00:28:41.780 office. I don't know. This is a criminal enterprise, this administration, and it's gotta, it's gotta be

00:28:48.260 stopped before it does more, more lasting damage to the corruption runs deep, very deep. And I'll tell you

00:28:56.500 what I, the only solution to the mess we're in is America first policy. And I, I really pray that

00:29:03.540 president Trump, I believe he will be back in office someday and, and we will be turning things around.

00:29:09.620 And eventually more people will wake up to what's happening. Cause some people are just, you know, we,

00:29:14.340 we're guilty that we were just carrying on with our lives. We're working, raising the kids,

00:29:18.740 trying to make sure they get their homework done and food on the table and do the dishes.

00:29:22.420 And now we realize we were dropping the ball on the most important thing, which is protecting

00:29:28.580 this amazing country. We have this amazing way of life. We just kind of pulled our head out of the

00:29:34.340 sand now and went, Whoa, I go to events Lou, where I'm speaking to Republican women or just a group that

00:29:40.580 wants me to come speak. And they say, we used to hold these events last year and we had 50 people.

00:29:46.020 Now we have 250. We have to move it to a bigger venue. And I always ask people, would you have

00:29:52.020 found yourself three years ago on Wednesday night at 6 PM, listening to a politician three years ago?

00:29:58.820 And they say, no, but now they realize our hair's on fire. We're in the 11th hour and we got to save

00:30:05.140 the state. And so I'm, I'm actually very encouraged as bad as things are in the world, as corrupt as, as

00:30:11.460 every facet of our government has become, I'm so encouraged by what I'm seeing when I'm out

00:30:17.460 campaigning, people are awake. They're ready to get in the game and they will not back down from

00:30:23.620 trying to save this country. I hope it's not too late. I don't think it is, but we got to get America

00:30:28.820 first people in office. We got to get president Trump back in office and really write this ship.

00:30:33.860 Yeah. And it is, it is an absolute tourism that democracy takes place first and foremost in the

00:30:43.860 town hall. Uh, the, the local city council, uh, that is where control is best exerted by the citizenry.

00:30:53.220 And there has to be full participation. Now we know at the local level, uh, I once said something

00:30:59.620 unflattering about the city council in Yuma, uh, and I was, uh, a little tired of some of the antics

00:31:07.140 and the politics and, uh, Monsignor Richard O'Keefe, who was one of my mentors said,

00:31:13.860 Lou, you've got a great career ahead of you, but you've got to always remember,

00:31:19.860 be patient with these people. This is the city council and it may be the toilet. I'll use his

00:31:26.900 expression. This is expression, the toilet of politics, but it's the model for all politics.

00:31:34.020 And Americans have to come home to their city councils, to their school boards and take control 0.99

00:31:40.500 of these institutions. You're exactly right. Uh, if we're going to have a great nation, we've got to

00:31:46.020 have great homes, neighborhoods, communities, cities, and, and states. And that means people like you

00:31:54.660 have to get engaged. And I am so delighted, uh, that you are taking on the establishment, uh, uh,

00:32:02.900 parts of, uh, even the Republican party and the whole democratic party, uh, as you, as you pursue,

00:32:08.820 uh, the, the governorship, uh, what, what is your thinking at this point? Any regrets in taking it on?

00:32:15.940 Yeah. Well there, you know, it's daunting. I mean, to be honest, but I, I don't know that any

00:32:21.940 regular person could just run for governor and do what we're doing without, uh, some sort of a money,

00:32:27.940 you know, source behind you, you have to be either filthy rich or have filthy rich friends. And Hey,

00:32:33.700 listen, I'm not opposed to being filthy rich. Good for you. You're living the American dream,

00:32:37.220 but for a regular person, like our founding fathers envisioned citizens stepping forward,

00:32:42.100 it'd be really hard. If I didn't have 27 years of goodwill by the people of Arizona, who I,

00:32:49.620 I believe I served well as a journalist. I don't think I could, that I could do this.

00:32:55.360 I would need to have tens of millions behind me. And, um, you know, thank God that God gave me the

00:33:01.300 strength to do this. I was raised the youngest in a family of nine by primarily by my father, a football

00:33:06.360 coach and a history and government teacher who, um, sadly is no longer with us. He

00:33:12.020 wouldn't recognize this country. And he gave me strength and a good work ethic, but I, I just

00:33:18.740 don't, I'm, I'm using my name ID, which is 85% of the state knows who I am. I'm blessed by God and by

00:33:25.380 the people of Arizona to have that, but it scares me that it's so hard for regular people to run for

00:33:30.940 office with, I wish we could make it easier, Lou, so that the hardworking, good people could say,

00:33:37.120 I'm going to jump in and run for that seat without having to have some sort of a huge donor class 1.00

00:33:42.740 behind them. Right. Well, I don't know what the solution to that is. I know what part of the

00:33:48.560 solution is. Part of the solution is for us to all get engaged in those city council, get to know each

00:33:54.660 other on Wednesday nights or Thursday nights, whenever the city hall meeting or the school board

00:33:59.980 meeting takes place. And if we all come together, we'll get to know each other. And then we'll know

00:34:04.540 who best among us can represent us. That's one way for sure. That's a good, that's, that's true.

00:34:10.460 That's true. And I'm seeing a lot of it, you know, and unfortunately city of Phoenix is pretty real

00:34:16.240 liberal. I mean, they've kind of ruined the city in some ways, our socialist mayor, same as Tucson and

00:34:21.740 Flagstaff. And they had a lot of control over our governor. They were pressuring him to do all kinds

00:34:26.800 of crazy stuff that hurt our businesses and our families and, and really trampled all over our rights.

00:34:32.720 And he unfortunately didn't show the strength to push back against them and say, no, I'm the

00:34:37.880 governor and I'm going to do what's right by the people. So we do have to go into these cities.

00:34:42.780 You know, they do everything they can though, to make it hard. They, they hold elections on a strange,

00:34:46.760 you know, odd day in August when nobody's around, we need to work at making it easier and educating

00:34:52.360 people to get out. Every single vote counts in these smaller races. They're not smaller in a way.

00:34:57.960 They're bigger, like you said, because they have a bigger impact on our lives and they're

00:35:02.260 critically important, just as important as voting for president, your city council and your school

00:35:06.200 board. Yeah. I I'm one of those people who's very proud of it. I've worked for two networks.

00:35:14.960 And I got my start, as I said, at KVLU TV in Arizona, working radio first and then TV.

00:35:20.780 And one of the great experiences for any journalist, and I'd like to hear what you think of this

00:35:26.160 as a journalist is you, you get to, if you work in local news, you get to go down to the Safeway

00:35:33.080 when you're picking up your groceries or your six pack and you, you run into the, you know, the,

00:35:39.340 the, the check, the checkout woman or kid or whatever. And they give you an opinion about the

00:35:47.340 story you did the night before. And when you have that kind of proximity to your audience and to

00:35:54.660 your community, it gives you really, I think, far better judgment about what you're doing

00:36:00.140 and, and who is affected by what you do. What do you think?

00:36:06.500 Truly. I, and I'm so blessed to have that same, that same thing happen to me, even though I'm not

00:36:12.200 putting out stories anymore or filing stories and reports, but I'm, because I've done that for so

00:36:19.180 long here in Arizona, when I go into any, you know, setting people know me, I don't have to

00:36:24.100 introduce myself and say, mate, well, let me tell you, I'm running for governor and here's my platform.

00:36:28.060 They know who I am. I have a lot of goodwill and I've covered the issues. I think about Ronald

00:36:33.800 Reagan a lot. He grew up in a community about an hour from where I grew up in the Midwest.

00:36:38.760 And so I was reading his book a long time ago and it was reminiscent. Our childhoods were very

00:36:44.920 similar, even though we're obviously many, a gen, a generation apart at least. But he had that same

00:36:51.420 ability. And sometimes people try to criticize me. They say, oh, she's just someone who read a script

00:36:56.580 or a teleprompter. And I, and I think, oh, wow, you really don't realize what you do as a journalist.

00:37:02.300 I didn't just read a prompter. I, I went out and covered the stories. I was with people on their

00:37:07.640 most bright, wonderful days and their darkest days. I've held the hand of a mother who lost a son in

00:37:15.160 a shooting. I've been to people's homes, what's left of them after a wildfire. I've covered this

00:37:21.940 state and I understand the issues and I can communicate with people. Communication skills

00:37:26.960 are so critical, especially for our conservative ideals. The left has run roughshod over us for so

00:37:34.380 long. They've defined what it means to be conservative in a very twisted, untrue way.

00:37:39.380 And we need some people to get out there and start explaining to the electorate and the people of

00:37:44.260 Arizona and the country, what it means to be a conservative. These are the ideas that will help

00:37:50.080 us in life, get ahead, have a better life. And we've got to stop letting the left define us. And I think

00:37:56.580 it's going to take some great communicators to do that. One of the things that people say to me when I'm

00:38:01.600 out is you have a lot of what President Trump had when it comes to your ideas, then you communicate

00:38:07.240 it in a softer way, which I take as a compliment, even though I love the way President Trump

00:38:12.000 communicated. I didn't have any problem with it. But a lot of people had issue. They said, oh, he was

00:38:17.580 too bombastic. He was too this, too that. And I said, wouldn't it be nice if we could just dial up the

00:38:22.440 exact personality of every single person in our life? But we don't get to do that. And it took a brash

00:38:28.820 New Yorker who had guts and courage and a fighting spirit to, you know, I think he was up

00:38:35.880 against, what, 18 other candidates? Yep. And one by one, he brought them down. And he went in like a

00:38:42.600 bull in a china shop, shook things up, woke us up. And now look where we are. We are awake and we're

00:38:48.800 ready to return to our glory days as America, where our liberties are intact and our Constitution is

00:38:58.000 revered. Well, that's true for part of the country. Let's hope it's true for most of Arizona.

00:39:05.860 I think being here on the East Coast, I'm perhaps not as assured.

00:39:12.640 Hopeful. Oh, I'm sorry. You know what, Lou? We welcome you to Arizona. Bring your show to Arizona.

00:39:18.240 Well, I'll tell you what, I've got to do that. I always enjoy it when we get to Arizona.

00:39:22.200 But I really believe that there's going to be a real battle royal for this election. History,

00:39:32.000 I hope, holds. But the fact is that there's a lot of ugly, dark money pouring already into the left.

00:39:40.580 And it's going to be one tough, one tough event. A bloodbath. Well, I always tell people,

00:39:46.060 I want to give you... I'm up against... Oh, sorry, Lou. I want to give you, as I do each of our guests,

00:39:52.460 the opportunity for the last word here. And I'm curious about your foremost message to the voters

00:39:58.980 in Arizona. But your choice, you get the last word. Well, I just love the state so much. And I'm doing

00:40:09.040 this for some selfish reasons. I want to make sure that my kids have the opportunities that I had.

00:40:15.260 And I think Arizona is one of the greatest states, if not the greatest state in the country.

00:40:19.640 But we've got to protect it and get involved. I'm so honored that the people of Arizona recruited me

00:40:25.860 to run for governor and that we've now got a movement that the people in the political world

00:40:31.360 say they've never, ever seen before in Arizona. We have the ability to take this state and set it on

00:40:39.120 course to be the most free state in the country, the best place to raise a family, to start a business,

00:40:44.760 grow a business, stake a claim. But we have to make sure we're here to shepherd this state and

00:40:49.900 this government. And that's why I'm doing this. I have a movement, we have a movement afoot, and I'm

00:40:55.620 very encouraged by the direction we're going. We don't want to become California. Our proximity

00:41:01.260 to California has shown us very starkly what bad, dead-end liberal leftist ideas will do. It will

00:41:09.360 destroy a once beautiful state. And we will not let that happen here in Arizona. We have great plans

00:41:15.820 to bring manufacturing back, to push back against China, to stop the drugs coming across, make sure

00:41:21.940 our streets are safe and our kids are educated in a proper way where they're learning the truth

00:41:27.460 about America, which is we are an exceptional country. And as a mom and the wife of a small business

00:41:33.000 owner, I want to make sure that every child has that opportunity and we improve our education.

00:41:39.060 So there's a lot to do, but we have to make sure that we have fair and honest elections. And that's

00:41:43.860 also on my list of things to accomplish. I think we have a real bright future ahead. And I think we

00:41:50.140 have to elect the right people and they need to be America first. And I'm the only candidate who's

00:41:54.480 America first that's running. I'm going to need the people's help. I'm going to need their vote on

00:41:58.440 August 2nd, which is the primary. I'm funded by the people of Arizona, not the swamp. I'm up against

00:42:04.520 a serious swamp in establishment Rhino characters who are running against me, the teachers union who 0.84

00:42:11.640 doesn't really care about the teachers or the students. I'm up against a lot of Soros money,

00:42:16.420 and I'm going to be up against Planned Parenthood and a bunch of other pretty dark forces like that.

00:42:22.080 So I ask for your support out there. If you're listening to this amazing podcast, I ask for

00:42:27.680 donations if you care to make them. But most importantly, I ask for your prayers because

00:42:32.540 Arizona is a Wild West state and we got to stay the red conservative state that we're meant to be.

00:42:40.400 Carrie Lake, thank you so much for this past hour. And it's been a great joy to talk with you and to

00:42:48.200 hear your ideas, uh, and your, and your thoughts about Arizona's futures. I wish you all the very

00:42:53.880 best of luck and thanks for taking the time to be with us here on the great America show.

00:42:58.800 Thank you so much. Thank you. Uh, carrylake.com is where they can find more on me.

00:43:04.440 Carrielake.com. Thanks so much, Carrie. All the best.

00:43:08.660 Thanks, Lou.

00:43:09.240 Take care.

00:43:09.880 Join us again tomorrow for the great America podcast. Stay in the fight. Truth,

00:43:14.540 justice, and the American way will prevail against all enemies, against all odds.

The Great America Show - February 02, 2022

KARI LAKE SAYS BIDEN GAVE U.S. BORDER TO NARCO TERRORISTS

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