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A 14 year veteran of the Internal Revenue Service speaks out for the first time since his six hour testimony was released by the House Ways and Means Committee. Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Montana) joins the Great America Show to discuss the scandal surrounding the Biden administration.
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Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. This is The Great America Show, and it's great to have
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you with us. The House investigating committees are getting it done, bringing truth to the
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American public about political corruption rampant in the Biden regime. The whistleblower
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working on the Hunter Biden probe this week spoke out for the first time since his six
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hour-long testimony was released by the House Ways and Means Committee. Gary Shapley is a 14-year
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veteran of the Internal Revenue Service, and he talked with CBS News this week about how federal
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agencies intervened in his investigation and what he discovered in his investigation of Hunter Biden.
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There were personal expenses that were taken as business expenses. Prostitutes, sex club memberships,
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hotel rooms for purported drug dealers. How much did Hunter Biden owe in taxes?
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So from 2014 to 2019, it was $2.2 million. There were certain investigative steps that we weren't
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allowed to take that could have led us to President Biden. And you wanted to take him.
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We needed to take them. And you weren't allowed to take them.
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That's correct. If this was any other person, they likely would have already served their sentence.
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Shapley's remarks are in direct contradiction of Attorney General Merrick Garland and what Garland
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told us last week about the U.S. Attorney for Delaware, David Weiss.
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As I said at the outset, Mr. Weiss, who was appointed by President Trump as the U.S. Attorney in Delaware
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and assigned this matter during the previous administration, would be permitted to continue
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his investigation and to make a decision to prosecute any way in which he wanted to and in any
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district in which he wanted to. Mr. Weiss has since sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee
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confirming that he had that authority. I don't know how it would be possible for anybody to block him
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from bringing a prosecution, given that he has this authority. And he was never told no.
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I'd say he was given complete authority to make all decisions on his own.
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So who is lying? There's no doubt in my mind. How many more whistleblowers does it take to
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recognize the truth about this corrupt administration? The New York Times reporting this week that they've
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done an independent investigation. And are you ready for this? The New York Times confirms that the DOJ
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did intervene and block more severe charges against Hunter Biden. Charges that the U.S. Attorney says
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were blocked by A.G. Merrick Garland's Department of Justice. New York Times writers Glenn Thrush and
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If Mr. Weiss wanted to move ahead without the DOJ's approval, he could have brought the issue to
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Mr. Garland's attention and the Attorney General could then appoint him special attorney, which would
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allow him to bypass the standard chain of command. Well, whatever the truth is, instead of Weiss pursuing
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those possible felony charges, Hunter was granted the sweetheart deal in which he will admit to a
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firearm charge and plead guilty to unpaid taxes, facing no jail time whatsoever. But a federal judge
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will still have to approve the deal. That outrageous sweetheart deal. We'll see what happens.
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House Speaker Rhino Kevin McCarthy has already served up his own sweetheart deal to Joe Biden
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when he caved on the debt ceiling negotiations. Now McCarthy has attacked President Trump,
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the man that's responsible for McCarthy even being Speaker of the House in the first place.
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McCarthy on CNBC declaring that, quote, he's not sure if Trump is the strongest Republican in the race
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to beat Joe Biden in 2024. How's that for gratitude? The intellectually deprived Rhino can't read polls
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either. The latest polling shows Trump the most powerful candidate by a far margin. For that,
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we turn to our friends at RealClearPolitics. The latest GOP primary polling, according to RealClearPolitics,
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has Trump at 52 percent. That's 30 points higher than second place Ron DeSantis. The general election polling,
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according to RealClearPolitics, has President Trump beating Joe Biden head-to-head, DeSantis losing to Biden head-to-head.
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So just what metric would Rhino McCarthy be using when he made his moronic and ill-considered comments?
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Well, I can tell you, my personal belief is he was listening to his good buddy, Paul Ryan.
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Turning now to our guest today, he's Congressman Matt Rosendale of the great state of Montana.
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He sits on the House Committee on Veterans Affairs, the House Committee on Natural Resources.
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He's a member of the House Freedom Caucus and a great American who happens to have opposed Kevin
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McCarthy to be Speaker of the House. Congressman, great to have you with us. A lot going on right now
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in your state of Montana. You've got more Chinese-like balloons invading U.S. and your state's airspace.
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You've got a train wreck and hazardous materials spilling into the Yellowstone River.
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And you have the IRS raiding one of your gun shops. What more could be going on right now in the state
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of Montana, Congressman? The only thing we're missing are the locusts, Lou, I will tell you.
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It has not been great. Meanwhile, we are resilient people, and I will tell you that the moisture has
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been good. The crops are looking good, which makes the cows look good. So we're going to be okay with
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this, but we will not surrender. As Winston Churchill so profoundly stated amongst the war of World War II,
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when his people were huddled in the subways and trying to figure out what they were going to do
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as Germany continued to bomb them. And he said, you know, we're going to fight this. We're going to fight
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in the streets and the beaches and the seas and the skies, and we will not surrender. And by golly,
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Great. I wouldn't expect any less of Montanans at all, and certainly no less of you.
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Let's start with that train wreck, if we may. Hazardous materials. Pete Buttigieg, the
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purported Secretary of Transportation, doing absolutely nothing. Are you getting the help
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We are. Fortunately, we have a very, very active emergency services, first responders here in Montana,
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Montana, and the rail system itself, that was the Montana Rail Link. They immediately had their
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people out there on the scene. So let me give you the real version of what happened. It was 6 a.m.
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on Saturday morning. There was a train wreck, okay? And what is not known is whether the bridge
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collapsed going over the Yellowstone River, which caused the derailment, or whether the derailment and
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the accident, ensuing accident, caused the bridge to collapse. So put that aside for a moment. We had
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like 10 cars that ended up down in the drink. No injuries, no fatalities. So the loss of life or
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injuries, none was sustained. So everybody is just really happy about that. The train cars that went
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into the river contained sulfur and asphalt. Both of those materials, when they come into contact with
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the cool water of the Yellowstone River, solidify, keeping the environmental impact down to a minimal.
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They had closed down the water systems for the municipalities downstream from there, and cautioned to
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make sure that they didn't take in any contaminants. They've been monitoring the river continuously to
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make sure what the water quality is like, and it's okay. The intakes have been opened back up again,
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and the DEQ, Montana Department of Environmental Quality, the EPA, and private contractors are on site,
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monitoring all that. They also were monitoring air quality because there was some cars that had a
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sodium hydrosulfide, but they did not go into the river. They were able to get them away from the accident
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zone and get those materials protected, so none of that was dispersed into the air. So the air quality,
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water quality seems to be coming in good. There's been cranes put out on the site, two very large cranes,
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to start taking the debris out of the river of the train cars that are still there. There's specialized
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diving teams that have been dispersed to the site to make sure that they can help with cutting metal
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and getting things out of the way to assist in removing the damaged train cars from the river. As that takes
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place, the Federal Railroad Administration and the NTSB are both on site and will stay on site until they
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have determined what caused the accident. So right now, the issues we're dealing with are number one,
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fiber optic. There was a fiber optic line hanging on the bridge at the time of the accident. That was severed.
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They have been able to erect a temporary line across the river to restore that fiber optic because it was
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basically delivering 911 service to three counties on the other side. So that's up and running again,
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and they'll do a more permanent operation a little bit later. The other thing was to reroute the freight. I mean,
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we've got a lot of freight that just got tied up because this is the line heading west. So what it
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will do now is go from Billings, which is the town closest to the east. It's going to go from Billings
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to the north to Great Falls. From Great Falls, it will go to Shelby, Montana. And then from there,
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it can go to points west. Any of the products that are over in Gallatin County, which is the next main
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depot, if you will, to the west, those products can obviously go to the west. But any of that that
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has to be transported to the east, we now have a major problem. You're going to have to either use
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trucking. If it cannot be trucked, then those products are going to have to be delivered to the west
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all the way to Spokane, Washington, at which time they will be distributed to points to the north
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and south, and then rerouted back around to the west. So everything considered, we have things
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contained on the site. I expect to be out there. I wanted to make sure the site was safe and stable
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before I inserted myself because you just don't want to be causing problems when they have all of that
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first response taking place. I will be out there in the next, I think, Thursday is when I'm scheduled
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to go. And everything considered, we've got potable water going into the municipalities and redirected
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freight and construction of our clearing of the rest of the debris out of the river. So we're in
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pretty good spot. Congressman, the great news is no one injured, no one. Well, there could have been
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easily loss of life there. And there could have been incredible threats to the to the drinking water
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and to the residents there. So I'm glad to hear your report on that. It's let's turn to another issue.
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And that is the IRS with a significant size force raiding a gun shop in Great Falls.
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What is the status of that? What is going on? That is is deeply disturbing. I received information
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that 20 IRS agents fully armed and equipped with like whatever they they riot type gear with the vesting
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and everything like that showed up at a gun store in Great Falls about a week ago, just about more than
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a week ago. And one ATF agent was with them. And when the owner of the store showed up at 7 a.m.,
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they demanded entrance. They had a search warrant and they went in. He said that they were professional,
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but that the ATF agent was actually doing a little bit of the directing and the IRS agents confiscated
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some financial records, but not so many financial records. What's really troubling, Lou, is they took
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cases upon cases, all of what they call the 4473 forms that this gun store owner had on premises. And the
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4473 forms are the ones that you fill out when you're purchasing a firearm to declare that you
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have not have been found guilty of any violent crimes. You're not a felon. I mean, it's all personal
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information and just the fact that you wanted to purchase a firearm, but make it clear there's no
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information on there about the firearm you're trying to purchase, nor the cost or value of that firearm.
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So there's no financial information on there whatsoever. And the statute says that the only
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people that are supposed to have access and possession to that are the gun store and or the ATF. And the
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ATF told the IRS agents that when they tried taking those forms, but they still said, basically, tough. And
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they took the forms. The IRS agent said tough? No, that's my words. But I'm saying that was
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effectively their stance. They said, we are taking this. This is what we are doing. And they ignored
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the ATF agent telling them that they were not supposed to. And now they have access, they have
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possession of 13,000 4473 forms on Montanans. And Lou, if the IRS is not helping the federal government
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build a database on who actually owns firearms, I don't know what else they're doing with this
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information. I mean, there's a lot of conspiracy theories, but there's also a lot of conspiracies.
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But absolutely. And well said, I have to say, I'm encouraged that an ATF agent tried to intercede
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with the IRS on behalf of the shop owner. We've seen just exactly the opposite of that conduct.
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As you well know, in Georgia, Congressman Loudermilk had to
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step up to get between the ATF agents and a gun store owner there in southern Georgia.
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Yeah, this is really problematic. I've been in touch with why first I sent off letter to
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the IRS and to the ATF and stating not only my displeasure, but demanding to have the
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4473 forms returned back to this store owner. And I've been working with my state attorney general
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to see if he can help me to intervene. And then what I can do at the legislative level,
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level at the congressional is to attack on a two prong approach. Number one, Lou, I think we need to
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take the weapons away from the IRS. I don't know why the IRS needs to be carrying around ARs.
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I just, so I'm going to, I'm going to pursue that. Wait a minute, Congressman,
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are you telling me they went in there with AR, with M16s? I don't know if they were M16s,
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they were ARs. So they could have been a different, a different caliber. They got, yeah. But,
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but they were of the 20. In the parlance of the left, that those would be assault weapons.
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Yeah. But the 20 IRS agents were fully armed with ARs. Unbelievable.
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Yeah. And this is, this is, this is Soviet style tactics, Lou. This is intimidation, not only
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of the store owner, but of any of the customers that showed up during the day while they maintained
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that business. Basically, they maintained control of that business and had it shut down. So this was
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to intimidate anyone who was thinking about coming in there too. Don't get in our way. We will crush you.
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We're talking with Congressman Matt Rosendale. We're going to continue this
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and find out what in the world is going on with the ATF, the Internal Revenue Service,
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and this government that apparently has been overtaken by Marxist Dems. And the Biden regime
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is going wild. We'll be right back. Stay with us.
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We're back now. We're talking with Congressman Matt Rosendale and Congressman, we were talking about
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the gun store owner. I have to say, listening to what has happened in a number of stores,
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gun shops around the country. The disposition, there's been no follow-up. There's been no consequence.
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Why, why should not the conference, the Republican conference deal with this issue
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together and make it a national issue? Because this is outrageous abuse of power, in my opinion,
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and I sense in your opinion as well, by the federal government. This has got to be stopped.
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There can't be just little incidents. This is a chain of incidents and an obvious directive coming
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from perhaps the White House itself. Look, I don't know where it's coming from, but I will tell you
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that when they go into gun stores, law-abiding citizens, and you send in a team of armed IRS agents.
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Again, this is Soviet-style intimidation tactics. It is absolutely unacceptable in our society, and I am
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gravely concerned about the collection of this data that is taking place. That is why we need to go in
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and, number one, disarm the IRS. That is just out of control. Number two, we need to go into the
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statute and make it exceedingly clear that these 4473 forms, number one, are only to be viewed by the ATF,
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and in lieu, number two, I think that we need to check. What happens is the Biden administration is
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going around the law, and they're using rule. We've seen it time and time again because they
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can't modify the law. They know they don't have the support to do that, so they pass a rule that
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says that the gun owners need to maintain these records in perpetuity as long as they own the gun
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store. Well, if you have that information that's available, sooner or later it can be compromised by
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someone. There's no reason for that to be retained for such an extended period of time, and we need
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to put into statute that that information needs to have a limited time. I don't know the magic number.
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Is it 30 days? Is it 90 days? I don't know, but once it hits that deadline, that that information
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must be purged, destroyed, so that we don't have situations like this arising where there's no other
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reason for the justification of the IRS to collect all of this except to create a database.
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Well, like I said, I think the Republican Party needs to take this on in the Congress of the United
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States full investigation and get on it because this is just an outright violation of Second
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Amendment rights on every level by the Internal Revenue Service, as it turns out, rather than the
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IRS, excuse me, the ATF. ATF, exactly. I want to turn to the other one. Have they shot down that
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balloon over Montana yet? Oh, my gosh. So let me give you a little bit of background. So when the
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first Chinese spy balloon came across our nation several months ago, that was back in February,
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the, thank goodness, the vigilant people across the state of Montana looked up to the sky,
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which we do, and by the way, we can actually see what's going on up there. We're not crowded out
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with pollution, nor buildings, and they saw that there was something going across the sky, and a very
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alert reporter, photographer, excellent photographer down in Yellowstone County, Larry Mayer,
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took some photographs of this thing, great images that showed the balloon and all of the cargo that
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it was carrying for conducting surveillance, was released. DOD came out and basically threatened him
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and was trying to suppress the information then. It went so viral, it went so viral that people across
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the nation said, what in the world is going on? And the White House says we're not going to,
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their first response was, we don't know what it is, or we don't know where it came from or where it's
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going, and we're not going to investigate. That was their very first response. And it was a lie,
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because they saw the balloon when it was approaching the Aleutian Islands, and they allowed it
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cross over Alaska, Canada, and then as it hovered over Malmstrom Air Force Base in north central Montana,
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which has control over 150 ICBMs, then they started paying a little bit more attention to it,
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but they allowed it to continue to traverse across the continental United States until the public outrage
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reached such a level that they shot it down over the Atlantic. And then we had several other balloons,
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and as I was reaching out to Department of Defense back then, they were denying what was going on,
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no one would give me any kind of accurate information whatsoever, and so I became very frustrated and
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was assured, Lou, trust me, next time it's going to be different. So then on Monday evening, I started
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getting reports at 9 p.m. from local residents here in Dawson County, Montana, that they were tracking yet
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another balloon that that was hovering above my branch here in eastern Montana. I mean, they showed
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me maps where they were tracking it, and it was hovering at about 57,000 feet, and I immediately
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reached out to DOD and said, what's going on? Are you tracking this? And again, they denied it, and they
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said that they don't have any information that would cause them to believe that there was surveillance
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being conducted from this device because it was too small to carry any kind of a payload. Therefore,
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they were not going to expend any resources to do any more research on it.
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So now the DOD, after the experience with those other balloons earlier this year,
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now they think they're real smart and can tell what's going on. I mean, is there any part of this
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government that's making any sense? No, and they continued to be in the deny mode. And then after
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I put something out on social media on Tuesday, then DOD comes out and acts like they did this full,
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complete analysis of what was going on, and oh, this is just a weather balloon,
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it has FAA ratings, and da-da-da-da-da. Meanwhile, they wouldn't share that with me
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on the night before, or the morning of, or the morning of. And so they continued to do the same
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thing, deceive and deny. And that is terrible government. Well, it's terrible government,
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but it turns out it's our government, or it used to be. But now it's its own lock, stock,
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and barrel, it appears to me, by the Marxist Dems. I don't know who's in charge of it.
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Maybe it's still Obama. Maybe it's the intelligence agencies. Maybe it's the donors all combined.
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You know, maybe they have a burning tree rendezvous every month and decide what this country is going
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to do. But when they're denying information to a US congressman, that's pretty serious stuff.
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I mean, at what point will McCarthy say that it's time to impeach some people? Maybe throw in,
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by the way, Mayorkas. Throw in Lloyd Austin. And, you know, Merrick Garland, I don't know,
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I think he might be the top of the list. What do you think?
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Hey, look, it took us quite a bit of work to simply censure Adam Schiff, who basically
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lied to the American people time and time again and started a propaganda war against President Trump.
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And it was all we could do is muster up the votes to censure him. So...
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And so we've got, look, the uniparty is real, Lou. The uniparty is real. And unfortunately,
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this is what we're up against. There are a few people, not nearly enough in Washington,
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that are willing to take the difficult votes, to make the difficult statements, to actually say,
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what is the truth? The emperor is not wearing any clothes. And then to take the beatings from the
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national media that we end up doing just to try and keep people informed. But the people,
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they know in their bones that something is wrong. The people know that government has gotten too big.
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They know when they go to the school board meeting and there are those that are whispering because
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they're afraid to be public about their proclamations for fear that the FBI may be knocking on their door.
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That is no way for us to live in the United States of America.
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Well, it isn't. And by the way, we're living that way because of the Marxist
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Dems who run the Democrat Party. Let's be very straightforward. The Democrat Party has declared
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war on the American people. And we're going to take that up as we continue with Congressman
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Matt Rosendale here on The Great America Show. Stay with us.
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We're back. We're talking with Congressman Matt Rosendale. And my goodness, have we got a list
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of issues to talk about here? These issues all affect the country, whether it's a Second Amendment,
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whether it's a national defense, national sovereignty. By the way, we were talking about the what looks to
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be another Chinese balloon. We haven't heard the disposition of that yet. We don't know whether
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it's been shut down or just simply they wave at it as it goes over top secret facilities like they did
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with the first one that came across at which Joe Biden allowed to traverse the entire United States.
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What what is your thinking about the fact we haven't heard a word out of this administration
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about what they're going to do about China's desire to build a military base in Cuba?
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Oh, I think that the people across this country recognize that Joe Biden has been
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very compromised by the Chinese Communist Party. I mean, that is on full display now. And that gives me
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really, really grave concern because we're not just talking about militarily. I always tell folks, look,
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China wants to be the the global power. They want dominance globally. And the way that you achieve that is first
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economically, which gives you the ability to expand your your reach militarily. And they have been very effective at
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doing both. And unfortunately, Lou, we have assisted them by by devaluing the dollar by the increase in
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inflation because of the additional out of control spending by the Marxist Democrats, as you rightfully
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call them. In 2019, pre-COVID, we collected the collections for revenue for the federal government were at about
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$4 trillion, okay? The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, an incredible piece of legislation that the Democrats
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demonized it, said it was causing the national deficit to increase. They were 100% wrong. We collected more
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revenue. We will collect this year after tax cuts and jobs, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, we will collect
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somewhere near $5 trillion worth of revenue this year. The problem is that the Biden administration
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continues to propose about $6.5, $6.8 trillion worth of spending. And so with a $32 trillion national debt,
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with the, unfortunately, the McCarthy-Biden agreed upon debt ceiling having a date of January of 25,
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instead of a number with virtually no curbs of spending whatsoever, we know we're going to be looking at
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somewhere between $36 and $37 trillion of national debt as of January of 25. We are continuing to undermine the
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value of the dollar and weaken our own country, which helps China.
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Well, I think I can sum up what has happened under McCarthy as Speaker and to the 118th Congress.
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Speaker McCarthy and the 118th Congress will not have a word to say about two full years of federal
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budgets. You might as well not exist as far as fiscal policy is concerned because of what the leadership
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in the Senate and the leadership in the Speaker's office have done to the American people.
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Look, I spent a lot of time and effort working on the first debt ceiling package that we were crafting
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at the beginning of this year, because we knew the debt ceiling was going to be the big argument.
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We also recognized, several of us did, that that was going to be the leverage point that we could use
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to make sure that we could get policies, good policies implemented, because with only one of
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the chambers, you know, the House of Senate and then the executive branch only having one of that,
00:31:55.700
one of the legs of the stool, we knew that our leverage was going to be quite limited. But we put
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together a really strong package that froze spending, that clawed back a bunch of out of control
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spending the Biden administration had proposed. It did increase the debt ceiling, but it was until
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March of next year, which would have given us the ability to have a little bit more leverage over
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the appropriations process. And then it also contained all of the provisions of HR1, which was our domestic
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energy policy and our domestic critical minerals policy. And all of that went out the window when McCarthy and
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Biden struck their deal to increase the debt ceiling. Not only did it take it away for the
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next six, eight months, but as you've rightfully stated, Lou, it took it away until January of 25.
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And so now how are we going to get policy that is necessary to help this country to secure our border,
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to produce domestic energy without having the ability to tie a monetary consideration to it?
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Yep. And it took you out at the knees because of Speaker McCarthy's judgment. You know, when I look
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at what's happening in that swamp right now, Congressman, I've got to believe there are a number of people are
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being blackmailed by somebody somewhere because they're acting a lot different than they said.
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McCarthy, by the way, is one of them. Somebody's got to have something on him because he's turned
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it upside down. Somebody's got to have it something on several of the Supreme Court justices. We just
00:33:42.260
we just watched the Supreme Court decide that the Constitution is irrelevant to their decisions about
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electioneering. They're not going to pay attention to Article one of the Constitution that requires
00:33:55.380
that the state legislature decide the place, time and manner of elections. They decided to interpret
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that. And oh, by the way, all of those, not all, but nearly all of those so-called originalists and
00:34:08.100
conservatives went with the liberals on the Supreme Court. I mean, we are up against it, Congressman.
00:34:14.100
We are. We are. And I will tell you, I don't know that that anyone is holding
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any information about any elected officials whatsoever, but I will tell you this.
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It's in my experience that once you make serving in Congress your job, excuse me, your career,
00:34:36.660
once it becomes your career, it becomes your, you know, your sole income, it becomes a problem.
00:34:44.340
People's votes get tainted. I truly am at public service now. I was blessed. I had a career,
00:34:54.740
a successful career before I entered into politics. And so the work that I do now is as a public servant
00:35:02.500
to try and make sure that we can preserve this republic. And we have so many individuals that, quite frankly,
00:35:09.220
started at a young age, grooming themselves to become professional politicians. And so we often hear
00:35:16.420
this is this vote is going to end your career in politics. And once you have made it your career,
00:35:24.340
then your votes are already tainted. Well, I think that's a great, straightforward assessment of
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the situation. I want to say to you how much I've enjoyed talking with you. I know the audience has
00:35:37.540
been delighted to listen to you and your perspective on what is happening both in your state and the
00:35:44.500
country. And there seems to be considerable overlap. We always give our guests the last word here,
00:35:50.740
Congressman, as you know. I want to thank you again. And your concluding thoughts, if you will, sir.
00:35:57.300
There are so few of us in Washington that are fighting for this country, Lou, that I can't tell
00:36:03.940
you how much I appreciate you inviting me on to help us get our voice out, because we are limited
00:36:09.780
on the venues that will include us, that will allow us to freely speak, not to just cut us down to a 10
00:36:19.620
second sound bite. And this is critically important that we have outlets like you. And so what I will
00:36:25.780
ask your listeners is that identify who the folks are that are truly fighting for you, the Americans.
00:36:34.500
As President Trump so fondly says, the forgotten man and woman across this country that are out there
00:36:42.900
trying to raise their family, get a good education for their children, and keep food on the table,
00:36:48.580
we are out there fighting for you. We are you. And so when you find out who those folks are,
00:36:56.660
help them. Go out and help them. And if that means just putting out a sign in your yard to support
00:37:04.100
them, do so. If that means making a few phone calls to your friends to make sure that they know
00:37:09.780
who's actually fighting for you, make a few phone calls and certainly get your friends and neighbors
00:37:15.780
to vote. And if you have the ability to make any kind of financial support, I assure you,
00:37:23.460
we need that as well, because there are well-organized machines, not only in the Democrat Party,
00:37:30.420
but in the Republican Party that are spending millions and billions to try to keep voices
00:37:37.140
like mine and my conservative colleagues silent because they are all part of the
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Uniparty that are there to enrich themselves and not to preserve this republic. Congressman Matt
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Rosendale, great to have you with us. Thanks for all you're doing for the great people of Montana
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and this country. God bless you. Thank you. Thanks, everybody, for being with us today.
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Russ Tice, former senior intelligence analyst for the National Security Agency and whistleblower,
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is our guest here tomorrow. Please be with us and be sure to follow me on Truth Social and Twitter
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at LewDobbs.com. That's at LewDobbs.com. Thanks. God bless you. And God bless America.