The Great America Show - NO CRY FOR JAN 6 JUSTICE & NJ'S POPULIST SENATOR

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

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00:01:13.420 Speaking of warriors, we're all in the fight of our lives in this country.

00:01:17.780 It's we the people versus the establishment elites.

00:01:21.300 No matter what anyone tells you, it's that straightforward.

00:01:24.780 It's right against wrong.

00:01:27.040 It's conservatives and independents and most Republicans versus Democrats, radicals, and Marxists.

00:01:34.340 And some are fighting harder than others.

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00:01:43.560 But it is the fight of our lives, and we're fighting for this country.

00:01:47.240 I consider myself to be first an American, a constitutional conservative, a populist, and a Republican.

00:01:55.660 And when I say populist, a lot of people ask me what that means.

00:01:59.900 Well, to me, it means you're for the people and are still, no matter what, of the people.

00:02:07.580 And I believe that is the essence of being American.

00:02:11.560 I want to do something a little different today on The Great America Show.

00:02:16.820 I want to introduce you to a terrific guy, a great American who has done the impossible.

00:02:24.920 He has been the political version of David versus Goliath in the great state of New Jersey.

00:02:31.640 And he's a truck driver, and now he's also a New Jersey state senator because he knocked over the most powerful Democrat in the state legislature.

00:02:45.440 He did so by a margin of a little over 2,000 votes.

00:02:50.360 It was a cliffhanger, a nail-biter all the way to the end back in November.

00:02:55.860 And he now is the winner, even though it was contested there for a while.

00:03:04.300 And he is just about to take on the establishment.

00:03:08.880 It's a part-time job, but he'll find taking on the establishment, I assure you, to be a full-time job.

00:03:15.560 So, please welcome to The Great America Show, Ed Durr.

00:03:21.060 I love to say this, Ed.

00:03:23.160 A truck driver and state senator.

00:03:27.440 There's a combination you don't often hear a lot.

00:03:30.160 First, congratulations on your win, and tell us how it feels right now.

00:03:36.380 Well, thank you very much for that, Lou.

00:03:38.500 It feels really good.

00:03:40.240 Although my daughter actually takes a little problem with how the mainstream media always portrays and says a truck driver beats the Senate president because she takes it that they were meaning it in a very disparaging way. 0.89

00:03:57.860 And so I say, look, as long as they're saying my name right, I don't care what they say or anything.

00:04:03.560 Well, Ed, when I say it, I say it with great respect.

00:04:06.740 I want to get into what truck you do drive because I'm one of those guys who drives trucks myself.

00:04:13.300 I don't call myself a truck driver, but I was driving a truck at the age of 14.

00:04:19.400 I was raised, both of my parents worked, and I was taught very early and throughout my life to respect a man or woman for what they do, for the jobs they have.

00:04:32.380 And I don't care what they pay, what the jobs are, a man and a woman respect others for the fact they have a job and that they work hard for their families.

00:04:45.380 And by the way, that means they're working for all the rest of us, too, and this great country.

00:04:49.960 So when I say it, I say it proudly for any man, any woman in this country.

00:04:56.240 We need to get back to respecting people and anybody who denigrates another person for their job title.

00:05:02.840 The hell with them.

00:05:04.260 That isn't the way America was built, and it isn't the destiny for this nation to have a bunch of people looking down their noses at other Americans.

00:05:13.260 It just doesn't work like that, do you think?

00:05:15.320 Well, I thank you for that.

00:05:17.460 I agree.

00:05:18.040 I am very proud of my profession, and I think everybody should take a little pride in their job.

00:05:23.800 It doesn't matter whether you be a truck driver, a doctor, a lawyer, a trash collector, whether you be an accountant.

00:05:30.700 If you are doing your job and you're doing it honestly, you should take pride in it, and people should respect you for your job.

00:05:38.460 I don't care if you're flipping hamburgers at McDonald's.

00:05:41.420 It doesn't matter.

00:05:42.540 You're doing a job, and you're getting up every day, and you're earning a ton of a living.

00:05:47.900 Absolutely.

00:05:48.780 And if you spend any time on the road, and my wife and I take some road trips occasionally, I mean, when you see these big 18-wheelers and box trucks rolling down the road, I mean, there are more trucks than ever on these roads.

00:06:03.420 And this country needs trucks and truck drivers more than ever.

00:06:08.480 You see, nearly every truck, as you go down the road, said, we're hiring.

00:06:13.920 Drivers want it.

00:06:15.020 So people better wake up to the fact that we need everybody in this country to make this country work, and respect is due each and every citizen of this country.

00:06:27.480 And I'll tell you, I love truck drivers because it's sort of part of my background, and truck drivers got us through COVID.

00:06:37.820 They've gotten us through so much in this country's lifespan, and we'll do so forward.

00:06:46.860 I want to ask you, what kind of truck do you drive?

00:06:50.360 Well, right now, I'm driving a Cascadia Freightliner.

00:06:55.660 I work for Raymore and Flanagan, so I'm a company driver.

00:07:00.320 I used to do over the road for another company back in the day, and I've been into pretty much all the states.

00:07:08.600 I'm very proud of my record.

00:07:10.240 I have over 2 million miles driven on the highway, and, you know, I have a clean record.

00:07:16.900 I've never hit another vehicle.

00:07:18.340 I've been hit a few times in the rear and on the side from a couple cars, not paying attention.

00:07:22.940 I guess they don't see that 80 feet of tractor-trailer.

00:07:26.800 But, you know, I am very proud of my record.

00:07:30.660 Yeah, that 80 feet will include, what, 52 feet of trailer and the tractor.

00:07:35.740 Yeah.

00:07:36.020 And that Freightliner is a wonderful—for folks who don't know that—

00:07:40.240 Freightliner, along with Mack and Kenworth, you know, these are great truck brands.

00:07:49.880 It's just, you know, you're driving quite a machine there.

00:07:54.140 I'm impressed.

00:07:55.920 Well, thank you.

00:07:56.660 Yeah, I've driven the Mack.

00:07:58.680 I've driven Kenworth.

00:07:59.520 I had the Peterbilt.

00:08:00.760 You know, I've driven pretty much every truck.

00:08:03.680 You speaking of when you were a kid, 14, that's how I learned.

00:08:08.060 My dad, you know, just, you know, put me behind the wheel of vehicles when I was 14, 15 years old, you know, taught me how to drive.

00:08:16.600 I actually did not know you needed a special license when I first started driving commercial vehicles.

00:08:23.160 I remember as a kid, I was driving an international with a little trailer on the back that we could put 22 tons of hay on.

00:08:38.200 And it was just such great fun, and I never—you know, you feel like a man no matter what your age.

00:08:45.080 And, you know, I was underage, I guess is the way to put it, to be driving that thing.

00:08:49.960 But that's when you—you know, it's just a great experience for particularly a young guy.

00:08:54.900 Anyway, the idea that this country right now is, you know, like your daughter said, I mean, there is this view about people looking down or taking offense.

00:09:09.300 I mean, it's all there in one big brew in this country.

00:09:12.800 But the fact is, you did something that every American dreams of.

00:09:18.980 You talk about Mr. Durr goes to Washington while Mr. Durr goes to Trenton.

00:09:23.700 And I got to believe most Americans all over this country are just still cheering you to this day.

00:09:30.360 What has been the reaction of the Republican—and I've got to start here—what's been the reaction, first of all, of your neighbors, your friends, your family to your achievement?

00:09:41.280 Well, it's been a great response from everybody.

00:09:46.680 Everybody's just in awe and, you know, very happy for me.

00:09:50.200 My family has—I mean, I wouldn't have done this without my family's support.

00:09:54.160 They've been by my side.

00:09:56.000 They were by my side the night we watched the election results and found out that I was going to win.

00:10:02.960 I mean, I kind of—you know, people don't believe me, but I kind of knew I was going to win a week before the election.

00:10:10.660 Just by the responses I was getting on the campaign trail, I just knew that people were ready to vote.

00:10:17.600 I just knew that they were going to come out in a lot stronger numbers than they ever had.

00:10:22.580 And that's—and that gave me confidence that, you know, this is going to be my year.

00:10:28.800 Now, people were saying, I want to correct something on the record.

00:10:32.020 People had this ridiculous idea that you had only spent something like $150 a year election.

00:10:37.560 That turns out to be wildly inaccurate.

00:10:39.900 That was just for the primary.

00:10:41.200 You spent right over $2,000 for the general election.

00:10:45.860 Whoever heard of such a thing?

00:10:47.960 God bless you.

00:10:48.980 I mean, that's amazing.

00:10:50.380 How did you do it?

00:10:51.280 Well, first off, that number is incorrect, too.

00:10:54.180 It was closer to over $5,000, $6,000 total.

00:10:58.940 Oh, man.

00:10:59.400 Now I'm disillusioned, Dad.

00:11:00.660 I know.

00:11:01.520 I know.

00:11:02.020 It's a—but it's still a far cry from a million point eight.

00:11:06.520 There you go.

00:11:07.820 Absolutely.

00:11:09.040 But I just did it with the old-fashioned way, Lou.

00:11:11.860 I went out there, and I knocked the doors.

00:11:14.780 I gathered a team.

00:11:15.980 I had great volunteers with people like Maureen McCabe.

00:11:18.980 I had Tilly.

00:11:20.460 I had Norm Davidson.

00:11:21.920 I had my counterparts running.

00:11:24.720 I had, you know, Jonathan Zammons, who ran for sheriff in Gloucester County and won, by the way, the first African-American to ever win sheriff in Gloucester County.

00:11:33.360 Outstanding.

00:11:33.760 I had Nick DiSilvio and Chris Conowell, who both won county commissioners.

00:11:38.580 We walked out together.

00:11:40.040 You know, then there was my running mates, Beth Ann McCarthy-Patrick and Beth Sawyer, who also, you know, won the assembly seats.

00:11:47.880 This was not just a—and, you know, we were kind of talking about it last night at dinner, and they were saying, Ed Durr, Ed Durr.

00:11:53.960 And I said, no, it's Ed Durr, the movement.

00:11:56.380 It was everybody.

00:11:57.620 We all won.

00:11:59.460 And so to speak, I have become bigger than myself.

00:12:04.680 It is the movement, we the people.

00:12:07.060 And that's what I wanted to keep instilled in people.

00:12:09.920 They could see that with hard work, you can actually make a difference.

00:12:16.960 You can get in there and win something that most people said was impossible, as you use the term David versus Goliath.

00:12:24.240 Well, literally, it's funny when you use that term because I had said it early on, and there was a woman who actually wrote a blog about me who gave me an endorsement through the New Jersey Philly Pack.

00:12:39.260 You know, right.

00:12:41.040 Yeah, you know, when we talk about David versus Goliath, some people think that's a little bit of overstatement, and perhaps I was being a little hyperbolic.

00:12:50.140 But people have to understand that the senator, you ran against the incumbent, the longest-serving senator in New Jersey state history.

00:13:01.020 David Sweeney was a powerhouse and a man that of all of the incumbents you could have chosen to run against, the most powerful, the most entrenched, the most establishment, and the great legislative pal.

00:13:19.220 He was the yang to Governor Murphy's yang, and together, I mean, they were taking this state, they were taking it down to a level we just couldn't have imagined with heavy taxation, with outrageous regulation,

00:13:35.480 and what is a just solid left-wing agenda that everybody in this state who has any sense is hoping will be broken with Sweeney's defeat, and you're taking his seat in Trent.

00:13:50.480 Your thoughts?

00:13:51.240 Well, it was, you know, as some argue, have even argued that he was the most powerful person in New Jersey, given the fact that he decided what bills would go before Governor Murphy.

00:14:04.380 But, you know, he chose not to do his job for these last 20 months.

00:14:10.960 When the COVID hit, Governor Murphy started ruling by fiat, you know, and Senator Sweeney did not push back, did not challenge him on any subject matter.

00:14:24.640 And you watch people suffering.

00:14:26.640 They weren't getting unemployment checks.

00:14:28.580 They weren't able to use DMV.

00:14:30.440 You had the nursing home deaths.

00:14:32.480 You had the one-third small businesses close up permanently.

00:14:36.580 You had people leaving the state left and right.

00:14:40.280 I mean, seven out of ten moves were out of the state.

00:14:43.360 You know, you cannot continue to, and then on top of that, you're telling people they can't go to church.

00:14:48.040 When your religion is the most important to you, especially in time of crisis.

00:14:54.280 And, you know, when, you know, now we know more about the virus, but in the beginning, it was scary to a lot of people.

00:15:03.020 And to tell somebody they couldn't go to God and pray, that's just wrong.

00:15:08.760 There was so much wrong with how the Democratic, particularly the Democratic governors in this country reacted.

00:15:17.520 They used it as, frankly, a rationalization for their own authoritarian impulses.

00:15:24.180 And as you said, whether it is Murphy in New Jersey, whether it is Cuomo or was Cuomo in New York, and Gavin Newsom in California, whoever it is, they ruled by fiat.

00:15:41.100 And they meant for people to follow their orders, follow their mandates.

00:15:45.280 Now we have in Washington, of course, the chief mandator, Joe Biden, as president.

00:15:54.820 And I think he's getting the message after seeing what happened, for example, in Virginia, what happened in New Jersey with your race, and the ascendancy of other Republicans as well.

00:16:06.680 Well, not many, but some, into the state legislature, I think they're getting a bit of a wake-up call.

00:16:14.480 I don't know that Murphy, the Democratic governor of this state, is, I don't even know if he can assimilate the data that has been put in front of him, because he is so arrogant and so elitist that it's stunning.

00:16:29.700 The commercials that we're running about him, showing him saying, basically, to people, if taxes, high taxes, is your problem, your issue, then New Jersey probably isn't the state for you.

00:16:44.260 If every person in the state didn't say, you know, then the hell with you, governor.

00:16:48.560 I can't believe he got, well, I can believe, because the registration for Democrats is massively beyond that of Republicans, but the idea that we would put a man in office who talked to the people that way is just so ignorant of him.

00:17:07.200 And I think, unfortunately, the people in New Jersey need to rise up on this and just stop it before it gets worse.

00:17:15.120 What do you think?

00:17:15.680 Well, yeah, I mean, he was very arrogant.

00:17:18.780 I was truly pulling for Jack Cittarelli.

00:17:21.640 He not only was the guy I wanted for governor, but I consider Jack a friend.

00:17:25.920 I've known Jack for three years, and he supported me, and he believed in me.

00:17:32.460 Well, he sure came close, didn't he?

00:17:34.720 He did come close.

00:17:36.100 And it wasn't just the taxes, quote.

00:17:39.720 I mean, he clearly says that the Bill of Rights is above his pay grade.

00:17:44.540 Well, he clearly doesn't understand it with his mandates and, you know, executive orders.

00:17:49.280 He thinks that he can tell people, well, you have to take this injection or you don't have a job.

00:17:56.520 So now he's threatening your life and your livelihood.

00:17:59.640 He's created his own problems by firing people because they won't submit to his whims.

00:18:07.740 You know, he's ignoring religious and personal freedoms of choice.

00:18:12.480 I mean, I'm not telling you a person whether the injection is right or wrong.

00:18:17.000 That's for each person to decide.

00:18:18.880 You bet.

00:18:19.600 Absolutely.

00:18:20.700 For me, I personally believe everybody should make their own health choice, not the government.

00:18:26.660 Yeah, I agree with you.

00:18:28.520 This country, if we lose our right of choice, we are in real trouble because this is, when you mandate a vaccine, that wasn't even done for the sock polio vaccine.

00:18:43.420 This is a country of citizens.

00:18:47.260 We're to be informed by our government.

00:18:50.340 By the way, instead of informing us, now misinform us or disinform us.

00:18:55.740 We have propaganda operations instead of news outlets amongst our national media.

00:19:02.100 It's very difficult for the American people to get the straight scoop on anything.

00:19:10.840 And thank goodness we have so many platforms and different outlets for news and information because otherwise, this country right now, if we were left to the devices of these two political parties and the elites, the globalist elites of Wall Street,

00:19:32.100 corporate America, we would be in so much trouble.

00:19:37.760 It's just, it's fearsome to think about.

00:19:41.500 And to see you win, again, I bring it back to your victory.

00:19:46.860 The people in New Jersey have got to be feeling better about themselves and more hopeful.

00:19:51.260 And people don't realize, and I should say to all of the people who don't live in the great state of New Jersey, your taxes, you better be thankful because your taxes are much lower than I assure you that we pay in this state.

00:20:07.540 We live on a farm up in Northwest New Jersey, up in Sussex County, beautiful.

00:20:14.620 We've been here for almost 40 years.

00:20:16.280 But what they're trying to do is suffocate people with property taxes, with millionaire taxes, with every kind of tax you can imagine.

00:20:26.720 And the state just can't stand that, Ed.

00:20:29.200 I mean, it just can't stand it.

00:20:30.560 I know you ran on lower taxes.

00:20:32.580 You believe in that.

00:20:33.720 But I want to turn, if I may, before, you know, in that sense, I want to turn to why you did run, because I also am a believer in the Second Amendment.

00:20:46.440 I'm more than a believer.

00:20:48.080 I'm a righteous believer in the Second Amendment in this country.

00:20:52.400 I think it's fundamental to our rights as citizens.

00:20:55.660 And that's what, that is what prompted you to run, isn't it?

00:21:00.780 Well, yeah, I mean, I believe that every individual should have the right of self-protection.

00:21:06.580 No government should be able to tell an individual their manner in which they can protect themselves.

00:21:12.620 And so when I went to apply for a concealed carry, I've had my, you know, firearms purchase license, and then I went for a concealed carry.

00:21:21.680 And I was laughed at saying, there's not a chance in the world you're going to get this.

00:21:26.180 I mean, yeah, New Jersey technically has concealed carry.

00:21:30.780 But it's, it's, it's a, it's a dream to get it for, unless you're politically connected, you know, I mean, because they have this written statement of justifiable need.

00:21:47.560 Well, that, that's, that's a judgment call.

00:21:50.500 How do you prove justifiable need?

00:21:52.920 I mean, I justifiable need, uh, there's gangs down the street or you're, you work in a bad area or you, or you carry the bank deposits for a store or jewelry company, you know?

00:22:07.640 So, but that doesn't matter.

00:22:09.720 Uh, a mom who's separated from an abusive husband needs a protection, can't get one. 1.00

00:22:16.600 This, this state is ridiculous with tell.

00:22:19.280 And then on top of it, they go and make law after law after law about the guns that have nothing to do with criminals.

00:22:28.600 And it's only hurts the law abiding citizen.

00:22:33.260 Yeah.

00:22:33.700 I went down to the, to the barracks, this state patrol, uh, when I wanted to buy a, a pistol, uh, years ago.

00:22:41.360 So, and I thought, well, I'll just get a, you know, I've, I've had people, well, I've had incidents, uh, in which people have, uh, you know, uh, I'll just say it straight out.

00:22:52.740 They were shot at us.

00:22:54.520 And I said, you know, I, to myself, well, heck, we'll just get a concealed carry as well.

00:23:00.860 You know, we live on a farm so we can be armed at any time here on the farm.

00:23:05.440 Uh, but I wanted to get that concealed carry just as you're talking about.

00:23:08.980 And the sergeant, I'll never forget.

00:23:10.440 He said, well, Mr.

00:23:11.200 Dobbs, uh, you know, this just won't happen just so, you know, and of course, everybody knows in the state of New Jersey that you just can't get a concealed carry, uh, permit.

00:23:22.880 No matter, uh, any of the circumstances, uh, as you've just described the Met, uh, what, what do you, what do you think is going to be, uh, the reception in Trenton, uh, in the state legislature to your ideas?

00:23:36.380 Uh, what do you think you face?

00:23:38.980 Well, I mean, clearly I've had, as you were speaking, uh, it's really been a resonating factor throughout the state because I've gotten emails and phone calls and letters from people all over the state, you know, congratulating me also asking for my input in certain areas.

00:23:58.460 Uh, as far as my reception to, I've had a very good reception to my fellow Republicans when we had the caucus a few days after the election, as far as the Democrats.

00:24:10.120 I have not really spoken to any other than having that phone call with Senator Sweeney.

00:24:16.760 So I look forward to this.

00:24:18.940 Hopefully we can work together to make New Jersey better for the citizens.

00:24:22.420 And if not, then they are going to have to tend with me because I will make their life miserable because I'm here for the people.

00:24:31.080 Well, God bless you.

00:24:32.680 Uh, I, I do.

00:24:33.880 Uh, I have to say, uh, Sweeney, after basically saying that, uh, he, he wanted to recount, he was going to, he wasn't going to concede.

00:24:42.800 He ultimately did the right thing and did concede.

00:24:46.160 Uh, how was that phone call with the, with Sweeney?

00:24:50.040 Well, as I said, you know, I mean, it went very well.

00:24:53.280 He and I, you know, had a very pleasant conversation and I just, you know, told him, you know, if there was anything he ever needed just to reach out.

00:25:03.200 Yep.

00:25:04.080 Well, uh, so what do you think, uh, of high taxes, the mandates, the, uh, I mean, they throw on everything in the book.

00:25:12.800 At this state, uh, what are going to be your priorities to move through the legislature?

00:25:17.660 Well, absolutely.

00:25:18.660 The, uh, cost of living, the taxes is going to be forefront.

00:25:22.600 I do think that, uh, I have a very simple look on things, I guess.

00:25:28.020 Uh, it seems to make sense to me.

00:25:30.080 You tell me if it makes sense.

00:25:31.660 If you have lower, uh, business taxes, you have more businesses come to the state.

00:25:36.960 If you have more businesses come to the state, you have more jobs.

00:25:39.840 If you have more jobs, more people are working.

00:25:41.720 If more people are working, there's more taxes, revenue for the state.

00:25:47.380 Absolutely.

00:25:48.420 Uh, seems like it makes sense, right?

00:25:50.840 It makes all the sense of the world.

00:25:52.540 And you know what else?

00:25:53.480 If you have a state government that is growing, and if you have a state government that has higher bills for pensions of former employees of the state, uh, you have a huge problem.

00:26:04.720 And when the taxpayers, uh, and I think this is one of the most stunning situations, it's not just New Jersey, but across the country, public employee unions have the most generous retirement and healthcare benefits in the country.

00:26:18.400 And that means that a taxpayer who is making on average, let's, let's call the number an average around the country.

00:26:26.540 It's going to be right at $50,000 a year.

00:26:29.260 And you've got employees in, uh, state government, county government, local government, uh, making a lot of money with huge, huge, uh, pension, uh, liabilities as a result of, uh, their employment, uh, in municipal government, state, county, uh, you name it.

00:26:48.000 Uh, that just can't go on.

00:26:49.900 And we've got to make this country make sense where we've, we've created us a class of citizen, uh, that, uh, goes beyond the people.

00:26:58.760 It makes no sense to me whatsoever that the average pay for an American would be a half as much as the benefits for a retired public employee.

00:27:08.780 That's insane.

00:27:10.980 Well, what's even worse than that is on the average, you have a lot of these state employees.

00:27:17.680 Work and, uh, and get their retirement and their pension.

00:27:22.140 And then they'd leave the state.

00:27:23.760 So the state that's paying all the taxes, all the money to them, they go and run to a state where they live cheaper on the dollar.

00:27:33.180 So now you're not even reaping the benefits of them spending their money here in the state.

00:27:38.420 Now there's, now they're taking it out of the state.

00:27:42.200 Absolutely.

00:27:42.720 And, uh, uh, what else are you, what else are you expecting when you get to Trenton?

00:27:49.400 I think you're going to have a warm, uh, first of all, a warm reception from the Republican party and the Republican leadership.

00:27:57.520 It's still about two to one in the Senate, right?

00:28:00.240 Uh, the, uh, democratic advantage over Republicans.

00:28:04.160 Uh, no, no, we, we closed the Senate.

00:28:06.720 Uh, it's, uh, 24, 16 in the Senate and it's the assembly that is a little closer.

00:28:14.720 Also, both of them, I believe are obtainable goals in 23 to actually turn Republican.

00:28:22.020 Uh, as far as the reception goes, I had a very pleasant reception.

00:28:26.260 The first time I met several of the senators, you know, my fellow senators in, uh, Trenton.

00:28:33.820 And I've had several conversations with the, you know, chosen, uh, majority leader or, you

00:28:40.940 know, Republican leader in Senator Oroho.

00:28:43.820 And I've, I spoken to Senator Scanlon and then Senator Panaccio.

00:28:49.000 So, so I, I've had very pleasant conversations and I'm already friends with Senator Mike Testa

00:28:54.360 down here in the first.

00:28:56.640 So I, I feel I'll be well looked after, you know, guide it well.

00:29:03.500 I mean, cause clearly I'm, I'm not a person who's been in politics all his life.

00:29:08.940 So I'm going to be learning on the curve, so to speak, but I'm, I'm a quick learn.

00:29:14.720 So I don't fear too much going in there.

00:29:17.860 Well, yeah, I don't think you had ever thought for a moment, you'd be afraid, uh, or even

00:29:23.600 tentative.

00:29:25.140 I'm just, uh, I'm just curious about the warmth of the welcome.

00:29:28.580 And it sounds like, uh, that, uh, you've made an impression on them.

00:29:33.020 So, uh, I know you will make an even greater impression in the, in the years ahead.

00:29:38.020 And I want to, I want to leave you with the last word I do going into your last word,

00:29:43.420 want to say to you again, congratulations on your victory.

00:29:46.280 Uh, and we thank you for being with us here and I hope you'll come back to the great America

00:29:51.400 show often, uh, and, uh, tell us about your progress and that of the, of the state of New

00:29:57.500 Jersey's progress as a result, uh, of your election and, and others like minded, uh, you

00:30:03.480 get the last word, Ed.

00:30:04.560 Well, I thank you that for that Lou.

00:30:07.320 And, uh, I'll, I'll absolutely come back anytime you have me.

00:30:11.060 I mean, I would like that to be able to, you know, cause like I said, I firmly believe in

00:30:15.960 a transparency and it would be great to have a way to inform people what's going on.

00:30:20.740 As far as the last word, I, I just want people to understand that this was not an Ed Durr

00:30:27.300 moment.

00:30:27.880 It was a Republican.

00:30:30.060 It was a conservative because I also consider myself to be a constitutional conservative.

00:30:35.440 I believe in we, the people, and this was for we, the people they stood up.

00:30:40.720 I had great help in this.

00:30:42.560 Like I said, with all my candidates, fellow candidates.

00:30:44.800 And then I had my County chair and Jackie vigilante and her political consultant and

00:30:49.780 Steve, of course, they, they guided me in this pathway.

00:30:53.080 And I'll tell you one thing, if people want to run, they should get involved and run and

00:30:58.120 always take the advice of people who've been in the, in the field and know what they're talking

00:31:05.900 about, because I was a novice and advice helps.

00:31:09.500 Well, you know, uh, wise counsel always does and wherever we find it, uh, Ed, it's, uh,

00:31:17.520 it's great of you to spend some time with you.

00:31:19.480 And I'm sure that the audience has enjoyed learning more, uh, about, uh, your victory,

00:31:25.340 uh, and that of the people in New Jersey.

00:31:28.220 I want to say, I think it's also a victory for the people of America.

00:31:31.760 You're an inspiration.

00:31:33.400 Uh, this is the way American government is supposed to work, uh, and, uh,

00:31:39.200 God bless you.

00:31:40.260 And we wish you all the very best again, proud of you, Ed, and come back soon.

00:31:46.160 Thanks so much.

00:31:47.560 Thank you, Lou.

00:31:48.680 We're coming right back with more of the great America show.

00:31:51.960 Stay with us.

00:31:53.800 The Biden white house is having its troubles and there's no sign that anyone in president

00:31:59.300 Biden's cabinet is particularly organized around the principle established by former

00:32:04.220 president Trump.

00:32:05.120 That is of course, America first, the same is true of the radical Dems leadership on Capitol

00:32:11.540 Hill.

00:32:12.500 America first, isn't exactly one of their fundamental propositions or values.

00:32:17.260 That may be the reason speaker Pelosi and Senate majority leader lack obvious regard and affection

00:32:23.260 for our guests on this episode of the great America show.

00:32:27.880 There are other strong differences between the radical Dems on Capitol Hill and our guest

00:32:32.920 Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor green.

00:32:35.440 She believes in our constitution, our nation, and our fundamental American values.

00:32:40.940 A businesswoman, she and her husband, Perry own a construction and renovation company.

00:32:46.280 She's mother of three children, a Christian, the Congresswoman believes in strong faith and

00:32:51.440 strong families.

00:32:52.660 And I'm delighted now to welcome Congresswoman green to the great America show.

00:32:56.740 Great to have you with us.

00:32:58.380 Welcome.

00:32:59.260 Well, thank you.

00:33:00.540 And it's so great to be with you, Lou.

00:33:02.220 I'm a big fan of yours for a long time.

00:33:04.720 Well, I'm a fan of yours and I have to say thank you first for your kind words, but I

00:33:10.920 mean, you are going straight at them and I like that in any one of our elected officials.

00:33:17.900 And it's a, it's a rare thing.

00:33:19.960 Indeed, I want to start if I may, uh, with just the attitude of the, the democratic leadership

00:33:27.580 and the Republican leadership for that matter toward you and several other strong representatives

00:33:35.700 of their constituents, uh, and what you think the reason for it is.

00:33:40.840 Well, you know, they're used to having members of Congress after they're elected freshman

00:33:46.560 members, uh, usually come to Washington and learn from the leaders of their conference,

00:33:53.140 whether they're Democrats or Republicans on how to do the job.

00:33:57.100 And that's what typically happens in Washington.

00:33:59.920 I call that joining the swamp.

00:34:01.820 And I did exactly the opposite of that.

00:34:05.120 Well, good for you.

00:34:06.760 And I, I have to say, I think you're exactly right.

00:34:09.740 There is too much, uh, swamp gas in the air there, uh, for comfort and certainly to, you

00:34:16.380 know, I think there's another thing going on too, but I'm going to say this, uh, is well,

00:34:21.740 as carefully as I can.

00:34:22.920 I think there are some people, a little surprised to see strong women stand up and say, you know,

00:34:28.720 this is, uh, who we are and you're going to have to deal with it.

00:34:32.120 Uh, just as you all have to deal with them.

00:34:35.320 Uh, what do you think?

00:34:36.860 Oh, I totally agree with you.

00:34:38.680 Yeah.

00:34:38.900 You see the, the left has been defining what it's like to be a woman for decades now.

00:34:43.920 They have defined us as women who, who want careers and don't care about taking care of 1.00

00:34:49.500 the home and don't care about taking care of our children.

00:34:52.100 They've defined us as women who believe abortion is not only a choice, but believe it and call

00:34:58.740 it women's healthcare and believe that that's the right thing to do over deciding to be a 1.00

00:35:04.140 mother, um, even if it, even if it was unplanned.

00:35:07.060 And so the left is, is not used to women coming out and, and going against the narrative and,

00:35:13.320 and proclaiming boldly and proudly that we're Christians, that we love our families, that

00:35:18.660 we believe, uh, raising our children and our pro America Christian faith, um, is the right

00:35:24.900 way to raise our children.

00:35:25.860 And they're not used to women in leadership, especially Republican women, because Republican 0.99

00:35:31.060 women are usually quiet and just do what they're told in the Republican conference, but they're 1.00

00:35:36.220 just not used to women like me.

00:35:37.980 And you know what that really means, Lou?

00:35:40.000 It means they're totally disconnected with what it means to be a real American woman, a woman

00:35:46.240 that's proud of our country and our freedoms, um, a woman that's proud of, of being a wife

00:35:52.140 and a mother and a woman that will fight like hell against anybody that will try to take that 0.88

00:35:57.540 away from us.

00:35:58.320 And so they've been shocked by me and several others.

00:36:01.780 Well, all I could say to that is hallelujah.

00:36:05.460 Uh, that to me is wonderful, uh, because it means you're giving some instruction there

00:36:12.300 to some people who really need it and the country, uh, needs you and your voice.

00:36:17.100 Uh, we, uh, you know, I just can't tell you how much, uh, I, I respect you for what you're

00:36:23.320 doing, uh, and the people you're taking on, uh, man, oh man, I, it's, uh, it's quite a

00:36:30.760 place that you're, uh, working in, but you've got that already figured out.

00:36:35.180 I I've got to compliment you as well on your, you were recently the, uh, the target, uh,

00:36:41.680 former Navy SEAL, Congressman Dan Crenshaw, uh, who, if, uh, anyone in our audience doesn't

00:36:49.200 know, had the real bad judgment to refer to the house freedom caucuses, a bunch of grifters 0.96

00:36:55.720 and performance artists.

00:36:57.300 Uh, and there's a man standing up with his eye patch, uh, and a, a pose, uh, and I can't

00:37:03.640 tell you what the last thing he did that was constructive for the Republican party, but maybe

00:37:08.760 he did.

00:37:09.820 Uh, and I'm, I just want to tell you, I just love your response.

00:37:14.660 Uh, the Congresswoman responded to Crenshaw, uh, and his comments by saying he's shooting

00:37:21.120 blanks.

00:37:21.920 Uh, have you heard from the Congressman?

00:37:24.340 Did he say any of this to you in person, uh, at all?

00:37:29.580 No, he didn't.

00:37:30.740 And I saw him quite a few times last week.

00:37:33.000 He had the opportunity to apologize.

00:37:35.040 Uh, he was, you know, standing within a few feet of me multiple times on the house floor

00:37:41.220 when we were voting for hours actually last week and he never apologized, never, um, never

00:37:48.760 even cared to try.

00:37:50.060 And the reason why I said he's shooting with blanks is, is my reference.

00:37:53.980 So that is, is his, uh, accusations and his attacks on me and members of the freedom caucus

00:38:00.920 are empty.

00:38:01.980 They're completely empty because he's, he was saying that we're not conservative and he was

00:38:07.420 saying, you know, calling us performance artists when in fact, he's the one that did, uh, videos

00:38:12.940 of himself and campaign ads, like he was Tom Cruise and the mission impossible, you know,

00:38:18.740 movie jumping out of airplanes.

00:38:20.180 And so I'm just tired of Republicans in our conference that want to act like they're conservative,

00:38:25.440 but they don't know how to vote that way.

00:38:27.860 Yeah.

00:38:28.300 Uh, this is well said and, uh, and Congressman Crenshaw, I've got to give him credit.

00:38:34.760 I, and Congressman, I'm going to, I'm going to differ from you from one little aspect there

00:38:40.800 is I thought that was a pretty inventive little commercial that he ran.

00:38:44.720 Uh, the problem is I just don't think he does much.

00:38:47.660 I mean, I respect the man mightily for his service to the country, uh, but he has been

00:38:52.160 a real disappointment in terms of his ideology, uh, and, uh, and what he supports, uh, your

00:38:59.300 thoughts on, on his politics.

00:39:01.940 Well, I'm like you, I loved his campaign ads and, and respect him greatly for his military

00:39:07.380 service to our country.

00:39:08.640 I don't think anyone could ever question that or, or say anything negative about that.

00:39:14.780 And, and no one should, I would defend him all day long on that and, um, and, um, and

00:39:20.260 appreciative for him, but you know, when it comes to voting, that is, that is our actions

00:39:25.900 and that is our job performance and legislation and voting is so important.

00:39:31.480 And that's why our votes matter.

00:39:33.160 I've spent, uh, most of the year role calling votes Lou and not allowing Congress to vote,

00:39:39.060 uh, by voice, which I think is appalling to me.

00:39:42.140 I can't even believe it has happened, but our, our job performance is important.

00:39:46.520 And, you know, conservative review is a great scorecard.

00:39:50.680 It's a, it's a great place for people to look for Americans to go to the website and look

00:39:54.620 up how we vote and look up and see who are the real conservatives in Congress.

00:39:58.540 And I would encourage any Republican voter, um, and Democrat voters alike to go to conservative

00:40:04.180 review and look up our scores.

00:40:06.400 And you'll find I've got a very good passing grade.

00:40:09.320 I think I have a 100.

00:40:10.940 Um, and I can't say that for my, my fellow colleagues.

00:40:14.020 And that's the problem with the Republican conference is too many Republicans talk like

00:40:20.340 a conservative on Fox news and on other shows and on the campaign trail.

00:40:24.220 But then when it comes to the real job performance, which is voting and legislation, they fail miserably.

00:40:31.080 And so that's why you hear me oftentimes attacking my Republican colleagues just as much as I attack

00:40:36.840 Democrats, because if our conference did the job that we say we're about, we wouldn't be facing

00:40:42.000 all the nightmares we're facing right now in our country.

00:40:44.860 I think you're exactly right.

00:40:46.400 And I also think that, uh, rhinos, uh, are the, are as big a problem as the radical dims.

00:40:52.820 Uh, the Republican party can't survive with that kind of nonsense going on where it doesn't

00:41:00.500 mean anything.

00:41:01.140 I mean, what they're basically saying in the party is it doesn't matter whether you're really

00:41:06.600 a Republican or not just lower, you get that R behind your name, uh, and you can vote with,

00:41:11.760 uh, for example, as 13 of your colleagues did vote for the, uh, build back, uh, better

00:41:19.260 legislation in the house.

00:41:21.220 Uh, and 13 of them made it possible for it to advance to the Senate. 0.82

00:41:25.080 I mean, that's outrageous.

00:41:26.920 And Kevin McCarthy says, I had promised everybody that wouldn't happen.

00:41:32.400 The next thing we know it happened and then it happened.

00:41:35.320 And there was no accountability, no recourse whatsoever from the leadership is far at least

00:41:41.200 publicly your thoughts.

00:41:43.880 Well, we haven't seen any yet, but I've, I've heard that there will be, that is what I've

00:41:49.200 heard with my own ears.

00:41:50.220 And I'm looking forward to that happening and we, I think it'd be remiss for us not to

00:41:55.580 acknowledge who the biggest problem is.

00:41:57.360 And that's Mitch McConnell and the Senate.

00:41:59.600 Mitch McConnell is such a failure to Republicans all over the country.

00:42:03.420 I mean, he, I don't even know how he keeps Republican by his name.

00:42:07.280 He's nothing but a Democrat.

00:42:08.680 He's helping Joe Biden pass his agenda and the night him leading 18 other Republican senators

00:42:14.480 to pass the infrastructure bill, which gave way and cover for 13 traders in the house.

00:42:20.220 Uh, Republican members in the house to vote for that infrastructure bill is unforgivable,

00:42:26.000 absolutely unforgivable.

00:42:27.580 And so, you know, you always hear the phrase or they're, they tell us the phrase, vote your

00:42:32.540 conscience, vote your district.

00:42:34.460 No, I'm sorry.

00:42:35.380 If you're a Republican, we should be voting the values that we proclaim to believe and the

00:42:40.520 values that we promise to our voters.

00:42:42.880 It's not about voting your conscience or your districts.

00:42:45.520 It's about voting what exactly we say we're going to do.

00:42:48.700 And that's why these, these Republicans that cross the aisle and vote to help Joe Biden

00:42:54.360 and the Democrats who I call communists, Lou, and I'm not ashamed to call them that because

00:42:58.700 they're destroying our country.

00:43:00.180 Those are the ones that have to go and they need to be replaced.

00:43:03.220 You know, this, this word communist, uh, by the way, I, I use that as a derogatory term,

00:43:09.940 as well as a very specific term for, for communist, uh, it's a communist in my book is lower than

00:43:18.080 a snake's belly and, and, and an enemy of this, of the, of our capitalist system, uh, they're

00:43:25.280 enemies of this, uh, great nation, our great constitutional Republic.

00:43:29.660 Uh, and, and, and I just don't understand why this, uh, they're, they're so reluctant to take

00:43:36.240 the name that they really, really deserve.

00:43:39.100 They're trying to put together, not just socialism.

00:43:42.460 They're trying to take a, an authoritarian, uh, precept, uh, and, and apply it across the

00:43:50.060 entire government.

00:43:51.000 And they're getting very close.

00:43:52.700 I have to say, we're seeing these mandates, whether it's for vaccines, whatever it may

00:43:57.640 be, these executive orders emanating from the white house, who in the hell does Joe Biden

00:44:04.880 think he is?

00:44:05.820 Who do these radical Dems think they are?

00:44:09.020 Well, I'll tell you exactly who they are.

00:44:11.200 They are communists and it's a difficult word to understand.

00:44:15.140 And for most Americans to really swallow down, because when we think of communists, we think

00:44:20.080 of pictures that we've seen of people standing in the cold and bread lines with scarves tied

00:44:25.480 or tied around their head.

00:44:26.680 We think of extreme poverty, but that's not really how communism starts.

00:44:30.840 It does end up that way for many and in a lot of countries, but it doesn't start out that

00:44:35.360 way.

00:44:35.580 It starts just like it's happening here in America, where everyone is busy working and

00:44:40.620 they're busy with their lives and they aren't taking the time to pay attention to the authoritarian

00:44:45.860 Marxist actions of the people in charge.

00:44:49.560 And just like you mentioned with these vaccine mandates that are so unconstitutional and they're

00:44:54.640 pushing government force through private businesses on private Americans and on the employees of

00:45:02.260 these companies.

00:45:03.420 It's so wrong.

00:45:05.080 And that is authoritarianism, but it's because it's communism.

00:45:08.140 And when we're seeing the people in charge, the president of the United States using his

00:45:13.220 power and wielding his control over the FBI and the Department of Justice to go after Americans

00:45:21.740 that were at the Capitol on January 6th and go after and target with a two-tier justice system 0.89

00:45:27.620 Americans that rioted at the Capitol and abusing them in the jail, like I saw when I visited

00:45:34.320 the D.C. jail, and then going after them and holding them and using the court system against

00:45:39.380 them and the public defenders are against them, all because they hate President Trump and anyone

00:45:44.760 that supports him.

00:45:46.480 That is what communists do to their political enemies in communist countries.

00:45:50.740 And there's so much more.

00:45:51.940 We could go on and on.

00:45:53.380 But the real truth is, is we've been a socialist country for decades now, Lou.

00:45:57.520 That started a long time ago with these massive social spending programs.

00:46:01.380 And the reality is, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, they all signed their

00:46:07.580 name on communist membership cards a long, long time ago, probably when they were in

00:46:12.780 college, where they accepted Marxist views and beliefs.

00:46:15.940 And they're just now coming to the place where they're wearing their ugly heads and showing

00:46:21.100 us exactly who they are.

00:46:22.520 And then we have this short time in our history that we can stop it and change it.

00:46:27.980 And that's honestly why I'm not afraid to speak these things.

00:46:32.320 I'm more terrified of not speaking them and us not coming together to stop them.

00:46:38.240 Most Americans can think for themselves.

00:46:40.780 Most Americans want to think for themselves and act with maximum individual freedom, which

00:46:47.140 is the purpose of that Constitution of ours.

00:46:50.500 That fundamentally, we have a choice in this country, and we also have an American heritage

00:46:59.620 of responsibility and taking responsibility for our decisions, our actions, and our choices.

00:47:07.340 This is a country now in which that is less the reality.

00:47:13.260 We're becoming collective in our thinking and in the push from sometimes the propagandist

00:47:21.160 national media, nearly always in point of fact, because they're corporatists, and the corporatists

00:47:27.360 are aligned with a globalist elite system that is trying to submerge sovereignty itself of

00:47:36.300 this country, and I guess they think that it would be just a terrific idea to put the United

00:47:42.520 Nations in charge of America and pat us on the head. 0.97

00:47:47.760 It's where a lot of these Marxists and neo-Marxists are really trying to push the country, don't you

00:47:54.660 think?

00:47:55.820 Yes, and you're right, talking about the large corporations.

00:47:59.100 And that is what happens in communist countries is the government aligns itself with these

00:48:04.000 large corporations, and then what happens is the small businesses, they go out of business,

00:48:10.380 no one can compete, and they are globalists.

00:48:13.160 They want to make America part of the global economy so that we're no longer a superpower.

00:48:19.860 They would love nothing more than to have the United Nations in control so that we're all

00:48:25.300 obeying the woke climate religion and not doing anything to hurt the climate, but going

00:48:30.460 along and getting along to completely end oil production, natural gas production.

00:48:36.640 And here's the truth, though.

00:48:38.020 This is what's going to happen.

00:48:39.480 With the Build Back Better bill and the infrastructure bill, the two of those together are the Green 0.99

00:48:44.500 New Deal.

00:48:45.340 And most people don't understand what the Green New Deal is all about.

00:48:48.440 And that's why I always tell everyone, just take a little bit of time.

00:48:51.900 It won't take long.

00:48:52.580 Go on house.gov and find the Green New Deal and read the bill itself, the actual bill text.

00:48:59.920 It's only 14 pages, but it's the most radical piece of legislation I would ever say has been

00:49:05.640 entered into our Congress.

00:49:09.340 And that bill is fully outlined in the infrastructure bill and Build Back Better.

00:49:14.040 It's going to make us rely on China specifically for energy. 1.00

00:49:18.460 And we cannot do that.

00:49:20.020 China hates us.

00:49:20.800 They dominate the battery market for electric vehicles with over 85% of the market share.

00:49:27.940 And America doesn't even compete with 5% of the market share.

00:49:31.400 So we're in trouble.

00:49:32.660 And this is what the Democrats want.

00:49:34.160 They are globalists.

00:49:35.280 And they're going to ruin our country and destroy our sovereignty and our independence 0.95

00:49:39.760 very, very quickly.

00:49:41.040 And I want to underline something, Congresswoman, for our audience, too.

00:49:47.220 Right now on Wall Street, we are watching firms pushing American capital toward China.

00:49:55.740 They are asking clients, some of these firms, to send their money through investments and newly

00:50:03.720 formed Chinese corporations, and that money leaves our markets and goes to the Chinese markets.

00:50:11.980 And there it supports, and in many, many instances, supports companies with direct ties to the Chinese

00:50:19.560 Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army.

00:50:23.400 It's outrageous.

00:50:24.780 It's going on in just public view, bald face, and with obvious consequences, which are just

00:50:33.460 terrible to contemplate.

00:50:35.580 Yet this president will do nothing to stop it.

00:50:39.440 Donald Trump did.

00:50:40.340 And you have to wonder where the allegiance to this country is when it comes to Wall Street

00:50:48.660 and to this administration as well, to permit such activity to continue without even so

00:50:54.480 much as a note.

00:50:56.040 Your thoughts?

00:50:57.800 Well, we know where Wall Street's allegiance is.

00:51:00.360 It's directly to their wallets of their bank accounts.

00:51:03.080 And that's clear right away.

00:51:05.200 But for Joe Biden, his allegiance is to China.

00:51:08.260 And he shows us every single day.

00:51:10.100 Never forget Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, and his brother James Biden, and all of their business

00:51:15.320 deals they've done in foreign countries over these years, specifically in China.

00:51:20.520 And Hunter Biden still is part owner of a company in China that no one wants to talk about.

00:51:25.680 But yet somehow Hunter Biden can sell his paintings that are worse than a kindergartner's

00:51:30.920 for like $500,000 or more.

00:51:33.380 And it's just for people to buy influence of his daddy, who is the president of the United

00:51:38.360 States.

00:51:38.840 Joe Biden is undoubtedly in allegiance and serving President Xi of China and serving America

00:51:45.320 last because of these policies that he's creating.

00:51:48.760 But anytime people are investing their money in businesses that are in China or are partly

00:51:54.280 owned by the CCP, it's the worst thing that we can possibly do.

00:51:58.140 And have you ever noticed that our country never demands fair treatment for American businesses

00:52:03.360 when it comes with China?

00:52:04.620 Any American business that does business over in China has to go by China's rules where they

00:52:10.460 have to sell their intellectual property and sell part of their business to someone, a Chinese 1.00

00:52:18.080 resident or Chinese citizen that is a member of the CCP.

00:52:21.860 But yet when it goes the other way, China can do whatever they want in our country. 0.61

00:52:26.740 You know, Mike Pompeo told us all in January, it was a group of a pretty big member group of

00:52:34.900 congressmen and women.

00:52:37.200 And he told us that China has infiltrated our country on every level, not just in our government 0.66

00:52:43.180 in our universities, but in our businesses.

00:52:45.780 They've infiltrated even in the school boards, city, local, county, state governments.

00:52:51.700 They are everywhere.

00:52:53.460 And for the President of the United States to pass any kind of policies that help China,

00:52:58.580 he's a traitor to our country, an absolute traitor.

00:53:01.700 And he's not serving our people, and he's not serving and protecting the Constitution that

00:53:06.660 he swore on us to uphold and protect.

00:53:10.020 You know, you're talking about the former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo,

00:53:15.520 and likely a candidate there in Kansas.

00:53:19.220 The idea that we tried to get rid of the Confucius Institutes within our universities to get rid

00:53:29.900 of the relationship between the same organization and many of our high schools in this country,

00:53:35.360 it hasn't been successful.

00:53:37.720 They're still operating.

00:53:39.580 They're still using their money, their funding, and their values to create relationships with

00:53:47.000 the heads of, whether it's the chemistry department at Harvard, wherever it may be.

00:53:52.860 It's ubiquitous.

00:53:54.320 It's pervasive.

00:53:55.440 It is an absolute threat to this nation, and it goes on without check.

00:53:59.700 And we hear from the politicians, the elected officials in our country, just about exactly

00:54:05.820 nothing.

00:54:06.880 And that's outrageous.

00:54:08.160 And the deep state is participating in the organization and the relationships that are built,

00:54:13.480 whether it be in public health officials in China and virologists in Wuhan and the medical

00:54:21.860 community, particularly the public health community in this country.

00:54:25.980 It's outrageous.

00:54:27.320 And it goes on and on.

00:54:28.980 800,000 Americans killed by the Wuhan virus.

00:54:34.660 Dr. Fauci the other day slipped and called it the Wuhan virus after trying to get everybody

00:54:39.080 to say COVID-19.

00:54:40.320 I thought that was at least ironic.

00:54:44.140 But the truth sometimes slips out, and we need to be hearing the truth in this country

00:54:49.380 from every quarter.

00:54:51.540 And I have to say again, Congresswoman, my compliments to you, because I don't hear us

00:54:57.740 announce a backup in your voice at all, and I respect that deeply.

00:55:03.600 Well, thank you so much.

00:55:05.160 But I hope more people will stand up and more people will run for Congress that are willing

00:55:12.480 to say these things and follow them up with actions, say the things that I'm saying and

00:55:17.160 you're saying bravely.

00:55:18.940 We don't have enough members of the press that are willing to say it.

00:55:22.220 You know, in America, we have the freedom of press, but it's not the freedom to lie.

00:55:26.980 And unfortunately, so many members of the press have forgotten what it is to be real journalists

00:55:31.500 and just take their stories to make money or to serve the company, the big company that

00:55:38.220 they work for instead of the truth.

00:55:40.860 And that's such a shame, Lou.

00:55:42.780 And so I'm always grateful that you have continued to be willing to tell the truth, even when it's

00:55:50.400 not the popular thing to do, especially in your industry.

00:55:53.140 But it is the alignment between the United States and China that's the most dangerous 0.98

00:55:58.380 thing for the American people in the entire world, really.

00:56:02.040 After all, it was our tax dollars that funded COVID-19, which is a biological weapon in the

00:56:09.080 Wuhan lab in China.

00:56:10.560 And it's that alignment and that relationship through Dr. Fauci and the third party in China

00:56:17.580 that made it possible that has killed all these people.

00:56:19.960 But even furthermore, it's the continuance of it.

00:56:24.580 And it's not just the Biden administration.

00:56:26.900 There's people in every state, Republicans and Democrats, that are completely bought into

00:56:31.900 China and the money that they fund, like you're talking about with the Confucius Institute,

00:56:37.060 schools, universities, business relationships.

00:56:40.560 You know, China works very hard to make good personal relationships in the business world

00:56:45.300 between American businesses and China.

00:56:48.280 But what they're doing through their fake friendship is they're really conquering our

00:56:52.700 country.

00:56:53.700 And anyone that's willing to take their money and willing to sell out our states or our country

00:57:00.640 just for these relationships and the profit margin they make are really ruining America

00:57:06.500 because it's these policies that send all these jobs overseas, especially to China.

00:57:11.600 But other countries as well, Mexico, India, and many other countries have created the just

00:57:18.460 millions and millions of what I call forgotten men and women of the United States of America.

00:57:23.420 And that is what has completely eroded rural America and small towns.

00:57:27.980 And it's truly a tragedy.

00:57:30.360 You know, Congressman, on this program, I remind everybody, the supply chain disruptions, a lot

00:57:38.900 of people are talking about that these days, and the backup at our ports.

00:57:43.780 And they said, you know, there's a very simple solution.

00:57:46.320 It's got nothing to do with logistics.

00:57:48.220 It's got nothing to do with anything very fancy or complex.

00:57:52.000 If you don't outsource the good-paying American jobs to cheap foreign labor markets, if you 0.98

00:57:58.320 don't offshore factories and plants to those same cheap overseas markets, if you build those

00:58:05.560 plants and those factories and those warehouses in this country and you keep those jobs in

00:58:10.920 this country, guess what?

00:58:12.840 You won't have a supply disruption because you won't be dependent on a bunch of Chinese-owned 1.00

00:58:19.340 container ships, which is the situation right now, or dependent upon China for 97% of our

00:58:26.440 pharmaceuticals or all of our clothing.

00:58:29.560 We are a dependent nation.

00:58:32.240 Yes, President Trump achieved energy independence for America, but we were still, and we still

00:58:38.780 are very far from being an independent nation that doesn't have to rely on outside production

00:58:45.780 and critical national security strategic resources.

00:58:51.300 We have been abject fools, our leaders in particular, to tolerate what has happened over

00:58:58.640 the last three decades.

00:59:00.860 I completely agree.

00:59:03.260 It is so sad.

00:59:05.680 You know, there's so many people that are still upset with President Trump because they don't

00:59:10.600 like the way he talks and they don't like his tweets and they just are scared of that kind

00:59:14.800 of language, but those are the Americans that are really giving us a hard time because they're 1.00

00:59:18.940 so spineless.

00:59:20.400 You know, President Trump, you need a fighter and you need a fighter in there and he has

00:59:24.540 been a fighter and we know he'll come back and be a fighter for us once again, but that's

00:59:29.600 what it takes.

00:59:30.280 It takes fighters to protect America and put our country first and solve these problems,

00:59:36.320 just like you're talking about.

00:59:37.700 It's so simple.

00:59:38.740 If we manufacture and build and create things here in our country, we don't face these supply

00:59:44.480 chain shortages and we don't face these problems, but you know, it's going to take a fighter

00:59:49.340 to restore us to that.

00:59:50.900 And I will tell you, Lou, I have some hope.

00:59:53.500 I do.

00:59:53.960 I think it's a short window of opportunity, but I have hope that we can make it happen,

00:59:59.080 but we have to be willing to fight for it instead of get offended with strong words and

01:00:05.040 maybe, maybe tweets that don't sound so nice.

01:00:08.680 Exactly.

01:00:09.480 You know, the idea that somebody would be complaining about, uh, president Trump as being a quote

01:00:15.420 unquote mean tweeter seems awfully silly right now as we watch what's happening in China,

01:00:21.540 uh, in Ukraine, uh, in Taiwan, uh, and the middle East, uh, please, please Joe Biden, just

01:00:30.700 one mean tweet to show us you really care.

01:00:33.620 Uh, you can stay with us just for a minute.

01:00:36.440 I do want to talk about the January six political prisoners.

01:00:39.660 You have been, uh, at the forefront of keeping public attention on those people.

01:00:45.440 Uh, and, and you're getting, I know all sorts of, uh, assault from left and right and every,

01:00:52.820 every quarter, uh, for standing up, uh, to speak the truth.

01:00:57.640 Give us a sense of right now where we are, where those prisoners stand and their likely

01:01:03.940 fates.

01:01:05.680 Well, it's a very sad tragedy and I, and I thank you for bringing that up.

01:01:10.200 Not enough people are talking about it.

01:01:12.520 You know, I'm one of the top targets of Nancy Pelosi's January 6th committee.

01:01:17.200 I think we're going to see that ramp up next year.

01:01:19.820 They've, they've gone, uh, they've told telecommunications companies to preserve the records of all the

01:01:26.140 people that they're targeting and they have 13 members of Congress on that list.

01:01:30.280 And I happen to be one of them, but Lou, I'll tell, yeah, I'll tell you the truth though.

01:01:35.460 I, I don't, I don't allow that to frighten me or stop me from standing up for these January 6th

01:01:42.220 defendants who are being abused terribly in jail.

01:01:45.140 They are, they're being treated like political prisoners of war.

01:01:48.700 And anyone can go to my website, green.house.gov green has an end green.house.gov.

01:01:56.340 And you can read the report, uh, that I wrote from the DC jail, the two where we were in

01:02:02.240 there over three hours and Congressman Louie Gohmert went with me and our staff and we saw

01:02:08.200 the entire jail.

01:02:09.180 And then we had to argue and fight our way in because they weren't going to show us the

01:02:14.080 January 6th defendants area.

01:02:15.920 And, and we had to fight our way to get in there arguing with them.

01:02:20.040 And they finally agreed, but we did go in and see the men being held there.

01:02:24.640 Uh, some of them have been held since January.

01:02:27.640 They are being held under a deputy warden.

01:02:30.840 Her name is Kathleen Landerkin, who we uncovered on her own Twitter page, her radical extremist

01:02:37.600 views, how much she hates president Trump, his supporters.

01:02:40.880 Uh, she completely, she doesn't even agree with an electoral college. 0.97

01:02:45.040 She wants it abolished. 1.00

01:02:46.140 She believes in riots, but only BLM riots.

01:02:49.360 Uh, she's a white woman, but she's racist against white people and she's tweeted horrible 1.00

01:02:54.860 things.

01:02:55.360 And it's no wonder these men have been abused.

01:02:58.340 They have been beaten.

01:02:59.600 They have been denied medical treatment.

01:03:02.260 They're not allowed to get haircuts.

01:03:03.900 They're not allowed to shave.

01:03:05.120 They're not allowed to have chapel, uh, or religious services.

01:03:08.260 They're denied communion and they're denied seeing their attorneys, uh, when they asked

01:03:14.040 for them, they hardly ever see their attorneys.

01:03:16.140 They have not seen their family's faces since they've been put in that jail.

01:03:20.480 They can't even see them in person and they were held in solitary confinement for months

01:03:25.500 on end, uh, 23 hours a day.

01:03:28.060 And then it went to 22 hours a day.

01:03:30.160 Uh, it, the, the conditions are atrocious and horrific in that jail and they are being

01:03:36.920 abused.

01:03:37.340 They're, they're told they're white supremacist.

01:03:39.680 They're told they have to denounce Trump.

01:03:41.800 And then that's the way they're treated in the jail.

01:03:44.220 And then they're treated worse by their public defenders.

01:03:46.840 If they can't afford an attorney and many of them don't even have a court date yet.

01:03:52.140 So they're supposed to be presumed innocent and until proven guilty, but yet they are being

01:03:57.860 treated worse than any terrorist at Gitmo and, and it's a two-tiered justice system and it

01:04:03.200 is absolutely appalling.

01:04:05.000 It's hard to imagine that you are describing something in the United States that's happening,

01:04:14.020 let alone in the nation's Capitol.

01:04:17.520 I, this is outrageous.

01:04:20.360 We're first in your instance, being one of the 13 is the Republican leadership standing

01:04:27.040 up for you.

01:04:28.520 Bringing the power of the party at least to bear for you because this is a partisan attack

01:04:34.360 no matter what one wants to style it.

01:04:37.340 Oh, you're right.

01:04:38.400 No, you're a thousand percent right.

01:04:39.860 It is a partisan attack and it has nothing to do with a riot because if they cared about

01:04:44.540 riots, they would care about the riots. 0.84

01:04:47.000 The American people endured for a year under Antifa and BLM domestic terrorists. 0.76

01:04:53.380 They don't care about riots.

01:04:54.800 They only care about themselves and defeating their political enemies.

01:04:57.600 And again, this is why I call them communists.

01:05:00.600 But yes, actually of the 13, Kevin McCarthy's name is on that list too.

01:05:05.600 So it's not just the rest of us are Freedom Caucus members, but his name is on there as

01:05:11.500 well because of course they're political in nature and he is the minority leader right

01:05:17.260 now.

01:05:17.480 So they'd like to take him down as well.

01:05:19.480 But we're in for a big fight because just as they use Russian collusion and they lied

01:05:24.100 about the Christopher Steele dossier and they lied about President Trump and attacked innocent

01:05:28.560 people like General Flynn, Carter Page and George Papadopoulos.

01:05:32.500 Now they're going after Steve Bannon.

01:05:34.840 So you're going to see this.

01:05:36.580 I mean, the American people need to get ready for what's going to happen and it's going to

01:05:40.240 ramp up in January.

01:05:41.940 That is everything we've been told it's going to ramp up in January.

01:05:44.960 So not only will we be the target of their political witch hunt and their war, they're

01:05:50.500 trying to take out their political enemies.

01:05:52.340 These people, these people that are still being held in jail are suffering and languishing under

01:05:59.820 an abusive system that hates them.

01:06:03.340 What can we do for them?

01:06:06.160 There is, there are funds.

01:06:08.700 There's one main fund.

01:06:10.400 Now I don't, I will tell you because I'm trying not to be involved particularly in their

01:06:16.560 cases.

01:06:17.780 I'm going to withdraw the question.

01:06:20.720 And what I want to do is I want to, everybody listening to us right now, we're going to

01:06:25.580 do some research.

01:06:26.880 And when I say that, there's a reason we're doing the research because it's, there are

01:06:31.860 a lot of phony baloney funding groups that have been formed that are only in it for themselves.

01:06:41.800 I want to find the real honest to God group that is working on this.

01:06:48.180 Do you agree with me on that, Congresswoman?

01:06:50.720 I do.

01:06:51.580 I completely agree.

01:06:52.920 I'm as a member of Congress, I'm trying to stay in my role, which as I objected against

01:06:58.600 electoral college votes for Joe Biden, and I'll do it again if I ever have the chance,

01:07:02.360 because I believe there was election fraud in the 2020 election.

01:07:05.980 But in my role, I'm also standing up for the abuse that these people are going through.

01:07:10.960 They deserve a fair trial for the crimes they've been charged with, but they don't deserve to

01:07:15.540 be mistreated and abused.

01:07:16.780 Well, I thank you for everything you're doing in Congress.

01:07:22.760 How long have you been in Congress now, Congresswoman?

01:07:25.160 11 months I've been there.

01:07:29.540 The reason I ask that is if you're amongst those, anyone listening again to our voices who think

01:07:39.020 one person can't do anything, just take a look at Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. 0.99

01:07:48.980 You're making a difference and a wonderful difference indeed for this nation.

01:07:52.660 I'm delighted you took time to be with us.

01:07:55.640 I'd love to have you back as soon and as frequently as you wish, and regularly and often, I guess

01:08:05.040 is the way to put it.

01:08:06.800 That's an invitation, and it's wide open.

01:08:11.300 We thank you for your time.

01:08:12.900 You get the last word here.

01:08:15.160 Oh, well, thank you, and I will be happy and thrilled to come back so that we can continue

01:08:20.700 having these important conversations for your listeners and American patriots all over the

01:08:26.200 country that love our freedoms and care about stopping the injustices that are happening.

01:08:32.500 So I really thank you so much for doing this interview with me, and I hope your listeners

01:08:37.360 will share it and also continue to support me.

01:08:41.900 My website is mtgforamerica.com, mtgforamerica.com.

01:08:46.980 I definitely need the support because I'm literally, under President Trump, I'm the top

01:08:52.380 target of the Democrats, going into the switch hunt and going into the election cycle next

01:08:57.400 year.

01:08:58.420 We guarantee you that address will be prominent, as will your name.

01:09:03.580 Thanks so much.

01:09:05.460 Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a great American.

01:09:09.220 Thank you.

01:09:10.040 Great talking.

01:09:10.480 Thank you.

01:09:11.400 You too.

01:09:12.260 Bye-bye.

01:09:12.600 Is she not something?

01:09:15.080 Is she not who we're waiting for?

01:09:17.400 You better believe it.

01:09:19.280 And so are you.

01:09:20.600 You know, she's a wonderful inspiration.

01:09:23.600 And you think one person can't get something done?

01:09:27.100 She's getting it done.

01:09:29.020 Join us again tomorrow for the Great America Podcast.

01:09:32.560 Stay in the fight.

01:09:33.560 Truth, justice, and the American way will prevail against all enemies, against all odds.

The Great America Show - December 15, 2021

NO CRY FOR JAN 6 JUSTICE & NJ'S POPULIST SENATOR

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