The Great America Show - December 14, 2021


NO GOP VOTES FOR BBB AND FAUCI'S FALSE VAX CLAIMS


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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) joins us to discuss the latest on the Ukraine crisis and the Biden administration's push for $2 Trillion in spending. Lou Dobbs and Dave Perhach also discuss the impact of the Biden-led push for massive infrastructure spending.

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00:00:00.000 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Great America Podcast with Lou Dobbs,
00:00:04.200 always in the fight for truth, justice, and yes, our American way of life.
00:00:09.220 And now, here he is, the Peabody award-winning voice of truth, the great Lou Dobbs.
00:00:14.520 Hello, everybody, and thanks for being with us for this episode of The Great America Show.
00:00:19.200 We're watching a lot of extraordinary events unfolding around the world,
00:00:23.440 and I can tell you those developments are raising concerns in nearly every major capital in Europe
00:00:28.880 and Asia, and yes, Washington, D.C. as well.
00:00:33.200 And not only because President Biden and Vladimir Putin are talking now about why Putin has put
00:00:39.080 almost 200,000 of his troops on his western border with his tanks pointed directly toward Ukraine.
00:00:47.320 No, there's considerable agitation as well over the purported warning from Biden to Putin.
00:00:53.000 Biden threatening Putin with more sanctions if he invades Ukraine.
00:00:58.880 Now, that's quite a statement, isn't it?
00:01:01.120 I have quite a few reservations about the Biden warning, threat, or if you wish, ultimatum,
00:01:07.020 that he's delivered to Putin in the midst of a crisis that could easily explode into open conflict
00:01:12.920 between Russia, Europe, and the United States.
00:01:16.880 Among those reservations, Biden has already warned Putin through his Secretary of State,
00:01:22.800 Anthony Blinken, and that warning didn't go well.
00:01:26.000 Blinken met face-to-face with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov last week.
00:01:31.540 By all accounts, the meeting was closer to a cage match, though, than a civil exchange
00:01:36.500 between diplomats representing world powers.
00:01:41.240 Perhaps lost on this Biden administration is the memory of the Obama-Biden administration,
00:01:48.280 and that administration sanctions against Russia as punishment when Russia took all of Crimea
00:01:55.200 from Ukraine and then annexed it to Russia.
00:01:59.040 That was six years ago.
00:02:01.100 There's been no discernible effect on Russia, and Crimea is indisputably now part of Russia.
00:02:08.760 That brings up my final concern.
00:02:10.920 Sanctions, in fact, are a fraudulent response to almost any aggression, but certainly Russian aggression,
00:02:19.440 because those sanctions have never, ever worked, and they never will.
00:02:25.960 And we shouldn't dismiss the Russian advantage in Ukraine.
00:02:29.040 There's no reason at all to believe the Europeans have the stomach, the will, the manpower, or weaponry 1.00
00:02:34.860 with which to stand up to the aggressions of Putin in Ukraine.
00:02:39.140 And with Biden in the White House and Merkel gone, the West has no obvious leadership,
00:02:46.120 which only adds to the long line of reasons that the United States should not be making warnings
00:02:53.260 or putting forward ultimatums that it can't enforce.
00:02:57.680 At home, we also have reason for hesitation under the Biden administration.
00:03:04.120 The Senate may be working its way to a vote on at least $2 trillion of spending
00:03:09.180 in the Biden-backed Build Back Better bill.
00:03:13.340 That's six alliterative words in a row.
00:03:15.740 Aren't you proud of me?
00:03:16.900 And that's about the best I can say for the mess of a legislative package
00:03:21.280 that has the modest mission of coming up with $2 trillion
00:03:25.060 with which to overhaul.
00:03:27.340 Are you ready for this list?
00:03:29.200 Health care, education, climate, immigration, oh, yes, and taxes, all before Christmas.
00:03:36.340 Now, you know that's going to be thoughtful legislation
00:03:38.740 and just seriously targeted, targeted spending.
00:03:43.580 Joining us is one of the senators who's been in the Senate for a decade,
00:03:47.000 one of the smartest, most principled, and original thinkers, in my opinion,
00:03:50.840 not only in the Senate, but in all of Washington,
00:03:53.720 a constitutional conservative, and a great American.
00:03:57.800 Senator Rand Paul, welcome to the Great America Show.
00:04:01.380 We appreciate you being with us.
00:04:03.580 I'm glad to be with you, Dave.
00:04:05.140 Let's start first, if we may, with the bill for that $2 trillion or so of spending.
00:04:13.080 Where does that stand?
00:04:15.420 I think it's important to know that there'll be no Republican votes for it
00:04:18.560 in the House or in the Senate.
00:04:20.100 We don't have this money.
00:04:22.820 It'll be simply borrowed.
00:04:24.380 We have a lot of pressure right now with inflation out there in the grocery store
00:04:27.940 and at the gas pump, which is all coming from borrowing too much money.
00:04:31.240 So the answer isn't to borrow more money.
00:04:33.820 So no Republicans will support this.
00:04:36.140 It's not even a given yet that all the Democrats support it.
00:04:39.200 And in the Senate, they require every Democrat.
00:04:42.280 You know, Senator Manchin from West Virginia has been saying,
00:04:45.460 well, he's worried about inflation, like a lot of us are,
00:04:48.420 and that he thinks they should hold off till the spring.
00:04:50.780 They're going to force a vote, but it'll be interesting to see how Manchin and Sinema vote on this.
00:04:56.080 The bottom line is it's bad for the country.
00:04:58.260 It's more borrowing, and it'll lead to more inflation next year.
00:05:00.920 It's extraordinary to me that the Biden administration is insisting on $2 trillion
00:05:07.240 in spending with these huge policy areas that I just recited,
00:05:11.700 which should take careful consideration, thought, even hearings, perhaps.
00:05:16.400 And to add $2 trillion to the national debt right now at a time when we're trying to reduce
00:05:25.260 inflationary pressure seems to be the inverse of what would be sound of fiscal and monetary policy.
00:05:32.560 Yeah, people have to realize that just our ordinary expenditures,
00:05:36.360 Medicare, Social Security, food stamps, military,
00:05:40.420 the ordinary expenditures of government lead to about a trillion dollar deficit every year.
00:05:45.100 We spend a trillion more than we bring in, even for the stuff we kind of agree on.
00:05:49.820 But then last year, we added a couple extra trillion to that.
00:05:52.360 So we had about a $3 trillion deficit last year.
00:05:54.960 This year, we're at about three now before we get to the two more trillion they want to add.
00:06:00.060 But this is incredibly irresponsible.
00:06:03.240 And I think there's a danger not only of getting double-digit inflation,
00:06:07.260 but there is some danger that we could cause a panic
00:06:09.880 and people could lose confidence in the dollar.
00:06:12.480 And I'm more concerned about a cataclysmic fleeing of the dollar than just the inflation.
00:06:18.200 But even double-digit inflation, though, ends up stealing from the working class
00:06:22.340 and from those on pensions because inflation hurts people with lower incomes
00:06:26.380 or fixed incomes the worst.
00:06:28.680 And as you know, hyperinflation, which is certainly what double-digit inflation would be,
00:06:34.480 is entirely possible because we're seeing prices rising here as the year winds down very quickly.
00:06:43.200 Social Security was supposed to have just about a 6% adjustment in the cost of living.
00:06:49.020 That could be more than wiped out if the most recent rates of increase in inflation continue.
00:06:56.160 How concerned should everybody be about what is arguably the advent of a period of high, if not hyperinflation?
00:07:08.880 Well, this is one of the things that even our founding fathers were worried about
00:07:12.200 in the idea as we get closer and closer to a pure democracy unbounded by a constitution.
00:07:17.240 The intention was from our founding fathers that, yes, you'd get to vote, you would have representatives,
00:07:22.380 but they could only do certain things because government was only empowered to do certain things.
00:07:26.800 And the powers not given to the federal government were supposed to be left to the states and the people.
00:07:31.060 But we now have largely a democracy unbounded by a constitution.
00:07:34.760 Government can do whatever it wants.
00:07:36.900 And as a consequence, people vote for more stuff for themselves.
00:07:40.480 And so we have a government where one political party says, hey, we're going to give you free stuff.
00:07:44.460 And people are like, well, hey, I like free stuff.
00:07:47.120 I like $1,400 checks or $2,500 checks.
00:07:50.520 Isn't that great to get things for free?
00:07:52.880 But the real rub is it's a bait and switch.
00:07:56.020 It really is nothing free in life.
00:07:58.160 What they get is they get an initial sort of like a junkie.
00:08:01.880 You get the high, but then the repercussions are down the road.
00:08:05.500 And that's what we're seeing already in the repercussions of you.
00:08:08.060 You will pay for all the so-called free stuff through inflation.
00:08:11.240 But I predict it gets worse before it gets better,
00:08:13.380 because I don't see fiscal discipline up here, certainly not from the Democrats.
00:08:17.240 But unfortunately, even Republicans are a mixed lot on their concern for deficits.
00:08:23.240 Absolutely.
00:08:24.400 And the rationalization has been for many so-called rhinos in the Republican Party.
00:08:31.420 They could say, well, it was because of the Wuhan virus, the China virus, COVID-19 virus.
00:08:39.000 And it's a national emergency.
00:08:40.760 And indeed, it was.
00:08:42.380 But that emergency has abated.
00:08:44.620 And we are in a new phase of dealing with that pandemic, certainly in my judgment,
00:08:50.440 and I think in the judgment of most virologists who I respect.
00:08:54.700 And to think that they want to continue with their authoritarian imperatives, whether it be mask
00:09:04.460 wearing, whether it be vaccination mandates, or whether kids go to school or don't go to
00:09:09.480 school, and what will be the post-pandemic normal routine, all of that has excited, it seems,
00:09:18.040 the left with its, I think, authoritarian impulses.
00:09:22.780 What do you think?
00:09:25.040 You know, it's all based on a big lie.
00:09:27.520 The big lie, if you watch CNN, which I don't really recommend, but if you watch CNN for even
00:09:31.980 30 seconds, they'll tell you not enough people have been vaccinated.
00:09:35.820 But it's an incredibly big and malicious lie.
00:09:39.320 The CDC website, I looked at it just this morning, people over age 75, 97% of people have
00:09:46.340 voluntarily chosen to be vaccinated.
00:09:48.440 Between the age of 64 and 75, 99% of people have chosen voluntarily to be vaccinated.
00:09:55.400 From age 50 to 64, 87%.
00:09:58.720 So the overwhelming, not just majority, the vast majority of all people who are at risk
00:10:05.120 for this have chosen voluntarily to get vaccinated.
00:10:07.600 The only reason the numbers aren't 100% for the public is many people at low risk, like
00:10:13.280 children, who either weren't approved for it or their parents deem them to be at low
00:10:17.440 risk, have made a decision not to get vaccinated.
00:10:20.720 But the thing is, it is based all on a lie.
00:10:23.640 This vaccine and the voluntary acceptance of it has been probably greater than any other
00:10:29.040 voluntary choice of anything in a democracy that I've ever heard of.
00:10:33.860 So it's a decided success, and I think we can get through this, but Fauci's spreading
00:10:40.180 of disinformation has forced us now, you know, they're talking about mandating this for children
00:10:44.780 before they leave the hospital.
00:10:46.200 That's their next step.
00:10:47.380 And I think that's a terrible idea.
00:10:49.700 What happened over the course of this pandemic that children were not being affected, that
00:10:56.800 only anyone getting sick, of course, I shouldn't say only, but a very, very strong
00:11:03.860 small percentage of children ever got sick from it, let alone were hospitalized or died from
00:11:13.280 it.
00:11:13.720 Whatever happened to that?
00:11:14.760 And why is it suddenly urgent that children five years to 12 suddenly have to have this
00:11:21.760 vaccine?
00:11:23.480 I think it's very important that people look at the facts and that we hear the truth about
00:11:27.320 this.
00:11:27.640 In Sweden, there are 1.8 million children between the ages of, you know, five and 16, sort of
00:11:34.180 school-aged children.
00:11:35.800 They don't wear masks in schools at all and haven't worn masks, and there have been zero
00:11:40.000 deaths among kids in this age range.
00:11:42.580 In addition, people say, well, what about the teachers?
00:11:45.100 Are the kids infecting the teachers?
00:11:47.040 If you look at the incidence of the infection in teachers in Sweden where they don't wear masks,
00:11:52.220 it's about the same as every other profession in Sweden.
00:11:54.620 So there really is a lot of science and evidence.
00:11:58.340 If you look in Florida, half the people obeyed DeSantis' order not to do a mask mandate.
00:12:03.600 The other half of the counties had a mask mandate.
00:12:05.780 When you compare the masked schools to the unmasked schools in Florida over the same period
00:12:11.000 of time, incidence of the disease about the same.
00:12:14.020 So we need to really explore the evidence in an objective way, because if we don't, I think
00:12:19.440 we're in danger of really letting these infringements on our liberty never, you know, never leave
00:12:26.460 us.
00:12:26.680 We're going to be stuck with big government telling us to mask up everywhere.
00:12:30.100 You know, my wife and I, we're in the target demographic.
00:12:35.480 And so we did what those people you cited, 99% of getting a vaccination.
00:12:43.580 We had both our vaccinations.
00:12:45.760 We had our booster shots, but we didn't do so because we were persuaded by particular health
00:12:53.200 authorities.
00:12:53.840 We were, we did it because we studied it and we made a decision based on what we thought
00:12:59.640 were the risk and the probabilities and, uh, and the reward.
00:13:04.320 Uh, and I think that's what most people did in this country.
00:13:08.500 I've never seen a situation where people thought that it was appropriate for the government to
00:13:13.480 mandate without so much as rigorous, uh, examination of the evidence and an explanation and an attempt
00:13:21.380 to persuade people of what they thought based on the science, the evidence would be the right
00:13:26.900 choice.
00:13:27.340 Uh, this, this is a government that doesn't think it can lead, doesn't think it can persuade.
00:13:34.100 So it is mandating.
00:13:36.360 Do you have the same impression?
00:13:38.820 It's very unscientific to, uh, treat different people from different age groups, the exact same
00:13:44.620 way.
00:13:45.080 So if you're 80 years old, you have a 10,000 times greater chance of dying from COVID than
00:13:50.660 a 10 year old.
00:13:51.440 So it's a different disease for a 10 year old and an 80 year old.
00:13:54.680 There's one important thing that we should be asking before you vaccinate your children.
00:13:59.660 One thing we know is if you've already had the disease, you get a thousand times greater
00:14:04.900 immune response.
00:14:05.740 If you've already had COVID and then you get a vaccine, if you're 75 or 80, that might be
00:14:10.640 good.
00:14:11.020 It might be having had the disease and having a vaccine might be good for you.
00:14:14.420 But if you're 10, it may be that the, um, exuberance of this immune response that's elicited for
00:14:22.060 kids who've already had COVID may be something that's related to some of these immune reactions
00:14:26.700 to the heart, either myocarditis or pericarditis.
00:14:29.920 It'd be fairly easy to study, but Dr. Fauci refuses to study the question.
00:14:34.900 You could take the blood.
00:14:36.360 Let's say there's a couple of hundred kids who have had myocarditis.
00:14:39.140 You could actually study their blood and find out if they'd already had COVID.
00:14:42.840 If it turns out that it's the same as the general public and there's no increased risk,
00:14:47.220 then we'd learn something.
00:14:48.260 But I really want to know if you've already had COVID and you're a child and you get vaccinated,
00:14:53.540 are you at increased risk for the myocarditis if you've already had the disease?
00:14:57.140 If that's true, each kid could get a blood test before they get vaccinated to see if they've
00:15:01.840 already had COVID.
00:15:03.040 One, they'd know whether they need a vaccine, but then two, they might know whether they're
00:15:07.440 at high risk for these side effects.
00:15:09.240 But Fauci refuses to look at any of this.
00:15:11.400 And that's why I think it's basically, uh, his advice is malpractice.
00:15:15.120 It is, it is really as a citizen, it's, uh, disconcerting to watch a, uh, public, uh, health
00:15:23.640 official that is Dr. Anthony Foucher talking to a U S Senator in this case, you and being
00:15:30.780 dismissive, rude, arrogant, and unyielding, uh, as you raise highly intelligent, thoughtful
00:15:40.200 questions about the welfare of our, our nation.
00:15:44.520 How can that be tolerated by, uh, by the leadership, uh, of both parties in the Senate?
00:15:53.800 It shouldn't be, he should have been fired long ago for lying to Congress.
00:15:58.040 Uh, he did lie about, uh, the fact that he was, uh, funding through the NIH, the lab in
00:16:04.020 Wuhan, the lab where in all likelihood this virus came from that he was funding it, but
00:16:08.920 he was also funding very dangerous experiments where they create viruses that don't exist in
00:16:13.260 nature and then they test them to see if they're more dangerous.
00:16:16.540 This is a foolish, foolish, uh, enterprise and we shouldn't allow it, but we've still
00:16:21.600 had yet to have one investigative committee hearing on this.
00:16:24.980 I've been asking for this for nine months now, and the Democrats refuse to hear this at all.
00:16:29.600 But if we take over in 2022, I'll be in charge of the health committee.
00:16:33.540 And I promise you, we will use subpoenas.
00:16:35.600 We will use the full force of the committees to get to the bottom of where this virus came
00:16:39.780 from.
00:16:40.160 So we don't let it happen again.
00:16:42.840 Well, I can tell you that there are a number of public health doctors in this country who
00:16:49.940 spent considerable time in China.
00:16:52.020 I'm not telling you anything you don't know, but I'm addressing this to the audience, uh,
00:16:56.180 who absolutely were reserved about what they knew about the Wuhan, uh, virology laboratory.
00:17:02.640 Uh, they were reluctant to speak in the first few months.
00:17:05.800 I will tell you my experience.
00:17:07.200 They were very reluctant to speak openly and honestly about what was happening and the role
00:17:13.540 of the NIH and even the funding of much of the laboratory work that was being done, uh,
00:17:19.700 by a country that by the way, is just bleeding this nation, uh, daily of, uh, hundreds of billions
00:17:27.520 of dollars.
00:17:28.340 It's, uh, it's just stunning to see what's happening there.
00:17:31.880 They would chose to be on the side of, uh, this relationship between Chinese public health
00:17:39.020 officials and their government, uh, and the U S public health, uh, community.
00:17:44.720 I found that stunning and terribly disappointing.
00:17:48.060 And I think that, uh, the, the science we hear, uh, still persists because of that same
00:17:54.040 miss, uh, to me, uh, somewhat, uh, uh, uh, grotesque, uh, relationship that, uh, grew up
00:18:02.020 where they put, uh, their community of, uh, doctor brothers and sisters ahead of the nation
00:18:09.080 and the national interest.
00:18:10.380 I would say that's very important that, uh, you have dissent, whether it's science, whether
00:18:16.820 it's a law or whether it's politics, that we find truth through argumentation.
00:18:21.700 Sometimes people don't want argumentation.
00:18:23.440 That's how you get to truth in a court of law.
00:18:25.640 You have adversaries on both sides.
00:18:28.000 They both present facts and the jury has to figure out the truth.
00:18:30.940 It's the same way the public has to figure out the truth of these things.
00:18:34.080 But if you have scientists that are afraid to speak because Dr. Fauci controls their purse
00:18:38.760 strings, controls their finances, this can lead to a very one-sided sort of presentation
00:18:44.000 of things.
00:18:45.020 And there is a danger to that, but there are scientists who will speak out.
00:18:48.800 There's an MIT professor, Kevin Esfeld, who wrote in the Washington post about a month ago
00:18:53.500 that this kind of research that they were doing in Wuhan, this gain of function research
00:18:58.400 could risk the very foundations of civilization.
00:19:01.980 That you can get a virus so bad, realize the virus we're dealing with is bad.
00:19:06.280 It has 1% mortality.
00:19:08.260 Can you imagine if we had one that had 50% mortality?
00:19:11.520 They are doing experiments with viruses that have 50% mortality.
00:19:15.940 That's inexcusable.
00:19:17.340 It should stop.
00:19:18.560 That's the debate I'm going to force.
00:19:20.300 And one of the things that we're going to keep talking about, because we should make sure
00:19:23.440 that if this came from a lab, that it never happens again.
00:19:26.640 Senator, we're delighted to have you.
00:19:28.140 Thanks for your time.
00:19:29.260 Appreciate it so much.
00:19:30.600 All the best.
00:19:31.120 Thanks for having me, Lou.
00:19:33.380 And now here on the Great America Show, we turn to a congressman whose district is at
00:19:39.820 the center of a huge number of issues of national importance.
00:19:43.360 The war on drugs, illegal immigration, one of the country's largest ports is in his congressional
00:19:48.960 district.
00:19:49.740 He's also working to fix the tremendous supply chain crisis that we're in and to assure energy
00:19:55.800 resources.
00:19:56.900 And I hope that, once again, might mean energy independence and low prices.
00:20:01.640 We're joined today by Congressman Buddy Carter of Georgia.
00:20:05.160 And I don't know of another congressman whose district runs the entire length of his state's
00:20:10.460 coastline.
00:20:11.520 I'm confident there's no congressman in California who can make that claim, certainly.
00:20:16.380 Congressman Carter is a successful businessman, a pharmacist.
00:20:19.800 And as you would expect with his expertise, he is on the Energy and Commerce Committee, Budget
00:20:24.960 Committee, Select Committee on Climate Change, co-chair of the Community Pharmacy Caucus.
00:20:30.080 Welcome to the Great America Show, Congressman Carter.
00:20:33.140 And you are a busy man.
00:20:34.800 So we thank you doubly for joining us.
00:20:37.280 Let's turn to your bill.
00:20:39.060 And I think our audience is going to love the name of your bill because it has one of my favorite
00:20:44.580 titles.
00:20:45.680 President Biden has his bill called Build Back Better.
00:20:49.740 Congressman Carter has his bill called Build Better Borders.
00:20:53.860 I love that title, Congressman.
00:20:55.520 Welcome to the show.
00:20:57.300 Well, thank you.
00:20:57.920 It's a pleasure to be with you.
00:20:59.800 And you're right.
00:21:00.540 This is the true version of the BBB.
00:21:03.080 You know, Joe Biden and the administration have their bill back better.
00:21:06.860 Well, this is Build Better Borders, which is what we need.
00:21:10.520 It will solve a number of problems, a slew of problems that we have here in this country.
00:21:15.840 Well, not only do I love the title of your bill, Congressman, tell everybody how your bill
00:21:20.140 would pay for that, for the construction of that border bill.
00:21:24.400 Well, as you know, the administration, the Biden administration has proposed paying
00:21:29.760 illegal immigrants $450,000, those who were separated from their families.
00:21:35.440 It's nothing more, in my mind, than retribution for what Donald Trump did.
00:21:42.660 They're just trying to make this another political campaign issue.
00:21:47.220 But what my bill would do would be to find every illegal immigrant who comes across that 1.00
00:21:53.860 border $450,000 and that $450,000 will go into a fund that will be used specifically and only
00:22:02.460 for the construction of the wall.
00:22:04.780 And that's what we need is we need a border wall down at our southernmost border.
00:22:11.440 There's no question about that.
00:22:12.780 And that's what this bill will do.
00:22:14.160 It will find them $450,000 and it will go directly into that fund, which we use only for
00:22:20.720 the construction of the wall.
00:22:23.120 You know, as you were talking about that $450,000 that he wants to give to illegal immigrants
00:22:30.100 and the fact that he doesn't want to mandate vaccinations for the China virus when it comes
00:22:40.300 to illegal immigrants, but mandated for citizens.
00:22:43.660 You know, I'm just thinking the man's operating like a pirate.
00:22:47.520 You know, he's sort of at the helm.
00:22:49.220 Uh, I'm not sure he knows what direction the ship is going, but he loves to yell out, uh,
00:22:54.300 you know, orders and, uh, uh, and he's absolutely emphatic, uh, and 90% of the time he doesn't
00:23:02.060 appear to know not only not where we're going, but, uh, where we've been, uh, or where he
00:23:07.480 is.
00:23:08.320 And it's, it's nice to see a Congressman like you, uh, Congressman Carter involved in so many
00:23:15.460 of these important issues, uh, and I've got to turn to the fact that you represent your
00:23:21.180 state's entire coastline.
00:23:23.020 There are not many folks who can say that, are there?
00:23:25.960 No, there, there are not.
00:23:27.280 And, um, you know, I tell my people in, in, in the district all the time, there are 435
00:23:33.180 congressional districts in, in the United States, and we live in the best one.
00:23:37.740 And I truly believe that, uh, my district extends from the South Carolina state line
00:23:43.520 all the way down to the Florida state line.
00:23:45.220 It includes 101 miles of pristine coastline, the, the Georgia golden isles.
00:23:50.720 What a beautiful place.
00:23:51.600 It's my home.
00:23:52.300 It's where I've lived all my life, where I intend to live the rest of my life.
00:23:55.220 And, uh, you can imagine the honor and privilege that I feel in representing that area.
00:24:00.100 Well, surely.
00:24:01.220 And, uh, and it is the first district, isn't it?
00:24:04.420 It is the first district and the first district of Georgia.
00:24:07.260 And, uh, uh, and, and of course, um, as you know, um, James Oglethorpe, um, uh, settled
00:24:14.760 in that, in that area and, um, and founded the city of Savannah, set out the squares.
00:24:20.260 I don't know if you've ever been to Savannah, but it is my home and it's a beautiful, beautiful
00:24:25.020 area.
00:24:25.660 You bet.
00:24:26.300 As a matter of fact, uh, we lived in Georgia for a while, uh, back in the early eighties,
00:24:31.260 uh, before going to New York, uh, it was a somewhat of a culture shock to say the least,
00:24:39.220 but the, but the reality is you mentioned Savannah, you're also involved in the, in the supply
00:24:46.660 chain disruption, as they want to call it.
00:24:49.080 Uh, it's a messed up, uh, transportation system as best I can figure in most instances,
00:24:55.120 that's the reason for what they call a supply chain disruption, uh, the port of Savannah,
00:25:00.260 one of the country's largest, uh, you've also moved to get the, the port more money, uh,
00:25:06.080 so that you can handle more of those big, uh, container ships.
00:25:09.680 How is that going?
00:25:11.060 Well, it's going well.
00:25:12.480 We're very fortunate.
00:25:13.560 We have one of the least congested ports in America, and that's the, that's one of the
00:25:18.720 primary reasons for our growth that we've enjoyed.
00:25:22.100 We also have a great relationship between management and the unions down there.
00:25:26.980 They work very well together.
00:25:28.720 And, and, and as you can imagine, that makes for a success as well.
00:25:33.700 Uh, the, the, the challenge we've got right now is, uh, yeah, you can throw money at any
00:25:38.520 problem, but there are practical solutions that, that could help the supply chain issues that
00:25:44.840 the administration is, is completely ignoring.
00:25:47.480 For instance, um, you know, the, the trucks that are over 10 years old can't pick up containers.
00:25:54.220 Well, I, I understand the reason for that, but, you know, we got a supply chain issue right
00:25:59.880 now.
00:26:00.180 That's something that, that could be relaxed at least at this point until we can get this
00:26:05.540 supply chain issue straightened out.
00:26:07.800 Um, you know, there are some ports, not the port of Savannah, but there are ports throughout the
00:26:13.320 country that, you know, because of union contracts, they can't work 24 hours.
00:26:18.420 Well, you know, again, there's a simple solution to some of our supply chain problems.
00:26:23.680 And these supply chain problems are real.
00:26:25.860 Um, we hear about it from businesses all the time.
00:26:29.080 We, this is quite often we get calls from small businesses who, who can't get inventory
00:26:34.760 because of, of the fact that the, of the supply chain.
00:26:38.480 Yeah.
00:26:39.020 You know, Congressman, it's one of the things I, I, you know, I have a, I just, I have a
00:26:44.800 very simple mind.
00:26:46.200 Uh, when people tell me it's a supply chain disruption, I'm thinking, well, why are the
00:26:50.800 supplies clear across the ocean?
00:26:53.060 Why aren't they here?
00:26:54.660 And I think to myself, you know, I've got a, I've got a cure for this whole thing.
00:26:58.540 Why don't we start manufacturing in this country?
00:27:01.480 Why don't we quit outsourcing jobs to cheap foreign labor markets? 0.80
00:27:05.040 Why don't we quit, uh, sending our jobs to other cheap foreign labor markets, destroying 1.00
00:27:12.400 our middle class, by the way.
00:27:13.900 I mean, it is a straight on, we've gone 20 some odd years in this country until Donald
00:27:19.560 Trump was elected with stagnant wages for the average American working, uh, man and woman.
00:27:26.380 That's just wrong, isn't it?
00:27:27.780 Oh, absolutely.
00:27:29.060 It's wrong.
00:27:29.680 And it's not good for our country.
00:27:31.620 It's not good for our national defense.
00:27:33.460 Um, when we become dependent on other countries, we look at energy, we look at our healthcare
00:27:37.700 supplies, uh, all of those things put us in a very precarious position.
00:27:42.340 Um, uh, you know, I can remember Mike Pompeo, former secretary of state saying what an advantage
00:27:48.400 it was when he was traveling worldwide to know that we had not only energy independence, but
00:27:54.880 energy dominance and, and what a great tool that was in his tool chest to be able to use
00:27:59.700 that when, and now we've got the Biden administration, just throwing that away and destroying that.
00:28:04.680 Yeah.
00:28:05.220 And you know, and this lovely administration, I just can't say it any kinder than that.
00:28:10.460 This lovely administration, not within just hours, uh, shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline.
00:28:18.320 Uh, I think that the number is somewhere around 700,000, uh, barrels of oil a day that weren't
00:28:24.460 moving from the, uh, from Canada then to down to the Gulf of Mexico.
00:28:30.480 Uh, that's a lot of energy.
00:28:32.340 Uh, everything he's done has been to squeeze, uh, energy supplies, uh, to drive up prices.
00:28:39.720 And by the way, energy independence, as you point out, people said that Trump was crazy.
00:28:45.520 He couldn't get us to energy independence.
00:28:48.160 Guess what?
00:28:48.880 It took him two years to do it.
00:28:50.680 And now we've got supply chain disruptions.
00:28:54.160 When I think about the difference between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, Donald Trump knew
00:28:59.620 what, what business was.
00:29:01.040 He knew what the economy was.
00:29:02.500 He knew how to make decisions.
00:29:03.780 He knew what was important to working men and women, uh, in this country.
00:29:08.280 Uh, you know, I think, I always think of Donald Trump as something of a traitor to his, uh,
00:29:12.940 class, the wealthy class of this country.
00:29:15.860 Uh, but you know what?
00:29:17.520 That's because he loves work.
00:29:19.440 He loves building.
00:29:20.960 He loves the American people.
00:29:23.760 And he was on the side of the American family and, and the working man and woman in this country.
00:29:30.480 And I hear you talk.
00:29:32.160 And I think I'm hearing precisely those same values.
00:29:35.560 And I want to compliment you.
00:29:36.840 Well, thank you.
00:29:38.160 And, and, you know, what a change we have now.
00:29:40.500 Uh, you know, my dad always said that, uh, politics is like a pendulum.
00:29:43.580 It swings back and forth.
00:29:44.840 And as good as Donald Trump was as our president, and I feel like he was one of the best we've
00:29:50.760 ever had.
00:29:51.580 Absolutely.
00:29:52.120 Joe Biden is one of the worst.
00:29:53.740 You know, I'm a Carter from Georgia, but first of all, I'm the right Carter.
00:29:57.140 Secondly, right now in the state of Georgia, I I'm the second happiest Carter in the state
00:30:02.960 in the state of Georgia, because former president Carter is now the happiest knowing that Joe
00:30:07.840 Biden has replaced him as the worst president ever.
00:30:11.100 I wonder where you were going with that.
00:30:13.100 And I suspect you're entirely right.
00:30:15.260 Uh, uh, uh, uh, president Carter, uh, had more than a few difficulties.
00:30:20.560 Uh, but as the saying goes, you're talking about your father's pendulum, uh, model.
00:30:25.360 Uh, the good news is he made Ronald Reagan, uh, possible.
00:30:29.960 And for that, uh, we want to say thanks to that other Carter.
00:30:34.000 He got that done for us anyway.
00:30:35.620 Uh, you know, it's, it's stunning to me, uh, that, uh, with all of your expertise, a pharmacist,
00:30:43.700 a businessman, uh, you're involved in climate change.
00:30:48.300 The let, let's start with one of the warnings that you've been putting out and in the midst
00:30:53.060 of what is a, a national crisis.
00:30:55.800 It's actually an international crisis, but let me be parochial and only worry right now
00:31:00.840 about the United States.
00:31:01.960 And that is the importation, uh, of fentanyl across primarily that Southern border with Mexico.
00:31:10.120 China knows that, uh, it's what it's a criminal class is doing. 0.99
00:31:15.660 And, uh, and no one wants to acknowledge that communist China is supporting the export.
00:31:23.060 Of the deadliest drug we know of into this country.
00:31:27.060 And a hundred thousand people are dying of fentanyl, uh, overdoses, uh, every year, this
00:31:34.540 is sounding stop and we've got to stop it.
00:31:36.780 And yet the left insists on leaving that border wide open to sex trafficking, to drug trafficking.
00:31:44.400 By the way, folks, just so you know, most of our methamphetamines, most of our marijuana,
00:31:50.120 most of our heroin, most of our fentanyl and cocaine come across that border with Mexico
00:31:57.460 and the left that this administration is endorsing and subsidizing and making that possible.
00:32:06.340 Uh, and they should ask God for forgiveness for what they're doing to this country and
00:32:10.440 our people.
00:32:11.440 Absolutely.
00:32:11.960 And Lou is, as you know, there is enough fentanyl in this country right now to kill every
00:32:18.080 American seven times over, seven times over. 0.91
00:32:22.340 And where's it coming from?
00:32:24.280 You're exactly right.
00:32:25.240 It's coming from that Southern border.
00:32:26.560 And, and, you know, I, I get frustrated sometimes because I hear a lot of people say, oh, the
00:32:32.380 border problem, that's a problem in Texas and New Mexico, Arizona, California.
00:32:36.480 It doesn't really impact me wrong.
00:32:38.920 First of all, it's much more than just, uh, illegal immigrants coming across that border.
00:32:44.280 It is this fentanyl, it's the illegal drugs that are coming across this border.
00:32:48.120 And, and, and the problem at the border has turned every state into a border state.
00:32:53.720 And these illegal drugs that are coming into this country, they are infesting all communities.
00:32:59.380 They are infesting, whether it's Georgia, Florida, New Jersey, Chicago, Illinois, or the, 0.94
00:33:07.060 the, the far West, they are everywhere.
00:33:10.100 And it is a national problem.
00:33:12.840 We have to understand that.
00:33:14.340 And we're never going to get it under control until we secure our border.
00:33:19.000 Well, absolutely.
00:33:21.000 And until we get, uh, everyone to understand that there is, uh, everybody wants to talk about
00:33:28.260 accountability.
00:33:28.780 Well, this, this instance, uh, accountability is, uh, the reward, uh, for the democratic party,
00:33:38.060 uh, and the, the leftists who are dry leading at least the 14 of the biggest cities in this
00:33:46.140 country, uh, that have the highest crime rates.
00:33:49.040 They have record numbers of murders and no one is saying anything about it.
00:33:53.700 It's not an accident that that's happening in big cities run by the democratic machine who
00:34:01.140 do not prosecute.
00:34:02.660 They do not arrest the perpetrators.
00:34:05.980 Uh, it is a lawless environment.
00:34:08.940 Urban America is a lawless, uh, desert right now.
00:34:14.520 And it's gotta be fixed.
00:34:16.800 It's just gotta be fixed.
00:34:18.300 It has.
00:34:19.260 And, and you make a great point.
00:34:21.960 It is urban America.
00:34:23.440 You know, my wife and I are blessed.
00:34:25.460 Our, we just had another grandchild and, and that my youngest son, and that's number six.
00:34:30.880 And, uh, and, and here we are, they live in Buckhead in the Atlanta area, one of the most
00:34:36.760 affluent areas in Georgia.
00:34:39.400 And, and yet they have a serious crime problem.
00:34:42.420 So serious that they're talking and considering de-annexing from the city of Atlanta and, and
00:34:48.140 creating their own city so that they can have their own police force.
00:34:51.760 Well, I've got a vested interest there.
00:34:53.640 I got a grandbaby there. 0.62
00:34:54.560 I want to make sure that they're, they're in good shape, but because of the, the crime
00:34:59.580 problem, because of the, the rhetoric that we've heard, particularly last summer with
00:35:04.740 defund the police that came out of the democratic party and, and, and that they continue to
00:35:09.620 press forward with that's resulted into the crime problems that we have in, in our urban
00:35:15.800 areas right now.
00:35:16.920 And this, the illegal drugs that are coming across the border situation.
00:35:21.480 And what's so frustrating to me about the border situation is, first of all, here we
00:35:26.820 have a president of the United States who, as a senator, as a vice president, as a president,
00:35:31.860 has never been to the border, to the Southern border, never.
00:35:36.940 And then we have the czar, the border czar, Kamala Harris, who goes to the border, but goes 0.98
00:35:42.800 to the wrong place.
00:35:43.660 She went to El Paso, which is some 800 miles from the epicenter of the problem.
00:35:48.820 I've been to, I've been to McAllen, Texas twice this year.
00:35:52.480 I've been four times since I've been a member of Congress.
00:35:55.100 Now, it's people who have not been to the border.
00:36:00.060 First of all, it's most of it is high desert.
00:36:04.020 It's a beautiful area.
00:36:07.100 It's certainly in Arizona, California, New Mexico, the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.
00:36:14.160 And the fact of the matter is, ranchers who've lived in that, along that border for years
00:36:20.580 are, they have trafficking of all sorts.
00:36:23.660 I said sex trafficking, human smuggling, drugs.
00:36:26.760 It's, it's awful what is being done to American citizens in those small communities, primarily
00:36:32.140 small communities along that border.
00:36:34.480 And what is being done to this country, we will have 2 million, Congressman, you know
00:36:39.760 this, we'll have 2 million illegal immigrants crossing that border, this, in the first year
00:36:47.580 of this president's first and probably only term.
00:36:53.240 It's stunning that this is happening.
00:36:55.200 And they're being transported into the innermost communities of this country by plane at night,
00:37:03.140 like, well, like the contraband that they in fact are.
00:37:07.300 Exactly.
00:37:09.120 And the money that is being made by these coyotes, by these, by these gangs that in Mexico that
00:37:17.160 are running this, I mean, you want to talk about a well run organization, then you talk
00:37:23.260 about the cartels down there.
00:37:25.020 I mean, when the last time we visited, we went to the border in McAllen, as I indicated
00:37:30.000 earlier, and, you know, they have actually have wristbands for them.
00:37:34.260 And they're different colors depending on whether they have already paid the cartels or whether
00:37:39.680 they still have, still owe them money.
00:37:43.120 And, and listen, you don't get across that border unless you paid a cartel.
00:37:48.040 And if they catch you without, without one of those wristbands, they'll kill you.
00:37:53.600 And so it's that dangerous down there.
00:37:56.260 And if you tried to get your own wristband, I imagine you'd be an even bigger, bigger trouble.
00:38:02.100 I, you know, I'm making a joke out of this, but the cartels run that border.
00:38:06.620 Don't let anybody tell you it's just Mexico, Northern Mexico to make this work.
00:38:11.700 There has to be immense corruption on both sides of that border.
00:38:15.260 And there have to be deals and president Trump scared everybody.
00:38:19.680 He scared the establishment and, uh, the, the established, the establishment chose the
00:38:26.300 democratic party to attack, uh, Donald Trump.
00:38:30.480 And they persecuted the man to failed impeachments on baseless charges.
00:38:34.660 They're persecuting him.
00:38:35.840 Even now, uh, investigation after investigation, they never turned up anything.
00:38:40.500 Think about that.
00:38:41.340 Congressman, nothing.
00:38:42.540 They turned up nothing and everybody walks around whistling like, well, that five, that
00:38:47.260 five years of hell for the, for the president, uh, and his family just doesn't matter.
00:38:53.320 It, it matters greatly, doesn't it?
00:38:56.140 Oh, absolutely.
00:38:56.800 It matters greatly.
00:38:57.560 And, and, and obviously you can understand why the president, why president Trump was so
00:39:02.780 upset.
00:39:03.340 They did attack him and his family.
00:39:05.320 I mean, I can tell you being in public office myself, um, I'm okay.
00:39:10.380 You attack me fine.
00:39:11.600 But when you attack my family now that that's off limits and, and they attacked his family.
00:39:17.260 And I, I know he was so upset about it.
00:39:19.360 Listen, I was at the state of the union address when Nancy Pelosi tore up his speech after he
00:39:24.360 had given it to her, you know, how childish, I mean, just ridiculous.
00:39:28.500 And, and I've, I've witnessed it.
00:39:30.700 I would, I've been here during both of those failed impeachments and, and, and they were,
00:39:36.240 they were just in exercising futility and it should have never happened.
00:39:39.960 And it was ridiculous.
00:39:41.820 And yet, um, you know, we continue on and we've got to continue on.
00:39:46.740 And I, I hope that this, in this president still has great influence, great influence.
00:39:51.780 And, and I'm glad of that.
00:39:53.680 Well, we're, we're going into 2022, the midterm election.
00:39:57.680 And right now the president's made, it's clear.
00:40:00.600 He made it clear.
00:40:01.480 He is going to have considerable say in who gets through those primaries and, uh, no more
00:40:08.480 rhinos.
00:40:09.380 Uh, this is still, uh, and people sometimes are surprised when I say this, but this is
00:40:15.120 the truth.
00:40:15.600 The Republican party is his party, despite the fact that Ronald McDaniel, still the chair
00:40:21.580 of the RNC, despite the fact that the, you know, there are still rhinos of plenty, at 0.99
00:40:27.240 least enough in the house to have gotten, uh, uh, the bill back better bill with apologies
00:40:32.920 to you.
00:40:33.640 Yours is a much better title bill.
00:40:36.000 Uh, they, they're the ones who got that bill through 13 turncoat Republicans. 0.94
00:40:41.320 And we've got to make certain that people understand a Republican and isn't just any
00:40:47.380 Republican, these rhinos Republicans in name only, they've got to be stopped and they've 1.00
00:40:52.840 got to be stopped now because they are, uh, in league with the democratic party, the radical
00:40:58.360 Dems and the, and the leftist Marxist, uh, uh, Dems along with corporate America.
00:41:04.180 There's a whole new alignment here.
00:41:06.560 And thank goodness for Donald Trump's leadership, both in and out.
00:41:11.320 Of the white house.
00:41:13.200 Absolutely.
00:41:14.060 And he continues to be a force in the state of Georgia.
00:41:16.580 I can assure you of that.
00:41:17.860 We've done polling that's shown where it's still 74, 75% of Republicans identified Donald
00:41:23.840 Trump as being the leader of the Republican party.
00:41:26.960 That's well, in, and at the same time, uh, the, the state of Georgia still has not gotten
00:41:35.440 all of its act together in terms of, uh, uh, an electoral system that will assure every
00:41:41.140 voter, uh, of the integrity of their vote.
00:41:44.380 Your thoughts on that.
00:41:46.120 Well, um, you're right.
00:41:48.200 And there, there's still a confidence, a lack of confidence there in the voting system.
00:41:53.000 However, I do applaud the Georgia state legislature for the work that they did and, and the election
00:41:59.420 integrity act that they passed last session.
00:42:01.940 I think it will help.
00:42:03.040 It will improve.
00:42:03.920 It'll make cheating harder and voting easier.
00:42:06.300 And we needed that there are still, um, improvements that can be made, but it is much, much better
00:42:13.240 than it was thanks to the work of the Georgia state legislature and the work that they did
00:42:17.040 with the election integrity act.
00:42:18.580 And that's the problem I had from the get go.
00:42:21.420 The major problem that I had is that the changes that were made were made by the executive branch.
00:42:26.980 Our constitution is quite clear.
00:42:29.700 It says that the state legislatures will make these changes.
00:42:33.320 I can remember having a phone call and in March of 2020 with the secretary of state,
00:42:40.300 Brad Raffensperger.
00:42:42.020 And, and I led that phone call of the Republican delegation, congressional delegation here in
00:42:47.380 the state of Georgia, when he told us that he had reached a settlement agreement with the
00:42:51.380 Democrats to avoid a lawsuit that would allow him to mail out an absentee ballot application
00:42:59.000 to everyone in the state of Georgia that was on the voter roll.
00:43:01.980 And we told him then we told him back in March, I'm not sure that's a good idea.
00:43:06.700 That's where mainly that's where you have most of your fraud at.
00:43:10.460 And he, he didn't listen to us and went ahead with it.
00:43:13.260 And sure enough, um, you know, the potential for fraud, it was certainly there.
00:43:19.140 Well, you know, there's nothing like common sense and, uh, there's also nothing like understanding
00:43:24.140 cause and effect.
00:43:25.100 And you, and you explained both to him and still he persisted.
00:43:29.420 So I, I, you know, one of my mentors was a pretty good banker by the name of Walt Riston.
00:43:34.560 And he used to say, when things don't add up, look under the rug.
00:43:38.100 Well, there's a lot of, uh, under the rug looking to be done in Georgia because that the explanations
00:43:44.240 for what they did and why still hasn't, you know, haven't been revealed.
00:43:48.160 Uh, this is, this is corruption on a high level, in my opinion.
00:43:53.640 And I, I think that the, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation should be taking a very strong
00:43:59.320 look at it.
00:43:59.940 I can't understand why they have it.
00:44:02.320 Have you got a sense of that?
00:44:04.780 Well, I, I'm, I will say that I'm disappointed.
00:44:07.680 There hasn't been more, uh, investigation into this.
00:44:11.100 I think there are some other things that could have been done.
00:44:13.400 Um, you, you only have to look as far, you know, I don't know how I get to, to refer to
00:44:20.140 former president Jimmy Carter twice in, in this conversation, but, uh, there was an Arizona
00:44:25.040 case and that was, um, just settled in the Supreme court, um, a few months ago that, um,
00:44:32.080 that, that went back part of the argument cited Jimmy, president Jimmy Carter saying the,
00:44:38.000 the, the, the main area that you have that can lead to fraud is absentee voting.
00:44:45.260 Yeah.
00:44:45.700 And that's what happened in the state of Georgia.
00:44:47.580 We had so many calls in our office of people who are saying, you know, I just got two absentee
00:44:55.060 ballots, not an application, but ballots for someone who lived here 15 years ago.
00:45:00.580 That's unbelievable.
00:45:02.420 You know, and I think where we are, Congressman, suddenly we don't have election day.
00:45:09.760 And that, by the way, is in the constitution that, uh, we, we, we pick a day, but I'm not
00:45:15.100 a week, not a few months, not a year we pick a day and somehow with all of these advances
00:45:22.340 in technology and in our, uh, the quality of our life, our standard of living, the, and,
00:45:28.360 and the, think of how brilliant, uh, all our teachers are, uh, in, uh, K through 12 and,
00:45:35.100 and college.
00:45:36.980 And suddenly we're too dumb to get to a voting booth and, uh, incapable of voting on the day
00:45:44.880 selected by state legislatures.
00:45:47.700 I mean, are you, there's something really rancid about that and that we have to get to the
00:45:53.780 bottom of, don't you think?
00:45:55.280 Oh, absolutely.
00:45:56.000 There's no question about it.
00:45:57.220 Look, um, one of the greatest freedoms that we have in this country is the freedom to vote
00:46:01.780 and, and the freedom to, to elect our public officials and our elected officials.
00:46:06.560 And, and, you know, that is something I, I'm, I thank all of our veterans for among all the
00:46:12.800 other great freedoms that we have, but that one in particular, and, and, and yeah, it takes
00:46:19.080 effort and we should, we, we should make that effort to get out, to get, to vote, to educate
00:46:26.600 ourselves on the, on the candidates, all of that.
00:46:30.780 And, you know, look, this is a responsibility, uh, a citizen's responsibility to be involved
00:46:37.100 in this and to educate ourselves and, and to participate.
00:46:40.660 One of the things this show's, uh, doing, uh, Congressman, just so you know, we're, we're not
00:46:46.180 just talking on this show.
00:46:47.680 We are going to proselytize.
00:46:49.660 We're, we're going to be evangelical about getting folks who listen to this show, uh, to
00:46:56.600 the voting booths.
00:46:57.500 We're going to be encouraging to be, uh, vote watchers, uh, election officials, uh, and
00:47:04.060 volunteers, uh, across the country, because they've got to be engaged one.
00:47:10.800 It's one thing to make a mistake.
00:47:12.180 And we all made a big mistake in 2020, but you know what?
00:47:16.800 The real test is whether we repeat our mistakes and we sure, sure better make absolutely certain
00:47:23.740 that we don't repeat that mistake ever again, the country can't afford the high cost that
00:47:29.840 we're paying right now, the high price we're paying for those mistakes that we all made.
00:47:35.120 Elections have consequences and policies have consequences.
00:47:39.240 And we are suffering the consequences right now of the Biden administration's policies.
00:47:43.920 And we're suffering the consequences of the Biden election.
00:47:48.480 Congressman Buddy Carter, a great American and a terrific Congressman from the great
00:47:53.360 state of Georgia, first district, I might add, uh, great to have you with us.
00:47:58.080 And it's a great of all of you listening in, uh, to be with us.
00:48:02.180 We appreciate it when you share part of your day with us.
00:48:05.580 And I want to just say this, we've got some important news here that I shouldn't have left
00:48:10.440 to the end of the episode, but, uh, the fact is we've had, we're a little acorn, you
00:48:15.860 know, we've, we've only been on the air less than, uh, well, less than a month and already
00:48:21.720 in, I'm proud to report to you, uh, that we are in the top 50 in politics on the Apple
00:48:28.840 podcast.
00:48:29.440 There are other metrics, but, uh, also you'll be impressed to know that this is an international
00:48:34.720 podcast of, of immense importance.
00:48:38.320 And in particular, we're proud of our ranking in Tanzania.
00:48:41.800 Tanzania, now we're in lots of countries, but Tanzania, we're number three in politics
00:48:46.960 in Tanzania that we're a little acorn, but we're sure growing.
00:48:50.980 And we want to thank you for that, uh, dramatic growth that we've been enjoying.
00:48:55.260 Thanks so much.
00:48:56.140 And, uh, see you next time.
00:48:59.520 Join us again tomorrow for the great America podcast.
00:49:02.420 Stay in the fight.
00:49:03.620 Truth, justice, and the American way will prevail against all enemies, against all odds.