The Great America Show - November 10, 2022


REP. ANDY BIGGS SAYS REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP HAS TO HAVE THE COURAGE, SPINE AND BACKBONE TO HOLD THE BIDEN ADMIN ACCOUNTABLE


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31 minutes

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152.26851

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4,806

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308

Misogynist Sentences

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Summary

Andy Biggs, a four term member of the House Judiciary and Oversight Committee, joins The Great America Show host Lou Dobbs to discuss the results of the mid-term elections and what it means for the future of the Republican Party.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and this is The Great America Show. Thanks for being with us.
00:00:05.680 And while we'd like to answer the really big questions like what happened to that big red
00:00:10.920 tsunami and who should MAGA patriots fire, not for losing the great big red tsunami, but for
00:00:18.400 letting the corporate Marxist media, the Marxist Dems, play the dullards in the GOP leadership
00:00:23.880 in the raising of unrealistic and what turned out to be unachievable expectations. As we're talking,
00:00:32.160 there's a serious question about four states remaining. How long will it take for Arizona,
00:00:37.700 Nevada, and Alaska to decide? And of course, Georgia, because it has a runoff election
00:00:43.380 between Warnock and Walker, set for December 6th, less than a percent of the votes separating the
00:00:49.660 two men. And there's the awesome amount of money that was spent in these midterm elections. There's
00:00:56.960 also the question of whether big donors to the two parties are getting their money's worth.
00:01:02.000 We worry about that kind of thing, don't we? Almost $17 billion on state and federal elections in 50
00:01:09.360 states, the most money ever spent on a midterm election. And I have a big question, my own,
00:01:16.600 about why we let big money influence our elections at all. I'm getting just a little tired of what
00:01:24.520 should be called in any other country, oligarchs. Far too much influence, far too much power in the
00:01:32.300 United States. The balance of power in the Senate still hanging and Joe Biden looking good. He stayed
00:01:38.740 out of sight for the last few days of the election and still outperformed his old boss, Barack Obama.
00:01:45.380 Fewer seats lost in the House and Senate than Obama, who famously took a shellacking in his midterm
00:01:52.340 elections. And of course, the Republicans will be settling big questions about their leadership
00:01:57.560 in the House and the Senate. Very quickly, in fact, by design, of course, McConnell and McCarthy
00:02:04.540 don't want any opposition to have time to organize around any other candidates. That may happen anyway,
00:02:11.140 we'll see. The election for Speaker comes on the 15th of November, less than a week away.
00:02:17.140 The election for Majority Minority Leader takes place the next day, the 16th. To give us some
00:02:23.360 perspective and insight on these issues and more, our guest today is Congressman Andy Biggs, elected to
00:02:29.680 four terms now in the U.S. House of Representatives, serving on the very important House Judiciary and
00:02:35.820 oversight committees. Welcome back to The Great America Show, Congressman. Good to have you with us.
00:02:41.180 Let's start with a leadership issue. Is Kevin McCarthy the right man to lead the Republicans in the House?
00:02:48.380 Well, first of all, Lou, thanks for having me. It's great to be with you again. I always love our
00:02:53.740 conversations in our chats and because you actually get to the heart of some of the most important
00:02:59.600 issues. And so one of them is, what will the Republican leadership do? And I keep telling
00:03:05.200 people, you know, I think, first of all, I think Kevin's probably the presumptive nominee and then
00:03:11.500 ultimately the speaker. I think that's the case probably. But the question is, will, for instance,
00:03:20.640 will we do the impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas? Well, as you know, I introduced articles of impeachment
00:03:27.600 well over a year ago and things have only gotten worse. And and and so but Kevin has already kind
00:03:33.920 of said, well, maybe we don't want to do impeachments. No, no, we do. The American people
00:03:37.220 want him held accountable. And then but I will say on the other investigations, whether it's Hunter
00:03:44.380 Biden or Fauci or DOJ weaponization or maybe even the J6 abuse of those of the of the prisoners,
00:03:53.360 you know, pretrial detention of people for almost two years now. I do know because I sit on these
00:04:00.620 committees, we've actually been working on who needs to be subpoenaed, how we're going to bring
00:04:07.160 them in. And the Judiciary Committee has released a more than 1000 page study on the weaponization of
00:04:16.340 of the DOJ. And so we'll use that as a guidepost. So I hope so. Lou, I'm with you. I hope we do
00:04:23.460 something. We can't we can't fiddle around this time. You know, this is this election is what I
00:04:29.640 styled as existential throughout. And I really I mean, every word I've said, if Republicans don't
00:04:38.320 understand that this is their one last chance to be a serious party, you know, the Democrats don't
00:04:45.700 have dinos, but the Republicans are blessed with rhinos. Why is it that there are no dinos in the
00:04:53.640 Democrat Party and the Republicans have got so many? It's a it's it's a curse on the party. And it's really
00:05:03.060 destroying the prospects for an even greater nation. Because even though the Republicans win,
00:05:11.420 it looks like the establishment wins with them every time.
00:05:16.800 Yeah, I mean, so you're asking a question that I always answer this way. I say, the reason that
00:05:24.120 the Democrats always stay together, even when they go to crazy town on the left, which is where they are
00:05:30.800 now, they're just out of touch with America, it's because they're collectivists and they're used to
00:05:37.060 this hierarchical collectivist mentality. So they don't they don't think outside of the herd. And I
00:05:43.360 do think that the problem that we have on the Republican side, which is not really a problem in
00:05:47.720 some ways, but turns out to be a terrible problem, is that most Republicans are very independent
00:05:54.080 individualists. And so we want our freedoms protected. They don't they don't. The Democrats don't
00:06:00.720 view it that way. Now, the rhino problem. That's because you get people who just simply like power
00:06:05.500 and want to keep it. Yeah, absolutely. And I think you're right. I would style it perhaps just a little
00:06:12.220 differently. I think that the radical Dems in this country, the Marxist Dems have shown themselves to
00:06:17.840 be authoritarian, totalitarian impulses, obviously running throughout this administration, with this
00:06:24.640 puppet president. It's clear his his cabal, his puppet masters are without question, totalitarian.
00:06:33.100 But with the Republicans, I think there's also if I may say, I mean, and this is there is in the Republican
00:06:40.600 Party, almost a defeatist culture that I just don't understand it. They want to take orders from the
00:06:50.300 Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber of Commerce has made it clear there's only going to be there going
00:06:54.940 to be two parties involved and they're going to run both of them. I mean, that's the way I took the
00:07:00.780 rejection of Kevin McCarthy's demand that they get rid of the current CEO and was rebuffed. I mean,
00:07:08.380 they effectively told him that you're you're you're you're at best 50 percent of the deal right now.
00:07:13.980 Yeah. You know, and one of the reasons, too, Lou, is that for whatever reason, too many Republicans,
00:07:23.340 but I think it's because we're nicer people than the Democrats, but but but they don't want to fight.
00:07:28.660 You know, they don't want to fight. They don't use the same tools. That's the thing that Donald Trump
00:07:32.200 did so well is he said, you know, people didn't like him, his mean tweets. But the reality is Donald
00:07:37.460 Trump knew how to fight and he would fight for what he believed was right. And that's where Republicans
00:07:42.360 have to be. And that's why the Freedom Caucus exists, for instance. That's why why we keep
00:07:47.800 pushing back some of us on all of this stuff, because there is a really a uniparty kind of a
00:07:52.520 swampy thing that President Trump talked about. And it covers both parties. And so it is constantly,
00:07:59.160 at least to my way of thinking, a necessity to push back and fight for, let's say, transparency for
00:08:06.960 one, let's say just fundamentally for the freedoms of American people and and fundamentally also to
00:08:14.240 change the institution. So it goes back to being the small federal system where states have more
00:08:20.480 power than the federal government and that that the very classic language of the Constitution,
00:08:26.160 which says you have to meet at least one time per year in the in in the Constitution as Congress,
00:08:32.320 that that wouldn't that be great if that was that we only met one time a year because the states were
00:08:37.520 doing most of the heavy lifting and Congress wasn't. That requires fight, Lou, that requires fight.
00:08:44.720 Yeah. And there are an increasing number of what I will call traditional Republicans,
00:08:53.120 strong Republicans with strong views on limited government and empowerment of the state government,
00:09:01.680 as you're describing it and the individual. I mean, when we have to have a fight over whether or not
00:09:09.520 parents or domestic terrorists are not when they're pleading for their children in a school board
00:09:15.280 meeting. I mean, we've really we've really descended to a level I don't think anyone could have anticipated
00:09:21.520 even 20 years ago. But that's where we are. And the Republicans have not been vociferous.
00:09:27.920 They haven't been strong. They should be out slamming every table demanding parental rights.
00:09:35.200 And and I don't think it should be a matter of national politics. I would expect every congressman,
00:09:41.360 every senator in his or her home state to be absolutely by without any question whatsoever,
00:09:49.520 demanding that those school boards wake up and pay attention and start stripping
00:09:54.720 a gender transitioning and sex education from the curricula of K through 12 right now.
00:10:03.680 It's ignorant and it's ridiculous.
00:10:08.000 I agree 100 percent. And that's and that's the point is sometimes
00:10:14.160 Democrats always fight. They will always fight. They will use every tool in the toolbox.
00:10:19.440 And when when I when I say I want to use every tool in toolbox, people say, Andy,
00:10:23.840 you can't be as mean as them. I can't. That's true. I cannot be as mean with them. But that doesn't
00:10:27.520 mean I don't have the tools to use to go after and hold them accountable on everything from the crazy
00:10:33.920 stuff that you're talking about in the, you know, gender mutilation and and grooming children as young as
00:10:40.240 kindergarten and preschool. CRT. We've got to stand up. Yes. All of that.
00:10:47.120 Yeah. You've got to stand up and fight. And you need to use every tool. And I get criticized by some
00:10:53.120 of my own Republican colleagues for for using those tools to say, Andy, you know, you're losing your
00:10:59.680 credibility. And I said, for what standing up for the American people? Yeah. What is that what it is?
00:11:04.960 Yeah. Well, good for you. You mentioned tools. I mean, what tools are available to you to to
00:11:12.560 congressmen and women who should be pushing back against all of this and making certain that
00:11:21.040 the left isn't dissolving the Constitution at the local and state level?
00:11:27.440 Well, the first thing in Congress, you've got you've got the tools of must pass legislation.
00:11:32.800 Why in the world did 18 Republican senators help the Democrats pass a continuing resolution? What
00:11:39.840 that did is that basically, you know, because Mitch McConnell said we don't want to shut down the
00:11:43.440 government midterm election. You know what it did? It took away a tool, which is the leverage of
00:11:48.560 budgeting. That is actually one of the great things that the founders gave the Congress, particularly the
00:11:54.640 House of Representatives. Republicans in the House, we voted against that CR. But the senators,
00:12:01.440 they in the Senate, they needed to get 60 votes. Right. And 18 Republican senators went. And that's
00:12:08.160 the problem. That was McConnell. That was Mitch McConnell that went along with that. And and
00:12:14.000 outrageous and disgraceful. And I'm I tell you what, it ends up on December 16th. And I'm I'm really
00:12:19.840 concerned that we might have some senators because the Democrats control the House. So they'll get they'll
00:12:25.760 get their thing out their bill out. But then it'll happen in the Senate. If they get their votes,
00:12:32.080 they may do something crazy, like give up a whole year's worth of leverage by passing a continuing
00:12:38.080 resolution all the way through the fiscal year, which is next September. And if that happens,
00:12:44.480 the number one most powerful leverage tool that we have that says, you know, Joe Biden, we don't care what
00:12:49.920 you say. You're going to start enforcing the law or we're not going to pass, you know, a budget that
00:12:55.280 that works or we're going to. And we just we define the budget. Right. And make him veto it.
00:13:00.960 Well, I question here is if if indeed Kevin McCarthy is the speaker, will the leadership in the House
00:13:08.240 be strong enough to use the power of the purse, which is the purview of the House of Representatives?
00:13:14.160 I hope so. I've been told, yes. But, you know, the proof is in the pudding, Lou. And in this instance,
00:13:24.560 past history should be referred to. And the fact that he's already said that he's leery to impeach
00:13:31.840 anybody, it makes me very, very concerned, although he said that and he's allowed judiciary and oversight
00:13:40.560 to already begin prepping for these hearings to hold people accountable that way.
00:13:47.440 But I'm just telling you, if you don't hold people accountable through an impeachment, somebody
00:13:51.840 somebody deserves it, which is which is Alejandro Mayorkas more than anybody I've seen in recent years.
00:13:56.960 How about Merrick?
00:13:58.160 Well, he's right there, too. I mean, the problem is if you name a cabinet official in the in the Biden
00:14:06.480 administration that shouldn't be removed. I can't think of one. I can't think of any.
00:14:13.440 I agree with you. Merrick Garland and Alejandro Mayorkas come to mind because they are so
00:14:21.040 aggressively vicious in in refusing to carry out their constitutional responsibilities. In fact,
00:14:29.360 acting against the interest of the United States, whether it be an open border, whether it be a
00:14:37.920 raid on a former president's home, it's it just boggles the mind to think what this administration
00:14:45.440 has brought to Washington, which was rancid to the core before them. I don't know how to describe it
00:14:52.000 but now other than the stench is ever stronger in the swamp. Let's let's let's turn to the the proposition
00:15:01.840 that that that Ronna McDaniel would have the temerity to sit down on Sunday television and say that the
00:15:11.200 Republicans will work with Joe Biden on a host of issues as if this were a simpleton's model here
00:15:19.520 where where you meet halfway on an issue, an issue like a border. So we have the border
00:15:25.840 instead of two thousand miles wide open, make it one thousand miles open. Would that be a compromise
00:15:31.680 if we cut half the deaths from fentanyl? Would that be satisfactory to the Republicans and Democrats?
00:15:37.600 I mean, this is a kind of idiocy coming from the RNC chair that, frankly, I would have expected. I never
00:15:43.680 expected to actually articulate that nonsense in public speaking for the Republican Party. Your your thoughts?
00:15:53.040 Well, the American people, if they you know, when they elected the people that they've elected
00:16:00.400 in response to Biden's malfeasance in office, to say that we're going to work with Joe Biden
00:16:10.880 basically spits in their eye. The reality is they want us to fix the problems. And the way you fix the
00:16:19.680 problems is not with a radicalized Joe Biden who has proven that he is every bit as radical and more
00:16:26.560 so than even Bernie Sanders and AOC and company. The way you have to deal with them is use our leverage
00:16:33.520 points. And those are must pass pieces of legislation. Those are bringing in people that
00:16:39.120 that you have to you have oversight authority on. It means bringing back the Holman rule that you can
00:16:44.720 actually defund individual bureaucrats who fail to follow the law. It means that you impeach those who
00:16:52.560 need to be impeached. It means you use every tool in the toolbox. And if if Joe Biden at that point says,
00:16:59.920 OK, I'm willing to actually enforce Title eight and detention until immigration status is determined,
00:17:09.760 then then maybe you can start working with somebody like that. But right now it is lawless. He's lawless
00:17:15.760 and his administration is lawless. And that is hard for me to understand how you can say, well,
00:17:21.520 we're going to work with a tyrant. We're going to work with somebody who's basically abrogated the
00:17:26.000 rule of law and has destroyed this country for a generation to come through his policies.
00:17:34.000 That's tough for me to believe that somebody seriously is suggesting we do that.
00:17:38.240 Yeah. And good for you. And let's be very direct here. Joe Biden is a corrupt individual in the White
00:17:48.080 House of the United States. He's there because an election was not simply rigged and stolen,
00:17:53.760 but it was it was carried out by 51 intelligence veterans, including five former CIA directors who lied
00:18:04.880 about the Hunter Biden laptop in the days before the second and final presidential debate. They protected
00:18:13.040 Joe Biden from the truth and they denied the American people the truth. It was an absolute disaster.
00:18:22.640 And they changed history. And that is a matter of historic and factual record. William Barr, the attorney
00:18:29.520 general for President Trump betrayed both the president and the American people in that month.
00:18:37.280 And just as you know, it's just an awful moment. And there has to be an accounting.
00:18:45.200 Absolutely. And that's that's part of this weaponization of the FBI. So for political purposes,
00:18:52.480 just think about the disparity here. So for political purposes, you have Hunter Biden's laptop suppressed.
00:18:59.600 Right. And at the same time, you have throwing out there this constant Russian hoax garbage
00:19:07.360 to try to to basically delegitimize President Trump's administration and his reelection.
00:19:13.360 And so they picked winners and losers in the election. But it isn't just that. I mean,
00:19:19.040 we can go back to the the I.T. gate where you had that the Awan family with 45 Democrats in the House.
00:19:28.000 They sat on that. They suppressed the evidence of that, of what really was going on.
00:19:32.480 And that was just, you know, in 2017, for Pete's sake. So there's a whole gambit again, a gamut of this stuff.
00:19:41.680 And I find myself just pulling my hair out that when when Republicans immediately, they acquiesce,
00:19:50.560 they negotiate against themselves. And in the end, they lay the foundation to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory,
00:19:59.280 because we can win this thing. But we're about if we don't do what we're supposed to do,
00:20:03.920 if we don't keep faith with the people who vote for us, who elect us, then we will fail.
00:20:08.800 We will fail them and we will fail this country and we will lose their trust.
00:20:14.240 And that means we'll lose elections for many years to come.
00:20:17.440 We are looking at a number of people who are stepping into leadership roles.
00:20:22.320 Do they have the fire in the belly and the strength of spine to do as you are suggesting,
00:20:30.320 to take the battle for the leadership of the House conference, the Republican conference,
00:20:37.440 and make certain that they are being that there are leaders in place, not people who are following
00:20:43.280 the the the dictates of the Chamber of Commerce and perhaps even the Democratic Party?
00:20:54.320 I believe they do. I believe they do. I've been talking with James Comer from Kentucky,
00:21:01.200 who's the oversight chair and Jim Jordan now for for literally months about when we get the majority back.
00:21:09.040 This is what we we need to do. And I, of course, always emphasize impeach Mayorkas.
00:21:13.360 I always emphasize you need to have Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx brought to brought to account.
00:21:19.920 You need to bring Hunter Biden. You need to bring in the FBI guys and DOJ people who've abused parents
00:21:28.000 who who are just going to school boards. And and they've agreed with me and actually
00:21:33.760 they've done the prep work, I think, is necessary. They've sent out, you know, that they always
00:21:38.720 telegraph this, but they sent out the the preservation letters. They've they've been doing research.
00:21:43.920 They've been having their staff work on that. I always remember how how loud
00:21:50.080 Trey Gowdy was the chair of the Benghazi committee when Paul Ryan said there's going to be a serious
00:21:56.240 investigation of Hillary Clinton. And what we watched was Kabuki theater. It was a stage play.
00:22:02.400 And it was a joke from top to bottom. It was an insult to the intelligence of the American people.
00:22:10.720 And by the way, not an insult to the intelligence of the media, because they fell for the nonsense,
00:22:16.160 most of it and got away with it. If we see a repeat of that, I guarantee you the Republican Party
00:22:25.120 will be in shambles. There just isn't the stomach amongst the American people in my judgment to put
00:22:33.120 up with any more nonsense. And when you say impeachment, impeachment is fine. If it's factual,
00:22:41.200 it's fast and founded on the interest of the nation rather than, you know, putting up a show,
00:22:49.760 show because we've had enough show committees like J six. I just wonder, I just I have a terrible,
00:22:58.080 terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach that there's still too many rhinos who are posing as
00:23:04.960 serious, serious Republicans and citizens to get the job done. I hope I'm wrong, but I have that feeling.
00:23:13.280 I want to get your reaction to it. I have that terrible feeling as well. Right now, I'm hopeful,
00:23:24.320 but cautious because we've seen this game before. I've heard rhetoric before. But look, if this is just
00:23:34.880 performance art, it's not going to do us a bit of good and it will undermine everything this country
00:23:41.760 needs at this time. And not only undermine what this country needs, but if you if you care about
00:23:47.040 the Republican Party, because I do think the platform is the right platform, which is why I
00:23:50.880 stay Republican. Right. I mean, it's what we should be doing. If we don't do it, Lou, I think you're
00:23:58.240 right. I think that we will lose trust. And if you want the mark, think of let's watch what we do
00:24:03.920 between January 3rd and the end of September of 2023. That will tell us everything because,
00:24:12.880 as you know, you start moving into an election year and you're moving into a presidential election
00:24:18.560 cycle as well. And so everything else stagnates at Congress. So you got really about eight to 10 months
00:24:25.680 max for the for the House of Representatives in the Senate to do some some meaningful things.
00:24:32.880 And that means they have to act fast. They have to be organized. And that we our leadership has
00:24:38.320 got to have courage and the backbone in the spine to go out and do what needs to be done. And that's
00:24:44.800 it isn't just about holding the Biden administration accountable. It's about trying to get your policy
00:24:49.520 through by using the leverage points we've already discussed. Right. No, I think that makes perfect
00:24:54.480 sense. I'm going to say, though, I would I would look to what has been done by the Republican Party
00:25:00.960 by July 4th there. If it isn't done and if it isn't set and if the parameters aren't established and
00:25:10.080 the goals published and a transparent, open declaration of war against corruption against a party that is
00:25:20.000 is Marxist led and opposition and without real achievement and I'm talking about actually moving
00:25:28.160 Mayorkas out of office, I'm talking about Biden understanding that this Republican Congress will
00:25:35.120 not put up with any more anti-American policies or actions on the part of the executive ever again.
00:25:43.520 If that isn't all underway and by I'd say February and clearly in front of the American public,
00:25:51.520 that I think it's a hopeless, hopeless cause and an opportunity for the Republican Party to be the
00:25:58.720 countervailing domestic influence to what is a Marxist led Democrat Party. I just think it's that
00:26:07.920 straightforward, that simple and in that time frame. Yeah. Yeah, you're right in the sense that
00:26:15.760 it could it could be but you like whatever it is, it's it's whether it's six months or nine months,
00:26:20.880 you don't have a lot of time. You can't dance around just talking. You can't do a, you know, a dance.
00:26:29.200 You can't do this performance art for six, eight months and then say, well, you know, we never had the
00:26:36.080 presidency should go ahead now elect the House, the Senate and then give us the presidency too.
00:26:40.560 People are not stupid. They won't buy it. They won't trust us. You have to keep trust and you
00:26:47.280 keep trust by doing what you said you would do. And the American people are telling us what they want
00:26:52.640 and they want people held accountable. They want, they want cheap to get back to cheap gas.
00:26:58.960 They want to be able to live their lives without deciding, well, I can't afford this,
00:27:04.560 this brand of bread. I'm going to have to buy this brand of bread, which I don't like, but it's
00:27:08.640 cheaper because we simply can't afford it. You this in this economy, this border, this crime,
00:27:15.200 what's going on in the schools, our weakness around the world, people know and understand
00:27:20.720 all of that. And we have to address that immediately. Amen. Absolutely. Amen.
00:27:27.600 I just would like to, as we wrap up here, we have left out one subject and that is America first,
00:27:38.480 make America great. Right now, we have a conflict within the Republican Party about President Trump
00:27:45.120 and in particular, Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida.
00:27:51.120 This is a president who has been persecuted for, for seven years. If without Donald Trump,
00:27:58.000 the Republicans wouldn't have much to talk about and indeed would have accomplished very little.
00:28:03.040 Indeed. Give us your sense of who is the presumptive leader of the Republican Party
00:28:10.400 and who is in the strongest position to lead the party from 24 onward.
00:28:17.120 Well, I'd say right now, President Trump is the presumptive leader of the Republican Party. He is
00:28:23.840 by far going to win the primary if he decides to run, which I think he probably has. He's going to win
00:28:29.920 that and he's going to go forward. And I believe that he can win the election in 2024. And then he
00:28:39.840 will lead it for those four years. And then, and then I think at that point, Ron DeSantis will have
00:28:45.280 finished his second term mid, mid, midway through that about 2026. And Ron can work because I think
00:28:53.520 he'd be a great successor to Donald Trump. And I think he'd come in and have a shot to win in 2028,
00:29:00.080 provided, and he gets back to this whole thing, Lou, provided Republicans do what they say they're
00:29:06.560 going to do. And we watched the establishment and the rhinos undercut President Trump everywhere
00:29:14.400 they could. They tried to undercut him. And he's still got, yeah. I'm sorry, go ahead.
00:29:22.480 And he's still got some great things done. I mean, look, I could tell you the border,
00:29:27.600 he brought it under control. Not perfect, but as close to operational control as I've seen in my
00:29:33.600 lifetime. Yeah. And by the way, when you go through the list of accomplishments,
00:29:39.360 as we, and we're all thankful to him for that, if it were not for him, the Republicans wouldn't
00:29:45.120 have a single element to talk about because none of that legislation, none of those agenda items
00:29:52.720 were the product of the House Republicans or the Senate Republicans. And by the way, one of the
00:29:59.680 the reasons you guys have to succeed is McConnell is helping the Dems everywhere defeat Republicans,
00:30:05.440 whether it's pulling money from the candidates as he did for the midterm elections, whether it is
00:30:10.800 indeed working with them on compromises that are really simply an acquiescence to Marxist Dem policies.
00:30:21.280 That is critical and laying the foundation for a second Trump administration. We always give our
00:30:29.440 guests here, as you know, Congressman, the last word. Your concluding thoughts.
00:30:36.800 Well, I'd say, Lou, you and I still live in the best country in the history of the world.
00:30:41.280 It's under attack existentially. And we get to stand in the breach and we're doing that. But the
00:30:48.640 American people, they want the country they expect to know to be free and prosperous and enduring. And
00:30:57.920 that means defeating President Biden's minions at every step, every step. Thanks so much for being with
00:31:04.640 us. We appreciate it. Thank you so much. Thanks, Lou. Always good to be with you.
00:31:09.200 Thanks, everybody, for being with us today. Our guest tomorrow is Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch.
00:31:15.840 Please join us for that and more. Till then, God bless you and may God bless America.