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The Great America Show with Lou Dobbs. President Trump and Reince Priebus on the same episode. Reince takes on the Marxist's and gives them a dose of truth. Joe Biden's border crisis continues. Texas Governor Greg Abbott signs a bill allowing law enforcement to arrest illegal immigrants entering the United States.
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Hello everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs and welcome to the Great America Show. Great to have you with us
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today. It is rare that we bring you good news from the border on this show. The main reason being
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for the past almost three years, Joe Biden has opened up the border for all to come. Criminals,
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drug dealers, terrorists, human smugglers, sex traffickers, you name it. Millions of illegals
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have entered this country. Yesterday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott did something about it.
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He signed a bill making Texas the first state in the nation to give law enforcement the authority
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to arrest illegal immigrants, those who illegally entered the state of Texas. Abbott says it was
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because of Joe Biden's inaction that he had to take action. Biden's deliberate inaction has left
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Texas to fend for itself. The authors of the United States Constitution foresaw a situation
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when the federal government would be inattentive to states that faced challenges at their borders.
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And in response, they inserted Article 1, Section 10 to the United States Constitution
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to empower states to take action to defend themselves. And that is exactly what Texas is doing.
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I will sign three laws today to better protect Texas and America from Biden's border neglect.
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The first is Senate Bill 4 from the fourth special session. The goal of Senate Bill 4
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is to stop the title wave of illegal entry into Texas. It creates a criminal offense for illegal entry
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into Texas from a foreign nation. For repeat offenders, it creates the offense of illegal re-entry
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with a potential prison sentence term of up to 20 years. The bill provides a mechanism to order an
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illegal immigrant to return to the foreign nation from which they entered. Abbott has also begun to
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use Texas state funds to continue the construction of the Trump border wall. God bless Governor Abbott for
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being one of the few in the nation to actually step up and try to safeguard his state against illegal
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immigration. It's not often that I agree with rhinos. In fact, I can't think of a time I've agreed
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with a rhino in this country. But today I found some common ground with former RNC chair and White House
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Chief of Staff Reince Priebus. He was on TV this week and he was defending President Trump. I know that's
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a big surprise and it is not customary. Reince was asked by the Marxists over at ABC about taming down
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President Trump and whether that's hurting his 2024 chances. I guess they don't look at the polls.
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Take a listen to Priebus taking those Marxist stems to school.
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I think that I think you're all misreading the electorate. I think that the electorate
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is not looking for less blood. I think they're looking for more blood. I think that people are
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more angry about crime than they've ever been before. I think they're more angry about the border,
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the Fentanyl, the Sanctuary Cities, the boys competing against girls in sports, schools out
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of control. I think, as I've said before, people are looking for a bigger middle finger this time
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than they were in 2016. And I think that you're misreading this. People are angry. And on the other
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side, you know, you've got President Biden, who's losing young voters, who's losing black voters.
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The polling couldn't be worse. And unlike Barack Obama in 2011, Democrats would have walked over
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glass for Barack Obama. Democrats today, they say 75 percent. We wish we had a different candidate.
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So it matters who you're running against, too. And it also matters what the state of the country's in.
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And this is a perfect storm. Reince is 100 percent correct. The voters and the polls show it.
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They want a fired-up President Trump. And President Trump, as we all know, has every right in the
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world to be fired up. And an expose may be on the way for some hundred of Jeffrey Epstein's close
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associates. A federal judge in New York has ordered a vast unsealing of court documents in the next two
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weeks that will make public the names of Epstein's associates and friends. The documents that are to be
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released are part of a settled civil lawsuit alleging Epstein's lover confidant, Ghislaine Maxwell,
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facilitated the sexual abuse of a number of minors. Two of the most prominent people that Epstein is
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said to have been associated with are President Bill Clinton and Bill Gates. Something tells me,
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despite everything we know, that we probably won't see those names on this first list.
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And Congress is in recess, but a lot of congressmen are working, including our guest today,
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Congressman Bob Good of Virginia. In the new year, he takes over as chairman of the Freedom Caucus.
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Great American Congressman Bob Good. It's great to have you with us here on the show.
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And congratulations on your new chairmanship of the Freedom Caucus.
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Thank you, Lou. You know, ever since I joined Congress, I know I wanted to be part of the Freedom
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Caucus. And I can't imagine having been in Congress before the Freedom Caucus existed,
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this band of brothers and sisters, this iron sharp as iron principle. We're not monolithic. We
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challenge one another. Our core principles, our love of country, our adherence to the Constitution,
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our belief in freedom. Those unite us. But yet strategy, tactics, you know, what's the best,
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most achievable path to victory? You know, we debate, we challenge one another. And I've served
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for on the board, the leadership team, the last two years in the most recent year as the whip,
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which is the one who sort of counts and persuades the votes when we need. We're trying to take an
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official position on something. And I'm just thankful that my colleagues trusted me to become the new
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chairman. The original chairman was Jim Jordan, followed by Mark Meadows, followed by Andy Biggs,
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followed by the current chairman through the end of the year, Scott Perry. And so I want to build
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upon the work that they've done. The responsibility is sobering. I believe that the Freedom Caucus is the
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hope for the country with the tip of the spear in the Republican House. We have been on every issue
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over my three years. We're the conservative anchor trying to hold the Republican conference to be that
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which the American people entrusted us to be with. And they gave us the majority to actually execute
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on the things that we run on and the things for which we ask the American people to entrust their
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votes to us. And when necessary, we've demonstrated we're willing to challenge our own leadership,
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our own conference, our own party when we feel like we're off course.
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You know, I guess I could start here. Was Speaker Speaker Johnson ever a member of the Freedom Caucus?
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To my knowledge, no. He's been here seven years. I've been here three years. So he predated me four years.
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He it's my understanding that he considered membership in the Freedom Caucus. The Freedom Caucus
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considered him. You don't get to just it's not unilateral. You don't get to just join and we won't just take anybody,
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so to speak. Sometimes a member might express interest and would like to be considered for
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membership. And sometimes the Freedom Caucus might reach out and say, hey, we think you'd be a great
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candidate for membership. Would you consider meeting and talking with us? You know, it kind of goes both
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ways, whether it's existing members or new members as they come in and are elected. But I think he's one
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that considered that. But instead, he took the path of getting into leadership with the Republican Study
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Committee. Right. He became the chairman of that committee, which is a much larger committee, which
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are caucus. It's called Republican Study Committee. It was actually a caucus that I am also a member of.
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It's a complementary caucus in my view. But the Republican Study Committee, any member of the Republican
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Party can join. So you've got a more widespread. It's got like 160 members. So you've got
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strong conservatives. You've got centrist conservatives and more moderate members in
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that Republican Committee. But that used to be pre-Freedom Caucus was kind of the conservative
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anchor, if you will. And so he went that route. And then he moved into leadership as the vice
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chair, conference vice chair. And so I don't think he ever officially was a member of the Freedom Caucus.
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I guess the way I should have asked, would the Freedom Caucus have him if he today were to ask to be a member?
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Well, one of the reasons why most, if not all, actually all of us, I guess, ultimately supported
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him as speaker. He is the kind of person that we talked about a year ago. And you and I probably talked
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about this before, but a year ago when we were, some of us were contemplating the challenge to then
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minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, who was going to run for speaker in the new Congress a year ago.
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When we were considering trying to prevent that occurrence, we were talking about people like
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Mike Johnson, who were conservative at heart, who we believe were people of integrity,
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that were honest brokers. Now, we're great on the Washington scale to some degree here. Washington
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curve, I should say, to some degree here. As the listeners say, hey, I know anybody was like that
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in D.C. But also who, you know, we respected, we trusted, we admired having served with him.
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He was the kind of person we were looking for who represented what I call the conservative center
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of the conference. The conference has moved more conservative, longer time members will tell you.
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The conference does reflect more of the grassroots base than it used to. And they expect us to deliver
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for them, by the way. So that's the basis under which we supported Speaker Johnson. He's done some
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good things. I would say the Israel supplemental being a paid for a standalone and not allowing to
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be hijacked with funding for Ukraine and other things that are unrelated and requiring it to be paid
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for, not borrowed and using the IRS expansion to do it. Moving forward on the impeachment inquiry.
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Moving forward on subpoenaing Hunter Biden. Moving forward on releasing more of the January 6th
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tapes. Now we need to get all the January 6th tapes released. But he's done some good things. However,
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he's done some things that I thought were glaring mistakes. And I think the majority of the Freedom
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Caucus, based on their vote, felt the same way when we voted against the continuing resolution
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that kept in place all the Biden-Pelosi-Schumer policies and spending levels until January 19th,
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for some of it in February 2 for the other parts. And then also to you, you just touched on a moment,
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a few moments ago, but the NDAA, which was a terrible version of the NDAA, which I can expound upon,
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but combined with it and made even worse, the attachment of the vice extension without the reforms to protect
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our constitutional liberties. Those were terrible mistakes in my view. And we have expressed that.
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We vote. We were trying to attack. He's a new speaker. He inherited a tough situation made or
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created by the former speaker's failures. But we expect them to start to deliver and to start
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to put points on the board. And so we're trying to attack the actions, not the person. But we're going
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to call it like we see it and speak the truth. And everybody's got to be accountable. This is a
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performance-based business. It's not personal. Absolutely. And we're going to take up
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Speaker Mike Johnson. We're talking with the head of the Freedom Caucus now, Bob Good. Congressman
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Good will be here as we examine what is going on in the House of Representatives. By the way,
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the 118th Congress has just been rated one of the least productive
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in the country's history. We're going to take that up with the Congressman right after these quick words.
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All right, we're back with Congressman Bob Good, the chair of the Freedom Caucus. Congressman,
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we were talking as we went to break there about the principles that the Freedom Caucus stands for,
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the speaker and his performance, which is the most generous, is uneven. At the least generous,
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it is disappointing as it could possibly have been in my estimation. Give us your sense of what
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you think will happen now that we've got two CRs that are coming up the schedule at the beginning of the
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year. We've got the 702 FISA reauthorization. 147 Republicans voted for it. I didn't look to see if
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any Freedom Caucus people voted for it, did they? I think there were two members who voted for it that
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are members of the Freedom Caucus. So Freedom Caucus has just under 40 members, and I think we did have
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two that voted for it. But the NDA, let's take that piece of it, which was the National Defense
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Authorization Act, which is the authorization every year of the funding for our military. It's called,
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Lou, a must-pass bill. Now, anybody who ever hears that in Washington ought to get concerned,
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because must-pass means, oh, you just have to do it. You may have disagreements with it. You may not
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like it. You might not think it's perfect. But you know what? We pass it every year without fail. It's
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must-pass. It's almost like calling it mandatory spending. I voted against the NDA four times because
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the Biden administration has said, in my first two years, I voted against it four times. The Biden
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administration has told the military that the greatest threat to the military is the climate war
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and racism in the military. And so that's what they have focused upon, and they've weakened our military
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accordingly. And they focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, CRT and our military academies, LGBTQ
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funding for treatment and surgery, abortion funding, electrifying our vehicles, and those sorts of
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things. Drag queen shows at our bases. And so that's what that was full of my first two years, and I voted
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against it. We passed out of the House a good NDAA that eliminated all of that and focused on lethality,
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effectiveness, and readiness back last summer. And then, Lou, we were supposed to go into conference
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committee and negotiate that with assigned members from the House and the Senate to come together and
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negotiate where you would expect we would get at least half of our priorities. I would submit we should
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get more than half if we're effective negotiators because, Lou, as you know, the Senate has to have
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60 votes to pass legislation. How many Democrats do they have? 51, right? So they got to get nine
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Republican votes. We can pass anything out of the House with our simple majority, so we ought to actually
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be getting 55, 45, maybe even 60, 40 our priorities over theirs. Well, what happened to the NDAA and why I
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opposed it? Instead of having a true conference committee where people like General Scott Perry
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would have been on that negotiating team for the House, there was a secret back room deal negotiated
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at NDAA between what's called the Four Corners, Schumer and McConnell on the House side, Johnson and
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Jeffries on the Senate side, or excuse me, Schumer and McConnell on the Senate side, Johnson and
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Jeffries on the House side, secret deal brought to the floor under suspension of the rules, no amendments,
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take it or leave it, up or down vote, and it stripped away almost all of our good reforms that
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took away the bad policy that's weakening our military. And then, Lou, they attached to it
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the FISA extension without the reforms to protect our constitutional liberties, our constitutional rights
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not to be spied on, surveilled upon by our government without a warrant, without a judge recognizing the
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probable cause to justify that warrant. And you had Andy Biggs author a bill, the Judiciary Committee's
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bill to reform that. And because we didn't get it passed in time, they just added the FISA extension
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to the NDAA so people would vote for the FISA extension because they were afraid of voting against
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a military bill, no matter how bad the military bill was. It represents the worst in Washington.
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There's a reason why Biden and Schumer supported it and Jeffries. Democrats voted for it four to one.
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Sadly, Republicans voted for it two to one. And I'll tell you why it's two to one.
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Basically, two thirds of the Republican Party either isn't conservative and doesn't really
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want to do the things that we run on, or they simply listen to leadership and they're what you
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call team players. They do what they're told to support the team and support the play call,
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no matter what the play call is. So that's the kind of the numbers that you'll have. About 140
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something will go along and about 70 something will stand strong. And that's what happened with that
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NDAA combined with the FISA extension without the reforms.
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I've been watching Congress for a long time. I've been watching Washington for a long time.
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I don't understand the quality of character in this Congress anymore. When 147 Republicans decide that
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in the face of all the evidence and all the experience of the past
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the past decade spying by the FBI, the corruption of the Department of Justice, hundreds of Americans,
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prisoners of the Marxist Dems, because they were protests on January 6th, the callous injustice and
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political corruption of our court system, as well as the prosecutors of the DOJ. And they decide
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they're going to it's going to be a play call and they're going to fall in line.
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I don't know if I've ever known a Congress to be that shallow, that thoughtless, certainly that
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many members of the conference, whatever their label, conservative, moderate. It's just irresponsible,
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it seems to me. You're right. The lack of character and integrity and courage and just resolve
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to do right. No Republican runs for Congress and says, I'm coming to work with the Democrats.
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I'm coming to join with the Democrats and to compromise and to help them pass their priorities.
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That's not what we run on. And often, Lou, it's justified or rationalized. They'll say,
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hey, we only have a narrow majority. We can't go but so far. We don't want to go too far in the
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direction to the right because the Democrats did that and they lost the majority.
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But the key to us, not only is it the right thing to do, but the key to us politically to expanding
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the majority or even retaining the majority, taking back the Senate, winning the White House, is to
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stand for something, to show the American people that there is one party that's fighting for them
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and not fighting for Washington and passing a bad NDAA and calling it a must-pass bill that doesn't
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change the policies that are weakening our military and passing a visa extension, especially in the hands
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of a lawless Department of Injustice, a Director Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland, who have
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clearly abused their power time and again against political opponents, against pro-life protesters.
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And we even, you probably saw the recent news, the Catholics in Richmond, where they claim that was one
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field office that was targeting them. It's turned out now they know there was far more offices and far
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greater amount of members at the FBI personnel that was involved with that, not to mention going after
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parents who show up at school board meetings and you know that this is who they consider the enemy
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and we're going to put in their hands when they consider you and I to be domestic terrorists because
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we're conservatives. God forbid we might support President Trump or we might believe in the
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Constitution or we believe in American sovereignty and American exceptionalism and strong borders
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and our founding principles. And so we're going to extend in their hands the ability to abuse
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that power against our own citizens who we claim to represent when we ask for their votes.
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We're going to come right back. We're talking with the Chair of the Freedom Caucus,
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Congressman Bob Good. Stay with us. We'll be right back.
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We're back now talking with Congressman Bob Good, Chair of the Freedom Caucus. And Congressman,
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right now people are streaming across that southern border.
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Uh, illegal immigration is not, it's, it's, it's just words right now because all immigration seems to
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be illegal and no one seems to have a law against it because no one's enforcing it. This administration
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has won 10 million illegal immigrants since this man took office. Uh, it's a highly questioned, uh,
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uh, election won by 44,000 votes in three states in 2020. And then people wonder why the president
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Trump wants to relitigate it. We have been living in some sort of pretend disinformation, misinformation,
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no information, uh, uh, warp here authored by the Biden regime and the Marxist stems and the Republicans
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aren't breaking through it. Will there be a different result in 2024 in your judgment?
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I would think so. And I would hope so. I think the American people Lou are connecting in a greater
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way than we've seen in decades, bad government policy and politics to the suffering that they
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are enduring under this administration. I think the American people recognize that something has
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to change with the federal spending as they're suffering under 40 year high inflation and 20 year
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high interest rates and grocery prices and, and housing prices and, and, uh, rental prices. And
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then, but then also the war on affordable, reliable energy, the force of trying to force an electric
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vehicle upon you, trying to control how you can heat or cool your home. And when that, what kind of
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an appliance you can own and they're seeing the gas prices, utility prices, uh, going through the roof
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energy, just, uh, getting more and more expensive, not to mention, I think they're concerned about the
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military and are standing on the national stage. They're concerned, as you mentioned about the border,
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they're concerned about rising crime. They're concerned about what's going on in their schools.
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Uh, all of those things, I think more than ever before the American people are connecting those
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to bad policy by the Democrats. They look at the blue states and the blue cities, and those are the
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Democrats example for America. So I think we have an opportunity to, uh, expand our majority in the house,
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take back the Senate and to take the white house, but we have to earn it and we have to work for it
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every day. And, uh, we can take nothing for granted. It's, it's a wonder how could it even be close?
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How could the election be close just because of the border, the Democrats should never win another
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election just because the climate environmental extremism and the war on reliable, affordable energy.
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If, if American people fully understand how the Democrats want to change how we live and
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handicap us economically and strip away our freedoms in the name of keeping us safe from the climate,
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Democrats should never win another election. The American people understood what the Democrat
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real view is on sex and gender and transgenderism and what they want to do in our schools to
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indoctrinate our kids and sexualize our kids. They should never win another election.
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If they fully understood again, that they want to weaken the military,
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inhibit its ability to defend us and to keep us safe. They should never win another election.
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Uh, and I do think the American people are realizing that to a greater degree than certainly in my
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lifetime, at least going back 40 years or so since maybe the Reagan era. Uh, and so I'm hopeful and
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optimistic, but we got to work to earn it. We got to deliver on the house. We got to utilize the
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majority that we have to force the president and the Senate to pass and sign into law HR to border
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security. You could argue that we should just shut down the government and refuse to do anything else
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until they join us and secure the border. The real issues this time are going to be,
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if they're interested in national security, why did they go along with, uh, $4 trillion in spending,
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really unlimited spending, uh, by this, uh, administration? Uh, how do you rationalize
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that when you stand before the voters? Because that is directly related to the quality of our
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national security. How do you explain that if you're talking about foreign policy and national
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security that we've got the smallest military since before world war two, uh, and a shrinking
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military, it's going to be a lot smaller than, uh, than it is. We have a mess that is authored by Joe
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Biden, but the Republicans have been reading, reading along the, on, in that book. Uh, how do you
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differentiate? Uh, and I don't mean to get into an extensive political strategy, but how in the world
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do you convince the rest of people in your conference to protect the American people and
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quit being just, uh, another, uh, you know, filling another seat as if you were a Marxist dem,
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not you, but members of your conference. You're a great American.
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Well, thank you, Lou. Well said. We're trying to, what I'm trying to do is convince my colleagues
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that we don't win by compromise and working with the Democrats. These, the Democrat parties become
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pure evil that wants to destroy the country. We win by defeating them, by exposing them,
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by holding them accountable, by bringing transparency, what they're trying to do and
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trying to use every leverage lever in our power, every, every lever at our disposal, every pace of
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power that we have to try to defeat them with the house majority that we have.
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We haven't demonstrated that resolve, that courage, that willingness to fight and to endure discomfort
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and temporary consequence in order to bring long-term victory for the American people.
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As one of my colleagues has said, we try to say, hey, we'll fight next time. We'll fight next time.
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Well, the one advantage we would have if we were to fight next time would be the element of surprise
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because nobody believes we're actually going to fight next time. So that would be one advantage,
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which is one of the arts of war, I'm told. So, but we can't kid ourselves into thinking that losing
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and surrendering today facilitates winning and victory tomorrow. Now, winning and victory today
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is what facilitates winning and victory tomorrow. No one can imagine the leadership that has befallen
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the Republican Party. Are you going to confront this speaker and ask him, tell him that he has to lead
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a Republican Party that's committed to national security that is committed to the the interest of the United States?
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Yeah, absolutely. So we're doing that now. We're having meetings and discussions with him now during this
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support him and call upon the Republican conference to support him and standing strong and being tough
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that we will have his back and we will stand with him if he will lead us.
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Well, I think that that well, that's encouraging and I will remain hopeful in the spirit of the
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season. Thank you very much, Congressman, for being with us. Thank you.
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