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00:01:14.920 Hello everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs and welcome to the Great America Show. Great to have you with us

00:01:22.880 today. It is rare that we bring you good news from the border on this show. The main reason being

00:01:29.020 for the past almost three years, Joe Biden has opened up the border for all to come. Criminals,

00:01:35.460 drug dealers, terrorists, human smugglers, sex traffickers, you name it. Millions of illegals

00:01:42.380 have entered this country. Yesterday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott did something about it.

00:01:48.040 He signed a bill making Texas the first state in the nation to give law enforcement the authority

00:01:54.000 to arrest illegal immigrants, those who illegally entered the state of Texas. Abbott says it was

00:02:00.960 because of Joe Biden's inaction that he had to take action. Biden's deliberate inaction has left

00:02:08.840 Texas to fend for itself. The authors of the United States Constitution foresaw a situation

00:02:16.120 when the federal government would be inattentive to states that faced challenges at their borders.

00:02:23.800 And in response, they inserted Article 1, Section 10 to the United States Constitution

00:02:28.500 to empower states to take action to defend themselves. And that is exactly what Texas is doing.

00:02:35.640 I will sign three laws today to better protect Texas and America from Biden's border neglect.

00:02:47.160 The first is Senate Bill 4 from the fourth special session. The goal of Senate Bill 4

00:02:55.720 is to stop the title wave of illegal entry into Texas. It creates a criminal offense for illegal entry

00:03:05.400 into Texas from a foreign nation. For repeat offenders, it creates the offense of illegal re-entry

00:03:13.000 with a potential prison sentence term of up to 20 years. The bill provides a mechanism to order an

00:03:22.040 illegal immigrant to return to the foreign nation from which they entered. Abbott has also begun to

00:03:27.640 use Texas state funds to continue the construction of the Trump border wall. God bless Governor Abbott for

00:03:34.280 being one of the few in the nation to actually step up and try to safeguard his state against illegal

00:03:41.480 immigration. It's not often that I agree with rhinos. In fact, I can't think of a time I've agreed 0.92

00:03:47.560 with a rhino in this country. But today I found some common ground with former RNC chair and White House

00:03:55.160 Chief of Staff Reince Priebus. He was on TV this week and he was defending President Trump. I know that's

00:04:02.760 a big surprise and it is not customary. Reince was asked by the Marxists over at ABC about taming down

00:04:10.520 President Trump and whether that's hurting his 2024 chances. I guess they don't look at the polls.

00:04:17.800 Take a listen to Priebus taking those Marxist stems to school.

00:04:22.360 I think that I think you're all misreading the electorate. I think that the electorate

00:04:27.960 is not looking for less blood. I think they're looking for more blood. I think that people are

00:04:32.440 more angry about crime than they've ever been before. I think they're more angry about the border,

00:04:36.440 the Fentanyl, the Sanctuary Cities, the boys competing against girls in sports, schools out

00:04:41.560 of control. I think, as I've said before, people are looking for a bigger middle finger this time

00:04:46.920 than they were in 2016. And I think that you're misreading this. People are angry. And on the other

00:04:55.800 side, you know, you've got President Biden, who's losing young voters, who's losing black voters.

00:05:02.040 The polling couldn't be worse. And unlike Barack Obama in 2011, Democrats would have walked over

00:05:09.560 glass for Barack Obama. Democrats today, they say 75 percent. We wish we had a different candidate.

00:05:16.280 So it matters who you're running against, too. And it also matters what the state of the country's in.

00:05:23.320 And this is a perfect storm. Reince is 100 percent correct. The voters and the polls show it.

00:05:29.880 They want a fired-up President Trump. And President Trump, as we all know, has every right in the

00:05:36.280 world to be fired up. And an expose may be on the way for some hundred of Jeffrey Epstein's close

00:05:43.320 associates. A federal judge in New York has ordered a vast unsealing of court documents in the next two

00:05:49.640 weeks that will make public the names of Epstein's associates and friends. The documents that are to be

00:05:57.400 released are part of a settled civil lawsuit alleging Epstein's lover confidant, Ghislaine Maxwell,

00:06:04.600 facilitated the sexual abuse of a number of minors. Two of the most prominent people that Epstein is

00:06:11.320 said to have been associated with are President Bill Clinton and Bill Gates. Something tells me,

00:06:18.040 despite everything we know, that we probably won't see those names on this first list.

00:06:25.000 And Congress is in recess, but a lot of congressmen are working, including our guest today,

00:06:30.280 Congressman Bob Good of Virginia. In the new year, he takes over as chairman of the Freedom Caucus.

00:06:36.840 Great American Congressman Bob Good. It's great to have you with us here on the show.

00:06:41.320 And congratulations on your new chairmanship of the Freedom Caucus.

00:06:45.560 Thank you, Lou. You know, ever since I joined Congress, I know I wanted to be part of the Freedom

00:06:50.040 Caucus. And I can't imagine having been in Congress before the Freedom Caucus existed,

00:06:55.240 this band of brothers and sisters, this iron sharp as iron principle. We're not monolithic. We

00:07:01.160 challenge one another. Our core principles, our love of country, our adherence to the Constitution,

00:07:07.160 our belief in freedom. Those unite us. But yet strategy, tactics, you know, what's the best,

00:07:13.880 most achievable path to victory? You know, we debate, we challenge one another. And I've served

00:07:19.320 for on the board, the leadership team, the last two years in the most recent year as the whip,

00:07:24.600 which is the one who sort of counts and persuades the votes when we need. We're trying to take an

00:07:27.960 official position on something. And I'm just thankful that my colleagues trusted me to become the new

00:07:36.040 chairman. The original chairman was Jim Jordan, followed by Mark Meadows, followed by Andy Biggs,

00:07:40.760 followed by the current chairman through the end of the year, Scott Perry. And so I want to build

00:07:44.600 upon the work that they've done. The responsibility is sobering. I believe that the Freedom Caucus is the

00:07:52.040 hope for the country with the tip of the spear in the Republican House. We have been on every issue

00:07:57.160 over my three years. We're the conservative anchor trying to hold the Republican conference to be that

00:08:03.160 which the American people entrusted us to be with. And they gave us the majority to actually execute

00:08:09.160 on the things that we run on and the things for which we ask the American people to entrust their

00:08:13.720 votes to us. And when necessary, we've demonstrated we're willing to challenge our own leadership,

00:08:20.200 our own conference, our own party when we feel like we're off course.

00:08:23.560 You know, I guess I could start here. Was Speaker Speaker Johnson ever a member of the Freedom Caucus?

00:08:30.200 To my knowledge, no. He's been here seven years. I've been here three years. So he predated me four years.

00:08:37.880 He it's my understanding that he considered membership in the Freedom Caucus. The Freedom Caucus

00:08:42.920 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,

00:08:48.600 so to speak. Sometimes a member might express interest and would like to be considered for

00:08:52.760 membership. And sometimes the Freedom Caucus might reach out and say, hey, we think you'd be a great

00:08:57.960 candidate for membership. Would you consider meeting and talking with us? You know, it kind of goes both

00:09:01.880 ways, whether it's existing members or new members as they come in and are elected. But I think he's one

00:09:07.960 that considered that. But instead, he took the path of getting into leadership with the Republican Study

00:09:14.280 Committee. Right. He became the chairman of that committee, which is a much larger committee, which

00:09:21.320 are caucus. It's called Republican Study Committee. It was actually a caucus that I am also a member of.

00:09:25.960 It's a complementary caucus in my view. But the Republican Study Committee, any member of the Republican

00:09:31.560 Party can join. So you've got a more widespread. It's got like 160 members. So you've got

00:09:38.200 strong conservatives. You've got centrist conservatives and more moderate members in

00:09:43.480 that Republican Committee. But that used to be pre-Freedom Caucus was kind of the conservative

00:09:48.920 anchor, if you will. And so he went that route. And then he moved into leadership as the vice

00:09:54.360 chair, conference vice chair. And so I don't think he ever officially was a member of the Freedom Caucus.

00:09:58.760 I guess the way I should have asked, would the Freedom Caucus have him if he today were to ask to be a member?

00:10:08.200 Well, one of the reasons why most, if not all, actually all of us, I guess, ultimately supported

00:10:14.520 him as speaker. He is the kind of person that we talked about a year ago. And you and I probably talked

00:10:21.880 about this before, but a year ago when we were, some of us were contemplating the challenge to then

00:10:28.600 minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, who was going to run for speaker in the new Congress a year ago.

00:10:35.480 When we were considering trying to prevent that occurrence, we were talking about people like

00:10:40.680 Mike Johnson, who were conservative at heart, who we believe were people of integrity,

00:10:46.600 that were honest brokers. Now, we're great on the Washington scale to some degree here. Washington

00:10:51.000 curve, I should say, to some degree here. As the listeners say, hey, I know anybody was like that

00:10:56.120 in D.C. But also who, you know, we respected, we trusted, we admired having served with him.

00:11:03.240 He was the kind of person we were looking for who represented what I call the conservative center

00:11:07.640 of the conference. The conference has moved more conservative, longer time members will tell you.

00:11:12.120 The conference does reflect more of the grassroots base than it used to. And they expect us to deliver

00:11:19.240 for them, by the way. So that's the basis under which we supported Speaker Johnson. He's done some

00:11:24.840 good things. I would say the Israel supplemental being a paid for a standalone and not allowing to

00:11:31.800 be hijacked with funding for Ukraine and other things that are unrelated and requiring it to be paid

00:11:36.120 for, not borrowed and using the IRS expansion to do it. Moving forward on the impeachment inquiry.

00:11:42.200 Moving forward on subpoenaing Hunter Biden. Moving forward on releasing more of the January 6th

00:11:47.880 tapes. Now we need to get all the January 6th tapes released. But he's done some good things. However,

00:11:53.640 he's done some things that I thought were glaring mistakes. And I think the majority of the Freedom

00:11:58.120 Caucus, based on their vote, felt the same way when we voted against the continuing resolution

00:12:03.160 that kept in place all the Biden-Pelosi-Schumer policies and spending levels until January 19th,

00:12:09.800 for some of it in February 2 for the other parts. And then also to you, you just touched on a moment,

00:12:14.920 a few moments ago, but the NDAA, which was a terrible version of the NDAA, which I can expound upon,

00:12:21.320 but combined with it and made even worse, the attachment of the vice extension without the reforms to protect

00:12:27.800 our constitutional liberties. Those were terrible mistakes in my view. And we have expressed that.

00:12:33.320 We vote. We were trying to attack. He's a new speaker. He inherited a tough situation made or

00:12:38.600 created by the former speaker's failures. But we expect them to start to deliver and to start

00:12:43.480 to put points on the board. And so we're trying to attack the actions, not the person. But we're going

00:12:51.400 to call it like we see it and speak the truth. And everybody's got to be accountable. This is a

00:12:55.720 performance-based business. It's not personal. Absolutely. And we're going to take up

00:13:02.760 Speaker Mike Johnson. We're talking with the head of the Freedom Caucus now, Bob Good. Congressman

00:13:09.640 Good will be here as we examine what is going on in the House of Representatives. By the way,

00:13:16.280 the 118th Congress has just been rated one of the least productive

00:13:20.520 in the country's history. We're going to take that up with the Congressman right after these quick words.

00:13:31.240 All right, we're back with Congressman Bob Good, the chair of the Freedom Caucus. Congressman,

00:13:37.400 we were talking as we went to break there about the principles that the Freedom Caucus stands for,

00:13:45.480 the speaker and his performance, which is the most generous, is uneven. At the least generous,

00:13:52.520 it is disappointing as it could possibly have been in my estimation. Give us your sense of what

00:14:01.240 you think will happen now that we've got two CRs that are coming up the schedule at the beginning of the

00:14:07.880 year. We've got the 702 FISA reauthorization. 147 Republicans voted for it. I didn't look to see if

00:14:19.080 any Freedom Caucus people voted for it, did they? I think there were two members who voted for it that

00:14:26.520 are members of the Freedom Caucus. So Freedom Caucus has just under 40 members, and I think we did have

00:14:31.880 two that voted for it. But the NDA, let's take that piece of it, which was the National Defense

00:14:39.560 Authorization Act, which is the authorization every year of the funding for our military. It's called,

00:14:46.120 Lou, a must-pass bill. Now, anybody who ever hears that in Washington ought to get concerned,

00:14:51.960 because must-pass means, oh, you just have to do it. You may have disagreements with it. You may not

00:14:57.240 like it. You might not think it's perfect. But you know what? We pass it every year without fail. It's

00:15:02.600 must-pass. It's almost like calling it mandatory spending. I voted against the NDA four times because

00:15:08.360 the Biden administration has said, in my first two years, I voted against it four times. The Biden

00:15:12.520 administration has told the military that the greatest threat to the military is the climate war

00:15:18.520 and racism in the military. And so that's what they have focused upon, and they've weakened our military

00:15:24.600 accordingly. And they focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, CRT and our military academies, LGBTQ

00:15:33.640 funding for treatment and surgery, abortion funding, electrifying our vehicles, and those sorts of

00:15:42.360 things. Drag queen shows at our bases. And so that's what that was full of my first two years, and I voted

00:15:48.360 against it. We passed out of the House a good NDAA that eliminated all of that and focused on lethality,

00:15:56.920 effectiveness, and readiness back last summer. And then, Lou, we were supposed to go into conference

00:16:01.640 committee and negotiate that with assigned members from the House and the Senate to come together and

00:16:07.720 negotiate where you would expect we would get at least half of our priorities. I would submit we should

00:16:12.760 get more than half if we're effective negotiators because, Lou, as you know, the Senate has to have 0.54

00:16:18.280 60 votes to pass legislation. How many Democrats do they have? 51, right? So they got to get nine

00:16:25.240 Republican votes. We can pass anything out of the House with our simple majority, so we ought to actually

00:16:29.960 be getting 55, 45, maybe even 60, 40 our priorities over theirs. Well, what happened to the NDAA and why I

00:16:37.080 opposed it? Instead of having a true conference committee where people like General Scott Perry

00:16:42.680 would have been on that negotiating team for the House, there was a secret back room deal negotiated

00:16:47.800 at NDAA between what's called the Four Corners, Schumer and McConnell on the House side, Johnson and

00:16:54.760 Jeffries on the Senate side, or excuse me, Schumer and McConnell on the Senate side, Johnson and

00:16:58.840 Jeffries on the House side, secret deal brought to the floor under suspension of the rules, no amendments,

00:17:03.400 take it or leave it, up or down vote, and it stripped away almost all of our good reforms that

00:17:08.200 took away the bad policy that's weakening our military. And then, Lou, they attached to it

00:17:13.080 the FISA extension without the reforms to protect our constitutional liberties, our constitutional rights

00:17:19.080 not to be spied on, surveilled upon by our government without a warrant, without a judge recognizing the

00:17:25.080 probable cause to justify that warrant. And you had Andy Biggs author a bill, the Judiciary Committee's

00:17:31.800 bill to reform that. And because we didn't get it passed in time, they just added the FISA extension

00:17:37.000 to the NDAA so people would vote for the FISA extension because they were afraid of voting against

00:17:41.640 a military bill, no matter how bad the military bill was. It represents the worst in Washington.

00:17:46.920 There's a reason why Biden and Schumer supported it and Jeffries. Democrats voted for it four to one.

00:17:52.600 Sadly, Republicans voted for it two to one. And I'll tell you why it's two to one.

00:17:56.680 Basically, two thirds of the Republican Party either isn't conservative and doesn't really

00:18:02.360 want to do the things that we run on, or they simply listen to leadership and they're what you

00:18:07.240 call team players. They do what they're told to support the team and support the play call,

00:18:12.600 no matter what the play call is. So that's the kind of the numbers that you'll have. About 140

00:18:17.160 something will go along and about 70 something will stand strong. And that's what happened with that

00:18:20.920 NDAA combined with the FISA extension without the reforms.

00:18:25.400 I've been watching Congress for a long time. I've been watching Washington for a long time.

00:18:31.240 I don't understand the quality of character in this Congress anymore. When 147 Republicans decide that

00:18:40.680 in the face of all the evidence and all the experience of the past

00:18:43.720 the past decade spying by the FBI, the corruption of the Department of Justice, hundreds of Americans,

00:18:53.640 prisoners of the Marxist Dems, because they were protests on January 6th, the callous injustice and

00:19:06.280 political corruption of our court system, as well as the prosecutors of the DOJ. And they decide

00:19:12.360 they're going to it's going to be a play call and they're going to fall in line.

00:19:16.840 I don't know if I've ever known a Congress to be that shallow, that thoughtless, certainly that

00:19:23.720 many members of the conference, whatever their label, conservative, moderate. It's just irresponsible,

00:19:29.800 it seems to me. You're right. The lack of character and integrity and courage and just resolve

00:19:36.840 to do right. No Republican runs for Congress and says, I'm coming to work with the Democrats.

00:19:41.720 I'm coming to join with the Democrats and to compromise and to help them pass their priorities.

00:19:46.840 That's not what we run on. And often, Lou, it's justified or rationalized. They'll say,

00:19:53.000 hey, we only have a narrow majority. We can't go but so far. We don't want to go too far in the

00:19:57.960 direction to the right because the Democrats did that and they lost the majority.

00:20:01.160 But the key to us, not only is it the right thing to do, but the key to us politically to expanding

00:20:05.560 the majority or even retaining the majority, taking back the Senate, winning the White House, is to

00:20:10.200 stand for something, to show the American people that there is one party that's fighting for them

00:20:15.560 and not fighting for Washington and passing a bad NDAA and calling it a must-pass bill that doesn't

00:20:21.400 change the policies that are weakening our military and passing a visa extension, especially in the hands

00:20:26.520 of a lawless Department of Injustice, a Director Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland, who have

00:20:34.840 clearly abused their power time and again against political opponents, against pro-life protesters.

00:20:40.520 And we even, you probably saw the recent news, the Catholics in Richmond, where they claim that was one

00:20:45.880 field office that was targeting them. It's turned out now they know there was far more offices and far

00:20:51.000 greater amount of members at the FBI personnel that was involved with that, not to mention going after

00:20:56.520 parents who show up at school board meetings and you know that this is who they consider the enemy

00:21:01.320 and we're going to put in their hands when they consider you and I to be domestic terrorists because

00:21:07.960 we're conservatives. God forbid we might support President Trump or we might believe in the

00:21:11.720 Constitution or we believe in American sovereignty and American exceptionalism and strong borders

00:21:16.280 and our founding principles. And so we're going to extend in their hands the ability to abuse

00:21:20.840 that power against our own citizens who we claim to represent when we ask for their votes.

00:21:26.520 We're going to come right back. We're talking with the Chair of the Freedom Caucus,

00:21:30.920 Congressman Bob Good. Stay with us. We'll be right back.

00:21:39.480 We're back now talking with Congressman Bob Good, Chair of the Freedom Caucus. And Congressman,

00:21:44.840 right now people are streaming across that southern border.

00:21:47.880 Uh, illegal immigration is not, it's, it's, it's just words right now because all immigration seems to

00:21:56.360 be illegal and no one seems to have a law against it because no one's enforcing it. This administration

00:22:02.440 has won 10 million illegal immigrants since this man took office. Uh, it's a highly questioned, uh,

00:22:09.560 uh, election won by 44,000 votes in three states in 2020. And then people wonder why the president

00:22:17.880 Trump wants to relitigate it. We have been living in some sort of pretend disinformation, misinformation,

00:22:24.280 no information, uh, uh, warp here authored by the Biden regime and the Marxist stems and the Republicans

00:22:32.920 aren't breaking through it. Will there be a different result in 2024 in your judgment?

00:22:39.560 I would think so. And I would hope so. I think the American people Lou are connecting in a greater

00:22:45.080 way than we've seen in decades, bad government policy and politics to the suffering that they

00:22:51.880 are enduring under this administration. I think the American people recognize that something has

00:22:56.920 to change with the federal spending as they're suffering under 40 year high inflation and 20 year

00:23:01.880 high interest rates and grocery prices and, and housing prices and, and, uh, rental prices. And

00:23:08.360 then, but then also the war on affordable, reliable energy, the force of trying to force an electric

00:23:13.720 vehicle upon you, trying to control how you can heat or cool your home. And when that, what kind of

00:23:17.800 an appliance you can own and they're seeing the gas prices, utility prices, uh, going through the roof

00:23:22.760 energy, just, uh, getting more and more expensive, not to mention, I think they're concerned about the

00:23:27.560 military and are standing on the national stage. They're concerned, as you mentioned about the border,

00:23:31.480 they're concerned about rising crime. They're concerned about what's going on in their schools.

00:23:36.040 Uh, all of those things, I think more than ever before the American people are connecting those

00:23:40.520 to bad policy by the Democrats. They look at the blue states and the blue cities, and those are the

00:23:45.640 Democrats example for America. So I think we have an opportunity to, uh, expand our majority in the house, 0.52

00:23:53.000 take back the Senate and to take the white house, but we have to earn it and we have to work for it 0.63

00:23:59.400 every day. And, uh, we can take nothing for granted. It's, it's a wonder how could it even be close?

00:24:05.240 How could the election be close just because of the border, the Democrats should never win another

00:24:09.480 election just because the climate environmental extremism and the war on reliable, affordable energy.

00:24:15.640 If, if American people fully understand how the Democrats want to change how we live and

00:24:21.160 handicap us economically and strip away our freedoms in the name of keeping us safe from the climate,

00:24:26.760 Democrats should never win another election. The American people understood what the Democrat

00:24:30.520 real view is on sex and gender and transgenderism and what they want to do in our schools to

00:24:35.880 indoctrinate our kids and sexualize our kids. They should never win another election. 0.92

00:24:39.640 If they fully understood again, that they want to weaken the military,

00:24:44.280 inhibit its ability to defend us and to keep us safe. They should never win another election.

00:24:49.080 Uh, and I do think the American people are realizing that to a greater degree than certainly in my

00:24:53.720 lifetime, at least going back 40 years or so since maybe the Reagan era. Uh, and so I'm hopeful and

00:24:59.560 optimistic, but we got to work to earn it. We got to deliver on the house. We got to utilize the

00:25:04.040 majority that we have to force the president and the Senate to pass and sign into law HR to border

00:25:11.160 security. You could argue that we should just shut down the government and refuse to do anything else

00:25:15.000 until they join us and secure the border. The real issues this time are going to be,

00:25:19.240 if they're interested in national security, why did they go along with, uh, $4 trillion in spending,

00:25:25.480 really unlimited spending, uh, by this, uh, administration? Uh, how do you rationalize

00:25:31.320 that when you stand before the voters? Because that is directly related to the quality of our

00:25:36.200 national security. How do you explain that if you're talking about foreign policy and national

00:25:41.800 security that we've got the smallest military since before world war two, uh, and a shrinking

00:25:48.600 military, it's going to be a lot smaller than, uh, than it is. We have a mess that is authored by Joe

00:25:56.040 Biden, but the Republicans have been reading, reading along the, on, in that book. Uh, how do you

00:26:03.400 differentiate? Uh, and I don't mean to get into an extensive political strategy, but how in the world

00:26:09.240 do you convince the rest of people in your conference to protect the American people and

00:26:14.520 quit being just, uh, another, uh, you know, filling another seat as if you were a Marxist dem,

00:26:20.520 not you, but members of your conference. You're a great American.

00:26:24.840 Well, thank you, Lou. Well said. We're trying to, what I'm trying to do is convince my colleagues

00:26:29.560 that we don't win by compromise and working with the Democrats. These, the Democrat parties become

00:26:34.600 pure evil that wants to destroy the country. We win by defeating them, by exposing them,

00:26:40.040 by holding them accountable, by bringing transparency, what they're trying to do and

00:26:43.160 trying to use every leverage lever in our power, every, every lever at our disposal, every pace of

00:26:48.760 power that we have to try to defeat them with the house majority that we have.

00:26:52.520 We haven't demonstrated that resolve, that courage, that willingness to fight and to endure discomfort

00:26:58.440 and temporary consequence in order to bring long-term victory for the American people.

00:27:03.880 As one of my colleagues has said, we try to say, hey, we'll fight next time. We'll fight next time.

00:27:08.840 Well, the one advantage we would have if we were to fight next time would be the element of surprise

00:27:13.160 because nobody believes we're actually going to fight next time. So that would be one advantage,

00:27:17.240 which is one of the arts of war, I'm told. So, but we can't kid ourselves into thinking that losing

00:27:22.920 and surrendering today facilitates winning and victory tomorrow. Now, winning and victory today

00:27:27.720 is what facilitates winning and victory tomorrow. No one can imagine the leadership that has befallen

00:27:33.960 the Republican Party. Are you going to confront this speaker and ask him, tell him that he has to lead

00:27:46.840 a Republican Party that's committed to national security that is committed to the the interest of the United States?

00:27:55.160 Yeah, absolutely. So we're doing that now. We're having meetings and discussions with him now during this

00:28:01.800 week leading up to Christmas, trying to

00:28:05.560 support him and call upon the Republican conference to support him and standing strong and being tough

00:28:11.240 that we will have his back and we will stand with him if he will lead us.

00:28:14.120 Well, I think that that well, that's encouraging and I will remain hopeful in the spirit of the

00:28:22.520 season. Thank you very much, Congressman, for being with us. Thank you.

00:28:26.200 Thanks, everybody, for being with us here today. Our guest here tomorrow on The Great America

00:28:31.400 Show is author and Dr. Carol Swain. Please join us each and every day on The Great America Show and

00:28:38.280 follow me on Twitter and Truth Social at Lou Dobbs and check out loudobbs.com. Thank you,

00:28:44.760 everybody. God bless you and may God bless America.

The Great America Show - December 20, 2023

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