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00:01:14.940 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs and welcome to The Great America Show. It's great to have

00:01:22.920 you with us. Marxist federal judge Tanya Chutkin has denied President Trump due process once

00:01:30.160 again. Chutkin Monday rejected a bid by Trump's legal team to subpoena materials about January

00:01:37.240 6th as part of Special Counsel Jack Smith's ongoing prosecution of President Trump over his

00:01:44.420 efforts to challenge the rigged 2020 election. The Trump attorneys complained that the House

00:01:50.420 January 6th committee failed to hand over all of the evidence related to the issue. Judge

00:01:56.960 Chutkin rejected their request as a, quote, fishing expedition. Well, actually, no. Withholding

00:02:04.460 evidence from a defendant is a serious charge and deserves a serious response from the judge.

00:02:10.860 If, indeed, she is capable of a serious judgment and impartial ruling. Persecutions of President

00:02:18.500 Trump go back to the Russian collusion hoax of 2016. And Judge Chutkin has failed to hold a Marxist-run

00:02:25.880 January 6th committee accountable for not preserving all of their records and the Capitol Hill's

00:02:32.840 security failures. Judge Chutkin exposed for her politics and her corruption. Also exposed,

00:02:40.260 RNC chair Ronna Romney McDaniel, a leader who can't win and can't raise money. This week, 0.91

00:02:47.440 the Washington Post reported on concerns the Republican Party's finances aren't growing as

00:02:53.300 donations to the RNC are falling ahead of the 2024 election. The Post article showed that the RNC

00:03:01.600 reported $9.1 million in the bank in October. That's significantly lower than the $20 million the

00:03:08.560 RNC had on hand at the same point in the 2016 presidential cycle. Over on the Marxist-dim side,

00:03:16.300 the DNC reportedly has almost $18 million on hand. When interviewed by the Post, Ronna Romney

00:03:22.640 downplayed the whole thing, saying there are more donors just fully committed to their candidates

00:03:28.840 right now. And once the nominee is set, the money will pour into the RNC. Well, the truth of the

00:03:35.120 matter is, the American people see it for what it is. The RNC is an apparatus that hates President 0.85

00:03:41.620 Trump and have undermined him throughout. Donald Trump is the party's presumptive nominee. And

00:03:48.540 McDaniel should shut down the debates. No one is watching anyway. And the candidates are going

00:03:54.160 absolutely nowhere. Quit wasting money and time and unite behind President Trump. Those of you who've

00:04:01.900 watched and listened to me over the years throughout my broadcasting career know I talk straight. I've

00:04:08.560 been skeptical about Republican leadership for some time. And I've paid a price for being straightforward,

00:04:14.700 of course. In the day, I was blackballed from the Bush White House for telling it like I thought it was,

00:04:21.100 yes, and I was right, I think. And back in January of 2021, as President Trump was leaving the White

00:04:27.260 House, I called out the rhinos responsible for the rigged election and the results, naming rhino Mitch 0.97

00:04:34.480 McConnell, rhino Kevin McCarthy. And I called out Ronna McDaniel as well. And I called for Ronna McDaniel

00:04:41.300 to be removed as RNC chair because of her failures all across the country. Here's what I said back in

00:04:49.000 January of 2021. Ronna McDaniel, the chair of the Republican National Committee, as RNC chair,

00:04:57.300 lost the Senate control. She also lost the presidency. And she has been reelected to head

00:05:07.380 the RNC. In point of fact, all three bear tremendous responsibility for what we saw ensue from November

00:05:16.220 3rd on and the results. And for these two, the Senator Mitch McConnell and the leader of the House

00:05:24.220 Republicans, Kevin McCarthy, for them to judge without due process the evidence and to look at the facts

00:05:31.740 and to slur this president. To me, neither man belongs in the office he holds. The failures of those three

00:05:39.380 Republicans were obvious, clear as a bell almost three years ago. We knew then the rhino leaders 0.77

00:05:46.160 responsible for Republican losses. And it is urgent now that the Republican Party wake up before it's too

00:05:53.340 late. Our guest today is Congressman Matt Rosendale of Montana, a great American. Congressman,

00:05:59.440 it's great to have you back with us. I have to just say, all of a sudden, Congress is under some

00:06:04.360 criticism for taking two weeks off for the holidays while the world is, it seems, crashing. And it's a

00:06:10.860 peculiar optic, I think. Your thoughts? Well, the world does have problems right now, but I would

00:06:17.360 attribute that to the Biden administration, not so much to Congress being out of town. I forget who said

00:06:23.280 it, probably Benjamin Franklin, because he was so wise. But the only time that your bank account

00:06:29.340 your purse is safe is when Congress is not in town. And there's a lot of truth to that, Lou.

00:06:34.820 But I will tell you that the problems that we are facing right now are a direct result of two and a

00:06:41.280 half, almost three years now, of the Biden administration. And I know there's a lot of

00:06:46.220 folks that might want to try and disagree with it, but the matrix, the facts prove them wrong.

00:06:52.340 Well, I couldn't agree with you more. And I have to say, I can't believe the damage that one man

00:06:59.440 has done in less than three years in office, whether it is 2,000 miles of border that he turned

00:07:06.280 over to the Mexican drug cartels, whether it is a foreign policy that makes his country all but

00:07:13.280 unrecognizable, whether it is the idea that you can simply turn a spigot. And if there's a germ in

00:07:23.220 China, you can try to create a new totalitarian phase for the U.S. government and suppress the 0.53

00:07:30.760 American people. I mean, it's crazy. They're putting out ads saying, you know, you get real sick

00:07:36.160 with COVID. And so you might want to be thinking about these treatments. I mean, they're trying to

00:07:41.060 scare people left and right. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. You didn't even, Lou, you didn't even touch on what

00:07:47.360 he did to the economy. I mean, the economy, he damaged it so severely. We saw inflation rates

00:07:54.260 higher than they've been in decades. We saw interest rates right now still climbing higher than they've

00:08:01.180 been in a decade. And it is a problem. Are people employed? Sure. But they're underemployed.

00:08:07.220 And the rate of wages can't keep up with the inflation that had already been imposed upon

00:08:13.560 people. And say what you want, but energy cost is one of the largest indicators or driving forces

00:08:22.080 of inflation. Everything is reliant upon energy. Manufacturing is reliant upon it. Transportation

00:08:28.700 is reliant upon it. Keeping your home warm in the wintertime is reliant upon it. And when he came

00:08:35.640 into office, Biden eliminated about $2 million, $2 million barrels a day worth of crude oil

00:08:43.980 production. And that has impact. And it's got negative impact. And so we're still feeling the

00:08:50.960 repercussions from that. We're feeling the repercussions from that. And we're going to be

00:08:55.520 feeling these economic repercussions for a very long time. We're talking about $2 trillion deficits.

00:09:01.060 We're talking about $1 trillion just for servicing the debt. I mean, that's mind-boggling, spending more

00:09:06.420 money to pay your debt than you do on the United States military, our defense budget. And people are

00:09:13.780 walking around in Washington, D.C. and this administration, particularly at 1600 Pennsylvania

00:09:19.340 Avenue, acting like, you know, every day's sunshine. This is madness that's gripped the nation, I think.

00:09:27.060 It is. And I will tell you something. It's not just the folks up there at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,

00:09:33.000 Lou. Here's the disappointing part to me. Over the last 60 days, myself and several other

00:09:39.780 conservatives here in Washington, D.C. have proposed amendment after amendment to what we call the

00:09:46.020 discretionary spending. So all spending is broken into two parts, discretionary, mandatory, mandatory,

00:09:51.760 Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, things that roll over automatically, unfortunately, without any

00:09:59.160 review whatsoever. The discretionary spending amounts to about $1.6 trillion of the $7 trillion that they

00:10:09.800 are proposing to spend, or close to it. Lou, we could eliminate 100% of the discretionary spending,

00:10:18.320 100% of it, and we would still be running almost a $500 billion annual deficit. This is very, very

00:10:29.620 problematic. And then when I, with some of my colleagues, propose amendments, okay, to reduce,

00:10:36.380 just to reduce the discretionary spending by $100 billion in different areas, going through strategically,

00:10:44.580 trying to make these cuts. We had 86% of those cuts rejected by the Republicans here in Congress,

00:10:55.380 okay? This is a big, big problem. You know, that is a big, big problem. And the problem is,

00:11:02.960 what is a Republican? Who are the Republicans? What do Republicans do? Because you get a lot of

00:11:09.780 different answers now out of the Republican conferences you're suggesting. I find it incredible

00:11:16.080 that these Republicans in name only, the RINOs, consider themselves Republican. Mitt Romney the other

00:11:23.140 day wanted everybody to know he's going to vote Democrat. And I said to my wife, I said, who's going

00:11:30.800 to be surprised by that? He is a Democrat. And that's the problem with these RINOs. They don't have 1.00

00:11:35.880 the guts to put a label Democrat on the, on their foreheads. They want to fly false colors.

00:11:44.420 Every one of them, Lou, okay, every one of these folks, they, they campaign as Republicans. They

00:11:51.820 all campaign on limited government. They all campaign on reducing spending. They all use the

00:11:57.740 franchise, if you will, okay? They use the Republican franchise in order to get elected. And then once

00:12:04.200 they arrive here, they will not honor those promises that they've made. Well, look, if you,

00:12:10.780 if you buy a McDonald's franchise, okay, you can't start selling tacos. You have to sell Big Macs. And

00:12:18.960 if you start selling tacos, they, they take your franchise away. And unfortunately, we've got a bunch

00:12:24.460 of folks up here that are, that are not honoring their, their franchise agreement.

00:12:28.580 Well, it, it, it stuns me that the Republican party right now in the house, and I'm going to pick

00:12:34.960 on the house of representatives because you were nice to join us. But to see the split in that

00:12:41.980 conference is just aggravating to think that you can't come together around a very simple set of

00:12:48.720 numbers. Now they're huge numbers and they're incomprehensible numbers, but the set of numbers,

00:12:53.820 that is a $7 trillion, $5 trillion, and that $2 trillion that's left, uh, that you got to make

00:13:01.920 up. And if, if people can't understand that's just not sustainable, I don't know what, what's going

00:13:08.960 to happen to the country now. And look, and it's not that difficult. Everybody says, Oh, how do you

00:13:14.660 cut? How do you cut? Look, I know how to cut. I was the commissioner of securities and insurance for

00:13:19.140 the state of Montana from 2016 until 2020. And when I had my own agency, I was able to reduce my

00:13:27.700 spending, not the increases, not reduce the increase, you know, what it's going to climb to. I was able

00:13:34.920 to reduce the spending in that agency by 23% over that four year period. You can cut spending. You have to

00:13:46.300 be smart about it. You have to figure out what is the mission of the agency? What is it supposed to

00:13:51.100 do? And then you start figuring out what it, where are the redundancies? Where are their expenses going

00:13:57.680 at the door that cannot be justified and get back to the true mission of the agency? We've got agencies

00:14:04.640 that have never been authorized. And what that means is that there was never a bill that was passed to

00:14:10.820 say, this department is going to do this work. Okay. But yet that work is being funded. And so if we went

00:14:20.580 through and just eliminated the spending on the unauthorized agencies and work that's being done,

00:14:28.620 you could get yourself pretty close to eliminating the annual deficit. Okay. The national debt,

00:14:36.760 the only way that we're going to be able to deal that with that now is to help grow ourselves out

00:14:41.600 of it. It is so monumental at $33 trillion. And the projecting is going to be at 50 trillion by the

00:14:50.040 time we get five years, you know, into the future here. We're going to have to grow our way out of

00:14:57.020 that. But, but you absolutely have to get your spending down to a par level. It has to be the

00:15:03.580 balanced budget. And you know what? All of that responsibility to do that

00:15:08.380 rests solely and squarely with the House of Representatives, because you all have the power

00:15:14.220 to do it unilaterally. And now it's going to be a decision. Well, we're going to take that up right

00:15:21.000 after a quick pause here. We're talking with Congressman Matt Rosendale. We're talking about

00:15:26.480 real politic, real numbers, and a real result. We'll be right back. Stay with us.

00:15:32.860 We're back now with Congressman Matt Rosendale, a great American. Congressman,

00:15:43.760 let's talk about the reality of what you can do in the House of Representatives, appropriations,

00:15:49.420 budget, and actually control the spending of the federal government. You don't need a lot of help.

00:15:55.480 Uh, you've got, you've got the power of the purse. All you got to have is the courage, the vision,

00:16:03.100 and the, and the what for, uh, to start, uh, defunding a lot of nonsense.

00:16:10.380 What are the odds?

00:16:11.540 So the one thing, the one thing I will, I will, uh, argue back is that we have the unilateral ability to do

00:16:18.420 so. And in that case, believe me, if I had the unilateral ability to, to reduce that spending,

00:16:24.840 my friend, we would have a balanced budget, uh, 20 years ago. Right. Although the, what I meant by

00:16:30.960 unilateral, what I meant by unilateral is you present the budget, right? You cut it where you want it cut.

00:16:38.240 And if you say it cut, that's where it stays. So the only choice the Senate has and the president

00:16:45.540 then is to shut down the federal government. Correct. Correct. And that's exactly. And that's

00:16:51.660 where we are now, Lou. And I will tell you that I feel a lot better, uh, with Mike Johnson at the

00:16:58.460 helm than I did with Kevin McCarthy at the helm, because he actually was the chairman of the Republican

00:17:04.220 study committee committee. He understands, uh, that we need to balance this budget. He has,

00:17:10.360 has actually helped construct balanced budgets before. And, and he is truly passionate about

00:17:16.900 helping us get back to passing the 12 appropriation bills. So the budget is basically setting a number.

00:17:24.660 Okay. And most people run by their budget, but what Congress does is they, they set that number.

00:17:30.660 That's our target. But the 12 appropriation bills are the, are the tools, if you will,

00:17:36.620 that break the government into those 12 pieces that we can show exactly line by line,

00:17:43.900 what is being spent and what it is being spent on. So how much is being spent and what it is being

00:17:49.840 spent on. And so Mike Johnson has helped us start delivering those appropriation bills. The

00:17:55.840 appropriations committee has basically done the vast majority of their work. Now we're bringing

00:18:01.180 those bills out to the floor. That's where a lot of us are trying to reduce that spending down some

00:18:06.580 more. And then all 12 of those will be packaged up and sent over to the Senate. And that, as you stated

00:18:13.700 very well, is when the steel, uh, comes in and I'm not talking about S T E A L. I'm talking about S T E E L. 0.98

00:18:24.280 Stealing the backbones to say, this is where we need to keep the federal spending because not only are

00:18:31.580 we spending too much, Lou, but when you start talking about defunding different sections of

00:18:36.540 government, it's true because it's not just how much they're spending. We are spending it on agencies

00:18:43.900 that are literally being weaponized against the American people. So why would we continue to give

00:18:50.700 them money to go after, um, the American people, whether it's the IRS to harass people and try to

00:18:58.280 squeeze more money from them, or whether it's the ATF to go out to my local gun store and keep them

00:19:05.180 from being able to practice their second amendment rights freely, or whether it's, uh, to have the,

00:19:11.220 uh, FBI and the department of justice go out and harass a parent for attending a school board meeting

00:19:17.520 or a Catholic for attending a Latin mass. So with that, does Mike Johnson have the guts, the courage

00:19:26.420 to shut down the government, not himself or nor the house unilaterally, but make those budget cuts,

00:19:34.160 those appropriations cuts and say, here it is U S Senate. Uh, you think you're the big deal in this, uh,

00:19:42.160 you know, this, these three branches of government show us because we're not going to move a dime

00:19:47.100 until you meet this number. And I don't care what Mr. Biden has to say, because he's only going to be

00:19:52.600 here about a year. Uh, so there it is, uh, because that's what it's going to take, right? It's going to

00:19:58.500 take guts. It will know. And, and, and I'm, I'm just not sure I'm hopeful. I know who didn't have the

00:20:06.040 guts to do that. And that was Kevin McCarthy. And so what I will tell you is Mike has been very,

00:20:11.860 very passionate about working with us to deliver the appropriation bills. And now, uh, he's had

00:20:18.540 some additional time. They passed a continuing resolution that I myself was opposed to. I think

00:20:24.940 that we should have taken this on two weeks ago, but there, there's a, a lag there now to put the

00:20:32.760 balance of these appropriation bills together. And we're going to find out, uh, exactly how much

00:20:38.580 steel and grit, um, that, that he has, because we need to, to deliver those, those appropriation

00:20:45.540 bills with proper reductions in spending, uh, to the Senate and, and see them. What, what is going

00:20:51.700 to take place? What would be a victory? 1%, 2%? My gosh, at this point, I would take a 1% victory.

00:21:00.140 If in fact, we were able to get all 12 appropriation bills passed, because as you are well aware,

00:21:05.880 the budget act of 1974 called for those 12 appropriation bills to be passed and they have

00:21:11.440 only done it on time. This is unbelievable. Four times since then. Okay. So in the last century,

00:21:19.840 50 years in a half a century, they, they have abided Congress. They have abided by their own statute

00:21:26.080 four times. I believe the house of representatives may be in trouble. I'm just saying it this way,

00:21:33.320 because I think you all have been violating the law, uh, longer than any organized crime enterprise

00:21:39.980 in the country. Uh, when you think about it, uh, you've given away your responsibility, uh, for

00:21:46.860 trade agreements to, uh, fast track, fast track, everything's fast track. The house doesn't want

00:21:53.820 to be involved with it. So you push it over and say, that's now a new executive responsibility.

00:21:58.620 You, you give responsibility to every executive agency imaginable, uh, where it should be within

00:22:05.580 the legislative body, the Congress itself, according to the constitution. Uh, and, and at some point,

00:22:12.200 you all have to reclaim that because now you're, you know, you're serving as the, and I'm going to say

00:22:17.780 just straight up the way I think it, which is pretty common here on this show. Uh, I mean,

00:22:24.200 you guys are acting as the doormat of the United States Senate. You're correct. You are correct.

00:22:29.320 And this is, I am, I don't know if you heard, but, uh, during our, our big speakers battle in January,

00:22:34.820 I spoke on the floor to dominate Byron Donalds. And I took the opportunity to give a speech about

00:22:41.960 what exactly what was going on in, in Congress and how everyone, uh, references that, uh, Washington

00:22:49.340 is broke. Washington is broke again, everybody that runs for office. And, and I said, that's,

00:22:54.880 that is correct. And in order for us to make these changes to repair Congress, then you have to restore

00:23:01.700 regular order through the rules. And you have to also, uh, provide new leadership that has not been

00:23:08.400 part of the architect. Okay. Or the architecture that has created this surrender of all of our

00:23:16.780 powers, the powers of Congress that you clearly stated, whether it's the power of the purse and

00:23:23.040 our budgeting, uh, process, or whether it's the, uh, agencies that we have given so much, almost every

00:23:31.580 piece of legislation, Lou, that gets written at the, at the very end of it grants, uh, rule writing

00:23:37.820 authority to, to the agencies, or again, whether we've granted it to the executive, we need to

00:23:44.060 reclaim those powers. I want to be part of that. And when I'm trying to reclaim those powers, it looks

00:23:50.300 ugly and messy sometimes because the people that have that power, they're not going to relinquish it

00:23:56.380 voluntarily. You have to take it from them. And so this is what it looks like when you're trying to

00:24:02.160 reclaim the power that Congress is supposed to assert as an equal branch of government.

00:24:07.820 Well, and my hat's off to you and Godspeed. And there are nothing more than a bunch of interfering,

00:24:14.440 uh, bureaucrats who are slowing down business, slowing down economic growth. And by the way,

00:24:21.440 trampling the constitution and individual rights, as well as corporate rights.

00:24:25.180 They are. And what happens is when, because of these agencies, uh, being granted so much, uh,

00:24:31.800 a power and authority, Lou, what happens is I've watched where they have written rules and pass them

00:24:38.360 by just going through the, uh, exercise of, of giving public opinion and passing rules that are

00:24:47.320 completely in violation of the statute that Congress had passed. And so what happens is they pass these

00:24:55.480 rules, they allow their friends and their cronies to take advantage of these provisions. Other people go in

00:25:02.580 and they end up having to file a lawsuit. Eventually, as we saw with the, uh, West Virginia versus the EPA,

00:25:11.300 these things get overturned, but it takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of money. And, and the way that we're

00:25:16.120 going to eliminate that is to, for Congress to assert its authority and to reign this in.

00:25:22.780 Absolutely. We're talking with Congressman Matt Rosendale. We're going to come right back after

00:25:27.260 these quick words, please stay with us. We're back now with Congressman Matt Rosendale and Congressman,

00:25:38.420 I have been recommending on this show for quite some time that the RNC get rid of Ronna McDaniel. 0.75

00:25:45.620 Ronna Romney McDaniel. And because she doesn't win, she can't raise money. Uh, and I, I don't even

00:25:55.680 know why she's there, uh, because she is frustrating. She's frustrated Republicans for four election cycles 1.00

00:26:03.160 that she couldn't win. Uh, why in the world do Republicans put up with an RNC that is, has about, 0.99

00:26:11.800 what is it, half the money of the Democrats at this point? Uh, what, what is the attraction?

00:26:18.480 I think this, this is a, uh, truly a systemic problem that we see in a lot of the, um, a lot of

00:26:27.820 the, uh, organizations. And that is that they get so focused on the donor class and what their needs

00:26:37.260 and wants are, instead of talking to the actual voters. What I see, Lou, is this enormous disconnect,

00:26:44.480 okay? Between the, uh, organizations and those donors and what I'll call the, the Republican

00:26:52.680 party, because I consider the Republican party, all the voters out there. I consider it all the,

00:26:58.520 the small businesses. I, I consider it all the, uh, parents that are taking their kids to school.

00:27:04.480 They're the ones that are dramatically impacted. Guess what? If you're a billionaire or, or a, a very,

00:27:11.120 uh, multi, multimillionaire and beef goes up a dollar, $2, $3 a pound, those folks are still going

00:27:19.580 to walk in and get their prime rib and, and, and roast it on the weekend or go out to the, uh,

00:27:24.540 to the local restaurant. They're okay. And, and we have this huge, huge disconnect. And so what they

00:27:30.520 do is they try to, to make their decisions based upon that little, um, vacuum that, that they're

00:27:39.680 operating in. And again, so the RNC, it's a joke, it's a disaster. And there's Ronna Romney McDaniel,

00:27:50.760 big as you please, stage center, running the joint. What in the world is going on? Uh, you've got,

00:28:00.220 had to get rid of, uh, Speaker McCarthy to get Speaker Johnson. Uh, and that's shows accountability,

00:28:06.900 at least beginning to work slowly and hopefully not too, uh, incrementally. Right. But the leader

00:28:17.180 of the party is Donald Trump. He is the titular head as the former president. He is now the presumptive

00:28:24.860 nominee. And for crying out loud, you guys are an America first, uh, party now, or you're nothing.

00:28:31.420 Uh, there's not a single original idea that is in Washington DC or in currency on the, on Capitol

00:28:38.940 Hill in either the Senate or the house. And you correct me if I'm wrong, that isn't his idea.

00:28:44.500 There isn't one new fresh idea from the Republicans or the Democrats other than the Trump ideas.

00:28:51.160 No, no, no, no. And you're right. And, and, and, and you know, it's amazing to me, Lou is how many

00:28:56.500 people now are America first Republicans. Hallelujah. Yeah, yeah, man. Everybody's a

00:29:02.360 MAGA Republican. Everybody's a conservative. Everybody, you know, again, they campaigned that

00:29:07.900 way, but we have got to stop looking at the way people campaign and look at the way that they vote.

00:29:12.860 Look at the way that they perform. I mean, you know, Harmeet Dillon, Harmeet challenged Ronna,

00:29:17.800 and she had a lot of incredible good ideas. There was a lot. Think about this. Harmeet was able to

00:29:25.500 secure a lot more votes as the, uh, challenger for the RNC chair than we had stick with us when we

00:29:36.500 were removing Kevin McCarthy. I mean, there were eight people that voted, Republicans that voted.

00:29:42.080 And, and fortunately we had the motion to vacate the chair in such a fashion that that was going to

00:29:47.840 be enough, uh, for us to make that move. But, but the rest of the people are, are so horrified of going

00:29:55.080 up against the status quo. This is what it boils down to. Everybody's willing to take the status quo

00:30:02.400 because they're afraid of what they don't know. I don't know if Harmeet Dillon is a right person.

00:30:07.420 Mike Lindell was running as well. You know, he's doing a lot, uh, he's done a lot more for the

00:30:12.320 party than Harmeet, frankly. Uh, so I, I mean, there are lots of people who want to get involved,

00:30:18.760 but I, I frankly want somebody who actually knows what the heck they're doing. Now, I don't know many

00:30:24.340 lawyers that know how to run an organization. I'm sorry to all the lawyers out there. I do know a lot

00:30:29.920 of business people who know how to run an organization. And that thing's being run by complete,

00:30:35.020 uh, bizarro personalities as far as I'm concerned. And it's time to cut the nonsense and get to

00:30:41.360 results oriented, hardworking, you know, face smashing, uh, you know, warriors.

00:30:48.700 I agree with you. And, and the problem is that the committees again, across the board are used to,

00:30:56.600 uh, operating on traditional politics. Okay. And they've got these templates that they run

00:31:03.540 every campaign by that they have been utilizing for decades and they are afraid to get out of that

00:31:10.340 mold. And when you see people that step outside of that mold, they are victorious unless we see the

00:31:18.200 committees undermine them and weaken them going through primaries. And we've seen a lot of that

00:31:24.780 as well. They, you know, we've had a lot of really good, strong candidates that were weakened by the,

00:31:30.860 uh, NRSC and we can buy the NRCC or their affiliates, or we can buy the RNC.

00:31:37.780 Well, do you think we're going to see real reform on that? I, I, you know, I, I, I don't know.

00:31:42.520 The fact is we're going to have to wait and see a little bit here as we go into the primaries,

00:31:47.180 but I hope the candidates are of sufficient stature and capacity, uh, and, and, and bigger

00:31:54.460 to actually excite the voters, uh, they would represent and get their votes. Uh, I have seen so

00:32:01.440 many lame brain Republican nonsensical candidates, by the way, who, by the way, are three times better

00:32:08.960 than any Marxist dim out there, but they're not really going to be generational. They're not going 0.74

00:32:14.940 to shape a future, uh, for this country, uh, that is, uh, anywhere near what we need. I want to just

00:32:21.920 with a few minutes, we got left. I mean, you're involved with Dr. Fauci and a Montana lab. Tell

00:32:28.120 us how that's going. You want to defund it. Yeah. Yeah. So what we did is as part of the

00:32:33.960 appropriations process, uh, I brought amendments forward. It's the, who would have ever thought

00:32:39.480 in Hamilton, Montana, that we had a lab down there that literally had some of the Wuhan flu

00:32:47.020 that Fauci brought over there. And they were utilizing this and doing experiments down there,

00:32:52.740 uh, with this, uh, gain of function research before we even had the COVID-19 outbreak. And so what I did

00:33:01.880 was introduce, uh, an amendment to make sure that no gain of function research could be conducted at that

00:33:08.840 lab and that the fellow who was running it, who was basically one of Fauci's lieutenants, his name is

00:33:14.860 Vincent Munster, that what we have is this other provision when we're going through the appropriations

00:33:20.000 process. It's, uh, it's a, uh, it's a, a tool that we have to zero out someone's salary. So we can't fire

00:33:30.920 somebody, but we do have the ability. It's called the Holman rule. We're able to zero out their, their

00:33:38.100 salary. And so basically, uh, eliminating their, their position from, uh, that location. And so

00:33:45.160 that's what I also introduced an amendment to eliminate, uh, Mr. Munsters, not Herman, Vincent,

00:33:52.440 uh, his salary down to zero so that we didn't have to worry about this type of experimentation

00:33:59.120 taking place in this lab in Hamilton, Montana. The lab does an incredible bunch of virology work

00:34:06.200 and research, and they do a lot of good things, but, but they shouldn't be taking on this gain of

00:34:11.480 function research. That's deadly and dangerous. Yeah. You would hope that in, you know, cow and,

00:34:18.880 uh, cattle and, uh, bison country, uh, that they'd be working a little bit on anthrax and, uh,

00:34:25.560 botulism and, uh, you know, something pertinent to the, to the lifestyle of the, of the state.

00:34:31.400 Brucellosis. Yeah. It's, it's amazing. Yeah. So, so where does that stand?

00:34:37.560 Well, we're, we're still going through this appropriations process and, and, uh, hopefully,

00:34:43.080 we can, we can move these, these amendments forward and attach them. That is, that is how,

00:34:47.800 Lou, through the appropriation bills, if they are handled properly, that's where you can have open rule,

00:34:55.560 you can propose these amendments on the floor. You can reduce this spending, um, as in an open

00:35:02.840 air, uh, venue, if you will, so that you can responsibly and transparently fund government.

00:35:10.680 Right. Well, that would be a nice change for, uh, for sure. Uh, we're going to follow that. And you,

00:35:16.920 as always, uh, we always give our guests the last words here, Congressman.

00:35:21.240 Hey, we've been talking about it all the way through the program, Lou. The most

00:35:25.480 important thing that folks can do is hold their elected officials responsible. Don't base your

00:35:32.920 thoughts and your, and your, uh, wishes and your support and your votes on what somebody promises

00:35:39.960 to do. Okay. Check and see how they're voting. Don't listen to what they're saying. And then we're

00:35:46.680 going to have better government. You know, what I'm going to do is you say that I'm going to just

00:35:50.680 remind folks listening to us here today that you can call the Capitol Hill switchboard. Uh,

00:35:56.520 that's 202-224-3121, uh, and call up your representative and let them know how you feel

00:36:04.040 about these issues. And I, uh, I'll give you that number again. It's 202-224-3121.

00:36:11.000 And Congressman Rosendale, it's always great to have you with us. We appreciate it so much.

00:36:15.160 Thanks for all you do for the public, Lou. Appreciate it. Thanks everybody for being

00:36:19.560 with us here today. Our guest tomorrow on The Great America Show, President of Judicial Watch,

00:36:24.520 Tom Fenton. You don't want to miss it. Please join us for that tomorrow and each and every day for The

00:36:29.800 Great America Show. Thank you everybody. God bless you and may God bless America.

The Great America Show - November 29, 2023

RINOS & DEMS MAKE CONGRESS A SENATE DOORMAT

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