The Great America Show - June 07, 2022


SCHOOLS ARE MORE FOCUSED ON KIDS SEXUALITY INSTEAD OF THEIR SECURITY, SAYS REP. NEHLS


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On this episode of the Great America Show, host Lou Dobbs is joined by Texas Congressman Troy Nelles to discuss the continuing crisis at the southern border and the growing number of illegal immigrants flooding across the border from Central America.

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00:00:00.100 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to the Great America Show, and thanks for joining us in the defense of truth, justice, and the American way.
00:00:09.880 Great to have you with us, and I have to say, matters aren't improving in Joe Biden's White House.
00:00:16.300 You may have noticed that Vice President Kamala Harris is lying low. 0.94
00:00:20.920 We haven't heard a thing from her for a while, and we sure don't see her of late.
00:00:25.700 Not a bad thing, just an observation.
00:00:28.080 President Biden has been making a few observations of his own.
00:00:32.760 The Daily Mail reporting that Mr. Biden is upset about, quote, being kept out of the loop in the baby formula crisis, end quote.
00:00:42.360 And Mr. Biden reportedly is furious that his approval ratings are below President Trump's lowest approval ratings ever.
00:00:51.100 And he's not pleased with reports of infighting in the White House either.
00:00:55.480 White House morale is apparently in the dumps.
00:00:59.760 President Biden is also more than a little annoyed to learn that many Americans believe him to be the worst president since Jimmy Carter.
00:01:07.960 And many believe him to be the worst president, period.
00:01:12.080 The Dems' prospects in the November elections are worsening by the day, and President Biden has to know he's a big part of the problem.
00:01:19.980 But he's not the Marxist Dems' only problem.
00:01:24.040 Not when the January 6th committee is looking like something that Joseph Stalin would have set up.
00:01:29.780 And Speaker Pelosi is acting as though the Capitol Police are hers to use as she wishes,
00:01:36.000 as questions abound about why she didn't accept President Trump's offer of National Guard troops on January 6th.
00:01:42.980 Why weren't the Capitol Police better prepared on that day?
00:01:47.340 And why won't she release 14,000 hours of video of the demonstrations and the riot?
00:01:54.420 And another question arises.
00:01:56.880 Why did Capitol Police illegally enter Congressman Troy Nell's office,
00:02:02.160 take pictures of a whiteboard, and then apparently try to cover it all up?
00:02:06.380 The Capitol Police inspector general just reported his findings, which were, let's say, not exactly in-depth or highly specific,
00:02:15.360 but did at least acknowledge that the entry may have been illegal.
00:02:19.880 More to come.
00:02:21.560 Congressman Nell's is our guest today.
00:02:24.000 And you should know that the congressman is a former sheriff and longtime law enforcement officer in the state of Texas,
00:02:30.180 and one of five congressmen who, on January 6th, stood up alongside the Capitol Police to protect the House chamber from any intruders.
00:02:40.200 Now, Congressman Nell's is also concerned about other intruders, illegal immigrants who are flooding our southern border by the millions. 0.58
00:02:49.040 Millions.
00:02:50.180 Five to seven million expected to cross that border this year.
00:02:53.760 And now we learn there's a caravan of 15,000 headed directly for the southern border to coincide with the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles this week.
00:03:05.740 Congressman Nell's, good of you to join us here on The Great America Show.
00:03:10.440 I understand you've also written President Biden to remind him that he has a constitutional duty to secure that border
00:03:17.980 and end the invasion of illegal immigrants into this country.
00:03:22.360 Did Mr. Biden reply yet?
00:03:26.120 Yeah.
00:03:26.840 Yeah, certainly.
00:03:27.820 He heard from me.
00:03:28.680 I also hear from Mayor Pete at the Department of Transportation, too.
00:03:32.900 No, you don't hear anything, quite honestly, when you write these letters, but it doesn't mean that you shouldn't write the letters.
00:03:38.540 Exactly.
00:03:39.360 Well, I'm glad you do, because it reminds a lot of people that it is his constitutional duty that he's forfeiting in a number of ways,
00:03:46.320 not only under the invasion clause, but every other aspect of taking an oath to defend this country.
00:03:52.760 This president is flagrantly violating his oath and the Constitution.
00:03:58.720 Where are we now with the invasion?
00:04:03.080 We're expecting somewhere between five and seven million more illegal immigrants to cross that border in this next year.
00:04:12.380 I mean, it's out of control.
00:04:14.420 The cartels are in charge thanks to this president.
00:04:17.440 Yes, Lou, and they're estimating, obviously, the Title 42, the number of illegals that are positioned staging the northern part of Mexico just waiting to come over.
00:04:32.700 But they've been coming over now for 18 months.
00:04:35.780 This president invited these individuals over here before he was even sworn in.
00:04:40.560 He said, come on over.
00:04:41.900 And everybody thought, you know, it was the Northern Triangle.
00:04:44.840 Hell, 160 countries, individuals from 160 countries have come over across our southern border. 1.00
00:04:52.000 Ecuador, I mean, how do they even know about this?
00:04:54.600 It's because our president got on, started talking and said, our border's open.
00:04:59.740 You're all invited in.
00:05:00.860 Come in.
00:05:01.540 So what did you expect was going to take place?
00:05:03.660 So now we're up to several thousand a day.
00:05:06.800 It's been this way.
00:05:07.980 A couple million have come in.
00:05:09.840 And they're going to continue to come in because this is by design.
00:05:13.880 I hope people don't actually think that this administration does not know how to address this.
00:05:20.600 Oh, they can.
00:05:21.840 They can help stop this.
00:05:23.260 They could stop it if they would revert back to Trump's policies, the remain in Mexico, build them all, all of that. 0.95
00:05:30.220 No catch and release.
00:05:31.660 But they're doing just the opposite because this is by design, Lou.
00:05:35.440 This is exactly what they want.
00:05:38.160 And, you know, Breitbart reporting in the Del Rio sector, the Border Patrol apprehended 4,000 migrants, as they call them.
00:05:48.380 I call them illegals over the Memorial Day weekend. 1.00
00:05:51.840 And 1,000 of them got away, 1,400, as they put it, 1,600, rather, got away.
00:06:01.240 I mean, this is just another day on the border, right?
00:06:03.660 And in the gotaways, they refer to the individuals they weren't able to identify.
00:06:10.200 The Border Patrol refers them to as the gotaways.
00:06:13.220 And, Lou, those are the bad hombres we need to be concerned about because I've been down to the border.
00:06:18.400 I'm sure you've been there before.
00:06:20.060 Most of the people walking across the Rio Grande and stuff, they've got the white flag.
00:06:24.260 They're surrendering.
00:06:24.980 They want to be apprehended and taken into custody because they know once they're in custody and they go through that process, they're going to be released and scattered into this country of ours. 0.55
00:06:36.940 So it's the ones that are avoiding apprehension.
00:06:41.640 They're the ones that we should be concerned about because they're the ones that have something to hide.
00:06:46.280 They're the ones that are either bringing in all this fentanyl that are killing 100,000 Americans a year.
00:06:52.020 Or they're the ones with the human traffickers, the gang members, the MS-13, the ones on terrorist watch list.
00:06:58.620 Those are the bad hombres that we really need to be concerned about.
00:07:02.920 And sex trafficking in particular, not even usually on the list.
00:07:09.660 But all of this is brought to us by, and I love the idea of the transnational cartels rather than the Mexican drug cartels.
00:07:18.020 That's what they are, first and foremost, and why that pleases people to call them transnational.
00:07:24.800 It sort of takes some pressure, I guess, off of Mexico, but that's where they operate.
00:07:29.560 That's their home base.
00:07:31.660 And now they can call home base Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California.
00:07:38.240 Both sides of that border, they own it right now, don't they?
00:07:41.640 No question.
00:07:42.440 Just last weekend in my district, I held a law enforcement roundtable.
00:07:47.600 I had agencies from the federal, state, local, county level.
00:07:51.220 I had Homeland Security there.
00:07:53.040 I had the DEA.
00:07:54.960 I had Texas Alcohol and Beverage Commission.
00:07:58.920 And they are charged in the state of Texas to address human trafficking.
00:08:02.960 Obviously, the DEA is charged with drugs and how to, you know, deal with drugs coming across the southern border.
00:08:10.980 And then Homeland Security, they're also addressing all sorts of issues to include working with the DEA and Texas and Alcohol and Beverage Commission here in Texas.
00:08:19.820 And I tell you, it was a grim report what they were talking about.
00:08:23.520 I said to them, I said, when you get done briefing this, they said, it appears to me you are struggling to find an answer to the crises that we have, specifically the southern border.
00:08:36.380 And I believe this administration is aiding and abetting.
00:08:40.260 They're complicit.
00:08:41.320 They're aiding and abetting in the crime of human trafficking.
00:08:44.820 No doubt about it.
00:08:45.600 And I think, why isn't anybody seem to be doing, they should, it's almost criminal what this administration is doing as it relates to the southern border.
00:08:54.720 I mean, we know fentanyl are killing 100,000 people a year, but yet we know it's coming from the southern border, coming across our southern border, China to Mexico, coming through.
00:09:05.100 And they don't seem to care.
00:09:06.980 They just, this administration doesn't seem to care.
00:09:09.500 And the media is not talking about it.
00:09:11.340 I don't, I don't get too many people in my district saying, hey, sheriff, what are we doing about all this fentanyl killing people?
00:09:18.080 I've had more people asking me about gun control in the last seven days than I've ever had anybody ask about fentanyl. 0.93
00:09:24.840 It's because the media doesn't want to talk about it because it would be, it's the responsibility of this administration to secure the damn southern border, specifically Congress, I should say. 0.54
00:09:34.880 It's Congress responsibility to secure the southern border. 0.94
00:09:37.720 And they have, they've chosen not to.
00:09:39.500 Well, and we've got, I noticed today an article on Paul Ryan, former Speaker of the House, Republican Speaker of the House, going out to talk and campaign for people who voted to impeach President Trump.
00:09:55.640 He doesn't talk about the southern border, doesn't talk about drugs.
00:09:58.960 He doesn't talk about the accomplishments of the, of the Trump administration on the border, which were seismic in terms of impact.
00:10:09.600 And the first reaction we've seen to the, to the border since, since really the 1980s in this country.
00:10:18.540 This has been a long running problem.
00:10:22.320 I can tell you this, that I was a young reporter working often with the DEA, the FBI, the Yuma County Sheriff's Office, and the DEA, ATF, and the interdiction teams between the federales and the provincial police and Sonora.
00:10:41.060 I mean, we're going back 40 years, Congressman, 40 years, and we're facing an even more harrowing and disastrous situation on that border, a crisis by comparison.
00:10:56.340 We called it a crisis back then in the 70s, but it's, this makes that look like child's play.
00:11:03.820 You're absolutely right, Lou, and you said it, you, we had the most secure border under Donald Trump, President Donald Trump, than we've had in 40 years.
00:11:13.300 It was secure.
00:11:14.540 And Donald Trump had to do it on his own because Paul Ryan failed in many ways.
00:11:18.400 We had both chambers.
00:11:19.820 We had the House and the Senate and Donald, and Donald Trump is our president.
00:11:23.320 And Congress didn't have the, the guts, I guess, the will to secure our southern border.
00:11:29.500 We had the means to do it.
00:11:31.220 We're the most powerful country in the world.
00:11:32.780 We just didn't have the will to do it and shame on them.
00:11:36.600 And it took a bold, dynamic leader, such as Donald Trump, to secure the southern border.
00:11:41.620 And it was the most secure border in 40 years.
00:11:43.420 But when I listened to these agents from Texas talk about human trafficking and the stories of what's happening to some of these young ladies and these kids, children.
00:11:55.980 What's happening to them along the way?
00:11:57.800 And I said, I don't know, is President Trump, is he or Biden not talking to the right DEA agents or is he just listening to the leadership?
00:12:08.860 Is Biden not talking to the border patrol agents that are working the ground each and every day, these agents that are investigating human trafficking?
00:12:17.780 Because if he would hear their stories, if he heard their stories, he wouldn't, he wouldn't care.
00:12:22.960 He wouldn't care.
00:12:23.580 And that to me, it's criminal.
00:12:25.680 It's worth an impeachment at a minimum.
00:12:28.200 So, anybody who cares about this country would be on that border.
00:12:35.400 He would be looking to see what is going on on that border, what the cartels are doing and what they are.
00:12:42.060 They're ravaging major portions of four of the four border states.
00:12:48.100 They have torn up northern Mexico. 1.00
00:12:51.560 We've got the Mexican army basically positioned to protect the capital and the federal government of Mexico because they no longer can control.
00:13:05.120 They're not in control in Juarez, you name it.
00:13:08.980 They're out of control.
00:13:11.120 And the cartels are running the deal.
00:13:13.640 And Trump, people forget, Trump famously said, we're going after the cartels.
00:13:21.120 We're shutting them down.
00:13:22.980 He's the first president in American history to say, we're shutting down the cartels.
00:13:29.260 And he got a long ways toward that effort.
00:13:32.360 And then, you know, the establishment, the corporate media, corporate America, Wall Street couldn't stand that because they wanted that free labor.
00:13:41.980 They wanted they wanted to support those cartels.
00:13:45.720 There's no other explanation that the Marxist Dems are a pro cartel party and American people are going to pay a hell of a price and are already playing playing a hell of a price for what is transpiring.
00:14:02.340 And I think this is again, this is by design.
00:14:04.640 This is about votes in the future.
00:14:06.400 Make no mistake, the administration knows exactly what they're doing, because this is exactly what they want.
00:14:14.360 They want these people to come into this country. 1.00
00:14:16.600 They're flying them around, scattering them around all these different states.
00:14:20.960 Right.
00:14:21.780 Does anybody know where these guys are going?
00:14:24.080 I mean, does anybody on the Wisconsin and everywhere else?
00:14:26.320 Because eventually they want to give them all amnesty and eventually allow them to vote.
00:14:30.620 Lou, that's what this is.
00:14:31.860 If they're coming back across with the Biden shirts on, what do you think they're going to do?
00:14:36.760 The Democrats are going to say you're here because of us and now support the Democrats.
00:14:41.280 That's what this is.
00:14:42.820 And we don't know where they are.
00:14:44.500 We don't know what they're doing.
00:14:46.120 We've got a labor shortage in this country, and we know that we've got over 2 million illegal immigrants that have come in under in just under 18 months under Joe Biden.
00:14:58.400 2 million.
00:14:59.720 I don't know where they're living.
00:15:01.240 I don't know who's supporting them.
00:15:03.020 And by the way, neither, neither does any corporatist media because no one is trying to find out.
00:15:10.560 Now it's up to the states to try to clean up the mess.
00:15:13.440 And that's why you see, you know, the state legislature in Texas, Governor Abbott doing what he can to deploy Department of Public Safety, National Guard down there.
00:15:21.820 There was a soldier that ended up drowning down there a month or so ago trying to rescue a couple that were in distress in the water.
00:15:28.980 So now it's the states that are cleaning up the mess.
00:15:31.900 It's local law enforcement.
00:15:33.000 It's our local school districts, Lou, because now the Constitution says you're going to have to educate them.
00:15:38.680 So now it's causing a strain on our public school systems.
00:15:41.680 My wife's a principal of an elementary school.
00:15:44.400 She knows what she's talking about.
00:15:45.680 You're seeing more and more burdens placed on our school districts, our local and county and state governments.
00:15:53.660 Because when you start bringing in tens of thousands of people, hundreds of thousands of people a year, what do you think that's going to do?
00:16:03.100 It's going to cause local governments a problem.
00:16:06.360 And you've seen it at the southern borders, at the southern border with our counties.
00:16:10.760 Those mayors and stuff are very, very upset about all this.
00:16:15.360 And they're saying we can't maintain this.
00:16:17.520 We are overwhelmed with the number of people coming through that southern border.
00:16:21.360 And the president just doesn't seem to listen because he's never, he has never placed the American people first.
00:16:27.000 He just won't do it.
00:16:28.560 No.
00:16:28.780 As a matter of fact, he's doing everything he can to attack this country, to undercut this country, and working men and women and their families all across the country.
00:16:39.340 It's that simple.
00:16:40.160 It's that straightforward.
00:16:41.460 He's only been president for 17 months, not even quite 17 months.
00:16:48.060 It's stunning to think of the damage that he's done, the pain that he's inflicted, whether it's inflation, whether it is the turmoil in our markets, an economy that is slowing down, hyperinflation, gasoline prices, food prices, you name it, and a border.
00:17:05.180 You're talking about the local governments being overwhelmed.
00:17:08.860 No question about that, too.
00:17:10.260 And you talk about Joe Biden, how he's destroyed this country in 17 months.
00:17:15.840 We have another, you know, well, we need at least another 30 months out of this guy because, believe it or not, as bad as he is, she, Kamala, would be worse than he.
00:17:27.220 I mean, I'm devastated to even think if something would happen to Joe Biden.
00:17:32.780 I mean, I'm not hoping something happens to him.
00:17:35.160 I wish him good health and that he can remain healthy for the remainder of his term.
00:17:39.620 I just don't know about her because she could be more dangerous than this guy.
00:17:44.120 And so I'm concerned about the options that the American people have because I also believe with her silliness and that goofy laugh of hers, I don't think she supports the American people. 0.97
00:17:55.520 She doesn't place the American people first either, because if she did, she's been appointed the damn czar, the border czar, and she doesn't seem to ever want to talk about it. 0.97
00:18:04.380 She doesn't want to talk about it. 0.95
00:18:05.780 She doesn't want to visit it, as you say. 0.87
00:18:07.940 I mean, she is a disaster. 1.00
00:18:11.020 I've never seen – I don't think anybody ever imagined having two top officials of this government at any time sitting there, both of them inept, absolutely bizarre personalities, and absolutely lacking – I'm just going to say, not lacking. 1.00
00:18:30.160 They are just ignorant. 0.99
00:18:31.480 They don't know anything. 1.00
00:18:33.440 And they are anti-American.
00:18:36.060 They're anti-America.
00:18:38.260 And it's that simple.
00:18:39.640 Well, Biden doesn't want to harden up security at our public schools.
00:18:43.800 He just wants to – well, he just wants to take our guns away.
00:18:48.340 Now, wouldn't that be something?
00:18:51.140 Well, and I believe in what happened in Uvalde, what happens in any school shooting.
00:18:56.600 We had one here in Santa Fe, Texas a few years ago.
00:18:59.680 Just tragic.
00:19:00.740 And when you think that, in Uvalde, this evil criminal, this devil went into that school and shot those children, 9, 10 years old.
00:19:12.740 I mean, that is the work of the devil, Lou.
00:19:16.380 It really is.
00:19:17.320 I am very frustrated by what took place.
00:19:20.860 I'm very frustrated any time you see innocent children being murdered.
00:19:25.920 And I know there's a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking and armchair quarterbacks out there.
00:19:31.620 But I was a lawman for 30 years and eight years as sheriff.
00:19:35.520 I had a responsibility in a very large county to make sure that I worked with our local law enforcement and our school district, the police, to respond to an active shooter.
00:19:44.820 And we were taught in alert training, when you get to that scene, you go in.
00:19:50.760 You do not wait for backup.
00:19:52.380 You don't wait for a SWAT team because seconds count.
00:19:56.040 And all those officers to be stacked up along that hallway, I don't understand it.
00:20:03.060 I would have had to have said, I'm not going to obey this direct order.
00:20:07.920 I'm going in because there are children in there.
00:20:10.340 And as a law enforcement officer, you are risking your lives in service to others.
00:20:14.820 Right.
00:20:15.320 And this should have been no different.
00:20:17.020 You should have gone into that room as hard as you could and done everything to eliminate that threat.
00:20:22.440 That's what you're taught in the training, not to sit back and make sure other people that can bring weapons and body armor and everything else.
00:20:30.940 Horrible, horrible situation in Uvalde.
00:20:34.000 The Uvalde thing, and I am not one of those people. 0.99
00:20:37.560 I am as pro-police as there is in this country.
00:20:41.460 I have to say, we know the protocols.
00:20:45.300 We know the protocols.
00:20:46.820 Really, we've known it since Columbine.
00:20:49.780 Every minute counts.
00:20:52.120 And I know that I'll be the first to say, I don't know what I'd be firing warning shots on a traffic stop.
00:20:59.540 I mean, the courage that it takes to be wearing that uniform, that badge, and that gun right now is immense.
00:21:07.540 And I respect deeply and thank those law enforcement officers every day.
00:21:12.940 But when you've got children in any school subject to a madman, you have to, as you said, protocol demands it.
00:21:25.200 First officer on the scene goes to the gunman, period.
00:21:30.160 No stop, no deviation goes to the shooter.
00:21:34.280 Right?
00:21:34.740 That's exactly right, Lou.
00:21:36.980 And that was our training.
00:21:39.580 We taught it.
00:21:40.980 And it's universal.
00:21:42.860 It's taught to law enforcement agencies.
00:21:46.420 And the training is all the same.
00:21:48.200 So it shouldn't matter what county you're in.
00:21:50.300 If you're going to a county to help respond to an active shooter, even in a workplace, you go in.
00:21:57.080 And obviously, they felt that they're going to use terminology.
00:22:00.960 This was a barricaded subject.
00:22:02.340 It wasn't an active shooter and all this other stuff.
00:22:04.880 But I'm telling you right now, it just doesn't look good.
00:22:08.020 It does not look good at all.
00:22:10.740 You know, I wasn't there, Lou.
00:22:12.360 You try not to be critical of others in this thing.
00:22:16.040 But from all the reports that I've heard, I cannot, for any reason, understand why the dozen or so officers that were standing there,
00:22:25.380 one of them didn't say, this is not a good idea, Commander.
00:22:29.340 I'm going in.
00:22:30.580 I'm going in.
00:22:31.420 To see that woman who rushed by the police, broke through their lines, and went into that school and grabbed her two children and hugging them outside.
00:22:44.240 It's heartbreaking to think that, you know, she had to do that.
00:22:48.640 But when they're armed, trained police officers all around her who would not break ranks and dive into that situation, I just, it's,
00:23:00.700 Evaldi has got a lot to go through now because they were going, you know, it's on its face.
00:23:07.380 It's just such a tragedy on so many levels that'll be with us for a very long time, but for the people of Evaldi, a much longer time.
00:23:17.520 And it'll probably seem like eternity to them all.
00:23:20.260 And our hearts go out to those who lost those children.
00:23:23.620 Very well said.
00:23:26.420 And then, you know, when that took place within, what, a day or so, our governor's down there working with the local officials talking about this. 0.91
00:23:34.220 And then you got the clown on the skateboard that's now running for a third time. 0.86
00:23:38.580 Now he's running for governor. 0.94
00:23:39.880 And he's down there trying to just disrupt that press conference.
00:23:44.820 And that's the sad part is here you got the Democrats now on the left.
00:23:48.520 They politicize these shootings.
00:23:51.420 And, and quite honestly, I was, I, I filed legislation, the Public Safety Enhancement Act.
00:23:57.380 They had 100,000 cops to the streets.
00:23:59.360 And if you don't recall back in 94, when Biden was the president, was the chairman of the judiciary on the Senate side and the, and the, the crime bill, article one talked about adding police to the nation's streets.
00:24:12.180 And all I asked is that we do a reauthorized act and add law enforcement to our nation's streets and into our schools.
00:24:19.480 Lou, I'm, I'm a fiscal conservative, but I personally believe the Americans of people, American people would support the idea of having one uniformed armed police officer in every school in this country.
00:24:31.980 If we can send 40 billion, 40 billion with a beat of Ukraine, we can protect our children in our schools. 0.99
00:24:38.320 And it's just not providing them with law enforcement.
00:24:41.140 Lou, every teacher, former military, the ones that are trained, the ones that choose to carry a weapon should be able to carry a weapon into that classroom to help protect their children.
00:24:53.340 Why wouldn't you do that?
00:24:55.220 Many, many teachers want to go through this.
00:24:57.860 They want to go through the training.
00:24:59.000 They want to have that security with them, many former law enforcement, former military, and that will help protect the children in the schools.
00:25:08.760 I don't understand.
00:25:10.280 It's all about taking guns away from, from law abiding Americans.
00:25:13.720 And we know it doesn't work.
00:25:15.140 It just doesn't work.
00:25:17.460 It's I've, I've, I've heard teachers say, you know, I just don't want to have a gun in the classroom period.
00:25:23.660 I certainly don't want to be responsible for that gun, but he or she, that teacher is responsible for the lives of about 30 young people every day that they walk into that classroom, whether they like it or not, they're responsible for those young lives.
00:25:37.640 And anyone who doesn't want to be trained in the use of a sidearm, I, you know, I personally wouldn't even put up with them in the school because that's their responsibility.
00:25:48.400 I personally would insist that every teacher have a sidearm to protect those children.
00:25:55.680 We've got to come to our senses in this country, and we've got to quit tolerating teachers who are more interested in talking sex with five to nine year olds for crying out loud than they are in protecting those kids.
00:26:09.180 We've got to get serious about the security of these kids and Congressman, I want to compliment you again.
00:26:17.080 And thank you again for focusing on that issue and putting forward that legislation.
00:26:23.200 And I think you're exactly right.
00:26:25.240 It is a big part of the solution if we could get that done.
00:26:28.560 But in the interim, we have got local school districts have the power to insist that their schools be protected, and they've got to take those steps.
00:26:39.780 This is not on the Republican Party or the Democratic Party or the federal government or the White House.
00:26:46.620 God help us.
00:26:48.460 It is on our school districts who have control over those schools, and they've got to take control and protect the children because no one else, no one else can do it right now.
00:26:58.560 Do you agree?
00:27:00.140 I could agree with you more, and I think it is incumbent upon the school districts to look at their security postures, to look how they're building these schools.
00:27:09.460 I mean, we want to build Taj Mahal.
00:27:11.560 We want all this glass.
00:27:12.780 We want it to look beautiful, this and that.
00:27:14.960 But maybe you ought to start thinking about maybe a few less windows, a little bit more brick, finding ways that we could have more controlled access into these schools, having locked and secure doors.
00:27:24.880 My wife's elementary school, you have to get buzzed in. 1.00
00:27:28.660 Yes, I guess somebody could shoot right through the glass, but eventually you'll need to think about bulletproof glass for these entrances because I just, to me, it's protecting our children.
00:27:39.060 And our government spends a lot of money, foolishly.
00:27:42.200 They do. 0.93
00:27:42.820 We give a lot of money away for a lot of silly reasons.
00:27:45.960 We need to do everything we can to provide the faculties, the staff, the teachers, and our children a safe and secure environment for learning, learning.
00:27:56.520 And they can't learn if they're concerned about some knucklehead coming into their school and causing chaos.
00:28:02.240 We can't have it.
00:28:03.900 It is incumbent upon Congress to act and to act now.
00:28:07.840 But it's not about infringing our rights on the Second Amendment, Second Amendment rights.
00:28:11.600 And Chicago is the perfect example, Lou.
00:28:13.780 They have some of the most strict gun laws in the nation.
00:28:17.900 In Chicago, Lou, they have red flag laws.
00:28:21.100 They have limitations on selling ammo.
00:28:23.940 They require background checks for all private gun sales.
00:28:27.880 They have a 72-hour waiting period, felons and domestic violence abusers and mentally ill.
00:28:35.700 They can't possess or purchase a firearm.
00:28:38.080 They have all these laws in place in Chicago.
00:28:42.380 And still, they have one of the most violent cities in the country.
00:28:47.260 So if the laws aren't working there, the criminals don't care about our laws in this country.
00:28:52.480 They're going to violate them.
00:28:53.740 They're going to keep their guns. 0.99
00:28:54.980 They're going to tell the government to go to hell. 0.99
00:28:56.660 They do not care.
00:28:58.700 So now some of these same laws, they're going to try to pass in Washington.
00:29:03.920 They're going to try to pass.
00:29:05.000 Just use Chicago as the example, folks.
00:29:07.220 It's not working in Chicago.
00:29:09.020 It's just not.
00:29:11.480 It's a mess.
00:29:12.880 Joe, it's an absolute mess.
00:29:14.980 And it's not about infringing on the Second Amendment.
00:29:18.800 I will not support that.
00:29:20.780 Well, great.
00:29:21.840 And again, I thank you for all that you're doing. 0.99
00:29:24.340 We have got to make very clear to these idiots in the Democratic Party, the Marxist-led Democratic Party. 0.99
00:29:33.520 No one should doubt this, by the way. 1.00
00:29:35.700 This president is so impaired.
00:29:38.200 He is simply, he consults. 0.91
00:29:42.580 Consult is a very nice word for what he does with his puppet masters.
00:29:46.600 But we have a cabal running this guy. 0.63
00:29:51.300 It's one of the reasons I don't worry about Kamala Harris, Congressman, because, you know, they both work for the same people. 0.98
00:29:58.780 And they're going to be doing exactly what they're told as they try to take over this country for the far left.
00:30:04.380 Well, I think our school districts across the country, I think they're focused on things that they shouldn't have to focus on.
00:30:12.500 That is security.
00:30:13.820 We should have security in all our schools.
00:30:15.960 But what you're seeing in our school districts is they're more focused on woke.
00:30:19.520 They're more focused on teaching our kids things that children don't understand about their sexuality.
00:30:24.800 They're learning new definitions, new terms that just, to me, should not be in the vocabulary of children in our elementary schools.
00:30:33.520 And my wife's been in public education for 27 years.
00:30:36.880 We owe it to her and her faculty and her staff to provide them the tools necessary to help provide a quality, a safe learning environment.
00:30:47.280 And right now, we just can't seem to do that because it seems like they're focused on so many other things.
00:30:53.100 And so I would say, let's get back to business.
00:30:56.100 Let's get back to providing the security they need.
00:30:59.340 And the first step in the right direction is providing them a law enforcement officer that the children can look to if they have any problems.
00:31:06.660 That law enforcement is there to protect them.
00:31:09.000 And let's start building relationships again with law enforcement in this country.
00:31:14.040 Because right now, that profession is so strained and so difficult.
00:31:18.740 People are leaving it, Lou.
00:31:19.980 They don't want to do this anymore.
00:31:21.680 Why in the hell would you want to be a lawman today making $60,000 a year with all the criticism you take?
00:31:27.080 And so I just think our country lacks faith.
00:31:30.300 We lack faith.
00:31:31.740 We see our young people today.
00:31:33.680 They're more in the devil worship and worshiping basketball players and reality TV stars.
00:31:40.500 Maybe they need to get back into the basics and get back into Christianity and learn a little bit and read a little bit more Bible, Lou. 0.56
00:31:47.760 That's what they need to do.
00:31:49.000 Read a little bit more Bible.
00:31:50.160 A lot more.
00:31:51.740 I agree with you 100%.
00:31:53.840 Parents have a difficult time now.
00:31:56.380 I understand that.
00:31:57.900 But to make certain that your children don't have a difficult time, I'd suggest that you take Congressman Nell's advice, bring faith into your home, and keep Christ in your heart.
00:32:10.640 This is just a terrible time in this country.
00:32:14.380 There's no way around it.
00:32:15.900 I've got to turn to the inspector general's report that confirmed that investigation of the Capitol Police.
00:32:23.740 Congressman Nell's office was improperly and illegally, possibly illegally, entered is the way they styled the investigation result by Capitol Police.
00:32:34.080 So my question is this.
00:32:35.860 They found out now they did indeed intrude into your office improperly, and I love the expression, possibly illegally.
00:32:43.460 What's the penalty for them?
00:32:44.800 Well, the inspector general, and thank you for bringing it up, the inspector general, the first one, number one, he retired.
00:32:51.320 His name was Michael Bolton.
00:32:52.820 Wasn't the guy with the great voice and the long blonde hair.
00:32:56.020 This is, he retired in the middle of this investigation, and so now we have an acting IG.
00:33:00.720 But I read his executive summary.
00:33:03.000 I received the IG report.
00:33:04.500 It is very weak.
00:33:06.100 He doesn't really corroborate any of the officer's statements, the numerous officers that investigated me and investigated me criminally.
00:33:14.900 Now, the chief of police, Manger, says you were never under investigation.
00:33:18.700 I beg to differ because you had criminal investigators talk to my staff.
00:33:23.400 So that is a bold-faced lie.
00:33:24.980 And Diaz, the officer that took the pictures of my whiteboard of my legislative priorities because he felt they were suspicious, number one, he said that he was taught in the police academy to take photos of that evidence.
00:33:39.900 That is a bold-faced lie because when he went through the U.S. Capitol Police Academy, they didn't issue cell phones to officers.
00:33:48.060 So there are a whole bunch of problems here with his report.
00:33:51.420 It's very, very weak.
00:33:53.180 He's acting IG.
00:33:54.400 I don't think he wants to upset Nancy or the Capitol Police Board because I think he wants to be the permanent, obviously, inspector general for the Capitol Police.
00:34:04.200 So this guy, I've got all sorts of problems.
00:34:06.720 I'm poking holes in his report, and I'm not stopping, Lou.
00:34:11.380 I'm going after him.
00:34:13.020 The truth needs to come out.
00:34:15.340 And what they did to me was they violated my rights, Lou.
00:34:19.560 There's no question about it.
00:34:20.900 They violated my rights.
00:34:22.380 The report just lacks any type of accountability or integrity within the Capitol Police.
00:34:30.900 And when I come up with my full statements and I'm reaching out to legal counsel, Lou, I will come on your show, and we could spend an entire segment about the Capitol Police, January 6th, the invasion into my office, the invasion, Lou, into my office.
00:34:47.040 We could spend a whole segment on this, and I'd be more than happy to do it with you.
00:34:50.880 And by the way, Congressman Nels was one of those standing up, protecting, I think is the correct word, our Capitol in the midst of it all.
00:35:00.520 So I would be delighted, and the sooner the better.
00:35:05.460 We would be honored to do it.
00:35:07.980 And I'm honored to have you on the broadcast today.
00:35:11.000 Thanks for being with us on The Great America Show, Congressman.
00:35:14.180 It is always great to talk with you, and God bless you.
00:35:18.240 Lou, you're our great American.
00:35:19.740 God bless you, brother.
00:35:20.860 God bless you.
00:35:21.680 Thank you.
00:35:23.340 Thanks for being with us here today on The Great America Show.
00:35:26.420 Tomorrow, our guest is Devin Nunes, the CEO of Truth Social, the social media platform founded by President Trump.
00:35:35.260 Nunes is a former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and as such, was one of the first to declare the Marxist Dems' allegations of Russian collusion to be entirely a hoax, completely false.
00:35:48.420 We'll be talking about all of that and more here tomorrow on The Great America Show with Devin Nunes.
00:35:55.280 Please join us.
00:35:56.600 Till then, God bless you, and God bless America.