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00:01:14.920 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to The Great America Show. Thank you for being

00:01:22.480 with us. The compromised, impaired puppet president, Joe Biden, spent his weekend at his vacation 0.86

00:01:28.840 home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, while the war in the Middle East shows no signs of stopping

00:01:34.820 or markets, for that matter, strengthening. Biden is coming up on his 400th vacation day

00:01:41.320 while in office. And he was asked by a reporter what he was doing exactly about the American

00:01:46.640 hostages who are being held by Hamas terrorists, to which he only smiled vacuously, waved and then

00:01:54.040 walked away, slowly and carefully. While Biden enjoyed his weekend, FBI Director Christopher Wray and

00:02:01.640 intel leaders from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, well, they showed up

00:02:07.840 over its 60 minutes to warn us all about the Chinese threats that the United States and the world face, 1.00

00:02:14.160 as if the intel directors had just discovered that long-standing reality. Wray didn't even mention

00:02:21.200 Biden's wide open southern border and the hundreds of terrorists who've been caught crossing into the

00:02:27.040 United States, nor any update on what the FBI is doing exactly to meet those threats. Wray says the FBI

00:02:35.400 currently has over 2,000 active investigations into the Communist Chinese Party's theft of intellectual

00:02:42.220 property in this country. The People's Republic of China represents the defining threat of this 0.97

00:02:48.880 generation in this era. There is no country that presents a broader, more comprehensive threat to

00:02:54.380 our ideas, our innovation, our economic security, and ultimately our national security. We have seen

00:03:01.740 efforts by the Chinese government, directly or indirectly, trying to steal intellectual property,

00:03:08.060 trade secrets, personal data, all across the country. We're talking everything from Fortune 100

00:03:13.960 companies all to smart startups. We're talking about agriculture, biotech, healthcare, robotics,

00:03:19.280 aviation, academic research. We probably have somewhere in the order of 2,000 active investigations

00:03:26.320 that are just related to the Chinese government's effort to steal information.

00:03:32.260 So just exactly what are Joe Biden and Chris Wray doing to stop China? You know, the funny thing is, 0.95

00:03:38.940 Wray didn't say. But he did seem to say, are you ready? You remember, see something, say something.

00:03:46.740 That's the best I could figure. Also over the weekend, President Trump demanding that Marxist DC 0.53

00:03:52.360 Judge Tanya Chutkin lift the gag order she imposed on him at the request of Junkyard Special Counsel Jack

00:03:59.860 Smith. Trump's legal team says Smith provided no evidence that any of Trump's comments about the

00:04:05.820 special counsel have led to any threats to the special counsel. Chutkin gave Smith until the 25th of

00:04:12.480 this month to file any opposition. And in a New York courtroom, Judge Arthur Ingeron, the Marxist

00:04:19.300 Demm presiding over the Trump business civil case presiding, quite a fellow he is too, he threatened

00:04:25.900 to throw President Trump in jail for failing to delete an old social media post. This is the same

00:04:31.900 fellow who did impose another gag order on President Trump. Judge Ingeron said, quote,

00:04:38.660 Incendiary untruths can and have led to serious physical harm. I will now allow the defendant to

00:04:45.840 explain why this should not end up with serious sanctions or I could possibly imprison him.

00:04:52.580 End quote. Imprison him. Who does this fool think he is? The judge obviously thinks he's in the Soviet

00:05:00.220 Union circa 1980. He sounds like a crazed commissar. And over on Capitol Hill, the search to find a new

00:05:08.060 speaker is still underway. And rhino Tom Emmer got off to a head start when he called President Trump over

00:05:15.620 the weekend looking for his support. President Trump was asked yesterday if he'll be supporting

00:05:21.740 Emmer. Here's what he had to say.

00:05:24.360 Did you endorse Tom Emmer for speaker? He hasn't been his work with being the biggest fan, but he is the most

00:05:30.300 likely candidate right now. Well, I think he's my biggest fan now because he told me yesterday and he told me

00:05:34.800 I'm your biggest fan. So I don't know about that. Well, we're looking at a lot of people and, you know,

00:05:40.360 I'm sort of trying to stay out of that as much as possible, but they'll get it straightened out.

00:05:45.320 But, you know, I've always gotten along with him and I get along with all of them. A lot of good

00:05:49.620 people. We have a lot of great people. I hope President Trump will endorse only an America 0.99

00:05:54.640 First candidate, if one at all. Our guest today is Congresswoman Harriet Hageman. She represents

00:06:01.380 Wyoming. She is an extraordinary Republican leader. The congresswoman right in the middle of the 0.66

00:06:06.900 unprecedented speaker process or mess, if you prefer, whatever you want to call it.

00:06:12.260 Welcome back, Congresswoman, and always great to see you and to have you on the show,

00:06:16.260 particularly at this time. Give us your sense of what the Republican conference is doing now.

00:06:21.560 Secret meetings, secret votes. Jim Jordan, 200 votes this close to being speaker and then knifed in the

00:06:29.500 back. A great American betrayed. Your thoughts about it all. First of all, Lou, thank you for letting me

00:06:35.720 come on with you. I always enjoy our conversations. I want your speakers to know that I supported Jim

00:06:41.720 Jordan wholeheartedly. I think that he would have been a phenomenal speaker and he was the right man

00:06:47.220 at this point in time. I've worked with him on judiciary and the weaponization committee.

00:06:52.360 I've known him for a couple of years. I have great respect for him and I'm extremely disappointed

00:06:56.840 as to what happened. I also was able to go home to Wyoming this weekend for about 24 hours was all,

00:07:03.380 but I at least got on the ground and was able to talk to the folks in Wyoming. I think I, like so

00:07:08.060 many people, are hearing about the frustration that people have with the Republicans in Congress

00:07:12.940 right now. I'm going to push back on that just a little bit because I have somewhat of a different

00:07:17.420 perspective. We're in this situation not because of the Republican conference, but because a very

00:07:22.720 small number of Republicans joined with the Democrats and basically instituted a coup against our

00:07:29.220 speaker, Kevin McCarthy. So keep in mind, it was eight, it was eight Republicans, which is 4% of our

00:07:35.280 conference and 100% of the Democrats that took out the speaker of the House of Representatives. So I'm not

00:07:42.240 going to put the blame for this on the Republicans. As far as where we are now, now we need to move forward.

00:07:47.680 And I will tell you that I think part of the reason that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats did what they did

00:07:52.500 is because we were getting some extremely effective legislation passed through the House. Just three

00:07:57.800 of them I'll talk about. H.R. 1, H.R. 2, and H.R. 5. H.R. 1, energy security. H.R. 2, border security. H.R. 5,

00:08:08.640 parents' bill of rights. The thing is, we got three of those three bills through the Republican

00:08:13.300 conference, not only with votes from Harriet Hageman from Wyoming, a strong conservative,

00:08:17.840 but you're more moderate members from New York. We all came together and voted on those bills

00:08:22.840 because they were good conservative policy for the American public. So right now we're dealing

00:08:28.400 with the situation where we need to pick a speaker. I remain optimistic that over the next couple of

00:08:33.780 days we will be able to do that. But this situation definitely threw us into disarray, which is exactly

00:08:40.100 what the Democrats wanted to do. Well, I don't think anyone could argue with the math,

00:08:44.280 if you will, the history is somewhat, you know, I think more difficult. And that is Kevin McCarthy

00:08:55.680 was not keeping promises in terms of the debt ceiling. He was not moving as the conference wanted

00:09:02.940 much of the conference. I can't say the majority of the conference, but much of the conference wanted

00:09:07.640 in appropriation, separate bills, single subject, and really honoring his commitment to the

00:09:14.260 independence of the independence of the chairman and the democratization, if you will, for

00:09:20.180 amendments. It's, you know, better than me, what all was involved. So there were some atmospherics for

00:09:26.700 which he was indeed, I think at least, and this is where we can keep arguing about. But I think he

00:09:33.040 had set the tone that ultimately led to this, gave an opportunity. It'll be interesting to see how

00:09:41.320 history writes it, and I suspect it'll be very close to your analysis. Let's turn to, though,

00:09:48.400 what this process is right now. And that is, what's followed is after three rounds,

00:09:56.040 Jim Jordan gets a knife in the back. More than 100 people in the conference who, ostensibly many of

00:10:01.980 whom at least, had voted for Jim Jordan suddenly in private. The second most popular man in the

00:10:08.340 Republican Party is, when it's a public vote, he's got 200 votes and should have had all of them,

00:10:14.100 as far as I'm concerned. They go to the private, they go to a secret vote, and suddenly he can only

00:10:21.260 muster 86 votes. I mean, something's rotten in that. And I think that the conference has to,

00:10:28.420 I think the conference has really set the, the leadership, at least of the conference,

00:10:33.540 has set a tone that the American people are really not pleased with, because this looks swampy as it

00:10:39.500 gets. Lou, I don't disagree with you. And I was very surprised at what happened on Friday when that

00:10:46.260 took place. I didn't expect it. Call me naive. Call me someone who actually believes that you're going

00:10:53.160 to keep your word in terms of what you say with supporting somebody and supporting them for the

00:10:58.600 right reasons. Keep in mind that the people who were supporting Jim Jordan came out and did so

00:11:03.540 because he is the leader of the modern conservative movement. He is the face of that. He has been

00:11:08.620 the fighter. He's been the guy in the ring. He's been the one who's been standing on the wall,

00:11:13.600 fighting the issues that are important to so many of us in the conservative movement. So I was surprised

00:11:18.960 by that. Well, I'll tell you what will happen now is we have a, an opportunity for the candidates

00:11:25.000 to give us a presentation and they will be short. I think maybe five minutes, uh, uh, discussions as

00:11:31.540 to why they believe that they ought to be speaker. Now that's not all the information we're getting.

00:11:35.780 And you're probably seeing some of the materials as well. They're sending out letters. They're

00:11:39.780 sending out information about their background, what they're doing, what their vision is.

00:11:43.820 I think we have some excellent candidates. That's the thing is that we have an extremely deep bench

00:11:49.140 in the Republican party, in the United States house of representatives. So I'm very confident that

00:11:54.920 we're going to get somebody in place that is really good. But one of the problems you have

00:11:59.480 with Republicans is the fact that we do not all dance to the same drummer. The Democrats are able

00:12:05.360 to get their conference to all or all row in the exact same direction because they're much more

00:12:11.360 lemming-like than we are. That's one of the big differences between Republicans and Democrats. 0.91

00:12:15.920 We're independent. We're, we're, we're free thinkers. We do not allow someone just to dictate

00:12:20.380 what we have to do. And so this has been a kind of a painful situation. Again, I think we're going

00:12:26.260 to get back on track. There are some folks, I'm not going to say exactly who I think I might be

00:12:30.640 supporting. I haven't even made that decision yet. I am keeping my powder dry until we have the forum

00:12:36.860 this evening. I will make a decision and I will publicly support that person. And as we come to the

00:12:41.840 floor, I am going to support the Republican candidate who can get 217 votes because we need to get back to

00:12:48.440 governing. Unity is important and coming together as a conference. But given the circumstances,

00:12:56.780 why in the world would not someone in the conference say, bring back Jim Jordan? Because

00:13:00.980 what we've done is dirty and it is absolutely a travesty. There, I mean, there, there's no rolling

00:13:08.600 back secret vote, secret conference meetings, and then proceed with a secret conference for new

00:13:21.100 nominees and then a vote. And then is the, is the, the loyalty oath, is that in place? Will everybody

00:13:29.080 vote for whoever it is, no matter what? I don't know that people are going to, to step up and do

00:13:35.220 loyalty oaths. Again, I think that that's kind of contrary. Our loyalty is to our constitution

00:13:40.500 and that's the oath that I took. Uh, and that, that, so I think that there are some of us that

00:13:46.620 are kind of leery of those kinds of things. I don't tend to, to sign oaths. I don't think that's the way

00:13:51.540 to go. Uh, I understand what you're saying about Jim Jordan. And one of my concerns is, is that we've

00:13:57.440 done some real damage to relationships in this conference. I think the next speaker is going to have

00:14:02.300 to find a way to bring all of us back together so that we can move forward with what is really our

00:14:07.860 agenda, which is blocking the radical Biden agenda, uh, close our borders, address the inflation,

00:14:14.060 all the things that are important to the American public. We need to get back to work.

00:14:18.860 Absolutely. And we're going to, uh, take a quick pause here. We're talking

00:14:23.420 with Congresswoman Harriet Hageman. We're talking, we're talking politics. Stay with us. We'll be right back.

00:14:32.300 We're back now with Congresswoman Hageman. And I w I want to turn as a member of the judiciary

00:14:41.580 committee, you work with Jim Jordan. Uh, he chairs the judiciary committee. Uh, how would you feel if

00:14:48.560 you were in his position? I know this is a strange question, but I have to ask it of you. Uh, how would

00:14:54.880 you feel if you were in his position? Uh, because this is really a, a dirty deal on the part of, uh,

00:15:02.780 a handful of very powerful, uh, uh, congressmen. Uh, but, uh, nonetheless, this is, this is swamp stuff.

00:15:11.340 As I said, uh, this is snake stuff.

00:15:14.460 Ideas. And I've even used that terminology, Lou. I, when somebody talked to me about what it is that

00:15:19.740 I'm going to do over the next couple of days, I said, you know, I'm going to play my, keep my cards

00:15:24.380 kind of close to my vest because I'm feeling a bit snake bit right now. And I am, um, I will say

00:15:31.060 that what happened on Friday evening with Jim Jordan, when he got up and spoke after the decision

00:15:36.380 was made to no longer have him as our speaker designate, uh, my respect for him increased

00:15:42.460 twofold, threefold, fivefold, the speech that he gave and the statements that he made to all of us

00:15:48.680 was that first step to, to bring this conference back together and focus all of us on the important

00:15:54.720 issues at hand. He said, I I'm very happy to go back to what I was doing. I enjoy being the chairman

00:16:01.580 of the judiciary committee and working and doing what we're doing, which is to expose what's been

00:16:06.760 going on with the FBI and the department of justice and the FTC and the, uh, with, with secretary

00:16:14.600 Mayorkas and the Biden crime family, again, to use that terminology, he said, I'm happy to go back and

00:16:20.280 do that. And that's one of the things that Jim Jordan has been so phenomenal about. He is an asset

00:16:25.680 to the United States of America and to the Republican Congress, uh, like very few have been, he's going to

00:16:32.280 go down in history as one of the greats. I know that he knows that just from the standpoint of the,

00:16:37.760 of the well wishes that have been sent out to him and how people have responded to him. So what I'll

00:16:42.740 say is he did a phenomenal job of beginning the process of bringing us back together. I'm going to

00:16:47.600 work hard with him on that judiciary committee to hold people accountable for the things that have

00:16:52.040 been going on in this country. And I know that Jim Jordan is going to continue to lead us because he is

00:16:56.880 a leader. No question whatsoever about who he is and his integrity. And it's, it's remarkable that the

00:17:04.680 conference would turn their back on him, given everything that you've just said about it, which so many

00:17:09.680 of us share. Uh, I just don't know how we go from a Jordan to, uh, an Emmer, a Hearn, uh, whomever it would be,

00:17:20.360 uh, because what there are two people in the conference who have, uh, significantly higher in

00:17:28.900 the, uh, list of nine who have significantly high ratings from Liberty ratings. Uh, it's just,

00:17:36.880 I just don't know how to get past the stench of this thing. Can you, and I, and I know that we all

00:17:42.620 want to, but I'm having a heck of a time. And because you know what, I know the listeners of this

00:17:48.440 podcast, uh, the listeners on my radio show, they are not happy, uh, to put it straightforwardly.

00:17:56.960 And, and I think the Republican party has taken one step too far in turning their backs on the

00:18:02.900 voters that they represent. So Lou, you've been around for a long time. And I think that you saw

00:18:09.380 something in this that surprised even you. And I haven't been around as long and it surprised me,

00:18:14.240 but what, what I will say is it isn't the Republican party that did this. It's a very small number of

00:18:21.340 people who did this. The vast majority of the Republicans in our conference, again, are focused

00:18:28.080 on fixing the problems of this country and of moving forward. And so while this entire process

00:18:35.340 was messy and didn't, didn't look very good from the outside, this is the first time like that

00:18:40.860 anything like this has ever happened in the history of this country. I keep saying, I'm going

00:18:44.920 to get a t-shirt that says, I'm tired of making history. Um, after what we've been through these

00:18:50.080 years and for the speaker and other things we have dealt, we have dealt with, and we are dealing with

00:18:56.480 something that was kind of, what do we do now? Because nobody knew. And so I'm going to, I'm going to

00:19:03.560 defend the folks a little bit by just simply saying, we're going to have to move on because the

00:19:09.340 American people need us to move on. Our world is on fire. What has happened in Israel is absolutely 0.84

00:19:15.560 beyond the pale. And like your listeners, I wake up in the middle of the night, every single night

00:19:19.940 since that happened and pray for it and think about the, what is happening in the, in the Middle East

00:19:25.520 and trying to find a resolution that is just not total conflagration. There are so many big issues

00:19:31.480 out there that if we're not capable of stepping up, dusting ourselves off and getting back to work,

00:19:36.480 even if we may have taken one to the chin, then we're not, we're not cut out for this business.

00:19:41.180 And we have got to step up and do it because the American people are demanding it. The world situation

00:19:46.920 is demanding it. And so now we have to move on. We've got to get a good speaker and we've got a couple

00:19:51.720 of ones that are just absolutely excellent candidates. I know if they take that helm, we will be well served.

00:19:57.780 Well, that's encouraging and it's positive. And I appreciate that. I'm sure that our listeners do.

00:20:03.060 I, when I look at the conflagration though, I see much of the conflict conflagration in the nation's

00:20:10.840 capital. And I mean, we've got a corrupt president, an impaired president, a man so compromised that he 0.95

00:20:19.680 sold off half of the strategic petroleum reserves. He's in all too frequent communication with the 0.61

00:20:26.500 people's Republic of China. He is ostensibly pro-Israel, but he is making moves, strategic moves

00:20:36.640 that are pro-Arab, pro-Muslim. And by the way, nothing against Muslims, nothing against Arabs.

00:20:42.960 You know, I, I love everybody, but we have, we have a phony and a half in the white house who's under 0.54

00:20:50.500 the control of someone else. And we have to be honest about that. We have a foreign policy team

00:20:55.660 that is capable of, of screwing up a vacant lot. And they have done so frequently over the course

00:21:00.960 of their time in the Biden regime. This is not a time for any of us to be at ease or settled

00:21:06.960 about our prospects here as we face so many crises, $3 trillion. I mean, I can go through this list,

00:21:13.500 but what I can't go through is what have the Republicans done to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas,

00:21:20.100 who has turned over the Southern border to the cartels, the Mexican drug cartels. Not one Republican

00:21:26.680 has even come up and said, let's subpoena him. And I'm talking about the Judiciary Committee. I'm

00:21:32.600 talking about the Oversight Committee. God bless everything you guys are doing. The four investigating,

00:21:38.440 well, three investigating committees in the subcommittee, weaponization. But my God,

00:21:43.720 all that's required here, you as an attorney, a distinguished attorney, no, this is simply a

00:21:51.380 charge. It isn't a trial yet. That's for the Senate. You don't have to produce a certain weight of

00:21:58.100 evidence. You have to produce the obvious evidence, which is staring at all of us. The Republicans are not

00:22:06.120 showering themselves here with glory. Well, and Lou, I don't disagree with you,

00:22:11.240 except for a couple of things. Okay. Everything that you have laid out there is exactly why the

00:22:16.620 Democrats wanted to behead the Republican Party. That's why they did what they did. That is why they

00:22:22.060 took out Kevin McCarthy. Whether you like him or not, we are now three weeks into chaos because we

00:22:27.520 don't have a Speaker of the House. That is exactly what they intended to do when they voted with those

00:22:32.500 eight Republicans to do what they did with the motion to vacate. Now, as far as the impeachment,

00:22:37.720 where I will say we absolutely, our jury, Lou, is the American public. We absolutely have to be able

00:22:45.020 to show the case or they're not going to take this up. And the Senate isn't going to take this up.

00:22:50.160 Keep that in mind. What we show in terms of how badly these guys have done their job and how they

00:22:56.280 have compromised the security of the United States of America, we are going to have to present

00:23:02.200 that evidence in the House because the Senate is never going to take it up. The only people who

00:23:06.600 are going to be able to expose this is us. Now, we have brought in Mayorkas. I don't know if you 1.00

00:23:11.140 saw that hearing, but I ripped into him and did others. So we are attempting to do that. But again,

00:23:16.120 we've been at a standstill for three weeks now. And that public opinion, that court of public opinion

00:23:22.700 is all I can say is I understand the process. I understand the constitutional relationships

00:23:30.520 and the importance of of the Senate's role and why without the Senate, it doesn't go further.

00:23:39.140 But this will be judged by history. It will be judged by just about 170 million voters in 2024.

00:23:46.720 I don't see how we the Republican Party gets to 2024 acting the way it has. We're now we're now

00:23:54.220 approaching the 11th month of the 118th Congress and nothing of concrete measure has been accomplished.

00:24:03.120 And that is a shame. And we we need desperately something and in straight order. We're talking

00:24:12.180 with Representative Harriet Hageman. And we will be right back in one moment with her answers and

00:24:18.620 views solely as we continue on The Great America Show. We'll be right back.

00:24:29.020 We're back now with Congresswoman Hageman. And I have to say, I've laid out what I see is the

00:24:35.120 situation. It to me is dire, I think, to the American people, at least most of them.

00:24:41.200 They're they're facing runaway inflation. They were looking at eight percent interest rates for

00:24:46.100 mortgages. And there is very little that you're going to be able to rely on rely upon as the

00:24:51.980 opposition party in the way of the national media, which is itself politically corrupt and tools of

00:24:57.980 the establishment, the corporatist oligarchs who who command our national principally about 90 percent of

00:25:06.520 the national media. So it seems to me that this is a matter of absolute urgency, crisis for the

00:25:15.000 Republican Party to put something forward from each of those investigating committees forthwith.

00:25:19.740 Your thoughts, Lou, you are absolutely correct. And I'm going to tell you something to make a promise

00:25:25.260 right now. When I have an opportunity to visit with folks tonight, I'm going to send your message

00:25:29.900 loud and clear. And at every opportunity that I have in talking to my fellow Republicans,

00:25:35.560 I'm going to explain that this is the message that we are getting on the street. This is the message

00:25:40.780 that people in Wyoming, that in Nebraska, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, it doesn't matter where it is.

00:25:46.460 This is exactly the message. This is the concern that all of our fellow Republicans have had.

00:25:53.360 What is it that we are doing? What is it that we are doing for the American public? Well,

00:25:57.880 here's a couple of things. We have passed four of the 12 appropriations bills, and they are sitting

00:26:04.040 on the desk in the Senate. Those four bills fund approximately 70 percent of the discretionary

00:26:10.780 spending in Congress. So what have we done? We've done that. Senate won't take them up. So

00:26:16.980 that's the Democrat-controlled Senate. So when we talk about continuing resolutions and we talk about

00:26:22.680 what we're going to do with funding the government and the appropriations bills, hopefully this week we're

00:26:27.080 going to be taking up two more appropriations bills if we can get a speaker in place. Two more 0.95

00:26:31.560 next week. That gets us to eight of the 12 that we will have done. But again, the Senate isn't doing

00:26:37.960 their job. We are. And here's the thing about those bills that I want you to understand, Lou,

00:26:43.020 that is really good. I'll just use the NDAA as an example, the National Defense Authorization Act.

00:26:48.820 What we did, and it was Jim Banks and a few other people who understand very well,

00:26:53.560 they went in and they stripped out every woke thing you can think of from the military.

00:26:59.640 No more ESG. No more funding of traveling for abortions. All of the things that all of us,

00:27:05.080 no more money for drag queen story hour. All of that stuff has been stripped out of these bills.

00:27:10.620 These are good conservative bills that actually cut spending. And they are, again, four of them,

00:27:16.760 the four of them are sitting on the desk in the Senate. So that's one of the things that we've done.

00:27:21.240 We also have Jamie Comer on oversight is moving forward with getting more and more and more of

00:27:26.820 these bank records out demonstrating. We just got the bank records in the last couple of weeks

00:27:31.280 demonstrating that the Biden crime family was alive and well over the last 20 years.

00:27:37.500 The corruption, the graft, the amount of money that was going to James Biden and then to Joe Biden and

00:27:42.280 going to Hunter Biden and then to Joe Biden. We're putting all of this case together. And I will assure

00:27:47.320 you that as we do move forward, we're going to be able to establish for the American public that yes,

00:27:53.280 the Bidens have been corrupt for decades and we've got to take them out of power. The border crisis

00:27:59.360 situation that is coming to a head. We have HR2 that we've already passed. It's the very best border 0.88

00:28:05.720 security bill that has ever been passed out of Congress. That's sitting on the desk in the Senate

00:28:10.800 controlled or in the in the Democrat controlled Senate. So there are bills. There are things that

00:28:16.440 we have been doing. This last thing that happened three weeks ago has kind of overshadowed that. But

00:28:22.060 I can tell you there are many of us in the Republican conference that are working hard to address the

00:28:26.920 issues that are important to the American public. So, Congresswoman, as as you are going through

00:28:32.800 this. And I think, as always, your your perspective, your analysis is 100 percent. I I hope that the

00:28:41.860 conference is listening to you and I hope the conference can can measure up to the quality,

00:28:48.180 if you will, of your positions and your outlook. I don't know what happens from here. You talked

00:28:55.940 about a number of those in the nine who could who could run the conference, maybe Speaker of the House,

00:29:02.800 the third most important job in the country. And the American people will still, at the end of the

00:29:09.140 day, not know who they are, how they got there. And there is it's going to be a very difficult moment.

00:29:17.040 And I just want to, as we wrap up here with your I always give you the last word here,

00:29:21.480 how we go from here, how the Republican Party comes out of this stronger and and and wins in 2024.

00:29:33.880 Lou, one of the reasons I enjoy coming on to your program is because you are the voice of the

00:29:39.860 American people and you ask the questions that they want to ask, but they don't always have access

00:29:45.040 to be able to us to be able to do that. And that's what you've done today. You've asked me some very

00:29:50.740 fundamental, foundational questions that need to be responded to before we can get the confidence

00:29:56.340 of the American public back and that they will be willing to give us or at least allow us to retain

00:30:01.880 the authority that we need to in the House of Representatives to stop this radical Biden agenda.

00:30:07.340 So, again, what I can tell you is that I think this entire process and what we're seeing isn't a good

00:30:15.560 process. I don't disagree with you on that at all. What I can do is I'll tell you that I'm going to go

00:30:21.560 and I'm going to talk to the people this afternoon and tonight and say, how do we make sure that we have

00:30:25.700 the transparency and the accountability that the American public is demanding to know that whomever

00:30:31.120 we pick is actually the constitutionalist that we need at this moment in time, is actually the person

00:30:36.840 who is going to pursue the conservative agenda that is going to save this country and frankly,

00:30:41.700 help us to address all of the incredible issues around the world. We need to have the transparency

00:30:48.160 and accountability. I will commit to doing whatever I can to get that put in place.

00:30:53.580 Congresswoman, as always, we appreciate you being with us. We thank you for all that you're doing

00:30:59.720 for this great country and the people of Wyoming, most certainly. Thanks so much for being with us.

00:31:05.680 God bless you.

00:31:06.720 Thank you.

00:31:07.160 Thanks, everybody, for being here today. Thanks to Congresswoman Hageman for being with us.

00:31:12.340 Please join us here tomorrow when our guest will be advisor to President Trump,

00:31:16.320 former top defense official, DOJ prosecutor and chief of staff of the House Intelligence Committee.

00:31:22.380 He's Kash Patel and join us each and every day. Follow me on Twitter and Truth Social at

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00:31:33.360 Lou Dobbs dot com. Thank you, everybody. God bless you. And may God bless America.

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