The Great America Show - October 24, 2023


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31 minutes

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173.29935

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5,484

Sentence Count

347

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary

The compromised, impaired puppet president Joe Biden spent his weekend at his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, while the war in the Middle East shows no signs of stopping, and markets are strengthening. While Biden enjoyed his weekend, FBI Director Christopher Wray and intel leaders from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, well, they showed up over 60 minutes to warn us all about the Chinese threats that the United States and the world face. Also, President Trump is demanding that Marxist DC Judge Tanya Chutkin lift the gag order she imposed on him at the request of DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith. And in a New York courtroom, Judge Arthur Ingeron, the Marxist Demm presiding over the Trump business civil case, is too.


Transcript

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