The Great America Sunday Show： December 21, 2025
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Why don t we have a special announcement for you tonight? We re going to break down what happened on today s episode of The Great Americana Show and talk about why the Democrats need a wake-up call.
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hello everybody and welcome to the great america show it's great to have you with us on this
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beautiful day in america thanks so much for spending part of your evening with us here
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we've got a terrific show lined up for you tonight uh if you're joining us on rumble or twitter or
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youtube uh special announcement tonight after the show we're going to be doing some stuff over on
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youtube our youtube channel at the great america show on youtube uh breaking down what happened
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on capitol hill today with jack smith the former junkyard jackal special counsel uh who persecuted
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president trump uh we now find out wasn't supposed to be i mean we knew but we're not finding out
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uh the fbi wanted nothing to do with it jack smith says push on merrick garland they're gonna have to
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answer some questions so we're gonna be doing that tonight on youtube so be sure to head over there
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um after the show to check that out let's get into some news of the day why don't we
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you know every time i feel like my faith in humanity is dwindling comes right back and uh
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it's restored if you haven't seen it yet it's a video we're gonna bring it to you
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there's two people you don't mess with folks it's elderly people and children you just
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you don't bully them you leave them alone you don't do anything to them you just let them be
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well a political activist a far left-wing activist by the name of michaela ponce who's a
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a nurse and a far left activist unleashed a tirade on this elderly lady who worked at target
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for simply wearing a charlie kirk shirt that says freedom on it now we've got the video for you
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so you can uh check it out if you haven't here it is why they let you wear that shirt shirt yes
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why are you taking my picture why are you wearing that shirt you're working
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it's a red shirt i can wear red any red shirt it's not a plain shirt it doesn't have to be a charlie
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kirk shirt yes oh yes i know are you fucking stupid no why the fuck would you wear that you're
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at work at target that's not target shirt it's not a plain red shirt you support a racist
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i mean it's not racist you support a racist he's not a racist yes he is yes he fucking is i'm sorry
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but i'm not going to stand here and argue with you're not you should go get your manager you should
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not be allowed to wear the at work unacceptable unfucking acceptable that's your opinion the
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opinion is he's a fucking racist and you support him that's your opinion and you should you should
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not be allowed to wear that this is going to be taken above your fucking head that's insane
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sick folks sick well after seeing that video my faith in humanity seemingly lost and then i found
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out the nice things that were being done for that elderly lady who goes by the name of janine
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she uh is being uh is being fundraised for on give send go and as of just a few moments ago
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152 000 has been raised for this lady to give her a little vacation from target that's where my faith
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in humanity has been restored the democrats folks the ones who tell us they're tolerant
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that they're the ones that are going to save america that's the intolerant left what we saw right
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there picking on some innocent old woman who's stocking shelves at target over the shirt she's wearing and
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then goes on to call charlie all those names i mean it's another thing you don't do is speak ill of
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the dead those are the democrats folks those are the democrats
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they need a wake-up call it's not just me saying it new polling out shows 18 percent of the voters
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approve of the way the marks of stems of congress are handling their job
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73 percent disapprove it's a new record low job approval for them according to a new quinnipiac poll
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quinnipiac has began doing this poll back in 2009 the previous law was in july of 2025
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when 19 of voters approved of the job the democrats are doing 72 disapproving this poll that's out today
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among democrats 42 percent approve of the way that members of congress are doing the job 48 percent
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disapprove these are the dems folks quinnipiac's poll back they'd done the same polling uh in october of
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20 uh october 22nd of this year 58 percent of the democrats approved of the way that they were
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handling congress for 36 disapproved 35 percent of the voters approved the way the republicans are
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handling congress while 58 disapproved a little bit better by double not much better but a little bit
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and then the polling in congress is always historically low but they've somehow managed
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folks to do this and we go off to the republicans because they've definitely got to get their act
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together and we're gonna have a special guest on in just a few moments someone who's running for
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now gallup who's been tracking for years doing their tracking of congressional approval has congress
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15 percent approval rating folks that's where they're at now this all comes as more than 10 percent of
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congress won't return to their seats after 2026 we've went through it it's a mix of democrats it's a mix
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of republicans some running for higher office so i'm getting the heck out of dodge
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but it's time to bring new faces into congress folks the time is now and we're going to be talking
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about that uh with our guest today before we we bring him in um dan bongino the president trump
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confirming just moments ago uh to depart from his role with the fbi
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oh dan dan did a great job i think he wants to go back to his show
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president trump saying bongino just wants to go back to his show
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i guess we'll figure out if that's the case uh when dan departs but uh no time on it yet but
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bongino reportedly uh leaving the fbi folks our guest today is going to be joining us in just a
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moment after this quick commercial break goes by the name of mark to share out now for those of you
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are baseball fans or new york fans or new york yankee fans an absolute unit of a player three-time
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all-star five-time gold glover 2009 world series champion with my new york yankees um
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pretty pretty damn good baseball career could have went off into the sunset retired from baseball and
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from everything but deciding he wants to now throw his hat in the ring for a congressional seat down in
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texas chip roy who's uh departing that seat texas 21 the austin area south of it uh
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tashara mark tashara says he wants to run he's going to join us on the other side of this quick
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break folks i'm excited for this some fresh new blood heading to congress it's exactly what we need
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it's exactly what we talk about each and every day right we're taking a quick break we're going to
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be back on the other side of this quick break uh in less than 60 seconds so please stay with us
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mark tashara new york yankees legend and congressional candidates going to be joining us on the other
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side please stay with us we're coming right back
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thanks everybody for staying with us here on the great america show now as promised i told you folks
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one of my favorite yankees seems to be a great stand-up man throughout his entire career but we're
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going to find out together the great mark tashara mlb legend now deciding to probably make one of
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the worst career decisions in history and get into politics after having such a great career uh mark
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it's an honor it's a pleasure to have you with us tell the audience if you will what what made you make
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this i mean just terrible career decision well first of all john thanks for having me on and um i get
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that reaction a lot you know a lot of people are saying hey tex what are you thinking you've got a
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great life like you grinded for your entire life to make it in the big leagues um enjoy your retirement
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enjoy time with your family but listen i'm a christian my my entire life has been you know all of my
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success um the family that i have the wonderful wife and kids uh my success on the field is because
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god has blessed me in so many ways and listen the bible doesn't say have a great career raise your
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kids and go on vacation it says serve and and i love this country this country went through the
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ringer four years under joe biden um and and i looked at that as we need new types of leadership
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in washington dc and thank goodness that president trump got back into office and he's trying to turn
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things around but he needs allies that are young um that are willing to fight that are tenacious that can
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go out there and try to turn this country around yeah sonia before before we got on the show i'm just
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so tired mark of seeing members of congress walking down the hallways with wheelchairs with walkers i
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mean it's terrible it's terrible to see you it's all going to happen to us one day it's the evolution
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of life you know we're going to be there but we shouldn't be the people running our country it
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shouldn't be these people who need to take naps all day long as we show under joe biden and some
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members of congress we need young blood like you who are going to go in there and and
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it used to be mark where you had to be somebody to become a politician you had to know somebody
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you had to be inside the political realm and donald trump really turned that upside down in 2015
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when he said screw you guys i'm going to beat 16 you guys on the stage you don't need to to kiss the
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boots of this guy you don't need to ride the coattails of this guy to become a politician anymore
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you just got to raise some money and be a good person and i think it opened the voters eyes mark
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to something way different i think people like you who come from the outside are far more qualified
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than someone who's a lawyer or a lobbyist you're exactly right john and and that's one of the
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reasons that my campaign has gotten off to such a great start why i i have so much traction so many
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people are supporting me whether publicly endorsing or helping me raise money because you know we do have
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a problem in government with people being there too long i believe in term limits not you know i'm not
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going to do this forever i'm not going to be there when i'm in my 80s as you say right so i believe in
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term limits i believe in going in doing a job and getting back out and letting new blood come in and
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you're right bureaucrats have have ruined washington uh there's some really good people in government i've
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met tons of them but unfortunately there are layers and layers of bureaucracy that kind of overshadow
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everything that we're trying to do in government and if you've been in government for 40 years
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that's just the way it is well for me i don't accept that as an outsider donald trump didn't
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accept that and so as president he's trying to slash all that bureaucracy and get us back to um you
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know spending money the right way and serving the american people yeah you know the other thing we see is
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we see mark we see people go in there dirt poor making under 74 000 a year and somehow they come out
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and their their their paychecks look like yours did when you were in the mlb you to the best of my
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knowledge you have no reason to be going in there to make any money yet a hell of a career uh you know
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major money and and your rationale to go in there is to help people it's not to turn uh 174 000 a year
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into two and a half million dollars a year and to start trading stocks and doing this and do that it's
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it's really become mark a laughingstock of an institution the great lou dobbs used to tell me
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he used to say what do you want to do and when i first started working for a market i go i don't
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know man i want to be a congressman he goes no you don't those people are only there because they're
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not qualified to do anything else and i just say you're crazy what are you talking about and lo and
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behold that's what it's become mark yep yeah there's a bunch of them out there and like i said um
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you know i love my texas delegation you know we've there's a reason that the state of texas is so
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successful because i do believe we have those that want to actually serve in texas but you look
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across the country look what's happening in minnesota you know how does ilan omar become go
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from um you know having you know pretty much zero net worth to being worth 30 million dollars oh there's
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a billion dollar scam that happened in her state where ngos were getting our taxpayer dollars sent to
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minnesota to um to quote help help the poor right that's what democrats always say well you got to help
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the poor gotta help the poor well they're skimming off the top and we know this is happening john and
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and this is one of the reasons that that i want to go to congress because like you said i i'm not
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doing this for the money i'm gonna i'm gonna end up giving away way more way more than i uh than i
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bring in in congress so that's not why i'm going i'm going to serve the people and make sure that they
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know that that the republicans in congress want to work for them um you know we have a whole bunch of
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dems on the other side that want to make us a socialist country and want the people to work
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for them i think republicans want it the other way you know the problem is too mark it's funny you
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said ilan omar i wasn't going to go there i didn't want to bring it down that role but now you brought
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us there so it's like it's so funny you get the republicans mark where you get clean cut guys like
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you who've had great jobs made good money who speak succinctly who speak with class and elegance
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and then the other side of the aisle you look and you've got rashida talib you've got ilhan omar
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you've got chuck schumer you've got all these bottom feeders who are just they're just garbage
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i think that's the word donald trump used they're garbage there there's no elegance about them
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they disrespect the institution uh you walk down the hallways of congress i don't even know if you've
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been there yet but when you go take a walk down the hallways these congress transgender flags
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outside here this is not what this country was based on this is not what this country was built
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on mark it was built on hard-working americans like you and i to do a good job and now the whole
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thing has just become a race to the bottom uh to be social experiments and we've really taken a bad
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turn here in my opinion well and and you hit on you hit on a bunch of our cities and traveling my
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entire adult life going to these these once great american cities playing baseball and working for espn and
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all the business endeavors that i've been involved in like i used to go to seattle washington and san
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francisco and absolutely love those places they were beautiful uh clean i would bring my wife we would
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have a a nice time before games or go out to dinner after games now i wouldn't want to bring my family
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close to seattle or san francisco and and democrats have let progressive policies have ruined our
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downtowns all over the country and that's because of progressive policies paying people to stay poor
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keeping them poor and then you have representation out of those places like those those folks you just
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talked about um and unfortunately uh our cities are in trouble and and i believe that that you know
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when you have a socialist mayor in new york like we just we just uh had elected when you have a socialist
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mayor in seattle this is the tip of the iceberg and if we don't stop what's happening in our cities
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it's going to spread all over the country and we're going to lose this country tell us a little bit about
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your district that you'll be representing hopefully um in less than a year now in texas
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yep so district 21 it is chip roy's current district it's essentially southwest austin down the
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i-35 corridor to san antonio i get the north san antonio suburbs and then all the way out to the
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hill country it is the most beautiful district in texas um i was in fredericksburg texas last night
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for an event just absolutely gorgeous really good people very christian very family focused uh i think
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chip won by about 20 points last year trump carried it by 20 points um so very conservative these are i say
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these are folks that go to church on sunday they barbecue afterwards they want their kids to have safe
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neighborhoods and good schools uh and they want to be builders of this country um and so it would
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be an honor of my lifetime to represent these folks because you know these are good patriots
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i often say mark the wrong people get ahead the wrong people in some cases uh get endorsements that
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they don't deserve i i mean it's i can't reiterate it enough more uh that outsiders like you need the
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endorsements of president trump outsiders like you need the endorsements uh of the people who make this
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country great to not let in people who are going to destroy this country what would you say your
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biggest issues are your biggest agenda issues obviously texas is a big border state uh your
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district a little bit more safe than uh the you know the ones down in brownsville or my friend myra
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flores is running for down there uh what are your big issues what was it that really made you say i i gotta
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get up you know i gotta get off the couch and i've got to really help uh texas 21 the the biggest issue
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still is border security because even though the border is closed it's not fully secure and god forbid
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we have a president newsom or a president pritzker in the in the future president whoever they're going
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to open the border back up if it's not permanently secure and you can look at all of the issues in our
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country right now and they have something to do with the border being open overrun health care system
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schools that are failing drugs 100 000 people die of drug overdoses every year in our country
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um you know you you have you have cities that just aren't safe so all of these issues debt upon debt
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housing issues right so the people in my district understand we're kind of in the middle of texas right
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but we understand the four years of biden when the border wasn't secure when it was wide open
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what that did to our state and to our country and so all of the other things we that i care about you
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know which is education and health care and religious freedom all these things if we just
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have an open border and people can come in here unvetted nothing else is ever going to get fixed because
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we'll always be chasing our tail yeah you're absolutely right i want to let you know a little fact
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you say 100 000 people i totally agree with you but i think it's it's way more than that because the
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cdc is not able to report people who don't autopsy but yeah the fentanyl problem it could be upwards of
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150 000 it's a very very scary thing i'm gonna let you in on a little secret and i don't know you may
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know this you may not know this but it's what you're getting yourself into a gallup who tracks
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congressional approval they've been doing it for the longest time ever currently has the congressional
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approval at about 15 15 15 of americans approve of congress another new poll that's out actually
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today is from quinnipiac it gives the democrats in congress a record low job approval but voters still
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say they may vote for them in 2026 uh because they think that donald trump's presidential power
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goes too far and i guess it's based on his executive orders because he doesn't have a congress
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that gets their act together he doesn't have a congress that pushes forth america first the
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republican party doesn't realize something mark there was a mandate on november 5th when donald trump
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won it was that people wanted those borders secure people wanted inflation down people wanted
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deportations down people don't realize this these democrats when they go out on the view they don't
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realize americans overwhelmingly still support this but there are these democrats who are just so out of
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touch or reality so you'd be heading into congress right now i don't think it's going to get any
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better with the approval rating at the lowest point in history mark yeah and and listen i don't blame
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the average american for saying that congress isn't doing enough again layers and layers of bureaucracy
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folks that that are more interested in their politics than good policy and that's the beauty of me being an
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outsider i am an unabashed outsider i tell everybody i've never lived in politics i've never had a job
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in politics never been a bureaucrat you know i'm a i'm a christian father and husband that had a really
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cool job because i worked my tail off and everything i have is because of hard work it's because of god
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given talent and hard work so like i lived the american dream because of because of the sweat that i put into
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it unfortunately there's a lot of folks out there that just think that government is there to kind of take
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care of them and democrats have given so much given away every time there's an opportunity they're
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going to spend money and give people things so when when times are a little bit hard you know when maybe
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uh your your electric bill is a little bit too high you go oh i'll elect a democrat and see if that
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if they make it better they'll probably if i elect a democrat they'll probably pay for my electric bill
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and we've got to get out of that mindset john that that government is there to take care of our
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problems yeah if we go down that road we will become a socialist country and senator ted cruz
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asked me this last week when i was in dc for a couple days he said text what gets you out of bed
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and no one ever asked me that on the trail when i was playing baseball obviously i knew what i was
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getting out of bed i want to beat the red socks you know when to win a world series there you go and i
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i hesitated for one second and i said to fight socialism because that is where the democrats want
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to take us and i know congress doesn't have a great approval rating right now but we do need to pass
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legislation talk about policy not politics pass legislation as republicans that actually help the
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american people let's get some wins let's throw some wins on the board president trump loves winners
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i i am behind him 100 on his executive orders now if he goes too far the supreme court's there to tell
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him hey president trump can't do that all right fine haven't done so yet though mark yeah at least he's
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trying to get things done and and we need a congress to back him up you talked about his mandate we need
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you know the thing mark i'd say probably a good 90 of it boils down to messaging with the republicans
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just have a terrible time of doing because they have a hard time uh you know relating to the voters
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this is what has to get done even though they intend mostly on doing a good job the border issue
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it's so simple we all have hearts mark we you know it sucks that this is what it's come down to it sucks
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that these people have to be deported because they came here illegally but you can't sit there and
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blame tom homan and donald trump for deporting women and children and families you could blame the
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parents who brought these kids to america illegally knowing you're putting them in this situation
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that one day they will be deported one day there's a chance you will be deported where's the blame on
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the parents for bringing them here illegally where's the blame on the parents for what we're going to
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see now in the supreme court uh of uh i guess the um the term is anchor baby of bringing them here
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getting pregnant having a child and then all of a sudden they're american citizen which is
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not the damn case in any other country yeah yeah that's a loophole in the comp in the constitution
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by the way birthright citizenship and here's the thing what if what if we just all agreed to follow
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the law yeah imagine our country if we just followed the law and we talk about we need these laws
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and need these laws and these laws well we don't follow the first one that is causing all the
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problems for us to need the other ones so so why do we think if we pass all of these new laws and all
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these new you know immigration reforms or whatever that people are actually going to follow the law
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it's all about enforcement and that's what i i give president trump so much credit and i give um whether
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you're a da or a judge or or any any law enforcement all over the country that actually sticks to finding
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criminals processing them and getting them out of here like that was the that's been the law since day
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one um and and this is a huge problem not just in immigration but we just love in government to layer
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laws on top of laws because people don't follow the rules to begin with and and enforcement
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laws are it doesn't matter what we have on the books if if you can't enforce them so um so kudos
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to president trump and tom homan for doing their job yeah it's you're coming in an interesting time
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mark more than 10 percent of congress won't return to their seats after 2026 so this could be the new
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wave of people and it's you know the left saying well there's a purge in the republican party they're
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leaving well now you look at some of the people are leaving uh they were kind of shit bums to begin
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with don bacon and some of these people who voted for impeachment because they didn't like a phone
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call that donald trump had with uh vladimir zelinski or they didn't like that uh there was this uh
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quote-unquote insurrection at the capitol not caring about government whatever whatever you get into all
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of it but you know there is a big purge coming congress and now is the time uh for fresh blood folks
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like you to come in um before we wrap mark let's talk have you heard first of all let's go back when you
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were in baseball when you're in the mlb things weren't as political as they are now today it
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kills me i love football lou dobbs love football but it couldn't stomach him to turn on the tv
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to look in the back of an end zone and see black lives matter which we now know to be one of the
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biggest criminal organizations they might as well have been in uh minnesota with this somali uh scam
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that went on over there you turn on baseball or what and it's it takes all of us or end racism
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and all this nonsense that wasn't around when you were in baseball right did you guys even talk
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politics in the club no we didn't um so i i retired in 2016 and it was really remember the 2020 was a
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was a bad year for america for a lot of different reasons and i think that was kind of when it turned
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when when dei i'd never heard of dei until 2020 i never heard of some of these different multi multi-letter
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groups uh until 2020 and someone asked me the other day i actually give the texas rangers my
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first team drafted me you know um that's why i fell in love with the state of texas lived in dallas
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fort worth for eight years and they asked me they go hey hey tex is aren't the rangers the only team
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that didn't have a pride day and i said i believe so and i'm darn proud of the texas rangers if somebody
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would have told me i don't care what team i was on when i had to go out into batting practice and
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wear a rainbow shirt for batting practice i would have said no and you can find me you can suspend
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me you can do whatever you want but no i'm not doing that and luckily i think we have gotten off
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it a little bit but it's still there john to your point it is still like we are force-fed this stuff
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and especially as athletes most athletes we are like we love meritocracy we love you get the job
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done you get paid you you score more points you win the game this this is not a a touchy-feely
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business it is cutthroat in major league baseball and professional sports i mean we have some animals
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out there that you know you would think wouldn't you know want to play around all this touchy-feely
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stuff and let's just give everybody a trophy and let's give everybody money because we love them
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um my guess is if you really asked everybody an honest opinion most athletes in the united states of
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america are conservative they they because they they value hard work you know they they value their
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family and the teammates and like that bond that you have with your team um now whether it comes
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out on television or not um if you really ask them deep down they might have conservative
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value they might say they're a democrat but their values are probably conservative yeah you know
00:29:07.200
one of your former teammates alex rodriguez went out campaigned for joe biden campaigned for kamala
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harris and i'm like like are you this stupid and it's like he's just one of them you got steph curry
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you mentioned california out there these people go out there their houses i don't know if you've
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seen but a slew of nfl players their houses been getting broken into these people go out there
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they make millions of dollars a year and there's nothing wrong with that you guys deserve every
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penny you made you guys are putting on a show for people you guys are doing irreparable harm to your
00:29:37.420
body and damage to your body that you live with for the rest of your life you guys deserve to make
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the money um but you make all this money you pay 60 taxes i don't know where you lived when you were
00:29:47.080
in new york you know new york or connecticut or whatever you pay 60 taxes and what do you get back
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to show for it that's the thing mark that kills me all politics aside whether you don't want to
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talk about abortion you don't want to talk about social issues the money thing alone how do these
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people justify mark in a clubhouse paying 60 tax on their money and going home to crime ridden cities
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of crap hole new yorks or somewhere in connecticut or wherever you guys lived when you know played for
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the anguys yep i i've got no problem paying some some taxes if i feel like if i'm getting if i'm
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getting my money's worth like we the only thing we do well in our country is is defense national defense
00:30:31.020
everything else we've ruined we've ruined education we've ruined health care the federal government has
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ruined housing every time that they take more money from me and and put it into things that we
00:30:42.620
shouldn't be involved in anyway that's when i get upset and so for me i man we should have a lean
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mean uh fighting machine in in defense like my father was a navy pilot i have no problem spending
00:30:57.480
money on defense i have no problem investing in infrastructure to help jobs of the future but
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wasting money that you know is getting skimmed off the top that you know on programs that don't have any
00:31:08.840
return on investment sending it to foreign nations that don't do any for anything for us and actually
00:31:14.140
hate us why are we spending money on this type of stuff so you know we do have a taxation problem i
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mean like my elevator pitch john is is secure the border lower taxes shrink the government grow the
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economy protect life protect the second amendment if that's all we did if that's all we did in our
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country we would be fine and and that's something that that i will i will say every day on the
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campaign trail because um as a conservative as a christian father and husband uh those are those
00:31:44.540
are things i need to live by how about you add one into there mark and i'm sure you'll be on board with
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this one let's get out of everyone's business overseas i mean who cares if this country wants to
00:31:55.100
throw rocks and stones at this country and shoot our bow and arrow i mean that's an issue of government
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you know to me that's part that's part of shrinking government is we don't have to do that that and
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that so we can save some money and and not have so many bureaucrats telling people overseas what they
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should and shouldn't be doing yeah it's a nice ring to it mark i want to give you the last word here i
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want you to give people the the website where they can go to follow you where they can go to donate
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it's a grassroots campaign which means it takes every single one of us to uh to give to the campaign to
00:32:29.820
to give mark the money he needs to fight against the marxist democrats uh texas is one of like the
00:32:36.300
last safe havens in america i'm up here in new york and uh i mean people are fleeing to texas they're
00:32:42.920
fleeing to florida they're fleeing to tennessee to get the hell out of these places these hell ridden
00:32:47.680
places now with people like mondani you get the last word here mark in there please give the the
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audience where they can go to donate and support your campaign well well first of all thank you john for
00:32:59.220
the time this was this is a lot of fun i'll do it anytime you want um but yes i live in the greatest
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state in the union uh texas we have people that love this country and if if people all over the united
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states of america want to support go to text for congress.com text for congress.com i want supporters
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all over the place because what i tell folks is even though i'm a texas representative my vote in
00:33:26.980
congress counts the same as wherever you live my one vote counts the same as michael allers in new
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york and so um patriots everywhere go to text for congress.com uh love you god bless america
00:33:40.220
text for congress.com folks the great the great mark to share if you've never seen mark swing a bat
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from the left to the right go to youtube we can't put it in here because they'll flag the video but
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go to youtube folks one of the greatest yankees to ever do it mark to share come back soon thank you
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john will do thanks to mark to share folks and thank you all uh for being with us tonight here on the
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00:34:14.960
campaign lawn signs uh all that good stuff uh it takes all of us folks it takes each and every single
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one of us uh to get the word out of each each and every one of us uh to to get people elected
00:34:27.080
who will actually make a difference who are not there to go stock trade and and become uh the
00:34:32.720
gordon geckos of the war the jordan belforts of congress folks we need people to go in there who
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want to do the right thing and it's people like my opinion mark to share folks please be sure to join
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