On today's show, Congressman Mike Herodopoulos of the Florida joins us to talk about the stunning January jobs report, the pending vote on the SAVE Act, and the indictments of some of President Trump's top DOJ officials.
00:05:27.760So is Nadler, who fell asleep, didn't even know what was going on throughout that hearing.
00:05:34.220Probably why he's excited to retire at the end of this term.
00:05:38.820Another one who decided to grandstand was on the Republican side, Thomas Massey.
00:05:43.500Who seemingly just in the last year started caring about the Epstein victims and the Epstein survivors and the people who were victims.
00:05:52.280Never cared about it before, but nobody seemingly has asked him the question, other than on Twitter, of why all of a sudden he started to take interest in it now.
00:06:02.760And I'm going to say, I'm kind of happy that Pam Bondi asked him the question.
00:06:29.040This cover-up spans decades, and you are responsible for this portion of it.
00:06:34.460Now, I want to know, at what point, at what point did the FBI and the DOJ decide that Lex Wessner was not a co-conspirator?
00:06:44.280Because our Epstein Files Transparency Act requires you, please put it back on the screen, to release the internal decision about whether to prosecute him or not, and it's not in the files, and it's not in the files for any of these other men.
00:06:59.880The time of the gentleman has expired.
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00:07:47.660Joining us here on The Great America Show, as I said, our guest today, Congressman Mike Herodopoulos of the great state of Florida.
00:07:55.520Congressman, a delight to have you back on The Great America Show.
00:08:06.900I'm honored to be a part of the United States Congress.
00:08:09.380It's a challenging situation, to say the least, with our micro-majority in the House, of course, needing 60 votes in too many matters in the United States Senate.
00:08:16.700But we've made a lot of progress over the last year.
00:08:19.860I've really enjoyed it by the colleagues I serve with for the most part.
00:08:24.000And, you know, America is just a much better place than it was a year ago.
00:08:27.500Our economy has improved and, of course, our position in the world as well.
00:08:31.340But it's always going to be a challenge taking on the liberals and, of course, the media that backs them every single day.
00:08:37.000Speaking of the liberal media, I turned on, and this is why I wanted you on the show today, I texted Jillian shortly after.
00:08:42.680I was up early this morning and I was watching CNN.
00:08:45.080And I go, hold on, that's Mike Herodopoulos.
00:08:48.620I turned up the volume and I started listening.
00:08:50.240And I'm like, he's way too high class.
00:08:52.520He's way too much of a gentleman to be on with these peasants of people.
00:08:56.240And you carry yourself with such high regard.
00:08:59.580I've got to give it to you with being surrounded by those people.
00:09:02.760We're going to get to what you talked about there first.
00:09:04.880But let's talk about some of your fellow members that you have sitting up there on Capitol Hill with you, namely one of them, Jerry Nadler, who today, now this is a sitting member of Congress, decided to take a nap.
00:09:19.620It's very unique because you've never, this committee just started.
00:09:38.300It wasn't like it was going on for a few hours.
00:09:40.180If Raskin, who is, you know, his lips are moving, you know what's happening.
00:10:00.340I get that man a drink or a CPAP machine or something because he's, I mean, it's so embarrassing to think you've got guys like you who are like staple members of Congress, good looking, active, you know, out there doing the work.
00:10:22.380And then you've got guys with Jerry Nadler who would just, I mean, you wouldn't wish him on your high school gym teacher.
00:10:28.080And it's so sad to think that this is the establishment, this is the institution that is changing the lives of hundreds of millions of American people.
00:10:37.260When you've got people there who don't even have the decency to stay awake for meetings, it's embarrassing, Congressman.
00:10:44.080They want to talk about President Trump being embarrassing on the world stage.
00:10:47.220I'm more embarrassed by Jerry Nadler wearing his pants up to his neck and falling asleep in meetings than by anything I've ever heard Donald Trump say.
00:10:55.180Well, like, as we like it or not, America and Congress is representative of America.
00:11:02.540You've got some tall ones, some short ones, some heavy ones, some skinny ones, and some other ones.
00:11:07.820And, you know, my take on it is always control what you can control.
00:11:12.340And the good news is that they are not in power right now.
00:11:15.260They're doing everything they can to undercut the president, let alone the United States of America.
00:11:19.060And despite all of that, let's just say, flack, we are moving forward.
00:11:24.320I mean, think about where gas prices are versus a year ago.
00:11:26.760Look at where interest rates are down.
00:11:28.540Look at the fact that there's so many trillions of dollars being invested in America.
00:11:39.180I mean, these are the issues that we ran on.
00:11:41.500And so what CNN and everybody else are going to try to do for the remainder of the year is create some kind of chaos that takes people off the ball, away from what really matters in people's lives.
00:11:52.380And one of those things, Congressman, and it's one of the things you spoke about this morning on CNN, was the Epstein files.
00:11:58.860The Democrats for the last year have come out, and we're all tired of hearing about it.
00:12:02.780But at the same time, we all want true justice in the American way.
00:12:05.840We want every single one of those scumbags, you know, I heard you mention today about your three children, every single one of those scumbags who preyed on children to have the full extent of law thrown at them to rot in jail for the rest of their lives, if not worse happening to them.
00:13:31.740They think they can run on affordability all day long.
00:13:34.860I would love to debate the Democrats on affordability all day long and love to talk about what's happening on the border.
00:13:40.680And we, I mean, Donald Trump and Republicans are the ones who kept the Epstein issue alive so we can expose these awful people who are abusing children across America and not the world.
00:13:51.960And Epstein was exposed to what he is.
00:14:47.800But they're trying to pull away from it.
00:14:49.780And in my opinion, they're sort of succeeding because President Trump's poll numbers right now are not as high as they should be with everything that he's done so far.
00:14:58.280I think it's the obscene thing pulling him down a little bit.
00:15:16.260We are the party of making America great again.
00:15:18.120How do you tell the voters, listen, we're not the party that's just going to sit on our rear ends and do nothing?
00:15:22.520Yeah, my answer is simply that, look, the mainstream media does everything in their power to create chaos.
00:15:27.660Remember this whole ICE operation everywhere else across the country, other than corrupt Minnesota, which they're trying to hide the football.
00:15:35.960All these ICE operations are going unimpeded, meaning that law enforcement looks out for these ICE agents.
00:15:42.320They go in and re-arrest these illegal immigrants, especially if they're violent or sexual offenders, drug dealers, you name it, and they get them out of the country.
00:15:51.800In Minnesota, of course, you have these elected officials who not only let them out of jail, they're ginning up their own citizens to basically stand up for criminals.
00:16:00.820I mean, it's like the world turned upside down, bizarro world.
00:16:04.740And so what CNN does, and I mentioned the show today, they try to preach chaos, like this is happening all over the place.
00:16:11.360And sadly, in both these cases in Minnesota, you don't wish death on anyone.
00:16:23.080You're trying to re-arrest some violent offender, and then you have these people right in the middle of the action.
00:16:28.740It's a tense situation, and bad things can happen, and that's what exactly happened.
00:16:33.320And candidly, I think the Democrats like what happened in the big picture, not to death, but just all this chaos because it works for them politically.
00:16:42.040Yeah, I think you're 100 percent right.
00:16:44.580You mean to tell me that you don't own a daycare center down in Florida, none of that good stuff, where you're making a little bit of Skrilla on the side?
00:16:54.140I mean, what they are getting away with and how that isn't the number one story, how Waltz is even allowed to walk in publics beyond that.
00:17:01.920I mean, obviously, again, as you know, I'm the former president of the Senate in Florida, and we have inspectors that go into all these type of facilities.
00:17:11.520And obviously, if no one's there or they see that learning is spelled wrong, you're going to get a call.
00:17:17.980They were told by somebody, turn the other cheek, don't look, don't worry about it.
00:17:22.960And if you do, you've got a problem with your job.
00:17:24.860That's clearly what happened, and it's happening across the country in the name of politics.
00:17:29.820And it's despicable because think about how hard people work to pay 30 or 40 percent of all their income in taxes, and a certain percentage are going to these scam artists.
00:17:39.500It's infuriating, to say the least, and yet the Democrats get away with so much because the media wants to cover for him again, whether it be the dislike of Trump.
00:17:50.060But let's not forget, this isn't just Donald Trump.
00:17:52.700Remember, they hated John McCain until when he was running against Obama.
00:17:57.160I would say hated George W. Bush as being a warmonger.
00:19:14.820These are the people who are stoking the fire for these anti-radical ICE protesters to go out there and stand in front of cars.
00:19:21.900They're the anti-radical protesters who are out there harming our ICE agents, and they're doing a great disservice to this country and a great disservice to the people who want to protect and serve our country.
00:19:46.600I mean, what about those people who have been killed, raped, or murdered by these illegals?
00:19:52.460And I brought some of those names up on TV today, and they're the kind of people, if you're playing basketball, you make 19 out of 20 shots.
00:20:00.120That one shot you miss, they're going to be talking about it for 24-7 is who they are.
00:20:03.960But I go on these shows because they need the pushback.
00:20:07.180They live in an echo chamber of liberalism, and they're trying to basically brainwash people to say that things are not as good as they seem every single day.
00:20:15.920Again, Iran in 2024, I can tell you without question, if you can – if I said what was the most important issue in the entire campaign, people could not believe that illegal aliens were able to walk across the border, come into the United States, and then get subsidized and then sent across to different locations while people who played by the rules would not get any benefits.
00:20:54.340The analogy you used was perfect with the free throws.
00:20:57.520The one I like to use is that Donald Trump is a failed businessman because he was only 98% successful because he had a casino in Atlantic City that failed.
00:21:04.980Well, you're not from the Northeast, Congressman, but there's not a casino that's made it in Atlantic City without failing, so he was right in line with the rest of it.
00:21:13.860Yeah, he's a failed businessman who's a billionaire.
00:21:44.940The second biggest issue when you were running that I think is the biggest issue now is voter integrity, securing our elections to ensure that the Democrats can never steal another election from us again.
00:21:57.100Today, coincidentally, the House voted to move the SAVE Act over to the Senate, where, quite honestly, the prospect of it doesn't look bright with the likes of Lisa Murkowski.
00:22:09.420You had one, maybe some people call him a rhino.
00:22:13.480Thomas Massey, the only Republican voting against it.
00:22:17.860Congressman, I look at poll after poll after poll.
00:22:20.180I do a lot of polling with Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen.
00:22:22.140Listen, the American people overwhelmingly, it's not just the Republicans, it's the Democrats, too, support election integrity.
00:23:12.160Everybody, I mean, and it's so insulting.
00:23:13.820And I think it's racist when they call it Jim Crow 2.0 in the reverse.
00:23:17.720Are you telling me that African-Americans or Hispanic or women can't don't have an identification?
00:23:24.000Like these people don't go on airplanes or buy alcohol or check into a hotel and get their ID verified?
00:23:30.940I mean, it's such an insulting comment.
00:23:33.340It just shows the arrogance of the Democrats and maybe even some of the arrogance of these some of the Republicans who are obstinate to this.
00:23:41.220And you and I both know if we try to apply for a credit card, they do a background check on you and they tell you what your freaking nationality is.
00:23:49.220It's like, oh, I don't know if we can figure it out.
00:24:27.520And I think it's an insult to African-Americans or Hispanics or women who they say basically can't figure out how to get an identification.
00:24:34.840Yeah, I did it with a very big Republican fundraiser maybe a year ago.
00:24:40.220And what they said to me was so appalling.
00:24:42.100It was me and Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen that it was like made me sick to my stomach.
00:24:45.800And we asked this person, he said, so, you know, what's the deal?
00:24:49.040You know, why can't they get it together?
00:24:51.080Why can't the Republicans get it together?
00:24:53.140What this person said was, you know, sometimes it's just easier to raise money in the minority and it's easier to govern while in the minority.
00:25:02.900So as soon as I heard that, I said, you know, it sort of makes sense why we've allowed these members of Congress to dwindle down.
00:25:52.700I mean, realistically, he's just should declare as an independent.
00:25:55.980I mean, I think he has high IQ and I'm not questioning his intelligence, but he has no EQ, meaning emotional intelligence, where he just thinks that that it's all about him all the time.
00:26:25.580I think politics is the art of the possible and we've got to move the ball.
00:26:29.020And I think we did a great job last year with what we had to work with.
00:26:31.720And it's really challenging getting 60 votes in the Senate, as you know.
00:26:35.080And I think we should have whether you either need to get rid of the filibuster or what if I was a leader of the Senate, I used to be the leader of the Senate in Florida.
00:26:43.460I would just say, OK, you want to have a filibuster?
00:26:46.520We're going to sit here and you guys are going to make your points of why identification is not necessary in order to to verify who you are, to make sure the elections are valid.
00:26:58.020And then one thing I'd also ask, John, remember, is the Democrats in 16 who said the hell, this is a false election.
00:27:06.240Why don't you make it where everybody's happy and know that who voted is you should be there.
00:27:10.880And then the last thing I'll get a little bit historical.
00:27:13.040And I just want to make sure this is the one point they can never use against this, John, is that they keep on saying, oh, in an article one, section four, states control elections.
00:27:22.440Yeah, they, of course, conduct elections.
00:27:24.280But but remember, we have that we have the 15th Amendment, the 19th Amendment, of course, allowing women to vote, the 24th Amendment, eliminate poll tax and the 26th Amendment.
00:27:34.760Those are all constitutional actions started by a two thirds vote in the United States House and Senate.
00:27:41.200And then you have like, oh, that's different.
00:28:12.160The race card or BS that they're throwing us that we have to have the debate and make these senators sit around and debate it until we have a real vote up or down on a bill.
00:28:23.260Even if we lose the majority, it's a better way to go.
00:28:25.780You know, I sat through hours and hours of depositions over the course of multiple days because I was working at Fox News and Fox News got sued by two voting companies.
00:28:34.740And I sat there and I spoke to lawyers who were probably two of the dumbest people I've ever spoke to in my life.
00:28:40.120And it was hard to believe they were probably making a few thousand dollars an hour and I was there for free.
00:28:43.940It should have been the other way around.
00:28:46.260And I knew something was wrong, Congress.
00:28:48.740So when they're sitting there asking me and they're telling me, don't you agree this was the most secure election of all time that speaking of the 2020 election?
00:28:56.060And I looked at this lawyer who spent years in law school and, you know, was this savant.
00:29:01.440And I said, do you think it's funny that you file your tax returns and you can't get a return for at least, you know, two, three months?
00:29:07.700But the head of SISA came out like three days, four days after election and was preeminent and said this was the most secure election of all time.
00:29:15.740The election wasn't even done being counted yet.
00:29:18.540I mean, on their side, of course, it was done being counted.
00:29:20.620But now we come out and we see irregularity after irregularity after.
00:30:52.320And this is why when you open it up to these different rules they had during COVID, there's all kinds of shenanigans going on.
00:30:59.360And all I'm saying is, look, we're Americans.
00:31:02.300Americans decide the future of America.
00:31:05.200And what they were doing by allowing illegals to come in, allowing them to get driver's license is a backdoor way of undercutting the fabric of our American system and election.
00:31:14.280So I think it's an honest debate to have.
00:31:17.140You know, if they're trying to stop it, they clearly have bad intentions.
00:31:21.700And I'm going to vote for the Save Act.