The Great America Show - THE STATE OF OUR UNION

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00:00:33.680 Hello, everybody.

00:00:35.020 I'm Lou Dobbs and welcome to The Great America Show.

00:00:37.760 Great to have you with us.

00:00:38.880 Just yesterday, I sat down and talked with Congressman Tim Burchett on his podcast, Tennessee Talks, to discuss the state of distress this nation is in under the Biden regime's rule.

00:00:51.500 We discussed the path forward and how we can save this nation from total Marxist destruction.

00:00:57.720 Here is my sit down with Congressman Burchett.

00:01:00.600 Lou, thank you for joining me on Tennessee Talks.

00:01:03.020 It's great to have you on the show.

00:01:05.260 And I guess I want to dive right in.

00:01:07.160 And what do you expect to hear from President Biden from this speech to be planned?

00:01:12.520 First, it's an honor to be with you.

00:01:14.180 And thanks so much, Congressman, for the honor.

00:01:17.980 And I would want to say, first of all, too, that the feeling is mutual.

00:01:24.460 I admire your work and your principles.

00:01:29.140 And God bless you.

00:01:30.180 So as to what we're going to talk about, what we're going to hear about tonight in terms of the State of the Union, when we get to the State of the Union, after three years of Biden, the state can only be accurately described as stressed and distressed.

00:01:49.540 It is, I can't imagine what glowing words he could offer the American people that would in any way change their understanding or their view of what this man has done to the country.

00:02:03.460 On that point, I suspect he's not going to be entirely truthful.

00:02:09.160 So I have minimal expectations of what we'll see or what we'll witness.

00:02:13.320 And I think really the only real benefit I can imagine is just seeing how hilariously he deviates from what is obvious, obviously a nation in crisis.

00:02:25.520 You know, a lot's been made about his cognitive skills and level.

00:02:33.340 And I've gone from being angry about it after having conversations with him just to having pity, really.

00:02:44.220 Do you think he'll be able to put a sentence together during this thing that will actually make some sense?

00:02:51.840 You know, it just seems he's tapered off so much as of late and you watch it unfold from when he was and you've seen all the tapes.

00:03:00.700 I'm sure he'll he'll get it together, but it just seems towards the end it will it will run out.

00:03:06.040 And one thing I noticed during his last State of the Union address, Lou, was that he talked through the applause.

00:03:13.660 And I was told by some folks in the know and some medical folks that he probably if he's he's whatever he's taking or doing, it allows him just a certain amount of time.

00:03:28.260 And they know that. And maybe that is why he talked through the applause the last time, because generally, you know, a politician, you're going to.

00:03:35.400 Yeah, I mean, applause for me is so rare that I'm going to I'm going to kind of revel in it or relish it and I'm going to let it go, you know, but but he just seemed to the last time.

00:03:45.460 And it was it was just very uncomfortable. And and I worry about that.

00:03:50.180 What's your thoughts on that?

00:03:51.600 Well, you would think as sparse as the applause usually is for this president, that he would want to pause and just sort of see if he could tire him out until they did start clapping.

00:04:02.480 But he goes the other way. I guess he's given up on the on the prospect and decides that applause line in those scripts is just a fiction of the writer's imagination.

00:04:12.940 I I cannot imagine what goes through this man's mind as he stumbles onto a stage.

00:04:20.860 He has to be assisted. But, you know, at the same time, he has miraculously at times, which suggests to me that there is serious chemical support for whatever he's doing.

00:04:34.580 He suddenly comes out of it and lasts for maybe a half hour to 45 minutes and seems entirely perhaps not entirely, but more rational than at any other time.

00:04:48.640 And you would think after watching him for a period of weeks is leading up to that moment.

00:04:53.220 They're shooting him up with something. I think it's just got to be there's just no question about it.

00:04:58.580 I. I've seen it too many times on this deal, how it just all of a sudden the lights go off and then it's just this blank stare.

00:05:10.660 Bidenomics, that's a phrase that I guess they brought up, but I mean, they're going to hang them with it.

00:05:16.840 How's that work for you? And what do you think it's how do you think it's worked for the average American?

00:05:21.520 I see folks spending several hundred more dollars a month, not a year, a month than they did under Trump just for groceries, just to stay alive.

00:05:32.700 I saw some economics guru was talking and and they corrected him and said, oh, no, no, this he was, you know, it's just it's just the price of of of groceries that have gone up that he was referring to.

00:05:48.980 As if that was something good, you know, and it was still hundreds of dollars, you know, you can make excuses for this, but it's it's deficit spending.

00:05:58.700 It's just the ridiculous money we're throwing around overseas, borrowing from the Chinese, you know, telling Trump he can't have four billion.

00:06:06.900 And then giving this guy one hundred and fourteen billion to throw at Ukraine plus.

00:06:11.660 And then we know how much and then we had over 50 incidences where we think they've stolen the money.

00:06:17.680 So what's your thoughts on Bidenomics?

00:06:20.780 Well, Bidenomics is an interesting term for what has been a disastrous three years of Biden economic policy.

00:06:28.180 Gene Sperling, one of the president's august economics advisor, recently is staring into the camera from the White House lawn, was regaling everyone with the idea that, you know, really, this is a lot of nonsense about not much that people really are doing well, despite what their paychecks may tell them, what their prices they're looking at.

00:06:51.920 And he actually said this, he said, you know, if you don't include food, if you don't include the shelter, rent and mortgage payments, if you don't include all of the basics of life, you know, it's not too bad.

00:07:06.180 And I thought that was probably the the the brightest outlook you can have for what has been a disastrous inflationary economy that is compounded in the in the pressures it's putting on the American working man and woman, their families, the middle class, because of these high food prices.

00:07:28.440 Everything is up double digits, everybody knows it and they can try to hide the statistics in any way they want to.

00:07:36.460 But those statistics show up at the cash register and there isn't an American paying any attention when he or she goes to a retail store of any sort that doesn't know what's happening.

00:07:49.160 And everyone is we're losing purchasing power. We've got the government's hand in our pockets, in our wallets.

00:07:55.800 And it's that simple because these policies, I mean, the Inflation Reduction Act, are you kidding me?

00:08:02.280 They name things the opposite of what they are. It was the Inflation Stimulation Act.

00:08:08.220 This is an administration that has now got us running.

00:08:12.600 Is it two trillion dollars in deficit every year, every hundred days, the national debt goes up a hundred trillion dollars.

00:08:24.580 I mean, it doesn't take long for all of this, as they used to say, to add up.

00:08:28.780 It only takes now 300 of those days to put us 10 percent higher in our national debt.

00:08:35.480 We right now have the largest national debt by a factor of seven in the country, in the world.

00:08:45.140 And there's no country even close to us. And we're at 126 percent of our GDP.

00:08:51.680 I mean, it sounds pretty good to have 34, 34 trillion dollars in debt, doesn't it?

00:08:57.160 I mean, you get the, and then you look at the size of the economy, and that's, that is 25 percent less than the debt.

00:09:08.180 We're a debtor nation in perpetuity.

00:09:10.580 And I can't wait to hear what you have to say about this big meeting between Mike Johnson, your speaker, and Joe Biden, your president.

00:09:21.980 Can I put it that way, Congressman?

00:09:24.580 Well, it is. I remember when the NRA used to say, Charlton Heston is my president.

00:09:30.900 And I said, well, no, not really, but just president of the NRA.

00:09:35.500 Yeah, that, I have tried to bolster our speaker's confidence on these things.

00:09:42.460 I'm worried about this next omnibus spending package, of course, that we're, we'll be voting on, I'm sure.

00:09:49.740 And, you know, one thing I am glad, though, we have started breaking down the bills.

00:09:55.700 And that's one thing that the, that we've had some success in.

00:10:00.700 Now we just, I'm liking the process a little better, but the product still stinks.

00:10:06.660 And, you know, I saw where Schumer has a million dollars in there for some kind of a environmental awareness center in New York, like we need that.

00:10:16.620 He ought to be looking for jobs for New York and maybe not having so many illegal aliens up there and quit and put 53 million, 53 million dollars in credit cards for illegals. 0.93

00:10:29.960 It's something that even our veterans don't get.

00:10:33.460 It's just, you know, these, these campaign ads are writing themselves unless, you know, these states are run by Marxists.

00:10:41.680 I don't know how they're going to, I don't know how they're going to keep electing these people, but they imagine that somehow they managed to do it.

00:10:48.120 But, um, I, I don't know.

00:10:51.960 Thanks for depressing me, Lou.

00:10:53.220 I was sort of feeling good about having you on the show.

00:10:55.080 Now I'm wishing I had, I wish I had that third cup of coffee this morning.

00:10:59.400 Now, um, I, President Biden, of course, they always have a guest and it sets some sort of, you know, the tone.

00:11:06.840 Um, um, you know, war hero, somebody like that that we can all cheer for.

00:11:12.840 Well, the president has chosen a lady from Texas named Kate Cox. 1.00

00:11:18.260 Um, she was denied the right to get an abortion. 1.00

00:11:21.520 So she traveled out of state.

00:11:23.060 She found out her child had a rare chromosome disorder.

00:11:25.820 You know, I, I've got a couple, I've got a couple of, um, of my kinfolk that the, the mama was told, their mama was told that, that these kids were going to be in bad shape.

00:11:39.220 They should have aborted.

00:11:40.560 And, you know, they're both, I mean, they're both almost genius level intelligence, incredible athletes.

00:11:49.500 Just, you know, I mean, I believe it was two of them.

00:11:54.320 Um, I think, I know what one was specifically, but, um, you know, and I'm wondering what does that say to America?

00:12:03.980 I, I just, I just don't get it.

00:12:05.680 I don't get his, I mean, I don't realize he's rallying his base with this thing, with the abortion issue, but it's, um, to me, it just doesn't seem what America needs to be hearing right now.

00:12:20.100 Well, one of the things that the State of the Union address is being inspirational, uh, and, and bringing people together in the, in their pride for this nation.

00:12:30.060 Uh, but his challenge is that he has done nothing.

00:12:34.020 There is not a single policy, whether it's foreign policy, domestic policy, whether it is fiscal policy, uh, economic policy.

00:12:41.800 I mean, you go through the line and there isn't, as you well know, a single thing he's done that is in the interest of the American working man and woman, their families, the middle class, or for that matter, the entire nation.

00:12:56.620 It just does not happen.

00:12:59.240 Uh, he, he, you know, he shuts down energy independence.

00:13:03.400 He dismisses it.

00:13:04.700 He puts us into a potential war by putting in the 101st and 82nd airborne divisions into the Eastern flank of Europe to be ready to go into Ukraine.

00:13:16.020 The men and his advisors, Jake Sullivan, the national security advisor, uh, Anthony Blinken, the secretary of state, Lloyd Austin.

00:13:25.280 I mean, are these the people you want to go to war with?

00:13:28.220 You know, Donald Rumsfeld used to say, you don't, you go to war with the army you have, not the one you want.

00:13:33.860 Well, let me tell you, I don't want this.

00:13:35.540 I don't want this military and I don't want these leaders going to war.

00:13:39.840 It scares, Congressman, it scares me to death.

00:13:43.000 The thing we would have, uh, a, uh, an enfeeble, uh, impaired, compromised, uh, president like this leading us as commander in chief with the people that he's selected.

00:13:55.160 And, uh, he works, he works for China.

00:13:58.360 He doesn't work for America. 0.85

00:14:00.080 He works for the Mexican drug cartels.

00:14:02.420 He doesn't work for America. 0.85

00:14:03.680 He's turned over 2000 miles of border to the cartels.

00:14:07.700 Uh, so it's going to be very interesting, uh, to see how the national media reacts because they're starting to show signs.

00:14:15.200 I think, I don't know what you think, but I think they're starting to show signs of being a little disenchanted, uh, with this, uh, compromised, uh, impaired, uh, puppet president.

00:14:25.920 Who is nothing more than a Marxist and a sellout to whoever was the highest bidder.

00:14:31.200 I agree.

00:14:32.140 Uh, you got $20 million flowed through that family that we know of.

00:14:36.780 Nobody's even been able to prove that they paid any taxes on it.

00:14:39.740 Over my right shoulder, here's a, you mentioned the military, our fort, that's a 48 star flag.

00:14:44.940 That was on my uncle's casket.

00:14:46.240 He died fighting the Nazis.

00:14:47.720 And of course, my dad fought the Japanese and mama flew an airplane during the war.

00:14:52.360 So I, um, I think about our military and I think about every time I watch a video from this clown show and they have somebody in the military, some man in a dress or, you know, it just, they just demoralized everything that we, we stand on as a country.

00:15:10.040 And I, I, and I honestly think, I used to think it was, some of it was by accident, but now I don't think any of it's by accident, Lou.

00:15:16.760 I think it's all by design.

00:15:18.260 They want to destroy what we consider, we hold near and dear to our hearts and they, um, and they're doing a pretty darn good job of it in the last three years.

00:15:28.980 You're absolutely right.

00:15:30.420 I mean, these people are Marxists.

00:15:32.020 I call them Marxists because that's what they are.

00:15:34.620 They're led by Marxists and it's an international relationship with an international agenda as well.

00:15:41.020 These aren't just globalist elites.

00:15:42.540 These are people who mean to change this world to their benefit.

00:15:46.680 Uh, and by the way, we won't need under that, uh, situation.

00:15:50.880 Uh, we don't, they won't be asking for the consent of the government.

00:15:54.760 We won't be the, we, the people, uh, we will be just whatever they tell us we are doing, whatever they tell us to do.

00:16:01.560 And I will object to that pretty strongly.

00:16:04.680 We'll be the ants in line is what we'll be just, just, just in line, whatever they say to do.

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00:17:54.740 Another blunder I felt like on the President's part is this student loan forgiveness.

00:18:00.260 I'm sure you'll talk about that being a win for the American people.

00:18:03.680 But to me, it doesn't make much sense.

00:18:05.560 Some truck driver from Knoxville, Tennessee is going to pay for some kid in New York to go to Harvard or whatever.

00:18:15.380 You know, it just doesn't make sense.

00:18:18.460 My mom and daddy scratched and saved and we worked and all three of the kids got us all through college and they paid off all their debts.

00:18:26.680 And, you know, you're an adult.

00:18:29.360 You sign on the dotted line on an agreement.

00:18:31.680 Then all of a sudden, you know, you get there and you say, I don't I don't like this agreement.

00:18:36.580 I'm going to go back and reach and change it.

00:18:39.080 It just doesn't work that way.

00:18:40.680 But apparently it does.

00:18:41.820 And they keep saying they're excusing the debt.

00:18:44.680 Well, they're not excusing the debt.

00:18:46.080 They're just passing it on to everybody else because some people made some decisions that they're, you know, they're they're basket weaving major.

00:18:54.080 And I'm not knocking basket weavers.

00:18:56.160 I think it's pretty cool.

00:18:56.980 But just say basket weaving major, you know, there are four years of undergraduate is not paying.

00:19:03.300 And they're they're working as a barista down here at one of the coffee shops.

00:19:08.440 You know, to me, it just doesn't make sense that we're passing this on to people.

00:19:13.900 And for them to claim a success to me is just it's just ridiculous.

00:19:19.520 Obviously, none of these kids that are defending this are accounting majors or they would explain to you that, in fact, this money has to come from somewhere.

00:19:30.580 It'd be kind of interesting to find out which majors are seeking this debt forgiveness in the greatest numbers.

00:19:36.880 But, you know, it's really a squeeze for our universities.

00:19:40.560 They're getting debt forgiveness.

00:19:42.960 In fact, the government then has to pay that off.

00:19:45.820 That means those universities get reimbursed.

00:19:48.960 And that means that all those left wing professors indoctrinating all of those basket weaving students are going to go straight ahead. 0.99

00:19:56.200 So you've got a university that isn't teaching anything but indoctrinating everyone in Marxism.

00:20:02.480 But the reality is that, you know, there is there's no real essay that's required to get into that university.

00:20:10.620 And they and they don't want to disturb anybody with having to have good grades.

00:20:15.500 So they're not going to take your grade, your GPA average.

00:20:18.640 And oh, yeah, they don't want to see the ACT or the SAT because that might be too good an indicator of just how smart you are,

00:20:25.880 how likely you are to use that college education in basket weaving in the free market.

00:20:31.720 I mean, we're in the educational system that's going to hell in a handbasket, as my father used to say.

00:20:39.540 And you know what?

00:20:42.440 He's right now.

00:20:44.520 This is the real deal.

00:20:46.320 We are we're a nation in crisis.

00:20:48.260 And, you know, you've talked about it, the debt of these continuing resolutions.

00:20:53.020 And by the way, I want to say this.

00:20:54.340 I really admire you and I mean this sincerely.

00:20:59.360 You stand up for Mike Johnson, his speaker, and you're giving him a chance.

00:21:04.960 And and I really do think that that's principled and appropriate.

00:21:10.100 It really is.

00:21:11.420 So I just want to compliment you on that.

00:21:13.900 Well, thank you, Lou.

00:21:16.020 I'm Tim Burchard and I approve of this message.

00:21:18.420 It is a redistribution of wealth, though, is clearly what's going on with this thing.

00:21:26.120 And if you were to ask average Americans how they felt about the State of the Union,

00:21:31.680 what do you think they would say?

00:21:34.560 I think they'd say, what were we thinking in 2020 when we voted for this man?

00:21:39.920 And how irresponsible is that Marxist Democrat Party that they would put this this man who

00:21:48.540 is impaired, cognitively impaired, neurologically damaged, politically and financially corrupt

00:21:56.640 into this office because they knew who he was.

00:22:00.860 I wonder about his wife, Dr. Jill, as she likes to be called.

00:22:04.720 She's not a doctor.

00:22:05.700 She's a Ph.D. or a E.D., whatever it may be.

00:22:10.300 But she's not a medical doctor and really has no right to call, insist on being called 0.99

00:22:15.760 a doctor.

00:22:17.000 But she, I'm sorry.

00:22:19.200 I was going to say Whoopi Goldberg thought she'd make a great surgeon general, I believe.

00:22:26.480 Well, you're right.

00:22:27.620 And I probably, by the way, that's just not out of the realm of possibility.

00:22:30.900 But for her to let this man go forward, she's not doing, she's not doing her husband any favors

00:22:39.040 and as a matter of fact, she's hurting him tremendously to exploit him this way for whatever

00:22:43.540 her reasons.

00:22:44.840 But the family, we know what the family is.

00:22:47.880 I mean, they're beneficiaries of all the graft.

00:22:50.600 So we know their motivation, at least on one level.

00:22:54.040 It's a sorry, sad shame of what this family has done to this country and the Marxist Democrat 1.00

00:23:01.800 Party.

00:23:02.320 I don't think anyone should ever vote for a Democrat ever again.

00:23:05.900 They are Marxist.

00:23:07.120 They want to be called progressives.

00:23:08.860 They want to be called liberals.

00:23:10.080 They're Marxists.

00:23:11.340 And the worst of them want to be called communists.

00:23:14.800 And they openly, openly call themselves that in Congress.

00:23:18.820 I mean, you have or you have a member that's elected here locally in my hometown that speaks

00:23:27.980 Marxist philosophies.

00:23:30.600 And so it kind of, you know, and we allow it.

00:23:33.540 We just allow it.

00:23:34.460 And the reason is 20 million Americans, so-called conservatives, what do you want to call it,

00:23:38.980 decided to stay home on election day.

00:23:41.840 And I mean, 20 million people stayed home.

00:23:45.920 Yeah, it's unbelievable.

00:23:48.060 And the fact that it's not just the federal races, it's our local races.

00:23:53.400 It's the school boards, it's the city councils, it's the county commissions, the county mayor,

00:23:57.780 city mayor, sheriffs, all those things.

00:24:00.720 And they, you know, we're asleep at the switch and they're going to take it from us.

00:24:05.400 I always talk about this, but very poignant moments in my life.

00:24:10.840 A couple of them were one of my dad and I were, it was after the elections were over and

00:24:16.960 we were, as I like to say, we were having a traditional Italian meal.

00:24:20.220 We got a pizza at Mr. Gaddy's and we're eating it there at the house.

00:24:23.140 And I think you've probably heard me say this story before.

00:24:25.600 And daddy said the blessing, as he always did.

00:24:28.100 And we'd worked the polls that day and it was showing, it was looking like Bill Clinton

00:24:32.540 was going to win.

00:24:33.240 I mean, a draft dodger.

00:24:34.720 And I'm sitting there looking at a combat World War II veteran Marine saying the blessing.

00:24:39.140 And he just said, Lord, please don't let us lose our country.

00:24:42.180 And I'll never forget that, Lou.

00:24:44.380 And that's a prayer I pray every night and every day.

00:24:47.840 And when I see what's going on and I see the media allowing it and just, and what's

00:24:54.100 going on on our campuses these days, it just, to me, is just beyond belief that people just

00:24:59.520 don't stand up.

00:25:01.280 And, and I think, I think we just need somebody to rally around and I hope we're going to get

00:25:06.740 it this time.

00:25:07.980 And I hope the American public wakes up.

00:25:10.040 Well, here's the part, Lou, that I hate the most about my show, not because it's ending,

00:25:13.700 because, but I allow my, my guests to ask me any question that they want.

00:25:19.180 So do you have a question?

00:25:20.480 You, and it's all, as I tell the kids, it's, it's on the internet.

00:25:24.000 So just ask me anything you want and I'll try to answer it.

00:25:27.200 You've got a deal.

00:25:28.160 I'll, I'll start with, um, what is the spirit of the 118th Congress?

00:25:34.580 Uh, as we, uh, as we head toward election day, uh, is there any, is it optimistic?

00:25:43.780 Is it pessimistic?

00:25:45.120 How would you describe the mood of your colleagues and then your own?

00:25:50.140 Well, in the conservative movement, it's a mixed bag kind of, because some of the guys

00:25:55.500 and gals that are very conservative are obviously getting, getting clipped from our own party. 1.00

00:26:01.420 People in our own party are formally in leadership, things like that.

00:26:06.380 And, um, I was one of my fellow colleagues.

00:26:11.960 It was one of the eight that, that voted to get, get a new speaker.

00:26:16.440 I remember they said, um, you know, this is a, this is kind of a, and maybe hopefully this

00:26:21.580 is the start of an awakening.

00:26:22.960 And then when you see 23 or 24, your colleagues on your own party decide to get out, but maybe

00:26:28.660 that was it.

00:26:29.240 And I always think of Moses, um, I just hope we're not having to go through the wilderness

00:26:33.460 for 40 years before we, um, figure it out because it'll all be lost.

00:26:38.600 Um, it, again, it's kind of a mixed bag.

00:26:40.940 I think the morale is a little bit down, but part of that is because, uh, we need to turn

00:26:46.580 off the television and, um, at least ABC, NBC, CBS, and, and CNN, some of these other guys,

00:26:54.040 you know, they just, uh, they just run us down.

00:26:56.860 And I was looking at reading the news on my feed out or out, whatever it is.

00:27:01.300 And it's not really a good indicator of what's going on, but it was just all negative attacks

00:27:05.740 towards things that some of them I hold very near and dear to my heart.

00:27:10.180 And, you know, and you, you, you read those things and you start to question.

00:27:15.080 And I, I'm always, I try to encourage my colleagues to, you know, to just not pay attention to that.

00:27:22.460 It's my dad told me another thing.

00:27:23.700 My dad told me shortly before he died, I was County mayor and was going through a little

00:27:28.120 bit of a fight, which I always did with, you know, the chamber of commerce or the editors

00:27:32.540 of the local daily rag, whatever you want to call it.

00:27:36.660 And they were trashing me.

00:27:38.300 And I remember daddy had his massive stroke and it wasn't long before he was going to be

00:27:41.700 meeting the Lord face to face.

00:27:43.180 I mean, he was on the way out at the veterans nursing home.

00:27:46.680 And, and I walked in and he grunted out.

00:27:49.080 He said, are they still after you?

00:27:51.780 And I said, yes, sir.

00:27:53.540 And he said to me, do you really want that bunch for you?

00:27:56.140 And I thought, it's very profound.

00:27:59.280 I don't want that bunch for me because if they were for me, I know I'd be doing, I wouldn't

00:28:03.740 be doing the right thing.

00:28:05.700 So back to your answer.

00:28:07.900 It's a mixed bag.

00:28:09.380 It's a mixed bag.

00:28:10.540 And, um, you know, the Democrats are good at the, at the carrot and the stick.

00:28:14.620 Republicans are more free thinkers.

00:28:16.780 And that's, you know, we catch a lot of grief on a lot of things because we don't allegedly

00:28:21.200 stick together.

00:28:22.100 Well, somebody puts something out on like, I'm not going to vote for it.

00:28:25.680 I don't care if it's got an R or a D by it.

00:28:27.700 It doesn't matter to me.

00:28:29.440 Um, it matters to my folks back home.

00:28:31.720 So anyway, like I said, it's a mixed bag.

00:28:34.840 Lou, I rambled too much.

00:28:36.020 I apologize.

00:28:36.860 I'm, I'm, I'm worried about our country.

00:28:39.440 I just have to think though, that, that we're going to do what's right and, and put people

00:28:44.380 in office that are, that are conservative, uh, because it's just, and then I encourage people

00:28:49.720 back home to read these bills that they call and criticize me about, you know, if it's

00:28:54.000 a transportation bill and less than 15% of it has to do with transportation, you know,

00:29:00.640 old Tim Burton, he's probably going to vote against it.

00:29:03.800 As you know, I love these first six appropriation bills come out to thousand pages.

00:29:09.540 Uh, you know, that's just a little light bedtime reading.

00:29:13.320 Uh, I don't think even the people who wrote it, so quote unquote wrote it, uh, what's in

00:29:19.960 it for sure.

00:29:21.340 Uh, but this is a, to me, it's a, it's a Congress.

00:29:26.140 When I say a Congress, it's been in the Congress for a very long time, excuse me again, we've

00:29:33.560 got to, we got to get more people like you in office.

00:29:36.000 We got to get a lot more people who, uh, when we say, you know, the Sioux had a great war

00:29:41.040 cry, uh, may my enemy be worthy.

00:29:45.280 Our enemies are not worthy, but they're still enemies and they're worth beating and we got

00:29:51.960 to beat them.

00:29:53.100 Yes, sir.

00:29:54.700 A hundred percent.

00:29:56.440 Again, I want to thank you for joining me today.

00:29:58.680 Like I said, when I first took office a little over five years ago, I, I never thought I wanted

00:30:04.300 to do a podcast, but I never thought I'd be interviewing somebody your caliber.

00:30:07.800 So, and I don't know if it's much of an interview.

00:30:09.860 I think, I think when I get on with you, it's usually a therapy session.

00:30:13.580 I think whatever you, whatever people pay these therapists, I probably need to just write

00:30:16.980 you a check for an hour's worth of therapy because it's a, it's very refreshing.

00:30:22.280 I just have to send you a check too.

00:30:25.140 So why don't we just call it even?

00:30:26.660 I wish my mom and daddy were alive.

00:30:29.000 They would, uh, they would think it's a pretty big deal that you and I were buddies.

00:30:32.420 So, and I, and I always love coming on your show.

00:30:35.780 You, you speak the truth and that's seems to be something hard to come by these days.

00:30:40.360 And it's, um, it's very refreshing.

00:30:42.300 And, um, Lou, thank you, brother.

00:30:45.480 Thanks everybody for being with us today.

00:30:47.260 And thanks to Congressman Tim Burchett.

00:30:48.940 Be sure to give his podcast a follow and like, and subscribe.

00:30:52.980 He's a great American.

00:30:54.120 Be sure to join us tomorrow for the great America Saturday show.

00:30:57.760 And please join us for Lou Dobbs tonight, each and every weeknight on Rumble, Twitter,

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00:31:14.720 Thank you everybody.

00:31:15.680 God bless you and may God bless America.

The Great America Show - March 08, 2024

THE STATE OF OUR UNION

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