Impeachment of Donald Trump is back, and this time, it's coming from the House of Representatives. Will they impeach the President, or will they just let him self destruct? Governor Gavin Newsom has some words for the California Fire Victims who want to rebuild.
00:04:27.000These people have nothing to go back to.
00:04:28.960And they can't go back to find any remnants of their homes or any remnants of, you know, collectible items that they've kept.
00:04:37.560It's truly a disgrace on behalf of this government of California.
00:04:41.280And I don't even say the federal government because Donald Trump's doing all he can to try to help these folks.
00:04:45.160But I truly hope, you know, they often say it takes a catastrophe or something like this to happen for people to open up their eyes and realize people don't have to build their homes differently.
00:04:57.180If we put a man on the moon, we can put some pumps that run some water up to the hills of California and Los Angeles to pump some water up there.
00:05:08.420We're the smartest nation in the world.
00:05:11.400Silicon Valley has among the smartest people on this planet, innovators, developers.
00:05:16.280And you're telling me we can't get water from the ocean, from anywhere, to flow up to these homes so that this doesn't happen.
00:05:23.640We can't clean up the forest and the wildfire management prevention.
00:05:27.740To make it so that these fires are less likely to happen.
00:05:30.440I understand, you know, we don't live in a perfect world and accidents do happen and things are going to happen.
00:05:35.500But you're telling me out of all the things that we've done in this country, all the great innovations, and we can't figure out a way to get water up into the hills, the Hollywood hills, the hills of L.A.
00:05:49.660And Tish James, as if she hasn't taken enough losses, she's had quite a few and put on a few pounds since Donald Trump has taken office again, knowing I think she's in trouble.
00:06:00.440She's now going to go after Elon Musk, she says.
00:06:02.660In a tweet, Tish James says, quote, Doge, the Doge Committee, has no authority to access Americans' private information or block critical payments.
00:06:49.780And President Trump has fired the far left Federal Elections Commission chairwoman Ellen Weitraub, but she's refusing to leave her post as FEC chair, saying that his dismissal of her is illegal.
00:07:02.620Well, I got some words for the former chairwoman now.
00:07:07.800She put out this tweet, quote, Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as commissioner and chair of the FEC.
00:07:13.760See, there is a legal way to replace me as FEC commissioner.
00:07:18.540I've been lucky to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way.
00:07:23.000Yeah, we know that's not changing anytime soon.
00:07:26.160Yeah, we know you were able to stir up some good trouble.
00:07:27.900We had stolen elections 2020, which is going to get relitigated for the sake of all the people who are right, such as the great Lou Dobbs and many, many others.
00:07:39.200So I'm not sure what her plan is, but she's got to go.
00:07:50.400Our guest today is the great congressman of the great from the great state of Tennessee, Tim Burchett, great friend of the show, a great friend of America and a great friend of the MAGA movement.
00:08:03.020Ken, I want to start with first thanking you, not for all you do and for being the big mouth on Capitol Hill, and that's a great thing as a big mouth myself, but for what I contribute to being the man who got Jim Acosta fired, for letting the world know how dumb that man really was.
00:08:19.800For anyone who hasn't seen it, Tim did an interview with Jim Acosta.
00:08:24.040And Tim's probably one of the most well-mannered, patient guys on Capitol Hill, and it took Jim Acosta eight minutes out of the 10 minutes to finally get to him and annoy the hell out of him, and Tim just let it rip.
00:08:39.680Tim, do you have any last words for Jim Acosta as he goes off to be an independent journalist now?
00:08:45.140Well, I've got no ill will towards anybody.
00:08:48.480He used to be in Knoxville at a WBIR, and I knew him then.
00:08:53.160I wasn't, you know, we've had those interactions in the past.
00:08:57.340I always feel like when I'm on CNN, they ought to write me a check for $300 because that's probably what their therapist charges them every hour.
00:09:05.860It usually results in something like that.
00:10:12.380Your colleagues are absolutely going insane about Elon Musk and this doge committee that I think you sit on now.
00:10:18.900Let's start with first this whole general services administration.
00:10:23.100President Trump ordered them to cancel every single media contract.
00:10:27.220And this came now after we find out that Politico was funded $8 million by USAID.
00:10:33.700Let's start with President Trump calling on the GSA to cancel these media contracts.
00:10:38.280To me, it's why are we giving taxpayer money to a media source?
00:10:47.580If we'd have given it to – that's why we need to start cutting NPR and the rest of those groups.
00:10:53.980If we were to give that money to, say, a Fox News or a Newsmax or any of the OAN or any of them, my gosh, people would come unglued.
00:11:04.320And anyway, I just don't see – I don't see our tax – and, you know, the poor people up there in Upper East Tennessee and North Carolina are still living in tents after Hurricane Helene.
00:14:06.520Uh, especially when you get outside the beltways of New York city and Newark, New Jersey and, uh, LA and San Francisco, you know, that whole sort of inner, um, America is for the most part, pretty damn Republican with the few inner cities, obviously Detroit and Chicago among two of the darkest blues, uh, blues, um, districts inside, uh, middle America.
00:14:29.060But I, I think we're certainly chipping away at it.
00:14:31.800Uh, Scott Pressler has done a hell of a job in Pennsylvania.
00:14:34.220He's apparently now moving on to New Jersey, which, you know, five years ago, it wasn't a, uh, I think a viable place that we should be looking now.
00:14:42.060I think after Senator Goldbar has been indicted and now going to jail, I think it's a place that we start to look at.
00:14:47.380And then I think we're going to move the needle there a little bit.
00:14:50.020Um, I want to turn to the U S U S aid staff.
00:14:53.00010,000 of them are going to be cut globally.
00:14:55.700President Trump valued to keep on a 300 of them.
00:14:59.080This is another thing, Congressman, that doesn't make sense to me.
00:15:02.160How could anybody be outraged about it?
00:15:04.400I see where, you know, some of the money has gone to just a waste of money.
00:15:50.300That is, that's been a briar under my saddle for a while with some of the things that they were doing and the money flowing in and where it was going.
00:16:00.620And, and, and I don't feel like we've had the accountability.
00:16:03.100I think you can do that all across the, all across the spectrum.
00:16:10.480We're funding the Taliban up to 40, more than actually $40 million a week.
00:16:14.720We're sending them with your tax dollars.
00:16:17.940And these are the type of programs that we're finding time and time again.
00:16:21.580And the reason they're pitching a fit is because somebody in their family or their, or their wife and or girlfriend is working in some of these agencies.
00:16:32.540And Washington is crooked as a dog's leg.
00:16:41.720And Elon, they're pitching a fit about Elon, the billionaire, billionaire, billionaire.
00:16:45.380They never mentioned Soros, whose, whose involvement in DAs across the country, letting these dirt bags out and, and campaigns and, and his son now, you know, they just, they don't say anything about him.
00:16:58.860That's, you know, then they, you're anti-Semitic.
00:17:01.060And I'm saying, I don't know his religious beliefs.
00:17:03.420That ain't my, that didn't even enter into it.
00:17:05.260That, that, again, that dog don't hunt anymore.
00:17:07.580People are onto it and it offends people across the board.
00:17:12.380And, you know, and like I said the other day on some national news show, I said, you know, if I can't go to Columbia and enjoy a DEI transvestite opera paid for it at American dollars, taxpayers expense, I'm probably never going back to Columbia.
00:17:27.800You know, that's the kind of things these, these Marxists are funding.
00:17:31.300You know what we ought to be promoting through our state department and others?
00:17:44.140And, you know, USA was originally formated, formatted probably for a good purpose, altruistic as, as it is, to go over in areas, desert areas, reforest deserts, things like that.
00:17:58.440Deliver vaccines to people for malaria, things like that.
00:18:03.920Feed hungry people, teach them how to take care of themselves.
00:18:08.120And, you know, and that's exactly what the UN is supposed to do.
00:18:10.560And that's where we ought to just pull our ass out of the UN as well, because that's just a nightmare.
00:18:15.240And then they're going to show this one program where they, you know, they're giving oatmeal to starving people somewhere in Timbuktu or something.
00:18:41.380You know, like you said, I mean, it started with a good, a good theory in mind, but the corruption and rot in Washington, D.C. always seems a way to seep through.
00:18:48.680We're talking with Congressman Tim Burchett of the great state of Tennessee, the free and fair state of Tennessee, I should say.
00:21:33.220And that's exactly what they'll try to do with this.
00:21:36.140We'll cut this antiquated, corrupt system out, and they will pitch a fit again because they're getting fat off of it, and America knows it, and it's time to change the tune.
00:21:51.520I think the smartest thing he's done is this federal, aside from the Gaza, not even buying, taking over Gaza, which I think is probably the smartest thing he's ever done or ever said.
00:22:00.480But this is perhaps the second smartest thing he's done, and that's the government buyout of these contracts.
00:22:05.240Now, I have a buddy who works in DHS, and I got this text message from him last night.
00:22:09.040It's not just these other agencies which need the cutting out.
00:22:32.740Now, this is a man who constantly sends me text messages about what they're doing DEI-wise and all this stuff.
00:22:38.600And I've got to be honest with you, Congressman, it's one you would see in a private corporation.
00:22:44.740Can we get some sort of investigation into every single agency about how they're being run, who's running it, and the things that they're pushing down their employees' throats?
00:23:47.920You know, and those people, I mean, you know, got to grow up, man.
00:23:54.800You got to grow up and just get with the program.
00:23:59.260And this is just another thing that boggles my mind.
00:24:01.540How are you a government employee, and you're refusing to return back to work?
00:24:05.980Literally, the disrespect that this government has allowed, Congressman, the walking all over, I mean, the grandstanding, who do they think they are?
00:24:14.160At the end of the day, Congressman, we're all replaceable.
00:24:16.700You're probably a little less replaceable than me because you're in a great district, but I'm extremely replaceable.
00:24:22.760Everyone is replaceable, and Donald Trump knows that, and he's said it before.
00:24:27.740Some of them making $100 an hour, $200 an hour on government contracts, six-figure pensions, and they're walking around grandstanding like, you can't touch me.
00:25:15.680And I mean, it's – they used to have these shows, the insult of the month.
00:25:20.360I mean, this is the insult of the day.
00:25:22.120I mean, when they expose this stuff, the amount of money that American taxpayers are paying, and that's why the left just doesn't get it.
00:25:28.580They just don't get it, and the national media is – as they see their ratings tumble, they don't – it's obviously that they're getting ready to get it.
00:25:55.020Because it's the truth, and America is hungry for the truth, just like the desert's hungry for a raindrop.
00:26:01.500It's just – and they've been denied it for so long, and they've been taken for granted, and they're not – and you all are not taking America for granted.
00:26:11.440And that's why they're pitching such a fit.
00:26:12.860I mean, you're right over the target, dude, and that's why they fire.
00:26:15.820And I tell you what, this podcast and this social media stuff, it's the way of the – forget the national news.
00:32:41.960Yeah, what it is is that when Jimmy Carter created it, he really didn't create it.
00:32:47.300It was created, I believe, in the 1800s.
00:32:48.940And he made it a cabinet-level position, and we've dumped trillions of dollars into it since then.
00:32:54.360At that time, when Carter took over, we were number one in the world, and now we're, I think, 22nd to 28th, depends on who you're talking to.
00:33:01.980And so, again, money is not the answer.
00:33:06.540I much more trust those parents who the FBI label as domestic terrorists and your local school boards and your local state legislators than I do a Washington bureaucrat.
00:33:17.300It's definitely not one-size-fits-all, and you're seeing that all across the country.
00:33:45.220The labor unions ought to be for that because we'll pay the teachers more.
00:33:48.960But they're not going to be because they're not for paying the teachers more.
00:33:52.540They're for paying their fat cat leaders $300,000, $400,000 a year in these cushy jobs, and they can get up there and rant and rave like a bunch of idiots at a war rally.
00:34:53.460And what you'll see is these illegals that are violent, they're going to move more and more to big cities like yours and less and less away from rural America.
00:35:03.420So what y'all voted for is what you're fixing to get.
00:35:17.460Thanks, everybody, for being with us today.
00:35:18.960Please be sure to join us back here tomorrow for The Great America Show, where our quest for truth, justice, and the American way continues.
00:35:25.220See you back here tomorrow, same time, same place.
00:35:27.640Until then, may God bless you, may God bless America, and may God bless the great Lou Dobbs.