The Great America Show - May 30, 2023


U.S. BECOMING A FOREIGN COUNTRY


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The Great America Show with Lou Dobbs on the Debt Ceiling Crisis and the Biden/McCarthy Deal and what it means for the future of the country and the world. The Great America show is a daily financial and political commentary show hosted by the great man himself, Lou D.D. Dobbs.

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00:00:26.200 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to The Great America Show.
00:00:33.520 Hope you had a great, relaxing holiday.
00:00:36.080 With all that's happening in this country, it's good to be rested and ready for what's next.
00:00:42.260 There should have been a shuddering throughout the land when the debt ceiling negotiations featured for the big spending Marxist Dems, the impaired puppet president,
00:00:51.340 and for the House Republicans, a rhino speaker of the House who has been a pretend conservative in the debt talks. 0.89
00:00:59.220 It worked out just about as I had expected, perhaps a little worse, and I thought the result would be bad, mind you.
00:01:06.820 But the Republicans have been sold out by McCarthy, and the Democrats got literally everything they demanded, and more, actually.
00:01:14.140 This is what these two statesmen negotiated, and if you're a Republican or an independent, I hope you're bracing yourself.
00:01:22.180 Biden and McCarthy's deal isn't about cutting spending.
00:01:26.160 It's not about restraining the Marxist Dems' wild runaway spending.
00:01:30.980 The Speaker and the President agreed to suspend the national debt ceiling altogether.
00:01:36.520 That's right, they agreed to just ignore the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling and suspend it until January 1st of 2025.
00:01:47.980 And in so doing, they added another $4 trillion to spending $4 trillion.
00:01:53.840 That's outrageous and flat reckless of both parties.
00:01:57.520 Every American who cares about this great nation, this constitutional republic of ours,
00:02:03.880 understands what these two laughably inept so-called leaders did.
00:02:08.860 They removed any break on federal spending as a practical matter.
00:02:13.120 Student loan debt forgiveness goes ahead.
00:02:15.360 Almost $80 billion and a legion of new IRS agents mean the federal government will be further weaponized.
00:02:23.180 And yes, there are no spending cuts of any significant size or meaning.
00:02:29.340 It takes both parties off the hook because of the ceiling suspension until 2025.
00:02:35.380 No election will be deciding these issues, and thereby, both parties flouted the law and its intent.
00:02:42.700 This is truly a disaster for the Republicans, and perhaps the nation.
00:02:46.960 McCarthy has given the House 72 hours to read the legislation.
00:02:50.940 I have to tell you folks, if they go for this, I have no idea in the world why the Republicans even took up the issue.
00:02:58.840 What a mess now for the Republican Party, and until they took it up, it was just President Biden's mess.
00:03:05.960 I talked with the highly respected Congressman Austin Scott last week about these issues.
00:03:11.160 We talked before the deal was finalized and announced.
00:03:14.920 Scott sits on three of Congress's most important committees,
00:03:18.000 including the House Select Committee on Intelligence.
00:03:21.520 He's a seven-term congressman representing Georgia's 8th District.
00:03:26.140 I asked Congressman Scott where we are and where we're headed.
00:03:30.600 Yeah, Lou, hey, thanks for having us and giving us a chance to talk about some things with this egg state
00:03:35.960 that Janet Yellen said that maybe America's not hearing.
00:03:40.260 So let me just remind the American citizens out there listening to this, we're at over $30 trillion in debt.
00:03:47.060 If you put a 4% factor on that, you're talking at $100 billion a month in interest payments alone.
00:03:53.680 And it is about to be the largest expenditure of the government if we're not able to get control over the deficit.
00:04:04.740 And just as a reminder to your listeners, I know you know this, Lou, but the national debt is, you know,
00:04:11.600 it's the annual deficit over the course of time plus interest added up.
00:04:15.040 And if you're not able to get control of the deficit, you're never going to get control of the debt.
00:04:19.660 And so our job right now as Republicans is to shrink that deficit.
00:04:24.020 And that's the first part of getting control of the debt.
00:04:27.560 I want to make sure Americans that are listening remember this.
00:04:31.780 I'm 53 years old.
00:04:33.180 I was three when Joe Biden came to Washington, D.C.
00:04:36.400 Between him and Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, there's 117 years of political experience.
00:04:41.280 In December, when they passed the omnibus without a single Republican vote,
00:04:46.700 they made a conscious political decision not to include the debt limit in it.
00:04:50.740 We wouldn't be having this discussion today if they had included the debt limit in it.
00:04:55.560 4,000 pages, they could have put one sentence in it that said the statutory debt limit of the United States
00:05:00.380 is raised by such funds as necessary to pay for, you know, this omnibus bill.
00:05:07.600 They chose not to do it.
00:05:09.100 It was a political calculation.
00:05:11.280 They have calculated that the Republicans in the House could not stay together and pass
00:05:15.180 a debt limit increase with reasonable spending cuts.
00:05:17.960 And we did.
00:05:18.640 We did exactly that.
00:05:20.120 And the president has refused to negotiate.
00:05:24.860 We asked him to negotiate back in January.
00:05:27.640 He refused.
00:05:28.540 He refused up to and until about 10 days ago to even have any discussion at all
00:05:34.240 with Speaker McCarthy and our negotiators.
00:05:37.040 And he has basically taken the stand that, as President of the United States,
00:05:44.180 that if he doesn't get a clean debt limit increase, then he's going to just allow things to take their natural progression,
00:05:51.460 which would lead to a default and pretty extreme economic consequences for the country.
00:05:56.120 So the things I want you to know, we are negotiating in good faith.
00:06:01.340 It's not about what happens June 1st of 2023.
00:06:04.800 It is about what happens June of 2024, June of 2025, June of 2026.
00:06:10.780 We have a spending problem.
00:06:12.520 And the spending has got to come into alignment with what our economy can support.
00:06:20.480 And it is well above that right now.
00:06:23.760 Well, therein lies the structure of the crucible that we're looking at.
00:06:29.120 And that is Joe Biden wants to spend more.
00:06:32.280 And to do that, he wants to tax more.
00:06:34.960 The Republicans want to conserve and they want to reduce federal spending in point of fact.
00:06:41.700 Do they not?
00:06:43.300 Well, two things on that.
00:06:44.800 One is higher tax rates don't lead to higher tax revenue.
00:06:47.820 I mean, throughout the history of time, and I had this debate with a friend of mine who's a liberal earlier today,
00:06:52.640 you know, the tax revenue as a percentage of the GDP of the country is going to fall somewhere close to 18 percent.
00:06:59.360 It doesn't matter what the tax rate is.
00:07:00.940 It matters what the GDP of the country is.
00:07:02.780 So if you want more money as the government, and I'll be the first to tell you with the debt and the deficit,
00:07:09.720 we need more money than what we need is a low tax rate assessed against high economic growth.
00:07:15.360 He wants to go the opposite way.
00:07:17.040 He believes the economy is stagnant and that if you simply tax people out of more, then you'll have more tax revenue.
00:07:26.020 It doesn't work that way, Lou.
00:07:28.920 You know that.
00:07:29.580 I'm sure that everybody listening to this show recognizes that.
00:07:33.220 Unfortunately, the president of the United States doesn't.
00:07:35.860 So this president has made it pretty clear he doesn't understand fiscal policy whatsoever just in the first two and a half years of his presidency.
00:07:43.900 This is unprecedented levels of spending by any president in our history.
00:07:50.120 The national debt now is a percentage of GDP is no longer a percentage of GDP.
00:07:56.680 It is working its way well beyond GDP.
00:08:00.740 We are a nation that is underwater.
00:08:03.060 I used to talk 20 years ago about the fact we're on a path to being a debtor nation in perpetuity.
00:08:11.060 Well, perpetuity just got a little longer.
00:08:14.960 Lou, they spent three trillion dollars in the last.
00:08:18.240 I mean, Biden's been president for 28 months.
00:08:20.440 They spent three trillion dollars without a single Republican vote in the last 28 months.
00:08:25.080 They did it through what they call the Inflation Reduction Act,
00:08:28.060 and they did it through what they call the American Rescue Plan.
00:08:31.820 Now, not one single vote.
00:08:34.620 Now, unfortunately, there were some Republicans in the Senate that voted for the omnibus bill in December.
00:08:40.340 And I can tell you, Lou, if you had included the debt limit in that bill, then maybe it wouldn't have passed,
00:08:48.300 and we would have been better off if the omnibus bill had not passed in December.
00:08:53.760 But they spent three trillion without a single Republican vote.
00:08:56.540 And then think about the fact, Lou, that after that three trillion,
00:09:00.740 they turned around and they did the infrastructure bill, which spent another billion-plus dollars,
00:09:07.940 and they did the omnibus bill, which spent another several hundred million dollars.
00:09:13.520 In December, and the president signed the bill on December the 29th, we were at 99 percent of the statutory debt limit.
00:09:22.260 If you pull the daily treasury reports, and I hope your life's interesting enough that you don't pull the daily treasury reports
00:09:28.560 and have to look at it, but if you pull the daily treasury reports, we were at 99.9 percent of the statutory debt limit
00:09:35.100 the day Joe Biden signed the omnibus bill increasing spending, any reasonable person,
00:09:40.960 any reasonable person would have dealt with the debt limit before they increased spending.
00:09:48.540 The president chose not to. It was a conscious political decision.
00:09:52.920 It was a political maneuver, when you get right down to it, by Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden
00:10:00.240 because they didn't think House Republicans could stick together, and we did.
00:10:04.460 We stuck together. There are people who are in my party who very well may have sacrificed their political careers
00:10:13.120 in some of the moderate districts by doing the right thing for the country,
00:10:16.680 and I think we should honor those people, but the deficit spending is too high.
00:10:21.180 It has to come down. The national debt is a threat to our national security, and let's just do the simple math, Lou.
00:10:30.480 The numbers don't lie. 4 percent on $30 trillion is $1.2 trillion a year.
00:10:38.360 That's $100 billion a month, and if we talk about $30 trillion, the Dems spent $3 trillion, 10 percent of our national debt.
00:10:45.680 They spent the last 28 months without a single Republican vote.
00:10:49.580 And we are now looking at, for this fiscal year, $1.5 trillion in deficit.
00:10:55.620 We are looking at $2 trillion deficits, as far as the eye can see, and I'm going to say that looks like seven to nine years out.
00:11:05.000 We are in a realm of madness.
00:11:07.760 This isn't, as far as I'm concerned, as a Republican, a conservative.
00:11:13.140 I personally believe this is just simply a matter of rationality.
00:11:17.480 This country cannot do this and survive either as not only a superpower.
00:11:24.840 We can't survive as a nation that has any pretense of being responsible for future generations.
00:11:32.820 We are devastating this nation, and both parties bear some significant blame.
00:11:39.080 I want one name to the Senate, and that is Senator Mitch McConnell.
00:11:44.740 There is no excuse for what that man did with that omnibus bill.
00:11:48.580 He was derelict, he was irresponsible, and reckless, and I'm not just talking about the nation.
00:11:55.960 As a Republican, he should have had more sense.
00:11:58.920 So we have a lot of issues here.
00:12:01.400 But amongst those issues is a party that is coalescing for the first time.
00:12:06.160 The 118th Congress, as far as I can tell, I have to say you all are doing an incredible job.
00:12:14.460 Whether it is your attempt to manage fiscal policy and this government that is utterly out of control,
00:12:20.500 dealing with a regime that is utterly stark raving mad, there's not a single person in this country
00:12:28.000 who can show me a single policy initiative, a single policy adopted, a single measure taken by Joe Biden
00:12:36.480 that is in the interest of this nation.
00:12:39.760 Can you?
00:12:41.380 Look at the border.
00:12:42.860 I mean, look, I mean, it's hard to unite Republicans, especially when we have a four-seat margin.
00:12:49.160 Joe Biden has been so bad that he's done something nobody else could do,
00:12:52.480 and that's absolutely unite Republicans.
00:12:54.140 He did it on the border-related issues.
00:12:55.780 He has done it on the debt and the deficit-related issues.
00:13:00.380 And, you know, Lou, we have got to keep this country together until we can get a president
00:13:05.280 that will exercise some sanity with regard to the policies of the country.
00:13:09.540 We're talking with Austin Scott, congressman from the great state of Georgia and a great American.
00:13:15.080 We're going to be right back with him right after these quick words.
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00:14:43.340 We're back.
00:14:44.220 Thanks for staying with us.
00:14:45.320 We're talking with Congressman Austin Scott.
00:14:48.200 Congressman, I'd like to turn to a couple of the developments here.
00:14:51.860 The Durham report, basically it reads to me as if we had a tremendous corruption problem
00:15:00.440 throughout the Trump candidacy for president, his presidency, his post-presidency.
00:15:07.980 It persists.
00:15:09.440 It's pervasive.
00:15:10.680 And John Durham, for whatever reason, despite all of the corruption that he addressed in that report,
00:15:17.720 saw fit not to bring charges against a single person in a corrupt, obviously corrupt, intelligence community
00:15:24.640 and an obviously corrupt Department of Justice and FBI.
00:15:28.260 Your reaction?
00:15:29.180 Well, let me say this.
00:15:33.420 I don't think President Trump walks in the water.
00:15:36.340 I don't think he breathes fire.
00:15:37.820 I think he's a man.
00:15:41.800 I wish he were my president today.
00:15:45.380 I'm not sure I'm going to vote for him in the Republican primary,
00:15:48.080 so I want you to know where I am on President Trump before I say what I'm about to say.
00:15:51.780 All right.
00:15:52.100 The way President Trump has been hunted by both federal law enforcement agencies and district
00:16:02.380 attorneys in this country, it is unconscionable to me that that has actually happened inside
00:16:08.360 the United States of America.
00:16:09.660 I don't blame him for being very, very ticked off, and there's probably a more appropriate word there than that.
00:16:19.480 But if you read the Durham report, it tells you what most Americans recognize to be the truth if they've been paying attention to what's been going on.
00:16:29.780 Look at what Adam Schiff did in the Intel Committee and how he ran what was a flat-out hoax investigation of the president for years.
00:16:42.840 Look at the FBI.
00:16:47.440 Look at what they did.
00:16:49.020 There have been no consequences for anybody who did any of these things to President Trump.
00:16:54.740 And that's what bothers me the most about it, Lou.
00:16:57.240 You know you're always going to have some bad actors out there.
00:17:01.000 But if this action had been taken against a Democrat, there would have been consequences for the people.
00:17:09.500 They would have been fired.
00:17:10.780 They would have lost their pensions.
00:17:11.800 They would be in jail.
00:17:15.240 They would have been removed from office.
00:17:17.940 But since the attacks are against President Trump, nothing's happened to them.
00:17:22.760 I have a Fulton County District Attorney in the state that I'm from.
00:17:26.720 I expect that she will bring charges against President Trump.
00:17:29.860 Why do I expect that she will bring charges against President Trump?
00:17:33.000 That was her whole campaign platform. 0.94
00:17:34.860 She literally ran for office saying that she was going to go after President Trump.
00:17:43.140 It's unconscionable to me that the American voters would elect somebody on the platform that they were going to go after the President of the United States.
00:17:56.700 It's like we're living in a foreign country now, Lou.
00:17:59.380 Well, part of the country is very much that alien, in fact, to the values of this country, alien to our heritage.
00:18:07.360 And by the way, many of them, particularly in the Marxist Dem party, and I refer to them that, is because the Marxists amongst the Dems are now in charge of that party.
00:18:19.060 They are in charge of this impaired and puppet president. 1.00
00:18:21.380 You mentioned the Fulton County D.A.
00:18:23.780 You and I both know that she is nothing more than a radical and a supported radical with an agenda and not probable cause or in any way an interest in justice.
00:18:39.800 This is a coordinated attack, whether it be the D.A. in Fulton County, whether it be the Manhattan District Attorney,
00:18:46.780 whether it be the State Attorney General of New York or whether it be Jack Smith Special Counsel talking about classified documents.
00:18:55.280 Give me a break.
00:18:56.140 There is an American in the country, whether left or right, who doesn't know that this is a jacked up frame up job because they've seen it's like for eight long years when it comes to President Trump.
00:19:07.900 Right.
00:19:09.320 Absolutely, Lou.
00:19:10.120 And look, I mean, the people who have immigrated to this country, a lot of the people who have immigrated to this country have come from countries where that's standard operating procedure with the way you attack your political opponents. 0.81
00:19:22.280 It happens in every communist country out there.
00:19:24.860 It happens in countries like Russia, where if you disagree with the leadership of the country, you get to go to prison.
00:19:29.700 And now it's happening right here in America.
00:19:32.600 And, you know, it's it's it's every everyone who is conducting themselves like this is elected, you know, on the Democrat side of the ledger.
00:19:40.900 And and and I will tell you, Lou, I hope we as Republicans, if we have Republicans that start to to operate that way,
00:19:47.880 we need to purge them from our party because because our party has got to stand for the Constitution.
00:19:53.700 Standing for the Constitution.
00:19:55.140 We are watching it be shredded by these Marxist stems.
00:20:00.220 I have to say that you and the House are doing the best job of Republicans over the course of the last decade in bringing in confronting and taking up the conflict in their arena.
00:20:15.240 I want to just say to you, I salute you.
00:20:18.320 I thank you.
00:20:19.480 You and your colleagues are doing the Lord's work.
00:20:22.300 And I know it's tough and I know that they're going to be high expectations and they're going to be disappointments and there is going to be controversy.
00:20:31.280 But I tell you what, without you, I don't know where this country would be right now, because you are the only countervailing force against evil in that deep, deep D.C.
00:20:41.820 swamp.
00:20:42.160 Well, Lou, it's I mean, look, you play a big role in this journalism, as you know, I mean, the Walter Cronkite's, the Tom Brokaw's of the world from the guys that were out there when I was much younger.
00:20:56.200 They may have skewed left to right, but they didn't just flat out make stuff up.
00:21:00.520 And unfortunately, in the in the mainstream media today, people just make things up.
00:21:04.620 I mean, you look you look at the look at the attacks on Tim Scott, who's a great man, great friend of mine.
00:21:10.940 Look at him attacking Ron DeSantis and Ron's wife.
00:21:13.380 I mean, don't don't think for one minute as a Republican, whoever you're for, whether you're for Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley or Tim Scott, don't think for one minute that whoever the Republican nominee is, that that nominee is not going to be hunted the same way the Democrat, the Democrats, you know, use the Justice Department and other arenas to hunt Donald Trump.
00:21:38.280 It's just a double standard. And unfortunately, Lou, it's never going to be reported on by, you know, the mainstream media.
00:21:47.560 And the mainstream media is, to me, simply a shorthand for the corporatist own Marxist left.
00:21:53.920 Absolutely. Absolutely.
00:21:55.840 Corporate America has signed up for ESG, CRT, EID.
00:22:00.060 This is madness, what we're seeing and what were the institutions that created great leaders in previous decades and centuries.
00:22:09.480 We can't turn to a single leader in corporate America right now and ask for statesmanship.
00:22:16.380 We can't ask for spiritual leadership.
00:22:20.620 My Lord, what are we looking at?
00:22:23.220 Yeah.
00:22:23.580 Let's not let's not discount what the Black Rocks of the world are doing. 1.00
00:22:26.960 I mean, you know, you take, you know, your money, my money, everybody, everybody, every one of us who participates in some type of retirement plan or mutual fund.
00:22:35.420 We don't we don't get to vote those shares.
00:22:39.420 Those those investment firms that that we invest with are one the ones that get to vote and control our shares.
00:22:47.240 And so when you look at this ESG movement inside this country, look how much money it's cost Ford Motor Company.
00:22:52.780 And yet Ford Motor Company can't let go of it.
00:22:56.060 Why can't they let go of it?
00:22:57.780 Well, they can't let go of it because their major investors are activists on that side of the equation.
00:23:03.440 And it'd be interesting to see how much, you know, BlackRock owns in Ford Motor Company.
00:23:07.940 Be interesting to see how much they own in Fox News, for example, and what actually happened at Fox News.
00:23:14.840 I mean, I'm I'm I'm very concerned about about about what I believe is manipulation of boards and and and corporations by a very small group of people who have tremendous power because they literally have the right to vote the shares that aren't even shares that they own.
00:23:37.260 They simply control them because you and I have have invested in companies that that they get to vote their shares of.
00:23:44.360 Yeah. Wall Street will have much to answer for.
00:23:47.300 And we have not even started to discuss the investment, the capital, the capital outflows to communist China when we already know they are now the greatest adversary and enemy of the United States. 0.90
00:24:01.780 And mean, by the way, the way, absolute nothing, nothing to the United States other than harm in the years ahead.
00:24:08.980 Xi Jinping has made it clear the CCP.
00:24:11.800 We're talking with Congressman Austin Scott.
00:24:14.260 We will be right back in just one moment.
00:24:16.980 Stay with us after these quick words.
00:24:24.500 We're back now.
00:24:25.640 We're talking with Representative Austin Scott.
00:24:28.500 Congressman, we're talking about Wall Street.
00:24:30.960 We're talking about so many influences that are that are negative in our society, not least of which is the corruption of the FBI, the Department of Justice, the intelligence community, as it documented in so many reports and investigations that have amounted to not to accountability, but at least to building the body of public knowledge in this country that otherwise would be completely ignorant to the facts.
00:24:57.960 Your thoughts about what we can do to bring to heal a corrupt justice department, an FBI, and an intelligence community that seems to, these agencies, some 18 of them, seem to spend more time surveilling U.S. citizens and officials than they do enemies of the republic.
00:25:21.620 Yeah, let me, let me, let me say this.
00:25:23.680 Most of the people that I know that are agents in the FBI are good, honorable people that are doing the best they can.
00:25:32.320 They take their oath to the Constitution very seriously, just as the people I know in the ATF that are out there on the street on a daily basis take their oath to the Constitution very seriously and very much disagree with the conduct of the leadership of these agencies under the Justice Department.
00:25:49.880 I think, Lou, when you see, as things move forward with different things in the intel community, if the FBI does not accept that they have a problem and they're going to make changes to the procedures, then you're going to turn around and see significant restraint of what the FBI has the authority to do with 702 and other things.
00:26:14.060 That's my guess. That's my guess. I'm not saying that that is going to happen. I'm saying that's my guess. There are, there are, there are serious problems in the leadership of that agency.
00:26:26.840 And there seems to be a reluctance to admit that there are problems in the leadership of that agency with the bias that they have. So elections have consequences. When you have Merrick Garland in charge of the Justice Department, you're not going to have anybody that is going to stamp out a corruption or bias as long as the corruption and bias is working against Republicans or conservatives.
00:26:50.000 So we have to recognize that we simply have to get honorable people in the positions of authority. We have to be able to govern on the truth. The unfortunate thing is we've talked about the past, Lou, just here in the last few minutes is most Americans don't know the truth because they don't have a news channel they can go to anymore.
00:27:14.960 So they look at Facebook, they look at Twitter. I mean, the lack of journalism in America, Lou, makes it very difficult for us to govern. We need the public to know the truth.
00:27:27.040 If the FBI leadership was engaged in things that helped skew an election one way or another, the American citizens need to know that and there should be consequences of it.
00:27:39.760 If all of these intel community officials engaged in a cover-up for Joe Biden, the American public needs to know it. And there need to be consequences for that.
00:27:54.120 And the unfortunate thing, Lou, is unless you're watching conservative news, you're not seeing this.
00:28:02.320 And so the vast majority of America doesn't even recognize the facts of what's happening in their own country.
00:28:10.700 Right. Well, as you point out, many of the reasons that personally, I don't know if we can get to the next election.
00:28:19.020 I truly don't.
00:28:20.440 2024 is at once not that far away.
00:28:24.380 And in another sense, it is it is so distant in the future so much that is evil can can without question design and become the architect of.
00:28:40.780 And that is a future that is bereft of freedom, liberty, personal rights.
00:28:45.880 We are watching. We're right. We're watching right now. You mentioned 702s. 1.00
00:28:49.940 I hope Congress reverses the 702s. 1.00
00:28:53.320 I will take our chances without 702s in the FISA courts because they are they're an absurdity.
00:28:58.560 They're an obscenity. And every one of those judges should be held to account as well.
00:29:03.000 By the way, they worked hand in glove with the FBI and the Department of Justice.
00:29:09.640 It's just the most sordid, I think, the most sordid performance I've ever seen from courts.
00:29:17.080 We're starting to see more of it in in state and federal courts alike.
00:29:20.880 The punishment of the J6 prisoners, political prisoners, the overcharging, the oversentencing and not a peep from the Bar Association,
00:29:31.260 from any legal voice that could be considered a leader.
00:29:35.220 The Republican Party has even united around those people.
00:29:39.620 And that requires some explanation, I think, whether it is whomever is going to aspire to the leadership of the Republican Party for 2024.
00:29:51.180 That has to be something that is a matter of standard for the party because it's just it is so wrong.
00:30:00.180 Your thoughts?
00:30:01.960 Well, we simply have to govern based on the truth, Lou.
00:30:04.260 I mean, I mean, the truth will set you free and and we have to govern based on the truth.
00:30:09.620 And the government cannot be biased in its administration of justice.
00:30:14.120 And that's not what we're seeing inside the United States of America anymore.
00:30:18.620 And that's what scares me the most for for my kids future in the country, aside from the national debt.
00:30:25.220 I'm not worried as much about what's happening in the Middle East and Afghanistan and other things for my kids future.
00:30:33.800 I worry about the fentanyl coming in this country.
00:30:35.740 I worry about cartels controlling the border.
00:30:38.160 I worry about the national debt.
00:30:39.880 I worry about the lack of belief in God that has continued to expand in not just our country, but throughout the world.
00:30:49.140 And in lieu, it is it's a I mean, there's just a narrative in today's society that is very scary.
00:30:58.220 It's not just in America.
00:30:59.900 It's all around the world.
00:31:02.740 You know, I do want to mention this, though.
00:31:04.820 I mean, with that said, I mean, the one thing that I do where I do think conservatives have said enough is enough.
00:31:11.700 And you can see this very clearly in what happened with Bud Light.
00:31:14.380 I mean, we as conservatives have have never believed in boycotts, because when you boycott, you hurt people that aren't responsible for what happened.
00:31:21.660 But Americans have said enough is enough.
00:31:23.580 So, you know, when Bud Light did what they did, it's cost that company billions of dollars.
00:31:29.360 When when Target has done what it did, I stopped shopping at Target many years ago.
00:31:34.080 But if you look at what's happening with Target, they're having to change their approach to things.
00:31:38.060 If you look at what the L.A. Dodgers have done, I'm a I'm Baptist, Lou.
00:31:44.040 But I mean, their their affiliation with a group that clearly mocks people of the Catholic faith.
00:31:51.580 That's unconscionable. And that wouldn't have happened just 10 years ago.
00:31:55.060 It has moved very far in the wrong direction in 10 years.
00:31:58.520 It can move very far back in the right direction in 10 years.
00:32:01.220 And you think about how fast we turn the economy around when when Donald Trump became the president of the United States by by making sure that the that the regulatory process in the country was pro growth and pro business.
00:32:16.280 We can turn it around pretty quick.
00:32:18.620 We can turn it around pretty quick, but we just have to we have to govern based on the facts.
00:32:23.620 Well said. And I and I agree with you.
00:32:25.820 And I'm also one of those people who said, first of all, I don't believe that sanctions work, economic sanctions work in foreign policy.
00:32:34.180 And I've never believed in boycotts before.
00:32:37.500 I now believe in them thoroughly.
00:32:40.020 The American people, as you said, have we have found out that there is a level beyond which they will not go.
00:32:47.080 And to watch their religion, their values, their standards, just absolutely more than disrespected.
00:32:54.920 They're trying to destroy them.
00:32:56.700 What Target has done, what Budweiser has done.
00:32:59.420 And I don't want to hear their excuses.
00:33:01.460 I never want to see a corporation involved in politics, whether it's ESG, whatever.
00:33:07.220 Keep your politics and keep your money straight.
00:33:09.740 And I would hope even between the left and the right.
00:33:13.440 I am so sick of what I've seen corporate America become.
00:33:17.200 The Chamber of Commerce, by the way, I just want to hold up for special treatment by any who would want to try to right this country.
00:33:25.920 The Chamber of Commerce is a disgrace to this nation and is absolutely now for so long wedded to the Republican Party.
00:33:36.820 No longer was the Republican Party sufficient because the Republicans wouldn't bring in all that free labor.
00:33:43.100 They decided to move to the left and to the Marxist view.
00:33:47.560 As you know, Congressman, we always give our guests the last word.
00:33:51.940 If you would, your concluding thoughts here today, and we appreciate you being with us.
00:33:56.340 Yeah, well, one thank you.
00:33:57.540 I can't conclude without talking about Janet Yellen's ex-state and the debt limit with everything that's going to be happening over the next couple of days.
00:34:05.020 And the thing I just asked your people to remember is this.
00:34:09.560 Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, 117 years of political experience.
00:34:16.420 They knew exactly what they were doing in December.
00:34:19.380 When Joe Biden signed the omnibus bill into law on December the 29th of 2022, we were at 99 plus percent of the statutory debt limit.
00:34:27.280 This current ex-state crisis that we're in, it's intentional.
00:34:32.300 They knew exactly what they were doing, and it was a political maneuver that they did.
00:34:39.540 And they knew exactly what they were doing when they did it, Lou.
00:34:43.560 And it's not inconsistent with every other policy from this Biden regime in which every one of those policies and every one of those initiatives seems to be aimed at the devastation and the destruction of this country.
00:34:58.640 Absolutely.
00:34:59.420 They created a crisis, and that's what they specialize in.
00:35:02.800 It was totally unnecessary.
00:35:04.720 Great pleasure having you with us, Congressman Austin Scott.
00:35:07.620 Great state of Georgia, and he's a great American.
00:35:10.420 Thanks for being with us, Congressman.
00:35:12.100 Thank you, Lou.
00:35:12.720 God bless.
00:35:14.000 You too, brother.
00:35:15.800 Thanks to Congressman Austin Scott, and thanks, everybody, for being with us.
00:35:19.760 Here tomorrow, our guest is former Trump presidential advisor Peter Navarro.
00:35:24.160 Please join us for that.
00:35:25.280 Till then, thanks, God bless you, and God bless America.