Rep. Tim Burchett | 07-03-25
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Join us as we discuss the historic passage of the Budget Bill that has now passed the US House of Representatives, and the historic experience of sitting down with President Donald J. Trump to discuss the process of getting it done.
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this is the stone zone now get in the zone it's the stone zone here's roger stone
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and we're back in the stone zone i admit it we're a little punchy because
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we were up all night and into the early hours of the morning watching the progress of the
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president's big beautiful bill which has now passed the u.s house of representatives joining
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me now is one of my favorite members of congress tim burchett from tennessee's second district that's
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east tennessee tim is a rock rib ronald reagan conservative a bulldog champion of the taxpayers
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of both tennessee and america and a donald trump america first loyalist don't ever confuse tim
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burchett with the politician uh he is a true patriot and uh joins us now to talk about this
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historic experience tim welcome back into the stone zone thank you mr stone it is always a pleasure
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and i say this with all sincerity i wish my mom and daddy were alive to hear me on your show they
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would just be floored that i know somebody of your stature and i mean that with all sincerity you
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carried the water for this country behind the scenes for a lot of years and you continue to do
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it and i just and i'm very grateful for you brother i really am well that that's very kind our listeners
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out there in stone zone land love your country wisdom we get a lot of great comments whenever
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you're on because you have a an amazing tendency to just tell it like it is uh but last night had to be
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both nerve-wracking and exciting you were a part of history uh i'm very familiar with the big beautiful
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bill for weeks now i have been beating back the disinformation regarding uh how the bill treats
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social security how it treats medicaid what it does and does not do this is the blueprint for
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donald trump's plan to take america into the golden age i think we would all recognize that the bill was
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not perfect from the get-go no piece of legislation ever is but it got increasingly better uh and those
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critics who say well it doesn't do enough to reduce spending they're right but this isn't the vehicle
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for that is the way i look no no you're correct i mean i guess it's like a a nice car um it depends
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on who's driving it and it just so happens that donald j trump is driving this this this car or this train
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and and you know i had a lot of questions and i'll be honest with you i was not in favor of the bill i
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um because i didn't have the answers that i needed and president trump took two hours yesterday if you
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can believe that and him and jd vance who i'm continue to be i wasn't a jd vance fan really but um
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after closed doors meetings with both of them and it's two two dadgum hours mr stone and he um
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and you've been in a room with trump but the thing that that always that got me and i left as i left
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i was telling some people some staffers this they were what do you think and i said well
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14 people in a room just fastballing questions to the president and you know he answered every
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dadgum one of them but the thing i like about him is mr stone more and more is when he doesn't have
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the answer you know you always hear about this bravado trump bravado or whatever i don't know
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um uh you know i guess it's okay to be cocky when you're when you're right and you know what
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you're talking about and he knew what the heck he was talking about on every issue and the thing i
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like the most though when he didn't know he would turn to one of his experts call him my name and say
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what's the answer to this and you know i've you've been in meetings with executives before and many times
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a lot more than i have and world leaders but a lot of them will just either lie to you or try to
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buffalo you to get you the you know to to think they know the answer and their arrogance won't
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allow them to say i don't know but that's not the way it was with trump and he and jd would fill in
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um in certain areas and provide support when needed and uh you know he had people from the treasury he had
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his all his people that you see on television in there and um and and i'll just be honest with you
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i left after i left there i was i was in his camp on the bill because it he convinced me that
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economically it's the right thing to do and and many other reasons why as well well i i think it's
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because he comes not from the world of politics but from the world of business and in business you
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can't buffalo people trying to make a deal with they want real answers trump operates uh like a
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businessman he likes facts hard facts and hard realities and i agree with you on your assessment
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of jd vance i was not always a jd fans fan but i am today he's been remarkably effective behind the
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scenes particularly uh in the confirmation of some of the president's better but more controversial
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cabinet picks uh he doesn't get much credit for that but he was really the guy up on capitol hill
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rounding up the necessary votes jawboning certain republicans i think jd vance is doing a terrific job
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and uh i think the american people are going to learn more and more about that over time i do have to
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ask you uh last time we spoke uh we were talking about your bill uh it came as a shock to me but i
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checked it out it's absolutely true millions of dollars from the american taxpayers flowing to the
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taliban uh and you you brought this up you've had legislation you introduced a no tax dollars for
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the terrorist act what is the status of that oh thank you so much for asking about that and you're
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correct it's 40 million a week and the state department who i have no love for i never have
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is as even i have a document a five-page document says we've sent close to five billion now it's probably
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more than that because it's a several weeks old it is past the house it is in the senate and i'm hoping
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that um senator foone will allow it to move through because um uh senator sheehy former navy seal and
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tommy tuberville another straight talker are both working on the bill and i'm gonna i'm gonna try to get
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with them the first of the week and just and and and urge them along because i think the country
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supports things like that it's time to stop that nonsense that corruption that has come out of the
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biden administration it's just it's it's it's almost overwhelming mr stone to be honest with you
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because of the amount of out and right just stealing and i think that it i think what really
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what really is is become of it i think the money's flowing back to washington dc and i think it's
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flowing into the pockets of members of congress and i hope they get caught and i don't care what
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party they're in i hope they put them in handcuffs and drag them out of this building kicking and
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screaming i think you're exactly right as you know elon musk alluded to this back when he was running the
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doge operation i mean usaid which by the way was never enacted by congress it was created through
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executive order by president john f kennedy and it had a legitimate purpose at the time it was supposed
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to fund governments in our hemisphere in in central and south america who were fighting communism a lot
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easier to talk to people with a full belly than when they're hungry uh it had a very good and i think
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legitimate purpose when it started but it morphed into a slush fund for the radical left and we were
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funding terrorism we were funding color revolutions we were funding impeachments uh we were funding
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all kinds of crazy dei programs uh the numbers boggle the mind uh and the folks at aid usa id they seem
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to believe they answered to no one that they were they were a government unto themselves i give big
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credit for to secretary of state marco rubio and to the president of course for now defunding this
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massive leftist uh uh slush fund i mean if you're a democrat you haven't had a very good couple weeks
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usa id is defunded the dow industrial average is skyrocketing the u.s supreme court has finally
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limited the power of rogue leftist district judges iran's nuclear weapons development program
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has been smashed zoran mamdami is the new face of the democrat party a man who talks about seizing
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the means of productions i think he gets that right out of marks and angles uh a man who talks about
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defunding the police and opening the jails i kid you not the republican national committee has five times
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more cash on hand than the democrat national committee which has to evidently go borrow to stay afloat
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criminal illegal aliens are being deported uh with greater efficiency by that great patriot tom homan
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president trump is brokering peace all over whether it's between uh the congo and rwanda uh whether
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whether it is uh whether it is uh any of these world crises that he is bringing peace to states are
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beginning to defund planned parenthood 128 of your democrat colleagues actually voted against
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impeaching donald trump and white males like david hogg are being kicked out of the democrat party like
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dogs uh if you're a democrat there's not much to smile about these days no sir and it goes down to
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one person donald j trump if if could you imagine if joe biden was in the white house right now
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i guarantee you american boots would be on the ground and young boys and girls would be losing
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their life in another endless war i just can't stress that enough of his ability to to um to fix a
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problem i i was asked by a reporter i said early on about his negotiating skills i said the guy deals
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with teamsters in new york city i said i think he can handle the middle east i mean seriously there's no
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question no there's no question he's handled that deal and he handles it with with honestly a little
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a lot of grace really considering and when he dropped his f-bomb last week about uh about the
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middle east i was in the um i talked to a lot of democrats and especially in the gym you know there's
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no cameras nobody's staff nobody around and they they thought that was a very a very accurate statement
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and it needed to be said and uh you know and i think it summed it up i know franklin graham doesn't
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like all his cursing and i'm frankly i'm not a fan of it but it it was it was accurate you can't say
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anything other than it was accurate and he uh he called it and if it wasn't for him we would be in a
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heart we would be in another endless war and you know peace is breaking out everywhere and the only
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people that are winning in the so-called democrat party are marxist because and my theory on that is is
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that they you can say what you want to about it but this is my theory i think that the um the
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democrats that are in power realize that they're going to lose everything and they they they fear
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more losing their job than losing the country so they'll go with that far left that is just a very
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slim uh very slim portion of of their numbers and they'll sacrifice their moderate their moderate um
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members on the altar of of of liberalism marxist woke wokeism really and um and that's exactly what
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they're doing you're going to see a lot of those people are going to get beat and and republicans
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and i hope what i hope is i hope that we have mega republicans that we start electing and quit with
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this shenanigans that some of our former leadership did by undercutting um those type of of leaders
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because that's exactly what happened in the past you know i'd go to these recruiting things that
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look like we were recruiting for hooters waitresses and not members of congress and and and that america
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did not respond very well to that and um and that's why we have such a and one other thing and i'll and
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i'll shut up because it's your show but the um you know i keep saying this our approval rating is in
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the dumps or congress is for good reason but donald trump's is soaring and the reason is he listened
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to america and he's doing what they said strong border strong economy strong military america bows
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to no one in this world right now we are the envy of the world once again and it's because of trump
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and if we do not acknowledge those issues we will continue to be in a three or four person majority
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or possibly even lose the majority to the marxist yeah i i think we're going to defy history as you
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know traditionally the party in power loses seats in the off-year elections but traditionally
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businessmen don't get elected president of the united states uh all of our presidents have been
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governors or senators or congressmen or generals so i think trump all of the of the of the uh the the
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standard rules of american politics the conventional wisdom if you will i think all of that is does not
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apply to donald j trump presidents aren't defeated uh and then lose a disputed election and return to
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the white house with one exception grover cleveland a democrat who happened to be like donald trump from
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new york actually last of the great conservative democrats a truly great president uh it is uh it is uh
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amazing how trump defies all the rules and changes the the the whole game side of american politics
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i honestly think that when he survived an assassin's bullet in butler pennsylvania that that it gave him
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a new urgency not just a new serenity because i found him much calmer and much more determined after
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that but it also gave him a much greater sense of urgency i think he fully understands
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that he has four years to save this country and he is not wasting not a single minute of it
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having spoken to him a couple times extraordinarily late at night or i should say early in the morning
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he is not wasting a single minute of his time uh in this herculean effort to like turn around an ocean liner
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to change the entire direction of the country to return us to our fundamental constitutional roots
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uh and to secure that golden age that you and i have talked so much about folks if you're just tuning in
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we're talking to congressman tim birchett from east tennessee uh he is a former mayor of knox county
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he is a bulldog defender of the american taxpayers as well as the taxpayers of tennessee
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he also is a guy who tells it exactly like it is you're in the stone zone with tim and i whatever you do
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please don't touch that dial because we'll be right back for a bit more this is the stone zone with roger stone
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this is the stone zone now get in the zone it's the stone zone
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here's roger stone and we're back in the stone zone uh congressman tim birchett and i are celebrating
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the passage by the u.s house of the big beautiful bill uh and tim i saw on x that you received a
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copy of my book the man who killed kennedy the case against lbj i hope you're enjoying the book it
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certainly is an outline of the uh shenanigans of the deep state i i spoke earlier in the show
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about the revelations from cia director john radcliffe yesterday implicating former cia director
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john brennan uh former national security advisor james clapper uh and uh fbi director james comey
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in orchestrating the greatest single dirty trick in american political history the russian collusion
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hoax which was nothing less than an abuse of power in which they used the full authority of the united
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states government and the extraordinary capability of our intelligence agencies to try to undo an
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american election uh and remove a duly elected president so i guess my question to you is are we
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ever going to see justice are any of these people who have engaged in a treasonous crime crime for which
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there is no statute of limitations do you think we will ever see anybody held accountable i doubt it
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i doubt it i just um because this town is so crooked mr stone and they protect their own
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and um i just uh it it infuriates me that's why that's why i know there's a god in heaven
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because there will be justice one day i just don't think it's going to be on this side of the grave for
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most of them i think they're going to lawyer up and yeah they'll get some small potatoes like you saw
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at the um the the auto pen debacle at the white house but um you know some small potatoes get
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get smashed but the reality is i just don't see it but what i i would hope that would drive americans to
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the polls and say we've got to fix this and you all would hold us accountable i mean i'll vote for it
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i'll push it but i'm not you know i'm not on the judiciary committee and i'm not one of those that's
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and you know that that's a little out of my realm but i would hope that we would all i can do is
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raise hell about it and hopefully um jamie comer will bring it up in our committee and then we will
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have it as a um and then we will push the justice department to do something about it so i would hope
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that that we could do that because once you do one the rest will you know they'll lawyer up and
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they'll start squealing they'll squeal like stuck pigs and dadgummit that's that's that's that would
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be a good start i would think i i completely and totally agree so you have a new podcast uh
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entitled uh unscripted where you'll be peering behind the veil in washington dc how will those
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listening be able to access your show and uh what have you planned for the the initial episode
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yes sir it's on youtube and rumble and um i would honestly love to get you on there i are you in new
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york is that where you are i am actually in south florida at this moment but i'd be honored to be on
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we can arrange that i would i would love to oh i'd go to south florida see uh honestly i could i
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could see myself my wife and daughter love the love the sun and they love the surf so that would
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be a great thing and i would um but i but yeah it's on um youtube and rumble and we are um you know i'm
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not i'm not real polished and i'm not a i guess i'm not a wordsmith like you and so it's um it's it's
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uh i stumble through it a little bit but people seem to enjoy it and they get a lot from it and
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we're going to start getting some people and making some people uncomfortable and that's that's my goal
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i you know and i they'll give me a little script but i never follow it i don't know why i pay those
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people to do any of that stuff because i just i get in there and get ticked off about something and
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i'll start railing on it and we'll start digging and that's that's what i intend to do with this thing
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i you know i it's it's sometimes kind of difficult to get people that are interesting
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because it seems like everybody's got a podcast but it's a great way to meet to um reach out to
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the younger folks and i think as older politicians like yourself and myself you know it's not all
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bluegrass and barbecue anymore it is a um it's a um it's it's it's the social media it's it's these
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radio shows it's um it's you know it's all the all the all of the above and to leave any of that
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on the table i think is where republicans miss out because the democrats are a little bit ahead
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of us on that kind of stuff all right we have to we have to end it there i want to thank our guest
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uh tim birchett a man who tells it like it is and also thank all of you for joining us today
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in the stone zone we'll see you tomorrow on the fourth of july god bless you and godspeed