Americans Mark 22 Years Since 9-11 Terror Attacks: Interview with Congressional Candidate, Green Beret Veteran & Gold Star Husband Joe Kent | TRIGGERED Ep.67
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00:10:29.000So with that, joining us now is, again, my good friend, Green Beret veteran, Republican candidate in Washington's 3rd Congressional District, Joe Kent.
00:10:39.000Joe, good to have you, buddy. How you doing?
00:10:41.000Great to be with you. Thanks so much for having me.
00:10:43.000I'm doing well. Yeah, I think the last time I saw you was kind of a rough day for me.
00:10:47.000I know you were doing a fundraiser down in Florida, and it was one of the days, you know, they were trying to indict my father, and it got a little hectic.
00:10:57.000I was like, well, I got speaking here, but I kind of got to go be with him.
00:11:00.000I was torn, but, you know, it's awesome to see you're still in the fight.
00:11:05.000How are you doing? We're just grinding away at it.
00:11:08.000Got a lot of good county-level endorsements.
00:11:29.000But, I mean, you know, obviously we all do what we can a little bit.
00:11:32.000But, you know, I think, you know, you exemplify all the people I know and all the incredible people that I've seen that have served and done those things.
00:11:40.000I mean, you really stand out amongst, you know, some pretty incredible Americans.
00:11:46.000I mean, today, it's the 22nd anniversary of 9-11.
00:11:50.000I guess you were already in the Army when the attacks happened, but...
00:11:54.000You know, talk about what you remember from that day, how the military changed post 9-11, and how you view that terror threat.
00:12:05.000Perhaps, you know, even a few years ago, the differential between, you know, what was going on with that under Trump and what's going on now within open borders.
00:12:13.000You know, talk about, you know, all of those things, because I think it's important.
00:12:18.000Yeah, absolutely. I enlisted right away when I turned 18 in 1998.
00:12:22.000I always wanted to be in the Army. At the time, I thought maybe if I hung out long enough, then I'd get to go to combat in a scenario like Desert Storm, Panama, kind of a one-off conflict.
00:12:32.000I never thought in a million years that we'd be involved in a 20-plus year conflict.
00:12:37.000But when the attacks of September 11th happened, I actually, I thought at the time, we were probably just going to maybe do one or two strikes and then just really kind of take it on the chin.
00:12:46.000Because under Bill Clinton, we had already been attacked twice by Al-Qaeda, by Bin Laden.
00:12:50.000He had declared war on the U.S. So I didn't think that we actually had the resolve.
00:12:55.000So once we started going over and conducting operations in Afghanistan, I was actually pretty impressed with obviously the fighting spirit of the American people, the American military.
00:13:04.000But for us, it was like, hey, take us off the chain.
00:13:06.000We want to go deal with these threats.
00:13:08.000We never want to see our homeland get attacked again.
00:13:12.000My late wife, who you mentioned, was killed much later on in Syria.
00:13:38.000And at the time, I think there was a lot more trust in our institutions.
00:13:42.000I mean, Americans were like, hey, we need to rally together because we have to defend our nation.
00:13:47.000And we can trust those who are telling us what's happening.
00:13:51.000And we were told that, hey, Bin Laden attacked America.
00:13:53.000And, you know, right after that, we were told that Saddam Hussein had ties to Al-Qaeda, weapons of mass destruction.
00:13:58.000And it took us years to really unpack this.
00:14:00.000And I think a lot of it we're still unpacking how much the national security state lied to us for their own gains.
00:14:07.000Now, you know, in doing all these different combat operations, I think we really kicked over a hornet's nest in the Middle East, especially getting rid of Saddam Hussein, who was definitely a bad guy.
00:14:17.000But that led to the rise of Al-Qaeda and then eventually ISIS. So by the time your father came on the stage and said, hey, we've gotten it completely wrong here in the Middle East, He actually called out the national security establishment, which was the first time I had heard any politician really do that.
00:14:33.000And he said, look, we're not going to get involved anymore in these stupid wars, but we are going to go take care of business.
00:14:37.000We are going to go after those who have attacked us and are posing a threat, which is what he did with ISIS. I mean, Obama told us that it was going to take us a generation to get rid of ISIS. We took away all the ground the Islamic Caliphate controlled within about a year under your father's leadership.
00:14:51.000And then the Iranians, the Iranians had been kicking around the Americans We're good to go.
00:15:18.000You know, when we talk about sort of the changing mission, you know, yeah, we were in sort of a long-term stalemate, Americans getting killed by Iranians.
00:15:27.000So few people actually even knew about it at the time.
00:15:29.000We didn't do anything with that. But, you know, I got in trouble one time for saying this, but it was 100% true.
00:15:34.000Like, I knew guys in the teams that were like, hey, if Hillary wins, like, we're getting out because we can't do the job that we wanted to do.
00:15:41.000You know, they'd have a high value, let's call it one of the sort of playing card targets.
00:15:46.000Under Obama, they're literally calling Washington, D.C., waiting for some lawyer to get to his nice, beautiful, air-conditioned office.
00:15:53.000Six hours later, by the time that guy gets the communication, gets involved, and isn't taking a nap, a situation on the ground changes.
00:16:00.000Kids show up. All of a sudden, it's not a clean grab or clean takeout anymore.
00:16:07.000And then... Oh, well, we'll just go let that guy go live to, you know, fight and kill Americans another day.
00:16:13.000That change, you know, people don't understand just how drastic and just how bureaucratic, you know, a lot of the military became during that time.
00:16:22.000Because, you know, you see that getting much worse, because I want to hear your thoughts on sort of today's army as well, versus, you know, when you enlisted and call it, you know, the late 90s, early 2000s.
00:16:35.000Yeah, you know, as the wars drug on really past the first couple years, that's unfortunately when a lot of the national security state and the bureaucrats said, hey, we want to get involved in this war, too.
00:16:44.000We can't just have this being a bunch of special operations guys moving at the speed of combat.
00:16:48.000We need to get the whole machinery involved.
00:16:51.000And when that happened, that's really when the lawyers took over, and we had this highly bureaucratic process take over with combat.
00:16:59.000And then once Obama was elected, and Obama really ran.
00:17:02.000If you go back and you look at the 08, 07 Obama platform, He was essentially a populist who said he wanted to get out of the wars.
00:17:09.000But then when he came into office, he got completely and totally swayed by the neoliberals and the neocons who kind of endure every single administration that said, no, no, what we need to do is we need to stay at war.
00:17:21.000But Obama didn't have the will to actually let us go and fight.
00:17:23.000So for me, the hallmark of the Obama era combat deployments was, hey, we're going to be in harm's way.
00:17:30.000We're going to get guys maimed and guys wounded.
00:17:32.000However, we're not really going to be able to fight back.
00:17:34.000Exactly like you said, everything became this massive bureaucratic process, heavily controlled by lawyers.
00:17:40.000I think at the height of Iraq and Afghanistan, those surges there, we probably had, I think, well over 20 general officers in each theater.
00:17:48.000Each one of them had a massive staff, a whole assortment of lawyers that would approve every
00:17:53.000single operation that we were doing. And so if you're a guy on the ground getting shot at,
00:17:56.000you're like, well, what the hell are we even doing here?
00:17:58.000Because we obviously have no will to win.
00:18:00.000And we also at the same time, and I think this is just as bad as not having a will to win.
00:18:04.000We didn't have the will to say, well, then let's just get the hell out of here. I mean,
00:18:07.000what are we even doing? And that actually, I think would have been a viable course of action at the
00:18:13.000He left us in harm's way with no real will to actually complete the mission.
00:18:18.000And I think that that's just incredibly dangerous.
00:18:20.000And so by the time your father gets into office, I mean, the world's a mess.
00:18:23.000I mean, Iran is mopping on the floor with us all over the Middle East.
00:18:26.000They're expanding throughout the entire region because of the Iran deal.
00:18:30.000ISIS has taken over like three countries and is forcing a terrorism and migration crisis into Europe, onto the U.S. homeland.
00:18:38.000So really, most of these, I think, disasters that we had after 9-11 were a direct result of failed U.S. policy when we could have made much more pragmatic decisions, but we let a combination of the military-industrial complex, always looking for their next paycheck, and D.C. bureaucrats and lawyers just take over the entire process.
00:18:57.000Yeah, I mean, you know, when I talk, again, to my buddies who were there who were serving the teams, I was like, what happened?
00:19:03.000How did you take out—they go, well, they just, like, let us do what we do best, which is like, you know, essentially killing bad guys.
00:19:15.000You know what I mean? Let them do what they do best.
00:19:18.000And they were able to turn it around so quickly— How is it possible?
00:19:24.000Everyone understands now, I think, certainly, probably not early on, the depths and, frankly, the depravity of the military-industrial complex.
00:19:33.000But how was it that there was no one until Trump that was, again, aside from the operators who knew but just couldn't break rank, right?
00:19:40.000They still followed those things, even if they're being led by idiots.
00:19:44.000How is it that no one said, like, hey, this is so obvious.
00:19:48.000Why don't we do this? I mean, it doesn't feel like you...
00:19:52.000Now, looking at the world in which we live today, I guess everything's sort of like this.
00:19:55.000But how is it that no one there, not one general even, didn't say, hey, why don't we just do this?
00:20:04.000And you see, after the Afghan withdrawal and the dejection and all of this, people wondering, was it 20 years wasted, all those lives, all the people maimed?
00:21:09.000And so that's kind of how we got in the predicament that we're in right now.
00:21:13.000Because if you have a realistic assessment of what our vital national security interest is, like your father did, he came in and he said, okay, so wait, as an outsider, he came in and said, what's the deal with the Middle East?
00:21:21.000And people are like, well, there's terrorists there.
00:21:22.000And he's like, well, that's great. Let's find the terrorists and let's kill them.
00:21:56.000That was the agreement that the Taliban agreed to as well because we had fucked them to the negotiating table.
00:22:00.000However, the military-industrial complex cannot have that.
00:22:03.000The intelligence community cannot have that.
00:22:05.000So then they started doing all their different tricks, the Russian bounties narrative, all these types of things that we now know were complete and total lies, but they're just trying the exact same lies in a different theater in Ukraine right now.
00:22:18.000I obviously got to get to Ukraine, but I mean, you lost your wife in Syria.
00:22:24.000Talk a little bit about that, because it's not even a country that I would think, you know, the average American probably doesn't even know we're still there.
00:22:32.000And, you know, we tried getting out of that, and it looked like we were going to do that.
00:22:36.000And then as recently as, I think it was even a couple of weeks ago, a couple of months ago, I was like, there was some article, we still have X number of troops.
00:23:11.000A few years ago, I remember hearing the story from my father because I guess when you first met was when he was receiving the bodies that came over.
00:23:23.000I thought it was such an incredible story.
00:23:25.000He relayed it to me before you took it upon yourself to take it to the next level and run for office and push back and be a thorn in the side of that That complex, the military industrial complex and others talking about it, but that's still going on today.
00:23:40.000And I don't even know that anyone can articulate what our goals there are, and yet we're still there, we're still spending money, and could likely still lose more lives.
00:23:52.000I think people forget that we have people in Syria and why you went in the first place.
00:23:56.000The Islamic Caliphate really kind of started in Iraq but found sanctuary in Syria in their civil war.
00:24:01.000And so we had to go into Syria to take away all the ground the Islamic Caliphate controlled.
00:24:06.000But your father did something very unique.
00:24:07.000He said, hey, our goal is to defeat the Islamic Caliphate.
00:24:10.000Then we're leaving. No other president had said We're good to go.
00:24:26.000Yeah, exactly. These are things they really care about.
00:24:29.000So we need to just stay there forever and continue to send our sons and daughters off to die there.
00:24:33.000But my late wife was part of the Special Operations Task Force that was part of the push into Syria to take away the last little bit of ground that the caliphate controlled.
00:24:43.000So, by late 2018, we had taken away pretty much all the ground ISIS controlled.
00:24:47.000Once we finally took away the last village they controlled, so ISIS then controlled no more actual physical territory, your father did something very significant.
00:25:30.000I had already switched over, and I was working at the CIA. And I had seen over the two previous years, once President Trump took over, I had seen mid- to senior-level bureaucrats do something that was completely foreign to me.
00:25:41.000They were saying that, hey, we're not going to follow the policy of the guy in the White House, which to me, I was like, wait a sec, back up.
00:25:47.000That's not the oath that we took to the Constitution.
00:25:49.000And so when I heard President Trump give the order to pull out of Syria, I was communicating with my wife because we both had access to classified systems.
00:25:55.000And I was just like, they're not going to let this fly.
00:25:58.000They're going to do everything they can.
00:26:01.000And sure enough, unfortunately, I was correct.
00:26:03.000And her and three other Americans were killed in January on a combat operation that we most certainly did not need to be on.
00:26:11.000And to this day, we still have Americans in Syria.
00:26:14.000It's gone before the Congress two different times to get our troops out of there.
00:26:17.000And unfortunately, Republicans and Democrats alike have banded together to keep our troops there.
00:26:22.000We recently lost an American contractor there.
00:26:24.000We've had an air crew of 20 or so that got We're good to go.
00:26:45.000Yeah, for all the people that, you know, talk all the nonsense about, you know, the commander-in-chief and everything like that, that's a big one, right?
00:26:51.000I mean, the commander-in-chief of the U.S. military, the president of the United States, gave orders that were basically just ignored.
00:26:59.000I mean, talk about that, because, I mean, it shows, I think, the strength of the deep state, as well as, I think, it highlights some of the illusion.
00:27:06.000You sort of, you started talking about, you know, when you joined, we all thought differently of our country and what we were fighting for versus, you know, the lessons we all learned.
00:27:15.000I learned that one the hard way, you know, with, you know, the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
00:27:20.000I'm like, wait a second, I committed treason, a crime punishable by death?
00:27:25.000And it turns out, like, yeah, they've been lying to us, you know?
00:27:29.000I feel differently today about Julian Assange than I did, you know, 10, 15 years ago, because I was like, oh, he may be putting people in harm.
00:27:37.000I was like, no, no, no. We're standing on a pedestal to the world telling them X, Y, Z while doing exactly the opposite.
00:27:43.000Like, we're the biggest hypocrites in all of this, you know, so that they could just ignore those orders.
00:27:49.000You know, talk about that, because I think...
00:27:54.000Again, the disillusionment, the recruiting problems.
00:27:57.000How do you get a patriot to sign up for something, to go fight for their country, possibly give up their lives, When we don't really know what their actual vision is.
00:28:07.000It's certainly not what we all thought.
00:28:09.000And I think that was a shame because it was something I never wanted to have happen.
00:28:13.000Even as it was going on and happening to me, I was like, well, if the CIA said something, you know, there must be some truth to it, right?
00:28:20.000Like, if the FBI is corroborating this evidence, like, I don't know, maybe some of these people that they accused me, I was like, maybe they were talking with me.
00:28:43.000I served through Bush. I served through Obama.
00:28:44.000I told you how I felt about the Obama administration when I was serving under it.
00:28:49.000But me and none of my friends, we didn't speak out.
00:28:51.000I mean, we were out there. We were fighting.
00:28:53.000We were getting shot at. We didn't agree with Obama's policy, but he was the commander-in-chief.
00:28:57.000Took an oath to support and defend him.
00:28:59.000He's the guy the American people supported.
00:29:01.000We saluted him, moved out, did our jobs.
00:29:03.000All of that completely changed by the time President Trump came into office.
00:29:07.000And at that point, I had been in the military for quite a while.
00:29:10.000And so I was shocked to see senior-level leaders in the DOD, the Intelligence Committee, the State Department, just say, yeah, we're not going to do what the White House says.
00:29:19.000I mean, to me, I was just like, wait a sec.
00:29:20.000Was I following a different script than everybody else?
00:29:23.000Eight years ago, I was told that I had to listen to the guy that I didn't like, and I did it.
00:29:28.000Now that the guy that you guys don't like is in power, you're just not going to listen to him.
00:29:33.000And so I witnessed that for the last two years of my military career.
00:29:36.000And then when I switched over and was a paramilitary operations officer in the CIA, it was the same thing.
00:29:40.000You had these mid-level CIA guys who were saying like, no, we're just going to blow off kind of what the president's saying, because we know the policy best.
00:29:47.000I mean, I think one of the We're good to go.
00:30:11.000Elected to command the military and our foreign policy doesn't understand the policy.
00:30:15.000Like, it just doesn't make any sense and it points to the hypocrisy.
00:30:18.000But that was the mentality at the time under President Trump and that resulted in getting my late wife and many other folks killed and keeping us in these disastrous wars in Syria, Iraq and in Afghanistan.
00:30:30.000And now we're seeing it all unfold with the whole Ukraine issue.
00:30:33.000And a lot of these intelligence officials, these are the same guys that we now know lied.
00:30:36.000The 51 spies who lied about Hunter's laptop.
00:30:39.000These exact same guys were pushing the Russia-Russia narrative, accusing you of a crime punishable by death, you and so many others.
00:30:46.000And now we're seeing that exact same apparatus that has been exposed.
00:30:49.000They're continuing to roll this out and weaponize it against the American people.
00:30:53.000So it's just something that we have to stop or we're simply not going to have a country anymore.
00:30:58.000Yeah, you know, Vindemann was created into a hero, even though it seems like anyone who actually served just called him a fat pig chow thief, which is ultimately probably what he was.
00:31:34.000I'm like, you can be a combat vet, and I don't know, he's not a combat vet like you,
00:31:39.000but he was put out there as beyond reproach.
00:31:42.000You know, any whistleblower that was against Trump, but, like, if there's a whistleblower against Biden, like, you never hear from him again.
00:31:52.000And it was just so different, because it wasn't the policy of what the American people wanted.
00:31:57.000It was the policy of what the deep state wanted, the military-industrial complex, permanent Washington, D.C. And all of these guys just got rich around this, so that was their policy, and the military had to enforce their policy, get them rich, Even if it was contrary to what the American people wanted.
00:32:12.000And again, I think a big part of my father's 2016 platform was ending the never-ending wars.
00:32:20.000And that's why we had the surprise defeat of the Deep States candidate, Hillary Clinton.
00:32:24.000And your father came in there on that ticket.
00:32:26.000And I think that message still resonates.
00:32:28.000And I think this is a huge reason why they're pushing so hard against President Trump and against anyone who questions the national security state.
00:32:36.000Because right now, they're pushing for a whole other war We're good to go.
00:33:01.000Do you honestly think, in the way that you understand how America should work, that we should have these unelected bureaucrats in our intelligence agencies with very potent tools able to control what happens with our government, with our foreign policy, with our domestic policy, violating people's basic civil rights?
00:33:20.000Because that's really what the Democrats stand for at this point, the Joe Biden Democrats anyways.
00:33:25.000We get a little bit of divergence with RFK Jr., but it's just absolute insanity.
00:33:30.000But unfortunately, you get people that are just so blinded by their emotions, they can't look past that.
00:33:36.000But again, if we don't fix these major issues and restore the people's will back to Washington, D.C., we're not going to have a country for much longer.
00:33:44.000Yeah, no, that was the irony of sort of the Russia, Russia, Russia nonsense.
00:33:47.000It's like, well, you know, Trump, harder sanctions on Russia than...
00:33:51.000I mean, I think it was in Syria, didn't they?
00:33:52.000I mean, didn't we have our guys, like, take out a bunch of Russian guys that kept encroaching?
00:33:56.000We gave them every warning. They weren't listening.
00:33:58.000So, I mean, I think we wiped out, like, 150, like, Russian combat troops in Syria because they, you know, they're doing what they do.
00:34:05.000No one's pretending that Putin's a good guy.
00:34:08.000But this whole narrative was, like, so if Putin really had the stuff on Trump, you'd think...
00:34:13.000I don't know. He'd probably use it right after we took out, you know, 100-plus Russian, you know, commandos while playing games.
00:34:24.000So the Russians were—they knew Obama was weak.
00:34:27.000I mean, what a lot of these foreign policy expert types don't understand is that a lot of what happens overseas comes down to who is the toughest.
00:34:38.000The Russians would push up against us in Syria.
00:34:41.000And under Obama, we literally had to surrender and leave our positions to let the Russians in.
00:34:46.000And this was just a total flex by the Russians.
00:34:48.000They were going after ISIS, and so were we.
00:34:50.000They were working with the Syrian government, but there was times where our objectives overlapped.
00:34:54.000And so just to give us a little nudge to let us know who was in charge, they would kind of flex on us.
00:34:59.000And then when your dad came into office, he said, no, we're not going to do that.
00:35:03.000You have the right to defend yourselves if they push you.
00:35:06.000And so Wagner mercenaries, they pushed up against us.
00:35:09.000They were warned multiple times and they got the business end of an AC-130 and a bunch of other fire from the Ranger Regiment and killed, I think, well over 200 or so of their troops.
00:35:21.000And so, like, yeah, after that, I think we're good to go.
00:36:05.000It was like when Germany complained about NATO. It's like, well, we want to buy cheap Russian gas, but we want you to also then up our NATO spending, so you cover all of that.
00:36:16.000And then when Trump's like, well, we're not going to pay for you if you're literally enriching NATO. Rather than getting it from us or somewhere else, you're literally enriching those who you want us to protect you from.
00:36:28.000So as you give them more billions, you want us to up our spending so you can get cheap gas and we get screwed in the process.
00:36:33.000It's insane, but that's exactly what's going on here.
00:36:36.000But what other lessons from the war on terror or the war in the Middle East...
00:36:42.000Can we apply to, like, the current challenges we're facing, you know, right now, certainly in Ukraine, and obviously, honestly, potentially in Taiwan when we have to start dealing with the Chinese?
00:36:53.000I think, really, peace through strength.
00:36:56.000I mean, that is the only doctrine, whether it was employed by your father most recently or whether it was employed by President Reagan.
00:37:04.000If we go looking for foreign adventures and foreign wars, it ends in disaster, whether we're talking about Vietnam, whether we're talking about the war on terror.
00:37:12.000Yes, there is a time to go and take punitive action against select targets, but those need to be very select, and we need to say, hey, this is the target, this is our criteria for success, and this is how we're getting out of it.
00:37:22.000But in general, we need to strengthen ourselves and strengthen our country.
00:37:26.000We won the Cold War because we developed an independent economic powerhouse in America that lifted Americans out of poverty but made us strong, made us secure.
00:37:38.000I mean, we have all the energy below our feet that we need today.
00:37:41.000From sea to shining sea, we do not need foreign supply chains in China.
00:37:45.000We don't need to be relying on other countries to make our microchips and microprocessors.
00:37:49.000We can do that all right here at home.
00:37:52.000And once we're strong here at home, then we can actually start using our economic power, which is what we just spoke about, what your father did with controlling energy prices by flooding the market with cheap US energy.
00:38:03.000That took away the ability for Putin to do something like conduct a military adventure into Ukraine.
00:38:08.000Right now, the world sees that we're weak.
00:38:11.000Biden hit us with a real big double whammy.
00:38:13.000Not only did he show just how weak he was, because he wanted to keep us in Afghanistan for just a long enough time for him to have a symbolic withdrawal so that he didn't follow the Trump plan.
00:38:23.000He couldn't just follow the Trump plan.
00:38:41.000We're weak abroad. And so why wouldn't every single bad actor from Vladimir Putin all the way to Xi Jinping in China, why wouldn't they advance?
00:38:49.000Right now, we're in a position where we've got to do a lot of rebuilding back at home.
00:38:55.000We can't allow the military industrial complex and the intelligence community to throw a dart at a map and say, well, that's where the next threat to our democracy is.
00:39:04.000Therefore, we need to forego giving any kind of aid to American citizens in Hawaii and in Florida, and we need to send billions of dollars over there.
00:39:11.000Agree with us, or you're a Putin supporter.
00:39:12.000We need to start holding those people to account.
00:39:15.000Starting with the 51 intelligence officers who lied, all those guys should be stripped of their clearance.
00:39:19.000People like Adam Schiff who continued to lie and abuse their access to classified information, they need to be held accountable.
00:39:25.000So I think transparency and strength at home is what the biggest lessons learned from the last 20 years of conflict are.
00:39:32.000Yeah, I mean, it seems so basic, right?
00:39:37.000And especially if you sort of take it, let's call it that Eastern European mindset of Putin or whatever it is, masculinity, toughness.
00:39:44.000They're not going to get embarrassed on a world stage, but if they know they're going to be, that you're a pushover, they don't understand the basic psychology of how that even works is pretty troubling.
00:39:54.000But as we're talking about Ukraine, are you worried that Ukraine could escalate, you know, much more than it is right now, and possibly even into, like, a nuclear conflict.
00:40:04.000Because, you know, again, that mentality, a strong guy's not going to get pushed around by a weak guy, even if the—you know, eventually there's a breaking point there.
00:40:13.000You know, Putin's not going to— We're good to go.
00:40:30.000You know, they've hidden from the American people that we had boots on the ground, and that was a leak.
00:40:33.000Now, that guy's never been heard of from there.
00:40:35.000It was a story for about five minutes.
00:40:43.000Because, I mean, that to me is scary as hell, and it's also indicative of what ultimately China then sees that weakness and uses it to go after our proper allies in Taiwan, right?
00:40:55.000That's a little bit different, right? Ukraine was never in NATO. We say they're an ally, but I'm not really sure that was ever the case.
00:41:24.000Right now, we're about 18 months into this conflict.
00:41:28.000When it first broke out, I think it's really easy for the national security apparatus to manipulate the good intentions and the goodwill of the American people.
00:41:36.000When we see someone who's bigger, like Russia, come in and invade another country, our natural American tendency is to say, that's horrible, because it is horrible, and we want to do something.
00:41:45.000Therefore, we don't look at what led to this invasion, why it happened in the first place.
00:41:52.000It had nothing to do with us taking that buffer zone that was a stalemate zone, let's call it, for 60 years and being like, you know what, we're just going to move NATO's borders like 500 miles closer to Russia.
00:42:02.000It had nothing to do with that, right?
00:42:03.000That wouldn't upset you if there was sort of historical precedent.
00:42:35.000We'll do a little bit of dollar stuff.
00:42:36.000But, like... We're showing our enemies that we're weak and they can do whatever.
00:42:41.000And we're also showing those who have historically been our allies just how weak they are.
00:42:45.000And that's a bad combination when you combine both of those mentalities.
00:42:49.000No, it's horrible. And look, the Ukrainians, we've thrown them into this massive charnel house of just blood and carnage by saying that, hey, we said the quiet part out loud.
00:42:59.000Lindsey Graham has said that we're willing to just continue to watch Ukrainians die because, you know, some Russians are also dying.
00:43:05.000So there's this sick, perverse fantasy that Washington, D.C. seems to have with, like, Toppling the regime in Russia, which is absolutely insanity, but you hear supposedly serious people talk about this all the time.
00:43:27.000It's an existential threat to Russia, whether Putin's in charge or not.
00:43:31.000So there's going to be a conflict there.
00:43:33.000And we've basically said that, hey, we're all in.
00:43:36.000Secretary Austin just yesterday, the Secretary of Defense, said we're with Ukraine for as long as it takes.
00:43:41.000But the problem is Ukraine's a smaller country than Russia.
00:43:44.000Look at a map and you can understand, any person can understand this.
00:43:48.000So Ukraine is running out of people to send to the front line and fight.
00:43:52.000There was just an article the other day saying that Ukraine is going to start conscripting their women to go fight because they literally are running out of men.
00:43:59.000Regardless of the billions of dollars that we've poured in there.
00:44:03.000And so at some point, I personally think right now, if you're a pragmatic Ukrainian leader, the only play you have left is to attempt to get NATO and the US deeply involved, more boots on the ground inside of Ukraine, because they need to bring us in and get us involved in this.
00:44:18.000This is incredibly dangerous because if this happens, then Russia is going to say, well, okay, well, what's next?
00:44:23.000Are these guys going to march on Moscow?
00:44:25.000Are they going to do a preemptive strike?
00:44:26.000And so we move even closer to a potential nuclear war.
00:44:29.000The reason why so many folks in the Reagan administration and in the early phases of the Bush 41 and then in the Clinton administration were against NATO expansion was because of this exact scenario right They said the last thing we want to do is provoke Russia.
00:44:46.000So we need to have a pragmatic approach.
00:44:49.000We need to have a policy of containment, but don't move NATO one inch further to the east.
00:44:55.000But we've completely and totally violated that.
00:44:57.000So I think we're headed for an absolute disaster.
00:45:00.000And you mentioned what's going on with China.
00:45:01.000China has come in and they've underwritten all of Russia's financial woes in this conflict.
00:45:06.000Oh, we're creating incredible financial alliances for both of them.
00:45:10.000You know, China's going to get Cheap energy, they'll take crappy oil, zero environmental concern, all the things we're doing for, like, we're literally creating the roadmap for them to ignore all of that, boosting our enemies, giving them the security that they need, while simultaneously just...
00:45:26.000Destroying our coffers, you know, our military stockpiling, all of that, you know, just gone.
00:45:32.000Like, you know, I'd say the sanctions have helped Russia far more than they've hurt Russia.
00:45:39.000They've pushed Russia into Saudi's arms.
00:45:42.000They've pushed them into China's arms.
00:45:43.000They're being embraced on a world stage.
00:45:46.000The BRIC nations are getting together and saying, hey, this is like America's week right now.
00:45:49.000Let's get together. And, you know, they're going to beat us in GDP? It's...
00:45:54.000Like, we're literally creating our own demise, and no conversation about what the end result of the policies are, because, you know, Slava, Ukraine, and all of that shit.
00:47:04.000However, if we lose even just a little bit of influence we have as the prime reserve currency holder, that's basically our number one expert.
00:47:11.000That's the whole way our economy is geared right now.
00:47:13.000The only good thing that can come from that is at least maybe we won't be giving countries like Pakistan $20 million for gender studies in their schools because we literally won't be able to borrow and fund the sort of surplus spending that we have.
00:47:31.000Man, someone on the show a couple weeks ago, they were talking about literally the delta, the trade deficit between China and the U.S., that money is literally their entire military budget.
00:47:43.000So you're right. They're fighting an economic battle right now.
00:47:46.000They're playing a 1,000-year, 500-year game.
00:47:48.000We're playing, you know, the primaries are in two weeks, so let's make really bad decisions
00:47:52.000right now to maybe get us elected so we can keep making bad decisions for another two
00:47:56.000years or if you're in the Senate, another six years.
00:47:59.000But you know, China's fighting the economic battle right now, but that could actually
00:48:05.000turn into a military battle in the not too distant future because they're using the advantage
00:48:11.000they got on the economic side to build up their military.
00:48:16.000And we are foolishly financing all of it, whether we're talking about the way our markets are aligned, whether we're talking about what the major hedge fund holders are doing, BlackRock, Vanguard, and all that, the way they're bailing out the Chinese with our pension funds, but then also the fact that China controls the vast majority of manufacturing and production, and that wasn't a force of nature.
00:48:34.000That didn't happen naturally. That was a conscientious decision made by Washington, D.C. elites.
00:48:40.000And the second you get someone like President Trump who comes in there and says, this is stupid, it's a bad deal for us, Well, that's when you get the intelligence community to come after you.
00:48:47.000If you want the intelligence community to come after you, try and end the endless wars, the military industrial complex, and onshore manufacturing all at once.
00:48:54.000You're going to get the treatment on that one.
00:48:56.000It's also a good way to lose the billionaire conservative donors.
00:49:00.000Because, you know, we don't like Jana that much, but if we get our widget for one cent cheaper over there...
00:49:07.000You're going to keep doing it. I think it was Peter Navarro.
00:49:08.000Peter was on the show a couple weeks ago, and he was talking about just that.
00:49:11.000And he sort of headed up sort of the negotiations against China that we were actually really successful with.
00:49:17.000But, you know, the second we were out, they just abandoned all of that because they knew they were dealing with imbeciles.
00:49:23.000And it changed. And it's just really scary how we have people making decisions, multi-trillion dollar decisions, in many cases, who have...
00:49:33.000You know, it was like, you know, our Secretary of State who thought it was shocked and dismayed that the Taliban did not install, and I quote, a more diverse and inclusive government, close quote.
00:49:42.000You know, like, that guy was rewarded that because he was the one that set up the 52 intelligence officers that said the Russian, you know, the Hunter laptop is Russian disinformation.
00:50:04.000They were going to have... Leah Thomas from the University of Pennsylvania swim team was going to be heading up the trans coalition of the Taliban government.
00:50:12.000Like, that... If you're dismayed, fine.
00:50:14.000You can be upset about it. But did you really seriously think that the people that were throwing homosexuals off of buildings a couple months ago were all of a sudden going to be woke and they're going to embrace the insanity of today's radical left?
00:50:27.000But these are the people that are actually making the decisions that our children and our grandchildren after them are going to be beholden to because there's a point of no return on some of these things.
00:50:37.000China gets that advantage. They're never giving it up.
00:51:08.000A lot of that's baked into the cake with American politics, for sure.
00:51:11.000But we also have an elite in Washington, D.C., that really, they know that they're getting paid from the endless wars.
00:51:17.000They know that they're getting paid from us financing everything that China does, whether it's their military or keeping our manufacturing base shipped over there.
00:51:24.000And they don't give a damn about what happens to American workers or your average American back here at home.
00:51:30.000And the scary thing is China knows that.
00:51:32.000And also, we've got Joe Biden in the White House, who's compromised six ways to Sunday by pretty Pretty much every country, but mainly the Chinese and the Ukrainians.
00:51:41.000These guys have all kinds of dirt on him.
00:51:42.000So really, I think right now, China has the freedom of movement to essentially kind of do what they want.
00:51:48.000They're in the driver's seat, and Biden's in the receive mode.
00:51:50.000He's got to run cover for them no matter what they do.
00:51:53.000Yeah, no, and again, you know, big tech, our mainstream media, they're totally complicit.
00:51:58.000Like, I'm shocked literally every day.
00:52:00.000Like, CNN has not asked the question, like, hey, as the White House even admits, like, we're the closest we are to nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 60s.
00:52:40.000No one's even asking the question, are our policies a derivative of that these guys have
00:52:45.000information that they would use against the Bidens?
00:52:47.000And so we're screwing America to cover up what's already a disastrous, far larger than Watergate by any stretch of the imagination— And yet, like, they don't even ask the question, like, hey, could our policy that could bring us to nuclear war possibly be affected because they got power over a Democrat president?
00:53:08.000And watching the media not even ask those questions do the Democrat Party bidding because they want to make sure that, you know, I guess we got trans indoctrination in kindergarten and every kindergarten in the country or something like that, that that's more important to them than the big picture.
00:53:26.000Yeah, for sure. I mean, there's no more actual, like, media that's out there doing investigative journalism that reaches the, you know, broad swath of the American people.
00:53:34.000Because, unfortunately, a lot of folks still think they can get their news from the New York Times and the Washington Post and CNN. And, like you said, have they even asked the most basic question of, like, hey, we're sending billions to Ukraine, potential nuclear war.
00:53:55.000And so it just shows just how compromised the media is.
00:53:58.000And then anytime any of that even starts to scratch the surface, you've got big tech working in direct coordination with the intelligence community to silence all of it, you know?
00:54:07.000And the Biden-DOJ indicting Trump, like, the next day, every time, to, like, just...
00:54:12.000Cover it up! Maybe it's out there a little bit, but we're just going to cover it.
00:54:16.000I realize now, Joe, that I'm a schmuck.
00:54:19.000I should have been out there selling America for billions to China, because apparently, if you're the son of a president, you can do that and get away with it and face no consequences, but I have a feeling it would be different for me.
00:54:29.000Yeah, I think if your last name is Trump, the rules are going to be just a little bit different.
00:54:33.000I'm pretty sure if you had any late library books right now, we'd probably know about it.
00:55:03.000What are you seeing out there? And how do we fix it?
00:55:05.000Because I have guys that are buddies, multi-generational military service guys that are like, I would never let my kid go to this military.
00:55:12.000I mean, he's a patriot. A, he'd never be able to get anywhere because he'd be cut out for basically being a conservative.
00:55:22.000Because, I mean, it seems like now more than ever we're actually facing You know, bad actors throughout the world, you know, not just fictitious ones to enrich the military complex, but actual bad actors around the world.
00:55:35.000And there's no one that, you know, I understand that Admiral Rachel Levine, formerly Dick Levine, you know, is an incredible admiral and would be great on the front lines.
00:55:45.000But, like, the guys we'd actually want fighting the battles for us have no interest.
00:55:54.000Yeah, I think it's multifaceted, and I don't think people have realized yet the scope of how dangerous what Biden's doing right now truly is, and then also how quickly he's done it.
00:56:05.000So right now, we're pushing closer and closer towards World War III, potentially, in Europe with Russia, but there's also a heated escalation going on right now in the Pacific, with China and Taiwan.
00:56:14.000And so you would think with a military posture like that, we'd really care about military recruiting, but Biden has thrown all of that out the window.
00:56:21.000Day one that he came in, and this is crazy because day one that Biden came into the White House as the Commander-in-Chief, he inherited the most battle-hardened military that we've ever had.
00:56:31.000Every other time that we've gone off to war, we've had to draft the military and then demobilize it.
00:56:35.000The GWAT, the Global War on Terror, Was fought by really the same cast of characters for 20 years.
00:56:42.000I don't know very many of my friends and brothers and sisters in arms that just did one combat deployment.
00:56:47.000Most of us did multiple trips overseas because we believed in our nation.
00:56:51.000We trusted our country. There was problems here and there, but we were still willing to go over and to fight and to die.
00:56:56.000And so now you're seeing a lot of people who are questioning that.
00:56:58.000And I think that's, you know, a result of 20 plus years of lies kind of coming unraveled in the last couple of years, but also Biden, day one, the first thing he does is he says, well, because of January 6th, we have to have an extremist stand down to make sure that none of these patriots, these people that have been going over and fighting and getting shot at for 20-plus years, to make sure that they're not white nationalists or secret terrorists.
00:57:18.000So they started going and going through people's security clearances, withholding their security clearances.
00:57:23.000And, you know, these are guys that just got back from the most recent combat deployments that are being told, hey, we think now you're potentially a terrorist because you had a Gadsden flag on your pickup truck.
00:57:31.000Or on your personal Facebook profile, you know, you had a Trump flag.
00:57:36.000You said, hey, we're going to give you guys this shot that's not ready for prime time, but you have to take it, even if it's against your religion, take it right now or I'll kick you out.
00:57:45.000And then the catastrophic withdrawal in Afghanistan, the way that no one was held accountable for that, The way that we're not even allowed to ask why those 13 were killed and who was making those decisions.
00:57:55.000I think when you add all of those into one big lethal cocktail, you're starting to see why people are...
00:58:00.000The generational military families are saying, absolutely not.
00:58:04.000And why you're seeing a lot of red-blooded patriots, young men and young women who would gladly sign up for the military in any other circumstance just saying, you know what?
00:58:12.000I'm not going to go serve a government that absolutely despises me.
00:59:04.000And it just speaks to the leadership of the Biden administration.
00:59:07.000And that's why you're not getting people that sign up.
00:59:09.000And I'm glad you brought up the retention piece, because a lot of the experienced people who it takes a lot of time and a lot of money to train, pilots, special operators, a lot of them have gotten out.
00:59:18.000And these are guys that probably would have stayed in for at least 20, if not 25, 30 plus
00:59:23.000And these are the guys you need to train the next generation that comes in.
00:59:26.000So we've got a real double whammy here.
00:59:29.000Again, we've got people that won't come into the military, so that's a recruiting crisis.
00:59:33.000But what I think is even more dangerous is the retention crisis.
00:59:35.000And so I think if you get better leadership in there, if we get President Trump back in, a lot of folks are going to say, okay, now I'm going to join the military once more.
00:59:42.000But a lot of the damage has already been done because once you get that next crop of young, eager patriots to come in and serve, a lot of those senior non-commissioned officers and officers that we needed to stay and train the next generation, they're gone.
00:59:53.000And those guys probably aren't coming back.
00:59:55.000I think some of them might, but that's going to be a major issue.
00:59:58.000I think we could turn the ship around pretty quickly by getting rid of all the different, you know, woke propaganda nonsense that's happening, get rid of the DEI commissars in there, lift the VAX mandate, make people whole again.
01:00:09.000Accountability is a big one, too. If we start holding a lot of these senior...
01:00:12.000People will start coming back in the military.
01:00:14.000It's not going to be something we can fix.
01:00:16.000It's going to be a very big challenge for the next Trump administration to fix.
01:00:21.000Yeah. Listen, shifting to the next 2020, to the 2024 race, you know, obviously you're running again.
01:00:28.000You had a really close race last time.
01:00:30.000Is there anything you're doing differently from 2022 to ensure that you win a congressional race?
01:00:36.000I'd love to see guys like you in Congress.
01:00:39.000You know, people who are sort of Unapologetically America first.
01:00:44.000People who are patriotic, especially from a state like Washington, where, you know, candidly, that doesn't exist, at least in, you know, the population centers.
01:00:51.000But if you sort of get, let's call it east of the Cascades, the entire state is sort of, you know, super America first.
01:00:57.000These are, you know, incredible patriots, but they've been commandeered by a bunch of lunatics, you know, around Seattle.
01:01:09.000Are people waking up to what's actually going on as you go through these cities that were honestly awesome cities not that long ago?
01:01:15.000Even if they were always left-leaning, but it's absolutely insane what you see coming out of these places every day.
01:01:22.000Yeah, I think one of the biggest differences between 22 and this next cycle here in 24 is that we're going to have a much more unified Republican Party.
01:01:29.000So I've gotten the endorsement of all the counties in our district and the state party.
01:01:33.000So we're not going to have that hard-fought primary.
01:01:35.000Republicans, I think this last cycle, especially in my district, the biggest lesson that we can learn is that, hey, If we're divided and we don't unify after the primary because the person that you liked didn't get in there, guess who wins?
01:01:47.000Not your candidate, the Democrats win.
01:01:49.000And there's no such thing as a moderate Democrat.
01:01:51.000So we unify the Republican Party and then we focus solely on highlighting how radical the Democrats are.
01:01:56.000The woman I'm running against, if you listen to her media, she'll say moderate probably, you know, that's every other word that comes out of her mouth, how moderate she is.
01:02:03.000And then you look at her voting record, and it's the same voting record as AOC. It's the same voting record as Nancy Pelosi.
01:02:08.000They're voting to let biological men into your daughter's dressing room.
01:02:12.000They're voting to keep the U.S. on this crazy inflation cycle.
01:03:55.000We got to play that game. We got to do it aggressively.
01:03:57.000And we can't sort of hope for, well, I really hope it's not raining somewhere because turnout's going to be lower because people can't be bothered.
01:04:38.000Because, you know, I mean, I don't think it has the effect it would have five years ago because literally there's not a person in existence that doesn't agree with 100% of the Democrat platform who hasn't been smeared as a racist.
01:04:52.000You know, people turn the other cheek.
01:04:54.000It doesn't mean anything anymore, even if that does a disservice to those actually affected by it.
01:04:59.000But like, you know, how do you push back against this insanity?
01:05:03.000Yeah, I mean, it's challenging because the Democrats just have such a capture on the mainstream media.
01:05:08.000And so if there's consumers out there in the mainstream media, all they hear is that Republicans are white nationalists, racists, whatever.
01:05:14.000So I like to point out why they have to use these insults.
01:05:17.000If you can't argue on your record, if you can't argue on your ideas, you have to turn to insults.
01:05:22.000And the Democrats' most potent insult is, hey, you're racist.
01:05:25.000It's like, no, I'm talking about securing the border and getting jobs for American citizens.
01:05:29.000You're saying racist while voting for an open border.
01:05:32.000I think it's just aggressively pushing back, but then also exposing their record is how we do it.
01:05:37.000But it is challenging because there is a lot of folks out there who maybe aren't on media as much or even the older generation where they still believe, and I don't fault them for believing this, they still believe that if you're called a racist, like, that's the worst, most horrible thing in the entire world, and you must be racist because someone wouldn't call you racist unless you're actually racist.
01:05:53.000Unfortunately, there's still folks that believe that.
01:05:54.000Like, I do think, though, the Cal Palaces are really getting built up amongst a lot of Republicans who are just like, well, man, they call everyone racist.
01:06:01.000So what does that even mean at this point?
01:06:05.000So I think really just highlighting why the Democrats are using petty insults because they're using petty insults because they can't discuss their record and they can't discuss their ideas.
01:06:15.000Yeah, no, I mean, you know, these days, if you're pushing back against the leftists, and they call—it's almost like a badge of honor.
01:06:21.000It means you're getting to them, because that's all they have.
01:06:25.000I'm not—you know, I'm not saying that actually being won is a badge of honor, obviously, because they'll try to take that and turn it into that.
01:07:09.000What are your thoughts on the presidential primary so far?
01:07:12.000How do you sort of assess the strength, the momentum of what's going on with my father?
01:07:16.000And what do you think is going to happen with Joe Biden?
01:07:18.000Will he ultimately even be the Democrat nominee?
01:07:22.000I think that's the more interesting question.
01:07:24.000I mean, I feel like the Republican primary is over.
01:07:25.000I mean, if you look at any polling, even like polling that does not like President Trump, he's just in the lead.
01:07:31.000There's never been a Republican presidential primary like this.
01:07:34.000So really, I think there's a lot of—unfortunately, there's a lot of money being wasted.
01:07:38.000I lost my election by less than 2,600 votes.
01:07:41.000I had 60,000 Republicans who didn't participate in the last election.
01:07:45.000We could be using these funds right now that are being spent on all these other candidates and all this other nonsense.
01:07:50.000We could be using that to make sure that we're ready for lawfare post-election and to make sure that our ballot harvesting game is strong and well-funded.
01:07:57.000But unfortunately, we've got all these different sideshows going on, probably billions of dollars at this point, and yet President Trump is still up, I guess, what, conservatively by 20, 30 points.
01:08:11.000It's a good point, you know, because it's not just about, well, you know, money spent in the presidential primary.
01:08:17.000Well, if we don't like Trump, it's not going to him.
01:08:19.000It's like, no, no, no, there's races like yours or others.
01:08:23.000Maybe even, you know, in places that you have, you know, a less America first, but still a Republican, not a lunatic, like what the left is putting forward, you know.
01:08:32.000A little bit of money, of the hundreds of millions that will be spent in this, you know, a couple hundred thousand dollars could be a game changer.
01:08:41.000I mean, that could be 10, 15 seats in the House that we barely control now by, you know, by like four seats.
01:08:46.000You know, people are like, well, I just don't like Trump, so it doesn't matter.
01:08:49.000It's like, no, no, no, there's a lot of downstream...
01:08:51.000The donor, the presidential one's the sexy one.
01:08:55.000That's what everyone wants to play in because they get the big photo op or whatever it may be.
01:08:59.000But it actually has a lot of consequences downstream, probably all the way down to the school board because you're just draining a supply from what would otherwise be conservative donors.
01:09:10.000No, that's exactly right. There's only so much money that you can squeeze out of the donor base, and especially guys like me, grassroots guys, and President Trump, too.
01:09:19.000The Biden economy right now is hard enough on small-dollar donors when we need President Trump to stay in a legal fight, but then also to stay in a primary fight.
01:09:26.000That's going to suck away a lot of dollars.
01:09:41.000I think he's going to be the eventual nominee.
01:09:43.000The only question is, like, how much damage are we going to do?
01:09:45.000Are there going to be Republicans that are going to say, well, if it's Trump, then I'm going to take my ball and go home?
01:09:50.000Because if they look at what happened in 2022 in races like mine, that's exactly how you get Democrats elected.
01:09:55.000So there needs to be people that are ready to say, okay, I gave it the old college try with one of the other candidates, but once President Trump is the nominee, they need to get behind him and make sure that we just don't have this brutal post-primary, you know, never Trump 2.0 or any of that nonsense.
01:10:11.000Because at the end of the day, if we do that, The Democrats win, and they're going to destroy the country.
01:10:16.000Yeah, so as a last thought, you know, New York, which has long called itself a sanctuary city, is now losing their mind.
01:10:25.000They're unable to deal with the sort of the influx of illegal immigrants, right?
01:10:28.000It's okay when it's in other people's backyards, but now that some of them are ending up in New York, it's creating a problem.
01:10:34.000I talked to my friends that are still there.
01:10:35.000They're like, man, Central Park feels like a big migrant camp right now.
01:10:43.000Last week, basically, gave a press conference talking about how insane it is.
01:10:47.000It has to stop. You come from Washington State, Seattle, another one of these just uber-leftist cities.
01:10:54.000Will the left finally rethink its embrace of open borders?
01:10:58.000Or do they just hate themselves and the country too much to ever change?
01:11:02.000Meaning, it doesn't matter if you destroy these cities.
01:11:04.000It doesn't matter if you take taxpayer resources, whether it's through healthcare or education, that are already...
01:11:11.000Let's just say we're not exactly overperforming and failing American citizens who are paying into the system just to be able to give others more.
01:11:16.000Do they ever rethink it, or does it not matter?
01:11:19.000They just don't care. At this point, it's evident that they just don't care.
01:11:24.000I mean, had they left the border open for like six months, a year, and then readjusted corks and said, we can't continue to do this, we can't do this to our people, then okay, yeah, maybe I'd believe that they had just made a policy error, like they had a bad idea.
01:11:36.000But look, it's 2023, and they're not doing anything to stop the flow of illegal immigrants and fentanyl coming into our country.
01:11:42.000Over 100,000 deaths from fentanyl, like Washington's leading in fentanyl deaths.
01:11:46.000And the Democrats don't say anything about it.
01:11:48.000They won't shut the door. They won't shut the border.
01:11:51.000As a matter of fact, you got federal courts down in Texas saying that they can't put up the barriers on the Rio Grande.
01:11:56.000You've got federal courts in Arizona saying that the Arizona state can't build their own wall.
01:12:39.000When we have this massive apparatus that's sending money overseas, but at the same time, also, we're not allowed to secure our own southern border.
01:12:45.000So, the Democrats' policy is just atrocious right now.
01:12:47.000And again, it goes back to why all they can do is name-call.
01:12:52.000Well, listen, I'm glad there's guys like you out there continuing to fight.
01:12:57.000Again, it's a somber day for our country on 9-11, but it's guys like you.
01:13:04.000It's so awesome that you stepped up the way you have throughout your career, and you continue to do so.
01:13:08.000Let everyone know, Joe, how they can find you, how they can contribute to your campaign, what they can do to help you do this, because I think it's a seat that's very attainable.
01:13:19.000And, you know, God knows the people of Washington State could use a guy like you in there fighting for him.
01:13:26.000Yeah, absolutely. Please go to JoeKentForCongress.com.
01:13:28.000Any amount that you can give is going to be weapons that we can deploy right away against the Democrats.
01:13:34.000So I run off of small-dollar donations.
01:13:36.000I don't have any big, massive donors like the Koch brothers coming to donate to me or the military-industrial complex.
01:13:41.000So JoeKentForCongress.com is where I need folks who share our America First vision to come support my campaign.
01:13:48.000That's awesome, man. Well, thank you again for all of your sacrifices.
01:13:51.000You're a great American and I just appreciate the friendship as well.
01:13:54.000So you're the man and we'll talk to you soon.
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