In this episode of Triggered, we're joined by Congressman Jim Banks (D-VA) who sits on the Armed Services Committee and started the Anti-Woke Caucus in Congress. We talk about the Russian drone attack on a U.S. drone, the start of a new banking crisis, and the Silicon Valley Bank's new CEO who's actually a banker. Plus, we talk about what's really bad for the environment, and what we should be worried about in a world where we're fighting a proxy war with one of the world's largest nuclear powers. And we discuss why we need to get to a peace deal, because we're getting close to nuclear war, and why we should all be worried that it's going to be devastating to millions of people around the world if we don't get a deal. Also, we discuss what's going on in the world of Silicon Valley and how we're going to get bailed out by the "Big Little Guys" and the people who make up the board at a major tech company. And we ask the question: Who are the most woke people in Silicon Valley? Is it the billionaires, or the people in the big companies? or the other way around? And why are they getting bailed out? by the big guys? Don't forget to check out our new segment, The Big Little Guys? Subscribe to our new weekly newsletter! Subscribe, rate, review, and subscribe to our other shows on Apple Podcasts, and leave us your thoughts on what you're listening to! on iTunes, and we'll be giving you the best listening experience of the week! and more! Thank you for listening to the show! - it means we'll get a whole lot more of your feedback and reviews in the next episode! Timestamps: 3:00 - 6:00-9:30 - What do you think of the show? 11:00 - What would you would you like to hear about the latest episode? - Is it better than the next one? 13:00? 16:00/16:00 / 17:30/17:30 / 18:30 19: What are your favorite part? 21:15 22:15/19:00 or 20:30? 25:00 & 27:00 + 27:30 + 30:00+ + 35:00 ? 36:30+
00:00:04.000you Guys, welcome to another episode of Triggered.
00:00:36.000Thank you for joining us, and thank you for all of the support that you've been giving us as we go through this journey of actually bringing people real news.
00:00:45.000We have Congressman Jim Banks, soon to hopefully be Senator Jim Banks, but someone who sits on the Armed Services Committee, someone who served in the military and understands what's going on, and someone who also started the Anti-Woke Caucus in Congress.
00:01:00.000This is something that if I was in Congress, I would probably try to be the chairperson of because it's so important.
00:01:08.000But we have a little bit to talk about, namely the environment.
00:01:13.000Guys, apparently Russia dumping some fuel on a drone of ours is bad for the environment.
00:01:24.000Yes, a Russian fighter jet apparently dumped some of its fuel to knock a drone out of the skies around Ukraine, and the CNN response is that it's bad for the environment.
00:01:41.000This after a Russian warplane collided with a U.S. drone over the Black Sea earlier today, forcing the U.S. to bring down its unmanned aircraft.
00:01:50.000The U.S. Air Force says the Russian attack was, quote, reckless, environmentally unsound, and unprofessional.
00:01:57.000Guys, you know what's really bad for the environment?
00:02:00.000World War III. You know what's even worse?
00:02:03.000A nuclear World War III. But who cares if it would be devastating to millions and millions of people and it would be death and mayhem all over the place?
00:02:14.000It would be bad for the environment, folks.
00:02:23.000Right now, we're starting a fight with one of the world's largest nuclear powers.
00:02:28.000We're in a proxy war and have been for about a year to the tune of 130 billion.
00:02:34.000We're not sure if we can backstop Social Security, but we got 130 billion to keep this never-ending war going so that DC bureaucrats and the military industrial complex can get rich.
00:02:45.000But we're worried about the environment.
00:02:48.000The video, I'm sure all of you've seen it, was released, and it's the interaction between a drone and a Russian fighter jet.
00:02:55.000It's stunning, but we're also clearly very close to real war.
00:02:59.000Check it out. Yeah, guys, we need to get to a peace deal.
00:03:35.000We need to not be talking about the environment.
00:03:38.000We need to not be talking about insanity, but we're living in an absolute insane world.
00:03:44.000This week, we saw the start of a banking crisis, okay?
00:03:51.000We have a major bank, Silicon Valley Bank.
00:03:59.000The face of the earth. And, amazingly enough, you'll be shocked to find out that Silicon Valley Bank had one person who was actually a banker on its board.
00:04:54.000Here's how the New York Post described one member of the board.
00:04:58.000One is a Hillary Clinton mega-donor who went to a Shinto shrine to pray after Donald Trump won the White House.
00:05:08.000Another worked for President Barack Obama before her own political career spectacularly failed.
00:05:14.000A third is a prolific contributor to Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi, who owns a Napa Valley vineyard just 15 minutes from the former speaker.
00:05:26.000No wonder, folks, with leadership like that, of course it was going to go broke.
00:05:32.000You know, the number one person you'd want on a banking board would be bankers, but that's not how it works in the world of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
00:05:42.000You need everyone but the most logical and important characters.
00:05:48.000But... There is some good news out of all of this.
00:05:53.000Despite not meeting any of the criteria of most of the serious banks, at least it's Silicon Valley.
00:06:00.000But now, of course, the big people, the billionaires...
00:06:05.000They got out before leaving all the other people in the lurch.
00:08:10.000They're sort of like a once-in-a-lifetime event for shady banking deals.
00:08:14.000But apparently, Hunter Biden had over 150 of them from five or more banks.
00:08:22.000Think about that, folks. Now, there's more Bidens.
00:08:26.000We knew about James, Joe Biden's brother, who's in the mix of all of this stuff.
00:08:30.000Seems like perhaps just as corrupt as Hunter to me.
00:08:33.000But I can't keep track of all the Bidens that are making money from China.
00:08:37.000But no one's going to ask in the media if anything's happening from all of this.
00:08:41.000No one's going to ask the question of like, hey, do you think maybe our China policy, which has been, let's just say, to the left of extremely weak, Is influenced by the fact that their family is pocketing $3 million from these transactions?
00:08:56.000And who knows what else, by the way, right?
00:08:58.000There was the handful of diamonds and all these things.
00:09:00.000I have a feeling that if it was Donald Trump Jr., it would be a big deal.
00:09:08.000You know, Haley is, Haley Biden, I've heard she's a serious, serious banker, just like Hunter was an international oil expert, finance expert.
00:09:19.000You know, I think the only thing Hunter's an expert on is probably cocaine and hookers, but you know, that's just me.
00:09:25.000What do I know? Maybe I'm missing something.
00:09:28.000But... They're all international energy experts and international finance experts, and because they're a Democrat family in power, no one in the media is going to question it.
00:09:42.000Imagine it was any Republican, any conservative, what they would do.
00:09:47.000Frankly, imagine what they did to my family and me with nothing.
00:09:56.000Turns out nothing after millions of $50 million investigation and all of the nonsense that they went through and five years of Russia, Russia, Russia.
00:10:32.000House Oversight Chair Jamie Comer actually tried to get to the bottom of this stuff because it's mind-blowing that this could be happening in 2023 and there's no accountability, especially after what we went through from, let's say, 2016 through, well, I guess they're still talking about Russia, Russia, Russia, but none of that matters.
00:11:31.000There's no denying it now with the bank records.
00:11:34.000And now Treasury's forced to have to give us the suspicious activity reports because they acted all along like there was nothing there.
00:11:41.000Well, I can assure you there's something there, and everyone knows it now.
00:11:48.000Mexico. The Mexican president says that apparently Mexico is safer than the United States.
00:11:55.000And while that would seem asinine, Maybe it's not entirely crazy.
00:12:01.000Mexico's president is now saying that Mexico is safer than the United States.
00:12:06.000And he does have a point. If you look at places like Baltimore, which has a murder rate of 56 people per 100,000 residents, that is higher than Mexico's murder rate.
00:12:16.000That's higher than Guatemala's murder rate.
00:12:18.000That's higher than Honduras' murder rate.
00:12:21.000And even though all those countries come to our country and claim asylum, We have cities in America that are worse, and yet nothing happens.
00:12:33.000Nothing changes within their political systems.
00:12:37.000They're still gonna elect Democrats for a lifetime.
00:13:04.000And yet our open border policies, as evidenced by the chief of the border patrol this week, saying that we have no control of our border, calling out Secretary Mayorkas, who's supposed to be in charge of these things, but is apparently doing nothing, just like borders are.
00:13:20.000But our own people that are down there patrolling it, risking life and limb every day of the week, Are saying, we don't have control, and that's a problem.
00:13:33.000Our next guest is going to be really important on that because he is talking about how we have to take action against the cartels, about the fentanyl crisis, the scourge that is killing so many Americans, so many of our youth, indiscriminately.
00:13:48.000Rich, poor, young, old, every race imaginable.
00:14:10.000I think what I've got to do is maybe just do an episode just ranting about the insanity of what's going on.
00:14:15.000Right now, because every time I open up the news, I feel like I'm being pumped.
00:14:20.000I feel like it's a joke, and yet it's happening daily.
00:14:24.000Whether it's improv actors on the board of billion-dollar banks that are going out of business, whether it's the insanity of an open borders policy while Democrats stick their head in the sand, whether it's agitating Russia over another corrupt Ukraine, a nation like Ukraine, To start a nuclear crisis, but being predominantly concerned about the environmental consequence of a drone getting hit out of the sky.
00:14:52.000We're not serious people anymore, folks.
00:14:54.000We're not a serious nation if these are our leaders.
00:14:57.000So I hope that Jim Banks will bring a little bit of logic, a little bit of reason, and a little bit of insanity.
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00:15:07.000Guys, you've seen the turmoil in the banking sector.
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00:18:43.000Check it out. Okay, guys, great to be back with you.
00:18:47.000We're here with Congressman Jim Banks of Indiana, soon to be, hopefully, Senator.
00:18:54.000DJT endorsed, by the way, and obviously DJT Jr.
00:18:57.000endorsed. That'd be interesting if we had separate endorsements, but make Thanksgiving sort of an awkward, you know, family time.
00:19:07.000Thanks so much for everything that you're doing out there.
00:19:10.000I think one of the first questions I want to ask is, how did you beat me to the idea of an anti-woke caucus in Congress?
00:19:18.000I mean, tell us about it, because this is the most brilliant thing ever, especially when you see what wokeism is actually doing I mean, you see that with Silicon Valley Bank.
00:19:30.000I mean, multi-billion dollar bank, like a top 20 bank in the country and it's, you know, improv actors on a board.
00:21:35.000Because I feel like, you know, we'll fold or someone will be pressured by, you know, their woke local paper calling them, you know, Racist, even though it has nothing to do with racism, or maybe reverse racism, frankly.
00:21:49.000You've got to force a vote. And with the majority, we can do that.
00:21:53.000So Republican majority, even though it's a four-seat majority, put bills on the floor and make Republicans vote on it.
00:22:00.000And I think you'll get a groundswell of support.
00:22:04.000Almost every Republican at this point is going to vote against wokeism in our schools, teaching our kids critical race theory, anti-Americanism.
00:22:15.000It doesn't belong there. It's not sustainable to teach our kids or men and women in uniform that America is anything but the greatest country in the history of the world worth fighting and dying for.
00:22:25.000Doing what I did, raise your right hand, take an oath to defend the Constitution, knowing that when you do that, you might pay the ultimate sacrifice for this great country.
00:22:33.000It's not sustainable to tell our kids anything but America being the greatest country in the history of the world.
00:22:39.000So force... Members of Congress to vote on it.
00:22:42.000Democrats are going to have a hard time voting to sustain critical risk.
00:22:46.000Will they though? I almost feel like there's no consequence for that.
00:22:50.000Meaning, I've seen them take some hills to die on that are insane.
00:22:54.000Whether it's allowing three-year-olds to mutilate their bodies in the transgender movement, which just seems to be all the rage and the latest Hollywood accessory as a trans child.
00:23:06.000It feels like so. You know, I get what you're saying in the military, certainly.
00:23:09.000I mean, you're a veteran. You served in Afghanistan.
00:23:12.000You would know this, but I don't know that the very logical thing that you're saying actually matters to the Democrats.
00:23:19.000I don't know that there's a consequence for them.
00:23:20.000You might be right. I mean, at this point in partisan politics today, Republicans are the party who stand on the side of Americanism, on that notion that this is a great country, the greatest country in the history of the world.
00:23:33.000And Democrats, you never hear them say that.
00:23:36.000You don't hear any Democrats say that.
00:23:39.000But where I'm going is what the anti-Walk caucus is going to lead.
00:23:42.000When we get to the appropriations bills, and now we have, because of Speaker McCarthy, we have an open rules process where when we get into the meat of those appropriation bills, You're going to see hundreds of amendments voted on on the floor of the House where all 435 members of Congress have to vote yes or no.
00:24:00.000And we're going to push amendment after amendment to defund wokeism in the federal government all across the board, so across all of the appropriation packages.
00:24:10.000I dare the Democrats to vote against it because if they do vote against...
00:24:14.000I'm going to go to their district and use that against them, run it against them, and beat them on Election Day for it.
00:24:31.000Again, the hills to die on are so ridiculous.
00:24:34.000The things that feel like they're the leading, the thought leaders of the Democrat Party, what they're pushing, does not align with anything that I've seen around the country in terms of blue-collar Democrat votes.
00:24:45.000And maybe that's why it's disappearing and the Republican Party has sort of taken over that.
00:24:49.000But what are some of the most egregious examples?
00:24:52.000I mean, did you witness this in the military even when you served?
00:24:59.000Yeah, I think it's come about really in a full force, full frontal way since Biden became commander-in-chief president.
00:25:07.000I mean, remember his executive order on DEI forcing every department of the federal government to have an equity plan, including the military.
00:25:29.000To bring lifelong Democrat, blue-collar voters to the Republican Party than any president of my lifetime.
00:25:35.000My dad is an example. I remember on election night when President Trump won in 2016 was the same night that I won my congressional race.
00:25:44.000My dad was more excited that your dad was becoming president.
00:25:48.000But he was your lifelong blue collar, a guy who most of his life considered himself to be a union working man's Democrat.
00:25:56.000Now he says he's embarrassed that he ever called himself a Democrat, ever voted for a Democrat, and hopes the Republican Party continues down this path.
00:26:06.000Because the Democrats have shifted so far.
00:26:09.000To the radical socialist left, betraying the greatness of what America is and who we are.
00:26:18.000And that turns off a voter like my dad more than anyone in the country.
00:26:23.000Someone who worked hard all of their life.
00:26:25.000Who understands that it was his hard work and the factory making axles that got him ahead to make something to try to provide me and my brothers a better shot at the American dream than what he had.
00:26:39.000DEI programs are a direct attack on what my dad stood for every day of his working life.
00:26:45.000And that's why working people, blue-collar Americans, are going to vote with us and why it's a very dangerous path for Democrats to continue to embrace that ideology.
00:27:06.000I mean, the Democrats are good at one thing, which is sort of marketing, right?
00:27:09.000They make things sound so flowery that what they're actually pushing has nothing to do with The words that are coming out of their mouths.
00:27:17.000The Inflation Reduction Act was a big climate change, trillions of dollars spent for nonsense.
00:27:24.000We saw a US drone get run out of the sky by basically a Russian fighter jet dumping fuel, like in a fuel dump, in its wake.
00:27:35.000It wasn't that we could be on the brink of World War III. It wasn't that we're escalating a war with the country that has the most number of warheads, nuclear warheads, in the world.
00:27:46.000It was that the fuel from the fighter jet is bad for the environment.
00:29:06.000What's the end objective of some of these things, and how does it result in success for our country?
00:29:12.000If there are jobs that were traditionally occupied by men, could it just be that the best people happen to be that because it's been 50 years or 100 years of churn and our family traits, whatever it may be, that allows those people to succeed?
00:29:29.000That's what America is all about, right?
00:29:33.000My mom and dad, my dad, factory worker, my mom was a cook in a nursing home.
00:29:37.000Their American dream was that they could work hard, make a little bit of money, put it away, raise their three boys, that we might have a shot at something better than what they did.
00:29:46.000And this left-wing woke agenda by the left is a direct attack on that.
00:29:52.000And there couldn't be anything that's more anti-American, I believe.
00:29:56.000That's why we have to fight back against it.
00:30:34.000What are you going to bring to the Senate that is lacking?
00:30:38.000I want to take the fight to the Senate.
00:30:41.000In the House, you've seen almost a total turnover in the House since 2016 to today from old school Republicans to the new Republican Party.
00:31:18.000I'm tired of the go-along to get along Republicans who roll over every time there is a fight.
00:31:22.000Look at the omnibus spending bill right before the new year, which could have been pushed into the new Congress with a House Republican majority where we could have done something about spending and address a lot of the woke Spending initiatives in the federal government that was planted in the omnibus, but instead you had enough Republican senators go along to get along, vote with the Democrats, pass a $1.7 trillion omnibus bill that just continues us down the same path that we're on, thanks to Republicans.
00:31:55.000So remember this, guys. If you're in Indiana voting in the Senate and the primary and whatever rhinos they're going to throw at you, disregard the insanity.
00:32:02.000I think one of your biggest contenders already decided it probably wouldn't be great for him to get into that race.
00:32:07.000So it's good, but I know the pro-China factions of the Republican Party, I know they're looking for people to put in there to run against you, and they'll run all sorts of marketing and be funded incredibly well.
00:32:20.000That's perhaps the thing that's most disturbing to me, is the pretend Maybe they're not pretend Republicans.
00:32:26.000They're just that old-school Republican.
00:32:28.000They would rather be in the minority and lose, but still maintain a little bit of that power and have the righteous loss, or they're just corrupt, and they don't care.
00:32:39.000It's hard to tell at this point with so many of them.
00:32:40.000We're going to hold into Wall Street corporate interest.
00:32:43.000Oh yeah, I say it all the time. Well, you know, this billionaire isn't supporting Donald Trump anymore.
00:32:48.000I was like, yeah, you know, like they want their widget a little bit cheaper from China.
00:32:52.000You know, they want someone when they call that needs their money.
00:32:57.000You know, people don't understand, I mean, the influence of money in Washington, D.C. politics, and maybe talk about it a little bit, but, you know, what you're sold and the bill of goods that were given on a daily basis and the sound bites oftentimes have nothing to do with reality.
00:33:11.000You know, we're so, yeah, we're this way as Republicans, and this is what we're going to do.
00:33:15.000And it's, well, we're going to do that, but not go really all the way in.
00:33:18.000We're not really going to do these things.
00:33:25.000But, you know, the influence of that money and what it does.
00:33:29.000And again, I think you'll be up against a lot of that as someone who's Starting, you know, the anti-WO caucus in Congress, there's going to be plenty of that old-school establishment Republican billionaire class that, you know, they want to be tough on China on TV, but not actually in Washington.
00:33:44.000You know, they're going to be tough on the border, but, you know, let's not go crazy here.
00:33:49.000Yeah, I think China has a lot more to do with it than...
00:33:52.000Most people realize. But this is why after the debacle of the 2020 election, I put a lot of thought into the legacy of your father, I think, again, is that he made the Republican Party the party of the working class.
00:34:09.000I wrote a memo to Minority Leader McCarthy a few months after the election and sort of posed this question, how do we keep it that way?
00:34:18.000At that point, we were having the debate over Liz Cheney's role in the party.
00:34:22.000Presidential hopeful! My dad has a powerful voice in my ear saying, if the party goes down the path to Liz Cheney, then I'm out.
00:34:30.000You've lost me. But how do we keep my dad and voters like him in the party that replace the corporate interests, the rich billionaires, and the Wall Street funders who want to continue to sell America out to China and replace them with voters like my dad, because there are a lot more of them. It's making sure the Republican Party stays rooted in the America First platform that was also brought to our party.
00:34:54.000And the biggest part of that, the one thing I noticed about my dad was He's not college educated, but he intuitively understands that China's been wrecking our economy for years, stealing jobs like his.
00:35:08.000He goes to Walmart and buys a Made in China appliance that he used to buy that was made in America and it lasts for We're good to go.
00:35:31.000And if we stay rooted in a platform in that, then we can keep our party rooted in a place that's going to make us much more electorally popular on Election Day than what it was before.
00:35:42.000In Indiana, that's hit home for me, and I think the path that we need to take headed into 2024 is going to help us win back the White House, win the Senate majority, and grow the House majority, too.
00:35:55.000So we've seen a lot of turmoil this week.
00:35:57.000Obviously, sort of the banking sector seems to be collapsing.
00:36:00.000You know, what are your thoughts on sort of, you know, the Biden response, you know, with, again, Silicon Valley Bank, you've seen Credit Suisse go under.
00:36:06.000I mean, it feels like we're on the cusp of 2008, to me.
00:36:09.000Like, I'm old enough now that I've lived through one of these cycles, and I'm like, Man, it looks sort of the same.
00:36:16.000What do you think about the response, and what do you think we have to do to sort of ease people's minds to be able to not have that collapse?
00:36:23.000And again, it feels like it's been good for a while, and then they pump a few more trillion, and a few more trillion, and a few more trillion, and eventually you've got to pay the piper.
00:36:56.000And by the way, I'm okay in a certain way.
00:36:59.000Some guy that put, you know, his life savings, he's got 10 grand in the bank account, you know, because it was the closest bank.
00:37:04.000Like, I get that. What about the billionaires that pulled their money out a week in advance knowing that this was coming down the line and just...
00:37:11.000Yeah, they shouldn't be rewarded for that behavior.
00:37:14.000And that's what the Biden reaction totally misses.
00:37:45.000Yeah, well, just like the people of East Palestine, you know, they did nothing.
00:37:48.000They could use a little bit of help after the train derailment and the toxic explosion in their town.
00:37:53.000But, you know, they're not Democrat mega donors, so, you know, fuck them.
00:37:57.000Right, right. So that's my first response is just understand that Biden is flat out lying to you about what he's going to do about it and taxpayers are on the hook for it.
00:38:10.000So what are your thoughts so far on how Kevin McCarthy has handled everything going in?
00:38:16.000I know there were a lot of people that were pretty skeptical, and I've been pretty pleased with how that's doing.
00:38:20.000Do you think he's going to allow you to exercise that sort of power of the purse strings to be able to push against and fight back against the wokeism, against the insanity that's also making this problem so much worse, right?
00:38:33.000If the top 50 people for a job are just being, you know, Just frankly, just overrided right off the bat because they don't check X number of boxes and we need the trans banker making these decisions.
00:38:47.000How can you end up with a favorable result for our country?
00:38:50.000Well, Speaker McCarthy's off to a great start.
00:38:52.000I mean, think about the pledges that he made last year that he's never going to allow a bill, any bill that comes to the floor that would provide for amnesty of illegals.
00:39:01.000He's focused on the big threats to our country, the new Select Committee on China, I'm a part of it, might be the legacy of this Congress.
00:39:08.000And it's his, he's fully responsible for it.
00:39:13.000He made it happen. And he's reorienting the Congress and the federal government to do what the president's not doing.
00:39:18.000And that's addressed The China threat.
00:39:20.000He's focused on the debt and spending.
00:39:23.000You're going to see House Republicans come out with a true balanced budget proposal that will get not just broad support but full support for the Republicans in the House addressing the biggest domestic threat, I think, that we face.
00:39:38.000And he's also changed the process, allowing for open rules, more amendments, so that my vote from Northeast Indiana matters just as much as someone in leadership's vote when I can go down to the floor and offer an amendment, have it heard and voted on by the whole House.
00:39:53.000The 72-hour rule, which is something that he agreed to long before the Yeah, well, there's a lot of gamesmanship in that whole process.
00:40:01.000And I mean, I know I got a lot of, I had a lot of crap, you know, for supporting him pretty early in the process, because I also understand the realities of Washington, D.C., and you have to do that.
00:40:09.000But, you know, I had known for months that he was planning on doing a lot of the things that people were like, we got this win!
00:40:14.000I'm like, that was a great deal, like, six weeks ago.
00:40:16.000Like, that was a great deal. He was saying he was going to do these things right off the bat.
00:40:20.000And so, you know, there's always some nuance in D.C. in what you're sold versus what's the reality.
00:40:47.000I mean, talk about China. You just brought that up as the biggest threat.
00:40:50.000I mean, the Democrats, you know, we're seeing news today, you know, a few more members of the Biden family also got millions, you know, because they're all China experts.
00:40:58.000I'm sure, you know, The wife was wonderful and very influential in China and banking or energy or...
00:41:24.000If Biden has done, you would be behind bars.
00:41:26.000Yeah, you know, I don't know if you got the pleasure of sitting through any of my, you know, congressional testimony, all 50 hours worth, but, you know, it turned out that was all big zero.
00:41:35.000here's their smoke and more smoke and more smoke and actual fire and smoke and
00:41:39.000evidence and this and it's like like not even an acknowledgement of it, it's almost like a
00:41:43.000you know, so maybe I do take it a little bit more personally than a lot of people
00:41:47.000because I'm like wait a second, like they wanted to try me for treason,
00:41:50.000like I take that seriously just because of the notion
00:41:52.000of what that means uh... and what it says about me and you know my beliefs as
00:42:07.000just another tuesday for me these days But that there's been nothing on all of these things.
00:42:12.000When we knew it was smoke, when they have the full backing of the media, of big tech, of the intelligence community coming in to save this 50-year-old corrupt crackhead.
00:42:49.000So the proof is there and that no one is ever held accountable for it.
00:42:53.000We have a moral duty to make sure in this House Republican majority that they are held accountable for it, that we do shine a bright light on their corruption so the whole American, all the American people can see it for what it is, to make sure something like that ever happens again.
00:43:07.000But given what you're up against, right, again, full force of the mainstream media.
00:43:19.000Like, well, do you think maybe, you know, our foreign policy and our, like, America Last Soft on China policy is being dictated or governed by the fact that, like, they've been making this money and everyone knows it, and it's just like, okay, well, just like there's no one asking the question is, is our involvement in the Ukraine-Russia conflict likewise?
00:43:41.000Is our response different than it would be if they didn't have all these potential things over someone's head?
00:43:49.000But the fact that no one's even bothering to ask the question is truly scary to me because, you know, I know they asked a lot of questions with a lot less evidence than us and we had to deal with that for five years.
00:44:02.000I mean, think about, what have you ever heard Joe Biden say that was remotely tough on China?
00:44:07.000Nothing. I mean, I've seen him on numerous occasions addressing the nation and being much harder on, let's say, let's call it 50% of the voting populace.
00:44:21.000Than he ever has on a dictatorial regime that has, you know, running child slave labor camps all over the world for their lithium batteries.
00:44:30.000And, you know, that will fund the green movement of probably people who are on the board of Silicon Valley Bank.
00:44:37.000But, I mean, no, but again, the irony of all of that, it's like we're pushing for these things.
00:44:41.000It's like, well, is that really ESG? Or...
00:44:45.000You know, Apple avoids ESG by subbing out the batteries to a third party.
00:44:50.000And so they're not really responsible, even if all they're using the batteries that are using the child slave labor in terrible conditions, done in an environmentally unsound fashion, owned by the Chinese government, who's enslaving Uyghur Muslims in the western part of the nation.
00:46:56.000So I guess what people, even if they understand that, even if they're skeptics, there's still sort of a consequence to being vocal about the obvious.
00:47:06.000And, you know, I hope that you're able to do something in that Congress and really also not let them run out the clock.
00:47:34.000And I think we also, like I said, I'm as guilty of this as anyone.
00:47:38.000We can't chase a hundred shiny objects.
00:47:41.000Like, what would be the five things you pick to say, hey, let's go after this and make sure we have results by, you know, November of 2024 on this issue, not just sort of scatter our energy, because, you know, time is not infinite, right?
00:47:59.000Everyone does. You know, what are the things that you would prioritize in your time in the next two years to make sure that we get something across the finish line so that we can actually deliver real results for the people and not just, again, chase things that seem like they're great, but not sort of get anywhere on any of them?
00:48:15.000Yeah. So you probably have, you know, you have, what, a House Republican majority of 222 Republicans, and you have a lot of different opinions about what those five issues would be.
00:48:24.000That's why we elect a speaker, be the quarterback, to move us forward, and I think you have Jim Jordan, right guy, right place, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
00:48:34.000Jamie Comer, Chairman of Oversight Committee.
00:48:37.000Those are the two tips of the spear of the oversight agenda.
00:49:08.000All of that, I think, is under the purview of the oversight agenda of McCarthy, Jordan, and Comer.
00:49:15.000My focus has been China, because I think it's the biggest, the greatest foreign threat that we face, and then wokeism, the biggest domestic threat that we face.
00:49:24.000And the weakness of the Biden administration and corruption to boot within all of that would be where I would focus my attention.
00:49:33.000So you're on the select committee as it relates to China.
00:49:35.000You have another big one, obviously, what you want to do regarding Mexico.
00:50:32.000So talk about what you want to do with Mexico.
00:50:34.000I know you want to, again, pull back some of the aid given to that country until they sort of get their act together as well.
00:50:40.000Well, let's start with China. So fentanyl, a leading cause of death of Americans, Mai, your age.
00:50:45.000Working age, age of eligibility to serve in the United States military.
00:50:49.000Over 100,000 Americans dying of fentanyl poisonings since Biden became president.
00:50:54.000That's more than all of the Americans who died in the Vietnam War.
00:50:57.000So when are we going to hold China accountable for the precursors, all of the chemicals, all of the ingredients of fentanyl that's killing a large Well, and everyone has a connection.
00:51:20.000I mean, I have friends that have been lost to it.
00:51:25.000You know, it's sort of an indiscriminate killer, right?
00:51:28.000It's not rich, poor, Young, old, obviously productive, but to me it's clearly like a psyop.
00:51:37.000This is designed to destroy, sort of like TikTok is.
00:51:42.000They're running all of these things concurrently and they're just chipping away at just our spirit and our soul on a daily basis.
00:52:01.000You mean, unlike borders are Kamala Harris?
00:52:04.000Unlike her and Joe and so many others, so many Democrats who refuse to go there and see what's really going on.
00:52:10.000You talk to Border Patrol agents, who, by the way, I notice a large percentage of Border Patrol agents are first generation Americans who came here legally from Mexico, now wear a uniform.
00:52:22.000To serve our country and protect us at the southern border.
00:52:28.000Almost all of them will tell you this was under control under Trump.
00:52:32.000It's wide open and out of control under Biden.
00:52:34.000And the situation at the border is that because of the Biden policies, The Border Patrol agents are spending most of their time processing migrants and not spending any of their time stopping drugs from flowing into our country, brought over the border by the Mexican drug cartel.
00:52:53.000So one, hold China accountable, sanction them, get tough on them for producing fentanyl.
00:53:00.000Two, declare war on the Mexican drug cartels.
00:53:16.000The drug cartels, when I interviewed McCarthy, he was my first guest on this show, Speaker McCarthy, he was talking about, they knowingly sent cartel members to assassinate people in the United States, and they killed a baby in the process, and it's like, ah, well, you know, there's nothing, there's not really a threat here, I mean... How can they not be treated as a hostile faction to the United States of America?
00:53:39.000They control the border on both sides of the border.
00:54:21.000The Mexican government is controlled by the drug cartels.
00:54:25.000So use the military to go after the drug cartels and then stop sending foreign aid to a country that's killing and poisoning Americans with allowing all of this to happen for drugs to be trafficked here.
00:54:36.000So it wasn't like this just three years ago.
00:54:38.000It's so obvious. Will that actually happen?
00:54:42.000Meaning, will it actually happen in Congress?
00:56:31.000Those people are social justice warriors and therefore, exempt from prosecution, they can murder, rape, pillage, It doesn't matter.
00:56:42.000Take over government buildings. That's not an insurrection.
00:56:44.000That's none of those things. You can loot a Gucci store because, obviously, Gucci sleds in the name of social justice is different than just theft.
00:57:33.000Because I think it's going to be critical.
00:57:34.000It's going to be critical in your race, even in Indiana in the Senate, because of the amount of
00:57:39.000money that will be spent to make sure that people are knocking
00:57:42.000on doors and people voting in the major cities for someone they've never heard of, wouldn't know who they were,
00:57:48.000couldn't pick them out of a lineup, wouldn't understand their policies.
00:57:51.000And I believe that's happening all over the country.
00:57:53.000I mean, to some estimates, the number of illegals who have come into the country more than the entire population of Indiana.
00:58:00.000Oh, yeah. Well, and in New York and other places, they want them to be able to vote.
00:58:05.000And, you know, they don't have to pay taxes.
00:58:06.000They don't have to contribute in the system.
00:58:07.000You have the privilege of paying for them and you.
00:58:11.000So then I'm asked by my constituents every day, well, why...
00:58:15.000What is the motivation for this president to completely leave the border wide open, not say anything about it, pretend like it's not happening.
00:58:23.000Over 100,000 Americans die of fentanyl poisoning.
00:58:25.000Just pretend like that's not happening.
00:58:39.000We can still force the Democrats to vote on bills that they don't want to vote on, like securing the border.
00:58:45.000And then leading up to the election, we have to take a page out of their playbook.
00:58:52.000Go out and while some of these processes are allowed and legal until we can ban ballot harvesting and some of these egregious acts, we've got to go out and play by the rules like we did in California last cycle where we learn how to do some of these processes better and we're able to get out the vote and win back a number of House seats to the Republican side to help us win the majority.
00:59:16.000What made you get into this to begin with?
00:59:18.000You talked about your father's blue-collar roots.
00:59:21.000What made you run for Congress to begin with?
00:59:38.000My dad worked hard all of his life to give us a better shot.
00:59:43.000And eventually I just felt called to it, drawn to it.
00:59:45.000The first time I thought I'd go to college, met my wife in the College of Republicans, and we got involved, volunteered on campaigns, and here we are.
00:59:55.000I never thought in my life that I could serve in the United States Congress or even run for the United States Senate.
01:00:02.000And there's some people who along the way told me I couldn't do that.
01:00:05.000Oh, I'm sure there are plenty of people.
01:00:07.000I imagine there's plenty of people that would still be betting against you because it's not convenient for them or their motives or beliefs.
01:00:16.000Exactly. But I love this country like you do.
01:00:19.000I wore the uniform. I love America and what it stands for.
01:00:23.000I have three daughters who are 13, 11, and 9.
01:00:28.000I'm sorry. But I want them to inherit a great America, too.
01:00:35.000And I'm worried about that more than ever before.
01:00:37.000When I see that the radical lefty into our country is not going to leave this country better off for them in a place like it was just 20, 25 years ago when I was growing up there.
01:00:47.000Yeah, no, I sort of feel the same thing for me.
01:00:49.000It's like, you know, trust me, it was much easier being a real estate developer from New York City.
01:01:25.000You don't want to overuse the sound bite, but the other side would gladly put you, certainly me, in the gulags just for having the opinions and the belief systems that we have.
01:01:38.000You know, I think they've proven to be right.
01:01:40.000I think the other side, there's lunacy, but we have no choice but to continue this.
01:01:47.000So that's where politics today comes down to that.
01:01:50.000We have to recognize that this is a war.
01:01:53.000This is a battle for the future of our country.
01:01:56.000We still have a lot of Republicans who don't see it that way.
01:01:59.000They still think you can go to Washington and You can get along with the other side and negotiate and get things done, not recognizing that the left doesn't come to play along.
01:02:09.000They come to defeat us, to kill us off, to reinvent America into the socialist America that they wanted to be, to cancel our founding fathers and change this country in a significant way.
01:02:22.000So we have to have fighters in Washington, I think more than ever before, to fight for this country, to fight back against the radical left.
01:02:29.000That's why I stepped up to the plate to run for the Senate.
01:02:32.000As you mentioned before, we had some big names in Indiana politics who were also thinking about it.
01:02:38.000Had some powerful people tell us that you need to back off.
01:02:56.000Some of them had some stuff in their records that I was like, I don't know that they want people like me yakking about it every day for the next 18 months, but minor details.
01:03:07.000The question the voters are asking, are you going to Washington to fight?
01:03:11.000Yeah. To fight for America, to fight back against the radical left.
01:03:13.000Because if you're not, we don't have time for you anymore.
01:03:16.000And yeah, but there's plenty of people that, I mean, we see them every day, and it's like, you know, they'll get on, you know, some major talk shows, and they'll, we should be doing this, and we should be doing that.
01:03:26.000I'm sitting there being like, wait a minute, like, you were the chairman of the committee that could be doing those things, so you're saying, like, we're manipulating our own voters.
01:03:34.000You know, we have plenty of guys that go out there, it's like, we should be X, Y, Z, but you have the power to actually do that, why don't you just do it?
01:03:40.000Instead, it makes it seem like they're actually fighting.
01:03:43.000I think that's one of the biggest things.
01:03:45.000We're lying to our own voters by having people pretend they're fighters when they're not.
01:03:49.000You mentioned MAGA. How'd you meet Trump?
01:04:17.0002021, kind of middle of the year at Bedminster.
01:04:20.000And that was the beginning of a relationship that is very meaningful to me today.
01:04:25.000But when he was in the White House, it was during the health care fight, my first visit to the Oval Office with Republican Study Committee.
01:04:33.000I was a freshman in my first year in Congress.
01:04:36.000Walked into the Oval, a pinch me moment.
01:04:38.000I mean, one of those moments, I can only imagine what it was like the first time you walked into the Oval.
01:04:41.000Oh yeah, no, it's incredible. You see it on TV, but when you're there for real, it's overwhelming.
01:04:48.000And then to see the president behind the desk in the Oval Office.
01:04:52.000We were there to meet with him and talk about our ideas to make the healthcare bill stronger.
01:04:57.000And I remember introducing myself to him, and his first question was about Bobby Knight.
01:06:15.000And it was. They were perfect for each other. To have them on the campaign trail was amazing.
01:06:18.000So that was my first experience at the Oval Office.
01:06:22.000Then I had a chance to ride in the Beast with them.
01:06:26.000I never did Air Force One, but I got a private tour of the private quarters, the Lincoln Bank.
01:06:34.000What I was struck by when he was in the White House, I got to go to Camp David.
01:06:39.000Yeah, that's a cool place. That was my favorite sort of experience.
01:06:42.000What I was struck by, though, about him, and maybe you can give us some color to this as well, is what other presidents would have thought was I think that's the unbecoming of a president to share those experiences with regular people like me, even though I'm a member of Congress, or truly regular people who come to the White House.
01:07:01.000I remember when I got invited, every year they gave the NASCAR Championship Trophy, whatever they call that now.
01:07:09.000Yeah, like the Winston Cup. And Roger Penske, it was his team that won every year.
01:11:53.000We've got to go raise you some money for this Senate campaign.
01:11:56.000You guys also got to contribute to a real MAGA candidate for the Senate.
01:12:00.000Again, we have... Far too few of them, and I think we need more.
01:12:06.000But with six-year terms, it's a little harder to come by.
01:12:09.000You had a tough map, and it's going to be crazy.
01:12:11.000So I look forward to doing whatever I can to help get you in that seat.
01:12:14.000And as you go further on some of these things, I want to have you back to talk more detail about fentanyl, Mexico, China.
01:12:21.000I mean, you're really... Getting yourself involved in so many of the things that I find to be, again, you're on the top five things that I think we need to be focused on, so it'll be awesome to have you back on, Jim.
01:12:41.000I'm going to go do live locals now, so if you're watching that or if you're a subscription member there, you can come do a Q&A. Ask me anything over on the locals platform.
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