Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - Real Whistleblowers Come Forward, Plus DeSantis Stumbles & Rep Greg Steube Joins | TRIGGERED Ep. 37

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00:00:43.000 Today we're sitting down with Republican Congressman Greg Stubbe from Florida's 17th Congressional District.

00:00:49.000 He's an Army veteran who served in the Army JAG Corps and has been an important America First voice in Congress, especially Especially, this is a big one for all of us, when it comes to calling out the corruption inside the FBI and the weaponization of our government.

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00:03:54.000 Well, guys, we're on now with Congressman Greg Stuby of Florida.

00:03:58.000 And I just want to say, first and foremost, I'm glad you made an amazing recovery after your accident in January.

00:04:04.000 I mean, that was, you know, during all the speaker craziness and everything like that.

00:04:08.000 You know, tell us a little bit about that.

00:04:10.000 You know, what happened and how you're making a recovery.

00:04:14.000 That was a pretty serious one.

00:04:16.000 Yeah, I was 25, 30 feet up on an extension ladder with a 20 inch bar chainsaw in my hand cutting a limb.

00:04:23.000 You know, my district in my house included in that are still, you know, we're still climbing out of Hurricane Ian, still repairing things and fixing stuff.

00:04:31.000 So there's limbs on our property that was still needed to come down.

00:04:34.000 And I saw trees that still need to come down.

00:04:37.000 and I was up about 25 feet cutting a limb and the limb broke free,

00:04:40.000 hit the ladder and literally ejected me up into the air and landed straight on the ground, had a pretty significant

00:04:49.000 concussion, tore the ligaments in my neck, had a punctured lung

00:04:53.000 and broke my pelvis on my right side. So between all of that it's been kind of a

00:04:57.000 progression.

00:04:58.000 After about a week or so the concussion you know went away. The ligaments took about three and a

00:05:05.000 half, four weeks with the C collar on to

00:05:07.000 get over that and I still have, even today, you know it's a little sore.

00:05:11.000 The blood in the lungs took about eight weeks so that's why I couldn't fly to

00:05:16.000 DC because you can't fly when you've got blood in your lungs.

00:05:18.000 That can cause all sorts of medical problems for you.

00:05:21.000 Yeah, the pressure change is less than ideal for that.

00:05:24.000 Yeah, you don't want that blood going to your brain or your heart.

00:05:28.000 So the surgeons were like, you absolutely cannot fly until that's clear.

00:05:32.000 So that's why I couldn't fly up.

00:05:34.000 And then the pelvis is a slow process.

00:05:36.000 The surgeon originally told me three weeks non-weight-bearing, and I was like, there's no way.

00:05:41.000 I'm a 45-year-old guy.

00:05:42.000 I'm not some 70-something-year-old that broke his hip.

00:05:45.000 There's no way I can do three months without putting weight on my right side.

00:05:49.000 So we worked it out and did three weeks, and then x-ray showed that things were healing.

00:05:53.000 So I started doing progressive weight-bearing.

00:05:56.000 You can still feel it, but I'm certainly a lot better than I have been.

00:05:59.000 I look forward to being on the mound for the Republicans on June 14th, so people should tune in to Fox Sports.

00:06:06.000 I'll be pitching from the mound, and maybe I'll hit another dinger out of Nats Park.

00:06:10.000 Yeah, I mean, listen, if you guys lose to the Democrats with the policies that they face, you know, I'm going to call you guys all out.

00:06:18.000 That should be unacceptable at this point.

00:06:22.000 But listen, hopefully you're there for that because, you know, I did it last now almost three weeks ago.

00:06:29.000 I had my e-bike in the back of my truck and I was unloading it and it started raining and I had a full truck of other stuff and I just wanted to get it out of the rain and so like a jackass I was rather than just jumping out and pulling it off I tried lowering it from the top totally slipped And just fell on my bike, took, like, the handlebars to the rib, and it's been less than awesome.

00:06:50.000 And, like, three weeks later, I can't do a sit-up yet. 0.75

00:06:52.000 Like, it's brutal, and so, like, I'm a dumbass, but yours is a lot different.

00:06:56.000 But I know how that can happen, because back in high school, you know, and even college, summer stuff, you know, my father had me doing, like, landscaping, and so I've run the chainsaws, and when you're up there, that stuff can go wrong real quickly.

00:07:09.000 So I'm glad you're okay, man.

00:07:11.000 Thank you. I appreciate it. Yeah, I think chainsaw by itself is okay.

00:07:15.000 Extension ladder by itself is okay.

00:07:16.000 But when you put them together, that could be dangerous.

00:07:18.000 By the way, just so we're clear, both of them individually can still suck. 0.96

00:07:24.000 You have a chainsaw bite back.

00:07:26.000 It's not a lot of fun.

00:07:27.000 And the ladder thing, you know, I know, you know, you hear the stories for me as an outdoorsman, all that, you know, people who fall out of their tree stands 20 feet up and they're paralyzed for life or worse.

00:07:35.000 If there is worse, you know.

00:07:37.000 So now it can happen.

00:07:39.000 I'm just glad you haven't missed a beat.

00:07:42.000 But with all that recovery, how did you do that?

00:07:43.000 I mean, I see you out there. You're aggressively doing it.

00:07:45.000 You're hitting the issues. You know, how'd you pull that off?

00:07:50.000 Yeah, I just worked hard. I made sure that, you know, I pushed my body and pushed the doctors because the doctors were like, hey, you know, you can't do this.

00:07:57.000 You can't do that. And I'm like, no, if I can hit this metric, if I can do this, then I need to keep pushing my body.

00:08:04.000 And every day trying to get better doing rehab at home.

00:08:08.000 And I was I mean, I was down for six, eight weeks.

00:08:12.000 I didn't come up here.

00:08:13.000 So I was able to use that time to rest and to recuperate and to start therapy and I'm in a good place now.

00:08:21.000 Well, I'm glad to hear it, and I'm glad that you're back in DC now, because I think you had some pretty awesome moments in the weaponization hearing last week.

00:08:30.000 You know, what's your reaction to what we learned?

00:08:33.000 And again, people like me, I sort of feel like, you know, I've known this for a while only because, you know, I was probably a top target of their overreach, of that weaponization, probably second to my father.

00:08:45.000 But what's your reaction to, you know, what we learn, you know, now from the FBI whistleblowers?

00:08:50.000 I mean, and that was on top of Durham.

00:08:51.000 And then you hear about the 260, 270,000 people that were spied on illegally.

00:08:56.000 I mean, does it ever end?

00:08:58.000 I mean, is there any end in sight? 0.98

00:09:01.000 The end in sight is 2024 and electing your father as president to change all of this garbage. 0.97

00:09:07.000 But what my initial reaction to all this is complete and utter disgust.

00:09:12.000 The weaponization that has occurred at the highest levels of the FBI and the DOJ, long before even your dad got elected in his first term, what was going on with the spying, what was going on with the Russia collusion hoax, All of that.

00:09:25.000 And then to hear actual officers.

00:09:27.000 And these guys, most of them were military veterans who had served in combat.

00:09:31.000 These are true American patriots who the Democrats, all they decided to do was attack these American patriots because they were brave enough to come forward and say, the SWAT team shouldn't be raiding on 80-year-old People who want to cooperate with the feds on January 6th.

00:09:49.000 We shouldn't be targeting these individuals when sexual rapists and all these other crimes aren't being prosecuted, when they make these whistleblowers, which is protected under law, and then the FBI Takes all of their personal belongings.

00:10:03.000 They don't have clothes. They don't have access to things.

00:10:06.000 Does all of this deliberately, despite and the type of activity and treatment that these gentlemen received, shows you the depths of the evil that is our FBI and our DOJ today.

00:10:20.000 And I'm glad that Chair Jordan was able to bring that before the committee and bring it before the American people because everybody's like, oh yeah, sure, there's whistleblowers.

00:10:28.000 But to actually hear from American patriots like that with their type of background, I think, puts a big asterisk on that this is actually happening.

00:10:36.000 It's happening a lot more than we realize because there's very few people that are brave enough like this to come forward.

00:10:42.000 And there was like two dozen.

00:10:44.000 They came to us and these were the only four, three that were willing to come before the committee openly and not because they know that they're going to be attacked.

00:10:52.000 So there's way more.

00:10:53.000 And I actually, I actually even had a former FBI female officer who'd done like 30 years who came up to me at an event in my district.

00:11:00.000 She now lives in my district. And she said the exact same thing.

00:11:04.000 And I asked her, I'm like, look, I'm going to be part of the weaponization committee.

00:11:07.000 Would you be willing to testify about this?

00:11:08.000 And you get the look like, No way do I want to take that on because people are scared.

00:11:13.000 They know that they're going to come after them.

00:11:15.000 So it's a sad day in America that this type of behavior is going on.

00:11:20.000 But to put that light on it so that the people can see exactly what's happened, I think, is really important.

00:11:26.000 Yeah, no, I've been saying that for a while because the amount of sort of agents that have come up to me throughout, whether it's at events where my father's there and they're working around, whatever it may be, you know, the actual door kickers.

00:11:35.000 And I think we always want to make the distinction between the bureaucrats at the top that are the people penalizing these people.

00:11:41.000 They're the people, you know...

00:11:42.000 Promoting sort of the checkbox people, and those are going to be the people in power, and if they understand you may be a little bit right-leaning, you're going nowhere.

00:11:50.000 But the average door kicker is so much on our side, and for a while I've been saying, we need these people to come and step out.

00:11:58.000 It's so obvious what's going on to people like us who are doing this daily, who've been the targets of that kind of persecution or prosecutions.

00:12:08.000 But to average Americans, I mean, I was guilty of this for so long, where it's like, Come on, it's the FBI. They're doing the right thing.

00:12:16.000 They got to be on our side.

00:12:18.000 But it's clear that they're not.

00:12:20.000 I remember a time, you know, whether it's Alexander Vindemann or any of the people that spoke out against the Trump administration, the whistleblowers were beyond reproach.

00:12:29.000 They were protected at all costs.

00:12:31.000 If there were glaring holes in their stories or even lies, that meant nothing.

00:12:37.000 And now it's exactly the opposite.

00:12:41.000 Yeah, it's funny when they're Democratic whistleblowers that we're going to pull out all the stops.

00:12:45.000 The press is going to follow all the rules.

00:12:47.000 The Democrats are going to follow all the rules.

00:12:49.000 And then if we attack the witnesses, then we're attacking a legitimate whistleblower.

00:12:54.000 And then when the exact facts are flipped, they do all of the things that they blame us for doing.

00:13:00.000 They do all of the things that are in violation of the law.

00:13:03.000 And they're even, we're trying to say, oh, the FBI sent a letter.

00:13:06.000 These aren't actually whistleblowers, which in part of my questioning is why I asked the things I asked.

00:13:12.000 Didn't you, it was Officer Friend, didn't you, Officer Friend, go through the exact protocol the FBI puts in place to be a whistleblower?

00:13:20.000 And he's like, yes. And I said, and you talked to your supervisors, isn't that correct?

00:13:23.000 Yes, I talked to three levels of supervisors and went through this process.

00:13:28.000 But then the FBI sends out a letter, oh, these aren't whistleblowers.

00:13:31.000 You know, it's so messed up that this type of behavior is going on.

00:13:35.000 And this is our opportunity in the majority on the House side to bring some reckoning and bring some justice to some of this.

00:13:43.000 Well, you know, I think, you know, certainly the people on our side, I guess, you know, again, the Democrats, you know, the ones that have screamed for years, you know, democracy dies in darkness, democracy, democracy, you know, they're awfully silent about this.

00:13:57.000 You know, and it's so clear, it's so glaring, it's so obvious.

00:14:01.000 You add, you know, these whistleblowers to Mueller, you add that to the other sort of illegal FISA stuff, you add it to, you know, the Durham report, you add...

00:14:10.000 All this stuff adds up, and you're saying, why would anyone...

00:14:14.000 Even, you know, give even a little bit of benefit of the debt to the FBI. They're clearly acting as rogue agents, as beneficiaries for the Democratic Party.

00:14:25.000 It's so glaring.

00:14:27.000 There's not even a pretense of objectivity anymore.

00:14:30.000 So, you know, but I think what our people want to know, they love the hearings, but what's actually going to happen?

00:14:35.000 What can you do? And I understand, listen, we don't have the Senate.

00:14:37.000 We don't have the White House. It's hard to get actual legislation passed.

00:14:41.000 I think You know, the vast majority of Republicans would probably, you know, burn those institutions to the ground, at least the MAGA Republicans, which is most of them.

00:14:49.000 Maybe not the D.C. elitists who are fine because they're going to be okay.

00:14:52.000 But your grandmother, if she was within a thousand miles of D.C., won't.

00:14:56.000 But what are the actionable items that you guys can do?

00:14:59.000 Obviously, you know, at Congress, you control the power of the purse strings.

00:15:02.000 What are the ways that you can actually, you know, Enforce some of these things.

00:15:07.000 Make sure that there is a consequence to these people going so far above and beyond to break the law, to protect one class over the other, etc.

00:15:20.000 Well, the greatest thing in coincidence of time, which I think is going to be a blessing, is FISA gets reauthorized, is supposed to be reauthorized, it expires at the end of this year.

00:15:32.000 Myself, Jim Jordan, others on the Judiciary Committee do not support reauthorizing FISA. I actually have signed on a bill to do away with FISA, which is the real problem of all this.

00:15:42.000 Like the surveilling on the Trump campaign, all of that was going through the FISA court.

00:15:46.000 They used the Hillary Clinton dossier to then get warrants through the FISA court, lying to the FISA court, to then be able to surveil on American citizens.

00:15:55.000 And there are steps that we can take, like doing away with FISA. And wouldn't you know it, FISA has to be reauthorized in December of this year.

00:16:03.000 So I don't think you're going to see a Republican majority House reauthorize FISA. That's something that has to go through the Judiciary Committee, which Jim Jordan chairs.

00:16:12.000 So that's one step that we can take and the other you hit on it is the appropriations process.

00:16:18.000 Jim Jordan hasn't ruled this out.

00:16:20.000 I certainly would vote to do away with certain levels of spending in certain different organizations within the FBI, the higher level of the FBI. You're going to get attacked by the Democrats by saying, oh, we're now defunding law enforcement.

00:16:33.000 But we're not defunding law enforcement.

00:16:34.000 We're we're defunding impeachable conduct.

00:16:37.000 We are defunding organizations that are unconstitutionally surveilling American citizens without warrants.

00:16:44.000 Those are the type of things that, through the appropriations process, I think we can accomplish.

00:16:48.000 I mean, there are a lot of members that would probably support completely reforming the FBI and defunding it, but you're not going to get 218 votes on the floor for that.

00:16:57.000 But I think if you take a surgical approach to some of these most offensive, egregious assaults of our Constitution, like the FISA court and their ability to surveil on American citizens without a warrant, you're going to take very strong, bold steps in the right direction to reform the agency.

00:17:12.000 What about, again, some of the individuals, you know, the sort of the worst of the bad actors, you know, that, again, you know, came out in Durham, the people that authorized some of the stuff as it relates to, you know, maybe getting into a little bit of detail about the, you know, quarter of a million plus people that were illegally spied on, you know, by our government.

00:17:31.000 I mean, like, that was almost just a little blip with all the other news out there that doesn't even, it doesn't even make it to most people's radar, yet we saw that last week, that, like, a Well, I don't know what the exact number was.

00:17:43.000 I think it was like 260, 270,000 Americans.

00:17:46.000 Yeah, it was like 238,000 Americans that were inappropriately surveilled.

00:17:51.000 Yeah, but think about how big a number that is, right?

00:17:54.000 And yet, it's like, oh, it's not even a news story.

00:17:57.000 I mean, if this was against...

00:17:59.000 People on the left, if this was against Antifa, if this was against the leaders of BLM or the participants in the riots who, you know, in the summer of love, looted, committed arson, committed actual insurrections, took over buildings, you know, I'm told the double standard is egregious, but it's not even like, oh, it's fine.

00:18:18.000 You know, they're probably conservatives, so who cares?

00:18:20.000 Let's just let it happen. Yeah, and that's what the mainstream media is perfectly complicit in.

00:18:26.000 That's what this leftist Democratic deep state swamp up here in the FBI and DOJ obviously wants and is complicit in. 1.00

00:18:33.000 And you share a level of frustration that I have shared and I experience.

00:18:38.000 And the Durham report comes out.

00:18:39.000 He identifies all these egregious things that happened with the FBI and the DOJ. Yeah, it doesn't recommend charges for the Comeys of the world, for the strokes of the world, for the individuals who actually did this ridiculously unlawful behavior because they're smart enough to realize that they can go to FISA and make these representations. 0.56

00:18:58.000 But even though they may know those representations are false, there's no criminal Conduct that can go after these individuals.

00:19:05.000 I actually had a bill last Congress that would have made any sworn statement before the FISA court.

00:19:10.000 If you know or should know that the information that is underlying that affidavit is false, you can be held criminally liable for that.

00:19:18.000 But of course it didn't get through Congress.

00:19:20.000 And those are the type of reforms that we really need to take to ensure that this type of behavior doesn't happen again.

00:19:26.000 But I share your level of frustration.

00:19:28.000 Those individuals should be in prison.

00:19:30.000 You lied to a court using your position within the FBI as the head of the FBI or whatever you were in the DOJ to make false representations to a court to get warrants to survey on American citizens.

00:19:44.000 That should be I mean, it's impeachable conduct, but all those people are gone now.

00:19:48.000 But it absolutely, in my opinion, should be criminally tried and convicted.

00:19:52.000 But Durham failed to bring any charges against those people.

00:19:56.000 Yeah, I guess that's the real problem, right?

00:19:58.000 The sort of stick that you guys have would be impeachment, but they get caught, they retire, they get a high-paying job to be a commentator on CNN or MSNBC, and that's the consequence.

00:20:11.000 It's not even a—it's a reward.

00:20:13.000 Yeah. You know, they get to make money and they get to talk about, you know, watching some of these guys with the outrage about protecting democracy.

00:20:20.000 I'm like, wait a minute, like you lied before Congress and are facing no consequence.

00:20:24.000 I mean, you know, that's I wrote a book about liberal privilege and that seems to be, you know, you know.

00:20:31.000 You now have, and I wonder if, you know, talk about perhaps, you know, weaponization.

00:20:35.000 That's obviously, you know, the stuff on the FBI that was pertaining to January 6th and other things, because, you know, we're told that white supremacy is the greatest threat to America, but, you know, it doesn't seem like there's all that much of it.

00:20:48.000 If any, the actual threats, whether it's trans-terrorism or those things, are totally overlooked because I guess they're not allowed to look at them.

00:20:56.000 But the other place where weaponization, I think, could get into, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on it, is you heard about the DOJ getting involved in the people that were investigating the Hunter Biden claims about tax fraud.

00:21:09.000 Now, that's one of the smaller claims that they have, but probably had real teeth.

00:21:13.000 And for the Biden-controlled DOJ to go in there To literally fire whistleblowers, again, people who are calling out impropriety or major breaks in procedure on an investigation of the son of the president.

00:21:30.000 I have a feeling I wouldn't get that break, and I have a feeling if I did...

00:21:33.000 No, absolutely you wouldn't. If I did, there would be outrage in there as well.

00:21:37.000 I mean, is there something that the Weaponization Committee can do about that?

00:21:40.000 Because that seems to be a big one.

00:21:42.000 And I take it personally myself.

00:21:44.000 Listen, maybe I'm a little bit biased, but after doing 50 hours of testimony before Congress for treason, that was all based on a lie.

00:21:54.000 You know, I sort of feel like there's a lot of smoke with the Hunter Biden stuff.

00:21:59.000 Frankly, there's a lot of fire.

00:22:00.000 All that stuff's been proven to be accurate.

00:22:01.000 And yet... Doesn't even get called in.

00:22:06.000 Well, and it goes a little deeper than that because weeks before that broke, the IRS commissioner was before my other committee that I sit on ways and means that has jurisdiction over IRS. And the chairman specifically asked him, are you going to retaliate against whistleblowers?

00:22:21.000 So now back to lying to Congress, he straight up lied to Congress.

00:22:26.000 So either he lied to Congress and he did do that later, Or somebody, like you said, in the DOJ or in the Biden White House, told him to move this individual who now became a whistleblower.

00:22:38.000 Last week, his lawyer sent a letter to us.

00:22:41.000 The committee is going to start going through that.

00:22:43.000 I think you're going to see if that individual is willing to come before Congress after we get an interview from him.

00:22:49.000 At least his lawyer is willing to come before the Ways and Means Committee to get testimony as to what exactly occurred.

00:22:55.000 But based on reporting, what you're saying is accurate.

00:22:58.000 This individual was working what we've been told on a high profile case.

00:23:02.000 The reporting says where it is, but we we can all make those assumptions and was removed by the DOJ. So the DOJ called the IRS commissioner who had him removed after he testified to our committee that there would be absolutely no repercussions for any whistleblowers in his agency.

00:23:19.000 And this is the depth of corruption that is going on up here in Washington, D.C. and the complete difference of, like you said, Democrats have one standard.

00:23:30.000 Republicans have another standard.

00:23:31.000 If your father's administration would do this type of thing, there would be absolute, complete outrage 24-7 on every mainstream media.

00:23:40.000 Everybody in America would know about it, but the Democrats do it all the time and it's perfectly fine.

00:23:44.000 There's going to be no accountability for these people.

00:23:46.000 Yeah, and listen, hey, if my father's administration did this as an American, I agree, there should be that outrage.

00:23:53.000 But what's so scary, again, is just the silence about this, you know, just the tacit acceptance that it doesn't matter because ultimately, you know, and I don't think Joe Biden's actually in charge.

00:24:04.000 I think whoever's in charge is putting whatever they want in front of Joe Biden.

00:24:07.000 He'll sign everything blindly.

00:24:09.000 They don't care if they'll throw his reputation under the table.

00:24:11.000 It means nothing. I think he's actually furthered the radical leftist cause far more than Obama ever would because Obama would never risk his reputation.

00:24:21.000 You know, Joe, you know, he doesn't know what his reputation is.

00:24:24.000 He doesn't know where he is 90 percent of the time.

00:24:27.000 But just that everyone's sort of in on it, that the media, these people who represented a once noble profession, Well, you know, you know, and again, you don't you don't have to go back too far a couple of years to look at what they were saying about me or, you know, the Trump organization that actually, you know, conducted real business, didn't form entities the day we got into office, didn't magically start making money from foreign nations that, you know, my father was in control over policy regard.

00:24:56.000 And it's so glaring.

00:24:59.000 And yet that's why it's so important.

00:25:01.000 So I tell people, you know, like and subscribe, share this kind of content, because Our journalists, even on the conservative side, 99% of them won't even talk about it.

00:25:10.000 This should be a really big deal, because our country has been for sale to China, we're the highest bidder, for quite some time apparently, and no one gives a damn. 0.69

00:25:20.000 Yep, I agree with everything that you've said, and it's time for a reckoning on all of this.

00:25:25.000 And I hope that Jason Smith, the Ways and Means Chair, I think he will bring these individuals in, get testimony from this whistleblower as to what exactly occurred, get as much information legally as we can, and bring it before the American people.

00:25:38.000 And then what I would like to do after that is bring in the IRS Commissioner and ask him why he lied to us under oath.

00:25:43.000 And back to these repercussions for these individuals, We can make DOJ referrals for criminal conduct.

00:25:49.000 So I would love to make a referral to the DOJ that the IRS commissioner lied under oath to Congress.

00:25:55.000 But the challenge is the DOJ is not going to do anything because they're all on the same team.

00:25:59.000 And the level of deep corruption of all of them working together.

00:26:03.000 And you saw that in the weaponization hearing last week.

00:26:06.000 So the IRS, or not the IRS, the FBI sends out a letter the day before these whistleblowers show up in our hearing that, oh, they're not really whistleblowers.

00:26:15.000 So FBI says, oh, they're not whistleblowers, so we're not going to treat them as whistleblowers, even though they are whistleblowers and went through all the protocol that was required of them.

00:26:23.000 So then all of the Democrats on the committee, they just said, oh, these aren't real whistleblowers,

00:26:27.000 so we don't have to give them the rights that whistleblowers get.

00:26:30.000 And then all they did, they didn't talk about any of the facts, all they did was attack

00:26:35.000 these patriots for their service to our nation, and that they were MAGA, and they were just

00:26:40.000 infiltrating the FBI, despite the fact that some of them had been there for decades.

00:26:45.000 And that was their talking points, but they're all working together, it's all in concert.

00:26:48.000 So the FBI that's run by the deep state sends out this letter the day before the hearing,

00:26:52.000 and then all the Democrats take the cues, and then that's the talking points, and then

00:26:56.000 that's everything that you see on mainstream media for the next couple of days to completely

00:27:00.000 discredit these individuals and their service to our nation.

00:27:04.000 Yeah, listen, I think, you know, with the overreaction, with the insanity, you know, those who have been sort of on the sidelines or, you know, let's call them politically agnostic.

00:27:12.000 You know, I think it's so bad, it's so egregious that they're starting to get it.

00:27:16.000 I get that you yourselves, you can't prosecute these people.

00:27:20.000 You can only do the referral to the DOJ. Given the facts, given what people are seeing now on a daily basis, maybe it doesn't go anywhere.

00:27:28.000 In all likelihood, it doesn't go anywhere because Merrick Garland is going to protect these people at all costs.

00:27:33.000 I think it still makes an important statement that we do this.

00:27:38.000 That we show the American people that they aren't above the law. 0.72

00:27:41.000 What the Biden administration, what his DOJ will do, I think will only further solidify what everyone's starting to understand in terms of just how crooked these guys actually are.

00:27:54.000 I get that you can't do it yourselves, but I think it makes an important statement that we take Every action, make every referral that we possibly can, allow them to blow it off and let the facts lay where they are.

00:28:05.000 But I think it's important to make that statement because the American people will see that they're finally waking up to just how bad it is.

00:28:12.000 And, you know, again, I think there'll be retribution for that.

00:28:16.000 Yeah, you're right. And the real the real accomplishment of this is in 2024 and showing the American people all of these things that have been going on.

00:28:26.000 Some of these things have been going on before your father was president.

00:28:29.000 I mean, some of this stuff is so deeply seated corruption that now we're starting to find out and get the facts and information about it.

00:28:35.000 And the American people, you're right, are seeing this.

00:28:37.000 And the American people may not we may not be able to take justice in our own hands by You know, sending a referral and the DOJ is going to prosecute these guys, but the American people with their feet and their hands can go and vote in 2024 and make a huge difference because they're going to see the deep-seated corruption that had been going on by the Democratic Party up here.

00:28:55.000 Yeah, no, I think that's huge.

00:28:57.000 But let's talk a little bit about this because you were also a JAG officer before you became an elected lawmaker.

00:29:03.000 Given sort of your legal background, how much does what you see, you know, inside the FBI And DOJ sort of shock your conscience.

00:29:13.000 I mean, did you always see this?

00:29:15.000 Was it there? I mean, you talked about sort of, hey, we're realizing that a lot of this stuff has happened for years now, you know, whether it's, you know, what I call Trump derangement syndrome, you know, Donald Trump and just his threat to the uni party sort of brought the lunacy out in all of these people.

00:29:30.000 But are you surprised at this level?

00:29:33.000 Or is it something that you've sort of seen during that entire portion of your career?

00:29:37.000 No, no, absolutely surprised because if this type of activity was going on when I was in the service, especially in the legal side of our military, you would be gone in a heartbeat.

00:29:48.000 I mean, it wouldn't even be the stuff we saw with Hillary Clinton and the whitewashing of a server and all that stuff.

00:29:54.000 If I would have had classified information in the same scenario on a server, I would have been court-martialed and kicked out of the military.

00:30:03.000 The change has happened over the last several years of this deep-seated corruption that Washington's fine with.

00:30:11.000 As long as it's woke ideology and progressive whatever, we care more about pronouns.

00:30:15.000 And I've been very disappointed in our military.

00:30:18.000 Military, I was honored to be a part on and serve on, honored to go and deploy in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

00:30:24.000 And I've had the opportunity to recently sit down with some of our generals and speak to them.

00:30:29.000 And they're like, well, You know, can you help us with recruitment and what is your advice and all of that?

00:30:34.000 And I said, like a week ago, you just had one of your secretaries saying that the number one national security threat to our country is climate change.

00:30:42.000 Do you think guys like me who are red blooded Americans want to sign up to fight climate change?

00:30:47.000 No, we signed up to kick doors in and to jump out of airplanes and to fight terrorists, not to fight climate change.

00:30:54.000 So like you, you need to reshift the focus and of any agency in the United States, Government, you would think the military wouldn't have all of this perversity and progressiveness, progressivism infused into it.

00:31:08.000 But that's absolutely what's been going on.

00:31:10.000 And if that type of activity, I mean, I can't imagine there was that that picture of this colonel or whoever dressed up in some like weird outfit with a costume and his uniform.

00:31:20.000 If that would happen when I was in the service, I know, 10, 15 years ago, that guy would be gone.

00:31:24.000 He'd be court-martialed and he'd be kicked out of the military.

00:31:26.000 But now it's perfectly fine.

00:31:28.000 You can be trans, you can dress up, you can do all these different things.

00:31:32.000 And that is the focus of this military and this government under Joe Biden, not our national security and our national defense.

00:31:38.000 So it's actually, as a guy that served, we could talk a lot about Afghanistan, but as a guy who served, it's very disheartening to see what's happened to our military since Joe Biden's been president.

00:31:50.000 Well, it's even crazier, you know, even as someone like myself from the outside, you know, it's like the recruitment numbers are down.

00:31:55.000 It's a disaster. We don't know what to do.

00:31:57.000 I got it. The Navy brings in, you know, a drag influencer. 1.00

00:32:02.000 I'm like... I don't know, man.

00:32:05.000 I think you're going the wrong direction in this.

00:32:08.000 You know, I have a marketing degree from Wharton.

00:32:10.000 I think I understand a little bit about this process, and that's not it.

00:32:14.000 You know, what's making him go there?

00:32:16.000 I mean, you know, Patton must be rolling over in his grave watching, you know, these woke generals do this.

00:32:23.000 We make the distinction between the generals at the top that think it's all wonderful and think it's great.

00:32:28.000 I think they're bullshitting the American public.

00:32:31.000 I don't think anyone with a brain believes any of the stuff that they're saying. 0.73

00:32:35.000 I guess they're trying to get on the board of Disney or something like that.

00:32:37.000 But how did that happen?

00:32:40.000 How did that woke ideology get a grip of the leaders of the greatest warriors ever?

00:32:48.000 Straight from the top, straight from Biden, straight to Austin, and then down to the General Corps, and then they push this ideology on our military force.

00:32:57.000 I actually had two individuals this past year who applied to be my nominations for the different academies, and after the Air Force pulled some of their crazy transgenderism woke stuff, they pulled their packets. 0.99

00:33:10.000 So these are young men who want to serve their country, who want to go into the military, who are intelligent enough to be able to get admitted into the academy and be nominated by a congressman in their district to serve in the academy.

00:33:21.000 And they're like, Nope, don't want to have anything to do with this.

00:33:23.000 Don't want to be a part of this. I'm pulling my packet.

00:33:25.000 And that's the impact that it's having on people who would be war fighters.

00:33:29.000 War fighters, in my opinion, aren't the people that are doing drag queen shows. 1.00

00:33:35.000 Those aren't typically who you select to be war fighters in our country.

00:33:39.000 And the rest of our enemies across the world are seeing this and just sitting back and laughing.

00:33:45.000 The Russians, the Chinese are saying the Americans are too concerned about Transgenderism and pronouns and climate change than really being prepared on securing our nation and securing our borders.

00:33:57.000 And so it's just really sad to see our nation's military go to the level that it has gone to recently under this administration.

00:34:04.000 Well, you know, listen, I'm glad you yourself are actually pushing back.

00:34:07.000 It's not just talk. I mean, you actually have a bill out there to eliminate DEI funding from the military and the service academy.

00:34:15.000 So, you know, I'm not sure.

00:34:16.000 Greg, I could be perhaps a little bit off, but I imagine the Navy's drag queen influencer recruiter is not going to like you very much.

00:34:25.000 And I'm sure you're going to lose a lot of sleep at night over that.

00:34:28.000 But tell us a little bit about the bill. 0.60

00:34:30.000 Yeah, it takes all this garbage out of our military where it doesn't belong. 0.60

00:34:34.000 It takes all the diversity, equity, inclusion, all of that program and the pronouns and the drag queens and the transgenderism and all of that, and it takes it out of our military. 0.95

00:34:44.000 It has absolutely no place in the military.

00:34:46.000 It absolutely doesn't have any place in our government, but it certainly doesn't have any place in our military operations.

00:34:52.000 Our military should be focused on the safety and security of the American people, on the safety and security of our border, on the safety and security of fighting China and All of the things that are coming with that, what's going on in Eastern Europe, it should not be focused on programs for diversity and inclusion in our military. 0.84

00:35:10.000 We should have the people who want to serve in a volunteer force who have the physical ability to be warfighters and pass all the things that I had to pass when I was in the service.

00:35:20.000 And if there are women that can pass all of the different physical attributes that are required to be in a combat unit, then I'm all for that. 1.00

00:35:29.000 But you have to put those bars in place to ensure that we have a warfighting force to be able to defend our nation.

00:35:37.000 Yeah, no, 100%. I'd love to be a Navy SEAL, but I'd love to be able to do it on a half day on a Saturday.

00:35:43.000 Maybe not have to run all that much or swim that far with all that gear.

00:35:47.000 I don't want the water to be that cold.

00:35:50.000 I want the trident, but none of the work.

00:35:52.000 You know what I mean? I think that'd be really cool.

00:35:53.000 Yeah. Yeah, I wouldn't mind having that on my chest.

00:35:57.000 Yeah, it'd be pretty cool.

00:35:58.000 We should make that happen.

00:36:00.000 I mean, it seems to be basically what they're trying to do to a lot of these other institutes.

00:36:04.000 You saw that. The people that were most persecuted in the military, you know, with the VAX mandate and stuff like that, were, like, our elite operators, our, you know, our fighter pilots.

00:36:16.000 The people that had the most training, I guess, they...

00:36:18.000 Shockingly, those people probably also leaned more conservative than others, so I guess it was time to eliminate them.

00:36:23.000 But you highlighted something fairly recently where the Air Force selected students

00:36:31.000 for a pilot training class solely based on race and gender requirements.

00:36:36.000 Now, again, maybe I'm an old fashioned guy, but it seems like the most important qualification 0.51

00:36:41.000 would be whether or not they're actually able to fly the freaking plane and be qualified to take 0.69

00:36:47.000 the class in the first place.

00:36:48.000 But apparently, that criteria, the idea of merit, no longer applies if you can check a couple of boxes.

00:36:57.000 And what they did is 100% racism by definition.

00:37:01.000 They used a program and specifically wanted minorities, women. 1.00

00:37:07.000 It was not based on productivity or ability at all.

00:37:11.000 It was based on race and gender, which is actually a violation of our law.

00:37:15.000 But that's the way that our military is currently operating.

00:37:18.000 Yeah, if you did that, if I did that at the Trump Organization and said, I'm only hiring white, we'd be in jail. 0.81

00:37:27.000 They're trying to get us on nonsense for the last seven years, but they would go after us.

00:37:31.000 But when it happens at our elite institutions, government-funded, which is not government-funded, it's taxpayer-funded, well, that's okay.

00:37:39.000 I mean, it's literally sanctioned racism, as far as I'm concerned, paid for by the American taxpayer.

00:37:44.000 Yeah. That's absolutely what it is.

00:37:47.000 And then the mainstream media is going to prop it up as look at this great equity and inclusion and diversity that the Biden administration has in our Air Force and our military instead of what it really is.

00:37:58.000 And think of all of those servicemen and women who were more qualified, who happened to not be a minority or a female that were excluded from participating simply because they were not the right race or gender.

00:38:12.000 Yeah, someone who could have been training for it for their whole lives.

00:38:15.000 That was their dream. That's all they wanted.

00:38:16.000 They're most qualified. We're going to make this guy a pilot.

00:38:20.000 He has no interest in actually flying, but it's more elite, so we're going to put them in there, and that's fine.

00:38:25.000 Again, it's not shocking that they can't meet their recruiting requirements.

00:38:29.000 A huge part of patriotism, as you sort of alluded to, is actually believing in the mission, and if the mission has nothing to do with What the historical mission of the United States military would be and has to do with, you know, gender ideology and, you know, drag queen story hour.

00:38:46.000 You know, I understand why we're probably not recruiting the finest and why those who we'd actually want fighting our wars for us, those who, the patriotic Americans who would do best in those situations, have no interest.

00:39:01.000 And then think of the numerous thousands of service members who didn't want to take an experimental vaccine for religious reasons and filed religious exemptions.

00:39:13.000 And the government told them, no, absolutely not.

00:39:16.000 You're either going to take the jab or you're out.

00:39:18.000 I tried to help a female that we had at the Naval Academy who signed up to go to the Naval Academy. 0.99

00:39:24.000 Who wanted to serve her country and for religious reasons didn't want to take the COVID vaccine.

00:39:28.000 And after years, thankfully, one of the first things we passed in the House was doing away with the vaccine mandates in the military.

00:39:34.000 And so now she's still at the academy, but they weren't even going to give her a diploma.

00:39:39.000 Let alone commission her.

00:39:40.000 And she was like, I don't even care at this point.

00:39:42.000 I don't even care about getting the commission.

00:39:44.000 I've spent four years in college.

00:39:46.000 I at least want to have a degree so I can go on with the rest of my life.

00:39:51.000 And the Naval Academy was refusing to agree to even give her a diploma after four years at the Naval College because she was refusing to take a vaccine on religious grounds.

00:40:02.000 I mean, that's the type of behavior that when people read about that in the paper, they're like, I don't want to be a part of an organization like that.

00:40:08.000 Yeah, we get to hear about a lot of people being fascist and dictatorial, and yet, you know, those guys are actually doing that stuff, and, you know, you don't hear all that much about it.

00:40:17.000 But, you know, if we go on, you know, speaking of women and, you know, you're seen, as I mentioned in my intro, one of the most athletic members in Congress, one of the stars of the congressional baseball game.

00:40:28.000 Hopefully you still have it this year, despite, you know, the injury.

00:40:31.000 And the House recently passed your bill to save women's sports.

00:40:36.000 Now, Like me, who's been talking about this issue for a few years, apparently we are now the face of modern-day feminism. 1.00

00:40:44.000 So talk about why the issue is so important to you and what else we can do about it.

00:40:51.000 It's amazing how things get turned around to accomplish this progressive ideology, and the mainstream media just flips stuff on the script.

00:40:59.000 So years ago, in the Judiciary Committee, the Democrats passed what they called the Equality Act, and it redefined what a woman was.

00:41:05.000 A woman didn't have a definition anymore. 1.00

00:41:07.000 It wasn't based on biology.

00:41:08.000 It was based on whatever you felt like that day you could identify with whoever you wanted to.

00:41:12.000 And I said, surely the Democrats would want to exempt Women's sports through Title IX that was created by Congress over 50 years ago to protect women's sports.

00:41:22.000 Otherwise, they would be competing with the men in every other sport.

00:41:25.000 And the whole purpose of creating Title IX was to allow for women to compete with women on the sports field. 0.98

00:41:31.000 So I filed the amendment.

00:41:32.000 Not a single Democrat voted for it.

00:41:34.000 And I thought, you know what? This might be a good idea for a standalone bill.

00:41:37.000 And at the time, it was interesting because the Democrats and they still kind of say this now, but they're like, oh, this never happens.

00:41:42.000 You can only cite like one example.

00:41:44.000 And this never happens.

00:41:46.000 You don't ever see this happening across the country.

00:41:48.000 And over the last several years, you've seen so much attention to this issue.

00:41:51.000 Just recently, there was just another one at a track meet or something where a biological male beat out a young female in the female women's track event.

00:42:01.000 It's happening all across America.

00:42:03.000 There's hundreds of examples of women losing medals, scholarships, Olympic events, and one of my constituents, Emma Wyant, who had to go up against Leah Thomas, who was a male swimmer and couldn't make it in the male swimming team, so then decided, oh, I'm going to go on the women's team and identify as a woman, suddenly started winning medals.

00:42:22.000 She lost a slot in the Olympics in Olympic medal because of him, Leah Thomas, beating her in women's swimming.

00:42:30.000 And so thankfully, Speaker McCarthy took this on as one of the issues that we're going to pass in the first hundred days.

00:42:36.000 We had huge support from the women who actually had competed against biological men who came up here and talked about it.

00:42:42.000 And that was honestly the most powerful thing about all this was hearing these

00:42:46.000 women's testimony about being in the pool with this biological male and get 0.93

00:42:50.000 beating and their entire life since, you know, teenagers being focused on

00:42:55.000 being a swimmer or being focused on being a track star or an athlete completely

00:43:00.000 turned upside down when suddenly men are allowed to compete with them and they no 0.92

00:43:04.000 longer can compete, obviously, because are the biologies between a man and woman 1.00

00:43:09.000 is very, very different.

00:43:10.000 So to hear their testimonies was very, very powerful.

00:43:12.000 And thankfully we got it passed on the house floor.

00:43:15.000 But what was fascinating to me was not a single Democrat voted for that bill.

00:43:20.000 Not one, not one Democrat.

00:43:22.000 They are so sold into the transgenderism that they didn't see the common sense and 1.00

00:43:31.000 not allowing biological men in locker rooms with their daughters or competing on 0.98

00:43:36.000 the field and complete backwardness to what Congress created in Title IX over 50

00:43:42.000 It's just amazing to me to see that flip that we've seen in just a few short years since the Biden administration's taken over, where suddenly this is like a huge issue in the Democratic Party.

00:43:54.000 And when there's no moderate Democrats anymore, by the way, because you would think moderate Democrats would be like...

00:44:00.000 There's moderate Democrats.

00:44:01.000 There's no moderate legislators.

00:44:03.000 There's no moderate Democrats in Congress representing us.

00:44:06.000 They can't win without sort of the California money, and you have to go all woke.

00:44:10.000 And you're right. You know, the media does the...

00:44:12.000 There's no real examples of this.

00:44:15.000 It's like, well, here they are. Well, there's no real examples, but if there are, it's good for XYZ reason.

00:44:21.000 And what I want to... Where are the suburban, like, soccer moms? 1.00

00:44:26.000 The people, they wanted the best for their daughters and all of this stuff.

00:44:31.000 Where are they in all of this?

00:44:33.000 I have a daughter who's a great athlete and could go somewhere with it.

00:44:38.000 I see the amount of dedication and time that she puts into her game.

00:44:43.000 She wakes up early to work out and then she comes back and does her homework and then she goes and plays for four hours and then stretches again.

00:44:51.000 I mean, she's a machine. 0.99

00:44:52.000 It's awesome to see the level of discipline, the patience, the perseverance.

00:44:57.000 And yet it's like if she was playing against guys her own age that are, you know, 40 pounds heavier and stronger and like we're negating basic science from the people who told us, you know, we must trust the science.

00:45:11.000 It makes no sense. Yeah, and I can tell you, suburban moms are with us.

00:45:15.000 Even in the middle, independents, Democratic moms, they're with us.

00:45:18.000 This is like a 75-80% issue.

00:45:21.000 And the Democrats have sold themselves to the idol of transgenderism. 0.98

00:45:24.000 And I think this is going to be a huge issue come 2024 in the elections, not just for president, but all the way through.

00:45:32.000 If you remember, and this is why it was so important that Kevin put all these people on the board on this bill, You now know where your member of Congress stands on this issue.

00:45:40.000 And if you don't think the biological men should be in your daughter's locker room, then vote in. 0.66

00:45:44.000 And they voted for that or voted against that.

00:45:46.000 And you can vote in a different member of Congress.

00:45:48.000 And I think that's going to be huge in some of these tough districts that we have.

00:45:52.000 A few Democrats have somehow been able to hang on in Trump-1 districts.

00:45:56.000 This is going to be a big issue for them because this cuts across party lines, it cuts across gender lines, and this is a 75-80% issue in every poll that I've seen.

00:46:07.000 Americans do not support men competing with women in women's sports.

00:46:11.000 Yeah, I think I agree.

00:46:14.000 The science behind that is I can post about it on Twitter.

00:46:18.000 And even with all the sort of like 90-10 leftist hate on there, the amount of people I see in the comments that are like, oh, I hate Dunn Jr.

00:46:27.000 with a passion. Oh, he's the worst human being ever. 0.98

00:46:30.000 But he's... Right on this issue. 0.99

00:46:32.000 It's sort of amazing.

00:46:34.000 I think you're right. And I guess they've sold out to that woke Hollywood version of this, but I can't imagine the regular people are with it, as evidenced again by that and probably just logic and common sense.

00:46:46.000 But logic and common sense these days doesn't always prevail.

00:46:49.000 Congressman, I'd love you to talk a little bit about your decision to endorse my father in 2024 and your recent conversations with him.

00:46:57.000 I know he called you immediately sort of following your accident back in January.

00:47:02.000 And I think one of the interesting things about politics is sort of you get to see, you know, who actually calls and who doesn't, who is available when it's convenient for them, but not necessarily the other way around.

00:47:16.000 Talk a little bit about that decision, because I think it's probably interesting.

00:47:19.000 Yeah, I think the most important point, even before what happened with me and developing a stronger relationship with your father, is his policies, the America First agenda, and the very fact that he is the only person in any announced candidate, period, the only Republican in America, They can walk into the White House on day one and start reversing all these disastrous policies of the Biden administration and has been there and knows how being president operates, knows who he can trust, put in important roles to be able to turn this country around.

00:47:52.000 That's the policy reason as to why I think your president or your father would be the greatest president.

00:47:58.000 To get re-elected.

00:47:59.000 And you see it in the polls.

00:48:01.000 And then on a personal side, you see he genuinely cares about people.

00:48:06.000 He genuinely has relationships about people, which is a hell of a lot more than I can say about the governor of our state.

00:48:12.000 And the very first phone call that I remember, and I got a ton of phone calls, but when I came to, the concussion was starting to fade away.

00:48:19.000 Your father had gotten my wife's phone number from staff to be able to call her because obviously I couldn't We're good to go.

00:48:41.000 And to this day, I've never heard from Governor DeSantis, even after my injury and after my fall.

00:48:46.000 And despite when he first got elected and I first got elected, multiple times going up to him saying, hey, Governor, here's my cell phone number.

00:48:53.000 I have an important issue in Lake Okeechobee.

00:48:55.000 I'd like to talk to you about crickets.

00:48:57.000 And then when he would come into town, they would exclude me from briefings, they would exclude me, hurricanes bearing down on my district, and they wouldn't allow me to be part of a press conference in my own district to my district because, you know, it's just about the governor and he's too busy to talk to you and have you a part of that.

00:49:13.000 And that's just not how your father operates.

00:49:15.000 That's not how, frankly, any leader should operate.

00:49:18.000 Leaders shouldn't operate that way.

00:49:20.000 You need a team of strong people beside you and alongside of you to accomplish whatever goals it is that you've set out on the principles that you have.

00:49:28.000 And that's just not what you see in Governor DeSantis.

00:49:31.000 The decision was easy for me.

00:49:32.000 What was interesting was the timing.

00:49:34.000 All of a sudden there was this endorsement for Trump and this endorsement for Trump and another congressman for Trump.

00:49:40.000 And suddenly the DeSantis team started going in panic mode and started contacting members like myself.

00:49:46.000 And I've never heard from any of these people.

00:49:47.000 Like I'd never heard from his campaign guy.

00:49:50.000 And suddenly after five years of being in Congress and him being governor, suddenly you're getting this phone call from a guy and it's like, Oh, now after five years, you suddenly care about talking to me about anything?

00:50:02.000 And it was easy.

00:50:04.000 But what precipitated that was the DeSantis team start pressuring people.

00:50:09.000 Oh, you know, don't don't go with Trump.

00:50:11.000 Don't endorse Trump when there's no relationship there.

00:50:14.000 And then threatening members of Congress, not me, but there's other members of Congress that were threatened that if they endorse Trump, that DeSantis was going to primary them.

00:50:22.000 That is not how leaders operate.

00:50:24.000 You don't operate by fear, and I say bring it on.

00:50:27.000 Yeah, that's interesting.

00:50:28.000 You talk about sort of, you know, the exclusion from, you know, the big crash conferences around a hurricane or Lake Okeechobee.

00:50:34.000 I think where you and I actually first met was when my father did a lot of the stuff with the Army Corps of Engineers for Lake Okeechobee, and he made sure to make sure that guys like you, you know, Congressman Mast was there, you know, all of the people that are affected by, you know, the... The water issues around Lake Okeechobee were all invited.

00:50:55.000 Again, I think if I remember correctly, that's where we literally first met.

00:50:59.000 This is now years ago when my father was president, but he wanted to make sure that everyone who, you know, would ultimately oversee this and was a participant and or whose constituency was affected by these decisions was a part of that conversation and ultimately a part of what was historic funding for the area, which was both, you We won't get any credit for environmental stuff because we're conservative and whatever it was, but did a lot to try to quell the red tide issues and all this stuff from the estuaries on Lake Okeechobee that became coastal waterways issues.

00:51:32.000 Yeah, he was president, and the reason why we were all over there is he opened up $500 million in funding for the Herbert Hoover Dyke to repair that dyke to be able to hold water and store water more for water quality issues, for safety issues, and he thought it that important to come down and have an event to talk about it.

00:51:50.000 And you're right, mainstream media is never going to give a conservative credit for being good on environmental issues, but that's absolutely why he was there and then brought everybody to the table that had a piece Of wanting to see that done.

00:52:04.000 Well, I guess, how did we get to this point?

00:52:08.000 Well, you know, we talked about all the issues, whether it's the FBI and the whistleblowers and the reprisal of that.

00:52:12.000 We talk about whether, you know, boys should be playing girls sports, military drag queens. 1.00

00:52:18.000 Just, you know, the notion of, you know, having a border is, you know, very controversial and racist, apparently.

00:52:25.000 You know, and all the insanity that literally comprises, you know, the polar opposites of the two parties.

00:52:33.000 How is some of this stuff even a debate?

00:52:37.000 What happens when you go to speak to your constituency, when you see them?

00:52:43.000 Because it's so far gone.

00:52:45.000 Do you ever wonder about how we got here?

00:52:49.000 Yes, and we got here because Joe Biden, as you said, isn't really in control and the progressives are in control and the wokeism is in control and have just drug the country as far left as humanly possible, ignoring the Constitution, ignoring the House, ignoring everybody that they can to try to bring us into a socialized Marxist communist state that is run by the Democrats.

00:53:11.000 But when I go back to my district and I talk to even Democrats or independents, It's fascinating to get their opinion on all these things because they don't agree with men playing in women's sports.

00:53:22.000 They don't agree with DEI in the military.

00:53:24.000 They don't agree with all of these things that are just common sense that, like you said, how did we get here?

00:53:31.000 How are we actually having a conversation about drag queens in the military?

00:53:35.000 How are we having a conversation with climate change being the number one national security threat to our country?

00:53:40.000 And that's the focus of our military.

00:53:42.000 How did we get to all of these places?

00:53:44.000 And if you go home now, I'm in a conservative district, but when you talk to independents and Democrats, they say the same thing.

00:53:50.000 They're like, well, I may not agree with you here, but I agree with you on all of this.

00:53:54.000 And all of these things that in the four years that I was here when Pelosi was in charge of the House, the Equality Act, redefining the gender of a woman, allowing illegal immigrants to vote in our elections, like all this crazy stuff that they passed in the House that thankfully died in the Senate, people back home would just shake their head and be like, what are you guys doing up there in Washington?

00:54:15.000 And obviously support me coming up here and fighting against it, and thankfully we have the House to be a stopgap against all these horrible policies.

00:54:22.000 Think of how bad it would be if we didn't win the majority in the House this last election cycle, and how much further we would lurch to the left with another two years of complete Democratic control in Washington.

00:54:34.000 Yeah, so, you know, I'd love to hear more about this sort of, you know, the independent and the Democrat voters in your district.

00:54:41.000 I mean, is some of this stuff, the glaring insanity, what's going on with inflation, you know, pushing us towards the brink of World War III, gas prices, you know...

00:54:53.000 Is some of that stuff enough to win them over for 2024 to overwhelm the nonsense of the Democrat machine and ballot harvesting?

00:55:03.000 It probably is in Florida now, but do you think that those issues transcend the rest of the country to be able to talk to those independents and win them over?

00:55:12.000 Yeah, a hundred percent.

00:55:14.000 We haven't talked much about economic issues, but that I guarantee you is the number one issue facing Americans today and that for your middle voter, your independent voter, your suburban moms, even your moderate Democrat voters are looking at how much they're paying at the pump.

00:55:29.000 They're looking how much they're paying for eggs and groceries.

00:55:33.000 And lumber and all the things that they used to be able to afford that they can't afford anymore.

00:55:37.000 They're looking at the economy that's going on and that's really what's forcing them to have to make really tough decisions about their lifestyles.

00:55:45.000 I have probably the census statistics haven't come out yet, but I probably have the most elderly district in the country.

00:55:52.000 I probably have the number one district with veterans, and these people are on fixed incomes, they're on Social Security, they're on VA benefits, and every little increase in inflation that that has cost them to be able to live their lives appropriately is 100% going to drive their decisions in 2024.

00:56:11.000 It is always economics and what their daily lives are like, And to be able to have to work two jobs or you're retired and now you've got to go work part time, to be able to just have the same standard of living that you've had over the last several years because of Biden's inflation and the spending that the Democrats have done up here in Washington, that's really what's going to drive 2024.

00:56:32.000 So when you look back on this Congress, what would be the key benchmarks of success for you?

00:56:39.000 If you get to 2024, hopefully we have a successful time there, but what do you want this Congress to be able to say, hey, we got this done, these are the things that we won on, we should be taking 2024?

00:56:53.000 Well, we've had a ton of huge wins that we've passed out of the House.

00:56:57.000 Immigration reform, shutting down the border, building, like all these type of things that we have done that you'll, one, never hear about in mainstream media, and two, won't become law because of the Senate.

00:57:07.000 But I think what we can accomplish is oversight for the American people so they can see how corrupt the Democrats are, how corrupt the DOJ and the FBI are.

00:57:15.000 And it's not just the FBI and the DOJ. We've talked about the IRS. We haven't talked about ATF. They're doing the same kind of garbage.

00:57:21.000 All these different agencies that are using their power and authority to put a progressive agenda not passed by Congress on the American people. 0.92

00:57:31.000 I think getting that information out is important and then using the appropriations process as much as we can to try to get conservative policy goals accomplished, I think is very, very important.

00:57:43.000 I think we can put Building, finishing the wall into the budget as it relates to immigration and naturalization.

00:57:50.000 You can put little riders on the budget that say not a single dollar of this fund shall be used to allow an illegal immigrant to come into our country. 0.97

00:57:55.000 There are goals that we can accomplish through the appropriations process.

00:58:00.000 Now, obviously, the Senate's going to play a part in that, but we have a very strong leverage authority because the purse strings come from the House, and I think there's a lot that we can get done there.

00:58:09.000 But we've already passed a lot of things that I avidly support.

00:58:12.000 I'm actually very happy that Kevin McCarthy is stuck strong on the debt ceiling negotiations by cutting spending and putting work requirements in the very same Cutting in work requirements that Joe Biden himself when he was in Senate voted for, that Bill Clinton stewarded work requirements for these types of social welfare programs, because people shouldn't be on social welfare.

00:58:32.000 We should help them out in a short period of time to be able to get them a job, and that's exactly what those programs should be for, not for people to live off of. 0.77

00:58:40.000 So being able to accomplish those things, I think, are great for the American people.

00:58:45.000 I can see you have a lot of passion on some of these issues.

00:58:48.000 What made you get into politics in the first place?

00:58:50.000 Were you political growing up?

00:58:51.000 What lessons have you learned, even going back to, say, your first race in state politics, that keep you going?

00:59:01.000 Yeah, my story is kind of interesting because I came from, I just wanted to be a cowboy and work on ranches and I was rodeo and I went to the University of Florida to get a bachelor's degree in beef cattle science.

00:59:12.000 And that was really my focus.

00:59:13.000 And then as an ad guy, as a member of the Florida Cattlemen's, I had the opportunity to lobby some state house members.

00:59:19.000 And I can remember like, what is wrong with these people?

00:59:22.000 They don't understand at all.

00:59:24.000 Ag in the state of Florida.

00:59:26.000 They don't understand the issues that we're dealing with.

00:59:28.000 There were very few people with production agricultural background in the state legislature.

00:59:32.000 And I said, you know what? We probably need more people like me in elected politics.

00:59:37.000 And so I went to law school and my first semester of law school is when September 11th occurred.

00:59:41.000 And so that took me into the military.

00:59:43.000 I felt called I actually enlisted in the infantry.

00:59:46.000 I felt called to serve.

00:59:47.000 And he did the call of George W. Bush that we needed able-bodied men to serve our country and fight terrorism.

00:59:53.000 And I answered that call, spent about four and a half years active duty, did a tour in Iraq.

00:59:58.000 And then when I came back, I had an opportunity to run for a state house seat.

01:00:02.000 I spent six years in the State House, two years in the State Senate, and got elected to Congress in 2018.

01:00:07.000 And so I've continued that service, fighting for my country, instead of with an M4 on my side, now fighting for my country in Congress. 0.99

01:00:15.000 And I think it's important to have people with that type of background, with that type of patriotism, and conservative core beliefs to serve up here in Washington.

01:00:24.000 Yeah, it's sort of like the gun issue.

01:00:26.000 We need more people that actually know something about guns to talk about them, not those who are looking for quick sound bites that you experience with, whether it's ag or cattle.

01:00:34.000 You have people that couldn't tell you the difference between a sheep and a cow, and they're going to be arguing the finer nuances of ag.

01:00:43.000 It doesn't make a lot of sense, but I guess that shouldn't surprise us in Washington, D.C. anymore these days.

01:00:49.000 No, Ari, I have to give them a lesson on the difference between a semi-automatic rifle and a semi-automatic handgun, and that they function exactly the same.

01:00:58.000 So by banning assault weapons, their so-called term of art, you're also banning every type of legal sidearm that's a semi-automatic.

01:01:07.000 So you have to teach them, because they have no idea, because they've never actually fired a weapon.

01:01:12.000 Or they don't care because they're happy with banning it all.

01:01:16.000 And that's ultimately where they'd be going.

01:01:19.000 They're just different than us.

01:01:20.000 They'll get a little cut.

01:01:22.000 You see what's going on.

01:01:24.000 Pistol brace. Basically, I guess, today, May 31st, that's happening.

01:01:32.000 They take that little cut, then they take another little cut, little cut, and everyone pretends, oh, they're not really coming after us, but they are.

01:01:38.000 And they'll keep doing that.

01:01:41.000 Yeah. And again, another that's a great example of how ATF is weaponized and using something that Congress has never passed.

01:01:48.000 Congress hasn't passed a pistol brace ban, but ATF is trying to take as many steps as they can, in my opinion, unconstitutionally, that's going to drive people into court.

01:01:58.000 They're trying to take as much steps as they can to do certain actions to accomplish progressive ideology without anything passing through Congress.

01:02:06.000 That's what's happening in all of these agencies all across the administration because that's how Biden's operating.

01:02:12.000 They know they can't get stuff passed through Congress so they're just trying to accomplish these progressive goals through the rulemaking process in these different agencies.

01:02:21.000 It's insane. Going into 2024, what would your final message be to your constituency and really people across America about the importance of not just keeping the House but also winning the Senate back and obviously taking back the White House?

01:02:38.000 Well, you know, I've talked to a lot of conservatives who've been frustrated, obviously, over the last several years and are starting to believe, well, my vote doesn't matter.

01:02:45.000 And that is exactly the attitude that Nancy Pelosi wants you to have and not the attitude you should have.

01:02:50.000 The attitude you should have is where do I go?

01:02:52.000 How do I sign up?

01:02:53.000 How do I get my family? How do I get my friends to vote for American first values, to vote for America ideology and conservative principles?

01:03:04.000 And we really going to this is this is it.

01:03:06.000 This is our last Stopgap stalwart against a communist, socialist, Marxist state.

01:03:13.000 If we don't win the president in 2024, our country is going to go to a very deep, dark place.

01:03:20.000 And I don't know if we're going to be able to get it out.

01:03:22.000 So the importance and the level for Everyday Americans who don't care about politics, who don't just want to go and do their job every single day, this is the year that you need to show up and show up in force, that you stand for America, you stand for the beliefs that Americans believe in and in the Constitution.

01:03:38.000 Otherwise, we're gonna be in some real challenges up here in Washington.

01:03:41.000 I think we can hold the House.

01:03:43.000 We have a really great map for the Senate.

01:03:45.000 We only need to pick up one or two.

01:03:47.000 We can easily pick up Montana, West Virginia, some of these other states.

01:03:50.000 And if we can take the House, the Senate, and the White House, man, the things that we'll be able to do for those four years.

01:03:55.000 Yeah, and I think it'd be a little bit of a better mandate than sort of a Paul Ryan House with a Donald Trump presidency.

01:04:00.000 I think people get it now that that America First agenda is alive and well amongst conservatives.

01:04:06.000 I think that's going to be huge and important.

01:04:07.000 So thank you so much, Congressman.

01:04:09.000 Really appreciate your time doing this.

01:04:11.000 Look forward to watching you at the Congressional Baseball game and seeing you down here in Florida.

01:04:18.000 Thank you. Thanks for having me.

01:04:19.000 Good to see you. My pleasure, man.

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