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00:03:49.000And now, we're gonna go to my friend, Congressman Michael Waltz.
00:04:31.000A second Green Beret just got elected last time from Texas.
00:04:36.000Got by the name of Keith Self and a former judge.
00:04:39.000So at least I got one wingman now to, you know, to take on the SEALs.
00:04:43.000Yeah, it does seem like there's an ever-growing presence of, you know, there's always obviously been some military experience in Congress and in government, but I actually like when I see, like, the operators.
00:04:58.000I feel like there's a different level of understanding.
00:05:01.000You know, it's sort of like, hey, you know, as much crap and shit as I talk about the FBI, yes, the bureaucrats that run it are one thing.
00:05:09.000The door kickers are actually on our team.
00:05:11.000These guys actually understand what's going on.
00:05:13.000They come up to me all the time just, you know, ashamed of what's happening at these institutions.
00:05:19.000I don't think we need some of these woke bullshit generals in Congress or in government, but to actually have a door kicker, to have some operators in there, I think that's exactly what we need.
00:05:31.000Yeah, you want the pipe hitters, you want the trigger pullers.
00:05:36.000Ryan Zinke was one of the ones who talked me into running.
00:05:39.000He said, we need more people like you and me in here.
00:07:24.000Yeah, so now he's a congressman from Montana, so that's good.
00:07:26.000When you hang out with Zink and you shake his hand, you're like, oh man, I don't do this lightly, but that guy would beat the crap out of me.
00:07:33.000I don't say it that easy, but he's a big dude.
00:07:37.000Yeah, he's one of those guys that tell them, I'm never going to get in a knife fight with you, or a fist fight.
00:07:41.000I'm just going to shoot you from afar.
00:07:44.000There's going to be no CQB, no close quarter combat with that guy.
00:07:48.000That's not a recipe for success for anyone.
00:07:50.000I'm sure people have found that one out the hard way.
00:07:55.000Yeah, I was going to say, you know, I want to sort of start with, you know, since we're talking about the military, you know, the Pentagon and their agenda under, you know, the Biden administration and the state of our military.
00:08:09.000I mean, a recent poll found that Americans' confidence in the military is at a two decade low.
00:08:17.000Talk about that a little bit, because it's almost hard to believe, and yet every time I see either a commercial or I see the people that they choose, you know, to represent them to the public, I guess it shouldn't surprise anyone that that's actually the case.
00:08:57.000The Army fell short 25,000 just last year.
00:09:02.000They're on track to fall short another 15,000 this year.
00:09:07.000And on top of that, they were about to kick out at the beginning of this year.
00:09:12.000Another 20,000, even though they're falling way short of their numbers, they were so obsessed with the vaccine they were going to kick out another 20,000 on top of it.
00:10:00.000I've asked the Navy, show me this whole aircraft carrier's worth of
00:10:07.000Transgender 18-year-olds that feel like they won't be welcome in the Navy and therefore are just out there waiting to join that you have to have as one of your chief brand ambassadors, a transgender sailor.
00:10:21.000What this is, is it's Biden's politicals driving a political agenda on top of the military and generals that aren't saying timeout, stop, enough is enough, this isn't the right direction for the military to go.
00:10:37.000Biden's Secretary of the Army testifying before my committee on her plan to take the entire army carbon neutral by 2030, which would mandate then, not the most lethal army, not the best, most ready or best recruited- But it's green!
00:10:53.000A carbon neutral army by 2030, which means we're going to have to go to electric tanks, electric non-tactical vehicles.
00:11:01.000Last I checked, there's no charging stations in place.
00:11:04.000Ukraine or Africa and she's putting all of our bases on Backup solar panel grids.
00:11:10.000I said, okay fine Where the solar panels made she couldn't certify to me that they're not made in China So we're putting our army base on Chinese made Grids it's just so they've got the climate agenda on the one hand and look
00:11:28.000I want our country to be energy diverse.
00:11:31.000I lost people trying to get diesel fuel over supply lines hit by IEDs.
00:11:37.000Let's have a whole mix there, but it is a full-blown obsession.
00:12:35.000When I have to order a bunch of Green Berets to charge the machine gun, they don't want to be talking about, well, am I going because I'm privileged or am I going because I'm oppressed?
00:12:48.000And in this last defense bill, we actually banned it from being taught anywhere in the military.
00:12:53.000Yeah, so you think, you know, that the forces in place that even allowed that to get there in the first place, you know, it's not allowed to be taught officially, but do you think it's still happening?
00:13:03.000Because, I mean, you look at the recruitment numbers and it's pretty obvious.
00:13:06.000A big part of the patriotism to actually go do that and potentially risk your life, you know, for your country is actually
00:13:13.000They seem to be making it very clear that they no longer do that.
00:13:50.000How do you take these people seriously?
00:13:52.000My teenage daughter would have planned a better withdrawal than that.
00:13:55.000I mean, you obviously get your people out, your civilians out, and your allies that are going to be hunted down for working with you for 20 years out before you get your troops out.
00:14:06.000I mean, it's just really, really, truly common sense.
00:14:09.000But I just want to add one more thing on the diversity piece.
00:14:12.000Look, the thing is, is the politicals have this narrative that we need diversity of thought.
00:14:18.000That's what makes us stronger as a military.
00:14:20.000I want to be clear, and I know you feel this way too.
00:14:23.000I want equal opportunity for everybody to serve.
00:14:26.000I don't care, black, white, or brown, gay, straight, Christian, Jewish, whatever.
00:14:31.000If you want to step up and put your life on the line for this great nation over our freedoms, you're welcome to do so.
00:14:39.000The problem is when they start mandating certain percentages and they don't have any data to back it up.
00:14:45.000As I told the head of the Air Force Academy,
00:14:48.000My Green Berets and I have called every single fighter bomber drone in the inventory for close air support.
00:14:55.000Never once was any of my Green Berets asking what the skin color of the pilot was.
00:14:59.000And our enemy's bullets, I can guarantee you, the Taliban, the Chinese, the Russians, you name it,
00:15:07.000They're not going to treat you any differently because of your sexual orientation or because of your socioeconomic background.
00:15:13.000And the army I came up in, you leave your politics at the door, you believe green, and the only color you worry about is red, white, and blue, and it was a great equalizer.
00:16:35.000We're going to keep a few troops there, and we're going to keep the base, the only base in the world, Bagram Air Base, that is sandwiched between China, Russia, and Iran.
00:16:46.000And what I loved about President Trump is he listened.
00:16:50.000He took all viewpoints, and he listened, as opposed to Biden, who came in, didn't listen to anybody, ignored his generals, and now we are where we are.
00:17:00.000Yeah, no, that whole thing, you know, you'd mentioned your daughter could have planned a better withdrawal.
00:17:05.000I remember really clearly, I picked up my son from school that week when it was going on.
00:17:09.000He was, I think, eight or nine at the time.
00:17:12.000And he's literally like, hey, Dad, why would we pull out our military?
00:17:19.000Before, you know, he called them our friends but, you know, really our friends and allies, you know, or before the civilians.
00:17:33.000Like, a nine-year-old understood that RM4s
00:17:38.000Uh, you know, the same administration and government that thinks that American citizens shouldn't even have semi-automatic AR-15s, but that fully automatic M4, now tens of thousands of them, now in the hands of the Taliban, along with, you know, tanks and helicopters and missiles and whatever the hell else they left behind.
00:18:19.000You know, he got up, I think it was before your committee, you know, Blinken gets up there, he's like, it wasn't as bad, well, it was almost as bad as, you know, the Milley stuff, but it was, we are shocked and dismayed, I remember it verbatim, we are shocked and dismayed that the Taliban did not install a more diverse and inclusive
00:21:13.000And that part of the world, you know, tea and crumpets in a five star hotel in the Middle East isn't how you're going to get things done.
00:21:20.000No, well, you know how they got things done when—I remember my father telling me the story when, you know, the Taliban, they had them over at Camp David, and of course the left goes—loses their minds, and I guess he had one of the leaders, and he literally—he pulled out a satellite image of the guy's home.
00:21:36.000And it's like, well, why are you showing me this?
00:21:38.000It's like, just so we understand what happens if we're not, you know, and we have that sort of leverage.
00:22:01.000It's probably the only thing they understand that way, but we're not even willing to wield that anymore, even if it's for ... Again, I don't think anyone wants to perpetuate the endless war.
00:22:13.000That's not what we're talking about, but to understand how to get some of these people to comply.
00:23:12.000They're rebuilding again, and what pisses me off is all the soldiers, all the special operators that died, lost limbs, and sacrificed everything to keep a lid on these guys, and you get, you know, one senile commander-in-chief that comes in and thinks they're going to respond, again, to tea and crumpets, and here we are.
00:23:36.000I'm handing it off to the next generation.
00:23:38.000They're going to have to deal with that $85 billion worth of our own equipment if they have to go back if we're hit again.
00:23:45.000Yeah, or it's being sold and parted out by the Chinese, or sold to Russia to use against the billions we're pouring endlessly into Ukraine, or otherwise.
00:24:00.000And again, there are ways of doing these things, and we're just seemingly unwilling to actually participate in that, which is lunacy to me.
00:24:08.000But I guess you're right, when you have a senile commander-in-chief, what do you expect?
00:24:13.000And he surrounded himself by academics, and these were the same people that were around Obama.
00:24:19.000I don't know if I ever talked to you about it.
00:24:20.000I had to lead the search for Bo Bergdahl, if you remember that trainer that walked off his base and then was celebrated as a hero in the Rose Garden by Susan Rice and Obama with his parents, and what have you.
00:24:34.000It's all the same Obama crew that thinks someone like Bergdahl is worth trading five of the most
00:24:40.000Harden terrorists in Guantanamo Bay for and then wants to you know roll out their tipper tape parade It's it's all the same people except you've got a bunch of academics who never operated around the world You know Surrounding a senile commander-in-chief that you couldn't have a more dangerous situation right now
00:25:01.000I mean, you guys did a great job crushing the caliphate in ISIS, and that was because my father, and I remember speaking to guys, you know, buddies that overlap in my, you know, my circles that were there.
00:25:11.000They're like, I was like, so what'd they do?
00:25:12.000It's like, oh, your dad just told us, you know, do what we do best.
00:25:15.000Like, not some lawyer in D.C., not some guy that's, you know, sitting in a nice air-conditioned office, you know, with a 10-hour time difference, has no idea what's actually going on, you know.
00:25:25.000I had friends in the teams that would tell me, like, you know, under Obama, like, they'd have one of, like, the playing card guys, you know, like a high, high-value target, like, in their sights, and they're sitting there waiting to engage, but then six hours later, when someone finally got back to them,
00:25:41.000You know, kids came in, whatever it may be, and all of a sudden, like, just a total missed opportunity, whereas, yeah, like, let the operators operate.
00:25:49.000In two weeks, you know, this thing was shut down.
00:25:52.000And so, you know, that's some of the insanity of what's going on right now.
00:25:56.000Well, and it's not just on the terrorism side.
00:25:58.000You know, as I've said repeatedly when it comes to Russia, more Russians died under President Trump than in any modern president.
00:26:08.000Because in Syria, when 400 Russian mercenaries dared to roll onto our Green Berets after repeatedly telling them to stop,
00:26:19.000Your dad said take the gloves off and we bombed the hell out of them and killed 400 Wagner mercenaries.
00:26:25.000That kind of action sends a message to people like Putin.
00:26:29.000There's a reason that he invaded in 2014 Ukraine under Obama and then didn't do a damn thing but then thought he could get away with it again.
00:27:13.000Yeah, that was always the irony of Russia, Russia, Russia.
00:27:17.000Putin has all this information on Trump, and yet he just took out 400 of their mercenaries.
00:27:23.000He did these things that are clearly really bad for Russia, and yet Putin's not somehow wielding this information.
00:27:29.000So Trump was tougher on Russia than anyone.
00:27:33.000Uh, and you'd think that if someone had, you know, documentation and incriminating evidence that you probably wouldn't be able to get away with that.
00:27:41.000So it never made sense to me, but I guess it doesn't have to when, you know, when big tech and the mainstream media just, you know, they pick a side, they pick a narrative, and they're going to run with it.
00:27:51.000And I want to throw something out there for your listeners.
00:27:54.000If they haven't taken a moment, I know there's all these reports that are always being thrown around.
00:27:59.000Take a moment, go online, and actually read the Durham Report, which was the investigation of the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax investigation.
00:28:08.000And listen, you want to talk about pulling the rug out of kind of faith in our institutions and in our Justice Department.
00:29:03.000The surveillance of a sitting presidential campaign.
00:29:06.000But then when Sessions stupidly, as Attorney General, recused himself, they had free hand to let it roll with a sitting president of the United States.
00:29:16.000It is, I mean, it just blows my mind the damage that they did to this country.
00:29:23.000And now to trust, nobody trusts the FBI or the DOJ.
00:29:27.000And one of these days when China decides to make a move,
00:29:31.000People like me or others are going to say, look, I can't share the intelligence, but you got to trust me.
00:29:37.000Who's going to trust anybody because of what they did?
00:29:41.000I mean, the Durham report just really, it took way too long and he didn't investigate all of the people that he should have, but it was damning enough.
00:29:50.000Yeah, of course, that's why it gets no coverage.
00:29:53.000I mean, Devin Nunes was on here and he was head of intelligence at the time as all of this stuff was going on.
00:29:57.000So, you know, he had pretty good access.
00:29:59.000He actually said something on the show that was really interesting I never thought of.
00:30:02.000It's like, no, like, you know, the dossier actually sounds like something that Hillary Clinton probably tried digging up on Joe Biden when she thought she was going to be running against him in a primary.
00:30:14.000And when you think about what's in there, like, who's it sound exactly like?
00:31:02.000Because they have all convinced themselves that when it comes to stopping President Trump as the disruptor that he is, that the ends justify the mean, no matter what the cost to America.
00:31:14.000And I just really find it scary and disgusting.
00:31:18.000So you'd brought up Beau Bergdahl, and I did know that you were one of the guys that, you know, tasked to go recover him.
00:31:25.000We lost some actual patriotic American men, as opposed to a piece of garbage like him, you know, in that process.
00:31:32.000But some of your Republican colleagues and yourself are now urging a new Bergdahl trial after, I guess, the judge tossed his desertion case.
00:31:42.000Uh, what should we know about that case?
00:31:46.000Uh, you know, why should there be a new trial?
00:31:48.000I mean, to me, that one's, I guess, sort of obvious, but like, you know, how do we justify it?
00:31:52.000Because this guy could skate with that, uh, after having cost Americans their lives, uh, just shows me, you know, how backwards our systems are.
00:32:01.000So here's what makes, like, no sense, is
00:33:38.000We're not trading North Korean generals to get those guys back.
00:33:42.000You decide you want to go to the other side, you know, that's your stupid choice.
00:33:46.000So the trade should never happen in the first place, but the fact that it did, he deserves jail time, and we're going to keep pushing for justice for him.
00:33:55.000Talk a little bit about the Biden doctrine, if there is such a thing, with what's coming out of his mouth.
00:34:02.000What are they doing right, if anything?
00:34:07.000And what should the foreign policy policies be in for the Trump administration in a second term?
00:34:13.000Yeah, well, I think first and foremost, President Trump recognized the true threat
00:34:22.000That is our number one threat and what we have right now under a Biden doctrine
00:34:28.000Uh, is you have kind of some national security folks who are reading the intelligence, and what she fully intends to do, which is to replace the United States as a global leader, to defeat us, and to replace us, uh, with his techno-dictatorship worldwide.
00:34:44.000You have some people that realize that, but they keep getting trumped, pardon the pun, by John Kerry and the climate agenda.
00:35:20.000So look, we have to realize the threat that they are.
00:35:23.000And I think the key strategies are elements that strategy is one arm the hell out of Taiwan.
00:35:29.000Let them do the fighting and give them the capability to do so.
00:35:33.000The lesson we need to learn from Ukraine is you arm your allies as your dad did beforehand, not after the fact, after whole cities have been devastated.
00:35:42.000Number two, we got to bring our supply chains back home.
00:35:45.000We've got to get them out of there in a huge way and part of that is to stop the billions of dollars that companies like BlackRock and JP Morgan and what have you are pouring into their market that they're then using for their military buildup
00:36:00.000Three, we've got to get our military back on track.
00:36:07.000We have to protect our intellectual property.
00:36:09.000We can't pour all of these billions of taxpayer dollars into research and development for things like AI and chips and nanorobotics just to have it walk right out the back door to Beijing.
00:36:24.000We will always be more innovative and creative
00:36:27.000Well, it doesn't matter if they capture probably trillions of dollars of IP that cost us to get to a point.
00:36:35.000They steal it and on day number one without spending more than two cents for their bot farm, hackers, whatever it may be, they get
00:36:47.000They make one little change, they take a month, they analyze it, make one thing a little bit better, for two cents they have what we spent billions on.
00:36:54.000They don't have to be innovators if they're able to steal the product that we do and just improve on it a little bit.
00:37:03.000And they have a program called CivMill Fusion, where they're taking these civilian technologies that they're stealing, or we have companies just giving it to them.
00:37:13.000Yeah, because you can't get anything done in China.
00:37:15.000You surrender your IP just to do any kind of business there.
00:37:18.000And so, you know, people have to understand that as well.
00:37:22.000Like any company that's doing business there, China has everything they've got, whether that's Apple or Microsoft or everything.
00:37:28.000So, you know, you think they're not going to weaponize that against us immediately?
00:38:09.000Let's bring manufacturing into Central America if it doesn't make sense to come here.
00:38:13.000Now you've stopped your migrant problem and your supply chain problem.
00:38:16.000Then how about to allied countries like India or Australia?
00:38:20.000I'm actually heading over to India because, you know, world's largest democracy, world's oldest democracy, let's come together economically and militarily
00:38:45.000I sort of have, you know, the rule in the back of my head.
00:38:48.000Understand, listen, my father did a lot.
00:38:50.000I spoke with Peter Navarro the other day, a couple of interesting stats, but we were talking about that in the China policies, which is, you know, China, the trade deficit we have with China is roughly the equivalent of their military budget.
00:39:06.000Where they're screwing us, they're taking that to weaponize their military against us.
00:39:10.000I mean, that should tell us everything else we need to know.
00:39:13.000So my sort of saying, and again, I don't think anyone worked harder than the Trump administration to try to bring manufacturing back to America to try to save what we have.
00:42:12.000It's stopping the billions that are flowing in between our trade deficit and companies like BlackRock and JPMorgan that are investing your savings in.
00:42:21.000And then as consumers, we've got to buy made in America.
00:42:24.000And I've even gone to my financial advisor
00:42:49.000So you've got sailors sending their money home, thinking they're saving for retirement, hard-working, blue-collar sailors, and the Wall Street types are investing it into the Beijing market.
00:43:00.000One of the shipyards that just launched China's newest aircraft carrier is sitting on that market.
00:43:06.000We're literally, as Lenin said, selling the communists the rope that they're going to use to hang us.
00:43:12.000Yeah, I mean, so, you know, you've been talking about BlackRock and how they're pumping billions into China and some of these other companies.
00:43:19.000You know, you're talking about, you know, pulling stuff out of that, diversifying away from that.
00:43:24.000But can you tell us, you know, what you're investigating about those, you know, those really dangerous investments?
00:43:31.000I mean, because, you know, hey, it's great.
00:45:20.000You got these guys, they're getting bonused out, they're making their quarterly earnings.
00:45:24.000They don't care about what happens to the country three, four, ten years from now after pumping all of our money into our greatest adversary.
00:45:34.000Well, when you're back home, and I think you're home right now in, you know, sort of North Florida, you know, when you're talking to your constituents, you know, what are the issues, the concerns that you hear about the most these days?
00:45:44.000What are, you know, what are the sort of, obviously, you know, inflation, some of these things are big ones, but are, you know, what are the biggest ones and are there any ones that sort of surprise you that are a little bit more unusual that we don't think about on a day-to-day basis?
00:45:56.000Yeah, so well, of course, just what's going on with our southern border just is driving people nuts and and even in Florida.
00:46:06.000Yeah, it's even in Florida because what we've uncovered and other people have in some of our news agencies is we have these flights coming in the middle of the night in Jacksonville and Orlando unloading migrants.
00:46:33.000Veterans aren't getting the services that they deserve.
00:46:36.000Our hospitals are getting overcrowded and overwhelmed.
00:46:40.000Like, we're not giving American citizens what they have paid for with their tax dollar in terms of government services, much less having the floodgates open for the rest of the world.
00:46:50.000So that's an issue that's on their mind.
00:46:53.000I've got to tell you, I've got one of the most conservative districts in the state, and what's going on with the two tiers of justice right now with your dad, and what's not happening to Hunter Biden, what's not happening to Joe Biden, is definitely top of mind.
00:47:10.000And what breaks my heart as a national security guy is to see the erosion of trust.
00:47:29.000That said that Joe Biden had received millions of dollars, $5 million to him, $5 million to Hunter, and then the FBI didn't share that document with IRS.
00:47:40.000Now we have IRS whistleblowers raising the red flag, saying they weren't allowed to look into it and nothing's happening.
00:47:47.000Uh, that, man, that is, um... Seems like a big deal, Mike.
00:47:54.000I have a feeling if it was me, it would be a really big deal.
00:47:57.000They tried to redact it, but yet another whistleblower goes to Senator Grassley and shows him the full version, and the part they redacted was, oh by the way, that Ukrainian oligarch has tapes
00:48:14.000So between that, between the documents that he had sitting next to his Corvette in his garage, you're hearing nothing about that, yet you see a raid at Mar-a-Lago.
00:48:26.000If anything that sends Americans through the roof, it's a notion of things not being fair.
00:48:33.000You can be tough, but you got to apply it to both sides or you don't apply it at all.
00:48:38.000So, I mean, we were having, yeah, we were having a conversation sort of, you know, before we hit record on this, talking about sort of just that, like, you know, and I sort of said, hey, you know, I think we have to play the game the way the Democrats are.
00:48:52.000You know, we're playing t-ball, they're playing hardball, and you said, like, you know, but, you know, do we really want to be that guy?
00:48:58.000And, like, I don't think anyone wants to be that guy, but I think right now the other side,
00:49:22.000If we don't do that, they take the win, they laugh their asses off at the bank, they go take the next win, and there's a point where, you know, they gain all that power, they get another presidency, they take over the Supreme Court, and it's over!
00:49:38.000You know, talk a little bit about both sides of that, because, you know, I get where you're coming from.
00:49:42.000Like, I'd love not to have to play this game, but as long as it's being played and there's literally no signs of stopping it, I think until we do that,
00:49:51.000Nothing's gonna change, and they're gonna keep doing it.
00:49:53.000Well, I'd like to think, you know, I mean, to what you're saying, that we play that same level of hardball, and at some point, we either keep spiraling downward, or the other side, like a deterrent, says, whoa, okay, that caused, that hurt, and maybe we'll stop this nonsense.
00:50:13.000Like, you know, for example, when your dad wins in 2024, which I fully believe he will,
00:50:19.000And everybody is screaming, as they were in 2017, after he won then, that it's an illegitimate election.
00:50:26.000You had Jimmy Carter, President Carter, saying he was an illegitimate president.
00:50:35.000Hillary Clinton saying the same thing.
00:50:37.000Half the Democrats in the House saying the same thing.
00:50:40.000Lying to the country and saying that a foreign adversary stole our election.
00:50:47.000I guess we're going to prosecute all of them now.
00:50:49.000Yeah, no, I mean, listen, I... I'm okay with that.
00:50:53.000What I was saying before we came on air is, you know, when you see what they did to somebody like a good man like Kavanaugh, where they smeared him that way, where you had women just literally making up things like orgies and his daughters having to see that, that gives me some heartburn to do that same thing to somebody, even if they're a liberal that I don't want to see on the court.
00:51:18.000It's just a shame that we're even having to have this conversation.
00:51:21.000Yeah, no, I mean, the Kavanaugh thing was a great example, but you know, but again, they'll try to do it again.
00:51:26.000I mean, you know, that guy, you know, it was this little guy on a court of appeals that, you know, magically overnight, you know, it's not like he was hidden somewhere for 30 years.
00:51:34.000He was a pretty public figure, very, you know, respected law guy and like, oh yeah, he became a gang rapist.
00:51:40.000Like, I'm sorry, obviously, you know, like no, no one had a problem with,
00:52:23.000As long as you fold what it actually matters.
00:52:27.000You know, you can actually be a conservative in D.C.
00:52:30.000and have a pretty easy existence, but that's not the way we're actually going to win anything.
00:52:36.000No, look, this is, I can tell you because I'm in the trenches.
00:52:39.000I was in, you know, the last four years under Nancy Pelosi.
00:52:42.000The squad came in the same year I did.
00:52:45.000And at their core, they believe that this is not a good country, that fundamentally since its founding, which they believe happened in 1619 around slavery rather than 1776 around freedom, that this is a fundamentally racist, misogynist, and colonialist country that needs to be apologized for around the world, as President Obama did, as Blinken did to the UN,
00:53:57.000In their image, which is a socialist communist image.
00:54:02.000And if it's the Supreme Court going the wrong way, then we'll stack the court will put term limits on will can fundamentally rebuild it in their image.
00:56:30.000Russia, China, we already talked about.
00:56:33.000We need people in our government with a little dirt and sweat under their fingernails that are willing to roll up the sleeves, take the tough fights, take the tough votes, and damn it, you know.
00:56:47.000We're going to move the ball for America back in the right direction.
00:57:11.000Uh, and so, you know, beyond the service, I think that's an important thing, because you, you, you see these people in D.C., you know, they're sitting on a finance committee, but they, you know, they don't have the faintest idea of what, what they're even talking about, but they're there in a position of power, wielding literally trillions of dollars, and our children's, you know, and grandchildren's after them, future in their hands, because they've been there longer, not because they actually know what they're talking about.
00:57:40.000One is, yes, I can read a balance sheet, unlike many of my colleagues.
00:57:44.000We have a $5 trillion federal budget, kind of important.
00:57:49.000But, you know, in dealing with the Democrats, one of the things that is just continue to boggle my mind is they have no appreciation or understanding
00:58:01.000Um, you know, they've always just gotten a job either as a lawyer or an activist or, or some other government position.
00:58:08.000And two weeks later, money just shows up in their paycheck from that magical pot in the sky.
00:58:14.000And to see them demonize people who are successful, uh, people who started with nothing and it now may be worth billions, but you know what they created?
00:59:20.000And that's what we've got to fight against at every turn.
00:59:23.000Talk a little bit about your decision to endorse my father for 2024 and why you think perhaps so many in like the floor of the delegation have actually done the same.
00:59:39.000Number one, on a personal level, and I want everybody to hear this because I still find it astounding and amazing.
00:59:46.000Every single time I called your dad, whether he was in the Oval Office, out on Air Force One, in a foreign country, he answered or called back within hours.
00:59:57.000To this day, I don't know how he does it.
01:00:15.000We talked to Robert O'Brien's National Security Advisor.
01:00:17.000A week later, there was a cease and desist letter to that board saying, hell no, you're not going to invest our military's pension back into their greatest adversary.
01:00:25.000And a week later, there were three new board members nominated to the Senate.
01:00:29.000Like, I mean, every time, whether it was hurricane aid for Florida or what have you, he heard me out and was responsive and delivered.
01:00:39.000Number two, I'm not convinced, and this is where everybody running against him right now, many of them great Republicans that I know,
01:00:49.000But, you don't get the Trump policies without the man.
01:00:53.000You know, they're, they're trying to sell people that, oh yeah, you liked all his policies, you can get all of that, but, you know, you get somebody, you get somebody different at the top, no.
01:01:02.000You don't get SpaceX without Elon, you don't get Apple without Steve Jobs, and you don't get border, crime, Abraham Accords, Space Force, taking out Soleimani and Baghdadi, both,
01:01:15.000Don, I was in the room when he said NAFTA was crap.
01:01:33.000It gutted manufacturing in middle America.
01:01:41.000He did it with Pelosi in charge of the House.
01:01:47.000And then, you know, look, at the end of the day, he is the only one that's going to hit the ground running.
01:01:55.000And truly now I think understands how disruptive the bureaucrats and the bureaucracy in our government is and I think is going to just take a sledgehammer to it and the country needs it.
01:02:07.000Well, listen, man, I think you're right.
01:02:08.000Yeah, I think it's a good point, right?
01:02:10.000The same people who say they do the same thing were the same people saying, you'll never get a peace deal done in the Middle East.
01:02:16.000You know, I remember when that was the holy grail of geopolitical politics, but they talked about it like it was this magical unicorn.
01:02:25.000To the conversation we had a few seconds ago about sort of real world experience, you know, being able to read a balance sheet or having been in actual negotiations and understanding leverage.
01:02:35.000You can't do that if you've just been a bureaucrat.
01:02:39.000You actually need to have done it in practice in the real world.
01:03:24.000And they would still, if it had been anybody else, Jeb or, you know, whomever, I think the Pentagon would still be dragging their feet.
01:03:33.000It wasn't until your dad fired the Air Force Secretary, said, you're fired, and all the generals snapped in line, and now everybody sees you can't be number one on Earth if you're number two in space.
01:03:45.000It's the ultimate high ground, and we got to have it, and we're being
01:04:14.000To not only wait in Mexico, but to get the most liberal, progressive Mexican president in modern history to put his National Guard on his southern border.
01:04:25.000We're going to shut the border down, and all that money that's coming into your government isn't going to flow anymore unless you start controlling your border, Mexico.
01:04:43.000And, you know, let me know when you make it down a little further south or I'll have to come up to your district, I imagine, sometime in the not-too-distant future.
01:04:51.000So, thanks for everything you do, Mike.
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