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00:10:48.000Okay, joining me now, guys, Congressman from Texas' 38th District, West Point grad, Army veteran, Apache helicopter pilot.
00:10:57.000He actually, on the show the first time, changed his pronouns right there in real time to Apache helicopter, so we must acknowledge that, okay?
00:11:06.000Those are the rules. We just play by them, okay?
00:11:08.000But truly a MAGA, America First rock star, Wesley Hunt.
00:11:14.000Congressman, good to have you back on here, buddy.
00:11:27.000Yeah, listen, it's so much better than, like, zim-zer-thims.
00:11:31.000I'm like, some of this other stuff, like, these aren't even words, let alone, so if I'm going to be known as something, like, I'm going to come up with something kick-ass, like, you know.
00:11:40.000But, so, you know, Apache helicopters, you know, it's legit.
00:13:07.000And what I really want people to understand is those conversations that we had in that speakeasy, man, and just hanging out, chopping it up like regular people, regular Americans.
00:13:18.000That's the kind of thing that people want us to see.
00:13:21.000They want us to know that we are just having real conversations about our country, how to make things better, laughing, joking, probably being a bit inappropriate.
00:13:30.000But at the end of the day, man, we're just having a good time and sharing stories.
00:13:34.000And I think That's the side that a lot of Americans want to see more of us.
00:13:38.000And that's why I was very glad to share that with you.
00:13:41.000And then for those that are watching and listening, Don is the most fun.
00:13:49.000I call Kimberly, you know, Kimberly voice of reason.
00:13:52.000When we were, you know, let's just say we may have been like recreating a meme and it was like me on a couch and you and Byron Donald's behind me.
00:14:00.000And I was like, you know, she's like, what are you guys doing?
00:14:04.000I'm like, Isn't this, like, we're supposed to be able to have fun like this?
00:14:08.000Yeah, sure, it's totally inappropriate, but, like, the fact that, like, friends can actually do that, you know, the other side has beaten, you know, everything out of humor.
00:14:16.000You're not allowed to make those jokes, and I'd say, you know, obviously that was MLK Day, right?
00:14:21.000So people, you know, there's a lot of sort of stuff going on back and forth throughout the day, and, you know, we're just having fun, and I think that was sort of the ultimate expression of where America has gone, that we can joke around about those things and be totally...
00:14:42.000And the second that we stopped doing that as this country, you know, you and I were talking about, actually, we kind of grew up around the same era, like in the 80s and 90s, where, like, you know, you could actually be funny, and Richard Pryor was actually funny, and Eddie Murphy was actually funny, and we could get away with things that were a bit edgy, but we didn't take each other too seriously.
00:15:01.000And the left is stealing all the joy from everything.
00:15:04.000And I'm seeing this thing kind of come full circle.
00:15:07.000I'm seeing Americans just like us being like, you know what?
00:15:09.000Like, I'm not going to adhere to that.
00:15:11.000Like, you're not going to take my fun away.
00:15:13.000Yeah, we're going to be edgy. Yeah, we're going to have fun.
00:15:16.000And yeah, we get to say whatever we want to say because this is America.
00:15:19.000It's a free country. Can we just have a good time?
00:15:21.000Can we joke, please? It was funny, so we're sitting there in a room, and there's political consultants and pollsters, and you, me, and Byron, we're reenacting probably one of the last great comedic skits that was probably pushing the boundaries of race these days.
00:15:42.000And when we started talking about Clayton Bigsby, the black-white supremacist, you could see all the consultants were like, And then you, me, and Byron just are cracking up, because it's one of the great skits of all time, but in the world of politics, you see that.
00:16:02.000Everyone's so guided by that, whereas I think, again, the ultimate expression of...
00:16:09.000Not being racist is actually being able to joke about this with your friends, right?
00:16:30.000So, yeah, just set the table for everyone watching.
00:16:33.000I mean, this was like a 45-minute, like, I mean, we took the skit for, like, so much further than the actual skit ever went, but it was a blast.
00:16:43.000But you could see, like, Matt Gaetz, like, guys that you can see are just relaxed and fun.
00:16:49.000We're having a blast. Other people were like, um, am I allowed to laugh?
00:17:02.000You were on the ground there, and thank you so much for that.
00:17:04.000I mean, you know, your work, I know, again, you, Matt, Byron, you know, a bunch.
00:17:08.000Kerry Lake was all over the place. We all sort of split up.
00:17:11.000We divided and conquered, go speak at these precincts.
00:17:13.000I got to speak right after Nikki Haley, which was...
00:17:17.000Fun. For a person like me, that was fun because I don't have to give the canned, you know, sort of same old speech.
00:17:22.000You loved it. She was thrilled to sit there and be like, oh really?
00:17:24.000Like, I can't wait to respond to this.
00:17:25.000And the press reluctantly had to admit that I got more applause than she did by a significant margin because, well, I'm not a phony and I'm also a Republican, unlike her.
00:17:36.000But... What was your sentiment on the ground, you know, as you went around and sort of did these events and, you know, spoke at the precincts and stuff like that?
00:17:44.000I mean, because to me it felt really, really good.
00:17:48.000And I'm, unfortunately, you know, not really a rookie at this.
00:17:51.000I've now done this. This is my third cycle, you know, doing this at a pretty high level.
00:17:56.000You know, it's confirmation for what I've seen in Iowa for the past few years.
00:17:59.000You know, my wife was born and raised in Iowa, so I spend at least, you know, three times a year up there in the eastern part of the state.
00:18:05.000And the amount of support that I have seen, not just this past week and then the caucuses, but for the past few years, has been very consistent with what we saw a couple of days ago.
00:18:14.000And the idea that President Trump One, by 30 points is astronomical.
00:18:20.000It almost tripled the record that we've seen in the history of this country for the Republican Party in the Iowa caucuses.
00:18:39.000Yeah. And the energy that we saw on the ground, the victory party afterward, by the way, you and your brother were looking pretty solid up there, standing next to each other, like two bookends.
00:18:48.000And being there at the party, seeing the energy, dude, I cannot imagine a world that we didn't wake up in November and Donald Trump's our president again.
00:18:56.000And the fact that we were able to send that first shot across the bow and make such a strong appearance in that first state.
00:19:03.000Man, I'm really excited for New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina, and I think your dad's going to win every single state in the Republican primary.
00:19:11.000It was funny watching the leftists meltdown.
00:19:14.000He gave a speech where he was literally talking.
00:19:16.000He's like, you know, listen, it's now time for unity.
00:19:20.000And by the way, it wasn't just like unity within the Republican Party.
00:19:56.000But I thought that was such an important message as well, because you can see it.
00:20:01.000I guess I'd start with your bird's eye view, being both in Congress But also, as a, you know, a congressman from Texas where you have a border crisis like we've never seen before, the Biden disasters, you know, they're legitimately driving our country off a cliff.
00:20:17.000I mean, last week Jamie Dimon was like...
00:20:19.000Um, well, you know, maybe we shouldn't vilify Trump as bad.
00:20:23.000He was actually right about a lot of things and the policies were pretty good.
00:20:25.000Maybe I didn't love the way he said it.
00:20:26.000I was like, wait a minute, Jamie Dimon, like the guy that they wanted to literally have replaced Joe Biden as a Democrat, was actually...
00:20:33.000That was sort of interesting, you know?
00:20:35.000But the sell of Build Back Better, nothing's built.
00:20:39.000It's a disaster. Can you think of anything that Joe Biden has done to make life better for just...
00:20:46.000Ordinary Americans or common sense Americans.
00:20:50.000We were joking about this one the other night.
00:20:52.000The other movie was like the Truman Show.
00:20:54.000I'm like waiting for a camera to fall out of the ceiling because they must be just filming me because it's so far out of whack it makes no sense.
00:21:02.000I can't think of a single thing that he has done to make this country better in three years.
00:21:06.000Like, not a single thing. I mean, other than maybe his love for ice cream, and then maybe he has helped out the ice cream industry for chocolate, chocolate chip.
00:21:13.000I don't know. But other than that, man, no.
00:21:15.000And being in Texas, the border that we are seeing is unbelievably It's horrible.
00:22:43.000I mean... Legitimately, we're second-class citizens in our own country.
00:22:48.000That's America last, not America first.
00:22:50.000I mean, hey, you know, I can afford my own rent.
00:22:53.000I don't need it. There's plenty of Americans and plenty of veterans, plenty of people who've paid into system, plenty of elderly people being thrown out on their butts to house people who have never paid into a system, who aren't even here legally, you know.
00:23:08.000The Democrats are trying to convince us that this isn't actually happening.
00:23:11.000How and why can they get away with that?
00:23:14.000And to piggyback on that a little bit too, we are running an annual $2 trillion deficit.
00:23:19.000By the end of Q1, we are going to run a $500 million deficit in Q1 of this year.
00:23:28.000We cannot afford to have illegal aliens in our country living rent-free, literally, living rent-free in Maine while the American taxpayer pays for it.
00:23:36.000This is just basic American stuff, basic sovereign nation stuff.
00:23:41.000And I think what they are trying to do, in my opinion, brother, is bring in as many illegal people in this country as possible, try to get them to vote so they can try to steal these elections again.
00:23:51.000And I'm not quite sure that's going to work, because I want to let you know something in Texas.
00:23:56.000Our governor and our attorney general and lieutenant governor just won our last election by 10 points.
00:24:02.000And by our next census, we're going to be a majority Hispanic state.
00:24:06.000Just because Hispanics are in this country, the ones that are here legally, the ones that can vote, they don't like or want the idea of liberals destroying the very fabric of Texas and our country.
00:24:17.000And so you let these people in here, but let me be clear about something.
00:24:21.000They're going to come here. They're going to work.
00:24:22.000They're going to have families. They're going to start going to church.
00:24:25.000And if you think they're going to vote for Democrats with their craziness about this women playing against men in sports and open border policies and spending it to oblivion, if you think that they're going to be okay with that, they're not.
00:24:50.000But I also see the schism between some of the most patriotic people I know are legal immigrants, but people who went through a process and did this over a long period of time.
00:25:00.000And again, the Biden administration doesn't seem to make it easy for someone who'd be like a nuclear physicist or someone who's not going to be a dependent or someone, We're good to go.
00:25:31.000What is it? 29th in the world, and we spend more per capita than anyone, but now you're going to throw millions of more kids, many of whom don't even speak English, into these schools, and you think that's going to be beneficial for you?
00:25:42.000The lowest income earners are now going to be competing with people who don't even have the papers, so to speak, and they'll be taking cash off the books.
00:25:50.000It's a scary prospect, frankly, much more scary for lower and middle income earners.
00:26:01.000And I actually just put out, we were talking about this actually the other day at the bar.
00:26:05.000I put out a tweet that was talking about Meek Mill and talking about how people, black folks that live in their poverty right now, who they are going to vote for in droves.
00:26:15.000And it's going to be Donald and John Trump.
00:26:46.000And they want to live in a hyperinflation state.
00:26:49.000And they want illegals coming there taking our jobs.
00:26:52.000See, they are assuming that all black people are going to think that way.
00:26:55.000And then when we've had the last five years that we have seen this complete and utter disaster, people trying to figure out, am I going to put gas in my car or take my kid to school?
00:27:07.000You have all these people that are like, you know what?
00:27:09.000Uh-uh. We're going to go back to Donald John Trump so we can get this right.
00:27:12.000Okay, but let's play this out a little bit.
00:27:14.000Obviously, the Trump administration did a lot for the African American community.
00:27:18.000We're sort of, you know, opportunity zones, you know, prison reform.
00:27:21.000You had, you know, historically black universities, you know, funding that in perpetuity.
00:27:27.000But it did not seem to translate all that well still.
00:27:31.000You know, meaning, you know, it's one thing being the Democrat Party and they gave you nothing and they promised you the world and they don't deliver for 50 years.
00:27:52.000I certainly think I see it with the men, because they're commenting, the guys that sort of grab me randomly, not because they're attending the thing that I'm at.
00:28:01.000It's because they actually work there.
00:28:02.000They're like, hey man, let me tell you something.
00:28:31.000I'm actually shocked you don't see sort of an equal amount of movement with the women.
00:28:37.000I'd love you to maybe explain that one to me because I feel like it's their children that are the ones that are going to be suffering.
00:28:41.000And, you know, you don't mess with Mama Bear where they're, you know, You're, you know, white, black, green, blue, purple, doesn't, you know, Mama Bear's still Mama Bear.
00:28:50.000You know, get into the details of that, because, I mean, you obviously understand it.
00:28:54.000So, what's really interesting is this.
00:29:10.000And then the issue is always rhetoric, and the issue is always what's seen on TV, and the issue always gets propagated by people saying that we are inherently racist, and the MAGA movement is racist, and they don't like black people to succeed, and X, Y, and Z. And then you spend three years under Joe Biden.
00:29:29.000And it confirms every single fear that you've had prior to that.
00:29:33.000All of a sudden, we don't really want to hear about calling MAGA people racist.
00:29:37.000I don't want to call Donald Trump racist.
00:29:39.000I just don't want to pay this ridiculous amount of inflation because I can't live every single day.
00:29:45.000And so the issue is not that this is going to happen overnight, but that we build on a progress that we saw in 2020.
00:29:50.000We see the disaster for the past three years under Joe Biden and people are waking up and they're starting to really speak out about this.
00:29:57.000And back in 2016, 2017, 2018, a lot of black people were kind of concerned about being overtly supportive of President Trump.
00:30:05.000I never was scared because I always knew what he was about, but I got it, right?
00:30:09.000Because then you have to go home and go to the family reunion and talk to other black people.
00:30:12.000They're like, hey, man, are you with Trump?
00:30:14.000Why? Those conversations have changed tremendously.
00:30:18.000And now you're finding out that people are actually being far more open about what their support is going to be for President Trump, especially amongst the black men.
00:30:26.000You have to understand, too, Demographically speaking, black men, Hispanic men, and actually Hispanic women, they're going to gravitate toward your father and toward President Trump because at the end of the day, he's an alpha guy.
00:30:38.000And what you have to understand is that alpha guy- Yeah, there's a macho culture there for sure.
00:30:58.000The reason why we don't speak German and the reason why this country was saved in World War I and World War II is because of brave men storming the beaches of Normandy to ensure that the world doesn't speak German and it weren't taken over by a fascist country.
00:31:11.000That's what toxic masculinity got us here.
00:31:33.000Yeah, I love hearing that, because you're right, the unity message is important, but sometimes I'm just like, listen, and maybe it's easy for me.
00:31:40.000I'm the son of a billionaire from Manhattan.
00:31:42.000They've gone after me for a long time.
00:31:44.000You son of a B. Yeah, sure, I understand I'm blessed, and I also understand I'm not the upstanding citizen that Hunter Biden is, so I'm treated a little bit differently, but I'm like, hey, bitch, where's my white privilege?
00:31:59.000I'm trying to be like... Like, if my children were applying to college right now, I'm like, don't put your name.
00:32:04.000Like, you know, I'm trying to convince my boys maybe they got to go trans just so they can get into a college right now because, like, you know, they do that.
00:32:14.000I'm not a Democrat. I'm not willing to castrate my child.
00:32:17.000Just for the record, because you know there's going to be some asshole on here that clips it and be like, Don Jr.
00:33:11.000So, you know, my sister's West Point, class of 93, I'm West Point 04, and my brother's West Point 05.
00:33:16.000We went to West Point before West Point was woke, before the military was woke.
00:33:20.000We weren't talking about these kinds of conversations.
00:33:22.000You know, I saw something at the Air Force Academy where they were considering taking out sir and ma'am because they wanted to be more inclusive.
00:33:31.000And if we're talking about the military...
00:34:02.000That's outside of the scope of what the military is.
00:34:05.000And Don, the military was actually literally the first meritocracy that we saw in this country.
00:34:12.000The first organization to really start to break down these racial barriers from the past and allow black people and women and people of color into the fold.
00:34:23.000And guess what? Depending on how well you perform, you can rise in the ranks.
00:34:30.000It should have never gone away from that.
00:34:32.000And if you're looking at why our recruiting numbers are so low, the 18-year-old, 16, 17, 18-year-old that wants to go join the military, that's gung-ho, that wants to go be a Ranger or a Navy SEAL or an Apache pilot, that person is not concerned about gender.
00:34:46.000They're concerned about kicking ass for this country.
00:34:48.000End of discussion. So when you stop catering to that individual and start catering to the woke stuff, You turn off that person that wants to get out and serve their country and potentially be willing to give their life for this country.
00:35:07.000This is our main mission, to fight our nation's wars, and most importantly, to serve as a deterrent so that people know we don't want to mess with them because they're proficient, they're tactically sound, and they will kick our butts.
00:35:19.000And they aren't worried about trans stuff.
00:35:20.000They're worried about winning America's wars.
00:35:23.000Yeah, when I see, like, the trans-military TikTok videos, and I'm just like...
00:35:54.000I was speaking to a friend who flies fighter pilots.
00:35:57.000He's a fighter pilot. I don't even want to get into the details of the plane because the military will figure out who it is and then they'll be shipped off to...
00:36:05.000To quote Top Gun, you know, flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog shit out of Taiwan.
00:36:10.000But, I mean, he said, so what's it like?
00:36:14.000And he goes, they're literally trying so hard, they're putting people into, you know, like F-35s that you wouldn't put in a Cessna.
00:36:29.000Is this an exaggeration, or is it real?
00:36:31.000When he's like, because I'm a pilot myself.
00:36:33.000Nothing like that, obviously. I have single-engine land, but it was like, you know, there's still basic things.
00:36:37.000You see the FAA requirements and the Boeing diversity requirements.
00:36:40.000You're like, wait, these are really large objects, in many cases on the commercial side, with hundreds of people in them flying 600 miles an hour at 36,000 feet.
00:37:32.000And of all the flights, of every time that you got on a plane to fly anywhere in the country or anywhere in the world, did you peek your head into the cockpit and say, hey, I just want to make sure that you, Delta Airline, or you, United Airlines, that you have major DNI requirements?
00:37:46.000Because if you didn't, I'm not getting on this plane.
00:38:01.000Yeah, but it's also creating, though, a vicious cycle, because I do get on these planes, like, a lot.
00:38:05.000I probably fly, like, between 200,000 and 300,000 commercial miles a year, and I look in the cockpit, and sometimes now I could see someone.
00:38:12.000By the way, they may be the most competent person in the air that day, but if I'm seeing, like, I'm like, but I don't know, because I don't know.
00:38:21.000And that sucks. Like, that's a shitty feeling when you fly as much as I do.
00:38:25.000You know, the odds of something going wrong in a flight that I'm on eventually is real.
00:38:30.000You know what I mean? And you also do an injustice, in my opinion, you do an injustice to these minority groups.
00:38:36.000Because the first thing that anybody cares about is, are you proficient and are you good at your job?
00:38:41.000Can you do that? And now we have a world with Kamala Harris and Ketanji Brown and all these people that are getting these positions just because of the way they look.
00:40:06.000So you see people, they may belong in a position.
00:40:09.000You see the treatment of Claudine Gay over at Harvard.
00:40:11.000Yes. She should have never been there.
00:40:13.000She should have never been in the first place. Black woman, like, it's time.
00:40:17.000Well... That does such a disservice for someone who actually is a black woman who actually belongs in that position, and I'm sure there's a bunch of them.
00:44:01.000They drag it out. Here's 30 reasons why you can't, and they sound really serious.
00:44:05.000You're going to endanger your lives, but it's all bullshit, right?
00:44:07.000Here's a briefing made to order, meaning here's a briefing where this is the conclusion we want, and therefore we'll give you a bunch of stuff as to how we got there to give us the answer we want, even if there's no truth to it.
00:44:19.000But in the case of the Lloyd Austin, I mean...
00:44:22.000If you did this, if you disappeared for five days when you were in active duty and didn't tell anyone, there was no one in the chain of...
00:45:00.000Here's my license and registration. You name it.
00:45:02.000You leave to go on pass for the weekend.
00:45:05.000And so if we have a leader who's a four-star general that leaves and does not tell his direct leader, which would be Joe Biden, that he's leaving for five days, that's a very serious problem.
00:45:49.000You see that going on, and I guess I'd ask, are we prepared for a major foreign conflict?
00:45:53.000I mean, there's three brewing right now between, you know, what's going on, you know, Israel and then south further in sort of the shipping channels.
00:46:30.000We've been here before. But to answer your question about are we tactically competent enough right now with the force that we have right now to fight a potential two- or three-front war?
00:46:41.000Absolutely not. And that's exactly why these countries are behaving the way that they are behaving.
00:46:45.000There's a reason why Vladimir Putin chose now, especially after the disastrous Afghanistan pullout.
00:46:50.000There is a reason why Hezbollah is doing what they're doing right now and Iran is on path to having another nuclear weapon.
00:46:57.000There's a reason why Xi Jinping is rattling the sabers against Taiwan.
00:47:01.000Because they know that the big dog is no longer in charge right now.
00:47:06.000That's it. We have, they're thinking to themselves, we have about one more year to get away with whatever we can, because when Donald Trump comes back, it's over.
00:47:15.000Yeah, you noticed that, like, the other night in Iowa, it was literally, I was watching the futures markets over in China, and their stock markets started cratering.
00:47:22.000They're plummeting. Jack Posobiec, I think, said it best.
00:47:24.000He was like, oh, they know daddy's coming home.
00:47:28.000Oh, yes he is. But it was an important message to the world, because you're right.
00:47:32.000I don't think any of these things would have happened.
00:47:34.000There was a reason none of them did happen during those four years.
00:47:38.000We had world peace. We had world peace for four years.
00:47:40.000Yeah. Literally. It's the nature of predation, I always say.
00:47:43.000Like, you know, predators prey on the weak.
00:47:45.000That's what they do. It's a story literally as old as time.
00:47:48.000And yet, you know, when you have a guy that can't find his way off the stage, you're saying, you know what?
00:48:35.000Rough times. Yeah. You know, man, like, you know, it's an interesting one because, you know, listen, Kevin has his flaws.
00:48:42.000I get that. But he was politically astute.
00:48:44.000You know, he helped raise a lot of money to help get guys like, you know, I think you'll be fine, but there's others that need help that are great guys.
00:48:51.000You know, and, you know, when they were like, no, we love a guy that basically, like, I never, I don't know that I had even heard of him before that.
00:48:59.000And I was like, well, no, he's got $5,000 in the bank.
00:49:02.000He's never had. I was like, I like that because it seems nice and innocent.
00:49:06.000The problem with being nice and innocent is that you're now swimming with the big boys, none of whom are nice or innocent.
00:49:11.000And I want someone who's functioned in the real world at that level who can play that game.
00:49:15.000I talk about it on the show. There's what you want, and then there's the realities of dealing within Washington, D.C. And if you pretend that those two things don't simultaneously exist, you'll literally get nothing done.
00:49:26.000And I'm worried that he's getting rolled out.
00:49:30.000By the way, I think the Senate is significantly worse when I look at the immigration bill.
00:49:43.000It's totally unpopular with Republicans.
00:49:46.000I assume he's got a board seat waiting for him down the line, or his children or grandchildren, whatever it may be, are going to be on the board of Raytheon and Boeing in perpetuity, and maybe that's the retirement plan for them.
00:49:55.000Right. What's your assessment, both House and Senate, right now?
00:49:59.000So right now, you have to go back to the majority that we have in the House right now, Don.
00:50:05.000Yeah. And by the way, I get that that's not easy, right?
00:50:07.000You're not going to pass legislative things, but isn't there a point where we say, enough?
00:50:13.000Well, I'm actually there. I'm getting ready to go vote on the CR right now, and you will find out I'm going to be a no.
00:50:17.000I don't think we should be passing any more CRs.
00:50:20.000It's time for us to get to work and actually control the power of the purse.
00:50:23.000With the two-seat majority, it's tough to get things done.
00:50:26.000You're right. The Senate is worse off, and the Biden administration is a complete joke.
00:50:31.000With a two-seat majority, you have to understand that The difference between Kevin McCarthy and Speaker Johnson right now, from a legislative standpoint, probably is not going to be all that different.
00:50:43.000What happened with McCarthy was there was a lack of trust, I think.
00:50:46.000And sometimes, brother, when you're here for long enough, either you die the hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
00:50:53.000And I think over time, Kevin drew some trust issues.
00:50:58.000And it wasn't just Matt Gaetz and those eight people.
00:51:00.000It was actually quite a bit more than that.
00:51:03.000The reset with Speaker Johnson is now, he's a new face, he's a different person, different guy.
00:51:11.000Now here's the problem. We're giving them a shot with deals that were already made the previous year.
00:51:16.000Instead of a four-seat majority, we've had two retirements, and now we have a two-seat majority, and Steve Scalise is out, and I hope he gets better.
00:51:22.000So now we actually have a one-seat majority.
00:51:24.000It is very difficult to get anything passed in this Congress with a one-seat majority, and you don't have the Senate, and you don't have the presidency either.
00:51:53.000But I also understand the realities of the world.
00:51:55.000You got to pay your debts because if you shut that down, you're going to give China an excuse to put the world on the wand and If U.S. starts defaulting on their debts.
00:52:03.000But you can all say very publicly, hey, we will meet our existing debt obligations, we're doing nothing else going forward, and we'll shut that aspect of it down.
00:52:14.000But here's the actual argument. I am in favor of shutting the government down, especially if we get border security.
00:52:20.000If we pitch that to the American public, I think it would go over just fine.
00:52:23.000Actually, just like your dad sat down with Chuck Schumer.
00:52:27.000I would be willing to shut the government down for border security.
00:52:30.000If we took that stance, I think you'd be surprised at how much we could actually get down the road.
00:52:35.000But you have to understand, if there's more than three moderates or more than three people that won't vote with us and every Democrat votes against us, then nothing's happening.
00:52:53.000We need the presidency. We need Donald Trump back in office.
00:52:55.000And we need the Senate. If we could get those things done this year, I think you'd be surprised at what we can get done for the next two years.
00:53:05.000And again, you're right. It can't just be a majority of weaklings, right?
00:53:08.000It cannot be. We had the Senate when my father first got elected.
00:53:12.000We had the Senate, we had the House, and we had the presidency.
00:53:14.000And people were like, well, why didn't you get more done?
00:53:16.000I was like, well, because Paul Ryan is a weakling, and he was never going to do anything to help.
00:53:20.000He wanted to be loved in D.C. That was much more important than doing what the people who elected him in Wisconsin wanted him to do.
00:53:25.000It was funny. So as I was going around in Iowa last week, this person from, I guess, the Fox affiliate, now he sits on the board of Fox News, but the Fox affiliate in, you know, I guess one of the districts must have overlapped in terms of a zone.
00:53:38.000He's like, well, Paul Ryan just threatened the Republican conventions in Milwaukee.
00:53:47.000Literally, other than maybe one or two rhinos in Washington, D.C., there are literally zero people in the Republican Party that could give a single shit if Paul Ryan...
00:54:00.000If he goes to the convention, they'd love him to be less involved, not more.
00:54:04.000And the guy was like, no, no, no, but he said he won't even go.
00:54:07.000I was like, no, this isn't a trick question.
00:54:12.000He didn't get it, but he works for Fox, so it's a little bit different.
00:54:17.000By the way, speaking of being ambushed with what I thought was a funny question like that, you...
00:54:24.000Had a protester come up and yell at you in Iowa.
00:54:29.000And guys, just so you understand, Wesley's built like a Briggs shithouse.
00:55:32.000Yeah. But it is, I mean, it is sort of crazy, right?
00:55:36.000These primaries, you know, you go out there and you put yourself out there.
00:55:39.000I know, you know, when I was there speaking before Nikki Haley, it's like, you know, I go in the room, there's 250, I don't have a security guard, I'm in a room, there was 250, 300 people in there, whatever.
00:55:50.000I did a press thing for half an hour and she was hiding backstage and runs in and, you know, gives a speech, runs out.
00:55:56.000I mean, there's times you're out there, you're actually pretty exposed and pretty vulnerable and, you know, You do this enough, you run into a lot of people and some are...
00:57:40.000It must have been Don Jr.'s like, dude, I haven't been in the building in three and a half years.
00:57:44.000How's that even possible? I'm like, wait a minute, it's mine?
00:57:47.000It's mine? So then this week, or last week, I guess it was, the DOJ finds cocaine on the gun case of the Hunter Biden illegally purchased felony firearm, which is literally one of the things you check off.
00:58:00.000Like, you're not, like, they find cocaine on it.
00:58:02.000Now, of course, the DOJ tells us this four years later.
00:58:48.000You know, you talk about the tale of two sons, Hunter Biden versus you.
00:58:52.000I tell you, even though the left-wing media is not going to report this, and even though you're not going to see this on any show, and even though we're finding out this stuff four years later, thank God for Twitter, thank God for Instagram, and thank God for social media.
00:59:03.000Because kind of below that current, people are talking about this.
00:59:07.000People are talking about the disparity.
00:59:09.000People have said millions of times, damn, if that were Don Jr., He'd be under the jail right now.
00:59:48.000And I do enough of this stuff, and I do it myself, so it's like, I know when I hit send, if something's going to go big, and it's like, oh, it's going big, and then it's like, erk!
01:00:31.000If we stay focused on those issues, we stay focused on the border, we stay focused on the economy, we stay focused on safety, we stay focused on not getting into more protracted and involved wars, we take the power away from Xi Jinping, take the power away from Russia, unleash American energy.
01:01:07.000This is about moderates, and these are about independents that are saying, I'm not voting for Joe Biden, and I'm absolutely going to vote for Donald Trump, especially as we continue down this path.
01:01:18.000So my advice would be, don't change anything.
01:01:21.000I love the fact that the last tweet that your dad made was his mugshot.
01:01:25.000Arguably the greatest mugshot of all time.
01:01:27.000By the way, it may be the most viewed...
01:01:30.000It's a beautiful mugshot. You've got the Mona Lisa, but there's some famous art out there.
01:01:34.000But honestly, because of the digital age, because of the way it just works now, there's more pictures taken on a daily basis today than there was in the prior 200 years.
01:01:43.000Those kind of stats. It may be, and go down as maybe the most famous individual image ever in time.
01:01:51.000Potentially. And the fact that that's your dad's last tweet, he's still cutting loose on truth.
01:03:34.000And, you know, again, look forward to hanging out again very soon because that was way too much fun.
01:03:40.000We just got to go fishing or something like that.
01:03:42.000Or hunting. Other than the Chinese probably spying on us with balloons and stuff like that, no one will be listening, so we'll have some fun.
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