My good friend Wesley Hunt was an Apache helicopter pilot, a West Point graduate, comes from a family of West Point graduates, a great American, a good friend. He s taken that fighter mentality to the United States House of Representatives. We ve had him on the show a couple of times and it s always a fun interview.
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00:12:00.000I get asked this question a lot because people have seen us lead by example and they realize that we cannot let our country go by the wayside.
00:12:08.000We have got to have fighters for this country.
00:13:26.000And what black people, not just black people, what all people want, what all fathers want, what all men want, they want their children to be protected.
00:13:38.000And what I love about this movement and what we're seeing is this is the most diverse movement that we have seen in the history of this country.
00:13:45.000Now, liberals, woke liberals will never admit that.
00:13:49.000But at the end of the day, when you look at the exit polling and where the country is today and how the progress of this country is going, Most people are actually very satisfied with the direction of the country right now.
00:13:59.000I mean, I want to get into some of that because I do feel, you know, there seems to be this sentiment that, you know, hey, Congress itself, I know not you, but like, you know, it's still a body of 535 people, right?
00:14:45.000The nuance, and of course the media and the Democrats are going to say, see, they're not doing anything.
00:14:49.000So it's not entirely true, but talk about those spending cuts, and how do we get, not just the doge cuts, but some of the other things actually codified into law, right?
00:15:00.000You can do it with an executive order, but that's not enough.
00:15:02.000I don't want someone else to be able to stroke those away with a pen.
00:15:06.000Well, the first thing you brought up in this conversation was fighters.
00:15:09.000We have to be willing to fight for this stuff, and no one's going to give us anything.
00:15:13.000And with the right now three or four seat majority, a very slim margin, I understand it's very, very tough to get stuff passed and get stuff done.
00:15:20.000But that doesn't mean that we don't fight to do it.
00:15:22.000That doesn't mean that we don't show up to work every single week.
00:15:29.000How do we get them on board to be on board with 77 million people who voted just for this?
00:15:35.000One of my favorite things that I see on social media is whenever BJT does something, somebody literally goes up and they said, This is what I voted for.
00:15:44.000Liberals come out and attack something.
00:15:52.000We in Congress have got to reflect the American people and the sentiment of the American public.
00:15:56.000We have to give the people what they want.
00:15:59.000We work for them, not the other way around.
00:16:01.000And so in order to get this done, we have got to have fighters and people that don't want to stand by the America First agenda because that's why we have the majority in the House.
00:16:09.000That's why we have the Senate and the presidency.
00:16:10.000Because of those principles, we've got to stick to it.
00:16:13.000So what's taking so many of them so long?
00:16:16.000I mean, because I see it as the kind of thing, hey, midterms are coming up.
00:16:59.000But people want to actually see that progress being made, not wasted on, you know, whatever contrived investigations they'll come up with, you know, as amplified by the media.
00:17:08.000So this goes back to my point, too, about us.
00:18:21.000Even if it's for the benefit of people in that district, how do you stop that with a three-person majority?
00:18:26.000Well, the beauty of what we've seen in the last two CRs that have gotten passed, the big, beautiful bill that got passed, and I think Mike Johnson is doing a good job with a slim majority.
00:18:35.000Hats off to him at this time in history, one of the slimmest that we've ever seen in the history of this country.
00:18:40.000It also helps when your father's the president.
00:18:43.000So when he is able to whip votes and he is able to call people into the Oval Office and he is able to have these substantive conversations with members, it does move the needle.
00:19:15.000We're living through historic times here, but that's because of strong leadership.
00:19:20.000And so I think this trend is going to continue throughout the year, but you are right, as we approach the midterms, that's when we need to actually come together even more to support the agenda and not go rogue, just because you may be in a bit of a swing district.
00:19:35.000So my father wasn't afraid to call out, you know, institutions like Harvard and some of the other universities It's about time.
00:19:44.000I mean, do you agree that that was sort of a – obviously you do – that it's sort of a much-needed wake-up call to these universities who are basically pushing a globalist, often foreign-funded sort of agenda of indoctrination as opposed to providing basically sound pro-American education.
00:20:34.000I will have some impact on the curriculum and what happens.
00:20:36.000And my first meeting is on July the 11th, and I can't wait for that.
00:20:40.000But when you look at some of these schools like Harvard, you have billions and billions of dollars in your endowment.
00:20:45.000And then you're asking for federal funds to indoctrinate people, to teach people basically how to be anti-American.
00:20:51.000You have, in some cases, virtual terrorists.
00:20:54.000Sitting on campus, and we are paying you to do that, that's unacceptable.
00:20:58.000So to finally have a White House that's willing to say, look, if you are going to use these funds to teach and to raise strong, smart Americans, and if you're going to spend on a bunch of BS, then guess what?
00:21:31.000Yes, and the fact that we are challenging this, this is why Elon was brought on board, this is why we have Doge.
00:21:36.000We are finally looking at these things with a fine-tooth comb, and we're unveiling that a lot of this stuff has got to go, and the American public is here for it.
00:21:47.000And this is the first time actually in the history of this country that we have seen something like this and actually seen somebody go through with it.
00:21:53.000During the Obama years, they had that website up for a little while.
00:21:57.000It was a Doge-like type program that they were trying to start.
00:22:00.000That lasted all but for a cup of coffee because they didn't have the guts to see it through.
00:22:04.000But the fact that we are actually looking at this and making cuts is very important for Congress to continue to codify these cuts because, again, this is what the American public wants.
00:22:15.000We haven't done our job in 20 years, full disclosure.
00:22:19.000We have not gotten to individual appropriations bills in 20 years.
00:22:23.000And so this administration understands that.
00:22:26.000We bring in Doge to actually go through what should be done, and then we as Congress have got to get back to voting on individual appropriations bills, codifying these cuts, and doing right by the American people.
00:22:36.000So we've continually sort of seen these activist judges out there.
00:22:40.000They're attempting to block common sense policies, things that people actually voted for, like with the Trump Liberation Day tariffs.
00:22:48.000Again, that's a negotiating point, and it was very effective.
00:22:54.000How do we ensure that the will of the people is reflected in my father's agenda and that you get these things done?
00:23:05.000You know, that it isn't constantly thwarted by guys, you know, one of 600 and something judges around the country, all of a sudden assume more power than the president of the United States.
00:23:14.000How do we stop these unelected judges from imposing their will, their politics into the agenda and into the future of America?
00:23:25.000We have to continue to fight tooth and nail.
00:23:28.000This America First agenda must continue, and we the people have an opportunity every two years to decide the direction of this country.
00:24:08.000But I think as long as we continue to understand that We the people have an opportunity to continue what's going on.
00:24:17.000And if you do not like the corruption that we have seen, if you don't like the hiding of all the money and all the funds and all of our money going to woke issues and indoctrination, then guess what?
00:24:27.000We must, as a people, vote accordingly.
00:24:40.000We do not go out and spread the good word and tell the American public what's really going on, all of us, as a collective unit.
00:24:48.000So this is where it's very, very important for us to understand that if we don't work together, then the American public is going to vote against it because we didn't get anything done.
00:25:44.000Yes, so people are, it's very hard for people to try to walk a fine line and make a decision and stick with it and have the guts and the stones in the back.
00:25:55.000People have a hard time doing that and I understand that but also I will say this what we're seeing from the White House it's actually working.
00:26:02.000Presidents have been talking about this for decades but no one had the guts to actually take the short term loss for the long term gain.
00:26:13.000When you show the American public that this actually is going to work, When we wake up in about a year from now, you see where the stock market is at.
00:26:21.000And you see that we are in a better position from a manufacturing standpoint in this country.
00:26:25.000You're going to look back at this tough leadership decision that had to be made.
00:27:19.000Do Americans understand, since we're talking a little bit about midterms, do they understand that even if there are some of these guys that are a little wishy-washy, that that's still more important than a Democrat?
00:27:29.000Because that's what I'm worried about.
00:27:31.000You see it in some of the special elections that have happened.
00:27:33.000It's like, no, we got what we won and we're winning.
00:27:35.000It's like, well, yeah, but you just lost the Wisconsin Supreme Court, so that's probably a state you lose when they redistricted and it's congressional seats that you lose because they will play every game imaginable with activist judges to do it.
00:27:44.000But they were like, no, no, no, but we don't have to vote in that one.
00:27:49.000Well, that one seat made a big difference.
00:27:50.000How do we get that message out there that people understand that they still have to be engaged, they have to be involved, they can't rest on the laurels?
00:28:08.000This actually does kind of keep me up at night.
00:28:10.000Because what we have to understand is a lot of people in this country, personally, me included, we didn't follow necessarily the Republican Party.
00:28:40.000We're already having these conversations.
00:28:42.000And so those same people that came out to vote in full force for MAGA have got to come out in full force again in the midterms.
00:28:50.000And it's just hard to keep that fire burning, especially after, you know, honestly, it was one of the most amazing political years in the history of this country.
00:29:01.000And it was an honor for me to even be a part of it and be able to campaign with your father and do all this stuff.
00:29:58.000I'm like, I almost wonder like, where is the Democrat Party?
00:30:01.000Because you see these things and races are still close and whatever it may be, and yet I'm like, Well, the Democrats are also doing this solid because they are runnerless.
00:31:03.000So, you know, over the last couple of weeks, obviously, you know, many Americans are rightly concerned about the How do we demand, how do we get transparency that the American people frankly deserve regarding the fitness of their commander-in-chief?
00:31:26.000I mean, hell, you and I have been talking about this for four years, right?
00:31:29.000But it was obvious that he wasn't there.
00:35:07.000I hope they sort of go all in on the issue because I think a big part of preserving our democracy is actually eroding the credibility of the people who preach a lot about democracy but could not care less.
00:38:00.000When you put in those terms, that actually gets me because it's unacceptable.
00:38:04.000So when you take that further, we kind of touched on the auto pen a little bit, but, you know, the revelations about Biden's basically extensive use of auto pen, even, you know, for significant documents, you know, whether it's just pardons and you read the stories, you know, well, you know, Hunter was the guy that basically said to give himself a pardon and whatever it may be.
00:38:21.000But I mean, this is, you know, I mean, even as detailed in like Yahoo News, like this isn't like...
00:38:36.000I mean, it's deeply trouble, but doesn't this, you know, auto-penn presidency raise serious questions about who is actually in charge and bypass the accountability we expect from a No one knows about it.
00:42:32.000By the way, we should actually talk about the racing because it's like...
00:42:38.000But then when someone else says, oh my god, Don Jr. said this to a black man, it was like, clearly we should be able to have those conversations.
00:44:10.000And yet, eight months ago, I'd have said, no way.
00:44:14.000Not because I don't love my country, but because I don't want you being led by a trans admiral who's only there because they're trans, not because they're actually leaders.
00:45:19.000It was always cool, but now it's back.
00:45:23.000It's back in the sense of when I drive around and I have an American flag, especially every day on election year, I have a Ford F-250, and I have an American flag fly out the back of it, especially when we won.
00:45:36.000And the people that are honking their horns.
00:47:44.000But you have a guy that's not a part of the swamp.
00:47:46.000The best question was during his testimony that he gave when Elizabeth Warren asked him if he would, like the generals before him, would he go work for, we go lobby for the defense firm and he goes, well, I'm not a general.
00:48:58.000Some of these guys were like, hey man, if we flew over some of these airspaces, even in these $100 billion planes, we could be out of the air in 30 seconds.
00:49:08.000Talk about the dynamic of the change in warfare.
00:49:12.000Because I think a big part of what we need is to be prepared to do that, peace through strength.
00:49:47.000You know, what do you see changing in that?
00:49:48.000Because, I mean, it is—you see some of these videos right now, and there's a soldier, he's unarmed, he's wounded, and he's lying on a field, and there's a drone hovering over him, and you know it's just a matter of time.
00:49:58.000It's like having, you know, a thousand snipers on a battlefield in World War II.
00:50:03.000You don't know who any of them are, but one of them has their crosshairs trained on you that whole time.
00:50:30.000And so from where it was, from where warfighting was then when I got to West Point to where it is now post-911, it's unbelievably different.
00:50:39.000We can shift, and this country can do anything.
00:50:41.000We are still the greatest fighting force in the world, but we have to prioritize the modernization.
00:50:47.000Also, we have to understand this, too.
00:50:49.000Having legacy pilots and having legacy practitioners that understand the ways of the old or how we get the ways of the new.
00:50:57.000So you need to have a little bit of both, but there needs to be a decided turnover as to the direction of the military moving forward.
00:51:06.000Right now, we're getting that leadership.
00:51:09.000But before, we weren't getting that leadership.
00:51:11.000You see, we would continue to pay Lockheed because, well, we had this contract for the F, fill in the blank, and we were promised that it's going to last for the next 20 years.
00:51:27.000Well, at the same time, making sure that we stay trained up and ready to go, you know, if at a moment's notice, if need be.
00:51:35.000But right now, the process is we've got to modernize our force to ensure that we can fight the battles of the future, and it's not like it was 20 years ago.
00:51:46.000And so again, a lot of AI, the advent of Space Force, a lot of satellite data, a lot of quant.
00:51:55.000These are the kinds of things that we have to start modernizing, and we have to be deliberate about it.
00:52:00.000We can't be the guys that are just waiting for it to happen to us, or when you see what China does first, or stick our finger in the air.
00:52:07.000We've got to lead from the front on this stuff, and we are doing it now.
00:52:31.000I mean, it felt like an obvious, you know, whether attack or, you know, a sanctioning of a potential attack of someone who's, by the way, been shot, you know, already and, you know, had another sniper in a, you know, in a bush, you know, two assassination attempts.
00:52:47.000But, you know, it felt like an obvious attack against a, you know, from a former disgruntled Who knows better?
00:52:56.000This isn't someone that's like, oh, I've heard this term before.
00:53:00.000And as incompetent as he was in those roles, as corrupted as he was, as partisan as he was, that can't be the case, especially when you look at the history of what they tried to do to my father.
00:53:13.000How should we deal with these individuals from the deep state who, even after leaving office, continue to sort of undermine Handcuffs.
00:53:43.000And so when you demean him and you undermine and you usurp his authority as somebody that knows better, as somebody that was in a position of high authority, what do you signal to the entire world?
00:53:57.000You, in essence, are weakening us and you are the former head of the FBI.
00:54:02.000The consequences for you should be far greater than any layman on the street that does the same thing.
00:54:08.000You are, by definition, held to a higher standard.
00:54:33.000I mean, the amount of people I know from, you know, January 6th who are peaceful, you know, they're standing inside the velvet ropes taking selfies.
00:54:51.000And if they could get away with it, or if what they told Paul Manafort, which is basically, hey, if you give us Don Jr., you're out of trouble as long as we can put him in jail for 25 years.
00:55:28.000But sometimes you've got to fight fire with fire.
00:55:30.000And this is something that my father taught me, one of the greatest men that I know.
00:55:35.000My dad was always big on, look, you can put a smile on your face, you be a nice guy, you treat people kindly, but don't let anybody walk over you or else they will continue to do it in perpetuity.
00:55:45.000So at some point, we have to fight back the exact same way that they would fight back against us.
00:55:50.000So what is the role for the FBI and Congress in uncovering all of these scandals, really?
00:55:58.000Whether it's this or, frankly, all of the other scandals that Comey was clearly the ringleader of before.
00:56:04.000How do all of you guys work together to get to the bottom of what actually happened so that people understand and that there's actual accountability?
00:56:12.000So, you know, the favorite word, Capitol Hill is investigation.
00:57:11.000And then it switches hands from Republicans to Democrats and Democrats to Republicans, which is why we have to act now while we are in charge to get to the bottom of it.
00:57:21.000And I'm not sure we could put them all in handcuffs.
00:57:23.000What we can do is let the American public know the results of the investigation and let them decide.
00:57:29.000And when you see Comey pitching a book and all these other guys getting on boards, you know, even if they're not walked out in handcuffs, I imagine there'd be a much more reluctance for these people to be promoted and given spots on.
00:58:59.000Against the will of the people because they can and because they're trying to stack elections for the future by bringing in dependents who aren't going to add value.
00:59:19.000You start seeing us having a southern border.
00:59:22.000But that shouldn't be political and it shouldn't be up to a president to do that.
00:59:25.000It's got to be up to Congress and we've got to do our job.
00:59:28.000Again, Congress hasn't been doing our job for decades, though, which is part of the problem.
00:59:32.000And we have been running this country via executive fiat.
00:59:37.000And now we have a president that's operating with common sense.
00:59:42.000But what I'm discovering is that common sense is not so common depending on who the president is.
00:59:46.000Or if you're even the president at all, we have no idea who's running the country.
00:59:49.000So these are the conversations that I take to D.C. every single week.
00:59:53.000And I just made a post about this a couple days ago about how do we codify what the president is doing now so they can't take it away from us in the future.
01:00:03.00020 million people in our country illegally is absurd.
01:00:06.000Enough fentanyl pouring into this country to kill every American five times is criminal.