Tucker Carlson is leaving Fox News in a massive network shake-up. Meanwhile, Joe Biden is reportedly set to announce his re-election campaign this week. And a new rule will make home buyers with good credit pay higher fees and interest rates in order to subsidize home buyers who have bad credit. And more importantly, over 16,000 Americans are stranded in the Sudan and the government has no idea what to do about it. And we're all coddled by the Democratic Party. We're supposed to do the hard work and do the right thing. But if you don't do the work, you're gonna get punished. That's what the Democrats are all about. They want you to be a criminal. And they're going to reward you for not doing the work. And if you're a criminal, they're gonna make you pay the price. You're not going to get a chance to come out of this better than you came in. You'll just have to do it the old fashioned way, and that means you'll have to go to school to learn how to pay for it. You can't get a loan, you can't go to college, you gotta go to work, and you have to pay taxes. You have to take care of your debts. You've got to pay your taxes, you've gotta pay your student loan. You gotta pay for your bills, you got to be responsible for your debt, you must pay your debt. And that's not enough, right? Well, guess what? You're gonna have to work to pay the bills. You don't have the chance to pay them. You need to do your debts, you need to pay it, you don t have a debt. You must be responsible to pay that, right?! You can t be a student loan? You must pay it. And you're not gonna be able to afford it, right, you have a loan to get your loans, right right to have a chance, right to do that, you may be a loan that's gonna pay it so that you can get a little bit of money, you get it, but you can do it, so you can be a good loan, right...you can pay it? You can have a good credit score? ...and so on and so on, right so...and you can have it, can I say so, so...so...and so, and so, etc., etc., right, etc.
00:00:04.000you Guys, welcome to another episode of Triggered.
00:00:35.000I appreciate you guys tuning in as always, so please make sure to like, subscribe, download the Rumble app, share the episodes, and tell all your friends.
00:00:45.000Because as we've seen, and certainly as we've seen in the news today, you never know when people who are actually going to tell you the real stuff are just going to get cancelled and be out.
00:01:54.000He was the top host on the top network.
00:01:58.000What's next? I mean, if Fox is getting rid of their best talent for some reason...
00:02:07.000What could be going on in conservative media?
00:02:11.000Certainly in conservative mainstream media.
00:02:14.000This departure permanently changes the GOP. Tucker Carlson was one of the only people willing to go after and roast lawmakers on our side when they went off the rails.
00:02:28.000One of the few people willing to hold them to task.
00:02:33.000And one of the few people willing to talk about the issues that we all know to be true.
00:02:41.000Many people said, oh, he's a conspiracy theorist.
00:02:44.000Well, turns out he was just a spoiler alert months before the actual truth ever manifested itself.
00:02:53.000He's a once-in-a-generation talent who understands the Republican base like probably no one other than my father,
00:05:08.000If you don't think the communists have taken over, you haven't been watching.
00:05:13.000For example, the rule will make borrowers with a credit score over 680, in other words, good credit, pay an extra $480 a year on a mortgage of $400,000.
00:05:25.000That's an extra $14,000 during a 30-year loan.
00:05:30.000But if you're a bad credit person, you're going to save those fees.
00:05:35.000This is like the student loan crisis where they're gonna pay the people who are responsible enough to say, you know what?
00:07:09.000He suffered from a fractured skull, which caused his brain to swell and bleed eventually, causing him to go into a coma and then later passing away.
00:07:19.000The offending vehicle crashed into a light pole.
00:07:21.000Police later arresting a 14 and 17-year-old, both charged with misdemeanors, criminal trespass to a vehicle.
00:07:29.000Family now in deep pain working to make funeral arrangements for a kid whose smile and infectious laugh will forever be missed.
00:07:38.000Your however minutes long joyride ruined our life completely.
00:07:46.000Well, one of those teens, a 17-year-old, not exactly, not exactly an infant, okay?
00:07:52.000But of course, they can get away with it.
00:07:54.000Because Democrats always have their preferred criminals, right?
00:07:57.000It's not just gang members in Chicago.
00:08:00.000Because last night, the media decided to defend one insurrectionist, one man who seems to be totally immune to the January 6th prosecutions.
00:08:11.000They're apparently a 100% fine With Ray Epps as 60 Minutes who ran a puff piece on a January 6th person who's been seen on video starting And creating a lot of the uproar.
00:08:34.000Who's in text messages with families saying they did these things.
00:08:39.000But 60 Minutes seems totally fine protecting him.
00:08:44.000Watch this clip and we'll talk about it a little bit further.
00:08:51.000A former member of the Oath Keepers who served in the Marine Corps and was an ardent Trump supporter, or at least he was, until conservative media post-January 6th began insinuating that he was a government plant for the deep state.
00:09:06.000What exactly was the role of Ray Epps in the chaos of January 6th?
00:09:10.000No matter how many times they push this conspiracy theory, this lie, it'll never become...
00:09:20.000Well guys, as previous guest Darren Beattie laid out, Ray Epps is the only person we have on video as early as January 5th and January 6th calling to essentially storm the Capitol and even bragged about it in a text message to friends.
00:09:36.000But the Justice Department isn't interested in prosecuting him.
00:09:40.000Unlike, unlike, say, a grandmother who was within a thousand miles of Washington, D.C. Unlike a totally peaceful individual who got their door knocked on by the FBI. The one person they're totally okay with is the guy that was apparently calling to storm the Capitol.
00:10:08.000It seems odd to me, especially as Darren Beattie had mentioned when we spoke to him on this show a few weeks ago, the legal team that's been helping out Ray Epps.
00:10:20.000It's like part of the Clinton machine.
00:10:23.000So partisan, hack, liberal lawyers are part of the team defending this?
00:10:32.000Adam Kinzinger, another person going way out of his way to defend Ray Epps.
00:10:38.000Remember what we learned from Revolver News.
00:10:41.000The FBI stealthily removed Ray Epps's From its capital, violent, most-wanting list.
00:10:48.000We learned later, again, that his lawyer, Michael Teeter, reportedly works for an organization called Facts First USA, a far-left organization targeting the agenda of the so-called MAGA majority in Congress.
00:11:02.000Why is he the one person that the radical leftists chose to defend?
00:11:08.000If he's on video saying what we've all seen, you would think that would make him an insurrectionist, but apparently he's different.
00:11:18.000The president of Facts First USA is none other than disgraced Democrat and Clinton machine hatchet man David Brock.
00:11:27.000Huh. A radical right insurrectionist defended by David Brock and the Clinton machine.
00:11:39.000That and 60 Minutes giving him a glowing peace.
00:11:42.000I wonder what they're doing to the other people who've been sitting in jail, denying due process and basic rights and dignities for the last two years.
00:11:53.000But they choose to do the puff piece on Ray Epps?
00:11:56.000Hey, guess what, folks? Say what you want about conspiracy theories, as they've all turned out to be true as of late.
00:12:02.000But if you still believe that this is total coincidence, you haven't been watching.
00:12:09.000To cap it all off, Titor used to work for the notorious law firm Perkins Coy, which functions as the legal arm for Hillary Clinton and the Democrats.
00:12:32.000To do some goodwill and help the only conservative they've ever chose to help magically happens to be this guy.
00:12:40.000The FBI who will raid and label concerned mothers and parents who go to PTA meetings asking about the indoctrination of their children, domestic terrorists, magically takes that one guy off their list.
00:12:57.000Please tell me no one, please tell me no one still believes in that much coincidence.
00:13:03.000The same kid gloves that are beused by the FBI on the trans mass shooter from Nashville, where, of course it's a little different.
00:13:50.000Honestly, folks, the only logical answer is that in the manifesto, we are seeing something far worse than we could even imagine.
00:14:02.000And given what he did, or she did, whatever the hell it is, mowing down Christian children In cold blood, you know if they're not showing us that manifesto, You know it's got to be sicker than we thought.
00:14:18.000You know it's got to be very bad for the radicalized and violent growing trans movement that we're seeing every day.
00:14:26.000Because otherwise, folks, we'd have seen it.
00:14:28.000If he was wearing a MAGA hat, if he was Christian, if he was anything other than a protected class by the Democrats in charge of the media, of big tech, and of our deep state and government, we'd have seen it.
00:14:41.000But we won't. We need a clean house at the FBI, and that's why we need President Trump back in the White House.
00:14:50.000The voters are desperate for actual leadership.
00:14:54.000My father was in Fort Myers over the weekend where he laid out just what's at stake in 2024, as he continues to receive one endorsement after the other.
00:15:06.000After the reception, he went to a local restaurant where he was greeted like a rock star.
00:15:49.000People see it. They understand what's at stake.
00:15:52.000They understand, more importantly, what we've lost in the last two years.
00:15:56.000I think everyone's shocked at just how quickly.
00:15:59.000Just how quickly it can all disappear.
00:16:02.000And we'll get into that right now when we get to our interview with Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna in just a few minutes.
00:16:09.000But before we do that, I want to thank our sponsors.
00:16:12.000But I also want to wish, and I must do this very sincerely and very carefully or I'll be in big trouble later, a happy five-year anniversary today to my fiancee, Kimberly.
00:16:26.000Kimberly, this was the five-year anniversary of our first date.
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00:19:46.000incredible congresswoman out of Florida, Anna Paulina Luna.
00:20:01.000I actually got a copy of that new book you were talking about earlier from your dad actually a couple days ago, so we're very excited about it.
00:20:09.000I hope everyone checks it out. Yeah, I think, listen, it's a little bit fun.
00:20:12.000I mean, you know, I started the publishing company with some friends of ours and, you know, so many of, you know, people like yourself, you know, some of your colleagues, you know, even in the Florida delegation who were writing books and stories and Watching them go to the liberal publishers, yeah, you can't say that. Mainstream conservative thought just absolutely censored at every level.
00:21:12.000And I say that not just As a member trying to rile up the base to vote, I'm very serious about that.
00:21:18.000When I was on a call after the San Francisco bank collapse with literally members of Senate and also the House and then you're hearing them say that and asking whether or not they're going to be censoring the stories on social media and then you have them say yes.
00:21:34.000It's pretty alarming. And so, ultimately, I think that we will be able to write legislation, but I don't think that we'll be able to pass that legislation until we take back the House and the Senate.
00:21:42.000And that's exactly why I think myself, as well as many other members of the Florida delegation, are so invested in 2024 in making sure that we have the right candidate.
00:21:51.000Obviously, you mentioned, obviously, that you're on oversight, and that's a big deal.
00:21:54.000And I don't think anyone expects, hey, we don't have the Senate...
00:21:59.000And we don't have the White House, right?
00:22:01.000So I don't know that anyone expects you to get through legislation, but you do have the power of the purse.
00:22:06.000You do have the ability to hold people accountable.
00:22:09.000And this week, we literally learned that the Biden campaign was working in cahoots with the security state.
00:22:17.000You know, intel officials that still have security clearances to...
00:22:22.000Basically, make believe that everything we saw, and anyone who had been watching, and watching perhaps as closely as we have, understood was a real risk.
00:22:33.000And yet, they're working tirelessly...
00:22:37.000To make sure that people thought that that was a lie.
00:22:40.000How do we hold these people accountable?
00:22:44.000How do we revoke those security clearances?
00:22:45.000If they're willing to do that work, and electioneering, and if we had a, let's call it, less biased elections committee, they'd be investigating these things.
00:23:01.000Well, the one thing that we negotiated as a part of the rules package earlier this past year is something called the Holman Rule.
00:23:07.000And so that's something that allows members of Congress to basically put forward a motion to defund and essentially get rid of a position of any federal appointee.
00:23:16.000And so I actually just filed it for a member of the Air Force that I believe was responsible for leaking military records.
00:23:23.000But the point is, in this instance, as Congress, we can do exactly that.
00:23:27.000And I think that's phase one of accountability.
00:23:30.000But exactly like you said, I mean, being on oversight, we are going to be conducting a hearing.
00:23:34.000Representative Jamie Comer, who's the ranking chairman of that committee, has been doing some incredible things to get actual documentation.
00:23:41.000Mind you, these are not just news articles.
00:23:44.000This is actual documentation from the Department of the Treasury that actually shows that this administration, that the Biden family, was receiving money transfers from the Communist Chinese Party.
00:23:55.000And it's interesting because when Democrats hear this, when regular people who aren't really plugged into politics understand that, they actually don't want to vote for someone like that.
00:24:04.000That's why you're seeing, I believe, the Democrats now trying to rig their own primary, actually preventing other Democrat potential candidates from debating Joe Biden, why they said that they're not going to be holding those debates, and exactly why I think you're seeing really a shadow campaign being run against President Trump right now to prevent him from being the nominee in 2024.
00:24:25.000Well, you know, talk a little bit further about that.
00:24:26.000But, I mean, I definitely want to get into the details of that.
00:24:29.000I mean, the fact that they're doing that.
00:24:40.000You know, Hunter Biden is filing an ethics complaint against, you know, MTG, your colleague, Marjorie Taylor Greene, for, like, questioning...
00:24:50.000The insanity that we literally all now know to be true.
00:24:58.000Big tech has put as big a blackout, essentially, on what would be major news if it was anyone other than Democrat royalty or Democrat power.
00:25:11.000How do we go further than what we've done?
00:25:15.000Because I think our people want to make sure we have those answers, right?
00:25:18.000They understand you're not going to pass a law because you're not going to get it.
00:25:23.000But there does not seem to be really the ability to have those checks and balances, even with what I'd argue would be, you know, the most corrupt family in the history of Washington, D.C., occupying the White House.
00:25:38.000I agree with you. And right now, the one thing that, as Congress, we will likely be able to accomplish is something in regard to the debt ceiling.
00:25:45.000But that's not going to bring accountability mechanisms into everything you're talking about.
00:25:49.000So the one thing that really sets now apart from even 2020 and previous is that We now have at least full control or we have an ally at least for free information in Twitter.
00:26:01.000And that does make a difference because that's the information sharing and that information war that we've for so long been talking about that exists within really American politics.
00:26:10.000And so if we have that, we're at least able to combat the narrative and share that information.
00:26:15.000For example, had the Twitter executives not actively chosen to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story, We know for a fact that many Democrats would not have voted for Joe Biden in general.
00:26:53.000And the second thing would be that moving forward as a member of oversight, being able to get that information out there to the American people and then utilizing those platforms, that's half the battle because people are going to be voting.
00:27:06.000They're going to be largely voting based on their pocketbooks.
00:27:08.000And when you have this administration saying that there's no such thing as inflation, yet we know that the price of gasoline and eggs have gone up, you know, almost double, triple from what it was when your dad was in office.
00:27:17.000I think people have common sense, and that's ultimately what it's going to come down to.
00:27:20.000But, I mean, it has been incredibly frustrating.
00:27:23.000And it does scare me because what I am seeing, I mean, I went to the Washington, D.C. jail, and I met with some of the members or some of the individuals that are being charged for January 6th.
00:27:35.000I'm also being told that they're not being given access to due process.
00:27:39.000So let's say that you don't even agree with what these people did.
00:27:41.000Well, do you agree that an American citizen should have a right to due process?
00:27:45.000And these people aren't being given that, and that's unconstitutional.
00:27:48.000And yet, because of the fact that the justice system is really rigged against conservatives, Or at least against people that they don't politically agree with.
00:28:17.000And when the machine hates someone so bad to where they'll try to do anything they can do to keep someone out, you know that they're fighting on behalf of the American people.
00:28:25.000And I can say someone that has been in politics, not for too long, but has been able to see the inner workings, we need to shine the light on some of the darkness that exists in Washington.
00:28:33.000I think your dad will do exactly that.
00:28:39.000I think having sort of, you know, the young, new voices, the people who are willing to step up as you have to keep fighting, to not just give up, I think that's so huge.
00:28:47.000I know you guys had a good dinner at Mar-a-Lago last week.
00:28:50.000I was on the road, so I couldn't make it.
00:28:52.000How'd that go? Any good stories out of that one?
00:28:55.000Yeah, it actually went incredibly good.
00:28:57.000So, earlier that day, I had had a reporter from The New York Times kind of reach out, and there's this anomaly that exists I think with the Florida delegation, because so many people are like, well, you know, you have Governor DeSantis, you obviously support him as your governor, but so many of you have decided to endorse President Trump.
00:29:12.000Why is that? And the one thing that if people are watching to just say, your dad is very personal and he makes that experience to where he actually knows the members directly.
00:29:22.000But more importantly, he's so smart, especially on issues like foreign policy.
00:29:26.000And so we actually got to talk a lot about what's happening with China and he has a plan.
00:29:53.000And, you know, moving forward, I think that you'll find that there will be more representatives from the Florida delegation supporting your dad because of that reason.
00:30:00.000And just all I can say is my expertise, the one thing that I have common sense with is being able to understand really what people are frustrated with and what they're talking about on social media.
00:30:10.000And I am seeing a massive amount of support for your dad for 2024.
00:30:14.000No, I'm saying, yeah, I mean, obviously you saw the news today with Tucker, but you had Tucker last week with Trump.
00:30:19.000He's like, wait, like, Trump's the only guy that actually gets it because, you know, not being, you know, beholden to the establishment who seems to be, like, just gunning for war.
00:30:29.000I mean, I get, you know, I guess they'll get all rich and it'll be, you know, you know, your kids, not theirs, that'll be serving over, you know, in these foreign battlefields with the world's largest nuclear superpower by, you know, let's call it by quantity of I mean, I know you have a story, obviously lost a parent, and, you know, I had read, like, Trump was the first guy to reach out to you.
00:30:59.000I know, you know, Greg Stuby, who also, you know, endorsed this week, another, you know, had an accident.
00:31:04.000I mean, talk about that, because I think there is a component that, you know, Trump gets, he's terrible, he's mean, and this, but the reality is behind the scenes, and I know this just, Because he's my dad.
00:31:13.000I think he doesn't necessarily like to flaunt or show those things.
00:31:17.000He looks at maybe even as political weakness.
00:31:19.000But I think that personal connection is something real.
00:31:22.000And I think when you see him, whether it's at the pizzeria here, whether it was the fast food place outside in Ohio after the train derailment in East Palestine, you see a personal connection that you don't see with a lot of politicians.
00:31:40.000Yeah, you know, to kind of go back on why people have that perception, which is the wrong perception really about President Trump being, you know, this aggressive, mean person is because that's how the media chose to paint him.
00:31:52.000And every single person that I'm sure at some point has come on the show has been attacked by the media.
00:31:57.000And there are no rules in regards to slander us being public figures or elected officials.
00:32:01.000We can't just sue everyone, especially if they're lying about us.
00:32:04.000But yeah, going back to that story, I lost my dad in a car accident in January of last year.
00:32:10.000And I probably, I mean, you know what it's like to lose a parent, but it's probably one of the worst things that you can have happen because you don't get to say goodbye.
00:32:19.000Yeah. And I got a letter in the mail from your dad within a couple of days of it happening.
00:32:26.000And to me, you know, obviously at the time I was not in office.
00:32:30.000And so having that come through just kind of showed that even though I was not an elected official, even though I at this point had only met him a few times, that he actually took the time to reach out and say like, hey, you know, I'm sorry about it.
00:32:44.000Your dad would be proud. And you're right.
00:32:46.000That does that. Humanity does not exist everywhere in Washington, D.C. And so I remember things like that.
00:32:54.000And Representative Stubbe had a similar story.
00:32:56.000And so when you can see that, you know, especially in politics, it really will show your character because we're in a pressure cooker 99% of the time.
00:33:04.000But that's true character that you can't buy and you can't fake that either.
00:33:08.000And so I think that that to me has been a personal story.
00:33:11.000I have that letter to this day and I actually keep all the letters that your dad sends.
00:33:16.000So I have my little binder behind me, and it'll be an interesting thing to tell my kids one day.
00:33:22.000Yes, that certainly will, especially after he serves a second term as president.
00:33:28.000You'd mentioned you'd recently filed some paperwork going after someone as an Air Force veteran yourself, an Air Force veteran that leaked some classified information.
00:33:39.000I assume that's got to be Jack Teixeira?
00:33:42.000Yeah, so actually Representative Gates knows about it because I think I'm one of the first people to actually use it since we negotiated in the rules package.
00:33:50.000But, you know, we knew a couple weeks ago that the Department of the Air Force had this massive leak that just so happened to target Republican representatives in office and also to...
00:34:04.000There's no way that this would happen.
00:34:06.000As someone who did 50 hours of testimony for Russia, Russia, Russia, I'm shocked to believe that this would be a one-sided thing.
00:34:14.000I remember... Very clearly, when whistleblowers could do no wrong, Anna, they were the highest form of protected class in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere, probably like the trans community today.
00:34:33.000You must just listen to them. But apparently, that is no different.
00:34:37.000I mean, it is apparently something that we're not supposed to be able to have any accountability over.
00:34:42.000So myself, as well as Representative Comer and the chairman of House Armed Services, wrote a letter to the Air Force demanding transparency.
00:34:49.000And of course, the Air Force basically told us to go pound sand.
00:34:52.000And so I actually ended up suing with judicial watch the Air Force.
00:34:56.000To get the record so that I can actually find out who it is.
00:34:59.000But, you know, in the military, we say that your winnings and your failures are basically owned by your leadership.
00:35:05.000So if you have the general personnel that's choosing to not accept accountability and responsibility, well, I'm going to come after your paycheck.
00:35:17.000Basically, that pension and for that pay to the House floor.
00:35:21.000And ultimately, as a service member, that is accountability that we need mechanism-wise in the military.
00:35:27.000And I'm sure that we'll get support because it's not acceptable.
00:35:30.000Mind you, they released information in regards to health care records, social security numbers, and also to, in the instance of Jennifer Ruth Green, an instance that she was sexually assaulted.
00:35:40.000And that was used by the left-wing Democrat operative against her.
00:35:43.000So we're going to hold them accountable.
00:35:46.000Well, you know, that whole leak is sort of interesting, right?
00:35:48.000I remember, like, basically, it's a corollary of, like, what Alexander Vindeman had done, but he was hailed a great hero because it was against the Trump administration.
00:35:57.000It was actually leading us, as far as I'm concerned, towards war with Russia and Ukraine.
00:36:04.000I'm not for leaking classified documentation that would put our troops, our covert operatives, in danger.
00:36:14.000But I'm also not for an American that is waging an unsanctioned, unapproved by Congress or the American people war against the world's largest superpower in terms of nuclear arsenal.
00:36:29.000Talk a little bit more about that because, you know, obviously this thing's disappeared from the news so quickly, you know, our heads should be spinning.
00:36:37.000But, you know, if we're waging a war against Russia, the American people don't know that.
00:36:42.000You haven't voted on it that I'm aware of, have you?
00:36:46.000This has been something that myself and Representative Gates have brought up on a number of occasions, as well as other members of Congress that realize that at what point, you know, we're sending tanks, we're sending equipment, we're sending all this stuff to Ukraine, yet where is the accountability and oversight for where these are actually ending up?
00:37:03.000And then also, too, Just from my knowledge of being a service member and also to still kind of having friends that are active duty, there are things that happen around the world that the American people are not always aware of.
00:37:18.000however and comma, the issue that I have currently with this administration is, it is exactly as you said,
00:37:25.000there seems to be a bloodthirst for war, and I believe that's because
00:37:29.000of the military industrial complex, and that whole position of basically taking votes
00:37:35.000on behalf of these defense contractors and the people that are giving massive paychecks
00:37:40.000to people's, or not paychecks, but massive donations to people's elections campaigns,
00:37:45.000this is ultimately something that's paid for by the American people, and it's really the families
00:37:49.000that see the long-term impacts of war.
00:37:51.000So, you know, I don't think that this individual, obviously being, I believe he was maybe 21 years old, he's going to probably go to jail for life because of that, but it really did show the American people that this administration is not being transparent, and that ultimately I believe that the funding for Ukraine should probably stop immediately.
00:38:09.000Well, and that's sort of the great irony of it, right?
00:39:00.000I think we've got to address that as well, right?
00:39:03.000Not just the notion that we can sit on this perch and preach to the world while doing the exact opposite.
00:39:09.000I mean, we seem to be getting caught doing a lot of the things that if any one of our enemies were doing, You know, the war hawks in both the Democrat Party, the Republican, RINOs, and the military-industrial complex would be running towards regime change and yet another war and yet another front we can't afford to fight.
00:39:30.000And what's even more interesting is there's other world leaders that are starting to take notice of that.
00:39:35.000You had Mexico literally calling out the United States on corruption within our own government.
00:39:39.000And because of what's happening currently, I mean, everything that those people that you just named did, they really showed the American people that there's an overreach Of the American intelligence community onto the American people.
00:39:52.000And there's a surveillance state that, as Congress, we're supposed to do things to protect people's privacy and ensure that your constitutional rights are being respected.
00:39:59.000But it doesn't seem that that's the case.
00:40:00.000And we're seeing that becoming more and more prevalent.
00:40:04.000Obviously, you know, I'm not a tin hat wearing conspiracy theorist, but I can tell you one thing, Dawn, I don't keep my camera on my computer uncovered.
00:40:12.000Yeah, exactly. Like, it's hard, you know, as someone who wasn't either, and I, you know, I believed, like, you know, America, they've got to be doing the great things.
00:40:20.000It's like, well, you know, like, I'm fighting to make sure that actually ends up happening.
00:40:26.000But I don't believe it's currently happening.
00:40:28.000I mean, could that be in part why you yourself decided to sort of run for Congress?
00:40:32.000I mean, I know you did some cool stuff.
00:40:35.000You were going to go to med school. And now you got in this mess.
00:40:39.000And, you know, if you were a Democrat...
00:40:42.000With your record, with your military service, you'd be given every platform in the world.
00:40:48.000I mean, look at what they did with AOC. The great thought leader of our time, and yet there doesn't seem to be a lot of actual thought.
00:40:56.000What made you get into this hellhole and actually keep fighting?
00:41:02.000That whole saying, quit talking about it, be about it, I really got frustrated looking inward, seeing how can I make a difference, and I realized that because of the world we live in, identity politics is constantly being weaponized and used against the American people, especially young people, and I am first and foremost a conservative.
00:41:23.000I'm packaged a little bit differently, and so I can really shatter a lot of those stereotypes, and so I had no idea actually How to even get involved or run for office.
00:41:31.000This was not something that was in my 10-year plan but ultimately I figured it out and I wasn't successful the first time and I ultimately figured out what I needed to do different and then I came back and I won.
00:41:43.000And I always tell people that when you have, whether it's a life experience or even running for office and why your dad's gonna win, just because you're not successful one time doesn't mean that you won't be successful again.
00:41:56.000But I think we all really know what happened in the 2020 election.
00:41:59.000Yeah, I mean, you know, it's sort of interesting to see.
00:42:02.000Obviously, you got the establishment and you got everyone going after that.
00:42:05.000But like, you know, having seen it, you know, having been there, having seen the enthusiasm on the ground, like, sort of hard to come up with anything else.
00:42:13.000And yet, again, that's the narrative like everything else.
00:42:15.000And I imagine sometime down the line, whether it's six months or another two years, You know, eventually the truth will come out, like all the conspiracy theories that have been proven right.
00:42:48.000I don't understand. And yet, you have the most popular guy on cable news, and it's like, okay, you're fired.
00:42:53.000I mean, is that sort of, you know, the revenge of the establishment coming out and taking out anyone that's a voice?
00:43:02.000Now, I think he'll do better on his own when you don't have sort of the shackles of, you know, Paul Ryan tells you you can't say this on TV. You know, I think he'll actually end up doing a lot better for the cause, but it seems like there's sort of an aggressive attack on anything that isn't the rubber-stamped points of, frankly, the uni party, right?
00:43:24.000You could say, fine, the DNC, generally speaking, in most of media, but even on conservative radio, you just can't say the things that everyone sort of knows they have to be accurate.
00:43:35.000Well, two things. You know, first of all, I think it's comical.
00:43:38.000You see all these, like, left-wing pundits and, you know, representatives turn influencers.
00:43:43.000Don't have to say their names, but you know who I'm talking about.
00:43:46.000They're all taking this, like, victory lap about Tucker Carlson leaving Fox.
00:43:50.000But I'm like, you guys are idiots. Tucker Carlson had one of the most successful shows on network television.
00:43:55.000And also, too, I mean, his ad revenue alone is worth a million.
00:43:59.000So to think that he's just going to just disappear into the Dark is crazy.
00:44:03.000You know, the second thing would be is that earlier this past year when we were in the negotiations for our rules package for the House of Representatives, I remember specifically being in a room with some very respected colleagues of mine and they said, whichever way Tucker Carlson goes will be the way that the national narrative goes on this entire thing.
00:44:23.000And so they were watching Tucker Carlson to see what Tucker Carlson would say.
00:44:27.000And so that says something because Tucker Carlson is more than just a talking head.
00:44:30.000He's a thought leader, and I think a lot of people will be going with him.
00:44:36.000He's shackle-free. He's going to do what he wants.
00:44:38.000And so they should be afraid, not taking victory laps.
00:44:41.000No, I think in the long term, you're 100% right.
00:44:43.000Because again, he was one of the few people he was willing to take on the Republican establishment, senators and governors.
00:44:49.000But I think he also, with a sort of common sense approach, I didn't even look at him as all that political, amazingly enough.
00:44:55.000I thought he was actually talking about sort of, you know, We're good to go.
00:45:21.000I don't know what it's going to do to Fox News.
00:45:23.000You know, the rest of it's kind of scary, but I think he'll come back actually far stronger than ever before.
00:45:29.000I saw today, actually just before coming onto this show, that just since the announcement earlier today of Tucker's departure that they've lost around $930-plus million.
00:48:29.000Yeah, but that's like, but that's the hubris of like a guy like Donald.
00:48:34.000You know, he's like, well, what was it the other day?
00:48:36.000Well, like, I'm African-Americans. You have to ask me an opinion to basically have a thought.
00:48:39.000Like, but... You know, he could do that, knowing the truth, and he would still feel free to say it publicly on Twitter amidst this thing because he understands, I guess, there's no consequence for him to say whatever he wants.
00:49:21.000You know, I'm very, very distrusting of journalists and rightfully so.
00:49:24.000I've had my fair share of hit pieces, one being out of the Washington Post that literally tried to say that I made up my dad's incarceration record until I presented Fox News with that DOJ incarceration report.
00:49:36.000They still have refused to update and correct the story.
00:49:39.000But the point is, is that yes, there's this double standard that exists.
00:49:42.000And they would like to think that people like myself are, you know, just compulsive liars.
00:49:47.000But it's when they really, I think, get caught in their own lives and they have egg on their face that it really is truly gratifying.
00:49:52.000So I welcome people to try to do that.
00:49:54.000I just use my Twitter and put out the facts.
00:49:56.000But it's pretty crazy to see that this is journalism in the United States.
00:49:59.000And then they try to say that, you know, people that are conservative or people on the right are somehow like Russia.
00:50:05.000Let me tell you, if this was Russia and they were doing that, they would not be doing that anymore.
00:50:08.000And that's all I'm going to say about that.
00:50:09.000No, well, that's the, I mean, you know, Stalin would be blushing at some of the propaganda, you know, coming out, you know, of today, you know, the Washington Post, where democracy dies in darkness.
00:50:24.000I still have, like, a couple of, you know, CNN and other, you know, sort of capital offender when it comes to this stuff.
00:50:30.000I mean, I still had stuff where, you know, I was one of, like, five big bombshells, you know, in 2017 that proved Russia, Russia, Russia.
00:50:38.000Now, we proved them all to be demonstrably false, but it didn't matter, right?
00:50:43.000They leave that up. They put a retraction up at Saturday night at 3 a.m., The main tweet still stands, even though they know it's false because, you know, it's clickbait or whatever it is.
00:50:53.000I mean, it's actually getting embarrassed, and to the point of, you know, we preach from this high horse about all the things that we are, but we're doing it at home, and these are supposed to be, you know, the bastions of democracy.
00:51:05.000Well, that's why they don't want us to have social media.
00:51:08.000So what I found is that actually, apparently that hit piece gave me street cred.
00:51:12.000And so as you said, yes, I'll still leave them up.
00:51:14.000It'll still be updated on our Wiki pages that we're all apparently, you know, crazy, compulsive liars that are Russia, Russia, Russia.
00:51:22.000Ultimately, I think people that do have common sense, you know, they understand what it is.
00:51:27.000And so what I will say is that, you know, having shows like this, even just having Twitter back, which I mean, that's a huge deal, it gives us a voice and a way to combat it.
00:51:40.000And Elon Musk even said that earlier today, that we're in a wild time in history to where it seems like every couple months there's this massively historical thing happening.
00:51:49.000And I'd like to just have a year of chill time because it's getting a little overwhelming.
00:51:53.000You know, I'd like that too, but when I, you know, I think, you know, apathy has always been our biggest problem.
00:51:57.000I think we have some of these, you know, these issues that are, you know, literally historic issues.
00:52:02.000I mean, we're, even from the Biden administration, you know, the closest we've been to nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 60s, and it's like, let's double down, and let's make it worse, and let's fight the proxy war, and then let's fight the actual war with troops on the ground, and like...
00:52:17.000Everyone's just taking their partisan side, and they're going to defend that at all costs.
00:52:34.000No, but I think it's important, because I think we're actually getting a lot of results out of the Republican Party, which I don't think we've had in the past.
00:52:45.000It's sort of like the old, there's a couple senators, they get on Fox in the evening, and they say, this is what we should be doing.
00:52:53.000But I go, but you're in charge of that committee.
00:52:55.000You have the authority to actually do that.
00:52:56.000But they sort of play the mind game with the news consumer.
00:53:01.000Who You may not know. They're busy trying to feed their families.
00:53:03.000They don't know the details. They're saying, we should be doing this.
00:53:06.000But I go, but you have the authority to do that, and you're not.
00:53:09.000So you understand that's where your base wants to be.
00:53:11.000So how would you grade the House Republicans right now?
00:53:17.000How would you grade Kevin McCarthy, who you'd been critical of, but I think is probably doing a lot of things that no one thought Kevin McCarthy would be doing.
00:53:26.000Yeah, in fact, he's doing way better than the last three speakers, that's for sure.
00:53:30.000Anyone but Nancy Pelosi, right? Not even close, yeah.
00:53:34.000But really, I think those negotiations, the speakers fight, that was actually, at least from my perspective, 100% ideological.
00:53:42.000And so some of those things that I had listed earlier when we were talking on the show about the Holman rule, also to decentralizing power that had really been consolidated too much in the speakership under Nancy Pelosi— To the point of where representatives could not do our jobs.
00:53:57.000But then also, too, I mean, part of those negotiations were establishing the Church Committee, which is looking into the weaponization of the federal government against the American people.
00:54:05.000It set really the precedence for negotiating standards on the debt ceiling, border security bills.
00:54:12.000There's a lot that we're still seeing play out.
00:54:14.000And I think that had those discussions, had that argument not really taken place, we probably wouldn't have Enough.
00:54:37.000Listen, I had actually, and I knew, you know, it sort of becomes a little bit of inside baseball.
00:54:41.000You know, I had knew some of the people that McCarthy was actually bringing on prior to that, like months in advance.
00:54:47.000Like, I was like, I mean, those guys make me seem like a libs.
00:54:50.000I'm like, if that's part of that team, they understand.
00:54:52.000So I actually... You know, and I like to give the benefit of the doubt to be honest.
00:54:56.000I think he'll actually probably surprise a lot of people, but I think maybe the process in the end now was actually really important to getting those things going.
00:55:04.000I mean, I think you see some people, you know, emerging that are turning into sort of rock stars,
00:55:11.000you know, in the political sense, because they're willing to actually fight those battles
00:56:09.000wait a minute, so you're saying it's bad for there to be debate on the floors of Congress?
00:56:15.000Now, I understand from the mainstream media, they want you to like...
00:56:18.000I get that, but the fact that they were sort of combating the notion of even having debate just shows you how insane and backwards the world in which we live is right now.
00:56:49.000But then also, too, I really believe that when you tell someone that you're going to do something, and in this case...
00:56:54.000I had actually written Representative, now Speaker McCarthy, a letter back in November talking about everything that I wanted to see change in Congress, which was a large part of those negotiations, in order to receive my vote.
00:57:08.000And then I figured if I was going to go on the media and just trash them, that's probably not good form.
00:57:47.000phone literally yesterday so that you'd actually be honest and upfront is a very
00:57:51.000uncharacteristic of DC and you're gonna have to you're gonna have to learn
00:57:54.000that's just you know that's not how to play the game obviously I don't think
00:57:58.000that they know how to read you and I was like what do you mean Steve he's like I
00:58:01.000just because most people don't do that and I was like well I guess I'm not most
00:58:05.000I don't know. So it was interesting, but my favorite part about the whole thing was all, I mean all, like even pop culture was watching what was happening.
00:58:13.000So you had like the bad lip reading that actually came out and that went pretty viral.
00:58:17.000And so we're actually working right now to try to get those C-SPAN cameras unstuck from the position.
00:58:22.000So I think it's important for the American people to actually be able to engage in the process and then sometimes make fun of politicians in not so, you know, a nasty way.
00:58:29.000It's funny, you know, you see us all on the floor.
00:58:31.000A lot of people were surprised at some of the conversations.
00:58:33.000You know, you had Representative Gosar talking to AOC. Matt Gaetz was talking to different people.
00:58:38.000I mean, all those conversations, those are really negotiations that were taking place at that time.
00:58:52.000You may be on opposite political spectrums, but you still have to work to get something done.
00:58:56.000And I think that's sort of... It feels like what's missing in American politics today.
00:59:00.000There used to be, like, fine, maybe we disagree, but we want what's best for America.
00:59:05.000Today, I look at a lot of politicians, I'm like, I don't know that they actually do.
00:59:09.000Like, it's, you see, like, the Biden administration, you see the stuff that they're putting out, be like, I mean, this seems like it's good for everyone but Americans.
00:59:18.000You know, America first is, you know, that's racist and misogynist and terrible.
00:59:26.000You know, you'd be surprised at the amount of people that are kind of curious and they'll come over and, I mean, like, I will talk to anyone as long as they're not personally insulting me and attacking me, right?
00:59:38.000Now, increasingly becoming a small number.
00:59:40.000But, you know, for the most part, I've been able to meet especially other Florida Democrat members to be able to have conversations.
00:59:47.000For example, like I'm working on something to remove Red 40, which is a food dye from food products.
00:59:52.000So that's probably a separate conversation, but it's completely terrible for you.
00:59:55.000It shouldn't be in our food in general.
00:59:57.000But, you know, I'm going to need bipartisan support for that.
01:00:00.000But, you know, what I have noticed is it seems and I think it is kind of an anomaly with social media that the more More nasty the content is, and if you can attack someone, then they turn around and fundraise with it.
01:00:13.000And so I have seen multiple people, for example, I was wearing an AR-15 pin, right?
01:00:17.000Yeah. To be clear, just to provide you some context, I'm a vet.
01:00:25.000There was a gang shooting on my high school campus and someone broke into my home.
01:00:27.000So, like, clearly I have had everything that you don't want to have happen with firearms happen.
01:00:31.000All right. And I still support the Second Amendment, but these people were saying that I was a child killer because I was wearing a pin, right?
01:00:37.000And these people sit next to me on committees, so then I'm supposed to sit there and have these conversations.
01:00:41.000So I paid attention to who was not drinking the Kool-Aid and then who was actually there to get stuff done.
01:00:47.000But you are right. It is interesting, though, because you'll see people having conversations that you would never expect, and then the people that just want attention...
01:00:54.000You know, like Eric Swalwell will go onto their Twitter and shoot off tweets.
01:00:59.000Yeah, well, you know, and I think that's so important.
01:01:01.000It's actually something we're seeing play out a lot for the 2024 run, right?
01:01:04.000Which is like, hey guys, like, Twitter isn't real life.
01:01:08.000If you make all of your decision and your polling based on the echo chamber of Twitter, and even if it's better, and even if, you know, we finally have a little bit of a platform there to say, like, what we want to actually say...
01:01:23.000That doesn't mean that's the reality of the world or the electorate or the American people.
01:01:27.000And, like, I do feel a lot of politicians sort of confuse that.
01:01:30.000Eric Swalwell certainly being one of them.
01:01:32.000Yeah, that's one of the things. I tell people, and it's funny, I was up there talking to one of my colleagues, and he goes, you know, once you go back home, because I fly home, whenever I'm not in session, like, the minute I'm done voting, my foot leaves the floor, I'm running to the airport.
01:01:44.000So, like, I don't stay there as long as I, you know, if I don't have to, I'm not there.
01:01:47.000But I think a lot of people do stay up there, and they live there, and then so they lose touch with their constituents, and part of being representative...
01:01:54.000You're supposed to be out in the community, so I make sure that I'm very active.
01:01:58.000It is like having two full-time jobs, but it's worth it, and I love what I do, so I can't complain.
01:02:05.000Here's another thing. A lot of the people that are in office have never worked normal jobs.
01:02:11.000A lot of them haven't worked in the fast food industry.
01:02:14.000We need less lawyers, I think, and more people that are business owners or entrepreneurs in Washington.
01:02:19.000Well, I think that was part of the attack on Trump, right?
01:02:21.000Which is, like, they don't want to open the door for someone who's actually done this stuff in the real world.
01:02:25.000Someone who's not from their, you know, circle of friends because there's no access or power there.
01:02:30.000And I saw a visceral reaction to that.
01:02:32.000I think also to your point about getting out of DC and the point of those who stay around,
01:02:37.000it's an easy existence in Washington DC to be a Republican that folds.
01:02:44.000If you're that guy that stays local, you want to be invited to the cool person Christmas party.
01:02:49.000But the only way you're going to do that and not have the Washington Post attacking you daily
01:02:53.000is to give in when it actually matters for your constituency.
01:02:57.000And that's why I think you're 100% right.
01:03:00.000People need to spend more time with their actual people, not in DC.
01:03:04.000But hopefully you'll be the catalyst for change there, So I really appreciate you coming on here.
01:03:11.000Thanks for everything that you're doing.
01:03:13.000I know we're going on now with Senator Steve Daines, but I definitely want to have you back as some of this stuff, you know, goes through.
01:03:20.000I want you to keep that fight, and maybe I take the...
01:03:23.000You know, the Hunter Biden corruption stuff a little bit personally, only because of what they tried to do to me for about five years.
01:03:29.000So thank you for everything that you're doing in all of that.
01:03:34.000And you're the best, guys. Go check out Anna on social and everywhere else that she is.
01:05:47.000One of my great trophies is actually Greg had mounted one of the pregnant dogs, also known as the prairie dog, and that's sitting proudly in my cabin, even if it created a little bit of a news cycle that we had to combat the insanity of.
01:06:05.000Well, I remember having explained that to the taxidermist.
01:06:07.000I brought those dead prairie dogs in, Don.
01:10:16.000We've got to find candidates that can do two things, winner primary and winner general.
01:10:20.000The folks will be excited about going to the polls on November 5, 2024, and voting for these new soon-to-be Republican senators.
01:10:29.000I love senators that have backgrounds in the private sector.
01:10:33.000Senators have been accountable for results.
01:10:36.000They bring a different instinct and perspective to Washington, D.C. So often, I heard your earlier conversation with Representative Luna, D.C. rewards activity, not results.
01:10:48.000We need results-driven, results-focused kinds of leaders, and that's what we need to do.
01:10:53.000But you've got to win, because winners make policy, but losers go home.
01:10:57.000Candidates who can get across the finish line in a primary and a general election.
01:11:01.000You know, what are the top, what are the priorities for you as, you know, chairman of the NRSC right now?
01:11:08.000Obviously, it's winning those seats, but what are the things that you can do that, you know, the electorate can get behind you and be like, okay, these guys are actually doing something to move that needle.
01:11:17.000I am going to support those candidates.
01:11:18.000I am going to believe what they say and that they're just not sort of, you know, swayed by the usual sort of Washington speak of we're going to tell you all the things you want to do, but we're not going to actually do any of it.
01:11:29.000Look, there's so much that we can accomplish with Republican majority, Republican president, Republican House.
01:11:34.000Take a look at what we do for the Trump tax cuts.
01:11:36.000That was the biggest tax cut passed, you know, in our nation's history.
01:11:44.000That's dead on arrival unless we have a Republican majority that can extend that Trump tax cut here and make it permanent.
01:11:50.000Look at the border, completely out of control.
01:11:53.000It's going to take a Republican Senate, Republican House, Republican president here to bring the border back to where it was when President Trump left office, finished building that wall, put policies in place that disincentivize illegals coming into our country to stop the scourge of meth and fentanyl into our country, and crime.
01:12:10.000For heaven's sakes, look what's going on with crime.
01:12:12.000We've got to have law and order candidates here that believe in the rule of law and the enforcement thereof and stand behind the blue.
01:12:18.000So, you know, again, a lot of your Senate colleagues, though, do they understand that?
01:12:24.000Because, you know, it's a different place than the House.
01:12:50.000Do they have that ability to speak to that effect and to make sure that people understand that?
01:12:56.000We don't have the natural boosting of big tech who will take Joe Biden and make him seem like he's one of the great orators of all time, a great public servant, not the corrupt dolt that we see on TV every day.
01:13:50.000You can get on any cable TV show you want to talk about what's important for this country and then take that same fight from cable TV back to the floor of the United States Senate.
01:14:00.000Well, so other than the big Senate races, obviously, in 2024, there's another big one.
01:14:08.000A little bit near and dear and personal to me, but you have a presidential race in 2024.
01:14:26.000We passed, and he signed a law, the greatest tax cut in American history.
01:14:30.000We transformed the courts, the Supreme Court, the circuit courts.
01:14:34.000We passed the greatest conservation win in 50 years, Don, the great America Outdoors Act.
01:14:41.000We had a country that was respected and strong.
01:14:45.000You know, Joe Biden has empowered and emboldened our adversaries by his weakness.
01:14:50.000He just shivers under his desk during the day, and our adversaries now are getting increasingly bolder, and that's very, very dangerous for the world.
01:14:59.000And he's got one more thing that we've got to finish up, and that is, let's finish building the wall.
01:15:24.000But I love that it's not just our friendship, but the fact that you understand exactly what he was able to deliver.
01:15:32.000And despite sort of the news and what we dealt with in the news and tech and Russia, Russia, Russia nonsense, that's what's sort of amazing about the whole thing.
01:15:39.000It's like, you still look at his accomplishments, but you look at those accomplishments relative to what he was up against.
01:15:45.000So many people, even on the conservative side, sort of working against him behind the scenes.
01:15:50.000Obviously, the entire weight, force, and strength of mainstream media and big tech creating a narrative that didn't exist yet.
01:15:56.000The American people still saw safety, prosperity.
01:16:00.000We weren't worried about Russia invading allies.
01:16:03.000We weren't watching about China encroaching on our allies.
01:16:06.000We weren't, you know, at the point where we're going to be fighting multiple battles on fronts, we're actually getting out of the endless wars.
01:16:13.000And yet they still tried to vilify him.
01:16:15.000And I think that's so important, you know, that people actually understand just what's at stake and just how precious it is and how quickly it can disappear.
01:16:24.000Non-leadership matters, as we've seen the contrast between the Biden administration and what your father accomplished during his four years.
01:16:32.000Just look what's going on in the world right now.
01:16:34.000This president, he shivered under his desk with that Chinese spy balloon fiasco.
01:16:40.000You look at the completely botched Afghanistan withdrawal.
01:16:44.000You look at what he's been doing here around the world that's got the Chinese, the Russians, the North Koreans, the Iranians here.
01:16:49.000They're chomping at the bit to take the next step here to do something more aggressive.
01:16:53.000It's a very dangerous world when you have a vacuum of leadership, and worse than that, you have a weak leader in the United States Oval Office.
01:17:01.000Well, I mean, in breaking news today, obviously, or yesterday, you saw, you know, we abandoned 16,000 Americans in the Sudan.
01:17:10.000Yet another, I mean, like, they didn't even learn from Afghanistan, which was, you know, not just for, you know, political, as an American, like, one of the, if not the perhaps biggest disgrace I'd seen in my lifetime in politics.
01:17:24.000You know, you leave biometric scanners to the Taliban to make sure that they can find the people who had helped us fight a war against them.
01:17:31.000You know, our Secretary of State gets up there.
01:17:34.000We're shocked and dismayed that the Taliban didn't install a more diverse and inclusive government.
01:17:58.000Imagine Trump abandoned 16,000 Americans again, what the media would be saying, and yet there's almost silence.
01:18:05.000I mean, I feel like I'm the only one perhaps I've seen talking about it today, and it just happened.
01:18:12.000Look, Don, this just gets back to how important 2024 is.
01:18:17.000We're on an unsustainable path right now as a country with the Democrats and Joe Biden in charge of the White House, Chuck Schumer in charge of the Senate.
01:18:25.000This is a path that is not sustainable.
01:18:28.000Don, we're now grandparents of four little ones.
01:18:40.000Yeah. That we, one, elect Donald Trump to be president in 2024, and two, make sure that we give him a Republican U.S. Senate, because the very first action of a new president is to move forward with personnel moves.
01:18:55.000You've got to put a Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Treasury.
01:18:59.000Secretary of State, these key positions for national security as well as economic security.
01:19:05.000Imagine for a moment, Don, that Chuck Schumer controlled the U.S. Senate.
01:19:09.000Imagine the first call to Chuck Schumer because, remember, the United States Senate is uniquely in the personnel business.
01:19:16.000And this is why this is the moment we've got to gain control of the United States Senate and tee up the next four years of our new Republican president.
01:19:24.000Yeah, and I think you have that in the House, which you did.
01:19:27.000I mean, you had Trump in first term in, you know, 17.
01:19:32.000He has a Republican House. But you had Paul Ryan in charge.
01:19:34.000You had sort of people who weren't willing to fight in leadership.
01:19:37.000So it's like you had everything you needed to have, but they weren't willing to make the moves.
01:19:42.000That the people wanted, that the people actually elected Donald Trump to do, they actually stymied a lot of that.
01:19:48.000So I would imagine there are people that are gun-shy.
01:19:52.000What do we have to do to convince the Republican electorate to turn up, to vote?
01:19:57.000How do we combat, you know, the Democrat ballot harvesting machine where, you know, a guy, you know, I don't want to make fun of one of your colleagues, but, you know, John Fetterman is, you know, let's call it like six beers short of a six-pack.
01:20:09.000Uh... And yet he can win magically in the Senate in Pennsylvania.
01:20:17.000He goes to the hospital for half the time he's been serving.
01:20:20.000And I don't mean to make light of it, but that's what we're up against, that they can get someone who's, in my mind, virtually brain-dead based on objective listening.
01:20:31.000And he can become a United States Senator.
01:22:02.000That's why we've got to start turning ballots in sooner in case you have a problem, certainly on Election Day with weather and other problems.
01:22:09.000Well, 100%. Listen, I love same-day voting, paper ballots with IDs, but guess what?
01:22:14.000If you're not in charge, you can't actually make those changes.
01:22:18.000Even the socialists in Europe are like, really?
01:22:20.000You don't have those things? They seem so common sense.
01:22:22.000And of course they are. But the Democrats will fight tooth and nail to do that.
01:22:26.000But right now, they've actually laid out that battlefield.
01:22:28.000So we have to play their game, even if we don't want to, even if we have other ideals and we want to change it.
01:22:33.000We can't change it until we get into power to actually do something about it.
01:22:38.000Do you feel that people within the Republican Party, whether it's the GOP, whether it's at the RNC, whether it's from the NRSC, are there people actively starting to do this?
01:22:50.000Because it's not the kind of thing that you can spool up two weeks before an election.
01:22:53.000You actually have to create that operation right now.
01:22:57.000Are you aware of those things actually happening?
01:23:01.000Where can people find out about that so they can help, that they can volunteer, that they can actually be a part of that process?
01:23:06.000Yeah, absolutely. In fact, there's a program that focuses on the ground game.
01:23:12.000We just started that effort six months earlier than any national Republican senatorial committee in the history of the NRSC. We just began that last week.
01:23:20.000So we are jump-starting that program because we need to.
01:25:26.000I know, I mean, just a few short weeks ago, I mean, you were literally censored by Twitter for posting a picture of you, like a hunting picture of you and your incredible wife.
01:25:38.000What's your agenda to combat this stuff?
01:25:40.000Because, I mean, it feels like there's that concerted attack on anything good, decent, American, you know, Americana, right?
01:25:49.000Well, here, they just put up the picture there.
01:25:51.000Let's see if you can see... That was the warning shot that I got there, where, in fact, you posted that, Don, where I posted a picture of my sweet wife, Cindy, married 37 years.
01:26:03.000We killed a couple of nice antelope in eastern Montana last October, using a nice 6.5 PRC with a Hornady 143 grain ELDX. You love the round, so do I. And I made a couple good shots down these antelope.
01:26:57.000You talk about the deep swamp in Washington, there's a deep swamp in these tech companies who do everything they can here to censor and suppress the conservative voice.
01:27:40.000Obviously, Twitter's come back, at least notionally, in some things, and yet those things seem to still only break one way.
01:27:48.000The most ardent leftist can post the most horrific sort of Let's call it bodily mutilation of a three-year-old who's turning trans, and that's totally acceptable and totally encouraged and promoted.
01:28:01.000You see the lunacy, the way it's able to just go viral magically, and yet it doesn't happen to our side.
01:28:07.000You know, something that's totally innocent, that's not really even up for interpretation that way.
01:28:12.000You know, a senator from the state of Montana can still get censored.
01:28:15.000You know, what would be your plans in the Senate to be able to combat some of that, to create legislation to at least To at least have a level playing field.
01:28:24.000Because I think Elon's doing some incredible things there.
01:28:27.000I think he's one of the geniuses of our generation.
01:28:29.000I don't want to do that. But I also think it's just Silicon Valley.
01:28:33.000I mean, he could want whatever he wants, but they have umpteen thousand employees, even if you fire half of them.
01:28:38.000Guess what? If they're still basically 100% radical leftists, you may have fewer employees, but the ideology is still fixed.
01:28:47.000Yeah, well, number one, Don, we need to expose the absurdity of that elite view.
01:28:53.000And that's what we did when Twitter put me in jail.
01:28:55.000It gave us a chance to spread that virally.
01:28:58.000You know, I was all over national news.
01:29:00.000We were showing that picture of Cindy and myself and that antelope.
01:29:27.000And that's one of the levers we have with federal law in terms of when they're curating postings and so forth.
01:29:34.000They're not just a platform allowing anybody to speak either side.
01:29:37.000When they're intentionally censoring the conservative side of the equation, they've crossed the line.
01:29:42.000There's leverage with us in terms of some of the liability protections these tech companies have.
01:29:46.000I know that because Greg Gianfort and I used to have a tech company.
01:29:49.000We were in the middle of all this. Well, that's why I'd love to see you leading this.
01:29:52.000I'd love you to convince even some of the Republicans who are sort of, well, you know, it's this, and they still, you know, they talk big about tech on, you know, on news, but then they accept the $3,500 check and end up doing nothing.
01:30:08.000And, you know, someone like you, you're leading that and trying to be a thought leader in it for the Republicans who, you know, tended to be pretty weak on the issue or they're just a little bit out of touch.
01:30:17.000They're a little older. They're not really on.
01:30:20.000You know, I know what something's going to do when I hit send, generally speaking.
01:30:23.000And, you know, let's just say that's changed because they are trying to control the narrative.
01:30:29.000Well, you know, Don, I think what helped when Twitter shut my account down, we had the receipts.
01:30:34.000I think sometimes we'll talk about this and go, that can't really be going on.
01:30:37.000And then they saw what happened to me.
01:31:00.000I mean, that's why I love that you're fighting that, because if they can do it to you, just like if they could do it to my father while he was president of the United States, arguably the most powerful man in the world, or at least that's what we're told, and yet they still had the power, the conviction, the ability to censor them.
01:31:18.000Who that don't have a platform like you or friends or the ability to get that message out there?
01:31:23.000You know, everyone else can just be canceled and they have no soapbox to be able to preach from.
01:31:28.000So, you know, Senator Danes, thank you so much for what you're doing with that.
01:31:32.000Thank you for the endorsement of my father.
01:31:33.000That's incredible. But most importantly, thank you for the friendship.
01:31:38.000And I look forward. I drew Montana General Elk Deer.
01:31:42.000So we're going to have to get together again, whether you like it or not, because this year in the off year, at least, I have a chance to maybe get a little bit more hunting than I will in 2024.
01:31:52.000So hopefully we can do that together in Montana again, my friend.
01:31:56.000Hey, Don, I always look forward to it.
01:31:58.000We'll get some time away from Twitter and our phones and focus on things with horns.
01:32:04.000Let's make it happen, man. Thanks so much, Steve.
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01:33:40.000or Silicon Valley Bank, and the stupidity of the decision-making processes
01:33:45.000coming from this radical, agenda-driven insanity out of the Biden administration.
01:34:39.000I'll probably go about 15 minutes because after that, Kimberly is going to be on my butt about making sure to get to our five-year anniversary dinner.