00:07:00.900I'm not particularly thrilled that we took the plane from Qatar.
00:07:03.900I think there's some real security risks and downsides to that, and I've detailed those in the past.
00:07:09.000But I was kind of curious to see it and see what, you know, I was sort of joking that I wanted to use the restroom because I hadn't seen a solid gold toilet before.
00:07:18.680um but which i don't know if i don't know if that's on the plane or not but it just seemed
00:07:22.820kind of funny that a qatari plane may well have that yeah um but but we were on we were on the
00:07:29.000regular air force one actually the one that that uh uh my understanding is nancy reagan picked out
00:07:35.480the carpets uh and decorated it so this this one became operational in the 80s and and air force
00:07:43.040one the the air force one that's been in service uh since then there's a big conference room uh
00:07:49.660with a big conference table and that's what where all the members of congress uh were seated and
00:07:54.640then in front of that there's a smaller um room that is the senior staff room and and they had
00:08:01.020four of us in there uh which is uh senator lankford and myself and then suzy wiles uh president trump's
00:08:10.020Chief of Staff, and Howard Lutnick, the Secretary of Commerce. And so the four of us were in there.
00:08:15.020And I will say all the House members came up there and were razzing us that we thought we
00:08:20.720were too she-she to sit in the conference room. And by the way, they give you an assigned seat.
00:08:24.720You don't pick where to seat. You go in and you have a little card and you sit where your card is.
00:08:29.740And so my immediate response is I said, look, I can't help it that you guys threw us out of the
00:08:34.760conference room. Like we wanted to hang out with you. But I said, listen, the Senate, I mean,
00:08:39.380we're we're kind of geriatric you know the median age in our body is about 85 and and so you know
00:08:44.680you guys are rambunctious for us you kind of you know we get heart palpitations can't can't quite
00:08:49.000uh can't quite handle the rowdiness uh and look these these are all texas house members so a bunch
00:08:55.940of guys i know really well so we were we were giving each other very substantial amounts of
00:09:01.620grief uh the president came on he hung out with us for a while and then he went up in the front
00:09:07.300of the plane the president has his office um by by the way one of the congressmen who was on the
00:09:12.620plane with us was ronnie jackson yeah who ronnie jackson used to be the president's doctor and he
00:09:18.520was actually trump's doctor and before that he was bush's doctor he's bush's doctor and obama's
00:09:22.820doctor and he's a navy admiral and a great friend but but uh i will confess there were more than a
00:09:28.760jokes told about Ronnie doing exams and pulling out the rubber gloves. And Ronnie happily went
00:09:39.120along with those jokes. And I did also tell the president that Ronnie was giving us all
00:09:45.620amphetamines. We didn't know why. So, you know, look, you got to have some fun. The president
00:09:51.740was in a very good mood. He was working on his speech. So the office in the front where he sits,
00:09:56.120there's a desk. You've been in there many times, and there's a desk with a chair in front of it,
00:10:01.700and then kind of a couch in the office. And so for the tail part of the flight, we went up and
00:10:07.580hung out with the president. He was working on the speech for the first chunk of the flight.
00:10:13.380And so it was productive. You're talking about a lot of issues going on. You're talking about
00:10:18.360what's happening. And so anytime I join the president on Air Force One, I usually go in
00:10:25.100with several issues that I want to raise with him and talk about, and this was no exception.
00:10:30.780It's always a blast to get on Air Force One. I mean, it never, ever, ever gets old. If it does,
00:10:35.860you've got a problem, is what I tell people. I want to talk about the midterms as well and what
00:10:40.220all you guys chatted about there, because that had to be an obvious, serious point of conversation
00:10:46.020is we're getting really close. Yeah, a lot of the conversation with the president was about
00:10:51.500the midterms, and in particular about Texas, he was asking about Ken Paxton, how the race looks,
00:10:56.560how confident I was that we were going to win. And I said, yes, we are going to win this race,
00:11:00.440but it is a very serious race. And we talked about how I was glad he was coming there,
00:11:05.480that winning the race, I think, is going to come down to turnout. And President Trump
00:11:10.600coming down and energizing his base to come out and vote will make a real difference. We're going
00:11:16.980to win, but the president's help makes a difference. This was a campaign trip for the
00:11:22.280president coming to Texas. You said that was obviously very important for him to get down here,
00:11:27.000but he's about to hit the campaign trail really all over the country. What did the president have
00:11:32.320to say about that in the midterms in general? Oh, look, he said for the next 32 days, he's going to
00:11:36.740be on the road and he's going to be doing rallies all over the country to energize voters to turn
00:11:41.100out for the midterms. He actually was kind of a little apologetic in that he said in the tail
00:11:46.580part of his election in 24, he said he was on the road for 120 days straight. So he says,
00:11:52.960I feel kind of bad. I'm only doing 32 days. But well, that was my election in 32 days. But look,
00:11:57.860this last month, he's planning to be on the road nonstop and campaign across the country. And I
00:12:03.360think that that will be very helpful. Now, it's a long flight from, you know,
00:12:09.240Andrews all the way down to, I'm assuming you guys came into Love Field. And that means you
00:12:13.940had a lot of time to talk about other issues as well. What else did you and the president chat
00:12:17.460about? You know, one of the things we talked the most about is the president had two big,
00:12:23.400big victories this week that are really consequential, and they're on two issues that
00:12:27.380matter dearly to me and that I've been very engaged on. The first was the Trump accounts,
00:12:34.340and as you know, I wrote the legislation that became the Trump accounts, and for a year
00:12:39.020we had been having a battle because the way I wrote the Trump accounts was for them to be
00:12:45.000auto-enrolled, for them to automatically be created for every kid in America.
00:21:27.960But, you know, they're thrilled to meet him, and they're shaking his hand, and then I actually
00:21:32.320several times said, here, give me your phone, and I would take a picture of them with the
00:21:35.820president on their phone, which made them really happy.
00:21:38.940But watching the love that those factory workers have for the president is really amazing.
00:21:47.520We were there with the CEO. The CEO said that the plant was booming, that they were having their best year because of the president's economic policies.
00:21:56.840And look, the president's whole message at the rally was we have incredible economic numbers and the media is lying to the voters and telling everyone the economy is lousy.
00:22:07.260And you and I have covered on this podcast. Look, just this last month, the data came out that we have right now the highest family income ever recorded. Median income is the highest it's ever been recorded in the history of America.
00:22:22.960we also have the lowest poverty rate that has ever been recorded in the history of America.
00:22:30.460That includes the lowest African-American poverty rate, the lowest Hispanic poverty rate,
00:22:36.440and the lowest Native American poverty rate ever recorded in the history of the country.
00:22:40.920And the media doesn't talk about any of that. They don't want you to know any of that.
00:22:44.220And so the president is frustrated. He's visibly frustrated. He was venting on Air Force One.
00:22:49.300And at the rally, he's speaking to the rally, and he's saying, look, you look at these numbers.
00:25:05.480I feel like I shouldn't even say that.0.99
00:25:08.280I feel like in the state of Texas, no Sharia state.1.00
00:25:11.320They're going to throw me in prison.1.00
00:25:13.680But, yeah, hopefully after James Ellery wins, we've got to hold him to account.
00:25:19.420We've got to make sure that he doesn't become another do-nothing Democrat, business as usual, and we've got to keep up that pressure.
00:25:28.080And we have to remind him that we are the force that backed him both early on, and we are the force that allowed him to win this seat of power.
00:25:38.560And if he wants to maintain it, he's got to play ball.
00:25:42.140If he wants to maintain it, Senator, you've just got to play ball.
00:25:45.560Well, look, Hassan Piker, I'm going to give him credit for being honest there.
00:25:48.940I mean, he starts by saying, hopefully, inshallah, James Tallarico wins.
00:25:54.340Now, inshallah is Arabic for if God is willing.0.51
00:28:53.880I'm just having to lie to the voters because I think I can dupe them.
00:28:56.920You know, there also is footage showing one of his field organizers talking about how Tallarico's views are much more anti-Israel than he's admitted publicly.
00:29:11.120Give a listen to this radical field organizer working for Tallarico.
00:29:16.120The person is also a Marxist, but works for the campaign.
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00:31:50.100A shocking crime and a cover-up at the highest levels of the United States Marine Corps.
00:31:56.220Someone opened the door and was the primary shooter.
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00:35:15.540It's also one where heroes have come out and they should be celebrated.
00:35:20.800And that is the attack inside that cockpit on an airplane that was headed towards Tel Aviv, 170 on board.
00:35:27.520And by the grace of God, that pilot fought back that was being attacked, was able to open that door.
00:35:33.080And then the citizens were able to get involved that were on that plane.
00:35:36.820There are heroes that we're hearing about. It's amazing.
00:35:40.080Look, it could have been a truly horrific terror attack.
00:35:43.820It could have murdered 174 people in a fiery crash, and it was a remarkable instance of heroism that averted that.
00:35:52.840So this was a flight, a fly Dubai flight that was going from Dubai to Israel, 174 people on board.
00:36:00.760And midway through the flight, actually pretty near Israel, sort of the tail end of the flight, the co-pilot stabbed the pilot.
00:36:09.860and and the pilot is bleeding he was severely stabbed and while he's bleeding and fighting back
00:36:18.480he reached back and unlocked the cockpit door and pushed it open because the cockpit door is
00:36:24.360normally locked and sealed so passengers can't get in he opens the cockpit door and and and mind you
00:36:30.320the the the plane was at the time it was flying at 33 000 feet and and it ended up plummeting down
00:36:40.180and dropping 13 000 feet in less than two minutes so if you can imagine how terrifying this is you're
00:36:47.440on a on a plane and it starts going down because the pilot's been stabbed in the co-pilot uh and
00:36:54.280he's fighting with the co-pilot and when when the pilot opened the door the passenger saw what was
00:36:59.820going on. And they rushed forward, and a number of Israeli passengers rushed forward, and they
00:37:06.980subdued the terrorist. And so the pilot, the one who was stabbed, was Indian, of Indian descent.
00:37:14.020And the guy was really heroic. He saved the lives of every passenger there. If he'd not opened that
00:37:19.380cockpit door, that plane would have crashed in the ground, and everyone would have died.0.89
00:37:24.080And then the Israelis who rushed in there, I mean, they were, you know, this was a terrorist with a
00:37:28.660knife who had just stabbed the pilot and they subdued him forcibly. And in particular, one,
00:37:34.840an Israeli dentist who was like the lead guy in subduing him. And they got control of the plane0.74
00:37:41.480and it diverted to Saudi Arabia. The terrorist was from Oman. We don't know the details yet.
00:37:50.920We don't know if it's connected to Iran. We don't know if it's connected to Hamas or Hezbollah or
00:37:55.840It was clearly a terrorist attack, but it has not been publicly reported, but it was an extraordinary moment of heroism.
00:38:05.080Not only that, it was one of those moments where I think the story of the heroism and people coming together and also this just reality.
00:38:12.320People now know since 9-11, if your plane is hijacked, the chance of survival are extremely low.
00:38:18.660This is not people grabbing a plane for money.
00:38:20.700This is usually terrorists, like you said and described in the way that you did.
00:38:24.520But I also think just the other part of the story that's incredible to me is that dentist you mentioned is the one that apparently saved the life of that pilot who had been severely wounded.
00:38:35.000That was another part of the story that came out.
00:38:37.200And then you saw even some of the people that were involved had blood still on their clothes.
00:39:52.0009-11 changed all of that because obviously the hijackers there used the plane as bombs to murder nearly 3,000 people and flew them into the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon, and then the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania that we believe was targeting either the White House or the Capitol.
00:40:14.100We don't know which one was the target, but it was headed to Washington and believed to be one of those two.
00:40:18.100if you know that if the terrorist succeeds the plane is going to crash and everyone's going to
00:40:26.520be killed you're a lot more likely to say okay let's go stop the terrorist and and by the way
00:40:32.700because you're now fighting for your survival yeah the the heroes who took the plane down in
00:40:37.800pennsylvania that stopped it from crashing into the the pentagon or the the white house or capital
00:40:42.760they may have saved thousands more lives we don't know how many lives would have been taken had that
00:40:47.720plane gone the distance. And we obviously don't know exactly what transpired, other than that
00:40:54.220they violently took it on and it ended up crashing in an open field. But you're incentivized, okay,
00:41:01.500if I don't stop them, we're all going to die. And in this case, that's exactly what happened.
00:41:07.500They stopped them and everyone lived as a result. You know, just some of the aspect of
00:41:12.600we're all humans came into place with this. When they landed in Saudi Arabia, they do not have
00:41:16.660diplomatic relations with Israel, and yet they treated them like they were their own. And it's0.51
00:41:23.400just another part of that story where when things like this happen, watching people come together,
00:41:29.060it's what I remember after 9-11. It's what you and I've talked about before, but just that Saudi0.64
00:41:34.300aspect of the story is also truly incredible. Yeah, it is, and the terrorist is now in custody
00:41:41.100in Saudi Arabia is being questioned there. I will say this. I'm not sure anyone really wants
00:41:47.560to be questioned in Saudi Arabia. I think it is likely to be a very, very thorough questioning
00:41:57.060I feel pretty confident of. Yeah, it's an amazing story. It could have ended out a lot worse than
00:42:03.740it did. But because of those heroes, we should celebrate it and just take a moment and recognize
00:42:08.400them as well. Well, and look, this terror attack comes at a time where we also had multiple
00:42:13.560terrorists arrested in the United Kingdom for planning a terror attack on a military base
00:42:18.660there, a base that the U.S. military used. It was a British base, but it was a base that we used
00:42:23.460to launch air attacks on Iran. And at this point, the British Prime Minister has said that that
00:42:30.260terror attack that was thwarted was directly connected to Iran. And so we'll find out more
00:42:36.720details about that. Actually, President Trump, when we landed in Texas, he did a press conference
00:42:42.840with reporters, and they asked him about that, and President Trump was not yet ready to confirm
00:42:47.800that Iran was behind that attempted terror attack, but he said it looks like that may well be,
00:42:54.100and we're trying to ascertain that. You put these together, and it's a dangerous time. We have
00:42:59.120enemies who want to kill Americans. They want to kill Israelis, and these terrorists are dangerous,1.00
00:43:05.160and President Trump, I think, is being a strong and effective commander-in-chief0.73
00:43:09.500acting to protect us from these terrorists.