Latest / Brian Thomas / Congressman Warren Davidson joins Brian Thomas this morning
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- 0:00Speaker 1: It's seven oh six at fifty five KRSD talk station,
- 0:03Speaker 1: and Ryan Thomas happy to be here right now because
- 0:06Speaker 1: it's time when we welcome to the fifty five KARSE
- 0:09Speaker 1: Morning Show, Congressman Warren Davidson. Congressman Davidson, it's always a
- 0:11Speaker 1: pleasure to have you on the fifty five KRCY Morning Show.
- 0:13Speaker 1: Welcome back, sir.
- 0:15Speaker 2: Likewise, Brian always look forward to catching up.
- 0:18Speaker 1: Looking forward to November or toward November. Obviously, inflation's are real,
- 0:21Speaker 1: genuine concern. The numbers were kind of off the charts.
- 0:24Speaker 1: Of course, the ripple effect from the high price of
- 0:26Speaker 1: gasoline and most notably diesel has a ripple effect. I'm
- 0:29Speaker 1: stating the obvious, but people are feeling it, I guess
- 0:32Speaker 1: I really. I just I struggle with the idea that
- 0:35Speaker 1: someone would either not show up to vote, recognizing by
- 0:38Speaker 1: not voting there in essence voting for the other side.
- 0:41Speaker 1: And I'm thinking of Republicans maybe, but that someone would
- 0:44Speaker 1: vote for a Democrat because of inflation, recognizing what the
- 0:50Speaker 1: Democrats stand for, which is more of what we've got now.
- 0:53Speaker 1: I mean, if the Democrats are doing in the price
- 0:55Speaker 1: gas goes up, it's all the name of climate change.
- 0:57Speaker 1: But if Donald Trump tries to do someone with the
- 0:59Speaker 1: Iran means like every other president prior to him has
- 1:02Speaker 1: been trying to do, then we all feel the pain
- 1:04Speaker 1: of it. But we're not willing to deal with this
- 1:06Speaker 1: short term reality to maybe come up with a better end.
- 1:09Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson, your reaction and what your thought is is
- 1:12Speaker 1: we run headlong in November.
- 1:16Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean last week, you know, we had primaries
- 1:18Speaker 2: in Ohio. I was in the district all last week
- 1:23Speaker 2: talking to people, and yeah, candidly, I mean some people
- 1:25Speaker 2: on the writer are a little dismayed, and you know, well,
- 1:28Speaker 2: we wanted this and this and that, and okay, fair enough.
- 1:32Speaker 2: The Senate's kind of running their own blockade on legislation there.
- 1:35Speaker 2: It's hard to get anything through the Senate straits over there.
- 1:39Speaker 2: But you know, in Okay, gas price is high. I
- 1:44Speaker 2: get it. I'm not happy about it either. But if
- 1:48Speaker 2: you don't fight to hold the ground we've already taken,
- 1:51Speaker 2: we're going to lose ground. Ground you won't defend, we're
- 1:53Speaker 2: going to lose. And don't forget the Democrats are crazy
- 1:57Speaker 2: and they tell you that every day. They come out
- 1:58Speaker 2: with plans they think high gas prices are a feature.
- 2:02Speaker 2: You'll complain about it when Trump's president. But they designed
- 2:05Speaker 2: the Green New Deal to make energy costs high and
- 2:09Speaker 2: you know, make it hard to generate electricity and mandate
- 2:11Speaker 2: that everyone uses electric. They wanted high gas prices on
- 2:15Speaker 2: cars so that they could force you to drive an
- 2:18Speaker 2: electric vehicle. They want digital ID, they want a surveillance state,
- 2:22Speaker 2: they want central bank, digital currency, they want all these
- 2:25Speaker 2: kinds of things out there. So they haven't stopped being crazy.
- 2:29Speaker 2: And I get it, you might beat this made because
- 2:31Speaker 2: XYZ isn't happening yet or something you didn't want has happened.
- 2:36Speaker 2: But November is our versus d time, Like, look, this
- 2:41Speaker 2: is normal versus crazy, and the primary is are where
- 2:44Speaker 2: you fight it out and go, well, which direction do
- 2:46Speaker 2: we want the party to go? And increasingly though, I
- 2:49Speaker 2: do find some people who feel like neither party really
- 2:51Speaker 2: represents them. And I think that's the challenge for Republicans
- 2:55Speaker 2: and frankly Democrats to listen. You know, there was a
- 2:57Speaker 2: time where you know, law and order wasn't a partisan issue.
- 3:00Speaker 2: When you look at the things going on in Cincinnati,
- 3:02Speaker 2: you're like, really, you're pleading out five people for misdemeanors
- 3:07Speaker 2: that are committing what looks like felonies. Yeah, but you're
- 3:10Speaker 2: not going to have trials for this stuff. I mean,
- 3:12Speaker 2: you're not putting people in jail to commit serious crimes.
- 3:15Speaker 2: This seems pretty crazy. I wonder why you're getting more crime.
- 3:18Speaker 2: I don't see how that's partisan.
- 3:20Speaker 1: I couldn't agree with you more. And then to a
- 3:22Speaker 1: conversation we had earlier, we were discussing the massy Gowrain,
- 3:26Speaker 1: the most expensive race for a House representative seat in
- 3:29Speaker 1: the history of our country. Mind you that someone commented that, well,
- 3:33Speaker 1: MASSI shouldn't even running as a Republican. He's not a Republican.
- 3:36Speaker 1: I just pause. It's wait a second. I don't even
- 3:38Speaker 1: know what it is to be a Republican or even
- 3:39Speaker 1: a Democrat these days. The width and of the differences
- 3:44Speaker 1: between someone with a D next to their name communist
- 3:47Speaker 1: all the way to our JFK kind of Democrats, and
- 3:50Speaker 1: over on the Republican side, you know, your rhinos all
- 3:52Speaker 1: the way over to your hardest, maybe libertarian minded folks
- 3:55Speaker 1: like myself. It's a big tent and a lot of
- 3:58Speaker 1: different types of our and these are beneath it. I
- 4:02Speaker 1: think that's just we find ourselves more and more diverse
- 4:05Speaker 1: within our own parties these days.
- 4:08Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I've encouraged Matt Walsh to do his next
- 4:11Speaker 2: documentary and call it what is a Republican? You know,
- 4:15Speaker 2: because what is a Woman story was pretty successful and
- 4:18Speaker 2: laid it out. Now, finally everybody knows what a woman is,
- 4:22Speaker 2: But a Republican it is harder to define. You know.
- 4:24Speaker 2: The party is really a coalition the Democrats. You basically
- 4:29Speaker 2: have classical Democrats to communists, and the Republicans basically have
- 4:32Speaker 2: versus the everybody but communists in the GOP with that
- 4:39Speaker 2: kind of big tent building that frankly, Donald Trump led
- 4:42Speaker 2: to give us the majorities and to get the White
- 4:45Speaker 2: House again, to give us the majorities in the Senate,
- 4:47Speaker 2: to give us the majorities in the House. It took everybody.
- 4:50Speaker 2: We get the nearest majority going, and you lose that
- 4:54Speaker 2: faction that frankly, Thomas Massey represents really well. On the
- 4:57Speaker 2: one hand, then you go to the other end, like
- 5:00Speaker 2: what does Michael Aller doing talking about amnesty plans? Where
- 5:03Speaker 2: was that on the Republican plan? Why can't we get
- 5:06Speaker 2: rid of the Green New Deal? Well, guys like Michael
- 5:08Speaker 2: Ohler and you're like, Okay, these guys classically would be
- 5:12Speaker 2: called the rhinos, the guys that are supporting and defend
- 5:15Speaker 2: the Constitution and want smaller government, they would classically be
- 5:18Speaker 2: called conservatives. So the idea that you're going to call
- 5:23Speaker 2: Matthew rhino, I'm like, well, maybe if you consider that
- 5:27Speaker 2: Republicans have drifted over him here to John and Micha
- 5:31Speaker 2: Lawler Land, then yeah, those of us that still want
- 5:34Speaker 2: conservatives smaller government, maybe we really are the Republicans in
- 5:39Speaker 2: name only because we're still for like the old platform
- 5:42Speaker 2: that wanted more freedom and less government.
- 5:44Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, Conorsman David said, I I thought that when
- 5:49Speaker 1: I first read this, and my reaction along these lines.
- 5:51Speaker 1: You know, it's in essence again thinking about how you
- 5:53Speaker 1: would vote in November given the state of economic affairs
- 5:56Speaker 1: right now, and I know it's not great. But Democrat
- 5:59Speaker 1: California representative head lou He had a post on social media,
- 6:03Speaker 1: and at first I read it, I thought, Wow, a
- 6:06Speaker 1: Democrat is warning about what will happen if the Democrats
- 6:11Speaker 1: take over in the midterms. No, no, no, he is
- 6:13Speaker 1: proud of what will come if they do. Here's what
- 6:16Speaker 1: he had to say. Illegals will get back full scope
- 6:19Speaker 1: medical That would be the Medicare and program in California,
- 6:22Speaker 1: Medicaid free insurance, free dental benefits under medical free, pre
- 6:25Speaker 1: natal and postmartem care, restored coverage for undocumented children with
- 6:29Speaker 1: young and young adults. Tax credits were undocumented and free
- 6:32Speaker 1: snap food stamps assistance. Like I said, I first read that,
- 6:35Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, a Democrat is warning about this.
- 6:38Speaker 1: It's going to be a financial catastrophe. We're giving all
- 6:40Speaker 1: of these taxpayer dollar programs to illegal immigrants. No, this
- 6:44Speaker 1: is something he's campaigning on.
- 6:47Speaker 2: Yeah. No. I was talking with a Democratic colleague about,
- 6:51Speaker 2: you know, the difference between Trump's border being secure and theirs,
- 6:54Speaker 2: and you know, and she's like, yeah, I mean didn't
- 6:57Speaker 2: accidentally open the border. I mean, we're for this. And
- 7:01Speaker 2: I'm like, well, okay, we know that. And that's the
- 7:04Speaker 2: thing you go into the election, you take for granted. Well,
- 7:07Speaker 2: now it feels better because we have a secure border.
- 7:10Speaker 2: I don't forget the minute that Democrats get a chance
- 7:13Speaker 2: to have an open border or turn off the funding.
- 7:16Speaker 2: I mean, they don't have the majority right now. Somehow
- 7:19Speaker 2: soon got boxed in in the Senate we aren't even
- 7:21Speaker 2: funding ice and border patrol with current appropriations. We're doing
- 7:25Speaker 2: that with funding from last year's big, beautiful bill that
- 7:29Speaker 2: was supposed to be a surge in resources for ice
- 7:31Speaker 2: and border patrol. Now they're on life support and over
- 7:35Speaker 2: the neck. Before June first, we got to find a
- 7:38Speaker 2: way to get some cash back into the ice and worttrol.
- 7:42Speaker 2: We literally have signed off on a funding plan that
- 7:47Speaker 2: the Senate says, this is the only thing we can
- 7:49Speaker 2: get done. Because John Thune, the guy who said I
- 7:53Speaker 2: want to lead the Senate, is full of excuses and
- 7:55Speaker 2: not full of finding a way. And my view leaders
- 7:59Speaker 2: find a way. He's not doing that. I mean he
- 8:01Speaker 2: should have held the floor and said, I'm happy to
- 8:04Speaker 2: have you debate every single day. Why you don't want
- 8:08Speaker 2: to fund a secure border? Yeah, Why you don't want
- 8:12Speaker 2: to screen the voter rolls for people that are here illegally?
- 8:16Speaker 2: We can talk about that every single day until election
- 8:19Speaker 2: day in November. I couldn't think of a better campaign
- 8:22Speaker 2: at you don't even have to spend money, you just
- 8:24Speaker 2: That's the only thing going on on the Senate floor
- 8:26Speaker 2: until the Democrats concede that the American people do want
- 8:30Speaker 2: a secure border.
- 8:31Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's we I mean, the Republicans are on
- 8:34Speaker 1: the winning side of that. From a pole standing standpoint.
- 8:37Speaker 1: That's an issue that is you know, shared by Democrats, Republicans,
- 8:40Speaker 1: and independence to light a secure border. You know, and
- 8:42Speaker 1: going back to one of the bigger points in this gallery,
- 8:44Speaker 1: massy thing going back and forth. You know, they're critical
- 8:47Speaker 1: of Donald Trump or Thomas Massey for not voting for
- 8:50Speaker 1: Donald Trump's border wall. I got to be quick to interject,
- 8:53Speaker 1: just a simple change of administration without an extra mile
- 8:56Speaker 1: of wall being built, resulted in the border being shut
- 8:58Speaker 1: down and the stop of the flow of illegal immigrants.
- 9:01Speaker 1: It's amazing what one administration change can do. But to
- 9:04Speaker 1: your point, the Democrats, obviously in dealing with the funding issue,
- 9:08Speaker 1: are not dealing with it. Clearly want the funding to
- 9:11Speaker 1: stop so there are no resources so the border gets
- 9:14Speaker 1: back open again. I mean, that's just flat out anti American,
- 9:17Speaker 1: nefarious congress from Messy. My comments not yours, but you
- 9:21Speaker 1: can reply.
- 9:23Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I mean the idea that we need a
- 9:25Speaker 2: wall to secure the border, I think, having been down
- 9:29Speaker 2: there and looked at it, it's not like what people
- 9:32Speaker 2: are depicting like it's a wall, like the big brick
- 9:35Speaker 2: wall that surrounds the Vatican and keeps all illegals out
- 9:39Speaker 2: of the Vatican. It's a fence, really steel fence. It's
- 9:46Speaker 2: got slats so you can see what's on the other side.
- 9:49Speaker 2: That's a security feature. It's kept all kinds of sensors
- 9:52Speaker 2: on it, yeah, so you can detect all kinds of
- 9:56Speaker 2: things in it. The other thing is they've built a
- 9:59Speaker 2: road networ work, and when I was down there, they're like, look,
- 10:01Speaker 2: the train in a lot of these areas very rugged,
- 10:04Speaker 2: and we were on horseback and ATVs to be able
- 10:07Speaker 2: to get through here. So the coyotes cartel guys that
- 10:11Speaker 2: were trafficked the people through the border, they would find
- 10:14Speaker 2: these really rugged areas and bring people through and it
- 10:17Speaker 2: was just hard to get to and if you could
- 10:19Speaker 2: get to them, it's like you've got two guys, but
- 10:21Speaker 2: now you've got forty cartel people and you're like, what
- 10:24Speaker 2: are we going to do here? You can't even get
- 10:26Speaker 2: reinforcements very easily. So this road network's been able to
- 10:30Speaker 2: get them to respond and have defense in depth. And
- 10:33Speaker 2: then back behind the border fence, the road it is
- 10:39Speaker 2: our sensors and arrays that have not just cameras, but thermals, seismic,
- 10:44Speaker 2: all kinds of signals, intelligence, and literally Joe Biden was
- 10:48Speaker 2: turning those things off and disabling them when he was president.
- 10:51Speaker 2: This is money that we had already spent. And they say, well,
- 10:55Speaker 2: the president can't just ignore Congress. Congress already appropriated the
- 10:59Speaker 2: money for the wall. The wall was there, and Joe
- 11:01Speaker 2: Biden literally sold it off. So I mean these things like, Okay,
- 11:06Speaker 2: we had a handful of people that didn't vote the
- 11:08Speaker 2: right with this passed, and I think the the idea
- 11:11Speaker 2: that it's quote a wall and everything. Look, it's a
- 11:15Speaker 2: it's a very effective way to improve our border security.
- 11:19Speaker 2: I think it's a common sense thing, and that is
- 11:21Speaker 2: part of what we've the good things that came out
- 11:24Speaker 2: of the beautiful bill. There's some compromises that guys like
- 11:27Speaker 2: Michae Lawler that wants an amnesty plan forced us to
- 11:31Speaker 2: keep in there, and you know, bailouts for blue states
- 11:34Speaker 2: with state and local tax deductions for places like eric
- 11:38Speaker 2: in California that are giddy. But Okay, he's a representative
- 11:41Speaker 2: from New York and I'm glad we can get a
- 11:44Speaker 2: Republican elected in New York. His views would probably be
- 11:48Speaker 2: left to Greg Landsman's time to vote for the when
- 11:53Speaker 2: it's time to vote for speaker. At least Lawler's in
- 11:56Speaker 2: the right side on that one.
- 11:57Speaker 1: There you go, what does it mean to be a Republican?
- 11:59Speaker 1: And real quick here, all those sensors that you refer to,
- 12:02Speaker 1: those are great if there's someone there in a position
- 12:05Speaker 1: to respond to the activity that is alerted by the censors.
- 12:09Speaker 1: Go back to the Democrats refusing to fund more with
- 12:11Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson, paused for a moment and let me mention
- 12:13Speaker 1: pain you have constant joint seventy ify have KRC detax
- 12:18Speaker 1: station bron Thomas with Congressman Born Davidson. Congressman Davidson. President
- 12:23Speaker 1: Trump's talk was Jijenping. I know that the Iran war
- 12:25Speaker 1: will come up in conversation. The Chinese are feeling it
- 12:28Speaker 1: as a consequence, like apparently everybody else in the world is.
- 12:31Speaker 1: You obviously have the inflation thing going on because of
- 12:33Speaker 1: the price of oil due to the disruption of the
- 12:35Speaker 1: Strait of horror moves. But it seems like the more
- 12:38Speaker 1: we move through this, more bad news comes out.
- 12:40Speaker 2: Now.
- 12:40Speaker 1: Donald Trump had talked about destroying completely the Iranian military,
- 12:43Speaker 1: but US intelligence now is acknowledging, at least widely reported that, Yeah, well,
- 12:48Speaker 1: they do have about ninety percent of their underground missile
- 12:51Speaker 1: storage lawn facilities as well as drone manufacturing capabilities. We
- 12:55Speaker 1: didn't get rid of that. And the thought is the
- 12:57Speaker 1: Iranians are holding us, are standing first on their position
- 13:00Speaker 1: because they're going to unleash those on the various like
- 13:04Speaker 1: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and the other oil producers
- 13:06Speaker 1: in the region to wreak even more economic havoc on
- 13:09Speaker 1: the world. That's kind of a strong hand. They have
- 13:12Speaker 1: mines now at submarines, these small swift boats they have
- 13:15Speaker 1: zipping all over the place, reportedly about a thousand of those.
- 13:19Speaker 1: What's your take on this and where are we in
- 13:21Speaker 1: terms of your perception in terms of negotiations with the Iranians.
- 13:25Speaker 2: I think it's progress that we have a ceasefire that is,
- 13:28Speaker 2: you know, indoor not with no violations, but you know,
- 13:32Speaker 2: relative relative de escalation. I think both sides would like
- 13:36Speaker 2: to get a I guess a documented framework to be
- 13:42Speaker 2: able to coexist peacefully moving forward, and I think that's progress.
- 13:47Speaker 2: I think China can be helpful on that and essentive
- 13:50Speaker 2: of the Iceberg. President Trump's a trip to China has
- 13:52Speaker 2: been long awaited. I think this is going to be
- 13:54Speaker 2: one of the most consequential things for the US for
- 13:58Speaker 2: years if it's well, and frankly, if it's done terribly,
- 14:03Speaker 2: so hopefully it's it's done really well, and you get
- 14:07Speaker 2: a nice framework for how the US and China work
- 14:09Speaker 2: together and compete and have shared interests and a clear
- 14:15Speaker 2: delineation where we divide on those things and we can
- 14:19Speaker 2: do that peacefully. China would certainly be more advantaged by
- 14:24Speaker 2: having a good relationship with the United States than by
- 14:27Speaker 2: having a good relationship with Iran, and I think they
- 14:30Speaker 2: can be helpful in providing leverage to get Iran to
- 14:33Speaker 2: do the right things there. But look, independent of anyone else,
- 14:37Speaker 2: Iran's military is strong, it's big, powerful, The country's you know,
- 14:43Speaker 2: four times as big as California, with some incredibly rugged terrain,
- 14:48Speaker 2: and our military is amazing. The tactical operations and the
- 14:53Speaker 2: you know, precision of the strikes have been amazing. But
- 14:56Speaker 2: they got backed off to some extent. They took out
- 14:59Speaker 2: most of the missile loge capability. They've wiped out a
- 15:03Speaker 2: lot of the major Navy operations and the blockade is working,
- 15:07Speaker 2: and I think in that sense, strategic patience is smart
- 15:11Speaker 2: for what the President's doing there. And if you pump
- 15:14Speaker 2: oil every day, you got to ship at whale every day.
- 15:17Speaker 2: One of the most troubling things is Iran. Once they
- 15:20Speaker 2: run out of places to put the oil, they may
- 15:23Speaker 2: be dumping oil into the golf, creating a massive environmental disaster,
- 15:27Speaker 2: and that'll have huge consequences just for shipping lanes and
- 15:32Speaker 2: use of the Persian golf, you know, going forward. So
- 15:38Speaker 2: I think we got to get find a way to
- 15:39Speaker 2: get this resolve, and I'm hopeful that this trip to
- 15:42Speaker 2: China helps produce it, because I hate to see it
- 15:46Speaker 2: be escalated again and longer more intense were coming afterwards.
- 15:51Speaker 1: Well, I hate to give up on the idea of
- 15:53Speaker 1: the international community might step up and go Wait a second,
- 15:55Speaker 1: the Iranians are at fall for all this. Sure, Donald
- 15:58Speaker 1: Trump launched the war against Irani with the Israelis help,
- 16:01Speaker 1: But in the final analysis, the Iranians were always the
- 16:03Speaker 1: flying the ointment. They funded terrorism, They're the ones that
- 16:06Speaker 1: greed that caused instability in the region. They're the ones
- 16:08Speaker 1: largely responsible for various upticks and downticks, and the oil prices.
- 16:13Speaker 1: I mean, the world is hurting because the Iranians have
- 16:17Speaker 1: shut down. The straight of horror moves. Where is the
- 16:19Speaker 1: rest of the world before we part company?
- 16:21Speaker 2: Congressman Davidson, Well, there are the same place as the Democrats.
- 16:25Speaker 2: It's all Trump's fault. They named Trump. And the reality
- 16:28Speaker 2: is that you're picking a ran over Donald Trump, and
- 16:31Speaker 2: then you get to be crazy. I mean, so that's
- 16:33Speaker 2: that's the reality is. You got the globalists run the
- 16:35Speaker 2: European Union trying to push it. Couldn't even get it
- 16:39Speaker 2: through in Britain. So now they got the king doing
- 16:41Speaker 2: the chief globalism stuff over there. It's just a reminder
- 16:45Speaker 2: of why we declared our independence in the first place.
- 16:48Speaker 2: So all the Democrats want us to do more and
- 16:50Speaker 2: more like Europe, and it's like, no, no, let's remember what
- 16:53Speaker 2: we did here. We aren't those folks. We're going to
- 16:56Speaker 2: defend freedom, and I guess the thing, keep calm and
- 16:59Speaker 2: defense freedom. If you do that, things are going to
- 17:02Speaker 2: be okay.
- 17:02Speaker 1: Yeah, the European Union shore has a problem with immigration
- 17:05Speaker 1: as well, don't they. Maybe that's part of a grand design.
- 17:08Speaker 1: As we part company, Congressman Warren Davids, and I certainly
- 17:10Speaker 1: appreciate your coming on the program every week. It's always
- 17:12Speaker 1: great having you on. We'll do it again next week
- 17:14Speaker 1: and between now and then, keep my fingers crossed for
- 17:16Speaker 1: a global peace as well. As you're having a great week,
- 17:19Speaker 1: take care of my friend.