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Race In America: Wesley Hunt joins us, plus Biden docs, Balloons & Immigration · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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Speaker 1: A big victory and it involves the University of Delaware
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Speaker 1: that we called for an investigation right here on this podcast.
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Speaker 1: Plus we're gonna get you the latest update on the
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Speaker 1: Chinese balloons and the present, finally talking about it weeks later.
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Speaker 1: Plus we've got a very special guest with us. It's
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Speaker 1: verdict was Senator Ted Cruz. Senator gonna be with you today.
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Speaker 1: For everyone watching this podcast, there's a reason why your
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Speaker 1: comfortable chair is missing. We have a guest coming up,
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Speaker 1: Wesley Hunt's going to join us to have a very
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Speaker 1: cool conversation. You don't want to miss that. But for
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Speaker 1: everybody before they start freaking out commenting where the chairs
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Speaker 1: they're coming back, want to make that very clear. You
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Speaker 1: told me I had to give up the comfy chair.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure it would invited with that's very true.
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Speaker 1: Who were those connects? I know it was it was
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Speaker 1: it was a conflict of where does the third chair got?
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Speaker 1: We will figure that out. But I just wanted everyone
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Speaker 1: to just don't worry. The cactus isn't going anywhere. Neither
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Speaker 1: of the comfy chairs. They're coming back. There was a
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Speaker 1: very big victory and it's a serious victory, and I
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Speaker 1: think it should be treated that way. You, several weeks
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Speaker 1: ago called and we made news to the point where
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Speaker 1: it was asked the White House Press briefing that center
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Speaker 1: Ted Cruz was calling for the documents at the University
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Speaker 1: of Delaware to be looked at by the FBI. We
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Speaker 1: now know that at least on two occasions, the FBI
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Speaker 1: has actually gone to the University of Delaware to look
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Speaker 1: at these documents. Let's remind people of why you were
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Speaker 1: calling for that, and also how many documents are actually
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Speaker 1: at the University of Delaware. This may take a long
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Speaker 1: time to go through them all. Well, the University of
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Speaker 1: Delaware has Biden's Senate documents, and after they began discovering
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Speaker 1: classified documents, it seems just about everywhere Biden went from
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Speaker 1: his Wilmington house to Bias Corvette too, in the room
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Speaker 1: next to the garage too, in the Penn Center. At
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Speaker 1: some point it started getting ridiculous, like where doesn't this
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Speaker 1: guy keep classified documents? And the biggest trove of Biden
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Speaker 1: documents is at the University of Delaware, and it consists
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Speaker 1: of over one thousand, eight hundred and fifty boxes of documents.
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Speaker 1: So it's a massive amount of documents and listen. This
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Speaker 1: podcast has always tried number one to make news and
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Speaker 1: number two to drive news, and in this instance it
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Speaker 1: was both of us because several weeks ago we called
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Speaker 1: in this podcast and said the FBI needs to go
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Speaker 1: to the University of Delaware and investigate those documents, go
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Speaker 1: through them, given that he's leaving them everywhere else, they
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Speaker 1: need to go through them there. And well, CNN, you
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Speaker 1: can see the CNN story first on CNN FBI search
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Speaker 1: University of Delaware for Biden documents or said, so that
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Speaker 1: that broke this week and apparently they've searched it twice. Now,
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Speaker 1: what's not clear from the story it said they searched
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Speaker 1: them twice. It's not clear how thorough is search. Look,
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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, to go through one eight hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty boxes of documents takes some serious time. So
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Speaker 1: I don't know that they went through all the boxes.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if they went through one box or
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Speaker 1: one hundred or one eight hundred and fifty. They need
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Speaker 1: to do a thorough review of all the documents, and
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Speaker 1: it's not clear from this story whether they have or not.
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Speaker 1: But it's at least a step in the right direction.
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Speaker 1: That they're examining this massive cash of documents, and that's
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Speaker 1: what we called for. There was a shocking admission by
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Speaker 1: the President about classified documents. I want to get your
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Speaker 1: was a shocking at mission in an interview. It was
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Speaker 1: clearly something that I think the White House wishes. Joe
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Speaker 1: Biden wouldn't have said that. Whatever happened, Yeah, it never
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Speaker 1: happened before. Right, You put him in front of a microphone,
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Speaker 1: and well, you know, he is the best communicator in
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Speaker 1: the White House ever. Ever, the sad thing is given
5:02
Speaker 1: Karine John Pierre and the rest he just might be,
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Speaker 1: he actually might be. You've got Karine John Pierry, have
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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. You know Biden. You know when he says, well, fota, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that might be the most articulate thing coming out of
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Speaker 1: the White House that day. Well he may have been
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Speaker 1: actually too articulate this week because he was asked about
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Speaker 1: classified documents in this interview, and he put a timeline
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Speaker 1: on his own classified documents he may have and referred
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Speaker 1: back to his first year in Congress, saying that some
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Speaker 1: documents might date back. His word was some pages of
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Speaker 1: classified documents made date back to his first years in office.
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Speaker 1: That's now we're talking about a fifty year window here. Look,
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Speaker 1: that's just bizarre. I had another classified briefing this week.
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Speaker 1: That makes the third classified briefing in two weeks, all
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Speaker 1: on China. As I walked out of the classified briefing
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Speaker 1: this week, they asked, as they usually do, do you
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Speaker 1: have any classified documents with you. We had a whole
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Speaker 1: bunch of classified documents that we were going through concerning China,
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Speaker 1: and I laughed and said, nope, I always leave them here.
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Speaker 1: I'd never taken them out. I don't have to worry
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Speaker 1: if I've classified documents at home, because I've read them
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Speaker 1: in one place, in one place only, and that isn't
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Speaker 1: a secure skiff in the Capitol. So if I'm not
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Speaker 1: in the skiff, I don't have a classified document. I
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Speaker 1: don't understand what Biden was doing if he was taking
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Speaker 1: classified documents out of the Senate forty fifty years ago.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe they didn't have skiffs back in
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Speaker 1: the days of horses and buggies, but I don't get
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Speaker 1: how he could have documents from his time of Senate. Lastly,
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Speaker 1: on this there has been a lot of speculation, and
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Speaker 1: you can see this narrative coming out from Democrats specifically saying, well,
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Speaker 1: there was different times in DC earlier on, and I've
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Speaker 1: even heard people say after nine to eleven, we got
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Speaker 1: more serious about classified documents. Do you buy that as
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Speaker 1: an excuse for why he would have documents for fifty
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Speaker 1: years ago, forty or thirty, because it seems like he
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Speaker 1: had never Last I checked, his vice presidency was after
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Speaker 1: nine to eleven. Yeah, most of the documents at least
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Speaker 1: according to the public reports that he has, because the
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Speaker 1: intel community won't tell us what he has. But most
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Speaker 1: of the documents, according to the press reports were from
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Speaker 1: his time as VP that was well after nine to eleven,
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Speaker 1: and it was clear that he doesn't take it all
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Speaker 1: that seriously. It's weird to see this White House now
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Speaker 1: continue to find documents University Delaware. I think maybe a
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Speaker 1: huge explosion with his story here, and it connects a
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Speaker 1: lot of dots. I also want to ask you about
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Speaker 1: China and the Chinese balloon. There was another classified briefing
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Speaker 1: you guys have gotten. There's been more information coming out,
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Speaker 1: seems like apparently in the President actually had a press
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Speaker 1: conference on this. We're shooting down random stuff here. That's
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Speaker 1: shocking as well that maybe we're overreacting. So we've had
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Speaker 1: the last two weeks three all senators classified briefings. That
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Speaker 1: that is unusual. I've been in the Senate ten years.
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Speaker 1: I can't remember a period of time where we've had
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Speaker 1: three all senators classified briefings. You know, I'm on the
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Speaker 1: Senate Foreign Relations Committee, so we'll sometimes have committee specific briefings,
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Speaker 1: but to have all hundred senators there is very unusual.
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Speaker 1: To have three in about eight days, and they were
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Speaker 1: all on China is striking in Look the last podcast,
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Speaker 1: we were talking about the classified briefing that I'd just
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Speaker 1: come from, and I said it was thoroughly unhelpful and unsatisfactory. Well,
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Speaker 1: what's happened since then? Since then? The White House said
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Speaker 1: their press conference where they stood up and said, we
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Speaker 1: don't know what the hell we shot down. We don't
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Speaker 1: know three things we shot in the sky damned if
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Speaker 1: we know what they are. But the White House said,
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Speaker 1: we're pretty sure they weren't Chinese. And this is where
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Speaker 1: it's not comforting, by the way they should on your
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Speaker 1: standing that from a pr perspective, it's not comforting when
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Speaker 1: we're supposed to have the greatest military in the world
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Speaker 1: and you literally don't know what you're shooting down and
9:06
Speaker 1: then you say, but you think it's not Chinese, Okay,
9:09
Speaker 1: but it's it's even worse than this. So take a
9:13
Speaker 1: look at this. This is a tweet from Aviation Week.
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Speaker 1: A small globe trotting balloon declared missing in action by
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Speaker 1: an Illinois based hobbyist club, has emerged as a candidate
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Speaker 1: to explain one of the three mystery objects shot down
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Speaker 1: by four heat seeking missiles launched by US Air Force fighters.
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Speaker 1: And so this particular hobbyist group, it is called the
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Speaker 1: Northern Illinois Bottle Caps Balloon Brigade. We should sign up
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Speaker 1: and become members of that. I think that's something that
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Speaker 1: we should do with our free time. So, Ben, I
9:49
Speaker 1: want you to stop for a second. We're sitting here
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Speaker 1: tonight and we don't know, but the Air Force might
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Speaker 1: have shot down a frigging balloon launched by a high
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Speaker 1: school science club. That is bizarre, and why they're firing
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Speaker 1: heat seeking missiles from fighter jets at a high school
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Speaker 1: science project. The White Houses explanation was weird on this.
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Speaker 1: Let's go there for a second. They actually said, well,
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Speaker 1: we changed our radar and the way that we are
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Speaker 1: looking for things. We basically slowed it down and look
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Speaker 1: for objects that we're moving slower, so we're picking up
10:31
Speaker 1: a lot more stuff, which could explain why we picked
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Speaker 1: up this balloon, and therefore we're justified in shooting it down.
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Speaker 1: So look, this is something we talked about in the
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Speaker 1: last last pod, and it's important understand Joe Biden in
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Speaker 1: this administration, they are fundamentally weak on China. They're weak
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Speaker 1: on China because they're in bed with China, because they
10:51
Speaker 1: depend on China to build the Green New Deal. It's
10:54
Speaker 1: why they are importing electric vehicles and batteries built with
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Speaker 1: slave labor and concentration camps in China. Their donors, their
11:03
Speaker 1: funders are all in bed with China. Why did the
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Speaker 1: Biden administration do nothing while Chinese spice balloon was over
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Speaker 1: US airspace for over a week conducting espionage Because they're
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Speaker 1: weak on China. Then it became a press matter and
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Speaker 1: they realized, oh crap, people realize we're weak on China.
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Speaker 1: So what did they do? They waited till the mission
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Speaker 1: was over and shot it down over the Atlantic once
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Speaker 1: it had completed its espionage. How do you explain the
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Speaker 1: rest of this? The rest of this has nothing to
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Speaker 1: do with national security, has nothing to do with defending
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Speaker 1: the nation. This is a press operation, you know. For
11:40
Speaker 1: all I know, it's Karine John Pierre sitting there in
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Speaker 1: the situation room going, okay, shoot that one down. Look,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't comfort me that the commander in chief is
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Speaker 1: sending up the Air Force to shoot something down and
11:51
Speaker 1: they don't know what the hell it is. Just to
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Speaker 1: say we got another one and look see we're taking this.
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Speaker 1: We saw something and just figured fire a missile at it.
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Speaker 1: Like that's not a comforting If their answer is we
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Speaker 1: don't know what we shot down. Why are you shooting
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Speaker 1: things down? You know what they are? And if they
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Speaker 1: might be a high school science club's balloon. If Saturday
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Speaker 1: Night Live came up with that, it would be dismissed
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Speaker 1: as ridiculous. I think Joe Biden, it would be a
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Speaker 1: great skit. It really would. It would be hysterical skit,
12:23
Speaker 1: except this is real life. This is real life. And
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Speaker 1: what they're even saying on MSNBC. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: you saw this, but the other morning they were saying,
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Speaker 1: we're getting reports that we could have shot down space trash.
12:36
Speaker 1: How do you not look at it and go, you know,
12:38
Speaker 1: space trash. We don't need to blow it up. You know,
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Speaker 1: Elon Musk's car is in low earth orbit. He launched
12:46
Speaker 1: his car into space. I don't know if that's Yeah,
12:48
Speaker 1: he has like video of his car orbiting the Earth,
12:50
Speaker 1: which is a little bizarre. I hope they didn't shoot
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Speaker 1: Elon's car down. I think it's a little bit higher
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Speaker 1: than these were. But next time you talked to him,
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Speaker 1: you should ask him about that. Does he know where
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Speaker 1: it is? Because he might want to let them know
13:01
Speaker 1: because they may shoot that down next. Like it is
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Speaker 1: they are giving the go order because this is a
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Speaker 1: press operation there showing saying, look how tough we are,
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Speaker 1: we can fire missiles. Yeah. I'm not comforted, to put
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Speaker 1: it mildly, by them allowing the Chinese to surveil us
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Speaker 1: for eight straight days. But I'm also not comforted by
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Speaker 1: them saying shoot everything down. We say, and we don't
13:27
Speaker 1: know what it is like. There is actually a reasonable ground,
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Speaker 1: which is if something is hostile and from an enemy,
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Speaker 1: and it poses a danger of some sort, including espionage,
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Speaker 1: then you shoot it down. If it's a kid's science project,
13:45
Speaker 1: don't shoot down the kid's science project. Yeah, the bottom
13:48
Speaker 1: neck clugs shouldn't be on the list. It. The President
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Speaker 1: owes the American people candor on this that they need
13:55
Speaker 1: to just come clean more than propaganda. Yes, I agree.
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Speaker 1: There was also some else I have been watched this week.
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Speaker 1: It was with you talking about drugs coming across the border.
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Speaker 1: It was very interesting because the DA was not willing
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Speaker 1: there was a unique conversation that you had that people
15:33
Speaker 1: need to hear, and it was about drugs. It was
15:37
Speaker 1: about the DA they're involved in drugs, that's their job,
15:41
Speaker 1: and then refusing to answer some very basic questions about
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Speaker 1: drugs and the drug cartels, the money they're making, fetnel
15:49
Speaker 1: and everything else going on. And it was a question
15:52
Speaker 1: that you asked that they should have been able to
15:54
Speaker 1: answer easily, and they basically were doing everything good to
15:56
Speaker 1: refuse to answer it. Shocking. Yeah, So this was a
15:59
Speaker 1: hearing in the Senate Relations Committee this week and one
16:02
Speaker 1: of the witnesses was the administrator of the DA, so
16:05
Speaker 1: that the head Haunch of the DA was testifying about
16:08
Speaker 1: fentanyl and other drugs coming across the border. And well,
16:11
Speaker 1: here's a portion of her testimony. Senator, I'm gonna defer
16:15
Speaker 1: questions on the border in the ports of entry to
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Speaker 1: the Department of Homelands. So the DA has no view
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Speaker 1: on whether drug dealers crossing the border carry drugs, Senator,
16:23
Speaker 1: as I said, from our investigations, what we see is
16:26
Speaker 1: that the majority of fentanyl. I didn't ask the majority,
16:29
Speaker 1: I said, drug dealers and gotaways are carrying drugs, many
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Speaker 1: of them. Senator, what we see is mostly interdict. What
16:36
Speaker 1: we see is mostly tractor trailers and personal vehicle. All right,
16:40
Speaker 1: So you're sticking to the talking points closely, and congratulations,
16:43
Speaker 1: it's the Democrat talking points that the open borders don't matter.
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Speaker 1: But three hundred and twenty eight thousand, or one point
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Speaker 1: two million goataways don't matter when a hundred thousand people
16:54
Speaker 1: die last year of drug overdoses. My sister died of
16:59
Speaker 1: a drug overdose just over a decade ago. This is
17:03
Speaker 1: a crisis, but it is a man made crisis. This
17:06
Speaker 1: administration made a conscious political decision to open the borders,
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Speaker 1: and one of the results is they have turned Mexican
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Speaker 1: drug cartels into multi billionaires. In twenty eighteen, the amount
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Speaker 1: of money cartels made from human trafficking, according to The
17:23
Speaker 1: New York Times, was five hundred million dollars. Now, just
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Speaker 1: from human trafficking, the cartels are making thirteen billion dollars
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Speaker 1: a year. Again, according to the New York Times, that's
17:35
Speaker 1: a two thousand, six hundred percent increase. Administrator Milgram, the
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Speaker 1: single best thing that happened to Mexican drug cartels in
17:46
Speaker 1: history was Joe Biden becoming president, opening the border and
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Speaker 1: making tens of billions of dollars for these vicious criminals.
17:53
Speaker 1: In your judgment, is it a good thing that these
17:56
Speaker 1: cartels now have tens of billions of dollars from human
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Speaker 1: trafficking and drug trafficking? Senator Cruz, I really appreciate the
18:03
Speaker 1: opportunity to answer your question. And as I have said
18:06
Speaker 1: clearly and will continue to say, there are two cartels
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Speaker 1: in Mexico, the Cineloa and Holisco cartel, that are responsible
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Speaker 1: for the devastation that we are seeing on the streets
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Speaker 1: of our country. It is our top operational priority question
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Speaker 1: to defeat those two cartels and to stop the fentonel
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Speaker 1: and methamphetamine. That would you answer the question I asked,
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Speaker 1: is it a good thing for them to have tens
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Speaker 1: of billions of dollars now that they didn't have? Senator,
18:32
Speaker 1: we are doing everything we can, so you're refusing to
18:34
Speaker 1: answer the question, and it shouldn't be a hard question.
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Speaker 1: Every amount of money. If if I please, if I
18:40
Speaker 1: could please finish, I very much understand your point. We
18:46
Speaker 1: believe that the cartels are making billions of dollars on alicit.
18:52
Speaker 1: It is a terrible thing. Thank you took a long
18:55
Speaker 1: time to get to It's a terrible thing. And you
18:58
Speaker 1: would think the DA would absolutely want to answer, want
19:01
Speaker 1: to answer that question on the front end, saying we're
19:04
Speaker 1: on your side on this one. We agree with you.
19:07
Speaker 1: Billions going to the cartels is never a good thing.
19:11
Speaker 1: It is giving them every tool they need to come
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Speaker 1: after our DA agents, to come after our resources, to
19:18
Speaker 1: come after the people that we have over there. They're
19:20
Speaker 1: trying to help us. So, look, there are a couple
19:23
Speaker 1: of things that were going on there. Number one, and
19:25
Speaker 1: we saw this throughout the hearing as Democrat senators would
19:28
Speaker 1: get up and ask questions. The talking point from the
19:31
Speaker 1: Biden administration and every Democrat senator is that the flood
19:36
Speaker 1: of illegal drugs across our southern border has nothing to
19:41
Speaker 1: do with Joe Biden's open borders. That yes, last year
19:45
Speaker 1: we had over one hundred thousand overdoses, the highest overdoses
19:48
Speaker 1: in the history of our country. And that is apparently
19:51
Speaker 1: completely unrelated to the fact that last year and over
19:54
Speaker 1: the last two years, we've had five point five million
19:57
Speaker 1: people cross the border illegally, the worst degue immigration in
20:00
Speaker 1: the history of our country. So their talking point, which
20:03
Speaker 1: all of them, they made it over and over and
20:05
Speaker 1: over again, as the two are completely unrelated. It's bizarre,
20:08
Speaker 1: it's idiotic. What was interesting there, So the questions I
20:13
Speaker 1: was asking the head of the DA shouldn't be hard. Yeah,
20:20
Speaker 1: the customs and Border patrol agents help you stop drug dealers. Yes,
20:25
Speaker 1: Is it a good thing that Joe Biden has made
20:28
Speaker 1: tens of billions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels? Hell? No,
20:33
Speaker 1: that should have been easy. What's interesting about this administrator?
20:36
Speaker 1: And when she was nominated, I sat down and met
20:39
Speaker 1: with her in my office, and I actually think she's
20:43
Speaker 1: a pretty law and order player, likes she rose up
20:47
Speaker 1: through law and force. But I do think she takes
20:50
Speaker 1: seriously trying to put drug dealers in jail. And part
20:54
Speaker 1: of the reason that was so painful to watch is listen,
20:59
Speaker 1: she's now in a political job where she was appointed
21:01
Speaker 1: by Joe Biden, and she's trying to follow political talking points,
21:07
Speaker 1: and frankly, she's just bad at it. Yeah, like she
21:10
Speaker 1: knows the end. She was like, Okay, I admit you're right,
21:14
Speaker 1: Like she knows go again, Okay, the political marching orders
21:18
Speaker 1: as I'm supposed to say, the drugs are coming through
21:21
Speaker 1: the ports of entry, not across the border. And that's
21:25
Speaker 1: my boss is talking point at the White House, right
21:28
Speaker 1: And ironically, if she were more political, she would have
21:34
Speaker 1: been better at giving that answer. But because I think
21:37
Speaker 1: she's basically a cop and she's being forced to read
21:42
Speaker 1: political talking points. It became ludicrous at the end of
21:45
Speaker 1: the day putting, and so she finally gets there, is
21:48
Speaker 1: it good that they have tens of billions of dollars?
21:50
Speaker 1: She's like, no, it's terrible. Thank you, thank you. That's
21:53
Speaker 1: all you're asking for. It is. You cannot defend this
22:00
Speaker 1: administration's policies on illegal immigration. The only way you can
22:05
Speaker 1: defend them is to ignore them and pretend they don't exist,
22:08
Speaker 1: which is what they are hoping the media does. We
22:11
Speaker 1: get to have a guess. This is not something that
22:13
Speaker 1: we do that often. It's actually maybe in a weird
22:16
Speaker 1: way history we're making. Your congressman is going to join us,
22:21
Speaker 1: and his senator is you. That's not something that happens
22:25
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23:25
Speaker 1: I said a moment ago, this is kind of fun.
23:27
Speaker 1: He's your congressman, Wesley Hunts with us. Nice to have
23:30
Speaker 1: you with us. I don't know if we've had this
23:32
Speaker 1: much fashion on set ever, Like we got a lot
23:35
Speaker 1: going over there. Look, West Wesley is a band with
23:37
Speaker 1: some style, with some page. He doesn't have the pocket square.
23:42
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's there. It's it's the there's more
23:46
Speaker 1: colors going on. If I'm here up. But now, granted
23:50
Speaker 1: you're getting a little flashy here with these skinner shoes.
23:53
Speaker 1: I'm trying to keep up. I'm trying to keep up
23:55
Speaker 1: with the use. I'm keeping in the box. I'm sticking
23:59
Speaker 1: with my boots I'm just you know, but this is
24:01
Speaker 1: a lot at what he's not telling you. When we
24:04
Speaker 1: started doing the podcast, he shows up at a suit
24:07
Speaker 1: and tie with his tie all the way up. I did,
24:10
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, relax. He looked. He's like he's like
24:13
Speaker 1: he literally just looks. He looks up at me like like,
24:17
Speaker 1: because we don't wear ties here, what are you doing?
24:19
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, I had to get a whole
24:21
Speaker 1: new wardrobe for this. It costs a lot of money.
24:24
Speaker 1: I went in the hole job. Yeah, getting a new job.
24:29
Speaker 1: So Wesley his story. He's a brand new member of Congress,
24:32
Speaker 1: has has been there all of two months. Uh. He
24:36
Speaker 1: is my congressman represents Houston. Uh he is a West
24:40
Speaker 1: Point graduate. Have you hazed him yet? Like with problems
24:44
Speaker 1: for four years? Okay? Good good? I was going to
24:46
Speaker 1: make fun of his his pocket square congressman. I feel
24:51
Speaker 1: like you should. Really the presidential campaign, we had a
24:54
Speaker 1: guy in charge of what we called the pocket Square Coalition, okay,
24:58
Speaker 1: which is basically all the DC lobbyists. So that that
25:02
Speaker 1: was that was officially square coalition. Uh. So Wesley went
25:09
Speaker 1: to West Point, played football at west Pool. Uh, went
25:14
Speaker 1: to Saint John's high school here in Houston, played football
25:17
Speaker 1: at Saint John's here, and he was he good because
25:20
Speaker 1: he did fall down a step the other day. I
25:23
Speaker 1: just make it was he was he good athletes Here.
25:28
Speaker 1: I'm with a college tennis player, a college football player,
25:34
Speaker 1: and I'm a friggin debater. But at least you won.
25:37
Speaker 1: You did win debate at some level. I have no doubt, mind,
25:40
Speaker 1: you know. And that really was very effective for for
25:44
Speaker 1: attracting college girls. Uh yeah, yeah. You pull out your
25:50
Speaker 1: briefcase and they would swoon, right, They're like, that's a
25:54
Speaker 1: man going places because he has that briefcase. So you're
25:58
Speaker 1: you're new to Congress, you enjoying it so far, because
26:02
Speaker 1: it's been a little spicy since you got there. But
26:04
Speaker 1: we had it. We had quite the first week, to
26:07
Speaker 1: be honest with you, But it was an amazing experience
26:10
Speaker 1: to see just how our democracy works. We are not
26:14
Speaker 1: run by by kings and by queens and by monarchs.
26:17
Speaker 1: We are all run by we the people. And so
26:20
Speaker 1: what you saw in that first week, although it seemed
26:22
Speaker 1: a bit arduous, it was an example of how we
26:26
Speaker 1: operate as a people. And I loved being a part
26:30
Speaker 1: of that first week to be honest with you, I
26:32
Speaker 1: think it was good for the country. You and I
26:34
Speaker 1: talked about this, but look, I think the fight resulted
26:37
Speaker 1: in major concessions. Yes, that resulted in dramatically increasing the
26:43
Speaker 1: chances that our conservative that our Republican majority in the
26:48
Speaker 1: House will actually be a conservative majority. And standard fight
26:51
Speaker 1: that is correct, And for the last few weeks we
26:54
Speaker 1: saw that on full display. We've had some very good votes.
26:57
Speaker 1: In fact, the first vote that I took as a
26:59
Speaker 1: congressman was to repeal eighty seven thousand I rs agents.
27:03
Speaker 1: That's the first vote I took. I'm very proud of that,
27:05
Speaker 1: and that was actually a part of that negotiation that
27:07
Speaker 1: first week. Well, and I'll tell you Wesley, when he
27:09
Speaker 1: was brand new, right in the middle of that that battle,
27:14
Speaker 1: his wife gave birth to a beautiful baby boy that
27:17
Speaker 1: he flew back because he was a little bit premature.
27:20
Speaker 1: Everybody right now saying, well, you're the one that left
27:22
Speaker 1: and came he was there, You're the one, but for
27:25
Speaker 1: his newborn son. Yeah, And then he turned around and
27:28
Speaker 1: his son was doing all right. He had a couple
27:30
Speaker 1: of health issues, then he was doing all right. And
27:31
Speaker 1: then Wesley jumped on a plane and flew back. What's
27:33
Speaker 1: his name? I gotta ask him. I'm a Dada three.
27:35
Speaker 1: He is named after my father. It's Willie Parrish Hunt,
27:38
Speaker 1: the second's name. How's he doing. He's doing fantastic. In fact,
27:43
Speaker 1: he's doing way better than me. There you go at
27:45
Speaker 1: this point. But that kid was the most prayed over
27:47
Speaker 1: kid for forty eight hours in the entire country. And
27:50
Speaker 1: I attribute the way he's doing right now to the
27:52
Speaker 1: level of No. It was a bit. It was everybody's like, well,
27:56
Speaker 1: they got to get this guy back. He had a
27:58
Speaker 1: baby and yeah, and you know the amazing thing is
28:02
Speaker 1: you can actually match diapers to a pocket square. Yes,
28:07
Speaker 1: I cannot be honest the formula, Yeah, be honest. Does
28:11
Speaker 1: he have baby air Jordan's jet? Of course he does.
28:14
Speaker 1: I see, I knew it. Yeah, your kid has one
28:18
Speaker 1: hundred dollars shoes. He's living a good life. He's living
28:21
Speaker 1: a good life. So you got so Wesley, just a
28:25
Speaker 1: few weeks into Congress is already at hearings, causing a
28:29
Speaker 1: bit of a stir. You've got TC sial of approval.
28:32
Speaker 1: I know this because we talked about this, and so
28:34
Speaker 1: we've got a clip from one of the Earth he's
28:36
Speaker 1: been there two months. This is a clip from one
28:38
Speaker 1: of the hearings in the House that that's worth taking
28:40
Speaker 1: a look at. My colleague, mister Gooden talked about race
28:44
Speaker 1: and using the word racism and racist. And I've been
28:47
Speaker 1: black for a long time, sir, so I get it,
28:49
Speaker 1: and I and I've been a minority in this country
28:52
Speaker 1: for a very long time. Um, but this is actually
28:56
Speaker 1: not about race. This is actually an issue of public safety.
29:00
Speaker 1: And if I call this, if I call this an invasion, sir,
29:05
Speaker 1: I'm not racist. I can assure you I'm not racist.
29:09
Speaker 1: What I can assure you is that I want to
29:12
Speaker 1: make sure that Fintnol doesn't indiscriminately kill any race, religion, color,
29:18
Speaker 1: or creed because Fintnol doesn't care where you're from, Fittnol
29:22
Speaker 1: doesn't care about race. Fittenol kills indiscriminately. This gentleman right
29:28
Speaker 1: here works his tail off every single day to stop
29:30
Speaker 1: that from happening. Now, there's been a break in the
29:33
Speaker 1: damn and that's pretty obvious because a couple of years ago,
29:36
Speaker 1: of course, we had some problems, but it wasn't amplified
29:38
Speaker 1: to the level that we are seeing every single day,
29:41
Speaker 1: and The reason why we have to be careful with
29:43
Speaker 1: what we call and what we deem racist moving forward
29:45
Speaker 1: in the future is because we stop we stop losing,
29:48
Speaker 1: we start to lose focus on what the actual problem is.
29:53
Speaker 1: This administration, a Democrat party unfortunately, uses race as a
29:58
Speaker 1: scapegoat for everything and as somebody that wants to make
30:03
Speaker 1: sure that we do attack racist issues when they do occur.
30:06
Speaker 1: We can't be the boy who cried wolf and blame
30:09
Speaker 1: racism all the time. So look, that was very well said,
30:15
Speaker 1: but it's also really important to be said, and and
30:19
Speaker 1: and Wesley, You're not supposed to exist according to the media.
30:24
Speaker 1: According to the media, the only people who are allowed
30:29
Speaker 1: to be Republicans are old, fat white guys. And you
30:36
Speaker 1: certainly are not allowed to be a black man and
30:39
Speaker 1: be Republican. That that you know, Actually, what was it?
30:43
Speaker 1: Joe Biden the presidential campaign said, if you're not voting
30:46
Speaker 1: for you ain't black? That I mean? And they believe it. Yes,
30:51
Speaker 1: And you're right. Look, I'm an Hispanic man. I'm not
30:54
Speaker 1: supposed to be Republican. And even worse, I'm not supposed
30:58
Speaker 1: to be a conservative. Like to be a conservative Republican,
31:01
Speaker 1: you're to actually want to secure the border. Yes, ramhost
31:06
Speaker 1: on air called me a traitor to my race, and
31:11
Speaker 1: I actually asked him, I said, if I crossed illegally
31:15
Speaker 1: into Mexico, what would they do? And he said, do
31:18
Speaker 1: they deport you? Quait? Why can they enforce their laws
31:23
Speaker 1: and we can enforce ours. But look, I think it's
31:28
Speaker 1: important and it's interesting. You are not the only black
31:36
Speaker 1: freshman Republican West Point graduate in this Congress. That tell
31:43
Speaker 1: about it's even better that two of us. It's me
31:48
Speaker 1: and John James. And for the record, I will let
31:51
Speaker 1: you know that of all the academies in this country
31:54
Speaker 1: and not consider them to be the leadership institutions of
31:58
Speaker 1: the entire world, and I want to name them in
32:00
Speaker 1: order of merit. Of course West Point, of course, Naval Academy,
32:06
Speaker 1: Air Force Academy, Coastard Academy, Merchant Marine Academy. We've never
32:10
Speaker 1: seen a black congressman, senator, or president ever from any
32:15
Speaker 1: one of our academies. Eisenhower was a Republican and Grant
32:20
Speaker 1: was a Republican. And of course Jimmy Carter Naval Academy. Yeah,
32:26
Speaker 1: I'll let you decide how that, how that worked out
32:28
Speaker 1: for everybody? Yeah, but I will tell you that we've
32:30
Speaker 1: never had a black person, a person of color, actually
32:33
Speaker 1: ascend to these ranks. And we've had two in the
32:37
Speaker 1: exact same class the one hundred and eighteenth Congress. And
32:40
Speaker 1: we're from the same class at West Point, and we're
32:42
Speaker 1: both blackstoin and and there's there's three of us. There's
32:48
Speaker 1: one Democrat and he's white pat Ryan, serious class. How
32:53
Speaker 1: many articles are written about the two of you? And
32:56
Speaker 1: this is certainly breaking history. And I know you're I
32:59
Speaker 1: know you're a but I'm asking this to show the
33:01
Speaker 1: bias and the media. This is a historic moment. Yes,
33:05
Speaker 1: it is. It's an incredible moment. The fact that there's
33:07
Speaker 1: not what but two of you and you were classmates.
33:10
Speaker 1: That's a Time magazine, that's a newsweek typee. There should
33:16
Speaker 1: be a standing ovation everywhere you go rolling it out.
33:20
Speaker 1: It should be that story. So how many times have
33:22
Speaker 1: you guys been called for a human interest piece on
33:25
Speaker 1: that story alone? Forget politics us alone. It hasn't happened.
33:29
Speaker 1: There you go, and it allows my point too. So
33:33
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of talking about black excellence in
33:35
Speaker 1: terms of regardless of what party you're affiliated with, black
33:39
Speaker 1: excellence is black excellence, even if you're or a Republican
33:41
Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas, that is black excellence. And for whatever reason,
33:45
Speaker 1: it only matters when you're a Democrat. And this is
33:48
Speaker 1: the fight that we have, that we have in our hands.
33:50
Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas is not black. Yeah, he's not. Just the
33:54
Speaker 1: most ridiculous it is. They are vicious. Yes, if you
34:01
Speaker 1: dare disagree with with their demanded orthodox he looked. This week,
34:07
Speaker 1: Don Lemon went on and explained that Nicky Haley past
34:17
Speaker 1: because he says women are in their prime in their
34:20
Speaker 1: twenties or thirties, and if you disagree, or maybe forties,
34:24
Speaker 1: so he could see, hold on, but if you disagree,
34:27
Speaker 1: what was the response? That is the best part of
34:29
Speaker 1: the line. Just good, just google that there. Yeah, it's
34:32
Speaker 1: and it was. Look, it was blatantly misogynist, yes, but
34:37
Speaker 1: it was leftist misogyny because because Nicky Haley is a Republican,
34:42
Speaker 1: she's not a woman. Can you imagine saying that about
34:45
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton being pastor prime? Just plug with your job.
34:48
Speaker 1: You would have lost your duke. You'd be canceled, right,
34:50
Speaker 1: you would have would be immediate canceled. And and as
34:53
Speaker 1: you know, there were two women sitting next to him
34:56
Speaker 1: on CNN, who were just flabberg Yeah that he said it,
35:02
Speaker 1: and they're just you know, Poppy comes and says, you
35:04
Speaker 1: mean prime for childbirth? Yeah, like it was. But it's
35:12
Speaker 1: the same contempt. Yes, she's not a woman, you're not black,
35:20
Speaker 1: you're only they have Look if you look at the
35:23
Speaker 1: Supreme Court, the left never liked anton in Scalia, but
35:27
Speaker 1: they could live with him. He was allowed to be
35:29
Speaker 1: a conservative. Sure you can respected. They were respected. They
35:32
Speaker 1: respected that. They loathe Clarence Thomas Um And you know, listen, Westland,
35:40
Speaker 1: I've been friends a long time. He's running. What did
35:43
Speaker 1: y'all first meet? How did talk about that for a second? Well,
35:46
Speaker 1: we met when when he was running for Congress a
35:51
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and I supported him in his
35:53
Speaker 1: first bid for Congress. He didn't win the first time.
35:56
Speaker 1: And I actually was talking to you right after the
35:57
Speaker 1: election walking walking the day bood walk in my DAI signup.
36:02
Speaker 1: You called me and I called him, I'm walking the
36:05
Speaker 1: dog and I said I saw your sign us right
36:06
Speaker 1: after he hadn't won two years ago, and I said, Wesley,
36:09
Speaker 1: you did a hell of a job. You impressed a
36:11
Speaker 1: lot of people and mark my words, you're gonna win. Yes,
36:14
Speaker 1: you don't always win your first race, but you're gonna win. O.
36:16
Speaker 1: Reagan would attest to that. Yes, but look, part of
36:22
Speaker 1: the reason the Democrats and the media try to erase
36:27
Speaker 1: you is because you're very inconvenient for their narrative. Yes. Um,
36:32
Speaker 1: they believe that any Republican position, any conservative position, is racist,
36:40
Speaker 1: and that is their go to It's what you just
36:42
Speaker 1: went in that clip. No matter what it is, it's racist.
36:47
Speaker 1: So I mean, let me ask you, as as a
36:49
Speaker 1: black man, why are you a Republican? And I imagine
36:52
Speaker 1: you get that question sometimes from people that are confused.
36:56
Speaker 1: I'm a Republican because I don't prescribe to the soft,
36:59
Speaker 1: biggest tree of low expectations. My parents are people that
37:04
Speaker 1: raised us in this country and they set up this
37:06
Speaker 1: send to us at a very early age. If you
37:08
Speaker 1: can't make it here, then you can't make it anywhere.
37:12
Speaker 1: End of discussion. Hence the reason why my sister went
37:15
Speaker 1: to West Point. I went to West Point and my
37:17
Speaker 1: brother went to West Point. Now, my brother went to
37:20
Speaker 1: Harvard Business School, and so I had to go to
37:22
Speaker 1: Cornell and get three Masters of the reason four years
37:24
Speaker 1: to match as Harvard because we're competitive like that. And
37:28
Speaker 1: my sister was a instructor at West Point where my
37:32
Speaker 1: brother and I were cadets. That's because my parents had
37:36
Speaker 1: I had high expectations for us. And when I look
37:39
Speaker 1: at Democrats right now, that tell us that people love
37:42
Speaker 1: color and black and brown people can't ascertain an ID
37:48
Speaker 1: to go vote, I think to myself, Wow, you think
37:52
Speaker 1: so little of a group of people that they can't
37:55
Speaker 1: do the menial task of attaining a government issued ID
37:59
Speaker 1: just to vote. And I would reject that holistically, And
38:02
Speaker 1: that's what makes me a cripture. It isn't I've said
38:05
Speaker 1: this for a long time, and I never backed down.
38:07
Speaker 1: When I was at CNN, we were talking about voter
38:09
Speaker 1: ID and it became such a big issue, and I
38:11
Speaker 1: kept saying, it's incredibly racist, and I would always just
38:13
Speaker 1: do every the minority worst. Yeah, I said to Don Lemon,
38:16
Speaker 1: we were just talking about Don Lemon. I said, it's
38:17
Speaker 1: incredibly racist to imply that an African American man or
38:22
Speaker 1: woman cannot get an ID at the same levels of
38:25
Speaker 1: any other person, Like, do you understand how condescending, how
38:29
Speaker 1: racist that statement is that you're implying that they're so
38:33
Speaker 1: behind the time, solely based on the color of their skin,
38:36
Speaker 1: that they can't be expected to have an ID at
38:39
Speaker 1: the same level as anyone else. They tell me, as
38:41
Speaker 1: a Leftiano, I'm too stupid to get a driver's exactly.
38:45
Speaker 1: And by the way, if you actually talk to real people,
38:47
Speaker 1: there's a reason that roughly seventy percent of African Americans
38:51
Speaker 1: in this country's support photo ID. Yeah, of course to vote. Yeah,
38:56
Speaker 1: it is. But the Democrat political qual model is based
39:02
Speaker 1: on stoking racial fear. And part of it is they
39:07
Speaker 1: try to convince people that their party is historically the
39:13
Speaker 1: champion for civil rights and the Republicans are historically the
39:16
Speaker 1: bad guys. And I got to say, as a matter
39:19
Speaker 1: of history, that's exactly backwards. Look, the Democrat parties record
39:25
Speaker 1: on race is disgraceful. People don't know the history of it,
39:29
Speaker 1: and that's part of where we've want is disgraceful. Yes,
39:33
Speaker 1: so the Democrat Party founded the ku Klux Klan, the
39:38
Speaker 1: ku Klux Let's just be careful and say that's a fact.
39:41
Speaker 1: And if you don't believe it's take Downloman's advice. Google it.
39:44
Speaker 1: So google it. And in fact, you're here's someone google
39:48
Speaker 1: an inidividual named Nathan Bedford Forrest. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who
39:52
Speaker 1: is the founder of the KKK. He was a Confederate
39:54
Speaker 1: general buried in my in my hometown of Memphis. He
39:59
Speaker 1: was a national delegate to the Democrat National Convention in
40:04
Speaker 1: eighteen sixty. If you look at virtually every leader of
40:08
Speaker 1: the clan, they were all Democrats. Now Democrats, they say, okay, fine, fine,
40:14
Speaker 1: So that's the eighteen sixties. But fast forward. The Democrats
40:18
Speaker 1: got enlightened later. Okay, let's get let let's move to
40:22
Speaker 1: the nineteen forties and fifties and sixties civil rights here,
40:25
Speaker 1: let's move to the Jim Crow Laws. Yes, Jim Crow Laws.
40:29
Speaker 1: Who wrote them? Democrats? Democrats in the South. Jim Crow
40:34
Speaker 1: Laws were written by white Democrats to stop black voters
40:42
Speaker 1: from voting white Democrats out of office and to stop
40:45
Speaker 1: them from electing Republicans. They were literally written that to
40:50
Speaker 1: protect Democrats in office. Now you can google it. By
40:55
Speaker 1: the way, you probably you probably can't google it because
41:02
Speaker 1: big tech so bad they might suppress all of it.
41:04
Speaker 1: That's you get there. So and by the way, the
41:12
Speaker 1: Republican Party was literally founded to abolish slavery. The Party
41:20
Speaker 1: of Lincoln. The first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln. The
41:25
Speaker 1: reason our party exists is because slavery was an evil abomination.
41:29
Speaker 1: You're thinking the history of it, and so, okay, here's
41:40
Speaker 1: how the leftist tries to get around all this. They say, well, okay,
41:42
Speaker 1: maybe all that's true, though they actually deny it. But
41:46
Speaker 1: then in the Civil Rights Erah, democrats got enlightened. Really
41:51
Speaker 1: Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty four, a much higher
41:56
Speaker 1: percentage of Republicans in Congress voted for it than to
42:00
Speaker 1: pass because Republican. It passed because Republicans fought for it,
42:04
Speaker 1: and Democrats, who was it that was were opposing it.
42:07
Speaker 1: It was Democrats who philipbustered it. Fast forward even further.
42:15
Speaker 1: They say, well, that's ancient history. Okay, let's go a
42:21
Speaker 1: year ago. A year ago, the governor of Virginia was
42:26
Speaker 1: a guy named Ralph Northern. Ralph Northern a Democrat. Now
42:29
Speaker 1: you may recall the scandal that it's still out there,
42:36
Speaker 1: but it's actually a very revealing incident. So in his
42:39
Speaker 1: medical school yearbook, he selected a photograph of two people,
42:43
Speaker 1: one dressed as a klansman, one dressed in black face,
42:47
Speaker 1: and the media, of course, No one discovered this when
42:49
Speaker 1: he was running for office, a little bit only after.
42:51
Speaker 1: It was only after after. It happens that way, it
42:54
Speaker 1: wasn't news while he was while a Republican could win. Yeah,
42:58
Speaker 1: it was only news afterwards. And the media, oddly enough
43:03
Speaker 1: called that the black face scandal. Now, I gotta say,
43:06
Speaker 1: I find it an odd there's a little bit of
43:09
Speaker 1: an obsession with black face that look, I get how
43:12
Speaker 1: it could be seen as offensive, although it is amazing.
43:16
Speaker 1: It seems apparently every Democrat politician in the state of
43:19
Speaker 1: Virginia has dressed in black face, as they all one
43:22
Speaker 1: after the other Jimmy Kill every late night comic. Yeah so,
43:31
Speaker 1: but what I found bizarre is why they focused on
43:36
Speaker 1: the black face when here's what Ralph Northam said when
43:39
Speaker 1: the day the story broke. He said, yeah, I could
43:41
Speaker 1: have been one of those two people in the picture.
43:43
Speaker 1: I don't know and I don't know which one, which
43:46
Speaker 1: means he said he could have been the guy dressed
43:52
Speaker 1: as a klansman. Now pause and think for a second.
43:56
Speaker 1: I'm going to postulate a really crazy standard. If you
44:01
Speaker 1: cannot say, categorically, with no wiggle words, I have never
44:06
Speaker 1: in my life dressed as a clansman or in blackface.
44:13
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna take clansmen just just just if you
44:17
Speaker 1: cannot say I have never dressed as a clansman, maybe
44:21
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be in public office. Yeah. There a governor
44:24
Speaker 1: like a governor pontificating sanctimoniously on race. Yeah. And and
44:30
Speaker 1: by the way, okay, you say are a year ago,
44:32
Speaker 1: that's ancient history. Okay, so let's go today. You talked
44:36
Speaker 1: about Joe Biden's record on race ninety four crime bill, Well,
44:41
Speaker 1: there is that. There is also Robert Bird. I would say,
44:46
Speaker 1: there's a there's a very famous funeral. So Robert Byrd
44:50
Speaker 1: eulogized him. Ye, was an Exalted Cyclops of the KKK.
44:55
Speaker 1: What is it with these bigoted idiots coming up with
44:58
Speaker 1: ridiculous titles, But they he liked things like exalted Cyclops
45:03
Speaker 1: and he was a Democrat. That was an official title. Yeah,
45:07
Speaker 1: because he recruited people to the clan. So he wasn't
45:09
Speaker 1: just in the clan the Exalted Cyclops. Other racists to
45:13
Speaker 1: join the clan. That's what Robert Byrd did. And he
45:16
Speaker 1: was a Democrat senator from West Virginia. And he wasn't
45:18
Speaker 1: just a Democrat Senator from West Virginia. He was the
45:22
Speaker 1: Democrat Senate majority leader. Believable, an exalted Cyclops of the
45:29
Speaker 1: Kuklux Klan. Now he died. I think his funeral was
45:33
Speaker 1: in twenty eleven, I believe. Do you know who spoke
45:37
Speaker 1: at Robert Bird's funeral? The President of the United States
45:40
Speaker 1: of America right now, Joseph Robinette Biden Junior, gave a
45:44
Speaker 1: eulogy exalted and said, if you were to become president,
45:50
Speaker 1: America would have been a better place. Implied it disgusting,
45:53
Speaker 1: said his good friend Robert Byrd. I got another crazy proposition.
45:59
Speaker 1: If you can't say I have never eulogized and praised
46:05
Speaker 1: an exalted Cyclops of the ku Klux Klan, maybe you
46:12
Speaker 1: ought to slow down a little bit when pontificating based
46:14
Speaker 1: on race. Yes, but how many people know any of
46:18
Speaker 1: this history because the left and the media won't tell
46:21
Speaker 1: it the school in the schools they want. They don't
46:25
Speaker 1: go anywhere near any of this in the public schools today.
46:29
Speaker 1: And this is what I love the beauty of this conversation,
46:31
Speaker 1: and that is, sir, you are my senator and now
46:35
Speaker 1: the honor of being your congressman, and you're a Cuban
46:37
Speaker 1: American and I am a black man. And what's really
46:40
Speaker 1: funny about this is why the why the left would
46:43
Speaker 1: absolutely pontificate about how we cannot exist. Here we are
46:48
Speaker 1: sitting here in Unison with same the same conservative values,
46:51
Speaker 1: so different backgrounds from different parts of the earth. My
46:55
Speaker 1: great great grandfather was a slave. Really, but my great
46:59
Speaker 1: great and father rose Down Plantation in about thirty three
47:04
Speaker 1: miles north of bat Rouge, Louisiana. Wow. Yes, and rose
47:08
Speaker 1: Down Plantation is still is still there today. Wow. And
47:11
Speaker 1: here we are having this conversation about conservative values. Isn't
47:14
Speaker 1: that cool fact that cares about what we look like? Yeah,
47:19
Speaker 1: this is the argument that the left cannot deal with
47:22
Speaker 1: because it does not fit their narrative. Well, and let
47:24
Speaker 1: me make it. That's absolutely right. And let me make
47:27
Speaker 1: it also a substant point connected to that. You know,
47:31
Speaker 1: a minute ago, we were talking about the history of
47:32
Speaker 1: the parties, and then the reason the history matters is
47:34
Speaker 1: because it's what the media and the Democrats use to
47:37
Speaker 1: scare minority vote exactly. But the substance matters too. The
47:43
Speaker 1: Democrat policy agenda is absolutely horrific. If you sat down
47:50
Speaker 1: and said, let's design a policy agenda to devastate the
47:55
Speaker 1: African American community in the Hispanic community. You could not
47:59
Speaker 1: come up with any anything more effective than the Democrat agenda.
48:04
Speaker 1: You look at number one, the war on police, abolish
48:10
Speaker 1: the police. You know, every time you see Democrats demonizing cops,
48:16
Speaker 1: what inevitably happens. The cops pull back, they stop enforcing
48:19
Speaker 1: the laws vigorously, and crime rates and motter rates go up.
48:22
Speaker 1: And if you think black lives matter, apparently the lives
48:25
Speaker 1: that you don't think matter are the African Americans who
48:28
Speaker 1: are murdered in much greater number when the police are
48:31
Speaker 1: not out locking up the murderers. And the gang banks,
48:35
Speaker 1: Bill reform, prison reform all ads to drive the cops crazy.
48:39
Speaker 1: They go and arrest people, they immediately let them out.
48:41
Speaker 1: We're now doing this bill reform based on what your
48:44
Speaker 1: means are, so you can get no bail even if
48:47
Speaker 1: you commit heinous crimes based on your means, because they
48:50
Speaker 1: say it's racist to have a real tough bail on
48:53
Speaker 1: someone if they say they don't have the means to
48:55
Speaker 1: get out, And that's just again, it's costing people their lives,
48:59
Speaker 1: specifically the African American community, and it's it's it's not
49:02
Speaker 1: just crime. You look at the left wing assault on
49:07
Speaker 1: the family. Go back to the black family in the
49:10
Speaker 1: nineteen fifties and the nineteen sixties, where you had wrong
49:16
Speaker 1: two parent households. You talked about your parents, you're talking
49:18
Speaker 1: about your daughter, you talked about your your upbringing. Here
49:21
Speaker 1: seventy yes, it was either last year year before, seventy
49:23
Speaker 1: four percent of all African American children in America were
49:26
Speaker 1: born in a single parent household and it was the
49:27
Speaker 1: other number's gonna rose. Yes, that's exactly right, and people
49:33
Speaker 1: don't know it. Look the great society, the left wing
49:36
Speaker 1: policies that said we're going to give you welfare payments,
49:40
Speaker 1: We're going to disincentivize marriage, and divide the home, and
49:43
Speaker 1: divide the home. The government became the father. There was
49:46
Speaker 1: no shame, and a father leaving there was no shame,
49:48
Speaker 1: and a father abandoning their children, and they trapped generations
49:54
Speaker 1: of low income Hispanics and African Americans independency. So I've
50:00
Speaker 1: said a thousand times when when my dad was washing
50:05
Speaker 1: dishes in Austin, Texas in nineteen fifty seven, he was
50:07
Speaker 1: making fifty cents an hour, and he couldn't speaking. Wow.
50:11
Speaker 1: Thank god, some well meaning liberal didn't come put his
50:15
Speaker 1: arm around him and say, raphail, let me take care
50:16
Speaker 1: of it exact, let me. Let me give you a check,
50:21
Speaker 1: Let me make you a dependence. You don't need to work.
50:23
Speaker 1: You don't need to work hard. That's hard work, washing
50:26
Speaker 1: your dishes. Your hands are read and they hurt. Yeah,
50:29
Speaker 1: just sit at home on your ass and I'll send
50:31
Speaker 1: you a check. It would have been, to be honest,
50:34
Speaker 1: it would have been less destructive if someone came by
50:36
Speaker 1: with a bat and beat him with it. Yes, because
50:39
Speaker 1: that you heal from. And the Democrat agenda has trapped
50:47
Speaker 1: generations in poverty and dependency where you have one, two
50:52
Speaker 1: or three, four generations un weelfare and unable to get
50:57
Speaker 1: off of it, unable to get the dignity of a job.
51:02
Speaker 1: And then throw on top of that failed schools and
51:05
Speaker 1: no way to get out and against you're getting a
51:08
Speaker 1: voutcher to get a kid out of the failing school.
51:10
Speaker 1: It's to create victims. So imagine if my parents raised me,
51:15
Speaker 1: then they told me, you know what, this world is
51:18
Speaker 1: so much against you in America, is so bad that
51:21
Speaker 1: you can't even get an id. Rely on me and
51:24
Speaker 1: I will give you a check. Imagine if my parents
51:27
Speaker 1: told me that every single day, I certainly wouldn't be
51:30
Speaker 1: an honest as congressman. And that's what I mean by
51:33
Speaker 1: the soft, biggest for your little expectations. Yeah, that's how
51:36
Speaker 1: they keep people voting for them, by promising the very
51:40
Speaker 1: bare minimum. And as somebody that has spent a lot
51:42
Speaker 1: of time in the United States government, we're working in
51:45
Speaker 1: the army. I can tell you if the government is
51:48
Speaker 1: giving you something, I can assure you you could do
51:50
Speaker 1: better on your own. Yeah. You know, I'll tell you
51:53
Speaker 1: what my dad told me when I was a kid
51:54
Speaker 1: about racism. And he said, look, when I came out
51:59
Speaker 1: of school, he came out of yours to Texas class
52:01
Speaker 1: of sixty one, he said, when I was applying for
52:04
Speaker 1: a job, he said, I had a very heavy Spanish accent.
52:09
Speaker 1: I'm obviously a foreigner. Yeah, And he said, if I'm
52:12
Speaker 1: applying for a job and there's an American applying for
52:14
Speaker 1: the job and we're equally qualified, he said, they'd hire
52:20
Speaker 1: the American. And he wasn't actually that upset about it.
52:23
Speaker 1: He said, you know what, he said, you know what,
52:24
Speaker 1: in Cuba, they'd hire me. He said that to him. Yeah,
52:28
Speaker 1: he's just like, look in Cuba, they'd hire me. Here
52:32
Speaker 1: if I'm the immigrant, they're going to hire the American.
52:35
Speaker 1: And he said his answer to that as he said, look,
52:38
Speaker 1: I just resolved. He said, I'm gonna be three times
52:41
Speaker 1: as good as the other guy. He said, I'm gonna
52:43
Speaker 1: make it so you had to be an idiot to
52:47
Speaker 1: hire the other guy. And and that principle, it's part
52:51
Speaker 1: of what's so destructive about the Democrat message in minority
52:56
Speaker 1: communities is they they teach older in their victims, yes,
53:02
Speaker 1: which means they discourage them from doing the hard damn
53:09
Speaker 1: work too. As my dad said, be two or three
53:12
Speaker 1: times as good as the other guy, and to climb
53:15
Speaker 1: that ladder, and then later on in life he's better
53:18
Speaker 1: for it. Yes. So instead of sitting around, sitting back
53:20
Speaker 1: on your heels and saying that well somebody had it
53:23
Speaker 1: easier than me, or they were given more if they
53:25
Speaker 1: had more inheritance, you had to work in those formative
53:28
Speaker 1: years three four or five times as hard as and
53:32
Speaker 1: then twenty years later then you become a better person.
53:36
Speaker 1: You work harder, and you persevere, and that is called growth,
53:41
Speaker 1: and that is called the American dream. And so what
53:43
Speaker 1: the left tries to do is try to create equal outcomes.
53:47
Speaker 1: You cannot create equal outcomes. This country is a meritocracy.
53:51
Speaker 1: It's about effort. I get it. Some people have it easier,
53:55
Speaker 1: harder than others. But those that work hard can find
53:58
Speaker 1: and make a way. And you could outwork yourself out
54:02
Speaker 1: of somebody that's been given everything. I'll tell you something
54:06
Speaker 1: Ben that Wesley will get. But if you're black or Hispanic,
54:11
Speaker 1: I guarantee you've had people say to you. And I've
54:13
Speaker 1: had people say to me, oh, you just got where
54:15
Speaker 1: you are an affirmative action. The only way you got
54:19
Speaker 1: into school is affirmative action and it and they just
54:23
Speaker 1: burns me up. But like, how many times have you
54:26
Speaker 1: heard that? Seriously, Flair, it's my, it's my, it's square,
54:35
Speaker 1: you see the good one. It's one of the reasons,
54:37
Speaker 1: actually we were joking before about sports or debate. It's
54:40
Speaker 1: one of the reasons I like debate because you go
54:43
Speaker 1: into debate, two teams walk into a room, it's no
54:47
Speaker 1: affirmative action, and one wins and one loses. And and
54:51
Speaker 1: it was It's It's why I spent all four years
54:54
Speaker 1: of college almost every weekend on the debate circuit, because
54:57
Speaker 1: you'd go in and there was a winner and loser,
55:00
Speaker 1: and you want it based on your own skill and
55:02
Speaker 1: your own merit, and it was a way of responding
55:06
Speaker 1: and it was inevitably supercilious liberals. All right, I'll tell
55:14
Speaker 1: you a story you'll like. I cannot wait. I love it.
55:17
Speaker 1: So I'm in law school and Harvard Law Review. Every
55:24
Speaker 1: year they select forty editors class about five hundred and
55:27
Speaker 1: sixty people forty editors, so they're a total of eighty two.
55:31
Speaker 1: They're forty second year law students, forty third year law
55:34
Speaker 1: students that are on the Law Review. And the Law
55:35
Speaker 1: Review it's kind of a weird thing law schools. It's
55:37
Speaker 1: sort of it's a legal journal, but it's also this
55:40
Speaker 1: like super prestigious thing that opens up clerkships, opens up jobs.
55:45
Speaker 1: It's it's historically it's the best students at the law school.
55:48
Speaker 1: So the Law Review is treated as a big deal
55:52
Speaker 1: when I was there. The way they selected it is
55:55
Speaker 1: they had thirty two of the slots. Half of them
55:59
Speaker 1: were based on a writing competition that was a week long,
56:03
Speaker 1: incredibly grueling writing competition. The other half were based on
56:07
Speaker 1: grades and the writing competition. So that's thirty two of
56:10
Speaker 1: the forty slots, and then they had up to eight
56:12
Speaker 1: of the slots reserved for affirmative action. So that was
56:15
Speaker 1: a policy explicitly affirmative. So my second year on the
56:19
Speaker 1: law my first year on the Law Review, second year
56:21
Speaker 1: of law school, there were several of us who were conservatives,
56:25
Speaker 1: who were editors, and some of my buddies decided they
56:28
Speaker 1: wanted to force a vote to end affirmative action on
56:31
Speaker 1: the Law Review. Now I have to admit I thought
56:34
Speaker 1: affirmative action was wrong, but I also could count votes,
56:37
Speaker 1: and I said, we're not going to win, like, like,
56:39
Speaker 1: why are you wasting your time? Yeah, but they wanted to.
56:42
Speaker 1: I said great. So we went and we met in
56:44
Speaker 1: a classroom and so there are all eight of us
56:45
Speaker 1: in a classroom. We're debating whether or not to end
56:49
Speaker 1: affirmative action. And I remember this one particularly arrogant liberal
56:56
Speaker 1: stood up and said, if we end affirmative action, the
57:02
Speaker 1: Law Review will be nothing but white men. And I
57:08
Speaker 1: was sitting in the back. I actually wasn't really engaged
57:10
Speaker 1: in the art. That's racist. Yeah, just for the record,
57:15
Speaker 1: you don't even have to google it. Yes, and it
57:18
Speaker 1: pissed me off. I can't I can't imagine you got
57:22
Speaker 1: that mad. And I stood up in the back and
57:25
Speaker 1: I said, all right, you want to understand why affirmative
57:28
Speaker 1: action is evil. You just heard it because this sack
57:33
Speaker 1: of yeah just said that he believes on merit. If
57:38
Speaker 1: it's objective merit, the only people who will rise to
57:42
Speaker 1: the top are white men. Now, number one, I'm an
57:48
Speaker 1: Hispanic and you want to throw your damn transcript on
57:50
Speaker 1: the table, I'll put mine next to it, and let's
57:52
Speaker 1: let's see who's performance better at law school. You miserable, arrogant,
57:55
Speaker 1: little jerk. Yeah, but I said, number two, you want
57:59
Speaker 1: to understand just how invidious this is. At the time.
58:03
Speaker 1: I don't know about now, but at the time, there
58:05
Speaker 1: was only racial affirmative action. There was not gender affirmative action.
58:09
Speaker 1: There was not affirmative action for women. I said to
58:12
Speaker 1: every woman here, what he just said is he thinks
58:14
Speaker 1: based on merit, no women could possibly get here. By
58:18
Speaker 1: the way, periodically there would be a debate on adding
58:20
Speaker 1: women to affirmative action. There was all the women editors
58:22
Speaker 1: who voted against it because they understood that doing so
58:25
Speaker 1: cheapen their credential sure, but the assumptions what utter crap.
58:32
Speaker 1: But the Left embraces those views, and part of their
58:36
Speaker 1: views it actually explains their arrogance. Is so if you
58:41
Speaker 1: get anything, you ought to be damn grateful they gave
58:44
Speaker 1: this to you, and in response, you ought to shut
58:47
Speaker 1: up and obey them. That's the Democratic Party. That's literally
58:52
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. Now, I do want to tell you,
58:54
Speaker 1: I don't think you know this, but I do want
58:56
Speaker 1: to mention a bill that I entered Duce that we
59:00
Speaker 1: just got passed the month before you arrived in Congress
59:04
Speaker 1: that actually you'll care about because it impacts West Point
59:07
Speaker 1: very directly, and it is so all of the service
59:11
Speaker 1: academies thank you for doing this, but go ahead. Yes,
59:14
Speaker 1: have had in place a rule, and it's a horrific rule.
59:19
Speaker 1: It is a rule that says cadets cannot get pregnant.
59:22
Speaker 1: And if a cadet gets pregnant, yes, the cadet had
59:26
Speaker 1: three choices. Number one, you could have an abortion. Wow.
59:31
Speaker 1: Number two, you can voluntarily give your child up to
59:36
Speaker 1: adoption and surrender your parental rights permanently and legally surrender
59:42
Speaker 1: your parental rights. Or number three, you can withdraw from
59:46
Speaker 1: the service academy. Those were the choices they gave cadets. Now,
59:51
Speaker 1: I would assume that cadets sometimes got impregnated by people
59:54
Speaker 1: they actually worked with who are also serving the military. Yes,
59:59
Speaker 1: so ostensibly the policy applied to women and men, but
1:00:04
Speaker 1: it was very deferential in how it was applied, because
1:00:07
Speaker 1: men could could get a woman pregnant and escape the
1:00:10
Speaker 1: consequences of the policy, whereas if you're a woman and
1:00:13
Speaker 1: you're pregnant, there ain't no hiding it. You're facing it.
1:00:16
Speaker 1: So I looked at this and thought it was completely indefensible,
1:00:21
Speaker 1: and so I ended up teaming up with a Democrat,
1:00:25
Speaker 1: Kirsten Gila Brand, Democrat from from New York, who's a
1:00:28
Speaker 1: good friend and she and I have worked together quite
1:00:31
Speaker 1: a bit. But she and I introduced a bill that
1:00:34
Speaker 1: was called the Cadet Act, Yes, and it was Cruise
1:00:38
Speaker 1: Jella Brand, and it instructed the Service academies to end
1:00:42
Speaker 1: these policies and to adopt policies that if a cadet
1:00:47
Speaker 1: gets pregnant, that allows her to give birth to her
1:00:50
Speaker 1: child and continue to have parental rights. In December, the
1:00:56
Speaker 1: Cadet Act passed into law. Thank you, And just last
1:01:00
Speaker 1: week DoD promulgated the rules to the service academies to
1:01:07
Speaker 1: implement it, you can see, and so they no longer
1:01:14
Speaker 1: kick out. You can see there a picture of a
1:01:17
Speaker 1: US Air Force Academy graduate in twenty eleven. And by
1:01:20
Speaker 1: the way, and so my team spoke to a number
1:01:25
Speaker 1: of cadets faced with this choice. Some were pressured into
1:01:30
Speaker 1: having an abortion and regretted it. Others terminated their parental rights. Yes,
1:01:37
Speaker 1: graduated and then would go back and adopt their own child.
1:01:42
Speaker 1: A classmate they did that. So really, yes, at a classmate,
1:01:46
Speaker 1: they did that exact thing I've had. I had another
1:01:48
Speaker 1: classmate that got pregnant and then took a leave of absence.
1:01:53
Speaker 1: So then she resigned from West Point and then have
1:01:57
Speaker 1: the baby and then had to turn her parental rights
1:02:01
Speaker 1: to her mother, and then she re enrolled, and then
1:02:04
Speaker 1: west Point accepted her, and then she graduated the following year,
1:02:08
Speaker 1: and then after she graduated, then she then took on
1:02:11
Speaker 1: their parental rights away from her mother. That's ludicrous. Yeah,
1:02:17
Speaker 1: so thank you sir for this. Well, and it takes
1:02:19
Speaker 1: as long to get it done. And this was there
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Speaker 1: for so long, by the way, I graduated in two
1:02:23
Speaker 1: thousand and four, So I mean, this has now been
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Speaker 1: twenty years into making. Who knows who has suffered under
1:02:28
Speaker 1: those Dratonian rules before, So this is I'm very grateful
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Speaker 1: for this, and it was an interesting example also. So
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Speaker 1: I was talking with a reporter this past week who
1:02:37
Speaker 1: was asking said, well, look, Jilla Brand is a liberal Democrat.
1:02:41
Speaker 1: How did you two work on this? And you know
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Speaker 1: this obviously concerns abortion front and center, and listen, I
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Speaker 1: am strongly pro life. She is very much pro choice.
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Speaker 1: We disagree on the question of abortion. But you know
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Speaker 1: what we both agree on that forced abortion is terrible. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that that sixing you to do that to keep it.
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Speaker 1: If if a mother wants to keep her child, you
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Speaker 1: should not be kicked out of West Point for that.
1:03:07
Speaker 1: For those purposes, you shouldn't be kicked out of West
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Speaker 1: Point for it. It makes no sense. It was an
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Speaker 1: idiotic policy. But I was really glad to see that
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Speaker 1: we could get Democrats and Republicans to come together and
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Speaker 1: that changed just this week. Thank you, well done. What
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Speaker 1: a great thing to end on. That's a big victory.
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