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- 0:23Speaker 2: very Happy Wednesday, Extra Special Wednesday, what I like to
- 0:26Speaker 2: call my favorite hour of radio. Congressman Thomas Massey follow
- 0:30Speaker 2: by Judge Enita Poulatana. Welcome back, Congressom Massie. I love
- 0:33Speaker 2: having you on the show, sir. It's a real pleasure.
- 0:35Speaker 1: What a day to be on your show. Thanks for
- 0:37Speaker 1: having me, you.
- 0:37Speaker 2: Know, a day when there's really nothing going on to
- 0:39Speaker 2: talk about. How's the thing on the farm, Congressom Massis,
- 0:42Speaker 2: since you know there's no agenda items for us as
- 0:44Speaker 2: a congressman, right, You.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Know, as I drove off my farm this morning in
- 0:47Speaker 1: my f two fifty, I just looked at my cattle
- 0:50Speaker 1: there loitering, enjoying the daylight, savings time or whatever the
- 0:55Speaker 1: due time change is. Yeah, they're oblivious to it.
- 1:00Speaker 2: Really, you know. I was joking about that the other day.
- 1:02Speaker 2: You know, a farmer, hell, they can get up whenever
- 1:05Speaker 2: they want. And I think farmers are really in tune
- 1:07Speaker 2: to what needs to be done regardless of the hour
- 1:10Speaker 2: of the day, and that fake changes of time do
- 1:12Speaker 2: absolutely nothing except frustrate the vast majority of Americans.
- 1:16Speaker 1: Right, and my cattle were unfhazed, though, I'm happy to report.
- 1:20Speaker 1: But we should, we should really just change it to
- 1:23Speaker 1: one time and stick with it. Can we We can?
- 1:26Speaker 1: And you know I studied this. If you look at
- 1:29Speaker 1: the Constitution, it says that Congress is responsible for setting
- 1:35Speaker 1: the weights and measures, and one of those things is time.
- 1:39Speaker 1: I mean, we keep time at the National Institutes of
- 1:42Speaker 1: Standards and Technology, which used to be called the Bureau
- 1:45Speaker 1: of Measurements or something. And it's a constitutional obligation of
- 1:51Speaker 1: Congress to design what time, what time it is?
- 1:55Speaker 2: Okay, then they can change it back. Just let's stick
- 1:57Speaker 2: with it. Who is it out west? Is it Montana?
- 1:59Speaker 2: Or there's a stair Zona, Arizona? Thank you least, do
- 2:03Speaker 2: they leave it at daylight savings time? To leave it
- 2:05Speaker 2: at just a standard time?
- 2:06Speaker 1: Standard time? Ok? Right now? The federal law allows you
- 2:09Speaker 1: to leave it at standard time, but not daylight saving time.
- 2:13Speaker 1: And some people get in the debate about which one
- 2:15Speaker 1: is better. But again, you just you would adjust after
- 2:18Speaker 1: a year, there would and the schools could set their
- 2:21Speaker 1: clocks based on whatever. Uh. You know. I was in
- 2:25Speaker 1: Arizona once. I woke up and I had a plane
- 2:27Speaker 1: to catch, and I looked at my clock and the
- 2:29Speaker 1: time had changed, and I was like, oh, my gosh,
- 2:31Speaker 1: I've missed this plane. But I'll go to the airport.
- 2:34Speaker 1: Maybe the plane's delayed. I got to the airport and
- 2:36Speaker 1: realized that Arizona doesn't do this stupid time change, and
- 2:39Speaker 1: I made my plane say it, we give and make
- 2:43Speaker 1: your planes.
- 2:43Speaker 2: Well, well, they can leave time alone, since they really
- 2:45Speaker 2: don't have the magical power to actually literally move an
- 2:48Speaker 2: hour away or give it or taketh away. Can while
- 2:51Speaker 2: you're at it, can you get them to repeal the
- 2:52Speaker 2: laws of physics, because apparently that's a real problem with
- 2:55Speaker 2: cafe standards, those pesky physics laws. Congressman Thomas Massey, any
- 2:59Speaker 2: comment of that Trump visiting the Northern Kentucky in Greater
- 3:02Speaker 2: Cincinnati area today.
- 3:03Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad he's visiting our area. I'm glad he's
- 3:07Speaker 1: here at a logistics facility. You know, logistics are a
- 3:11Speaker 1: big part of my congressional district. And that's why I'm
- 3:15Speaker 1: on the Transportation Committee, to keep the locks and dams,
- 3:19Speaker 1: you know, full of water, to keep the airport working well,
- 3:23Speaker 1: and to keep the interstates going. So I'm glad he's here.
- 3:28Speaker 1: I wonder if he'll talk about the fact that diesel's
- 3:30Speaker 1: gone up a dollar in two weeks. Yeah, and the
- 3:34Speaker 1: tariffs are hitting some of those logistics companies that you
- 3:38Speaker 1: know are importing and exporting things.
- 3:41Speaker 2: Well, I guess it's a question whether anybody poses those
- 3:44Speaker 2: rather difficult and challenging a thought.
- 3:46Speaker 1: I doubt he's going to be taking questions. I do
- 3:50Speaker 1: suspect he will try to breathe some life into my
- 3:53Speaker 1: opponent's lifeless campaign.
- 3:56Speaker 2: Well he did. I'm glad you brought it up, because
- 3:58Speaker 2: that I was gonna have to bring it up. He
- 3:59Speaker 2: didn't do orse your opponent in the primary. Just yesterday,
- 4:02Speaker 2: I believe he made a formal endorsement.
- 4:04Speaker 1: Well that's that's a tweet from four or five months ago.
- 4:07Speaker 1: He's endorsed my opponent with the same tweet three or
- 4:10Speaker 1: four times.
- 4:10Speaker 2: Oh, is that what happened? Because I thought he had
- 4:12Speaker 2: done an endorsement before, because obviously he has been critical
- 4:15Speaker 2: of you, Congressman Massey, who still believes in the Constitution.
- 4:19Speaker 1: Well, listen, I've got the endorsement of Northern Kentucky Right
- 4:22Speaker 1: to Life, I have the endorsement of Gun Owners of
- 4:24Speaker 1: America because I have an A plus rating endorsement of
- 4:27Speaker 1: National Association for Gun Rights, and you know the people.
- 4:32Speaker 1: Here's the thing. If you look at the Cincinnati Inquirer
- 4:35Speaker 1: this morning, at the cover of it, pretty interesting. It
- 4:39Speaker 1: says Massy or Trump, some Northern Kentucky Republicans choose both,
- 4:45Speaker 1: And that's true. I'm not running against Donald Trump. I'm
- 4:49Speaker 1: running against a nobody who lost a state Senate race
- 4:52Speaker 1: that they, you know, dust it off. Donald Trump says
- 4:56Speaker 1: he came from Central Casting. I don't think that's that's
- 4:59Speaker 1: a compliment. That's usually a pejorative. And he is a
- 5:02Speaker 1: poser my opponent, and I don't think the world knew
- 5:07Speaker 1: this until yesterday. We had to go down to Shelby
- 5:10Speaker 1: County and get his voter registration cards. But my opponent
- 5:13Speaker 1: left the Republican Party in May of twenty sixteen. As
- 5:18Speaker 1: soon as Donald Trump secured the nomination for president. He
- 5:23Speaker 1: left and discussed and stayed out of the party for
- 5:26Speaker 1: five years. He only came back two days after his
- 5:30Speaker 1: own state senator resigned because he wanted to use the
- 5:34Speaker 1: party as a vehicle to get elected to the state Senate,
- 5:36Speaker 1: even though he wasn't part of the party for five years,
- 5:41Speaker 1: having been exiled himself in disgust over Donald Trump. He
- 5:45Speaker 1: only came back after Joe Biden won president and beat
- 5:48Speaker 1: Donald Trump, and he lost that State Senate race. And
- 5:52Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know that. I suspect Donald
- 5:54Speaker 1: Trump doesn't even know that he's endorsed an never Trumper.
- 5:58Speaker 2: Well, you know, as my response to judging on Apoltana's
- 6:02Speaker 2: comment about the renewal of section seven to two on FIZA,
- 6:05Speaker 2: my response is because Trump previously said that would never
- 6:07Speaker 2: do that because they spied on him. Using that, I said, well,
- 6:11Speaker 2: political one eighties are all the rage these days, so
- 6:13Speaker 2: you got one more to add to the list. And
- 6:14Speaker 2: it also allows me to pivot over to the renewal
- 6:16Speaker 2: of Section seven zero two. Trump did say he wouldn't.
- 6:19Speaker 2: Now he's pushing to have it renewed, and it's on
- 6:21Speaker 2: fast track to get voted on really soon because it's
- 6:23Speaker 2: going to expire, what in about a month from now
- 6:25Speaker 2: or so, your I think I know your take on
- 6:29Speaker 2: the renewal. Is it going to happen? I mean, is
- 6:31Speaker 2: are we at the foregone conclusion where the Fourth Amendment
- 6:33Speaker 2: really doesn't mean anything? Congressom Massy.
- 6:36Speaker 1: You know what, You could renew it with one sentence
- 6:38Speaker 1: added to it, and I would vote for it, and
- 6:41Speaker 1: the sentence would say, get a warrant. Yeah, that's what
- 6:44Speaker 1: judicial warrant. That's the only problem. It's called FIST stands
- 6:48Speaker 1: for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. And what they're doing is
- 6:52Speaker 1: they're spying on Americans using the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,
- 6:56Speaker 1: and the Constitution requires you to get a warrant. That's
- 7:00Speaker 1: all they gotta do to fix that bill for me
- 7:02Speaker 1: to vote for it. And you don't need a warrant
- 7:05Speaker 1: to spy on foreigners. I'm not saying you need a
- 7:07Speaker 1: warrant to spy on somebody who's overseas, not on American soil,
- 7:11Speaker 1: or not an American. Just if you're going after an
- 7:14Speaker 1: American who's overseas or somebody here on US soil, our
- 7:19Speaker 1: constitution requires the Fourth Amendment requires kid a warrant.
- 7:22Speaker 2: Well under seven oh two. Well beside the American who
- 7:25Speaker 2: has a friend or business acquaintance in a foreign land,
- 7:28Speaker 2: because communicating with that person opens up all of their
- 7:30Speaker 2: records to government spying without a warrant. That's listening, that's crazy.
- 7:35Speaker 1: Listen, if the Internet, if your email gets routed through
- 7:39Speaker 1: Canada or somewhere.
- 7:41Speaker 2: Else Internet service provider.
- 7:43Speaker 1: Yeah, it goes. This stuff goes all around the world.
- 7:46Speaker 1: Your data mine IPN rather, Yeah, it may be cheaper
- 7:49Speaker 1: to store this stuff somewhere else in the world. And
- 7:52Speaker 1: so if your provider does that, if your iCloud is
- 7:56Speaker 1: somewhere else, I mean, nobody knows where their iCloud is, right, right,
- 8:00Speaker 1: that's the whole point of it.
- 8:02Speaker 2: Fortuitous that your iCloud may exist in a foreign land
- 8:05Speaker 2: without you knowing it, which opens up your records of
- 8:07Speaker 2: being spied on by our government without a warrant. I
- 8:09Speaker 2: just really can't believe we live in this world.
- 8:11Speaker 1: And listen, this will go through my committee. Well, it's
- 8:15Speaker 1: it's got joint jurisdiction and Jim Jordan and myself because
- 8:21Speaker 1: Jordan's the chairman, we're always fighting to say, look, this
- 8:25Speaker 1: is our jurisdiction because the other is the Intelligence Committee.
- 8:31Speaker 1: Here's the problem they are. They have jurisdiction over things
- 8:35Speaker 1: that CIA and the NSA does the outwardly facing part
- 8:40Speaker 1: of intelligence, and we have jurisdiction over FBI, the inwardly
- 8:45Speaker 1: facing part of intelligence. And so the vie of bill
- 8:50Speaker 1: is it's dual jurisdiction. But the parts that apply to
- 8:53Speaker 1: Americans go through our committee. And last time the Speaker
- 8:58Speaker 1: of the House tipped the skill I mean it failed
- 9:01Speaker 1: by one vote to fix FAISA. He tipped the scales
- 9:05Speaker 1: and gave the base bill to the Intelligence Committee, which
- 9:10Speaker 1: is wrong.
- 9:12Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what. We're at a break time.
- 9:13Speaker 2: We're gonna talk Warpowers Act. Is the clock ticking for
- 9:16Speaker 2: the sixty day provision of the War Powers Acts?
- 9:18Speaker 1: So see the talk station.
- 9:22Speaker 2: It take nineteen fifty four cares see the talk tation
- 9:24Speaker 2: Brian Thomason, Congressman Thomas Massee pivoting over congressmanssy Warpowers Act.
- 9:28Speaker 2: And please feel free to correct me and to correct
- 9:30Speaker 2: the record if I'm wrong. The clock I believe is ticking.
- 9:33Speaker 2: Donald Trump, he unifies Congress, he goes to war. There's
- 9:37Speaker 2: no authorization for you some military force. There's no declaration
- 9:40Speaker 2: of war. Both of those options passed on. So it
- 9:44Speaker 2: seems to me like We're in a state of limbo
- 9:45Speaker 2: here where the sixty day clock is ticking, and after
- 9:49Speaker 2: sixty days, Donald Trump must withdraw the troops or get
- 9:51Speaker 2: a thirty day extension to do that, which I presume
- 9:53Speaker 2: will happen. So, if this say, sixty to ninety day
- 9:57Speaker 2: period passes with no additional Congressional action, does he have
- 10:01Speaker 2: to pull the troops out?
- 10:03Speaker 1: I believe he does under the War Powers Resolution of
- 10:06Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three. That resolution is flawed by the way.
- 10:10Speaker 2: He's unconstitutional, right.
- 10:12Speaker 1: He shouldn't be there at all right now, and so
- 10:14Speaker 1: last week without congressional authorization. And let me tell you
- 10:20Speaker 1: why this is important. You know, Congress does fund the war.
- 10:24Speaker 1: When we passed the National Defense Authorization Act, we're tacitly
- 10:29Speaker 1: funding any and every war. The problem is, our troops
- 10:34Speaker 1: deserve a debate among their representatives, and you know, a
- 10:40Speaker 1: set of goals and a mission that's accomplishable with rules
- 10:44Speaker 1: of engagement that are reasonable. Right, don't tie their hands
- 10:48Speaker 1: behind their back, give them a mission, and then once
- 10:51Speaker 1: they achieve those objectives and milestones, let them come home
- 10:56Speaker 1: instead of getting them drug into a twenty year you
- 10:59Speaker 1: know two days long war where you've got dads and
- 11:03Speaker 1: sons who fought in the same war. And the way
- 11:06Speaker 1: you avoid that is Congress has got a debate, set
- 11:09Speaker 1: the parameters of it geographically, temporarily, you know, things like that,
- 11:15Speaker 1: and then let the president wage the war. That's his authority.
- 11:18Speaker 1: But to introduce into hostilities requires Congress to act. So
- 11:25Speaker 1: last week I forced now there were other people obviously
- 11:30Speaker 1: that forced us to a vote, but we forced Congress
- 11:34Speaker 1: to debate for two hours, and they debated the resolution
- 11:37Speaker 1: I wrote last summer, because it takes a while for
- 11:40Speaker 1: such a resolution to ripen, and they had mine was
- 11:44Speaker 1: already written from last summer, which we didn't force a
- 11:47Speaker 1: vote on because he did withdrawal from hostilities almost as
- 11:50Speaker 1: soon as it happened. And so we've debated my resolution
- 11:54Speaker 1: for two hours last week and it failed narrowly. But
- 11:58Speaker 1: you're right, according to the War Powers Resolution, which itself
- 12:02Speaker 1: is flawed, you know, the president's got to get a
- 12:06Speaker 1: positive authorization of Congress. And by the way, not only
- 12:09Speaker 1: is the War Powers Resolution of nineteen seventy three constitutionally flawed,
- 12:13Speaker 1: it doesn't mean what it used to mean because there
- 12:15Speaker 1: was a nineteen eighty three decision Chada versus I in
- 12:19Speaker 1: s that said, everything that a house in the Senate
- 12:23Speaker 1: votes on that's going to be legally binding has to
- 12:25Speaker 1: go to the president. So you can't have congressional vetos.
- 12:29Speaker 1: So even if my resolution had passed last week, it
- 12:31Speaker 1: would set up a constitutional question of whether you know,
- 12:36Speaker 1: Donald Trump could veto it, Yeah, whether he could veto
- 12:38Speaker 1: it or not, because when it was originally written, they
- 12:40Speaker 1: anticipated that he couldn't. And the right way I was
- 12:44Speaker 1: telling my colleagues when we're on the floor, I said,
- 12:47Speaker 1: the only right way to do this is for one
- 12:50Speaker 1: of you all who believes we should be at war
- 12:52Speaker 1: to come down here with a declaration of war and
- 12:57Speaker 1: then we debate that. Now, if if I thought people
- 13:00Speaker 1: would understand and I wouldn't get attacked on now you're going, yeah,
- 13:04Speaker 1: I would introduce the declaration of war myself and vote
- 13:07Speaker 1: against it at the end of the debate.
- 13:09Speaker 2: I understand that, understand that all right? When our limited time,
- 13:12Speaker 2: and I don't mean to cut off that particular subject matter,
- 13:14Speaker 2: but people are really puzzled about this one. You pointed
- 13:17Speaker 2: out that Congress spent a combined roughly seventeen million dollars
- 13:21Speaker 2: of taxpayer money to settle sexual harassment claims mate against
- 13:24Speaker 2: members of Congress. And there was a vote to maybe
- 13:28Speaker 2: release all those documents, but three hundred and fifty seven
- 13:30Speaker 2: Republicans and Democrats joined together bipartisan support to not allow
- 13:34Speaker 2: us to have access to these documents. Can you explain
- 13:37Speaker 2: this to my listeners Congress from Massy.
- 13:38Speaker 1: Yeah, they referred it to committee, and we know what
- 13:41Speaker 1: that means. It's going to die.
- 13:43Speaker 2: Yes.
- 13:43Speaker 1: Yeah. I was one of sixty five who voted to
- 13:46Speaker 1: expose the members of Congress. By the way, that's taxpayer funds, yes,
- 13:49Speaker 1: out their campaign funds. That's not their private checks, that's
- 13:52Speaker 1: taxpayer funds. And I exposed this slush fund two years
- 13:56Speaker 1: ago in a hearing when the Democrats were trying to
- 14:00Speaker 1: put Donald Trump in prison because he paid story Ing
- 14:02Speaker 1: Daniels and didn't disclose it. And I said, wait, if
- 14:07Speaker 1: you're going to start disclosing stuff, how about this slush fund.
- 14:10Speaker 1: I bet there's some of you on this dais here
- 14:12Speaker 1: who've used that slush fund. And you could hear a
- 14:15Speaker 1: pin drop right yep. Well it was last week. I
- 14:18Speaker 1: worked with Nancy Mace again to force these people to vote.
- 14:21Speaker 1: They did not want to vote on this, and then
- 14:24Speaker 1: Kentucky I can tell you. I can't tell you how
- 14:27Speaker 1: Ohio and Indiana voted, but only myself and Jamie Comer
- 14:31Speaker 1: voted to expose the slush fund. People like Andy Barr,
- 14:36Speaker 1: and I'll call him out because he's going to be
- 14:37Speaker 1: in my district this today. I assume with the President,
- 14:41Speaker 1: people like Andy Barr voted to refer it to committee,
- 14:44Speaker 1: which means to kill it. And there's a false narrative
- 14:47Speaker 1: out there that says that, oh, well, this would have
- 14:49Speaker 1: exposed the victim's information. Nope, that's read the bill. It's
- 14:53Speaker 1: not a long bill. It says that you're going to
- 14:56Speaker 1: redact all that and you're only going to give out
- 14:58Speaker 1: the congressman's names.
- 14:59Speaker 2: Well, I guess the argument is that this happened as
- 15:01Speaker 2: a consequence of there being a congress person, that this
- 15:06Speaker 2: is connected to their job in some way, shape or form.
- 15:08Speaker 2: Last time I checked, sexual harassment is not part of
- 15:10Speaker 2: the job description for any description for any elected official.
- 15:13Speaker 2: If they're going to settle something, it should have been
- 15:15Speaker 2: on their dime. And I personally am insulted that they
- 15:18Speaker 2: allocated these sc taxpayer resources to pay off their sexual
- 15:22Speaker 2: harassment claims who among us has that luxury.
- 15:25Speaker 1: Here's the other interesting thing. We're each given a budget
- 15:27Speaker 1: to operate our office. It doesn't even come out of
- 15:30Speaker 1: that budget. That's why we're calling it a slush fund.
- 15:33Speaker 1: There's as much money there as you want, and it
- 15:35Speaker 1: doesn't even cost you know, one office, you know, a
- 15:40Speaker 1: ream of paper to pay one of these off. There's
- 15:43Speaker 1: no trade off. It's terrible. The members of Congress who
- 15:47Speaker 1: dip into this slush fund that's paid for by you
- 15:50Speaker 1: need to be known. And we've got some issues right
- 15:54Speaker 1: now in Congress. We've got a member of Congress who
- 15:57Speaker 1: was caught having an affair with his staffer. She later
- 16:00Speaker 1: set herself on fire and dies.
- 16:02Speaker 2: I saw that.
- 16:03Speaker 1: That is so horrific, and the Speaker of the House
- 16:06Speaker 1: will not even call for him to step down or
- 16:09Speaker 1: resign because the Speaker wants to keep the slim narrow majority.
- 16:14Speaker 1: And the problem is if he does things like this,
- 16:17Speaker 1: we're going to lose the majority in the midterms. Just
- 16:19Speaker 1: like the Speaker was against releasing the Epstein files, and
- 16:22Speaker 1: the Speaker himself voted against releasing this slush fund.
- 16:26Speaker 2: So you can't compromise on these kinds of values. It
- 16:28Speaker 2: will come back to haunt you. Congressman Thomas Massey. I
- 16:31Speaker 2: appreciate your being principled and true to the Constitution in
- 16:34Speaker 2: spite of the fact that you do face the slings
- 16:36Speaker 2: and arrows from folks who are looking for a more
- 16:38Speaker 2: expedient path that doesn't involve Constitution. You're at least someone
- 16:42Speaker 2: we can count on for that, and I appreciate you
- 16:43Speaker 2: for it. And I appreciate you coming to the morning
- 16:45Speaker 2: show and sharing your time with my listeners and me.
- 16:47Speaker 1: Thanks Brian. Remember you can support Donald Trump and vote
- 16:50Speaker 1: for me. Most people are there.
- 16:52Speaker 2: You go go wake your cows up from the time change.
- 16:55Speaker 2: We'll talk again real soon. Congress of Massy and Jena
- 16:57Speaker 2: Polton is coming up. Huge fan of yours.