Latest / Brian Thomas / Congressman Warren Davidson joins Brian Thomas this morning
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- 0:01Speaker 1: It's seven to six here at fifty five Carsit the
- 0:04Speaker 1: talk station after Friday Eve. Brian Thomas hosts here the
- 0:06Speaker 1: fifty five Caersey Morning Show. Welcoming back, and I truly
- 0:10Speaker 1: appreciate his willingness to join the fifty five Carsee Morning
- 0:12Speaker 1: Show regularly. Welcome back Congressman Warren Davidson. It's a pleasure
- 0:15Speaker 1: to have you on, as it always is, sir, Yeah.
- 0:18Speaker 2: Always an honor. Nice to talk with you, Brian.
- 0:20Speaker 1: Well, before we dive in onto whether or not the
- 0:22Speaker 1: government's going to shut down this weekend, because it has
- 0:23Speaker 1: a lot to do with ICE and its activities, let
- 0:25Speaker 1: me ask you a question here. I read earlier in
- 0:28Speaker 1: the program this twenty ten Barack Obama position statement that
- 0:32Speaker 1: he defended his efforts and his successful efforts, mind you,
- 0:37Speaker 1: to deport illegal immigrants, regardless of whether they were just
- 0:41Speaker 1: regular members of the community who've been here for a
- 0:43Speaker 1: long time. He said it. Often the argument is framed
- 0:45Speaker 1: in moral terms. Why should we punish people who are
- 0:47Speaker 1: just trying to earn a living. I recognize the sense
- 0:49Speaker 1: of compassion that drives this argument, but I believe such
- 0:52Speaker 1: an indiscriminate approach would be both unwise and unfair. He's
- 0:56Speaker 1: worried about there. There would be no repercussions for such
- 0:58Speaker 1: a decision of more illegal came here than there's got
- 1:01Speaker 1: to be, or more are going to flow in. In
- 1:02Speaker 1: other words, that's an incentive for people to come into
- 1:04Speaker 1: the country if they know they're not going to be deported.
- 1:07Speaker 1: He was all about doing exactly what Donald Trump is doing.
- 1:11Speaker 1: So that was twenty ten. Obama Democrats didn't scream, her
- 1:14Speaker 1: wail and ashtief about that. Biden comes in, Congressman Davidson
- 1:19Speaker 1: floods the whole country with the illegal immigrants, with open
- 1:22Speaker 1: borders and does not deport anybody, resulting in who wins
- 1:25Speaker 1: the election, Donald Trump promising to do what Barack Obama's does,
- 1:30Speaker 1: shutting the border down and removing illegal immigrants. So we
- 1:34Speaker 1: got Trump back in. He's back to the Obama position
- 1:37Speaker 1: on that, and the massisteria ensues. Now, obviously this is crazy,
- 1:42Speaker 1: but Congressman Warren Davidson going to the ultimate point, is
- 1:44Speaker 1: this going to affect the midterm elections? A lot of
- 1:46Speaker 1: Republicans now are getting cold feet, they're getting worried, they're
- 1:50Speaker 1: sweating that this anti ice activity that is spreading is
- 1:55Speaker 1: becoming the dominant narrative. Ergo, Trump's going to suffer in
- 1:58Speaker 1: the election. Republicans is going to whose seats in the House.
- 2:01Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure if the will of the American
- 2:03Speaker 1: people is expressed by the history of the past fifteen years.
- 2:06Speaker 1: It sounds to me like the American people want tough
- 2:09Speaker 1: on illegal immigration in this country. Have we lost that
- 2:12Speaker 1: many people to the pro you know, pro or anti
- 2:16Speaker 1: ice sentiment? Congressman Davidson starf for going so long winded.
- 2:21Speaker 2: No, you made a lot of great points, Brian, And
- 2:23Speaker 2: I mean that's the kind of stuff when I'm out
- 2:24Speaker 2: talking to you know, constituents, people in the eighth district,
- 2:28Speaker 2: they still want a secure border. They know Donald Trump
- 2:31Speaker 2: secured the border. Frankly, Obama didn't actually secure the border
- 2:34Speaker 2: very well, but he did do deportations and he did
- 2:37Speaker 2: him pretty well. And who did he trust to do it?
- 2:39Speaker 2: Tom Homan. Yeah, he awarded Tom Homan for basically being
- 2:43Speaker 2: a great, great leader on his job of ice, you know,
- 2:48Speaker 2: getting people who aren't supposed to be here out of
- 2:50Speaker 2: the country. And I think, you know, the operation is
- 2:57Speaker 2: this is an information war and there's a game in Minneapolis.
- 3:01Speaker 2: Unlike every other city. I mean, there are sanctuary cities
- 3:05Speaker 2: around the country where they have kind of coordinated community
- 3:08Speaker 2: organizers that do all this activism, but they're at a
- 3:12Speaker 2: whole different level up there in Little Somalia, and we
- 3:16Speaker 2: need to get serious about, you know, the tactics and techniques.
- 3:19Speaker 2: I mean, I think the big thing is you learn
- 3:21Speaker 2: from counterinsurgency doctrine, which the US spent a lot of
- 3:24Speaker 2: energy doing that. The means that you employ do matter,
- 3:28Speaker 2: So you still want to deal with the insurgency and
- 3:30Speaker 2: get rid of this stuff, but you know, the tactics
- 3:33Speaker 2: really have to be in a way that reinforces your effort.
- 3:36Speaker 2: So I think that's the reason Tom Homan gets sent
- 3:38Speaker 2: up there, is to get back to what works, and
- 3:42Speaker 2: hopefully they don't take their eye off the ball and say,
- 3:44Speaker 2: oh well, let's let the bedwetters win and find some
- 3:48Speaker 2: middle ground. The middle ground is you've been invited to leave.
- 3:51Speaker 2: Here's one thousand dollars plus travel expenses, please leave. That's
- 3:56Speaker 2: middle ground. So I think they've they've extended you know,
- 4:00Speaker 2: branches here that don't require enforcement actions.
- 4:05Speaker 1: Yeah, and I thought political brilliance, assuming anybody out there
- 4:08Speaker 1: in the world is paying attention that Tom Homan point
- 4:10Speaker 1: because he was Obama's point man, and Obama praised him
- 4:14Speaker 1: and gave him an award for the work that he
- 4:15Speaker 1: did and dealing with a border. So you know, there's
- 4:18Speaker 1: the same guy in the same role at Minneapolis. Again,
- 4:21Speaker 1: I thought that was a brilliant selection by President Trump
- 4:25Speaker 1: and it brings that to the head. But just like
- 4:28Speaker 1: Barack Obama's position on deporting illegal immigrants, even if those
- 4:32Speaker 1: people that had been in the community for a while
- 4:33Speaker 1: just going to work every single day.
- 4:38Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, is the sense of urgency greater
- 4:41Speaker 2: for people to close, the greater risk to the country. Yeah,
- 4:44Speaker 2: I mean, you know there's a reason you created, like
- 4:46Speaker 2: the FBI so ten most wanted, right, I mean, there
- 4:49Speaker 2: is more important to catch those folks than the petty
- 4:52Speaker 2: crime issues. But we've been trying to get the FBI
- 4:55Speaker 2: focused on those things for a while. Right, It's like,
- 4:58Speaker 2: when's somebody going to jail on the top for the list?
- 5:01Speaker 2: And I think that's the concern even in Minneapolis. You
- 5:04Speaker 2: think they jumped to shark when they raid a church
- 5:07Speaker 2: and start disrupting a worship service on Sunday morning. But
- 5:11Speaker 2: it looks like DOJ may not even go full force
- 5:14Speaker 2: on the charges for these people.
- 5:16Speaker 1: Well, and that to me only encourages them to continue
- 5:18Speaker 1: to do that type of thing. Absence some kind of
- 5:20Speaker 1: crackdown on it. It's only going to get It's going
- 5:23Speaker 1: to continue or get worse. Pivoting aver to how this
- 5:25Speaker 1: is going to impact, perhaps to shut down to the
- 5:27Speaker 1: federal government fast approaching. We've got this one big six
- 5:31Speaker 1: appropriation bills, the part of which includes a Department of
- 5:34Speaker 1: Homeland Security funding, and that's what the Democrats are now
- 5:37Speaker 1: standing firm on, saying that they do not agree with
- 5:39Speaker 1: the current writing as it is. Chuck Schumer said he
- 5:41Speaker 1: wants three things. An end to roving patrols of ICE
- 5:45Speaker 1: agents in US cities, a holding ICE agents to the
- 5:51Speaker 1: same use of force policies that apply to state and
- 5:54Speaker 1: local law enforcement. And then finally requiring ICE and other
- 5:58Speaker 1: immigration agents to where body cameras, remove masks and always
- 6:01Speaker 1: carry proper state identification. Those the three stumbling blocks. If
- 6:05Speaker 1: it really boils down to all that, can that be
- 6:06Speaker 1: ironed out and agreed upon, or is our government going
- 6:09Speaker 1: to be shut down?
- 6:09Speaker 2: Congressman Davidson, Well, even if they agreed to that, the
- 6:14Speaker 2: government would shut down because that's not the version that
- 6:16Speaker 2: passed the House. So I think they should not agree
- 6:19Speaker 2: to those things. And you know what they did in
- 6:21Speaker 2: the House is they broke the bills out separately and
- 6:25Speaker 2: had separate votes so that Democrats could voice their opposition
- 6:28Speaker 2: to funding ICE, which to me is you know, about
- 6:31Speaker 2: as dumb as defunding the police. But okay, go ahead
- 6:34Speaker 2: and cast that vote, y'all. So I think they're going
- 6:38Speaker 2: to break it apart in the Senate, which does give
- 6:40Speaker 2: extra debate. We'll see whether they get it done by
- 6:43Speaker 2: you know, the deadline here, or whether we end up
- 6:46Speaker 2: with a small shutdown over the weekend. On the outside,
- 6:49Speaker 2: you know, hey, they may just take their take their
- 6:51Speaker 2: ball and go home and try to do another six
- 6:54Speaker 2: week shutdown or something. But you know, the funding bills
- 7:00Speaker 2: half passed the House, and they're not perfect, but you know,
- 7:03Speaker 2: Ice and border security are funded, as is the whole government.
- 7:07Speaker 2: If they just passed the House as built. There are
- 7:09Speaker 2: some things in it that I think, well, you know,
- 7:11Speaker 2: we should have. We had some good amendments in there
- 7:13Speaker 2: to defund certain things that didn't pass. But nevertheless, russ Vote,
- 7:18Speaker 2: who's President Trump's leader of Omb. He's like, look, we're
- 7:21Speaker 2: not going to fund refugee resettlement. And you know it
- 7:26Speaker 2: would take Trump telling me to do that for me
- 7:28Speaker 2: to do that. And do you think Trump's going to
- 7:29Speaker 2: tell me to somehow do some big refugee resettlement program
- 7:33Speaker 2: and that's just not going to happen. So the money
- 7:35Speaker 2: is appropriated in some of these things to appease Democrats
- 7:38Speaker 2: and get Democrat votes. But at the end of the day,
- 7:41Speaker 2: you know, Trump is still going to lead on the
- 7:43Speaker 2: things that he promised to do.
- 7:46Speaker 1: Well as well he should what got him elected. I mean,
- 7:48Speaker 1: he's really just making good on his campaign. Blood is
- 7:51Speaker 1: so surprising fee that people are just amazed that this
- 7:54Speaker 1: is actually happening here in the country. So procedurally speaking,
- 7:59Speaker 1: if they're any changes to what the Senate is looking
- 8:02Speaker 1: at right now, it's coming back to you in.
- 8:04Speaker 2: The House, that's right. Yeah, So we we're supposed to
- 8:09Speaker 2: be back in on Monday, so uh, absent some other
- 8:12Speaker 2: coordinated plan for everybody to get back I mean, you know,
- 8:15Speaker 2: you would have some marginal shutdown on until Monday. You know,
- 8:21Speaker 2: if if if the House would pass the same thing
- 8:23Speaker 2: that the Senate passed, and I think the other thing.
- 8:26Speaker 2: I don't think that's what's gonna happen. I think there's
- 8:28Speaker 2: enough sane Democrats that they would pass past the funding
- 8:32Speaker 2: and maybe they just to go. Okay, for those of
- 8:34Speaker 2: you that want to be records, what we had to
- 8:36Speaker 2: do in the House, we broke it out separately and
- 8:38Speaker 2: Democrats said they weren't going to play unless they got
- 8:41Speaker 2: a separate vote on homeland security, and trickly a lot
- 8:44Speaker 2: of Republicans wanted that too, where you know, we can
- 8:47Speaker 2: vote for homeland security but not necessarily vote for some
- 8:51Speaker 2: of the other portions of the funding bill. DA.
- 8:54Speaker 1: We'll continue with Congress from Warren Davison. Yeah, where are
- 8:56Speaker 1: those Epstein fails? Plus a cool idea. I think you
- 8:59Speaker 1: have Treasure Department Trump accounts now in effect, and they
- 9:02Speaker 1: sound like a good idea to mean, we'll see a
- 9:03Speaker 1: Congressman dat fineteen if you have Kersey the talk totation,
- 9:05Speaker 1: Brian Thomas, the Congressman Warren Davidson, appreciate him coming on
- 9:09Speaker 1: the program. Oh real quick. One of my listeners went
- 9:12Speaker 1: over the CVP app the self deportation. App Apparently now
- 9:16Speaker 1: they get twenty six hundred dollars if they self deport
- 9:19Speaker 1: so the money's gone up, so dangling Carrott has gotten
- 9:22Speaker 1: a little bit larger. Thank you, Eric, and moving over
- 9:25Speaker 1: where the hell of the Epstein files? Congressman Davidson, Is
- 9:28Speaker 1: this topic ever going to go away?
- 9:32Speaker 2: I really don't think so. I mean, I think we'll
- 9:34Speaker 2: find out about the Epstein files about the same pace
- 9:38Speaker 2: that we found out about JFK. I knew you're going
- 9:40Speaker 2: to say even then it's redacted and missing.
- 9:43Speaker 1: Yeah, I was worried you're going to say that. And
- 9:45Speaker 1: if this only gets worse by way of optics, I mean,
- 9:48Speaker 1: I'm not saying something you haven't heard a million times
- 9:50Speaker 1: from a million different people anymore. But the one to
- 9:52Speaker 1: eighty by Trump himself, the fact that the Democrats had
- 9:55Speaker 1: these documents for the whole term of the Biden administration
- 9:58Speaker 1: didn't lift the finger. In fact, argued again, it's releasing them.
- 10:01Speaker 1: I mean, this this is just I don't know, it's
- 10:04Speaker 1: just inexplicable. Which feeds this whole conspiracy theories or feeds
- 10:09Speaker 1: legitimate theories about these documents must be pretty darn damning
- 10:13Speaker 1: to someone or a whole bunch of people such that
- 10:16Speaker 1: what the government's going to shut down, we're all gonna
- 10:18Speaker 1: have some sort of existential crisis over the vast number
- 10:21Speaker 1: of people that were involved with this pervert. I don't
- 10:24Speaker 1: know what to make of it. It does not make
- 10:25Speaker 1: any sense, Congressman.
- 10:28Speaker 2: Now, I think look, I think the biggest, biggest, most
- 10:32Speaker 2: likely scenario is there's there's intelligence involved the personnel. And yeah,
- 10:38Speaker 2: I think everybody knows Epstein wasn't like a free agent.
- 10:41Speaker 2: He was directed and employed by intelligence agencies most likely,
- 10:48Speaker 2: and unfortunately it might view you know, one or more
- 10:51Speaker 2: of our three Letter agencies that either contracted him or
- 10:55Speaker 2: maybe even set him on his tours. It certainly seems
- 10:58Speaker 2: likely that he was an affiliate with Israel, one of
- 11:01Speaker 2: our close allies. And I think there's a lot of
- 11:03Speaker 2: concern this will undermine a lot of things, not just
- 11:08Speaker 2: the people that committed crimes here. I don't know that
- 11:12Speaker 2: that's true. But how are you going to end this
- 11:13Speaker 2: speculation without releasing everything which is now the law, and
- 11:20Speaker 2: releasing it in an unredacted form, which is also the law.
- 11:23Speaker 2: They're not like exclusions where you can redact things, but
- 11:26Speaker 2: that's what Mandi's doing. They haven't leased tons of documents,
- 11:29Speaker 2: so we keep knowing more and more. But we you know,
- 11:33Speaker 2: they're not going to go to trial on virtually anything.
- 11:35Speaker 2: It seems they reach settlements with a lot of these women,
- 11:39Speaker 2: and you know, therefore it's hard to prosecute because you
- 11:41Speaker 2: don't have witness testimony. So these are hard cases to
- 11:45Speaker 2: try given the settlement agreements. And then the discovery just
- 11:49Speaker 2: doesn't want to be allowed to happen so that the
- 11:51Speaker 2: government's sources and methods are kept private.
- 11:55Speaker 1: Well, again, you point out the law of the land
- 11:57Speaker 1: that the documents must be produced by Oh, that's right
- 11:59Speaker 1: last December. But come what may, Yeah, there maybe there
- 12:04Speaker 1: won't be prosecutions because of settlement agreements. Maybe statute limitations
- 12:07Speaker 1: have been passed, maybe governing agencies are identified having involvement
- 12:10Speaker 1: with Epstein. You know, let the chips fall where they may.
- 12:13Speaker 1: But the documents must be produced, says the law signed
- 12:16Speaker 1: in by Donald Trump. I'm sorry that there's complications related
- 12:21Speaker 1: to it or we may not get perhaps what we
- 12:22Speaker 1: individually want or hope from it. So what let us
- 12:26Speaker 1: have the documents, says Brian Thomas.
- 12:27Speaker 2: Anyway, one hundred percent agree, I mean, and that's the
- 12:32Speaker 2: way overwhelmingly we voted. I mean, I voted that way
- 12:35Speaker 2: and so did almost everyone else. And I think that's
- 12:38Speaker 2: where the sentiment of the public is. And let's say
- 12:41Speaker 2: there was you know, some evidence that look, I mean,
- 12:44Speaker 2: obviously terrible things happen, and you know, it looks like
- 12:48Speaker 2: maybe it was used to leverage people for blackmail. Without
- 12:51Speaker 2: the terrible things, you don't have leverage for blackmail, yep,
- 12:54Speaker 2: but you're not supposed to be the person running the op.
- 12:56Speaker 2: And if our agencies have drifted off course and done that,
- 13:00Speaker 2: well then they need reformed and people need to be
- 13:03Speaker 2: held accountable for it. And that's why we passed the law.
- 13:07Speaker 2: So the question is is Bondy gonna do it? And
- 13:10Speaker 2: since she isn't doing it, what are we going to
- 13:12Speaker 2: do about it? And that was where like to me,
- 13:15Speaker 2: it was an easy not vote on the CG Criminal
- 13:18Speaker 2: Justice Funding Bill because not only am I frustrated with
- 13:22Speaker 2: the Department of Justice, but the judiciary branch also didn't
- 13:26Speaker 2: get significant reform. So you know, these guys are out
- 13:29Speaker 2: of control and we can just keep cutting the checks
- 13:33Speaker 2: and we hold hearings and complain about it. We can't
- 13:35Speaker 2: put people in jail and Congress, but we can cut
- 13:38Speaker 2: checks or no checks.
- 13:43Speaker 1: That is all right, real quick here, Congress, Moore and
- 13:45Speaker 1: Davis is one more topic. And I'm excited about this
- 13:47Speaker 1: because it's going to get young people involved in the
- 13:49Speaker 1: understanding of what exactly the beauty or how exactly the
- 13:52Speaker 1: beauty of compound interest rate works to their advantage. These
- 13:56Speaker 1: so called Trump accounts one thousand dollars for every child
- 14:00Speaker 1: born between January last year and December thirty firth of
- 14:03Speaker 1: a first of twenty twenty eight gets a thousand dollars
- 14:06Speaker 1: contribution from the Treasury goes into account they cannot access
- 14:09Speaker 1: until they're eighteen. But also a bunch of opportunities for philanthropists,
- 14:13Speaker 1: family members, and others to donate to those accounts. And
- 14:17Speaker 1: just the one thousand dollars alone. If you don't, they
- 14:20Speaker 1: can't touch you. But if they leave it alone and
- 14:22Speaker 1: they keep it until they retire, if historical rates continue,
- 14:26Speaker 1: that's going to turn into a half a million dollars
- 14:29Speaker 1: by retirement age. Kids need to know this, and that's
- 14:31Speaker 1: why I think this is a great idea. What's your
- 14:33Speaker 1: take on these?
- 14:36Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, generally the markets outperformed the
- 14:39Speaker 2: rate of inflation, and you know we're looking at a
- 14:43Speaker 2: period right now where you know, the markets are going up.
- 14:46Speaker 2: Gold's going up in part because the money is getting wrecked, right, so,
- 14:51Speaker 2: and I think Peter Shift said it, well, the problem
- 14:54Speaker 2: isn't that the government might shut down the problems. The
- 14:56Speaker 2: government's going to keep operating with massive deficits. It's going
- 15:00Speaker 2: to keep undermining the dollar. So that's where you see
- 15:04Speaker 2: gold soaring, and you know there's the other assets soaring too.
- 15:08Speaker 2: You know, top level stocks are doing really well because
- 15:11Speaker 2: people want to protect the value of their money and
- 15:14Speaker 2: that's the job of the Federal Reserve. They're not doing
- 15:16Speaker 2: it well at all. So too late now as Trump,
- 15:19Speaker 2: President Trump calls them. It really drove a lot of
- 15:23Speaker 2: this saying well, it's not going to cause inflation, and
- 15:25Speaker 2: then saying, oh, well it might cause inflation, but it'll
- 15:29Speaker 2: be transitory. Well, we're still in that transitory phase. It's
- 15:33Speaker 2: going in the right direction with the new leadership in Washington, DC.
- 15:38Speaker 2: But the Trump account is a good way to hedge
- 15:41Speaker 2: against it. And it's great that young people are going
- 15:43Speaker 2: to be able to learn that lesson in a way
- 15:45Speaker 2: that hasn't been taught well well.
- 15:47Speaker 1: And speaking of philanthropists, a lot of them stepped up
- 15:49Speaker 1: and already said they're going to be donating to these
- 15:51Speaker 1: accounts as well, so not just the check from the Treasury,
- 15:53Speaker 1: but maybe you get a check from some other big
- 15:55Speaker 1: multinational corporation to go along with it. Good marketing for them.
- 16:00Speaker 1: So Congressman Warren Davidson, thank you for your participation on
- 16:03Speaker 1: the morning show. This morning will anxiously await the inevitable
- 16:06Speaker 1: government shutdown, which appears like it's.
- 16:08Speaker 2: Going to come.
- 16:09Speaker 1: Even if it's short lived. I have a feeling we'll
- 16:11Speaker 1: be able to manage through it. Congressman David's in best
- 16:13Speaker 1: of health, and thank you for all the work that
- 16:15Speaker 1: you do on behalf of not just your constituents, but
- 16:17Speaker 1: the American people generally.
- 16:20Speaker 2: It's definitely an honor. Thank you, Brian, God bless you
- 16:22Speaker 2: and all your listeners.
- 16:23Speaker 1: We'll talk soon, I hope, seven twenty five right now,
- 16:25Speaker 1: stick around, Christopher Smithman late addition to the rundown a