Latest / Brian Thomas / Congressman Warren Davidson joins the show this morning
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- 0:13Speaker 1: Seven oh six at fifty five KRC Decalk Station. Brian
- 0:18Speaker 1: Thomas right here, always looking forward to talking with Congressman
- 0:20Speaker 1: Warren Davidson and a man who's willing to come on
- 0:22Speaker 1: the fifty five Carcy Morning Show to talk about important issues,
- 0:24Speaker 1: and God bless him for it, and God bless those
- 0:27Speaker 1: in the eighth District, the district that he serves for
- 0:29Speaker 1: electing Congressman Davidson. Welcome back, my friend. It's always a
- 0:32Speaker 1: pleasure to have you on the fifty five KRC Morning Show.
- 0:35Speaker 2: Yeah, always an honor. Nice to talk with you.
- 0:37Speaker 1: Brian, starting out with a simple question, was this trip
- 0:39Speaker 1: really necessary? Of course the Epstein files. Donald Trump signed
- 0:41Speaker 1: the bill to release the Epstein files. We've got thirty
- 0:44Speaker 1: days for the Justice Department to probably make a heapload
- 0:47Speaker 1: of redactions before producing them, which will result in arguments
- 0:50Speaker 1: over whether the redactions were necessary or not. But we're
- 0:53Speaker 1: finally getting them overwhelmingly voted in favor of doing this.
- 0:57Speaker 1: I guess my initial question for you, Congressman Davidson, do
- 1:01Speaker 1: you because I asked this a Congressman Massy the other day,
- 1:04Speaker 1: kind of one of the guys behind this this whole effort,
- 1:06Speaker 1: do you have any reason to understand Donald Trump's flip
- 1:10Speaker 1: flopping from promising to release them on the campaign trail
- 1:13Speaker 1: to getting elected and then saying no, there's nothing there
- 1:15Speaker 1: and we don't have anything to release, to then changing
- 1:18Speaker 1: tune after pressure from Congressman Massey and others to release
- 1:21Speaker 1: the files, to be unanimously voted on to release them
- 1:24Speaker 1: by both the House and Senate. I mean, I'm just
- 1:27Speaker 1: wondering how what happened, How did this end up being,
- 1:32Speaker 1: what became of it, what was the reason for this
- 1:34Speaker 1: flip flop.
- 1:37Speaker 2: Well, honest, we probably will never know why he went
- 1:40Speaker 2: from saying, you know, we have to do this on
- 1:43Speaker 2: the campaign trail to saying at one point that it's
- 1:47Speaker 2: a hoax and you know, we just need to drop it.
- 1:50Speaker 2: It's another Democrat effort to just really target him. But
- 1:55Speaker 2: that's the main interest Democrats have it that they never
- 1:58Speaker 2: put an answer pressure on Barack Obama or Eric Holder,
- 2:02Speaker 2: or frankly even Trump in his first term to go
- 2:04Speaker 2: after Epstein. Then when Biden was there no pressure on
- 2:08Speaker 2: Biden or Merrick Garland. So it's all just a desperate
- 2:12Speaker 2: attempt to try to get any any taint of anything
- 2:15Speaker 2: on Trump and and so I think that's where Trump's like,
- 2:20Speaker 2: now you're just going to try to put something in
- 2:21Speaker 2: the headlines and go after him. I think there's other
- 2:24Speaker 2: reasons there. Speaker Johnson's also very reluctant to see unredacted
- 2:29Speaker 2: information being made public. He laid out some of those concerns.
- 2:33Speaker 2: He feels like it could harm national security. And I
- 2:36Speaker 2: think that's the implication is is, well, look, if we've
- 2:39Speaker 2: got intelligence services or frankly allies with intelligence services that
- 2:43Speaker 2: are trafficking miners, we got to find a different way
- 2:47Speaker 2: to do intelligence, you know, and that should come out. Honestly,
- 2:51Speaker 2: that should come out, yes, and you should find a
- 2:54Speaker 2: way to work through it. I mean, it's a scandal
- 2:56Speaker 2: to cover it up. So there's going to be speculation
- 2:59Speaker 2: because like, way, how is it that Pam Bondy's got
- 3:02Speaker 2: binders full of information and ready to release it? What
- 3:06Speaker 2: was in the binders? I mean, there was apparently a
- 3:08Speaker 2: plan to go forward, and then suddenly it was like
- 3:11Speaker 2: cold turkey, you know, nothing to see here, let's move on.
- 3:15Speaker 2: I don't know that we're ever going to get an
- 3:17Speaker 2: honest explanation for that. But Pam Bondy was supposed to
- 3:20Speaker 2: come explain that to Congress while we had the shutdown
- 3:23Speaker 2: going on. She's supposed to come testify, so hopefully that's
- 3:26Speaker 2: in the pipeline again. But honestly, I think one of
- 3:29Speaker 2: the best panels that could be done would have Pam Bondy,
- 3:33Speaker 2: the current attorney general, the two previous the three or
- 3:38Speaker 2: four previous attorneys general, Merrick Garland from Biden's administration, Bill
- 3:42Speaker 2: Barr and Jeff Sessions from Trump's term, and go all
- 3:45Speaker 2: the way back to Eric Holder. He didn't do anything either.
- 3:49Speaker 2: So how with all these previous attorney generals and all
- 3:53Speaker 2: the public things that have gone on about Jeffrey Epstein
- 3:56Speaker 2: and his clients and client lists and trafficked women, and finally,
- 4:00Speaker 2: ultimately during Trump's first term, you know, Epstein was prosecuted
- 4:06Speaker 2: and so was Julane Maxwell. Yeah, so what's the story
- 4:11Speaker 2: on this case? I mean, that's what people want to know.
- 4:13Speaker 2: And when you put Juline and Maxwell, Julane Maxwell in
- 4:16Speaker 2: prison for trafficking miners, yeah, well they were trafficked to somebody. Yeah,
- 4:21Speaker 2: we're here the rest of the prosecutions.
- 4:23Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the whole thing. All of this invites speculation
- 4:27Speaker 1: and legitimate speculation. You know, Epstein's been previously identified as
- 4:31Speaker 1: maybe it was a CIA asset. How did a pedophile
- 4:33Speaker 1: become a CIA operative or asset? And you know the
- 4:38Speaker 1: other thing about the Democrats, colors Fan David said, you
- 4:41Speaker 1: know this more than anybody. They made stuff up about
- 4:45Speaker 1: Trump to go after him. The steel dots was whole
- 4:48Speaker 1: cloth invention. They lie. Then we find out now that
- 4:50Speaker 1: January sixth, well, you know, the pipe bombs being planted
- 4:53Speaker 1: by probably are a Capitol Police officer now working for
- 4:57Speaker 1: the CIA. The point of that being the draw people's
- 5:00Speaker 1: attention to the bombs and shut the government down. I mean,
- 5:04Speaker 1: we don't have any trust out there in so far
- 5:06Speaker 1: as that goes. But since they made so much stuff
- 5:09Speaker 1: up about Trump and tried to capture him it with
- 5:11Speaker 1: made up intel. If there was something in these documents
- 5:15Speaker 1: with all the people that had the Department of Justice
- 5:17Speaker 1: was weaponized against Donald Trump, they would have released them,
- 5:20Speaker 1: wouldn't they If there was something real in there about Trump.
- 5:25Speaker 2: Yeah, they would have one hundred percent they would have.
- 5:27Speaker 2: And look, even when they tried, you know, last week
- 5:31Speaker 2: earlier this week to selectively release some references in the email,
- 5:35Speaker 2: they redacted the name of the person that was in
- 5:38Speaker 2: the email, and she's been public saying Donald Trump was helpful,
- 5:42Speaker 2: he didn't do anything bad. So they are selectively trying
- 5:47Speaker 2: everything possible. And here's the thing, talk about the no
- 5:50Speaker 2: moral outrage, how dad Donald Trump communicate with Jeffrey Epstein
- 5:54Speaker 2: And they're going back to like two thousand and four
- 5:57Speaker 2: in the nineties. Well, post convention, Stacey Plaskett will get
- 6:02Speaker 2: from Virgin Virgin Islands is real time texting with Jeffrey
- 6:06Speaker 2: Epstein for what purpose? To try to get Trump? Oh,
- 6:11Speaker 2: we've got to find some way to go after Trump.
- 6:13Speaker 2: And they're real time got pictures of her in the
- 6:17Speaker 2: hearing texting, and then you get the text thread and
- 6:20Speaker 2: that was because not because of the Epstein files, but
- 6:23Speaker 2: because Speaker Johnson and the House Oversight team Jamie Kellmer
- 6:28Speaker 2: led a subpoena to get records from the Epstein estate.
- 6:34Speaker 2: So you're getting extra information. So look, I think a
- 6:37Speaker 2: lot of the information was forthcoming anyway that can be done.
- 6:40Speaker 2: But to your point, and I think where a lot
- 6:42Speaker 2: of people are when I talk to them, is you know, yeah,
- 6:45Speaker 2: that's great. We don't really need more rage bait from Congress.
- 6:49Speaker 2: When is somebody going to jail, you know, And I
- 6:53Speaker 2: think that's the frustration. We want evidence coming out at
- 6:56Speaker 2: trial where people are put on trial and convicted if
- 7:01Speaker 2: they were molesting girls that were paid for this stuff,
- 7:06Speaker 2: right exactly. So that's the thing I mean, I think
- 7:09Speaker 2: only Pambondi and frankly the other Attorney's General can answer
- 7:13Speaker 2: that question, like where are the prosecutions and if there's
- 7:16Speaker 2: an explanation, we'll let us have it and look at
- 7:21Speaker 2: in the speculation either this guy was intelligence affiliated or
- 7:24Speaker 2: he wasn't. That was the reference to alex Acosta when
- 7:28Speaker 2: he was going to prosecute then, and they did a
- 7:30Speaker 2: settlement in a very friendly one frankly for someone you know,
- 7:34Speaker 2: doing what Epstein was doing, no.
- 7:36Speaker 1: Question about it. Well, the first the first victim, I mean,
- 7:39Speaker 1: you can name others. Treasury Secretary Larry Summer's now resigned
- 7:43Speaker 1: from his board on open Ai Elsa stepped down from
- 7:45Speaker 1: position at Harvard. He was texting back and forth with
- 7:49Speaker 1: Epstein seeking dating advice on how to go to bed
- 7:52Speaker 1: with some female mentee whose dad was member of the
- 7:55Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party. So there's that. But then you had
- 7:58Speaker 1: Congressman Massey saying he relied on us attorney or US
- 8:01Speaker 1: Attorney's office files with the Southern District of New York,
- 8:03Speaker 1: and he said out loud. Previously after deposing cash Bettel,
- 8:07Speaker 1: he said the files include a Hollywood producer with worth
- 8:10Speaker 1: a few hundred million dollars, one royal prints, one high
- 8:13Speaker 1: profile individual in the music industry, very prominent banker, high
- 8:16Speaker 1: profile government official, one high profile former politician, one owner
- 8:20Speaker 1: of a car company in Italy, one rock star, one magician,
- 8:23Speaker 1: at least six billionaires, including a billionaire from Canada. Where
- 8:27Speaker 1: was pressure? Do you know of any pressure being put
- 8:30Speaker 1: placed on senators or representatives behind the scenes saying don't
- 8:34Speaker 1: release these I am mister one hundred million dollar powerful guy,
- 8:38Speaker 1: and you're gonna get hurt as a consequence of releasing them.
- 8:41Speaker 1: Do you know if that was actually going on at all?
- 8:44Speaker 2: Well, we know for sure there's a whole lot of
- 8:46Speaker 2: overpressure being put on Congressman Thomas Massey to not be
- 8:50Speaker 2: doing any of these things, right, So, you know, there
- 8:54Speaker 2: were reports that there were pressure applied to some of
- 8:57Speaker 2: the people that had signed to this charge petition, and
- 9:00Speaker 2: then the tipping point came like once once the vote
- 9:02Speaker 2: is forced, and you know, I never signed the distarct
- 9:05Speaker 2: petition because I felt like, yeah, we are making good
- 9:07Speaker 2: progress releasing it. The question I want is, Pam Bondy,
- 9:11Speaker 2: when are the prosecutions? So that still is an answer,
- 9:16Speaker 2: but okay, fine, release the files once we're going to
- 9:19Speaker 2: vote on it. I think overwhelmingly people were gonna Like
- 9:22Speaker 2: I had said last week, you know, I did an
- 9:25Speaker 2: interview with CNN and they, you know, supposed to talk
- 9:28Speaker 2: about the shutdown and reopening the government, and of course
- 9:32Speaker 2: they want to bury the lead there, so they go, well,
- 9:34Speaker 2: what about the Epstein files? When this comes up, how
- 9:37Speaker 2: are you going to vote? Like, well, I'm going to
- 9:38Speaker 2: vote yes. Uh But but I think the bigger picture is, yeah, sure,
- 9:43Speaker 2: disclose them. There may be something there that isn't already
- 9:46Speaker 2: being disclosed, so fine, disclose it. But the real underlying
- 9:50Speaker 2: question still is where are the prosecutions? When is someone
- 9:54Speaker 2: going to jail? And disclosure isn't going to answer that.
- 9:57Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's those FBI files. Apparently must create one
- 10:02Speaker 1: of these files every time someone comes to them with
- 10:04Speaker 1: information about a crime. Those haven't been released yet. Those
- 10:07Speaker 1: are all the victim's statements. FBI had those. Why wasn't
- 10:11Speaker 1: anything done about it? Well, this is what will be revealed,
- 10:14Speaker 1: hopefully if the documents are indeed produced within thirty days
- 10:17Speaker 1: as they've been directed to by law. We'll continue with
- 10:20Speaker 1: Congressman Warren Davidson. Find out what's next.
- 10:23Speaker 2: The talk station.
- 10:25Speaker 1: Seven twenty here, fifty five KC the talk station. Happy
- 10:28Speaker 1: Friday Eve. Brian Thomas here with Congressman Warren Davidson. Moving
- 10:32Speaker 1: past the Epstein file. Now that that's no longer a distraction,
- 10:34Speaker 1: or at least less of a distraction. The government's shutdown
- 10:38Speaker 1: was all over the Democrats' efforts to extend the tax
- 10:40Speaker 1: credits for people making north of what sixty two five
- 10:43Speaker 1: hundred dollars. Those tax credit extensions and are the waiver
- 10:46Speaker 1: of the cap was as a consequence of COVID and
- 10:49Speaker 1: LO and behold, the deadline was approaching, and so the
- 10:52Speaker 1: government gets shut down because the Democrats want to make
- 10:55Speaker 1: these permanent. I think this has been quite revealing, Congressman Davidson,
- 10:58Speaker 1: and I'm wondering whether there's some project, piece of legislation,
- 11:01Speaker 1: or proposal to fix the problem, which is the cost
- 11:03Speaker 1: of medical care. This reveals the insane reality of Obamacare
- 11:08Speaker 1: being fundamentally broken. If you think about it a family
- 11:12Speaker 1: of four, if you're making north of sixty two to five,
- 11:14Speaker 1: you're not eligible for a tax credit for your premium.
- 11:16Speaker 1: You might pay as much as two thousand dollars a
- 11:18Speaker 1: month for insurance that won't kick in until if you
- 11:21Speaker 1: have a family, you've paid twenty one thousand dollars out
- 11:24Speaker 1: of pocket. That's not insurance, Congressman Davidson, that is the
- 11:28Speaker 1: revelation of a cossal failure.
- 11:33Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, this is fundamentally the as Republicans said.
- 11:36Speaker 2: When you know, so far Republicans have uniformly opposed of Obamacare,
- 11:42Speaker 2: or at least refused to get rid of it. That's
- 11:45Speaker 2: the famous McCain. Well, okay, I'm not going to vote
- 11:48Speaker 2: to get rid of it, but so far Republicans haven't
- 11:50Speaker 2: voted for Obamacare in any way. Right, And here we
- 11:54Speaker 2: are with these COVID era subsidies that are going to
- 12:00Speaker 2: insurance companies, not to individuals, expire here at the end
- 12:05Speaker 2: of the year. And you know, Democrats, that's one of
- 12:08Speaker 2: the long laundry list of one and a half trillion
- 12:11Speaker 2: dollars worth of spending that they cite as why they
- 12:14Speaker 2: wanted to shut the government down. And look all that
- 12:19Speaker 2: is is to cover up for the fact that Obamacare
- 12:21Speaker 2: itself does not work. So of the places to send
- 12:26Speaker 2: the subsidies, the dullest place is the health insurance companies, right,
- 12:30Speaker 2: I mean, the hospitals and doctors have expenses. You could
- 12:34Speaker 2: send it to them, But the individuals are the ones
- 12:37Speaker 2: that are trying to get cared for, so you could
- 12:39Speaker 2: send the money to them. But when you've been sending
- 12:42Speaker 2: the money to the health insurance companies, they didn't lower premiums.
- 12:45Speaker 2: Premiums have been going up by double digits every year.
- 12:48Speaker 2: The out of pocket maxes keep growing, claims are denied,
- 12:52Speaker 2: you get things that are out of network that are crazy.
- 12:54Speaker 2: It's like, no, it's in the same building house, it
- 12:56Speaker 2: out of network. All these kinds of things have people
- 12:59Speaker 2: living about the current state of healthcare. Great quality, I
- 13:03Speaker 2: mean tremendous doctors and nurses and care, great tech, but
- 13:08Speaker 2: the cost and the payment system is a disaster. And look,
- 13:12Speaker 2: it was before Obamacare. But you know, we'd need to
- 13:15Speaker 2: be honest. Obamacare did not work as a means of
- 13:18Speaker 2: fixing it. And you know, frankly, shame on the House
- 13:21Speaker 2: of Representatives because you know, Democrats have kept wanting to
- 13:25Speaker 2: say Obamacare is great while hiding the fact that it
- 13:28Speaker 2: isn't great with more subsidies reinforcing you know what for
- 13:32Speaker 2: them has to be the brand, Oh, we have to
- 13:34Speaker 2: save it. And Republicans haven't trotted out the alternatives. We
- 13:38Speaker 2: have lots of them, and I think the reality is
- 13:40Speaker 2: you're going to see over the next few weeks some
- 13:44Speaker 2: of the Republican plans are finally going to see the
- 13:46Speaker 2: light of day and get some press and get some
- 13:49Speaker 2: hearings and hopefully some votes.
- 13:51Speaker 1: One could only hope. And you know, the whole idea Obamacare,
- 13:53Speaker 1: it was predicated on the idea that you could be
- 13:56Speaker 1: forced to buy it. And that's one thing the Supreme
- 13:58Speaker 1: Court said, no, the commerce clause cannot be used as
- 14:00Speaker 1: an affirmative measure to make people do things. It can
- 14:03Speaker 1: only be used to restrict people's activities. So once that
- 14:06Speaker 1: went out the door, the entire Obamacare bubble burst. No
- 14:10Speaker 1: one wanted this product because of the impediments, the out
- 14:13Speaker 1: of pocket responsibility and liability, so it became an insurer
- 14:15Speaker 1: of last resort, and every person with a medical illness
- 14:18Speaker 1: went over to Obamacare, and that's why the premiums have
- 14:20Speaker 1: gone through the roof because they're doing nothing but paying claims.
- 14:23Speaker 1: And healthy people aren't going with Obamacare because there's a
- 14:25Speaker 1: private insurance market out there.
- 14:29Speaker 2: Well yeah, and look, the vast majority of people are
- 14:31Speaker 2: ensured by their employer, you know. So you know, going
- 14:34Speaker 2: back with some people called the original sin of American
- 14:37Speaker 2: healthcare during World War Two, they put wage caps so
- 14:41Speaker 2: you couldn't pay workers more for some stupid FDR reason.
- 14:47Speaker 2: And so they said, oh, well, we can't give them
- 14:50Speaker 2: more cash, but we could pay for their health insurance.
- 14:53Speaker 2: And so that kind of tradition has continued. It's a
- 14:55Speaker 2: weird anomaly in the United States, and we've never corrected
- 14:58Speaker 2: it because the payer of the bill isn't the consumer
- 15:02Speaker 2: of the goods. And so the inflation just has soared
- 15:07Speaker 2: for healthcare, and as prices got higher, the demand is
- 15:10Speaker 2: for more subsidies, which really just masks the underlying stuff
- 15:14Speaker 2: that's gone on with the insurance sector. So we have
- 15:18Speaker 2: to get after that and fix it. And I think,
- 15:20Speaker 2: you know, President Trump, part of what broke Democrats is
- 15:24Speaker 2: when he was saying, well, okay, let's just send the
- 15:27Speaker 2: subsidies to individuals instead of the insurance companies. Well, let's
- 15:31Speaker 2: quit talking about that, and I think we're going to
- 15:33Speaker 2: talk more about that and a whole range of other alternatives,
- 15:36Speaker 2: because we can't just keep cutting checks to the insurance
- 15:39Speaker 2: companies and counting on them to fix the industry. It
- 15:42Speaker 2: clearly hasn't worked.
- 15:44Speaker 1: Well, and that just causes the American taxpayer to shoulder
- 15:47Speaker 1: the burden of everything. The premiums aren't just disappearing, they're
- 15:50Speaker 1: being masked by a government subsidy. And that just government
- 15:52Speaker 1: subsidy means it's coming out of government coffers, meaning the
- 15:55Speaker 1: federal of a budget, a deficit inducing thing. So the
- 16:00Speaker 1: the premiums are still there, many people just weren't seeing them.
- 16:03Speaker 1: So now again the veil has been removed on this
- 16:06Speaker 1: Ponzi scheme, if I can loosely call it that, I'm
- 16:09Speaker 1: looking for good things out of the Republicans on this. Obviously,
- 16:12Speaker 1: the option of being giving the money directly to people
- 16:14Speaker 1: like school choice, giving the tax dollars to these students
- 16:17Speaker 1: and letting them and the families choose, that seems to
- 16:19Speaker 1: me an ideal thing. Noting again that there is a
- 16:22Speaker 1: massive private market out there, and I represent a company
- 16:24Speaker 1: that deals with people on the private market. Tons of
- 16:27Speaker 1: options exist, just like the federal Gunment doesn't want you
- 16:30Speaker 1: to believe there's anything but Obamacare a disaster. Gotr's some
- 16:34Speaker 1: Rowin Davidson. God bless you, sir for coming on the
- 16:36Speaker 1: fifty five Carecy Morning Show. We appreciate what you do
- 16:38Speaker 1: for us and look forward to great things coming out
- 16:40Speaker 1: of Congress as we move forward in the aftermath of
- 16:44Speaker 1: the Epstein fight and the government closure fight.
- 16:47Speaker 2: Well, look, I don't want to let that become a
- 16:50Speaker 2: distraction either. I mean, we're getting good things done. The
- 16:52Speaker 2: Trump administration's on offense. Things are moving in the right direction,
- 16:56Speaker 2: and we should keep that focus. We got to get
- 16:59Speaker 2: run through the tape and get the rest of our
- 17:00Speaker 2: appropriations bills done and fund this government the proper way,
- 17:05Speaker 2: which is a smaller, more focused government. But thanks a lot, Brian,
- 17:09Speaker 2: God bless you and all your listeners.
- 17:10Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. Seven twenty seven to fifty five KRCD
- 17:12Speaker 1: Talk Station. I've been dreaming of a smaller government.