The next Stefan Good Day download with Doug and Jay Kirshner is made possible in
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Green is here and I want to tell I'm going to start with a story
that I did tell on the air when it happened, but I think that
I said something to you. May I call you Marjorie? What do your
friends call you? I'm interested to call they call me Marjorie? They do,
Okay, so I'll be friendly and call you Marjorie. This is not
a political program, and we don't normally do politicians here, but because I
find you very intriguing, and because I think you have a great story to
tell. I thought when somebody said to me, you want to have Marjorie
Taylor Green, and I said, yeah, let's so. I will start
by recounting the story. When I met you. We were on a plane
together coming back from Orlando last March. You sat in the first row.
I was in the second row. I didn't introduce it, we didn't engage.
You were very much to yourself and everybody gave you your space, and
when you got off the plane in Washington, I walked up to you and
I said, I didn't really introduce myself. It just looked at you,
and I said, I find you to be a very interesting person. I'm
a radio guy, but I don't do the kind of radio program that you'd
be on, so I probably never interview you. So I'm sort of here
to eat my words. And I don't know that you would remember that,
because you must be People come up to you all the time and want to
know you. They want to shake your hand, they want to congratulate you,
or they want to yell at you or whatever. So I'm guessing you
probably don't remember that quick encounter, but it was kind of I just thought.
One of the things I found interesting is that you're short. I thought
you were taller than you are. Okay. You know that's really funny because
a lot of people say that to me. They meet me in person,
and they go, I thought you were so much taller, and I'm not.
I'm not sure how that comes across the photos, but that is the
common comment. Well, good to talk to you again, and I'm glad
you had me on your radio show. Well, you're a big personality,
and that maybe is part of it, you know, one of the things
that I enjoy about you. I've looked at your exercise video and I find
that to be kind of fun as well. I mean, you let it,
you kind of let it all hang out, and that's if some people
like it and some people don't. I just find it intriguing that you are
who you are, say what you will. Whether people agree with you or
don't agree with you, that's doesn't seem to interfere with you speaking your mind,
which is now. And that's that's that's actually why why I wrote my
book is I'm a very normal person. I'm a regular person, and so
if I throw up an exercise video, you'll see me actually working out.
I don't have any makeup on. I didn't go put on you know,
the fake eyelashes and a bunch of makeup to pretend like I'm working out.
It's actually a real workout video. Because I think it's so important and it
should be of our part of our health regimen and taking care of ourselves.
But it's you know, it's been an interesting ride. The media created a
character of me that doesn't exist, and then they sold that character twenty four
to seven across the news ever since I came into Congress in January twenty twenty
one. So I wrote my book to let people know, Hey, here's
the real person behind the insane headlines that you've read. And people will find
out I'm actually more like them than they've ever been told by the media.
So under the circumstances, yeah, looking at this book and understanding who you
are. I always have Jay and I and Jennifer Horne. You were on
her program in Los Ange Lissa a couple of weeks ago. She's also a
part of this program, and she's very much a supporter of yours. It
has because I don't do a political show, even though people sometimes know where
I stand, because I'll tell people where I stand. I'm not a fan
of the current administration by any stretch of the imagination. I'm not sure that
Donald Trump is the right answer for what our problems are at the moment.
Actually, I was wondering whether you ever thought the rumor is the news media
and you've put them in their place. Well, here, the news media
wanted to make you sort of a candidate for vice president. Is there anything
to that is there anything to that rumor or that thought. Well, of
course, that decision is up to President Trump. I know my name has
been circulated on list that are being considered, but everybody asked me about that
all the time, and I think that's President Trump's decision, and he's not
ready to make those decisions yet, even though everyone constantly pushes him for anything
from VP to cabinet members. He's focused on winning the primary right now and
winning the general election, and I think that's the right focus for him to
have. All right, So the debate is tonight. Either are going to
be three or four people. Looks like Chris Christie is being pushed to get
out. What do you think of the people who are going to be on
stage? I'd left on stage well. As everyone knows, I am probably
Trump's biggest supporter in Washington and in Congress. I think the primary is pretty
much over. The American people are screaming it as loudly as possible in poll
after poll that they're going to the Republican primary. Voters are going to vote
for President Trump. So at this point, we keep seeing these presidential candidates
hanging on, but they're losing badly. So for me, and most people
that I know really don't watch these debates. We might look at them a
little bit interested in the questions that get asked, but it's not something that
I'll be watching. I haven't found them that much interesting. Mostly what I
see out of Nikki Hayley, Chris Christi and others is the Republican Party that
I absolutely hate and the Republican Party that most of us want to go away.
And it also concerns me because I look at them and say, is
our neo cons what we're going to return to within list foreign wars in the
Republican Party after President Trump exits the political stage, And I certainly hope not.
So what do we do, though, Marjorie, if you're just joining
as Marjorie Taylor Green is here. She's written a book called MTG, which
is her story. She wanted to straighten out the things that have been written
about her and said about her that were not true. So she set her
mind to and I think that she does that pretty much across the board.
Whatever she puts her mind to, she seems to be able to accomplish.
And so she writes about the circumstances in Washington when Donald Trump went in he
said he's going to drain the swamp. He didn't do too well because there
are a lot of people here that don't want to drain the swamp, right
politicians, bureaucrats. So how do you, Let's just say, you became
the vice president. You speak about the swamp in the book, So how
do you drain the swamp? I think that's one of the best questions anyone
can ask. We got to go back to the Obama administration and the type
of employees they hired in the federal government, and when President Trump became president
in twenty seventeen, this is a widely known fact. There were people,
of course that remained federal employees and all the agencies, and they began to
call themselves the resistance. They put up posters, they put up social media
posts hashtag resistance. Well, this is the the unelected bureaucrats that remain in
our federal agencies that run the federal government day to day. That is the
biggest and worst layer of the swamp. You know, I'm a successful business
owner. I ran a construction company for nearly twenty five years. It was
the family business I grew up in and bought for my parents when they were
ready to retire. Took me years to buy it from them. It wasn't
a sweetheart deal or here's a gift for you. And I'm thankful that my
parents gave me the opportunity and taught me so well. And I believe the
federal government should be run like a successful business, and that means you fire
people when they aren't serving the customer. And the customer is the American people,
and that's the focus that is lost in Washington, d C. As
a matter of fact, it seems to be an unknown thought process that the
American people are the customer because they're the taxpayers, and they're the citizens that
we all take an oath to protect and uphold the constitution, to serve them
and uphold our laws, and customer is king. That's what I was always
raised to believe, and that's how I conducted my business. And I think
we can join the swamp when we get a customer focus in Washington, DC.
You know, it's very interesting because that is one of the mantras I
go through that all the time. I am very critical. I have always
been in my This is the longest running syndicated talk program in the country.
Now, and from the very beginning when I did do more of the political
shaking and baking that was going on, it was always that same, the
same approach. Hello, we're paying the bills, get the hell to work
and fix the stuff instead of creating problems. And that's the one thing though,
that maybe escapes when people are paying attention to you. It doesn't look
like you're trying to work together with others. It looks like you're staying the
course as you've explained here. But how do we figure out how to get
stuff done and work together with people that you don't necessarily agree with. Well,
again, we have to make sure that our focus is on the American
people. I'll use a good example. Yesterday we had our classified briefing with
Lloyd Austin, Secretary Blincoln and others from the administration, and they're talking to
us about wanting billions and billions of more dollars to fight a proxy war with
Russia in Ukraine. And it's a failing war, sadly, and I have
sympathy for the Ukrainian people, but at the same time, we don't have
a focus on our own border. And the problem right now with the administration
and many in Washington is they're refusing to face the fact that the cartels in
Mexico are a much greater enemy and are actually killing Americans every single day than
Vladimir Putin and Russia. And that was my argument when I got my chance
to stand up and talk to them, and the way that if we are
and I told them, I said, we were from opposite sides of the
aisle, but we should be able to agree that our border security is the
most important thing we need to focus on. Sadly they disagree, and so
we have to keep pushing. Yeah, there it is. It's damnable and
outrageous. You and I agree one hundred percent on that. Well, good
luck the book called MTG Marjorie Taylor Green. Nice to have you here,
nice to have the conversation. Merry Christmas to you and your family, and
a happy new Year. The next Stefan Good Day download with Doug and Jay
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