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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.

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It is time to visit with Congressman
Josh for Ken and Josh, it's

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been nothing but busy. Now in
the holiday season, we've got busy.

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And then when we got the holiday
season and everything coming at you like trying

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to get a drink from a fire
hose in Washington, d C. That's

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a different kind of busy. Yeah, it's been an interesting year. I

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had an interview where someone asked me
to describe the last year, and I

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said that for those that have been
up there ten years, fifteen years,

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twenty years, you hear them studying
around water throoler conversations saying, oh my

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gosh, there's never been a year
like this. I'll take them for their

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words. Interesting. Now, we
got a lot going on here. I

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know that you've been working real hard
trying to convince your fellow people in Congress

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that we need to get a hold
of this spending issue. Tell us a

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little bit about where we are there
on a budget and getting all these things

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taken care of the need to be
taken care of. Well, there's a

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bright spot. To Mike Johnson in
January February, the latter a CR.

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He said that that would be the
last time that that you know, he

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was handed a mess, and he
made a statement, We're gonna, you

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know, do the next forty five
days and then that will be the last

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time we'll do a continuing resolution without
policy and spending modifications. And so you

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know that workers before us. I
take him at his word. He's known

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to be a person of his word. But Tom we're in a mess.

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I've said this. I don't know
if I've had a chance to tell you.

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When you look at the latest numbers, one point seven trillion dollar deficit.

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That's how much that our our spend
exceeded our income last year. And

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then our entire discretionary budget last year
was one point seven million. So all

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that we spend on the discretionary side, that the discretionary side is those things

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that is not inclusive of medicare so
security veteran benefits, meaning you know the

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benefits that's because of their service,
and Medicaid and food stamps, those elements

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medicare solid security. Of the bulk
of that those are on the mandatory side.

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All Congress doesn't adjust eligibility, and
those are paid for mainly by the

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payroll tax mandatory spending. All Congress
can do is set the eligibility requirements.

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That's how Congress operates because most that's
supported by the payroll tax. But the

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discretionary side is where Congress appropriates fun
that's the annual appropriation bills. So out

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of a six point five trillion dollars
budget, two thirds of it's the mandatory

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side, mostly medicure, it's those
security. So when you have a one

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point seven trillion dollar deficit and you
have a one point seven trillion dollars discretionary

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spending, that tells you the entire
discretionary budget is borrowed money last year one

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hundred percent of what we spent.
And by the way, half of our

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discretionary budget is defense. That means
of what we spent to pay our troops,

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of what we spent, you know, in construct military contracts. That's

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the entire Department of Education, the
entire Department of Energy. You go right

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on down the list of the ABC
agency's Homeland security. One hundred percent of

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what we spent last year outside of
Medicare, Social Security, veteran benefits,

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medicating food stamps was borrowed money.
Wow, we're in a mess. We're

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in a mess, and some of
us to go to the for some of

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us to go to the floor,
and we're advocating, and I've got amendments

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and say let's go back to twenty
nineteen spending levels, and we can't even

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get the votes to do that.
I mean, every dollar we're spending on

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the discretionary side is borrowed money.
You can't get people to even want to

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go back to twenty nine. Team. Holistically, there's about one hundred to

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one hundred and twenty five of us
out of the Republican Party, have a

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few hundred and twenty Republicans that are
elected that will vote to go back to

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twenty nineteen. There's twenty nineteen todd
but it's not enough on the non defense

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discussionary side. To balance our budget
is a herculean task. But look,

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I don't believe in hercules. I
believe in God. I believe in miracles.

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And that's what my hope is,
that we can have a revival in

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this country that will turn people away
from being so selfish that they start looking

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out for the interest of others,
not just themselves. And what's put us

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here is is our selfishness and voting
for people who promise us more and more

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and more without stopping to ask the
question, wait a minute, it paid

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for? Are you stealing from my
kids to do this? Ma goodness sake?

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You know. I was told by
a politician in many, many years

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ago, he says, yeah,
you get reelected by how much baking you

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bring home. I said, how
much bacon you bring home? He said

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yeah, but when the other guy
does it, it's pork. And I

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thought to myself, Wow, that
that just pretty much puts it in a

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nutshell right there. I read a
story about a person that's resigning, been

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there a number of years, we'll
say, twenty five thirty years, and

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the entire home newspaper article about this
person was is, we won't be able

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to make it without this person because
they're the ones who's made sure this contract,

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this, this this sweetheart deal that's
created jobs in our congressional district.

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Without this person, you know,
then we can't make sure that they'll earmark

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for that. I was disgusted because
I read that, and I think,

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how ignorant do you have to be
understand what's happening in this country that if

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congressional district by congressional district, people
think like that tome, that's what's bankrupt

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in our country. And for a
newspaper to just talk about you know that

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this person's irreplaceable because they're keeping this
contract alive. You know, if your

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congressional district, your congressional district can't
be healthy, if your nation's not healthy,

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if for everybody wanting their quote slice
of the pie. I think that

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that's why you elected a member of
Congress, is to bring home the bacon.

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It's that ideology that's destroying this country
financially. We've got a lot of

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things going on. I know that
trouble at the southern border hands not eased

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at all, and that can that
still is a big thorn in a lot

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of people's signs. Yeah, I
heard over the weekend. I sent a

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text to the lead policy guy for
Speaker Johnson. I was proud. Speaker

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Johnson went on one of the Fox
programs, I don't know if it was

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one of the morning programs, had
a group of people sitting around, and

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he made the point that we are
not moving forward with anything Ukraine unless we

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see results at the border. And
so I see him starting to draw a

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very distinct line prepared to you know, uh prior leadership, which would have

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entertained Ukraine absent that, and so
that was very encouraging. I send his

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lead policy guy just to you know, a compliments to the team and bold

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colors wow, because you know,
if we can't, if we can't start

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seeing that, we don't have the
money. Number One I just went through,

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We don't have the money to pay
for any of this. Anything we're

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sending to Ukraine, tom is not
taken from anybody in the United States,

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is taken from from generations from now
and nobody could just not paid for.

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It's just it's just it's just money
take borrowed and and so if we can't

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solve our own border, we don't
have the business. We don't have the

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financial prowess any longer to be able
to continue things. You know, in

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the eighties, when you know,
there was a people were talking about,

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you know, spending and spending and
spending to help other nations, other countries.

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We're not there anymore. Economics,
curity is national security. We had

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a one trillion dollar gross national debt
in nineteen eighty and and we're thirty four

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trillion now and we don't have the
we don't have the finances to do this,

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and I'm greatly concerned that it's our
economic condition that China is waiting for

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to pounce on. There's only eleven
other countries that have a greater debt to

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GDP ratio than the United States of
one hundred and ninety five countries. That

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old statement, if there's no enemy
on the inside, the enemy on the

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outside can't do you any harm.
I'm convinced it's China and Russia and Iran's

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desire to see us fall apart to
where we can't affward things any longer,

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and that you know, the Confucius
institutes and money to the classroom, that

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China is trying to change our ideology
and what you see with you know,

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with this this radical ideology that's against
the nation of Israel maintaining. But it's

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not only been the last century,
but in the last thousands of years that

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kind of ideology and the riots supporting
Hamas reaching out and having massive amounts of

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people demonstrating it tells you we've got
internal rot in our ideology. A lot

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is coming because we're funding colleges who
are at advancing this top of idiocy.

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Well, it seems to me that
many of the people who are voicing their

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support for Harmos might be the first
person to be asked to pick a building

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to which to be thrown off,
or to how sharp of a blade would

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you like for a beheading, because
these are the type of people that Hamas

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really doesn't have any room for inclusistivity
over there. I said, through a

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whole much security briefing on Iran and
just the support that Iran is beginning to

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receive in the United States, and
there is a member and we're going to

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say high out on this as our
office. But they looked at these diversity

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equity and inclusion offices that are popping
up in college is all across the country.

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Okay, these dei that are focusing
on the LGBT community, they're focusing

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on critical race theory, I mean
the d diversity equity inclusion. And they

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said that this organization began to monitor
in the last year or two the people

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who worked for them off our social
media posts, and they found out that

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they were like two times the amount
of posts were going to be specific to

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supporting China compared to I guess the
normal posts of these employees of these deis

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across the universities all across the country. They I think you look like eight

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hundred eployees. And then they said, when it came to Israel, these

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off our employees, college employees worked
for these DEI entities that they found that

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ninety five percent of their personal posts
social media posts were anti Israel. That's

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what these DEI offices are doing in
these colleges across our nation. So I

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mean, I I'd cut the funding
form in a heartbeat. Question is how

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you can convince the rest of our
colleagues to understand how destructive these these aren't

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just you know, advocating for sexual
morality. They're advocating for Jews in the

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United States. Yeah, you're you're
talking about going after taking people's lives,

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and you can't have that. You
can't have that. Oh, I don't

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asked the question in that committee.
I said, you know, look,

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we can't get the support to defund
all this stuff. How we can't even

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among the Republicans, which is a
sad reality, Okay, And I said,

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how are you going to get the
Democrats when they see these statistics and

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know that ninety five percent of the
post are anti Israel. They're coming from

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these people that are employed in these
colleges that are being supported by taxpayer money.

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How do you do you? What
do the Democrats say to this?

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I didn't get a response, but
I look forward to hearing a Democrat defend

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the DEI office employees ninety five percent
opposition to use having existence in Israel.

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We're speaking with Congressman Josh Rourkeen and
other than that. Congressman, how are

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things in Washington. I'm kidding,
well, I know that it's kind of

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dire, but in your in your
work, it's a reflection of our culture.

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It's a reflection of our culture.
It is we've thrown virtue out in

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the last forty years, Biblical virtue
out, and so well, you don't

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know what right and wrong is.
It's no wonder you missed the mark on

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all these other things that were common
sense. These are things that were common

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sense thirty forty years ago for both
parties. But because you embraced you know,

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evil, and you know when you
in the description of Proverbs, it

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says, do not remove the ancient
boundary which is set there by your father's

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talking about you know how they do
the difference between what was my property and

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your property? Because when they were
pulling the stones out of the out of

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the ground. They would put it
on the border or a wall, and

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you know, and they didn't have
GPS, but nobody wanted to go through

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the heartache and lifting those tons of
stones to protest. Thought exactly the boundary

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line. Once those stones got laid
there, it was going to be the

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boundary line. And yet that's what
we've done. Our founding fathers put in

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common sense, they put in biblical
virtues, they put in constitial adherents,

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and we think we've become so smart
that, you know, in the last

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really, you know, ten years, you see the wreckage of ideology.

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It's just really sad. I had
a how much security secretary of my worker

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is in front of our committee couple
weeks ago, and I said to him,

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you have started this culture of lawlessness, and so what's happening with cartel

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being enriched, and what's happening with
people that are detained? And because Ice

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is not deporting him because of his
leadership, because of Biden's leadership, lawlessness

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is compounding lawlessness. He didn't like
that, but I don't think he really

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liked us. When I used the
scripture and Ecclesiastes, a part of my

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commentary where it says, when the
cenis for a crime is not easily quickly

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carried out, the heart of the
people is induced to the scheme for evil

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things. And so he didn't care
for my comments. I was, you

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know, I wasn't mean spirited.
I was just saying at the top,

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you want to know why people are
lifting taking these loaders and lifting up the

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razor wire the Texas Department of Public
Safety has had to put down because our

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own border leadership is undermined it.
I said, well, that's, mister

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secretary, because of leadership, any
business, any any company, leadership,

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you'll see it downstream be reflected.
And so the lawlessness of this country,

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the disregard for federal law, disregard
for our borders, disregard for you know,

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what's right, what's wrong, they've
opened the box. Josh Burket is

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our guest. In our last segment
here on our talk the I word impeachment,

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you talked about Secretary of Majoritis,
but now we're talking also about the

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possibility of President Biden undergoing the impeachment
inquiry. How far along are we on

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this well? And my hope is
before we get to the end of the

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year that the Speaker is going to
bring forward both. I was in a

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meeting with Chairman Green home land Security, Marjorie Taylor Green was in that meeting,

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and on home land security we talk
about border a lot. It could

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be that that committee I'm on will
actually be the committee that brings forth the

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impeachment of my work is at a
committee. I wait to see what happens.

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Marjorie's on to something. And people, you know, for the eight

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people that voted not to impeach my
workers last last month, who contend,

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well, it's not going to be
conviction on the Senate side, So why

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do it? Because Tom, every
time that you allow somebody to operate in

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the rule of law and you don't
have any action, and I just quoted,

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then you know in the hearts of
people are induced to do more evil,

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and the hearts of more bureaucrats are
induced to defy federal statute, to

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defy the Constitution. So even if
the Senate doesn't take it up with what

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we do in the House, the
House has its responsibility and um cover and

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used to say whatever you tolerate you
in power, we can't tolerate it.

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And when when the rule of law
is broken, when costecial laws broken.

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Forget what the Senate's gonna do.
What are we going to do? Yeah,

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we've been talking with Congressman Josh King, Josha, how can folks reach

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you? I know that you answer
your your your correspondence quite well. You've

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got to find team that gets everything
to you. You have a good team.

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Yeah, urkeen b R E C
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g o V at house dot g
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can call us and get in touch
with somebody, whether in our DC office

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or in a Claremore office. If
they're casework specific, medicare eligibility uh,

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social Security eligibility, true eligibility issues, veteran issues, UH, immigration issues,

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legal immigration issues, Tom Yeah,
uh, then then call our Claremore

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office at nine to one, eight
two, eight three six. Very good,

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Josh. Always a pleasure for having
you, ladies and gentlemen. Congressman Josh Pecuine