Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome,
and it is time now for our conversation with US Senator James Langford and
Senator first of all, Merry Christmas to you. It's coming up soon.
It is Merry Christmas to you as well. We are all ready for that
holiday to be able to get gives. Got a lot of busyness that's been
taking place here. Your friend mister Mayorkas has been getting a little bit of
a business. You've been in his here a little bit, and we have
actually we had a lot of face to face meetings lately trying to be able
to work through the issues on border. The administration and Senate Democrats have been
furious that we're trying to be able to actually solve the border issues. But
our focus has been we're going to work on national security issues, which we
are dealing with Israel and Ukraine and other areas. We're going to work on
American national security issues as well, and to be able to solve this border
issue. So yes, we've been in the thick of a lot of negotiations.
I've had a lot of face to face meetings in the past several days
with the White House and with Senate Democrats to be able to hash out well,
what we pray and hope is a really solid the deal to be able
to deal with border security. Senator, A lot's been going on, some
of it's been over there in the House, and of course you're in the
Senate. Bet them know that you're keeping an eye on it. The big
ieword came up with impeachment inquiry with the Hunter Biden and possibly Joe Biden.
Can you give us maybe what you're seeing from your vantage point. It's not
in the Senate yet and it won't be for a while and if it ever
does get there. Yeah, it seems to be the month of the eyeword
at this point, where we've got immigration, inflation, and now impeachment all
in conversation. The impeachment dialogue in the House has been there frustration that the
administration is not turning over documents for them to be able to do their investigation.
And their statement is we don't have to turn it over until there's some
formal proceedings dealing with subpoenas and impeachment inquiry. Otherwise we're not going to turn
it over. So the House responded yesterday with all right, we'll open a
formal impeachment inquiry and we want all these documents, which means the courts will
actually compel the White House to start turning things over. So that's the next
step they're going to. It doesn't necessarily mean impeachments will actually occur, but
it will force the White House to actually start turning documents over and let them
get a chance to be able to complete their work. The way that it
works is the House does the investigation. If they determine there is enough evidence
there for impeachment, then they votes for that and it sends it over to
the Senate and there's a formal trial. And we've seen those recently to be
able to know what those look like. Well, there are a lot of
things going on here too. I believe the Defense Bill got passed, correct,
did it did? It got passed through the Senate. The House is
scheduled to be able to take up the National Defense Bill today actually, and
that's incredibly significant for all of our bases and posts in Oklahoma and our total
national security. It's a race for members of our military. It has one
of the aspects that I have in it dealing with not only there's lots of
individual pieces that I have in there for Oklahoma bases and the post. But
then also the issue about the spouses, because a lot of spouses in the
military, they travel with their spouse all the time from base to base.
They're not able to get a career, and so we have special language and
there to be able to allow the ways for the spouses to be able to
get a career and so they can also develop a career at the same time
that the member of the military who serve in the nation can do it as
well. Senator, you know with this defense bill, I mean, we're
doing some great things here with Oklahoma, but on the larger scale, a
lot of the left it didn't move on several things abortion and pronouns and a
few other things. Where are we with that. Yeah, there's a mix
on this. So we have pushed very hard, obviously because the Biden administration
is doing something no administration's ever done. That they're actually paying members of the
military and their travel to be able to go and get an abortion. No
one's ever done that with federal funds. And we continue to be able to
push that and are pushing towards litigation to be able to stop that as well.
That's something Democrats dug in on on the during final negotiations. But on
the flip side of it, we actually took out a lot of these DEI
offices and prohibited CRT training in the military. And this was a big issue
for us where they lost on it. Where we were pushing back to be
able to say, hey, we want the military to end up being moral,
professional, and lethal, not a you know, left wing organization.
That's deal with de I all the time. We should have no racism,
we should have no anything else in the military. But when they're spending all
their time in training classes on DBI rather than actually learning how to be able
to break things, that that's a bigger issue. Indeed, thanks for kind
of clearing that up there, because there were a lot of questions going into
the boat over that other things. In Washington, d C. We mentioned
the I word earlier inflation. Boy, you know you read the headlines today
and it says Wall Street had a record breaker. Well good, a handful
of stocks. He did very very well. But how does that relate to
mom and pop and the babies back home? Yep. It helps a lot
of folks in their retirement because a lot of folks have different plans and retirement
investments and such that will actually help them long term for their retirement. But
the inflation continues to be able to rise here and stay stubbornly high. It
was the massive overspending in the earliest days of the Biden administration that really triggered
this that we continue to be able to suffer the consequences for it. When
you do massive amounts of spending like that on the federal side, it does
have a real effective economy. Well, everyone's great to have free money all
the time, prices go up, wages go up, all those things to
start to accelerate, and it's really hard to stop inflation once it gets started.
So this has been a big issue and President Biden's travel around the country
touting his Bidenomics and saying, isn't the economy great, and the American people
are saying, no, it's not, it's not great, and so this
has been a big issue for him on the election front, but quite frankly,
it's a bigger issue for the American people struggling with the cost of everything
right now and trying to be able to get some kind of balance back in
their life. Well as Congress gets ready for the Christmas break here looking forward
to twenty twenty four, what do you have coming up here as far as
bills that you're presenting. Yeah, I'm working on the border security bill.
This is twenty four to seven for me for weeks and weeks trying to be
able to push across the finish line this border security bill. If we can
get it done, that will happen in the next ten days basically, so
I will be here all weekend working through those issues. If we can get
to resolution, then the Senate would vote on it next week. In the
House would vote on it at the end of that week, and that would
be an epic shift. This would be the largest change in border security policy
in decades if we're able to get this thing across the finish line. So
that's the main project that I'm working on right now for the end of the
year. All righty, Well, Merry Christmas to you and your family and
to all your staff and everybody that's working with you. To get a hold
of you, maybe ask you a question or just wish you merry Christmas.
How do they do that, Senator bet Yeah, they can reach out online.
You can go to Langford dot Senate dot gov. It's gov Langford dot
center dot gov. That side has gotten my email address, snail mail address,
phone numbers. You can go to at Senator Langford at any of the
social media platforms and get a chance to be able to see what we're doing.
We try to post there frequently to let people know what's going on in
the latest stats and figures. And then I would encourage folks in a couple
of things, not only enjoy time with your family during this season, remember
the reason for this season as well, the incarnation of God himself and that
reminder that He is with us. But I would also ask just people to
pray for us. We've got a lot of really serious work to get done
and we're just asking God's favor to be able to finish this up for the
sake of the nation. Thank you, Senator,