WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.480 Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome. 2 00:00:02.560 --> 00:00:08.400 It's time now to speak with our Congressman Josh McKeen. And boy, 3 00:00:08.679 --> 00:00:14.439 interesting interesting turn of events over the weekend and actually you know, everything from 4 00:00:14.679 --> 00:00:20.239 dropping bombs on enemies to maybe something that's going to be coming over to the 5 00:00:20.239 --> 00:00:24.239 House in the form of a bill where it comes to our borders. Where 6 00:00:24.239 --> 00:00:29.600 do we start. It's been busy well on the border bill. In sent 7 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:34.240 over from the Senate Mike Johnson, our speaker deiscalis Are majorda leader who schedules 8 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:38.200 before. Both said that the bill is dead on arrival, so that conversation 9 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:43.679 is mute, and you know, like he's been reported, you know, 10 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:48.679 since May, the opportunity to pick up the bill that came out of parts 11 00:00:48.679 --> 00:00:51.799 seat of my committee that I sat on, the Homeland Security Committee, partially 12 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:57.359 out of the committee Jim Jordan chairs Judiciary HR two, widely seen as taking 13 00:00:57.359 --> 00:01:03.679 most of what President Trump was able to to do by his pen by utilizing 14 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:08.640 you know, even the Immigration Nationality Act gives the president's abilities to spend any 15 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:15.920 illegal or any class of illegal alien action and so that authority already exists. 16 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:22.959 In fact, President Biden actually used it tom he day five of his presidency 17 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:26.519 when it came to the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil. He employed 18 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:30.519 that section of the Immigration Nationality Act and again allows you President, United States, 19 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:38.120 authorized by congressional law says you can suspend all or any class of illegal 20 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:44.200 interests or and so or immigration entrants. So you know, the president knows 21 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:47.000 that section of law has used it before, he just refuses to use it. 22 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:52.359 And most of us see how dangerous twenty thousand nationalists coming into this country 23 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:57.680 under his administration can be. These are military age men. Yes, it's 24 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:01.879 the one point seven you know million guidaways that nobody knows what they are but 25 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:06.760 we But we also know we've had twenty plus thousand people from Chinese that are 26 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:09.599 Chinese nationalists come into this country. We know we've had seven hundred and fifty 27 00:02:09.639 --> 00:02:14.560 people on the now they're not just the terrorists watch list, the Special Interest 28 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:19.039 Alien list that includes people from Syria and Iran's come into this country. The 29 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:23.039 seven hundred fifty people that we have apprehended from those countries. And then you 30 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:28.120 have the two hundred and fifty people that are on the terrorist watch list that 31 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:32.280 have been apprehended and two hundred and fifty people in the last two and a 32 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:36.719 half years under by the administration, in the entirety of Trump's administration, and 33 00:02:36.759 --> 00:02:40.719 he only had eleven. We've got a real dangerous situation. And the House 34 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:46.039 position has been HR two. Or use the executive authority that you used when 35 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:50.000 it came to Brazil and South Africa. We know you know it's in there, 36 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:53.719 Miss President. I have a quick question. It's about the five thousand 37 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:58.439 or four thousand people who meet the threshold. It's in that bill. Does 38 00:02:58.439 --> 00:03:01.199 that mean that the door is open for the first four thousand or what does 39 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:05.960 that mean? There's a well what it So you're talking about the bill, 40 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:15.919 the Democrat Republican compromise bill that has been explained different ways. So I will 41 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:20.520 let the Senate speak to the Senate. That's good, that's good, it's 42 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:23.240 pretty cool. I just I don't I don't want to. There's been a 43 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:27.520 lot of misinformation on online. What we mean, here's what, here's the 44 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:30.439 here's the simplicity of this. Why for nine months is that bill not been 45 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:34.840 picked up that we sent over from the House. Why not it codifies it 46 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:38.680 puts into law. What happened when in twenty seventeen you had the lowest number 47 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:43.719 of illegal immigrants in forty years in our country's history. It shows you that 48 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:47.000 that the President of United States, Democrat President of States, and his Democrat 49 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:54.520 part counterparts in the Senate, they really don't want to solve this. What 50 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:59.240 they want is to bundle it with sixty billion more in Ukraine funding, because 51 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:03.000 I contend that's the real prize they really want. Senate Democrats and President Biden 52 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:09.879 really want Ukraine money. So they want to pretend that they want to do 53 00:04:09.919 --> 00:04:16.279 something. But yet that authority exists already and he doesn't use it and he 54 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:21.480 doesn't move on it. Because I know I'm ascribing motive and you gotta be 55 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:27.120 careful with that. But there's either it's insanity on the on their behalf of 56 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:31.079 the Senate Democrats, or they really do see these people coming across the illegally 57 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:36.360 as potential voters, with their design at some point wanting to give them citizenship. 58 00:04:36.439 --> 00:04:40.199 I contend that's what the real aim is. Okay, let's go to 59 00:04:40.279 --> 00:04:45.839 this otherwise otherwise it's just plain insanity. Well, let's go say to something 60 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:48.480 related that you had to put off a town hall, telephone town hall, 61 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:56.600 because you were marking up the impeachment thing for the Secretary Homeland. Go. 62 00:04:57.439 --> 00:05:00.399 Yeah, I was on the committee that moved forward. I voted for and 63 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:04.319 was a part of the full day hearing to impeach my work as he is 64 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:11.079 a part of disobeying the will of the people. Congressional law says you have 65 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:15.079 to detain somebody until they're deported. That's in the Immigration Nationality Act also, 66 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:21.480 and yet he has purposely sent out a letter under his authority, under his 67 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:27.240 authority, not under congression law, but under his authority, saying that just 68 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:30.279 because you come in this country illegally, that alone does not grounds for deportation. 69 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:33.160 That's in direct violation of congressional law. It says otherwise that you have 70 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:38.439 to be detained until there's a proceeding, and that proceeding pronounces innocence or guilt. 71 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:41.759 When it comes to parole, parole is to be done on a very 72 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:45.160 limited, case by case basis. He's turned that on his head and given 73 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:50.079 thirty thousand a month entrants people from Cuba and Haiti, Venezuela, a number 74 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:56.480 of other Ukraine He's bringing people in, He's flouting congressional law. I keep 75 00:05:56.519 --> 00:06:00.519 saying, whatever you tolerate, you in power, if we don't oust him 76 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:03.959 for not following congressional law. You know, even the Democrat witness before our 77 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:08.639 committee a couple of weeks ago said that impeachment has to be rise to the 78 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:13.839 level of a serious issue of constitutionality. We gets more serious when you refuse 79 00:06:13.879 --> 00:06:16.959 to follow congressional law. And I ask three attorney generals, one of which 80 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:20.800 are oklahom attorney generals in this jury, and I asked them. The Democrat 81 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:25.399 witness says, this has to be a serious nature of a constitutional nature. 82 00:06:25.879 --> 00:06:29.519 Does not following congressional law rise to that all state attorney generals? And that 83 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:38.480 hearing said yes. So there's no definition of crit crimes and misdemeanors, but 84 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:43.439 high crimes and misdemeanors is something if you look at Federalists sixty five, it 85 00:06:43.519 --> 00:06:47.040 clearly says that it's a betrayal of the public trust. Alexander Hamilton, writing 86 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:50.360 in Federal sixty five, one of our founding fathers, says, on impeachment, 87 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:55.199 impeachment, it's a betrayal of the public trust. When you don't follow 88 00:06:55.199 --> 00:07:00.040 congressional law. That's a betrayal of public trust. Let's go to our budget. 89 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:10.079 We've been doing these crs basically to kind of cover our behind. When 90 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:13.680 it's the time for that to stop. I thought that was going to stop 91 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:18.399 soon years ago, ten years ago. You know, I know people are 92 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:24.879 probably tired of hearing me talk about the financial status that we're in. But 93 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:29.319 I think if you don't know it well. I heard Collen of years ago. 94 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:30.680 I thought it was interesting said you learned ten percent of what you hear, 95 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:33.240 fifty percent of what you do, and ninety percent of what you teach. 96 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:36.439 Still the American get to where they can actually teach their neighbor about the 97 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:41.519 true numbers of the financial straits. I don't think we'll ever have the will 98 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:46.480 to cut when I'm putting up amendments, when other members of our conference are 99 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:49.279 putting up amendments, And can we not go back to the spending of twenty 100 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:54.040 nineteen, And you can only get anywhere from eighty to one hundred and twenty 101 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:58.279 votes on average of Republicans have two hundred and twenty Republicans to agree to that. 102 00:07:58.759 --> 00:08:03.000 It tells you that the people aren't demanding the representation cut spending. It 103 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:07.079 tells you that people still think that we can borrow past our capacity and things 104 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:11.800 are going to be okay. And so when you when I keep talking about 105 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:16.120 these twelve appropriation bills we're asked to bring forth. That's that is the sole 106 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:22.680 mission, the power of the purse, sole mission of priority for Congress to 107 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:26.360 deliberate on those twelve appropriation bills, and we continue to punt is continuing resolution. 108 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:33.039 The twelve appropriation bills that we debate are one hundred or one hundred percent 109 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:37.320 borrowed money. Now, the only thing that gets paid for based on the 110 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:41.480 amount of revenue is coming into our offers in the United States government. Medicuri 111 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:43.519 is being fully paid for now, so security is being fully paid for, 112 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:48.159 food stamps are being fully paid for, Medicaid is being fully paid for, 113 00:08:48.720 --> 00:08:52.200 in some veteran benefits are being fully paid for. That's those programs are locked 114 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:58.120 a side on the mandatory side. Congress does not debate that because Congress is 115 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:01.679 stupidity. Over the last you know, twenty thirty and forty years, they've 116 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:07.559 locked those programs into a side called mandatory spending. And only a third of 117 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:11.519 that the stupidity is only a third of our budget now is where Congress actually 118 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:16.679 gets to determine the spending levels. Everything of the mandatory set aside an autopilot 119 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:20.639 and a Congress fae only it's just eligibility. So on the discretionary spending, 120 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:28.919 one hundred percent. Now what we had left of our total spend is borrowed 121 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:31.919 money. One point seven trillion was the size of our discretionary budget last year, 122 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:35.639 and our depths, meaning our overspend last year was above two trillions. 123 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:41.519 So all year we debate over borrowed money. When will we get serious about 124 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:46.080 cutting borrowed money If we can't get back to twenty nineteen spending levels on discretionary 125 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:50.159 it shows you where just the the level of lack of reality that's in existence 126 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:56.879 in Washington, d C unbelievable. Over the weekend, President Biden decided to 127 00:09:56.279 --> 00:10:01.600 retality eight. Some would say it took a took long enough when it came 128 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:07.799 to the Iran backed factions that have been taking aim in some of our ships 129 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:13.320 and our drones and wound up killing three of our service bend your reaction to 130 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:20.480 the timing, and you know just the whole the episode that took place Friday 131 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:24.639 when everyone was out to dinner and no one saw a TV. Yeah, 132 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:30.279 well, you know, we've had one hundred and sixty plus different attacks targeting 133 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:35.759 the United States, in the United States interest in the Middle East since October 134 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:41.240 seventh. That's what happened in Israel, and so when three service members were 135 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:45.039 killed, the right thing to do was to respond defensively, for them to 136 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:48.039 wait a number of days and to you know, there are accounts that many 137 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:52.919 of these bases, many of these locations were cleaned out because they knew it 138 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:58.360 was coming. That's that's scary. Those that may have heard the interview that 139 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:03.600 President Trump talked about he was president years ago, that Iran called him and 140 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:07.679 said, we're going to hit you back for I think it was over the 141 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:11.080 Solemn money, uh, solem money. And President Trump said, they called 142 00:11:11.159 --> 00:11:15.120 us and said, just so you know, we're not gonna inflict any casually. 143 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:18.679 We're just going to make sure that that the Iranian people see us respond. 144 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:22.360 It tells you the messaging that takes place within governments. And so, 145 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:28.120 you know, my my question is was this just messaging or we're really targeting 146 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:31.759 bad actors. Now that it's been reported that we actually launched in Yemen, 147 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:37.440 I hope that wasn't the case. I hope that there was not any forecasting 148 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:41.080 uh of the United States government to tell them that was coming, so that 149 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:46.440 there was real consequences for taking out uh, you know, US troops. 150 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:50.639 But I've yet to learn tom on on on the uh you know, on 151 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:54.320 the impact there. Well, I I will tell you that NBC News had 152 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:58.919 the game plan and they put it out there on television and on the world 153 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:05.960 wide web on Wednesday. Yeah. Was it really impactful or was it just 154 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:11.120 to pretend strength? Was it real strength or pretend strength? I hope that. 155 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:16.399 I hope that Yemen the distraction Yemen were truly the American people saying that 156 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:20.720 what you do when you come after our men and women in arms will not 157 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:24.000 be tolerated. Wow, Josh, how do people get ahold of? Yeah? 158 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:26.480 They I know they try that. Well, we're gonna have a We're 159 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:31.120 gonna have a telephone town hall tomorrow night. Yeah, seven pm. I 160 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:37.000 encourage people to you know, uh to join us seven pm. So that's 161 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:39.360 one way, and then you know, we're gonna start up town halls across 162 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:43.799 the congressional district. People can come live and visit with me in person. 163 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:46.240 They can call our DC office and give their input. They can talk to 164 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:50.799 our field reps and tell them what their thoughts are. Our field reps right 165 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:56.240 those field of ports and I read those when I'm flying. And then in 166 00:12:56.320 --> 00:12:58.559 terms of just reaching out to us to email me, you can go to 167 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:01.519 Bourkeen dot house dot gov, b R E C H E E N dot 168 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:07.519 house dot gov. If it's casework and they need help with legal, legal 169 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:13.080 immigration, passports, UH, social Security, Medicare casework, veteran affairs top 170 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:18.039 UH casework, they can call our Claremore office at nine one eight two eight 171 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:22.960 three six two six two, or just to express their viewpoint call it DC 172 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:26.600 office two two two two five two seven zero one. Very good, Josh, 173 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:30.080 thank you very much. We appreciate you being with us today.