1 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:21,199 We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Matt Kittle, 2 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:28,160 Senior Elections correspondent at the Federalist and your experience Shirpa on today's Quest for Knowledge. 3 00:00:28,559 --> 00:00:33,240 As always, you can email the show at radio at the Federalist dot 4 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:39,079 com, follow us on x at FDR LST, make sure to subscribe wherever 5 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:43,560 you download your podcast, and of course the premium version of our website as 6 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:49,679 well. I'm joined today by US Representative Glenn Grothman, Republican, representing Wisconsin's 7 00:00:49,679 --> 00:00:54,880 fighting sixth Congressional district. The congressman also is a member of the House's Committee 8 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:59,880 on Oversight and Accountability. They had an eventful day, to say the least 9 00:01:00,079 --> 00:01:07,200 today, a lot of questions on Monday for US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle. 10 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:11,120 Congressman Growthman, thank you so much for joining us on this edition of 11 00:01:11,159 --> 00:01:14,000 the Federalist Radio Hour. Glad to be on the show. You're right, 12 00:01:14,079 --> 00:01:19,920 a very long hearing today and an important hearing. We will delve into that 13 00:01:19,599 --> 00:01:25,079 momentarily. Before we do, let me ask you this question, because you're 14 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:27,519 in DC, you're in the swamp right now. This is the question everybody 15 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:34,120 wants to know at this hour, where's Joe Biden. That's a good question. 16 00:01:34,159 --> 00:01:36,599 Well, now that he knows he's not running free election, we may 17 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:41,840 never see him again. I don't know. Are you concerned about his health 18 00:01:41,879 --> 00:01:49,840 at this point? Well, given his performance in his final debate, you 19 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,400 have to wonder who is running the country, And none of people ask that 20 00:01:53,519 --> 00:02:01,000 question. But obviously he's being coached as to what to say. You know, 21 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:06,239 They'm shure they gave them scripts to read as far as debata is concerned, 22 00:02:06,359 --> 00:02:10,159 or whenever he takes a position on anything. So I think it's a 23 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:16,680 question that reporters ought to be asking more. Assuming Joe Biden does not resign, 24 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:22,800 who is running the country for the next six months? Good question, 25 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,759 is it, doctor Jill? Well, I don't know. Maybe who knows, 26 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:30,879 but it's a good question. Well, we've certainly been to this point 27 00:02:30,879 --> 00:02:36,280 in US history before. One need look only at the beginning of the twentieth 28 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:43,960 century to see then Democrat President would Row Wilson absolutely incapacitated in the final days 29 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:49,080 of his second term, and his wife, we know, ran much of 30 00:02:49,159 --> 00:02:55,520 the day to day operations of the president that you know clearly stands out at 31 00:02:55,520 --> 00:03:00,599 this moment with your question, who is running the executive branch right now? 32 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:04,000 And I think over the last three and a half years, for those who 33 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:08,840 paid attention, you know that it certainly wasn't really Joe Biden. Let's face 34 00:03:08,879 --> 00:03:14,840 it. This was a guy that they brought in to be an empty vessel 35 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:20,479 in which the Left poured all of its agenda and its dreams and wishes into 36 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:27,199 and he was the figurehead that you know, performed the duties for them. 37 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:34,080 But that is an important question. If he is not fit to be the 38 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:39,479 candidate for the Democrats, how is he fit to be the president of the 39 00:03:39,599 --> 00:03:45,840 United States in the interim until a new president takes over. Well, you're 40 00:03:45,879 --> 00:03:51,680 exactly right. We don't know who's writing the show. The show he's obviously 41 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:54,960 very well. What can we say suggestible? Right, I'm sure other people 42 00:03:55,039 --> 00:04:00,000 can tell him something he'll go along, particularly of doctor Jill. The thing 43 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:04,960 is, the United States is a much more significant country, and being president 44 00:04:05,639 --> 00:04:12,479 means doing a lot more than when Missus Wilson ran the country in nineteen twenty. 45 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:18,199 Indeed, and the world is watching, which opens the door for all 46 00:04:18,319 --> 00:04:26,120 kinds of things. And we've already seen the threats that the United States and 47 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:30,879 the people in positions of authority are subject to We saw that at a campaign 48 00:04:30,959 --> 00:04:39,079 rally in Pennsylvania more than a week ago, a Saturday evening, in which 49 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:46,480 the former president of the United States and the GOP's newly nominated candidate for president, 50 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:50,120 was nearly assassinated. You and I spoke about that the night in which 51 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:58,720 that took place, after Joe Biden called for hitting the bullseye. Indeed, 52 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:01,279 and that was the kind of rhetoric that we've been hearing from the Democrats for 53 00:05:01,319 --> 00:05:05,319 the last eight years in this country. Let's be honest. It has gone 54 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:12,319 on since before Donald Trump was elected the forty fifth president of the United States. 55 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:15,360 It went on through his administration, it went on through the election year 56 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:18,879 of twenty twenty, and it's gone on ever since. They deemed him to 57 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:24,480 continue to be a threat. They couldn't imprison him, they couldn't remove him 58 00:05:24,519 --> 00:05:30,120 from the ballot. So the real concern, the rightful concern, is have 59 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:35,879 they gone to the last option to remove the President of the United States. 60 00:05:36,199 --> 00:05:44,199 Your thoughts as we get to the hearing on Monday, Well, to be 61 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:47,480 honest, I think under normal circumstances, he should be removed. I have 62 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:54,240 to say my answer is colored by my opinion of Kamala Harris, because then 63 00:05:54,240 --> 00:06:00,439 you make her the president, and either way it's just so horrible, almost 64 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:06,000 beyond belief. But do we want to make Kamala Harris the president? I 65 00:06:06,079 --> 00:06:15,560 mean, very erratic behavior. I can't get along with her staff did nothing 66 00:06:15,639 --> 00:06:19,839 on the border when being ordered to do something on the border. So I 67 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:24,720 certainly don't want her to be president either. I think maybe of the two, 68 00:06:24,759 --> 00:06:30,160 we maybe better off muddling through another six months with Joe. Yeah, 69 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:34,160 that question, of course, is coming up even more so now about the 70 00:06:34,199 --> 00:06:41,600 succession of Kamala Harris in that one particular area. You know, as we 71 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:46,319 shine a light on that we're hearing from border Patrol agents today that she has 72 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:56,199 yet to reach out to Border Patrol in terms of her position, so to 73 00:06:56,240 --> 00:07:01,079 speak, as the borders are. There are a lot of questions that will 74 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:08,959 be coming up in the next several days about the fitness of Kamala Harris not 75 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:15,240 only to lead the Democratic Party but also to lead this country. But let's 76 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:19,639 talk about the Oversight hearing. You are a member of the Committee on Oversight 77 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:27,199 and Accountability. It a lot of fireworks, a lot of heated moments, 78 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:33,959 a lot of very pointed questions about the Director of US Secret Service, Kimberly 79 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:41,560 Cheatle. Your overall takeaway from the hearing, The sense that I'm gathering from 80 00:07:42,439 --> 00:07:49,160 Republican members and some Democrats as well at this point is that this Director of 81 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:57,439 Secret the Secret Service, it's not very forthcoming still, and these agencies have 82 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:01,319 yet to be forthcoming about what do they know and when they knew it? 83 00:08:01,959 --> 00:08:07,920 Right? Question after question was thrown at her again and again. I'm not 84 00:08:07,959 --> 00:08:11,680 in a position to say that or be premature to say this, and you 85 00:08:11,759 --> 00:08:16,279 know, it's been long enough ago that they've got to know a lot more 86 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:20,800 what's going on. But obviously she's hiding it. Obviously should be fired. 87 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:26,439 In so many ways here, they were completely incompetent. I believe she lied 88 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:33,559 twice to me. First of all, I did ask her a question. 89 00:08:33,639 --> 00:08:41,879 She's one of these people in the Bide administration who's obsessed with diversity. Her 90 00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:46,759 goal is to have thirty percent of the agency women. I asked her about 91 00:08:46,799 --> 00:08:50,399 that. She denied ever saying like that, which she is on a record 92 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:54,919 as saying. The reason I asked the question, I'm a little bit afraid. 93 00:08:54,000 --> 00:09:00,399 One of the reasons for the incompetence is she spent too much time dealing 94 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:05,240 on diversity and not enough time making sure she was doing a very good job. 95 00:09:05,759 --> 00:09:11,399 So that's one of my concerns. Another thing that came out under her, 96 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:16,720 maybe before she was there. The Secret Services of place nobody wants to 97 00:09:16,759 --> 00:09:20,279 work. It's ranged four hundred and thirteenth out of four hundred and fifty nine 98 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:24,120 federal agencies, and I would think it's kind of a rewarding place to work, 99 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:28,279 but apparently they have a hard time an getting anybody to work there, 100 00:09:28,519 --> 00:09:31,720 which is another one of the problems. The other question, though, that 101 00:09:31,759 --> 00:09:35,720 I asked, we didn't get an answer to, or you got to lie 102 00:09:35,759 --> 00:09:39,200 out of her, is it is a parent A lot of the regular agents 103 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:43,639 were not there that day. Is that a coincidence or is that the reason 104 00:09:43,639 --> 00:09:46,960 they didn't do a very good job, or is there another reason why they 105 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:52,600 wanted the agents most loyal to President Trump not there that day? They are 106 00:09:52,159 --> 00:10:00,960 backfilled with other people, but those of us old enough to remember John Kennedy 107 00:10:01,039 --> 00:10:03,720 being assassinated, and I've had to have read ten books on that topic. 108 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:07,799 You know, you never know if you can trust people. Everybody, of 109 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:13,600 course, fell over themselves today to say how much we appreciated what the Secret 110 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:18,080 Service did that day, But I just thought it was illuminating or interesting, 111 00:10:18,399 --> 00:10:24,240 something that demanded follow up. Why were the people, the agents who spent 112 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:30,000 most of the time with President Biden not there that day or presumably once, 113 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,759 like I said, most loyal to them? So whatever. There were other 114 00:10:33,879 --> 00:10:37,879 questions that were never at asked. Who got a decent response out of there 115 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:43,960 was a member of local law enforcement who apparently looked at the shooter, the 116 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:50,639 shooter pointed the rifle atomy he ducked back down, which is how could that 117 00:10:50,759 --> 00:10:58,360 happen? We watched a film in which members of the crowd, we're trying 118 00:10:58,399 --> 00:11:03,919 to screen this guy's got a gone, this guy's gone. Nothing was done. 119 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:13,200 So I think we have incompetence right up and down the Secret Service that 120 00:11:13,399 --> 00:11:18,600 day, and I hope my chairman gives us another hearing. May it perhaps 121 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:24,919 another two or three weeks the head of the Secret Service will begin to give 122 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:31,679 us some answers. Well, the question I think that is on the minds 123 00:11:31,759 --> 00:11:37,159 of America right now is was this just absolute incompetence? We know this was 124 00:11:37,159 --> 00:11:43,759 a failure through and through? Was this just incontinence? Was this just incompetence 125 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:50,519 or was it willful? That's the question that some of your colleagues are asking. 126 00:11:50,759 --> 00:11:58,240 Representative Anna Paulina Luna tweeted this after leaving the oversight briefing this morning. 127 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:03,519 I'm more convinced than ever that Crooks wasn't working alone. It's a pretty damning 128 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:07,960 statement. What do you think of that? That statement? Well, like 129 00:12:09,039 --> 00:12:15,799 I said, I've read a lot about the Kennedy assassination, and I think 130 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:18,559 it's a parent the more you read about it. The federal government knew a 131 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:22,279 lot more, and maybe it was involved a little bit. It's only by 132 00:12:22,279 --> 00:12:26,840 the grace of God, this was not an assassination. We don't have any 133 00:12:26,879 --> 00:12:31,200 hard evidence at this time other than to say there were a lot of coincidences. 134 00:12:31,279 --> 00:12:37,799 Right, she denied it, but a lot of President Trump's normal detail 135 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:41,200 was not there. Well, why would they be taking people who were most 136 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:46,639 weal as President Trump and not having them there that day? I don't know. 137 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:50,679 That's why I'd like to have another hearing. Other questions that could not 138 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:56,080 be answered, When did the rifle appear in that area? And where was 139 00:12:56,080 --> 00:13:01,080 it? When did the latter appear in that area? 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An individual with a rangefinder is not a threat. 156 00:14:22,519 --> 00:14:28,799 I find those statements interesting because, yes, one could possibly say that 157 00:14:28,879 --> 00:14:31,639 someone with a backpack at a rally may not be a threat in and of 158 00:14:31,679 --> 00:14:37,759 itself. But as you all pointed out at the hearing today, this wasn't 159 00:14:37,799 --> 00:14:41,159 a one off. This wasn't a guy with just a backpack. This is 160 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:46,399 a guy with a backpack and a rangefinder, which your colleague on the oversight 161 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:54,960 committee representative from Tennessee told me last week. You have a rangefinder if you 162 00:14:56,039 --> 00:15:00,960 are out, you have a rangefinder for two reasons, either to locate a 163 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:05,039 titleist that you've lost out on the golf course or you're looking to shoot something. 164 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:09,399 And there wasn't a golf course for miles around, as I understand it, 165 00:15:11,679 --> 00:15:16,279 What did you think of these explanations from the director? She never really 166 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:20,039 gave us a good explanation there other than kind of implying that there could be 167 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:24,879 other reasons to have the range finder, which is a frustrating thing. She 168 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:31,120 would not answer questions. A lot of the time was spent trying to ask 169 00:15:31,159 --> 00:15:35,399 her to resign, which she refused to do as well. So I guess 170 00:15:35,399 --> 00:15:39,080 I'd like to have you hearing that only word she was there, but maybe 171 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:43,159 bring back somebody just under her was maybe a little bit more forth the coming, 172 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:52,440 or somebody from the FBI, because they are certainly leaving things open to 173 00:15:52,639 --> 00:16:02,200 suspicion of worse going on. And that's why I think the other Congressman, 174 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:06,840 Glenn Growthman, joining us on this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. Congressman 175 00:16:06,879 --> 00:16:14,320 represents the sixth congressional district in Wisconsin. He is also a member of the 176 00:16:14,519 --> 00:16:22,440 House's Committee Oversight and Accountability. Held a very important hearing, a lot of 177 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:26,720 frustration coming out of that hearing, not a lot of answers thus far, 178 00:16:26,879 --> 00:16:30,960 and what we continue to see, Congressman, is not only the director, 179 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:37,360 but the FBI and others not forthcoming, not delivering the information that you've requested. 180 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:41,720 That does that continue to be a problem. Is there any movement on 181 00:16:41,759 --> 00:16:45,000 that front this hour? Well? No, I think we just have to 182 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:48,799 keep following up and having another hearing. I have not talked to the chairman 183 00:16:48,879 --> 00:16:53,600 yet, but I mean, this is one of those things they should be 184 00:16:53,639 --> 00:16:57,559 talking about in American history. One hundred years from now, right, this 185 00:16:57,759 --> 00:17:03,039 was almost on pop or the most significant assassination in American history, next to 186 00:17:03,119 --> 00:17:08,119 Abraham Lincoln himself. So I don't think it's a matter like a regular hearing 187 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:14,079 when the administration Bob's and Weeds doesn't give the straight answers, just kind of 188 00:17:14,079 --> 00:17:18,759 time marches on. We've got to demand these answers to what the genuine facts 189 00:17:18,799 --> 00:17:23,279 are. But even as I look another colleague on the other side of the 190 00:17:23,279 --> 00:17:33,079 aisle, Representative Alexandria Acassio Cortes, who certainly is no friend of Donald Trump, 191 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:41,440 certainly no friend of conservatives and Republicans in Congress, but even she stressed 192 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:47,759 at the hearing that the idea that a report from this agency would not be 193 00:17:47,839 --> 00:17:56,480 forthcoming for two months is beyond the pale. I would assume you too are 194 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:02,680 not satisfied with no. This is being no, not at all. You 195 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:06,880 should have checked your interview and found out how quickly some of the people who 196 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:11,960 tried to assassinate Abraham Lincoln were even executed. I mean, here they take 197 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,240 some two weeks for a report. You know why. Now they have more, 198 00:18:15,559 --> 00:18:19,559 they have more of his social media profile. They've got to right now, 199 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:29,720 not to mention more information as to how this guy got the gun so 200 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,720 close to the roof, how he got the ladder so close to the roof 201 00:18:34,079 --> 00:18:38,799 right, So many questions left unanswered, and I would think within the next 202 00:18:38,839 --> 00:18:45,599 couple of weeks they should know so much more. You said that Director Secret 203 00:18:45,599 --> 00:18:48,920 Service Director Kimberly Cheedle should be fired, should resign. Do you think she 204 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:55,119 should be behind Barns Well, not yet right now. She just seems like 205 00:18:55,160 --> 00:19:00,599 an incompetent affirmative action higher what she is in favor of more. By the 206 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,240 way, but that's what I took when I listened to her. In competent 207 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:11,240 affirmative action hider. Are you concerned about the movement that we had heard about. 208 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:15,440 Let's have a little background here, a little history. But to Kimberly 209 00:19:15,519 --> 00:19:22,039 Cheatle, of course, as has been reported, a very close friend of 210 00:19:22,799 --> 00:19:27,799 First Lady Jill Biden. In fact, she worked on the security detail for 211 00:19:29,039 --> 00:19:33,160 Jill Biden when Joe Biden was Vice President of the United States. At the 212 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:41,200 same time, we hear that the Secret Service decided on Saturday to move some 213 00:19:41,279 --> 00:19:45,279 of the Secret Service agents to redeploy them, as I understand it, to 214 00:19:45,319 --> 00:19:53,400 an event that was relatively nearby where Jill Biden was campaigning on behalf of her 215 00:19:53,440 --> 00:20:00,160 president. That is a concern in and of itself, but also a concern 216 00:20:00,279 --> 00:20:07,839 knowing how close these two individuals were personally. Well, it's concerning to me 217 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:15,599 because the people who may have been most loyal to President Trump were not there, 218 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:19,920 right. I mean, there are agents that are always assigned to President 219 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:25,799 Trump, and we're going to have to answer these questions again, but it 220 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:30,359 appears to me like the people who were normally around Trump were not there. 221 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:37,839 Let's uh, I want to get your thoughts on where we go from here, 222 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:44,400 because obviously there's been one bombshell event after another. In fact, I 223 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:52,079 think that the country is reeling right now with so much we use this we 224 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:57,160 overuse this word, but these truly are unprecedented times. So what happens now? 225 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:03,160 Joe Biden has dropped out of the race. He has well, let 226 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:11,119 us put it this way. We received an announcement ostensibly from Joe Biden that 227 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:15,680 he has dropped out of the race, an announcement that was made on Twitter 228 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:22,440 or the former Twitter now known as x. We have not heard directly from 229 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:26,160 the president. We've been told that later in the week he'll make a speech. 230 00:21:26,279 --> 00:21:30,839 As of this recording, we don't have anything on the schedule where the 231 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:37,759 president will be showing up live. Those are concerns, But now we have 232 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:45,279 the president ostensibly endorsing the vice president. Some are very happy about that, 233 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:49,480 others aren't. Where does all of this go from here in terms of how 234 00:21:49,559 --> 00:22:00,119 the Republicans approach the next three plus months of this election. Well, like 235 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:06,319 I said, as far as President Biden being president for the next six months, 236 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:11,680 I think Kamala Harris is so scary. People will talk about trying to 237 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:18,839 constitutionally remove President Biden, but I don't think they're going to do that. 238 00:22:19,759 --> 00:22:25,720 I think of greater concern is, well, Kamala Harris wind up being the 239 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:33,279 Democrat nominee for president, and she is awful in so many ways, disliked 240 00:22:33,279 --> 00:22:40,400 by her own staff, assigned to do something at the border and did absolutely 241 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:49,839 nothing radical weft woin Liberal. They may try to keep her hons the presidential 242 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:56,880 candidate. I personally have met Democrats in the House who do not want her 243 00:22:57,319 --> 00:23:03,400 and feel that if they can hang on and get an open debate during the 244 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:11,200 Democrat convention, that they can knock her out. So could be very illuminating. 245 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:15,119 Now it's interesting for your listeners to wonder how we will want up in 246 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:18,240 this situation in the first place. Earlier, when I talked about the assassination 247 00:23:18,559 --> 00:23:23,519 attempt, I talked about the degree in which the current director in the FBI 248 00:23:23,799 --> 00:23:27,440 is a firm believer in affirmative action. She's going out of the way, 249 00:23:27,519 --> 00:23:32,680 or claim to be going out the hire as many women as possible, and 250 00:23:32,799 --> 00:23:37,200 like always of affirmative action, it means that you're hiring people not as qualified 251 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:42,240 as you normally would want. And do you think we have I mean, 252 00:23:44,599 --> 00:23:49,799 I think the events, the events of Saturday last would indicate it. Do 253 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:59,200 you think that we have incompetence driven by DEI policies in place? I think, 254 00:23:59,279 --> 00:24:02,559 for a result will be part of the problem with the Secret Service, 255 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:10,680 But it's the affirmative action. The pigeons are coming home to roost here, 256 00:24:11,319 --> 00:24:17,079 right. The reason they're in a box is they pick Kamala Harris only because 257 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:19,680 she's a woman of color, right, And they're open about it. They 258 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:29,599 didn't even fight it. Right at the time we had that situation in Minneapolis, 259 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:33,680 and they said to themselves, because of what happened in Minneapolis, we 260 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:40,079 have to have a woman of color. So that's why Biden said as much. 261 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:45,359 Right right, it's not even pretending we went through the motions and this 262 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:49,759 is the most qualified woman. They said, we are going to put ourselves 263 00:24:49,799 --> 00:24:55,880 in a straight jacket and say we could only make a vice president a woman 264 00:24:55,960 --> 00:25:00,440 of color. Well, okay, now they're here. Now she's no longer 265 00:25:00,559 --> 00:25:03,680 going to be vice president. We're looking at it a possible president, either 266 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:07,759 for the final six months or getting re elected next year, which is not 267 00:25:07,799 --> 00:25:15,000 an impossibility. And I hope the American public realizes that's not only how we 268 00:25:15,039 --> 00:25:18,920 got our vice president. All across the country today, people are being hired 269 00:25:19,079 --> 00:25:23,400 medical, field, manufacturing, and field what have you, not on a 270 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:29,119 base of confidence, but on the basis of check the box out of the 271 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:34,240 form. And it really makes me respect President Trump. And then when he 272 00:25:34,319 --> 00:25:38,119 picked a vice president this time, he picked the guy who he thought was 273 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,839 best for the job. He said, I'm going to pick the guy who 274 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:45,440 would make the best president if something happened to me. And the fact that 275 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,599 he happened to be a white guy, and the fact that he happened to 276 00:25:48,599 --> 00:25:52,359 come from a state that's probably going to be Republican anyway, did not bother 277 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:55,720 President Trump. He says, I'm not going to be a politician. Heer, 278 00:25:56,079 --> 00:25:59,440 I'm going to take the best guy I can. Obviously, four years 279 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:03,240 ago I did the opposite. His attitude was, I don't care if this 280 00:26:03,559 --> 00:26:07,920 well, I don't care at all, but to a degree, it's not 281 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:12,119 as important to me as to whether this person is qualified. I want someone 282 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,480 where I can stand up by the stage and say, look at here, 283 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,839 I've got a woman of color, and this is why I'm picking her. 284 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:22,240 Well, if you want, yeah, if you want evidence to further evidence 285 00:26:22,279 --> 00:26:26,119 to support that fact. And I agree with everything you just said. But 286 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:30,279 again, you mentioned that JD. Vance is from Ohio, deep red state. 287 00:26:30,799 --> 00:26:41,240 It's not the calculus of the campaign does not require representation necessarily from from 288 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:48,000 Ohio. Trump, as has been talked about, could have certainly picked someone 289 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:55,720 from one of the swing states, maybe someone from Wisconsin, perhaps right. 290 00:26:55,759 --> 00:26:59,200 A lot of people talked about a young kid from Virginia to put Virginia in 291 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:06,880 pleasure, young, a wonderful guy like his name. But Trump said, 292 00:27:07,799 --> 00:27:11,839 you know, he is not who I think would make the best president. 293 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:17,160 So I'm not going to pick it. Even exactly in the right pick politically. 294 00:27:17,559 --> 00:27:22,319 Yeah. And the further point is, if you remember, Kamala Harris 295 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:27,640 is not from a state that Joe Biden desperately needed. She comes from California. 296 00:27:27,759 --> 00:27:33,960 You don't get any bluer than California. She came with all kinds of 297 00:27:33,079 --> 00:27:38,240 warts as a candidate, driven home by the fact that she was what the 298 00:27:38,279 --> 00:27:45,039 first one out in the twenty twenty contest for the Democrat nomination. So yeah, 299 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:49,119 I think that's absolutely clear. But to your broader point, the whole 300 00:27:49,799 --> 00:27:56,799 Biden Harris push in the last three and a half years, the whole leftist 301 00:27:56,839 --> 00:28:02,400 push in that administration, has been focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, 302 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:07,359 sometimes as we have seen quite frankly, to the peril of getting the job 303 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:12,519 done in the case at the highest levels of securing the life of a president 304 00:28:12,559 --> 00:28:18,680 and the people who were there to see him campaign. We don't have much 305 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,640 time left. I wanted to ask you this. I've talked to you about 306 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:27,759 the election integrity issues for a very long time, and I just I think 307 00:28:27,799 --> 00:28:37,680 You're Senator in Wisconsin told me this recently. He said that whoever the nominee 308 00:28:37,759 --> 00:28:42,200 is going to be, Senator Ron Johnson said that he believes it will be 309 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:48,160 Kamala Harris. When the day is done. You'll see the accomplice media, 310 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:56,240 the Democrats obviously shifting to talk about just how wonderful Kamala Harris is, how 311 00:28:56,359 --> 00:29:02,279 articulate she is, how visionary she is. Of course that is not reality, 312 00:29:02,359 --> 00:29:07,960 but they don't care about reality. The ultimate issue here that we've seen 313 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:14,240 in this country for several years is it doesn't necessarily matter who the candidate is 314 00:29:14,319 --> 00:29:19,799 on the left, it matters who's running the elections. Are you concerned that 315 00:29:21,079 --> 00:29:26,240 the Biden Bucks that we've talked about the use of federal agencies to work a 316 00:29:26,359 --> 00:29:29,519 get out the vote effort for Joe Biden, But now in this case, 317 00:29:29,519 --> 00:29:34,319 whoever his replacement will be, will be even more aggressive. That machine will 318 00:29:34,319 --> 00:29:38,160 be humming even more in these next three months. Right, people have to 319 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:44,519 remember the winner of the election to a degree, a big degree, is 320 00:29:44,559 --> 00:29:48,079 not going to come down to the so called undecided votes. It's going to 321 00:29:48,119 --> 00:29:52,759 come down to turn out and getting people to turn out who normally don't vote, 322 00:29:53,559 --> 00:29:59,039 Marginal people who may not be familiar with the issues but can be told 323 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:04,640 particular an era in which we expect so many absentee ballots. It can be 324 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:10,839 suggested to them who they should vote, and I'm sure the Democrats are going 325 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,480 to do all they can to get everybody out to vote in both Dane and 326 00:30:14,519 --> 00:30:19,680 Milwaukee County, including people who really don't care that much. But we've got 327 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:23,680 to make sure we get the working man out because right now, I think, 328 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,960 over time more and more, the Republican Party is the party of the 329 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,559 working man. We've got to make sure we get our people out. Yes, 330 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:36,039 I am concerned. I don't like absent de balloting. I've fought it 331 00:30:36,079 --> 00:30:40,200 all the way through. But when you have so much absentee balloting, you've 332 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:45,160 got to worry if some people were told how to vote, which I'm sure 333 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:51,880 the plan is, and that is a big concern. I spent part of 334 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:59,039 the weekend in Mantua County, wonderful, super conservative county and like most counties, 335 00:30:59,079 --> 00:31:03,920 filled with people who work for a living. It's overwhelming a Republican But 336 00:31:03,119 --> 00:31:08,960 for us to win that election, we're going to have to turn out all 337 00:31:10,079 --> 00:31:14,119 the working people, because the Democrats will do what they can to turn out 338 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,839 the non working people. In my opinion, now, how much more difficult 339 00:31:17,839 --> 00:31:22,319 election integrity will it be knowing that in Wisconsin, one of the key swing 340 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:29,000 states, you have a left led Supreme Court that recently said there's no problem 341 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:41,279 with unmanned absentee ballot drop boxes right for example, and that leaves an opening 342 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,319 to me. Of course, you have the same thing happen if you mail 343 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:53,359 by a post office. But I think it is more of an obvious invitation 344 00:31:55,559 --> 00:32:00,720 to have marginal people vote if you can just go over there and drop off 345 00:32:00,799 --> 00:32:07,279 your ballot. So final question is the Republican Party in Wisconsin and nationally, 346 00:32:07,839 --> 00:32:12,359 are they truly committed to doing what the Democrats have done, beating them at 347 00:32:12,359 --> 00:32:15,039 their own people. They're putting more money into it, They're hiring more people. 348 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:20,000 I think we're going to be in better shape than last time in Wisconsin. 349 00:32:20,119 --> 00:32:23,119 Were no longer going to have the foolish rule that you have people voting 350 00:32:23,119 --> 00:32:30,880 in nursing homes, so without having a representative of both party president, so 351 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:36,240 that regard will be in better shape. I think we're in better shape than 352 00:32:36,279 --> 00:32:39,119 we were four years ago. In perfect shape. No, I think you're 353 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:45,440 always going to have a problem when you have so many absentee ballots. Let's 354 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:49,359 face it, if Vladimir Putin got re elected in an election, and you 355 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:54,519 heard the eighty percent of the ballots for absentee, What would you think we've 356 00:32:54,559 --> 00:33:00,519 got to deal with absentee ballots? Very good, sir, Thanks to my 357 00:33:00,559 --> 00:33:07,480 guest today, Congressman Glenn Grothman from Wisconsin's fighting sixth Congressional district, also a 358 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:15,359 member of the very important, high profile House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, 359 00:33:15,359 --> 00:33:20,400 trying to get to the bottom of get answers to the many questions that we 360 00:33:20,519 --> 00:33:28,799 all have about the attempted assassination against former President Donald Trump. You've been listening 361 00:33:28,799 --> 00:33:31,839 to another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Matt Kittle, senior correspondent 362 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:36,960 at the Federalist. We'll be back soon with more. Until then, stay 363 00:33:37,039 --> 00:33:54,400 lovers of freedom and anxious for the Fray.