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

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We have Josh ur Keen are representative
here in Congress on with the phone

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with us year. How are you
doing today, Josh, yeah, Tom,

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Tom's I can fog a me here. But you got a lot going

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on here. You just recently wrapped
up some uh some town halls, and

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of course the telephone town hall went
went pretty good. What did you what

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did you learn from the constituents.
Well, then we're always learning. Between

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ninety two town halls in a little
over a year, live town halls governing

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twenty eight counties in the second congressional
district. And then we you know,

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try to do a telephone town hall, which you know we're from eight to

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you know, twelve thousand people I
think or attend those, and I wish

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the telephone town halls, you know, opportunity for questions, for the number

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of people that you know call in
was you know, much greater. That's

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why we try to do the live
town halls, get people a chance.

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It is with us, but if
you look at some total, it's the

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border, it's our overspend, our
budget inflation. What reckless overspending continues to

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do to our economy, and you
know, then we'll have you know the

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different issues that make the news from
time to time, but definitely the border

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and definitely our budget. Speaking of
the budget, you recently voted against that

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continuing resolution. Those seem to be
popping up an awful lot. Yeah,

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that extends year levels thirty billion more
year over year compared to what it was

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under Pelosi. I can't understand why
we continue to do this. I know

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I'm a broken record on your show
and others, Tom, but it's just

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so important people know this. One
hundred percent of what Congress spent an entire

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year debating these funding levels for in
the discretionary budget is borrowed money. The

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only revenue support, the only thing
we have enough revenue now is Medicaid,

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food stamps, Medicare, social Security, veteran benefits, and interest on the

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debt. Those who have been locked
away in past generations into mandatory spending consumes

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two thirds of our budget. Where
Congress can't touch them. All the Congress

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can do is adjust who's eligible and
who's not. Because of their status is

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mandatory, as the word implies,
their first in line for the revenue,

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and they consumed all the revenue last
year. So for everything else that Congress

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in the discretionary budget, there was
no money for the discretionary budget last year.

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All troops salaries, all of defense
spending, all education AD, USDA,

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Department of Labor, Department Entergy,
FBI, Department of Justice, it's

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all borrowed money. So until we're
going to get serious and stop doing,

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what I saw last week is voting
to reauthorize spending on sea turtles. And

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I'm not making this up. That
happened last week. On the floor of

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the House representatives there were only like
forty to fifty of us that said no,

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looks the days of that type of
silliness need to end. And because

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one hundred percent of what we're debating
is borrowed money, and we're going to

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continue to spend money on conservation programs
of sea turtles, well interesting, And

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meanwhile, we've got some real things
that need to be taken care of and

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in the long run, now,
well we know that our children and grandchildren

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will be spending this and will be
paying this off as well as our great

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grandchildren. Want to get your react
go ahead, Can I say something on

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that front, so you know,
when Tom Cobran was talking about that twenty

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years ago. He was probably the
most known and respected. We were talking

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about this is going to be your
kids and your grandkids. I want everybody

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to hear this. Now we're down
the track far enough from that timeframe.

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That inflation costing the average family for
fifteen thousand dollars more to afford the same

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goods and services compared to what you
were just three years ago. That's what

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inflation's costing you, fifteen thousand average
family for more. You don't get any

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increase in your buying power. So
it's on us now. It's not just

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our kids and our grandkids. A
devaluation of your currency is the future of

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this nation unless we get serious about
cutting spending. And so for everybody who

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says, well I just want my
government to do this and this and this,

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I want you to pause, everybody
and just think, whatever my government's

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given me to these little programs,
is it taking more from me in terms

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of devaluing the currency and how it's
lessening my purchase value. I will continue

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whatever you're getting from your government.
Those six thousand dollars checks under COVID,

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you paid it by a plus interest
on devaluation of your currency, So it

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is time to rethink this thing.
The most effective legislature is not the one

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who's bringing home the most back to
your state. The most effective legislature is

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the one who's going to shore up
to sound money to make sure that inflation

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stops. That's the real ball game. We're talking with Congressman Josh Bourkeen.

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Congressman, I want to get your
reaction to the business that's been taking place

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in the Middle East, and especially
over the last several days with what appears

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to be escalation and fighting over there, and it seems that the United States

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we're hearing that we're behind is real
but kind of like maybe if and kind

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of sort of and it just seems
like there's a little shaky SAand there.

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So we had some Israeli Defense Force, a captain and a major representing twenty

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thousand Israeli defense forces came to the
capital a couple of weeks ago, and

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I, along with staff, became
kind of the one who shepherd didn't them

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around. I set up a meeting
with them with Congressman Hearn, you know,

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because of his role with the republic
Study Committee. A quick meeting with

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him and Congressman Hearn with Speaker Mike
Johnson a quick meeting, trying to let

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them share with those individuals what I'm
hearing from them, and that is that

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representing twenty thousand is really Defense Forces
a captain and a major. The major

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told me said, look, we've
cleared out Gods at four different times in

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my twenty year career. We've cleared
out the same spots in Gods at four

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different times, only to see them
return and to you know, returned to

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the same level of authoritarian authoritaian authoritative
state and and a loss of course ultimately,

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you know, the one raging in
those positions they take back over,

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which has led to the you know, the horrendous actions of October seventh.

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And he's saying his message to the
speaker, his message to those that we

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sit out with was let us finish
the job. We All we know is

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we see the United States coming in
and doing humanitarian aid drops and it's going

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to our enemy. All we know
is got the US on it. And

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so from Israel's viewpoint, this mixed
message that you are sending, let us

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finish the murderer lives in our set
shed. We don't need any mixed messages

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about letting us go in and and
and put fire to the murderer who's living

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in the shed. Let us finish
this so we don't have to, as

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history shows us, clean them out
this time, and then we don't finish

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the job, that just canna be
back in there within a few years.

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My goodness sakes, Josh Vi Keen
is what this year? He is our

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congressman, King Gresteal District too here
in Oklahoma. Tell us what you what

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you got coming up here on the
horizon. Things you've been working on.

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Well, look, I'm always working
on things that are border related because I'm

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on Homeland Security, so committee Jurisdiction
over the physical Barriers over is trying to

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make sure that we're stopping illegal interest, superiod coming into our country. And

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then I'm on budget, so that
means if you get excessive information on spending

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from me, it's because that's the
committees that I'm casked with. But particularly

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this week, tom as Faiza,
we're gonna go go back and the first

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thing that we're going to address is
is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Again,

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I voted against the final product because
it did not include a warrant,

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and there were two members of the
Freedom Caucus, which I'm a part,

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that said we're going to capture the
bill, which forces a revote. And

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so there's people I know they're going
to be hearing from the constituency to you

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know, to make sure there's a
warrant, which is you know, in

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my attention, you have to.
I mean, it's what Benjamin Franklin said,

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those who would be willing to give
up essential liberties for a little temporary

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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
That this is a Fourth Amendment we're talking

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about, and however well intentioned,
this fishing enterprise, that our Department of

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Justice is this big, big,
sane netting of just capturing a wide net,

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and the Fourth Amendment not mattering like
they didn't approve to the American people

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they can be trusted. This isn't
a thing where we go, well,

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we'll give you another chance. No. Then they've been doing this to a

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president of the United States two hundred
thousand times, two hundred seventy thousand times

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after they said, oh, we
promise, we'll do better. You know,

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in twenty twenty one, two hundred
and seventy thousand times they violated their

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own rules, Like I don't see, especially with the fact that Amy Bigs's

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amendment on the warrant that said in
exigence circumstance, because the exegen is just

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another word for urgent, that they
would still give our you know, our

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national security systems a chance to intervene
if it was urgent. If there's truly

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a scenario of somebody, you know, we caught an email of somebody in

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the United States that was a US
citizen coordinating with terrorists saying, yeah,

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I'll drop off the ball at the
X time this morning. And even Indivision's

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amendment requiring a warrant gave gave it
ability if a warrant wasn't time enough to

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be retrieved in that in that instance
that there could be exitgen circumstances that would

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allow them to intervene. So,
given that key element of exigen circumstances emergency

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circumstances built into the warrant, there's
no justification in my mind, no justification

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whatsoever for this to be absent a
warrant, especially with the abuse of our

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weaponization of our government against its citizens. Incredible, I tell you what I

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learned so much every time we speak
and by getting the inside baseball from you,

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and how you're able to share that
with your constituents in a manner that's

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easily digested, and a lot of
the pretty complicated stuff, but you do

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a great job of a boiling down
so that everyone can understand what's going on

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and get a very clear picture.
Josh for Keen, how can folks get

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a hold of you if they need
to because you're very excessive. Yeah,

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Claremore Office nine one eight two eight
three sixty two six' two call a

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Clamore office. I actually read that
call report. So people wonder, doesn't

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my voice make a difference. It
doesn't mean I'm always going to agree with

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you, but I'm going to hear
you out. And so you call into

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our office. I read that call
report. You send an email our staff.

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I will tell you this. The
emails thousands a week, right,

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And so I sit down with it's
an issue, and if you want to

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know where's my where's my position on
an issue? I'll sit down with staff

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and we'll talk about that through and
you'll get a response as to why I

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have a position on a particular issue. So we call our DC office called

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Clamore Office. I've got field reps
that are that are tasked with being responsive,

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that are tasked with when they're not
in meetings on my APF within district,

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they're out there knocking on business doors
saying what would you like to remember

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Congress to know on your behalf then
we have you know, we did ninety

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two town halls last year or over
a little over a year, trying to

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get out there and make sure that
people can come and see us in person,

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even those who can't come to d
C. Very good, Josh Keen,

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thanks for being our guest. Thanks
Tom, appreciate you