Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
It's time to welcome our Congressman Josh per Keene from Congressional District two here
in Oklahoma, and you'll we've got a lot of things going on recently.
You've had some back and forth with Secretary Maorcus about the border. Tell us
how that went. He was interesting. He disagreed with Royal ortiz To a
month ago on the border. When when we had a hearing on the border,
the border patrol chief told me specifically that he disagreed with President by the
decisions to shut down by executive order that two hundred and fifty mile of wall
that was fully appropriatesed by Congress. Myorcus, I asked specifically last week and
then hearing, do you disagree with your own expert, and he said he
did. What's interesting is Myorcus, now secretary, was deputy secretary under under
Barack Obama for Homeland Security. Obama was pushing one hundred and fifty miles of
border wall, and so I asked him because his lead in a saying he
uses a vein of reasonableness in terms of what he's doing at the border.
I went through a litany of questions asking him, you know, they're they're
you know, millions to be spent on electric vehicle electric vehicle charging stations out
of their budget. Is that reasonable or is it just you know, further
adherence to an ideology. And so when we got to the point of question
about reasonabless I was, I said to him, is it not reasonable to
listen to your own experts? Who's over the nineteen thousand border patrol agents,
who says he disagrees after his years of experience there, he disgrees with this
president, President Biden, that that you know, the more or less that
that he believes physical barriers work. And there was a time when you started
got n a president who believe physical barriers work. So it's just real telling
him that how radical, uh this administration is is under my orcas leading homeland
security when they've done about face on physical barriers, other big things going on
right now too. Of course he is, Uh, we're looking at the
debt ceiling and a lot of folks don't even know what that means. They
know when they're in debt, and that usually means they're in the basement.
Well, we're we as of January got noticed, you know, soon after
taking office that that X date was ahead of us, where there was only
yelling with Treasury Secretary and time is going to pronounce that officially. But we're
looking, you know sometime in the summer of when that they they're going to
say that we're out of funds and based upon the spending of the past and
the budgets of the past, I was not a part of. And so
what many of us, myself being in the Film Caucus, are doing is
we are advocating for no more clean debt ceilings. I've been playing that I
was not going to continue this this just we raised the debt ceiling, we
never addressed the structural problems. The Freedom Caucus leaned out and introduced a budget
proposal, a debt ceiling proposal that said, with these things, we're willing
to move forward. And so right now the Republican Conference has brought many of
those ideas of the Freedom Caucus into the conversation. And so this week I'm
optimistic that our conference is going to embrace those things that were that we as
a Freedom Caucus, those that are physically conservative are pulling our conference. Our
hundred two hundred and twenty two Republicans further to the right to know that inflation
every family has felt seven thousand dollars more every Oklahoman spent in twenty twenty two
over twenty one levels. That was the cost of inflation for family on average,
that you spent seven thousand dollars more to buy the exact same businesses.
We know that's the tip of the iceberg of what's really underneath it, which
is our structural depth, sits and our overspending. And so I believe that
our conference is listening to us, and we are willing to start making a
turn and stopping this ideology that both parties I think it brought into that debt
is wealth. So I'm optimistic. Tom. Hey, you're going to be
back in town here for some town halls. Tell us a little bit about
that. You've been on a pretty good to hot streak there. Yeah,
they've been good, They've been well received. We are appealing to all of
us as human beings made in the likeness and image of God, that we
can we can disagree, but let's do it in a way that's reasonable and
civil to one another. That I want people to know that a number one
is the way I behold you in my subconscience is is out of love for
the fact that you're a fellow human being, and I can disagree with you,
but that doesn't mean that I hate you. And so I think if
we'll set hate aside, knowing that there are real people out there, a
real enemies of America who hate us, and if we can have raucous discussions
but be civil and reason together, then we can solve these nation's problems.
And so I'm grateful to Oklahoma's in the mode that we set there because many
members of Congress has stopped doing these outside of Oklahoma. Many members of Congress
have just stopped doing them across the country because of the divisiveness. And so
I don't want to do that. I want us to. It's important to
me to be informed by the citizens of the Oklahoma and second Congressional District,
be guided by the Constitution, personally guided by the Bible, have strong principles,
but be teachable, and that's what those are about. Congressmen. There
are a lot of people who are very concerned about the threat of the Chinese
and more ways than one, whether it's military, and they've shown that they're
not afraid to build up their military power and flex their muscle, but also
through spnish and maybe even just buying their way into the United States. Now,
you're not that far removed from just being a regular Oklahoma You're you're kind
of a new guy there. But what about the folks who have been in
the swamp for a while? Are they blind to this? I think that
in the Republican Conference, I think most people have a healthy understanding of China
as a long term threat. They're embrace of communism, They're embrace of taking
away private property rights. There religious persecution of Christianity in their country, and
it is antithetical to what we believes as United States. Historically, I think
most people understand that we are at economic warfare right now with them, with
Brazil, with Russia, with India, with China, with South Africa.
Trying to see the blood in the water when it comes to our overspending,
which is causing people to no longer perceive us as they wrongest economic power.
That's the only reason we had the world's reserve currency is because of perception of
having the strongest economy, which happened after World War Two, and so they're
sniffing that out they're wanting to turn the bricks grouped into a block of a
new European Union be able to trade fossil fuels absent the US dollar, the
petrol dollar. So we are an economic war. I think they they're laughing
at us and our adherence to the Church of Nature, this religious extremist,
pol fish like activity, where we are going after fossil fuels because of this
administration's stating when he ran for president, Biden made no bones about it.
He said, I'm going to go after the fossil fuel industry, and I
think tried in Russia with the coal fire plants and all the things that they're
doing. Something there knows that even you know, the possibility of adhering to
what the Paris Climate Accord is saying, they're laughing at us and our idiocy
of following suit and trying to destroy ourselves from within. And so we have
got to get strong on. We got to return to energy dominance. We've
got to have another dot com type boom in the United States. We have
to cut spending, and we have to grow our economy, and our fossil
fuel industry is a way to do that. We have five hundred years supply
of old and gas in this nation, and we need to quit fighting with
our hands tied behind our back. There's an old old proverb that says,
if there's no enemy on the inside, the enemy on the outside can't do
any harm. China wants to take us without firing a shot. China wants
to see us destroy ourselves by our debt and our debt loading. That's why
I keep saying that, you know, economic strength is national security. For
us, economic security is national security. So we've got to get our physical
house in order, and with the Lord's help, with us being the country
that stands for truth and justice and righteousness, going back to our history,
that's what makes us strong and being one nation is blessed by the Lord.
And if we'll adhere to that and and get our house in order, we
can face any nation. It's the destruction from within, tom that worries me.
We're talking with the Congress from Josh perking uh where I ask you several
questions, What do you want to let people know here in Oklahoma today that
there's no problem that we face as a nation that if will return to the
principles that made us great, that we can't solve. I talk a lot
about the problems. Just describing the problems, that's not enough to you know,
to stop there. You've got to have solutions. And I do believe
the solution is a great awakening. It's a heart can change in America.
It's a it's a it's becoming mothers and fathers that are raising children in the
home again and stopped looking to government to be the solution for every problem.
It's becoming work brittle as a society. It's I don't want to overstate,
I do want to overstate this that we if will become constitutional, if we'll
return to the strict constructionist and our empowered decision making back through the states and
the people in according to the Tenth Amendment and the eighteen numerated powers of Article
one, Section eight, and we will become biblically virtuous again as a society.
I love what Reagan told Johnny Carson when Johnny Carson said what we're going
to do, and Ronald Reagan famously responded and said, you know, there's
so much people look to government, and government is often the problem, not
the solution. And that's our problem. Is we set our money, then
God, we trust, but we've turned to government all too often. It's
government that is over regular, it's government that's overspending. It's government that is
stifling innovation too many times in our nation. And if folks want to get
ahold of you, how can they do that? They can go to Burken
dot house dot gov. They can also call our DC office two two two
five two seven zero one and Tom, you want to fact check me on
that phone number? But I think that's right. I'm still learning that number.
And thanks sure. Other Bergam dot house dot com that can also get
a hold of us, you know with our district staff Claremore Office or you
know, we have a veteran support and support on casework in any issue that's
it's federal and nature, passports, immigration, legal immigration, um. Also
we have field report that are being produced by by our field reps. I'm
greatly excited about the number of people that are on our team that are out
there beating the bushes asking people to questions, where do you see where do
you need need need the government to to be modified in terms of how they're
stifling innovation now making it hard to create a new job. We've got that
activity out there. We want people keep us informed. And if you see
a field rep, tell them, and I read it on a plane.
If you see a caseworker, if you call our office, I read those
phone call updates when I'm flying back and forth to stay. They had to
speed to what Oklahoma's believe as a solution. And don't forget to see the
congressman when it comes to your town with the town hall meeting. Congressman,
thank you for being thank you for being with us today. God bless you.
Thanks dan Hey, great job. We got you all in and you
gave us plenty to work with. Appreciate it. Anytime you're in the neighborhood,
we'll probably see either in Dewey or the Eggs and Issues or an Oola
gay here before too long