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

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It's time now for our interview we
do monthly here with Congressman Josh Rickeen

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and Congressman very busy as of late. First of all, thank you for

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returning our folks from the Turks and
k Coast Island. Tell us a little

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bit about that. That wasn't an
easy thing. Well, great outcome.

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You know, that's my first in
this position member of Congress, opportunity to

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take a codell and to go as
a member of you know, a five

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person congressional teams led by Senator Mullen, and to go and advocate for Ryan

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Watson from Oklahoma and four others from
all over the country. I know.

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Told Center Mullen, I guess many
weeks ago I had heard, even though

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Ryan Watson was not from our congressional
district, I had heard that he was

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leaning in. I heard through back
channels that Center Mullen, you know,

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the United States senator has much more
potency when it comes to diplomacy, and

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so I just thanked him for being
aggressive from what I was hearing from my

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chief of staff and others. That
conversation yielded him saying to me, would

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you be interested in taking a trip, and I was, and to go

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and be there for a day and
a half to meet the families and then

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to represent them to the government officials
to the age of Dutch and Kikos.

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You know, it was ultimately the
age who we pushed on pretty heavily in

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that meeting that suggested to their legislature
to change their law. And then Ryan,

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of course was released, as many
others have been, with Serida Greer

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as the exceptions still waiting her sentencing, but the trip paid dividends. They're

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going to change the law, which
is something I was adamant about. I

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hope their a g I looked at
her and expressed, along with the governor

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and the premiere, that I had
been there fifteen years before, and then

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my advice to my wife is not
to return because of the fear over a

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few bullets could land you with a
twelve year minimum sentence, and reminded them

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what we knew about how much of
their economy has dependent super majority of their

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economy has depended upon your US tourism
and also the imports that come from the

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United States. And so look,
the trip paid dividends and I'm glad for

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Ryan and the four others. Sharita
Greer from Florida is the last to face

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sentencing. The others have been released
on what has been fined and time served.

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It never should have happened. They
never should have been required to stay

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there for months on end. They
never should have faced the fear of a

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twelve year minimum Senate. And so
hopefully American people, when they see what

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this new law changes results in,
will have confidence they can go to Turks

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and Caicos. That's the hope.
Now we've got the presidential debate coming up

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here very very shortly. I'd like
for you to weigh in on that.

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Well. I expect there to be
pretty easy means of the president delivering contrasting

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message his four years on the border, here's four years on the economy,

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his four years regarding the international peace
compared to the chaos on those three elements

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that we've seen under this administration.
And I think if he leads us at

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and talks about words a meaningless actions
are where your vote needs to do come

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from, I think that there's no
way he can can lose this debate.

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And then I'm expecting the hilarity of
Donald Trump to also be a part of

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this. As I've told many people
in the years that I walked away from

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state government at the United State government
and starting a small business, many times

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I would come home and want to
turn on the TV, not to watch

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the news, but to see what
Donald Trump has said. That's a part

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of his appeal. You know,
there's a part of you know, people

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that may not like his tweets,
but there's some of us that, you

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know, love seeing someone that's just
not so canned that they don't speak from

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their art and those unforgettable moments in
twenty sixteen in his debates. I think

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many people will watch the debate just
you know, for the hilarity element.

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Well, there's a lot going on
that that ain't funny, and I know

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that you continue to really sound the
alarm on it. And the alarm,

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of course, is our economy and
just the runaway spending we have in Washington,

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d C. Yeah, Look,
we ended up. I think I

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landed a scorecard from a group that
looks at constitutional Inherenents adherents along with Chip

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Roy Mike Lee landed him. You
know, after my first year and a

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half with a with a being in
the top one percent on costitutional inhereness because

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of my voting records, and I'm
proud of that tall. I think so

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many people have run for office and
and they're not serious about upholding the constitution,

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not serious about making sure that their
votes reflect a limited government perspective and

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everything else left to the states and
individuals for self governance. And we've been

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serious about that, and the voting
record proves that. And of course,

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you know, the border issues continue, but not without a fight. You're

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you've been a very strong voice in
Washington, d C. Trying to get

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something moving. Yeah. I mean
sadly though the leverage to get something moving

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has been lost because of the appropriations
fight. I was sad months ago when

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you know, the budget deal came
together without my support and because we didn't

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reduce spending to the levels that I
wanted us to do, and then then

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the supplemental with another place we could
have held up some hats and leverage rather

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on the border, but we lost
that opportunity as well because what happened in

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Ukraine. So it is now a
battle headed into a president who hopefully will

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get serious about doing away with the
sixty five different executive orders. That Joe

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Biden is put in place that have
undermined more security. That's the react goodness.

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Different executive orders since he took office
to undermine the success under Trump.

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Trump had a forty and forty five
year low, a forty year low,

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one year forty five year low between
twenty seventeen twenty nineteen loas of illegal immigration,

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and then Biden just totally undermines that
with different executive orders. And we

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did pass HR two when I first
got into the Congress, within a matter

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of four or five months being there, came through the committee I served on

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Homeland Security. We had a partial
play in that bill, and that bill

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has languished on the Senate side.
They've not picked it up, and they

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do not. On the Senate side, led by Democrats, they do not

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want to see a return to Trump
air policies, or they would have picked

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up HR two. Okay, this
is the part where I say, get

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on your soapbox and tell us something
we don't already know what's happening with you.

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Should we be looking out for you
here in the next several days and

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weeks, Well, we were going
to finish the appropriations bills. Hopefully that

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that is being led by Republican only
Republican vote, and which means we're not

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putting up with the nonsense of woke
and weaponized government spending. So my hope

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is we'll actually get the appropriation bills
done this year. The likelihood of the

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Senate will put the take up.
We're able to pull that us and punt

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this thing under a Trump term.
If we'll punt to early under a Trump

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administration and a hopefully a Senate led
by Republicans, then we can do what

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was done to me my first year. They took away the power of the

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person away from my freshman class because
the Democrats did appropriation. And so what

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I'm hoping we will do is is
still the opportunity for the Democrat and to

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form governments, and then we'll do
what nobody really wants to do, but

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get a continued resolution to pus this
thing into March, and then we could

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come back in with different ideology and
do a fiscal year twenty five appropriations bill

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that is reflective of conservative ideology,
not Democrat ideology. Very good, Once

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again, thank you very much for
being with us today.