Speaker 1: All right, now, Billy cunning and the Great America welcome
Speaker 1: this bridget Wednesday afternoon in the Tri State, it's cold, cold, cold.
Speaker 1: Its gonna be a little bit warmer Thursday and Friday,
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit of rain before more snow than
Speaker 1: next week might be back to zero and blow though
Speaker 1: it's cold as are well diggers behind plus on Monday
Speaker 1: in Washington. All the platforms have now been built ready
Speaker 1: for the inaugural and all Joe Biden is going to
Speaker 1: be is is like a period or a semicol in
Speaker 1: between the two Trump terms, which is a great thing
Speaker 1: for our country. Joining you and I now is the
Speaker 1: Great Warren Davidson, Congressman from Southwest Ohio, and Congressman Davidson,
Speaker 1: welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all,
Speaker 1: you've caught a lot of flak from the mainstream media
Speaker 1: about having strings attached to any aid that goes to California, because,
Speaker 1: after all, were not we the American taxpayer has sent
Speaker 1: about seventy or eighty billion dollars to California over the
Speaker 1: last four years of Joe Biden to paper over Arthur
Speaker 1: Jefferson problems and difficulties and so you're saying, plus many
Speaker 1: other conservatives, Look, we're not going to give you another
Speaker 1: fifty to one hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 2: We don't have that.
Speaker 1: We have to borrow and keep the same policies in fact,
Speaker 1: that caused the La wildfires, built in a desert and grasslands.
Speaker 2: These things happen all the time.
Speaker 1: I had a guest on yesterday who had a paper,
Speaker 1: a newspaper believing on an eighteen seventy five that's when
Speaker 1: Gunsmoke and Kitty and Matt was running around Dodge City
Speaker 1: and they were saying, the wildfires are coming again this year.
Speaker 1: We've had more this year than ever before to be prepared.
Speaker 1: So this has been going on for about a thousand years.
Speaker 1: But to Democrats in California it's like a surprise. So
Speaker 1: can you tell the American people, Warren Davidson, as to
Speaker 1: why you want to attach strings to the idea of
Speaker 1: bailing out California again on the backs of the American
Speaker 1: taxpayer with borrowed money on the credit card.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, we.
Speaker 4: Should be clear who do the strings apply to. Well,
Speaker 4: you don't just apply to the families. They're going to
Speaker 4: get taken care of. Unlike Joe Biden, who's said, oh, well,
Speaker 4: if you've got a MAGA sign outside, our workers might
Speaker 4: not feel safe. We're not going to go help the
Speaker 4: people in Florida or North Carolina. As we speak, they're
Speaker 4: kicking people out of temporary housing in the cold in
Speaker 4: North Carolina.
Speaker 3: They're doing a terrible job.
Speaker 4: So for the individuals and families who've been wrecked, yeah,
Speaker 4: we're going to take care of them. Neighbors, take care
Speaker 4: of neighbors. That's part of our disaster relief program. But
Speaker 4: the reality is the government at California has made a
Speaker 4: bad problem worse. We know they're going to be fires,
Speaker 4: but you kind of count on there being water to
Speaker 4: put the fires out with. They got reservoirs. They're just
Speaker 4: running all the water out to the ocean. Even the
Speaker 4: firefighters are sitting there going, I don't know, I don't
Speaker 4: run the water plan. I go to the fire hiding
Speaker 4: and we're counting on there be of water. You know,
Speaker 4: they literally gave an interview there like that. So that's
Speaker 4: how bad things are broken down in LA. And you know,
Speaker 4: Donald Trump tried to change their water management policies in
Speaker 4: his first term in California.
Speaker 3: Sued to be able to keep.
Speaker 4: Running the water out to protect some endangered you know,
Speaker 4: tadpole or something. And so meanwhile the people have no
Speaker 4: water and the firefighters have no water. So I think
Speaker 4: it's reasonable to say, hey, if we're going to help
Speaker 4: the government of California, we want you to change your policies.
Speaker 4: We think maybe, I don't know how some fire breaks
Speaker 4: around areas and so have some water neighborhood, you might
Speaker 4: want to put a fire break around, have the brush
Speaker 4: go right up next to the woodhouses, keep a little
Speaker 4: bit of stuff out here, and then you know, it
Speaker 4: seems reasonable to have insurance.
Speaker 3: So the insurance companies.
Speaker 4: Tried to tell everybody, hey, there's a greater risk of fires,
Speaker 4: and the climate change climatologists sell, we have to more
Speaker 4: climate change, we have to all these problems, and they're
Speaker 4: getting more frequent and more expensive. And the insurance companies say, okay,
Speaker 4: sure will reserve for that. And they're well, you can't
Speaker 4: raise prices. Let's review how insurance works. So if there's
Speaker 4: more risk, then the prices have to be higher. That's
Speaker 4: how insurance works. And so the government of California put
Speaker 4: some laws in a couple of years ago that said
Speaker 4: you can't raise the rates and so lo and behold
Speaker 4: the insurance companies like State farm like USAA Farmers, all
Speaker 4: these big insurance companies started leaving the state and not
Speaker 4: issuing fire policies because they couldn't charge higher rates and
Speaker 4: this we're not going to go bankrupt for you. And
Speaker 4: somehow they're the band guys like, well they were sounding
Speaker 4: the alarm, So maybe fix the insurance program so that
Speaker 4: homeowners can have fire insurance in California. So those are
Speaker 4: the kinds of strings we're attached and who they're attached
Speaker 4: to is the government.
Speaker 1: Well what happens if they say no, because you know,
Speaker 1: some have proposed, like Tony Bender, actual federal takeover of
Speaker 1: the state of California, like consider it a failed state.
Speaker 2: It can't function.
Speaker 1: They have the gargoyles like Nancy Pelosi and Gavin Newsom
Speaker 1: and Karen Bass and Adam Schiffless and Jerry Brown running
Speaker 1: things there.
Speaker 2: And it's a terrible place to live.
Speaker 1: The taxes are high, confiscatory rules and regulations mean you
Speaker 1: can't do anything, you can't move, It takes five years
Speaker 1: to get a housing permit, and now you have one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand homeless people. On top of the other one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand homeless people that are drug addicts. So what
Speaker 1: do you do when the Nancy Pelosis and the Gavin
Speaker 1: Nusses and the Karen Basses and the So wait a minute,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna have any strings attached.
Speaker 2: That's our money. We send it to Washington and we
Speaker 2: want it back.
Speaker 1: Well, you stand firm like a tenfold bacon in the
Speaker 1: night and say you don't get any more taxpayer money
Speaker 1: until you reform. And if they don't reform, do you
Speaker 1: have the guts not to send the money?
Speaker 3: Oh? Absolutely?
Speaker 4: And the reality is, look, you can't succeed. We already
Speaker 4: fought a civil war over that. We haven't decided whether
Speaker 4: we can excommunicate anybody yet. But you know, we're good
Speaker 4: with California. It's a beautiful place. It is poorly governed.
Speaker 4: And the reality is, if you think the place is
Speaker 4: poorly governed, then move but leave the terrible ideas that
Speaker 4: made it poorly governed in California and come be part
Speaker 4: of a better government in Ohio.
Speaker 3: For example, we'd love to have a lot of the
Speaker 3: businesses and investment.
Speaker 4: They don't just go to Texas, come to Ohio, but
Speaker 4: leave the crazy ideas out there in California.
Speaker 1: It's awful. In fact, I'm watching MSNBC last night, so
Speaker 1: you don't have to. I didn't know this, but there's
Speaker 1: an endangered bush, I said, I only thought smelt or
Speaker 1: salmon were in there's an endangered bush. That was some
Speaker 1: agrarian type sued these federal government EPA. They wanted to,
Speaker 1: of course create a new reservoir over there about three
Speaker 1: years ago. And because there was an endangered bush that
Speaker 1: federal courts. It has been held up now for three
Speaker 1: years because of a bush. What about an endangered bush
Speaker 1: and the smeltfish spawning? Should we be concerned about that
Speaker 1: or should we care more about five hundred billion dollars
Speaker 1: in damages, About one hundred people are dead, one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand people are homeless. Do you care more about schmelt
Speaker 1: and bush or do you care more about people? That's
Speaker 1: my question.
Speaker 4: Well, that's the same thing, like, that's why we have
Speaker 4: better policies in Ohio. And look, Gavin Newsom those that
Speaker 4: it's crazy because he's already said he's gonna wave the
Speaker 4: rebuilding process so they can rebuild faster.
Speaker 3: Well, you know that they put.
Speaker 4: All this stuff in place to make it almost impossible
Speaker 4: to do anything new out there in California, and it's
Speaker 4: hurt the people talk about inflation. The median home price
Speaker 4: for this area that's destroyed in the Palace is three
Speaker 4: and a half million dollars. Yeah, a median home price
Speaker 4: in our area is a two hundred thousand or so.
Speaker 4: H So you know you've got you've got a in
Speaker 4: good luck finding those right now in the market, because
Speaker 4: they say that's the media and you're like, I don't
Speaker 4: know where those are at in the market. Uh, because
Speaker 4: you find a lot of people are seeing a lot
Speaker 4: of housing inflation in Ohio. Well, they've had huge inflation
Speaker 4: out there because the builders can't build.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: So they know that if they're gonna see rebuilding, oh,
Speaker 4: they're gonna have to wave up the permit. And they'll say, oh, well,
Speaker 4: there's an endangered shrub or there's a you know, we
Speaker 4: got a bush.
Speaker 1: It we've got an endangered bush. Bush is endangered bush?
Speaker 1: What there's I'm looking at this bush that was part
Speaker 1: of this lawsuit. It looked like a little shrub with
Speaker 1: no leaves on it, but it's endangered because there's hummingbirds
Speaker 1: that fly onto the branches and they mate on the
Speaker 1: branches of the bush and drop whatever it is they drop,
Speaker 1: and then that's how hummingbirds mate and that's why the.
Speaker 3: Bushes and the people what the people, Well, we got
Speaker 3: to have this.
Speaker 4: Look, we have the National Training Center out there where
Speaker 4: it's a big, big area out in the desert and
Speaker 4: it's a great place to train with you know, tanks
Speaker 4: and armor and all that stuff. So you know, as
Speaker 4: an army go out there and you have these big
Speaker 4: areas that are no go zones because they've got protected
Speaker 4: habitat and it's a training center. Like we're out here
Speaker 4: blowing stuff up and shooting live amma.
Speaker 3: And they're like, well, well don't, don't.
Speaker 4: Don't do it over here because we got some endangered
Speaker 4: you know, shrubs or whatever.
Speaker 1: Another one of the things was it was a spotted cockroach.
Speaker 1: There were certain parts of that. No, I'm serious, it's
Speaker 1: a spotted cockroach that's endangered. You take a cockroach, a
Speaker 1: bush and a shmelt that's controlling California, and I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: what the hell's going on? And so you're saying to
Speaker 1: me that when Adam Shiftless and Karen Bass and Gavin
Speaker 1: Knews of Nancy Pelosi all sady to you, Warren Davidson.
Speaker 1: You know what, We're not going to change. This isn't
Speaker 1: a federal takeover of the Panacea, the glories of the
Speaker 1: of the golden state of California, which is now below
Speaker 1: the bronze age. And somebody's got to get the Coyone says, hey, Okay,
Speaker 1: if you don't change, we're not going to give you
Speaker 1: our money.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense?
Speaker 4: Well, what I like better, Bill, is I like sending
Speaker 4: them the money with the strings attached, so that the
Speaker 4: citizens of California know the only barrier to them having
Speaker 4: the money is the government complying with the strings attached.
Speaker 4: It's like, no, it's waiting there. And then you put
Speaker 4: pressure on Gavin Newsom to change. You put Karen Bass
Speaker 4: wasn't even in the city, not very sympathetic. When she
Speaker 4: comes back now basically says, it's not my problem and
Speaker 4: you only hate me because I'm a minority. Well, her
Speaker 4: rival in the race owns a big shopping center and
Speaker 4: he protected it, and they're mad at him for protecting
Speaker 4: his shopping center while hiring private firefighters and using water
Speaker 4: to protect his property.
Speaker 3: And it's like, well, you crazy people like you could.
Speaker 4: Have hired that guy to be your mayor, and maybe
Speaker 4: instead of having a fire that's zero percent contained, it
Speaker 4: could have been prevented or at least be you know,
Speaker 4: mostly contained, some mitigation, fewer things destroyed, fewer lies loss,
Speaker 4: maybe even no lives loss.
Speaker 3: So you know, at some point, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 4: You know, one of my good friends came to Christian
Speaker 4: faith later in life. He says, you know, God will
Speaker 4: bring you the easiest way you'll go. He's unfortunately my
Speaker 4: way is pretty rough, and maybe that's the way for California,
Speaker 4: you know. Megan Kelly says that a lot of her
Speaker 4: formerly woke friends are now talking about voting Republican because
Speaker 4: they're done with all the insanity out there.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's what it takes.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm watching this interview of the of the person,
Speaker 1: a woman about thirty five years old from the Stamford
Speaker 1: Women's Studies Department. She has advanced degrees in women's studies.
Speaker 1: She's now in charge of water in southern California. She makes,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, Warren Davidson seven hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year to control water, and she gave
Speaker 1: repeated interviews three years ago when she was appointed by
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom that her main job will be diversity, equity
Speaker 1: and inclusion, to bring DEI principles to the water system
Speaker 1: and the state of California, and to hire people that
Speaker 1: look like her. Now I thought that was racialists crimination.
Speaker 1: Maybe it isn't. But the woman in charge of water
Speaker 1: claims her number one job is to bring diversity, equity
Speaker 1: and inclusion to water.
Speaker 2: It's like I've lost my mind.
Speaker 4: You know, just as insane are current and soon departing
Speaker 4: Secretary of Defense thinks the most important risk for the
Speaker 4: Department of Defense is climate change.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know this mindset it is.
Speaker 4: It is essentially a religion, you know, climatology. They've worshiped something.
Speaker 4: It's it's crazy what they believe. And it is invasive.
Speaker 4: Talk about an invasive species. You know a lot of
Speaker 4: musk labeled at the woke mine virus and it's spread
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 3: We have to beat it back. And that was great
Speaker 3: to see.
Speaker 4: Yesterday you got Pete Hegseth doing hearings in the Senate
Speaker 4: trying to get confirmed so that you could have the
Speaker 4: military be focused on you know, the reason we have
Speaker 4: a military being combat ready able to fight and win
Speaker 4: a war. What about a crazy thing having the water
Speaker 4: department have water for the people.
Speaker 3: You know, So there are things like this that just
Speaker 3: makes sense.
Speaker 4: And I think that's just the real The theme of
Speaker 4: Trump's second term is pretty basic, just common sense, I mean,
Speaker 4: just less restore sanity. And you know, Sara Huckaby Sanders
Speaker 4: a couple of years ago, when she gave the Republican
Speaker 4: rebuttal to Joe Biden's failed State of the Union, was
Speaker 4: basically like, the dividing line in the country is no
Speaker 4: longer Republican versus Democrats.
Speaker 3: It's normal versus crazy.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: Let's go on two or three other issues we talk
Speaker 1: about this, And I got all fired up when I
Speaker 1: watched Lloyd Austin and Mark Millie, chairman of the Joint
Speaker 1: chiefs now gone and thank god Lloyd Austin is gone.
Speaker 1: They said, the two major problems in the military is
Speaker 1: number one, white supremacy. I don't see too many Ku
Speaker 1: Klux Klan members wearing marine outfit. And secondly, climate change
Speaker 1: and climate change mitigation. The damage that we've caused to
Speaker 1: the world, having seven hundred military bases in one hundred
Speaker 1: different countries, we have to go to each military base
Speaker 1: and do an assessment of the climate damage that our
Speaker 1: soldiers have done in Germany, Lithuanian, whatever, and then we
Speaker 1: have to mitigate in those countries the climate damage that
Speaker 1: our soldiers have caused. Plus white supremacy is a big problem.
Speaker 1: I see the Ku Klux Klan all over Cincinnati on
Speaker 1: a regular basis. It's ridiculous. Let's get on to Greenland
Speaker 1: and Canada, and of course the Panama Canal and Canada
Speaker 1: announced a day or two ago the manufacturers are going
Speaker 1: to start buying more products from the United States. And
Speaker 1: I see at the end of last year, about two
Speaker 1: weeks ago, it came out that communist red China has
Speaker 1: a one trillion dollar trade surplus, which means that communist
Speaker 1: red China is selling US products and we're buying nothing
Speaker 1: at all from them because they won't let our products
Speaker 1: into China. We let Chinese products into America. How about
Speaker 1: a one trillion dollar trade surplus in favor of China
Speaker 1: against the United States, which is unbelievable. And secondly, Canada
Speaker 1: is now saying, because of the Trumpsters soon to seize power,
Speaker 1: they're going to start buying more products from America. Can
Speaker 1: you smell with the Trumpsters cooking? It's not a spot
Speaker 1: of conroach.
Speaker 4: No, it looks it's great because he's focusing on our hemisphere.
Speaker 3: You know America first, what is what is uh close?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 4: Securing our border is like the most basic principle of
Speaker 4: national security that we control our border. And then you
Speaker 4: look out it's like, well, I don't know, maybe we
Speaker 4: have a good neighbor in Canada. We don't currently with Trudeau.
Speaker 4: Trudeau's on his way out. Trump hasn't even taken office yet. Uh, Greenland, Hey,
Speaker 4: we'd like to be part of America maybe, so I
Speaker 4: think hopefully we can make a deal there that'd be great.
Speaker 4: Panama Canal, Jimmy Carter mean, god, uh, you know, give
Speaker 4: him rest and comfort and a welcome.
Speaker 3: But you know, a terrible idea there in.
Speaker 4: The Panama Canal giving that away and letting China just
Speaker 4: dominate it. So they're doing that all over Central and
Speaker 4: South America as well. And if we just take care
Speaker 4: of close to home, then push out and go after China.
Speaker 4: And I hope when Trump comes in, Look, he's already
Speaker 4: loves tariffs. He can't stop talking about him. And if
Speaker 4: that results in US getting rid of the income tax
Speaker 4: and having a depart of external revenue. That would be
Speaker 4: like one of the most epic wins in history.
Speaker 3: It'll be great. But if we can use the.
Speaker 4: Tariff revenue as leverage to get you know, I was
Speaker 4: in manufacturing before I was in Congress. We can compete
Speaker 4: against other companies, but it's not fair to compete against
Speaker 4: another country. In China, there's no fair trade, there's no
Speaker 4: free trade. You're competing against the Chinese Communist Party, and
Speaker 4: Trump has called that out. My hope is that this
Speaker 4: time he builds an alliance, so it's like, well, yeah,
Speaker 4: we're going to go with twenty percent tariffs on everybody,
Speaker 4: but if you help us go after China will wave
Speaker 4: them for now and lastly, and then we put the
Speaker 4: burden on fixing China.
Speaker 1: Congressman Warren Davidson. I'm not sure the American people know this,
Speaker 1: but the Communist Red Chinese control the Panama Canal. As
Speaker 1: we speak that the management company Panama, knowing the reaction,
Speaker 1: we might have years ago struck a deal with the
Speaker 1: shijhaopeing that they're the management company for those who the
Speaker 1: ships that enter the canal, and the ships that leave
Speaker 1: the canal. They also provide a huge loans to expand
Speaker 1: the canal, knowing that they can foreclose on it and
Speaker 1: basically own the Panama Canal. And the most Americans don't
Speaker 1: know that fact. Of course, you and I do. We
Speaker 1: don't understand that Greenland right now is being being the
Speaker 1: object to not only Russia but communist right China because
Speaker 1: it is rich and exotic and unusual medals. There's about
Speaker 1: forty five thousand people that live there. They want to
Speaker 1: be free of Denmark, whatever the hell that means, and
Speaker 1: so if they become a territory of ours, that'd be
Speaker 1: a good thing and more. But I'll tell you the
Speaker 1: inaugural is going to be great. Warren Davidson, thanks for
Speaker 1: coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And don't pay attention
Speaker 1: to MSNBC. That has a target on your back politically,
Speaker 1: because you want strings attached to money given to California
Speaker 1: to reform their system of government. I doubt they're going
Speaker 1: to do it, but nonetheless, at least the efforts being made.
Speaker 1: Congressman Warren Davidson, thank you for coming on the Bill
Speaker 1: Cunningham Show. And Congressman, you're a great American. And the
Speaker 1: inaugural is going to be a great event.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Thanks then, God bless you and all your listeners, and.
Speaker 2: God bless America.
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