1 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,320 Speaker 1: And we are back with another edition of the Federalist 2 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:23,719 Radio Hour. I'm Matt Kittle, Senior Elections correspondent at the 3 00:00:23,719 --> 00:00:28,480 Federalist and your experienced Shirpa on today's quest for Knowledge. 4 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:31,559 As always, you can email the show at radio at 5 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:36,079 the Federalist dot com, follow us on x at FDR LST, 6 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,439 make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast, and 7 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:43,200 of course to the premium version of our website as well. 8 00:00:43,759 --> 00:00:47,840 Our guest today is Representative Chip Roy, Republican from the 9 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:51,399 great State of Texas, representing the fighting twenty first Congressional 10 00:00:51,399 --> 00:00:56,759 District on the heels of the annual March for Life 11 00:00:57,359 --> 00:01:02,079 Movement march coming up on from It's been an exceptional 12 00:01:02,159 --> 00:01:06,480 week for life and the life movement in America. Congressman 13 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:09,840 Roy's legislation has much to do with that. Chief among 14 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:14,599 the bills that he has put out there this week 15 00:01:14,799 --> 00:01:19,280 is the Face Act Repeal Act of twenty twenty five. 16 00:01:19,799 --> 00:01:24,120 And just as we begin our conversation, some wonderful news 17 00:01:24,239 --> 00:01:28,159 to report on the Life movement as well. Congressman Roy, 18 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:29,840 thank you so much for joining us. 19 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:31,719 Speaker 2: Make great to be on. Appreciate it. 20 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:35,319 Speaker 1: I appreciate your time and of course your mission. You 21 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:38,239 have been one of the great fighters in Congress for 22 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:41,280 some time now on right to life issues. This is 23 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:43,599 a big week for that movement. But let's begin with 24 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:49,079 the breaking news today. We have a pardon for political prisoners, 25 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:51,000 do we not in the life movement? 26 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,439 Speaker 2: Well, we do. Breaking news that I'm literally just learning. 27 00:01:55,519 --> 00:01:58,239 I just came off the House floor where I had 28 00:01:58,239 --> 00:02:02,120 been managing the bill, the Born Alive Protection Prevention Act, 29 00:02:03,319 --> 00:02:06,560 and we were just successful in passing that off of 30 00:02:06,599 --> 00:02:09,039 the House floor as Republicans obviously sent it over to 31 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:11,319 the Senate. We'll see what they do with it over there. 32 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:14,960 But very very good day for moving that important piece 33 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:18,800 of legislation this week. But then, in addition, obviously talking 34 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,439 about the Face Act appeal in our efforts mind jointly 35 00:02:22,479 --> 00:02:25,080 with Mike Lee and the Senate, we've got the President 36 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:29,479 issuing pardons to pro lifers that were targeted by the 37 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:33,639 weaponized Department of Justice of the Biden administration. I don't 38 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:37,840 really have the full account. I think it's a one two, three, four, five, 39 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:40,919 six seven. It looks like maybe nine or ten people 40 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:45,759 that were pardoned. Number of individuals that I've gotten to 41 00:02:45,759 --> 00:02:49,159 know personally, talk to them individually or their families, like 42 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,439 Lauren Handy, for example, who is a progressive activist, she 43 00:02:52,599 --> 00:02:56,919 just is a pro life individual who was then sentenced 44 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:00,400 to jail for fifty seven months. Okay, that's only five years, 45 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,879 as well as several other people Paul Atte Harlowe, who 46 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:07,080 is a seventy five year old woman arrested in twenty twenty, 47 00:03:07,319 --> 00:03:10,759 who was sentenced to jail in Texas despite being sick. 48 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:14,159 So great day, another great move by the president. Great 49 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:15,039 day for life today. 50 00:03:16,159 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 1: Amazing to think about the stories that you've just told, 51 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 and there are so many out there who have been 52 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:24,879 victims of this. That's why your Repeal Act is so 53 00:03:25,159 --> 00:03:28,520 very important. You reintroduced it, you have a good feeling 54 00:03:29,159 --> 00:03:31,360 that it's going to move in the House. Where do 55 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,680 you think it stands? Ultimately? Will it arrive on the 56 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:34,520 President's desk? 57 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,439 Speaker 2: Well, I hope so. You know, I've been reasonably patient 58 00:03:38,479 --> 00:03:41,240 with my colleagues. You know, we had an election year, 59 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:42,919 we had a lot of stuff going on last year. 60 00:03:43,159 --> 00:03:45,560 We've we've been given the trifecta. We've got to lead. 61 00:03:45,719 --> 00:03:49,639 The President is leading. There's no excuse. Now. The President 62 00:03:49,639 --> 00:03:54,520 has set the standard that these political persecutions, political prosecutions 63 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:58,439 shouldn't stand it. So now Congress should remove the tool 64 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:03,400 that was weaponized against the American people by the Mind administration. 65 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:07,360 That was, in fact, the Face Act. It was passed 66 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:10,719 in the mid nineteen nineties. It has been used overwhelmingly 67 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:18,000 by those forces directed at pro life people only in 68 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:21,279 a handful of instances. Hasn't been used in the context 69 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:24,759 of other scenarios, and so we find it to be 70 00:04:26,319 --> 00:04:31,120 something that would be permanently changed if we were to 71 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:33,959 pass the Face Act. And that's why to use the 72 00:04:34,079 --> 00:04:36,920 legislation we might lead to use legislation, it's not enough 73 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:39,879 for it's just to reverse damage. We need to prevent 74 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:43,480 future abuse. And that's why the Face Act is so important. 75 00:04:43,879 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 1: I want to point out something very important. We're going 76 00:04:45,959 --> 00:04:48,920 to get to some other pieces of legislation that you 77 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:52,560 have introduced or reintroduced this week in this new session 78 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,839 as well. But you recall that there was a time 79 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:59,839 in the twenty twenty four election cycle where there was 80 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:03,399 folks who are very committed to the Life movement had 81 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:09,920 some starting to have some misgivings about then candidate Donald Trump. 82 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:15,879 What does his robust activity on the life movement. And 83 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,800 you know, let's face it, it's been a very ambitious 84 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:23,480 week already, very active week already. But do you think 85 00:05:23,519 --> 00:05:26,360 those misgivings are disappearing now with what we're seeing from 86 00:05:26,399 --> 00:05:27,000 this president. 87 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:31,600 Speaker 2: Well, I certainly think it is hard for anyone to 88 00:05:31,639 --> 00:05:34,240 see someone who has been president of the United States 89 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,720 who has done more for life than what President Trump 90 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:43,199 has done. Obviously the Supreme Court and then what results 91 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:46,519 in the respect reversing rome. But you know, I think 92 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:49,959 being the first sitting president to go arect address the 93 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:53,879 March for life what four or five years ago, you know, 94 00:05:53,959 --> 00:05:57,480 now seeing what's happening here with these pardons, and look, 95 00:05:57,519 --> 00:06:03,319 I think the President has positioned himself in what I 96 00:06:03,319 --> 00:06:05,240 would say is the right place. And I say that 97 00:06:05,319 --> 00:06:09,439 as someone who is passionately and ardently pro life. I 98 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:12,079 believed life begins a conception. I believe that we should 99 00:06:12,079 --> 00:06:16,000 go protect life. But the President is right politically that 100 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:19,120 if we want to go win and save lives, that's 101 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:21,519 the point, right of being pro life, then we need 102 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,360 to go move minds and hearts. And I think you 103 00:06:24,439 --> 00:06:28,600 do that best by staying in the confines of what 104 00:06:28,639 --> 00:06:32,160 we've been arguing for half a century right, allowing people 105 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:35,079 and their legislatures and states to determine and figure out 106 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:37,560 how they want to manage a lot of this, but 107 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,319 then pushing back on the abuses of the federal government, 108 00:06:40,399 --> 00:06:44,160 other words, depoliticize that. I think there's something that's critically 109 00:06:44,199 --> 00:06:46,680 important to what President Trump has done the Secret Sauce. 110 00:06:47,319 --> 00:06:51,040 It's to try to actually depoliticize a lot of the 111 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:53,560 stuff and the weaponization of what's going on in Washington, 112 00:06:53,959 --> 00:06:57,759 to really restore the ability of people to make these decisions. 113 00:06:58,879 --> 00:07:01,079 And look, that flew in the face a little bit 114 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:04,399 of some of our ardent pro life supporters and friends 115 00:07:04,879 --> 00:07:09,959 who wanted a quick reaction to what happened in reversing 116 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,160 Row by coming in and saying we need immediately a 117 00:07:13,519 --> 00:07:16,800 you know, ten week or twelve week or fifteen week ban, 118 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:20,160 and the President I think was correct. And by the way, 119 00:07:20,319 --> 00:07:21,959 I stood up and said that at the time, and 120 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,839 I got some arrows from the pro life flank who 121 00:07:24,839 --> 00:07:27,399 have been big supporters of mine, and so to the president. 122 00:07:27,439 --> 00:07:30,040 I think the President was correct. And you know, I 123 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,399 was happy to go move the Born a Live Act 124 00:07:32,399 --> 00:07:35,279 today because we're talking about equal protection laws for those 125 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:37,240 children that are born and they're sitting there in a 126 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:40,759 hospital and the right of that child to get healthcare, 127 00:07:41,079 --> 00:07:42,839 and I mean the philibus are here, but I think 128 00:07:42,879 --> 00:07:45,279 that is that is the long and the short of it. 129 00:07:45,399 --> 00:07:48,439 Speaker 1: With the president, now, I think you raised a lot 130 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:51,879 of good points there, you know, and this is a 131 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:56,199 president who, as you said, it's hard to point to 132 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:02,680 another president who has been more impactful positively speaking on 133 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:06,439 the pro life movement in America, and we are seeing 134 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:09,839 that in his first few days in office. Do you 135 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:15,199 think there will be will Congress try to go after 136 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:18,439 accountability for those that you just talked about in the 137 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:24,079 last administration who really really abused the law, the force 138 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:26,240 of government, the constitution quite frankly. 139 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 2: So, look, I think there needs to be accountability, and 140 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,840 what that accountability looks like. We have to see, you know, 141 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:36,759 we're laws broken with some of this purposeful did their 142 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:41,600 actions foreseeably result in loss of life? There's obviously a 143 00:08:41,639 --> 00:08:44,159 lot of protections in place for people who are in 144 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:48,039 public service for carrying out their duty and good faith. Right, 145 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:50,360 we deal with that issue all the time. We're talking 146 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:53,000 about qualified immunity and law enforcement and the debates they're 147 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,200 in their conservatives right, who think that maybe that qualified 148 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:58,720 immunity goes too far. I tend to want to preserve 149 00:08:58,759 --> 00:09:01,360 and protect the ability cops to do their job, but 150 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:03,799 it is a balancing act. I think that same thing 151 00:09:03,919 --> 00:09:07,080 holds true for all public servants. Right. When you have 152 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:10,080 action that you are taking and it is foreseeable that 153 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:13,799 your action will cause harm, then what is the consequence 154 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:16,559 to that when you let out a criminal? When you 155 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,480 are putting criminals on our street, you're either doing it 156 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:22,720 knowingly or you certainly should have known. In the case 157 00:09:22,759 --> 00:09:25,519 of border security. In the context of this where you're 158 00:09:25,759 --> 00:09:29,919 you know, literally you are applying a statue the Fase Act, 159 00:09:30,159 --> 00:09:33,519 where ninety seven percent of the Face Act prosecutions between 160 00:09:33,639 --> 00:09:37,320 ninety four and twenty four are initiated against pro life Americans. 161 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:41,639 That is not equal protection laws. Meanwhile, since the Dobbs decision, 162 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:45,440 there's been only find it here ninety one pregnancy resource 163 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,200 centers that have been intact. What have they been doing? 164 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:52,399 So that bias is very clear and obvious? You know, 165 00:09:52,519 --> 00:09:55,200 is that what does that accountability look like? Well, minimum, 166 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,919 you got to expose it, and then you know, there 167 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:00,240 can be Sometimes there can be accountability that are things 168 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:02,960 like you're seeing with President Trump right now provoking security 169 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,840 clearances and making you know, certainly firing all these bureaucrats 170 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:09,919 and getting them out of their current roles in public service. 171 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:12,600 I support all of that. Whether there's any kind of 172 00:10:12,639 --> 00:10:15,799 prosecutions that should occur, you know, that gets a little trickier. 173 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:18,039 But we need to look and see where people took 174 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:21,720 action where they were very specifically harming people's lives, because 175 00:10:21,759 --> 00:10:25,600 their actions did that right, and I think we saw that, 176 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:28,360 and like right now with January six ers, you're seeing 177 00:10:28,399 --> 00:10:30,840 some of that as well in terms of people who 178 00:10:30,879 --> 00:10:34,600 are prosecuted, persecuted, and harassed. And we need to you know, 179 00:10:34,639 --> 00:10:36,039 pursue truth wherever it may lead. 180 00:10:36,639 --> 00:10:37,799 Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt about it. 181 00:10:38,399 --> 00:10:41,559 Speaker 1: Back to the Born a Live bill, this will be 182 00:10:41,759 --> 00:10:45,799 an interesting test and I think interesting exposure once again 183 00:10:45,919 --> 00:10:48,000 to the Democrats, who you. 184 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 3: Know, often talk about how important. 185 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 1: You know, the right to choose is. They never want 186 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:59,639 to set limitations on those choices. And what has been 187 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:02,200 said over and over again, what was said during the 188 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:07,279 last election cycle was beware Democrats believe you know, a 189 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:11,759 vast majority of Democrats in this Congress believe in abortion 190 00:11:12,039 --> 00:11:15,960 on demand, anytime, anywhere, this will be the proof in 191 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,320 the putting, will it not in terms of where Democrats 192 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:21,200 fall in this legislation, because I believe it will come 193 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:24,080 to a vote discussion on the floor. 194 00:11:25,279 --> 00:11:27,039 Speaker 2: Well, when you're talking about the Born Alive, we're talk 195 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:31,360 about the Bordelive Act, yees, sir. So we just had 196 00:11:31,399 --> 00:11:35,039 that debate for an hour on the floor. I was 197 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,360 running the floor on that for Republicans. So I can 198 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:41,159 tell you precisely arguments of Democrats for making and that 199 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:44,519 was that they wanted to make it all about abortion. 200 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:48,000 I was focused, as were my colleagues on my side 201 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,480 of the aisle, focusing on the extent which you have 202 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:55,600 a American citizen, a fellow American, a fellow human being 203 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,120 in the form of a child that is born and 204 00:11:59,159 --> 00:12:02,240 that is being denied. I had life saving treatments for 205 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:04,840 political purposes for my colleagues on the other side of 206 00:12:04,879 --> 00:12:07,600 the island. You can't you literally can't frame it any 207 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:10,639 other way. And my college others Chile did not want 208 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:12,480 to talk about that at all. It's wanted to bring 209 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:15,600 it back to abortion and abortion rights. And the fact 210 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:17,879 is we just had the vote on the House floor. 211 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:20,879 We had I think the final vote was two hundred 212 00:12:20,879 --> 00:12:23,639 and I think seventeen to two hundred and four and 213 00:12:23,759 --> 00:12:27,000 one present. You only have one yes vote from Democrats, 214 00:12:27,039 --> 00:12:29,840 one present vote for Democrats, two hundred and four no votes. 215 00:12:30,279 --> 00:12:33,360 All Republicans voted yes except for two or not voting. 216 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:36,120 So on my point being on, there were nine non 217 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,120 voting for Democrats. So we've passed it. We will send 218 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:41,879 it over the Senate. Now that does not appear to 219 00:12:41,919 --> 00:12:44,279 vote well on the Senate side. I think they had 220 00:12:44,279 --> 00:12:46,759 their own vote over there, and I don't know how 221 00:12:46,759 --> 00:12:49,039 the vote actually unfolded, but I think it was maybe 222 00:12:49,039 --> 00:12:52,360 fifty two to forty seven or something like that, but 223 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:55,200 which means you had a majority of support, but that's 224 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:58,960 not enough to overcome the sixty vote threshold in the Senate. 225 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:03,279 Speaker 1: Yea very very unfortunate, but yeah, that's I mean, that's 226 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:06,600 the bottom line here is that you have seen the 227 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:11,559 left in this country talk about abortion rights in America 228 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:14,519 and what they really mean is an abortion on demand, 229 00:13:14,639 --> 00:13:19,840 over and over again, and Americans just simply are not there. 230 00:13:20,279 --> 00:13:20,519 Speaker 3: Yet. 231 00:13:20,919 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 1: You have Democrats in this House and obviously in the 232 00:13:24,039 --> 00:13:27,159 Senate who still want to maintain that position. 233 00:13:29,279 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 2: There's no question, I mean, I saw some. I mean, 234 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:35,120 even the Infederman who occasionally, you know, displays some amount 235 00:13:35,159 --> 00:13:38,159 of I won't say centers, but at least tendencies to 236 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,399 want to work with Republicans, you know, whether it's an 237 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:44,759 Israel or certain other issues. You know. Even he went 238 00:13:44,799 --> 00:13:48,399 off on some sort of tirade about abortion, when in fact, 239 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:51,360 again I want to reiterate for your listeners, we are 240 00:13:51,399 --> 00:13:56,440 talking about a human life that is there in a 241 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:00,919 hospital or clinic with doctors available, and we're simply saying 242 00:14:01,879 --> 00:14:07,320 doctors should be required to administer life saving treatment to 243 00:14:07,399 --> 00:14:12,279 this child who survived and whatever happened that led to 244 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:15,080 that moment. We have a child that is sitting there 245 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:17,759 deserving of the full equal protection rights of the United 246 00:14:17,799 --> 00:14:21,200 States Constitution, and I think that should not be that 247 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:24,519 complex for people to understand. I understand the debates and 248 00:14:24,559 --> 00:14:27,919 the difficulties. Again, I believe life against a conception, but 249 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:30,639 I very much take to heart the fourteenth Amendment was 250 00:14:30,639 --> 00:14:33,240 passed at eighteen sixty eight. The ratifiers certainly weren't talking 251 00:14:33,279 --> 00:14:36,679 about when life began. So that is a question that 252 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:38,879 we have to wrestle with the people that I think 253 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:41,799 is generally speaking best left to states. But you can't 254 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:45,639 ignore our founding principles and the Declaration and reflected in 255 00:14:45,679 --> 00:14:48,320 the Constitution, and particularly in the fourteenth Amendment, and the 256 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:51,679 importance of protecting life. That we have the right to life, 257 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:55,600 the unalienable right to life, but that life should be 258 00:14:55,679 --> 00:14:58,279 protected and you not be taken away from you without 259 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:03,039 due process of law. I think you know it's a 260 00:15:03,039 --> 00:15:04,879 shame that Democrats will not vote to support it. 261 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:12,240 Speaker 4: Not only does Trump need an eraser, he needs a 262 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:14,720 lot of them. The Watch Dout on Wall Street podcast 263 00:15:14,759 --> 00:15:17,720 with Chris Markowski. Every day Chris helps unpack the connection 264 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:20,600 between politics and the economy and how it affects your wallet. 265 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:24,440 From banning gas water heaters and banning areas for drilling oil, 266 00:15:24,759 --> 00:15:29,120 Biden's claims for a smooth transition where nonsensical. Trump needs 267 00:15:29,159 --> 00:15:32,279 to start from scratch. Whether it's happening in DC or 268 00:15:32,279 --> 00:15:34,240 down on Wall Street, it's affecting you financially. 269 00:15:34,279 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 2: Be informed. 270 00:15:34,879 --> 00:15:37,039 Speaker 4: Check out the Watchdot on Wall Street podcast with Chris 271 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:40,080 Markowski on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. 272 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:46,399 Speaker 1: Speaking of the fourteenth Amendment, do you find it curious 273 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:50,399 that Democrats are all in and supporting the life of 274 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:56,039 babies born to illegal immigrants in this country. But they 275 00:15:56,120 --> 00:16:00,320 can't get themselves to support even these basic pro life 276 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:02,519 bills that you have put forward. 277 00:16:03,399 --> 00:16:06,279 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, they certainly want to use the Constitution 278 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:08,679 as a tool to achieve whatever objective they want to 279 00:16:08,679 --> 00:16:11,360 achieve politically. But what's new. So they've always done. They 280 00:16:11,399 --> 00:16:15,279 did it with Rome right, the manufactured a quote unquote 281 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:18,799 right that not exists in the Constitution. The Supreme Court rightfully, 282 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:23,000 it took fifty years, rightfully reversed that. So now I 283 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,120 think it is important that we push the envelope and 284 00:16:25,159 --> 00:16:27,919 press forward on this whole notion. I'll call it the 285 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,799 false notion of birthright citizenship for any individual that is 286 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:36,159 in our country, regardless of their allegiances, regardless of the 287 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:39,679 jurisdiction to which they are subject, which is importantly a 288 00:16:39,799 --> 00:16:42,480 key phrase in the fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. 289 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,320 That phrase is often forgotten by my colleagues on the 290 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:48,720 other side of the aisle, and in the history of 291 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,279 that for what it's worth, those amendments for past in 292 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:54,759 eighteen sixty eight, with that amendment, I should say, a 293 00:16:54,879 --> 00:16:57,679 mere four years later, the United States Supreme Court issued 294 00:16:57,679 --> 00:16:59,799 your opinion in the Slaughterhouse cases, which that it varies 295 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:06,000 a quote that explicitly stated that it was not to 296 00:17:06,079 --> 00:17:09,839 be applied to those that were born here of people 297 00:17:09,839 --> 00:17:12,880 who were subject to you know, foreign nations. In other words, 298 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:16,440 they were here visiting our country. And the Supreme Court 299 00:17:16,559 --> 00:17:20,440 was explicit in the Slaughterhouse cases. And then I think 300 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:24,559 it was maybe a decade later the Supreme Court effectively 301 00:17:24,559 --> 00:17:28,240 reinforced at the name of the cases escaping me. And 302 00:17:28,279 --> 00:17:31,359 then you had a decade after that, in the eighteen nineties, 303 00:17:32,319 --> 00:17:35,599 the you know, Kim Wong arc or whatever it is, case, 304 00:17:36,039 --> 00:17:39,400 where the court I think got it wrong. But even 305 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:43,359 in getting it wrong in applying birthright citizenship to a 306 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:47,640 foreign national here, they only focused it on a legal 307 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:51,640 permanent resident, somebody that was had permanence. And by the way, 308 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:53,599 I believe that was dicta and I can look at 309 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:55,680 I'm pretty sure it was dicta. So in any event, 310 00:17:56,119 --> 00:17:59,000 my point remains, you got one Spreme Court opinion they're 311 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,279 grabbing hold of and they want to hold onto that. 312 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:03,319 But none of this had anything to do with what 313 00:18:03,319 --> 00:18:05,519 they were trying to do to reverse thread Scott. That 314 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:07,839 was the whole point is you had human beings or 315 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:12,079 in our country, born here, subject zeris iss this country 316 00:18:12,599 --> 00:18:14,799 and subject of the jurisdiction so much so that they 317 00:18:14,799 --> 00:18:17,599 were enslaved right the laws were being applied to them 318 00:18:17,599 --> 00:18:20,000 in that way. And these people were born here, and 319 00:18:20,039 --> 00:18:21,720 this was coming in to say, you know what, you're 320 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:25,599 a citizen. You're not a citizen because somebody paid some 321 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:30,640 broker to fly you here from China, to then deliver 322 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:32,920 a baby and then make it a cottage industry to 323 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:35,039 get American citizenship and you fly back home. 324 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:38,640 Speaker 3: That is unconsortable, no doubt. 325 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:41,920 Speaker 1: And it's not surprising from the same group of leftists, 326 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:44,680 of course, that tried to kick Donald Trump off the 327 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:49,680 ballot using Fourteenth Amendment arguments that even the most leftist 328 00:18:49,759 --> 00:18:56,279 Supreme Court justice said does not work certainly as a 329 00:18:56,319 --> 00:19:00,279 constitutional principle. Our guest today on this edition of the 330 00:19:00,279 --> 00:19:03,319 Federalist Radio Hour, we're very very glad to have with 331 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:07,359 US Representative Chip Roy, Republican from the great State of Texas. 332 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:11,119 We're talking mainly about life issues, and on that topic, 333 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:13,799 I wanted to talk about your your bill as well. 334 00:19:13,839 --> 00:19:17,519 You've got several life issue bills coming up, and we 335 00:19:17,599 --> 00:19:21,599 haven't gotten to your reintroduction of legislation to stop federal 336 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:27,240 funds from flowing into universities that push abortion pills to students. 337 00:19:27,319 --> 00:19:30,519 Let's talk a little bit more about that, sure, I. 338 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:33,720 Speaker 2: Mean, that's another obviously important theas of legislation that I've 339 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:37,599 that I've championed for three years. Maybe I think something 340 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:40,400 like that, I lose truck, but when I introduced these 341 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:43,640 great bills. But you got to keep hammering the issues 342 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:45,640 even if you can't muster the most through the Senate. 343 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:50,880 And look, this is another one of those examples where, 344 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:53,920 you know, the the idea that we would have essentially 345 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,279 mail order abortions, where you've got our young women in 346 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:02,039 college who frankly, you know, they're often in there with 347 00:20:02,079 --> 00:20:05,960 a lot of you know, different pressures, and we've got 348 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:09,559 the situation where they're effectively having an abortion alone by 349 00:20:09,599 --> 00:20:14,359 themselves because they're taking a pill via mail order. And 350 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,799 we just don't believe that that is an appropriate thing 351 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:23,400 to occur, that it endangers them both physically and emotionally 352 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,839 and mentally, and that we should prahibit that, and we 353 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:31,920 certainly spreit that within universities and the uh uh, you know, 354 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:35,440 transfer these pills that way. And so we've got legislation 355 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:38,119 to do that. Hopefully we can move that as well, 356 00:20:38,319 --> 00:20:40,680 and I hope we'll have a series of botes on 357 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,240 pro life measures this entire Congress. 358 00:20:44,039 --> 00:20:45,480 Speaker 3: This along with born a Live bill. 359 00:20:45,519 --> 00:20:48,079 Speaker 1: I mean, there's just a level of common sense that's 360 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:51,599 here that I think America. That's that's where America is. 361 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:56,160 Do you feel like, even if you can't have success 362 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,240 in the Senate, you will be able to motivate for 363 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:03,759 the midterm elections and ultimately hopefully get to a point 364 00:21:03,759 --> 00:21:08,079 where you have representatives in Congress who are common sense 365 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,480 on the life issue at the very least. 366 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:15,039 Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly, I hope that's the case. You know, we 367 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,559 need to. I mean, the one thing we can do 368 00:21:18,279 --> 00:21:22,079 fairly significantly even without having sixty votes in the state, 369 00:21:22,839 --> 00:21:26,200 is constrain the bureaucracy and the extent to which you've 370 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:30,279 created a tyrannical government that is empowered to do these 371 00:21:30,279 --> 00:21:33,000 things to our people and to advance these kinds of policy. 372 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:37,279 You've got massive the pentagon that we're all too happy 373 00:21:37,319 --> 00:21:42,119 to promote abortion tourism, to promote promote DEI, promote transgenderism. 374 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,559 You've got any number of policy in our education departments 375 00:21:45,559 --> 00:21:48,000 everything else that are propping up things like these what 376 00:21:48,079 --> 00:21:50,680 we're talking about here in mail order abortions and so forth. 377 00:21:51,039 --> 00:21:54,279 These are all things that look, you know, getting laws 378 00:21:54,559 --> 00:21:59,720 enacted is necessarily and importantly difficult. I'm actually okay with that. 379 00:22:00,279 --> 00:22:02,960 I don't like having lots of laws, frankly, even the 380 00:22:03,039 --> 00:22:05,680 laws that I prefer and that I like. I'm glad 381 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:08,119 that it's difficult to pass laws. But what we need 382 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:09,839 to do, and what we can do with the majority 383 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:13,799 vote among Republicans in the House of the Senate, is 384 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:17,160 do a lot to cut spending and to reverse the 385 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:20,759 damage that has been done by allowing this bureaucracy to 386 00:22:20,799 --> 00:22:25,599 grow without constraint and to hire people whose sole purpose 387 00:22:25,599 --> 00:22:30,400 in life is to harass and target average, hardworking Americans. 388 00:22:30,799 --> 00:22:33,559 So we'll keep fighting to get things like the born 389 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:37,519 Protection Bill passed, to try to move the mail order 390 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:41,119 abortion bill, bill, other bills that we think are important 391 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:44,400 for protecting life and other matters. But we can constrain 392 00:22:44,559 --> 00:22:46,960 government with the majorities we've got in the House in 393 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,519 the Senate, and I think we must if we want 394 00:22:49,559 --> 00:22:52,119 to live free and be able to have protections for 395 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:53,200 things like life. 396 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:56,519 Speaker 1: Speaking of living free, let's take a look at the 397 00:22:56,559 --> 00:23:01,920 homeland and the security of the homeland thus far. How 398 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:06,119 do you feel about the president's executive orders as it 399 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:09,839 relates to not only securing a border, but let's be 400 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:14,279 honest about it, bringing a border back to the United States, 401 00:23:14,319 --> 00:23:18,359 particularly to your backyard in Texas. 402 00:23:19,559 --> 00:23:19,759 Speaker 3: Yeah. 403 00:23:19,799 --> 00:23:23,640 Speaker 2: Well, the president has done everything he said he would do, 404 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,880 and frankly, he's succeeded in my opinion in terms of 405 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:27,960 what he's done with the executive orders, how fast he's 406 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:30,920 done them. Going to remind people, it is Thursday. The 407 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:34,119 man was sworn in on Monday, and that's just no 408 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:37,039 where I going. I look at about seventy six hour timeframe. 409 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:41,119 The president has totally reorganized the border. The number of 410 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:45,000 apprehensions is plumbing. The number of people that we're seeing 411 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,920 show up at the border at all is plumbing, both 412 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:51,519 at the between the boorts entry and at the ports entry. 413 00:23:52,079 --> 00:23:55,160 We're seeing ice already removing some bad actors. In fact, 414 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,519 he had some bad actors that I'm not going to 415 00:23:57,559 --> 00:24:00,799 go back home, you know, f Trump, Bob Iden forever. 416 00:24:01,279 --> 00:24:04,440 Speaker 3: That guy was arrested up in the Haitian immigrant right. 417 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:07,599 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right somewhere up North. I don't remember where 418 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,720 it was, and you know, so you know, look the 419 00:24:10,759 --> 00:24:13,640 executive orders on the building the wall, the executive order 420 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,480 on a retaining operation control the border, the executive orders 421 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:19,240 and reinstating that remain in Mexico policies, the title forty 422 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:22,440 two policies. Now applying those out of forty two policies 423 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,480 to say that any migrants that are traveling through countries 424 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:28,359 with communicable diseases, which frankly is pretty much all of 425 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:32,480 them in the western and southern hemisphere, that those people 426 00:24:32,519 --> 00:24:36,160 can be stopped at the border. Empowering order, patrol, empowering eyes. 427 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,680 All of these things are great executive orders. I think 428 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,960 he's restoring order as he promised, fifteen hundred troops out 429 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,559 of the border. The Pentagon needs to deliver a few more. 430 00:24:44,839 --> 00:24:46,880 But the last point I'll make is Congress needs to 431 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:50,400 provide those resources. And in order to provide those resources, 432 00:24:50,519 --> 00:24:54,319 I support doing a very quick reconciliation package, a first 433 00:24:54,319 --> 00:24:56,559 of two bill approach, so that we get delivered for 434 00:24:56,599 --> 00:24:58,680 the president. I've been in favor of that for two months. 435 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,440 We've taken official baziz Is the House Freedom carcass in 436 00:25:01,519 --> 00:25:04,640 favor of doing that. We agree to increase the debt ceiling. 437 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:08,319 We've agreed to increase border funding, defense funding, but along 438 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,319 with reversing some of Biden's wars policies like the student 439 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,960 owned fiasco's and bring in requiring medicaid and we believe 440 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,960 we should require work requirements for medicaid. If we did 441 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,039 all of that in a package real quick, we can 442 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,119 then sit down and figure out our tax policy and 443 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,960 spending cuts. And I think it's important to answer your 444 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,160 question to help the president deliver fully to make sure 445 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:30,160 they've got the resources to do it at board, patrol 446 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:30,559 and ice. 447 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,319 Speaker 1: That's important to having the resources there. But some of 448 00:25:34,319 --> 00:25:37,440 the resources are there, and what we're hearing is, at 449 00:25:37,519 --> 00:25:42,039 least the US military seems to be dragging its feet 450 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:47,799 on potentially on moving troops to the border to make 451 00:25:47,839 --> 00:25:49,680 sure that's securing. The President has asked for what ten 452 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:54,119 thousand troops to be there, and we're hearing that that's 453 00:25:54,160 --> 00:26:03,319 not being favorably looked upon by members the Pentagon. What 454 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:04,319 are you hearing about that? 455 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:05,160 Speaker 3: What do you say to that? 456 00:26:06,279 --> 00:26:08,440 Speaker 2: Well, I saw the same report. I'm not advised fully, 457 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,720 because we've been running around today doing couple things like 458 00:26:10,759 --> 00:26:15,160 this bill the borderline bill and other stuff. But what 459 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:16,960 I did see was that there was reports that the 460 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,799 President requested ten thousand drinks get down of the border, 461 00:26:20,039 --> 00:26:22,000 that the Pentagon that had balked a bed saying, wow, 462 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,880 you're going to be moving them off of other duties 463 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:28,279 and that would be a problem. So they advised fifteen hundred. 464 00:26:28,319 --> 00:26:31,039 They moved to fifteen hundred. I can't speak for the president, 465 00:26:31,039 --> 00:26:33,400 and I don't want to insert myself into something of 466 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:35,880 which I'm not fully advised, but I'll just say this, 467 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:37,880 he's the commander in chief, and he says you need 468 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,279 ten thousand of the border, then the freaking Pentagon ought 469 00:26:40,279 --> 00:26:42,279 to send ten thousand of the border and figure out 470 00:26:42,319 --> 00:26:45,200 how to move their freaking nine hundred billion dollar bureaucracy 471 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,160 to go deal with the duties elsewhere. Because last time 472 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,400 I checked, there's a crap ton more than ten thousand 473 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:53,440 members of our armed forces. So if the President needs 474 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,319 those people, then then he ought to get them. But 475 00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:58,759 I will refer to the President he's the commander achieved 476 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,759 as to what he does to pressure the Pentagon. Obviously, 477 00:27:01,799 --> 00:27:05,839 we hope to get Pete. Except in place rapid. 478 00:27:05,519 --> 00:27:07,519 Speaker 3: Fire, you've got a lot to do. 479 00:27:07,599 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 1: You've already done a lot today and I don't want 480 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,000 to take up too much more every time, but I'd 481 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,039 be remiss if I didn't ask you about the key 482 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,319 piece of legislation that is near and dear to your heart, 483 00:27:16,799 --> 00:27:19,279 and it's near and dear to my heart as the 484 00:27:19,319 --> 00:27:21,319 senior elections correspondent. 485 00:27:20,759 --> 00:27:22,599 Speaker 3: For the Federalists. That's the Save Act. 486 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:28,599 Speaker 1: And making sure that you know only citizens are voting. 487 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:32,000 That's principally what that Act is all about. You had 488 00:27:32,039 --> 00:27:35,559 nothing but resistance from Democrats last time around. Where does 489 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,720 that bill stand? Where do you think it will ultimately 490 00:27:38,799 --> 00:27:39,200 end up? 491 00:27:40,039 --> 00:27:41,880 Speaker 2: Well, the Save Acts is an important bill. It was 492 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,559 it was that bill that was placed in and embedded 493 00:27:44,559 --> 00:27:47,640 in our initial rules package. I hope that we will 494 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,200 be bringing that up and calling it up for a 495 00:27:49,279 --> 00:27:53,359 vote reasonably soon. We obviously passed it out of the 496 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:58,319 House last July with a you know, hand it was 497 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:00,480 a bipartisan bill. We've got a hand bull of folks 498 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:01,079 who supported. 499 00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:01,839 Speaker 3: I think we got. 500 00:28:01,839 --> 00:28:05,519 Speaker 2: Five maybe who joined along with that bill to pass 501 00:28:05,519 --> 00:28:11,160 it out, but five Democrats. But we are hopeful that 502 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:12,920 we can move it soon, get it over the Senate. 503 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,880 Chuck Schumer wouldn't move it. Obviously, this set it would 504 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:17,319 be more inclined to move it. I think if we've 505 00:28:17,319 --> 00:28:18,799 got a vote on the floor, they'd have a tough 506 00:28:18,839 --> 00:28:22,640 time not having at least seven Democrats joined to vote 507 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,119 for it. There are other matters we want to maybe 508 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:28,920 add to it or pass a different bill or Campanion legislation. 509 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,359 Remember that stay back was designed ers specifically last summer 510 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:38,480 to require documentary group of citizenship for voting, for registering 511 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,920 to vote. There are things we'd like to do with 512 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:45,039 respect to the senses and the data week like there's 513 00:28:45,119 --> 00:28:47,000 legislation that we would like to do with respect to 514 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,920 same day voting, requiring people to you know, basically be 515 00:28:51,079 --> 00:28:54,440 voting on election day or within some reasonable proximity to it. 516 00:28:54,839 --> 00:28:57,079 You can't have these like two months build up early voting. 517 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,480 We'd like to tighten the ways in which we vote. 518 00:29:00,799 --> 00:29:03,079 The President has mentioned paper ballots. We certainly want to 519 00:29:03,079 --> 00:29:04,759 make sure that we have balance that we can trust. 520 00:29:05,359 --> 00:29:07,559 So there are other things and provisions that we would 521 00:29:07,559 --> 00:29:10,279 like to move along with the same BAC, including voter 522 00:29:10,359 --> 00:29:13,279 ID requirement. But the save AC would require voter ID 523 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,519 for registration and proof citizenship, which we think would go 524 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:18,559 about eighty ninety percent of the way where we need 525 00:29:18,599 --> 00:29:20,039 to go, and we can add those other measures to 526 00:29:20,079 --> 00:29:20,720 finish the job. 527 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,240 Speaker 1: Final question for you, have you enjoyed as much as 528 00:29:24,279 --> 00:29:28,599 I watching an energetic president. I think we all feel 529 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:32,000 like we've gotten a bit atrophied from the Biden years 530 00:29:32,279 --> 00:29:35,000 and that pace. Now, there was a lot of damage 531 00:29:35,119 --> 00:29:38,680 done through all kinds of different things over the last 532 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:39,400 four years. 533 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,839 Speaker 3: But how do you feel about just the. 534 00:29:42,799 --> 00:29:46,799 Speaker 1: Different I think Donald Trump has had perhaps fifteen more 535 00:29:46,839 --> 00:29:50,480 press conferences so far in the seventy six hours than 536 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,279 Joe Biden did in his four years in office. But 537 00:29:53,319 --> 00:29:54,599 it is a different pace, is it? 538 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 4: Not? 539 00:29:56,319 --> 00:30:00,799 Speaker 2: No question? President Trump has hit the ground a man's 540 00:30:00,799 --> 00:30:03,440 hard does even quite do it justice? To be honest 541 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:07,960 with you, he's notorious for not eating sleep. He's notorious for, 542 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:14,640 you know, being undeterred and accomplishing what he wants to accomplish. 543 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:16,359 It is great to see that energy. It's great to 544 00:30:16,359 --> 00:30:21,079 see the press conferences, and you know, look, the world 545 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,880 needs that. It may be arguably the most important thing 546 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,920 that a president of the United States provides in a 547 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:32,519 in a government of separated powers, in a government in 548 00:30:32,559 --> 00:30:35,200 which the Congress is supposed to be, frankly, the pre 549 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:40,920 eminent branch representing the people. It is critically important. The 550 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:44,480 most important role of our president is serving there as 551 00:30:44,519 --> 00:30:47,880 the commander in chief, the chief executive, but importantly the 552 00:30:49,599 --> 00:30:53,160 figure that represents a Republican form of government around the 553 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:58,160 world and the importance of stability and strength and security 554 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:03,599 that he alone really truly can projects as the president 555 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:07,880 commander achieved. So seeing an active president that is engaging 556 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,759 on that product, I think is really a it's a 557 00:31:10,799 --> 00:31:13,440 breadth of fresh air. But we're gonna have to keep 558 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,400 working together. We've got to have permanent reforms. Conference is 559 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,200 going to have to make some good decisions here soon 560 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,720 about our spending restraint, and and you know I'm going 561 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:24,799 I'm gonna be standing up and telling the President and 562 00:31:24,799 --> 00:31:27,400 telling my colleagues that we need to cut spending so 563 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,359 that we can get deficits to go down, because we 564 00:31:29,359 --> 00:31:31,640 will not deliver on the president's call for inflation to 565 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:33,640 go down. We're not gonna be able to make life 566 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:35,720 more affordable to the average American. We're not gonna be 567 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,599 able to have bond markets that are strong and functioning 568 00:31:38,839 --> 00:31:41,359 if we don't cut spending. So I'm going to continue 569 00:31:41,359 --> 00:31:42,400 to have that fight up here. 570 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 4: On the hill. 571 00:31:43,759 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you it's it's almost impossible to believe 572 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:50,000 that Inauguration Day was just Monday. That that's a great deal. 573 00:31:50,359 --> 00:31:52,240 I want to thank you very much for taking the time. 574 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:53,559 I know you've got to get back to the floor. 575 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:57,000 I very much appreciate your time and your perspective, particularly 576 00:31:57,559 --> 00:31:59,759 on this life week, life issues as we get ready 577 00:31:59,799 --> 00:32:03,599 for the March for Life. Thanks to my guest today 578 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:08,480 once again, Representative Chip Roy, Republican from the great state 579 00:32:09,079 --> 00:32:12,200 of Texas. You've been listening to another edition of the 580 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,759 Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Matt Kittle, Senior Elections correspondent at 581 00:32:15,799 --> 00:32:18,960 the Federalist. We'll be back soon with more. Until then, 582 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,880 stay lovers of freedom and anxious for the Fray. 583 00:32:28,799 --> 00:32:34,400 Speaker 2: I heard the fame voice the Reason, and then it 584 00:32:34,559 --> 00:32:39,920 faded away.