WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:03.520 Your morning news on the way to work and all 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.360 day in fault check in throughout the day. Fifty five 3 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:08.599 krc D Talk Station. 4 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:15.000 Eight o five fifty five kr ce D Talk Station 5 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:18.079 Any Very Happy Wednesday, just tuning in. You are tuning 6 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:20.320 in at the right time because it is time for 7 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:22.640 an hour of logic and reason, brought to you by 8 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:27.239 Congressman Thomas Massey, followed by Judge Jenninapolitano. Congressman Massy, it 9 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:30.239 is always my justting pleasure to have you on the program, sir. 10 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:33.000 Great to be on the show with you this morning, Brian. 11 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:36.000 We did a lot of discussion yesterday about the unfolding 12 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:39.439 situation in Syria, and that was the first topic that 13 00:00:39.479 --> 00:00:43.119 we're gonna be talking about this morning. And there's no 14 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:45.159 love loss for yshar al asade I don't know a 15 00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:46.840 human being on the planet that thought he was a 16 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:49.000 great guy. That is a good thing. He was empowered, 17 00:00:49.039 --> 00:00:53.240 obviously a ruthless dictator, killed hundreds of thousands and people, 18 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:57.920 tortured tens of thousands of people. He's now gone. But 19 00:00:58.719 --> 00:01:02.439 what happens now in the aftermath with the rebel forces 20 00:01:02.479 --> 00:01:04.920 taking over the country. Aren't these rebels made up and 21 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:08.519 comprised of largely Islamic fundamentalists. 22 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:12.719 Well, the person in charge now is the head of 23 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:17.439 a terrorist organization designated as a terrorist organization by the 24 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:23.920 US government. And so we've got the ironic situation where 25 00:01:24.719 --> 00:01:27.680 people in America, in our State Department, are celebrating their 26 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:31.760 success in installing a terrorist organization at the head of 27 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:37.040 a sovereign country. I mean, meanwhile, we've been meddling there 28 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:41.159 for over a decade YEA. I was elected in twenty 29 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:45.120 twelve and took office in November twenty twelve, and by 30 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:48.439 the spring of twenty thirteen, I was already offering bills 31 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:52.719 and resolutions to get us out of Syria. And we 32 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:55.359 had a vote. We were going to have a vote 33 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:58.239 when Obama was president on whether to go to war 34 00:01:58.359 --> 00:02:02.159 in Syria to put US tree Tros there, and people 35 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:05.319 rallied around the United States and said, we don't want 36 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:07.079 a war in Syria. So we didn't do a war 37 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:10.039 in Syria. But what happened, and I've got to put 38 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:12.400 I'm doing air quotes right now at my desk here 39 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:17.240 in DC. According to The New York Times, we spent 40 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:23.080 a billion dollars on a clandestine program in Syria after 41 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:27.280 refused to vote to go to war there. According to 42 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:34.199 the New York Times air quotes, we basically undertook an 43 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:39.840 operation to destabilize Asad in Syria, and it was multi year, 44 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:49.520 multiprong operation. When Trump came into office, Pompeo basically reversed 45 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:52.319 a lot of that, and then it all went back 46 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:57.719 into place after Biden took over. And frankly, I would 47 00:02:57.719 --> 00:02:59.960 say probably when when Trump was there, it didn't complete 48 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:03.520 stop either. I mean, the State Department, the Deep State 49 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:08.520 was not going to be deterred by mere surface nuisance, 50 00:03:08.759 --> 00:03:13.439 i e. Elected officials. They kept on with this, and meanwhile, 51 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:18.000 hundreds of thousands of Christians were displaced in this country. 52 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:21.280 And I'm not saying that you know that we shouldn't 53 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:24.319 worry about the other people who were affected by meddling 54 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:27.879 over there. We absolutely should. But Christians in the United 55 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:32.000 States who might find themselves cheering this recent development, need 56 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:36.360 to understand. As you said, Assad was not a nice guy, 57 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:39.960 but the Christians were much better off over there under him. 58 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:43.199 He protected them because he was an allow eight or whatever. 59 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:46.240 His minority group was ten percent of the population. But 60 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:50.240 he protected his crew. But he also provided protection for Christians. 61 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:53.120 So yeah, I mean, you're gonna have to break this 62 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:56.400 down for me because I'm really confused. Didn't the Iranians 63 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:59.719 support the be Charles Sade regime? Or have I got 64 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:00.560 that up side down? 65 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:01.759 No? That's correct. 66 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:06.599 Okay, So wait a second. Biden administration and Obama all 67 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:09.560 about supporting the Iranians. We gave them billions of dollars, 68 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:12.439 gave them, you know, truckloads of money, literally pallets of money, 69 00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:15.719 lightened sanctions on the Iranians, I suppose, with the hope 70 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:18.040 that they wouldn't develop a nuclear weapon. How is it 71 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:21.600 that by helping the Iranians in that way but then 72 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:26.800 trying to undermine Syria, which the Iranians support, And was 73 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:30.560 there an end game contemplated when we were spending billions 74 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:34.079 of dollars trying to undermine the Bashar Ali Shad regime? 75 00:04:34.439 --> 00:04:36.879 I mean, what were we hoping to accomplish by doing that? 76 00:04:36.959 --> 00:04:38.800 Did we not think about what would happen if he 77 00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:41.079 did fault? Like what's happening right now? 78 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:46.800 Well? I think that Syria and Assad was just a 79 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:50.120 pawn in a much larger global game here. And this 80 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:52.079 is why they won't tell you what our goals are 81 00:04:52.279 --> 00:04:53.959 because they don't want you to know the goals. But 82 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:57.040 now that they're celebrating, you can see what they're celebrating. 83 00:04:57.959 --> 00:05:02.399 They're celebrating an embarrassment to Runrussia because Russia was also 84 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:06.759 one of the supporters of ASAD. And again they were 85 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:11.120 in there, not particularly because they ideologically care about ASAD 86 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:12.959 or any of the things going on there. This was 87 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:17.079 a proxy, proxy hot war, not a Cold War, but 88 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:19.480 a continuation, i would say, of the Cold War, or 89 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:22.800 reigniting of the Cold War. And it was a proxy 90 00:05:22.839 --> 00:05:27.600 hot war civil war in Syria with American interests on 91 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:29.680 one side, although I'm not sure what they were other 92 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:34.120 than opposing Iran in Russia and Russia and Iranian interests 93 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:36.519 on another side, although I'm not sure what those were 94 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:40.480 other than opposing America. And in the meantime, you've got 95 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:43.279 millions of people who were suffering. So I think the 96 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:46.600 people there are a lot of people in Syria who 97 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:49.120 are just glad that it's over to some degree, but 98 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:53.360 we don't know what's coming next. This terrorist organization that's 99 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:58.199 running Syria at this point, again designated by our own 100 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:01.600 State Department, the ones who did this as a terrorist 101 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:06.000 organization they started with al Qaeda. Now they say they've 102 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:08.879 severed their ties to al Qaeda and al Ustra and 103 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:11.079 all this and that and the other thing. But they're 104 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:15.839 still comprised of the same rebels that they were when 105 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:19.279 they were al Qaeda. So it'll be interesting to see 106 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:21.959 what comes next. Maybe maybe the trains will run on time, 107 00:06:22.399 --> 00:06:24.800 maybe the buses will run, maybe the shops will be open. 108 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:28.120 But we'll see. It's not worked out well in other countries. 109 00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:31.439 And meanwhile, get ready, we're going to hear all of 110 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:35.720 these reasons why we need to take more refugees into 111 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:38.279 this country from the Middle East because of what happened. 112 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:42.399 Well, well, yes, like day following night, that of course 113 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:45.279 will be the reality there. Going back to your earlier 114 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:47.600 comment though, because this is a subject matter the ju 115 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:50.000 Judge and I talk about all the time, Judge and Politano, 116 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:53.800 you said earlier on that there was a vote on 117 00:06:53.879 --> 00:06:56.600 whether we would be entering into war with Syria. Was 118 00:06:56.600 --> 00:07:00.279 that a vote to declare war like is required the 119 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:02.480 constitution or was it was it a vote to just 120 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:06.879 sort of like authorization for use of military force, which 121 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:08.680 I think is extra constitutional. 122 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:12.319 Well, it was going to be the extra constitutional variety 123 00:07:13.079 --> 00:07:16.639 at AUMF. But here's what happened. Obama threw it to Congress, 124 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:20.639 and Pelosi was all in. John Bayner was all in. 125 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:23.000 I suppose the leaders in the Senate were all in. 126 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:26.680 But we received one hundred phone calls a day each 127 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:29.920 congressional office from our own constituents, which is a record. 128 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:33.040 I mean, this past week, there was one day I 129 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:36.560 received no phone calls from any constituents to my office. 130 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:39.120 So to get a hundred phone calls as remarkable. Now, 131 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:43.959 I know, I just invited at least three dozen phone 132 00:07:43.959 --> 00:07:46.839 calls on my staff today, which is fine. We were listening. 133 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:51.079 Operators are standing by. But we had one hundred phone 134 00:07:51.079 --> 00:07:53.879 calls a day for a solid week, and everybody wanted 135 00:07:53.959 --> 00:07:56.439 us not to vote to go to war or to 136 00:07:56.480 --> 00:07:59.680 do the AUMF and Syria. So what they did is 137 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:04.040 the voe never happened. They quietly didn't vote on it 138 00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:07.800 at all because they knew American support wasn't there for it. 139 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:11.639 And then they quietly, according to the New York Times, 140 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:15.199 undertook a secret war in Syria. 141 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:20.199 Wow, which doesn't surprise me. We have our fingers literally 142 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:23.079 everywhere around the globe for reasons that are mysterious and 143 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:23.959 unknown to me. 144 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:27.639 So and one more thing about the mysterious and the unknown. 145 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:31.720 The timing of this, Look, who's going to be the 146 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:34.840 head of d and I Tulci Gabbard. She's the one who, 147 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:38.399 along with me, was famously opposed to our meddling there. 148 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:43.000 She even went to Syria, she visited Syria, and now 149 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:46.080 she's being named into this cabinet. And Trump is the 150 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:49.200 one during his administration we had troops there. He tried 151 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:51.159 to pull our troops out, and then the deep state 152 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:53.320 tried to go after him for that, tried to say, 153 00:08:53.360 --> 00:08:56.000 you can't do that. We had votes in Congress. The 154 00:08:56.120 --> 00:08:58.840 timing of this is I think as soon as the 155 00:08:59.159 --> 00:09:02.559 November election results we're in and Trump was declared the winner, 156 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:06.799 our deep state and some of our global allies went 157 00:09:06.840 --> 00:09:11.799 into overdrive to bring this to to you know, consummate 158 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:14.879 the overthrow before Trump could get in there or Tulsi 159 00:09:14.919 --> 00:09:17.799 Gabbart or some of the other people who have questioned 160 00:09:17.799 --> 00:09:22.159 this policy of overthrowing aside. I mean, if a turtle 161 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:24.159 gets on a fence post, it didn't get there by 162 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:28.559 by accident, right exactly? This cool. The timing here is 163 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:32.240 remarkable and I'm going to call it for what it is. 164 00:09:32.320 --> 00:09:34.440 They just got this done before Trump could get in 165 00:09:34.480 --> 00:09:35.240 there and stop it. 166 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:38.679 Yeah, no doubt. And real quick here, I'm reminded of 167 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:41.720 Afghanistan when the Russians went into Afghanistan. That was back 168 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:43.919 when they were the Soviet Union, and we you know, 169 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:45.840 the enemy of my enemy is my friends. We would 170 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:48.799 fund the Majahhadeen to fight the Russians, which made us 171 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:51.480 look good. But then again, when the Russians get kicked out, 172 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:53.960 that leaves the power void, and then the Majah Hiden 173 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:57.159 then becomes the enemy of us, right, and we ended 174 00:09:57.200 --> 00:10:00.519 up fight fundamental as terrorists. And it's just it's a 175 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:02.519 Charlie foxtrot. If I may be so bold as to 176 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:05.279 call it that, Can I just ask it real briefly 177 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:06.639 because we're gonna take a break, I'm go and bring 178 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:08.639 it back talk about the topics. But did we miss 179 00:10:08.679 --> 00:10:10.600 an opportunity with the fall of the Berlin Wall and 180 00:10:10.600 --> 00:10:12.240 the fall of the Soviet Union to just sort of 181 00:10:12.360 --> 00:10:14.440 make good and play nice with the Russians and start, 182 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:16.360 you know, maybe perhaps trading with them rather than just 183 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:20.159 viewing them as the Soviet Union just under different guys, 184 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:23.279 did we miss an opportunity? Because we've been playing nice 185 00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:26.120 with the Chinese, much to the Chinese benefit, since Nixon 186 00:10:26.200 --> 00:10:28.600 was in office. And look what happened to them. I mean, 187 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:31.399 they did not become a capitalist country. They became our 188 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:34.080 mortal enemy. Yet we still continue to trade with them. 189 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:36.679 But I just didn't see that unfolding in Russia in 190 00:10:36.679 --> 00:10:37.879 the fall the Soviet Union. 191 00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:41.039 We didn't just miss an opportunity, We poisoned the well 192 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:44.039 by expanding NATO. We told them, okay, you do this, 193 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:49.240 you concede everything to us, you make nice, we'll trade 194 00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:51.759 with you, and we won't expand NATO. And then what 195 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:55.720 do we do. We just keep expanding NATO. And that's frankly, 196 00:10:55.759 --> 00:10:58.519 what Ukraine was about. So you're right, we missed an opportunity, 197 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:01.720 but we also poisoned the well. And it's a shame 198 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:07.279 because our real competitors in this next century are China is, 199 00:11:07.399 --> 00:11:11.159 China here and whatever alliance they can build, and they're 200 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:14.600 working over time to do that, and we should be 201 00:11:14.679 --> 00:11:20.360 aligned with Russia, frankly, instead of being fighting them, because 202 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:24.480 China is it's ten times the power that Russia is. 203 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:28.200 Whether you as you're economically or other than nuclear weapons. 204 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:32.799 In every other category, China is a bigger threat than Russia. 205 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:35.120 And like us, their fingertips are all over the globe 206 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:37.200 and growing more and more every day. Take a look 207 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:40.039 at Africa and China's involvement there where there are a 208 00:11:40.039 --> 00:11:42.720 whole bunch of natural resources that they're after. We'll bring 209 00:11:42.759 --> 00:11:45.120 back Congress from Assi. Brief word here for my friend 210 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:47.120 John Roman to cover. Since the in his entire team, 211 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:49.840 who can help me get better medical insurance, better medical 212 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:53.279 insurance coverage for less money sounds impossible. I know that 213 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:56.039 you can save thirty to sixty percent with better coverage 214 00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:58.840 by talking to the team cover since what you do 215 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:01.200 is just get in touch them and they'll look at 216 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:04.480 what you've got. Individual breakdown of you. 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I know 258 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:09.879 we have the free exercise of religion guaranteed by the 259 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:12.000 First Amendment of the Constitution the United States of America, 260 00:14:12.039 --> 00:14:14.840 along with the right to assembly, freedom of assembly, and 261 00:14:14.919 --> 00:14:17.919 yet those were taken away by government officials. And at 262 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:19.879 the time they did it, I was screaming in the 263 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:22.720 radio what you can't tell people? They are not allowed 264 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:27.039 to be running around on the streets. But yet we 265 00:14:27.159 --> 00:14:31.200 had that. And apparently Chad Cronister, who was selected by 266 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:34.480 President ELEC. Donald Trump to serve as the Drug Enforcement 267 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:40.919 Administration administrator, did just that. He participated in this ridiculous Oh. 268 00:14:40.919 --> 00:14:45.159 Yeah, he ordered the arrest of a pastor. And as 269 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:48.559 you know, the chief law enforcement officer for a county 270 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:51.519 the sheriff. The sheriff, by the way, is your last 271 00:14:51.559 --> 00:14:54.720 line of defense when somebody's trying to violate the constitution, 272 00:14:55.240 --> 00:14:57.240 and if the sheriff will stand up for you, you can 273 00:14:57.279 --> 00:14:59.559 stop all sorts of bad things, even coming from the 274 00:14:59.559 --> 00:15:03.440 federal But instead of standing up and protecting constitution, he 275 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:06.720 went right along with the lockdowns, ordered the arrest of 276 00:15:06.759 --> 00:15:10.320 a pastor. You know, we had this nonsense in Kentucky. 277 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:14.120 Our own governor Andy Basheer sent the state troopers out 278 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:16.759 to write down license plates and send them into local 279 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:19.440 health authorities and put notices on windows and try to 280 00:15:19.480 --> 00:15:22.799 intimidate people into not going to church. But this sheriff 281 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:25.919 in Florida did the same thing, and unfortunately, I don't 282 00:15:25.960 --> 00:15:30.159 think they vetted him fully. And to Trump's credit, maybe 283 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:33.080 the sheriff himself the sheriff issued a press release saying 284 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:36.360 I'm withdrawing my name. But Trump came out and said, no, 285 00:15:36.440 --> 00:15:40.360 I withdrew you're thinking for this. But that's not all 286 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:42.399 that this sheriff did. I mean, in twenty twelve, this 287 00:15:42.519 --> 00:15:46.440 sheriff gave thousands of dollars to Obama. Okay, I presume 288 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:48.759 he's a Republican now or Trump wouldn't have picked him. 289 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:52.480 But somebody needs to vet that kind of stuff. And also, 290 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:58.120 he had a de facto, de facto COVID vaccine mandate 291 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:00.879 in his office because he said, if you get sick, 292 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:03.000 if you're one of my deputies and you get sick 293 00:16:03.399 --> 00:16:05.799 and you need time off, we're not paying for it 294 00:16:06.240 --> 00:16:08.519 if you haven't had the vaccine. But if you've taken 295 00:16:08.559 --> 00:16:11.759 the vaccine, we'll pay for it. So he was all 296 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:14.360 around bad guy. I went out on social media. I 297 00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:17.759 asked my staff because I get fact checked. I mean 298 00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:20.759 I get fact checked every day. People would just love 299 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:24.360 to catch me being wrong. Unfortunately it doesn't happen because 300 00:16:24.440 --> 00:16:27.559 I checked my facts before I go out. We researched 301 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:30.519 all this stuff on this guy, and within hours of 302 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:33.519 him being named for this position, I went on a 303 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:38.000 speaking of Syria, I went on a jihad to expose 304 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:40.879 this guy. We cannot let him be in the DEA, 305 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:45.519 the drug enforcement agency. He can't be running. That's he's 306 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:49.720 a bad law enforcement officer. So went out on social media, 307 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:52.399 got three million views on the tweet where I said 308 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:54.960 he should be disqualified for the things that he's done. 309 00:16:55.519 --> 00:16:59.879 And again, to his credit, Trump's said, after the public outcry, 310 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:03.879 this is one instance where the people spoke and it mattered. 311 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:06.400 You didn't have to go to the ballot box. People 312 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:11.279 said no, we don't want this guy and all the wrongs. Yeah, 313 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:13.880 and Trump said, yep, you're right, We're taking his name 314 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:16.039 off the list. So hats off to the people. 315 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:18.839 All right, Well, two guys that are on a list anyway, 316 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:20.759 not going to be getting a government salary, not going 317 00:17:20.759 --> 00:17:22.680 to be enjoying the benefits of government, but you know, 318 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:27.000 benefits of Viva elon musk and Viva Gramma swimming. They're 319 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:28.519 going to be sitting down. I just kind of have 320 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:32.000 this vision of them being in some unused government office building, 321 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:37.799 pouring through the books and just saying unnecessary wrong, no misspent, 322 00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:41.640 and just handing over to Congress to see what they 323 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:43.680 do and so we can identify the good guys and 324 00:17:43.799 --> 00:17:47.799 bad guys see where they cut. They make great recommendations. 325 00:17:47.839 --> 00:17:49.799 I assume they're going to and they'll point out the 326 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:52.599 flaws and the and the government waste and abuse and 327 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:55.599 see and see what elected officials do about it. What's 328 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:58.079 your take on this Doge thing, Well. 329 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:00.759 The Doge Committee, I tell people, it's like the Constitution. 330 00:18:01.759 --> 00:18:04.559 If you can get my colleagues to follow it, great, 331 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:07.920 but if they don't, you're in trouble because the Doatch 332 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:13.599 Committee needs executive action and more importantly, it needs Congressional 333 00:18:13.640 --> 00:18:17.200 action to cut these programs, to de authorize this craziness. 334 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:20.279 Although what I've observed in my twelve years is that 335 00:18:20.319 --> 00:18:22.799 we don't even have the spine or the wherewithal to 336 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:26.400 defund one toner cartridge at the FBI when they do 337 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:29.319 something bad and they won't give us answers. Instead of 338 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:32.240 saying we're not going to pay for your copier machine 339 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:35.599 there and office one AB, we say here's a new 340 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:40.759 building to conduct your malfeasance in, and we build them 341 00:18:40.759 --> 00:18:44.640 a new building. So, and by the way, I tweeted that, 342 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:48.440 because Congress takes over on January third, and the President 343 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:51.440 is sworn in on January twentieth. We have seventeen days 344 00:18:51.480 --> 00:18:54.000 to pile up a stack of good bills on his 345 00:18:54.160 --> 00:18:56.480 desk so that on his first day, I know he's 346 00:18:56.480 --> 00:18:58.960 going to do a lot of executive actions or more importantly, 347 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:03.119 undo a lot of ad executive activity from Biden. He 348 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:06.440 should be able to sign legislation that we have already done. 349 00:19:06.519 --> 00:19:09.880 And so I tweeted that, and Vivek texted me. We 350 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:12.000 go back, you know, we text back and forth, and 351 00:19:12.039 --> 00:19:14.680 he said, which bills are you talking about? And I 352 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:16.559 was like, Wow, I need to think about this, don't 353 00:19:16.599 --> 00:19:19.160 I before I send a tweet? So I said, the 354 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:22.720 Rains Act is the first one that the Doge Committee 355 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:26.440 should be after. That would save so much money because 356 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:28.799 if and by the way, we've here's the other good 357 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:31.400 thing about the Rains Act. Regulations of the executive in 358 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:33.680 need of scrutiny? Is it what it is? If there's 359 00:19:33.720 --> 00:19:37.759 a if there's an administrative rule that's being promulgated that 360 00:19:37.839 --> 00:19:40.160 costs more than one hundred million dollars to our economy 361 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:44.240 or to our government or them combined, then it has 362 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:46.559 to come back to Congress for a votes. It's not 363 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:50.200 rulemaking yeah, it's lawmaking at that point. Let's draw the 364 00:19:50.240 --> 00:19:53.680 line in the sand. And that would be so great. 365 00:19:53.720 --> 00:19:58.279 It would stop so many regulations that that shouldn't be 366 00:19:58.839 --> 00:20:02.240 promulgated because they're basically laws. It would be the administrative 367 00:20:02.240 --> 00:20:05.279 branch overstepping their authority and costing money to the government 368 00:20:05.319 --> 00:20:07.599 and to the people. So that's the one that I 369 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:10.759 sus proposed to evade. That's like the first one we 370 00:20:10.759 --> 00:20:13.079 should do. And the good news about the Rains Act 371 00:20:13.480 --> 00:20:16.920 is it's already been through committee. It's already been marked 372 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:19.599 up in at least two different congresses that I know of, 373 00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:24.319 because it's come through actually my subcommittee on Regulatory Reform 374 00:20:24.720 --> 00:20:27.799 on the Judiciary Committee. So we we already had a 375 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:30.319 hearing on this, we marked it up, we passed it 376 00:20:30.359 --> 00:20:32.759 in the House. So I know on January third, we're 377 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:33.319 going to have. 378 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:35.240 You know, it's it's ready. 379 00:20:35.319 --> 00:20:37.079 We're gonna have some new Yeah, we're gonna have some 380 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:39.880 new Congressmen. But they can vote on this thing. It's 381 00:20:39.880 --> 00:20:42.279 been fully vetted. And then let's put that on send 382 00:20:42.279 --> 00:20:44.400 it to the Senate first of all, and shame them. 383 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:46.599 Shame them. 384 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:48.519 This is that you see, that's what they see. The 385 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:51.839 benefits of the dog. They can't do anything themselves, but 386 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:54.440 correct they can point it out and when they when 387 00:20:54.480 --> 00:20:56.720 and when they and when they do nothing congress or 388 00:20:56.759 --> 00:20:59.359 senators say no, no, no, we can't cut that program. 389 00:20:59.400 --> 00:21:02.039 That's gonna end my stage bottom line. Then we know 390 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:04.640 who the bad guys are and we can publicly shame them. 391 00:21:04.759 --> 00:21:07.039 And you'll be right at the forefront of the public shaming. 392 00:21:07.079 --> 00:21:11.000 Congressman Thomas Massey, judge, and Paulton is listening in on 393 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:12.920 you right now, getting ready to queue. 394 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:15.119 Him up left. Judge, I know you do that. He 395 00:21:15.400 --> 00:21:16.240 loves you too. 396 00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:19.440 We all love each other because yeah, we talk common 397 00:21:19.519 --> 00:21:21.799 sense and it's a rare commodity these days until we 398 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:23.319 get to speak again, and I doubt it'll before the 399 00:21:23.400 --> 00:21:24.920 end of the year. So Merry Christmas to you and 400 00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:27.599 your loved ones, best of health and a happy new year, 401 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:29.319