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Speaker 1: So I'm on Saturday.
Speaker 2: It was a pleasure seeing him at the Hoodie Memorial
Speaker 2: charity golf event, sending the golfers off, and I'm looking
Speaker 2: forward to seeing him on Wednesday for a town hall.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the fifty five CARC Morning Show, Congressman
Speaker 2: Warren Davidson.
Speaker 3: Always an honor to join you, Brian, Thanks for having
Speaker 3: me on.
Speaker 2: It's always my pleasure and a terrific event. They raised
Speaker 2: more than one hundred thousand dollars for the scholarship program
Speaker 2: on Saturday at that golf event. What a wonderful thing
Speaker 2: that was, and great seeing all those folks out there,
Speaker 2: folks that voted for you, Congressman Davidson, and folks that hopefully,
Speaker 2: with your help and the benefit of it, maybe Republican
Speaker 2: Congress and Senate and Presidency might try to write the ship.
Speaker 2: I woke up this morning and saw nie K just
Speaker 2: tanked in trading the lowest or the worst single day
Speaker 2: of trading since the fall of nineteen eighty seven. We
Speaker 2: all remember that black Monday. Well, nie K with Friday's losses.
Speaker 2: Couple with this mornings down like twenty five percent, and
Speaker 2: then I look at the markets across the board this morning,
Speaker 2: Futures trading like the S and P five hundred and
Speaker 2: three percent down, Dallas looking a couple points down, Nasdak's
Speaker 2: looking at four and a half percent down, all across
Speaker 2: the board, reeling from the job numbers and the current
Speaker 2: economic numbers that came out on Friday. This is a
Speaker 2: global problem, and we may be talking about recession.
Speaker 3: Congressman Davidson, Yeah, look, there's there's reason for alarm out there.
Speaker 3: I certainly the bar market's hold up better, but you know,
Speaker 3: it's been a a little bit of a disconnect from
Speaker 3: some of the fundamentals we're seeing on the ground and
Speaker 3: some of the market performance. I think the bigger thing
Speaker 3: for average people isn't necessarily the stock market itself, but
Speaker 3: it's the underlying You know, what's going on in my neighborhood,
Speaker 3: and everything's gotten too expensive, and so when you look
Speaker 3: at that inflation, well, surely that's hit you know, the
Speaker 3: asset prices, just like it has your house. Things have inflated,
Speaker 3: and a lot of the reason is the distortion with
Speaker 3: the federal spending. So there are consequences for all these
Speaker 3: Biden Harris policies. You know, when you do the American
Speaker 3: Rescue Plan, the Inflation Expansion Act, and all this Green
Speaker 3: New Deal stuff, it has consequences. And unfortunately a lot
Speaker 3: of the rest of the world did the same kind
Speaker 3: of things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, without question, And you know, I guess I'd be
Speaker 2: remiss if I didn't observe that we have had a
Speaker 2: problem with spending now over multiple different administrations, both one
Speaker 2: hundred percent House and Senate Republican control, Democrat control everything
Speaker 2: in between, and yet nobody has the will to cut
Speaker 2: the spigot off. It just keeps getting bigger and bigger
Speaker 2: and bigger and more. I mean, the two biggest growth
Speaker 2: in jobs sixty five I think percent of the job growth,
Speaker 2: as poor as the performance was, went to government and
Speaker 2: the healthcare sector, just those two. And when you have
Speaker 2: government growth, that means well, spending growth from government.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, you're right, neither party is great on this.
Speaker 3: We didn't get thirty five trillion dollars in debt because
Speaker 3: one party's bad and the other party's good. You know,
Speaker 3: Republicans like to campaign, or at least not a campaign
Speaker 3: on a smaller, more accountable government. But if that was
Speaker 3: what we only saw Republicans vote for, you would at
Speaker 3: least see occasionally when there are Republican majorities, we would
Speaker 3: actually get a smaller government. But every single time it grows.
Speaker 3: So I'm certainly hopeful that we get some reinforcements in
Speaker 3: that will help us get some of this under control.
Speaker 3: And you know, sadly, it may take more pain and
Speaker 3: suffering before there's the will to cut anything. That's just
Speaker 3: the sad reality is when we propose anything that actually cuts,
Speaker 3: it seems like all the Democrats are opposed to it,
Speaker 3: and there's usually a reliable thirty to seventy Republicans that
Speaker 3: won't cut anything. And so you know, it's kind of
Speaker 3: this big government, big business coalition, But the big government
Speaker 3: coalition is big government Republicans in big government Democrats.
Speaker 2: What's your reaction to Kamala Harris now being painted as
Speaker 2: this moderate and all of these policies you know that
Speaker 2: she has, I mean, she wanted to do Medicare for all,
Speaker 2: was recently as twenty nineteen. She wanted an open border.
Speaker 2: She wanted a legal path to all the illegal immigrants
Speaker 2: that have crossed over the border. That's another one she's
Speaker 2: trying to walk away from. They say, now she wasn't
Speaker 2: even the borders are when we all know they all
Speaker 2: all the mainstream media labeled her as such. The administration
Speaker 2: even labeled her as such. I mean, can can we
Speaker 2: be whitewashed to this extent? Do you think this is
Speaker 2: really gonna you know that their efforts to repaint her
Speaker 2: as something she is clearly not are going to have
Speaker 2: any success. Congressman Davidson, Well.
Speaker 3: You want to say, there ain't no way, right, There's
Speaker 3: no way people are going to buy this. But then
Speaker 3: I go back to like COVID and people told everyone
Speaker 3: to be scared, so they were scared. COVID told everyone
Speaker 3: to not trust the science, but to go ahead and
Speaker 3: do all kinds of things that on their face were
Speaker 3: kind of ridiculous. I mean, we had a ten pm
Speaker 3: to five am curfew in Ohio. They're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: you got to support it, and I'm like, no, So
Speaker 3: who knows? I mean, I hope that there are people
Speaker 3: that aren't naive enough to just say oh, if you
Speaker 3: told me to like Tamala Harris. Well, a month ago,
Speaker 3: Tamala Harris had a lower approval rating than the dementia
Speaker 3: impaired Joe Biden. Now somehow she's the savior of democracy
Speaker 3: and everybody. All this support is for her. I think
Speaker 3: it's manufactured complete, But then when they throw poles out there,
Speaker 3: they say people are buying it. She had the most
Speaker 3: progressive far left voting erect She was left to Bernie
Speaker 3: Sanders in the United States Senate. She wanted to no
Speaker 3: criminalize crossing the border illegally, plus medicare for all, including
Speaker 3: illegal immigrants. I mean, radical, crazy positions that are way
Speaker 3: out of step with the mainstream of America. And now
Speaker 3: because she's supposed to be thee and go to the
Speaker 3: general election, she's some reasonable, level headed person and all
Speaker 3: you have to do is pull up any clip of
Speaker 3: her talking and you know that's not.
Speaker 2: True without question. And yet the mainstream media is rallying
Speaker 2: her support and trying to cover up this record she's
Speaker 2: been hiding. Now she hasn't had a press conference or
Speaker 2: directly addressed any of these questions now in two weeks.
Speaker 2: That seems to me something that's got to end at
Speaker 2: some point. But Joe Biden was successful in launching a
Speaker 2: campaign and running a campaign from his basement during COVID.
Speaker 2: I don't know, we've seen it before. Maybe it will
Speaker 2: happen again with Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, I mean it's a campaign, so you got
Speaker 3: to get her out and see her and you have
Speaker 3: people interact with her. But on the other hand, I mean,
Speaker 3: she's currently the vice president, and we all know Joe
Speaker 3: Biden isn't really sound. He was exposed in the June
Speaker 3: twenty seventh debate with President Trump and he's been in
Speaker 3: hiding effectively ever since. And in a way, you're kind
Speaker 3: of like, well, yeah, I mean, don't bring him out.
Speaker 3: We need the world doesn't need to see how week
Speaker 3: the leadership team is in the Biden Harris administration. On
Speaker 3: the other side, voters need to see that so they
Speaker 3: go out and vote. And you know, I think that
Speaker 3: most people are going to see through all this fake news.
Speaker 3: They're not going to buy this nonsense that somehow Kamala
Speaker 3: Harris wasn't the borders are we all know she was.
Speaker 3: They're not going to buy the fact that she's somehow
Speaker 3: reasonable on energy policy when we all know she isn't
Speaker 3: We're not going to buy any of this stuff, and
Speaker 3: you know, I'm confident in Southwest Ohio no one's going
Speaker 3: to buy it. Frankly, I think that Sharon Brown's probably
Speaker 3: more worried with Kamala Harris at the top of the
Speaker 3: ticket than he was with Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: Well, he has supported her policy positions in the Biden administration,
Speaker 2: of course, under Biden's presidency, but nonetheless these are left
Speaker 2: wing policies that, of course Kamala Harris presumably also supports,
Speaker 2: at least as demonstrated by her record. So yeah, he
Speaker 2: should be in trouble, and I hope he is. Do
Speaker 2: we know anything about Kamala Harris relative to foreign policy?
Speaker 2: As I stare at Secretary State Anthony Blincoln saying that
Speaker 2: Iran and Hesbala could probably attack Israel as early as today.
Speaker 2: I mean, we have basically World War three breaking out
Speaker 2: in the Middle East. Russia is behind it, Iran is
Speaker 2: behind it. Of course, we know about the weird geopolitical
Speaker 2: realignment of Russia and China and Iran and maybe even
Speaker 2: North Korea. The enemy of my enemy is my friend,
Speaker 2: and ergo, they put aside their differences in a collective
Speaker 2: unity to work against us. This is not looking good.
Speaker 2: Can we trust a foreign policy with the Kamala Harris presidency?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: I mean, look, pull up anything with Kamala Harris speaking,
Speaker 3: and you really want her sitting at a diplomacy table
Speaker 3: talking to Shushiping or Vladimir Putin or frankly even allies.
Speaker 3: You want her to sit down with Benjamin Netanyahu and
Speaker 3: work out a plan. Mamad ben Solmon, he's really going
Speaker 3: to sit down and talk to Kamala Harris about how
Speaker 3: we can improve the stability in the Middle East. I mean,
Speaker 3: she's a terrible solution to any problem, and you know,
Speaker 3: I think people are going to see through it. She
Speaker 3: has been more supportive of Iran policy, as have Democrats
Speaker 3: ever since Barack Obama. I mean, and look, the reality is,
Speaker 3: what is the path back? It's the same that they
Speaker 3: did on the border in June. The Biden administration basically said, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: you can actually deny asylum claims and tell people to
Speaker 3: stay in Mexico. Well, hey, guess what it works, similar
Speaker 3: to when Donald Trump had the exact same policy. It
Speaker 3: wasn't like a new policy. They went back to what
Speaker 3: worked when Donald Trump was president and in Iran, Operation
Speaker 3: Maximum Pressure was squeezing Iran. They were held at bay.
Speaker 3: They weren't expanding war in the Middle East, whether it
Speaker 3: was themselves or their proxies has Bla and Hamas. And
Speaker 3: now the Biden Harris administrations out there reaping the consequences
Speaker 3: of their Iran policy. So what would work? Tell Iran
Speaker 3: the same thing that the Trump administration told them, they
Speaker 3: all stay calm, or we're going to cripple your economy
Speaker 3: with maximum pressure again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which seems the antithos is the Biden administration just
Speaker 2: basically funneling massive quantities of cash to the Iranians. I
Speaker 2: really don't quite understand that, Congressman Davison, falling into the
Speaker 2: category of like the peace of God.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, what does Iran do? I mean, it's
Speaker 3: as predictable as gravity. They get cash, they attack Israel.
Speaker 3: I mean that's what they do.
Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you this, since we have now
Speaker 2: and I don't know where you are on funding for
Speaker 2: Ukraine and support of Ukraine, but it seems to me
Speaker 2: this almost foolish endeavor. Here we are, multiple years into
Speaker 2: this conflict, we continue to provide them with arms. And
Speaker 2: now only now, after almost three years or however long
Speaker 2: it's been since Russia and Vada Ukraine, we're going to
Speaker 2: provide them F sixteen's that they've been asking for for
Speaker 2: a long time, which have been delivered. It's almost like
Speaker 2: a Chinese water torture, if I may be so bold,
Speaker 2: drip drip, drip, slow drip of decision making when it
Speaker 2: comes to either funding or not, as the case may be.
Speaker 2: The Ukrainians, where are you on this, since you'll have
Speaker 2: a say in that, you know, congressional expenditures, since you
Speaker 2: have the power of the purse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean my say has been overruled all the time.
Speaker 3: I'm one of a handful of people that's voted for
Speaker 3: no dollars for Ukraine. And look, I mean, I'm sympathetic
Speaker 3: to them. They were unjustly invaded by Vladimir Putin and Russia.
Speaker 3: But the issue is the Biden administration hasn't ever laid
Speaker 3: out a mission. So I've got a bill called the
Speaker 3: Define the Mission Act last summer. It only got one
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty nine votes. Now it was incorporated into
Speaker 3: the National Defense Authorization Act. So the thinking is growing
Speaker 3: towards that way. And it makes basic sense. This used
Speaker 3: to be what Colin Powell called the Pale doctrine, is, Hey,
Speaker 3: before we get in a war, let's figure out what
Speaker 3: we're trying to accomplish so we can hold people accountable.
Speaker 3: Let's figure out how we would unwine this war. And
Speaker 3: people don't agree on the mission. And if you see
Speaker 3: what the Biden administrations sleep walking into a bigger war.
Speaker 3: Everything they're doing seems designed to expand the war beyond
Speaker 3: Ukraine and to escalate it. They won't take NATO membership,
Speaker 3: EU membership off the table in Ukraine. They won't engage
Speaker 3: with Putin. You would have thought that the release of
Speaker 3: hostages and captives held unjustly in Russia would be a
Speaker 3: point to engage with Russia more. And when Joe Biden
Speaker 3: was asked about that, he said, I don't need to
Speaker 3: talk to Putin. He has no interest in de escalating
Speaker 3: the conflict there, and in reality is that should be
Speaker 3: Our main interest is to make sure this doesn't expand
Speaker 3: to a NATO country.
Speaker 2: Well, and before we part company, we're going to do
Speaker 2: details about the town hall event you're going to do
Speaker 2: on Wednesday, but just very briefly, because all these various
Speaker 2: conflicts that we face or are literally involved in. Right now,
Speaker 2: we need to have a comment from here if I'd
Speaker 2: like a comment, if you're in the state of America's
Speaker 2: military preparedness. I know our numbers and recruiting are down,
Speaker 2: and I know we are struggling. I think to provide
Speaker 2: and do all these proxy wars while at the same
Speaker 2: time maintain our own readiness, it seems like a recipe
Speaker 2: for disaster. Congressman Davidson, you probably served your country. What's
Speaker 2: your perception of this.
Speaker 3: Look, leadership matters, and people are not inspired by the
Speaker 3: Trent commander in chief and the leadership structure that's been
Speaker 3: put in place under this administration or the policies. I mean, frankly,
Speaker 3: the people like me that in frankly JD. Vans that
Speaker 3: wanted to change their lives and join the military and
Speaker 3: it worked. You know, so many people all over the
Speaker 3: country have done that, free to join. You know, it
Speaker 3: really is an opportunity unparalleled in the country and just
Speaker 3: tremendous camaraderie that comes from it. You see people, you know,
Speaker 3: Korean war vets walking around with their head some of
Speaker 3: their military years or some of the best years of
Speaker 3: their lives, and it still is. The trouble is is
Speaker 3: that not only is the leadership bad at the top,
Speaker 3: the policies bad. We haven't done a good enough job
Speaker 3: of raising pay. I mean, it's not like the market
Speaker 3: forces are at work in military pay, and we've got
Speaker 3: our junior enlisted soldiers getting crushed with the cost of living.
Speaker 3: And so we tried last year to raise pay for
Speaker 3: junior enlisted guys men and women soldiers by over twenty
Speaker 3: six percent, and that's what they need to kind of
Speaker 3: keep up with where the market has moved, and unfortunately
Speaker 3: we get like about a five percent pay raise. So
Speaker 3: that's part of the fight this year is to get
Speaker 3: I'll shout out to Mike Garcia from He's a Navy guy,
Speaker 3: a fighter pilot from Los Angeles area, a Republican, and
Speaker 3: he really pushed this bill and I hope we get
Speaker 3: it done this year. That would help a lot with recruiting.
Speaker 3: I think the last thing is, look, people join the
Speaker 3: military to defend our country, not to defend some empire
Speaker 3: all over the world. We could even use our military
Speaker 3: to reinforce our border.
Speaker 2: A amenda that Connors Warren Davidson, We're going to be seeing
Speaker 2: it a town hall on Wednesday. Give him the listeners
Speaker 2: of details on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So Wednesday night at the Nathaniel Green Lodge over
Speaker 3: in Green Township, just outside of Cincinnati, we're hosting a
Speaker 3: town hall. We're asking people to go online and sign
Speaker 3: up so we have an idea how many people are
Speaker 3: going to be there, and it also helps with all
Speaker 3: the preps that we do. We will take questions from everyone.
Speaker 3: We'll hope to get to every question and if time permits,
Speaker 3: we will and if not, you know, we'll send replies,
Speaker 3: collect those questions and send replies, but really look forward
Speaker 3: to it. I like the Q and A format, so
Speaker 3: we're doing that. And then we're doing another town hall
Speaker 3: here this month with veterans veterans focused town hall, and
Speaker 3: I think Butler County Veteran Service Officers are doing that,
Speaker 3: but it'll be focused on veterans issues.
Speaker 2: Congress Warren Davison, I'll be there facilitating your townholl event
Speaker 2: on Wednesday, looking forward to seeing you as always and
Speaker 2: looking forward to the questions from the audience. Joe Strek
Speaker 2: will put the details up on my blog page fifty
Speaker 2: five cars dot Com between now and Wednesday. Keep up
Speaker 2: the great work, Congressman. I'll look forward to seeing you
Speaker 2: and good luck on the campaign as we fast approach November.
Speaker 3: Thanks Brian gad Bless you and all your listeners appreciate it.
Speaker 3: My friend.
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