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Our guest today is Representative Tim Birch at Republican, representing
the great State of Tennessee, the second congressional district they'rein.
We have so much to talk about, from the doge,
to rogue hoards to one of the most outstanding comebacks
to one of those leftist weasels out there that I
think I've ever heard, the great hot Pocket comeback, and
we have a chance we're going to talk about that
as well on this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
Speaker 2: Sir, thank you so much for joining us. It's always
a pleasure. Hey, I'm honored, thank you for having me on. Brother.
Speaker 1: We're going to get to that hot Pocket comeback. I
love it, and we're going to have to play a
clip here before the end of this podcast, But let
us begin with what has been a whirlwind the first
as we talk now almost one hundred days, it's amazing
to think how much has happened in the first three
months of the Trump administration. Time to do a little
reflection here as we get too close to the first
one hundred days. What do you think so far?
Speaker 3: I think Resident was doing what he said he was
going to do, and I would remind my fellow congressmen
and women that we need to get on the stick.
He was elected with what I thought was a fairly
comfortable majority, but Congress was not.
Speaker 2: And the reason Congress was not was that we did not.
Speaker 3: Wholeheartedly endorse his agenda locking the border down, less government, cut, cut, cut,
and and I'm afraid that that's that's that's why we
have a three person majority and and not something that's
really overwhelming that we can brag about.
Speaker 2: So I'm.
Speaker 3: I'm excited and pleased with what President Trump's doing, but
I'm I'm a little I'm a little. I guess mythed
would be a light. I wake up in the morning
and think how mad I am. I really think we
need to start how to find some of these Trump
initiatives and maybe move it past the courts if we
were to do that. So, I don't know, we'll see
what happens. I'm a little I'm still leaning positive. I'm
just upset at us for not doing more to back
this president.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're just more than three months into it, and again,
it's been an ambitious agenda. But do you fear that
if you're Republican colleagues, many of them certainly like to
identify themselves as conservatives, if they don't get on board
with this agenda, you could pay the price, certainly in
the House, if not the Senate in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, I fear we could lose our country. I
feel like we've been given an opportunity and we need
to grasp that opportunity.
Speaker 2: I don't I just don't think President Trump can do
it alone.
Speaker 3: And I remain well, I remain angry that we've had
these hearings, you know, and I'm sure we'll write a
lot of strong letters, but it remains to be seen
that we haven't followed through with our end of the bargain.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Case in point, I have a piece of legislation dealing
with the Taliban. We're sending them about forty million dollars
a week, as it turns out, through various means, and
the NGOs and the United Nations are all tied up
in it.
Speaker 2: And it's documented. It's been documented even the.
Speaker 3: Let's see, even the State Department have verification for them
from a five or six page document that was once classified.
Speaker 2: Now it's unclassified. And here we are.
Speaker 3: I'm into this single year and we haven't Last year,
I believe I passed it in the House and couldn't
get sent up sponsors. And now I'm back again. It's
even stronger this go around. Now we have Senator she
He's taking it on, who's a former Navy seal, and
Tommy Tubberbil as well has embraced it. So I'm looking
forward to getting that thing through Congress, and it's past
our committee. But why are we delaying? Why are we delayed?
Speaker 2: You know we're waiting on staff. It's just to me,
that is the sewer.
Speaker 3: You know, everyone's called a swamp, and I'm quick to
note that it's not a swamp.
Speaker 2: It's a sewer. A swamp is something God created.
Speaker 3: That's pretty cool actually, if you see it in its
natural state, It filters water, it allows for animals to feed,
it's a breeding ground for frogs and fish and all
this other stuff.
Speaker 2: But Washington d C. Is man made.
Speaker 3: It is a sewer. No oxygen flows into it, no daylight.
Speaker 2: That's why you have.
Speaker 3: What's called anaerobic decomposition, the horrible smell when you go
by sewing treatment plant, and that's the absence of oxygen.
Speaker 2: So that's what Washington DC is.
Speaker 3: And when I hear a chairman, and I've heard them
say in both parties, we can't do that. Staff won't
allow it. Staff won't allow it. How does that even
figure in? We didn't elect staff, We elected the congressman
and the senators.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: Why do Republicans have to defer to staff the same
way that the executive branch had long deferred to bureaucrats
in the center? Here acrats unelected bureaucrats. But are Republicans
in the House doing the same thing, Yes, sir.
Speaker 3: Yes, or we are and we have a history of that,
and it's it's just.
Speaker 2: It's a bud. I don't know what else.
Speaker 3: It is awful and we got to change, and America
elected us to change, and that gumment. We're going to
have to. But in the way, how do we do that?
We got to put It's kind of like Hollywood. Hollywood
will put out good family values movies if we put
pressure on them. And TV shows, I mean Andy Griffiths Show,
for goodness sakes, it was, it was one of it's one.
Speaker 2: Of the greatest shows.
Speaker 3: It's traditional values, it's it's in one hundred and thirty
different languages, I.
Speaker 2: Think, all over the world, and everybody loves it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can just you can name an episode, and
I mean there's you know, there's any I'm a member
of the Andy griff Is coming like an honorary member.
Speaker 2: Of their club.
Speaker 1: But they but I like you so much more now.
I liked you before. I like you so much more now.
There's an expression and you'll know this right away from
Barney Fiffe that them instantly comes to mind, and it's
and it involves your work with the Doge Subcommittee. It
involves the need to get a handle on this sewer.
It is nipp it, nipp it, nipp it in the butt. Yeah,
and you're right. I mean again, we're less than one
hundred days in, but there's not a lot of nipping
of that bud going.
Speaker 2: It seems to.
Speaker 3: And I told President Trump in our last conversation that
that that's my biggest fear. Under one hundred and fifty days,
we're going to lose our guts. And we got to
start cardifying these things. You know, we I always say
with those post offices that will name them aren't going
to name themselves. You know, we got to get back
to work and that. You know, it's just it's just
so many missed opportunities. The NPR bill, MPR. You know,
they came before our Doze sub committee. I told somebody
used to think Marjorie Taylor Green was a friend of mine.
Then she put me on her Doze committee, and I
was like, oh man, but it's because it just it
to me. It's I'm going to have to I'm gonna
have to get a counselor after this thing, all the
all the garbage.
Speaker 2: That we found out. She does an excellent job at
tearing it too.
Speaker 3: She's got incredible patience, more than I do with us
and with the Democrats as well. But but just imagine
all the crazy stuff.
Speaker 2: Then n p R. I asked this question.
Speaker 3: Because I heard it on there there I actually heard
it with my own two ears, and and then we
documented when it was and who said it. But I said,
you know, there was one of the posts asked somebody else,
what is your definition of propaganda? And the and the
other other person said leaguering wood singing God Bless the USA,
And that's what your tax dollars are paying for. Now
we're not telling them to stop. This isn't a first
This is a First Amendment issue in the fact that
they can say whatever they want, but that again, I
don't have to pay for it, and and we're borrowing
the money to do it at that So at some
point we've got to say enough is enough, man.
Speaker 2: We have got.
Speaker 3: To to cut with all this nonsense. And until we
we should have had a bill drawn up. We had
so much publicity, good positive vibes coming off all that.
Speaker 2: And what do we do. Where's the bill where?
Speaker 3: You know, I've proposed one, other people have yet, Oh
it's it's in committee.
Speaker 2: Well, the staff's working on it, you know. No, let's
get it going.
Speaker 3: Pelosi can move a bill, change it and get it
on the floor to spend the rule I said. They
did with the transportation bill, one of the largest spending
bills of all time. We passed a probably a pretty
bad bill, and then they took it, rewrote it, and
in her office with the lobbyists, brought it to the floor,
largest spending bill in the history of Congress, and they
passed it. No debate on the floor, no ability to
put amendments on it.
Speaker 2: And that's how it ended up.
Speaker 3: And it was a huge liberal wish list. Fifteen percent
of it dealt with what you would consider traditional transportation. Well,
eighty five percent, this billion dollar plus bill dealt with
woke policy changes, DNI all behind yeah, out of the country,
crazy spending, and that's you know, that's what we're fighting against.
But don't think for a second that people in our
party aren't an O'reagan said, never say anything bad, whatever,
eleventh commandment. But the truth is that we're to blame
for this as much as anybody else.
Speaker 2: We are in power.
Speaker 3: Now, why are we not changing this? Why are we
still allowing stock trades among members of Congress? You know,
I have a my eleven thousand dollars portfolio is managed
by my buddy, Tommy Siler. I've got a little mutual fund.
That's what we should not know individual stocks. That's crooked
as a dog's leg. You know it, and I know it.
When we sent our missile defense system Ukraine, I haven't
voted for one red cent, but it doesn't matter. But
when we did that, we we had to replenish ours
with a no bid contract. And I don't fault the
missile contractors, but everybody, you know, and by knit it,
by executive order of all things. But guess what the
people on that committee that would add knowledge of that.
Speaker 2: Apparently a lot of them, is.
Speaker 3: My understanding, a lot of them had stopped in that
company and they made a lot of money.
Speaker 1: They did make a lot of money. They did make
a lot of money. And then of course they're quick
to point their fingers at you know, the trade wars
and that the tariff wars and all of those battles
with Trump trying to do what former administrations have failed
to do, and that is to bring back a level
playing field, to establish a level playing field after this
country and its citizens have been absolutely screwed by this
trade deficit for years and years and years. And then
they say, well, his friends are making a boatload of money.
How can they do that with a straight face? While
while we know of the reports about members of Congress
making a mint on what certainly appears to a lot
of Americans as insider trading.
Speaker 3: Well, I agreed, and that's the reason Trump didn't ask
permission for what we did with China on those terraffs
because he knew, he knew Congress didn't have the guts
to do it. Look, we have sold this country out.
Congress has Congress is the problem. Congress and our national
chambers and commerce have sold us out. Very immigration rule
and law we've ever tried to pass that would have
helped us. The Chamber of Commerce have killed it because
they want that free slave labor.
Speaker 2: But the truth is on the tariffs we had.
Speaker 3: For instance, I'll give you an example, what the Chinese
are doing. Everybody knows they're buying farm land. They're buying
up land near military installations. Why haven't we stopped that?
Why have we not stopped They own commissaries in our
military installations.
Speaker 2: Now you ask yourself, well, what's that?
Speaker 3: Who cares? They're selling stick of gum or a co cola,
a gi No. They have the credit cards, they know
who's there, they know which military installation they're a part of.
Speaker 2: They know which apparatus.
Speaker 3: Say, you have a bunch of pilots coming into a
base and there all of a sudden, they start, you know,
they're at the commissary buying a sandwich or you know,
a sweatshirt for their girlfriend or whoever.
Speaker 2: And they got their credit card numbers.
Speaker 3: They know who they are, and they know that they're
flying a certain plane, and then they know where they're at,
and then that gives the Chinese an indicator of what's
going on and where we are militarily. It's just, you know,
they flew a night a balloon over our country, nineteen
fifties technology, and they were taking some pictures. But the
reality was they were looking at our reaction time and
what we were going to do and what are react
And our reaction was was that we did nothing. Our
press popod it, our military let it fly, and our
president probably stillen he probably still doesn't know that thing
flew over.
Speaker 2: So a lot of things happened, and we just got
to be aware.
Speaker 4: The argument of Wall Street versus Main Street is a
pile of nonsense. The watch Dot on Wall Street podcast
with Chris Markowski. Every day Chris helps unpack the connection
between politics and the economy and how it affects your wallet.
The stock market was all over the place due to
the expected tariffs, and guess what, Wall Street still made money.
Mom and pop stores weren't even affected. Whether it's happening
in DC or down on Wall Street, it's affecting you financially.
Speaker 2: Be informed.
Speaker 4: Check out the Watchdot on Wall Street podcast with Chris
Markowski on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 2: And Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's defense, he does really seem to enjoy balloons
and ice cream.
Speaker 2: He does so.
Speaker 3: He could not find the self serve ice cream machine
in the White House.
Speaker 1: So no, that's problematic. You'll have to go on a
Disney cruise for that. I'm afraid you mentioned what you
just talked about. In fact, you were on Fox Business
recently you said this, Let me give you the three
words that I think sum it all up. We are compromised.
You said, if you wrote a book about DC, that's
what the title would be. But how much how deep
does this go? Based on the intelligence that you have received?
How deep does it go? Thanks in large part to
the deep state and to the Biden administration and all
of the failures they're in over the previous four years.
Speaker 3: He goes as deep as you want it to go,
and as deep as they wanted to go.
Speaker 2: And here's how it works.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're watching a committee chairman that can't that literally
can't feed themselves almost We've had one that was like that,
and that ended up going into a mental institute or
institute for those that have Alzheimer's. And she was chairman
of our appropriations committee, and she remained chairman while she
was in that institution. Yet the staff kept running, it
kept running the office. Because the staff draws an income
from these things. I mean, that's their livelihood. And they're
not making twenty five thousand dollars a year. Some of
them were making a heck of a lot. Have We
had committees that have over fifty staff members. So I
was in there counting the picture one day and I
looked at ours and we had fifty and the Democrats
had had had a few less because they're in the minority.
But when it turns, it'll turn when we're you know,
if we're in the minority, we'll have a few less
and they'll have a few more. But how this is
how easy it works. You have a lobbyist hired by
indirectly by the Chinese. There's all these rules and regulations
that they know how to get around it. So they
hire a lobbyist who's friendly with a committee or has
actually worked on that committee. That's generally worse. They work
on the committee, and then they get hired pay two
hundred two thousand, you know, to manage a committee more
or less, and they know two or three of the
key people on there and think me as an aspiring legislator,
I propose legislation that says things like, hey, we're not
going to sell our genetic material to the to the
Chinese communists that are genetic information from the you know,
like these ancestry dot com things should take a swab
and you send it off to them. And all they're
doing is creating a genome. They're creating a pattern of
say they want to stop American females of child bearing
ages from being able to bear children, which is something
they'd actually worked on the Chinese have. And so now
we're fighting this lobbyist who is hired by these groups
to go in and lobby an individual that would oversee
that in the committee, and they delay, delay, they send
it back to the legal folks to rewrite it, and they, oh,
we can't do that, we can't do this, we can't
do that, and you eventually you end up with a
reporting mill that does absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2: And that's where we're at. That is where we're at
as a country, as a congress.
Speaker 3: I told somebody, I said, we must have we must
have a warehouse like they show in the end the
remember Raiders of Lost Art at the end they said,
we've got our.
Speaker 2: Top the boxes.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, I suspect we've got a warehouse there of
just congressional reports that they're going to make a sport
to Congress. And it just it blows my mind the
number of bills that we have there are reports, and
I think America needs to wake up and realize what
the heck that's about.
Speaker 2: So it's it's it's definitely not sustainable. It is not.
Speaker 1: In fact, I want to I want to read a
quote here momentarily and get your perspective on it, because
it's a quote from you on this very topic. Our
guest today is Representative Tim Burchett, Republican, representing the Great
State of Tennessee's second Congressional District. You said this early
on in Trump two point zero, you said you're going
to see a paper trail come back to Washington, d C.
That's why a lot of people are nervous going to
see a lot of retirements. They are stealing from the
American people and got caught after your frustrations in this
first one hundred days of the Trump administration, How do
you feel about that, about the reckoning the accountability, is
it still coming. I know folks are still nervous and
should be nervous.
Speaker 3: I don't have a lot of faith in that lady
who's supposed to over and she showed her true colors.
I think with the Epstein files what's her name?
Speaker 2: Oh? Oh?
Speaker 3: And the reporter on that No, no, not the reporter,
the lady that works for the administration, the attorney.
Speaker 2: What's her name, oh, Attorney General Pam BONDI yeah, I
don't have a lot of her brother I really don't. Really. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that showed pretty much where she was at.
I think that was a I think that was a debacle.
I think she has handled other things very well. I
think there are some issues with the oversight of the FBI.
We're still seeing problems there but no.
Speaker 2: Go ahead. I mean, you don't have to see. How
much have faith in her?
Speaker 3: I want to see it, and I hope she proves
me wrong, but I want to see people in the
handcuffs that should have never the epsteam thing. Just I
thought that looked bad. And I don't blame Trump. I
blame her.
Speaker 2: She should have never.
Speaker 3: She got way out of the pastor skis and uh,
and it was amateur hour having all those portfolios out
to those kids that were influencers.
Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, how many different influencers does it take
to have a batched release.
Speaker 2: Of this report?
Speaker 3: And she and they put great effort into it, and
it was all stuff that was already out apparently.
Speaker 2: And so I just the whole thing to me, just
and and I.
Speaker 3: Just don't see I don't I don't see that rectifying itself.
Speaker 2: And that's disappointing to me. Maybe I'm wrong. I'm not
an attorney.
Speaker 3: I know it takes time to build case, but but
how much more of this are we going to take?
Speaker 1: But you were hope, you were hopeful at that time
with these nominees who were to become to a Secretary
of State. So I guess that's that's a good question.
What's your grade on you know the key uh secretaries,
the key department heads. Right, yeah, I'd still give it
an A. I think e p A.
Speaker 3: He's a buddy of mine out in Congress with him.
He's a straight shooter. He's going to be great. Lee's Elden.
He is incredible and he's I'm a fan of these
uh you know, I think on down the line, I
think that's why the critics are hammering him so hard.
It is because I think there I ain't like Head said,
he's catching a lot of grief, but the reality there
is a probably messed up. I don't think it's anything
that got out that isn't you know. I always tell
people when you go into the skiff. I remember I
went in. I was late to the skiff meeting, and
I leaned over this old Democrat.
Speaker 2: And I said, let me get this straight.
Speaker 3: I said, if I'm late again, I could probably just
catch this on CNN in about thirty minutes, you know,
the skiff and with her getting a top secret he
was in there and all these others and he leaned
over to us Tim probably in about fifteen minutes, and
I was, you know, I remember walking out one time
when I was first elected, maybe one of my first
or second times being in the skiff, and I honored
that stuff. I mean, I take that stuff serious, and
I remember good. I remember a reporter came up to
me and she was a pretty lady and she was, wow, commersman, you.
Speaker 2: Really really hitting it off big here. And I looked at.
Speaker 3: Her and she started compliment me on something and I said, ma'am,
I said, I may be up here just a year.
I said, but I was born at not not last night.
I've been in this game a long time. I know
exactly what you're doing. And she's like what, And I said,
you just buttered me up. And I'm going to tell
you what I just came out of that meeting in
and she goes and she turned literally saw a Democrat
that she knew and hollered at him and they went
down the fire exit or the exit, you know, one
of the egsits, you know, it was down a stairway,
and they still.
Speaker 2: Have a quiet conversation about here.
Speaker 3: She knew she wasn't going to get it from Tim Bartchett,
but she found her a willing Democrat to get it from.
Speaker 1: And I never, never, ever underestimate the shamelessness of the
corporate media. Oh they're trying to get a scoop.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, you're knowing to the least least area
of resistance. And I was a resistance and I was
not the least at that point.
Speaker 2: I never would be. But anyway, I.
Speaker 3: Just that goes back to my crooked as a dog's
legs statement. The whole thing is we got to start.
We got to start holding people accountable, and that's contained Democrats,
because what we're doing now is not working.
Speaker 2: It is not working.
Speaker 1: Speaking of that corporate media, you know, there was I
think some good indication by the election of Donald Trump
for a second term in November and by Republicans holding
on to the House and taking back the Senate. I
think there was a good body of evidence to show
the irrelevance of the corporate accomplice media in this country
is what we're seeing in their resistance two point zero.
The you know, really just the death rattle of in
irrelevant corporate media that is doing everything that it can
just to hold on, throwing everything that it always does
at Donald Trump and the mega movement.
Speaker 3: I think so I was shocked to see on CNN
the other day they said that I think fifty five
or fifty six percent of the population agree. I saw
this more than once on seeing end that that President
Trump's doing the right thing about immigration and that went
from thirty four percent back a little while ago, and
just the credible turnaround, and just how the Democrats, you know,
they're I don't know where they're doing their polling, I said,
I think I was on Box yesterday and I said,
I think they're doing their polling in a federal penitentiary
or something, asking gang members, you know what the opinion
of gangsters?
Speaker 2: Again, it is their constituency. Well, yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Guess it is, but it's, uh, it just doesn't make
a whole lot of sense to me. Well, I think
I understand. I think their corporate masters, the big the
big money billionaires that backed them, give them their agenda
to the DNC through their contacts there, and that's how
they do it. You know, it's you know, their polling
data is very secured. I always used to say, would
you rather I remember this, Maidy said they wanted an
income tax in Tennessee, which is crazy.
Speaker 2: I said, what do they do?
Speaker 3: They said, would you rather have a flanning hot poker stuck,
you know, in one of your orifices, or would you
rather a state income tax? Well, fifty two percent of
the population favored an income tax, you know. But but
it turned out I found out. I asked, I started
asking questions. Everybody's like, oh, you're going to fold. We
have to fold up their ten on this one. We're sung,
I said, I said, let me ask you a question.
I said, where did you poll? And they did and
it was in an area where people inner city and
honestly don't. They don't pay taxes. They pay sales tax,
but not federal income tax. And I said, what time
did you poll? And I said, what do you mean?
I said, what time of day did you poll? And
they came and hauled around. It turned out they polled
about twelve thirty in the afternoon at home and that
was back before cell phones were prevalent. But ask yourself,
you know, who's at home at twelve thirty and who
doesn't and somebody that obviously doesn't pay taxes. I mean,
it was scared. It was completely scared. And we found
the district where it was. It was in inner city area,
you know, but doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: But that congressman, I can tell you, in these these
weird times in which we live, where the left keeps
pushing inclusion on everybody, they'll get to a point where
maybe they're already there where they say, the people who
enjoy a good hot poker in an orifice, you know,
they should be included as well. We've reached the hot
poker in the orifice inclusion zone. Now, yeah, I guess so.
But they you know that's that hasn't hit East Tennessee yet.
Speaker 3: You know, these issues they choose to the beaches, they
down and you know men in dresses, you know, competing
against your daughter. Yeah, the same guy they want to
be able to undress in front of your daughter in
a in a uh, in a locker room. If they
were to do that same stunt out in front of
your wife and or daughter out on the street corner, uh,
expose themselves, they would be arrested, right and he said
closures saying.
Speaker 1: And rightfully so on the sides of the coin. But
that brings up a very good point. I want to
get your take on this because it is amazing to
see the left Democrats double down, first of all, on wasteful,
criminally wasteful spending. You're dealing with that in the Dose
sub committee. And then see them rally around hardened, violent
criminal illegal immigrants, see them rally around people on terrorist
watch list. For the love of God and all of
their due process? Where were these folks? And I want
to get you to take on us, where were these
folks about due process? After January sixth when they were
locking up Americans after protesting at the capitol, some of
them just going on parade at the Capitol, locking them
up without their due process, without them being charged at all.
These are American citizens. What's your thought on that? That's
a double stay and they're allowed to do it. And
now they're all hollering that we want.
Speaker 3: To shut the courts down because the courts have just
completely sold out. I always I talk about it. There's
a family named Corkern here in town. They're a pretty
well established known family and their son was killed behind
illegal and I always say, where was that kid's Where
was that kid's constitutional right? And the guy had been
here for ten years to you know, and it just
it's a double standard. And I just don't I tell
somebody they must be they're doing business with the devil
because this is just not right.
Speaker 2: America does not get this.
Speaker 3: And why the Republican Party doesn't seize upon this stuff
and start passing legislation to enforce this, to enforce our
beliefs and to stop theirs, to me, is just beyond belief.
I just don't get it. It goes back to my
compromise statement earlier. And I just don't know where it's
going to end. Brother, I really don't. I just I
hate the one thing I hate in politics and in
life and in business and sports anything else is a
missed opportunity, and we are just being given an opportunity.
I keep thinking God's just reaching out to help us,
and we're swapping his hand away.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: It's like the old farmer falling off an old ten
ruth and he's up there on the ladder and.
Speaker 2: He's got his little bib overalls on and he's like.
Speaker 3: Lord, help me, help me, Lord, And then a nail,
a nail catches his overalls and he's like, never mind, Lord,
I got it.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe God put that nail there.
Speaker 3: But and I just think, you know, when President Trump
got shot, I mean, that thing been an inch more
to the right we'd be talking about Kamala Harris as
our president, and we would be we would have rapidly
approaching losing our republic. And and so I just think
we just got to quit swatt in God's hand away.
And this is an incredible opportunity for this awful behavior
by the Democrats to seize it. And until we do,
and I think history will not be kind to us
because we were given that opportunity and we did not
take it.
Speaker 2: I think it's a good way to put it.
Speaker 1: I think that fighting back as you have done is critical,
and I think a lot of Americans are. But I
think a lot of Americans get tired. I understand the
fatigue you you did not recently when one of these
these leftist supplicants came up to you and asked you
you know, it was it was clear this was a
you know, a plant sort of hit job. As you
were where you were in d C at the time,
walking around and this is this is this audio. Here
is compliments of what is it? The off topic show?
They got this clip and I just want to play this.
I'm not sure if you can hear this, but I'm
going to play it back. Some leftist walks up to
you and starts getting into you about Trump. Here's the audio.
Your comeback is absolutely awesome. Let's take a listen.
Speaker 2: To this, Harry.
Speaker 4: Do you trust Trump's national security team to keep our
war plans top secret?
Speaker 3: Do you trust your mother every night to fix your
hot pockets and make sure your game always turned on?
Speaker 1: The hot pocket comeback? Oh my gosh, that was fantastic.
The guy is asking you, I think it's a guy.
He is. He's asking you about signal Gate, you know,
which is another device of the corporate media pounding on
this story. You know, because you had a leftist reporter
who mistakenly gets on this call before a very important
military mission.
Speaker 3: Now, I know that was a setup. That was a setup,
absolute setup. Yes we might not know, yeah, but I
think we will know. I've been informed that it was
a complete and total setup. But immediately, when this guy
is asking you, you feel safe. You know this what
a BS line of questioning. You know that it's what
he's what he's trying to accomplish.
Speaker 2: Here you say about his mother making him a hot pocket.
Speaker 1: Now, if I'm the people behind the hot pocket franchise,
I'm running this clip left and right what did you
just bam, just dismiss this guy for what it was.
Speaker 2: But you've seen a lot of this, have you not? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that video on just on my Twitter alone, er
E said over. I think it's up to seven million views.
And I don't I don't know the the website where
you got that from, but it's it's going crazy viral
around the count around the world. I was walking to
an airport, UH policeman walking. I thought he was like
my security because I've had a few death threats right
now and he but he wasn't. He just thought he said,
my kids showed me that hot pockets thing, and I
just thought that it was it was a black fellow,
and he was an officer, and it was just a.
Speaker 2: Super super nice guy.
Speaker 3: And I've come to learn about his family and we
become friends talk when I see him. But he grabbed
me on that thing, and and he just thought that
was the greatest thing. And I've been you know, I
can't tell you, I've been everywhere. Everywhere I've gone. I
was in I was with my my friend guy Reaesentler,
up in UH, let's see where it's at Philadelphia and UH,
and somebody grabbed me in the motel lobby and started
talking to me about it.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just I can't tell you. But that guy.
Let me tell you. That guy.
Speaker 3: Guy is he's he's called a tracker. He paid by
the Democrat Party. And what he does, he's a private contractor.
He just submits them videos and then they they you know,
they pay him accordingly. And he I got him one
time I told him something about is I needed welding
noggles because his legs were so white. And then one
time he asked me if I thought it was legit
but president doing something, and I said, I don't think
it's legitimate that you wear black suns with short pants
or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: And that one got about three or four million views.
But this one, it was crazy, you know, because I
had it. I had a guy, a guy sent it
to me who was I said, did you get that?
And he goes, yeah, I got it, and I said,
we'll send that to me, and so he did.
Speaker 2: And I held on.
Speaker 3: To it for a day or so or a couple
of days, and I didn't I didn't put it out.
Speaker 2: I didn't think much of it. You know, you just
never know.
Speaker 3: And I thought, well, I was a little bit harsh
to that guy, and then I thought, what the heck
can I put it out?
Speaker 2: And then you know, and then I'm glad.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you did to the entertainment of so many people.
But do you have do you have any concerns, any
misgivings that this poor young fellas sitting there in his
mom's basement getting ready for his dungeons and dragon camp,
coming out and eating eating a fresh hot pocket and
just saying, you know, boy, that representative temper.
Speaker 2: It sure was mean to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I always think, is that is that backpack as
he got a satchel charge in it? Is he going
to put a forty five out and put a bullet
in my head? Because it is Washington, they see the
only people that carry guns up there in the criminals
and the police, right and and so at all and
all in all seriousness, you're right, Yeah, Well, I mean
I have one lady with purple hair who comes out
and just hollers at me all the time about uh,
supporting Israel and the peace, letting Hamas and all this stuff.
And I always try a reminder that Jesus was a Jew,
and she always says, oh, that's different, and I say, no,
it isn't.
Speaker 2: But you know, I got a bunch of them. They
just they they're paid to hate on me.
Speaker 3: And it's it's day to day cavenge because as somebody
even accused me of setting that up that was some
Republican operative and then you know, I had a it
was that script and all this right now, it's just
I had to say it is from the heart.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I put it out. It's everybody.
Speaker 3: It's amazing though, it is amazing how much that has gotten,
how many views that's gotten, and.
Speaker 2: The people that talk about it.
Speaker 3: My wife is telling me people send it to her
from all over the country.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're right.
Speaker 1: I mean there's there's that, and you know it's it's
a hilarious exchange, but there is the seriousness. I mean,
you've you've been the victim of squatting, you have as
you mentioned, death threats. I mean, this is what's happening.
And think about what's going on with President Trump and
Vice President Vance and you know, in cabinet members, we
are the poll out showing that fifty five percent of
people who lean left say there are some instances where
it's okay to to assassinate the President of the United
States if his name is Donald Trump to Elon Musk, yeah,
let me let me tell you about my my swatting incident,
if that's okay.
Speaker 3: I had a I had a uh that was on
a Monday morning and I was going to the airport.
Speaker 2: I was with my wife. She was we're down to
two vehicles.
Speaker 3: Now I'm not one of the more wealthier members of Congress,
but uh. And and that that vehicles transmissions about to
go out. Anybody's listening from Chevrolet as you're like to
talk to you about your tehooe transmissions. But anyway, so
I'm but I'm not better. But anyways, I'm driving and
I'm going up the hill. I remember, and I get
this calling, this law enforcement. I say hello, he's a congresson.
I said where are you And I told him and
they said, well good. I said, why is good? He said, well,
we got a call that you're that there's a pipe
bomb in your mailbox. And I said, oh, man, I said,
I said, I need to turn a car ring And no,
we don't want you to. You stay where you're at
and said the fbis on the way. We're going to
be there and I said, and I said, okay, I said,
well man, and so I had a family member that
was here, and that bothered me if they were going
to get the mail, but that could have been awful.
And I said, and they said, well, they're on top
of it. I said, but here's the problem. So we
got the call through another agency. They got it on Friday,
and it went to spam and I was like, what, wow.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 3: We don't most the mail we gets jump mail, so
it's we don't.
Speaker 2: We don't check it every day.
Speaker 3: I guess we should, but you know, we get the
packages like everybody else does. That's how we we uh
attend the commerce.
Speaker 2: So I was really getting disgusted over it.
Speaker 3: And it was just just a comedy of errors from
there on, and an FBI finally showed up.
Speaker 2: They show up pretty quick. Actually, they bought the street off.
Speaker 3: And and and did what they had to do. I
watched it on video actually, and uh, and so it
but that that's serious. That is serious, And yet the
FBI has not figured out who's doing that.
Speaker 2: And that bothers me a lot. That bothers me a lot.
I can understand, you know.
Speaker 3: And I got family, I got I spent I don't know,
fifty or sixty thousand dollars just on security for our
farm alone, just for you know, parameter motion detectors filming.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's more stuff than my wife.
Speaker 3: Every time I tell home, there's something new and she's
showing me some new detection we've gotten.
Speaker 2: But it's it's serious.
Speaker 3: It's not it's not even the way it was when
I first got to Congress.
Speaker 2: It is just it's it's it's and.
Speaker 3: Martin Taylor Green, I guess she leads Congress with the
number of death.
Speaker 2: Threats, you know.
Speaker 3: And then the cop got somebody got killed that was
rushing to her house, and uh.
Speaker 2: And you know, and the way they they do.
Speaker 3: The first time I was swatted, they said that they
send an email out to the police and other people
and said, hey, I'm having an affair with somebody and
I've shot and killed their husband. I've got the wife,
you know, tied up here in the house, and you know,
and then and so the police get that and then
they come rushing in. You know, Thank goodness, I've got
you know, I wasn't the one time. This is crazy.
This is the one time. My wife and daughter. Now
we're ALKI at a nice sit down dinner. We usually
go down here to the Mexan, which I love, is
our Mexican restaurant. It's attached to an Exon, so I
called it the Mexon. But the enchiladas are four days.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but so is the and so is the window wash.
Yeah yeah, it's it's good too, but the I was.
Speaker 3: I met Jeff Bezos at the inauguration and he thought
I was just an old country bumk until I showed him,
you know, I am a car hard on because it's
cold up there, and I pulled it back and showed
him my pen and told I was convers says, Okay.
Speaker 2: We talked fortt a.
Speaker 3: While and I invited him to Knoxville and I said,
but bring a check.
Speaker 2: Book, and he said, why is that?
Speaker 3: I said, because to Mexican they went up seven dollars
under margaritas.
Speaker 2: Oh. He thought that's the funnies step kind of thing.
Speaker 3: But anyway, uh, you know what they're trying to do
is get somebody killed, because you're going to have a
police officer he doesn't recognize that that's Tim Merchant's address,
and they're going to come in here and and I'm
and and somebody starts knocking down my dad come door,
and it's it's not going to end pretty. I'm a
big I love the First Amendment, but I carried the
Second Amendment with me at all times.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm ready.
Speaker 1: I'm this day and age, and this day and age
you have to and you're right, but that's not the
First Amendments. That's the commission of a crime, and that's
what's the definitionion of a crime. That's what we're seeing.
We're seeing all of that violence coming in from the left,
you know, the coexist, the tolerance group, but it's it's
only getting worse. But the fight, as you mentioned, is
so important. You've been extremely generous with your time. I'll
ask you this final question for you. Sure we're near
the first hundred days. You gave us your thoughts on
where we're at so far. Where do you see us
going in the year ahead?
Speaker 3: America's once want their pieces in thirty minutes or less,
and that's about our attention, Stan, and I'm guilty of
that as well. I'm afraid we're going to start, we're
going to start neutralizing ourselves and not moving ahead if
we're not careful. Unless that can change if the American
public starts holding us accountable. We have presentatives. They go
home and they throw out the red meat, and they
talk about all this stuff, and then they don't do
a dad dumn thing about it. They don't propose legislation,
they don't fight to get their legislation for the committee,
and then they they basically water stuff down at the
request of lobbyist or staffers. And you mean I'm fighting
fighting them, like on the bill like my Taliban bill,
of course, and then the bill on the genetic material.
Speaker 2: The lobbyists hate that bill and for good reason.
Speaker 3: So if we do not hold our like I said,
we hold Hollywood accountable, and they'll do the right thing occasionally,
but if we do not hold Washington accountable, it will not.
Speaker 2: Do the right thing.
Speaker 3: And it is a day to day it's not a
every two years check up. Because of selection time you
start get your kids or your grandkids show you how
to use that that them computer, and start start watching
the votes and start asking questions about that legislation.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, at the end of the day, it's the republic
that's at stake, and it truly is. That's not an overstatement,
by the way, how are the hot pockets at the Mexan.
Speaker 2: You know what, I'm honestly never eaten a hot pocket.
Speaker 3: And I posted on my ex account a buddy of mine,
Kim Eisenberg, she's a realtor here in town. I was
speaking at the Women's the Republican Women's Club at buddy's
banquet hall yesterday and she's Jewish and she brought me
a hot pockets thing and said, you know how hard
it was fine to find a hot pocket that didn't
have pork in it. And I was like, And so
there's a picture of me on my ex account at
Tim Burchett posing with me and her. And we both
grew up in the West Deals together. We on the
tough street to West Deals, as I like to say,
in the western Ooxville. And she's a lifelong friend. But
she brought me that and we post for a picture.
I thought, that's the funniest eat of them thing, because
I've never pocket. I know the good folks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I know the good folks at the makers
of hot pocket. They pride themselves on kosher products of course.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, as I said, we had much to talk about,
and I think we got most of it done. I
want to wish you the very best moving forward in
the work that you're doing, and I want to wish
you God's protection as you do it. This is these
are difficult times, no doubt about it. Thanks to my
guest today, Representative Tim Burchett, Republican representing the Great State
of Tennessee's second Congressional District, you've been listening to another
edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Matt Kittle, Senior
Elections correspondent at the Federalist. We'll be back soon with more.
Until then, stay lovers of freedom and anxious for the frame.
Speaker 2: Earn the fameboys reason.
Speaker 3: And then it faded away.
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