WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:04.160 Are common Sense recap of a day's biggest stories. It's 2 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:09.359 John Katzimadidi's and Rita Gosby Kats and Cosby on seventy 3 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:14.599 seven WABC, and. 4 00:00:14.519 --> 00:00:18.600 We are back here on Katz and Cosby and joining 5 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:22.920 us now is Congresswoman Claudia Tenny from the great state 6 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:25.320 of New York. Boy, oh boy, we're so happy to 7 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:26.480 have you here, Claudia. 8 00:00:26.519 --> 00:00:28.719 Before we go into what we're going to talk about, 9 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:32.359 you know, we're talking about voter fraud and talking about 10 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:35.079 a lot of things like that. And I wanted everybody 11 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:38.520 to recall what happened to you and what wasn't in 12 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:39.840 the election of twenty twenty. 13 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:43.439 Yes, in twenty twenty, it was during the pandemic. I 14 00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:45.600 was winning by twenty. 15 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:47.719 Eight by twenty eight thousand. 16 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:50.920 Votes, twenty eighty four to twenty two. Very good, Yeah, 17 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:53.600 very good, John, Yeah, winning by four And I ended 18 00:00:53.679 --> 00:00:55.600 up in court for one hundred days. I was the 19 00:00:55.679 --> 00:00:59.479 last member of Congress sworn in in February eleventh. We 20 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:02.479 got it was a disaster. I mean, there was very 21 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:06.439 very hard to verify, and we ended up the judge 22 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:11.159 allowed ballots to be counted that for people that hadn't 23 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:13.599 even registered to vote, so they registered them and then 24 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:16.000 counted the ballots thinking they would be new votes, and 25 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:18.799 then go Democrats. But I pulled ahead, wells do one 26 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:20.239 by one hundred and nine votes. 27 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:23.200 Let's do this. Let's say it again very slowly so 28 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:27.480 everybody understands what happened to you, because it's happening in 29 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:33.079 New Jersey with fraudulent votes. The Democrats do not want 30 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:37.680 to have voter ID. You were ahead twenty eight three 31 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:41.840 hundred votes, and then all of a sudden, seventy thousand 32 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:44.359 votes showed up. The mail order ballots. 33 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:48.319 They were mail in ballots, they were proxy ballots. They 34 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:51.359 were ballots from people who hadn't who thought they registered 35 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:55.200 to vote, they weren't registered. They were all kinds of people. 36 00:01:55.280 --> 00:01:57.560 Some of the boards of elections in the counties that 37 00:01:57.640 --> 00:02:00.560 represented did a very good job, and a couple did not. 38 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:04.920 Now, yeah, if you were such a tough woman, such 39 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:08.719 a such a tough lady, anybody else would have would 40 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:11.159 have picked up and surrendered. That's my opinion. 41 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:14.080 And you won by what one hundred and nine votes? 42 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:16.680 Ultimately one hundred and nine. 43 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:18.919 Thank god, you fought the fight. 44 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:21.439 I'm telling you that I mean we couldn't get Now 45 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:25.759 we have a US attorney in the Northern district and 46 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:29.360 I know she he's investigating certain votes. I mean, the 47 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:34.319 mayor's vote already went through. He's the maya, but they're 48 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:36.680 investigating certain fraudulent ballots. 49 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:40.560 And it's the thing, John, this is what all of 50 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:44.879 your listeners need to know about elections and election integrity 51 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:48.400 and ballots. People can say after the election and the 52 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:51.479 ballot's already been cast, meaning put in the voting machine, 53 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:54.280 and it's gone, and they say, oh see, there's no 54 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:57.400 evidence of fraud. You have to catch it before the 55 00:02:57.479 --> 00:03:00.879 ballot is put in the box. Otherwise it's imposs to 56 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:04.599 detect whether that ballot was fraudulent. It's it's just you 57 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:08.479 have to have That's why voter ID and verifying who 58 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:11.400 the person is and that they are who they say 59 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:14.439 they are and it's one person, one vote, you know, 60 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:17.879 one citizen, one vote is so critically important because once 61 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:20.599 that ballot gets in the box, there's no tracking it. 62 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:24.000 You don't know who the ballot is, who it's been 63 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:27.919 delivered by. And that's why pre ballot you know, you 64 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:30.439 can still do early voting. By the way, as long 65 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:33.039 as you have the safeguards in place. And I can't 66 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:35.319 emphasize enough I was. I was one of the official 67 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:39.439 election observers with other members of the House Intelligence Committee 68 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:44.159 in Honduras last November. They actually require not only do 69 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:47.639 they require proof of citizenship, you have to bring in 70 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:51.000 an address of a bill that goes to you. You 71 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:53.400 also have to have a valid voter ID. And once 72 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:56.400 you do all that, they do biometrics to make sure 73 00:03:56.439 --> 00:03:58.240 that you are who they say they are and you 74 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:02.080 are the persson that is read at that precinct and 75 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:05.680 you vote there that I want. This is a small country. 76 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:08.120 I mean, it is so basic. And by the way, 77 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:11.319 I love the example President Trump made and others that 78 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:13.639 Mandamie was saying, Oh, well, you got to show proof 79 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:16.560 of who you are when you vote, when you go 80 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:19.279 to the the government run grocery stores. 81 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:22.000 Yes, otherwise we're not going to send you sell your 82 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:26.800 ice cream at a discount whatever. Now, Croudia, I wanted 83 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:30.360 to say that slowly because I think it's very important 84 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:33.839 all our listeners to know what the heck is going on. 85 00:04:34.199 --> 00:04:36.160 And now I'm going to turn you over to you 86 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:40.240 to Rita, who's going to talk about what's happening today? 87 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:43.920 All right? So now today, by the way, before I forget, 88 00:04:44.040 --> 00:04:46.360 what about the sav act, what's the latest, because you're 89 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:50.120 talking about voter ID and and I'm shock, Claudie when 90 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:54.639 I just heard what Honduras requires. And yet and yet 91 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:58.040 we're trying to fight here for something that seems pretty 92 00:04:58.040 --> 00:04:59.720 basic and so far it's stuck. 93 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:03.240 Yeah, well it is. And it's the thing is we 94 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:05.759 you know, right now it's really a political thing because 95 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:10.319 most voters, it's something eighty or ninety percent support voter ID. 96 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:14.319 The problem is the Democrats will not, under any circumstances 97 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:17.639 vote for anything with the Republicans right now because they 98 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:20.319 just are denying us everything. They're not willing to work. 99 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:25.000 They talk about being collaborative and bipartisan, that none of that. 100 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:26.920 They will not vote for it, even though their voters 101 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:30.000 want it, their Democrat voters want it, they won't vote 102 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:31.279 for it. And that's why we have to have the 103 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:34.319 sixty vote threshold and the Senate. We've passed it numerous 104 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:37.199 times in the House. It's gone to the floor in 105 00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:39.879 the Senate, and they can't get sixty votes. And then 106 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:42.240 you know, that's what brings in the whole filibuster issue. 107 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:44.439 The other thing about it it's important is remember it 108 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:47.519 probably wouldn't take effect right now, and it is a safeguard. 109 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:50.600 It's something that we should definitely be pursuing, even if 110 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:53.560 we can't get it done before this it't it wouldn't 111 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:56.319 take place by this election day. But it's really important 112 00:05:56.360 --> 00:06:00.000 that we give integrity to our elections because their voters 113 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:03.199 are skeptical. And another thing, and I've talked about this 114 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:06.480 on your show before, you'll hear democrats say, well, it's 115 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:09.639 not fair to show proof of ID. It's too much 116 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:12.759 of a burden, which to me is racist and it's 117 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:16.000 misogynistic just to say because somebody is you know, a 118 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:19.560 particular race, they can't or a particular demographic they can't 119 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:23.319 get an ID. That's ridiculous. Also to say that women 120 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:25.680 can do that or they change their names if they 121 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:28.839 get divorced. I got divorced. I carried around my divorce 122 00:06:28.920 --> 00:06:31.560 decree for twenty years to prove that I was indeed 123 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:34.920 Claudia Tenny, who is who I was on my birth certificate, 124 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:38.319 So you know I did that. Any all kinds of 125 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:41.040 people have to do that. That's you know, proving who 126 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:45.639 you are in this age of social media, of instantaneous 127 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:51.319 cyber issues, security, the security threats to seniors and vulnerable people. 128 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:54.480 It is so basic that we provide an idea and 129 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:57.160 it's easy. It is we can do it so simply. 130 00:06:57.240 --> 00:06:59.199 If they can do it in Honduras, we can certainly 131 00:06:59.240 --> 00:06:59.959 do it in the United SLA. 132 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:02.600 I agree one hundred and ten percent. Thank you for 133 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:05.759 coming on this Friday and getting it off your chest 134 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:09.920 and letting those people listen very carefully on a Friday, 135 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:13.040 what wheedy is going on in our state, in our cities, 136 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:14.920 and keep up the good fighting. 137 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:16.959 Yeah, we love you, Claudia. 138 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:19.079 All right, thanks so much, you guys so much. 139 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:22.600 Let's go to the top news of the day. We'd 140 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:25.839 have sponsored by Goya Foods the best. 141 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:29.480 It's the top news of the day, sponsored by Goya. 142 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:31.240 Here's Rita Cosby. 143 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:34.199 And here are some of the other headlines. Guys. A 144 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:38.879 critical Republican holdout is now backing Todd Blanche to become 145 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:43.439 the next US Attorney General. Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy announced 146 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:46.519 on the Senate floor very dramatically this morning that he 147 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:49.839 plans to vote yes to confirm Blanche. The Senate could 148 00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:53.399 put Blanche's nomination to a vote at some point today 149 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:56.959 before the five week August recess. That sounds like a 150 00:07:56.959 --> 00:08:00.399 pretty good recess. He guys, five weeks. We're in the 151 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:03.519 wrong business. Oh my gosh, five weeks. And that's a 152 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:04.079 good break. 153 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:05.000 Five weeks. 154 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:05.680 Five weeks. 155 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:07.160 That's the rtor. 156 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:09.000 And by the way, that's not the only break they have. 157 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:11.519 They have a couple of breaks. This once five weeks, 158 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:14.680 I know. And the other headline, you guys, is that 159 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:18.079 President Trump wants the US to be the world leader 160 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:21.800 in the race to mine rare earth minerals. Speaking at 161 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:25.000 a mining industry roundtable at the State Department this afternoon, 162 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:28.240 President Trump spoke on the importance of mining rare earth 163 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:33.279 minerals used in everything from military weapons to automobiles. And 164 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:35.440 those are the big headlines we have coming up. We're 165 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:37.919 going to go to North Dakota. We love him. Senator 166 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:40.080 Kevin Kramer coming up right after the break. 167 00:08:42.840 --> 00:08:47.159 We're commuting home with Kats and Cosby. Now here's John 168 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:51.759 Katsimatids and raid It Cosby on seventy seven WADC. 169 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:05.960 Well, let's go to North Dakota. There's a good song. 170 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:09.480 I love that and who better than our favorite senator there, 171 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:12.360 Kevin Kramer from North Dakota. How do you like that opening? 172 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:13.000 Their senator? 173 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:16.559 I love that opening. Of course, before, long before I 174 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:19.240 was a senator, I was the tourism director in North Dakota. 175 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:19.720 Wow. 176 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:22.840 Wow, I know, hard to believe. And now, of course 177 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:27.320 we have the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. That's right, beautiful 178 00:09:27.559 --> 00:09:29.960 badlands of North Kaosta. You guys come out there and 179 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:32.759 do a week's worth of shows at the Roosevelt Library, 180 00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:35.360 and you'll see all the connections between North Dakota and 181 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:38.840 New York, bridged by the one of the greatest presidents 182 00:09:38.840 --> 00:09:39.360 of all time. 183 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:41.600 Wow. By the way, you, I can't imagine you were 184 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:45.279 probably a great tourism director because you are so engaging 185 00:09:45.559 --> 00:09:47.919 and so good at what you do. Now it explains 186 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:50.399 like were you the most popular tourism director. 187 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:52.960 I don't know about that, but I did a lot 188 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:55.440 of radio, you guys said, It's probably how I really 189 00:09:55.480 --> 00:09:59.480 got into doing radio is I started doing a weekly 190 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:04.559 feature or on Fridays on a big station in Fargo, KFGO, 191 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:07.440 and it was just sort of talking about the week 192 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:10.320 ahead and the host, the host when he phoned out, 193 00:10:10.360 --> 00:10:12.080 I can talk pretty well. He had me on a 194 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:14.320 lot and really, really, you guys, Now, I do two 195 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:17.919 hours of talk radio in North Dakota every single week 196 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:20.919 at least two hours of talk radio. Wow, this is 197 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:22.440 a blast. I like radio. 198 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:25.919 We love how we're doing with the am radio bill 199 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:29.000 is because the wolk culture people are trying to destroy 200 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:32.480 am radio, which is part of our security defense. 201 00:10:32.919 --> 00:10:36.279 It's absolutely, it absolutely is, John, and it's so important. 202 00:10:36.440 --> 00:10:39.200 It's and it's really important in rural America out there 203 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:42.120 where in many cases everything can go down instead of 204 00:10:42.200 --> 00:10:45.840 including your iPhone, but am radio, the am radio signal 205 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:48.639 can still tell you when the where the tornado's coming from, 206 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:52.000 or you know, the storms or fires or whatever else. 207 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:57.039 It's it truly is the greatest means of mass distribution 208 00:10:57.120 --> 00:11:00.200 of information that there is. So I'm as you can tell, 209 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:00.879 I'm a fan. 210 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:04.159 Yes, please check on it and next work next week. 211 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:05.519 Sure, it's a deal. 212 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:08.120 What else is going on at the American people still 213 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:11.440 about on a Friday at five thirty, Yeah. 214 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:13.440 Well, there's a lot going on in the Senate because 215 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:15.759 we've passed the number of bills this morning this morning, 216 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:18.080 and parts of bills this morning to include by the 217 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:21.639 way the confirmation of seventy four of Donald Trump's nominees, 218 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:25.799 and after we get plants confirmed today, we will have 219 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:31.720 zero backlog of nominees ready for you, ready for confirmation. 220 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:34.799 We're on a record pace and that's been that's been great. 221 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:39.840 We started the process of the continuing Resolution to fund 222 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:42.799 the government through December eleventh. This I can't remember a 223 00:11:42.840 --> 00:11:45.720 time in my fourteen years in the Congress that we've 224 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:48.960 actually done this early. And this is a John Thune 225 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:51.639 special to get ahead of this before you're facing a 226 00:11:51.799 --> 00:11:54.639 government shutdown when the Liberals have all kinds of leverage 227 00:11:54.679 --> 00:11:57.399 and want to spend a whole bunch of money. So 228 00:11:57.519 --> 00:11:59.159 you know, there's a lot going on. We want to 229 00:11:59.159 --> 00:12:01.480 get to. We want to get to some form of 230 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:05.639 the Save Act yet today if we can, and so 231 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:08.440 you guys are still voting, we are, Oh yeah, we 232 00:12:08.519 --> 00:12:09.320 got lots of votes. 233 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:12.960 Yet tonight is Todd Blanston to go off for vote tonight. 234 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:15.879 He will, I believe, and I believe we will confirm 235 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:19.240 him with a probably about a fifty to forty nine vote. 236 00:12:19.240 --> 00:12:20.679 But you only need to win by one. 237 00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:21.480 A win's a win. 238 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:22.120 By the way. 239 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:24.720 One of the other things you're big into the Senator, 240 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:25.879 and I want to make sure we get to it. 241 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:29.639 It's so interesting about this bill that's going to prevent 242 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:34.000 criminal aliens from being freed when their home countries reject them. 243 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:36.240 There's a loophole right out there, which a lot of 244 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:39.039 people don't realize. Talk about what's changing. 245 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:42.200 Yeah, So that's a really great point because this loophole, 246 00:12:42.440 --> 00:12:44.919 it stems from a two thousand and one Supreme Court 247 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:50.279 decision and it basically it requires the release of aliens 248 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:54.159 from immigration detention after six months. Get this now, after 249 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:57.440 six months if their home countries or other countries have 250 00:12:57.600 --> 00:13:01.000 not accepted them for deportation. Just when you think of 251 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:03.799 the irony of that. In other words, if they're so 252 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:06.120 bad that their own country doesn't want them back, we 253 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:08.840 have to release them into the United States. Now, come 254 00:13:08.919 --> 00:13:10.480 up with a decision like that, right. 255 00:13:10.759 --> 00:13:12.639 Right, it's so absurd. 256 00:13:12.679 --> 00:13:16.000 So really, for the last fifteen years, Republicans have been 257 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:18.919 trying to close that loophole. And so we have a 258 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:22.320 bill now that really Senator Katie Britt from Alabama is 259 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:24.360 that she's the lead on this bill. But it's called 260 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:30.840 Keep Our Communities Safe Act, and you know, it basically 261 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:34.600 wants to close that loophole. Now, you know, there's certain 262 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:38.440 there's certain deportation requirements that sometimes are hard to meet, 263 00:13:38.519 --> 00:13:41.759 but you don't release a violent criminal into your own 264 00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:45.960 cities just because the other country can't take them, and 265 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:49.559 much less be required to do it. So it targets 266 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:52.879 a couple of different sections of the Immigration Act to 267 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:57.799 expand Homeland Securities Authority really to detain criminal aliens and 268 00:13:57.799 --> 00:14:00.840 then deny bonds to criminal aliens. G is not a 269 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:04.399 novel approach and generally limits that the availability of bonds 270 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:08.279 unless the illegal immigrant can establish, you know, by the evidence, 271 00:14:08.320 --> 00:14:10.080 of course, that they're not a flight risk or a 272 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:13.039 risk to another person or the community. But what's so 273 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:16.600 weird about this whole loophole is that it flips the 274 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:23.000 the really the rules of evidence on the government that 275 00:14:23.080 --> 00:14:26.679 you know. It's just it's just insane for non non 276 00:14:27.559 --> 00:14:30.639 American citizen to be able to have these kind of 277 00:14:30.679 --> 00:14:34.080 special privileges that you literally have to be have to 278 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:37.440 be released if if the other country doesn't want them. 279 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:38.360 It's it's absurd. 280 00:14:38.360 --> 00:14:40.519 But well, I'm glad that you're closing the loophole. 281 00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:44.159 Tell us anything any other substanti When do you guys 282 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:46.200 going on vacation for five weeks. 283 00:14:47.240 --> 00:14:49.840 And are you taking us with you? That's the other question. 284 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:52.200 Well, you believe me, I'd be happy to take you 285 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:54.799 guys on any vacation i'd be going on. Unfortunately, I'm 286 00:14:54.840 --> 00:14:56.879 not going on any vacations. I'm not even much of 287 00:14:56.919 --> 00:15:00.279 an international traveler. A lot of members do go to 288 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:03.639 you know, to other countries that do diplomatic duties and 289 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:06.759 all that stuff. I do more things back home. I 290 00:15:06.759 --> 00:15:09.120 have a couple of you know, military officials coming to 291 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:12.720 visit my air bases. Uh got uh. You know, there's 292 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:16.320 just never you never rest. But it's always easier to 293 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:18.480 work at you know, in your home state than it 294 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:20.279 is out here in Washington, d C. 295 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:23.080 In August, well, you know all the good spots because 296 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:24.639 you were the tourism directors there. 297 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:27.080 You are there, you know you guys. 298 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:30.000 Senator, we love you. It's really great to have you 299 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:32.120 on and we look forward to talking with you again 300 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:32.679 real soon. 301 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:35.159 It's one get on the am radio thing. John, we'll 302 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:36.399 talk about that than you. 303 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:40.960 Thanks, Thank you, senator very much, and John, I understand 304 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:45.320 we have now calling in Senator Dave McCormick from Pennsylvania, 305 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:46.440 it's a senator's day. 306 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:50.120 I'll take it Friday evening calling you. Today's we have 307 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:54.639 Senator David McCormick from the great State of Pennsylvania, a 308 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:59.639 former Army officer and uh a great US senator in Pennsylvania. 309 00:15:59.720 --> 00:16:03.200 Long with Yes, he looks like you might be a 310 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:09.519 lot better than we thought originally. H Santa Fetterman from Pennsylvania. J. 311 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:12.799 Santra mccleomick. Can you give us an update? What's going on? 312 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:16.279 Well? Great, great to be with you. Yeah, listen, I'm 313 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:19.559 now a year and a half into into being the 314 00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:22.360 Senator from Pennsylvania. I like to I like to say 315 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:26.200 I'm the best dress senator from Pennsylvania, and even John Fetterman, 316 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:29.279 my buddy, agrees with that, and and I think he's 317 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:32.480 probably the most popular. But that's been a great surprise. 318 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:36.919 We have found a way to work together. And you know, 319 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:39.440 we we vote very differently a lot of the time. 320 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:42.080 We have lots of disagreements, but we don't focus on that. 321 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:45.360 We focus on the things we agree on, stopping fentanyl, 322 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:51.360 unlocking energy of supporting the fight against anti Semitism, supporting 323 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:55.080 America's use of force abroad to protect America's interest in 324 00:16:55.080 --> 00:16:58.759 the Middle East against Iran and a nuclear threat. And listen, 325 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:03.360 I trust him. He's been nothing but straightforward and we're 326 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:07.119 good friends. And so that's been a real pleasant surprise. 327 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:10.039 And the thing that's happened, John, is you've seen just 328 00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:13.799 in that eighteen months, the Democratic Party has lost its mind. 329 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:18.039 And this extreme part of the party I like to 330 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:20.960 call it, the Graham Platner wing of the party, which 331 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:26.559 is anti military, anti law enforcement, anti business, anti Semitic, 332 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:30.519 and anti America. That part of the party has become 333 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:36.079 and gained the support of mainstream Democrats, including just recently 334 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:39.480 with the lsieed in Michigan. I mean, this is a 335 00:17:39.839 --> 00:17:42.960 direction that I never thought i'd see in my lifetime. 336 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:46.359 When I was a soldier, we were fighting against the 337 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:49.839 Soviet Union, and I never thought when when the Cold 338 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:53.759 War ended, we'd have to fight against socialism and communism. 339 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:55.559 I thought those were in the dustbin of history. But 340 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:58.960 that's been the defining thing of the last eighteen months 341 00:17:58.960 --> 00:17:59.200 for me. 342 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:03.680 A lot of common sense Democrats feel the same way 343 00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:07.799 as you do, Senator, In what I tell all my 344 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:12.759 Republican friends is let's get all the common sense Democrats 345 00:18:13.400 --> 00:18:19.359 working together with the common sense Republicans and take back America. 346 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:23.039 Yeah, there's no doubt about it. And listen, I just 347 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:27.240 came back from two thousand miles twenty six counties over 348 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:31.680 eleven days. And the thing you see across these communities 349 00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:35.839 in Pennsylvania, they just want people to solve problems. They 350 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:38.559 want to stop the flow of fentanyl into their communities, 351 00:18:38.559 --> 00:18:41.200 which we've made huge progress on. John it was four 352 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:44.720 thousand Pennsylvanians died in the last year that buid An 353 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:48.240 administration is now in one year due to fentanyl. It 354 00:18:48.279 --> 00:18:52.160 was sixteen hundred in the first year of the Trump administration, 355 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:55.279 down sixty percent. You know, they want the cost of 356 00:18:55.319 --> 00:18:56.960 living to go down. They want to be able to 357 00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:01.720 buy a house, which is why past this Road to 358 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:04.039 Housing Act, which is going to bring down the cost 359 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:06.400 of housing. When I was right when I get out 360 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:09.160 of the Army, the average age for an American to 361 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:12.240 own a home is twenty eight. It's forty one today. 362 00:19:12.599 --> 00:19:15.160 So they want people who are going to solve problems. 363 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:20.279 And so that's why I've focused on voting for things 364 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:24.960 that are going to bring that kind of policy to 365 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:28.200 working families in Pennsylvania. The working Families Tax Cut Act 366 00:19:28.759 --> 00:19:31.759 was a big part of that. It's lowering the cost 367 00:19:31.799 --> 00:19:34.759 of living, it's bringing back forty five hundred dollars for 368 00:19:34.839 --> 00:19:37.960 every family with an average income of fifty five thousand, 369 00:19:38.039 --> 00:19:40.640 childcare tax credit. These are the things that they care 370 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:42.200 about and they don't want to get caught up in 371 00:19:42.240 --> 00:19:48.079 this crazy ideological leftist part of the Democratic Party. And 372 00:19:48.119 --> 00:19:50.279 that's why I think we will do better than people 373 00:19:50.279 --> 00:19:51.519 expect in the midterms. 374 00:19:51.720 --> 00:19:55.000 I agree with you what you said before. The Democrats 375 00:19:55.079 --> 00:19:57.880 might have the Republicans might have a few items that 376 00:19:58.200 --> 00:20:01.960 not everybody agrees with, but the Democrats have lost their brain, 377 00:20:02.200 --> 00:20:04.640 have lost their mind. I mean, I just we just 378 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:08.920 want common sense. And you know something, Pennsylvania, where you're from, 379 00:20:09.480 --> 00:20:14.400 where I have a big investments in Pennsylvania, always had 380 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:18.039 common sense. Senator McCormick, thank you for calling in this Friday. 381 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:21.400 We got so much to talk about. Let's talk on Sunday. 382 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:23.039 Too, you got it, John, looking forward to it. 383 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:23.440 Thank you. 384 00:20:23.880 --> 00:20:27.599 Wow, great discussion there with Senator McCormick. And you know 385 00:20:27.880 --> 00:20:29.640 ed one of the things we were just talking about. 386 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:31.839 We were talking with Claudia Tenny and we're gonna have 387 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:35.680 a GOP candidate Caroline Chinko coming up in a second here. 388 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:38.119 But it's interesting because we were talking about the votes, 389 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:41.279 counting the votes. I mean, you had some good history. 390 00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:44.720 Ronnia, Tenny, and that brings memories back to Ed Cox 391 00:20:45.200 --> 00:20:48.759 and you were one of the security guys for Rudy Giuliani. 392 00:20:49.079 --> 00:20:52.160 Let's go, let's turn the clock back thirty years. Tell 393 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:53.200 us what happened. 394 00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:59.359 With Rudy Jolianni lost by his first vote on nineteen 395 00:20:59.440 --> 00:21:02.599 eighty nine, and he won again in nineteen nineteen. How 396 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:06.799 much you lose by thirty thousand votes something like that? Yeah, 397 00:21:06.960 --> 00:21:09.480 and he and he went by that about the same amount, 398 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:14.240 and the difference next time afterward, according to Chairman sources. 399 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:16.160 What happened? What hell? Everybody that's listening out there. 400 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:18.000 Look, if there's gonna be fraud, it's going to be 401 00:21:18.039 --> 00:21:21.279