WEBVTT 1 00:00:13.560 --> 00:00:16.760 Seven oh five, that's Thursday. 2 00:00:18.280 --> 00:00:18.960 By the time is. 3 00:00:18.920 --> 00:00:22.280 Always please when Congressman Warren Davidson joins the fifty five 4 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:24.239 Caresey Morning Show to talk with us, talk a lot 5 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:27.160 of us about what's going on in Washington, DC. Welcome 6 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:29.199 back to Congressman Davidson. It's a pleasure having you on 7 00:00:29.239 --> 00:00:30.800 my program. 8 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:33.079 Brian. It's always an honor. Thanks for talking with me. 9 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:35.719 Kind of exciting times being an elected official right now 10 00:00:35.719 --> 00:00:37.600 on the Republican side of the ledger, A lot is 11 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:41.039 getting done. That's the understatement of a the year man. 12 00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:43.159 I'm Tony Trump has been able to accomplish more and 13 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:46.560 you along with Trump's initiatives and what he campaigned on, 14 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:49.640 a lot of which is being accomplished. It's just it's 15 00:00:49.759 --> 00:00:52.880 so fast and so furious. I personally have never witnessed 16 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:55.159 anything like this. And all the time I've been looking, 17 00:00:55.439 --> 00:00:58.799 you know, studying politics was like junior year in high school. 18 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:01.240 What's your take on just the the pace at which 19 00:01:01.240 --> 00:01:01.880 we're going here. 20 00:01:03.479 --> 00:01:05.359 Look, Congress is having a hard time moving at the 21 00:01:05.359 --> 00:01:07.959 speed of Trump. Trump's getting after it every day. I mean, 22 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:11.560 the team he's put together is doing amazing things, and 23 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:13.959 you know, the results are tremendous. I mean, you know, 24 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:15.640 maybe the best line of the year was at the 25 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:18.079 State of the Union when he said, you know, for 26 00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:20.120 the for border security, it turns out all we needed 27 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:22.959 was a different president. We still haven't passed a really 28 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:27.439 good border security law, but with the big beautiful Bill, 29 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:30.000 we gave lots of funding so that they can keep 30 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:32.560 the pace they're going at and frankly intensify the effort. 31 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:34.799 So we're going to have a secure border. And with 32 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:36.319 a secure border, that I'll give us a lot of 33 00:01:36.359 --> 00:01:38.400 options on how do we deal with the rest of 34 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:41.799 these problems. And you know, I'm excited about that. I'm 35 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:44.799 excited about our strong, focused military. I just met with 36 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:47.640 the Secretary of the Army this week. We're working on, 37 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:50.760 you know, getting the military laser focus readiness wise, I mean, 38 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:53.280 cutting out the bloat and waste. I mean, I'm talking 39 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:58.599 about bureaucratic inefficiencies we've known about for decades. And because 40 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:01.400 Congress generally just does i'm bus bills and just you know, 41 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:04.159 status quo, keep it going, they don't really do the 42 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:07.680 major reforms. And they're getting after it in the executive branch. 43 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:11.560 Hopefully Congress will move somewhere alongs in line with that, 44 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:14.800 and we'll get some of those reforms documented into law. 45 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:16.400 But the pace is exciting. 46 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:19.360 Well, and it's good that the Supreme Court greenlighted people 47 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:23.159 getting fired. I just had to laugh, although part of 48 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:25.360 me wanted to cry. It took them four months to 49 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:28.240 figure out actually the number of people that even worked 50 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:30.080 in the State Department. They didn't even know. 51 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:34.400 Yeah, yeah, I mean it's mind blowing. I mean the 52 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:36.280 Security Army. I was talking to them. He said, thirty 53 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:39.000 thousand people work in just the procurement part. These are 54 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:44.199 civilian employees, not soldiers, civilian employees, thirty thousand just buying 55 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:46.280 stuff for the army. And I'm like, well, how does 56 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:48.919 that compare with Walmart or Amazon. He's like, well, yeah, 57 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:51.039 like five thousand, Like they buy everything in the world, 58 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:53.599 all over the planet, right, but yeah, like five thousand 59 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:56.960 people can do it. Thirty thousand for the army. So 60 00:02:57.120 --> 00:02:59.479 you know, they've got, you know, ambitious goals to shrink 61 00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:02.280 that and bring the technology up to speed. Part of 62 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:04.000 the reason that some of this stuff is so broken. 63 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:06.520 I mean, X small business with quick books has probably 64 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:08.639 got more tech than a lot of our government agencies 65 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:13.120 in terms of just accounting controls. You know, who authorized 66 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:16.080 this spending? Did you really receive the part that you're 67 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:19.120 about to pay for things like that that you just 68 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:21.680 kind of take for granted that they're in place. There's 69 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:25.280 a reason they can't pass a quote audit and provide 70 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:28.039 accountability there. The other thing is this idea of the 71 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:30.479 audit that they're doing. It's like, you know, they're not 72 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:32.960 focused on details like that. You get all these you know, 73 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:35.919 big accounting firms coming in and then want to go, well, 74 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:39.680 how do you value the nuclear waste? You're like, yeah, 75 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:41.759 we get some nuclear waste. We're not putting a price 76 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:43.800 on it. I mean, we're just we're just trying to 77 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:46.560 find out what to do with it. And they're flag 78 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:48.360 and stuff like that, and we're like, no, no, where 79 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:50.560 did the money go that we sent to Ukraine? Exactly? 80 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:53.319 Things like that exactly. Well, and that's one of the 81 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:57.800 things that I was so impressed by, although underwhelmed at 82 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:01.400 the total amount of fraud, waste and abuse that was 83 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:03.479 out in the world. But when dog looked at USAID 84 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:06.360 and we find out the American taxpayer is working and 85 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:09.840 going to work every day to make money for income taxes, 86 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:11.879 to find out that it's going to like Sesame Street 87 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:15.719 in Israel or Afghanistan or something. I mean, the list 88 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:20.680 of absurd and insane programs, it's mind boggling, and it's 89 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:22.680 angering to folks like me and other people who pay 90 00:04:22.680 --> 00:04:26.160 attention to this. It's the same question who authorized the 91 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:29.480 funding of this ridiculous program? And what did the non 92 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:32.040 governmental organization who said they were going to fix whatever 93 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:35.160 problem is identified actually do with the money. There seems 94 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:37.680 to be no follow up or accounting along those lines. 95 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:40.600 Yeah, and I mean even if you look at structural 96 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:42.959 problems like you know, hud Okay, we believe we should 97 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:45.480 have a housing safety net, but you know, where's the 98 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:47.920 money going for some of these projects. You keep funning 99 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:49.600 it and they always say, we just need more money. 100 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:51.480 But then when you dig in, you're like, in DC 101 00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:54.920 DC public Housing, only fifty percent of the housing units 102 00:04:54.920 --> 00:04:57.439 are even livable. They're like, well, you get a maintenanstant 103 00:04:57.480 --> 00:05:00.040 repair budget of what it gets spent every year. I 104 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:03.399 aren't the place is fixed. Did you spend the money 105 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:07.199 fixing the place? Well, we gave it to the contractor, yeah, 106 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:10.040 but did they fix the place? You know, stuff that's 107 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:12.360 crazy and it's no, it isn't getting fixed. That's why 108 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:14.560 you have half of the housing units that the people 109 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:18.600 are paying for not livable. They can't even use them. 110 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:22.120 Well, And as to yesterday, the nine billion dollar federal 111 00:05:22.120 --> 00:05:25.519 funding reduction for foreign aid programs that went through the Senate, 112 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:27.839 it's going to be back to the House. What was 113 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:31.800 the one stumbling block funding for HIV AIDS research or 114 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:34.319 programs out in the world. How's the House going to 115 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:36.680 take the minor changes from the Senate on this one? 116 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:40.600 Yeah, I mean we're disappointed. I mean, good grief. You 117 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:44.439 get to give a haircut to nine point four billion, 118 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:46.639 which you know is a zero point one percent of 119 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:50.040 federal spending. I mean yes, you know that's why are 120 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:52.480 bond prices higher. Well, because they know nobody's going to 121 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:55.079 cut spending. We're we're riding this sucker on Endo the 122 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:58.720 trash site, it seems. And you know, we we identify 123 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:01.399 ways to save money, it would be popular with the public. 124 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:04.759 We I mean, only because jd Vance cast the tiebreaking vote, 125 00:06:04.959 --> 00:06:08.759 could we defund NPR and you know stuff like that. 126 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:12.240 I mean, MPR needs a billion dollars to sew propaganda 127 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:16.519 for anti American propaganda often, but certainly, you know, anti 128 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:19.439 anybody right of the center of the Democratic Party. They're 129 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:23.519 pushing far left the agenda every day, and they've got 130 00:06:23.560 --> 00:06:26.759 lots of donors and plenty of advertisers, and you know, 131 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:30.759 regular people that just donate to local PBS stations, you 132 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:32.720 know who I admit to have some good programming. I 133 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:34.720 like some of their programming, But if you look at 134 00:06:34.759 --> 00:06:36.920 the macro agenda, it's his way left of center, and 135 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:39.680 they don't need tax dollars to do it. But only 136 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:42.240 because jd Vance cast the tiebreaking vote could they do that. 137 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:44.480 We're going to vote on it, I think later today. 138 00:06:44.519 --> 00:06:46.199 I mean, they have to go to rules committee here 139 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:48.680 probably as we speak. And I think we're supposed to 140 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:51.759 start a debate on the floor on defense appropriations again 141 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:53.480 at nine. We did a little bit of it overnight 142 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:53.959 last night. 143 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:57.600 Well, it seems can you make defense appropriations, you know, 144 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:00.399 contingent upon actually being able to pass an audit? I mean, 145 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:03.199 that seems doesn't seem like a big ask. But you know, 146 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:07.360 I am convinced like nothing else that there's a whole 147 00:07:07.399 --> 00:07:10.439 lot of fraudways that abuse in a trillion dollar military budget. 148 00:07:10.439 --> 00:07:12.120 This is not to say I don't believe in building 149 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:15.360 ships and keeping up with the Chinese Communist Party or whoever, 150 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:20.399 defending America's interests both at home and abroad. But like 151 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:24.279 you said, where's the money actually going? Is it accomplishing 152 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:27.600 anything or has it been misspent or otherwise stolen? 153 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:31.040 Yeah, I mean that was one of the topics talking 154 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:33.240 with the Secretary of the Army, is you know, the 155 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:35.480 state of the audit, because I've you know, got this 156 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:38.000 amendment that I offer, which is, you know, any year 157 00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:39.920 that they can't pass an audit, you get to eliminate 158 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:43.360 ten percent of the general in general. You know, they 159 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:45.759 got too many generals, but you have to hold somebody accountable. 160 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:48.120 And okay, we believe you need the money because we 161 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:50.279 want to be strong and focused and have the best 162 00:07:50.279 --> 00:07:52.319 equipment in the world. Even when you do it. One 163 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:53.720 of the things I'm going to speak at is this 164 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:57.480 whole thing called latoral class you know ship Oh sure, 165 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:01.079 the inland waterways and everything else. These are non usable 166 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:04.759 for the purpose. Over half of them aren't even seaworthy 167 00:08:04.839 --> 00:08:07.279 right now, and they want to keep funding the program. 168 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:10.120 And instead of just saying, look, man, we're just throwing 169 00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:13.680 bad money, throwing good money after bad here, and it's 170 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:15.920 just sort of the sunk cost fallacy. Well, you know, 171 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:18.160 we've already spent this much. We have to No, it's 172 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:18.920 not fixable. 173 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:22.399 Stop well, and I just have to throw this out 174 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:26.600 because the nature of warfare has obviously changed dramatically, as 175 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:30.839 illustrated by the you know, the the Israel and the 176 00:08:30.839 --> 00:08:34.440 Iranian strikes and of course you got Russia Ukraine. It's 177 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:38.840 full on drone. I mean, you don't need multi billion 178 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:41.320 dollar aircraft to accomplish the goal that a you know, 179 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:44.639 several thousand dollars drone can accomplish. So are we going 180 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:47.279 to move away from funding you know, these billion dollar 181 00:08:47.519 --> 00:08:50.559 manned aircraft in favor of allocating more resources of money 182 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:51.799 to drone type technology. 183 00:08:53.159 --> 00:08:55.519 Well, hopefully we're shifting the focus. I mean we're working 184 00:08:55.519 --> 00:08:57.600 on it. I mean our shipbuilding state of shipbuilding in 185 00:08:57.600 --> 00:08:59.919 the country is probably one of the biggest issues. Just 186 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:04.200 keeping up with ammunitions is a challenge for the supply chain. 187 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:05.879 You know, to be candid, we shipped a lot of 188 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:09.320 them to other war zones and we need to replenish ours. 189 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:11.559 Part of it was some of those were older. But 190 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:13.799 then you get well, okay, what's the rate that we 191 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:18.240 can produce new stuff, and that again through the procure process, 192 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:20.399 isn't keeping pace with what we would like and what 193 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:22.639 we what we want to build out for a future 194 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:25.480 surge capability if we ever really needed to, you know, 195 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:27.960 we wouldn't say I was ever one of the biggest 196 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:30.080 fans of Donald Grumsfeld, but he had a decent saying 197 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:32.919 I kind of co opted about the supply chain is 198 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:35.039 you know, you go to war with the supply chain 199 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:37.200 you have, not with the supply chain you wish you had, 200 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:39.720 right And we're trying to fix that. And that's a 201 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:41.919 big part of what Trump's doing with tariffs. It's a 202 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:44.279 big part about you know, what we're doing with the 203 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:46.639 Defense Production Act, and it is trying to get the 204 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:51.039 whole country focused instead of just used to spending money 205 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:53.279 on giant programs and not caring about the outcome. 206 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:55.799 We'll continue to congress from more and Davidson pivoting over 207 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:59.360 from that specifical or focus on our defense spending too, 208 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:03.279 giving weapons to Ukraine, among other topics. Stick around me 209 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:05.240 right back seven fifteen fifty five krs toe the talk 210 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:07.279 station and a strong recommendation to get in touch with 211 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:10.080 John Ryan at Prestige Interior. 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Russia keeps making advances. And you know, 258 00:12:19.559 --> 00:12:22.960 patriot missile costs what four million dollars apiece. We only 259 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:26.879 manufacture collectively like six hundred of them per year. The 260 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:29.480 system that is required to fire them off and everything 261 00:12:29.559 --> 00:12:32.000 related to it is more than a billion dollars. And 262 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:35.759 you've got six hundred plus drones flying into any given 263 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:38.440 target area at a time. You can knock those down 264 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:42.240 with Patriot missiles. The cost benefit analysis just collapses in 265 00:12:42.279 --> 00:12:44.679 the face of how cheap drones are. Congressman Davidson, where 266 00:12:44.679 --> 00:12:47.840 are you on arm shipments to Ukraine and where we 267 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:50.960 stand on that? Because Russia they're unwavering in their position. 268 00:12:51.080 --> 00:12:52.639 They have a list of demands and they have not 269 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:55.480 moved away from them. I don't know threatening them with 270 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:58.000 fifty days to do this or that. I don't think 271 00:12:58.000 --> 00:12:59.759 Putin's going to lift a finger to do anything. He 272 00:12:59.799 --> 00:13:02.559 knows what he wants and he's not wavering because he's winning. 273 00:13:04.759 --> 00:13:06.399 Yeah, I mean you point out, like what's going to 274 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:09.519 change Putin's mind? Look, the great thing is Donald Trump 275 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:13.440 came into office with a very clear objective. He wants peace. 276 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:17.399 He doesn't care precisely where lines are drawn, he doesn't 277 00:13:17.399 --> 00:13:19.080 care about a lot of the details. But he wants 278 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:21.360 people is he said, I want people to stop dying. 279 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:25.679 Like what's wrong with that? Stop dying? And they're there. 280 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:29.360 There is a massive loss of life on both you know, 281 00:13:29.399 --> 00:13:32.639 the Ukrainian military and the Russian military. If you look 282 00:13:32.679 --> 00:13:36.159 at Ukraine, they've been decimated with their population base. They're doing, 283 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:40.480 you know, really indefensible things to get more bodies to 284 00:13:40.559 --> 00:13:44.080 go out to the front and uh and push pushing 285 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:47.039 people out into into the combat zone. And look, they're 286 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:49.559 trying to save and defend their country. You understand, it's 287 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:52.360 a it's a terrible war. Uh. But they're also not 288 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:56.200 rationally negotiating. So Trump's done a lot to get Zelensky there. 289 00:13:56.840 --> 00:14:00.519 But in the meantime, uh, you know, the weakness no 290 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:02.600 matter how much money you have, no matter how many 291 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:05.720 munitions you have, you still need manpower. Yeah, and the 292 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:08.399 critical weakness for Ukraine as this has gone on and 293 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:12.080 on and on is manpower. So when they had manpower early, 294 00:14:12.679 --> 00:14:16.080 they weren't rational in their negotiating position. So you know, 295 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:17.720 I hope they haven't missed a moment to get a 296 00:14:17.720 --> 00:14:19.840 better piece than what they're going to wind up with. 297 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:23.960 But you know, this is part of how bad Biden was. 298 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:25.799 I mean, I never voted for a dime to go 299 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:28.360 to Ukraine because they would never define what are you 300 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:31.159 trying to accomplish? And then they would say crazy things 301 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:34.600 like well work regime change in Russia and war crimes 302 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:37.039 tribunals for Putin. I'm not saying that would be a 303 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:40.600 completely unjust outcome, but Ukraine isn't going to accomplish that 304 00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:43.480 no matter how many we send them. That's world War three, 305 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:46.519 you know, And I'm out on World War three if 306 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:50.480 we can avoid it. Right. So there's a complete disconnect 307 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:53.480 here with a lot of the resources under the Biden administration. 308 00:14:53.960 --> 00:14:56.080 Trump has really still got it right and saying like 309 00:14:56.559 --> 00:14:59.320 this also isn't our war to fight or fund, so 310 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:04.000 we'll sell NATO member countries the weapons. Uh. The sort 311 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:06.799 of caveat there is I mean, we fund over half 312 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:09.320 of NATO, so you know, in a way, yes, our 313 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:11.759 dollars are still going to it. But he's trying to 314 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:14.120 get an outcome, and I hope he does. But you know, 315 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:15.840 the I think the odds are long at this point 316 00:15:15.879 --> 00:15:18.559 of getting put in to the negotiating table. If anyone 317 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:19.919 could do it, I think Donald Trump can't. 318 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:23.200 Yeah, well, it's gonna it's gonna require Zelonsky to relent. 319 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:25.519 I mean that just seems obvious because the longer this 320 00:15:25.639 --> 00:15:28.720 goes on and the more he he refuses to negotiate 321 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:31.519 and back off on what he ultimately thinks he wants, 322 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:34.919 which is like the Russia completely leaving the borders of Ukraine, 323 00:15:34.919 --> 00:15:37.080 which is never going to happen. This is just going 324 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:39.799 to continue in Russia's position, and from the bargaining standpoint, 325 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:41.000 he's just going to get stronger. 326 00:15:42.440 --> 00:15:45.240 Yeah, then that's what's happened, is you know the moments 327 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:48.759 I mean really honestly, the Biden administration scuttled it. If 328 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:54.559 you look at you know, the Durefan ambassador out of 329 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:58.240 this and how widely reported it back in back in 330 00:15:58.840 --> 00:16:01.360 you know, spring summer of twenty two, you know, months 331 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:04.200 after the war started. Uh, you know that the Biden 332 00:16:04.240 --> 00:16:07.600 team scuttled any negotiation for peace. I mean the ones 333 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:11.200 get that point was ready to reach a piece with Russia. 334 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:15.120 So since then he's been emboldened by all the NATO countries. 335 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:18.480 Then the you know the war path first people that 336 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:21.039 are like, no, no, We'll keep cutting you unlimited checks. 337 00:16:21.639 --> 00:16:24.000 And at some level, I'm not sure all those checks 338 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:27.720 made it to the front, but there there To your point, 339 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:29.840 a lot of innovation has come out of this war. 340 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:33.039 The United States has learned a ton. The drone developments 341 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:35.519 come a long way, and you have you have lightweight 342 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:39.559 drones with you know, vision systems, some of which can 343 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:43.399 be controlled not one drone by one operator, but little 344 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:47.120 swarms of these things, and they can target vehicles, they 345 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:51.600 could target humans, they can discriminate amongst targets, and they're 346 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:54.679 they're they're getting pretty good at the supply chain for 347 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:59.120 for small, very effective drones. So they're there, they are 348 00:16:59.240 --> 00:17:02.320 multiplying their combat power, and over time, I think the 349 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:05.880 drones have done a lot to dissuade Russia and the 350 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:09.720 Russian troops on the battlefield, and they're definitely out competing 351 00:17:09.720 --> 00:17:13.480 on the supply chain because They've got Western civilization essentially 352 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:17.079 funneling the supply chain, and Russia's got you know, China, 353 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:20.599 which is, you know, a pretty big industrial base obviously, 354 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:23.920 but the level of innovation isn't matching the drums. I mean, 355 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:26.640 we've picked up battlefield drums and you know, held them 356 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:28.319 in our hands for the small ones and looked at 357 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:31.480 them in other ways for bigger ones, and looking at 358 00:17:31.519 --> 00:17:33.680 you know, what's the state of play for technology on 359 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:38.240 either side, and you know, look, there's some encouraging things there. 360 00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:41.920 Any wars tragic and pieces of ed or outcome. So 361 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:43.160 hopefully we resolve it. 362 00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:46.039 Amen to that, and something I talked about yesterday with 363 00:17:46.039 --> 00:17:48.519 Congressman Massi who joined the program his bill to get 364 00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:52.000 the Epstein files released, subject to limitations like no, no 365 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:54.440 child porn or victim identities will be released, so there's 366 00:17:54.480 --> 00:17:57.960 some caveats, and then to protect the more warrims worriome 367 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:00.039 elements of what we know they have, which is a 368 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:02.720 bunch of child porn that he downloaded. But beyond that, 369 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:05.119 a lot of questions, a lot of conspiracies swirling out there, 370 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:07.519 and they only seem to be fed more by Trump's 371 00:18:07.519 --> 00:18:10.160 position now that there's nothing there that this is somehow 372 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:13.119 Russian collusion or Russian hoax along the lines of the 373 00:18:13.160 --> 00:18:16.240 Steele dossier. That seems to be a position change for 374 00:18:16.279 --> 00:18:18.559 the president. But Massey's trying to fast track this bill 375 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:21.359 to get those documents released. Where are you, Congressman Davidson, 376 00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:22.640 relative to that subject matter? 377 00:18:24.200 --> 00:18:27.079 Well more than public information. Normally when there's a prosecution, 378 00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:30.680 they will simply say I can't talk about an ongoing investigation, 379 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:33.119 and you don't see all the details, right right, so 380 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:36.079 more than a list or more than details that frankly 381 00:18:36.440 --> 00:18:38.119 I don't want made public because I don't want them 382 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:39.640 to go away from being able to be used in 383 00:18:39.680 --> 00:18:42.119 a trial. I want to know when someone other than 384 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:45.200 Julane Maxwell's going to jail, what's the state of the 385 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:48.519 prosecutions is what I want to know. But I do 386 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:51.240 find it troubling when you know, Pam Bondi comes out 387 00:18:51.279 --> 00:18:53.440 and says, yeah, I don't know what you're talking about, 388 00:18:53.480 --> 00:18:56.440 and yeah, you remember the binders and the files that 389 00:18:56.480 --> 00:18:58.559 you were had on your desk, Like what so the 390 00:18:58.599 --> 00:19:01.799 messaging on this has just been a troche And I 391 00:19:01.799 --> 00:19:03.799 think that's the part, like what the heck are you 392 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:07.759 talking about and unfortunately, when you look at the public 393 00:19:07.799 --> 00:19:10.519 statements that the president's made, normally he's on message. Boom 394 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:13.319 boom boom. So you know, the one thing I know 395 00:19:13.359 --> 00:19:15.359 about President Trump, though, I mean, one of the things 396 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:19.519 that's defined him is promises made, promises kept. So I'm 397 00:19:19.559 --> 00:19:22.559 certainly hopeful that we're going to see this promise kept. 398 00:19:22.960 --> 00:19:25.039 And where it's really going to be accountability for the 399 00:19:25.079 --> 00:19:29.160 people that we're trafficking kids and the clients that were 400 00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:36.240 uh you know all yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean someone, someone, 401 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:39.680