1 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: It's seven oh five. Are fift about Kerosene Talk station. 2 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: Great time to betune in the morning show. They think 3 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:21,920 Speaker 1: it's always a good time. But the return of Congressman 4 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 1: Warren Davidson. Welcome back, Congressman Davidson. It's always a real 5 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:25,920 Speaker 1: pleasure having you on the show. 6 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, always in an honor. 7 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: Thanks for talking, Brian, and I hear your voice. So 8 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 1: clearly the world did not end. We're in the middle 9 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: of our what second day and a half, two days 10 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 1: into the shutdown. Let me get this straight. The Democrats 11 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:42,919 Speaker 1: are arguing about cutting these healthcare benefits, the subsidies that 12 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 1: flow to folks with Obamacare premium. So it used to 13 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 1: be sixty four I believe five hundred dollars was the cutoff. 14 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: If you made a dollar more than that, then you 15 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:52,839 Speaker 1: got to know subsidy. That was in the original text 16 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 1: of the legislation. That when they waived the cap because 17 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:01,279 Speaker 1: of COVID nineteen they passed the bill, the COVID nineteen bill, 18 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: or whatever the hell it was called, they got rid 19 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 1: of that. So if you made six hundred thousand dollars, 20 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 1: you still be eligible for a subsidy on an Obamacare plan. Fine, 21 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:12,119 Speaker 1: but when that was passed, it had a finite end date, 22 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:14,039 Speaker 1: which is the end of this year. Right, that was 23 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 1: what the Democrats pushed through or am I wrong on 24 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 1: that reality? 25 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:21,400 Speaker 2: Now You've got it right, And it was because there 26 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 2: was a pandemic. And part of the reason for the 27 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 2: subsidy was, well, there's going to be a lot of 28 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 2: extra expenses. You don't want the health insurance companies to 29 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 2: just pass those on to everybody. So if we pay 30 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 2: the money to the help insurance companies, it's supposed to 31 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,680 Speaker 2: hold down premiums. Well, how'd that work out about? Like Obamacare, 32 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 2: premiums kept going up almost vertical the whole time, whether 33 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 2: you pay the subsidies or not. And you know, there's 34 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 2: been a long offering. Pandemic has been over for a 35 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:49,919 Speaker 2: long time, so it's like, oh, we have to phase 36 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 2: them out. They were phased out. This is pandemic has 37 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 2: been over. So that's one of the things they're fighting about. 38 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 2: And of course the other one is undoing you know, 39 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 2: the way that we made it hard to have states 40 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:05,559 Speaker 2: pay to have illegals selecting Medicaid and other forms where 41 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 2: states were bypassing Medicaid not a big issue in Ohio, 42 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 2: because we didn't do that, but states like California and 43 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:13,959 Speaker 2: New York Illinois they did well. 44 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: And you know, it's interesting because Jdvans pointed it out 45 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: and pointed to the legislation that the Democrats prepared, which 46 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:24,080 Speaker 1: indeed gave taxpayer health care money to illegal aliens, and 47 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: they want to put that back on. So on one thing, 48 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 1: we can argue that, Listen, we all knew, we saw 49 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:33,359 Speaker 1: it five years ago during the pandemic, that this supplement 50 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 1: was going to end. You wrote it that way. There's that, 51 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 1: and you have that content or that discussion in the 52 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: context where no illegal immigrants are getting free medical insurance, 53 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 1: but they've added on this extra layer here in those 54 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:49,519 Speaker 1: states that extended it to illegal immigrants. You and I 55 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 1: are shouldering the burden for that. They shouldn't have been 56 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 1: on it in the first place to begin with, because 57 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 1: they're not in our country legally. So there's a separate 58 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,639 Speaker 1: argument over here, which I think the Democrats are on 59 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 1: the wrong side. Given the immigration problem we're facing is 60 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:04,839 Speaker 1: kind of an eighty twenty issue, with the Republicans being 61 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 1: on the vast majority percentage side. 62 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, look, and yeah, I think that's probably right. It's 63 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:14,920 Speaker 2: probably in our district bigger than eighty twenty. Yeah, but 64 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 2: you know a lot of Democrats would agree, like this 65 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 2: is crazy, and that's why we didn't do it in Ohio. 66 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 2: But in some states. And you remember the twenty twenty 67 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 2: presidential primary where they had still like fifteen candidates on 68 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 2: the stage and you're like, raise your hand if your 69 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 2: plan for healthcare would cover health care for illegals. Everybody 70 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 2: raised their hands, and they say, oh, well, this doesn't 71 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 2: do that. And you're like, well, check page fifty seven 72 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 2: in the bill that Chuck Schumer presented to Donald Trump. 73 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 2: He's like, no, no, our demands are written down. I like, okay, 74 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 2: well they're written down. Really checked Page fifty seven is 75 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 2: right there. They want to undo what we did to 76 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 2: make it hard for states to cover, you know, medicaid 77 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 2: for illegals. And they say, oh, well, it's illegal to 78 00:03:56,600 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 2: give medicaid federal dollars to illegal So I'm like, well, 79 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 2: it's illegal for the illegals to be here, but they're here, 80 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 2: and you're not supposed to be doing it in states 81 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 2: like California, but you are. And they're saying, oh, well, 82 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 2: we're using state dollars for that. But it's for medicaid, 83 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 2: so we need to count that for our federal match. 84 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:16,919 Speaker 2: What Republicans did is say, no, you can't count that 85 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 2: for federal match. You spend your state dollars, which you 86 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 2: shouldn't do. You're here actually an accomplice for I legal immigration. 87 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 2: We haven't got to that phase yet, but Tom Homan's 88 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 2: actively getting people out of the country. And as for 89 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 2: whether we should extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies further, 90 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think we should. Some people think 91 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 2: we should, but that's why we're having the debate on appropriations. 92 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 2: And so you know, I've got things that I want 93 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 2: mostly to spend less money on, and we're going to 94 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 2: have that debate too. But that's what we're doing with 95 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 2: the appropriations fight. The idea that Democrats are going to 96 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 2: shut it down is crazy. And look, we passed a 97 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 2: bill in the House. Simple majority runs the House. A 98 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 2: majority of the Senate actually passed a bill to keep 99 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 2: the government open. But the Senate has a sixty vote rule. 100 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 2: So if we were going on simple majorities, the government 101 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:08,279 Speaker 2: would be open right now, or more open, I guess, 102 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 2: because as we can tell, it's actually pretty much open 103 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 2: and it'll. 104 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 1: Be open at the Biden level funding from last year, right, 105 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: that's what you voted on status quo. 106 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 2: Look, this is this is the frustrating thing for us. 107 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 2: And we didn't get our way in March. I mean 108 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,480 Speaker 2: we we funded the government at the Obama I mean 109 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 2: the Biden Schumer level when ok, technically the House had Republicans, 110 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:33,359 Speaker 2: but this was the agreement in the previous presidency. And 111 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 2: so we didn't change anything when Donald Trump became president, 112 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 2: except we did pass the big beautiful bill and turn 113 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 2: some stuff off and I'll make the tax cuts permanent. 114 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 2: Things like that give money to secure the border. And 115 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:46,600 Speaker 2: they want to undo some of these things. They even 116 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 2: want to undo the defunding of MPR. And you know, 117 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 2: we didn't accidentally defund MPR. We basically said go fund yourself. Yeah. 118 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 1: I love that phrase too, by the way. That's that's great. Well, 119 00:05:57,720 --> 00:05:59,719 Speaker 1: let me ask you this specific question because you probably 120 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 1: served your country. You enlisted in the Army and third 121 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: Infantry Division. I might point out you also went to 122 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: West Point, graduating in the top of your class, so 123 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: you served. I'm kind of wondering what the how the 124 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 1: American the active duty service members are going to do 125 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: with this shutdown? Well, how is it going to impact 126 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 1: my veteran friends? And I also want to know when 127 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:21,160 Speaker 1: you were serving, did you ever go through a shutdown 128 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 1: where your pay was suspended until the shutdown ended? 129 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 2: You know, if we did, I was oblivious to it. 130 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:29,479 Speaker 2: You know, I was like, yeah, I'm just focused on 131 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 2: the mission. You know, at the end of the day, 132 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 2: you're going to get paid. The frustrating thing is, you know, 133 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 2: you look at the military and go, well, these guys 134 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 2: are essential. Why wouldn't the payroll clerk that cuts the 135 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 2: check to them be essential too? So this is really 136 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 2: frustrating with a lot of things. And so you know, 137 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:49,840 Speaker 2: we've got a bill called the Shutdown Prevention Act. It 138 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,839 Speaker 2: would close some of those stupid things like that, like, well, okay, 139 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 2: if you're essential enough to be at work, well you're 140 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 2: essential enough to get paid. So we're going to take 141 00:06:57,600 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 2: care of the payroll function for that. And it'll prevent 142 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:04,279 Speaker 2: these sort of shut down gamesmanship things here at that level, 143 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 2: and you would intentionally turn things off or intentionally turn 144 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 2: them on, otherwise they just kind of continue. So that's 145 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 2: why I'm a sponsor of that Shutdown Prevention Act. But yeah, 146 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 2: to my knowledge, we never had this kind of drama, 147 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 2: you know, while I was on active duty, well thankfully. 148 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 1: And beyond the Yamkapor holiday. The while the government is 149 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 1: shut down and I know representatives and senators continue to 150 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: get their paychecks. You know that, could you be working 151 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: on the twelve appropriations bills right now? I mean, could 152 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 1: work get done toward that end, which is really what 153 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 1: the cr was supposed to do by you some time 154 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 1: until November so you can iron out the details of 155 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 1: the twelve appropriation bills in regular order. 156 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, in fact, we are. I mean we're 157 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 2: working on you know, the Unfortunately, some of my colleagues 158 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 2: are already working on ways to compromise with Democrats on 159 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 2: these Affordable Care Acts extensions, which is you know, airble, 160 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 2: you should stop wasting your time on that. Hopefully we 161 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 2: don't have the votes for that nonsense, but or a 162 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 2: speaker that will put such a crazy idea on the floor. 163 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 2: But we've got other provisions that we're working on, the amendments. 164 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 2: And look, the appropriators talms to the chairman. They got 165 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 2: all twelve of the bills through the House Appropriations Committee. 166 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 2: We've got I think four across the floor of the House, 167 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 2: but we got to get the other a across the floor. 168 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 2: And look, occasionally the House will get all of them done. 169 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 2: The Senate hasn't got all their bills done since the nineties. 170 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 2: So the Senate really is the hold up here with 171 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 2: a lot of the things broken on appropriations, and that 172 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 2: usually results in some sort of omnibus, crown the bus 173 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 2: or continuing resolution. But in the meantime, you are jockeying 174 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 2: for amendments that you would want to do, and you're 175 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 2: working the phones with colleagues or staffs working to try 176 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:57,199 Speaker 2: to collaborate to get that done. Those kinds of things 177 00:08:57,200 --> 00:08:59,079 Speaker 2: are going on right now, and they're going on kind 178 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:01,960 Speaker 2: of in a turbo charge way, because you know, our 179 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 2: phones are busy if people are calling in and they 180 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 2: always are like, well, what's going to happen? Am I 181 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:07,960 Speaker 2: going to get my Social Security check? And yes, you are. 182 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:13,080 Speaker 1: All right. Let's pause. Congressman Davidson back talk a little 183 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 1: bit more about issues, as well as his Empower Youth seminar, 184 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 1: which is taking place tonight. I strongly encourage you to 185 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:21,079 Speaker 1: register empower you America dot org. You can watch from 186 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 1: home or you can show up at three hundred Great Oaks, 187 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 1: Great Oaks Drive, which is the Scarlet Oaks Empower You 188 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 1: studio address. More with Congressman Warren seven eighteen. If you've 189 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 1: have kc DE talk station, Happy Friday Eve. Congressman Warre 190 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:36,960 Speaker 1: and Davidson one more segment with him, gonna be doing 191 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 1: annapower You seminar tonight. Get over to empower your America 192 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 1: Dot organ register. Show up live or watch from your 193 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:43,559 Speaker 1: own home. What are the things Congressmen you're gonna be 194 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: talking about tonight and empower you? The one day, one 195 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: vote proposal and to eliminate no excuse mail and voting. 196 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 1: Interesting timing on that, Congressman Davidson. It was widely reported 197 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:56,680 Speaker 1: yesterday there's a woman in Maine. They've got a November 198 00:09:56,679 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 1: fourth election day in Maine as well, had to over 199 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 1: to her front door a box containing temper evident packs 200 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 1: of fifty ballots totally two hundred and fifty what appear 201 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,720 Speaker 1: to be authentic ballots filled out and cast that landed 202 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 1: in this one private citizens front door. And they're suggesting 203 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,679 Speaker 1: a federal criminal investigation should be launched. There's a huge 204 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 1: problem with dropping off stacks of mail in ballots and 205 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 1: that's a lot of reason why many people, including Maureen, 206 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: I know you're out there, believe that the twenty twenty 207 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,439 Speaker 1: election was stolen. How do we address this problem, Congressman Davidson, 208 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 1: considering how much states have control over their own voting. 209 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:35,599 Speaker 2: Oh I was told that was illegal, and so it 210 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 2: wouldn't happen, you know, just like drugs, you know, So 211 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:42,200 Speaker 2: obviously this kind of stuff does go on. And look, 212 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 2: we were told illegal aliens don't vote, but we just 213 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:48,959 Speaker 2: found the superintendent of Des Moines Schools is not only 214 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 2: in the United States illegally and not only didn't have 215 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 2: the academic credentials he said he did, but he was 216 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 2: also a registered voter in the state of Maryland and 217 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:58,960 Speaker 2: had a voting record. So these kinds of things have 218 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 2: gone on. We need election integrity, and for that reason, 219 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 2: the House of Representatives has passed laws that would be 220 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 2: binding on federal elections. So, you know, we don't necessarily 221 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:12,840 Speaker 2: have a system where the federal government could say, well, 222 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 2: here's how Ohio has to do their state Supreme Court elections, 223 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 2: except to say, you know, we protect civil liberties and 224 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:21,560 Speaker 2: things like that. But when you look at criteria for 225 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 2: federal elections, there's a lot that we could do. We've 226 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 2: had a hard time getting over the sixty vote threshold 227 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 2: in the Senate, which is the same struggle we're having, 228 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 2: you know, with keeping the government open. And yes we 229 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:37,199 Speaker 2: do have a majority, but the Senate's still got this 230 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:40,199 Speaker 2: sixty vote rule. But for that, we could be passing 231 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 2: election reform, we could be keeping the government open, and 232 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 2: we could do on a lot of things. Nevertheless, the 233 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 2: Senate keeps protecting their sixty vote rule. We keep sending 234 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 2: stuff over in the House, and this is one of 235 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 2: those things that we could do. And you know, another 236 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:54,320 Speaker 2: one of the things we're going to talk about tonight, Brian, is, Yeah, 237 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 2: the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the United States 238 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 2: of America and just looking at the legacy of our country, 239 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:03,199 Speaker 2: and you know, there's so many milestones that no other 240 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 2: country has been like America. We're still the greatest country 241 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 2: in the world. And we've not yet made a perfect union, 242 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 2: but we've made it more perfect in some respects, and 243 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 2: I to say, maybe less perfect in a few other ways. 244 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 1: Well, I know, one of the topics tonight's secure borders, 245 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 1: and obviously it is a profound night and day difference. 246 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 1: It's like somebody flipped a white switch on between the 247 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,200 Speaker 1: Biden administration's approach of the southern border, which was, you know, 248 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: don't touch it, and Donald Trump, which is the media 249 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 1: shut it down. I mean, the flow of illegal immigrants 250 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:36,800 Speaker 1: into our country has just almost disappeared, at least in 251 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 1: the southern border. I know we have some problems in 252 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 1: the north, and that's kind of leading to my question, 253 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 1: where are we in connection with border security? What else 254 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:47,560 Speaker 1: needs to be done considering the Trumps success in the 255 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: southern border. 256 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 2: Well, I mean, we need a law so that, you know, 257 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:55,560 Speaker 2: no government could actually do what the Biden administration is doing. 258 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:59,040 Speaker 2: And in my own opinion, I think we need a 259 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 2: you know, charges, we need doj to actually bring charges. 260 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 2: Alejandro Mahorkis, as as Secretary of Homeland Security, was charged 261 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:09,559 Speaker 2: with securing the border. The laws are already pretty clear, 262 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,560 Speaker 2: and he actually spun those on the head. He literally 263 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:17,079 Speaker 2: built an app at Homeland Security to make it easy 264 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 2: to you know, bypass our laws and come here illegally. 265 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:24,840 Speaker 2: So to me, that's treason. I think you should be charged. 266 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:26,840 Speaker 2: I think you should go to jail for a long time. 267 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 2: And that's one of the problems. You know, people people 268 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:32,439 Speaker 2: do rightly say, you know, when is somebody going to jail? 269 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:35,840 Speaker 2: And you know, people are going to keep depriving others 270 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 2: of their rights. They're going to abuse the power of 271 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 2: the office until somebody sell to account for it. And 272 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 2: I think there are a lot of those folks that 273 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:45,720 Speaker 2: need to be held to account. And I think you know, 274 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 2: that's where people are saying, oh, Trump is weaponizing the government. Well, no, 275 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,560 Speaker 2: we had a weaponization committee last Congress because the wide 276 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 2: administration was weaponizing the government. And so holding those people 277 00:13:56,640 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 2: to account isn't retribution, it's justice. You know. Even Google 278 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 2: just this past week, you know, they say, yeah, here's 279 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:06,599 Speaker 2: what we were doing because the government told us to 280 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:09,560 Speaker 2: do it, right, we were censoring people. Well, who's going 281 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:11,559 Speaker 2: to be held to account for that? And I think 282 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 2: that's why you know this hopefully to tell me charges 283 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 2: or the tip of the iceberg. 284 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:17,959 Speaker 1: Well, Google may very well be held accountable because by 285 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 1: operating at the behest of the American government, that means 286 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 1: they're inextricably intertwined with the government, meaning they have to 287 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 1: extend First Amendment rights to the people who use their platform, 288 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 1: and by so restricting the speech they may have committed 289 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 1: a civil rights violation and could be held accountable in 290 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 1: a lawsuit. So Google might pay the price for their 291 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 1: frank admission that they did just that. 292 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, they say, oh, we're a neutral platform. Well, 293 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 2: you're not a neutral platform. When you engage in editorial content. 294 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 2: You're acting as a publisher and you're deciding you know 295 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 2: these things, and you did it really at the be 296 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 2: heast of the government. So I think, look, you you. 297 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 2: In my view, I would work a plea deal with 298 00:14:55,840 --> 00:15:00,360 Speaker 2: Google to out the federal officials who were violating the councilitution. 299 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 2: And you know these people should go to jail. 300 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: Amen. Now, one final point for we part company to 301 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 1: day Warren Davidson. The reason the Democrats are so held 302 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: bent on getting illegal immigrants in this country and keeping 303 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 1: them here is because it's going to impact the House 304 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 1: of Representatives. So the more warm bodies you have in 305 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 1: your state of your jurisdiction, the more likely it is 306 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 1: you're going to get another representative. We know California is 307 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 1: pushing for that because everybody who has any ability to 308 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 1: leave the state has already left. Can we fix that legislatively? 309 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 1: Ignoring the impediment we have in the Senate with the votes, 310 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 1: but is conceptually, can we do that illegal immigrants, if 311 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 1: you're not here legally in our country, you're not counted 312 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 1: for census purposes. 313 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 2: Well, you could do it legally. We've got bills that 314 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 2: would simply change the law to make that clear, and 315 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 2: I'm a co sponsor for that. I am the sponsor 316 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 2: of a bill that would have amend the Constitution to 317 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 2: basically override the courts. And frankly, the courts could do 318 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,000 Speaker 2: what they did in Dabbs and say, look, we then 319 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 2: messed up. We haven't really provided the right clarity here 320 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 2: on the census. And so you know, Ronald Trump in 321 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 2: his first term tried to get the census done the 322 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 2: right way. And if you don't have an honest census, 323 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 2: I don't know how you can have an honest election. 324 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 2: Because you know, right now, the congressional maps are drawn 325 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 2: based off of all persons in the country, whether they're 326 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 2: here legally or not, citizens or not. And Democrats are 327 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 2: united and saying citizenship is irrelevant. We just want to 328 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 2: count everybody that's here. And you know, Republicans are united 329 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 2: and saying no, citizenship does matter, and we should count 330 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 2: citizens and California would lose like, I don't know, five 331 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 2: to seven members of Congress if they would do that, 332 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 2: and they don't just lose them anyway, they lose them 333 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 2: in the sanctuary cities because you know, the rural areas 334 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 2: generally aren't over sampled with all this stuff. If you look, Yeah, 335 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 2: Texas and Florida and some other states would lose representation too. 336 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 2: That's why Ohio would probably gain at least one seat, 337 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 2: because we do have some illegals, but as a proportion 338 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 2: compared to other states, it's very small. So we went 339 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 2: from sixteen seats to fifteen. Last time, we would have 340 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 2: held that seat but for a bad census. 341 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 1: Congresso, Moore and Davidson, we're looking forward to your seminar 342 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 1: tonight again seven pm. You can show up at three 343 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 1: hundred Great Oaks Drive at the Empower Youth Studios, Carlett 344 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 1: Oaks campus, or you can log in from home and 345 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:12,200 Speaker 1: empower you America dot org. Either way, you slice and 346 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:15,160 Speaker 1: make sure you register at the website first. Congress Davidson, 347 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 1: thanks as always for your time on the program this morning. 348 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 1: Keep up the great work speaking truth to power and 349 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:23,719 Speaker 1: holding the Democrats accountable for their insanity. Enjoy the seminar tonight, 350 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 1: and I'll look forward to having you back on the 351 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: show well as soon as we can