1 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: On this episode of news World, I'm joined by members 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 1: of my Inner Circle Club for a fascinating conversation about 3 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 1: a wide range of issues and topics on their minds. 4 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: We hold these regular video conference calls so that we 5 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: can have an honest discussion about what is happening in 6 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: America today. I find it extraordinarily helpful to me personally 7 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: and helping think through the issues that are facing us. 8 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: So I hope you'll find this episode of Newts World informative, 9 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 1: and if you'd like to become a member of my 10 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:36,599 Speaker 1: Inner Circle Club, please go to newts inner Circle dot 11 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: com and sign up for a one or two year membership. Today, 12 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 1: I just say I'm delighted that all of you have 13 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 1: decided to join us tonight, and I want you to 14 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: know that having you send ideas, sending advice, proposing some ideas, 15 00:00:57,600 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: I had a great email from one of you the 16 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 1: other day that helped me rethink a particular project that 17 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 1: they'd seen me talk about in Fox. So I'm delighted 18 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 1: that the Inner Circle is actually working, and I hope 19 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 1: you will feel free to tell your friends about it. 20 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: But tonight, I don't want to waste a whole lot 21 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: of time with me because we have an unusual and 22 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:18,320 Speaker 1: very very important guest. Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio's fourth 23 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: District isn't just Chairman of the House Tudistrary Committee, although 24 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: that's a big deal. But you know, in high school 25 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 1: he was a four time state champion in wrestling. His 26 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 1: career record was one hundred and fifty to one. And 27 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:34,400 Speaker 1: they give you some idea of the intensity he brings 28 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: to problems. He want to the University of Wisconsin and 29 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 1: was a two time ncuble A wrestling champion. As a speaker, 30 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy said the other day, Jordan as a very 31 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: determined competitor, and I can vouch for that. You know, 32 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 1: throughout his career he's led the fight against tax hits 33 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 1: and he believes that cutting taxes and letting families keep 34 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 1: more of what they earn help build strong communities and 35 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 1: a vibrant economy. In Congress, he introduced the only balanced 36 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: budget alternative to President Obama's budget in two thousand and nine. 37 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: He has served as chairman of the House and Studying Committee. 38 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: He helped found the House Freedom Caucus and served as 39 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: its first chairman. I would say, when I think of solid, intelligent, 40 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:20,799 Speaker 1: hard working conservatives in the US Congress. Jim's name comes 41 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,639 Speaker 1: to mind almost immediately. He has emerged, I think as 42 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: a real leader for the entire conference. I can tell 43 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 1: you from an opportunity he gave Collision me to have 44 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 1: dinner with the Judiciary Committee Republicans. He is a great, 45 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: great team. He's going to really be, I think, an 46 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 1: important player, and I think his committee, under his leadership, 47 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 1: is going to have a very important role to play 48 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: in holding government accountable for spending and waste and helping 49 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: deal with the debt sailing question and how do we 50 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 1: turn the corner on spending. So I don't want to 51 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 1: restrict him. I know his time is very valuable and 52 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: he's extraordinarily busy. So let me say, Chairman Jordan, thank 53 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: you for joining us. Well. First of all, thank you, Speaker. 54 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: And when it comes to defending the country, helping the country, 55 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 1: helping the constitution, and protecting the constitution, there is no 56 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 1: one better than you. I've related a few weeks ago 57 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 1: when you spoke to Republicans there at that dinner who 58 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:14,079 Speaker 1: are on the Judiciary Committee, that I can still remember 59 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 1: when I first got into politics listening to your speeches, 60 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: your tapes of the whole gopack tape series, and the 61 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 1: campaign material you put together about flying upside down. So 62 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:25,799 Speaker 1: I appreciate what you've done for our nation for so 63 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 1: many years, and the folks who are joining us here 64 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 1: this afternoon. I said this on the House mort when 65 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: I actually nominated Speaker McCarthy on January third, I said, 66 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 1: I think the one hundred and eighteenth Congress is really 67 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 1: about three things. First of all, it's passing legislation in 68 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: the House to fix the problems. And we know what 69 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: the problems are. We got a border that's no longer 70 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 1: a border. We got record prime we got record inflation, 71 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 1: we got bad energy policy, bad education policy, and maybe 72 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 1: most important in my mind, we have a bureaucracy the 73 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: federal agencies, which in many ways are targeting the very 74 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: people that they're supposed to serve. So those are the problems. 75 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 1: Let's pass legislation to fix those problems. Send it through 76 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 1: the House. We'll see what Senator Schumer may do with 77 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 1: the Senate and what Joe Biden would do if it 78 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 1: got to his desk. But if they don't pass it, 79 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: we can just get it through the House and they 80 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: don't pass it, they'll have to answer for that obviously 81 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:18,679 Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty four election. Second is this spending issue, 82 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: and we'll spend some time on that here in just 83 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:23,479 Speaker 1: a few minutes. But what we have now is record spending, 84 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 1: record inflation, record debt, and that has to change in 85 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 1: the first place, to change in the courses on the 86 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 1: debt ceiling vote that will be coming up here in 87 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: the next few months. It's real important that we put 88 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 1: together a good package, but a reasonable package that the 89 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 1: Speaker can take to the President and be something he 90 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:43,480 Speaker 1: can get to earn a team votes for. Then Speaker 91 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: McCarthy has the leverage to get something that actually benefits 92 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:50,040 Speaker 1: the country. I will point this out. Remember it was 93 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: what nine weeks ago when the Democrats passed at the 94 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: end of the last Congress. They're one point seven trillion 95 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:57,919 Speaker 1: dollars monstrosity of the bill, like four thousand pages. We 96 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 1: had like two days to look at it, spend kind 97 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 1: of money on stupid things like Plankton studies and everything else. 98 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 1: And then a few weeks after that, Karine John Pierre 99 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 1: at the White House said that the White House will 100 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 1: not negotiate with House Republicans we'll give me a break. 101 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 1: You can't just spend like crazy and then say to 102 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:15,360 Speaker 1: the House Republic, oh, now we're not going to talk 103 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 1: to you. Give us more money so we can continue 104 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 1: the crazy spending. That's not how it works. And you 105 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 1: saw it already begin to change when two weeks ago 106 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 1: Speaker McCarthy went to the White House at the President's 107 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:29,480 Speaker 1: invitation to start negotiating on the dead ceiling. So they're 108 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 1: already figuring out their position in their initial position was 109 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 1: just ridiculous. And then finally the third thing, which is 110 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 1: so much a part of our committee. I said on 111 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: the obviously on the Judiciary Committee, but I'm also on 112 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:42,280 Speaker 1: the Oversight Committee. We do need to do the investigative work, 113 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:45,159 Speaker 1: the oversight work that is part of our constitutional duty. 114 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:47,839 Speaker 1: And then once we do that, to actually get the 115 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 1: facts on the table for the country and to begin 116 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 1: to propose the legislation that will help solve those problems 117 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 1: as well. So those are sort of the three fundamental 118 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: things we've got to do in this Congress. And we've 119 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:00,920 Speaker 1: already hit the ground run in on the site function. 120 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,359 Speaker 1: We've already had three different whistle blowers. We had a 121 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 1: third one today, sit for a deposition. FBI agents coming 122 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 1: in as whistleblowers, telling is how political that agency has become. 123 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 1: It's pervasive. It's the Disinformation Governance Board at DHS. It's 124 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: what we see in all these other agents, the FTC 125 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 1: where you just had the Republican Commissioner stepped down because 126 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 1: they've become so political. At the FTC, it's all that 127 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: the government, the agency is being turned on. We the 128 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 1: people not supposed to operate that way, and we got 129 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:30,719 Speaker 1: a lot of work to do there to get the 130 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 1: facts on the table and then get to the legislative taxes. 131 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: Now that you have the power of investigation, have you 132 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: been surprised that it's actually much worse than you expected. 133 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 1: It's always the case. The only thing we ever get 134 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:44,599 Speaker 1: wrong in these things is it's always worse than we thought. 135 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 1: You go back to the whole Russia, the Trump Russia issue, 136 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: it was they knew from the get go that the 137 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 1: dossier was false. They used it anyway as the basis 138 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 1: to go spile on a presidential campaign. It's always worse 139 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 1: than we thought. They were paying a confidential human source 140 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 1: money from the American town dollars, and they already knew 141 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 1: this confidential human source had lied to them. They continue 142 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: to do it. So as we get into these things, 143 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:09,479 Speaker 1: it's always worse than we thought. And I think maybe 144 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 1: the best example is what Elon Musk has exposed with 145 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: the Twitter files. There's one evening from FBI Special Agent 146 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 1: in the San Francisco Field Office, Elvis Chan to the 147 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: folks of Twitter. The heading says Twitter folks, which shows how, 148 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 1: you know, how chummy they had become. This collusion big tech, 149 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 1: big government against we the people. But it says, Twitter, folks, 150 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 1: we think the following accounts lists those Twitter accounts, We 151 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 1: think these following accounts violate twitters your terms of service. 152 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: Now think about that. You've got the government telling a 153 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 1: private company, we think these accounts by your terms of service, 154 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: take them down. I mean, they were primarily conservative Twitter accounts. 155 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: That's ridiculous. And it really gets to this term that 156 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 1: Jonathan Turley had at our last hearing last week. He 157 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 1: called it censorship by surrogan. And that's what we have, 158 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 1: the government priming and pressure sharing these private entities, these 159 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: tech companies to do the censoring that the government is 160 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 1: not allowed to do. So you know the law much 161 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 1: better than I do it isn't that clearly a violation 162 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: of the First Amendment. Yeah, there's cases out there agency principle. 163 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 1: You can't have an agent operating on behalf of the 164 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 1: government doing what the government's not permitted to do. So yeah, 165 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 1: we think it's a clear violation of that. And then 166 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 1: if you couple that with what we've seen. I just 167 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: give a speech owner today and I told the group, 168 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: I said, you think about it. Every single right we 169 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: enjoy as Americans under the First Amendment has been assaulted. Everyone. 170 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:33,199 Speaker 1: You're right to practice your faith, you're right to assemble, 171 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 1: right to petition, to government, press and speech, all five amen. Attack. 172 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 1: Just last week we learned that the Richmond Field offs 173 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 1: Is the FBI had a memo saying, if you're a 174 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: traditional Catholic, we're going to treat you as a terrorist group. Like, 175 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 1: what's going on? Do you talk about a direct attack 176 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 1: on the very first liberty mentioned in the First Amendment, 177 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 1: freedom of religion. Here you have the government doing it, 178 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 1: and then each and every one of those other rights. 179 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 1: I always tell the story that it's probably been almost 180 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 1: two years ago now. I spoke to the New Mexico 181 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 1: Republican Party in Amarillo, Texas, because they had to go 182 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 1: to Texas to get the freedom to assemble. First of them, 183 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:11,320 Speaker 1: the liberty to assymbol because they're crazy Democrat governor wouldn't 184 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:12,839 Speaker 1: let them get together in their own darned state, so 185 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 1: they had to go across the line into Texas, and 186 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 1: on and on it goes. But the scariest one of all, 187 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:19,199 Speaker 1: and this is why the left has tried to set 188 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 1: up this disinformation government's for This is why we see 189 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 1: what's happened at Twitter, why we sent subpoenas today to 190 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 1: the other tech companies asking for the same kind of 191 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 1: communication Elon Musk has made available to us. The most 192 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:33,560 Speaker 1: important right we have is your right to talk, your 193 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 1: right to speak. I tell folks all the time, if 194 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 1: you can't talk in a political fashion and not be 195 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 1: sure that your government's not going to harass you for 196 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 1: doing so. If you can't do that, you can't practice 197 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 1: your faith, you can't share your faith, you can't petition 198 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: your government. You don't really have freedom of the press. 199 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 1: That is the most fundamental liberty we have in this country. 200 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:52,680 Speaker 1: It's why the first amendments so it aren't important, and 201 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: that's the one that left is after. It's why this 202 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:59,080 Speaker 1: oversight function that we have is so darn important. Discongress. 203 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:03,599 Speaker 1: Shouldn't for example, the people in the Richmond FBI office 204 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:07,320 Speaker 1: who wrote a MOMO describing Catholics as terrorists. Shouldn't those 205 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:10,839 Speaker 1: people just be so middly fired. Yeah, we're going to 206 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 1: get to the bottom of this. And heck, yeah, you 207 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:16,200 Speaker 1: do something that agreges that much of a violation of again, 208 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:19,840 Speaker 1: fundamental freedom, fundamental liberty, direct attack on the First Amendment. 209 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 1: And again, this is government. This wasn't even trying to 210 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 1: work through some tech company. This is the government doing 211 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:26,680 Speaker 1: it directly. That is as long as it gets. And 212 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 1: so we've already started to look into that issue as well, 213 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: and we want to get the documentation who made that decision, 214 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 1: who was at the top, guy at the Richmond field 215 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:36,440 Speaker 1: officer to go through someone in the headquarters in DC 216 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 1: or someone in the Washington field office. We want to 217 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 1: know how that decision was made. I'm very struck that 218 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 1: every time you turn around, the very nature of the 219 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:47,960 Speaker 1: current bureaucracy makes it very hard in your grip on 220 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 1: people who are doing truly bad things, you know, So 221 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: they just sit there and burrow deeper, but they're still 222 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 1: there and they're still thinking bad thoughts and doing bad things. 223 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:58,560 Speaker 1: And I think that's gonna be one of the great 224 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 1: challenges that you're committee has to deal with, and a 225 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 1: deal with this fundamental principle, Speaker, that I've heard you 226 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 1: talk about as well, this idea that it's supposed to 227 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,199 Speaker 1: be the people who put their name on a ballot 228 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: who make decisions because they're the ones who are directly 229 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 1: accountable to we the people. And this idea that you know, 230 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 1: the unelected folks who never have to go out and 231 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 1: talk to the voters, they never to put their name 232 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:23,559 Speaker 1: on a ballot, stand for election, go communicate with the 233 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: people they hope to represent, they're making the call. That's 234 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:28,720 Speaker 1: not how it works. I said in this group Elier today, 235 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: I said, when did doctor fauci ever put his name 236 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:33,800 Speaker 1: on a ballot? But he ran our lives for stinking 237 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 1: two years. That is not supposed to happen in America. 238 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: And we got to make sure that we highlight that 239 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,080 Speaker 1: fundamental principle that makes us so different than all the 240 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 1: other countries. And really it's that concept which allows us 241 00:11:45,240 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 1: to have the liberty we enjoy here in America. I 242 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:05,079 Speaker 1: think what you're going to on Earth, both a judiciary 243 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: and at the Oversight Committee is going to ultimately be 244 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 1: so sobering and if you will, so frightening that it's 245 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: going to require very profound changes in the law to 246 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 1: allow the people, through their elected representatives, to regain control 247 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:23,080 Speaker 1: of the government, which is clearly now out of control. 248 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 1: A recent example, tell us what these objects. They got 249 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 1: a new term for it. Now. We had a briefing 250 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 1: n statement call unidentified aerial phenomena. So it's no longer UFOs, 251 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 1: it's UAP. So we're on this conference call all members 252 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:36,960 Speaker 1: of Congress, and you've got someone from the White House, 253 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,080 Speaker 1: someone from the Department of Defense, and they go through it. 254 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:41,320 Speaker 1: We didn't learn anything on the call. I'm like, just 255 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 1: tell us what it is, you know, like, it's supposed 256 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 1: to be a government of the people, by the people, 257 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:49,959 Speaker 1: for the people, So let we the people know what 258 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: the heck is going on. Nothing makes sense anymore, particularly 259 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 1: from this administration. That's what's frustrating me, and more importantly, 260 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 1: the folks I get the privilege of representing in the 261 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 1: fourth districible high I just did a newsletter that'll go 262 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 1: out tomorrow entitled the Aliens among Us and going back 263 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:07,080 Speaker 1: through the history of Roswell and the fact that we 264 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:09,720 Speaker 1: do now have an office whose major achievement, as you 265 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:12,199 Speaker 1: point out, is to have moved from UFO to I 266 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 1: think it's yeah, they're crazy, but I mean it's classically bureaucracy. 267 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 1: But it's also startling how many unexplained objects they have 268 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 1: begun to on Earth over the last three or four years. 269 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:29,920 Speaker 1: And I'm not suggesting that it's necessarily aliens. I do 270 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: think part of the reason they can't tell us more 271 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:35,320 Speaker 1: is they don't know. I think we realize yet how 272 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:39,200 Speaker 1: really ignorant our system is of what's going on. Yeah, 273 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 1: part of me, and maybe I'm just a country boy, 274 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:44,120 Speaker 1: but I started thinking, like, Okay, so the thing they 275 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:48,320 Speaker 1: knew about, which was the balloon, the surveillance balloon from China, 276 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:50,839 Speaker 1: they knew what that was from the get go. They 277 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 1: let that thing fly across the country, all across the 278 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,719 Speaker 1: continent the United States for a week, and then they 279 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 1: shoot it down after it's done all that, and then 280 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 1: the three things they don't know, they shoot them down 281 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 1: right away. Now, maybe there's a good explanation for that, 282 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 1: but it seems a little strange to me that the 283 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:09,439 Speaker 1: one that's surveiling. Guess, okay, you can fly across the country. 284 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 1: The others we don't know what they are, but we're 285 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 1: going to shoot them down. I think a lot of 286 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 1: just people with common sense ask the same question and 287 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:17,640 Speaker 1: they shoot them down. You want to bring them down 288 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:19,760 Speaker 1: in a way that we actually get the equipment. I 289 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 1: don't know if I believe any of this right now, 290 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 1: but apparently today they've indicated they actually followed that balloon 291 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:30,440 Speaker 1: from Hainaian Island or just off of China, so as well, 292 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 1: I believe they would never ever have told us, we 293 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 1: the people, if that newspaper in Montana hadn't published a picture. 294 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 1: Somebody needs to dig into, hour by hour what was 295 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 1: going on, who was making these decisions, because it verges 296 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: on insane, and it's also your own government just playing 297 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:54,880 Speaker 1: lying to you. If the Montana paper had not published 298 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 1: that picture, I suspect they never would have admitted the 299 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 1: balloon was up there. I think you're probably I felt 300 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:02,960 Speaker 1: like last week there was a line not from the 301 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 1: President's Date of the Union address, but the best line 302 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 1: of that I came from Sarah Huckaby Sanders when she 303 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 1: did the response, and she had a great line. She said, 304 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 1: the divide in America today is normal versus crazy, and 305 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:17,520 Speaker 1: I thought that captures it so well. And you can 306 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 1: just go down the list, and one of the things 307 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: that seems crazy is what we were just walking through. 308 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 1: It seems crazy that you would let something come across 309 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: and then shoot it down to the other things that 310 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 1: you don't know what they are shooting down. That seems 311 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 1: crazy to me. That you have a border that's no 312 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 1: longer border. You just let five million people illegal micros 313 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 1: coming here. It's probably not normal to say that. You 314 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 1: have now the left, which controls the Democrat Party. They 315 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:41,240 Speaker 1: think it's normal to have boys and girls sports. We 316 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 1: actually think that's crazy. But that's where the left is. 317 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 1: They think it's okay to defund the police. You can 318 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 1: just go down the line, and almost every position now 319 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 1: that the Left has taken and they now control the 320 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 1: other party, is a crazy position. And so we've become 321 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 1: down the party of just common sense and normal And 322 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:00,240 Speaker 1: let's go articulate that in a compelling way. And I 323 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 1: think that's going to help the country in so many ways. 324 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 1: Years ago, when we had the last great crime wave 325 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 1: in the seventies, we used to say that a conservative 326 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 1: was a liberal who had been mugged. And I noticed 327 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 1: that when a bill came up last week to repeal 328 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 1: the District of Columbia's insane new law that would release criminals, that, 329 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: in fact, one of the Democrats who voted with you had, 330 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: in fact that day been attacked in the elevator, and 331 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 1: she broke with the party. I think twenty nine Democrats 332 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 1: ended up breaking with their party to vote with the 333 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 1: Republicans to repeal this truly crazy, pro criminal law. You've 334 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: actually gotten majority Democratic votes for the China Committee. A 335 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 1: majority of the Democrats voted protected strategic Petroleum Reserve. There's 336 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: more my partisanship emerging under McCarthy than we ever saw 337 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 1: under Pelosi. Yeah, Speaker McCarthy's putting up some common sense things. 338 00:16:57,280 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: Here's the bill we had last week to go along 339 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 1: with that theme. A bill that says, if you're not 340 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 1: a citizen, you shouldn't be able to vote in the 341 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:05,680 Speaker 1: District of Columbian. Imagine that. And yet you know, there's 342 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 1: a bunch of Democrats who were against that, but some 343 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:10,640 Speaker 1: of them solved, though that makes sense. Only citizens should 344 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 1: be participating in American elections. Go figure. So yeah, I 345 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 1: think that is another good thing that the Speaker is doing. 346 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 1: I would just say this about the Speaker. I think 347 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:20,880 Speaker 1: he has brought our team together better than any leader 348 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:24,119 Speaker 1: I have served under. Now, you know in the minorities, 349 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:26,439 Speaker 1: you know how this is the speaker in the minority. 350 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:28,280 Speaker 1: It's a little easier, but it needed a great job. 351 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 1: And I always point to the first impeachment back in 352 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 1: the summer twenty nineteen, when the Democrats did their crazy impeachment. 353 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:39,199 Speaker 1: The conventional wisdom was that every single Democrat in the 354 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 1: House was going to vote to impeach President Trump, and 355 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:44,280 Speaker 1: several Republicans were going to join them. We go through 356 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:46,119 Speaker 1: that four month ordeal, and it was a fight, and 357 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 1: we go through it. Leader McCarthy kept leader. Now Speaker 358 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 1: McCarthy kept us together. And when we come out on 359 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:55,480 Speaker 1: the other side, every single Republican voted not to impeach. 360 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:59,919 Speaker 1: Some Democrats joined us. One switched parties and has been 361 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:02,879 Speaker 1: reelected twice. Now, Jeff Van Drew from New Jersey and 362 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: this year this Converse just moved on to the Judiciary Committee. 363 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:09,160 Speaker 1: He's a great member. That's how you're supposed to operate 364 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: as a team. We just got to keep that up 365 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:14,760 Speaker 1: under Speaker McCarthy's leadership. Well, and I noticed in New Jersey, 366 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,359 Speaker 1: I think was just last week a mayor and the 367 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 1: entire city council switched from Democrat to Republican. The craziness 368 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 1: is gradually driving common sense. Democrats decided to join the 369 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:28,960 Speaker 1: normal party and leave the crazy party. Yep, that's exactly 370 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,160 Speaker 1: what happened to mister Andrew. And he's a great member 371 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:33,679 Speaker 1: and doing a great job serving the folks in southern 372 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:51,480 Speaker 1: New Jersey. Our first question, mister Chairman, comes from Don 373 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:57,679 Speaker 1: Kurtie Underwalk Arkansas. All right, they don the speaker, Mister chairman. 374 00:18:58,040 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 1: You know when you hear these different things from different 375 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:04,200 Speaker 1: sources like Fox and all we only have maybe Fox 376 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 1: is our place where we can argue. What about sending 377 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:10,959 Speaker 1: out some real good conservative debaters to these liberal shows 378 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 1: that are on Sunday and elsewhere, and really let's take 379 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,920 Speaker 1: them on, take them on like you do when you're assling. 380 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:20,239 Speaker 1: But my question would be, I saw a lot of 381 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:24,959 Speaker 1: good things. What do you think Joe Biden's role was 382 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:29,479 Speaker 1: in that Lamptop China Ukraine thing. I think there's a 383 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 1: lot of things in there that could really get back 384 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 1: to Joe, and I hope you guys will really develop that. Yeah. 385 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:37,879 Speaker 1: I do think it's important from time to time to 386 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:40,840 Speaker 1: go on the other networks and debate it out. Speaker Gang, 387 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 1: which is the best at this. I've seen him do 388 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 1: it over the years. We did it a few weeks ago, 389 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 1: went on Sunday Morning Meet the Press with Chuck Todd. 390 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:49,639 Speaker 1: We try to do that from time to time. I 391 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 1: think that's important for Republicans to do that. What Joe 392 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:53,800 Speaker 1: knew is I think a lot of it's starting to 393 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: get public. But char mccomer from Kentucky of the Oversight 394 00:19:56,600 --> 00:20:00,200 Speaker 1: Committee is really going to dig into the whole laptop 395 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:04,680 Speaker 1: issue and Biden family business operation. And what he really 396 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,600 Speaker 1: wants to get a hold of Don is those suspicious 397 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 1: activity reports that the Treasury Department has. Now it's been 398 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 1: reported that they're one hundred and fifty. I think mister 399 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:16,639 Speaker 1: Cohmer's only seen two of them, so he wants to 400 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 1: see him And as the name would suggest, this is 401 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:24,119 Speaker 1: suspicious banking activity, transactions, money movement that raise concerns but 402 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 1: the Treasury Department, so he wants to get a look 403 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:28,199 Speaker 1: at that, and he thinks that will tell us a 404 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,359 Speaker 1: lot about what was going on while Joe Biden was 405 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 1: president and Hunter and his son and his brother were 406 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:39,639 Speaker 1: operating this business operation. The next question comes from Deborah. 407 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 1: Deborah would like to know do you think that Biden 408 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:46,120 Speaker 1: and China are culpable in these balloons being a distraction 409 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 1: away from Hunter Biden's laptop scenario. Well, I hope not, 410 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 1: and I don't have any evidence to suggest that's going on. 411 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:55,199 Speaker 1: I just as we talked about earlier with the Speaker, 412 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:57,199 Speaker 1: I just want him to be squared with us, tell 413 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 1: us what's going on. Hey, here's another example. Why in 414 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:06,960 Speaker 1: the world hasn't the Justice Department briefed the intelligence committees 415 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:10,160 Speaker 1: in both the House and Senate about the classified documents 416 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 1: that were found at President Biden's home at Vice president. 417 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:18,119 Speaker 1: Why not the fact that even the legislative branch, frankularly 418 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 1: should brief all of us, but at a minimum, brief 419 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 1: the chairman and ranking member of the Intelligence committee in 420 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:26,640 Speaker 1: the House and the Senate. Even have Senator Warner Democrats 421 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:28,959 Speaker 1: Senator saying this is ridiculous. So we're back to this 422 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,919 Speaker 1: concept of the unelected people think they run the country, 423 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 1: and that is not how the constitution works. So there's 424 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 1: this whole idea that we don't know. Just be square 425 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:39,640 Speaker 1: with us, be transparent with us, tell us what's going on. 426 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,959 Speaker 1: We're big boys and girls. We're Americans. We can handle it. 427 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 1: We're the people who have prevailed in every major struggle 428 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:47,760 Speaker 1: that's happened. We're willing to risk at all and come 429 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,440 Speaker 1: to America. Like, just give us the facts. We can handle. 430 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:55,400 Speaker 1: Hi there, I'm calling from Seattle, Washington, and I hope 431 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: to see Sir at Seepack next week. My question is, 432 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 1: how do you not get discouraged when you see all 433 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,679 Speaker 1: of this craziness happening in our country. It's like you 434 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:06,520 Speaker 1: just can't make this stuff up? How do you not 435 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 1: get discouraged? I don't view my job as any harder 436 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 1: than yours, any harder than the farmer, or the small 437 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:14,520 Speaker 1: business owner, or the families out there, the school teacher. 438 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:16,720 Speaker 1: I mean, look where all Americans were, all working hard, 439 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 1: trying to do what we think is is best. But 440 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,400 Speaker 1: I just remember it's America. I told this story at 441 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,520 Speaker 1: a speech earlier today as well. This is probably ten 442 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 1: twelve years ago. My wife and I toured the Wright 443 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 1: Brothers home down in Dayton. We live about thirty five 444 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,640 Speaker 1: miles north of Dayton, Ohio, and we met some friends there. 445 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 1: Did the tour. You paid the lady like five bucks, 446 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:35,520 Speaker 1: and they take you on this tour and you learn 447 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 1: all these things about the Right Brothers. The last stop 448 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:39,160 Speaker 1: on the tour, I mean, they talk to you about 449 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 1: the bicycle shop at other things they were inventing and 450 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,960 Speaker 1: messing around with, fascinating individuals. Last stop on the tour 451 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:47,680 Speaker 1: is one of the I think it's Wilburg's bedroom. They 452 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 1: tell you a few more things about this particular Right 453 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 1: brother and then they finished the tour by showing you 454 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: two pictures. First picture they hold up was that very 455 00:22:56,080 --> 00:23:00,280 Speaker 1: first flight nineteen oh three Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. This 456 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:02,360 Speaker 1: thing they called a plane. And when you first see 457 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,040 Speaker 1: that picture, you're like, how did that thing get off 458 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 1: the ground? And the truth is it barely did it 459 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:08,440 Speaker 1: flew like a one hundred feet got like eight or 460 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 1: ten feet off the ground. And they show you that 461 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:13,440 Speaker 1: picture and you kind of remember that from school. You're like, Okay, 462 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:15,400 Speaker 1: that's kind of neat, and then they put it down 463 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:19,200 Speaker 1: and then the second picture they hold up is forty 464 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 1: four years later, nineteen forty seven, Chuck Yeager breaking the 465 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:28,360 Speaker 1: sound barrier in a jet, and I was like, holy cow. 466 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 1: And we went from two guys flying one hundred feet 467 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: in this contraption to forty four years later, another great 468 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 1: American from West Virginia, Chuck Yeager, breaks the sound barrier 469 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 1: in a jet and I'm like, that's amazing. I didn't 470 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 1: know about the second picture in the timing of that, 471 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:44,880 Speaker 1: and they put that down. That's the end of the tour. 472 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:46,119 Speaker 1: And I always say to my wife and I we 473 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:48,440 Speaker 1: start walking out the door, and as we're walking out 474 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,200 Speaker 1: the door, it hit me, but wait a minute, why 475 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:56,159 Speaker 1: did they stop there? I represent Wapakanetta, Ohio, hometown of 476 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:59,679 Speaker 1: Neil Armstrong, who, twenty two years after Yeager breaks the 477 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 1: sound area steps on the moon. So when you step 478 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,240 Speaker 1: back and think sixty six years, we go from two 479 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:09,440 Speaker 1: guys flying one hundred feet to a man on the moon. 480 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:13,760 Speaker 1: One lifetime this country, and I would argue, only this 481 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:17,320 Speaker 1: country did that. So when you get discouraged, just remember 482 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 1: this is America. We've done things that no one else 483 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 1: can do. It's not perfect, but the best place going. 484 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,600 Speaker 1: And that's frankly right now. One of the differences between 485 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:28,919 Speaker 1: our party and the other Party. There was a survey 486 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:32,399 Speaker 1: done in September last year. They survey Democrats, do you 487 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 1: think America is the greatest nation ever? Fifty five percent 488 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: of Democrats did not think that. Did not think of 489 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,120 Speaker 1: what all of us on this call what we all 490 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:42,480 Speaker 1: know the greatest country ever. That's the divide two. I 491 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 1: just try to keep that in mind, like we live 492 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 1: in the best place ever. Did more good for more 493 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:49,200 Speaker 1: people around this planet than any other nation in history. 494 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,200 Speaker 1: And if you remember that, probably gonna have a smile 495 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:57,560 Speaker 1: on your face. This is Bill Baker from Hollistair, California. Bill, I, 496 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 1: mister Congress, you have a difficult job exposing this disruption 497 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 1: of the Biden administration, and I think we need to 498 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 1: get that exposed before the next election and get the 499 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,880 Speaker 1: media to not protect them so that we can get 500 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,600 Speaker 1: them out of office and get an honest president. Are 501 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 1: you gonna be able to do that before the election. Well, 502 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:23,400 Speaker 1: our goal is to do oversight because it's again part 503 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 1: of our constitutional obligation. And then you do with the 504 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,359 Speaker 1: idea that once you figure out what's going on, what 505 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,400 Speaker 1: we suspect is going on, then you want to put 506 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: together legislation to help address the problem. One simple example 507 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,239 Speaker 1: of possible legislation is we now we're all familiar with 508 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 1: the now famous fifty one former Intel officials who signed 509 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,920 Speaker 1: that letter, that letter that said you had that one 510 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,520 Speaker 1: sentence in there. The Hunter Biden laptop story has all 511 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,719 Speaker 1: the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation below. It 512 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 1: was legit, and we all know that, but that became 513 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,159 Speaker 1: sort of the basis for suppressing and hiding that story 514 00:25:58,200 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 1: and keeping it out of the out of the press, 515 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 1: the news just days before the most important election we have, 516 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 1: which is the presidential election. So one of the things 517 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,919 Speaker 1: that I think has happened is all fifty one of 518 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:11,679 Speaker 1: those people. My guess is all fifty one of those 519 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:16,159 Speaker 1: former Intel officials still have a security clearings. Well, is 520 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 1: that a good thing or bad thing? I think it's 521 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:19,919 Speaker 1: something we need to look at. Why do they sell there? 522 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 1: Many of them been out of government for years. Why 523 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 1: do they sell a security clearans? My guess is it 524 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 1: helps them in there whatever consulting or whatever business opportunities 525 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 1: they're doing. Whatever they're doing with their TV contracts, and 526 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 1: they're paid advisor to certain networks, it all probably helps them. 527 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 1: I don't know that that's necessarily good. Maybe good for them, 528 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 1: but I don't know if it's good for the country. 529 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,080 Speaker 1: So that's one possible thing we look at. Not to 530 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,880 Speaker 1: mention this idea that we heard from our witnesses former 531 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,879 Speaker 1: FBI agents last week, that so much of the power 532 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 1: now is run out of DC and the Washington Field 533 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 1: office and not run out of the fifty field offices 534 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:56,679 Speaker 1: around the country like it used to be in the FBI. 535 00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,440 Speaker 1: That's probably a problem. Maybe we need to do legislation 536 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,800 Speaker 1: that says none. We want that power dispersed, not just 537 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:05,640 Speaker 1: everything run out of DC. So that's what we want 538 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,639 Speaker 1: to do. Get the facts on the table for the 539 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 1: country to see, because that's always step one in stopping things, 540 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,000 Speaker 1: and then getting the legislation pass that we need to 541 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:16,440 Speaker 1: actually fix it. Let me just say for everybody before 542 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 1: we leave, you are one of the people that I 543 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 1: really admire. I've watched your growth, I've watched your seriousness. 544 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 1: You are as hard working and as focused as anybody 545 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:30,160 Speaker 1: in the Congress, and I'm very grateful you take time 546 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 1: to be with us, and I think you know that 547 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,480 Speaker 1: you have the prayers and the support of everybody on 548 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 1: this call, and what you're doing is really important. For 549 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 1: the future of our country. So I thank you for 550 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,360 Speaker 1: taking the time to be with us this afternoon. Thank 551 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:47,480 Speaker 1: you for your service. We appreciate it. Thank you. We 552 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 1: will in the future try to find other chairmen who 553 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 1: also have very important roles like Chairmen Jordan, and make 554 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:58,159 Speaker 1: sure that we have an occasion, an opportunity to have 555 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,879 Speaker 1: this kind of conversation where everybody can be involved. And 556 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:05,400 Speaker 1: I hope that you found this to be educational. As 557 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,719 Speaker 1: you could tell, he's a very bright, very thoughtful person. 558 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,560 Speaker 1: He's going to make a big impact, and this was 559 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:15,719 Speaker 1: a chance for you to have a real conversation with him. 560 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,640 Speaker 1: I hope that if you find this useful, then you'll 561 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,160 Speaker 1: tell your friends about it and encourage them to join 562 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:23,679 Speaker 1: us on the Inner Circle, because I find that the 563 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,640 Speaker 1: feedback and the ideas and the things that come in 564 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:32,920 Speaker 1: are very very helpful. Thank you for listening, and thank 565 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,760 Speaker 1: you to members of my Inner Circle club. 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