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Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: I think I just saw a Hannity float by in
Speaker 3: the Atlantic Ocean on a rat.
Speaker 1: Well, he's trying to get away from what happened. You know,
Speaker 1: last night we had these primaries in New York and
Speaker 1: our crazy Kami mayor everybody endorsed one. All these crazy democrats, socialists.
Speaker 1: They're calling it the hate slate, the Commy Corridor. What
Speaker 1: is going on here in New York.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a very interesting political story, and no doubt
Speaker 3: about that, Mark, and thanks for having me on. I
Speaker 3: picked up a couple of weeks ago, as you may know,
Speaker 3: I have a collection of historical stuff from all over
Speaker 3: the world, and I picked up Mao's Little Red Book,
Speaker 3: first edition, nineteen sixty six stamp from the immigration people
Speaker 3: in the United States saying you can sell us, but
Speaker 3: we don't endorse it. This is really a find and
Speaker 3: the book basically says, look, the communist movement is based
Speaker 3: on a few things, and we are seeing those things
Speaker 3: in New York City. The first one is seizing assets
Speaker 3: from the proletarian class and distributing them to the working people.
Speaker 3: And that means that what Mandanni is actively doing is
Speaker 3: he's making it impossible for Mark Simone to buy an
Speaker 3: apartment and fix the apartment and rent the apartment. So
Speaker 3: you cannot do that because of all the regulations. And
Speaker 3: Mandannie's goal is to have this city control all the housing.
Speaker 3: That's communism. So the three people that were elected yesterday
Speaker 3: in New York City will serve in the House of Representatives.
Speaker 3: Now there's about ten already in there that are communist people.
Speaker 2: They don't admit it. They all were socialists. We're democratic.
Speaker 3: Socialism had a bunch of garbage. I mean, they don't
Speaker 3: believe in private property, they want a wealth tax, they
Speaker 3: don't believe in punishing criminals at.
Speaker 2: All for whatever they do.
Speaker 3: They don't believe in any immigration reform, open border they want.
Speaker 3: These are communists. And what's interesting is the reason that's
Speaker 3: happened in New York City is half of the workforce
Speaker 3: in New York City half foreign born. And their values,
Speaker 3: I hate to say this, but it's absolutely true, are
Speaker 3: not the values of Indigenous Americans. So we embrace capitalism here,
Speaker 3: they don't. So when they get a guy like Mandani
Speaker 3: and his three acolytes that were elected yesterday to run
Speaker 3: in the primary, and that means they'll win in New York, Okay,
Speaker 3: they don't care whether there's asset seizure. These are the
Speaker 3: people that were born abroad. They just want things given
Speaker 3: to them. Not that they're lazy, and a lot of
Speaker 3: migrants are.
Speaker 2: Very very hard working people and have worked them.
Speaker 3: Way on their own. But there is a big segment
Speaker 3: of people who do not want to compete in American society.
Speaker 3: They don't want it. They want to be given housing, food, daycare, healthcare,
Speaker 3: on and on. And that's what these people promise.
Speaker 1: But you know, a guy like mom Donnie, highly educated,
Speaker 1: and we've run this experiment with the socialism about ten
Speaker 1: million times all over the world that fails every single time.
Speaker 1: So what are they just the greatest optimists in the world.
Speaker 1: I think maybe this time it'll work.
Speaker 3: No, it's power. So the easiest way to pain power
Speaker 3: in America at this point in history is to promise
Speaker 3: voters free stuff. There is no easier way to do
Speaker 3: it than that. You see in La San Francisco, Chicago,
Speaker 3: all the big urban centers where a lot of poor
Speaker 3: people have come and they can't afford to pay four
Speaker 3: thousand dollars a month for an apartment. And so Mandannie
Speaker 3: and his ILK they are aware that they can win
Speaker 3: by promising free stuff. Plus, I believe a guy like Mandannie,
Speaker 3: if you look at him and his point of view
Speaker 3: on crime, his hatred of Israel, he's a hardcore communist.
Speaker 3: He believes in the little Red Book that I'm holding
Speaker 3: in my hand right now.
Speaker 1: So this is New York, but we got all these
Speaker 1: craziesess you've got voted in. Last said, is this going
Speaker 1: to hurt the Democrat Party nationally? Is this going to
Speaker 1: spread and really do them in eventually?
Speaker 2: Yes, it will.
Speaker 3: That's an excellent question because the liberal wing of the
Speaker 3: Democratic Party, these are the Hollywood people, the industrialists, the
Speaker 3: people who run Disney, the people who run the network News.
Speaker 3: They don't want their ss SEZ. They don't want that,
Speaker 3: so there's a fissure. But in New York State, the
Speaker 3: migrant vote is now so overwhelming and there's no leadership
Speaker 3: at Albany. Hogel just okay, all of this stuff. She
Speaker 3: will do it before in November, she'll kind of dodge
Speaker 3: and weave. But once she wins, if she can be Blakeman,
Speaker 3: then it's the gates are open. Will give you, give you,
Speaker 3: give you, give you, give you. You know, look, New
Speaker 3: York State has fewer people than Florida, and we spend
Speaker 3: what five times as much per capita as citizen in
Speaker 3: New York and they do in Florida five times as much.
Speaker 3: So what do you think you're going to get? This
Speaker 3: is communism, That's what it is. And the media covers
Speaker 3: for it. So you'll never get anybody who just told
Speaker 3: you what I just said on CNN or ABC News.
Speaker 3: You'll never You'll never hear that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't understand the media covering for Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: covering for Nancy Pelosi, but the fact that they would
Speaker 1: cover for this, they could have stopped this movement. And
Speaker 1: where were the leaders of the party. Schumer, Pelosi a
Speaker 1: few years ago, putting out this fire before it spread.
Speaker 1: Why didn't they do that?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: Pelosi tried, and I'm not a big fan of hers.
Speaker 3: She tried. She warned everybody about the squad. She didn't
Speaker 3: like them at all. But she's out of it now.
Speaker 2: Schumer is Joe Biden.
Speaker 3: I mean that literally, he can he cannot speak.
Speaker 2: He has to read off piece of paper. Whatever you
Speaker 2: you could put on the paper. Joe Biden is a schmoll.
Speaker 3: You read it. Okay, He's gone, and Cortez knows she
Speaker 3: can beat him.
Speaker 2: She's next. And Cortez, with.
Speaker 3: All due respect, because I am not trying to injure
Speaker 3: her personally. She didn't know what communism is. She had
Speaker 3: no idea Stalin or Now or even Fidel shouldn't know.
Speaker 3: He knows is Bernie Sanders told her give as much
Speaker 3: stuff away as you can give who he knows. Can
Speaker 3: you imagine me sitting down with Alexandria Acassio Cortes for.
Speaker 2: An hour interview.
Speaker 3: We do the long form, now we'll do it live.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine me sitting with her?
Speaker 1: They used to agree to that stuff, remember you and
Speaker 1: Barney Frank. They used to agree to debate they don't
Speaker 1: do it anymore.
Speaker 3: But those are classic liberals. Frank's not a communist, and
Speaker 3: you know he's deceased, of course, but it would be
Speaker 3: And I wouldn't be mean to her. We both went
Speaker 3: to Boston University. She's a fellow Terrier. But do you
Speaker 3: think she could last three minutes in a debate with me? Now, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm trying to sound arrogant. You can put forty five
Speaker 3: thousand people from the metropolitan area in the.
Speaker 2: Seat and it would be the same outcome.
Speaker 3: Oh anything, Congresswoman Cortees is not going to be able
Speaker 3: to debate them. She doesn't know anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard for people to imagine that a bunch
Speaker 1: of people could come in and like radically shift the
Speaker 1: whole culture. But Bill O'Reilly, you just got back from England.
Speaker 1: Tell everybody how England is transformed.
Speaker 3: Well, that thing has falling apart because of the giveaways
Speaker 3: for medical care and housing. So they allowed millions and
Speaker 3: their population seventy million in the UK ours is three
Speaker 3: point fifty here. So the UK government and has never
Speaker 3: been explained why allowed millions. They don't even know how
Speaker 3: many millions because they don't even count them from North Africa,
Speaker 3: from the Middle East, from South Asia poured into England,
Speaker 3: Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland poured in. As soon
Speaker 3: as they set foot on their soil, they get all
Speaker 3: the entitlements. So the British governments run out of money.
Speaker 3: They can't pay the healthcare for all of these migrants
Speaker 3: and their own citizens who were born there. They can't
Speaker 3: pay it. And once you can't pay it, your economy collapses.
Speaker 3: And that's what's happened there. So I'm doing a special
Speaker 3: for News Nation and coming up. I don't have a
Speaker 3: day yet called the Siege of London, because London's the
Speaker 3: worst over there. And I mean there are sixty Sharia
Speaker 3: courts scattered all through the UK, six to zero, so
Speaker 3: that the British government has said, no, we're not gonna win.
Speaker 2: You're not going to do the justice system anymore. You
Speaker 2: Muslims do it.
Speaker 3: How insane is that?
Speaker 1: And hey, tell everybody, when you went to England, you
Speaker 1: get off the plane.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I'm in Ireland, which is not nearly as
Speaker 3: crazy as England, and I flew from Court to London,
Speaker 3: about an hour flight on aer Lingus and I get
Speaker 3: off the plane and usually when you get off a
Speaker 3: plane go into another country. Because Ireland is in an
Speaker 3: independent country, you have to go through customs and get
Speaker 3: your passport stamped. And no customs.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, nothing.
Speaker 3: And I walked from my plane gate aer Lingus to
Speaker 3: the parking lot where a guy goes, hey, you know
Speaker 3: my driver in eight minutes.
Speaker 1: And nobody asked you to see a passport or anything.
Speaker 3: No, no one knew I was in a country. And
Speaker 3: that went for all hundred, two hundred and fifty passengers
Speaker 3: on that plane. They walked into the country. Nothing, no
Speaker 3: scrutiny whatsoever.
Speaker 1: None, unbelievable. Hey, we're talking with Bill O'Reilly. Mark Simone
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Speaker 1: two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Incredible celebrations are the Democrats
Speaker 1: going to embarrass themselves during that week by not celebrating,
Speaker 1: by not looking happy about our country.
Speaker 2: Well, I here a room, and they're gonna drown somebody
Speaker 2: in the huh.
Speaker 3: I don't think so. I don't think they're going to
Speaker 3: take the time to do something like that work against them.
Speaker 3: Although you might see some antifus and you know those people.
Speaker 3: G see one of the ANTIFA fanatics got one hundred
Speaker 3: years in the state of Texas action against the ICE
Speaker 3: agents just got sentenced yesterday.
Speaker 2: No, that's good.
Speaker 1: Those are the January sixth type sentences. I like those
Speaker 1: long sentences for these guys.
Speaker 2: Boy, they came down on eight guys.
Speaker 3: Eight antiefis went into Alvarado, Texas to attack ICE agents,
Speaker 3: and you know they caught them all because one cop
Speaker 3: was hurt and they all got forty years up in
Speaker 3: Texas penitentiary. And that's what we need to do that
Speaker 3: insurrection bill.
Speaker 1: O'Reilly, Hey, we don't have much time left. Tell me
Speaker 1: about Anthony Fauci. Are we going to end up seeing
Speaker 1: this guy finally get some what he deserves? Will justice
Speaker 1: catch up with Anthony Fauci?
Speaker 3: No, because he got a pardon from Biden Yeah.
Speaker 1: But I know that Trump people are looking at did
Speaker 1: Biden even sign it? Know about it?
Speaker 4: Nah?
Speaker 3: They the federal courts will never ever throw those pardons
Speaker 3: out because you know, it is way too much confliction
Speaker 3: in how they were made and all that. We all
Speaker 3: know that he didn't sign anything. He could barely find
Speaker 3: his way to the Oval office.
Speaker 2: We all know that. But the system is the system.
Speaker 3: But what Fauci will go through is an incredible damnation
Speaker 3: because Rand Paul is going to rip his throat out
Speaker 3: and Fauchi has to show up. He's under federal subpoena
Speaker 3: and if he lies, they could charge him with perjury.
Speaker 3: But when was the last time you heard anybody charge
Speaker 3: with perjury?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well, I think they can already charge him, I just
Speaker 1: for that last round of testimony, but.
Speaker 2: They can't because Biden parted him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that would be great to see. Well, Bill O'Reilly,
Speaker 1: great to have you on. Hey, everybody check out his
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Speaker 2: Simmons is quite a character.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me. Mark appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: great work in Washington, d C. Congressman Matt Van Epps, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: great great American, very amazing credentials and served in Iraq,
Speaker 1: Afghanistan and serving right now in Washington, d C. A
Speaker 1: real tough battleground there, and ladies and gentlemen, great to
Speaker 1: happen with us. Congressman Van Epps, thanks for being here.
Speaker 6: Hey, Mark, Hey, Mark, thank you so much. Honored to
Speaker 6: be on with you. It's been a really exciting past
Speaker 6: six months. Now in office for six months and honored
Speaker 6: to serve in the Tennessee seventh Congressional District in fight
Speaker 6: hard for my constituents and for America, and very grateful
Speaker 6: for the time today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but what a swamp to be serving in Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. But you're you're up to the task. So hey, hey,
Speaker 1: tell everybody about the This is a wonderful thing, the
Speaker 1: gold Star Families Act. Tell everybody about it.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, thanks Mark. So I made a campaign promise that
Speaker 6: the first bill that we would do would be for
Speaker 6: gold Star families and for veterans, and our first quarter
Speaker 6: in office, that's what we focused on, and we introduced
Speaker 6: back in March the Honored gold Star Families Act, which
Speaker 6: proposed to increase the death gratuity that gets paid to
Speaker 6: a service member's family after that service member is killed
Speaker 6: from the current amount of one hundred thousand dollars to
Speaker 6: two hundred thousand dollars, provide an annual cost of living adjustment,
Speaker 6: and make it retroactive to January first to cover Operation
Speaker 6: Epic Fury. The bill has twenty one co sponsors, is
Speaker 6: a bipartisan bill with a Republican co lead a Democrat
Speaker 6: co lead. It's been endorsed by the American gold Star Mothers,
Speaker 6: the gold Star Wives, the Military Veterans' advocacy with Honor
Speaker 6: Source America, a number of other organizations, and I'm honored
Speaker 6: to be able to report to you, Mark that a
Speaker 6: couple of weeks ago, language from our bill made it
Speaker 6: into the National Defense Authorization Act and that's moving forward,
Speaker 6: and so I'm really excited about that. Is this is
Speaker 6: an important step for our gold Star families. The language
Speaker 6: in the nbaa slightly slightly different than our bill. We're
Speaker 6: still those core provisions of my legislation made it through
Speaker 6: the committee markup, and I'm honored by that. We're also
Speaker 6: going to continue to push the bill as a standalone bill,
Speaker 6: and I'm very grateful for all the work that went
Speaker 6: in by my team. It is now also by Cameron,
Speaker 6: and so I'm sharing that with you for the first time.
Speaker 2: Senator.
Speaker 6: He introduced it last week in the Senate. So we've
Speaker 6: got a lot of great momentum here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you would think with something as a no brainer
Speaker 1: like this that there'd be no opposition and that you
Speaker 1: wouldn't have to push, But I guess you got to
Speaker 1: fight for everything in Congress, don't you.
Speaker 6: That's right, and you know this, with this bill, we
Speaker 6: have a solemn obligation to stand behind the families of
Speaker 6: service members who have given everything for our country. And
Speaker 6: this is not the despertunity has not been increased since
Speaker 6: two thousand and six, and so we're providing a cost
Speaker 6: of living adjustment. We're increasing that. That's the tax free
Speaker 6: money that goes to that family immediately after that first week,
Speaker 6: first couple of weeks after service members killed, and you know,
Speaker 6: they're going through the hardest thing in their lives, and
Speaker 6: we want to alleviate some of that stress from the
Speaker 6: financial burden part of that. It is straightforard. Your absolutely right, Mark,
Speaker 6: and we've got to continue to push to get this done.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, it's great work that you're doing. Now. If you
Speaker 1: watch Crazy MSNBC or something like that, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: the Republicans are all divided in the Civil War in
Speaker 1: the Congress. You're there, you're meeting with the GOP leaders.
Speaker 1: What's the real story.
Speaker 6: But listen, I have been so impressed by our freshman
Speaker 6: class and just being here for six months now. It
Speaker 6: is a great group of patriots, and we have amazing leadership,
Speaker 6: and we're fighting hard every single day and I could
Speaker 6: not be more proud this team and our our efforts.
Speaker 6: You know, Mark, you look at you look at the
Speaker 6: elections that happened in New York City last night, and
Speaker 6: I'd rather not, but yeah, well yeah, And you know,
Speaker 6: this is a this is a battle between between common
Speaker 6: sense Republicans and the and and Democrats that are just
Speaker 6: have this socialist, leftist, Marxist viewpoint. And in America two fifty,
Speaker 6: our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, the greatest nation in
Speaker 6: the history of the world, we have we have a
Speaker 6: real fight right now between this common sense what Republicans
Speaker 6: are driving to help families, to drive down costs, to
Speaker 6: protect our country, secure our border, keep our border secure,
Speaker 6: and and we have these left crazy I mean, I
Speaker 6: just you know, I'm some of these candidates. It just
Speaker 6: baffles me. Mark. There's you know, one that used the
Speaker 6: American flag as a napkin. There's one that stopped going
Speaker 6: to church because Trump supporters were there. You know, There's
Speaker 6: there's one that refuses to stay the pledge of allegiance.
Speaker 6: Like there's a whole list of the things that they
Speaker 6: believe in, which is opposite of what our country is
Speaker 6: all about, what we fought for two hundred and fifty
Speaker 6: years as that shining city on a hill and we
Speaker 6: have got to have your listeners. We've got to have
Speaker 6: all of these folks come together for the in the
Speaker 6: behind the Republican Party and back Republican candidates so that
Speaker 6: we can keep this country the greatest country in the world.
Speaker 1: Wow, when you saw some of those some of those
Speaker 1: wackos last night that could be in Congress, are they
Speaker 1: going to fit in there?
Speaker 6: I mean I would I would say no. I mean
Speaker 6: it's I mean some of the you know, some of
Speaker 6: the backgrounds, some of the things that they're they're advocating for.
Speaker 6: I mean, just have have no business in not just
Speaker 6: in Congress, but in the fabric of America. I mean,
Speaker 6: these are these are failed policies, failed ideology that the
Speaker 6: world is has said no to. You know, you look
Speaker 6: at the socialist, Marxist philosophies that some of these people
Speaker 6: are are bringing, and it is opposite to the the
Speaker 6: core tenants of America. It will only cause greater harm
Speaker 6: for families. It will only make us weaker, and that's
Speaker 6: not what we can have. We've got to have the
Speaker 6: strongest country to lift up our families, to protect our citizens,
Speaker 6: and that's what we've got to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, so President Trump tell us about any interactions
Speaker 1: you had with him or how his leadership is affecting
Speaker 1: the Congress right now.
Speaker 6: Well, well, let me let me go back a couple
Speaker 6: of you know, as a brand new guy, I had
Speaker 6: an opportunity to fly an Air Force one President and
Speaker 6: that was that was a pretty special moment for me.
Speaker 6: It was during the the Memphis Safe passport so not
Speaker 6: in district for me, but I've been talking about I
Speaker 6: sit on Homeland Security and I've been talking about the
Speaker 6: Memphis Safe Passporce as a great example of the President's
Speaker 6: leadership of Governor Lee and Tennessee, of his leadership them
Speaker 6: working together to reduce crime across all metrics in Memphis,
Speaker 6: to make that city safe and more prosperous. And it's
Speaker 6: a great outcome that can serve as a template for
Speaker 6: the rest of the country. I got to go to
Speaker 6: see the event that the President did a couple of
Speaker 6: months ago, and it was remarkable supporting all of our
Speaker 6: law enforcement first responders. And after that event, I got
Speaker 6: to be on Air Force one with the President and
Speaker 6: fly back to DC. And you know, Mark, I've had
Speaker 6: a number of phone calls with him, and you know
Speaker 6: that got to be on air Force one, which was
Speaker 6: a really fun moment for me, and he just he
Speaker 6: always asked about my family, how we're doing, and is
Speaker 6: so supportive and it is just a phenomenal leader.
Speaker 1: Now, well, that's great to hear. Hey, tell us what
Speaker 1: this can't be. This can't be American tax money to
Speaker 1: the Taliban. Tell me that's not true.
Speaker 6: So the House plans, as you know, I think, to
Speaker 6: vote on the National Security Department of State related programs
Speaker 6: this week, which oversees foreign aid. And this is a
Speaker 6: it's something so Burchite out of Tennessee. UH passed the
Speaker 6: bill last year UH to prevent this. This is money
Speaker 6: that is going via the United Nations is ends up
Speaker 6: being skimmed and taxed and taken by the Taliban. And
Speaker 6: we absolutely cannot have that. We we have, we have
Speaker 6: got we've got to stop that. I don't I don't
Speaker 6: want to see a single US dollar going to the
Speaker 6: Taliban directly or indirectly. I served in the Global War untire.
Speaker 6: I served in Afghanistans, fought against UH. This that regime
Speaker 6: and and and that is absolutely inexcusable. So we've got
Speaker 6: to work really hard ensure that doesn't happen. I'm so
Speaker 6: glad that my my friend and colleague Tim Burchett led
Speaker 6: on that a year ago before before I was in Congress,
Speaker 6: and that got got through the House. And so we've
Speaker 6: got to keep pushing on that to ensure that not
Speaker 6: a single dollar goes to the Taliban.
Speaker 1: Well, unbelievable. Hey, so you're you're relatively new to Congress
Speaker 1: when you got there, who was who is nice to
Speaker 1: see you? Who took you under their wings? Who was
Speaker 1: your biggest help there?
Speaker 6: Well, I'll tell you Mark, I'm truly everyone has been
Speaker 6: so helpful, from leadership to all of the members, truly
Speaker 6: all of the members of the freshman class here with me,
Speaker 6: who kind of pulled me in. I came in in
Speaker 6: December in that special election, and they were kind enough
Speaker 6: to pull me in. But you know, I also I
Speaker 6: tried to I try to build a lot of relationships
Speaker 6: and work with a whole lot of folks both on
Speaker 6: BUOT my security and then Science, Space and Technology, which
Speaker 6: is the other committee that I'm on. I'm in the
Speaker 6: Republican Study Committee that's chaired by August Fluger out of Texas,
Speaker 6: who's great, August, and I I got to play in
Speaker 6: a baseball team this year. I grew up playing baseball,
Speaker 6: was in the Congressional Baseball Game two weeks ago, and
Speaker 6: it was one of the absolute most most fun things
Speaker 6: that I've gotten to do. But I've built a lot
Speaker 6: of really strong relationships through that. And you know, Mark,
Speaker 6: we won that eleven to two, and I got to
Speaker 6: begin the game as a pinch runner a few times
Speaker 6: to score two runs. But I think being with our
Speaker 6: team and winning with the GOP against the Democrats in
Speaker 6: the Nats Ballpark is something I'll never forget. I was
Speaker 6: able to have my young daughter with me in the
Speaker 6: outfield before the game and we were able to run around.
Speaker 6: It was just a very special moment for me and
Speaker 6: my family. But it's also been an opportunity to build
Speaker 6: some additional strong relationships with all of those Republicans that
Speaker 6: play on the baseball team.
Speaker 1: That's great. Hey, we're talking with Congressman Matt Van Epps.
Speaker 1: I just tell me the Save Act. What chance do
Speaker 1: we have to get in this past?
Speaker 6: Well, you know, so we passed it out of the
Speaker 6: House twice. We voted for twice to Save America Act.
Speaker 6: And this is a you know, this is a ninety
Speaker 6: ten issue. In the country. I mean, this is something
Speaker 6: that we we absolutely have have got have got to continue.
Speaker 2: To push forward.
Speaker 6: We I fully support the Save America Act, my colleagues
Speaker 6: in the House to we you know, the president, this
Speaker 6: is a this is a top if not the top
Speaker 6: agenda item for the President. And so we've we've we've
Speaker 6: got to work. So it's got to work to get
Speaker 6: this done. And uh and so I'm I'm hope that
Speaker 6: we'll have a pathway forward on that. You know, this
Speaker 6: is the Save America Act, is the bill that requires
Speaker 6: voter ID that will require states to remove anyone.
Speaker 1: That shouldn't be on the roles if.
Speaker 6: They're illegal or if they've passed away. It requires votered
Speaker 6: ID at the polling site. Very very common sense, and
Speaker 6: we require IDs for at fifteen or twenty different things
Speaker 6: in our country, from buying alcohol to getting on a plane.
Speaker 6: And it's what we should do in our elections. And
Speaker 6: so we've we've passed this, voted on it twice in
Speaker 6: the House, and I've fully support an honor to support it,
Speaker 6: and we've just got to get it done.
Speaker 1: With Chuck Schumer in that speech yesterday when he said
Speaker 1: this will disenfranchise twenty million people. Twenty million people won't
Speaker 1: be able to vote. What is he talking about?
Speaker 6: No, I you know, there's a lot of misnomers out
Speaker 6: there marked on this, and there are provisions in there.
Speaker 6: I think you know, I've heard, well, the you know,
Speaker 6: military won't be able you know, to vote because of it.
Speaker 6: Women who change their names when they get married won't
Speaker 6: be able to and that's just false. There are provisions
Speaker 6: in it ensure that that that everyone's able to vote.
Speaker 6: And look and there's a I mean, there's even a
Speaker 6: mechanism where you can sign affidavit if you change your
Speaker 6: name and say no, that's my you know, that's my name.
Speaker 6: So no, this is this is the right thing. It's
Speaker 6: a this is a ninety ten issue. This is a
Speaker 6: you know, is common sense straight well kind of back
Speaker 6: to that. You know that the Democrats crazy candidates are
Speaker 6: putting up in Republicans common sense. This is this is
Speaker 6: common sense and this has a lot of support across
Speaker 6: the aisle, despite what what the voting record might be.
Speaker 6: But there are people all across the country that know
Speaker 6: that this is the right thing to do, a common
Speaker 6: sense solution.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, you had any interaction with Hakeem Jeffries. He
Speaker 1: is the oddest looking guy on television. He looks like
Speaker 1: almost like a robot. But if you have to deal
Speaker 1: with him in any way.
Speaker 6: No, I've not, I've not. I you know, I've seen
Speaker 6: him on the House floor, but I've not had any
Speaker 6: interactions through my committee work or anything else. And no,
Speaker 6: but I you know, I can I can safely say
Speaker 6: that we see the world differently.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what they say in the old days in Congress,
Speaker 1: once it was five o'clock, once the whistle blewe Democrats, Republicans,
Speaker 1: they all went and got a beer together. There's nothing
Speaker 1: like that anymore, is there?
Speaker 6: Well, really, no, I think there is. I'm honored to
Speaker 6: be on something called the Four Country Caucus, and so
Speaker 6: this is a group of both Republicans and Democrats, all veterans.
Speaker 6: It's probably the closest thing to that, to that old
Speaker 6: kind of notion. And we'll have speakers that come in
Speaker 6: in the mornings for about once a month or so,
Speaker 6: and we all get together and we do work collaboratively
Speaker 6: in that to advance veteran issues. So atter of fact,
Speaker 6: my honored Gold Star families all there's a vote process
Speaker 6: in the Four Country caucus. We set our bill through.
Speaker 6: It's a blind vote. We got one hundred percent of
Speaker 6: Republicans and one hundred percent of Democrats in the four
Speaker 6: country caucus to vote in favor of our Auditable Star
Speaker 6: Families Act. So it is an example of a bipartisan
Speaker 6: way that a group is working for veterans.
Speaker 1: Well, Congress, Sooan Matt Vanepps, you're doing great work. We're
Speaker 1: very proud of you, and we're very grateful to you.
Speaker 1: Keep it up, and thanks for being with us.
Speaker 2: Heany so much.
Speaker 6: Mark, Thanks for what you do. Honored to be here,
Speaker 6: and I hope you have a great day.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks so much. You hear that. Thanks for
Speaker 1: what I do? What am I doing? I got the
Speaker 1: easy point. Might just stand here and ask him questions.
Speaker 1: He does all the work answering, and I'm getting paid.
Speaker 1: He's not on this one. No, he's doing great work.
Speaker 1: We really appreciate it. And a nice guy, you can
Speaker 1: tell you like a genuine, honest, nice wholesome guy. You
Speaker 1: don't see that much in Washington anymore. Hey, it's Mark
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