1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:08,480 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and look your 2 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: so Michael Very Show is on the air, looking into mic. 3 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 2: We gotta feeding bed. 4 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 3: I don't plan to shave, and it's you've the thing, 5 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 3: but I just gotta see. I'm done, all right, we'll 6 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaker 3: I'm mixing sport. It's I'm beating ridicule and. 7 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 1: That's the truth. 8 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 3: It's neither drink nor drug and stool. I'm just done, 9 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 3: all right. It's a tad. I know Soun's still shining 10 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 3: in a close my eyes. It's five times in the neighborhood. 11 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:20,479 Speaker 1: Look biking every day. An incredibly eventful weekend. It was, 12 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:28,400 Speaker 1: my goodness, we have a gold medal for the hockey team. 13 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 1: That was I didn't watch it. I didn't watch I 14 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 1: don't know if it's still on, but I did not 15 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 1: watch one minute of the Olympics. I'm not suggesting that's 16 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: something commendable. I'm just telling you can measure that against 17 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: what you watched. I did note that, as always, you're 18 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 1: trying to find a storyline. So I knew they had 19 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 1: hit something when my wife says to me, did you 20 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 1: see the story on Lindsey Vaughan, And I said no, 21 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: She said well, she's competing in one of the snow 22 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: skiing events. I don't know if it was downhill, whatever 23 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 1: it was, it doesn't matter for the point of the story. 24 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:20,080 Speaker 1: She's competing with a at forty one years old with 25 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: a torn acl and me being me, I'm reading a 26 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 1: book and distracted, so I pick a fight that I 27 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: don't need to pick. And I said, well, the only 28 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: reason that matters is because she smashed a golf club 29 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: through Tiger Wood's truck window. And she said, no, she didn't, 30 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 1: and I said, yeah, she did. That's the only reason 31 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 1: you or anyone else knows her name. It wasn't her, 32 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: so I was certain it was, but it wasn't. That 33 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: was just a girl he dated after all that. So 34 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: that was an attempt, however, to create a storyline, because 35 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 1: you have to create storylines. People aren't tuning in to 36 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: watch a downhill skiing event who don't already ski, and 37 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: I'm not sure people who ski. There's not a tradition, 38 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: you know, football season Saturdays for college football and Sundays 39 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 1: for NFL. That's a long Monday night and now Thursday 40 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: night that's a long standing tradition, and Friday night is 41 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: local football and you're not trying to create a habit 42 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 1: that it doesn't already exist. So they were. But anyway 43 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 1: of this, there's usually a little bit a spark of 44 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: interest around curling. I didn't see that as much this 45 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: year as there normally people wake up and go, oh, 46 00:03:55,720 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: that's kind of a cool thing curling. You know, it's 47 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: far as things go, it's more interesting than the other 48 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 1: stuff that's going on. And then there was the US 49 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: versus Canada, and I think with everything that's gone on 50 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 1: under Trump, there's sort of a general disdain for Canada, 51 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 1: so no matter the event, we'd like to beat him. 52 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: And then there's always the miracle on ice. There's always 53 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:30,280 Speaker 1: there's still kind of a hold over appreciation for you know, 54 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:35,000 Speaker 1: US hockey and gold medals and the like. So there 55 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 1: was the gold medal in hockey. There was a Pertobayarta story. 56 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:50,359 Speaker 1: You've got a major Mexican tourist destination where a cartel 57 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: leader who's known as El Minchow that means the Minch ramon. Yeah, 58 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 1: he's a minch. I don't know what El Minsho means, 59 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:00,600 Speaker 1: but I kind of like to think of it as 60 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: the minch, you know, I like, you know, some Hasidic 61 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 1: Jews speaking Spanish to have declared him el Mincho. That 62 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 1: man right there, he's a real minch. I tell you, 63 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:16,039 Speaker 1: we shall call him el Mincho. But in any case, 64 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:24,599 Speaker 1: he's killed by the governmental authorities, and then his cartel 65 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:28,839 Speaker 1: goes bonkers. You're not supposed to do this to us, 66 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,280 Speaker 1: So they start blowing stuff up and shooting stuff up, 67 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 1: and I'm of two minds as to how to react 68 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 1: to this. One part of me says, all right, I've 69 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 1: watched all the footage and it really looks like what 70 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:49,040 Speaker 1: ANTIFA and BLM do in this country, the anti ice protesters, 71 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 1: you know, because everybody, oh my god, look at what's 72 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 1: going on. It's horrible, and you're seeing things going on, 73 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, well, it might be more firepower than 74 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: the American left uses in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, La Mogadishu, Minnesota, 75 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: New York, Chicago, Detroit any given day, but it's not 76 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 1: more widespread. There are not more deaths than we see, 77 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: and we saw that happen on our own streets. So 78 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: we're going to talk about violence, think about what the 79 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 1: American left did our cities. I would argue worse and 80 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 1: more sustained for a longer period of time. So maybe 81 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 1: we should ask ourselves, why are we so shocked at 82 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: what's going on in Mexico. We don't do anything when 83 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:44,359 Speaker 1: it happens here. But the flip side of that is, 84 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,720 Speaker 1: if you get serious about the fact that the government 85 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,040 Speaker 1: has lost control of a major city, it's the second 86 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 1: largest city in Guadalajara. It's a tourist attraction, and Mexico's 87 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 1: approach has long been we might not can control the 88 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:06,679 Speaker 1: majority of our country, but American tourism is a huge, 89 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: huge source of revenue for us. So they have a 90 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: deal with the cartels, like in Chicago where they have 91 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 1: a safe passage. You know, the gang leaders get together 92 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: and go, all right, we're not going to kill anybody 93 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 1: from seven forty five to eight fifteen because the kids 94 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 1: are coming in, and we won't kill anybody from two 95 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 1: forty five to three fifteen. Everybody agree, everybody, okay, all right, 96 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 1: I love to kill each other. And so there was 97 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: kind of a gentleman's agreement. If you will that the 98 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 1: cartels wouldn't do that, well, then you go killing the 99 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: cartel leader and now things are bad. And if that 100 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 1: doesn't tell you why we need border security. If you 101 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 1: see the footage of what's going on there, I don't 102 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 1: know what does. Wesley Hunt will be our guest. He's 103 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 1: a congressman from the thirty eighth Congressional District who's running 104 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 1: be for the United States Senate against John Cornyan at 105 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 1: a thirty Hen Paxton who is also running against John 106 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 1: Cornet at eight forty five. So we will have those 107 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 1: discussions back to back. An apparent assassination attempt on President 108 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 1: Trump at mar Lago over the weekend. It's not even 109 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 1: surprising anymore. I don't recall a single assassination attempt against Obama, 110 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 1: but look at this. Here's another one. You got a 111 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 1: guy who got killed coming in with a with a 112 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 1: tank of gas and a shotgun, refused to put his 113 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 1: gun down, drew down on the on on site. It's 114 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 1: crazy times. I'm here to be a fight and brief 115 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:35,839 Speaker 1: Binansau had Impact Politics, which attracks spending on political advertising, 116 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: reports that John Cornyan's campaign, as well as the packs 117 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 1: supporting him, are spending nearly fifty nine five nine fifty 118 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 1: nine million dollars on campaign advertising during the primary. Now 119 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 1: there is unaccounted for spending in ways that are not 120 00:08:56,440 --> 00:09:03,080 Speaker 1: easily trackable. Radio advertising advertising it's pretty easy to track. 121 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 1: Is put into a system and you can see what 122 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 1: people are spending, but things that are spent on digital, 123 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 1: for instance, don't show up as quickly until the report 124 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 1: is done. They are spending more money the DC swamp, 125 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 1: because's where the money's coming from. This is not Texas 126 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 1: grassroots support for the senator. They are spending more money 127 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: on this campaign's primary, which he's going to lose. Then 128 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 1: we'll be spent on almost every other US Senate seat 129 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: against the Democrats in November. So that's money that will 130 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 1: not be there in November. And then they'll come back 131 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:52,320 Speaker 1: to you and say, we got to hold on our 132 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: Senate majority. We need help for this seat or that 133 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:59,680 Speaker 1: seat or this seat. You don't want your Senate seat 134 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 1: to fall to the Democrats. You only have one hundred 135 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 1: of them. And while Texas is the same Senate power 136 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,559 Speaker 1: as a senator from Vermont or Kansas or Idaho or 137 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 1: North Dakota, it's a bell weather. It's important, it's symbolic. 138 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 1: You want to keep the Texas Senate seat republican, but 139 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 1: there's not a doubt of keeping it republican. This is 140 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 1: money being spent by outsiders in Texas to tell Republicans, 141 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 1: not voters, Republicans, which Republican they want, and to tell 142 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:40,440 Speaker 1: Republicans who have been unwavering in their support of Paxton 143 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 1: over Cornyn. Then you don't want Paxton, you want Cornyan. No, no, 144 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: we don't in our primary. The polling shows we don't 145 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: want Cornan. So why do you keep trying to foist 146 00:10:57,800 --> 00:10:58,320 Speaker 1: Cornan on? 147 00:10:58,440 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 4: Us? 148 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:04,680 Speaker 1: Tells you a lot, doesn't it. Now listen to this number. 149 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 1: CBS News puts that into perspective. How much money the 150 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:13,320 Speaker 1: swamp is spending in a primary not a general? On 151 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:15,680 Speaker 1: John Cornyan, here's your red flag. 152 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 5: The organization add Impact Politics reports Cornan and Packs and 153 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 5: other groups supporting him are spending big money on campaign 154 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 5: advertising nearly fifty nine million dollars. That's sixty percent of 155 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 5: the total money being spent and reserved on ads for 156 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 5: both the Republican and Democratic primaries, which has now climbed 157 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 5: to nearly one hundred million dollars and will climb further 158 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:41,320 Speaker 5: to what could be a record number for a US 159 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:42,480 Speaker 5: Senate seat in the US. 160 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 1: I asked Cornan about that. 161 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 5: Should an incumbent have to spend all that money to 162 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:48,960 Speaker 5: stay in office. 163 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 6: Texas is a big state, and it's hard to get 164 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 6: your message out and it takes money. And that's and 165 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:57,680 Speaker 6: I'm proud of the fact that there are so many 166 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:00,760 Speaker 6: people who've dug so deep to support Maybe it's going 167 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:03,960 Speaker 6: to be a whole lot more expensive for Republicans to 168 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 6: hold onto the seat if I'm not the nominee than 169 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:06,840 Speaker 6: if i am. 170 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 5: For the first time since Ken Paxton entered the race 171 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 5: back in April, he invited local reporters to his campaign events, 172 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 5: including one in Allen in Collin County. Before dozens of supporters, 173 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 5: he said Cornyn should not. 174 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 1: Be running for a fifth term. 175 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 5: I asked him to respond to Cornan's accusations against him. 176 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 2: Well, here's what he said. 177 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 5: The truth is Texans can't trust Ken Paxton. 178 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:31,200 Speaker 7: First thought he said the same thing about Donald Trump 179 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 7: so they could win. His day had passed. He's got 180 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 7: nothing to run on. I'm very proud of my record 181 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:39,679 Speaker 7: and I know that we can win. I've been to 182 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 7: tex since I've been in this office, and I'm not 183 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:44,959 Speaker 7: surprised that John Corny's focused on personal things as opposed 184 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:47,319 Speaker 7: to talking about what he's accomplished. I think I'm the 185 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 7: only one has a chance of not having a run 186 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 7: up if there is a runoff. Look, I don't know, 187 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 7: it's corn certainly has a chance of finishing third, which 188 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:55,720 Speaker 7: I think people would be shocked to note. 189 00:12:57,080 --> 00:13:03,119 Speaker 1: Then that is true. Is battling for second with Congressman 190 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 1: Wesley Hunt, who will be our guest in just a 191 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,199 Speaker 1: few moments. Corny is battling for second after four terms 192 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 1: as a US editor. He has a record, but it's 193 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:16,440 Speaker 1: not a record he can run on. Of course, he 194 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 1: can't brag about the fact that in twenty twenty four 195 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 1: he pulled press pulled reporters into a press conference that 196 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 1: he scheduled where he said that the nation needs to 197 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:33,960 Speaker 1: move on from Trump and Trump needs to leave politics. 198 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:40,439 Speaker 1: He's desperately hopeful, and the swamp is hopeful. They look 199 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:41,840 Speaker 1: at a thing like that and they go, all right, 200 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 1: this is really really bad. What we need to do 201 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 1: is bloody our opponents. For people who did not understand 202 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 1: why Paxton didn't have a problem with Wesley Hunt getting 203 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 1: in the race. When Wesley got in the race, he 204 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:06,680 Speaker 1: immediately pulls support from Cornyan more than from Paxton. And 205 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 1: when that happened. Cornan had to turn his campaign, had 206 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 1: to turn all their attention to Wesley Hunt instead of 207 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 1: Ken Paxton. Cornan has a double fear number one that 208 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 1: Paxton wins fifty one percent and there is no runoff, 209 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 1: which is possible, hard to do but still possible. It's 210 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 1: going to depend on how the votes break that are 211 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: undecided at present, so he has to worry about Paxton 212 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 1: winning and they're not being a runoff, but he also 213 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 1: has to worry if there is a runoff, which is 214 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: his best hope that he will be in it. There 215 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 1: have been polls were Hunts in number two, meaning Cornyn 216 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 1: wouldn't even make the runoff, and it has been widely 217 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 1: discussed and Hea rumored that the DC swant they pay 218 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 1: for wins. They need people in position they can control, 219 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: and they are very unhappy. We spent that money to 220 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 1: buy John Cornyn's seat and y'all aren't spending it wisely. 221 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 1: In fairness, I don't think DC understands how unpopular John 222 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 1: Cornan is back home. It's representative democracy. It is a 223 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:33,800 Speaker 1: democratic republic, the people get to vote. It may feel 224 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 1: like there's too much of a lag between us being 225 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 1: aggravated with a politician and US getting to vote on them. 226 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 1: But the people do get to vote, and the people 227 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 1: are not happy. NBC News National reports why a loan 228 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:53,600 Speaker 1: House Republican is fighting a primary in Texas without Trump's backing. 229 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 1: There is only one Republican incumbent congressman running for reelection 230 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 1: that does not have President Trump's backing, and that is 231 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 1: Dan Krenshaw for some of the same reasons. Now, Crenshaw 232 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: has been very, very pro Ukraine, and I think if 233 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 1: Ukrainians were allowed to vote, I think Krenshaw would be 234 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 1: when he's losing his primary. But if Ukrainians were allowed 235 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 1: to vote, for all the money he has sent them, 236 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 1: I think he'd be doing well. What's the hunts our 237 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 1: guest coming up bias because the Wesley Hunt of the 238 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 1: thirty eighth Congressional District through his head in the ring 239 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:41,960 Speaker 1: in the US Senate race where Ken Paxton was already 240 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 1: beating John Cornyan, and it has caused corn In all 241 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:48,640 Speaker 1: sorts of problems, which is really amazing. Twenty four years 242 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: in the United States Senate and an upstart congressman steps 243 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 1: in and starts leading you in the polls, and that's 244 00:16:55,880 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 1: who you have chosen to attack. It's very telling, very 245 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 1: telling about John Cornyn and his service, not just his campaign, 246 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 1: but his service as a United States Senator and how 247 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 1: bad it has been. Congressman Wesley Hunt is our guest. 248 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 1: Where are you today? By the way, I. 249 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 2: Am in Houston today. 250 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:20,720 Speaker 8: We are going to have a wash party for the 251 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:23,440 Speaker 8: State of the Union coming up here tomorrow. Looking forward 252 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:25,520 Speaker 8: to hearing what the President is going to say, what 253 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 8: he is going to do. 254 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 2: This is the final stretch. 255 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 8: The goal here is to get into as many different 256 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:34,479 Speaker 8: areas for the next week as possible because we've got 257 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 8: to finish strong and win this thing. And brother, I 258 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:39,959 Speaker 8: think we are doing very, very well because the conservative 259 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 8: primary voter knows that John Cornyn has left them a 260 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 8: long time ago. And no matter how many ads you 261 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:50,480 Speaker 8: run about you wearing a cowboy hat saying you voted 262 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 8: with from ninety nine percent of the time, no matter 263 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,680 Speaker 8: how many negative ads you run against me, no matter 264 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 8: how many negative as you run against General Paxton, the 265 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 8: primary voter knows when you co authored then control legislation 266 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 8: years ago, you were a boot off the stage at 267 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 8: the convention. That was the end of your time as 268 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:09,960 Speaker 8: being a United States Senator, and we actually make sure 269 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 8: that the primary voter has a choice between two strong 270 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 8: conservatives me and General Paxson. 271 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:18,119 Speaker 1: Well, the reason I asked where you are if you 272 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 1: were out on the road, have you lost your jacket? 273 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:23,480 Speaker 1: Because every time I see you, you're only wearing the 274 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:28,200 Speaker 1: vest with the white shirt underneath it. What you like 275 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 1: my line? Didn't you? I said? I texted him, I say, 276 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 1: what are you trying to look at nineteen thirties FBI 277 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 1: g man trying to chase down al Capone? Are you 278 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:39,639 Speaker 1: just trying to show up? You have big arms, Wesley? 279 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:41,520 Speaker 1: Is that the point you have big arms? You want 280 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:43,880 Speaker 1: people to see it? Does that poll? Well, I'm curious 281 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,639 Speaker 1: people like that. 282 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 2: That's not Here's what happened. 283 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:51,120 Speaker 1: Why are you never wearing a jacket? It's February. There's 284 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 1: a cold front. It's not like it's hot summer. 285 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:56,440 Speaker 2: Michael what. 286 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 8: I started getting fired off, and I start giving these species, 287 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 8: start talking about fellow Texans, and everybody get start start 288 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 8: scheering me on, and and I get going. 289 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:08,199 Speaker 2: I start getting hot. I feel like I feel like 290 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:09,880 Speaker 2: a Bathum's preacher a Deep South. 291 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:12,359 Speaker 8: At some point, and I got to realize the jacket 292 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:14,679 Speaker 8: thing is making me sweat. So what I like to 293 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 8: do is I like to be comfortable and take it 294 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 8: off before I give the speech and then put it 295 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 8: back on. 296 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:21,400 Speaker 1: Out Who holds the jacket while you're speaking? 297 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 2: I'm not doing this with you. 298 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:27,400 Speaker 1: Do you have a jacket hole? 299 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 4: Do that? 300 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:29,479 Speaker 1: Whold? 301 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 8: I have a dedicated staffer that knows exactly what my 302 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:36,679 Speaker 8: rhythm is. And he says, hey, sir, I'll take I'll 303 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:39,760 Speaker 8: take your suit jacket. He very kindly takes my jacket 304 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 8: while I give a speech. 305 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:42,840 Speaker 2: And no, he is not a suit jacket holder. That's 306 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 2: not his job. 307 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 1: Does he very kind? Does he have because you gotta 308 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,920 Speaker 1: have a for they called a body man. Obama's body 309 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 1: man was Reggie. Does he have like a manse or 310 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:57,119 Speaker 1: what like? What's what does he have on him? He 311 00:19:57,240 --> 00:19:58,200 Speaker 1: is celsius. 312 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 2: He keeps celsius on the energy drink. That's what he 313 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 2: has on him. 314 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:03,960 Speaker 1: How many grants of protein you think you get in 315 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 1: a day? 316 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 9: About two hundred and ten? Is that what you weighed 317 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 9: two ten right around there? Yes, sir, that's supposed to 318 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:14,800 Speaker 9: be the goal. Yes, sir, Corny, let's talk about what 319 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:19,680 Speaker 9: Cornyn is attacking you with. One is they changed the message. 320 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:22,040 Speaker 1: But the story is, you didn't vote for Trump, and 321 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 1: you know and my response to people is support who 322 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 1: you want to support. But I've seen the guy on 323 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:31,679 Speaker 1: Trump's plane. Trump loves the guy. He's brought him all 324 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:35,119 Speaker 1: over the country with him because I sent him a text. 325 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:37,720 Speaker 1: He's strutting like a bandy rooster when he and Trump 326 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:40,119 Speaker 1: flew out somewhere and it was like a big national 327 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:44,920 Speaker 1: televised event. So Trump likes the guy. But his whole 328 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 1: attack is to tell people that you don't like Trump 329 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,919 Speaker 1: and you didn't vote for Trump. How do you answer that, Well. 330 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 8: It's just pure projection. And what everybody knows is that 331 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 8: he left Trump a long time ago. Everyone knows that 332 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:58,919 Speaker 8: John Cornyn is a Rhino. Everyone knows that he is 333 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:02,119 Speaker 8: a Bush eraekend project Republican. 334 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:02,600 Speaker 2: And that's fine. 335 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:04,520 Speaker 8: But if you are that, he has to understand that 336 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 8: era is over and it's time for you to retire. 337 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 8: The fact of the matter is is this President Trump 338 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 8: has not endorsed two United States senators that are incumbents 339 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 8: in the entire country. It is Collins and it is Corning. 340 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:20,880 Speaker 8: He endorsed against Cassidy. Obviously, he's not endorsed McConnell till 341 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:24,440 Speaker 8: us his retiring. These are all of John Corn, his homeboys, 342 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 8: and so he is trying to say this for those 343 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 8: people that may not have heard who I am, and 344 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 8: now that not everyone knows. If you don't know, not 345 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 8: everybody knows thanks to him. At this point he is 346 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 8: trying to say and frame me as somebody that's a 347 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:38,119 Speaker 8: Ryan Owen doesn't like President Trump. 348 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:38,880 Speaker 2: Well, here's the deal. 349 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:42,439 Speaker 8: I've vote for President Trump six times now and I 350 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:45,399 Speaker 8: have the proof. He endorsed me in my last two runs. 351 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 8: I was one of his top furrogates in this last 352 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 8: election cycle. 353 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 2: I got to fly to a. 354 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:53,639 Speaker 8: Dozen places with him on his very luxurious, very nice plane. 355 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:53,880 Speaker 4: Sir. 356 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 8: We had plenty of McDonald's together, piece of Hoggindee ice cream, 357 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 8: you name it. This is a man looked at me 358 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,399 Speaker 8: and said, I need your help whenever it's time for 359 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 8: us to win this next lesson election. 360 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,480 Speaker 2: And he tapped me to do just that. And I 361 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 2: want people to know this as well. He invited me 362 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,120 Speaker 2: to the Army Navy game a couple of years ago 363 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:11,640 Speaker 2: and then. 364 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 8: Invited me to fly back tomorrow Lago with he and 365 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 8: Elon after we send the national anthem. And I think 366 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 8: what happens with people like John Corny is they see 367 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 8: the people that were there at the ground level that 368 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 8: supported him the entire time. 369 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 2: And keep in mind, John Corny did not endorse. 370 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 8: Him till over a year after I did, and he 371 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:32,399 Speaker 8: did it simply out of convenience. 372 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:36,199 Speaker 1: Having off right where he said the country needs to 373 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 1: move on. 374 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 2: From him, move on from him. 375 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,640 Speaker 1: He was vocal against him. He was more vocal than 376 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:44,920 Speaker 1: any other Republican. I find that very disturbing. Well, Wesley Hunt, 377 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:46,879 Speaker 1: you and I have had this conversation before. I am 378 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:50,640 Speaker 1: all about disagreeing on on policy. I'm even about saying 379 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 1: the other guy won't do a good job, and I 380 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 1: will whatever you need to do. But this Matt mccoveyact, 381 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 1: he's got a real, real sketchy character. I could get 382 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 1: my buddy Kenny Webster on. He's got a whole set 383 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,679 Speaker 1: of stories that he tells about Matt mccoveac. But he 384 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 1: hired this really sketchy guy. And I think their thought 385 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,879 Speaker 1: was they were scared and makovey acs got a real, 386 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 1: real sketchy past. Anybody wants to look him up, you'll 387 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 1: see it for yourself and he you know they're desperate 388 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:22,680 Speaker 1: because they violate. They went beyond campaigning, and they released 389 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:26,679 Speaker 1: a bunch of documents doxing you, giving out your family's address, 390 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,960 Speaker 1: giving out personal details. And I talked to other Republicans 391 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 1: who said, regardless where you are in the race, that 392 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:38,920 Speaker 1: that has to be punished. That cannot be allowed. How 393 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 1: did you feel when that happened. I know you've been 394 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,199 Speaker 1: very public about it. You've got young children at home, 395 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 1: you got your wife at home, You're out all over 396 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: the state. 397 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 8: First of all, I want to thank my hero starting Possibles, 398 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,040 Speaker 8: and I want to think HPD they have been very, 399 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 8: very hustled and making sure that my family is safe. 400 00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:00,720 Speaker 8: When I filed this report, they were extorted so by auicer. 401 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:04,919 Speaker 8: Herman's office was extraordinarily helpful to us. And please know 402 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,520 Speaker 8: that I do feel safe and that we are covered 403 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 8: whenever that happens, especially in the end of time where 404 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 8: our president was shot, and then another and then another 405 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,200 Speaker 8: murder attempt, and then just yesterday somebody scaled the walls of. 406 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:16,679 Speaker 2: Mar A Lago. 407 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 8: Another person was was shot and killed, and in an 408 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:23,800 Speaker 8: era where Charlie Kirk was murdered. These are very trying times, 409 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,200 Speaker 8: and so as a political figure, as a public figure. 410 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 8: And by the way, this one, it goes for any 411 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 8: American forgetting a public figure. This goes for just any 412 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:34,159 Speaker 8: American to put out your personal information on X in 413 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 8: the manner in which he did, and. 414 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,520 Speaker 2: He knows better than he than to do that is wrong. 415 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,680 Speaker 8: He knows he was wrong as well because he posted 416 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 8: the information and then took it down and then posted 417 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 8: a redacted version. So he should have posted the redacted 418 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 8: version first. I also want to point out their commercial 419 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:53,399 Speaker 8: ads that are saying that I voted for Hillary and 420 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,520 Speaker 8: didn't vote for Trump. Well, the reason why he even 421 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:58,440 Speaker 8: posted in the first place is because. 422 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,680 Speaker 2: It was the proof that I I did. 423 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 8: Vote in twenty sixteen and I voted for President Trump. 424 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 8: So they are tied in knots and only thing that 425 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 8: they could do now is result of these kind of 426 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:14,679 Speaker 8: what I would call dirty politics, Philly season guerrilla tactics, 427 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 8: and it's put my family in danger. 428 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:17,919 Speaker 2: But again, give Gods, I can forget. 429 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 8: I'm in a passion uncount to pilot. So that's for 430 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 8: the country. I believe my Second Nendment rights. I will 431 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,880 Speaker 8: protect my family and I will protect my fellow Americans. 432 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 8: This is part of the game, and I understand it's 433 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:30,919 Speaker 8: a dirty one, but it's not going to stop us 434 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 8: from doing the right thing. 435 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:36,120 Speaker 1: Wesley Hunt, Oh no, I won't do that. It's too 436 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:36,680 Speaker 1: much for mono. 437 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:38,119 Speaker 2: She won't go that. 438 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:44,080 Speaker 1: That was so funny. Atturn of General Ken Paxton. He's 439 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:48,600 Speaker 1: by all accounts leading the US Senate race Republican primary. 440 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,919 Speaker 1: He is our our guest, General Paxton, Welcome to the program. 441 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 4: Where are you today, Well, I am on my way 442 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:57,159 Speaker 4: to Austin text from Dallas. I'm driving right now. I'm 443 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 4: plfway there. 444 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 1: I have said to you and Wesley Hunt off air 445 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:05,440 Speaker 1: in private conversations that I think you have both conducted 446 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 1: yourself in a manner that is driven by policy not personality. 447 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 4: Uh. 448 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:13,639 Speaker 1: But before we get to the breach of all decency 449 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 1: and maybe the law by John Cornyan, I did ask 450 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: Wesley Hunt why he never wears a jacket and he 451 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: only wears a vest with a shirt on. Do you 452 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:30,200 Speaker 1: have a comment on that might have lost our reception. 453 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 2: Oh, I can hit you out. 454 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 1: I lost as US senator. I will improve phone reception 455 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:39,200 Speaker 1: across the state. I was asking you, I asked Wesley 456 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,640 Speaker 1: Hunt why he always takes his jacket off. I think 457 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 1: it's to show off that he has big arms. Do 458 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 1: you have a comment on that? 459 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:45,880 Speaker 8: Uh? 460 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 4: I don't. I don't. I take my jacket off. 461 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:54,719 Speaker 1: That's what I told him, John John Corny. You criticized 462 00:26:54,800 --> 00:27:01,280 Speaker 1: John Cornyan, Uh, and what's going I noticed that he does. Yeah, 463 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 1: you criticized the way John Cornyan's office Matt mccoveac, who 464 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: think is a bad guy, and what they did to 465 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 1: Wesley Hunt. And I think that surprised a lot of people, 466 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,080 Speaker 1: But I think it showed the tenor of this campaign 467 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,720 Speaker 1: that you're not going to engage in that nonsense. What 468 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:14,600 Speaker 1: were your thoughts on that? 469 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:20,560 Speaker 4: Look, I'm sort of shocked he had somebody docs a 470 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:24,680 Speaker 4: sitting congressman in his campaign, and not only does he 471 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:28,159 Speaker 4: not speak out against it, he defends it as if 472 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,439 Speaker 4: it's a good thing. I don't know how he defended that, 473 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:34,120 Speaker 4: but he certainly did. And so, you know, I thought 474 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,720 Speaker 4: it was a reasonable response from me and my office 475 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:41,760 Speaker 4: that this is not appropriate contact by sitting in a 476 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 4: center against a congressman just because you're run into the 477 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:48,400 Speaker 4: office against him, it's wrong because you're not only risking him, 478 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:49,879 Speaker 4: you're risking his entire family. 479 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,359 Speaker 1: Yeah, it also I think shows a lot about the 480 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 1: corn and people and how desperate they are. You have 481 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,080 Speaker 1: received a lot of attention. You're not just a candidate 482 00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 1: for office, you're a guy whose office and I think 483 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,120 Speaker 1: this is the reason you're leading. You've led by example 484 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:08,480 Speaker 1: as Attorney General dealing with Epic City dealing there's a 485 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:13,840 Speaker 1: lot of concern, uncertainty, unsettled feelings in the state with 486 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,880 Speaker 1: regard to this sort of Sharia law community, and you've 487 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 1: taken an aggressive approach on that. What has been that approach? 488 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:25,719 Speaker 4: Well, so I'm concerned too, and I think it's normal 489 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:29,200 Speaker 4: for us to be concerned, not because of different religions. 490 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,360 Speaker 4: It's really more about exactly what you're talking about, Shree law. 491 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:34,960 Speaker 4: It's a whole set of different laws and you can 492 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,040 Speaker 4: see how they're executing on that in other countries, in 493 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 4: other states, and so I certainly understand people's concern. I'm 494 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 4: concerned too. That's why we've investigated it. We're in lawsuits 495 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 4: right now over Epic City of in my home county 496 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 4: of colin and we're pursuing it. If you're not going 497 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,520 Speaker 4: to follow our laws, we're going to hold you accountable. 498 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,360 Speaker 4: You can worship however you want to, but our constitution 499 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:01,640 Speaker 4: is pre emitted our settle and state law over USC law, 500 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,400 Speaker 4: and you have no right to operate a different system 501 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 4: of laws in our country. 502 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 1: You have been very aggressive as the Attorney General, going 503 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 1: after Medicaid for aud healthcare related fraud, opioid crisis settlements, 504 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:21,720 Speaker 1: data privacy, big tech settlements where big tech violates the 505 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:25,800 Speaker 1: rights and privacy of Texans. What are you most proud 506 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 1: of as your work in your work as Attorney General? 507 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 4: You know you're talking about some of the biggest cases. 508 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:37,000 Speaker 4: I've worked on three, in particular opioids. I probably spent 509 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:40,440 Speaker 4: more time on that personally, traveling the country, trend and 510 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,600 Speaker 4: negotiate a deal with all fifty seven states and territories, 511 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 4: which was quite a point of accomplishments. Get an agreement 512 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 4: that every state and territory would accept, And I would 513 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,120 Speaker 4: say I put hundreds and hundreds of hours into that, 514 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 4: and I did it because I wanted to make sure 515 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,240 Speaker 4: that we found a way to address the opield christ Is. 516 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,360 Speaker 4: So many of my friends' kids died as a result 517 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:06,520 Speaker 4: of that crisis, and I wanted to provide some type 518 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 4: of way to address it. And then as far as 519 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,600 Speaker 4: some of the big tech lawsuits with Google, I've probably 520 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 4: spent the most second most time on that trying to 521 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,800 Speaker 4: figure out how to go after them, stop them from 522 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 4: stealing our information, from using that information against this and look, 523 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 4: they definitely have a leftward leaning and how they use 524 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,160 Speaker 4: that information and elections and other things, so it was 525 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 4: very important to me to do what I could to 526 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 4: stop that. I did that both with Facebook and Google, 527 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 4: and we obviously had very successful results with covering over 528 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 4: one point four billion on one and one point three 529 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,160 Speaker 4: seventy five billion on the other. So those are probably 530 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,160 Speaker 4: the three cases I've spent the most time on because 531 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,440 Speaker 4: they all affected the whole country and they affected lives. 532 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:51,520 Speaker 1: Attorney General Ken Pashton as our guest, Colony Ridge is 533 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:53,600 Speaker 1: is very heavy on the heart of a lot of 534 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:57,440 Speaker 1: people in our region. Risco Kaine, who's running for Congress 535 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,200 Speaker 1: against Alex Meeler. Latest polls I saw show that he's 536 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 1: winning handily, but he now sort of is trying to 537 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:08,720 Speaker 1: hide from his involvement there. I think that Colony Ridge 538 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,479 Speaker 1: thing bothers a lot of Houstonians, a lot of Texans 539 00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,920 Speaker 1: because it says this is the effect the manifestation of 540 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,720 Speaker 1: the legal immigration Your office was involved in sixty eight 541 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:21,440 Speaker 1: million dollars in penalties against Colony Ridge. What is the 542 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 1: problem with Colony Ridge? 543 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,480 Speaker 4: So it just wasn't us. We worked on that deal 544 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 4: with the Trump administration and the Department of Justice, and 545 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,640 Speaker 4: our issue is you're putting in all this infrastructure. There 546 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:39,640 Speaker 4: were potential violations of the federal law and how that 547 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:43,280 Speaker 4: was approached as far as housing and fair housing and 548 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 4: disclosing and the fact that a lot of these people 549 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:49,160 Speaker 4: be getting foreclosed out, and then the infrastructure wasn't done right. 550 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:54,840 Speaker 4: There was an appropriate law enforcement So we're making sure 551 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,840 Speaker 4: that a law enforcement center is built and that that's funded. 552 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:01,120 Speaker 4: And at this infrastructure that was not not put in 553 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,560 Speaker 4: and leaves it to deteriorate fast. It's going to be 554 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,960 Speaker 4: put in. So it's a lot of money to put 555 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,760 Speaker 4: into it, but it definitely needed to be addressed, and 556 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:11,200 Speaker 4: that's why we got involved in it. 557 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,280 Speaker 1: John Cornyan is obviously very scared. He's attacking Wesley Hunt, 558 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:19,600 Speaker 1: and he's attacking you, and he's gone scorched earth. And 559 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,480 Speaker 1: as you and I have talked about, the DC crowd 560 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:26,880 Speaker 1: that's paying for him, says that he's burning this cash 561 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,880 Speaker 1: of what he says about you. Is there anything you 562 00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:32,240 Speaker 1: want to respond to? Do you need to respond? The 563 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 1: polls don't show that it's getting any traction, but it 564 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 1: seems to be the case that he can't run on 565 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:38,840 Speaker 1: his own record. He just has to trash you. 566 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,400 Speaker 4: It's really incredible. I think they're going to spend close 567 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 4: to eighty million dollars trashing me and trashing Bustly, you 568 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:48,800 Speaker 4: would think it's what I ran as an incumbent. I 569 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,240 Speaker 4: didn't spend any time trashing by a punds. You know 570 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:53,720 Speaker 4: what I talked about. I talked about what I'd done 571 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,880 Speaker 4: in the past, and I listed my accomplishments, and then 572 00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:58,200 Speaker 4: I talked about what I want to do in my 573 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,640 Speaker 4: next four years. And doesn't do that because he can't 574 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,480 Speaker 4: talk about accomplishments because in the last forty plus years 575 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,280 Speaker 4: he doesn't have any good accomplishments, So he doesn't talk 576 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:10,280 Speaker 4: about him. He makes up stuff about himself to try 577 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,560 Speaker 4: to cover the fact that, you know, he was against 578 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,240 Speaker 4: the border wall, he was with Joe Biden's second a 579 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:18,800 Speaker 4: member of restrictions, He was against Donald Trump's election. Every 580 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,640 Speaker 4: position that he took was harmful to Texas and not 581 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,920 Speaker 4: something that Texans supported, and so he can't talk about that, 582 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,320 Speaker 4: and so he uses personal attacks against me and Wesley 583 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,200 Speaker 4: because that's all he thinks he has. 584 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 1: You know, I'm not sure that's what he thinks. I'm 585 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,440 Speaker 1: not sure he knows what's going on. I think he's 586 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,320 Speaker 1: somewhere in the Mitch McConnell universe. I think that's what 587 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:47,280 Speaker 1: the DC swamp who controls him and owns him is saying, 588 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,120 Speaker 1: because that's the best they've got. They can't roll him 589 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:54,680 Speaker 1: out as a senator of great accomplishment. They're just pouring 590 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,480 Speaker 1: a bunch of cash into saying their latest one is 591 00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,000 Speaker 1: that you're weird. And my thought is, I'm not asked 592 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:01,840 Speaker 1: to hang out with the guy. I want a man 593 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:05,080 Speaker 1: of action, and Paxton has done more and I've said 594 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:09,200 Speaker 1: this before as Attorney General than any attorney general in 595 00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:11,600 Speaker 1: the state of Texas in my lifetime, and that includes 596 00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:15,040 Speaker 1: John Cornyn, and he was not an impressive attorney general. 597 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,279 Speaker 1: I know you're out on the road. Thank you for 598 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,239 Speaker 1: your time. We'll talk again before election day. 599 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:21,400 Speaker 4: Thanks Michael. 600 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:23,160 Speaker 1: Attorney General Ken Paxton