1 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:11,719 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air. We now have 3 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:51,879 Speaker 1: a Commerce secretary, and it is very likely that today 4 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 1: we will have an FBI director. Now, something happened yesterday 5 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: related to the FB that didn't leave people shaking their head. 6 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: Two teens arrested for planning to carry out and apparently 7 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:16,680 Speaker 1: getting pretty darn close to actually executing on this a 8 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:21,120 Speaker 1: school shooting terror attack at Memorial High School in the 9 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: Spring Branch Independent School District. One of the students I 10 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 1: believe is a Memorial student and one of the students 11 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 1: is at Willis High School, So it's going to end 12 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: up being some mean girls grudge. I think one of 13 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: the students is female. I don't have my notes in 14 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: front of me. I'll pull them in a moment. But what's 15 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: interesting about that is that the FBI thwarted the attack. 16 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: We didn't have an attack. It's in the news and 17 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 1: we're all going, oh, my goodness, what happened, And then 18 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: as it unfolds, we find out, Oh, the FBI had 19 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: been following this girl. They'd been oh they've done this, 20 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: and they've done this, which is what has happened for 21 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 1: too long. Imagine that the FBI doing their job. Imagine 22 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:12,799 Speaker 1: how happy the good FBI agents are today. Look at us, 23 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 1: We did our job well. We can be proud of 24 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: the work we're doing. The FBI is in the news 25 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:25,919 Speaker 1: for good news. How many lives, countless lives were saved 26 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 1: because of what the FBI did. That's how it's supposed 27 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: to work. This is what happens when you get out 28 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: of DEI and you get out of harassing parents, speaking 29 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:40,640 Speaker 1: at school boards and January sixth scams and all that 30 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 1: sort of nonsense, and you get back to the business 31 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 1: of stopping bad guys. This is what happens. Good things happen. 32 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 1: Cash Ptel expected to be confirmed today. If not today, 33 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:57,520 Speaker 1: then it'll be tomorrow. The Culture vote expected today to 34 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 1: close debate. They have dragged this out for as long 35 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: as they possibly can. We have Lisa Murkowski and Susan 36 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:12,519 Speaker 1: Collins Murkowski from Alaska and Susan Collins from Maine who 37 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:16,920 Speaker 1: are now speaking out openly against DOGE. They do not 38 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 1: believe that we should be exposing all this fraud in 39 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 1: the government. And do you want to know why there 40 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 1: are going to be questions related to Lisa Murkowski in 41 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 1: the coming days, which I suspect will make her opposition 42 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 1: to all of this more and more clear, and it 43 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 1: will reaffirm what you knew to be the case, which 44 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 1: is our party is not pure, that there are many 45 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 1: people in our party who are part of the swamp, 46 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 1: who have enabled and enlisted participated in all of this nonsense, 47 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 1: and it is it is hopefully going to be exposed 48 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: talking about all that. The first in a shocking story, 49 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: fourteen members of the Bandidos Auto Sorry Bandido's outlaw motorcycle 50 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 1: gang indicted en Rico and murder charges. The Department of 51 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 1: Justice says they operated a criminal enterprise engaging in murder, robbery, arson, narcotics, distribution, 52 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 1: and witness intimidation in and around the Houston area. Clip 53 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 1: number twenty eight. 54 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:32,280 Speaker 2: Please remont made infamous after this deadly shooting in Awaco 55 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 2: ten years ago. The Bendidos are now the target of 56 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 2: federal authorities in the Southern District of Texas. Today, US 57 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 2: Attorney and Nicholas GANGI unsealing this twenty two count indictment 58 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 2: against fourteen members of the gang and their associates. 59 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 3: Majority of those defendants are members of the Welcome to 60 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:51,799 Speaker 3: Hell Chapter located here in Katie, Texas. 61 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 2: The defendants accused of starting a violent purfour in twenty 62 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,720 Speaker 2: nineteen with a rival gang, all facing charges for their 63 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 2: alleged roles in criminal electivity around the Houston area, including racketeering, murder, assault, 64 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 2: and arson. 65 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:07,920 Speaker 3: In other words, the Bandidos sought to exert a monopoly 66 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 3: on motorcycle clubs and gangs in the Houston area, which 67 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 3: could only operate with their blessing and with their permission. 68 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 2: According to the indictment, the Bendido's a legal activity resulted 69 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 2: in a motorcyclist's death near the Blue Bayou Cafe in 70 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 2: East Houston in November twenty twenty one, as well as 71 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 2: a deadly assault and murder in September twenty twenty at 72 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 2: the Hawk Stop Bar and Grill, and an attempted murder 73 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 2: in Pasadena in twenty twenty three. 74 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 4: Our team of agents and Task Force officers has responded 75 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 4: to highway shootouts that endangered innocent drivers, aggravated assaults in 76 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 4: family restaurants that terrified patrons. 77 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:48,280 Speaker 2: Today, at least ten of the men indicted were arrested 78 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 2: in an early morning law enforcement operation, including John Feffer, 79 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 2: the alleged leader of the Bandidos Katie Chapter four other 80 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,839 Speaker 2: men are still at large but soon to be arrested. 81 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: According to authorities. 82 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 4: Today's arrests send a start message to other outlaw motorcycle 83 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 4: gangs in our area. You can't outsmart us, you can't 84 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 4: outrun us, and you're certainly not untouchable. 85 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 2: The Bandidos members now in custody are expected to be 86 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 2: arraigned in federal court this week. 87 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 1: I know that everyone wants to be elliot ness and 88 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 1: have a great line and everything, but I feel like 89 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: when you start to the Bandidos, you can't outsmart us, 90 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 1: you can't outrun us. Okay, that third one he's about 91 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:47,039 Speaker 1: and well and also just because there's gotta be three things, 92 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 1: you're uh, you're you're you're not untouchable, Like, well, come on, 93 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:58,280 Speaker 1: I mean I feel like you started. I mean, when 94 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: you when you look into the camp and you're like 95 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 1: to the Bandidos, he's sinning the word man, he's about 96 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 1: to tell it. Yeah, you cannot outrun us, you cannot 97 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 1: outrun us, and you cannot outdance us. I mean something. 98 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: You cannot outscrew us, you cannot out think us. You Yeah, 99 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 1: and also you're not untouchable. All that whole thing just 100 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 1: made me think of the Freedo bandidos. 101 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 5: I heard you want to be a Fritto bandido like me. 102 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 5: You don't, then you must sing the bandido song. Let's 103 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 5: sing together. You just followed the bouncing Frito scornships back. 104 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 6: Yay. 105 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 1: I am the Printo Bandido recky. 106 00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 5: I like Crito scorn chips. 107 00:07:58,920 --> 00:07:59,600 Speaker 7: I love them. 108 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 5: My I want Brintos cornchips. I'll get them from you. Oh, 109 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 5: I am the Fritto Bundito. Give me Britose cornchips and 110 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 5: I'll be your friend, the Fritto Bundito. 111 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 1: You must not afraid. 112 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 5: Now, boys and girls, you are Fritto bandidos too, using 113 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 5: the Fritto Bandido song, and you look over crunchy brittos. 114 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 1: Scrnchipments in your life. It's formal wear. We have all 115 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 1: your formal wear needs, from morning suits to coordinating accessories. Well, 116 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: we haven't had signs and Wonders in a while, mostly 117 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: because we've been so focused on the incredible successes of 118 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 1: the Trump administration. But alas it is time or yet 119 00:08:51,600 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 1: another signs and wonders. 120 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:14,040 Speaker 8: Taking THEMN money and money and the drugs. It's just 121 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:15,319 Speaker 8: them beyond. 122 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 1: Everything what's it mean? What's it leading to? 123 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 8: I don't know. If you'd have told me twenty years ago, 124 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 8: I'd see children walking the streets of Oar, Texas towns 125 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 8: with the green hair bones and their noses, and I 126 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 8: just flat out withoun't a bleak signs and wonders. 127 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:35,439 Speaker 1: But I think once you quit here in, sir and ma'am, 128 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: rest of them to follow. Oh, it's the tad. It's 129 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 1: the dismal tad. 130 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 8: It is not the one that the one thing. 131 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 2: Signs, wonders, signs and wonders. 132 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:56,960 Speaker 8: It's the digal power size and wonders, signs and wonders. 133 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 1: Two teen girls arrested for planning to pipe bomb and 134 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 1: shoot up Memorial High School. KPRCTV with the story. 135 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 6: This was a joint investigation involving the FBI, the Montgomery 136 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:14,439 Speaker 6: County Sheriff's Office, and the Spring Branch ISD Police Department. 137 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 6: I'm told the idea was to place pipe bombs throughout 138 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:21,280 Speaker 6: Memorial High School and use guns to shoot at students. 139 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 6: To plan in its early stages, but multiple law enforcement 140 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 6: agencies told me that the threat was credible enough that 141 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 6: they acted quickly within thirty minutes of becoming aware. Of 142 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 6: this plan, they arrested a fifteen and sixteen year old 143 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 6: teenager girl. Now Spring Branch ID Police Chief Larry Bainbridge 144 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 6: says they become aware of the threat yesterday thanks to 145 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:43,680 Speaker 6: a source. Bambridge says they arrested a sixteen year old girl. 146 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 6: She has since been charged with third degree felony terroristic threat. 147 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:50,199 Speaker 6: Charges were told that student was a tenth grader assigned 148 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 6: to Memorial High School, but was attending a separate school 149 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 6: in the district that is designed to help students that 150 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:58,439 Speaker 6: fall behind. The fifteen year old student that was arrested 151 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:01,080 Speaker 6: is in custody at Montgomery. 152 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 1: County Sheriff's office. 153 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 6: We are waiting more details on her, but have not 154 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 6: been told that she has been charged yet and she 155 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 6: was not a Spring Branch ISD. 156 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: Student. 157 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,200 Speaker 6: We have also reached out to Spring Branch ISD to 158 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 6: the district to find out if they have notified parents 159 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 6: and staff. We spoke to a few students and parents 160 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 6: that were here at school let out none of them 161 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:23,079 Speaker 6: were aware of this situation. 162 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:30,599 Speaker 1: Second time Spring Branch ISD. Police department has been in 163 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:34,320 Speaker 1: the news in the last year or so. Do you 164 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 1: remember the guy who went to the school to shoot it? 165 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 1: Up and I can't remember if they shot and killed 166 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:47,440 Speaker 1: him or they apprehended him. They may have shot him, 167 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 1: but it received a lot of attention as being a 168 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 1: very professional response. Well, people matter. It's why they won't 169 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:00,440 Speaker 1: release the name of the pilot in the flight delta 170 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 1: flight into Toronto that turned upside down, and they're lucky 171 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 1: nobody died the quote unquote unmanned flight. As they were 172 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 1: bragging because there were no male pilots on the list. 173 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: It matters who you choose, It matters who is in 174 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 1: a position making decisions. There's a fellow named Bainbridge who 175 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: was pretty darn well regarded HPD executive who came over 176 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 1: to Spring Branch Independent School District and he's their chief. 177 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:36,840 Speaker 1: This is the second story of a school police department 178 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 1: responding professionally to something that could have been that lives 179 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 1: could have been lost. There's a reason schools are attacked. 180 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 1: It's the most psychological damage you can do. Now, who 181 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 1: is this fifteen year old girl and who is this 182 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 1: sixteen year old girl? And how do you end up 183 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 1: in this position? How do you end up in a 184 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 1: position where it made sense to kill a bunch of 185 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 1: people at the school. You were going to and then 186 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:18,080 Speaker 1: we'll find out it is such a petty grievance, some 187 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 1: mean girl crap. But it's probably the case that you're 188 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 1: going to see a failure in the home, a failure 189 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 1: in the support system, emotional difficulties, and it could be 190 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 1: it could be the prescription of SSRI drugs, drugs treated 191 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 1: used to treat young people for depression, anxiety, or any 192 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:49,559 Speaker 1: other mental health condition that are in a number of 193 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 1: these cases involved where there is an attempt to take 194 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:58,559 Speaker 1: everyone else out before you take yourself out. Signs and wonders. 195 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:03,560 Speaker 1: But congratulations to sbisd and Bainbridge and his crew for 196 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 1: responding quickly and the FBI or hopping on this and 197 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 1: doing their job. Fox twenty six is Randy Wallace reports 198 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 1: on a man with the dubious distinction of being out 199 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 1: on bond before being charged with murder and being out 200 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: on bond after being charged with murder. Fox twenty six. 201 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 9: In January of last year, we told you how on 202 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:30,760 Speaker 9: Mary and Bailey was free from jail on five bonds. 203 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 10: He's on bond for stalking, He's on bond for retaliation, 204 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:37,080 Speaker 10: He's on bond for DWI. 205 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 9: The stalking allegations they were pretty serious. 206 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 1: There were death threats, So let's death threat. You can't 207 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: put this on TV. Let's just put it that way. 208 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 9: According to court documents, Bailey said one hundred and eighty 209 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 9: two text messages to his ex girlfriend between three am 210 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 9: and four to forty seven AM on August twenty first, 211 00:14:56,680 --> 00:15:00,480 Speaker 9: twenty twenty three. The text included threats like I'm putting 212 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 9: you in the hospital on a stretcher. 213 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 2: This isn't like an unrequired Romeo and Juliet type of thing. 214 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 3: This is a dangerous, allegedly dangerous human being that's writing these. 215 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 9: Last January, Bailey was charged with fetanyl murder by delivery 216 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 9: of sixteen year olds Cooper Cullen cash route. So say 217 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 9: Bailey's bonds were set higher for the other felony charges. 218 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 1: The teen might be alive today. 219 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 9: Two hundred and sixty third District Court judgement Melissa Morris 220 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 9: originally set Bailey's bond for the fetanyl murder charge at 221 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 9: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, then gets reduced to 222 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 9: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 223 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:40,360 Speaker 10: Then he can't make that, so yeah, let's drop it again. 224 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:42,520 Speaker 10: See if you can make that. Then it's one hundred 225 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 10: thousand dollars. 226 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 9: Bailey, he was able to post that bond during his 227 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 9: months of freedom, Court records indicate he continuously violated his 228 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 9: bond conditions. 229 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 1: You are listening to the Michael Berry cheap plans that 230 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, Judge orders Walmart shoplifters to wash 231 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 1: cars in store parking lot. I like a good creative punishment, 232 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:23,120 Speaker 1: you know. Ted Poe was good about that. It was 233 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 1: Mark or Mike mcspaddenn. It was Mike mcspadden. I liked 234 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 1: his sentences, but but he didn't have any fun with 235 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 1: his His were like, uh, we're cutting off your nuts. 236 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 1: You're a pedophile. Okay, couldn't we make him I don't know, 237 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 1: do some other stuff as well? I mean, then that shoplifter. 238 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 11: Cutting off your nuts? 239 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:54,120 Speaker 1: Wait, oh hey, hell, that that one was good. But 240 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 1: let's let's do some Poe would have him do all 241 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 1: sorts of crazy stuff that you know, you could have 242 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 1: a good laugh about. All right, folks, here's a deal. 243 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 1: Exciting things are happening in Florida. Heck, exciting things are 244 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 1: happening in Oklahoma that are not happening in Texas. We've 245 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 1: got the state legislature a majority of the House, the 246 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:23,639 Speaker 1: Senate a majority, the Governor's office of majority, the Supreme Court, 247 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:27,680 Speaker 1: all of it, all our state wides, and yet we're 248 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:32,119 Speaker 1: not getting anything done. It's important to understand. Houston City Council, 249 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:37,200 Speaker 1: for instance, meets year round. The Congress meets more or 250 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:40,720 Speaker 1: less year round. They take a lot of vacations. But 251 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:43,119 Speaker 1: the way our state government is formulated, and this is 252 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:49,320 Speaker 1: a reconstruction era thing, is the government doesn't meet very often. 253 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:54,919 Speaker 1: The legislative branch. It's every other year. So if you 254 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:58,680 Speaker 1: don't get something passed during the session, it's two years 255 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:02,520 Speaker 1: before it's up again. That's a long time. So you've 256 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:05,159 Speaker 1: got to make hay. During those one hundred and fifty days, 257 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:09,639 Speaker 1: we've seen an explosion in our property taxes, and the 258 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 1: Republicans are telling us he gave you a great deal. 259 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:13,959 Speaker 1: Look at your property tax you over here and tell 260 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:18,359 Speaker 1: me it's better. And then Harris County exploited this stupid 261 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 1: passage of a bill that allowed them to say, well, 262 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 1: after a storm, you can raise taxes without even asking anybody, 263 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 1: and then Rodney ellis geniusly does it. And then they're 264 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:29,720 Speaker 1: put oh, we're going to close that loophole. We're always 265 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:34,120 Speaker 1: you know, it's lucy in the football. Here we go. Oh, 266 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:37,480 Speaker 1: you kicked it again. So when you've got one hundred 267 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: and fifty days and you've got a majority, you would 268 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:44,240 Speaker 1: think you were starting knocking out bills. Right. They didn't 269 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:48,359 Speaker 1: have their committees till last week, and they've taken thirty 270 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 1: seven days of vacation already or what is it? Let 271 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 1: me check. Brian Harrison, state representative, has been calling this out, 272 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:00,199 Speaker 1: voting against it again and again. Representative Brian Harrison, what 273 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:04,120 Speaker 1: exactly how much vacation has the House taken because they've 274 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 1: been off for two years. Put folks in the right 275 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 1: mind of why we're not going to accomplish anything during 276 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 1: this brief legislative session. Yeah. 277 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 7: I always even hesitate to tell the truth about what's 278 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:17,480 Speaker 7: going down here, Michael, because it's so shocking. I think 279 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 7: most people have a hard time getting their heads around 280 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:23,640 Speaker 7: it and even believing that it's true. Because voters, you know, 281 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 7: Trump won Texas overwhelmingly. Kamala Harris got stomped. They gave 282 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:31,440 Speaker 7: the Republicans the governor's mansion, lieutenant governor office, every statewide, 283 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 7: huge majority in the Texas House but somehow Democrats control 284 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 7: the Texas House of Representatives because thirty Rhinos colluded with 285 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:40,840 Speaker 7: fifty Democrats to pick our leadership. And so how do 286 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:43,920 Speaker 7: they kill Republican bills without their fingerprints being on it? Well, 287 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 7: it's the oldest trick in the book. Just pretend that 288 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 7: you ran out of time. And so what we've got 289 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 7: going on down here is this fake Republican speaker who's 290 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:54,679 Speaker 7: owned by the Democrats. He doesn't want to be responsible 291 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 7: for conservative bills like eliminating property taxes or hell even 292 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:01,479 Speaker 7: reducing them on his wa right, so he has dragged 293 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 7: his feet longer. The best I can tell any Republicans, 294 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 7: any speaker in the history of the state of Texas, 295 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:12,919 Speaker 7: he waited over thirty days to even form committees. And Michael, 296 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 7: we are still I think we're day thirty six to 297 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 7: thirty seven. Over a quarter of the session is already over. 298 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 1: In the rearview mirror. 299 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 7: He has not referred one single bill to one single committee. 300 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 7: And we had. 301 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 1: Let you say anything, Representative Brian Harris, but let's not 302 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:33,920 Speaker 1: like exaggerate it. Yeah, there was a Beyonce resolution. 303 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:37,959 Speaker 7: You know what I stand corrected Michael Berry. The Texas 304 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,399 Speaker 7: House of Representatives. We suspended all of the rules. We 305 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:46,040 Speaker 7: even suspended constitutional rules, not to pass property taxes, but 306 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:51,120 Speaker 7: to honor Beyonce, the apparently country artist Beyonce. 307 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 1: They did, they did do one thing, okay, other than that, 308 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:59,880 Speaker 1: literally nothing, well we did talking about Beyonce. Two days 309 00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: on the floor. You understand how this process works. Although 310 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 1: you're relatively new to Austin to b sledgehammer in the 311 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,120 Speaker 1: place like your Elon Musk showing up at the Doze offices, 312 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:10,560 Speaker 1: you figured it out pretty fast. But you've got a 313 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:13,399 Speaker 1: pretty impressive background obviously, to start with, you're the kind 314 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 1: of people we need serving. But let's start with the fact. 315 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:19,359 Speaker 1: I think people understand we have eighty eight out of 316 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:21,600 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty state reps. And yet the Democrats 317 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 1: managed to maneuver where all of them and a few 318 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,440 Speaker 1: Republicans peel away and they get to pick the speaker. 319 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:30,879 Speaker 1: And now you know they're sabotaging the session so that 320 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 1: we get nothing done. Okay, we understand that. Let's start. 321 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,159 Speaker 1: Let's go piece by piece, and I'm gonna miss some, 322 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 1: so you're gonna have to help me here. To start with, 323 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:42,399 Speaker 1: they never named chairmen. They didn't name the committees for 324 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,159 Speaker 1: the longest time. Can you can you explain that? 325 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 7: Yeah, I went, my staff researched this back. We stopped 326 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 7: at nineteen eighty one because in the eighty to nineties 327 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 7: it only took a couple of days. There were some 328 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:55,640 Speaker 7: sessions where the speaker named the committee is the day 329 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:59,160 Speaker 7: he was sworn in, so one day this, I can 330 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:03,359 Speaker 7: tell no speaker in Texas history has ever waited as 331 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:07,879 Speaker 7: long as Rhino Dustin Burroughs has to even form committees. 332 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 7: And so we've had an over a month of just 333 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,400 Speaker 7: one excuse after the other ones. The content they said, 334 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:16,199 Speaker 7: the constitution doesn't let us work. That's a lie. Anybody 335 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 7: with two eyes to see can watch the Texas Senate working. 336 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:22,439 Speaker 7: They're passing bills, so the Constitution's not stopping us. And 337 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:25,879 Speaker 7: then their excuse is, well, okay, but we don't have committees. 338 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 7: Of course, well we don't have committees because of the speaker. 339 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,880 Speaker 7: But after thirty one days, okay, we've got committees now, 340 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:34,400 Speaker 7: so they can't use that excuse anymore. And now they're like, well, 341 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 7: but the Speaker hasn't referred any bills to this committee, 342 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:39,480 Speaker 7: so there's no thing to have a. 343 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 1: Hearing on this, Michael. 344 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:47,159 Speaker 7: They think the voters of Texas are stupid, That's what's happening. 345 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,400 Speaker 7: And they're counting on it so that when they send 346 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:51,840 Speaker 7: their mailers next March, when every one of these swamp 347 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:55,520 Speaker 7: rat fake Republican establishment rhinos morphin to Ron Paul for 348 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 7: two months to run for re election, they hope that 349 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 7: you're going to believe the glossy, slick maailers said, we 350 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,320 Speaker 7: passed the biggest property tax relief in history. 351 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,879 Speaker 1: But they are nice, slick mailers. I've seen them. I 352 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: saw the mailers because our listeners are going crazy at this. 353 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,199 Speaker 1: After they voted for Burrows, they then and they use 354 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:14,160 Speaker 1: the same template, whoever it is, I mean, they're good. 355 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 1: The firm that's paying for all this, and they sent 356 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 1: it out and said, we got a Republican in here, 357 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,119 Speaker 1: and by golly, anybody who tells you otherwise is just 358 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:23,200 Speaker 1: trying to distract us. And oh it was good. Sounded 359 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 1: like Crenshaw when he's explaining away all the all the 360 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,439 Speaker 1: terrible things he does. Anybody who questions me is a 361 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 1: bad person. I am up here and I'm working hard. 362 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 1: I mean, they do have a good campaign going in 363 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:34,920 Speaker 1: that sense, you got to give them credit for that. 364 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 1: Old with me for just a moment. State Representative Brian 365 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:42,800 Speaker 1: Brian Harrison is is calling bull on what is happening 366 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 1: before it happens, because what's going to happen is. 367 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:55,960 Speaker 11: The going, oh, we're out of town, we. 368 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 1: Use it, john Sate Representative Brian Harrison has an interesting past. 369 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 1: We'll go back to what's going on in the state legislature, 370 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:13,639 Speaker 1: But I've been meaning to ask you, as the former 371 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:16,440 Speaker 1: chief of staff at the Department of Health and Human Services, 372 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:19,679 Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on your former department now being 373 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:22,399 Speaker 1: helmed by Robert F. Kennedy Junior. 374 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,119 Speaker 7: Well, I put out a nice statement about it. I 375 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:30,960 Speaker 7: think that President Trump has done a phenomenal job making 376 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 7: bold and historic selections that show that business as usual 377 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,200 Speaker 7: in the swamp of Washington, d C. Is over, and 378 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,359 Speaker 7: I'm really excited about the things that I think the 379 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 7: American people are. 380 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:42,640 Speaker 1: Going to get to see. 381 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,440 Speaker 7: It is probably unsurprising, since I did have the honor 382 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 7: of serving as President Trump's chief of staff there in 383 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:48,880 Speaker 7: the first term, that it's a lot of my friends 384 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:50,959 Speaker 7: going to go back work for mister Kennedy or now 385 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 7: Secretary Kennedy. His incoming Deputy Secretary and Secretary Kennedy's chief 386 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,159 Speaker 7: of staffer are good friends of mine and strong, bold 387 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,199 Speaker 7: pro liberty conservatives who are prepared to take a wrecking 388 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 7: ball to the administrative state. So I'm just loving everything 389 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 7: that I'm seeing coming out of the first few weeks 390 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,359 Speaker 7: of the Trump administration. And I'd remiss if I didn't 391 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,359 Speaker 7: note that some of the things that President Trump is 392 00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:15,199 Speaker 7: doing in Washington, DC are having a bigger impact on 393 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 7: the state of Texas than the Texas government is. I mean, 394 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:19,679 Speaker 7: President Trump in just three weeks has done more to 395 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:23,439 Speaker 7: get rid of this ridiculous taxpayer funded DEI and liberal 396 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 7: gender ideology out of our public universities than the Texas 397 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 7: legislature has for the whole three years I've been here. 398 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 1: You've pointed some of those out. Think about a minute 399 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:34,639 Speaker 1: or so and talk because I think you're an aggie. 400 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:36,719 Speaker 1: I know, I think a lot of aggis would be 401 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,200 Speaker 1: surprised and angered by what's happening. 402 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,119 Speaker 7: Yeah, it hurts me. I love Texas A and M. 403 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 7: I want it restored to its former non woke glory 404 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:48,920 Speaker 7: as much as anybody. But no, the Texas A and 405 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 7: M and this isn't unique to A and N, the 406 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 7: University of Texas, University of Houston, University of North Texas, 407 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 7: almost all of our public universities. I make a point 408 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,399 Speaker 7: every single day because people in the Austin Swamp have 409 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,240 Speaker 7: been gas lighting Texas voters for years telling them that 410 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,680 Speaker 7: they banned DEI, telling them they have stopped weaponizing tax 411 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,520 Speaker 7: dollars to promote literal liberal transgender ideology. 412 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 1: But Michael, that is a lie. 413 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 7: As we speak, Texas and University is conducting entire classes 414 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:18,919 Speaker 7: training the social justice warriors of tomorrow. They have probably 415 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:23,959 Speaker 7: ten twenty to thirty classes on LGBTQ studies. They had 416 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:29,399 Speaker 7: an entire new undergraduate minor an entire undergraduate program in 417 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 7: transgender studies. The University of Texas. I exposed this just 418 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,399 Speaker 7: hours ago, late last night. They were conducting a course. 419 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:38,679 Speaker 7: And if you're a Texas taxpayer listened to this, I 420 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:42,359 Speaker 7: mean buckle up. They were using tax dollars, your money 421 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:47,399 Speaker 7: to coerce college students at the University of Texas to 422 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:51,200 Speaker 7: cross dress in public, to go to public department stores, 423 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 7: and if you are a male student, put on women's clothing. 424 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:56,520 Speaker 7: If you're a female student, go to an apartment store. 425 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,760 Speaker 7: And put on at least three pieces of men's clothing, clothing, 426 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,800 Speaker 7: do it in public, and that's what you had to 427 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,679 Speaker 7: do if you wanted your grades to go higher. At 428 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:09,159 Speaker 7: the University of Texas, this is to promote transgender ideology. 429 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,400 Speaker 7: And the same professor, by the way, was teaching these 430 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:15,679 Speaker 7: students that children are sexual beings. And that professor's now 431 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,960 Speaker 7: been moved to another university where she is teaching about children. 432 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:24,160 Speaker 7: This obscenity, this liberal transgender ideology, and quite frankly, Michael, 433 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 7: I don't even care how somebody feels about a lot 434 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 7: of these topics. I'm pretty libertarian. But let me tell 435 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 7: you what. I'm going to be damned if the state 436 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:36,199 Speaker 7: of Texas is promoting facially racist, leftist, progressive, Marxist and 437 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 7: liberal gender ideology on Texas students on the backs of 438 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:44,800 Speaker 7: my constituents and the tech hardworking Texans who, quite frankly 439 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,120 Speaker 7: I hear from every day because their taxes are so high, 440 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 7: they're afraid they're going to lose their homes and their property. 441 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,120 Speaker 7: I have had it up to my eyeballs. I'm sick 442 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 7: of it these public universities that they don't stop this 443 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,159 Speaker 7: taxpayer abuse as far as I'm concerned, they can have 444 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:02,840 Speaker 7: their taxpayer budgets can turn down to zero because I 445 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 7: am so sick of hard working Texans having their property 446 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:10,440 Speaker 7: taxes taken from them and weaponized against them, against their values, 447 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 7: and against their children. 448 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:15,760 Speaker 1: You also worked State Representative Brian Harrison at the Department 449 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:19,160 Speaker 1: of Defense. Your thoughts on Pete hag Seth as the 450 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 1: new leader, but also the challenges there and the opportunities. 451 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,520 Speaker 7: Yeah, no, look that the Pentagon and this is a 452 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:30,840 Speaker 7: mistake a lot of Republicans make, Michael, if I'm honest, 453 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 7: we want to say, oh, we want to cut spinning everywhere, 454 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 7: but you know, not the defense. We can never cut 455 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 7: spending there. And look, I want a strong defense as 456 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 7: anybody in Texas or in America. I want America to 457 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 7: have the strongest army the nation's ever seen. But it's still, 458 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,920 Speaker 7: at the end of the day, a government agency, and 459 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 7: that means it is susceptible to the same type of waste, fraud, 460 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 7: and abuse. And dare I say dangerous leftist national security 461 00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:00,920 Speaker 7: destroying wocism. And I am so grateful that President Trump 462 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 7: has has put a game changer, a revolutionary in Pete 463 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 7: Hegseth to head the Pentagon because we have seen, especially 464 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,560 Speaker 7: under the Biden administration, the military go from focusing on 465 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 7: protecting our borers and keeping Americans safe to turning basically 466 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:23,640 Speaker 7: our troops into sociology experiments and pushing transgenderism again at 467 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,120 Speaker 7: taxpayer expense. So I could not be more proud of 468 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 7: the first three or four weeks under Secretary of Defense Hegseth. 469 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:34,920 Speaker 1: Let's talk about the State House. You what made me 470 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 1: want to reach out and talk to you. See if 471 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 1: I can find this, I'm sure you remember it. You 472 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,160 Speaker 1: tweeted it. It was an article by Newsmax, And I'll 473 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: read the article real quick. Former President Joe Biden reportedly 474 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:48,160 Speaker 1: took more vacation days than any other modern US president, 475 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,720 Speaker 1: spending thirty nine percent of his time in office away 476 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:52,960 Speaker 1: from the White House, according to data compiled by the 477 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,880 Speaker 1: Republican National Committee. The article was about how Biden missed 478 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,160 Speaker 1: thirty nine percent of the day. He didn't even I 479 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:00,480 Speaker 1: mean he could have been sleep been all day at 480 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,920 Speaker 1: the White House, but at least the other day's he'd 481 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:04,280 Speaker 1: be at the white House. But he was at the 482 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:07,040 Speaker 1: beach all the time. And you posted you think that's bad. 483 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,560 Speaker 1: As of today, the Democrat controlled but GOP dominated Texas 484 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:14,760 Speaker 1: House has officially spent fifty nine percent of the session 485 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,320 Speaker 1: so far on vacation. So every time I see you 486 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 1: in the news, you're speaking and you're up there all 487 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:22,880 Speaker 1: fired up. You got a couple of guys behind you, 488 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,960 Speaker 1: like your posse and like you're an entourage or something, 489 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,600 Speaker 1: and you're saying, I'm voting against vake. Why are we 490 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,720 Speaker 1: always on vacation? What is for people who don't understand, 491 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,160 Speaker 1: they only meet every two years and the only thing 492 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 1: they seem to vote on is yet we're taking another vacation. 493 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,160 Speaker 7: Yeah, it's so funny because the Constitution they always want 494 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,280 Speaker 7: to say, the Constitution doesn't let us work for the 495 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,600 Speaker 7: first sixty days. That's absolutely lie. And the way you 496 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 7: know it's to lie is because every three days we 497 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 7: take a vote to suspend the Constitution to allow us 498 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:55,240 Speaker 7: to take another four, five day or six day long vacation. 499 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,800 Speaker 7: So while over taxed at Texans who are being taxed 500 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 7: out of their homes and having their money wept against 501 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 7: their kids, they're counting on us Republicans, people who ran 502 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,200 Speaker 7: for office as Republicans, to get to work to deliver 503 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,520 Speaker 7: the kind of bold leadership that they're watching every day 504 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:14,920 Speaker 7: from President Trump, and instead we're down here voting for Beyonce, 505 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,240 Speaker 7: voting to give Democrats more power than they've ever had, 506 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,440 Speaker 7: but we're not done a darn thing to lower their 507 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 7: property taxes that are past any of the other conservative 508 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,479 Speaker 7: priorities that Texas expected us. So, Michael, we have been 509 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,960 Speaker 7: here for five weeks. We have now officially voted to 510 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 7: suspend the constitution to let us take a long vacation weekend. 511 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 7: Six times, six times in five weeks, we have voted 512 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 7: for long vacations. And let me tell you, Michael, you 513 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 7: mentioned this. I'm proud of the four or five of 514 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 7: my Republican colleagues that have the courage to stand up 515 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,000 Speaker 7: with me, because when you stand up against leadership, boyd 516 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:49,760 Speaker 7: do they try to make it painful. But quite frankly, 517 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 7: we've got eighty eight people that say they're Republican. Eighty 518 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 7: eight Republicans should be fighting against this taxpayer abuse, these 519 00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:01,960 Speaker 7: long vacations, and they're complicit and letting the Democrats kill 520 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 7: hundreds of Republican priorities. It's a shame, it's a disgrace 521 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 7: to the state of Texas. 522 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:07,720 Speaker 1: Can you hold with us for just a moment, because 523 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:11,280 Speaker 1: I want to talk about property taxes and what I 524 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,360 Speaker 1: think is going to go wrong there. And this is 525 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,640 Speaker 1: how we end up letting Democrats win elections, is when 526 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,400 Speaker 1: Republicans aren't any better than democrats. Can you hold with 527 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:23,400 Speaker 1: us for just a moment. You got State Representative Brian 528 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: Harrison a good follow on Twitter if you want to 529 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,640 Speaker 1: see what's actually happening in Austin. But boy, it'll make 530 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:33,720 Speaker 1: your blood. Boy,