Speaker 1: I want to take a listen to this. So hundreds
Speaker 1: of protesters took to the Oklahoma state capital on Monday,
Speaker 1: protesting Governor Kevin Stitt for taking a stand to protect
Speaker 1: miners in his state. He was giving the State of
Speaker 1: the State addressed where he said this, we must protect
Speaker 1: our most vulnerable, our children. After all, miners can't vote,
Speaker 1: can't purchase alcohol, can't purchase cigarettes. We shouldn't allow a
Speaker 1: minor to get up a permanent gender altering surgery in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm calling him for the legislature to send
Speaker 1: me a bill that advances all ginger transition surgeries and
Speaker 1: hormone therapy the ons in the state of Oklahoma. We're
Speaker 1: going to talk to Governor Kevin Stitt, who just got reelected,
Speaker 1: about why he's taking a stand on this important issue.
Speaker 1: We'll also talk to him. You know, Joe Biden has
Speaker 1: reached havoc on our economy, so how does he as
Speaker 1: a governor fight against those headwinds. Will also get his
Speaker 1: take on the Chinese balloon and why Oklahoma has banned
Speaker 1: Chinese nationals from purchasing farmlands. All of that and more
Speaker 1: with Oklahoma's Governor Kevin Stitt Governor stood. First of all,
Speaker 1: congratulations in your reelection. You're doing important things in the
Speaker 1: state of Oklahoma. So I'm so glad that you've got
Speaker 1: more time there. So congratulations, Thank you so much. I
Speaker 1: appreciate it. So it's a lot of fun serving your
Speaker 1: state where you grew up and I'm just having a blast. Well,
Speaker 1: and you're you're doing great things, including standing up for
Speaker 1: for young people, you know, fighting against this push from
Speaker 1: society to encourage young people to mutilate their bodies, to
Speaker 1: to take hormones that could potentially lead to infertility and
Speaker 1: damage them in ways that they're not even thinking of
Speaker 1: right now. But you know, of course that's created a reaction.
Speaker 1: You know, there's hundreds of protesters gathered at the Oklahoma
Speaker 1: State Capital on Monday, protesting, you know, protesting on what
Speaker 1: you're doing. Why was this an important issue for for
Speaker 1: you to take a stand on. Well, first off, you know,
Speaker 1: we we have an obligation to protect our young people,
Speaker 1: I mean minors. We're talking about minor children here. They
Speaker 1: can't buy alcohol, they can't buy cigarettes and in Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: and we think it's preposterous to let them have a
Speaker 1: permanent altering surgery that potentially could sterilize under your point,
Speaker 1: and so again we're not against any person, but listen, hey,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna have an elective surgery, let's wait till
Speaker 1: you're an adult, to your mind is fully developed to
Speaker 1: go do that, because we don't want that to happen
Speaker 1: in the state of Oklahoma. Uh. You know, overwhelmingly Oklahoma's
Speaker 1: agree with me. This is just common sense to us.
Speaker 1: And you're always have a few naysayers, but we don't
Speaker 1: let that effect this for doing for you know, continue
Speaker 1: to do what's right. You know, we're saying in society,
Speaker 1: you just culturally really this push for for young people
Speaker 1: saying that this is okay. And to your point, you know,
Speaker 1: you can't buy alcohol, and you're a minor, you can't
Speaker 1: purchase cigarettes. So why is it okay to allow a
Speaker 1: minor to mutilate their bodies at such a young age.
Speaker 1: We don't think it is. And last year, when I
Speaker 1: found out there was a there was like a clinic
Speaker 1: in one of our university hospitals, I signed an executive
Speaker 1: order to shut that down and then ask the legislature
Speaker 1: to codify that in law this year, and and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be on my desk within the first couple of
Speaker 1: weeks here obsession because Oklahoma's overwhelmingly support me on this.
Speaker 1: And again we're talking about kids under the age of eighteen.
Speaker 1: Why we let them do that? There's not another procedure
Speaker 1: in the country. Uh, there's no wather procedure. I can
Speaker 1: think about where you would go into the doctor's office
Speaker 1: self diagnose yourself and then also prescribe the surgery. Want. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's just it's nonsense. We're not gonna let it happen. Uh.
Speaker 1: This is this is something that's an elective surgery for
Speaker 1: after you're fully developed and you're you're an adult and
Speaker 1: you want to go make some kind of decision. But
Speaker 1: we don't want even taxpayer at all our spend on that.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I think you're doing the right thing
Speaker 1: on that. You know, I also want to ask you,
Speaker 1: of course, you know, at the State of the Union
Speaker 1: this week, Joe Biden is going to try to make
Speaker 1: claims that aren't true about the economy. Somehow he has
Speaker 1: created the strong economy. We know that it's not. You know,
Speaker 1: you've got a record number of Americans saying they're worse
Speaker 1: off financially since Biden took office. You know, as a governor,
Speaker 1: how do you fight against those headwinds, you know, those
Speaker 1: national headwinds and this economy that Joe Biden's created. We
Speaker 1: talked about in Oklahoma. I mean, we are Oklahoma. I'm
Speaker 1: asking for tax cuts. We want to continue to be
Speaker 1: the most business friendly state in the country. And if
Speaker 1: you look, we're tomp top ten right now, and net
Speaker 1: migration people move into our state because they're fleeing some
Speaker 1: of the high tax states. They're fleeing some of the
Speaker 1: Democratic led states because they're seeing probe business, pro freedom
Speaker 1: policies and states like Oklahoma. But inflation before Biden was
Speaker 1: at one point four percent and now it is six
Speaker 1: point five percent. And this was in my State of
Speaker 1: the State address that I just did yesterday. I mean,
Speaker 1: before the pandemic, a gallon of milk is is uh
Speaker 1: is to ninety something like that, and now it's four
Speaker 1: Eggs were a dollar fifty, now they're five fifty. So
Speaker 1: there's some real issues with inflation right now. Um and then,
Speaker 1: and you can all point it back to the attack
Speaker 1: on oil and gas and not having an honest conversation
Speaker 1: about about a reliable energy grid. And an affordable energy
Speaker 1: grid with domestic energy production from oil and gas companies
Speaker 1: as well as wind and kind of on all of
Speaker 1: the above approach that we have in Oklahoma. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: and that's the thing, you know, Biden can say whatever
Speaker 1: he wants. You can have pe poota judge go to
Speaker 1: the Sunday shows, which he did over the weekend, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to tell out something that doesn't exist. But we
Speaker 1: all know it's not a strong economy, or at least
Speaker 1: not nationally. You know, how bad are Americans struggling right now?
Speaker 1: You know how difficult do you think that's going to
Speaker 1: be for them to try to sell something when we
Speaker 1: all know that we're paying more each month because of inflation.
Speaker 1: You know, you go to the gas station, you're paying more.
Speaker 1: We see it with our own eyes, that's right. And
Speaker 1: then uh, you know, obviously, you know, the borrowing costs
Speaker 1: are really really starting to affect the average person um
Speaker 1: business barring cost home prices. We're starting to see a
Speaker 1: slump in home prices because of raising interest. Right, so
Speaker 1: all that stuff goes into effect. We've got to let
Speaker 1: the free market flourish. And when government and these type
Speaker 1: of policies continue to clamp down and over regulate things
Speaker 1: and try to pick winners and losers. Who's harmed. It's
Speaker 1: actually the American people are harmed paying higher at the
Speaker 1: gas pump hype because the same the same people that
Speaker 1: they say that they're trying to protect, they're actually harming
Speaker 1: with the cost of everyday items right now in the
Speaker 1: in the in the state and also in the country.
Speaker 1: You know, I also wanted to get your take. We
Speaker 1: all saw as the Chinese balloon, which was a spying balloon,
Speaker 1: you know, violated our aerospace flying over nuclear silos, air
Speaker 1: force spaces, and you know they were going to withhold
Speaker 1: it from us. The by administration took a week to
Speaker 1: shoot down. You were taking a stand in Oklahoma by
Speaker 1: making illegal for you know, the Communist Party of China
Speaker 1: to purchase farm land in the state of Oklahoma. Why
Speaker 1: do you think that's important to to not allow that
Speaker 1: to fight that, and like you said, we made it
Speaker 1: illegal for Chinese nationals to purchase farmland in the state
Speaker 1: of Oklahoma. We're cracking down on that. I banned TikTok
Speaker 1: from all of our state devices. Um, you know there
Speaker 1: they're an adversary of ours and they share information from
Speaker 1: these companies, so we're not gonna let that happen in
Speaker 1: our state. Uh. The Chinese balloon is a real head scratcher.
Speaker 1: Myself and all the Republican governors across the country just
Speaker 1: could not understand. We got briefed. We called the d
Speaker 1: O D what's happening. I called my National Guard to
Speaker 1: find out what our options were if it came into
Speaker 1: the state of Oklahoma. But this is something that is
Speaker 1: really the American people should be asking ourselves. Why was
Speaker 1: it not shot down before it came over? Why would
Speaker 1: we allow that to happen? And those are things that uh,
Speaker 1: I mean, elections matter, and you can look at the
Speaker 1: different leadership between what's happening right now with what we
Speaker 1: happened four years ago or several years ago with the
Speaker 1: President Trump and and hopefully we take back the White House.
Speaker 1: I joked sadly, but it's true. You know, it might
Speaker 1: as well have been shaped as a middle finger, because
Speaker 1: that was essentially the message China was setting us. You know,
Speaker 1: they did it because they could because we have a
Speaker 1: weak president. I wanted to ask you, I even wondering this,
Speaker 1: what authority does it? Would you be able to do
Speaker 1: as governor instruct the National Guard to shoot it down
Speaker 1: or how would that that work? Well? Obviously, as as
Speaker 1: the commander in chief of our our national Guard, we've
Speaker 1: got a you know, f sixteens at our air base,
Speaker 1: at our National Guard base in Tulsa, and that's something
Speaker 1: that's it's a huge question that we would have to
Speaker 1: obviously be in consultation with the big army in the
Speaker 1: in the Department of Offense. But um, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't have a direct answer for you. Thankfully
Speaker 1: did not come into the state of Oklahoma and I
Speaker 1: didn't have to make that decision. Um. But it's something
Speaker 1: that I'm actually checking on as we speak and talking
Speaker 1: to our to our our generals. But the big question
Speaker 1: is why is our president not taking care of it
Speaker 1: before it came into Montana. I mean, I think for
Speaker 1: a lot of Americans, and I talked to people, you know,
Speaker 1: when I was at the airport at a restaurant, you know,
Speaker 1: waiting my flight, and everyone has been paying attention to
Speaker 1: this thing, and there's just this sentiment that we're not
Speaker 1: as strong as we used to be. You know, that
Speaker 1: this is a sign of weakness for America. And I
Speaker 1: think it's understood for all Americans, whether you know, regardless
Speaker 1: how much attention they pay to the to the media,
Speaker 1: or to politics. And I think we all kind of
Speaker 1: shared the same sentiment of just feeling like we're not
Speaker 1: America anymore. You know, we're not this strong country we
Speaker 1: used to be. I mean, that's exactly right, you know,
Speaker 1: the Afghanistan exit, mean we kind of forget about that,
Speaker 1: but think about how disheartening that was as we withdrew
Speaker 1: everything from Afghanistan and we saw these people hanging onto airplanes.
Speaker 1: We just left our friends and allies behind, and people
Speaker 1: that fought for us and broke our word, and they
Speaker 1: were holding onto airplanes because they knew they were losing
Speaker 1: their chance for freedom. We saw moms handing their their
Speaker 1: child over to a serviceman just hoping that they could
Speaker 1: get them to freedom. So very very disappointing, not counting
Speaker 1: the billions and billions of dollars worth of assets that
Speaker 1: we left there. Uh So again, all these kind of
Speaker 1: things are just head scratchers to us, um and what's
Speaker 1: going on? But you're right, And then to let the
Speaker 1: Chinese fly a spy balloon a balloon and just kind
Speaker 1: of track it slowly over the U S. We're like,
Speaker 1: why why would we allow that? Why would we allow that?
Speaker 1: Do you think they would allow that allow us to
Speaker 1: fly a balloon over their country? Well? And I think
Speaker 1: it really just comes down to, you know, showing America
Speaker 1: is how important leadership is. You know, it's important to
Speaker 1: have a strong President's important to how strong governors like you.
Speaker 1: Leadership matters? Does leadership does matter? Um? That's why it's
Speaker 1: so important. These elections are so important for us to
Speaker 1: think about. And do you believe in freedoms? Do you
Speaker 1: believe in a free market system? Do you believe in
Speaker 1: personal responsibilities? Or do you want a government uh telling
Speaker 1: everybody how to live their lives what to do? Uh? No,
Speaker 1: we don't want that. And that's why you see people
Speaker 1: flooding to states like Oklahoma and Texas and Tennessee and
Speaker 1: Florida and in these states that were free. I was
Speaker 1: one of the only governors in the country that refused
Speaker 1: to do a mask mandate when I saw this overreach
Speaker 1: from Washington d C. Trying to tell everybody how to
Speaker 1: live their lives. And and we're gonna push back against that.
Speaker 1: The Washington d C bureaucrat. Governor Kevin staid, I know
Speaker 1: you've got a tight schedule today. We appreciate you making
Speaker 1: time for the show, and we appreciate you taking a
Speaker 1: stand in the state of Oklahoma. So thank you for
Speaker 1: what you do. Hey, thank you so much, Lisa, and
Speaker 1: thanks for sharing truth with with Americans. We standing behind you.
Speaker 1: That was Governor and Kevin Stick. He's doing a lot
Speaker 1: of really great things out of the state of Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: He just got reelected and thank God for that. We
Speaker 1: need strong governors like him, like Governor to Stantas, Governor
Speaker 1: Kim Reynolds out of Iowa, who we've had on the show.
Speaker 1: We need people like them standing up for freedoms here
Speaker 1: in America and in their estates. I want to thank
Speaker 1: you at home for listening as well my day and Thursday,
Speaker 1: but you can listen throughout the week. I want to
Speaker 1: thank John Cassu, my producer, for putting the show together.
Speaker 1: Until next time,