Rep. Beth Van Duyne joins Allen Jackson to discuss current events.
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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Dangerous Politics | Allen Jackson Now | March 27, 2026
- Good evening and welcome to nashville.
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- I'm alan jackson.
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- We're going to begin tonight with a very troubling fact.
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- A majority of the democratic party is now consistently
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- On the side of a minority of the american people.
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- Whether it's because they feel they have to fight everything
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- President trump is trying to accomplish,
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- Or because they've moved deeper
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- In the direction of the far left wing.
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- It's a troubling sign.
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- Well, they're openly fighting against the u.s.
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- Military as it shutting down iran's terrorist regime.
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- Even though iran has killed a thousand americans
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- And was on its way
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- To pointing nuclear weapons at the united states.
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- Their antics,
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- Even as the men and women who work
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- There are removing some very bad people
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- Who live and hide in our neighborhoods, killing,
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- Raping young women and stealing at random.
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- And they're refusing to clear the paychecks.
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- For those who work at the department of homeland security.
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- The people who put their own lives in danger to keep us safe.
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- Remember, tsa was formed right after 911, and today
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- They're working without pay.
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- Does the democratic leadership consider
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- The signals they're sending to those who want to do us harm?
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- The people who call us
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- The great satan and chant death to america.
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- Or are they just looking the other way, knowing
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- That there are an unknown number of terror groups
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- Walking freely around our cities and neighborhoods?
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- The republican house speaker put it this way.
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- They shut down the third largest department
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- Of the federal government.
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- It has ten agencies underneath it, 260,000 plus employees.
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- And each of those agencies have one common denominator.
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- As the name implies, they are to keep the homeland secure.
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- Congressional democrats have held our airports
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- Tsa, fema, the coast guard, so many critical functions
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- Of our government.
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- We're talking about anti bioterrorism,
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- Matters and issues.
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- You're talking about cyber security, all these things.
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- They are holding the government hostage.
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- There was a time when you could book a flight,
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- Parked the car and walk right up to the gate with your wife,
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- Your kids and your carry on bags until hijackings started
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- In the 1970s.
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- We relied on our government to fix that,
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- And we're glad they did.
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- But over time, more security has been added as knives
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- And guns are being smuggled on board.
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- Bombs were hidden in checked baggage.
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- Even ignition devices were put in shoes.
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- The terrorists tried everything, and all along the way
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- The security folks, they kept us safe.
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- So how is it that the democrats went from safety for all
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- To not even paying tsa employees today?
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- And undermining the president for taking out the terrorist
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- In the middle east,
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- And defending people who throw things
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- At ice agents and spit on them when they're capturing killers.
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- Well, people
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- Often ask me, what's the church going to do about this or that?
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- Well, the reality is there's
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- No magical place where the church lives, folks.
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- It's us.
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- So when you want to ask that question, i'll tell you.
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- The quickest way to get to an answer
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- Is to go find a mirror and ask yourself what you're
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- Going to do about it,
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- And then listen very carefully for the answer,
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- Because what you hear will have a great deal to do
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- With what the church
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- Is going to do about whatever the issue is.
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- See, the bible is a book that describes
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- Spiritual conflict, from the opening
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- Chapters of genesis
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- To the concluding chapters of the book of revelation.
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- We shouldn't imagine that conflict stopped in antiquity.
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- We shouldn't imagine that
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- When jesus came to god. stop being interested
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- In the corporate behavior of his people.
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- What happens in the spiritual
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- Realm has a tremendous impact on what's happening in the earth.
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- If you only understand your current events
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- From the basis of social or economic patterns
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- Or conflicts between nation states,
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- You have an incomplete perspective.
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- I'm not saying that those factors are true or real,
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- That they aren't powerful.
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- But i am suggesting that as christ followers,
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- We must begin with the premise that spiritual forces shape
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- Our world.
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- The bible talks about god directing the course of nations
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- That he raises up leaders and he puts them down.
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- And for far too long, the church has been far more secular
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- With our understanding of world events.
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- We've imagined that our spiritual role was expressed
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- Primarily in a ballot box or in a political campaign.
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- Well, i do think you should participate in the process.
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- I'm not opposed to that.
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- But your spiritual life shapes those things long before you
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- Ever cast a vote
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- Regarding the candidates that
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- Rise up and those candidates who don't.
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- The church
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- Is a spiritual force in the world is the difference maker.
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- I believe
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- God will either give us leaders that will bring his best to us,
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- Or he'll give us leaders who bring his punishment to us
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- As the community of faith.
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- We have a biblical assignment.
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- If we don't like the leadership we have in the world,
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- In which we live, a great deal of that responsibility.
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- It falls at the doorstep of the church.
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- Historically, as a nation,
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- We lived in a place
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- Where the fabric of our culture has been predominantly knit
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- Together from a biblical worldview.
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- But that has changed and rapidly.
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- And with that change.
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- So change stability and security.
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- So change things like freedom of speech, law
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- And order, service and sacrifice.
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- You see all those things emerge from a biblical worldview.
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- And the further we step away from a biblical worldview,
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- The further we will live from those realities
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- That have caused our nation to prosper.
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- That's very common in the american church, to say
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- That inclusivity and tolerance are primary biblical values.
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- But scripture reveals that jesus was and continues
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- To not be tolerant of disobedience.
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- He is not inclusive of ungodliness.
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- Frankly, we spent decades making friends with evil.
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- But i have good news. we can change.
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- We can be different.
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- We can choose to tell the truth.
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- Let's start in our homes, changing the world.
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- It begins at our kitchen table.
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- Then it's going to extend into our circles of influence.
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- Let's have the courage to say
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- Jesus is unique,
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- That he brings something unique to human lives.
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- I believe wholeheartedly that jesus is the answer for
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- Our world today.
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- It's obviously a critical time in our country's history,
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- And fortunately, we have people in leadership
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- Positions around the country
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- Who know the history and who know right from wrong.
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- In a moment, we'll be joined by a republican
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- From the house of representatives, beth van dyne.
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- I'll be right back.
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- I'll be right back.
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- Well, it's
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- Been a busy time on capitol hill,
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- And from all sides,
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- The democrats are continuing to play with fire.
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- The good news is that they're up
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- Against a majority of responsible,
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- Commonsense conservatives,
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- Including our guest tonight, congresswoman beth van dike.
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- Welcome to our show.
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- Thank you very much.
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- Glad to be here.
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- Well, i began by making the point
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- That the trump derangement has gotten so bad
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- That the democrats have now found themselves regularly
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- Siding with terrorists.
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- This is far more than politics now.
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- It's putting the american people in danger.
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- Are they actually rooting for our country to lose?
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- It would seem so.
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- And this is not anything new.
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- I mean, just a few years ago, there were there were,
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- You know, siding with criminals
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- In trying to get police defunded.
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- This is just an extension of that.
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- But you got to ask yourself, why are they,
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- Supporting illegal immigrants over u.s.
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- Citizens?
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- The illegal immigrant at this point in
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- Time is a democrat's best friend. why?
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- Because they are relying
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- On the 20 million illegal immigrants
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- That joe biden brought into this country
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- To add to be able to prop their population numbers up.
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- So they don't lose their congressional districts.
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- It's all based on population.
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- They want to have illegal immigrants
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- Counted on their population growth,
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- And that's what they're doing.
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- And hopefully,
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- And when you start looking at the fraud
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- That's going on around the country,
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- Where some of these folks
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- Are being able to get illegals social security numbers, ids,
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- I'm sure hopefully
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- They're hoping that they will vote democrat as well.
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- So this is all about keeping power.
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- This is all about maintaining seats.
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- And it has nothing to do with the safety
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- Or the best interest of the american public.
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- What did
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- You hear other members, especially democrats, saying,
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- When all saw the report that iran had fired off
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- Two missiles at our base in the indian ocean,
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- And they had the power to actually reach most of europe.
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- Was there any regret about not supporting the president?
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- It seems like they're even trying to support iran.
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- I mean, a lot of the folks
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- That i have heard were i listen to their
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- Their comments in the press are still very critical
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- Of the president and wondering why we had this war.
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- The fact is, is
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- I think everything the president has said
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- Has turned out to be correct.
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- We had had a country that was hell bent on getting
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- A nuclear weapon, who for nearly 50 years
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- Has decried the the u.s.
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- As the enemy, as the great devil,
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- And has wanted to do
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- Nothing more than to destroy us and our way of life?
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- This is a president who took,
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- You know, matters into his own hands
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- That other presidents
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- Had only threatened and he actually carried out.
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- And if you look at obama, if you look at biden,
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- All they did was give tens of billions of dollars to iran,
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- Then then went and helped fund terrorist activities
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- Against our own military, against our own allies.
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- And so,
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- Yeah, when you hear
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- My democrat colleagues sit here and be very critical
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- Of this war, i would say, you know, why is that?
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- And i think some of them just,
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- Suffer from trump derangement syndrome,
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- And they don't want to give a prisoner a win where wednesday
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- Is due.
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- And i wonder what the democrats were thinking
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- When they saw the pictures of the three young iranian men
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- Dressed in blue on the way to their hanging.
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- You know, or
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- When word spread that tens of thousands of others
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- Were shot to death for protesting.
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- If they're listening to the former cia director,
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- John brennan, maybe they think it's all made up.
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- Listen to how he talks about our president.
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- Well, i tend to believe iran more than i do.
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- That's true
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- Because he could not acknowledge the truth even when it is
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- He slapped in the face with it repeatedly.
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- And it's clear that, you know, he is flailing right now.
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- You know, of course, brennan is under investigation
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- For his role in the made up russia collusion fiasco.
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- So maybe that has something to do
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- With his lashing out at the president.
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- Well, i would argue that, man, there's no truth
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- When i hit him straight dab in the face.
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- And the fact is, it's not just president
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- Trump who's talking about this.
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- You have people like secretary
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- Of state marco rubio, you've got john ratcliffe,
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- You got,
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- Chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, kaine,
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- Who all are supporting this president's decision
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- And saying this was an imminent threat, that iran was
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- Weeks, months away from being able to to start,
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- Creating these weapons 60, 70ft under earth.
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- And if we were to allow them that capability,
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- They would, in fact, have a weapon that could be used
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- Against the united states, against our allies.
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- And what you've seen when these missiles that
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- Iran denied that they had, that a democrat colleagues denied
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- That iran had was the capability of being able to do
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- Tremendous amount of damage, take tens of thousands of lives,
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- From from people very far away.
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- And we were
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- We were very strategic, very successful
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- In taking out their ability to to do that.
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- I think this trump administration
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- Has been very clear where their goals.
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- They want to make sure that they don't
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- Have the ability to be able to create a nuclear weapon.
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- They want to make sure
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- They don't have ballistic missiles,
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- And they want to make sure that their navy is decimated
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- So that they can stop using the strait of hormuz, which has
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- A, you know, double digit percentage of our of our oil
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- And the world's oil that moves through it, to be able
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- To, you know, hold, our allies, act as hostages.
- 00:11:28.747 --> 00:11:33.585
- I think the again, this has been a very strategic strike,
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- And the
- 00:11:37.589 --> 00:11:38.724
- The outcome in just a few weeks has been extraordinary.
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- And instead of democrats supporting this move
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- That has been supported by, the intelligence community
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- As well as a number of military,
- 00:11:49.168 --> 00:11:51.837
- Generals and those with experience in war,
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- They're just doing what they do best, which is just holding,
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- You know, trump accountable for everything
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- And giving him credit for nothing.
- 00:12:00.279 --> 00:12:02.047
- Well, here's another mystery to me.
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- How can they delay funding for tsa?
- 00:12:04.483 --> 00:12:07.085
- Surely their families and constituents
- 00:12:07.085 --> 00:12:09.054
- Are having to rearrange their lives to deal
- 00:12:09.054 --> 00:12:10.656
- With the long lines, and business trips are working.
- 00:12:10.656 --> 00:12:13.058
- People are losing momentum by standing in those lines.
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- Do they really think
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- That's going to help them come reelection time this fall?
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- You know,
- 00:12:20.132 --> 00:12:21.233
- I guess if you just continue to blame trump for it,
- 00:12:21.233 --> 00:12:23.969
- Which is what they're doing, they're blaming trump,
- 00:12:23.969 --> 00:12:25.804
- They're blaming the the republicans.
- 00:12:25.804 --> 00:12:27.372
- The fact is, is we in the house did our job.
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- We passed 12 appropriation bills,
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- Including the appropriations for continuing the funding
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- For homeland security.
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- At such a time as this,
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- When we see these threats
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- Across the seas, when we see, you know, threats, on our coasts
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- And we need our coast guard funded,
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- When we're seeing natural disasters and need fema funded,
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- And we've got people who are traveling,
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- You know, overseas for spring break, for easter,
- 00:12:51.697 --> 00:12:53.966
- And they are denying these tsa agents again,
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- Being able to get a paycheck in dfw.
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- Airport, which is right
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- In the center of district 24 that i represent,
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- We have had, folks who work with tsa
- 00:13:05.344 --> 00:13:08.013
- Who have complained that they're having to sleep in their car
- 00:13:08.013 --> 00:13:10.449
- Because they can't afford gas.
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- It is outrageous.
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- It should no way, shape
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- Or form be able to happen in this country.
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- We have the ability to be able to fight it.
- 00:13:17.189 --> 00:13:19.024
- But the democrats continue to move that bar
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- Just when they when they think that,
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- That the the senate republicans think that they've got a deal
- 00:13:24.062 --> 00:13:26.698
- Made the senate democrats blow it up and they are holding
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- Tsa and and everybody who's traveling hostage right now.
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- And you saw some of the lines made in houston.
- 00:13:34.306 --> 00:13:36.408
- There were five hours.
- 00:13:36.408 --> 00:13:37.876
- Can you imagine getting the airport
- 00:13:37.876 --> 00:13:38.977
- 5 hours or 4 hours early and still missing your flight?
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- I really hope that the
- 00:13:43.048 --> 00:13:44.316
- The people who are being affected by this,
- 00:13:44.316 --> 00:13:45.984
- Most are very vocal with their elected officials
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- And tell them how disgusted they are with it.
- 00:13:48.954 --> 00:13:50.489
- You know, the democrats seem to have plenty of money
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- For the millions of people in our sanctuary cities,
- 00:13:53.692 --> 00:13:56.228
- Even while they look
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- The other way at the hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud.
- 00:13:57.496 --> 00:14:00.265
- People continue to flock to texas,
- 00:14:00.265 --> 00:14:01.733
- Where you live near nashville, where i'm at.
- 00:14:01.733 --> 00:14:04.336
- Is it fair to say that americans don't want to see
- 00:14:04.336 --> 00:14:06.438
- The hard earned taxes they're paying?
- 00:14:06.438 --> 00:14:07.873
- Go to people who are
- 00:14:07.873 --> 00:14:09.241
- The democrats are trying to buy off these days?
- 00:14:09.241 --> 00:14:12.177
- I think people work hard for their money.
- 00:14:12.177 --> 00:14:13.779
- They want to be able to keep it.
- 00:14:13.779 --> 00:14:15.047
- And when they see the federal government force it out of their
- 00:14:15.047 --> 00:14:17.115
- Their pocketbooks
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- And hand it over to people
- 00:14:18.183 --> 00:14:19.351
- Who are here illegally through a number of different ways,
- 00:14:19.351 --> 00:14:22.354
- They're handing it to these ngos there and then giving money
- 00:14:22.354 --> 00:14:25.857
- To illegal immigrants. they're also giving money.
- 00:14:25.857 --> 00:14:28.560
- You see the waste, the fraud and abuse.
- 00:14:28.560 --> 00:14:30.062
- The democrats don't seem to want to fight.
- 00:14:30.062 --> 00:14:32.030
- And what we're seeing there is, you know, just as it's exposed
- 00:14:32.030 --> 00:14:34.967
- In minnesota, you see some groups
- 00:14:34.967 --> 00:14:36.835
- Like the somalis, in minnesota actually sending it back money.
- 00:14:36.835 --> 00:14:41.406
- Federal taxpayer dollars, sending it back
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- To their countries for to support terrorist activities.
- 00:14:44.009 --> 00:14:46.611
- I think when people see that, they get disgusted
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- And that's when they start, you know, voting with their feet
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- And moving out of states like california and illinois
- 00:14:51.483 --> 00:14:54.119
- And new york into states like tennessee and florida and texas.
- 00:14:54.119 --> 00:14:57.956
- It is costing those states.
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- You know, you have governors like newsome and hochul
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- Who are very critical.
- 00:15:03.328 --> 00:15:04.663
- You know what?
- 00:15:04.663 --> 00:15:05.897
- If you don't like being here and you don't want to support
- 00:15:05.897 --> 00:15:07.099
- Democrats, then move.
- 00:15:07.099 --> 00:15:08.133
- And you know what? people moved in droves.
- 00:15:08.133 --> 00:15:10.702
- And you know what they took with him?
- 00:15:10.702 --> 00:15:11.937
- They're taxpayer dollars.
- 00:15:11.937 --> 00:15:13.905
- There was an irs report that just came out earlier
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- This week that showed that those blue states have lost
- 00:15:15.874 --> 00:15:18.910
- Tens of billions of dollars because people have left them.
- 00:15:18.910 --> 00:15:22.414
- And where are they going to art to to to the southern states.
- 00:15:22.414 --> 00:15:25.951
- And now you've got governor hochul
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- Who's begging them to come back, will you?
- 00:15:27.386 --> 00:15:29.955
- When you treat your taxpayers like this,
- 00:15:29.955 --> 00:15:32.257
- You know, expect them to leave.
- 00:15:32.257 --> 00:15:33.692
- So you know, we've been hopeful, optimistic that,
- 00:15:33.692 --> 00:15:37.462
- The great state of california is beautiful as it is.
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- It would have some kind of sense,
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- That their voters would actually elect people
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- Who are not going to, you know,
- 00:15:45.037 --> 00:15:46.438
- Put them over the coals and, and overregulate them
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- In overtaxing, but doesn't seem to be working any time soon.
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- Well, congresswoman van dyne, we need to take a short break.
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- Can you stand by for another segment or
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- We'll be back in just a moment.
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- We're back now with texas
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- Republican congresswoman beth van dyne.
- 00:16:20.773 --> 00:16:23.776
- President trump remains firm in his desire to have
- 00:16:23.776 --> 00:16:26.312
- National voter id, backed by proof of citizenship.
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- And he's suggesting that congress stay in session,
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- Skip going home for the easter recess to get that done.
- 00:16:32.585 --> 00:16:35.788
- Do you see any chance of something
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- Getting done before easter?
- 00:16:37.323 --> 00:16:39.258
- Well, i think, quite honestly,
- 00:16:39.258 --> 00:16:40.893
- That if john thune were to force them to stay,
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- And to stop having these,
- 00:16:45.231 --> 00:16:46.866
- Unnecessary breaks when people are hurting,
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- I think he could see some things being done.
- 00:16:49.435 --> 00:16:52.305
- You know, at the same token, i also kind of
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- Want them to be able
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- To go home and face their their voters directly.
- 00:16:54.874 --> 00:16:57.577
- But too many of them don't do that.
- 00:16:57.577 --> 00:16:58.911
- And they're using an opportunity to go fundraise instead.
- 00:16:58.911 --> 00:17:01.581
- You know, trying to prove that their fight
- 00:17:01.581 --> 00:17:03.249
- Is somehow fighting the republicans.
- 00:17:03.249 --> 00:17:05.084
- But i do believe that, it's time to be, you know, an
- 00:17:05.084 --> 00:17:08.521
- Iron fist in the senate and say, we're not going to break.
- 00:17:08.521 --> 00:17:11.591
- We're not going to, you know, let people go home.
- 00:17:11.591 --> 00:17:13.559
- We're not going to let people go on vacation or go fundraise
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- Until we work this out.
- 00:17:16.662 --> 00:17:17.897
- And it's amazing how much money talks up here.
- 00:17:17.897 --> 00:17:19.966
- And i think that would definitely have an impact.
- 00:17:19.966 --> 00:17:23.002
- But right now, democrats aren't feeling any pain.
- 00:17:23.002 --> 00:17:25.338
- They're still continuing to get paid.
- 00:17:25.338 --> 00:17:27.707
- You know, congressmen, other senators
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- Are continuing to get paid even while tsa officers don't.
- 00:17:29.375 --> 00:17:32.979
- I think it's ridiculous. i think it's unfair.
- 00:17:32.979 --> 00:17:34.780
- And democrats just continue to do this.
- 00:17:34.780 --> 00:17:37.817
- Well, chuck schumer claims
- 00:17:38.384 --> 00:17:39.652
- That the safe act has nothing to do with homeland security.
- 00:17:39.652 --> 00:17:42.755
- Does that mean he's
- 00:17:42.755 --> 00:17:43.756
- Okay with non-citizens voting in our elections?
- 00:17:43.756 --> 00:17:46.659
- Apparently, it seems so.
- 00:17:46.659 --> 00:17:48.861
- He admits that we already have a law against it.
- 00:17:48.861 --> 00:17:50.963
- And yet when you try to enforce that law just by verifying,
- 00:17:50.963 --> 00:17:54.000
- You know, he's he's upset about it
- 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:55.668
- And say how unfair that is.
- 00:17:55.668 --> 00:17:57.370
- We trust but verify.
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- We do that with ids all the time
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- Whether or not it's going to buy,
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- You know, beer or wine at your local grocery store,
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- You have to verify your age, whether or not it's driving
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- A car.
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- You have to verify that you have insurance
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- During the obama administration
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- Or during the obama administration when they had,
- 00:18:11.551 --> 00:18:14.687
- Obamacare, you had to verify that
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- You had paid for for insurance not that long ago.
- 00:18:16.589 --> 00:18:19.492
- You had to verify in order to keep your government job
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- That you had gotten,
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- You know, the stick for covid, you'd gotten the vaccination.
- 00:18:24.130 --> 00:18:28.367
- So they don't seem to,
- 00:18:28.367 --> 00:18:29.302
- You know, be bothered at all by people
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- Having to go through hoops to verify what they want.
- 00:18:30.937 --> 00:18:34.073
- But when it comes to voting legally in our country,
- 00:18:34.073 --> 00:18:37.076
- It seems to be a huge sticking point.
- 00:18:37.076 --> 00:18:39.078
- And again, why what we talked about
- 00:18:39.078 --> 00:18:40.846
- At the beginning of the hour was that,
- 00:18:40.846 --> 00:18:42.448
- You know,
- 00:18:42.448 --> 00:18:43.416
- You've got democrats who are going to lose
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- Their congressional districts, their population,
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- Because people are voting with their feet,
- 00:18:47.286 --> 00:18:49.188
- And therefore they are going to have illegal immigrants
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- Take their place and
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- If you don't, if they agree that people need to be here
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- Legally, and legally to vote, then they shouldn't
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- Have a problem with it.
- 00:19:00.166 --> 00:19:01.234
- But obviously they don't.
- 00:19:01.234 --> 00:19:03.736
- The president appointed vice president j.d.
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- Vance to oversee the process
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- Of figuring out who's stealing and how to stop the fraud.
- 00:19:07.573 --> 00:19:11.444
- But is anything being done in congress to put a serious end
- 00:19:11.444 --> 00:19:14.080
- To the billions of dollars that are stolen now?
- 00:19:14.080 --> 00:19:17.016
- Oh, look, we are having a ton of investigations.
- 00:19:17.016 --> 00:19:19.452
- You know, i think, chairman comer and, chairman jordan
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- Are doing an excellent job in judiciary and in oversight.
- 00:19:22.588 --> 00:19:26.626
- I've got bills that would do just that.
- 00:19:26.626 --> 00:19:28.794
- We're just waiting for them to get out of committee.
- 00:19:28.794 --> 00:19:30.496
- I mean, i've got a bill which would more or less,
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- Is trying to codify some of these efforts.
- 00:19:33.299 --> 00:19:35.268
- It would, force third party audits on our agencies
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- To see where there's repetition,
- 00:19:39.238 --> 00:19:40.573
- To see where there's fraud, where there's ways
- 00:19:40.573 --> 00:19:42.074
- Where there's abuse and actually do something about it.
- 00:19:42.074 --> 00:19:44.543
- So there are efforts afoot already,
- 00:19:44.543 --> 00:19:46.846
- And i know this administration is is uncovering them,
- 00:19:46.846 --> 00:19:49.749
- But people do not want to see their hard
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- Earned dollars being given away, whether or not
- 00:19:51.884 --> 00:19:53.619
- There's given away to fraud, waste
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- Or to people who are in our country illegally.
- 00:19:55.321 --> 00:19:57.957
- Well, one last question.
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- You served
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- At the local level in texas
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- And as a national player in congress,
- 00:20:01.160 --> 00:20:03.796
- It must be frustrating to have to see what it takes
- 00:20:03.796 --> 00:20:06.032
- To do consensus across so many members
- 00:20:06.032 --> 00:20:08.467
- Versus being a mayor and just being able
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- To get things done using just your common sense.
- 00:20:10.202 --> 00:20:13.039
- What's that like for you?
- 00:20:13.039 --> 00:20:14.674
- You know, as a mayor, there was definitely an ability
- 00:20:14.674 --> 00:20:16.876
- To be able to get things done
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- Just by sheer willpower and determination.
- 00:20:17.943 --> 00:20:20.146
- Being able to force a vote,
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- Being able to create, committees,
- 00:20:21.213 --> 00:20:23.883
- And being able to force the agenda to be voted on
- 00:20:23.883 --> 00:20:26.419
- And being able to bring people
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- Forward, it's much more difficult.
- 00:20:27.420 --> 00:20:29.021
- In congress.
- 00:20:29.021 --> 00:20:29.889
- You got 435 different personalities,
- 00:20:29.889 --> 00:20:32.358
- Just in the house alone, another 100 in the senate
- 00:20:32.358 --> 00:20:34.527
- And a number in the administration.
- 00:20:34.527 --> 00:20:36.996
- Trying to get these things done is very difficult.
- 00:20:36.996 --> 00:20:39.498
- But we also have to think about is that sometimes
- 00:20:39.498 --> 00:20:41.934
- Not a good thing
- 00:20:41.934 --> 00:20:42.968
- That you can't have things happen
- 00:20:42.968 --> 00:20:44.737
- As quickly as some of us would like or otherwise,
- 00:20:44.737 --> 00:20:47.940
- You know, potentially every two years.
- 00:20:47.940 --> 00:20:49.408
- Can you imagine trying to follow all
- 00:20:49.408 --> 00:20:51.010
- These different laws that are changing businesses?
- 00:20:51.010 --> 00:20:53.412
- Tell us all the time, look, we can we can play by the rules
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- As long as we know what the rules are.
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- But i think this is why you're seeing
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- Some of the bills that we just passed.
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- Having these permanent provisions,
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- You know,
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- When we passed the tax cut
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- And jobs act, a lot of those provisions
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- Were going to expire at the end of last year.
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- The one big beautiful bill is working families tax cut,
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- Tax cut act actually has these permanent
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- So that people can rely on these tax cuts,
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- Going forward in the future, which is why you're seeing now
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- At 100,
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- $150 billion in tax rebates that are going to be written,
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- Checks that are going to be written to,
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- Working families over the next couple of months
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- During tax season.
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- These are good things, and we need to be able
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- To be up here doing our job
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- Well.
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- Congresswoman van dyne,
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- Thank you for your service to our nation.
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- And thank you for joining us today.
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- We'd love to have you back.
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- Great to be on. great to be on. thank you very much.
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- Well, in a moment i'll respond to your recent emails.
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- Stay tuned.
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- I'll be back in a moment.
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- Well, your emails are always a highlight of the program.
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- We appreciate your thoughts and opinions.
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- Cecile from texas said, explain to me why the hate for
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- The jewish people is not called racist.
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- Well, that's kind of a multilayered answer,
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- But i think the short answer on
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- That is the primary sponsor of hatred for the jewish people
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- For almost two millennia has been the christian church.
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- We got to make changes in our own hearts,
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- And we'll see that change across the board.
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- Thank you for spending a few minutes of your day with us.
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- God's moving in the earth
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- And i'm grateful we can be a small part. god bless you.
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