What Is Going On Here (Ep. 2515)

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28:19But we are dealing with an unprecedented threat. There are a group of people out there with an agenda who want to make, they want to soften the threat. You got your pro-China people out there. Well, they don't, they're really not going to, they're really only interested in global trade. No, they're not. President Trump fully understands we have to deal with China. They're not going anywhere. They're not going to give up and wave the white flag. We don't want to start a nuclear war with them, but we still have to be tough. There are people who want to take the edge off that. There's also a group of people, and they were on the left, but now some of them are trying to infiltrate their way into our tent.

28:54Some of them exposed themselves. I already said they were Democrats. However, there are some of these people out there who are trying to soften the edge of both the Iranian terrorists, Shia and Sunni terrorists, and Hamas, and claim somehow that, oh, these are just freedom fighters, they're political organizations, all that stuff. Oh, really? Hamas? Are we sure about that? There's a fascinating story in the Wall Street Journal that came out yesterday There's a new report issued about the October 7 tragedy And I want to read to you in all its horror If there are kids around, you may want to turn off the show right now Here is the truth about Hamas They put out this report about the rape, torture And all the physical atrocities that went on on October 7 And yet people are still denying what happened then Here's a quote from Roz Cohen who was there Quote, I saw them raping her.

29:47He was at the Nova Music Festival where 396 people were slaughtered. Roz Cohen also said, then they murdered her and then they raped her again. Eden Wesley, who came to the music festival to rescue a friend, found and filmed a naked burned body. quote her dress was pulled up and she wasn't wearing underwear not because it burned because there was no trace her legs were spread her genitals were exposed a review by forensic pathologists confirm these details because i know there's the jew haters out there are going to say oh just to make it out of pabas is great they're just freedom fighters really raping dead bodies The raping dead people That's it What about raping men too Raping men too That happened Yeah Yeah that happened These are your freedom fighters A male says he was gang raped at the festival site Providing medical records And a detailed account I thought they were making this stuff up These are your freedom fighters they laughed he said they were really pleased as if i was their sex doll the hamas invaders had been given operational materials listen to this including arabic to hebrew phrases lists like they had little cards ready to go for the raping here were some of the arabic to hebrew phrases so everybody knew what the hamas terrorist scumbag demon dog savages were were doing Here were some of the phrases, quote, take off your pants slash take your clothes off, quote, lie down and, quote, spread your legs.

31:38The planned sexual degradation speaks to years of Palestinian propaganda that treats Jews as subhuman. You're a typical freedom fighter, I guess, right?

31:56That make you a little bit uncomfortable? You see what we're dealing with with these Islamo fanatics? They have Arabic to Hebrew index cards to prepare themselves for the raping of the men and the women. They're your freedom fighters. Let me tell you something to all the fucksticks on the other side. When you're given the choice between savages and civilization, you'll never go wrong with civilization.

32:30I know I've got a lot to answer for in front of the pearly gates. Believe me, I'm not your moral compass. And if you think so, you're making a huge mistake. But I know for sure, and I'm not certain about a lot, but I know for sure that I'm on the right side of this one.

32:54Index cards. They had little index cards ready to go, just in case people who only spoke Hebrew didn't understand what they were telling them to do before the raping and the killing and the decapitations. You see the video with the shovel and the heads? You probably looked that up. You're freedom fighters, right?

33:16Folks, these are the real fights right now, not fake news stories about raids or whatever the hell you want to call it. why are we wasting time on this why are we wasting time on this and i applaud the dni's office for correcting the record at least but we need to find out who leaked that exactly who leaked that because this is a big deal because we're fighting a real enemy right now and if you think for a second i'm just going to sit on the sidelines and this growing problem of anti-Semitic violence is just going to go away on its own. People said that before and it didn't end well. I'm not sitting on any sidelines ever.

34:01And you can rage up the foreign bot army. We're used to it. We've heard it all before. We get it. I've seen every single thing. We get it. We get it. You want to become like these guys? on the left, I told you in the beginning of the show, it's a time for choosing. It's not a time for meandering around. It's not a time for letting the other guy handle it. I want to applaud Lawrence Jones. Just put that media thing up for a second. Lawrence Jones from Fox for taking a stand to him. Lawrence Jones, a good man, host of Fox and Friends. Deep-seated cancer. Fox's Lawrence Jones sounds off on right-wing antisemitism.

34:47they're trying to walk into our tent, man, throw a grenade in there. Don't let them do it. You want to be like these guys? Here's a CNN report about a left-wing, former rich kid lunatic, Hassan Piker, total bag. He can say what he wants, by the way, but this guy's like a hero on the left. You want this guy and guys like them to start in what they call the horseshoe theory where eventually parties unite around hating people, whether in the past, whether it was people who are black or Hispanic or Jewish or whatever it is, you want people to unite. And by the way, it applies to Muslims too. They deserve to be treated like human beings.

35:28I'm not trying to do this whole milquetoast thing. You know how I started this segment. But this applies to any group of people. Collective anger at a group of people is an entryway into mass violence and mass death. Collective anger. You are responsible for other people just because of skin color, religion, whatever. That is the entryway and the ticket to death and destruction every single time. Here's a CNN report about Ahsan Piper. Keep in mind what I just showed you about the rapes, the rape index cards, the women found with their legs spread, burned beyond recognition, the men who were raped, the men, by multiple freedom fighters, whatever you want to call them.

36:13You lunatics on the left. Listen to the CNN report. This guy, you want a guy like this in our tent? Nah, nah, nah. I told you it's going to be an uncomfortable show. I'm sorry, but this is the syrup of Ipecac we all need. Check this out. Here's some of what he actually has said about the depravity of the October 7th terror attack, the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Quote, it doesn't matter if effing rapes happened on October 7th. Like, that doesn't change the dynamic for me. The Palestinian resistance is not perfect. Now, let that sink in. Hassan Piker is excusing sexual violence by Hamas terrorists.

36:49He also claims Hamas is, quote, a thousand times better than Israel. Hamas is a designated terror organization, not just by the U.S., but by the EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, just to name a few. And here's what Piker said about the horrors of September 11th, 2001. America deserved 9-11, dude. Fuck it. I'm saying it. We fucking totally brought it on ourselves, dude. Holy shit. We did. We fucking did. Fuck you, pussy. Fuck you. Go fuck yourself, chump. We deserve 9-11. We deserve 9-11. It doesn't matter if rape happens. Fuck you. Go fuck yourself Pussy Really? I dare you to go into a Little event Go to like a smoker with a bunch of Cops and firemen there And get in the middle of the ring at the smoker And tell that to a bunch of the cops and firemen Keeping your stupid ass safe You fucking pussy Go ahead, go do it Tell them 9-11 We deserved it.

38:08Try it. Show some balls. Grow a pair of moose nuts.

38:16Try it. I'd like to see how that works out for you. You seem to be okay with violence and all. I mean, you just said it doesn't matter if rapes happen. I promise you it matters to the people who were raped and murdered and their families. You ever been bent over with a rape card, Hassan? I hope not. I don't wish violence on anyone. and I'll tell you what, if it happened to you, I certainly wouldn't be on the air saying it doesn't matter if rape happened. I'd be the one calling out. I don't care who did it.

38:51That's what you are.

38:57That's what you are. Pampered little rich asshole. Sitting there with your little leftist buddies, He's campaigning with this zero who apparently is a physician, has been telling people he's like a big physician guy, but then has not really done a lot of like is anything that's really done a lot of like clinical work on patients or something. He's campaigning with you, this candidate for Senate in Michigan. This is what we want in the midterms.

39:29We want a bunch of crazy people because we don't want to show up because Donald Trump is on the ballot. You want to elect a guy campaigning with this asshole? Folks, I'm sorry, man. I'm not letting this movement fall apart, man. I'm not. I'm not letting it move. I don't care if the audience dwindles to zero. I don't. I hope it, but I don't care more than I care about not letting this movement fall prey to a bunch of ravenous, rabid dogs. When given the option of savages and civilization, You'll never go wrong with civilization.

40:09Folks, we got choices coming up. I'm telling you, and I'll get into this with Congressman Brandon Gill in just a few minutes. Not every candidate running around the country in November on the Republican ticket is a diehard conservative. Hello, Captain Obvious. I get that. But when the primaries are over, you have a binary choice. This is not Romper Room or Sesame Street or freaking Teletubbies or the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. This is the real world. And in the real world, you have a binary choice. In some districts, it's a really shitty Republican versus a communist Democrat who's going to turn over chairmanships to Democrats if they win the majority, impeach President Trump, and basically let people like Hassan Piker's influence infect the entire U .S.

40:58Congress. You got to vote, man. You got to vote. sometimes your choices are level 10 decisions too. You have a shitty choice in some of these districts in a not-so-great Republican or a Communist Democrat or a Democrat who's going to win power Communists. That's it. That's the only choice you have. The time for these fights is in the primary. That's the time. We are dealing with level 10 crises right now You want people like this guy running a chairmanship? I'm going to give you the worst example possible Because it's going to matter You've got a Republican out there in your district, whatever East Tuna Fish, District 6 It doesn't matter, candidate John Smith He's a wishy-washy Republican who's only with us half the time I get it He wins his primary, even by one or two votes And everybody's pissed off.

41:57I can't believe we're stuck. I'm pissed off, too. I wish we would have had a more conservative guy. He's running against the Democrat who goes in campaigns with Hassan Piker, like 9-11 doesn't matter or whatever he said there. We deserved it even worse. That's your choices. I'll take the guy got half the time over this dipshit. And then even worse Is if that one guy Determines the House majority Let's say you don't vote For not so great Republican John Smith In protest And you elect Democrat Jane Smith And that one vote Determines control of the House You may think I was only voting in my district No you didn't You just voted to turn the entire House of Representatives And the chairmanships And subpoena power Over to lunatics like this Here's Ted Lieu yesterday Ted Lieu, lunatic leftist.

42:46You want this guy sitting in a chairmanship spot? Talking about extreme measures, talking about packing the court. This is what happens if you do not vote Republican in protest. You're going to get Donald Trump impeached and you're going to get a bunch of crazy people subpoenaing some of you to appear in front of Congress because you dare to abide by the Constitution. Check this out. This is a radical Supreme Court that is making decisions simply to benefit Republicans. It's going to usher in massive Supreme Court reform when Democrats take control. And that will be because of the actions of extreme political actor John Roberts in this partisan Supreme Court.

43:23Extreme actions. He's openly talking about packing the Supreme Court. I just played for you a video the other day of Obama talking in 2020 about packing the court, D.C. statehood, Puerto Rican statehood. Folks, you understand what your country is going to look like? I get we're going to get stuck with some turkeys in Congress. I get it. I get it. Not everyone's going to be Brandon Gill. Not everyone's going to be Mike Lee. You're not going to have that everywhere. But I tell you what you are going to have. A political baseball bat to the side of the head when you elect Democrats like Ted Lieu who go back to re-weaponizing everything we just spent the last year trying to clean up.

44:10you want this guy as Speaker of the House, Hakeem Jeffries? Listen to this guy. Already going back to, it's Jim Crow. I mean, this is all Obama identity politics, left-wing identity politics. You want this guy running the House because you're protesting a vote somewhere? No, that's not a thing, man. That's not a thing. Check this out. Because we know this unprecedented assault on black political representation the likes of which we have not seen since the Jim Crow era. The ghosts of the Confederacy has afflicted the United States Supreme Court majority and is invading and haunting the nation right now, and we take that seriously, which is why Democrats are committed to launching a decisive and overwhelming response in advance of the 2028 election.

45:08a decisive and overwhelming response. What do you think he's talking about? You think he's talking about a snowball fight? He's talking about completely hijacking the judicial branch through packing the courts, hijacking the legislative branch through adding states that will reliably vote Democrat with two Democrat senators. He's talking about massive voting changes to the system to ensure fraud dominates the election. Census changes so we can count illegals. Open borders to let tens and millions and more in. It will change the country forever. There will be no getting it back. Why did he sound like, you know, Manichaean fights?

45:56Because they are. We didn't ask for this fight. Republicans just want to be left alone. Let me pay my taxes for the military and the roads, keep them low and reasonable. Give me good police officers and, you know, a decent federal workforce. Give me a strong military, a nice court system in case, you know, businesses are, you know, start to take advantage of us. And just get the out of my life, man. I'm like muting myself now after this show, which is like hilarious. We didn't ask for this fight. Make elections fair, like ask people to show up and just show and it's actually them voting. We didn't ask for this stuff.

46:39Give our kids a decent school. You're the ones on the Democrat side constantly encroaching on our values. Now, do you want Hakeem Jeffries or do you want Ted Lieu? Because make no mistake, even if your congressman sucks, post-primary, because pre-primary, yeah, get him out. Get a more conservative person in there. Please. I've had my own beefs with these guys. However, post-primary, your congressman can be Joey Bagga sucks. Joey Bagga sucks can be the worst Republican congressman. If the Democrat gets in there and he's the one person who tips the balance of the House, Hakeem Jeffries is the speaker.

47:19The Democrats control everything. The entire House. Do you want them in chairmanship spots? It's a simple question. Or do you want this guy? He's coming up in a few minutes. Congressman Brandon Gill. Here he is up there. This is the kind of guy we have out there. We can get this guy in chairmanship roles, even if your guy's not that great. It's not just about your race. It's about control of the entire House. Got him coming up in a minute, but I wanted to show you this on. He's questioning this Capitol Hill guest up there about, quote, scientific spending. And I had to use the air quotes. on like LGBTQIA1 +, IAA, ABC, DEF, 2 +, Spirit.

48:11I've lost track of all these. Boys, transgender, pregnancy. Watch it yourself. Even he has to like, because he doesn't even know what. He can't even figure this thing out. Check this out. Adapting an LGB plus inclusive teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys. I can't even say this without laughing. Do you think that that is a useful form of our tax spend? I am not familiar with that grant, but I think bench research, government investment in scientific and pharmaceutical research. Teen pregnancy for transgender boys. do you think that that is a useful spend of our tax dollars? I think government investment in all kinds of scientific research is of the utmost importance.

49:01Including pregnancy prevention for transgender boys. Okay.

49:08All I ask is post-primary. Listen to me. Post-primary. That is important. Even if your guy is not that great or your woman guys like that are and if we lose the majority being in the minority in the house ask your congressman what's it like to be in a minority it sucks it sucks control of the floor control of the entire passing of the bill process control of subpoena power it all goes away president trump will be impeached folks why are you trying to scare us because some people need to be scared because they don't understand what they think ah my guy just sucks i'm gonna stay home it's not about your guy.

49:50Post-primary, it's about control of the entire House. It's like if cabinet members had to, if cabinet members had to undergo an election, they obviously don't, but I want to make a point here. It's like you don't like whatever, the VA secretary, I'll just throw something out, great, but you don't like him. So you just, you don't vote for Donald Trump in the presidential, like it doesn't even make sense. Folks, we don't have to live like this, okay? We don't have to live like this. Please don't become the left. Conspiracy theories, but you know, this anti-Semitic bullshit, creating a bunch of stupid people, victim classes, identity politics, people in boxes, union, non-union, Muslim, Jew, everybody fight each other like it's a freaking like steel cage match in the old school WWE.

50:40We have agency and so does Donald Trump. God has blessed every one of you With this thing in your skull A cerebral cortex, a medulla oblongata And a cerebellum And it's the most powerful computer on earth I should tell you something We've been around quite a long time And despite all the energy we can muster And all the human collective brain power In the history of sentient beings We still haven't been able to replicate the power Of one human brain If that doesn't speak to you To the omnipotent power of God I don't know what does. Why can't we recreate this? It's just a bunch of neurons, right?

51:18Maybe it's something more special. You have agency. You have control. And so does President Trump. Stop with the nonsense. Stop with the leftist stuff. Stop with all this bullshit. Educate your kids. Teach your children well, as I said. Education is the only way out. Please don't fall down this rat hole.

51:48Folks, never fall into traps set by others. And yesterday was a trap. And a lot of people fell for it. Find a way out immediately. There are a bunch of people out there pulling you into an information bullshit vortex. Please don't fall for it. Use that God-given most powerful computer. Your brain. use it and say, am I being played right now?

52:18I want to show you this video I found yesterday on X. It's kind of, I think, like an AI-generated video, but it's good. Conveniently, about rats and how you should never fall into traps set by others. There's a reason people are doing this. They're throwing a grenade in our tent so we, all of us, start attacking each other. Don't fall for it. Scrutinize everything. Check this out.

53:12field. Did the farmer's heart melt? Not at all. Because this mouse had become used to eating its own kind it no longer ate grain. Instead it started hunting other mice like a mad creature. This is called the divide plan. Those sitting at the top do not fight themselves. They simply create an environment where the people below begin fighting each other and eventually destroy one another. And the truth is, many people spend their entire lives trying to defeat others without realizing that they themselves have already become part of someone else's game. So never fall into traps created by others and if you do get trapped don't fight find a way to get out your way out is just to always seek the truth i'm not trying to be like uh emily dickinson here folks or plato i literally mean like find the truth go out and do just a tad bit of homework on it and you'll find out that a lot of this stuff you're being told is total bullshit, meant to divide us all because people have their own agenda for the midterms in 2028 and elsewhere.

54:18Fine. Then don't work for the president because it's not your time. It's his time. And I'm going to tell you something that haven't worked for this president. This is the most transformative president I've seen since I was young and Ronald Reagan. I've never seen anything like it I've never seen a guy With moose testicles like this in my life We've got Two and a half years And I want every day of the Trump presidency I don't want any more Distractions and I don't give a shit How many rage bot armies you sick On me and our supporters We are still the largest MAGA show out there And I'm telling you like that's for A reason because the people Who listen to the show don't want your bullshit Or your distractions They believe in accountability and they should.

55:07They believe in results. But the president's producing results every single day. What the hell you think he's doing over there in China right now? What do you think he is, dicking around? What do you think he's doing, sitting around watching reruns of Happy Days? Lucky Trump, right. You think he's just lucky? All of this shit is just luck? Lucky Trump. Jobs number's great. Lucky Trump. Border shut down. Lucky Trump. Crime rate lowest in U.S. history Lucky Trump We finally got China to talk with us about this stuff Rather than nuclear war Lucky Trump Maduro's in prison Lucky Trump Iranian Mueller's dead Lucky Trump again

55:50I mean, I learned something new every day about Lucky Trump. I found out the other day, again, I was today years old when I found out that mass deportations weren't going on. That's news to me because the left-wing media, when we were over at the FBI, was complaining about assets we had dedicated to big mass deportation efforts. So weird. I saw it. You didn't see shit. I don't know what you're talking about. this is the nothing is happening trap being set for you by people up top dumping the dead pig in the well hoping you jump in don't jump in the well it's a trap

56:26thank you dan spinning top in the chat don't thank me folks i'm promise i'm nobody's hero here i mean it it's not like humble brags i am not anybody's here i'm just a guy who loves the country i don't do this for the money. I'm a capitalist. I like to pay my team. It's a business. However, they can tell you as well, I don't need to be here. I could go live my life and sit on the beach and watch freaking reruns of Happy Days. But I love this place. That's why I went back to serve. I'm not watching this movement fucking fall apart like this because of bullshit. I'm sorry. It's not happening, man.

57:07And I'm just begging you, please, like, ignore the rage bots. It's all AstroTurf bullshit to get you like a rat to jump in a well and eat the pig. You're never getting out. You're never getting out. I want to talk. There's so much more I want to say, but there's a process going on with this stuff, and it's not fair to do that. I didn't exit the administration to come out and to be like the data point guy. The data point, data point. What is it? I don't know.

57:40and just don't take the job just cut the shit man and do me a favor too I just told you I'm not your moral compass I can't say this enough I'm nobody's hero I'm not above accountability myself at all you don't like something you're in the show let us know man

58:08but I think it's really important we anchor ourselves not in the small g false gods of the state it's really important we anchor ourselves in higher values it's really important that we stay anchored as a country in truth whatever your religion is I'm a Christian, I love Jesus and Jesus loves me and I say it every morning despite my failures you're not beyond salvation folks, you're not beyond salvation no matter how bad of a thing you've done you're not beyond salvation I'm not your preacher either but you are not beyond salvation if there is a God and I certainly believe there is and there's one bedrock principle of what that God is, it's true.

59:07Because evil starts with the lie. M. Scott Peck has a book I believe he's since passed but he wrote The Road Less Traveled which sold probably like 100 million copies, who knows. But he wrote another book called People of the Lie. I did not publish the book, it's been out forever, I have no financial interest in it whatsoever. Read it, go pick it up on whatever, wherever you get your books. read People of the Lie by M. Scott Peck and you'll see how evil starts with the lie and festers like a virus truth is the opposite of that I just want you to listen, this is a clip from TBN you know that band Korn?

59:52Unbelievably popular they put on quite a show people who watch Korn shows are just, it's like the Grateful Dad like they'll follow him around the country. This was a really surprising clip I saw yesterday. I got to tell you, it caught me totally off guard. But I want you to listen to this powerful testimony and remember that there are two sides. There is a yin and a yang and two sides of this coin of morality.

1:00:19There's the people of the lie and the people of the truth. And whenever you find religion and that spiritual marker, I promise, if it ain't anchored in truth, then get rid of that religion right away. Listen to this. I'm a shell walking around with nothing of substance inside. And I got all kinds of money in the bank, but I just don't want to wake up when I go to sleep. I just wish that I could just stay asleep. The only thing that made me want to breathe and live was my daughter. So I'm thinking, I just need to get off the drugs so I could just be the best person I could be for her. But then I would have the thoughts when I get back on the drugs or do another line and that would wear off.

1:00:59I would think, man, she'd better off without me. When they asked me to come to church, I'm like, you know, all I was thinking was like Ned Flanders from The Simpsons, you know? And it's like and then I get there and I hear about this Jesus Christ who's real, the son of God who is here and, you know, died on the cross and raised from the dead and came and would come to live inside of me. Man, the pastor was so cool there. He was in jeans and a regular shirt. He didn't look like holier than thou. And he just said, look, man, if you're on drugs, if you're messed up, if you have a bad marriage, you're an alcoholic, you come to church while you're messed up.

1:01:39Bring all your garbage here and God will come in and clean you out. You know? So it was like non-judgmental. So I was just like, I raised my hand and I went home and I started praying to God like I had been a Christian for 20 years. I was desperate. Wow. I kept going. I was high on meth going to church, you know, and I'm like, I would tell God, like, you know, I want to get off this stuff. You know, my daughter deserves a better father and I want to be what she deserves. That's Brian Welch from Korn. You are not beyond salvation. Listen to me. You're not beyond salvation. All those folks out there listening to the show, Maybe by mistake, maybe you thought you were tuning into Jon Bon Jovi and you hit Dan Bongino by accident.

1:02:25Happens all the time. Then you're like, man, he's not nearly as good looking as Jon Bon Jovi. I don't have his money either, but maybe you're here by mistake. But this isn't a mistake. I screw up all the time. But I know God wanted me to tell you this. You're not beyond salvation. If I'm not beyond salvation, you're not beyond salvation either.

1:02:53I kind of stung. All right, get it together, man.

1:03:01Just remember, man, the truth matters. The truth matters. That was a great clip to watch. I had heard of corn, but I have to tell you, I saw that yesterday on X. Just blown away. if Brian Welch can go to church with a meth problem, high on meth saying, God, take this away from me, I promise, like, you're not beyond salvation either. All right. Whew. Man, this is like the heaviest show. Jasmine's like, are you going to be okay? I don't know. I don't think so.

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1:06:01Welcome back to the show. I really hope he becomes a regular, just a rock star up on the hill. Guy's been doing a great job. I told you that earlier before the interview. Congressman Brandon Gill from Texas. Welcome back. Yeah, thanks for having me. So I know you've been pushing hard on this massive government fraud initiative. I want to get to that in a second, but just a few opening questions first about the news of the week and the month so far. Ted Lieu, a congressman I just genuinely don't like. It's not personal. I never met him. I just some of the stuff he says and does is just ridiculous.

1:06:31I played a clip of him earlier in the show and he's they're basically just going for it now. They're implying, quote, extreme measures. He directly said that explicitly. But then they're implying they're going to pack the courts. Congressman, there's really no time in the remaining months we have until the midterms to recognize who we're really fighting politically. They're not screwing around. They're just going to go for it if they win. Yeah, that's exactly right. You know, whenever somebody tells you who they are in a very straightforward way, I mean, it is wise to believe them. And Democrats actually have talked for several years now about their desire to pack the courts.

1:07:09They think that the rule of law is something that for them is too right wing and would like to undermine our constitutional system by completely transforming the Supreme Court so that it does essentially whatever they want it so that it becomes a political arm of the Democrat Party. And they're saying so pretty bluntly now, you know, in the past, I think Democrats would try to walk around the issue or try to not say at least not as clearly what they were hoping to do with the courts. But I think they're very straightforward. Now, if they get in power, if they were able to get a trifecta like Republicans have, we should fully expect Democrats to pack the courts.

1:07:46And that's something, you know, whenever you know what the other side is going to do, I think that should inform the way that we play politics now. Congressman, you know, obviously every member of the House is up every two years, you as well. I think personally, this should be in every single portfolio of campaign ads on the Republican side, their own words, because you know how it is. I mean, the president has a magnetic poll for voters. When he's on the ballot, you've seen it. The numbers are ridiculous. People show up who've never voted before. People show up before who've never voted Republican before.

1:08:22Republicans who haven't voted in 20 years show up. Unfortunately, some of those people aren't showing up in the midterms. That's just the data. It's not my opinion. It's just a fact. But when you see ads like Spencer Pratt's running in L.A., and I don't know, Spencer, but the ads have been just amazing, that contrast. Here's what it looks like under current Democrat leadership. Here's what I'm going to do. I'm stunned how many candidates don't do this. And that's why I say like, we should play the Democrats own words. Obama talking about making Puerto Rico and DC a state in 2020, Ted Lieu, extreme measures.

1:08:54Like guys, if you don't show up and vote, this is what's going to happen. Oh, exactly. Packing the Supreme Court, DC statehood, Puerto Rico statehood, things that they know will rig the Senate in their favor, mass amnesty for illegal aliens, open borders again, soft on crime policies in American cities, more spending that drives inflation and makes the cost of living significantly more difficult for Americans across the country. I mean, that's the America that we're going to live in if Democrats do take control again. I think that the goal for the Democrat Party is for the entire country to look just like San Francisco and some of the worst parts of New York City look right now, where you've got strung out drug addicts covering the streets who are getting massive amounts of welfare, whether they're illegal or not.

1:09:44Taxpayer funded transgender surgeries for illegal aliens and for children. These are the types of social policies that the Democrats have pushed in areas where they do have control. And whenever you give them control of the rest of the country, That's exactly what we should expect. And I think that we need to be straightforward with voters about that and call this out. Because whenever you ask Democrats in a clear way, do you believe, for instance, that tax dollars should be used to pay for transgender surgeries for minors? Just to use that as an example. Very few of them will tell you no. Most of them do.

1:10:20And they don't want to be clear about that because they know it's insane. They know it's nuts and most people won't want anything to do with them. But that is their ideological view. And that is the view of their base who is driving these primary elections in Democrat districts across the country. And that's the direction we're going to go if they take control. We're talking to Congressman Brandon Gill, for those listening on Apple and Spotify. Congressman, this kind of segues nicely to an initiative you've really proudly taken on. And I'm proud of you for doing it. The government fraud initiative with Vice President Vance.

1:10:55We've seen the Nick Shirley videos. Unfortunately, the Nick Shirley videos are probably just a micro, micro, microcosm of a massive scale problem. I want to bring this up in terms of a video I played of you earlier in the show where you were questioning a woman on LGBTQIA1 +, I've lost track, spirit, that they added a few extras. I was like indigenous. I think you lost track of it, too, because we don't I don't even know all the all the fake labels. But they want to spend U.S. government money on, quote, science of transgen. Was it transgender boys, pregnancies, something? It's so ridiculous. I played the video.

1:11:39I don't even remember. It was so crazy. But all right. Maybe that's not the classic definition of criminal fraud. But in the eyes of my listeners, that's fraud, too. Yep. Oh, absolutely. And, you know, I think it was pregnancy prevention for transgender teen boys, if I can remember right. Right, right. And at the time, whenever I was asking, I couldn't even refrain from laughing because it's so absurd. But what we're working on is I do believe that that is not only a borderline fraudulent use of tax dollars, but it's an abuse of the American people. It's an abuse of the people who go to work every day and honest paying jobs and make a living and send tax dollars to the federal government every single year and expect those tax dollars to be used for the benefit of the American people, not to fund left wing social experiments that that, by the way, are morally repugnant to the vast majority of people in our country.

1:12:36But what's happened recently is Chairman Comer on the House Oversight Committee, which I sit on, has formed a task force on defending constitutional rights and exposing institutional abuses. I'm going to chair this task force. And we've got a broad mandate to go after institutions, both in civil society and in government, that are abusing the American people and trampling on our constitutional rights. And that could be anything from government agencies that are laundering tax dollars to NGOs that are laundering our tax dollars to woke institutions. Or businesses who are engaged, for instance, in discriminatory hiring practices who are saying we're not going to hire this person because he's a white male.

1:13:21Or colleges and universities that are doing the same. Entities that are abusing our immigration system. It's a very broad mandate here. But we're beginning the work on this task force by going after this fraud scandal in Ohio. So we saw what was happening in Minnesota with the Somali community there. The reality is there is Medicaid fraud and welfare fraud across the country. And I think that the next stop for us is Ohio, where you've got hundreds of shell LLCs that have been created for the purpose of laundering Medicaid money to a variety of causes that we have no proof of. So, for instance, you have a doctor who will write a Medicaid waiver to a family member of an ostensible patient.

1:14:09And what they're getting that money for, what they're getting that Medicaid money for is home health services, which includes companionship and conversations. You can get paid to go talk to your mother if she's, you know, 80 years old at her house. Well, for this program, there's no verification that anybody who's enrolled in it has any medical training. There's no verification that any of these services are actually provided at all, and there's no cap on the spending. And a lot of these LLCs that are facilitating these payments and acting as intermediaries and are making a lot of money off of this are shady, to say the least.

1:14:44So we believe that there's about probably a billion dollars a year that's being wasted in this program and being defrauded from taxpayers. So we've requested documents, information and communication from the Ohio Medicaid Department, as well as from the Bureau of Program Integrity in Ohio and from many of these shell organizations who are facilitating this payment. And we're going to run a full investigation and get down to the bottom of it. Congressman, you on the legislative side, it is so important, you, Chairman Comer, the vice president, separate branch of government, but that kind of leadership is critical.

1:15:20You know that it's a massive bullhorn from the executive office of the president there to have that. We need that. I've been very candid even the last time you were here and we discussed this topic. The old, you know, big government, liberal and kind of weak-kneed Republican model before this administration got in there was pay and chase. just give them the money don't worry about the vetting and we can always chase it down later i've been brutally honest with people my experience over the last year is there is not enough agents for this just do the math there's 30 000 plus fbi employees not agents working wise not counting managers people out sick people overseas and foreign offices counter-terror ci violent crime there's probably a thousand maybe just a little bit more available around the world to chase this stuff down a thousand there's probably a thousand cases in ohio alone through years of just lax vetting in this process thank god there are people like you out there and i'm not using his name in who are now saying hey man we got to look at this from the legislative side too hearings congressional subpoenas, legislation, new vetting process.

1:16:30You don't fix it there. There's not enough people to chase them. That's just a hard truth. That's exactly right. And that's why we're going to use the full investigatory power that we have on the oversight committee to bring people in for hearings, to subpoena people, to subpoena documents so that we can build a case here. And the goal with all of this is not simply to expose waste, fraud, and abuse or improper our activity or abuses of the American people. It's to stop it from happening in the future. So that means we would like to make where applicable and where the facts lead us, we would like to make criminal referrals to the DOJ.

1:17:06But we also want to make policy recommendations for the broader Republican conference to take up that can help reduce the amount of fraud that happens in the future. Because to your point, we certainly want the bad guys to go to jail. If you've been defrauding American taxpayers. We need justice. But in order to stop this from happening in the future, we need real change to a lot of our welfare system, or this is going to continue happening. And we cannot be looking at this on the back end year in and year out over and over again. We need to stop it from happening in the first place. And that is going to require a legislative fix.

1:17:46And that's why, by the way, it's also incredibly important that we're able to keep control of the House so that we can continue doing this work next year and so that we can actually get some of these reforms codified into law. Can you, a couple of points here, just having, I think you'd agree, having Vice President Vance in charge of this brings a massive megaphone, just kind of said that before. But you see the difference, the foil between him and former Vice President Harris. Remember when she was a border czar? Like, have you ever been to the border? She was like, no, but I've never been to Europe.

1:18:18I shouldn't even go to the border. Vice President Mann's been in charge of this thing for, what, a month? He's already done multiple press conferences. He's in Ohio yesterday. The FBI is up to something like 100-plus convictions in Minnesota. We just did raids out in L.A. I'm sure there's operations going on in Ohio and elsewhere. Like, I'm not telling you the work is done, but you see just the leadership difference between the Republicans in charge now and the Democrats at the border. It's just so obvious. is? Oh, it's like night and day. And the difference is a party who actually cares about solving these problems and one whose goal is to exacerbate these problems.

1:18:55I mean, the goal of the Democrat Party on immigration for four years was to keep the borders open and bring in as many illegal aliens as possible. Our goal now as Republicans in power is one on immigration to close the border and deport illegal aliens, but on fraud is again, to make sure this doesn't happen again in the future and to make sure the bad guys get thrown in jail. And, you know, you've seen already direct action from the vice president announcing that if you are a state, because remember, one of the problems with a lot of these programs is that you have programs that are administered by states, but they're funded by the federal government.

1:19:32So there's an incentive misalignment that the actors at the state level oftentimes don't have the incentive to make sure that tax dollars are spent wisely because it's federal money, not state money. And what Vice President Vance is saying is that if you're not going to take fraud seriously, we're not just going to keep writing you blank checks for every social program you guys want to promote. We're done doing that. You've got to steward tax dollars appropriately. And I think that message is unique and it's novel and it's something that I think most Americans, the vast majority of Americans agree with.

1:20:06we're talking to Congressman Brandon Gill from Texas. Congressman, can you walk my audience through? I don't think they understand how important, but they do, I don't mean to talk down to the, you guys get it, but you're an insider. I'm not, I was not an elected member of Congress, gave it a shot, didn't work out, did work out for you. If we lose the majority, it's not just a matter of like losing votes that make it to the floor. you lose the chairmanships too so you like can you just explain to the audience like how devastating that is all of this stuff you're talking about subpoena power all of it hauling people in front of congress for investigations that are long overdue that's all controlled by far-left democrats like ted lou now not by congressman brandon gill or comer anymore it's not just a matter of even if we're down by one seat it doesn't matter the chairmanships are wiped out you guys become ranking members instead.

1:21:03That's exactly. Democrats have one more seat than Republicans. They have total control of the House floor. And that doesn't just mean, to your point, bills. It doesn't just mean that we get Speaker Hakeem Jeffries, who is a complete left-wing lunatic. It means that Democrats have controlled committees like the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight Committee, both of which I sit on, both of which have full investigatory powers and subpoena powers and the powers to hold hearings and to compel witnesses to come before Congress, the power to subpoena documents and information and communications from any entity, basically, that they want to.

1:21:42Now, this is a power that you've seen the left weaponize against conservatives pretty aggressively in the past, and it's one that we are using right now to get to the bottom of massive fraud schemes across the country. But all of that work that we're doing to end fraud, to end the improper stewarding of tax dollars, all of the work that we're doing to expose the corruption under the Biden administration for four years, all of that will be done. We will not be able to continue that work if we lose control of the House because Democrats will have control. They're going to use both of those committees to do nothing but investigate and weaponize those committees to go after every member of the president's cabinet, to go after the president, after the vice president, and use it explicitly to impact the 2028 presidential elections, to get as much dirt on them as they possibly can, to subpoena every single communication, every single document in the White House, every record, everything, so that they can try to find anything they can to slander the president.

1:22:46That's what we're going to be dealing with for two years if we lose control of the House. And I don't think any Republican wants that, but that's why it really is important for people to get out to the polls in this midterm cycle. The president really is on the ballot because this is going to make a big deal for the second half of his presidency. Oh, he's 100 % on the ballot. Number one, he's going to be impeached. Let's just call it what it is. They've already said it. Many of them have already said it. I'm not talking about just the Al Greens. Others have already said it. Ted Lew's already talking about court packing they're already talking about impeaching members of his cabinet hauling them up there do you want work on violent crime the border our growing economy ai to happen or do you want people endlessly hauled up on capitol hill like bobby kennedy for getting like food preservatives out of food i mean because that's what's going to happen and i get this a lot and maybe hearing it from you that will kind of double down i i have to be a kind of a transactional realist with the audience.

1:23:44The time to fight these fights is in the primaries. I love primaries. I think they're a very good thing. Some Republicans say it's a waste of, I don't think it's a waste of money at all. I think it clarifies principles. But when those primaries are over, people have called me and said, Dan, my congressman, whatever, John Smith. He's really not the strongest conservative. Here's his Liberty score, whatever it may be. I said, listen, I get it. But the Liberty score for the Democrat opponent is a negative 422. So you're not, forget your congressman. It's not even about him. You're actually voting to maintain the Trump presidency and to keep chairmanships for congressmen like you and others who are good constitutionalists.

1:24:22And I know that's not the best answer. I get it. I know we want to live in this utopian political fairy tale where everybody's a strong Freedom Caucus type warrior, but that's not the real world in the districts we live in. Once the primaries are over, you got to just at least show up and vote against the Democrats. That's all I'm asking. Yep, that's exactly right. I mean, once the primaries are over, it's team red and team blue and you got to pick which side you're on and not showing up to the polls means that you're on team blue if you're a Republican. And at the end of the day, any Republican, it doesn't matter which Republican, any Republican from the most conservative to the most liberal is going to be better than any Democrat by a significant margin.

1:25:05And, you know, you can look at on the Democrat side, you know, you'll have Democrats who try to be moderate. They try to be they try to portray themselves as moderates and somebody who can appeal to the middle. The reality is Democrats are going to vote as a bloc for whatever far left ideological causes is being pushed at the moment, whether that's transing little kids or reopening the borders, tearing our border wall down and selling it to China. Whatever it is, every Democrat is going to vote for it. And whenever you know that, and whenever you know that just getting a, call it a bad Republican in, can stop that from happening, it is incumbent upon us to get to the polls and make sure that Republicans win the midterms.

1:25:50Because any, again, any Republican is better than what Democrats are going to do. And by the way, if you want to get conservative policies through, if you want to allow the Republican fighters to continue fighting, to continue doing investigations, you've got to just win seats. You've got to win swing seats. And the candidate may not be as conservative as you or I is, but it doesn't matter. We need that seat. We have to win control of the House. So you're exactly right. We can have these ideological battles during the primaries. I think that's extremely important. It really determines sort of the makeup of the Republican Party or the ideological makeup of the Republican Party.

1:26:31But once that's over, it's the reds and the blues. Yeah. I want to ask you one last question about redistricting. But I just and you don't have to comment on any specific person, but I call it like the Murkowski, Susan Collins issue. Like Susan Collins is probably the best you're going to do in Maine. She just is. Is she going to be, you know, Rand Paul on fiscal policy or Mike Lee? on the she's not but your alternative right now is a guy with a nazi tattoo who's a freaking communist who's made such incredibly inappropriate comments about women and sexual abuse like that there's one or the other man like it's your choice you know murkowski's a different issue in more of a red state i you know wish she'd be primary but even then even though i'm not a fan i'm not voting for the democrat like forget it there's no scenario by which i'm ever voting for a Democrat where that's going to lead to an AOC chairmanship or, you know, Bernie Sanders, you know, engaging in full blown Soviet style communism with a salute to match.

1:27:29Like, I'm not doing that. But last question for you, the redistricting fight, just the, you know, meltdown on the left just crashing out endlessly. Oh, and kind of blaming the Republicans. Congressman Gill, we did not start this fight. Yes, Republicans and Democrats draw lines. That's been happening since Eldridge Gary, you know, in Massachusetts in the original fight with the Federalists and elsewhere. This is not new. However, the Democrats meltdown over trying a ridiculous gerrymander in Virginia. I mean, even by partisan standards, an outrageous attempt to destroy the whole state's Republican Party and then getting wrecked and then acting like the Republicans were the first to do this.

1:28:11I actually appreciate the Republican Party at the state level fighting back pretty hard. I know it hasn't been successes everywhere. There have been some hiccups in South Carolina. Georgia is going to delay a cycle. But there's no doubt like we definitely took it to the Dems. And on net, they're melting down for a reason. The reason is we're winning. Yep, we're definitely winning this. I mean, the court ruling in Virginia was a huge win for Republicans. And you're seeing more and more states want to redistrict. But the core thing to remember is that this is a war that Democrats started years ago.

1:28:45Republicans, they did mid-cycle redistricting last cycle in order to try and take control of the House. Now, a good way to think about it, I think, and I represent a district in Texas, is I compare the maps in Texas with the maps in California. And right now, if you compare how well Democrats in Texas are represented with how well Republicans in California are represented, Democrats in Texas are better represented after our redistricting than Republicans were in California before their redistricting. In other words, gerrymandering, even within those two states, are far, far worse in California than it is in Texas.

1:29:30And those are two of the bigger states where you've seen the maps change. So this is a battle. This is a sort of a battle front that Democrats have been on for a long time, and they've been quite successful on it. And I think what we're doing is just evening the balance up. You know, you've got multiple New England states that have many, many of whom have large populations of Republicans, you know, 30, 40, close to 50 percent in some areas that have zero Republican representation. And that's a problem. And these are the things that I think we're trying to to even out. You know, and I always appreciate, you know, voters out there, listeners and, you know, holding the government, even us, the Republican Party to account.

1:30:13You're a representative. I'm an activist, but still, you know, I was in government to accountability matters. But I think we do have to say two of the bigger wins the Republican Party have had, big, huge wins are, you know, dumping the filibuster for Supreme Court justices after, you know, Harry Reid started, like Billy Joel said, started the fire and then regretted that. We were like, you know what? You want to play that game? We'll play the game. And then on redistricting, Eric Holder, Barack Obama doubled down on cutting up districts. And we were like, OK, you want to play this game? We'll play it, too.

1:30:44A lot of work to be done. Accountability matters. But, you know, I don't want nonstop doom and gloom, too. When we get a victory, you know, we should celebrate a little bit. Congressman, you're doing an absolutely amazing job. I just want to tell you on behalf of the audience, we really appreciate you sticking to what you, you know, you ran on and conservative principles. We need more of you in Congress and you're welcome back anytime. Well, thank you. Thanks for having me. You got it. Congressman Brandon Gill, folks, one of the good guys, you know, on the radio show and on the show, we had a no squishes rule.

1:31:12there was a the no squishes rule wasn't on this because we didn't do guests we only did him on radio but we're transplanting that here he certainly isn't one of them one of the good guys and like i said folks i get it not every single republican is going to be as conservative as congressman gill or or mike lee or something on the senate side i understand that however they are the worst republican on planet earth is probably better than the best democrat the battles are in the primaries. They just are because you're not just voting for them. You're voting for chairmanships and the president because he will be impeached even if we lose the House by one member.

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