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Can Trump Fix America in 2025? w/Congressman Dan Crenshaw · The Lila Rose Show

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The next 100 days of this Trump presidency are crucial.
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Still think you got you got to continue winning the culture
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war. We shouldn't spike a football
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after Roe V Wade. Are we going to see significant
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cuts to all the bloat in the federal government, including
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the abortion industry? We'll say Israel just lays down
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all their arms and throws them in the ocean.
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What would happen? If A must lay down their arms,
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what would happen? What do you want to see happen
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with the cartels? Oh God, how long do you have?
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When you think about America in five years or 10 years, what are
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you seeing politically? I know culturally, obviously
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we're fighting. But.
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Hey guys, welcome to the Lila Rose show.
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As you can see, this is not my office.
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It's pretty cool though. This is Congressman Dan
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Crenshaw's office. We're going to be talking with
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him about the next 100 days of the Trump presidency, his
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amazing work, the fight for life and so much more.
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So there's this whole doge department.
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And you and I were discussing this earlier.
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And, you know, people were super pumped about, you know, if you
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have Elon Musk behind it, it sounds so exciting.
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And the idea of like, just getting rid of all of this
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bureaucracy and waste. And of course, we were very
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pumped see them mention Planned Parenthood, the biggest abortion
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chain are getting $700 million a year.
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What do you is that going to play a role in the budget
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reconciliation process? Are we going to see significant
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cuts to all the bloat in the federal government, including
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the abortion industry bloat, or what are you?
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What are you seeing? Well, you got to look at places
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where you're going to get hundreds of billions of dollars,
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not a few million here and there, because it just won't.
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It just won't have an effect. You should we do that every time
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through appropriations. But if it but in in the end you
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you still need consensus. So the answer is yes, but we're
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really looking at big ticket items, so. 700 million is
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something though, right? No, it's, it's, it's something
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to the baby. There's something.
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To the babies that. They're murdering.
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I think that's true, but we already we already attacked that
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issue constantly. Again, it's.
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But I, I guess I'm asking you, do you think Planned
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Parenthood's going to make it and funding for them will make
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it in the budget? Are we going to cut that?
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Well, it's, it's, well, first we have to explain to people like
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what how funny even gets to Planned Parenthood.
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It's not like, it's not like there's a line item for Planned
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Parenthood. That's never how it's been.
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Planned Parenthood does services and then they charge Medicaid
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for them and they claim those services are not abortion and
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there are other kinds of care. Of course, our investigations
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show that the vast, vast majority of their care is indeed
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abortions. And so that's the that's the
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conflict. That's how they supposedly get
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money from the government. And you know, this, this, this
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goes into the trial transition stuff too.
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The, the gender changes and stuff where we've, we've seen
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evidence in, in Texas, for instance, where it became
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illegal and doctors will, will enter a code for like endocrine
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therapy and, you know, not calling it gender transition.
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And it's, it's a, it's a scamming Medicaid.
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So yeah, you need oversight over it to, to really get to the
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bottom of it. But it's already illegal.
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And people need to understand that it's already illegal for
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Medicaid dollars to go to any kind of abortion for Planned
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Parenthood and there's no Planned Parenthood line item.
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The, the difficulty is, is, is that money fungible?
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And that's it. That's, that's not as easy to
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figure out as people think, and especially not in reconciliation
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where, where you can't do serious policy changes.
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But we have come up with a creative way, at least on the
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gender transition issue, which would change like the Social
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Security Act. And because what we're really
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trying to do is defund hospital children's hospitals that are
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doing gender transitions. I've, I've had a bill that does
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that. It made it out of committee.
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We never voted on it. And so it's it's something I've
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been pressuring the speaker to do.
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But a better path will be through reconciliation.
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And then and again, just to explain to people why
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reconciliation matters is because you only need 51 votes
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in the Senate. That's why everything else you
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need 60 votes. That's why all this stuff is
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tough. And how many we have, right?
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Just for folks listening, I know we have a lot of politicos who
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listen. About 54.
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Like, am I right about that 54 we're short.
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Several votes in the Senate to get Really.
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Meaningful. We definitely don't have 60.
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SO, and we have like 1, you know, 1:00 to 2:00, depending on
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what month you're talking about because of people going to the
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administration, people retiring, a bunch of reasons.
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Maybe at most we might have a three to four seat majority in
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the house. And, and obviously we, it's like
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wrangling cats here. So, you know, getting anything
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meaningful done is tough and, and getting together and getting
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reconciliation done right is, is, is going to be important.
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But the, the president's priorities are, are, you know,
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energy keeping his tax cuts in place and, and border and, and
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then it's up to the committees to confine that money.
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And we, we've had presentation after presentation of like where
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we actually find some savings. You know, if coming from Energy
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and Commerce, we have our conversations.
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President doesn't, you know, you don't want to touch Medicare
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'cause it freaks out all seniors.
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So you've got to look at streamlining Medicaid and making
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that a better, better system. There's, there's a whole bunch
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of complicated ways to talk about that, about options,
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options that that exist out there mostly to do with what
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the, what the federal share is for each state.
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And it gets kind of boring and wonky, but it's meaningful.
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I mean, a lot of states rely on this money and they've gotten
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addicted to it. And this is, this is kind of a,
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a constant problem in all federal programs really.
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So it'll be it'll be interesting to see where reconciliation ends
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up. What's the timeline on that?
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The budget reconciliation process.
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Everybody wants says they want to get it done by April.
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It's a, it's a very, it's a little bit of an arbitrary
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timeline, but it's, it's just, it's a, it's an, there's an
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urgency to it while, while, you know, we feel we have a mandate
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to do it. And so that's why we're
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basically in session constantly up until then.
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But, but keep in mind, you also got to do the debt ceiling, the
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appropriations bills as well. So all that happens within that
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time frame. Are you getting tired?
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Yeah, she's literally about to take her nap right here.
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Here's a question for you, Congressman.
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What can the pro-life community do and the conservative movement
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who are pro family to best encourage call to action
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Congress and the president right now to have those meaningful
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wins? And we understand like there's a
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lot of, you know, priorities that are competing, but it's,
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you know, this is our family. These are our children, This is
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the future. So what would you what would
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your advice be? I mean I.
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I still think you got to, you got to continue winning the
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culture war. You know, we, we, we shouldn't
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spike a football after Roe V Wade.
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That's that, that that was a legal battle.
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We won. That doesn't didn't change the
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culture or if anything it aggravated the left to to to
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fight harder. And we saw a lot of losses in a
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You're you're very realistic about all of this.
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How do you see your leadership over the next decade?
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My, my goal for a long time is, is I, I can only focus on so
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many things, right? So I've, I've been focused on
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the gender transition issues for minors like that.
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That has to stop. That's a 90% issue.
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It should be the easiest thing and.
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Especially we're paying directly for it and taxpayers are
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directly funding it since. Yeah.
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I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's pretty gross, but it should
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just be a legal period. It's it's already, it's illegal
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in the Labour Party. Far left party in in the UK won
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recently overwhelmingly. One of the one of the first
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things they did was ban this practice because all the science
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is out at this point. It's it's turns out it's bad for
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kids. Yeah, I would imagine so.
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We've won that argument. I think, I think we'll, I think
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we'll win that legally. We're just kind of looking for
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the right legislative vehicle to get it done.
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But I think that I think that does happen.
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You know, parents have been lied to by these crazy doctors over
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and over again. There's some really horrific
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stories out there. So just realistically, that's
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something I think we can actually win.
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It's a huge, it's a, it's a key win.
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Yeah, yeah, it really is. Obviously my other big focus is
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just totally unrelated cartels. And I guess it's not totally
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unrelated. I mean, cartels, what do they
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do? They traffic children.
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They do all. They'll do sorts of terrible,
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horrible, heinous things. You know, we're at war with
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them, whether whether we want to admit it or not.
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And Trump administration recently labeled them as as as a
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terrorist organization that, that that's fine.
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It's a good message to send. But there's a lot more that has
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to happen to actually make good on that promise that we want to
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take them out and. What do you want to see happen
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with the cartels? Oh God, how long do you have?
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I mean long as you have. As long as the boss has.
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Actually, I mean I leave the cartel task force.
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You lead the cartels task force here and.
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The task force just means a group of members that that and
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that that focus on a particular problem.
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And, you know, we had no funding, we had no staff.
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I'm trying to turn it into a Select Committee 'cause this is
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one of Donald Trump's big priorities is taking on the
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cartels. So far doesn't appear to be
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Speaker Johnson's priority 'cause he refuses to give me an
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answer on a Select Committee. But we have a number of pieces
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of legislation that would target the cartels.
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It from easy stuff like just increasing a fine here for, for
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for mislabeling of of air cargo manifest with chemical
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precursors from China, $5000 fine right now.
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Make it 5 million or whatever. Some easy ones like that, some
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more money for, for, for assets in Mexico that the Mexicans will
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let us use. And then there's much bigger
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issues we have to, we have to tackle on the financing like
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how, what, what kind of resources do we need at Treasury
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to get them to do more on sanctioning businesses that are,
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that are associated with cartels.
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We've already had some big wins in legislation.
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So we've, and one of them was, you know, people might be
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surprised that we couldn't actually use our FISA
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authorization, which is basically our, it's basically
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the way we wiretap foreign entities like, but those foreign
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entities are very specific. They have to be terrorists.
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They have to be foreign intelligence Where they have to
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be, you know, has to, has to do with weapons of mass
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destruction. You're allowed to use FISA for
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that. It's a controversial program.
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I think it's people are deeply misinformed about it.
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We could get into that in another time, but we added a
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fourth category, which was anyone involved in, in the
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trafficking of synthetic opioids.
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So that now include, because it blows people's minds, but we
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weren't actually allowed to spy on the cartels before, if you
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could imagine that we weren't allowed to spy on them.
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We weren't allowed to spy on the Chinese precursor companies
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making this stuff and sending it to them and also doing the whole
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money laundering scheme with them.
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So now we've we've fixed that problem.
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And they're often human traffickers too, right?
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All sorts of minutes. We could get into a long
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conversation on how all of this happens and actually why it's a
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difficult problem set and most people are just not educated on
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this. Everybody thinks they are.
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We'll just kill them. We'll just get them.
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If we label them terrorists, then we could just kill them.
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Like that doesn't work that way at all.
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Like there's it just, it's, it's, it's a good, good message.
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I, you know, I'm, you know, I'm, I love the, I like that Trump is
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taking it seriously, you know, and we do need to kill them, but
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we need, the biggest thing we need is Mexican security
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cooperation agreement. You know, we need to plan Mexico
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the way we plan Colombia. We've been dealing with
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Colombians for 30 plus years. We've had special forces in and
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out of Colombia all the time. And Mexicans have always told us
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no, but they. Why is that?
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Because they're still upset about 1848.
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Honestly, it's really, it really is that it's.
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Not gonna help. It's not.
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Gonna happen. It's a sovereignty issue for
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them. It's, it's a, it's, it's a pride
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issue. It's, it's long been and I, you
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know, I grew up in Latin America, grew up in Colombia.
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So this, this even surprised me the more I looked into it.
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And so there's some delicate diplomacy that needs to happen.
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It's a carrot and stick approach that has to happen to get them
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to do that is you got a new administration in Mexico that I
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think is more friendly to this idea.
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But you know, you got to work with them, you know, and unless
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we choose to do unilateral OPS and then what the heck does that
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look like? You know, you're, you're, you're
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dealing with an insurgency in Mexico.
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It's not, it's not like there's like camps that are obviously
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full of cartels and you can just bomb them.
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It doesn't work that way. They're very much integrated
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into the society. And you need a counterinsurgency
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campaign alongside the Mexican government to actually deal with
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it. So there's, there's a lot,
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there's a lot to talk about there.
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A lot of it's executive branch, but a lot of it's Congress has
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to fund it. We have to authorize it.
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You know, we've done all this research for the last year and,
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and there's, there's one of the reasons I say we need a Select
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Committee and this is just getting into kind of civics nerd
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stuff. But you know, we've, let's say
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we've got 10 different pieces of legislation.
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They cut across like 9 different committees of jurisdiction.
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So I'm never going to get anything done that way.
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And especially without staff because we've got ideas, but
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they need to be fleshed out. You know, proper, doing proper
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legislation takes some time. You got to have some lawyers
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involved. You got to have the, you got to
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have the experts at the administration involved.
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Make sure what your what you're the lawmaking you're doing is
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the correct lawmaking. It takes a lot of time and staff
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work and the speaker just refuses it to give it to me.
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I don't, I don't know why, considering it's such a priority
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of the administration. So I'm seeing him tomorrow.
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Yeah, you should ask him by saying today I'm going to be
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asking my. Number one ask is let's stop
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funding the biggest abortion chain that kills 1000 babies a
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day. So let's like that's an
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immediate obvious one, but this sounds, this is a, you know, not
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invaluable, not an unvaluable proposition.
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So. Yeah.
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So if you wanted to like, I guess to try and answer your
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question more simply, can you just stop Medicaid payments from
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going to Planned Parenthood at all?
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In theory, yes, you could pass a law to do that.
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Can you do it through reconciliation?
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I don't think so. I think, I think, I think that
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would be ruled out of order because it's it's a, it's a
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policy change. It might might be the straight
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up unconstitutional to begin with.
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I think there's a way to, I think what they've done in past
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years is there's a way to not say Planned Parenthood in the in
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the, in the law making and the reconciliation process.
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But you a certain kind of provider does not is not
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eligible. So I think that would be more
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the approach that might be taken so.
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Yeah, I don't know if we, I don't know if we figured out
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exactly how to do it. I, I, I do know it would be
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tough to do in reconciliation. And that's, and I think that's,
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that's the roadblock we always run into and that's what's
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important to manage people's expectations on it.
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So when you think about America in five years or 10 years, what
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do you think we can achieve politically?
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I know culturally, obviously we're fighting.
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But when you, I mean you're an elected member of the most
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powerful Congress in the world, body in the world, next to the
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executive branch of the judiciary, our American U.S.
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Congress, You know, you'll probably be a senator one day.
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But I don't know if you're planning on anything else or
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have your own. It's not really the step up
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people think it is. I mean it's not like you get
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paid for your schedule's the same.
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I'm just. Saying, I think.
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I think you've got a long path in front of you of public
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service after what you've been doing already.
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What do you think? Yeah, America looks like in five
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to 10 years, what should we be aiming at politically?
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For the family, I mean your daughter.
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She's one should be 5. She's 10.
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I mean, look, I think I think there's there's already a huge
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backlash culturally and now legally and politically against
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anything DEI woke related. It is it is it hit a climax and
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it's really on a downturn. I think that's that's great.
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I think for the simple reason that people realize that not the
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best way to to to not discriminate against race and
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gender is just to not discriminate against race and
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gender. I'm coding.
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Brilliant. Yeah, yeah, I did.
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I did steal that from Senator Kennedy, who said in an
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interview a couple days ago. But it's it's, you know, but
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we've been saying that for years and we've been winning the
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arguments. And on the pro-life side, again,
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it's, it's still a culture war, you know, and, and, and we've
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got to win it at the state levels.
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And well, well, I may agree. I'll vote for, I'll vote for a
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bill. It's what, 15 weeks when we vote
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for zero weeks, I'll vote for it.
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But I'm in an easy position. I'm from Texas deep red.
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That's an easy vote for me. They don't, don't think that's
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going to happen in, in, in the Congress.
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And I think that's where Trump's coming from when he, when he
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says he's not going to propose it, you know, he, he, where he's
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coming from is, is, is this understanding that there's,
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there's a political position and there's a moral position.
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And sometimes you can, you can, they can coincide if you, if
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you, if you come from the right, if, if you're representing the
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right district, sometimes they can't.
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And then sometimes you got to think strategically wherein you,
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you, you, you spike the football too hard.
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Then there's, there's a backlash.
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And then again, there's some examples where we've seen that
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backlash where Democrats have been smart and they've put,
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they've put kind of these sneaky abortion laws on the, on the
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ballot that I, I don't think people are perfectly educated on
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and, you know, codified very late abortion and then some of
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these red states. So there's there's obviously
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some more education that we have to do.
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You know, this is an issue that gets young people out.
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You know, young people don't come out for fixing Social
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Security. I don't know why they should
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like, you know, you talk about issues that matter and are going
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to crush your, crush your economy in 50 years or maybe
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less crush your retirement. You maybe you should probably
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come out and vote for Republicans on that because we
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actually want to fix it. Democrats just want to tax you
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more so they can transfer those taxes directly to your
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grandparents. But young people come out for
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this kind of thing. But it I mean it is the babies.
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Yeah, but it's and it's. It's everything.
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It's slowly changing. I think we're going to be
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educating more and more young people on, on what on on what it
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is to be pro-life and why it's important.
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order when you subscribe. I think the work that we have to
19:47
do it obviously, like you said, I totally agree.
19:49
It's a good point. It's it's education.
19:51
There's the backlash from the left and they had so much money
19:53
to pour into their propaganda campaign.
19:55
So that's work. I know live actions focus on
19:57
that. A lot of people are realizing
19:59
how important that is, doubling down on that politically.
20:02
I'm excited because the more we can.
20:04
You know, move the Overton window of possibility where
20:07
people were like it was, you know, with Roe V Wade, it's
20:09
impossible to pass per life laws because of Roe V Wade.
20:12
People would say, right? And I think now it's possible
20:16
and it's going to take courageous voices.
20:18
I mean, you are a courageous voice.
20:19
I know you said, well, I'm a red state.
20:20
It's it's not as hard to be courageous in Texas because
20:22
they're all, you know, courageous in Texas.
20:24
But to still say, listen, of course the federal government
20:28
does have a role long term in protecting life.
20:30
I mean, it's our Constitution that everyone here is supposed
20:33
to uphold and and legislate for. Yeah.
20:36
So it's it's it's an all in strategy.
20:38
I think everybody has a role to play.
20:40
And then like 10 years from now, you know, what does the future
20:42
look like? Your daughter will be 10.
20:44
My daughter will be 10. I've got a nine month old.
20:47
When they're teenagers, what is America going to look like?
20:50
I mean, that's what we're, that's what this is the whole
20:52
project is about. Yeah, yeah.
20:54
And again, it's making the argument and, and it's, it's,
20:57
it's easy to debate them on it because, you know, you debate
21:00
anybody on a pro-life, you know, whether they're pro-choice and
21:04
you want to have that conversation.
21:06
Notice they never, they, they always bypass the debate.
21:09
They always talk past you. They, they always immediately go
21:12
to the exceptions and, and to the hard stuff.
21:16
I'm like, well, well, well, just, I'm always like, just to
21:18
be clear, if you're just bypassing the whole conversation
21:20
about abortion and going straight to the conversation
21:23
about the exceptions, which are more, I get those are more
21:25
difficult. So then do we agree that there
21:29
should be 0 weeks for abortions of convenience?
21:32
Do we agree on that? Because if you want to talk
21:34
exceptions, then we must agree that there should be 0 abortions
21:37
of convenience. And they're like, well, I didn't
21:38
say that. Well, but you kind of, I mean,
21:40
you're, you're accepting that and it's about accepting the
21:42
humanity of it too. And I think, I think we've
21:44
tailored our arguments over time in a, in a much better way where
21:48
I, I just tell people all the time, but like, I'm like, you
21:51
call it a baby when you want it. You know, if you don't call it
21:54
some other, you don't call it a zygote or some clump of cells.
21:57
When you, when you, when you want the baby, you say my baby.
22:00
So just from a, it's not religion, that's not my religion
22:03
talking. That's just, that's just a human
22:05
talking. It's not about science or
22:07
anything. It's just that's you feel it as
22:08
a human being and you really can't counter that.
22:12
And I, and I think we just, can we continue that we win the, we
22:14
win the culture war on this, we convince more people, you know,
22:18
it's I, I, I, I think I do like heartbeat bills as a good place
22:22
to start for some states, because again, it always depends
22:25
on the politics of the state. And then Florida was courageous
22:28
in in getting theirs done. And because it's easy to
22:31
explain, if it has a heartbeat, it's a human.
22:32
How do you how do you say it's not?
22:35
And you know it's it's so some of that you hate to admit it,
22:39
but sometimes politics does have to play play a role here.
22:42
And politics, meaning our our ability to actually persuade
22:45
people. Yeah, we did some polling in
22:47
Florida and when we described in the poll what the abortion
22:51
procedure was even for like before the heartbeat, like the
22:54
chemical abortion pill, this starves the developing, you
22:58
know, human to death via cutting off its nutrients.
23:02
Majority of Floridians in a blue state, we're like, yeah, let's
23:05
ban that. Whatever that is, let's ban it.
23:08
But when you look at, you know, polling where they said, oh,
23:11
should abortion be restricted in the first trimester, people are
23:14
going to say, oh, no, no, no. But if they know what that
23:16
abortion is, what it entails, it flips the poll, which is crazy
23:20
to me. And it just shows that education
23:22
is so crucial because people just don't know what they don't
23:25
know. Yeah, that's another issue I
23:27
think we could fix. Speaking of, I always get this
23:30
name wrong but. Myth of Prestone.
23:32
Myth of Prestone this is this is a battle we we've fought against
23:36
the Biden administration because they're they're essentially
23:38
lifted. The FDA is essentially just made
23:41
it too easy to get out. You know, and, and I think not
23:44
following the science. I mean this is this is this is a
23:47
this is a drug that has that has potentially terrible side
23:51
effects. It's it's it's potentially
23:53
dangerous and I'd love to just outlaw it, but we don't have the
23:56
votes for it. But we will be pressuring this
23:59
this new FDA administrator to to to at least put those old
24:04
parameters back in place. Off the top of my head, I don't
24:07
remember what they were, but basically at least, you know, it
24:10
forces a physician to be. You can't just send it to
24:12
somebody at their house and have them take it.
24:14
OK, So there has to be some parameters in place for for
24:17
safety reasons, which of which of course is it does a restrict
24:20
the use of it? Yeah, that's yeah, it is yes.
24:22
I like, don't get me wrong, like I want that.
24:24
And I admitted I remember talking about this in a hearing.
24:26
I'm like, yeah, don't get me wrong.
24:27
I think any pill that just kills a baby's bad, like don't get me
24:31
wrong. Sounds like if you're accusing
24:32
me of restricting it, like, yes, you are correct.
24:35
I am trying to restrict it. But also what I'm saying makes
24:38
sense. You know, if, if we're going to,
24:40
if it's going to be legal and I don't have a choice about that,
24:43
then our, our at least our administrative state, which is
24:45
the FDA in this case, should use science to to properly
24:49
administer it and put those, put those guardrails around it which
24:52
they they lifted and, and it's inexplicable why.
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Join crowdhouse.com. So overall, would you say your,
25:56
your feeling about this second administration in the next 4
25:59
years despite a lot of the challenges, both from the
26:02
opposition? You know, on the pro-life side,
26:04
there have been concerns like when are we going to see these
26:06
pro-life actions? But you're saying big picture,
26:09
you think it's it, we're in a good spot.
26:12
We're going to see some big wins, pro-life and beyond.
26:16
I, I, I hope so again, I, I, I can't speak for what the Trump
26:19
administration is going to do on, on the executive order side.
26:21
I just, I just don't know. And I, I don't want to guess
26:24
again. I, I kind of listed a few things
26:25
they did last time. It seems likely that those,
26:27
those happen again. I, I, I do think a lot of our, a
26:33
lot of our fights have to be at the state level.
26:37
You know, is, is we, we are not going to get the votes for, for
26:42
some of the bigger wins here. This is, this is, this is a
26:46
decades long fight. It really is.
26:48
It's a decades long education. You've got to change the, the
26:51
minds of an entire generations. So I don't want to give false
26:55
hope. I can, I can only tell you what
26:56
my position is in the end. It's, it's, it's too hard to
26:59
predict what this Congress is going to do.
27:02
And especially with the slim majorities that we have, you
27:05
know, these things are very difficult.
27:07
I, I, I can speak more for unification on things like,
27:11
again, defunding and preventing, you know, gender transition,
27:17
care for, for minors. I mean, it's a battle I've been
27:20
fighting for for a while now and I feel somewhat confident I can
27:23
get that into, into reconciliation.
27:26
None of that because it's a cost saver as well.
27:28
Just a couple billion, actually. A.
27:31
Couple billion if we stop hospitals from funding hospitals
27:35
that are killing that, that are mutilating babies, yeah.
27:38
Children, right. The way, yeah, the way the way
27:40
we constructed that I think there was a there was a there
27:42
was actually a cost the CBO rated that as a cost saver.
27:45
So it's it's not much, but that's.
27:46
Have they looked at the disbar? If we disbar hospitals or
27:51
clinics that do abortions from Medicaid, has that been looked
27:55
at the D or D bar? Excuse me, is it correct
27:58
terminology, right? Is it D bar from Medicaid funds?
28:01
Again, it's a coding issue. So you know, it's, that's why
28:04
the Planned Parenthood thing is difficult because they, they,
28:06
they're, they're coding Medicaid, they're charging
28:08
Medicaid, they're reimbursed by Medicaid under a certain code.
28:11
And that code is not abortion. That's already.
28:13
Meaning these hospitals are directly coding for gender
28:15
mutilation. Yeah.
28:17
So that's that's part of our oversight job on Energy and
28:20
Commerce is, is looking at that and that's 'cause that's been
28:22
brought to us by by some whistleblowers.
28:25
So you can cut the Medicaid codes of hospitals for this, for
28:29
the procedures in hospitals that are transitioning little kids.
28:32
In theory would be what they're doing is illegal and this would
28:34
be a court issue, not a Congress issue.
28:36
Because if you're, if you're, if you're, if you're intentionally,
28:39
that's goods fraud. I mean that's Medicaid fraud.
28:41
If you're, if you're doing a gender transition, but you're
28:44
but you're labeling it endocrine therapy.
28:45
And so that's that's an oversight issue for us.
28:47
And that's something we're also looking into as well on how to
28:51
deal with that. Again, it's helpful to have a
28:54
Trump administration in place where we have ACM of more
28:56
friendly CMS. Leader of CMS who's actually
29:00
going to look into this. I do want to ask you about the
29:02
Hamas Israel war too, because I know you've been outspoken on
29:06
that, and I think it's also really important.
29:08
Do you think we're going to get the rest of the hostages home
29:11
under Trump? What's your take on the next
29:15
steps? For.
29:17
Peace in the Middle East. I know it's a huge, huge
29:19
question and topic. Yeah, it's, I mean, like
29:22
obviously AI would say a big, a big step in the right direction.
29:27
Kind of depends what he asked recently.
29:31
You know, Israel is really the one who has to answer that
29:34
question for American purposes. You know, what do we want?
29:38
We want stability. You know, I just remind people
29:41
like what's, what's our interest in this particular issue?
29:45
Stability is usually the interest that Ukraine, it's
29:47
stability. We, we, if we allow dictators to
29:50
conquer other countries to get their land and that just becomes
29:53
a normal thing. We'll say goodbye to your new
29:55
world that you've enjoyed for the last 80 years and say hello
29:58
to history, which was pre 1945, pre D-Day.
30:01
What happened then? 10s of millions dead, No real
30:04
global economy. Everyone's life sucked for
30:06
thousands of years. That was that was human history.
30:08
So there's a, there's a reason America cares, but it's not the
30:11
same reason that Israel cares. There's a real cares because
30:13
it's existential for them. So meaning meaning they, they,
30:17
they can't have like terrorist organizations that can, you
30:20
know, kill thousands of people right on their border.
30:22
So there's a reason they did what they did.
30:24
But there's under increasing pressure to just to just at
30:27
least come to come to a come to an understanding, at least come
30:29
to a ceasefire. Unclear to me whether whether
30:32
that that peace plan means Hamas stays in power in some way that
30:37
we talk about demilitarizing Hamas now, Does that mean
30:40
there's still the elected governing body?
30:43
I, I don't think we know that yet.
30:46
I think I think there was the Trump effect probably helped
30:50
because, you know, he in his typical Trump threatening kind
30:53
of way said we're, I don't can't remember exactly what he said,
30:55
but it was very threatening. And you know, you better, better
30:58
release the hostage by the time I get in office or you'll have
31:00
hell to pay or something like that.
31:01
And you know, I would, I would believe him.
31:05
And that probably helped the, the situation along a little
31:08
bit. It's helpful when you take a
31:10
side. One of the problems with the way
31:11
Biden has dealt with this particular situation is, is
31:13
dithering on which side he wants to take.
31:15
And it's, it's just not helpful. You know, you, you, you need to
31:19
be more clear about where you stand on the issue.
31:21
And that actually helps everyone, including including
31:24
Gazans who are, who are suffering because, you know,
31:28
well, because they let home mouse rule of them.
31:31
And that's a terrorist organization that likes to kill
31:33
innocent people and babies. So, you know, it's, it's, it's a
31:36
horrible situation. But I always say I'm like, what,
31:38
what would you do if they killed that many Americans?
31:40
And proportionally you're talking about 43,000 Americans
31:42
just just murdered in cold blood.
31:45
What would you do? I don't think we'd ever stop
31:48
fighting. I don't think, I don't, I don't
31:49
think as Americans we'd ever have a peace deal with whoever
31:51
did that to us. You'd send guys like me there,
31:54
we would kill them forever. That's what we would do.
31:56
And and so like, I think, I think, I don't think people put
31:59
themselves in the Israeli situation enough because I, I, I
32:03
know how we would react if, if, if, if you attacked us in that,
32:06
in that kind of manner. But do we get the rest of the
32:10
hostages? Yes, I think it seems to be like
32:11
we're on track to do that seems to be it's hard to predict
32:15
that's a, that's a don't have a lot of crystal balls.
32:18
I think there were a couple American hostages released
32:21
yesterday as my understanding and you know, I'm hopeful that
32:24
this will all be over soon. And there's two little children.
32:27
There was a nine month old little boy, Catherine Ariel, and
32:30
his four year old brother. And they, they would be like 2
32:34
now and six. I mean, they've been hostages.
32:37
Gaza. And the world, just like ignore,
32:40
has ignored it largely. I mean, obviously America is
32:42
trying to support Israel's attempt to get them back.
32:46
But it is. And then there's all the
32:47
obviously the collateral, the horrible collateral of lives
32:49
lost in Gaza, lives lost in Israeli soldiers, Everything
32:52
else it's it's obviously a mess and a lot of people are just
32:55
wanting it to end. Yeah, and a lot of the world,
32:58
it's not like the world forgot there, but they've been focused
32:59
on Israel, you know, and you know, and focus on Israel
33:03
atrocities. And I and again, I think there's
33:05
a lot of misinformation out there.
33:06
The Moss has been good for decades at this game where, you
33:09
know, you, you attack, you attack and then you use your own
33:12
people's human Shields and then you, you, you use that as PR.
33:15
It this is this is the this is the, the, the cycle over and
33:20
over and over again and has been for a long time and the world
33:24
falls for it. But you know, it, it is what it
33:27
is. It's why it's important to have,
33:28
I think, a a clear eyed moral view of of it and in a realistic
33:31
view too. That's why I bring up like, what
33:33
would you do 40,000 of your, you know, if your fellow Americans
33:38
were just murdered? I mean, I just bombed and I just
33:41
murdered. Like straight up shot.
33:43
And some of them tortured, raped, I mean really disgusting
33:46
children, kept kidnapped. I mean really dark stuff.
33:49
The darkest of the dark. Right.
33:51
What would you do? Like you would, I don't think
33:53
you'd ever stop fighting this until they were eradicated.
33:56
I know I wouldn't. So it's it's it's hard to place
33:59
a lot of blame. People like, well, they could do
34:00
it differently. And I'm like, well, yeah.
34:02
And I'm like, well, tell, tell me more about how how you
34:05
understand urban warfare, you know, cause.
34:07
And then and of course they don't, they don't understand
34:09
that there's thousands of miles of tunnels.
34:10
That's just what they know. Hamasya uses a lot of their aid
34:14
money to to build is thousands of miles of tunnels, which is
34:16
also why it's so hard to rescue hostages.
34:18
People like just use special operations.
34:20
Just be just, you know, be surgical.
34:21
I'm like, just send Dan Crenshaw in there.
34:23
Tell, tell me more about what you know about special
34:25
operations and like what's required of this.
34:27
Like it's not as simple as you think.
34:30
You know, there's, there's, there's real operational issues.
34:33
And with, with any hostage rescue for sure, you've got to
34:36
know exactly where they're at. You got to have a play out.
34:38
It's the most dangerous kind of mission there is.
34:40
You can't use the kind of tactics you would normally use.
34:43
Hostage rescues are extremely dangerous and difficult, and
34:46
they're especially difficult when they're the hostages are
34:48
probably in these tunnels and we don't know where the entrances
34:51
of these tunnels usually are. I mean the oftentimes they're
34:53
like in a random apartment building.
34:54
Or children's school. Yeah, often.
34:56
Yeah, exactly. And so that's, it's a very
34:58
difficult situation, always has been.
35:00
It's it's the one of the more difficult urban environments
35:03
that anyone has ever fought a war in and so.
35:07
Do you think Israel is being uncaring of civilians because of
35:13
the civilian death count that Hamas is reporting of Gazans?
35:16
Do you think Israel could be, do I know you said armchair
35:19
quarterback, like who? You know, it's such a difficult
35:22
fight to fight, but based on your sense of it, I mean, you're
35:25
you've been in warfare, you understand it.
35:27
Do you think that they're doing as best a job as one can
35:30
reasonably do, or do you think they're actually just trying to
35:32
Holocaust, you know, all of Gaza like they're being accused of?
35:36
No, I think they're about doing the best they can.
35:38
And it comes from experts who have really just crunching,
35:41
crunching some actual data in an objective way.
35:44
They've, they've done more than I think any other campaign in
35:48
history, including ours. You know, in places like
35:50
Fallujah, they're dropping leaflets, they're sending texts
35:53
out. You need to get out.
35:54
You need to get out of here. You can't be here.
35:56
This is, we're about to do an operation here.
35:58
It would, it's terrible tactics to Telegraph to the enemy where
36:01
you're going to be, but they've been doing it.
36:04
So I, I think they do as much as they possibly can.
36:09
They use, you know, precision weaponry to the, the greatest
36:14
extent they possibly can. But you are talking about a very
36:16
dense environment. And it's, it's, it's, it's
36:18
horrible that there's casualties.
36:20
It'd be better if Hamas gave up. Why don't they just do that?
36:23
Like, hang on, how come none of the Israel, the people who
36:26
criticize Israel, you know, they could also say, well, why
36:29
doesn't Hamas just give up? And then the war would end.
36:32
And that's the difference between, you know, if Israel
36:34
just gives up, let's say Israel just lays down all their arms
36:36
and just throws them in the ocean, what would happen?
36:39
Hamas would cleanse them. They would commit genocide from
36:42
the river to the sea, just like what's in their doctrine.
36:45
If Hamas laid down their arms, what would happen?
36:48
Gossins would live peacefully. That's what would happen.
36:50
There would be no genocide. So it's, you know, this the,
36:53
the, the, the moral difference between these the two sides is
36:57
massive. I think a lot of people are just
37:00
seeing endless, endless, I would call it propaganda of people
37:05
saying Israel is like the bad guy here, Israel, Israel,
37:08
Israel, and they're not seeing what you're stating very
37:11
reasonably and clearly about what the actual dynamics are on
37:13
the ground in Gaza and Israel. The problem that Israel has had
37:18
and Jews have had for a very long time.
37:20
So, you know, putting out some context and and truth out there
37:23
is, is, is is important because, yeah, I mean, the, the, the when
37:28
you see it on campuses and then especially the future of the
37:30
Democrat Party, the current Democrat party, older or the
37:34
older folks, definitely more pro Israel, or at least at least
37:39
have like a sane view of the situation.
37:44
The younger generation is, is wildly anti Israel.
37:48
Wildly. If you're chanting river to the
37:50
sea, it means genocide. I hate to break it to you.
37:52
That's what it means. And that's the kind of that's
37:55
what you're normally hearing on college campuses.
37:57
Now, is that an extreme minority view on college campuses?
38:00
Turns out, you know, some data would show that it is or maybe
38:04
not in as a bad a position as we think we are, but it's, it's
38:08
still a problem. I mean, it, it's, it's, it's
38:11
just, you know, getting people the facts.
38:14
It's still a problem. Congressman, thank you so much
38:17
for fighting for life, fighting for life in the womb and outside
38:21
of the womb. And yeah, thank you again for
38:23
your service. Appreciate it and for being so
38:25
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