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Congressman how are you I I didn't mean
to I didn't mean to announce that you're
you're primarying uh John Corin uh
you're free to announce it though uh if
you'd like on on this progam well I hope
you had a happy Thanksgiving too
didn't you you worked you worked with
Ted Cruz John Corin you worked for they
were your boss no yeah uh yeah that's
true yeah I worked in the Senate
Judiciary Committee as a lawyer um and
uh that was with John Corin then I was
Senator Cruz's Chief of Staff um and and
look I'm not trying to start a fight I'm
not trying to start a fight we're in a
good mood I'm not trying to start I've
been I've been very up prompt with uh
Senator corn and our differences over
the years these have not been um you
know hidden from public view um
fairly notoriously two years ago when
the Senate passed the massive Omnibus
spending bill it's like 1.7 trillion
dollars heading into Christmas um it was
a total disaster and uh I vowed to
oppose any bill that came out of the
Senate uh that was sponsored by any of
those individuals including Senator
Corin and I did I honored that
commitment and uh you know you got to
stand up against uh the continued status
quo in Washington and um that's what
we're getting out of the Senate and
increasingly I'm hearing some of these
rumbles in the house and uh I'm not for
it when we get here in January we got to
we got to deliver for the American
people oh no okay so you've always been
a truth tell on this program our
audience absolutely loves you
Congressman you've always come on this
program and you said here's the brass
tax here's what's actually happening and
we've heard a lot of saber rattling
right a lot of drum beating we're gonna
you know we're going to fix American uh
elections we're going to fix the
Border you you're telling me some of
this stuff is on ice can you give me
sort of a landscape view of where the
house is right now what can we expect to
be accomplished in the first year well
we have to deliver right so failure is
not an option here I think it's going to
be how we get that done I mean right now
what you're seeing let me just give you
an example we've been back in two weeks
between the election and Thanksgiving
and now we come back and we vote tonight
in that time I'm being told that we're
going to be forced to consider basically
$15 billion uh disaster supplemental
package now some of that is going to
people who are obviously hurting North
Carolina and parts of the southeast but
my view you have to pay for these things
uh you got to figure out financially
what you're going to do uh we just
passed a $200 billion Social Security
bill that will steal money from Social
Security taxpayers redistribute it to
other people 200 billion this would be
300 billion in the form of two months
unpaid for in other words business is
usual what I'm trying to tell people and
warn people when we come back in January
we can't just keep doing the same thing
so you can't just renew the tax cuts and
not have have spending cuts or you're
going to get bigger deficits you can't
just uh do the same uh thing with the
border which we're already being told by
some oh no no no we can only Deport a
few people just certain criminals right
that we can Deport hold on we had all
these people released into the United
States are using social welfare programs
they are a massive expense to
communities like communities in Texas we
should be removing all of the people who
were unlawfully put into the United
States I know that's difficult I know
that we've got to but we got to do it
Tom homman talked about it but you
already have members of the house that
are backpedaling going on national news
saying well we can't do that I'm just
telling you when the rubber meets the
road there's going to be some fireworks
if we don't find a way as a republican
conference to get in a room and figure
all this out and that's what I'm calling
for now in December let's get a road map
and let's go deliver in January man if
the house doesn't deliver on mass
deportations we regularly play this clip
that's yeah it's eight years old now and
it's of Paul Ryan saying he's going to
build the wall and it's him in a
helicopter and he's got his sleeves all
jacked up right and he's got little
CrossFit body and he's his little you
know he's riding a horse on the border
right and and it's all it was all lies
to the American people he never once
pass you know he didn't pass a border
Bill he never once funded the wall he
never even fought for it it was all fake
and so like I I guess people should know
that that that we pay attention and
we'll call you out and we we've heard
that there are going to be Mass
deportations we expect Mass
deportations that's exactly right and
look let me be very clear uh I'm not
saying this about anyone individual I'm
not talking about the speaker I've had
good conversations with speaker Johnson
about what we're doing and what we're
trying to do what I'm saying is we have
a republican conference that is not
committed fully to doing what the
president campaigned on and that they
grabbed his coattails to be dragged
across the line to get a razor thin
majority which the house would have lost
but for president Trump's coil so we've
got to actually deliver and I don't
think right now Republicans understand
what that means it's not just coming
from a you know leadership conversations
the conference okay there are blocks of
the conference that say oh I can't vote
to repeal the inflation reduction act I
have constituencies who depend on those
government subsidies don't you know
Benny we've got to take that money
because we love corporate cronyism
that's what I really ran on Benny I ran
on corporate cronyism I want the
government to give handouts to Big
corporations I want the government to
tell corporations you you want cheap
labor don't worry we won't do the mass
deportations wink wink no do we'll
remove 100,000 criminals we'll call it a
day and Meanwhile we're all dealing with
the bills in our schools and everything
else and we haven't done what we need to
do to clean out the entire system that's
why I supported RFK that's why I support
people who want to blow this system up
right start back over go back to the
founding principles but if I hear one
more Republican tell me that I've got to
just get in line to be a team player I
don't want to be a part of a team of
losers I want to be on a team that wants
to win and deliver for the American
people and that's what we need to do can
you tell me about voter Integrity please
like can we do can we do uh Federal
voter ID this is clearly within the
purview of Congress to do simple voter
ID and here's the polling on it
Congressman it is a 9010 issue a 9010
issue the not even Mass deportations I
think would be close to as popular as
this single issue and it would solve so
many problems uh is there is it even
proposed Congressman yeah sure well it
kind of depends on what you mean when
you define voter ID so let's go back to
the save act which was my bill that I
introduced last spring that bill would
require uh presentation of documentary
proof of citizenship to vote and and
register and then all vote in a federal
election uh we thought that was really
critical and and would lay the
groundwork and would frankly Force
states to do voter ID right because
you're going to have to come in and show
uh you know proof of citizenship you're
have to come in with a passport or
you're going to have to use real ID
which has already uh you know been put
into the system to prove citizenship or
you're going to have to present photo ID
with other identification so we created
a system and a framework to do that the
save Act passed the house five Democrats
joined went over the Senate Chuck
Schumer's been sitting on it I think
this needs to be front and center as one
of the first bills we do in January but
we can also add additional I think
reforms I think we need to have for
example a tighter voting around maybe
not it has to be same day but early
voting ought to be contained to a week
or so we need to make sure that absentee
ballots are literally for a men and
women in uniform and they're very tight
and they're the old absentee ballots
they're not just you know throw to the
wind mail and ballots we should tighten
those we can do all of those things so
we can minimize and eliminate the abuses
that we're seeing out in California
right now where they're still counting
votes a month later which is absolutely
absurd we should demand that all ballots
have to be in on Election Day we should
get it back to same day voting make it a
holiday minimal early voting and we
should have things like the save act
that requires documentary proof of
citizenship to vote in federal elections
we need to do all of that we need to do
it quickly I'm working on it um but we
need Republicans to stand up and get it
done I unite with you we love the save
act I know we've been on this show
talking about it we everyone in Congress
loves the save act it's one of the few
and congratulations on that you have you
you have everyone backing you on this
including Democrats right it's like it's
it's such a kick-ass piece of
legislation the Senate it's in the
Senate so could the Republican Senators
just pick it up on January 20 and pass
it yeah they could we obviously get a
new Congress we would have to repass it
and I think we're working on we'll
refile the bill we'll probably tweak it
a little bit you know you learn stuff
over the year make a few little tweaks
and improvements uh we might add a few
other things like our is just discussing
with respect to when you vote and the
timing of voting but um at the end of
the day we we can move multiple bills
and the Senate absolutely can and should
pick it up and pass it I expect that
they would obviously 60 votes in the
Senate means you're going to have some
Democrats that are going to have to kind
of get comfortable with it but given
that we had five Democrats during an
election season I think we can move that
bill through the Senate we should it's
incred it's incredible polling I
couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the
polling that it's a 9010 issue possibly
the most popular thing that Congress
could do would be past Federal voting
Federal voter ID it's these are the kind
of things that if we can't do that then
we're going to the Republican party will
be on the as Heep of History right if we
can't do that if we can't deliver on
border security give president Trump
what he needs to secure the Border make
sure that we do reconciliation the right
way leave money in the people's pockets
but be responsible make sure we drive
deficits down uh and get rid of these
deficit spending like it's not enough
just for for Elon and VC to do Doge I'm
for it go cut that waste out but you
can't pass $15 billion do unpaid for
disaster supplemental you can't come in
and do more of the same defense spending
right now the Senate uh Republicans and
Democrats want to increase defense
spending even further without going
through and cutting all of the waste and
the Fraud and Abuse at the Pentagon um
we need a whole new way of thinking so
we've got to get responsible to do that
or or the Republican part is going to
get tossed out on its ear in two years
we have basically one year to deliver
and it needs to start on January 3D the
day we're sworn in heck yes okay so uh
really quick I know we're up against a
heart out you name dropped Doge you have
been the hawk on federal spending I'm
not sure if you're communicating
directly with Elon or V I know you know
them uh where would you start can you
give just a really quick road map here
for Doge yeah well first of all you know
I'm not talk about private conversation
but obviously we we've got lots of
conversations going on broadly and uh
look I think they're doing a lot of good
work uh gathering in information uh
frankly you can do a lot of
crowdsourcing is stupid uh but look I
think what you've got to do is you've
got to go in and find very directly the
obvious programs and ways that you can
cut on day one and just eliminate that
just start showing that you can shrink
that Federal bureaucracy because if you
do that then you can have the real
conversations on mandatory spending
Social Security Medicare reforms getting
health care prices down those are harder
and more complicated but if you go in
and you just lay waste to the federal
bureaucracy fire half the bureaucrats on
day one get rid of a whole bunch of the
unnecessary laws boom get in there and
go cutting out all of the way like let
me give you an example right now now
we've got money we're still spending for
out of FEMA money for funerals for covid
in California and around the country
we're literally paying for funerals I
mean you can't make this up there's
still a covid line we still have a line
for Katrina in current FEMA disaster
funding bills think about that that was
19 years ago there is so much waste
going on in the federal government and
we've got to just go through and blow it
up on day one and uh that I think is
that what earns you the ability to go do
the complicated stuff uh that is going
to take more work to figure out how to
reform defense how to go in and deal
with Medicare and Social Security and if
you want to drive health care prices
down we need health savings accounts
that are fully in the control of human
you know citizens not corporations take
the money out of the corporations hands
take the money out of the government
hands give it to people and let them use
it with doctors that's the number one
way we can drive Health prices down for
Americans and save money with Medicare
and Medicaid there it is right here the
full endorsement of Doge by the great
chip royalist click on that account
let's make sure we get uh the great
congressman from Texas uh as many follow
we need as many followers as possible to
flow into the Patriots that defend us
and protect us in Congress final
question are you in favor of cash
Patel's FBI director Congressman of
course yeah we need we need disruptors
uh we need somebody to go in FBI I say
that as a former Federal prosecutor I
want an FBI and and a lot of great
agents that I work with but there's a
lot of Agents who need their butts
kicked we need somebody there who's
going to go in and be unafraid at the
Department of Justice and you know with
Pam Bondi and obviously now with cash at
FBI but but across the entirety of all
this stuff RFK and HHS you know heg Seth
over at the Pentagon all of the people
in this town they're wigging out because
they're like well these guys they don't
know how it works yet that's that's why
we love them they want to come in with
an eye from the American people and
disrupt this town yes and I think
there's no place better to start than
the the FBI quite frankly yep yes uh
thank you so much Congressman for your
fight God speed thanks Benny God bless
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