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The Biden Doctrine: Disaster, Disorder, and Destruction, Interview with Rep Michael Waltz (R-FL) | TRIGGERED Ep.60

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	Guys, welcome to another huge with a capital Y episode of Triggered.
	Today we're joined by my friend Congressman Michael Walz from Florida's 6th District.
	Congressman Walz was born and raised right here in the great state of Florida.
	He's a combat decorated Army Green Beret and he just retired last month as a colonel in the Army National Guard.
	He's actually the first Green Beret to be elected into Congress.
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	And now, we're gonna go to my friend, Congressman Michael Waltz.
	All right, guys.
	We're here and joined by my good friend and Army Green Beret, Mike Waltz, now a Congressman.
	I said in the intro, I guess you're the first Green Beret to get into Congress.
	Is that true?
	Yeah, it's true.
	We've checked it every which way under the sun.
	I keep waiting to be talking to a group and, you know,
	Some old salty bastard stands up and says, no, I was elected in, you know, 1971.
	But our first Green Beret, there's been, apparently there's been five Navy SEALs.
	And I just tell them it takes five of them to equal one of us and, you know, call it even.
	Right.
	A second Green Beret just got elected last time from Texas.
	Got by the name of Keith Self and a former judge.
	So at least I got one wingman now to, you know, to take on the SEALs.
	Yeah, it does seem like there's an ever-growing presence of, you know, there's always obviously been some military experience in Congress and in government, but I actually like when I see, like, the operators.
	I feel like there's a different level of understanding.
	You know, it's sort of like, hey, you know, as much crap and shit as I talk about the FBI, yes, the bureaucrats that run it are one thing.
	The door kickers are actually on our team.
	These guys actually understand what's going on.
	They come up to me all the time just, you know, ashamed of what's happening at these institutions.
	And so, yeah, I don't.
	I don't think we need some of these woke bullshit generals in Congress or in government, but to actually have a door kicker, to have some operators in there, I think that's exactly what we need.
	Yeah, you want the pipe hitters, you want the trigger pullers.
	Ryan Zinke was one of the ones who talked me into running.
	He said, we need more people like you and me in here.
	Because a couple of reasons.
	One, being a politician isn't the most important thing we've ever done.
	Right.
	It's taking men into combat and bringing them home.
	So we're not just all about climbing the political ladder.
	And then number two, it's about the ethos, Don.
	You know, it's if you don't accomplish your mission in combat or in business, really bad things happen.
	But you look at a bunch of lawyers that have become politicians, they're paid to perpetuate the problem.
	No offense to all the lawyers out there.
	It's just their business model.
	So you want operators if we were afraid if we were unafraid to die for that flag.
	We're unafraid to take tough votes, roll up our sleeves, and move the country forward, do what needs to be done.
	So I've been recruiting the hell out of veterans to run.
	We've gone, actually, just a quick stat, in the 70s, 75% of the Congress were vets.
	By 2020, it was 15%.
	We've now increased that back to 20% between 2020 and 2022 for the first time.
	Yeah, and for those of you who don't know, you mentioned Ryan Zinke.
	He's a friend of mine.
	Guys, Zinke was the commander of SEAL Team 6.
	A pretty serious badass at any rate.
	And President Trump's Secretary of Interior.
	Correct.
	One of the best jobs in Washington.
	Yeah, so now he's a congressman from Montana, so that's good.
	When you hang out with Zink and you shake his hand, you're like, oh man, I don't do this lightly, but that guy would beat the crap out of me.
	I don't say it that easy, but he's a big dude.
	Yeah, he's one of those guys that tell them, I'm never going to get in a knife fight with you, or a fist fight.
	I'm just going to shoot you from afar.
	Yeah, exactly.
	There's going to be no CQB, no close quarter combat with that guy.
	That's not a recipe for success for anyone.
	I'm sure people have found that one out the hard way.
	Yeah, I was going to say, you know, I want to sort of start with, you know, since we're talking about the military, you know, the Pentagon and their agenda under, you know, the Biden administration and the state of our military.
	I mean, a recent poll found that Americans' confidence in the military is at a two decade low.
	Talk about that a little bit, because it's almost hard to believe, and yet every time I see either a commercial or I see the people that they choose, you know, to represent them to the public, I guess it shouldn't surprise anyone that that's actually the case.
	Tell me what's going on.
	Yeah, so you're absolutely right.
	And that confidence has fallen almost 20 percentage points just in the last couple of years.
	No coincidence with who's running the country, right?
	And at the same time now, we have the recruiting thing that you've probably heard about, the recruiting crisis.
	Is the worst since Vietnam.
	Don, it's it's so bad.
	The Army fell short 25,000 just last year.
	They're on track to fall short another 15,000 this year.
	And on top of that, they were about to kick out at the beginning of this year.
	Another 20,000, even though they're falling way short of their numbers, they were so obsessed with the vaccine they were going to kick out another 20,000 on top of it.
	I don't think so.
	So you mean the Navy didn't take all the recruits that would have gone Army because of the drag queen influencers that they're using?
	I thought that maybe you just lost all the guys to the Navy and they got an incredible surplus because obviously they would.
	I mean, what could go wrong?
	What could go wrong, Mike?
	I've asked the Navy, show me this whole aircraft carrier's worth of
	Transgender 18-year-olds that feel like they won't be welcome in the Navy and therefore are just out there waiting to join that you have to have as one of your chief brand ambassadors, a transgender sailor.
	What this is, is it's Biden's politicals driving a political agenda on top of the military and generals that aren't saying timeout, stop, enough is enough, this isn't the right direction for the military to go.
	So you have things like
	Biden's Secretary of the Army testifying before my committee on her plan to take the entire army carbon neutral by 2030, which would mandate then, not the most lethal army, not the best, most ready or best recruited- But it's green!
	A carbon neutral army by 2030, which means we're going to have to go to electric tanks, electric non-tactical vehicles.
	Last I checked, there's no charging stations in place.
	Ukraine or Africa and she's putting all of our bases on Backup solar panel grids.
	I said, okay fine Where the solar panels made she couldn't certify to me that they're not made in China So we're putting our army base on Chinese made Grids it's just so they've got the climate agenda on the one hand and look
	I want our country to be energy diverse.
	I lost people trying to get diesel fuel over supply lines hit by IEDs.
	Let's have a whole mix there, but it is a full-blown obsession.
	Oh, yeah.
	In the military.
	And I said, oh, really?
	I held up the slides taught at West Point that said how to understand your whiteness and white rage.
	That was a lecture being taught at West Point, taught by a professor that says the Republican Party is a party of white supremacy.
	President Trump is a white supremacist.
	And oh, by the way, you should all feel guilty for your whiteness and the advancement of black people.
	I can't tell you anything more destructive
	To unit cohesion, unit morale.
	When I have to order a bunch of Green Berets to charge the machine gun, they don't want to be talking about, well, am I going because I'm privileged or am I going because I'm oppressed?
	It's awful.
	It's destructive.
	And in this last defense bill, we actually banned it from being taught anywhere in the military.
	Yeah, so you think, you know, that the forces in place that even allowed that to get there in the first place, you know, it's not allowed to be taught officially, but do you think it's still happening?
	Because, I mean, you look at the recruitment numbers and it's pretty obvious.
	A big part of the patriotism to actually go do that and potentially risk your life, you know, for your country is actually
	They seem to be making it very clear that they no longer do that.
	You see that with the diversity crap.
	Our people aren't serious.
	You mentioned Afghanistan and the withdrawal earlier.
	Of course not.
	They see that as an action and the response is, oh, we could not have seen that coming.
	I'm like, really?
	Like, wait, like, let's just, I'll be clear.
	Like, I didn't serve, you know, let's just say I know jack shit about Afghanistan.
	Like, I saw it coming.
	Like, of course I saw it coming.
	Cause like, how?
	How do you take these people seriously?
	My teenage daughter would have planned a better withdrawal than that.
	I mean, you obviously get your people out, your civilians out, and your allies that are going to be hunted down for working with you for 20 years out before you get your troops out.
	I mean, it's just really, really, truly common sense.
	But I just want to add one more thing on the diversity piece.
	Look, the thing is, is the politicals have this narrative that we need diversity of thought.
	That's what makes us stronger as a military.
	I want to be clear, and I know you feel this way too.
	I want equal opportunity for everybody to serve.
	I don't care, black, white, or brown, gay, straight, Christian, Jewish, whatever.
	If you want to step up and put your life on the line for this great nation over our freedoms, you're welcome to do so.
	The problem is when they start mandating certain percentages and they don't have any data to back it up.
	As I told the head of the Air Force Academy,
	My Green Berets and I have called every single fighter bomber drone in the inventory for close air support.
	Never once was any of my Green Berets asking what the skin color of the pilot was.
	And our enemy's bullets, I can guarantee you, the Taliban, the Chinese, the Russians, you name it,
	They're not going to treat you any differently because of your sexual orientation or because of your socioeconomic background.
	And the army I came up in, you leave your politics at the door, you believe green, and the only color you worry about is red, white, and blue, and it was a great equalizer.
	We're good to go.
	They left Americans behind.
	The 86,000 of our allies are still left behind.
	I'm still trying to get them out.
	And so are so many other groups.
	The veterans groups have had to spend their own personal money to stand up and do what the State Department should have done.
	And then the biggest piece is that terrorism is going to come roaring back.
	You know, ISIS and al Qaeda didn't get the memo that Biden wanted the war to be done.
	We're good to go.
	We're going to keep a few troops there, and we're going to keep the base, the only base in the world, Bagram Air Base, that is sandwiched between China, Russia, and Iran.
	And what I loved about President Trump is he listened.
	He made himself accessible.
	He took all viewpoints, and he listened, as opposed to Biden, who came in, didn't listen to anybody, ignored his generals, and now we are where we are.
	Yeah, no, that whole thing, you know, you'd mentioned your daughter could have planned a better withdrawal.
	I remember really clearly, I picked up my son from school that week when it was going on.
	He was, I think, eight or nine at the time.
	And he's literally like, hey, Dad, why would we pull out our military?
	Before, you know, he called them our friends but, you know, really our friends and allies, you know, or before the civilians.
	I mean, he was a nine-year-old.
	He was like, Dad, why would we leave 86 billion in equipment there?
	Won't they use that?
	Like, a nine-year-old understood that RM4s
	Uh, you know, the same administration and government that thinks that American citizens shouldn't even have semi-automatic AR-15s, but that fully automatic M4, now tens of thousands of them, now in the hands of the Taliban, along with, you know, tanks and helicopters and missiles and whatever the hell else they left behind.
	Body armor, all of it.
	Like, those will be used to subjugate their enemies, normal people, for generations to come.
	And 9-year-old understood that.
	And I was like, I didn't have an answer for him.
	I normally try to explain, like, it's that insane.
	But he got it, and our generals didn't.
	And you mentioned, you know, also the State Department.
	And I remember watching it.
	You know, he got up, I think it was before your committee, you know, Blinken gets up there, he's like, it wasn't as bad, well, it was almost as bad as, you know, the Milley stuff, but it was, we are shocked and dismayed, I remember it verbatim, we are shocked and dismayed that the Taliban did not install a more diverse and inclusive
	Government?
	I'm like, wait a minute.
	Like, if you're dismayed, fine.
	Maybe you're shocked?
	Like, did you think they were going to have, like, a trans coalition of the Taliban government that was going to be there?
	Like, what's going through these people's minds?
	They're clowns.
	Yeah.
	Well, they've convinced themselves that there are good terrorists or
	There's bad terrorists and not so bad terrorists and that the Taliban were now in the not so bad terrorists and that would work with it.
	Give me a break.
	You know, they may have kind of some of their local fighting and that's usually over like smuggling routes and money and power.
	But when it comes to hitting
	We're good to go.
	We're good to go.
	Yeah, and the silence is also deafening, you know, from those who, you know, like, wait a minute.
	If you don't hire 90% women in your workforce, you're somehow a misogynist.
	They seem pretty quiet about what's going on over there, like it's okay.
	Yeah, well not only quiet, but we're delivering millions and millions of dollars in aid that's going through the Taliban hands.
	They like to pretend that it goes to the UN, but as soon as it gets in country, they've got a gun to the UN worker's head.
	And let me tell you where that where that aid is going to go.
	And rather than conditioning it, I mean, they don't want people to starve.
	OK, I hear that argument, even though you put them in that situation with how you withdrew.
	How about you treat people?
	You don't brutalize people before we give you the aid, but they don't understand leverage.
	They don't understand.
	And that part of the world, you know, tea and crumpets in a five star hotel in the Middle East isn't how you're going to get things done.
	No, well, you know how they got things done when—I remember my father telling me the story when, you know, the Taliban, they had them over at Camp David, and of course the left goes—loses their minds, and I guess he had one of the leaders, and he literally—he pulled out a satellite image of the guy's home.
	And it's like, well, why are you showing me this?
	It's like, just so we understand what happens if we're not, you know, and we have that sort of leverage.
	We have that power.
	We have that ability.
	And guess what?
	We're like 18 months where not an American was killed because they got it.
	They understand resolve, you know, in that part of the world, you know.
	Again, I didn't serve, but I understand the cultures.
	They understand strength.
	It's probably the only thing they understand that way, but we're not even willing to wield that anymore, even if it's for ... Again, I don't think anyone wants to perpetuate the endless war.
	That's not what we're talking about, but to understand how to get some of these people to comply.
	Like you said, condition the aid.
	Yeah, look, if you don't abide by the deal, you're going to have a hellfire missile in your forehead through your window.
	Let's talk about how we can end this war in a way that's responsible for everyone, and that terrorism doesn't follow us home.
	That's always been my biggest fear, is the Taliban turns a blind eye while Al Qaeda and ISIS and all of them are rebuilding.
	All right.
	They're rebuilding again, and what pisses me off is all the soldiers, all the special operators that died, lost limbs, and sacrificed everything to keep a lid on these guys, and you get, you know, one senile commander-in-chief that comes in and thinks they're going to respond, again, to tea and crumpets, and here we are.
	So future operators,
	You know, I'm retired now.
	I'm handing it off to the next generation.
	They're going to have to deal with that $85 billion worth of our own equipment if they have to go back if we're hit again.
	Yeah, or it's being sold and parted out by the Chinese, or sold to Russia to use against the billions we're pouring endlessly into Ukraine, or otherwise.
	So yeah, it never seems to end.
	And again, there are ways of doing these things, and we're just seemingly unwilling to actually participate in that, which is lunacy to me.
	But I guess you're right, when you have a senile commander-in-chief, what do you expect?
	And he surrounded himself by academics, and these were the same people that were around Obama.
	I don't know if I ever talked to you about it.
	I had to lead the search for Bo Bergdahl, if you remember that trainer that walked off his base and then was celebrated as a hero in the Rose Garden by Susan Rice and Obama with his parents, and what have you.
	This is all the same crew.
	It's all the same Obama crew that thinks someone like Bergdahl is worth trading five of the most
	Harden terrorists in Guantanamo Bay for and then wants to you know roll out their tipper tape parade It's it's all the same people except you've got a bunch of academics who never operated around the world You know Surrounding a senile commander-in-chief that you couldn't have a more dangerous situation right now
	Yeah, no, and that was what it was.
	I mean, you guys did a great job crushing the caliphate in ISIS, and that was because my father, and I remember speaking to guys, you know, buddies that overlap in my, you know, my circles that were there.
	They're like, I was like, so what'd they do?
	It's like, oh, your dad just told us, you know, do what we do best.
	Like, not some lawyer in D.C., not some guy that's, you know, sitting in a nice air-conditioned office, you know, with a 10-hour time difference, has no idea what's actually going on, you know.
	I had friends in the teams that would tell me, like, you know, under Obama, like, they'd have one of, like, the playing card guys, you know, like a high, high-value target, like, in their sights, and they're sitting there waiting to engage, but then six hours later, when someone finally got back to them,
	You know, the situation changed.
	You know, kids came in, whatever it may be, and all of a sudden, like, just a total missed opportunity, whereas, yeah, like, let the operators operate.
	And it's amazing.
	In two weeks, you know, this thing was shut down.
	And so, you know, that's some of the insanity of what's going on right now.
	Well, and it's not just on the terrorism side.
	You know, as I've said repeatedly when it comes to Russia, more Russians died under President Trump than in any modern president.
	Because in Syria, when 400 Russian mercenaries dared to roll onto our Green Berets after repeatedly telling them to stop,
	Your dad said take the gloves off and we bombed the hell out of them and killed 400 Wagner mercenaries.
	That kind of action sends a message to people like Putin.
	There's a reason that he invaded in 2014 Ukraine under Obama and then didn't do a damn thing but then thought he could get away with it again.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Yeah, and then, as your dad likes to say, he told Putin, you try this stuff, I'll take the tops off the Kremlin.
	Like, people like Putin, Xi, the Taliban, they understand that.
	And they, right now, they know they can get away with it.
	They smell weakness, they're gonna push.
	Yeah, that was always the irony of Russia, Russia, Russia.
	Putin has all this information on Trump, and yet he just took out 400 of their mercenaries.
	He did these things that are clearly really bad for Russia, and yet Putin's not somehow wielding this information.
	So Trump was tougher on Russia than anyone.
	Uh, and you'd think that if someone had, you know, documentation and incriminating evidence that you probably wouldn't be able to get away with that.
	So it never made sense to me, but I guess it doesn't have to when, you know, when big tech and the mainstream media just, you know, they pick a side, they pick a narrative, and they're going to run with it.
	And I want to throw something out there for your listeners.
	If they haven't taken a moment, I know there's all these reports that are always being thrown around.
	Take a moment, go online, and actually read the Durham Report, which was the investigation of the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax investigation.
	And listen, you want to talk about pulling the rug out of kind of faith in our institutions and in our Justice Department.
	The bottom line is they all knew.
	The CIA received intelligence that the Clinton, so this was a foreign power collecting on the Clinton campaign,
	We're good to go.
	We're good to go.
	The surveillance of a sitting presidential campaign.
	But then when Sessions stupidly, as Attorney General, recused himself, they had free hand to let it roll with a sitting president of the United States.
	It is, I mean, it just blows my mind the damage that they did to this country.
	And now to trust, nobody trusts the FBI or the DOJ.
	And one of these days when China decides to make a move,
	People like me or others are going to say, look, I can't share the intelligence, but you got to trust me.
	This is about to happen.
	Who's going to trust anybody because of what they did?
	I mean, the Durham report just really, it took way too long and he didn't investigate all of the people that he should have, but it was damning enough.
	They all knew.
	Yeah, of course, that's why it gets no coverage.
	I mean, Devin Nunes was on here and he was head of intelligence at the time as all of this stuff was going on.
	So, you know, he had pretty good access.
	He actually said something on the show that was really interesting I never thought of.
	It's like, no, like, you know, the dossier actually sounds like something that Hillary Clinton probably tried digging up on Joe Biden when she thought she was going to be running against him in a primary.
	And when you think about what's in there, like, who's it sound exactly like?
	Hunter Biden?
	You know, the corruption from these oligarchs, the partying with the hookers.
	It's almost like they just took the Hunter Biden file, changed the name and address and said, oh, no, yeah, that's Trump.
	It's Trump.
	And I was like, oh, my God, that actually seems to make a lot of sense.
	It could have been real, but it was probably about the Bidens and not Trump.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	No.
	Yeah.
	And I mean, the fact that the entire leadership of the national security apparatus
	All knew.
	They all knew when your dad won.
	They all knew after, during the transition.
	And they saw the damage that it was doing to the country.
	And they just let it roll.
	Because they have all convinced themselves that when it comes to stopping President Trump as the disruptor that he is, that the ends justify the mean, no matter what the cost to America.
	And I just really find it scary and disgusting.
	Yeah.
	So you'd brought up Beau Bergdahl, and I did know that you were one of the guys that, you know, tasked to go recover him.
	We lost some actual patriotic American men, as opposed to a piece of garbage like him, you know, in that process.
	But some of your Republican colleagues and yourself are now urging a new Bergdahl trial after, I guess, the judge tossed his desertion case.
	Uh, what should we know about that case?
	Uh, you know, why should there be a new trial?
	I mean, to me, that one's, I guess, sort of obvious, but like, you know, how do we justify it?
	Because this guy could skate with that, uh, after having cost Americans their lives, uh, just shows me, you know, how backwards our systems are.
	So here's what makes, like, no sense, is
	I don't think so.
	All right.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	We'll have to appeal this again to get him a new trial.
	And I think Biden's people would be perfectly happy for this whole thing to go away.
	So we're on top of it.
	We're not letting it go.
	And I want every veteran out there who is rightly outraged by what, you know, what happened here to let them know that we're on it.
	We're good to go.
	We're not trading North Korean generals to get those guys back.
	You decide you want to go to the other side, you know, that's your stupid choice.
	So the trade should never happen in the first place, but the fact that it did, he deserves jail time, and we're going to keep pushing for justice for him.
	Talk a little bit about the Biden doctrine, if there is such a thing, with what's coming out of his mouth.
	What are they doing right, if anything?
	What are they doing wrong?
	And what should the foreign policy policies be in for the Trump administration in a second term?
	Yeah, well, I think first and foremost, President Trump recognized the true threat
	That is our number one threat and what we have right now under a Biden doctrine
	Uh, is you have kind of some national security folks who are reading the intelligence, and what she fully intends to do, which is to replace the United States as a global leader, to defeat us, and to replace us, uh, with his techno-dictatorship worldwide.
	You have some people that realize that, but they keep getting trumped, pardon the pun, by John Kerry and the climate agenda.
	And, you know, it's amazing.
	The Chinese government could give a damn about climate change.
	Don, the Chinese have opened more coal-fired power plants than the rest of the world combined just in the last two years.
	And the irony is, do you know what's powering those coal-fired power plants?
	Russian coal that they're now importing
	Rather than it going to Europe.
	So look, we have to realize the threat that they are.
	And I think the key strategies are elements that strategy is one arm the hell out of Taiwan.
	Let them do the fighting and give them the capability to do so.
	The lesson we need to learn from Ukraine is you arm your allies as your dad did beforehand, not after the fact, after whole cities have been devastated.
	Number two, we got to bring our supply chains back home.
	We've got to get them out of there in a huge way and part of that is to stop the billions of dollars that companies like BlackRock and JP Morgan and what have you are pouring into their market that they're then using for their military buildup
	Three, we've got to get our military back on track.
	And four, we have to protect our IP.
	We have to protect our intellectual property.
	We can't pour all of these billions of taxpayer dollars into research and development for things like AI and chips and nanorobotics just to have it walk right out the back door to Beijing.
	We will always be more innovative and creative
	Well, it doesn't matter if they capture probably trillions of dollars of IP that cost us to get to a point.
	They steal it and on day number one without spending more than two cents for their bot farm, hackers, whatever it may be, they get
	All of that knowledge.
	They make one little change, they take a month, they analyze it, make one thing a little bit better, for two cents they have what we spent billions on.
	They don't have to be innovators if they're able to steal the product that we do and just improve on it a little bit.
	And that's what they've done.
	And they have a program called CivMill Fusion, where they're taking these civilian technologies that they're stealing, or we have companies just giving it to them.
	Yeah, because you can't get anything done in China.
	You surrender your IP just to do any kind of business there.
	And so, you know, people have to understand that as well.
	Like any company that's doing business there, China has everything they've got, whether that's Apple or Microsoft or everything.
	So, you know, you think they're not going to weaponize that against us immediately?
	Yeah, you got it.
	And so my message to conservatives out there is we've got to start voting with our wallet.
	You know, Made in America is not just a union issue or a jobs issue, it's a national security issue.
	And so when you see Made in China, please, I know it's hard,
	We're good to go.
	Let's bring manufacturing into Central America if it doesn't make sense to come here.
	Now you've stopped your migrant problem and your supply chain problem.
	Then how about to allied countries like India or Australia?
	I'm actually heading over to India because, you know, world's largest democracy, world's oldest democracy, let's come together economically and militarily
	And work together to contain China.
	But your dad totally got that.
	It's pulling all of those elements and having the time and the energy to drive them home.
	Yeah, no, 100%.
	I sort of have, you know, the rule in the back of my head.
	Understand, listen, my father did a lot.
	I spoke with Peter Navarro the other day, a couple of interesting stats, but we were talking about that in the China policies, which is, you know, China, the trade deficit we have with China is roughly the equivalent of their military budget.
	So just think about that.
	Where they're screwing us, they're taking that to weaponize their military against us.
	I mean, that should tell us everything else we need to know.
	So my sort of saying, and again, I don't think anyone worked harder than the Trump administration to try to bring manufacturing back to America to try to save what we have.
	But you're right.
	I think it's not entirely realistic to say, hey, we're just going to build everything we have back here.
	But my policy is sort of like anywhere but China.
	So yeah, you're right.
	If you have it made in Mexico because that's more realistic, like, hey man, that's a lot better.
	You're right.
	You solve some of the migrant crisis if they have jobs, if they have that security, yada, yada, yada.
	And you're not feeding those who have essentially stated their mission is to take you out, which is scary.
	We've got things, Republicans in the House,
	We're good to go.
	All powered by Chinese-made materials.
	And I think that alone will drive a domestic market, or at least one outside of China.
	But we've got to start driving that with policy, because we're running out of time.
	We wait till 2024, 2025 to start these things.
	And meanwhile, Xi is on the march.
	Well, no, the threat's so much more.
	I mean, they have a military presence in Cuba.
	Where have we seen this before?
	You know, like Russia with the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War.
	Like, you know, they're building highways in Jamaica.
	They built, I believe it was, Antigua's airport.
	I have a feeling that China doesn't care about vacationing so much in the Caribbean.
	Why are they there?
	Why are they making these investments?
	And once we get through the obvious answer to that, what's the U.S.
	doing to counter it?
	I don't think people realize just how bad it is.
	They've got both sides of the Panama Canal now.
	The ports on both sides.
	They took a mountain range in Patagonia.
	You're right.
	I don't think they want to get their gaucho on.
	I don't know.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Pay their fair share, unlike the NATO in Europe.
	So it's leaning on our allies.
	It's getting our supply chain out.
	It's stopping the billions that are flowing in between our trade deficit and companies like BlackRock and JPMorgan that are investing your savings in.
	And then as consumers, we've got to buy made in America.
	And I've even gone to my financial advisor
	We're good to go.
	So you've got sailors sending their money home, thinking they're saving for retirement, hard-working, blue-collar sailors, and the Wall Street types are investing it into the Beijing market.
	One of the shipyards that just launched China's newest aircraft carrier is sitting on that market.
	We're literally, as Lenin said, selling the communists the rope that they're going to use to hang us.
	Yeah, I mean, so, you know, you've been talking about BlackRock and how they're pumping billions into China and some of these other companies.
	You know, you're talking about, you know, pulling stuff out of that, diversifying away from that.
	But can you tell us, you know, what you're investigating about those, you know, those really dangerous investments?
	I mean, because, you know, hey, it's great.
	Wall Street's taking seller's money.
	They're going to try to make money with it over there.
	But like, if anything ever went wrong, does anyone really think they're getting their money back out of China?
	One is, there's a whole slew of their defense companies
	We're good to go.
	The genocide and the human rights abuses that are going on.
	And look, I mean, these are in Western China.
	It is true slave labor.
	These people have their heads shaved.
	They're lined up before rail cars.
	They're sent into concentration camps.
	The women are sterilized and the men are sent out to the fields.
	We're good to go.
	That's also against the law, and BlackRock and these other firms know it.
	And then the point that you made is their fiduciary responsibility.
	The Chinese cook the books all day long, and they don't have to abide by basic accounting standards.
	So you don't even know that the returns
	That these firms tell you you're getting in your retirement fund are the real returns.
	And yeah, good luck getting your money out if you ever tried to.
	So it's across the board bad news.
	But you know what?
	You got these guys, they're getting bonused out, they're making their quarterly earnings.
	They don't care about what happens to the country three, four, ten years from now after pumping all of our money into our greatest adversary.
	So that's what we got to do, man.
	Well, when you're back home, and I think you're home right now in, you know, sort of North Florida, you know, when you're talking to your constituents, you know, what are the issues, the concerns that you hear about the most these days?
	What are, you know, what are the sort of, obviously, you know, inflation, some of these things are big ones, but are, you know, what are the biggest ones and are there any ones that sort of surprise you that are a little bit more unusual that we don't think about on a day-to-day basis?
	Yeah, so well, of course, just what's going on with our southern border just is driving people nuts and and even in Florida.
	Yeah, it's even in Florida because what we've uncovered and other people have in some of our news agencies is we have these flights coming in the middle of the night in Jacksonville and Orlando unloading migrants.
	We don't know where they're going.
	They tend to, you know, some of them are just.
	You know, poor kids in need, that's fine.
	But when I talk to my constituents and they say, you know what?
	Our schools are overcrowded.
	Veterans aren't getting the services that they deserve.
	Our hospitals are getting overcrowded and overwhelmed.
	Like, we're not giving American citizens what they have paid for with their tax dollar in terms of government services, much less having the floodgates open for the rest of the world.
	So that's an issue that's on their mind.
	I've got to tell you, I've got one of the most conservative districts in the state, and what's going on with the two tiers of justice right now with your dad, and what's not happening to Hunter Biden, what's not happening to Joe Biden, is definitely top of mind.
	And what breaks my heart as a national security guy is to see the erosion of trust.
	Yeah.
	That said that Joe Biden had received millions of dollars, $5 million to him, $5 million to Hunter, and then the FBI didn't share that document with IRS.
	Now we have IRS whistleblowers raising the red flag, saying they weren't allowed to look into it and nothing's happening.
	Uh, that, man, that is, um... Seems like a big deal, Mike.
	It seems kind of like a big deal.
	I have a feeling if it was me, it would be a really big deal.
	They tried to redact it, but yet another whistleblower goes to Senator Grassley and shows him the full version, and the part they redacted was, oh by the way, that Ukrainian oligarch has tapes
	Of Biden.
	That's kind of a big deal.
	So between that, between the documents that he had sitting next to his Corvette in his garage, you're hearing nothing about that, yet you see a raid at Mar-a-Lago.
	If anything that sends Americans through the roof, it's a notion of things not being fair.
	You can be tough, but you got to apply it to both sides or you don't apply it at all.
	So, I mean, we were having, yeah, we were having a conversation sort of, you know, before we hit record on this, talking about sort of just that, like, you know, and I sort of said, hey, you know, I think we have to play the game the way the Democrats are.
	You know, we're playing t-ball, they're playing hardball, and you said, like, you know, but, you know, do we really want to be that guy?
	And, like, I don't think anyone wants to be that guy, but I think right now the other side,
	I don't want to be that guy.
	I don't think we have a choice.
	If we don't do that, they take the win, they laugh their asses off at the bank, they go take the next win, and there's a point where, you know, they gain all that power, they get another presidency, they take over the Supreme Court, and it's over!
	Like, the Republic is over.
	You know, talk a little bit about both sides of that, because, you know, I get where you're coming from.
	Like, I'd love not to have to play this game, but as long as it's being played and there's literally no signs of stopping it, I think until we do that,
	Nothing's gonna change, and they're gonna keep doing it.
	Well, I'd like to think, you know, I mean, to what you're saying, that we play that same level of hardball, and at some point, we either keep spiraling downward, or the other side, like a deterrent, says, whoa, okay, that caused, that hurt, and maybe we'll stop this nonsense.
	Like, you know, for example, when your dad wins in 2024, which I fully believe he will,
	And everybody is screaming, as they were in 2017, after he won then, that it's an illegitimate election.
	You had Jimmy Carter, President Carter, saying he was an illegitimate president.
	The Russians stole the election.
	He was selected, not elected.
	Hillary Clinton saying the same thing.
	Half the Democrats in the House saying the same thing.
	Lying to the country and saying that a foreign adversary stole our election.
	I guess we're going to prosecute all of them now.
	Yeah, no, I mean, listen, I... I'm okay with that.
	What I was saying before we came on air is, you know, when you see what they did to somebody like a good man like Kavanaugh, where they smeared him that way, where you had women just literally making up things like orgies and his daughters having to see that, that gives me some heartburn to do that same thing to somebody, even if they're a liberal that I don't want to see on the court.
	Uh, you're right.
	It's just a shame that we're even having to have this conversation.
	Yeah, no, I mean, the Kavanaugh thing was a great example, but you know, but again, they'll try to do it again.
	I mean, you know, that guy, you know, it was this little guy on a court of appeals that, you know, magically overnight, you know, it's not like he was hidden somewhere for 30 years.
	He was a pretty public figure, very, you know, respected law guy and like, oh yeah, he became a gang rapist.
	Like, I'm sorry, obviously, you know, like no, no one had a problem with,
	Until he was appointed by Trump.
	And I think, to my father's credit, like, how many Republicans would have actually stuck with him?
	You know, George Bush would have been like, oh, gone, like, next one.
	You know, and they'd do it again and again and again until they found, like, the one weak one.
	You know, like a John Roberts type or something like that.
	Okay, we'll let that guy in because we know, you know, it's like the easy existence for the weak Republicans in D.C.
	We know, you know, if we camp out in front of his house, they're just going to fold.
	They're going to give us what they want.
	It's like some of your colleagues who are, you know, weaker in Washington, D.C.
	It's like, yeah, they can be conservative.
	They can be Republicans.
	They don't get the hate pieces.
	As long as you fold what it actually matters.
	You know, you can actually be a conservative in D.C.
	and have a pretty easy existence, but that's not the way we're actually going to win anything.
	No, look, this is, I can tell you because I'm in the trenches.
	I was in, you know, the last four years under Nancy Pelosi.
	The squad came in the same year I did.
	And at their core, they believe that this is not a good country, that fundamentally since its founding, which they believe happened in 1619 around slavery rather than 1776 around freedom, that this is a fundamentally racist, misogynist, and colonialist country that needs to be apologized for around the world, as President Obama did, as Blinken did to the UN,
	All right.
	We're good to go.
	In their image, which is a socialist communist image.
	And if it's the Supreme Court going the wrong way, then we'll stack the court will put term limits on will can fundamentally rebuild it in their image.
	That's the fight before us.
	And that's not a country that I almost died for twice as a Green Beret.
	That's not one that I want my kids and grandkids growing up in.
	And that's the that's the threat internally.
	Which I think in some ways is worse than the external threat.
	A hundred percent.
	When I look at the decisions that are being made, when I look at what's going on.
	You mentioned when you first ran, you came in the same year as the squad.
	I see Ilhan Omar talking about how terrible America is.
	I was like, I don't know, you're still here.
	You left Somalia, but apparently America's worse.
	You know, white men are the biggest threat to America and to anything out there, and yet she's married to one.
	It's like, I don't understand, but I guess you don't have to.
	So, you came in with that group.
	You know, what made you do this in the first place?
	You know, you come out of the military.
	What made you do that?
	What do you remember about that first race back in 2018?
	I mean, I guess you actually ran for the seat that was previously held by Ron DeSantis.
	Yeah, well, as my wife said, she said, what made me do it?
	My wife says, OK, you ran around the world and got shot at for 27 years.
	And we had, by the way, a thriving, growing business.
	We had just taken on private equity.
	So I did the stupidest thing financially I've ever done, which was to walk away from that.
	What are your thoughts on this?
	Then so be it because I think the stakes are so high.
	I saw what was happening to your dad coming right out the gate.
	I saw the type of people that were running from the from the squad and and I see the threats.
	What do you make
	Should scare everyone.
	Russia, China, we already talked about.
	We need people in our government with a little dirt and sweat under their fingernails that are willing to roll up the sleeves, take the tough fights, take the tough votes, and damn it, you know.
	We're going to move the ball for America back in the right direction.
	So, you know, here we are.
	You had the military service, but I forgot about you.
	I mean, you actually had a thriving business as well.
	And I think that's so important.
	That's, that's the thing you don't usually see, you know, from the radicals in Congress.
	You know, they've never signed that sort of the front of a paycheck.
	They've only been, they've only been takers.
	Uh, you know, not, not creators.
	Uh, and so, you know, beyond the service, I think that's an important thing, because you, you, you see these people in D.C., you know, they're sitting on a finance committee, but they, you know, they don't have the faintest idea of what, what they're even talking about, but they're there in a position of power, wielding literally trillions of dollars, and our children's, you know, and grandchildren's after them, future in their hands, because they've been there longer, not because they actually know what they're talking about.
	That's pretty scary.
	And so, yeah, two things on that.
	One is, yes, I can read a balance sheet, unlike many of my colleagues.
	We have a $5 trillion federal budget, kind of important.
	But, you know, in dealing with the Democrats, one of the things that is just continue to boggle my mind is they have no appreciation or understanding
	Uh, for how wealth is, is created.
	Um, you know, they've always just gotten a job either as a lawyer or an activist or, or some other government position.
	And two weeks later, money just shows up in their paycheck from that magical pot in the sky.
	And to see them demonize people who are successful, uh, people who started with nothing and it now may be worth billions, but you know what they created?
	We're good to go.
	For generations to come, created by one person that they think didn't pay his fair share and should be taxed more.
	Why?
	Because at the end of the day, they want that wealth in the hands of government, which they will do anything and everything to control.
	And if you look at a fundamental of socialism, it is taking from one group in society and giving it to another group.
	And who is that decider in the middle?
	Government bureaucrats.
	And man, that's, I mean, that is fundamentally what they believe.
	I see it day in and day out.
	And that's what we've got to fight against at every turn.
	Talk a little bit about your decision to endorse my father for 2024 and why you think perhaps so many in like the floor of the delegation have actually done the same.
	Man, it was an easy one.
	I'll tell you that right up front.
	You know, three key reasons.
	Number one, on a personal level, and I want everybody to hear this because I still find it astounding and amazing.
	Every single time I called your dad, whether he was in the Oval Office, out on Air Force One, in a foreign country, he answered or called back within hours.
	To this day, I don't know how he does it.
	I really don't.
	And not only did he call back, did he hear me out, but he delivered.
	I was talking about the military's 401k plan.
	I talked your dad through it on a Sunday night.
	He said, Mike, talk to Meadows the next day.
	I did.
	We talked to Robert O'Brien's National Security Advisor.
	A week later, there was a cease and desist letter to that board saying, hell no, you're not going to invest our military's pension back into their greatest adversary.
	And a week later, there were three new board members nominated to the Senate.
	Like, I mean, every time, whether it was hurricane aid for Florida or what have you, he heard me out and was responsive and delivered.
	Number two, I'm not convinced, and this is where everybody running against him right now, many of them great Republicans that I know,
	Uh, and, and appreciate.
	But, you don't get the Trump policies without the man.
	You know, they're, they're trying to sell people that, oh yeah, you liked all his policies, you can get all of that, but, you know, you get somebody, you get somebody different at the top, no.
	You don't get SpaceX without Elon, you don't get Apple without Steve Jobs, and you don't get border, crime, Abraham Accords, Space Force, taking out Soleimani and Baghdadi, both,
	Don, I was in the room when he said NAFTA was crap.
	It gutted manufacturing in middle America.
	We're going to renegotiate it.
	Everybody else on the stage that first debate literally laughed.
	And you know what?
	He did it with Pelosi in charge of the House.
	And then, you know, look, at the end of the day, he is the only one that's going to hit the ground running.
	And truly now I think understands how disruptive the bureaucrats and the bureaucracy in our government is and I think is going to just take a sledgehammer to it and the country needs it.
	Well, listen, man, I think you're right.
	Yeah, I think it's a good point, right?
	The same people who say they do the same thing were the same people saying, you'll never get a peace deal done in the Middle East.
	You know, I remember when that was the holy grail of geopolitical politics, but they talked about it like it was this magical unicorn.
	He's like, no, this is how we do it.
	And, you know.
	To the conversation we had a few seconds ago about sort of real world experience, you know, being able to read a balance sheet or having been in actual negotiations and understanding leverage.
	You can't do that if you've just been a bureaucrat.
	You actually need to have done it in practice in the real world.
	Then you can just scale it, right?
	You know, the difference between a small deal and a big deal is usually just zeros.
	There takes just as much effort in the small deals usually as the big deals, but
	You know, you're able to make that translation.
	I think that's a really solid point.
	I haven't heard anyone actually articulate that, but you're right.
	Everyone's saying, I would have done that.
	It's like, yeah, but everyone, you know, hoped to maybe have done these things in the past, but no one actually could get it done.
	Yeah, look, I'll tell you, I mean, just case in point, Space Force.
	I'm on the Space Post.
	I see what the Chinese are doing in space.
	They're laughing us right now.
	They're launching more than the rest of the world combined.
	Everybody made their jokes, what have you.
	The Pentagon did not want to do it.
	And they would still, if it had been anybody else, Jeb or, you know, whomever, I think the Pentagon would still be dragging their feet.
	It wasn't until your dad fired the Air Force Secretary, said, you're fired, and all the generals snapped in line, and now everybody sees you can't be number one on Earth if you're number two in space.
	It's the ultimate high ground, and we got to have it, and we're being
	Seriously challenged up there.
	I mean, he saw that, and he knew what it would take to get it done, you know, and not let the bureaucracy just wait him out.
	And Abraham Accords, that, I mean, we could keep going on down the list.
	How do you get not only Mexico to agree to have the asylum seekers wait in Mexico,
	I don't know if we cut off there.
	To not only wait in Mexico, but to get the most liberal, progressive Mexican president in modern history to put his National Guard on his southern border.
	What your dad said, you know what?
	We're going to shut the border down, and all that money that's coming into your government isn't going to flow anymore unless you start controlling your border, Mexico.
	And look at that.
	It happened.
	So that's the kind of leadership we need, and that's why I'm happy to endorse him.
	Well, we appreciate it, man.
	We love what you're doing out there.
	Keep it up.
	And, you know, let me know when you make it down a little further south or I'll have to come up to your district, I imagine, sometime in the not-too-distant future.
	So, thanks for everything you do, Mike.
	Guys, follow Mike.
	Go check him out on social and everywhere else out there.
	A true great patriot and someone getting it done in Washington.
	So, we appreciate you, man.
	Hey, thank you, Donny.
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