If Texas Turns Blue - What Happens to America: Ft. In Studio Guest TX AG Ken Paxton
Millions more documents related to Jeffrey Epstein have been released by the federal government. You asked for it; here’s what’s in them. Walkouts have been taking place across the country to protest ICE. Is it all organic or is something else going on? Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into the Austin ISD to find out what really happened.Show more GUEST: Josh Firestine | Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
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Allegedly, we have Texas AG Ken Paxton on the show today.
He's actually going to be in studio, which is pretty rare.
We rarely have people in studio just because of the weird sort of, like, biofilm that coats it.
That's right.
He's in the green room.
Hey, he's running for Senate.
You know what?
We're going to ask him about, you guys send in your questions.
What do you want to ask Ken Paxton most?
Because, hey, love the state of Texas.
There is room for improvement on some things, property taxes and H-1Bs.
That's the main thing.
It's property taxes and H-1Bs.
Then we're going to talk about the ice walkouts that are going on across this.
I want to say great land, but excluding the places where the ice walkouts have taken place.
And the Epstein files.
I heard you guys yesterday.
You want us to talk about them, so we will go through them.
The problem is it's not exactly what the media has been force feeding you.
So everyone here, we've had a long couple of days.
We are tired, but we're excited.
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What do you think you're missing from the Epstein Files?
Like, what do you want most that you haven't seen?
Don't say client list.
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That was quite.
Tim consents to be good at his job.
It's the most important month.
Kind of a short one.
Some fast facts for you.
It's the month of the year.
In honor of our brethren of color, because we are all one people.
We are.
In the eyes of the Lord.
Which kind of seems weird than separating them for their own month.
But George Crum invented the potato chip way back in 1853.
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Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color barrier in 1947.
Then it was pretty much all color barrier baseball.
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We're going to get the Epstein file.
You got to dance your way out of that one.
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All right.
First thing we're going to talk about.
The 81st anniversary of the Battle of Ibojima is in 16 days.
That's a big one.
7,000 of 70,000 Marines were killed.
And only 216 of the 18,000 Japanese troops were taken alive.
So some history facts for you.
Wow.
Of course, there was a film about this directed by Clineshwood.
It's worthwhile.
By the way, question.
Which one do you like more?
Flags of our fathers?
Or what was the name of the Iwo Jima one?
Battle of Iwo Jima?
I don't know.
I know Flags of Our Fathers.
And then there was, you guys let me, one was showing it from the American perspective.
One was from the Japanese perspective.
Sans of Iwo Jima.
Sans of Ibojima.
Oh, okay.
Is that from the Japanese perspective?
Yeah, but it was, you know, kind of the, it was part of a series.
Let me know which one you guys actually think was better.
They were both really good films.
If you want a film done right, you want it done under budget, under time, you hire Clint Eastwood.
I mean, he's, you know, he's old.
Yeah.
So, of course, you guys know if you saw that film, the symbol of this event was the raising of our flag over Mount Suribachi.
Very proud moment for Americans.
And you know what?
Hey, it's okay to be proud of American success.
And that includes victories or that includes incredible battles.
That includes wars of attrition where it just shows the grit that we have.
Not to be outdone by that pride.
Minnesotans opposed to ICE.
They recreated the historic, the iconic moment, that sort of, I guess you would say, statue in top five gayest ways imaginable.
It's the battle of Emotina.
Are they going to put it in?
Are they going to actually raise it?
But that would require a little bit of effort.
No, they only had one camera.
It's a prop flag.
The post that accompanied it on X wrote, We stand for justice and a future worth fighting for.
And later, more Minnesotan freedom fighters reenacted the Battle of the Bulge.
Well, you're both winners.
You're both winners.
And we're all losers.
Yes.
And after the demonstration, the team behind it celebrated in Times Square.
So that was.
Oh, we did it.
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There's a kid Paxton.
You know, we clean up the bio film and then we do this.
This is us.
So the Epstein files, this is something people, you know, of course, people, why didn't you talk about it yesterday?
Is it because you're on the island?
Sure.
The real reason is, I'll tell you this.
They might as well be called the Crowder files as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah, pretty much.
Pretty much at this point.
I mean, I will say this.
I do like a large shower.
So that's one thing where I actually find common ground at Epstein.
I wouldn't be doing those same things in the shower.
No, that's true.
But have you ever gone to a hotel where it has an obscenely, impractically large shower?
Oh, yeah, you ever have two shower heads?
Yeah.
Well, yeah, then your wife's like, hey, oh, we should charge a guy.
I'm like, no, that's two for me.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
That's two heads for me.
It's like a car wash for me.
Yes.
I had one with three showers.
There were lights in there.
I had one with three shower heads.
It was the Londoner, maybe.
You guys can let me know.
Or London Hotel, Londoner, Glenn Beck back then.
When he launched Before It Was the Blaze, Before It was Insider Extreme.
It was Glenbeck.com, Before It Was The New Thing.
Yeah.
And I. Did one of them for your butt?
Well, I did.
I assigned one for my butt.
Did a show that night.
I was on stage doing jokes about Muhammad and everyone had a bulletproof fest except for me at the Nokia Theater.
Anyway, that's right.
I remember that.
It had one of those, it had three shower heads.
It had two on each side.
No, four, four.
I'm remembering.
It's coming back to me now.
It's four shower heads I had.
One, two, one telephone shower.
And then I had one thing that just shot jets out straight.
I thought I was like, maybe this is one of those like yoga bidets.
I don't know.
No, dude, that's a butt blaster.
But I spent.
I don't make good money for those.
I ate a schwarma wrap in that shower.
It was the biggest part of the room.
So my point is.
Jeffrey Epstein likes large showers.
Okay.
I too like large showers.
It's good leading.
Hitler, I would imagine, enjoyed a sandwich.
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I also enjoy a good sandwich.
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I have no idea.
I said, nothing marble, right?
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They make good bread.
Surprise too spicy.
It's like pineapple makes my tongue go.
Okay.
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All right.
So the Epstein files.
People are like, why didn't you talk about it?
Well, because I will tell you this.
A lot of people have been misleading you.
And by design, I recreated the Epstein cell.
We did here down to the millimeter.
And we used a force meter where I tried to break my neck.
I wore a neck guard to see if I could apply the amount of force.
You can go and watch it.
I do not believe the story that we were told about Jeffrey Epstein.
It is technically possible, but unbelievably improbable, especially when you consider the surrounding circumstances.
That is my opinion.
I also believe that there was absolutely a blackmail operation going on, probably a litany of people involved.
I can't prove that, and I'm willing to bet that a lot of the probably most usable evidence has since been destroyed.
I want to be honest with you because I can't prove these things.
I can prove the amount of force that's needed to be generated.
You can go and watch that.
But that is my opinion.
Everything else, I am going to provide the links, references, because this is one of those situations where purveyors of misinformation, they are having a field day.
This is their Super Bowl.
So please be careful because when emails are taken out of context, when emails are mixed with notes to self, it's really easy to sell you a lie.
I think a lot of people are implicated.
Certainly those who you already know in the Democrat Party, and I think some of the Republican Party, absolutely, as well.
My opinion is that Donald Trump worked with the authorities, and really the only evidence that we have regarding Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is that he booted him, wasn't a fan of him, and a lot of crazy people have tried to tar and feather him.
That's my opinion.
So last week, big files dump, Deputy AG Todd Blanch said that the review is over.
That is disappointing, I know, to a lot of people, myself included.
What did we learn?
Mostly, like I said, that it's difficult to discern fact from fiction.
On the left, on the right, a big merit to fight.
Whichever way you want, that's the way you read.
Truth's mixing with fools.
The opposite of what people were open.
Gates, antibiotics, and interviews to see Jeff was at least afraid.
I do have a good mirror.
He likes a good mirror.
He does.
He does.
To be honest.
I also like a good mirror, but that doesn't mean I actually don't like mirrors.
I look at a mirror once a day after the shower.
That's it.
One time I looked at the end of the day.
I was like, oh my God, I've been bleeding all day.
I should have checked the mirror.
So let's go through this.
Again, references, link in the description.
The Bill Gates story.
So a lot of you have been told: hey, there's an email from Jeffrey Epstein to Bill Gates regarding antibiotics that he was supplied with or Epstein supplied to Bill Gates because of Russian prostitutes.
That may or may not be true, but that's not actually what's in the files.
So Epstein drafted notes, meaning these weren't sent to Bill Gates.
And just so you know, I really don't like Bill Gates.
He's a wiener.
And what the draft, I should say, not email, was indicating was that Bill Gates maybe got an STD from Russian girls, that he requested antibiotics to surreptitiously give to his wife on beknots to her.
There's no corroboration.
These are entirely writings of Epstein's own doing.
And to me, that's interesting in and of itself because it suggests that he was building, again, building a backlog for blackmail.
And the fact that it wasn't sent means that this is probably something he was holding in reserve as leverage.
That is an opinion, the actual note, you can go and read, check the reference.
And I will say, some of the notes still have us scratching our heads.
Yeah, well, you know, you were about to say something before we had to deliver the news.
From himself to himself.
Yeah, that's not what he kept a note basically to kind of, it seems like it's like, well, this will be discoverable at some point.
So you guys want to be careful about you.
The email that says all this stuff about you, Bill.
Well, it's about you.
That last one was.
No, that's not true.
That last one.
Lily, I mean, you just saw the tape.
That last one.
It doesn't mean anything.
Everyone likes to admonish.
I, too, like to admonish you, along with enjoying large showers and a good mirror.
Got admonished by Jeffrey Epstein.
You got admonished by Tim.
Yeah.
Yeah.
See, and it doesn't mean that you are on board with Jeffrey Epstein.
This is one that is interesting to me.
Check the references.
Is Elon Musk in the files?
Emails show that Musk tried to arrange a visit to Little St. James Island in 2012, 2013.
The visit never happened due to scheduling, and emails would suggest that they would act as evidence.
But the emails do contradict a claim that Musk made earlier, where he said that Epstein tried repeatedly to get me to visit his island.
I declined.
So is this a smoking gun?
No, not really.
It just tells you that sometimes people spin things or paint it in a way that isn't necessarily representative of reality.
This is one where I would have follow-up questions.
I think that it warrants this.
If he said, hey, this guy repeatedly tried to get me to the island, I declined.
And then we go, well, hold on a second.
It looks here like maybe you were thinking about it and kind of trying to schedule it until it fell through.
Can you give us the straight scoop?
I think that warrants a follow-up.
I think if we're going to be consistent across the board, Elon Musk warrants it.
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Yes.
So Elon has actually been very, yeah, I agree with your take, but Elon has been very vocal about releasing all of the files.
He also knows this information is in the files, so he knows he's going to have to answer these questions.
He probably thinks he can just kind of deal with it and be like, no, I was never interested and it was just scheduling.
So I feel like, yes, a follow-up is warranted, but I feel like a lot of what we see is just people like either on timelines getting it a little wrong, maybe misleading because they don't want to be tied to Jeffrey Epstein and there was a conversation or something like that that happened.
But he has been pretty consistent on release the files.
Right.
Even though it might hurt him a little bit.
Yeah.
I still think it warrants the follow-up questions.
Yeah, but the story you gave isn't really straightforward.
And given Elon's public track record with, and I don't mean underage ladies anyway, but you know, he's prolific.
Yes.
Yes.
That's a good way to say it.
He gets his seed is sown.
We're not advocating for that.
We're just one that surprised me here.
Jason Callakanis, who's been on the show.
Not surprised.
More or less.
There were some documents that resurfaced contradicting some of his claims that he only knew Epstein in the 90s.
I love Palmer Lucky going after him.
I mean, is it a smoking gun?
No.
But this also, sometimes what just happens is people go, oh, gosh, I went to a dinner with him or I was at a function with him.
And I don't want people to make him out of a molehill.
When was that?
It could have been the 90s and they get their timelines wrong.
Follow-ups would clarify that.
So I do think it's important to, and this is across the board, I do think follow-up questions based on real information, not based on self-notes.
I don't think it would be fair to ask Bill Gates about a note that Epstein sent to himself.
I don't think it would be fair to ask President Trump to waste his time addressing a claim that was already pretty much considered to be non-credible.
But if it's somebody's own words that contradict a matter of record that is provable, I think a good indicator is will these people show up and address it?
And does it pass a sniff test?
President Trump, because you have some idiots out there going, President Trump is a pedophile.
Deemed Credible or Not?00:04:38
There's no evidence of that whatsoever.
And again, before we get to the information in here, don't you think the left would have used this?
Don't you think in the Biden administration, I mean, just think of our intelligence communities.
Why wouldn't they?
They're going to impeach him over January 6th, peacefully and patriotically.
They're going to impeach.
But they're not if there's strong evidence that he was involved in sex trafficking.
The best they got was falsified documents.
Right.
Yeah.
That would have been the October surprise.
Right.
For sure.
Absolutely would have been.
So there are mentions of Trump in these documents.
And again, these are just documents.
This is a collection of information.
Some of it is taken from Jeffrey Epstein's own files, computers.
Some of it is taken from other statements.
This happens in any case.
And consistently, some information is deemed to be credible and some information is deemed to not be credible.
So something that people left out when circulating these allegations, they actually cropped this part that immediately followed the accusations.
It said complainant was spoken to and deemed not credible.
Additional research showed three separate incidents involving police which requested mandatory psychiatric evaluation.
You know, there are people out there, and the police refer to them as serial confessors.
There are people who get a thrill out of confessing to things like they didn't do.
That's why sometimes people go, well, he confessed.
Well, there are a lot of people who confess.
They will confess, and it's verifiably false, and they'll keep coming back in to go, no, no, no, I did it.
I committed the rape or I committed the murder.
This is something that people need to understand.
And there are people out there who make false accusations all the time.
For more proof, see me too.
This is an anonymous source that was deemed not credible, and there was a record of multiple requests from police for psychiatric evaluations.
If someone right now who hates you just said, you know what, I'm going to go to the authorities and say that you raped a minor.
And the police say, oh, well, this person's absolutely insane.
And you have an alibi where they can go here.
Here he is on security camera footage at that exact time, not even in the state.
Do you think it would be fair 5, 10, 15 years from now for that to be a matter of record?
And people say, well, see, well, why not this?
Why didn't he ever address this?
Yeah, the claims out there.
You may not have even known about it.
And this is the problem with following a lot of Johnny Cumb lately's in the space.
People like Ryan Garcia tweeting out or posting this.
He wrote, this is my public declaration and announcement.
I'm reclining.
I think he meant rescinding my past support for Donald Trump.
Anyone that was involved in anything to do with that island and what they were doing, I just can't support in any way.
Okay, before we get to the next part, what if they were involved with raiding the island?
What if they were involved with handing over information that led to this person being prosecuted?
What if they were involved in a way that was combating this island?
And the only strong evidence that we have as a matter of record that is admissible is that Donald Trump kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago and Donald Trump cooperated with authorities.
That matters.
So when people just say, I can't, anyone who's involved in any capacity, technically, people were involved with the Nazis if they were killing them.
They were at war with them.
There's an involvement there.
We have to be mindful of our words.
He wanted to say children need to be protected?
I agree.
Everyone knew better, F that, justice for all.
Clearly, everyone didn't know better because this guy got away with it for a very long time.
They started to know better after President Trump cooperated.
And this doesn't mean that Donald Trump is a saint and it doesn't mean that he's perfect.
But on this issue, I think anyone using it to turn on him is someone who you don't want in your ranks anyway.
If there's any proof that Donald Trump was actually involved with this, if there's any actual substantiated proof, I will be the first one to call it out.
And by the way, same thing with Bill Gates.
I can't stand Bill Gates.
There are very few people I dislike more than Bill Gates.
But an email that Jeffrey Epstein sent to himself, known liar, is not something I'm going to use to say that Bill Gates is clearly a practicing pedophile.
Yeah.
Does that make sense?
Is that fair?
And I'd highly encourage you to go check out the references because I see so much deliberately misleading information out there.
And I'll tell you, it, you know, makes me sad.
Well, it pisses me off because it doesn't actually help get to justice.
What it does is it gives people an excuse.
There's one about like they were eating the entrails of a human baby that they had sacrificed or something like that.
And it's like, well, if you go read the email that they're referencing, it doesn't say anything about that.
Deliberately Misleading Information00:10:22
Right.
So all the left has to do is go, well, see, that's a lie.
Yeah.
Right.
And so you don't have to believe anything that's there.
Anybody who wants to just cover this stuff up, we don't want just random information.
When we say release the files, everybody is talking about like, there is a person serving prison time.
Why?
Why is she in jail?
Who were the clients that were doing this?
What evidence did you have that this was going on, that she was facilitating this stuff?
Those people need to pay.
That is what we're saying.
And this is not accomplishing that.
No.
Sorry, it's just mudding the waters even further.
And then you have some people going, like, oh, really?
Well, what part of this file explains about how he died?
It's like, guys, you understand there's a difference between this collection of a data dump of files that may exist and an actual investigation into the death of someone.
They're not the same thing.
All of your speeding tickets, your moving infractions, parking tickets, whatever disputes you've had in the past, that's not the same as a file that may or may not exist.
Should you choose to sexually traffic somebody?
It wouldn't be relevant.
It's not the same file.
It's different files.
James Tallarico, let's go to this.
Is he straight?
I'll go with queer.
We'll see.
We don't know.
Do we?
I heard him have betos on besos.
Could have fooled me.
Him and old Francis, Beto Francis worked.
They call him the old St. Francis of Assissy.
What?
Is that right?
The two together.
That was a reach.
Yeah, it was.
So, uh-oh.
James Tallarico, and we're going to have A.G. Ken Paxon on here in a little, maybe.
As of 2024, Texas was seen as a pretty solidly red state across the board.
You know, President Trump won by 14, Ted Cruz won by 9.
I remember everyone saying, oh, this is going to be the year.
It's going to be Beto.
Look, he kick-flipped.
Sick.
But that doesn't mean you can rely on it being red forever, especially when you look at what's going on in the state in some cases, for example, with H-1Bs.
In some cases, the fabric of the state changing quite a bit.
And I think that Texas is pretty important because it's certainly not the most conservative state in the union, but it is iconic in that if Texas were to fall, you know, to succumb to the woke virus of the left, if people still use that term, but to leftism, that would be a bad sign for the United States of America.
Yeah, massively bad.
And it's a target right now, too.
Yes.
And so right now, Democrats have pinned their hopes on.
Also, kind of those who present to be right-wing but say, but I'm reasonable, I'm center-left.
They have pinned their hopes on this new man who I cannot stand and is wrong about pretty much everything theologically, James Tallarico.
Federal Rourke came close, but did not prevail, even when it appeared Democrats in Texas had some kind of momentum.
Along comes Presbyterian seminarian and Democratic state representative James Tallarico.
He thinks he has what it takes.
We have the hottest new candidate of 2026, Texas James Tallerico.
James Tallarico, thank you so much for joining the conversation.
Thanks for having me.
Your profile has really risen in the past year, which I can personally attest to because my father-in-law actually went from being a middle school teacher to a four-term state representative making a name for yourself with exchanges in the state house that went viral.
James Tallarico is one of the top Democrats running for U.S. Senate this year.
James Tallarico, his faith, his Christian identity is clearly a big part of that.
And I think when you're talking about him, not just in Texas, but across the country, I think he's speaking to some of those values and some of those principles maybe more effectively than anyone else in the Democratic Party across the country.
James Tallarico.
He got it.
Thank you for being here.
You must have spelled it wrong.
Yeah, they spelled it phonetically.
So, former middle school teacher, apparently a Presbyterian seminarian, and he is leading Jasmine Crockett in the Senate Democrat primary.
Also, he, James Tallarico, really wants to be a dentist.
Well, sir, someday I'd like to be a dentist.
It's a good career.
We don't need any Democrat dolls.
That's right.
August.
August, as of August 2025, Tallarico led the Democrats who fled Texas for Illinois in an attempt to block Texas redistricting.
Yeah, he's one of those guys.
Yeah.
And then this summer, look, he's usually right, but he doesn't always get it right.
Joe Rogan hinted that Tallarico should run for president, and it could have just been, you know, being friendly to a being polite to a guest.
All I'm pushing back on is that second step of it's always going to be this way.
Right.
It doesn't have to be this way.
That is the key step.
Right.
So you need to run for president.
We need someone who's actually a good person.
Yeah, I don't know if I would go with that.
And here's why I wouldn't lean toward good person.
I can't say bad person, but someone who proactively manipulates scripture to use it as a platform and to try and justify a definitively anti-God platform, that is actually worse to me than someone who simply says I'm an atheist.
So that brings us to why he went viral this week, some comments he made regarding theology, religion, on, I believe, the Rogan podcast, as well as a recent New York Times one, because they're in that space now.
For the past 50 years in this country, the religious right, a political movement, convinced a lot of Christians in America that the two most important issues were abortion and homosexuality.
Two issues that aren't really discussed in scripture.
Abortion is never mentioned.
Consensual same-sex relationships are never mentioned.
What?
It's remarkable to me that you have an entire political movement using Christianity to prioritize two issues that Jesus never talked about.
Pause really fast.
First off, Gerald, that's wrong, right?
Just because I know that, yeah.
Second, no one's saying that these are the two most important issues.
There's a difference between being the most important issues and being closed-handed issues, meaning they are non-starters.
As a Christian, and I will tell you this, this is not me telling you what to think, but if you claim to be a Christian, for example, if you claim to be a Detroit Red Wing, well, you better play for the Red Wings.
You better put on that jersey.
You know what that means.
If you claim to be a Christian, you cannot be pro-abortion and certainly not as it exists in today's political spectrum.
And is that an issue that's being pushed solely by the right?
Right.
Like the left isn't out here trying their hardest to abort their babies?
Right.
It's just like when they go, yeah, we need to allow men fighting sports.
And you go, no, no, no.
They go, why are you making an issue?
There's like five athletes.
It's like, well, yeah, they all happen to hold world records, but you're the one who made it an issue.
Let's continue.
They're not important.
I actually think both of those issues are very important.
But to focus on those two things instead of feeding the hungry and healing the sick and welcoming the stranger, three things we're told to do ad nauseum.
The church does a great job of that, by the way.
It's mind-blowing.
Doesn't really do this in terms of not in the context of abortion because before God comes over Mary and we have the incarnation, God asks for Mary's consent, which is remarkable.
I mean, go back and read this in Luke.
I mean, I will.
The angel comes down and asks Mary if this is something she wants to do.
And she says, if it is God's will, let it be done.
Let it be.
Let it happen.
So to me, that is a RSVP this is one of our most crucial stories that creation has to be done with consent.
You cannot force someone to create.
Creation is one of those sacred acts that human beings.
That has to be done with consent.
It has to be done with freedom.
Marriage beds undefined.
And to me, that is absolutely consistent with the ministry and life and death of Jesus.
And so that's why I, that's how I come down on that side of the issue.
Yeah.
Well, that's incorrect.
He should be assigned onto you and you should bring tidings.
It's not like, so Mary, are you down with this?
I don't know.
Too late, baby's in you.
I think I want to travel.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Spend some more time on me.
You want to travel?
Oh, I'm saying, hold on a second.
Ring ring.
Yeah, all sinners of the world, sorry, you're all condemned to hell forever because Mary wants to travel.
Do I have that right?
The path to heaven is closed because Mary wants to take the road to Damascus.
Yeah, because she wants to eat, pray, love her way across this desert wasteland and find herself.
Hope you enjoy the fires of hell.
Am I getting that right, Mary?
But I want to see Athens.
Here's the fun part: there was so much consent asked when the angel said, This will happen, and you will name him Jesus.
She didn't even get to pick the name.
You think she'll pick whether this happens or not?
I was thinking about it.
I was thinking Hunter.
No, his name will be Jesus.
I'm an angel flying in the air right now.
Do as we say.
Oh, so now you're an angel explaining.
God's been planning this for a very long time.
She specifically says, I am the Lord's servant, which is what you say when you're consenting.
Right, yeah, exactly.
Yes, that's whatever you want to do.
Hey, honey, would you like to be my servant tonight in the bedroom?
A separate note.
I will just tell you this.
This whole thing is centered on this idea of consent as it exists in the leftist paradigm.
We wouldn't have this problem if we approach sexuality, sexual practice, the moral way.
Obviously, as a Christian, you believe that it's supposed to be within the confines of marriage.
If you're in a monogamous, loving relationship, consent is not only not perpetually needed, but I will tell you this: it's kind of gay.
And what I mean by that, see, I wasn't the one that's not a person.
What I mean by that is no woman who loves you the way that you're attracted to one should be like, okay, so sweetheart, is it okay?
It used to be once you get married, once you say I do, or you pull the lady in for a kiss and things continue moving.
That is seen as consent.
Now we've ruined the sexual dynamics of a man pursuing a woman.
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Women don't like that.
Women, you can comment if you think women like to have a man who takes charge.
I'm not talking about abuse.
Let's just say what we all know to be true.
The idea of consent as it currently exists, which is really designed to put more landmines down in the area of intersexual dynamics, it's kind of a vibe kill.
It's kind of gay.
And condoms are for losers.
Now, yeah, you get the last part right.
Yeah.
Cigarettes make you look cool.
There's look.
They do.
Science is in.
They're gross, but they look cool.
So this is what they do: they create an issue, right?
My body, my choice.
Abortion all the way up until including birth on demand, taxpayer-funded, period.
Who changed safe, legal, and rare?
Wasn't us.
And then they go, why are you making it such a big issue?
Well, because there's 10 to 15,000 late-term abortions a year.
You say very small numbers.
That's significant to me.
They'll do this.
They'll say, hey, we want to change the entire paradigm, the entire gender spectrum, and put biological males in with women.
And if you oppose it, they go, why are you making this an issue?
Well, I'll tell you what the biggest issues are to Texas voters.
This comes from Emerson.
It's the economy.
They say threats to democracy and immigration.
And if beans should go in Chile, which will be decided the Texas way.
There you go.
Don't put beans in your Texas chili.
No.
I'm not even from Texas.
I know that.
It's true, but I like beans and chili.
You like wood.
You like the dish with beans in it.
It's just not chili.
It's like chili.
Yeah, exactly.
And this isn't a debate.
I grew up where I always had beans and chili, but I found out it is an actual state foodstuff where it has a very clear definition.
Correct.
And if you want to call it fusion, whatever.
And it's not even like pineapple on pizza.
That's a whole preference.
Beans don't go in chili.
It's a Texas food and it does not include it.
Fine.
That's fair.
And if you say otherwise, they will kill you.
But only if you have a midrift as a man.
Yeah, well, and here's the thing.
And this sentiment, it reflects America at large, American voters at large.
There have been recent polls that have come where you see deportation support sometimes as high as, I saw a number yesterday, 63%, whereas opposing it, 30-something percent.
The only group opposing it as a majority were Democrats, meaning independents supported it as a majority.
And you'll see fluctuations across the board sometimes if you get down to the method of doing it.
But Americans understand the economy is important.
Immigration is important.
But I repeat myself.
The issue is you cannot force an agenda.
For example, you can't have Drag Queen Story Hour.
You cannot put pornography in children's libraries and then say that those requesting it be removed, namely because there was never pornography in public children's libraries, that they're turning it into an issue.
The left, they love to use the word gaslighting because they're all pop psychologists.
This is that.
So we say, yeah, we want to focus on the economy.
We want to focus on immigration.
Oh, wait a second.
You want to make it so all states have to allow abortion?
Well, no, no, we're going to fight against that.
It doesn't mean that it's our priority.
It means that it's a non-starter.
And this sort of brings us to our next issue here, key issue, immigration.
We'll be talking with a Texas AG here in a few moments.
Students walking out of school to protest ICE.
Here's a montage.
I hate this sound.
He's divided right now.
Poor crutch guy's like, ah, today of all days.
No ice!
No KKK no fascist USA.
No ICE!
No KKK, no fascist USA!
No ICE!
No Koko Kung, no fascist USA!
No ICE!
No KKK, no fascist USA!
Where are they getting KKK?
I don't know.
That's two different states, by the way.
They're saying the same chant, these sheep, these Democrats' sheep, their shepherds are telling them to say KKK, fascist USA.
They needed a rhyme.
What?
They needed a rhyme, and they're completely unaware of that.
They should teach them about the KKK and who was.
It was a wing of the Democrat Party, but it's Trump Thurman.
Shut up.
And you also have students, by the way, it's made its way to Texas, which is generally seen as a reliably red state.
But, you know, look, kids obviously have the right to make their voices heard, as long as we keep in the back of our mind that kids are very often stupid.
What happened to United?
What?
Wait, how warm is it there that she was in jorts?
Just Chrysler 300 after Chrysler 300.
Um...
How much do you want to bet that those kids don't know what it is they're protesting?
They're looking for any reason to simply walk out of class.
And just so you know, the first change my mind that I ever did, it wasn't on campus, or either the first or second one.
It was just meant to take place.
We've done plenty of them on sidewalks.
The first one that I did on campus, I remember it's because they were talking about campus protests and the media was covering it.
They had it on a loop, like a morphine drip.
And so they were holding these people out as inspirations, as authorities on the subject.
And I said, well, okay, let's go down and see how much these inspired people know.
It wasn't specifically to debate campus students.
That's why we've also had an open call out to professors.
We'll be having that actually, as I understand it, in the next coming quarter.
A couple of months, yeah.
Is it going to be at UPenn?
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As I understand?
That's where the talks are right now.
But it does matter because the left constantly uses the youth as pawns.
And they're really valuable pawns.
Why?
Well, they don't have skin in the game.
They don't pay taxes.
They don't know what that's like.
They don't have families.
They're very self-focused.
They're not thinking about their families and their families' future.
They're often very centered around immediate gratification.
They're very easy to manipulate.
And they want to leave their stamp on the world.
Right.
They want to leave their stamp on the world often before they have reached the point of their life where they're qualified to do it.
And it doesn't mean that young people can't change the world.
And it doesn't mean that there aren't some incredibly bright young people.
That's not what I was seeing out there.
And some of those walkouts, they prompted the AG, Ken Paxton, to launch an investigation into Austin ISD.
He put this on X.
He said, I'm demanding documents as part of an investigation into Austin ISD for facilitating student protests against lawful immigration enforcement activities.
And so we are going to bring AG Ken Paxton right here on the show.
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It's a knockout.
Oh, I thought you were gonna do this thing.
Hit the stinger.
Welcome, Ken Paxton.
Thank you.
Now, how should I refer to you as Mr. General, Mr. Attorney General?
How about just Ken?
And where is it?
I'm not going to do that.
When is it a program?
I'll tell you, the title is General, whatever your last name is.
So every attorney general is referred to as like General Paxton General.
All right.
Marshall, whatever.
Okay, I will go with General Ken.
And you are running for U.S. Senate against John Cornyn, the Republican primaries, March 3rd, right?
March 3rd, and early voting starts two weeks from today on February 17th.
Starts two weeks from today.
How are you feeling about the race?
I feel really good.
I know we're up.
John has spent $50, almost $50 million up to now.
Really?
I've spent $2,600.
The fundraising thing is the biggest scam that most Americans don't know about.
John McCain set up this bill.
It was called McCain Feingle, to get money out of politics.
Well, it did, but only on the challenger side because they have unlimited to $3,500 for the primary from anyone, which is really hard to raise enough money to put a commercial on TV at that level.
Right.
How do you raise $50 million at $3,500 if you're actually following the rules?
Their rules are completely different than mine.
Well, the fact that it's even close to this point, let alone you being up, that's, I mean, that's a good sign.
And people can go and support you at Ken Paxton, TX on X, kenpaxton.com.
Let me first ask you, I know you were mentioning Tallerica.
We'll get to that.
The walkouts.
Do you think that these are organic or do you believe they're organized by outside groups?
And if so, is there any evidence of it?
Because I know we've all suspected that and we've proven it in some past instances, but right now, what do you see?
I mean, I don't know, but my gut feeling is it's organized.
It always is.
It seems like in the end, we always find out it was organized by Soros or somebody like him.
And it just doesn't seem like organic.
Why would a bunch of high school students walk out in Austin?
A very liberal district, of course, but it just seems odd that they would all know to do that.
It just seems very odd, unless it's organized.
Right.
I do want to ask, so I want to, because you're attorney general in Texas, but you're running for U.S. Senate.
Let me ask you, this always is something that I'm curious about.
What is it that you feel you can do or think you can accomplish there that you can't accomplish as effectively with your current job title?
Because some people would say, that seems like you have more sway.
So part of it is that I think people, I'm serving my third term.
That's 12 years.
We've had 51 attorney generals.
Only one other person has served for three terms.
That's Greg Abbott.
I think that staying in jobs too long ended up being not a good thing.
And I just felt like I had a mission each time I ran for each term.
First time was go after Obama and stop his federal overreach and really trying to ruin the Constitution in the country.
Second time, I was going after big tech and big pharma and election integrity.
That's why we didn't have the same problems as other states.
Otherwise, we would have.
And third time was to take on Joe Biden, I assume, 107 times in four years.
I didn't have the same mission, and I felt like we were really missing out.
We've had the same senator for 24 years.
No one's ever run for five terms, not Sam Houston, not John Tower, not LBJ, not Phil Graham.
And it's so hard to beat these guys because they're so entrenched.
It's not like a regular incumbent like me.
They have these fundraising limits that make it so hard.
And if you don't have name ID in Texas, I felt like I was the only one that could eliminate a guy that had been wasting our time and voting against us and voting against Trump.
And I was the only person who could actually take him on a win.
Well, and I want to ask, because we just covered the two most important issues to Texas.
And it seems to mirror the country at large.
Immigration, obviously, is one in the economy.
And the economy in Texas has done pretty well compared to most states.
And the country is doing better.
But in Texas, we've all lived here for a while.
And not to put you in the hot seat, but the H-1B situation in Texas, what can be done about that?
And how much of this is above board?
Because in doing some research for an investigative piece, finding out that College Station has more H-1B enrollees per worker than any other municipality.
And I know it's primarily two companies like Cognizant and A ⁇ M. Some of us live in neighborhoods where we feel like strangers in our own neighborhoods.
Yeah, I think it's a good point.
This is a federal program.
So, I mean, it's not something that I've had anything to do with other than we are now investigating companies that we think are defrauding people that are not using it appropriately.
So we can do that sort of under our consumer protections.
Like if you're defrauding our people, it doesn't matter how you're doing it.
I have the opportunity to go in and so we're investigating certain companies, three of them right now.
And our plan is as we learn more about companies doing this.
But you're right, because it's being sold one way.
And I think some of these American jobs that, you know, teachers and science teachers and other jobs could be filled by Americans, it's supposed to be used for very high-level technical people, skilled workers that we can't get that we need.
And I think it's being way expanded.
There's a senator, Senator Schmidt from Missouri, who's going after these asking questions about this.
And I think, you know, given the opportunity, when I'm elected, this will be something I will be following up on as well at the federal level.
So what do you think can be – so nothing can be done on a state level even dealing with these companies?
No, I'm pursuing those for fraud, for deceptive practices, but I can't stop the program at this level.
At the next level, at the Senate level, I can have a say in trying to… The program itself.
So yeah, start asking questions, potentially change the program, at least start calling out and have an ability to actually do something about it.
Well, because I know, you know, Texas is a red state, and I will tell you the general temperature on Governor Greg Abbott, by the way, is that first off, people are often shocked to find out he's a wheelchair guy.
They didn't know it because he just, it's not like FDR where he made it his calling.
I remember the day he wheeled out.
I was like, are you, I had no idea this whole time.
So that surprises people.
But also, hey, it's mostly good.
But there have been some missteps.
I think property taxes are a big one in Texas that people feel are really high.
They definitely are very high.
And how the H-1B situation has happened this expansively, this rapidly.
I mean, if you've been to a Costco, anywhere in like the Dallas Metroplex area, Frisco, you've seen those videos.
It looks like little Bangladesh.
No, I agree with both of those.
First of all, property taxes.
I filed bills when I was in the Texas House and Senate to eliminate property taxes.
We could do it if we wanted to.
It's ridiculous that we have a Republican legislature and we can't get anything through that legislature.
It is, in my opinion, has been the biggest problem in Texas because it makes it really difficult.
You're renting your home from the government and it's an uncontrollable cost.
When you get a mortgage, you generally know what your cost is.
Generally, insurance has been fluctuating, but not to the level that property tax.
I moved into Austin and in four years, my property taxes went from $1,000 a month to $3,000 a month.
Well, my salary didn't go up at all.
What am I supposed to do?
We are captured by the government.
We are renting.
And if I don't pay that, the government takes my home.
I don't think the government should be able to do that.
We should be able to own our own homes at some point.
And so there is a way to eliminate property taxes.
I had a plan to do it.
And if I had that opportunity, I would get it.
You say there's a way to eliminate it.
Does that mean that we could eliminate it and we wouldn't have a revenue problem in the state?
In other words, pragmatically it can't be done.
Yeah, and here's the plan.
So it's a little bit sort of nuanced, but the comptroller of the state, before the legislature meets, within 30 days has to tell us an estimate for the next two years.
And we're not allowed to spend it.
Unlike the federal government, we are confined by that number.
Right.
Well, guess what?
The comptroller underestimates because the last thing you want to do is overestimate the budget because now you're into a two-year cycle and you're stuck, right?
So on average, the last study I saw, it may have changed a little bit.
11% is what the underestimate is.
Well, so what the legislature does is they stick on writers at the end of, well, if we get this money, spend it here.
If we get this money spent here.
What my deal would be is, no, if we get this money, it goes to property tax relief.
And over a 14 or 15-year period, you could eliminate school property taxes.
And I would throw in a little kicker.
Take 5% of that and give teacher pay raises.
Because now you've got the teachers who are incentivized to come down and lobby for less spending because the less we spend, the more money goes to teachers and the more money goes to property tax.
Well, actually, if anything, it would invert the incentive because they would have an incentive right now to keep property taxes because they see.
That's part of the problem because typically the education establishment fights it because they're like, we're losing on this.
Let's make it a winning issue for us.
And let's put the Democrats in the box of having to vote against property tax cuts and teachers.
Yeah, that's my idea.
But why hasn't it happened in Texas with a Republican governor?
And like you said, a legislature, like I'm sure you hear this from constituents, they kind of feel like that's a bit of a scam.
Like, yeah, if we get other Republicans, because this has been here for a long time, it shouldn't be.
I am so frustrated with property taxes personally because it was when I went down there, it was one of my top two or three issues.
And I kept filing these bills and they wouldn't even get heard.
This is a Republican leadership.
But remember, we've had trouble in the Texas House, particularly.
I served under Joe Strauss.
He was elected by mostly Democrats, right?
It was 11 Republicans that sided with the Democrats.
Well, of course, he doesn't want property tax relief.
The Democrats didn't want property tax relief.
I think the legislature has a responsibility to step up and stop giving us little tiny tax cuts that by the time they do the appraisal, they're gone.
It's a joke.
It's actually the kind of thing I think that actually factors in when people are leaving these blue states.
Where do we want to move?
Property taxes are what come up a lot.
When I have people saying, hey, I'm leaving California or leaving Washington or Oregon, they go, but the property taxes in Texas are rough.
It is very rough.
And if you compare us to other Republican states, particularly like Tennessee, they don't have a state income tax.
And guess what?
They have much lower property taxes.
Most Republican states have lower property taxes than us.
Can you imagine what wealth we will create if we can stop, because if we can lower property taxes, the value of our homes are going up.
Because now people have more money to put into their purchase, and we're going to become wealthier if the government would stop stealing our money.
Well, I think that the home prices need to regulate a little bit.
And obviously, with illegal immigration being dealt with, deportations, I think also people run into problems in Texas with, this brings us back to the H-1B situation.
I mean, we've all seen it where you'll have 15 family members living in one house and buying up these houses.
And then, of course, competing with these giant institutional investors, like there hasn't been enough building, and the market needs to recalibrate.
The home values have skyrocketed in a way that's not sustainable, where people in the homes are happy, but you have a generation of people who are not able to buy homes now, even close to some of these major municipalities.
Look, I've got kids in their 20s.
I've got a daughter who's a pediatric nurse.
She was a pediatric nurse at Stanford.
Her husband was a major in the Air Force.
They're relatively doing relatively well.
Of course, they were living out in California.
They could buy a house.
That is insane.
And you've got two relatively high wage earners who cannot afford.
But that is a function of a couple of things.
Joe Biden's inflation, which drove up the cost of everything.
It also drove up interest rates.
And so you've got two pig pieces: higher costs because now houses are more expensive because of inflation to build.
And you've got higher costs.
Cultural regulations, the regulatory regulations.
There's no doubt.
And that's another thing that happened during the Biden administration that Trump's been better at dealing with.
But he can't do it.
It's going to take time to address the inflation that was created by Biden because that was spending and those trillions of dollars are spent.
And then the interest rates are unusually high for the situation we're in.
Trump doesn't control those.
Jerome Powell does.
And he's hopefully going away.
Yeah.
Well, we'll say maybe going out with a bang, too, the way that it's looking right now.
It's not going to be a whimper.
Have you noticed, because you've been obviously in Texas politics for a while and the Republican Party, the major shift when people talk about how young men are going right is that they're unapologetic.
It used to be sort of like, well, hey, look, we need to deal with illegal immigration, but I think everyone who wants to come here legally, but now people are going, you know what?
That system's been abused and we need to be very selective.
And they lean toward close the books until we figure it out.
And a big part of that in Texas, you have young Republicans, young people looking to vote right, saying, hey, I think it's okay to culturally want Texas to feel like Texas because there are neighborhoods that are unrecognizable and feel like a third world country now.
And that's because the systems have been abused.
They've forced Americans out of the labor force.
And Texas really is one of, if not the worst offender in that with the H-1Bs.
Look, we look at Europe and what happened there and the overrunning of England and France and Germany and many of these countries have lost their identity.
They're not German anymore.
They're not French.
They're not going to control.
There's going to be a completely different cultural bent from there.
And England's not going to be England.
So look, there's nothing wrong with people wanting to retain a certain value system and a certain, you know, we're a Judeo-Christian country.
That's how we were founded.
There's nothing wrong with us wanting to retain that identity instead of saying, oh, you know, just let everybody come in here.
We don't care.
We don't have to be the same country.
It really matters that we reflect the values of our founders and we are a constitutional government that was formed with this idea that freedom of religion and this idea that could spread.
You could promote your faith and you could promote your political views.
That was very important to the founders.
What's in the First Amendment?
Well, even in Texas, I would say this.
Texas has been obviously pretty, I hate to use the term diverse, but you've had plenty of black Texans, you've had plenty of Hispanic Texans.
There's been a raging demographic shift, though, to South Asian Indian people like that coming in here, where that is new and it looks very different from the fabric of Texas.
And culturally, there are neighborhoods where there just are incompatibilities.
And then you look into these companies, you go, oh, it's really just about replacing Americans for far cheaper.
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And then you have the placement agencies as well, where there are degree mills.
There are people taking cuts off the top, skimming.
It's something that I think the Republican Party is really going to have to grapple with because young people who are going to be voting for that party are going to say, yeah, but I also don't want my job sold out to a legal immigrant who's willing to do it cheaper and a company with people in positions of power taking advantage.
Yeah, look, who, I mean, some of these jobs should be American jobs, and we need to do a better job.
And that's why I like the fact that there is at least one senator asking the questions of this seems like it's gotten abused where now we're bringing in people to take American jobs at lower pay who are willing to live in a house with 15 people.
That's all wonderful, I guess, for them, but it's not good for Americans.
Why do you think Texas has become such a hotbed, though?
Because really it's places that you would expect like Palo Alto, but you could definitely argue that Texas is worse in many respects.
And certainly, why do you think Texas is such a hotbed for it?
It's simple.
We're a very appealing state to come to, except for property taxes, because people know there are opportunities here.
They know that there's freedom here.
People are voting with their feet.
Even people who can't vote are voting with their feet.
People are moving to Texas.
They're getting out of Louisiana, I mean, Illinois.
They're getting out of New York.
They're getting out of California.
And they're moving to red states.
And one of those main red states that is economically prosperous more than any other is Texas.
And the next one's Florida.
And others like Tennessee.
And even like really all across the South, whether it's Alabama, Louisiana, people are moving to red states because they have freedom and they have opportunity.
Yeah.
We issued on this show, I was trying to offer solutions like a six-point plan.
I always wonder why Republicans haven't done that, something that's really clear as far as if you come here, a remittance tax where you can't be coming here sending the money out.
Companies need to be penalized if they're replacing an American simply for a lower wage where someone isn't necessarily more qualified.
I'll tell you the reason young people have been really upset.
When this came out in Elon Musk and people who they thought were on their side said, we need to uncap H-1Bs.
And then Vivek, who's been right here in the studio, a very friendly guy, said, yeah, well, there just aren't enough Americans.
There aren't enough, like, look at our educational systems.
That's the problem.
We don't buy it.
We don't buy that Americans are too dumb to do these jobs that people are doing for 60, 70K a year.
Yeah, those jobs, there might be a few where we need some help.
A handful, sure.
Yeah, right.
Where we, you know, we benefit from like a guy like Elon Musk coming to this country, right?
We did benefit.
Yeah, of course.
So we don't want to like, when we're talking about that kind of talent that could actually make all of us better off.
But for the most part, I think that whole program is way beyond just doing that.
And so somehow it needs to be more refined, more scaled back to make sure we're getting Elon Musk to the world to benefit our country.
But we don't want to replace regular American jobs with people that are just coming in and do it for less money.
Yeah.
And I will tell you, it doesn't seem like it'd be that complicated of a problem to fix.
It just requires someone stepping up to do it.
And there's obviously a very strong contingency of big business groups who don't want to see that because they stand to benefit from it.
Well, they pay lower wages, right?
Yeah, I get it.
Yeah, absolutely.
And then their answer is, well, that's because you Americans are too dumb to do it.
You go like, okay, this is the thing that young men have heard, right?
When we used to talk about illegal immigration, people say, well, who's going to mow your lawn?
Who's going to pick your strawberries?
What's the old thing?
It's like, well, first off, that's racist.
Second, now they're saying, yeah, well, we don't have enough smart Americans.
So it's like, okay, so the low wage, or let's not say low wage, but the low skill manual labor jobs, well, those aren't for Americans.
They would say Americans won't do it.
That's not true.
Now they go, the highly skilled jobs that people have trained for, they're not good enough to do.
You go, okay.
So then what, an American who's gone through the system in Americas and everything right, just has to pick it right in the middle there, a sweet spot?
That doesn't seem very American.
No, it doesn't.
I think the whole reason people love Trump is America first.
Right.
So I think we need to run it through that grid.
There's nothing wrong with being America first.
Every other country is, right?
So why are we not?
Why are we like, oh, yeah, we need to take all these other countries?
And even like, you know, when we passed in-state tuition for illegals, Rick Perry, that was one of his big promotions as governor.
That was a Republican governor that passed it.
Right.
And I've tried to undo that the whole time I was in the.
Did you hear that?
Someone didn't put his phone on silent.
That was too.
Admonish yourself.
You get to witness a real-time admonishment.
Look.
Here.
Watch.
He's going to admonish himself.
Watch.
Do it.
Take it.
I wasn't ready with the.
Take our target.
Well, be ready when it's yourself.
There you go.
It's not even cool.
If we get something wrong on here, we admonish ourselves.
I like that.
And we make our references available.
So if we misread a stat, that's the only show where that's the case.
But I had the opportunity.
It took me, I couldn't undo it to the legislature.
It was like the Republican legislature kept what Rick Perry put in place.
And I worked out this situation where maybe the federal government sued me over it, and we signed a consent decree and it's gone.
And the stroke of a pen, we got it undone.
But this was, why are we giving in-state?
This means that we are giving away UT, Texas A ⁇ M seats to illegals over people who are residents.
And that was promoted and pushed through by a Republican government.
I know you're saying, well, but I don't have the answer.
That's why you're here.
I'm asking you.
I have business interests.
It has to be.
Why would Rick Perry do that other than there are businesses that promote that and want him to do that?
Well, that's not right.
If you're a taxpayer, you should have access to the educational system.
So then that goes back to one of your points.
Well, Americans aren't getting educated.
Well, if you're giving away their seats, it's school, one of the, you know, the top schools to illegals.
Illegals.
They're not here legally.
I know.
And Rick Perry passes a bill that says, hey, that's a good thing.
Let's give them more seats at our schools.
That's the thing with Texas.
People are like, yeah, it's a red state, but there's always a little bit of funny business that has us go, I don't know if they're one of us.
I don't know how there's that big of a disconnect between a policy like that from Rick Perry.
There have been some with Abbott.
I wouldn't say anywhere near as egregious, but spending a lot of time with people, with conservative voters, right-wing conservative nationalists, whatever term you want to use, and then seeing the representatives, there is a disconnect that people see.
And that's going to be changing generationally.
No, there's this thing.
It happens in politics.
I watched it because I went down there and I was like, what happens to these people?
And what happens is leadership, controlled by their own interests, will come in and try to get you to vote the way they want you to vote.
And they'll give you committee assignments and they'll give you money.
And there's a difference between real power and perceived power.
Well, most people want to be viewed as powerful.
So they want to be committee chairman.
No one cares, but they do because it feels like power because you're controlling legislation.
You're getting money.
Well, the reality is real power is keeping your vote.
And very few people realize the real power is not letting leadership grab your vote.
Because once you're in those positions, guess what?
You have to vote the way you're told.
Yeah, I would also say real power.
Well, one time I saw a man rip two phone books in half simultaneously.
That was pretty impressive.
But speaking of real power, because I have no idea what you're talking about.
Watch that man rip.
And then he blew, he popped a hot water bottle with his lungs.
And I said, well, it was a power team.
It was the name.
Yeah, they did it at churches.
Oh, yeah, I've seen that.
It was pretty cool.
We're going to continue here.
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But there's the president of the Wiley East High School Republicans who posted this video about an experience he had with Islam at his school that'll put a finer point on it.
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Keep them PG-13.
I can't say PG.
I mean, this isn't the Disney network, but I can say PG-13 because he is running for office.
So, you know, just like when you go to a courtroom, put on a hat if you have green hair, tear out the nose rings.
Just treat him like the AG that he is.
Let's watch this video as we go to Rumble Premium from Wiley East High School.
I'm Marco.
I'm the president of the High School Republicans at Wiley East High School.
And today there was an organization called Why Islam that had a huge table booth in front of our school today.
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And they were giving hijabs to Muslim girls out throughout the high school.
And they were giving out Qurans.
And they also had pamphlets about Sharia law and other Islamic things.
And they were giving out these bags.
And I had a discussion with the women that were there and we're trying to understand what's going on.
Was everybody in a hijab?
So they were passing out to as much girls as they could.
So that was their goal.
How many people, how many students took those baths?
I don't have an exact number of how many people took them, but I can say that they were trying to get as much out as they could.