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Rep. Mike Waltz - January 20th, Hour 2
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So your White House and Joe Biden, uh perhaps they don't know that the Republicans won the House of Representatives back.
Their position now is that they refuse, outright refuse to have any negotiation on the debt ceiling.
And we're discussing this a little bit in the last hour.
Uh and the White House saying massive national debt comes not from raising the revenues that we need through taxes.
So that their answer is the typical answer, and that's taxes.
Now, they want you to think the debt ceiling battle is imminent.
It is not.
There is plenty of time.
They could probably get easily through June through budgetary uh extraordinary quote accounting steps, as they call them.
Uh Janet Yellen even referred to it, that they could probably buy time till June.
Now, there is a a history surrounding this that I think is worthwhile.
You know, Democrats, according to the Hill, they think they can they can get a clean bill and and push the Republican House aside, and the Republicans get nothing in exchange uh for just raising the debt ceiling, which is you know, 30 whatever trillion dollars.
Uh the Democrats are trying to find out if Republicans can come up with a unified position, and their general assumption is they won't be able to.
That's what they're assuming.
Now there are a lot of different, you know, choices, options out there, and I've spoken to many people uh uh about this very thing.
For example, there is the massey plan, which is to pass a CR early with spending cuts.
Uh, and we have to see if the Republican caucus is united.
You know, they've they've got to unite in all of this.
Uh one good thing that happened with the Budget Reduction Act uh when the White House and Congress agreed to this, this was I believe in 2011.
Spending ceilings were imposed on defense, non-defense spending to get a deal on the raising the debt ceiling, but that was the uh era of automatic cuts that was called sequestration.
Corrine Jean-Pierre actually echoed.
There will be no negotiations over the debt ceiling.
Now, as you listen to this, understand if we get to the point and you keep hearing the full faith and credit of the United States government is hanging in the balance, know that it's the Democrats out of the box that said they will not deal with Republicans.
Republicans made commitments to their voters that they're gonna be fiscally responsible.
So their charge is to say, sorry, that's not the way it works.
We we run this house.
We have a say.
You can't spend a dime without the approval of Congress.
So eventually, if they're united, 222, they'll have no choice but to negotiate with the Republicans in the House.
Here's Karine Jean Pierre.
Will he entertain discussions at all during meetings that may be on uh some unrelated topic with members of Congress about debt limit negotiations, or will he just sort of say, no, we're not going to do this.
We're gonna we'll discuss the topic at hand, but we won't talk about negotiating over the debt.
So let me be clear.
I don't have a uh meeting with leaders to to read out at this time or to announce, but we've Been really clear.
We will not uh there will not be any negotiations over the debt ceiling.
There we will not do that.
Again, in the past there has been bipartisan cooperation to address the debt ceiling, and that's how it should be.
It should not be used as a political football.
That is not how we should be moving forward here.
That is your opinion.
That is not everybody else's opinion.
Republicans, they have a different point of view, and negotiations have happened numerous times over the debt ceiling.
Congressman Mike Waltz, uh, our friend from Florida is here to discuss this with us.
Uh, how are you, sir?
Hey, good, Sean.
Good.
Um I I think we should take a step back on this and do a little bit of uh uh of history here, which you are very strong on in the fall of 2021 when uh the last time the debt ceiling uh what was uh up for approval, and the Democrats couldn't agree.
The progressives uh wanted it to be much higher.
They were in the middle of build back better.
Uh you know, we really had a point of leverage right then because they couldn't go on their spending spree unless we lifted the debt ceiling, and then Republicans in the Senate gave them all of this room uh uh to uh to to go on their spending spree and we we just cannot and will not in the House at least uh repeat that mistake.
But uh, you called it out then, and I think we need to remind people of how we got here.
Um and part of it was Republicans shooting ourselves in the foot to give them from the inflation reduction act to the build back better backup plan uh and on all the spending that they did in all of 2022.
Um I believe and I agree with you, we've got to come together as a Republican conference, all 22, uh be absolutely unified on what those demands are.
Uh from my perspective, what I'll be putting on the table is I think we need and which I've uh introduced with Dan Crenshaw, an authorization of the use of military force against the cartels, uh, that we have to use the actual appropriated dollars that have been sitting treasury on the wall.
So the the bottom line is we have a small margin in terms of a majority.
And you know, we do have time.
You agree with me that the the Fed we we've not really reached the debt limit as they say yesterday.
There's no real urgency.
So there's plenty of time for Republicans to unite on all of this.
Look, I'm gonna throw out my ideas, my suggestions.
It's it's one of many good ones, but certainly fiscal accountability in some form is a major promise that every Republican made.
And what I'd like to see is a united front.
Um and the people that I've spoken to, you know, and and that means uh people like Matt Gates, Freedom Caucus, other freedom caucus members, Jim Jordan, others, Kevin McCarthy, they're all on the same page.
It's just a matter of which plan that you all unite behind, but uniting behind it is going to be the important aspect of that.
Well, and I think that no, you're absolutely right.
We have time.
We need to come together on what uh what our demands are going to be in terms of getting this country's spending under control.
Uh, and it absolutely just can't be uh the Democrats plan, which is just I mean, I think if they had it their way, that it would just be unlimited.
We passed trillions of dollars tied to COVID, and a lot of that money is still sitting in the treasury, still sitting in agencies, still sitting unspent.
The pandemic is over, and we need to claw that we need to claw that money back.
And I think that would uh provide a lot of relief as well.
Congressman, existing home sales are now that has now had their worst month since the housing crash of 2008.
Uh car loan delinquencies now and repo men are back.
Uh, they've now hit the highest level since the Great Recession.
Surging credit card defaults now expected to have a catastrophic impact on the economy.
It's very important.
Um I do want to get to what you mentioned a moment ago, and that is that you and Congressman Crenshaw have introduced a joint resolution to give Biden military authority to combat uh these cartels.
And uh and I share your belief and I support you.
I just don't think he'd ever do it.
Well, this is this is the authority to be clear.
Uh we're not talking about invading Mexico or troops on the ground, uh, but this is the authority to use military assets, intelligence, surveillance, drones, uh, and others to start targeting uh these cartel leaders to start disrupting their supply chains to start disrupting their finances, put them on their back foot.
And it reminds me, Sean, you know, in the 90s, the FBI was treating terrorism as a law enforcement problem.
They were running around the world trying to collect evidence on Al Qaeda leaders to arrest them and try them in court.
And we learned the hard way that no, they had way exceeded law enforcement.
The problem had way exceeded their capabilities, and we had to start targeting uh these bastards.
That's what we have to do with the cartels, and what we're going to do is put that authority on at Biden's feet and say you can now take these people on that are killing.
I mean, Al Qaeda killed 3,000 Americans with airplane.
These people are killing 80,000 a year with poison, and we've done it before in Columbia.
We took on the Colombian cartels that were turning Columbia in an entire narco state and flooding our country with poison.
We have to do it again, and at least we'll have the authorities in place.
And I've talked to military officials in the Pentagon, on the joint staff that have said absolutely we could do this if you give us the authorities, and that they would push the White House to do so.
You know, it's uh it's very important if look, if we can get a Republican president back in November of 2024 or January in 2025, uh all of this now will change dramatically for the better.
Um, you know, we have over five million people when you include the gotta ways, even acknowledged by the Department of Homeland Security in the first two years of Biden's presidency, illegal immigrants coming into the country.
Chuck Schumer, after the election, the the midterm said he wants to give amnesty to everybody.
So we're we're in a tough spot because then we've got, okay, human trafficking, we've got the fentanyl trafficking, we got the uh heroin trafficking, other opioid trafficking, and you know, that's where ninety percent of these deadly drugs are coming into the country, and we're not protecting our kids, Congressman, and you know, which resulting in hundreds of people dying every single week in this country.
At what point do we say that enough's enough?
Yeah, and these cartels are more like ISIS than they are the mafia.
I mean, they have armored vehicles, heavy weapons, uh, they're firing on uh Mexican Air Force uh helicopters and planes, uh fighting back on close air.
They're defeating the Mexican army and causing anywhere from uh from fifty to eighty casualties per week and fighting them to a standstill.
They control our border.
At what point do we say, look, we're not gonna try uh to arrest we're gonna try, we're gonna take them out.
Uh and and we have the assets to do so.
We have the authorities that we're putting forth in in legislation, and uh, we're gonna present a case where where Biden just doesn't have a choice.
And I think the situation is gonna get so bad uh where he doesn't have a choice, but you're absolutely right.
If he won't then, then the Republican president coming in will have uh what he or she needs to get it done.
Quick break, more with Congressman Mike Waltz of Florida on the other side of it.
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He's from the great state of Florida, 800-941 Sean.
Your calls after the bottom of the hour news.
Let me ask you this very important question.
How does Joe Joe Biden?
We have laws in this country.
You don't get to pick and choose what laws you enforce or don't enforce.
How has Joe Biden been able to aid and abet and even offer preferential treatment to people that are not respecting our laws, our sovereignty, our borders?
Uh, you know, he's giving these processing people, allowing them into the country.
He's not mandating vaccines.
He's not man mandating in the middle of a pandemic, even a COVID test, Many people are getting free Biden phones and free transportation to whatever state they're sending them to.
Isn't that aiding and abetting law breaking?
If I did that, could I be arrested for human trafficking?
Right.
Exactly.
Well, I think this is why, you know, look, we'll have the investigation, we'll lay out the facts, but I think first you're going to see uh impeachment articles that they've already been introduced uh on my orcus, uh, who has lied to the Congress, lied to the American people, and is and is absolutely um negligently performing his duties and not following our law.
I think that's going to be step one, and then and then we'll see uh what action we take on on Joe Biden.
But I couldn't agree with you more.
It's a tragedy, it's a travesty, uh, and Americans are dying every day, uh every day because of it, and we have this completely ungoverned space in northern Mexico, controlling our border, international cartels, which by the way, are working in concert with our enemies uh in China, uh, and they're essentially acting as proxies uh for the Chinese Communist Party to destabilize uh the United States, our inner cities, middle America, and our southern border.
And you know, enough is enough.
When does this become a national security problem uh in the minds of those that are that are supposedly charged with leading this country?
Well, it seems like it's working, and unfortunately, am I wrong?
It is working, right?
I mean, the the Chinese Communist Party can sit back and let the Mexican cartels do their work for us in terms of polluting and wiping out the next generation uh of Americans.
They're doing they're doing their job for 'em, and the Mexican government is taking a hands-off approach.
The Biden administration is taking a hands-off approach.
Um what we're gonna do in Congress is is try uh to push them to go on offense.
Yeah, I think so.
You know, if you're watching this World Economic Forum uh disaster, are you seeing how much money and how many billions of dollars the U.S. is paying for the WEF, the WHO, the UN, uh uh the IAEA, all these organizations, you know, many of which do not have our best interest at heart.
Why do we spend billions of dollars?
How do we justify that kind of spending?
Sean and not only are we funding it, but we're we the Chinese are infiltrating them and stacking them with their people.
I mean, we saw what happened with the WHO, and if they can't get uh a Chinese official in, then they find an African country that like Ethiopia that is completely beholden to them through uh Chinese debt diplomacy and put their official in that's gonna essentially do their bidding.
Uh it's one of the reasons I've recently joined the uh the House Foreign Affairs Committee, a great Floridian by the name of Mario Diaz Ballard, will have control of State Department's appropriations, and uh we are gonna start squeezing we're gonna start squeezing all of that funding hard.
Uh because you know, all the Democrats want to look at is input.
We're looking at outputs and results, and they are terrible for America and have been terrible for America and are actually working for uh our adversaries.
Again, enough is enough.
I've had it.
And I think the American people have had it.
You know, thank you for staying on top of it to explain to them and help explain to them on how this stuff works.
We put in all the money.
The Chinese are controlling it, and they don't just work not in our interest, they work against our interests.
We appreciate what your hard work.
Thanks for always being uh with us and being open with us.
Congressman Mike Waltz of the Great State of Florida, great guy, uh 800-941 Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program this Friday, we'll get to your calls uh next 25 to the top of the hour on this Friday.
Your calls in mere seconds.
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Uh before I hit the phones, Rochelle Walinsky.
We now have two strains.
I've gone into this in detail.
I won't get too deep into it now.
We have two strains of the Obakron variant, COVID that are making the rounds all around the country.
And hospital, you know, admissions are up again, and it's it's nothing like the March or April of 2020 uh 2020.
They have gotten every single solitary thing wrong.
And it looks more and more likely that your tax dollars help contribute to the formation of the COVID-19 virus, because we do know that the NIH funneled money through the Eco Alliance that gave it to the Wuhan Virology lab with full knowledge of what they did there, and that is work with coronaviruses and also work on gain of function research at that facility.
Oh no, but it was wet market and people eating very strange animals like bats.
Nope, that's not what happened.
Anyone that tells you that it is full of Adam Schiff, they're full of it.
But remember from the beginning, if you get the vaccine, you're not gonna get COVID.
Fauci said it.
Biden said it.
Everybody said it.
And they were all wrong.
Walinsky said it.
You know, this is Walensky, you know, not long ago.
Now these two variants that are out there, it doesn't matter if you got every vaccine they told you to get, every booster they told you to get, doesn't matter if you had COVID already and have natural immunity, you're still subject to getting this this variant.
So it's just another lie.
And you know, I'd like to one day maybe do a medical scientific analysis of what the aftermath or the after effects are in terms of blood in particular.
You know, I've talked to a couple of funeral funeral directors, and they said they're seeing things they never saw before.
And only saw it after, you know, the vaccinations and COVID and all this sort of thing, in terms of blood issues, you know, as they go forward with the embalming process, which I know way too much detail about, which I'm not gonna go into because it'll gross most of you out.
Here's the latest example.
You know, here's uh CDC director, Rochelle Walinsky.
Data from the CDC today suggests um you know that that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick.
Um, and and that it's not just in the clinical trials, but it's also in real world data.
Our vaccines are working exceptionally well, and they continue to work well for Delta with regard to severe illness and death, they prevent it.
But what they can't do anymore is prevent transmission.
We always talk about Fauci, we always talk about Biden.
What about Rochelle Wolinsky?
She was wrong the whole time too.
I will never ever listen to these people again.
And I will say this, and Linda can back me up on this.
There was a lot of pressure being brought to bear on yours truly.
People wanted to know my status.
Are you vaccinated?
Uh have you had COVID?
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And once they were started demanding my personal, my private, confidential medical information, I said, no, I'm not gonna tell you.
And I never I just refused to give in to the pressure to tell people what to do.
I gave out information.
Dr. Robert Ballone came up with the discovery, the technology that allowed for the creation of the mRNA viruses.
Uh I'm sorry, vaccinations.
Uh that would be the Moderna Pfizer vaccines.
And he said it's not completely vetted science.
We're there, but we're not all the way there.
He said, with that said, he he said for people with comorbidities, pre existing conditions, and the elderly, he thought it was appropriate for them to get vaccinated because this generally at the time, especially, was impacting older people, uh and in much greater numbers than younger people.
Younger people, it was like a cold.
I gotta tell you with my own kids, it was not a big deal for them.
So he said that, and then he was excoriated.
The guy that it created the technology for MRNA vaccinations.
Like, maybe we should listen to a guy like that instead of you know screaming uh he's not towing the party line.
Unbelievable.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Carl is in Kentucky.
Hey Carl, how are you?
Glad you called.
Uh, I wanted to talk about the shooting with uh Alex Baldwin.
Oh, you mean uh on the Russet and the sad death of Helena Hutchins?
What a sad tragedy.
Uh the gun they used, they were using Mr. Single Action Colt.
I believe that's correct.
Yes, sir.
Yeah.
Normally they work, you pull back the hammer, and then you pull the trigger and shoot it.
And that's the way they're supposed to work.
But if you put your finger on the trigger and pull the hammer back and let go, it'll fire.
And you and I think what happened was uh he was told to pull back the hammer slowly.
Well, it's pretty hard to pull back the hammer, so what you would probably what you're saying if you pull back the hammer and you didn't lock it in and it you let it go, the bullet would fly out of that gun.
Well, yeah, I mean fire.
You have your finger on the trigger already.
And see, when you have to draw back the hammer real slow, you almost You basically have to almost put your finger in the on the trigger for a brace to be able to pull the hammer back.
And he probably you know, the if you work the gun normally, you think, well, once I have the hammer back, it'll stay, but that's not true if you're pulling the trigger.
Well, here's where Alec Baldwin gets into trouble.
Alec Baldwin went on with George Stefanopoulos said he didn't fire that gun.
He didn't pull the trigger.
He didn't pull back the hammer.
He said he didn't do any of that.
It wasn't in the script.
The trigger we pulled.
Well, the trigger wasn't putting pulled the trigger.
So you never pulled the trigger.
No, no, no.
I would never point a gun at a gonna pull a trigger, never did a real bullet get out of here.
I have no idea.
Someone put a live bullet in a gun.
Bullet wasn't even supposed to be on the property.
I said you're not a victim, but is this the worst thing that's ever happened to you?
Yes.
Oh, okay.
Well, uh, guns don't fire themselves.
All right, let's get to our phone.
Can I pose a question?
It's a Simple question.
It's Friday.
Go ahead.
Yeah, no.
I'm just, you know, just forgive me.
Go ahead.
So this is a movie set.
Correct.
We have cameras.
Yes.
They record.
Correct.
And nobody has any footage of this.
Great point, but they might not have been shooting at that point, meaning shooting or filming would be maybe more a better term so as to not confuse people.
Just thinking out loud.
Yeah, it look it's possible that if they could have been filming.
For example, there are many times when we record something.
Right.
And I hit record just in case something amazing happens in our dry run.
You know, we're doing a commercial or something.
I say, oh, let's record it.
Maybe we get it on take one.
Hey, just have it.
Nobody's recording.
Really?
I don't know.
I get everything on Take One.
What are you talking about?
Oh, I'm sorry.
One take Hannity, sorry.
One take Hannity.
That's my name.
All right.
Quick break right back to the phones.
800-941 Sean, our number as we continue on this Friday.
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Why I left the FBI.
Powerful peace.
Alright, back to our phones.
Then we'll be joined by a former FBI special agent.
Why I left the FBI.
Powerful peace, one of what will be dozens of whistleblowers coming out from the FBI talking about how it's been politicized.
Let's get to our busy phones.
North Carolina, we got Chris standing by.
Hey Chris, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean.
Uh just want to first start off with saying thank you for taking my call and uh you're a voice for millions that won't admit it or agree, but uh keep doing what you're doing, brother.
Thanks, man.
Happy Friday also to you.
What's going on?
Absolutely.
Wanted to uh touch base on the early voting.
Um so I've always been a traditionalist myself.
Uh early uh early voting is never really uh kind of struck with me.
It's always been voting day and it's kind of been a tradition for me.
But uh what you were saying earlier about uh you know conservatives and Republicans getting out there and playing the game.
I think we need to.
I think it's time to start uh getting out there early, getting our votes set.
Uh, because if you look at the polls, you see all these Democrats going out there and and getting their voted, you know, counted for.
Um then you have other states out there that are struggling to get their votes counted within three or four days.
So um I think it's important, and and what you were speaking on the other day was uh to get out there and play the game.
Um I mean, there's there's no reason that we shouldn't take part in the early voting.
Uh because I I I think there's too much margin for error with the counting.
Um, you know, I God forbid an emergency come up and you can't get out on voting day.
So uh just wanted to compliment and uh comment on that.
Well, I appreciate it.
Look, if I had my way, it's election day is a national holiday, paper ballots, partisan observers, signature verification, f voter ID, updated voter rolls, chain of custody controls, but uh you make exceptions for the military, the sick, affirmed, businessmen that are are traveling, etc.
Um, to me it's real simple.
But that not being the case, you gotta deal with the system that we will likely have.
And that means whatever the Democrats are doing, voting early, voting by mail, ballot harvesting is allowed by law.
Every state has a ballot harvesting allowance except for Alabama in some version.
Uh we need to match what Democrats are doing in terms of money, negative ads, and and going out there and working the ballot harvesting according to the law.
We can't be behind by 300,000 votes every every single you know, election day.
Can't do it and win.
Uh it's gotta be dealt with.
I'm gonna I'm gonna have I'm gonna begin a big project at some point this year.
I don't want to I don't want to get ahead of myself here.
Uh, but we're gonna make sure that every state governor and top legislators know what they ought to be doing and focusing on.
Uh to our phones, uh, let us say hi to David in Texas.
David, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey Sean, how you doing?
Um I was just calling to see if I can get an opinion on you, you know.
So we're seeing a lot more people saying that the Freedom Caucus kind of divided the GOP whenever we got Kevin McCarthy in as the House uh speaker.
But in my point of view, I would see the Freedom Caucus as Heroes seeing how they got all these concessions for Kevin McCarthy.
I mean, it only takes one person to say he's not doing his job, and then we can we can get him out of there.
Well, you have a motion to vacate.
But but my only problem, I didn't have any problem with any of them.
I'm friends with all of them.
I've probably spoken to most of them in the last couple of days anyway, um, on varying issues.
There's not one that I'm not friends with, uh, in spite of false media reports.
Uh my only objection was I talked to a lot of them in December, and I kept saying, guys, get nervous, get this deal done, be ready to go on on January 3rd.
And a lot of the things that ultimately came that the changes that were made were already agreed to.
I can tell you because I talk to these guys, uh they're my sources.
That I part of my job is to work sources, and I worked it, and I talked to all those guys.
Uh I don't in the end, it's no harm, no foul.
We're moving forward with the agenda.
So far, they're sticking to their promises.
Uh, and I actually believe they'll come together on the debt ceiling as well.
I'm pretty confident, and that's based on conversations with many of the people you're talking about.
And Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan and Matt Gates.
I've talked to them all, and Chip Roy, uh, and Andy Biggs.
You know, these are all people that we've known for a long time on this program.
So, you know, but remember, you know, I find it amazing that the media writes if they write lies about me.
It's amazing how many people will go out and repeat the lie.
They don't come to me and ask if any of it's true.
You know, I I am lied about so often, and that happened in this case.
You know, it you know, the New York Times just outright flat out, you know, wrote a column just lying about me.
And, you know, I have to deal with it.
And, you know, my option is, you know, okay, threaten to sue, but Times v.
Sullivan, as a public figure, it's a very high bar.
I have to prove that they acted out of malice.
How do you prove such a thing?
It's pretty hard to do.
But I'm telling you, I've I've a very good feeling about where they are as a caucus.
My reminder, my friendly reminder to them is, you know, to keep their promises, and they're gonna succeed and fail together, or fail together.
One and the other.
And so far they've been very successful.
So far, they're sticking to the plan, and I'm pretty happy about that part.
How about you?
I'll give you the last word, David.
Yeah, I'm I feel the same way.
It's just, you know, I just want to make sure, like my biggest thing is that we all gotta stick together, you know, put these petty things aside from what the what the mainstream media is putting out, you know.
They're gonna lie, they're gonna lie their teeth on.
We just gotta make sure that we got we keep our eye on the prize.
We know we stick together and we don't we don't fault from that because what I mean, just I mean, you know, divided, I mean, divided we both.
That's really all we're getting at.
Yeah.
And the amazing thing is is you know, everything is out in the open with me.
What I say in private, I'm saying publicly.
I'm not there's no hiding here on this program.
Uh I have an obligation to be true to who I am, and you know, there are times that I disagree with some people.
You know, and when I do, I'm I'm outspoken about it.
And if I think that they're wrong, I just I'll either say outright they're wrong or just sit or just give my point of view, which is not theirs.
Uh people, I think people are pretty clear on where I stand on stuff.
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