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Congressman Mike Waltz - February 15th, Hour 3
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Um when this news, when it broke last night and I saw it, my heart kind of sank.
You know, we're behind Russia and China when it comes to hypersonic missiles.
I'm not sure if most Americans are aware of that.
And and the irony of all of that is I've been told by really, really great sources, both in Congress and in our military, that the technology that both China and Russia use for hypersonic missiles.
Actually, the foundational the foundational intellectual property behind it came from us, which infuriates me even more.
But that would certainly give them an added advantage militarily that we we can never allow them to have.
I mean, we've got to have the biggest, baddest, toughest, meanest kick-ass military on the face of this earth.
Uh otherwise we're risking all of our freedoms.
And you get the wrong leader in the wrong place at the wrong time with weapons of mass destruction, and it could end in a disaster.
And that made me feel, you know, really even worse when I saw that the U.S. uh that our government has gathered highly sensitive intelligence about Putin and Russia and their anti-satellite weapons that now has been shared with the upper echelons of our government, according to people that have been briefed on the intelligence, the people who were not authorized to comment publicly, but apparently this broke.
Uh Congressman Mike Turner, for example, gave no details about the nature of the threat.
The Biden administration declined to talk about it.
Several leading lawmakers, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, cautioned against being overly alarmed.
Whenever g the government says don't be overly alarmed, and I like Mike Johnson, but I'm sorry, I get alarmed.
Uh Congressman Mike Waltz knows a thing or two about all of this.
Uh we'll get to him in just a second, but here's Jake Sullivan who won't give a straight answer on this national security threat.
In the simplest of terms, can you tell Americans that there's nothing they have to worry about right now in terms of what he describes as a national security threat?
Look, I think in a way that question um i is impossible to answer with a straight yes, right?
So that that answer is impossible in light of a light of the news that came out yesterday.
Wow.
Congressman Mike Waltz of Florida serves on the House Intel Committee.
He's here to talk about what is, I believe, a very serious national security threat facing our country.
I would argue the ten million unvetted Joe Biden illegal immigrants uh are a serious national security threat.
We had top retired FBI officials calling this an invasion of military age men.
That's one of them.
And this would be right there at the top of the list as well.
Anyway, Congressman Waltz, good to have you back, and uh thank you for the warm welcome that you and other Floridians have given me since I've uh moved here on officially on January one.
How are you, sir?
Hey, great, Sean, and uh absolutely welcome to the free state of Florida.
You and and so many others are voting with their feet on uh on and getting governed by uh by good conservatives.
So uh I bet I I I've been I just have been reassuring the people of Florida.
I've been telling people if they are considering moving to Florida from liberal states and blue states.
It's fine.
Just don't bring your insane leftist radical climate alarmist religious cult agenda with you.
Um I will not be one of those people.
I am staying with my conservative values.
I am not uh part of uh the left wing that could ruin the state potentially if they move down here.
But anyway, thank you for your warm welcome.
Yeah, I think I think that's a safe bet, but you know, there are parts of uh South Florida that are that have turned blue.
It's amazing.
I call them the locusts.
You know, they they le flee Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, then they come to South Florida, ruin it, uh, or try to turn it blue.
Now we're seeing them migrate to North Florida.
Well, so it's um anyway.
Yeah, but it was interesting.
Governor DeSantis, he w in his first election he won it by I think a little over thirty thousand votes.
His last election he won by one point five million votes.
And if I'm not mistaken, I think every single county voted for him, in including in South Florida.
Uh uh that that's what that's my instant recall.
Am I wrong on that?
No, that's that's right.
He flipped states, uh he flipped counties have been blue for for decades.
Two two quick things on it.
One, uh the the Republicans moving to Florida, the uh the Florida Republican Party uh re-registered them to actually vote in Florida.
The Democrats shut down because of COVID, so they're still voting absentee back in Massachusetts or Illinois or wherever they came from.
But two, the bigger thing I think that got overlooked.
We've had schools reopen five days a week in person since August of 2020.
Uh amazing.
Uh and man, uh, I don't care what your p political persuasion is, uh having kids in school so you can go to work is a non-political issue.
And I I think that spoke to those two things spoke to a lot of uh that historic relic.
I was like an a political orphan in New York.
I I there wasn't one politician that liked me up there.
We had two governors back to back saying that if you're one of those conservatives and you're pro-life and you believe in the second amendment, you're not a New Yorker.
I mean, literally said that.
And there's no place for you here.
And then you had Kathy Holkel, the cover current governor.
I want to play this for you, because I cannot believe that any governor would be telling people to get on a bus and get the hell out of town.
But this is what she said um, you know, to the people of New York, and I'm sitting there saying, All right, I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm heeding your admonition, you don't want me, and I'm leaving.
And I mean leaving.
I've I've already written the state board of elections, you know, saying that I I take me off the voter rolls there.
I'm not I'm I'm now registered in the state of Florida.
Here's Kathy Hochel.
And we're here to say that the era of Trump and Zeldon and Molinaro just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong.
Okay.
Get out of town.
Get out of town.
Because you don't re you don't represent our values.
You are not New Yorkers.
Their problem is not me and the Democrats.
Their problem is themselves.
Who are they?
Are they these extreme conservatives who are right to life, uh pro-assault weapon, anti-gay?
Is that who they are?
Because if that's who they are, and if they are the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York.
So this was that's not who New Yorkers are.
I mean, can you imagine uh any governor of any state saying that?
Now earlier in the program we had on Christy Gnome, and and she's bringing in tens of thousands of people to her state by incentivizing them to come with open arms.
She's welcoming them.
If you're a licensed professional in one state, your license is transferable immediately in South Dakota.
If let's say you you're looking for opportunity, apprenticeships and the trades are starting at 80 grand a year in South Dakota.
Is that not amazing?
Yeah, we've got and we have similar programs along the space coast.
Uh literally uh building rockets, building engines, and the economy of the future.
But you know who you know how many people are listening to Hokel and Cuomo's advice?
Uh 400 people a day are leaving uh New York, are fleeing New York.
And you know what else is leaving with them is their tax base uh and coming to Florida.
But New York has double the size of the state budget of Florida.
Yet their tax base is leaving.
Uh and so uh at some point the chickens are gonna come home to roost, but Sean Libete, since I'm in Washington, let me tell you what happens.
About every ten years or so, when unfortunately the Democrats get, you know, both houses and the White House, they pass massive federal government spending and bail these blue states out, just like they did with the COVID spending, just like they did with the IRA.
Uh and and so you I mean, not to be depressing, you think you're escaping those taxes, but really all the Democrats do is transfer it onto the federal books and off of the blue state books and then try to, you know, and transfer it on to our debt that our kids are gonna have to pay.
That's how they get away with it, because people keep asking, how are they getting away with this?
Oh, you know, massive state overspending up in the Northeast uh and in the north, and that's what they do.
They sli eventually their allies in Washington slide it on to our federal debt.
One of the best things Donald Trump did, and by the way, it negatively impacted me.
If it financially was if it caused me to take a that had high income taxes, high local taxes, and you could deduct it on your your federal tax uh form.
And I I I felt that that's unfair because states that elect fiscally responsible politicians and officials, they were being punished for for electing the right people that didn't overspend.
And they they states like Florida, you don't benefit from that law.
You end up fun you end up financing states that you know pick big, you know, tax and spend people.
But listen, let me move on to the issue of the hand here, because I'm a little nervous about this.
Um have you heard what my sources told me that a lot of the hypersonic technology that we now know that China and Russia have that that the original, the origins, the intellectual property, a lot of it actually was stolen from the U.S. Had you heard that?
Yes.
Uh absolutely.
Uh and and really what happened was this was under development, and with sequestration and the defense cuts under Obama, something had to give.
Uh so certain things were put on the shelf, and then certain things were stolen.
Uh and uh it's truly a shame.
And here's I just want uh your listeners to understand why this is so dangerous.
When an adversary launches an ICBM, we can predict the arc of it, and that's how our missiles shoot it down.
With the hypersonic, it's basically a maneuverable ICBM that can fly around our radars, under our radars, and then falls to earth so fast uh that our our our missile defenses really struggle uh to be able to hit it.
So it's a it's a classic first strike weapon.
Take out the command and control, take out the leadership, and then you can't respond, and therefore mutually assured destruction breaks down.
Uh, it's very serious, uh, and we we have got to catch up.
Um and uh it's I mean, it's just one of many things historians are gonna look back on and say they stole it from you to get ahead of you, and then your own money paid for it uh in terms of China especially.
All right, quick break, we'll come right back more with Florida Congressman Mike Waltz on the other side, our toll-free numbers 800 941 Sean as we roll along today.
All right, we continue with Florida Congressman Mike Waltz, and you know, why is America, why are we allowing this administration and left-wing politicians to allow our top geopolitical foes to have military technology, a lot of which is intellectual property stolen from us.
They have hypersonic missiles.
Now they're talking about nukes in space.
Uh, where is America in terms of keeping up and thinking about a long-term national security interest?
We continue with Congressman Mike Waltz of Florida.
Let me ask you this, because this was a pretty scary story and revelation yesterday.
Right.
And that is Russia's efforts to create this this anti-satellite weapons, and and literally, I guess I'm not sure if it's accurate to say they're putting nukes in space.
How would you describe it and how on a scale of one to ten, how concerned should Americans be about this technology that apparently we don't have?
Well, look, I want to be clear.
No one should be diving into their, you know, diving into their bunker uh tomorrow.
Um so it's it's not necessarily a tomorrow thing.
However, it is incredibly serious.
Uh, and I'm not gonna get into details, but Kirby uh just came out and you know, according to what he's saying, confirmed part of this uh that it's that it's anti-satellite, and here's what I want everybody to understand.
Our entire economy is now dependent on what's on what's in space.
And we have much greater dependencies because our economy is vibrant uh than the Russians do.
So you take out our satellite, you take out GPS, you take out our nuclear early warning uh assets, and uh and we have a huge, huge problem.
Uh so this is a geostrategic game changer, just again, pointing to what the White House uh is is now talking about.
And then I just want to make a second point.
Chairman Turner, this part's not getting out, was so frustrated he had sent multiple classified letters to this White House and got nothing in response.
So eventually he said, Look, I can't sit on this.
There's only a few of us on the Intel committee.
All members need to be aware.
Number one.
And number two, we're gonna push the administration to declassify it because it doesn't just affect us, it affects the entire world.
Uh if our economies go dark uh with what's up in space, then uh that is I mean, that's literally knocking us back to the dark ages, uh, economically.
So it was out of frustration with this administration.
But look, Sean, I mean, this is a white house that doesn't know where its defense secretary is, commander in chief can't complete sentences.
It shouldn't surprise anybody that a very serious threat was out there and we couldn't get response uh from Congress, whether it's the border or whether it's this.
I mean, we couldn't get responsible.
I hope people are listening to you.
Congressman Mike Waltz, great Florida, the free state of Florida, sir.
Uh America better catch up.
We better c we we need a new president that pr prioritizes uh peace through strength and a rebuilding of our military and advancing our technology to keep up at least, but we really should be surpassing all of our geopolitical foes.
But uh a scary scenario, Congressman.
Thank you for your time.
We always appreciate it.
All right, thanks, Sean.
Let me go back to this case.
We've been playing Fanny Willis.
My favorite cut is her when she was running for Fulton County DA saying that uh the people of Georgia and Fulton County, they they need they need a DA that is not gonna be involved in in affairs with their subordinates and and needs to stay on the straight narrow.
I want to play that again.
Let's play that.
Because they deserve a DA that won't have sex with his employees, because they deserve a DA that won't put money in their own pocket when it should go to benefit children, because we deserve better.
And then Nathan Wade, her well, frankly, uh overpaid, more inexperienced uh attorney that she paid what, six hundred and fifty-four thousand dollars to.
Apparently they might have been living together, according to today's testimony, uh and things that I've read, and also took these extravagant vacations.
Took twenty he took twenty seconds to answer if he's ever been to a cabin with Fanny Willis ever.
And then he admits that he used a business credit card for trips with Fanny Willis, and she reimbursed him with cash, and then testified that Fannie Willis reimbursed him in case uh for safety reasons.
Wow, they have a great relationship.
Anyway, the very opposite of what she said she would do.
Let's play this.
You remember booking a cabin.
I booked lots of cabins.
Did you go to a cabin with Miss Willis ever?
Ever.
Ever gone to a cabinet with this.
No.
So all of the vacations that she took, she paid you cash for.
Yes, ma'am.
And you purchased all of these vacations on your business credit card, correct?
Yes, ma'am.
Okay.
And you included those in deductions on your taxes, correct?
No, ma'am.
No, you did not.
Traveling with her um is is a is a task.
You can probably imagine the uh attention that that happens.
So for safety reasons, um she would limit her transactions.
Um I mean imagine trying to walk through an airport or sit at a restaurant or do anything.
Um so there was no there's no attempt to conceal is a credit card.
Everything is here.
But don't worry, we'll get a liberal judge that'll probably say, Oh, it's okay.
Um she didn't have to disclose that.
Okay.
800, 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
We haven't really said enough about what happened yesterday in Kansas City.
I don't know what to say.
When I heard how many children were injured and shot, here about one person dead, 22 people injured, shooting near the Kansas City Chiefs.
They were having their Super Bowl victory rally in Kansas City.
One person dead, 22 others injured in this case.
Children's Mercy Hospital.
God bless the people that work there.
They've confirmed they treated 12 patients with From the rally out of those patients, 11 are children.
Nine of those children had gunshot wounds.
And the latest report we heard was good news that they're they're going to be okay, which is probably a miracle in and of itself.
It's just so sad that this evil exists everywhere.
And then of course you always have, oh, we need to ban guns.
Well, bad people by their very nature hate to tell you, they're not the ones that are following the gun laws in the first place.
They're criminals.
Remember?
The law doesn't matter to them.
It's law-abiding people that should have the right to protect themselves kind of the way that our politicians are protected with bodyguards, etc.
You know, look at the the look at the uh the amount of money that they the squad members have been spending on their own personal security.
By the way, I'm not against it.
I think any elected official has a right to be safe and to be protected, regardless of of where they stand politically.
And that goes for any elected official.
We've got to protect them.
Got to protect our institutions.
We've got to protect every American citizen, though, too.
And you know, these have become war zones in some of our nation's biggest cities.
You ever think you'd see as many smash and grab robberies as we've been seeing?
You ever think you'd see, you know, the the shootings and broad daylight?
You ever think you'd see, you know, five illegal immigrants beating the living hell out of uh two New York City police officers only to walk out of jail, you know, an hour later with no bell and and given flipping the bird with both hands, and then heading on out to the sanctuary state of California?
Wow.
What kind of times are we living in here?
Anyway, our prayers are with the people of Kansas City.
Linda, uh, did you see that George Soros now is buying a controlling interest in America's second largest radio company?
Uh the company, by the way, is called Odyssey, and uh Soros apparently is poised to take a massive stake.
Uh they own more than 220 stations nationwide, according to court filings, and apparently the Soros Fund Management has bought up 400 million dollars in debt in Odyssey.
Uh again, the number two U.S. radio broadcaster behind the company that I am in a partnership with, proudly in a partnership with iHeart Media.
They have some of the biggest stations.
If you look at New York, uh the sports uh station, WFAN or 1010 wins, or LA-based KROQ, according to bankruptcy f uh uh filings.
Uh we did look into how many Odyssey stations this radio program is on.
We're now approaching 750 radio stations and affiliates around the country, and about seven of our affiliates uh will be impacted by this.
Now, is is George Soros doing this for political purposes?
Uh my instinct would say yes.
Uh does that mean that conservative talk show hosts that work for these stations need to uh maybe get their resume updated?
I would argue probably yes.
Uh does that does that bother me?
Yeah, it does.
You know, one of one of the beauty, the beauty of talk radio, which, you know, obviously Rush single-handedly saved the AM band.
He just did.
I mean, he he took AM radio that was kind of withering on the vine, and single-handedly revitalized the band by by initiating talk radio to a national audience.
And he started with I think around 200 radio stations, you know, 20 some odd million listeners.
Uh, but it also created an entire format for conservative talk show hosts that uh that you know certainly benefited people like me, the great one Mark LeVe.
I mean, I can't mention every talk show host.
I know it would like and love, but everybody that you know, or most of the people that you know, and it has been an outlet for conservatives in this country to get news and information that they're never going to get from the mob, the media.
And that would be the three main networks, ABC, NBC, CBS, or that would include, you know, papers like the New York slimes and toilet paper times and the Washington compost.
And that would include, you know, networks MSDNC and fake news CNN so people have sought out and they now have found alternative sources of information and shows like this and thank you by the way for your support we can't do it without you listening.
And now we see a lot of a lot of stations, FM stations have gravitated towards the talk format that has brought in a lot more young people into the talk format because they well you know a lot of young people never listen to AM radio.
Now my kids did growing up because they'd be in the car and they'd hear AM radio uh when I was with them or if they were hearing my show uh however uh otherwise if uh when I'd asked their friends they they didn't even know what the AM band was but now they're finding talk on FM and and also they've gravitated back to AM radio uh and what impact this has I I don't think anybody has any knowledge how this is all gonna play out.
I certainly don't.
But the stake is equal to about 40% of the company's senior debt.
That is a massive chunk, which, although not a majority, could yield eventually effective control of the media giant when it emerges from bankruptcy.
This could be, mark this day, could be a bad day for conservative talk radio down the road.
We shall see.
All right, to our busy phones we go.
As we now say hi to BJ's in North Carolina.
BJ, hi.
How are you?
Glad you called.
Doing good, Sean.
Thank you for taking my call.
Thank you for checking in, man.
Glad you called.
Yes, sir.
I just had a question with the special report that came out and the classified documents.
What role, if any, is Obama playing in all this?
How would he not be at fault or be held responsible when he was president?
at the time well he could be I mean that's a great point that's a point that Donald Trump has been made and I making it I think it's very effective right yes it is but if you're asking what role he might have had in the document case I don't know I mean honestly if if you look at for example the issue of of the Biden family syndicate there's never been any evidence that I have seen that that Obama ever knew what Joe was doing.
I've not seen it.
And if I did, I would have obviously told you.
Anyway, appreciate the call.
Quickly, we go to Christy in Florida.
Christy, how are you?
Glad you called.
Doing great.
Thanks, Sean, for taking the call.
Thank you.
Sean, after her report come out, I've been watching Biden every day.
I am speaking from personal experience with dementia and Parkinson's.
My husband's family, they have dementia in the family.
An aunt passed away from it.
My mother-in-law suffers from it.
it and doesn't by the way I'm very sorry I I have I think everybody listening probably knows somebody I know I have known many people and it's devastating.
It is um this is a woman that was an educator she was my teacher in junior high um I've known her 33 years um to see what it has done it is devastating my mother has Parkinson's we are caring for her as well I watch Biden day after day.
They call lid every afternoon very early this is what I believe and what we're witnessing it's what's called sundowning it's what dementia patients have and any evening usually around four thirty six something like that, they start getting very agitated.
They get intensely distressed.
They get agitated.
They start having hallucinations, such as talking to dead people.
Um, they start having delusions, confusion.
Um, it also makes it hard for them to sleep.
The majority of dementia patients that suffer from sundowning syndrome are usually given um something for sleeping, like a sleeping medication.
This makes it very concerning for me uh uh as an American, as a citizen, that my president may be you know impaired during the overnight hours when there could be a you know national event that we need him in charge.
I I I wish I had more time.
Everything you are saying is absolutely true.
It is a clear and present danger to the country.
There's no other way to put it.
We need some it's the hardest job in the world.
We need somebody that is mentally and physically capable of of being able to do that job to the best of their ability.
This is not the Joe Biden of forty years ago or even four years ago.
Great point.
I'm sorry about your family and you having to deal with this too.
It's not fun.
All right, quick break, right back.
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