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Senator Tom Cotton - August 8th, Hour 2
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If you want to be a part of the program, only 89 days until Election Day, 40 days early voting begins, rolling out in Pennsylvania, then around the country.
Not a lot of time left, but a lot of issues to be vetted, including the extremism of both Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, and of course, Kamala Harris herself.
We had the press conference, major themes of President Trump's campaign.
And it's obvious where this election is now headed.
I know they're in their honeymoon period.
I know they're loving fawning media coverage.
That's not going to last.
A lot of posts by Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas is going to join us in just a minute.
One about Walls and his unusual 35-year relationship with the communist Chinese.
And all of a sudden, we're on the brink of war, Iran saber-rattling, the supreme leader threatening to take out the IDF headquarters.
And Kamala Harris is open to an arms embargo against Israel as Israel is now in a fight for its very survival at that time.
Talk about extreme, radical, dangerous, on top of every other position from immigration, open borders, which has been an unmitigated disaster, free health care, education, and housing from both Tim Walz and Kamala Harris.
You know, you can get a driver's license in Minnesota if you're an illegal immigrant.
And again, free college education and free housing and free health care both want universal health care plans.
Kamala wants the elimination of all health care.
They don't want fracking.
They don't want drilling.
These are the most dangerous policies ever, but yet they've gotten a walk in the park from the media mob.
One big controversy emerging is that issue of whether or not Tim Walz has claimed something that is absolutely false about his time in the National Guard.
Here is Sergeant Major Thomas Berenz, a member of Tim Walz' battalion, addressing these accusations of stolen valor.
Normally, I'd praise anybody that served the country in the National Guard.
He referred to National Guard's people as 19-year-old cooks when he wouldn't call them out during the summer of 2020 rioting, even after a target was ransacked and a police precinct burned to the ground after a liberal Minneapolis mayor was begging him to please send in the guard.
No, he just waits till day five.
Anyway, here is Tim Walz' battalion addressing, you know, as soon as they were sent to Iraq, he had two years left on his service, and he decided to get out.
Listen.
Yeah, he was in for 24 years and he quit.
Well, okay, so that's what you did.
But don't try to make it look like you were a command sergeant major.
Don't try to make it look like you were going to some place that was in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
I mean, granted, you know, that's just all embellishment and lies to try to make things look better.
And then it got even worse.
We have a clip of Tim Walz claiming, you know, about talking about the weapons of war that he carried in war zones that he'd never been to.
Listen.
But we can do background checks.
We can do CDC research.
We can make sure we don't have reciprocal carry among states.
And we can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried in war is the only place where those weapons are.
Unbelievable.
Anyway, Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas is with us.
By the way, Senator Cotton, not only is a Harvard law graduate with five years of active duty service in the U.S. Army, is an infantry officer.
And anyway, good to have you, Senator.
Thank you for your service.
I would normally say thank you for the service of anybody.
However, if you're claiming a rank that you never completely earned and were demoted after he left the service in the sense that he went back to because he had not met the qualifications that he claimed and then claimed to be something that you warrant, or if you claim you carried a weapon in a war zone and you'd never been to a war zone, what does that say to you?
Hey, Sean, thanks for having me on, and thank you.
That's kind of you.
And I join you in thanking all of our veterans for their service, to include Tim Walz, of course.
But, Sean, as you just played, as we've all read now in the last couple days, Tim Walz and his campaign have made several inconsistent statements about his past service, the rank at which he retired, whether he actually served in Afghanistan, when he knew about the deployment to Iraq relative to his retirement so he could continue running for Congress in 2006.
I think Tim Walz owes answers to the American people about all these issues.
And for that matter, why he's giving answers on his military service, Sean, as you also mentioned, he owes those answers on his long-standing unusual relationship with the Chinese Communist Party, traveling there more than 30 times, often at Communist Party expense, taking children to expose them to communist indoctrination.
But in the end, Sean, let's remember, Tim Walz is the vice presidential nominee.
It's Kamala Harris who really owes us the answers, and she has not taken a single question since she became the Democratic nominee.
It's well past time for Kamala Harris to face the media, to answer questions about her radical views and her failed record.
And we're going to go back and play more of President Trump's press conference from earlier today.
And JD Vance has had many press conferences.
It's not the friendliest venues that they're facing, but they do it and they do it anyway.
And meanwhile, I mean, she's got a lot to answer for, and he's got a lot to answer for.
You know, his position, for example, on minors getting, you know, gender reassignment surgery, even without parental permission, is beyond bizarre to me.
Abortion upon demand up until the moment of birth, both of them share that position.
No fracking, they both share that position.
Open borders and decriminalizing illegal immigrants coming into the country, they both share that position.
Free health care for illegals, they share that position.
Free education, they both share that position.
Walls supports driver's licenses for illegals.
I mean, if you look at immigration, they're both defund, dismantled, you know, no bail law people on top of that on the economy.
Kamala wants, you know, the new Green Deal, and so does Tim Walz.
That's $93 trillion of spending.
It would upend the entire world's economy.
I mean, here we are on the brink of a potential war breaking out in the Middle East, saber-rattling by Iran that they're going to fire rockets along with Hezbollah in the North and Hamas in the South.
And she's talking about an arms embargo against Israel.
I mean, they lost the equivalent of 40,000 Americans on October 7th.
What part of murder and rape and torture and kidnapping and beheading did they miss?
Sean, these are all questions that Kamala Harris has to answer.
And if she had earned the nomination like a normal candidate does, like Donald Trump did in 2016 or Barack Obama did in 2008, she would have answered all those questions many times over in a long contested primary in debates, in town halls, and sit-down interviews with reporters.
She was gifted the nomination just a couple weeks ago, and she's been hiding out from the press ever since.
Now, she claims through her anonymous aids to have had a conversion on all these radical views that she has long held.
Well, we don't even know if that's true because nobody's ever asked her.
And if it is true, she needs to explain why.
And when, for instance, did she no longer think she was going to be a- Oh, they're going to say she evolved the moment that she became the presumptive nominee because that's when the evolution took place.
Yeah, it's a very convenient evolution, isn't it, Sean?
It's kind of like the far-left running mate.
She chose Tim Walz.
I served with Tim in the House.
He represented rural Minnesota.
He had something of a more moderate or at least less liberal voting record than your typical House Democrat.
But then the minute he started running for statewide office and became governor and had to appeal only to the liberals in the Twin Cities, as you say, look what he started doing.
He made Minnesota a sanctuary state.
He gave driver's licenses and illegals, or driver's licenses and health insurance to illegals.
One of the most radical abortion laws in the country.
He is governing like a far-left progressive who wants to remake Minnesota in the image of California.
So it's no surprise why Kamala Harris chose him to be her running mate.
Well, it is no surprise, although in a way it really is a surprise.
And, you know, I got to give Van Jones a little bit of credit here because he stated the obvious that his party has an anti-Semitism problem.
And that probably factored into not choosing Josh Shapiro, who I thought would have been a better choice, at least on paper, if you are looking at a swing state like Pennsylvania.
And then it's followed up by an arms embargo while Israel is on the precipice of a three or four front war.
You would think that the leader of the free world wouldn't abdicate its role and be talking about an arms embargo at such a perilous moment like this.
I mean, this is a real clear existential threat to Israel.
And I think I've known Bibi for 30 years.
I think I know him well enough.
He's not going to give in.
He's not going to surrender.
Israel's not going to be blown up by radical Islamic terrorists.
Oh, excuse me.
We should have the courage not to say that word, according to Kamala Harris, or say the word illegal alien.
I stand corrected by the word police.
Well, there's going to be a lot more of that as Kamala Harris gets into the White House.
And just in general, if you think things have been bad for you and your family for the last four years, the worst is yet to come if Kamala Harris wins.
But, Sean, I'm confident she won for all the reasons you've just outlined.
I mean, consider again that just last night, she told a bunch of radical, pro-Hamas activists that she would consider a total arms embargo on Israel.
Now, again, they sent out aides today to walk that back and claim that she doesn't support it, but she's clearly been the most pro-Hamas member of the Biden administration.
And as you say, the only explanation for why she was so high on Josh Shapiro and then she didn't end up picking him is because he's Jewish.
He and Tim Waltz's views on Israel don't differ all that much.
He is the popular governor of the most critical swing state in the election this year.
Common sense.
And for that matter, Sean, all the news reporting we got and you and I both talking to our Democratic friends, we can share with your listeners that Josh Shapiro was the favored pick late last week and into the weekend.
But you had pro-Hamas radicals who are increasingly dominant in the Democratic Party demanding that she pick someone else.
And in the end, she catered to them.
I wouldn't say that she caved to the far left of her party because she belongs to the far left to her party.
So that's the only explanation for why she walked away what appeared late last week.
Yeah.
Let me play for you, Tim Walz.
And, you know, you have this pressure of this radical squad.
I don't think anybody embodies it more than Congresswoman Omar, who we know has spread, you know, all these anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, you know, part of that, you know, pro-Hamas wing, it seems, in the Democratic Party.
Listen to Tim Walz say, it brightens my day to think of Congresswoman Omar as a Congresswoman.
Listen.
Something I'll never get tired of saying, I think all of you, Congresswoman Omar, wonderful.
Does that sound?
When I'm having a tough day or I'm out on about mile five of my run and I'm feeling kind of down and the world's pressing on me, I think Ilhan Omar's a congresswoman and it just brightens you up.
So thank you.
I mean, really one of the most radical elected officials in Washington, and he's praising somebody that is a known anti-Semite.
That's a little troubling to me, Senator.
And again, you know, they get no questions, no interviews, no sit-downs, no press conferences, no negative press coverage, and frankly, a fawning media that is all over them and covering their radical record.
I mean, I've been playing both of them in their own words, and there's never been a more radical major party ticket to run for this high office in the history of this country.
It is extreme.
It is radical and downright dangerous if they're elected and they try to implement these policies.
Yeah, Sean, regarding that clip that you played of Tim Walz praising Ilan Omar, all I can say is that birds of a feather lock together.
And you're right, that this is the most radical ticket that we've ever seen in American history.
I mean, I think Tim Walz put it well just a couple of weeks ago when he said, one man's socialism is another man's neighborliness.
So I guess he's just A-OK with socialism.
Maybe that's what he learned on all those trips to China sponsored by the Chinese Communist Party.
And again, we know what Kamala Harris believes.
She's always been a radical San Francisco liberal.
And her campaign can try, as they will, to remake her and hide her out from the press.
Even more so than they're hiding out Joe Biden.
But in the end, she is who she's always been.
Well, all they're doing is these, you know, scripted events.
She's giving the same speech at every location.
It's getting monotonous and it's getting boring.
And, you know, we now have a 2020 hide in the basement strategy and the media is complicit in all this.
How would you recommend they bypass that in the Trump campaign?
How do they circumvent that?
Well, I thought JD Vance was very shrewd yesterday when he walked over to her press corps at the airport and said that he'd be happy to take their questions since he figured they were lonely and they never get a chance to ask her questions on the record.
I thought President Trump's press conference stressing these points today was very good as well.
I mean, we need to keep the spotlight on Kamala Harris's failed record and the media's willingness to cover up for her until they feel the pressure to actually do their job and demand that she answer questions on the record.
Yeah, I'll play that cut in a minute.
But Senator Cotton, we always appreciate having you on the program.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you, Sean.
All right, 800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program later on, we're going to play more of President Trump and his press conference, something Kamala and Tim Walz won't do from earlier today.
Also, Tulsi Gabbard.
I mean, this is an incredible story.
Being targeted of a veteran former congresswoman, and the government is now targeting somebody that dares to speak out, and they put her on the terror watch list, three air marshals on every flight she's been taking, and a whistleblower exposes it.
Now they're going after the whistleblower for telling the truth.
All right, quick break, right back.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour, 800-941.
Sean is on number.
If you want to be a part of the program, I mean, we have almost an unimaginable story to tell you.
Well, actually, Tulsi Gabbard will tell it to you herself, how she has been placed on the terror watch list.
And but for the courage of a whistleblower, would never have known it, except that when she would travel, it got very strange and very odd, and it was clear that she was being targeted.
And it's a story that Matt Taibbi talked about, John Solomon talked about, and she is going to give us the details of it.
Also, we're going to remind you, there was one debate with Tulsi Gabbard just pummeled Kamala Harris, and we'll get to that.
We'll get her thoughts on this presidential race.
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Now, this is a pretty unbelievable story that Tulsi Gabbard somehow has been put on, her name has been put on a terror watch list.
And in great detail and specificity, we now know that every time she has been getting on a plane, there are not one, not two, but three air marshals that have been on the plane just to monitor Tulsi Gabbard.
Now, if you don't know a lot about Tulsi Gabbard, you should, because she not only was a presidential candidate, a veteran in her own right, a patriot, a former congresswoman, author of For Love of Country, and how did this all happen?
How do you get placed on the terror watch list as a former Hawaii congresswoman and former member of the military?
And why were they tailed by air marshals and bomb dogs?
And is this, if this isn't unconstitutional on every level, I don't know what is.
Anyway, we welcome back Tulsi Gabbard to the program.
I've been reading these people.
I cannot believe what I'm reading here.
I really, I could not believe when I read this story, these stories in detail about what you've been living through.
And but for, I guess, a whistleblower, you wouldn't know officially what they were doing, although you had every suspicion of what was going on.
What happened?
Yeah, you know, Sean, I did.
You know, this really began on July 23rd.
Like you, I travel a lot.
I'm on a plane on average, probably one to three days a week.
And so I travel light and travel efficiently.
July 23rd, I was not able to use any kind of pre-check.
And I had this SSS, what they call quad S marked on my boarding pass.
And what that resulted in was additional screening.
My husband happened to be traveling with me that day, so he had the same mark on his boarding pass.
And it means you get an additional look by TSA.
We traveled again two days later, both of us going on different airlines to different destinations.
Both of us, again, had this quad S mark on our boarding pass, which means you're not allowed to check in online.
The only way to get your boarding pass is to go to the ticket counter.
You go, once you make it to the TSA checkpoint, they call a supervisor in.
You have to stand there until the supervisor comes.
In this case, it took about 15 minutes.
We had not allotted for this extra time in showing up for the airport, so we were getting kind of worried we'd miss the flight.
Once the supervisor came, they had to shut down what they do every single time I've traveled, they've done this.
They shut down an entire lane of the TSA screening.
And they do this because it takes so long.
What they are required to do for anyone who has Quad S marked on their boarding pass, as we have had, is you take out all your electronics.
The supervisor has to visibly watch you turn on every single phone or laptop.
In my case, I had a military laptop, a personal laptop, a military phone, a personal phone.
Make sure that they power on.
Shoes, take everything off.
And then the TSA agents then go and will conduct an in-depth screening of you with the pat down from head to toe and side to side and in between and everywhere else, followed by an in-depth screening of every single article and object in your carry-on luggage.
As you can imagine, this takes about two to four TSA agents doing this for roughly 30 to 45 minutes is what we've experienced.
I have had this on my boarding pass since July 23rd.
The last couple of flights I took in the last two to three days, I did not have it, and I was able to go through pre-check.
However, my husband, who was traveling separately over these last few days, still has the quad S mark on his boarding pass.
So all of that is to say that this July 23rd was the date that this began for both of us.
And it wasn't until I saw the leak.
Obviously, I was like, you know, I was being told by friends of mine who I was telling about this, hey, Tulsi, you're just being paranoid.
It happens to everybody.
They say this is a random selection.
You know, don't worry about it so much.
It wasn't until I saw that information being put out by these air marshal whistleblowers that I knew for sure because they said that this began on July 23rd, and that is exactly when it began.
You know, it's kind of hard to wrap my mind around this.
Tell us how you got confirmation about this.
Obviously, you were suspicious.
I mean, they even went into great specificity and detail in one of the articles, I think it was the Taibbi article, how every article of clothing that you had packed away, they would feel every single part of the clothing.
I mean, it would take 45 minutes to an hour.
Did you ever miss a flight?
The very first flight that this happened, both my husband and I almost missed our separate flights.
Again, we were traveling on different airlines to different places for him.
And by the way, you travel a lot.
You do public speaking.
You do events.
I mean, you're in very high demand as a speaker and as somebody that's involved in a lot of different business things.
All of that is to translate to say I am an experienced traveler and very efficient in my packing and familiar with many of the major airports in the country.
By the way, I'm going to have to get tips for you.
I hate packing, but go ahead.
It's never fun, but I've got it down.
I've got it down like Pat where check-in luggage takes too long, things get lost.
So I am able to pack for a multi-day trip in just a carry-on.
But what that means is when going through this quad S, as I talked about in the Matt Taibbi interview, you know, I have two suits in my suitcase.
I have workout clothes.
I have jeans.
I have everyday clothes.
I have a couple of pairs of shoes.
I have everything that I will need for this trip.
And for every article of clothing, you wear suits.
They squeezed and patted down every inch of the entire collar, every inch of the shoulders, every inch of the arms, patted down the back, went through literally every inch and every seam of not only my suits, but every article of clothing.
Once they emptied out the carry-on, they unzipped the liner inside my rollerboard and patted down every inch of the rollerboard itself, both on the inside and the outside of the liner.
And again, I just want to say for the record, these TSA agents are doing what they are told to do.
If they don't do it, they'll be fired.
Exactly.
And they are doing so under the watchful eye of a supervisor who is standing there doing nothing but watching them to make sure that they carry out the kind of in-depth search that they're doing.
So that day, that first flight, my husband, he sprinted to the gate.
They had already closed the doors.
Thankfully, there was a person there with a compassionate heart, and she let him on the plane.
I was the last person to board my flight that was leaving about 10 minutes later.
And then over the course of this period of time, I'm a pretty situationally aware person.
I think my military training over 20 years of it has come into play.
So at a few different stops, I noticed, hmm, this is unusual.
I've not seen so many TSA canine teams.
I've not seen so many air marshals.
If you travel a lot, you can kind of figure out who's who and their routines.
Did you ever just spot them and say, hey, thanks for what you do and let them know you know who they are?
I hadn't at that point, partially because usually I was in a rush because of the additional screening, but noticing people sitting around me on one flight and then another group of people sitting around me on another flight and making it was just things that were kind of unusual.
But again, if I would have suspected, I would have said, really, thank you guys for what you do.
That's what I would have done.
Absolutely.
I have done that before in the past before all of this started.
And I've been told by the air marshals, like, hey, no one's supposed to know who we are.
So I try to try to not.
Let me ask you this.
How did this happen?
Why are you being targeted?
That is the priceless question.
This began the day after Kamala Harris was, President Joe Biden announced that he was not going to be the Democratic nominee and that he was endorsing Kamala Harris.
I did an interview on Fox News with Laura Ingram that next day, and I talked about this.
And I talked about what a serious threat a potential President and Commander-in-Chief Kamala Harris would be to our freedom, to our safety and security and our national security as a country, and spoke about the reasons why and also reminded people that I had issued this same warning in 2019 when she and I were running for president on the Democratic ticket.
And the warning is just as true today as it was back then.
I was put on this list the day after that interview.
I have no reason.
I've been given no explanation.
I would not have known that I was on the quiet skies list if not for these brave air marshals and whistleblowers coming forward.
I have sources telling me that they are now under fire and may be in trouble and may end up getting fired or demoted or something could happen to them.
And that would be a shame.
It sounds like we're dealing with a very weaponized system of justice once again.
Do you think any of it may go back to when in the Democratic primary and you were debating Kamala Harris?
This is how it went down.
Bottom line is, Senator Harris, when you were in a position to make a difference and an impact in these people's lives, you did not.
And worse yet, in the case of those who were on death row, innocent people, you actually blocked evidence from being revealed that would have freed them until you were forced to do so.
There is no excuse for that.
And the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor, you owe them an apology.
I will tell you: if this is political retribution, this country's finished because we've already seen the weaponized system of justice on Donald Trump.
I mean, that means any critic is now going to be a target.
How do you, what are your options?
How do you fight back?
I mean, can you sue them?
Well, first of all, there is no other explanation other than what you just described, political retaliation, continuing what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have done over the last four years in weaponizing our public institutions against people they deem as threats to their power, political opponents, those who criticize them.
Here's the deep betrayal that is at the heart of all of this is that like so many Americans, Sean, I enlisted because of the attacks on 9-11 to go after the Islamist terrorists who attacked us then and who continue to pose a threat to us today.
And so for my government, our government, president, commander-in-chief, his administration, Kamala Harris, who remains in power today, for them to take me, and there are many others.
We don't have any idea how many people are on this list, but I am certain that there are many who either serve in the military or are veterans.
They are targeting us as potential domestic terrorists.
Those of us who've been willing to put our lives on the line in service to our country, to keep our country safe.
That is the ultimate betrayal that could come from our own leadership.
So, yes, I am taking legal action.
I'm working with Jay Seculo and his team at ACLJ, who have been champions of the Constitution and of freedom for so many people.
Initially, we're filing a FOIA request to actually force some transparency to understand why they have done this to me and my husband, for that matter.
And we will continue to fight this fight to get rid of these unconstitutional secret terror watch lists that they are weaponizing against our fellow Americans and patriots.
And I'm going to take this fight all the way to the Supreme Court to stop them if we have to, because they must be held accountable.
Otherwise, we're going to continue to see an increase in escalation of this brazen abuse of power, not only under this administration, but certainly if the prosecutor, president, Kamala Harris, is allowed to get into power.
Our freedom and constitution has taken this election.
That's really what it comes down to.
All right.
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I've come to know you and respect you a lot as a real champion and hero for liberty, freedom, and serving your country is so admirable.
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