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Chip Roy is with us to talk about all of the different nominations and how they're going.

Jeff Parker is with us from Parker Vision, an exclusive story that is 25 years in the making about how Qualcomm,

Eric Holder, the Obama administration,

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All right, I want to start with two stories.

First, let's start with a plane crash in Washington, D.C.

First thing that has to be said is pray for the families and the rescue workers.

It is horrible.

An experienced pilot of a passenger jet collided with

what they're saying is a fairly experienced crew of a Blackhawk helicopter.

There appear to be no survivors.

67 people believed to be dead.

They are still diving in the icy, icy waters of the Potomac.

The

Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.

is a very dangerous airport.

So pray for everybody involved.

Now, it's too early to assign any blame, but the usual is happening in the world of politics.

Donald Trump is responsible, blah, blah, blah.

But we do know that there is a problem, a real problem with our air traffic control system.

Nobody has talked about it.

Nobody in the press wants to talk about it, but there have been several near-misses and something is happening.

Now, in the end, it may not be this, but I want to bring this up because Stu did a whole Blaze original documentary on the dangerous conditions that are currently par for the course in our control towers.

Yeah, it was called Countdown to the Next Aviation Disaster, which turned out to be 70 days from when we released it.

You know, we talked about a lot of this.

We don't know the cause, obviously.

There's still a lot of investigation to do, but, you know, you're talking about these air traffic controllers are overworked and understaffed.

And,

you know, of course, there was lots of concerns about things like DEI.

No idea at this point whether that has anything to do with it.

But one thing we did know and did see over and over again in the documentary is how many times we've had close calls over the past couple of years.

The pace has picked up like crazy.

And the fact that we had gone all of these years without one of these types of incidents was a miracle.

I mean, it was bound to happen.

And, you know, we're still, there's still a lot of investigation to find out.

But this is, you know, America's busiest runway.

This is huge.

And one of our shorter runways.

Shorter runways.

It's dangerous.

And we were just there.

I just took off from that airport a week or two ago, and it is tight.

Everything around there is really, really tight.

It's amazing that that many helicopters could go up and down that river and not have more of these incidents.

It's very scary.

Here is the audio from the control tower.

F-25, CRJ ant flight.

S25 at Pond is CRJ.

S 12 has a aircraft in such pressure.

Fire Command.

The accident happened in the river.

Both the helicopter and the plane crashed in the river.

It's east of the approach end of runway 33.

Is the airfield closed?

Yes, the airfield is closed.

The airfield is closed.

Runways is local?

Yes, all runways are closed.

Nobody's landing.

No one's moving at all.

Our government is out of control, and we all know this.

If you're being honest with yourself, we know this.

Our government has given billions of dollars out in COVID fraud.

They were fraudulent with what they even said about COVID.

When they gave all that money out, nobody caught it.

We're not going to get it back.

Hundreds of billions of dollars dollars at the Pentagon has just been misplaced.

They've done like 18 audits.

They just have no idea where they put, you know, $600 billion.

Our Navy was told to build a dock to distribute aid to the Palestinians, and after millions of dollars, it failed.

Our

extraction from Afghanistan

Everything we have touched, not just in the last four years, but everything that we have touched from the financial situation that our government was involved in, our health care, everything over the last few decades has revealed incompetence, graft, stupidity, waste, and I think intentional sabotage of our nation's will, wealth, and reputation.

But we don't have to go over that because that's why Donald Trump was elected.

But as I told you before, we have many dark days ahead of us.

But then if we allow this administration to do what they promised, the clouds will break and it will be a morning in America again and we will be able to write a new chapter.

But we are in the thick of it.

Let me give you this.

You and I both know something deeply, deeply wrong with our intelligence agencies in this country.

And every American, I don't care who you voted for, every American should be concerned about this.

Because these agencies were supposed to be on the front line of our defense, keeping us safe from foreign threats, working in the shadows to protect the freedoms that we all take for granted.

That was the idea.

But I don't know when it changed, but it changed.

Somewhere along the way, the people trusted to defend our Constitution and our rule of law started seeing the American people as the very people they swore to protect as the enemy.

You've seen it.

You may have even felt it personally.

The agencies that are supposed to protect us from threats abroad have turned inward.

Instead of focusing on real dangers like China's economic warfare,

cyber threats, terrorist networks, they've been caught spying on American citizens, censoring their dissent, manipulating public perception.

The intelligence community, whether intentionally or through sheer institutional rot, has become a political weapon, and you cannot deny it.

This is not just some theory.

You don't have to go digging into the shadows to find proof.

You don't have to listen to any conspiracy theories.

It's right there in plain sight.

We watched intelligence officials interfere with the elections.

They buried stories that were inconvenient for the powerful.

They targeted sitting presidents.

They excused other sitting presidents.

And if you spoke out against it, those people became a target.

The best example is, well, Donald Trump, but the next one is Tulsi Gabbard.

She was a Democrat.

You probably remember the moment she went from being a rising star in Washington to a threat that had to be destroyed.

It wasn't when she served as a Democrat in Congress.

It wasn't when she deployed to Iraq and served honorably.

It was when she started asking questions and refused to fall in line.

When she called out the war machine, they smeared her.

She became a traitor when she started to question the political machine.

And when she challenged the intelligence community's narratives, she was labeled a Russian asset almost immediately.

When she stood up to the establishment, she was quietly and without cause placed on a government terror watch list.

Now think about that for a second.

Somebody who is a

lieutenant colonel, I believe,

served honorably, I believe still serves,

ran for President of the United States as a Democrat, a sitting member of Congress, a woman woman who swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, labeled as a potential terrorist by the institutions that are supposed to defend American democracy.

That's out of control.

You know it, and I know it.

But she,

despite everything they threw at her, did not back down.

She fought back.

She stood.

She refused to stop asking questions.

That is exactly why she needs to be confirmed as the director of national intelligence.

She is a proven warrior that has shown she is not afraid to take a bullet in the field

or a metaphorical or physical bullet here in the country to defend our way of life, to ask the questions that must be asked.

The person leading the intelligence community right now should not be and cannot be another Washington insider.

It cannot be somebody who spent their career moving from one agency to another.

It cannot be somebody who has just made all the right connections, learned to play the game.

It must be someone who has seen the system from both the inside and the outside and truly understands, in her case firsthand how broken it is because she was targeted by it

believe me there is a difference between the Donald Trump of 2016 and the Trump of 2024 what is it he saw the machine from the inside and the outside and it tried to destroy him so he knows how dangerous it is

Much of this in our country is coming from black ops,

money that just is never accounted for, our intelligence agency turning all of the weapons in coordination with five eyes on you.

You know, when I talk to Donald Trump, I feel the same way I feel about Tulsi Gabbard.

When Donald Trump was on the stage in Pennsylvania, bleeding,

he told me his only thought was, this is pathetic.

Get up.

Don't show them weakness.

Get up.

And he got up and said, fight.

I feel the same way about Tulsi Gabbard.

She has been under the gun.

And she has had the courage to stand up and face it and continue to say it to their face.

You want somebody that has the courage to make sure that what happened to them never happens to you?

Tulsi Gabbard is that person.

She knows what needs to be fixed.

She knows these agencies have been abused.

And unlike the career bureaucrats who see reform as nothing but a talking point, she actually has the will to do something about it.

Now think about what that means to you.

A director of national intelligence that isn't owned by a party, left or right,

who isn't loyal to an administration, Biden or Trump, but is loyal to the truth, who has a record of saying, you know what, I was wrong about that,

who isn't interested in maintaining the status quo, but in restoring intelligence agencies to what they were meant to be and if not shut them down.

They are supposed to be defenders of the American people and our Constitution, not enforcers of an agenda.

This is not about left or right.

It is about whether you believe the intelligence agencies should be used to protect the country or control the country.

Whether you think these agencies should work for you or whether they should

have to live in fear that one day they might, might

decide that you're a problem.

I know because I've talked to senators and I've talked to congressmen who have told me in the dead of night with no cell phones around and outdoors, they are afraid of the intelligence agencies because they're being watched and monitored and they feel under threat.

Now the Senate today is going to try to make this all about politics.

They'll ask all of the stupid questions like yesterday, are you for onesies or not?

They'll pretend they're vetting her like any other nominee.

But what they're really deciding is whether they want somebody in that position who will challenge the system or just let sleeping dogs lie.

Do you want somebody who does that or who will shine the light where the light isn't supposed to be shined?

Do you want somebody who can be bullied?

can be compromised or do you want somebody who cannot be bullied, bought, or blackmailed into compliance?

If that's what you want, the latter,

if you believe intelligence

should serve truth, not power,

let your senators know Tulsi Gabbard is the only choice.

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This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

I want to introduce you to Jeffrey Parker.

He's the CEO and chairman of Parker Vision.

He has been sitting on this story for a long time.

Am I correct on why you haven't said anything?

You are correct, Glenn.

Okay.

We are at the beginning of seeing corruption exposed like never before, I think, in America.

This story, first of all, what did you invent that changed the world?

So we have a team I pulled together of inventors,

and we invented the connectivity technology.

that connects your smartphone to the cell phone tower, connects the Wi-Fi in your home to other devices.

It's so small and so efficient that it's what's enabled the tiny little Bluetooth headset that goes in your ear.

Wow.

Before ParkerVision, all these wireless connectivity products had big hundreds of components, a lot of size, low power, I mean high power consumption, low battery life.

And so we were able to put all that on a tiny little computer chip about half the size of your little fingernail.

What do you suppose that's worth now, that patent?

Oh, well, many, many, many, many billions, if not tens of billions of dollars.

Okay.

Because it's used by everybody now.

There is not a smartphone, a Wi-Fi product, a Bluetooth product, even the radar in your automobile that doesn't use this technology.

Okay, so you invented that, and you knew you had something big, and Qualcomm came to you and said, show us this new technology.

Well, actually, we were looking for a partner.

Okay.

So we approached them.

And this is around 1999, 2000.

They were at the time a much smaller company, but growing fast.

They were an emerging tech giant.

And they had the idea of connecting the internet to your cell phone through their standard, which I thought was pretty brilliant.

But the problem they had was that the radio transceiver that connected it all was like the size of a small shoebox.

So while we were walking around with phones like the size of a candy bar, their phones were like much bigger.

And the batteries would last, you know, 20 minutes.

It's like going to the old 1990s and 1980s cell phones.

Right.

So we said, oh, here is the connectivity technology that gives their cell phones the ability to compete and yet still have all the features that they were trying to bring to market.

And when they saw our chip and tested it in a lab,

they were crazy about it.

They were like, how are you doing this?

Right.

So you signed NDAs, you went into negotiation with them, and what happened?

Glenn, even special NDAs.

We were very concerned because we knew what a big breakthrough.

I mean, we thought at the time, and today even stronger feel, this was one of the biggest breakthroughs in wireless communications ever.

I mean, for 100 years, we built wireless communications before this technology the same way, same circuits.

So we made them not just sign NDAs, we made each individual who was going to get the disclosure how this technology worked personally sign the NDAs.

Where do you live?

What's your phone number?

We wanted to be able to track and keep it to a very small group of people.

And so they didn't like that at the beginning, but they eventually said, okay, we'll do it.

Okay.

And so you go into it, they test it, they know how it works.

And when does the negotiation fall apart?

Well, here's what's crazy about it.

So after they saw the performance, they said, we would love to license this and put it in our chips.

But they said, we can't license it until we know how it works because we don't know what we're licensing.

So we said, okay, you're under this special non-disclosure.

We'll do it.

We go and we have an off-site meeting with them, with just the people in the company who had signed the NDAs, and we disclose how we do this.

And after the first hour of what was a couple-day meeting, they stopped the meeting.

And the guy who was the business development manager takes me out into a hallway and he says to me, Wow,

you're not going to believe what we thought you had put into that chip.

And I said, what do you think we put into that chip?

We thought you had built a micro-machine.

A micro-machine glands, like little tiny components that move in semiconductors.

This is back like in 1999 now.

And what he didn't contemplate was we had figured out how to do this using standard capacitors, switches, standard electronic components.

I mean, this technology could have been built in vacuum tubes 100 years earlier.

That's how revolutionary it was.

Didn't require new materials.

So he was explaining, wow, we were so impressed with this.

We sure it had to be something, you know, and like outer space type technology.

Right.

But now that we know that it's so easy to make.

Now that we know, exactly.

So we've had this licensing negotiation.

And every time we got to kind of an agreement point, they would change the deal.

And this happened again and again, almost over a year.

And at some point, I said, you know, I've done business with other companies.

I've I've had relationships with large companies.

We brought some of the first semiconductors to heating air conditioning controls.

I had a partnership with Carrier Corporation and it was great.

But this one didn't feel right.

And so we went our separate ways.

And after that, it was a few years later, they come out with this new lineup of chips for smartphones.

And their market share was like around 30-some percent.

It was actually falling.

And they come out with these new chips, and they are unbelievable in performance and low power consumption and fast data rates.

And I'm looking at these going, what have they got in there?

Now, to get into a chip and reverse engineer it to see for sure

is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

And it can cost you many millions of dollars and you never find out.

So we kind of just had to hold our breath and we thought, well, maybe they can't put their own alternative technology.

But we couldn't see anything.

else that they might be doing.

A few years go by and a conference paper is published by one of their groups, their engineering groups, and they're bragging about a new cell phone chip where they put an entire third generation cell phone on a tiny chip, the whole thing, like a cell phone on a chip, everything.

And at the heart of that chip, by their own conference paper, is our technology.

So what did you do then?

Well, I went to attorneys.

And I went to my patent attorney, who's been one of the most successful patent attorneys in the country.

And I said, Rob,

we just discovered this.

What do we do?

And he goes, oh,

we're going to, by the way, he sits on our board of directors.

He's told me many times, he says, you know, in a patent attorney's career, if you get three real breakthroughs in the whole career, you're pretty, he says, this is one of my breaks.

So he wanted to sit on our board of directors.

So I go to him as a board member and a patent attorney.

And he says, we're going to have to file a patent lawsuit.

And I said, well, can't we just go and talk to him?

And like, he's like, no, that would not be wise.

So we filed a lawsuit in 2011

and

all kinds of fireworks started then.

I mean, it was crazy.

But to cut to the quick, within two years, we were at trial.

It was pretty efficient.

And what happened in Discovery was a real eye-opener.

The law firm, actually here in Dallas, Texas, a firm called McCool Smith, known for handling a lot of patent litigations for patent holders.

And about a year into the case, getting ready for trial, they call me up and they say, Jeff, you know, when we have a client come in, tell us a story, and they leave, we talk about it as a group and we say, gee, if half that story is true, it's probably a pretty amazing case.

We just got the emails from Discovery.

Your entire story is in their emails.

We have never seen anything like this.

What does that mean, your entire so that what you said was happening?

Well,

Glenn, I was worried, you know,

when we broke off the negotiation, went our separate ways, I had this suspicion,

and my suspicion was founded.

So we take it to their lab, they test it, they send around emails to each other.

Oh, my gosh, we can make a better phone with their chips today than what we're currently shipping.

These were prototypes.

This is the holy grail of RF.

We must get our hands on this technology.

This is an email sent by by the president of the company around to everybody.

And then we start to see the engineers

are a little upset, right?

Because they've got these engineers being paid a lot of money to run a big R ⁇ D lab.

And here's this little startup company.

And they're like, well, do we really want to give them free money?

Jeez.

Quote, free money.

So we walk in with one of the biggest advances in wireless, and their view is it's free money.

And by the way, we spent hundreds of millions to develop this.

This wasn't like two guys in a garage.

So anyway, ultimately, I saw in their emails where they're saying, hey, don't tell him how good this is.

Keep him down.

We want him to be, you know,

we don't want to help him.

And then ultimately they say, oh, don't tell him how much money we're going to make on these chips.

And that's kind of what broke off the negotiations is they said to me, well, where do you get your royalty rate from?

And I said, I calculated the money you're going to make on these chips.

And they say, oh, oh, no, you're assuming our margins are much higher than they really are.

They're like half of that.

Well, in the emails, you know what they said?

Don't tell Jeff Parker.

He thinks our margins are X percent.

It's really even more than that.

So, you know, this whole suspicion that I had is right in their emails.

Right.

But the email that's really the smoking gun is they took a few years to try to develop their own technology after we broke it off.

And a few years later, there's two engineers on email talking and they're like, how are we going to do the next generation chip?

We've got to keep our company moving in the right direction.

And they say, you know what?

Let's just go back and look at the Parker Vision technology.

And you have that in writing.

You have those.

These are the emails that the jury saw in our first case.

Okay, so the jury hears this.

They come back

united on a verdict.

Unanimous.

Unanimous.

Qualcomm has done wrong, has got to pay you.

The judge comes out and says that.

Yes.

But then something happens with the Obama administration and Eric Holder gets involved.

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Welcome to the Glen Beck program.

Congressman Chip Roy is with us.

Hello, Chip.

How are you?

Glenn, I'm doing great.

How are you, brother?

I'm good.

I think people are pretty optimistic on what's going on, but you're in the belly of the beast.

How's it feel to you inside

the beast?

Well, I mean, putting thought, obviously, our prayers for the people that, you know, suffered last night with that horrible incident in D.C.,

which hits close to home to those of us who fly on that route all the time.

Right.

But, you know, what we're seeing out of this administration over the last now, almost two weeks, right?

I mean, it seems like, I mean, it's only been about 10 days, right?

has been extraordinary in terms of reversing the damage from the Biden administration.

Obviously, we have miles to go, but just seeing removal, seeing Tom Homan in action.

We've removed, I think, maybe 8,000 or 9,000.

They're up to 1,500 a day, kind of, or 1,800 a day was the last order.

Watching what they're doing.

I mean, you know, and frankly, there's been all this controversy about the OMB memo.

That memo was awesome.

It was righteous.

The fact is it was the right thing to do, and that's why a court wanted to intervene and try to put an injunction in.

But to say that we're going to go and look at all of this funding, all of these grants, all of these NGOs, all of the money flowing around the world, and the liberals wanted to make it about, you you know, things that it wasn't about, Medicare and other things, because they're afraid.

And now they've actually identified all these bad programs.

But to answer your question, there's an energy and an enthusiasm.

We fully support what the president is doing.

God bless him for being energetic, for being optimistic, but also doing a lot of the things so far that he said he would do with respect to the border, with respect to a lot of these executive orders, the DEI stuff,

school choice and defense installations, the nominees, getting Pete Hegset through.

Bobby Kennedy had a great day yesterday.

He's become a good friend of mine.

You think he's going to be confirmed?

I don't know.

I'm the wrong person to ask about the current whip in the Senate.

I would tell you that obviously there's a couple of people that we're worried about.

It's going to take a lot of work.

If you're out there and listening, you need to make sure your senators know that we need the

disruption that Bobby Kennedy represents.

And look, Glenn, you and I don't agree with every single issue with Bobby.

No.

But, you know, what he said yesterday was really instructive on the issue of life.

He said that he serves at the pleasure of the president.

He said that he would honor the commitments the president has made and that he agreed with him on a number of fronts.

And that's what matters.

Like, Bobby knows that we need to change the game in town, that we cannot allow big insurance and big hospital and all of these big pharma and all these big companies and revolving doors of lobbyists to decide what's happening at the NIH, the CDC, to cram us out on the cost of insurance and healthcare.

That's why I released a report last week, the case for healthcare freedom.

I encourage everybody to go to roy.house.gov to look at it.

It's 48 pages that explains how we can reclaim our health care.

But bottom line is, Bobby's a good guy, and he's going to go fight for, I think, the people who need to be fought for.

Tulsi needs to be confirmed.

She's in the hearing today.

I think she's in trouble.

I think there's, you know, Stu and I were just talking about this.

I think that

Republicans right now are just not willing necessarily to take on Donald Trump at this point.

But there are those who are the big war people, the big intel people that are on that committee.

And

I just,

I just don't think they want those flashlights in that area.

Am I wrong?

No, Glenn, you're right.

And I might say here a moment of kind of personal, a point of personal privilege.

that, you know, there's been some arrows directed at me for some of my positions about what I'm trying to do to hold the line on spending.

And it's all related.

You know, I just talked about big health care and what Bobby Kennedy's trying to do, and hopefully we can get him through.

Tulsi and

the effort to unwind the stranglehold that the deep state intelligence and the massive defense industrial complex has on the town.

Those guys try to move the needle

in their favor no matter what with spending.

And that's part of the big fight we're having right now when it comes to reconciliation and when it comes to discretionary spending.

All of that's related.

And we got to remember who the enemy is.

And the enemy is the swamp.

You know, and somebody, they always ask me in interviews.

It's, well, there's this tension between you and Trump because the media wants to create this false narrative.

But the truth is, there's not really any tension there.

There's tension between me and the swamp.

And the swamp tries to do their games to play their games to get in a position of power.

So right now, President Trump is the power.

So the swamp in town wants to figure out whatever they got to do to keep their money flowing to their big contractors and to keep the big industrial, you know, defense industrial complex in the entire town, the reason the richest counties in the world are all around Washington, D.C., is because of that.

And they know that this four years, they've just got to survive.

And they don't care if it's Democrat or Republican, Glenn.

They've just got to survive.

And then they get to keep doing what they do.

We've got to have transformative change on spending, on health care, on border, on freedom, on DEI.

The president's doing it.

Question is whether Congress will step up to do it too.

I will tell you, with Cash Patel

and Tulsi Gabbard and all of, really, almost everybody that he has nominated to these big positions, you're just not going to be able to keep up with the amount of change that is coming.

Because I think these guys are all dead serious and know the problems, and they're dead serious about fixing them.

I think that's right.

I mean, I certainly saw that in Pete Hegseth.

I saw it in his first day on the job after confirmation.

I see that in Cash Patel, what he wants to do to root out all the corruption and the tyrannical power activities of the FBI and the Department of Justice, which desperately needs to be done, Pam Bondi.

Again, Tulsi with intelligence.

I agree with you.

The knives, the long knives are out for Tulsi, and we've got to try to get her through.

But again, understand the importance of what we're talking about, Glenn.

Would you and I four years ago have believed that we would be talking about how much we need to defend Bobby Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard?

No, no.

But these are two people that I've actually become friends with.

You know, Tulsi has a home near Austin.

I talk to her regularly.

I mean, she's been a little off the grid the last few weeks, but we're genuinely friends.

I've come to know Bobby and work with him and his team.

And Callie Means, these are people who get what time it is in America and that we need a fundamental change.

And I'm going to go to the map for them.

I'm going to go to the mat for the president, but I am also going to go to the mat to cut spending.

And

that's where I've got some fighting to do on my own side over on the House.

Yeah.

Talk to me about the bill that you just introduced to protect American land from the Communist

Chinese Party.

Sure, of course, Glenn.

I appreciate it.

About four years ago, seeing where that was all headed, I jumped out and introduced legislation to restrict and ban the Chinese Communist Party or anybody affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party or Chinese foreign nationals from owning land in America.

I don't think we should just focus on farmland.

Yes, it's horrific that we let them buy farmland.

Yes, I think it's horrific that we let them buy land near military bases, but we shouldn't just limit it to that.

My legislation would come through and say, guys, why are we letting the CHICOMs own any American land?

And for that matter, Glenn, I'm asking the question now, why do we let any foreign nationals own American land?

It's American soil.

Like even our friends and our allies, I have concerns about buying up our dirt.

So because they may not be our allies one day.

So I think we need to really look at that.

I reintroduced the bill again.

This is the bill that I've had now for a couple of Congresses, the Securing America's Land from Foreign Interference Act, and it's H.R.

809.

It's a good piece of legislation.

I'm going to try to move it or similar measures.

You know, on the farm bill, we can restrict farm ownership.

But I think we ought to go big and we ought to be bold about what we're trying to do to make sure that, look, if people like Nazi Germany owned American land in 1939, we would have gotten rid of it.

There's no way the Soviet Union would have owned an outhouse in America and had that not taken away from them.

You know, I don't know if you know what's going on in Missouri, but the Attorney General there has sued China for

its acts of mass murder

with COVID.

And

the ruling's coming out in a couple of weeks.

And if they win,

they're going to be able to seize a lot of Chinese land.

And I mean, that's another way to get it.

But they'll have the right just to seize it.

Well, this is definitely the kind of stuff we must do.

And importantly, this is a national security interest from food supply to, and beyond just owning land, Glenn, what about our meat packing facility?

I know.

What about other...

Yeah, and they've got to...

Anything to do with food should not be overseas.

I don't care what country.

I mean, our meat packing plants, two out of the three, maybe all three now, are owned by foreign countries.

And to be clear, other things like medicine, remember what was happening in the wake of COVID and our concern about the supply chains of China and then, oh, we can't get this and that and the other.

And obviously there were a lot of problems with COVID and our reaction to it, but it really highlighted, wait a minute, we need to have that industrial capacity here.

By the way, this is why the president is correct about what he's trying to do to force change to get more American-based manufacturing production here.

I think he's right to be talking about tariffs.

Those raise questions about what that does to the economy.

And, you know, we had to give a $40 billion check, I think, to farmers five years ago during the early rounds of tariffs.

So we've got to think about how you do it.

But we've got to restructure.

We're in the middle of a restructuring both politically, but the American people are awake post-COVID.

They're awake because of President Trump.

And we're now all moving the needle forward.

Again, I'll reiterate, we need the Republican Congress to have even a quarter of the backbone that the president is demonstrating and to lead.

And we've got to do what we said we would do.

And that can't just be do another tax bill and don't cut spending.

Otherwise, we will never get deficits under control, and Americans will be taxed through inflation and taxed because we're spending money we don't have.

And the president will be fighting his own Congress who's funding the very bureaucrats he's trying to stop.

So we've got to back him up, and that's what I'm trying to do in Congress.

I will tell you that

you look at

everything that is happening right now.

This is the biggest change.

Barack Obama said right before he was elected, we're five days away from the fundamental transformation of America.

That's where we are again.

We are in it right now.

He is fundamentally changing.

But if we don't, if he does this all by executive order,

then it's not permanent.

And

no country can afford the massive swings back and forth every four to eight years.

It has to go

through Congress.

Yeah, that is so important, Glenn.

We have to back him up and come in with the permanent change because

this is a transformative moment, but only if we cement them in place.

If we continue to have deficit spending, which is where Republicans are currently headed, then we've got that tax on the American people and you don't change it.

If we don't get transformative health care reform,

we're past the days of talking about repealing Obamacare.

We need to have transformative vision for health care, doctors and patients, not insurance companies and government and corporate bureaucrats.

We have a vision for that.

Let's paint that picture and let's deliver.

But you've got to have that transformative change or we're not going to get our country back.

Because we can't expect that the Democrats move the goalpost all the way to the other side of the field and the president through executive orders move it 20 yards back and Congress doesn't do anything to support it.

Well, then when the Democrats get the ball again, they're ready to score.

We've got to change the field, right?

Get that field position back and move in the other direction for freedom, limited government, constitutional, uh making sure we're preserving and protecting rights and restoring that american dream that the government isn't the solution the american people are that's the central theme to all of this in my view i have to tell you i saw uh johnson say what yesterday day before that he thinks you know congress we're gonna republicans are gonna not only hold but they'll grow in two years and i thought not if you're not doing stuff dude Not if you're just standing around letting him carry all the weight.

You've got to be passing real change bills.

Yep.

And look, let's say the first bill, and it was signed yesterday, the Lake and Riley Act was a good bill.

Let me

give you one example of what matters.

A year ago, the first bill, they were talking about doing that.

It didn't do a lot, right?

It was just focused on theft and ICE detainers.

We said, the Freedom Caucus and Conservatives said, wait a minute, we fought to change this institution.

We want to have an amendment.

We want to change this and make it to where it includes the Sue Act, which allows states to sue the federal government if the federal government doesn't secure the border.

They're like, man, well, so that's included now.

So what the president signed, because we fought for it, is a much better bill.

Mike Collins led, and God bless him.

We did that for Lake and Riley and their family.

We now have a good bill.

That's how it works.

But we have to deliver.

And we've got to deliver on spending restraint.

Yes, tax cuts.

Absolutely.

But we can't not do math, Glenn.

And our guys want to walk in there and say, yeah, cut, cut, cut on taxes.

I'm all for it.

I'd like to cut them all.

Zero it out.

But then you've got to go over to the other side of the ledger and do your part.

And if you're unwilling to do that, then you've got to answer to why you're for increasing the deficits.

This is the struggle Republicans are having right now.

Because if you fund these programs, then you're continuing to fund the demise of America.

You're funding.

I think you need to have Javier Millay come up and talk to you guys.

Amen.

Because, I mean, he's done both.

He's cut the size of government, the spending,

and they are on a rocket ship right now, just a rocket ship.

Absolutely.

And look, I think President Trump is taking the steps necessary to get us put on that rocket ship, but we've got to get Congress to fully release the shackles and to lay out the groundwork for us to do it.

Again, we've got, you know, right now we're bleeding $2 trillion a year in deficit, Glenn, $2 trillion.

And right now, interest payments are going up because we're borrowing more and interest rates are going up.

So it's getting worse.

If we do nothing, it's getting worse.

If we then extend the tax cuts from 2017, which I want to do, we've got to do the math because you and I both know that $800 billion in child tax credits, because that's how much it is, those don't pay for themselves.

So you've got to come over here and say, wait a minute, we've got to reduce spending over here.

Medicaid work requirements.

Who should oppose that?

Right?

You work if you want to be on Medicaid.

Got to have work requirements.

So we've got thing that would save $120 billion, like ending the EV mandates, like getting rid of the student loans, but also other Medicaid reforms.

I've got to cut you you i'm sorry i gotta cut you off i got a network break and i'm running late thank you for everything you're doing thanks for spending some time we'll have you on again to uh continue our conversation

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