Ep 232 | Israel-Hamas War Proves 'the Prophecies of Revelation' Are NOW | Rep. Cory Mills | The Glenn Beck Podcast

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I call him Captain America of Congress.

By days, he battles the swamp, representing Florida's 7th congressional district.

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Corey, how are you?

Glenn, how you doing?

Well, I was doing really well until, is that your backyard?

Please tell me that's a green screen.

That's an apple thing.

My gosh, is that your backyard?

That would be the backyard, Glenn.

Oh, my gosh.

I'm never going to let my wife see this.

So she's.

Why?

You now have a beach house that you and your wife can use any time you want.

Oh,

she just loves.

And I have a ranch that I can go to.

See, this is the best.

Okay, all right.

We'll absolutely trade.

That is beautiful.

Man, there is nothing like living in Florida.

No, I'll tell you, and not to mention that during high tide, I've got kind of a two-step kind of deal that goes down to the beach, and it comes all the way up to the second step.

So you literally just walk right off into the ocean.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, my gosh.

How did you get so rich?

Because it's not through Congress.

You're one of these people.

Well, I think my wealth comes from the way I live my life, not necessarily my monetary value.

I will say I've been very, very blessed, especially from a kid who came from, you know, at one point, we lived on $6,800 for an entire year in my family.

And, you know, three out of five meals was like rice, tomato gravy, and cornbread when my grand, because my grandparents adopted me.

And, you know, they, he had a quadruple bypass and five heart attacks, which disabled him.

And we literally didn't have any money.

He had gotten rejected for disability.

We were having to go to the courts to sue to try and get the money for disability because they told him he can't work and verge of losing our house, no food.

I mean, it was, you go from that and then just living in a good way.

And I've just been really blessed.

And I try to pass that through the same way you do.

Just be a conduit for God to try and help as many as you can.

Yeah, you are a remarkable.

I have more than I ever need.

Yeah, I know.

You're really,

I call you Captain America, the Captain America of Congress.

I don't know if you're Captain America or Bruce Wayne, you know,

mile matter Congressman.

Bruce Wayne grew up too rich, Glenn.

How did you end up with your

grandparents, if you don't mind me asking?

So my mom and dad both had really bad substance and drug abuse issues, and they were in and out of prison my entire life.

My dad went in when I was one, and we had 32 years of prison time in total.

My mom had seven and a half years of prison time in total.

And I got lucky at nine years old, my grandparents, when I was bouncing house to house, kind of staying at my cousin's house for a little while because he was six months younger.

So, we went to the same school or, you know, trying to stay with other family members.

My grandparents finally took me in and adopted me and became my custodial guardians and raised me there in a little small town in central Florida.

Did that ever bother you in this way?

I remember being my,

approaching my mom's age when she committed suicide.

She was a drug addict.

And it played on me the whole time of,

do I have those genes?

Is this the way I'm going to end up?

Did that play with your head?

I didn't play.

For some reason, I kept seeing what was going on with my cousins and with my aunts and uncles and things like this, where they would allow themselves to self-victimize and utilize what's taken place in their life as an excuse.

And, you know,

my family name didn't have, you know, a great kind of connotation with Mills in our community.

When, you know, small town, the name matters.

And they'd kind of look at me, oh, you're Chris's son.

Yeah, you know, I'm a Chris's son.

And it kind of drove me in the opposite direction, which is to break that perpetual cycle and say, you know what, I'm going to use all the things that my parents said as an example of what not to do.

And I really want to set myself out different.

And I think it put me on a path of like, I have to succeed and I can't fail because my name means too much.

It's an amazing thing.

You and J.D.

Vance,

very similar histories.

Yeah, and both went into the military right after high school as well.

Right.

Do you ever look at this?

Again, I do.

Maybe I'm just weird.

But I've been looking at the people who are dead asleep on what's going on right now.

And

I wonder why I'm awake.

What has happened in my life?

Or why am I one of them that are awake?

Because half our country is dead asleep.

They don't see it.

You know the answer to that, Glenn.

I mean, you know, it's like the old saying, once I was blind, but now I see.

I mean, you know,

we live our lives by faith.

And so with faith, you have to basically just start looking at all the things around us.

And we look for signs.

We look for things that put us onto a different path.

And we don't blindly follow like sheeple.

And so the benefit is, is that with our background, with our experience, with all the things that we've encountered, good, bad, growth, failure, failure, success.

It kind of makes us just look at every single avenue and become very analytical.

Well, why is that the case?

Because we're just not willing to settle for the narrative.

And I think that's what most of the women we got to get America to not settle for the narrative.

Dig deeper.

Know that it's okay to be called a conspiracist.

Don't be worried about being labeled something by questioning the kind of modus operanda of federal government.

I think that's what our founding fathers intended this to be.

Of course, it did.

Of course, they did.

That's why the First Amendment was to free speech, to question everything.

And I think that um

i think when you

when you are really your back is pushed against the wall it's so much easier to buy into the narrative because it lets you out of all of the tough thinking of okay what part of this do i actually own

yeah uh and to not only do that analysis but also then to say

okay

if this is what i found then i have to change and so there's two parts to that a you have to self-reflect honestly.

And then because you've asked those honest questions, if you find the parts that you were involved in, then you have to apply them.

Or well, it's the simple thing, Glenn, it's awake versus woke.

Yeah, yeah, it is.

It is.

So then, how did you get into the military?

When did you join?

Why did you join?

Joined in my 11th grade year, my junior year of high school, and two reasons.

One, I just felt compelled to serve.

And I liked, you know, even playing sports.

And I think also there was a continual drive to want to be a part of a team, a family, because that was partially missing.

And so, you know, going in the military and being able to serve also provided the ability to not have my grandparents stress over, you know, having to pay for college, having to worry about continuations of funding and things like that.

And this was an outlet that enabled me to be able to do so many different things.

And I come to just really love public service.

I love what it meant to serve a purpose or a cause greater than ourselves.

And I always felt like you're born with kind of that servant leadership heart or you're not.

It just can't be trained.

Yeah.

Were you religious as a kid?

Very true.

So my family, even though we didn't have a lot of money, we were that family that until I was 15 years old, we still ate at the dining room table, even if my grandfather wasn't there because he worked, you know, as a welder.

He ran a plant and ran as a foreman and a shop and a plant manager for a long time.

So he sometimes wouldn't come home at night, but my grandmother and I would still eat at the table until we were about 15.

Every now and then then we'd cheat and take a little TV tray and watch TV in the living room.

But like we were that family that, you know, on Sundays, we went to church and every second to third Sunday, we would have enough money saved up that we could go to Golden Corral or to, you know, some of the local buffets that were like the 299, 599 buffets.

We'd have buffet, which I thought was amazing.

I would eat probably a million different punny rolls.

And then my grandmother was a stay-at-home mom and cosmetologist.

So she'd do hair on the weekend for women in the community.

So you join up your junior year.

When do you deploy?

And what do you do?

Where do you go?

Days after my graduation, I was already on my way to boot camp.

Didn't waste any time, went straight in, and then was lucky to spend all my career with the 82nd Airborne Division.

And so, I was able to go to Kosovo with them, was able to go to Iraq during the campaign there, was able to be attached for a little bit to a joint special operations team, and then came out and was going to college in Jacksonville, Florida, and kind of got recruited to come back over with the State Department for a little bit, doing close protection and intelligence analysts and things like that.

And I was a combat medic when I was in the military.

And so then it transitioned into a counter-sniper team, which I ended up doing in Baghdad for a while.

It was blown up twice actually while I was contracting in 2006 in Baghdad by roadside bombs and did that for about five years.

I speak fluent Arabic.

And so I was vital for certain missions in Iraq where we couldn't have interpreters.

And so I could interpret and basically go forward and ask the questions necessary for advances or the things like the Secret Service is supposed to be doing.

I mean, we've done that many times for foreign dignitaries and ambassadors, et cetera.

But did that for a little while, went over to the agencies is what they call a green badger.

So I contracted with some of the agents, intelligence agencies, and did that for a short period of time, then went in the private sector.

And then I just kept feeling like I need to serve.

I need to serve.

And so I started my company.

And my company was just about trying to serve our first responders from our military.

I mean, we have 10,000 acres in North Florida that we grew holistically, no outside investment and just, you know, small contracts, bigger contracts.

And, you know, I was that guy that I would sit on one of the calls with Do New York State and they'd be like, all right, we're now going to turn this over to finance.

And I'd be like, yep, that's still me.

Oh, we're not going to turn over to representation.

Yep, that's still me.

You know, I didn't have this group of people at the table, but I grew the company, which I was, I mean, again, just.

purely blessed.

I mean, within three years, I grew the company to 162 million in revenue.

We had 32% GP, 21% net profits, no outside investment.

We still own 100% of that company, which I divested and put in a blind trust.

And we served over 200-plus law enforcement departments and agencies across the country, plus our United States military.

In 2015 and 6 or 16, excuse me, 2016, when Mosul and Fallujah had been held by ISIS for three years and they were flying the flag of the Caliph, our company flew in 14 747-400s loaded nose to tail with 164,900 rounds per plane.

Wow.

I know it exactly.

It came out to 2,157 or 200 million

190, and 757 rounds that we deployed in high-explosive rounds, and we took back Fallujah and Mosul after them holding it for three years.

Wow.

So

you

got to the Trump administration, which was fun.

Yeah, I was going to say, then you go to the Trump administration.

And what do you do for him?

So I was a Secretary of Defense Advisor for Chris Miller.

I used to publish a column every single week called Nitties Downrange, where I looked at geopolitical analytics and

That, you know, seven, eight years ago, I was writing documents like The Great Superpower Resurgence While America Sleeps, which was published in American Greatness, talking about Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea's geopolitical alignments.

I talked about the attack on the U.S.

global currency and how they were going to try and minimize us or throw some hyperinflation utilizing certain geopolitical movements like the Belt and Road Initiative.

I mean, all the things that I talked about was that warfare has evolved and that we can't be 1980 Cold War, store as much munitions, because it's not a a bomb-to-bomb, gun-to-gun, bullet-to-bullet battle anymore.

It's economic, it's resource, it's supply chain, and it's currency.

And if we understand how to basically combat that through proper trade deals, bilateral, trilaterals, economic growth strategies at home, stopping dependence and reliance on adversarial nations for our energy, because at the end of the day, what I realized was this, it's not about the bot, the yen, the ruble, the dinar, the peso.

What it's truly about is the global currency is energy.

And all our adversaries know that, which is why they went after the 15 of 16 rare mineral mines in Africa to dominate the continent.

It's why they partnered with Russia to go ahead and Iran, who are oil-rich nations, to try and combat our energy output.

And so the more we attack our own energy, knowing what we did when we switched from the gold standard to the pedro fiat, then we understand if you're not actually tangibly producing the good that backs your currency, then that backed good, which is oil and gas, you know, fracking or LNG or any of these things, that is your currency output.

And so this is why I'm so anti-U.S.

aid.

I don't believe in cash diplomacy.

I think that we provide them low-cost, you know, continuous energy that they pay for, which brings money into the economy, but also makes them reliant so that developing nations can't turn on us when China makes false promises.

And so I think that we have to switch our ways on foreign policy and domestic policy to an America-first agenda, meaning economic growth, because it's a GDP to national debt inverted inverted ratio that we're playing with here.

And so when you're over 130% GDP expenditure, there's only been 28 empires and nations in the world's history, Glenn, who's exceeded that ratio and only one survived, which is Japan, who changed its entire banking and economic system.

And so we need to understand the greatest domestic threat is ourselves through our economic and bloated spending that's driving us to a point where we're going to have full collapse.

So

let me come back to war here for a second.

Israel today just killed, it looks like, the leader of Hamas.

A really good thing.

Yeah, good riddance.

What do you see happening in the Middle East?

What's a good sign?

What are the bad signs that we should be looking for?

The good sign is that Israel understands the significant role in which it must play to eliminate Iran-backed terrorist organizations like Hamas, like Hezbollah.

And the point is, is that if they weren't doing their job right now, when you have such a feckless and weak administration, look, weakness invites aggression.

That's why October 7th happened.

That's why the Afghan botched withdrawal occurred.

That's why Russia's incursion against Ukraine continued.

All of this continuation, the elimination of the one country, two system framework of Hong Kong by China, the threat of Taiwanese unification,

all of this is in line because of the administration we have in play.

And Israel, thank God,

that Benjamin Netyahu says, we will take your advice, but this is an Israeli matter.

And he's exactly right in that.

We have to understand that we were the first to recognize Israel within minutes and that Israel is our greatest ally in the Middle East.

We have to realize that we're living in the prophecies of revelations.

And in knowing so, we have to understand what happened with the Mountain of God.

We have to understand that it says the people of Israel will fly on the back of an eagle to a land that has already been prepared for you.

There's 7 million Jews in Israel.

There's 7 million approximately in America.

We know where we're at in the world.

And so their continuation to not back down, their continual resolute, you know, kind of purpose to eliminate these terrorist organizations is exactly what we need when we don't have an administration which has leadership.

I mean, that's why when President Trump was there, things like the Abram Accords was such a massive advancement.

People don't understand.

The last time that this even took place was in 1979 in Egypt and 1994 in Jordan for normalization.

Never has a Gulf country ever even considered it.

And then you had the UAE and other Gulf countries to include KSA who were considering their own type of normalization.

That is massive.

That's why Iran sped up its attack on October 7th because KSA was getting ready to sign a document that would have guaranteed a more stable society and a more recognition of Israel.

So I think that what's happening is a good thing, but I think that we have to keep an understanding that this is not an American-led solution.

This needs to be an Israeli-backed Arab coalition utilizing the Abram Courts and its advancement with America supporting it from afar, but not being the front-forward face on this.

So, do you buy into, I mean, I think Donald Trump is legitimately concerned about an assassination attempt by Iran on him.

I mean, I was with him just last weekend.

I've never seen security like this.

I've seen security, you know, for a president before.

I've never seen anything like this.

And he's concerned about his plane now because they're concerned that maybe surface-to-air missiles have come across the border.

And that seems real.

It's very real.

If that happens,

that's really not good.

I mean,

it would put us at

war with Iran,

which wouldn't it trip into Russia and China as well, seeing that they're now all buddies?

You know, you look at it, and I could play it out in multiple ways.

I think that

we have to increase the security when you think about the fact that President Donald Trump is one of the most loved and most hated in the world, especially with the successful elimination of the spy master himself, Qasim Soleimani.

But what people don't, you know, people always think about Qasim Soleimani, right?

Because he was the big name, the leader of the Quds Force, things like this.

But what they also fail to understand is that he also eliminated another very, very key person, which is a guy named Abu Mehdi Al-Mohandis.

He is the leader or was the leader of every single Iran Shia-backed militias throughout Iraq.

He kept the entire thing, all those attacks that were occurring on our U.S.

embassy was launched by this individual and another guy named Qais Ghazali.

So when we eliminated both of them, he became prime target number one, not just for Iran, but all of the Iranian Shia-backed militias and all of the actual terrorist organizations.

Then add to that, Glenn, Glenn, the fact that he was the only one who designated the terrorist organization

out of Yemen to with the Houthis to actually list them as a terrorist designation, which, by the way, the Biden-Harris administration eliminated.

One of the first things they did was to remain in Mexico and all the other stuff.

So the security, to touch on the first part, the security is definitely warranted.

And that was one of the things they argued about Secret Service.

Change, three things are wrong.

The culture of the Secret Service is wrong when you prioritize DEI, which stands for didn't earn it, over meritocracy.

But then you have the ideas that it's a fostered culture where they think that the white paper doctrine of one size fits all, you're a former president here, you get slot A.

No, you look at their risk analysis.

Right.

You put together a risk mitigation platform.

You allocate assets, resources.

Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton don't need the same resources as President Donald J.

Trump.

So that was the first thing was fostering in a new culture of understanding there and also getting real leadership.

We have a crisis in leadership across the entire government.

That is from the House to the Senate to the executive branch to every single DHS, State Department, DOD, you name it.

This is a direct reflection of where we are in society and also where we are on the world stage.

When it comes to a fight against Iran, yes, Iran, China, North Korea, and Russia are all aligned.

Russia's got its own hands full with the Ukrainian fight.

And I think that if the EU did their job, which David O'Sullivan, who's the EU sanctions chief, admitted to having $190 billion in frozen Russian assets that he's making $3.5 billion in profit on, though he's not reaching into his pocket.

And though in 1947, when we created NATO, which is the idea of stopping Soviet Union expansionism, it's completely failed.

Why?

Well, because America's continued to be the world police interventionist, neocon, neo-lib warmongers that think that it's good for business and good for economy, which it's not, hasn't been since World War II and the war bonds.

But the idea, though, is that if we were to go to bat with Iran, I don't think that China, North Korea, and Russia would rush to their aid.

Do I want to avoid that?

1,000% I do.

I think if anyone was to go to war with Iran, it should be the people inside Iran who want to overthrow this regime to begin with.

It should be the Israeli-led coalition like they did where they were able to eliminate the Natan's facility through cyber hacks, where they were able to eliminate key people like they have with Hezbollah and Hamas.

I think that it's got to be a Middle Eastern Arab solution, not an American solution, because we have problems here at home we have to focus on.

So tell me what the world looks like if Kamala Harris wins.

It's complete destruction.

I think that we spend our way to a point that we can no longer come out of the economic collapse.

I think that our GDP to national debt ratio will get exponentially worse.

Big government will not change.

We'll continue to create the perpetuating cycle of over-bloated spending, which creates additional dollars being made, which leads to inflation, which leads to another government bailout, which leads to, and it continues this vicious cycle of puruity all the way up to the point of collapse.

And meanwhile,

hang on just a second.

I just played devil's advocate.

Donald Trump believes in debt.

He believes in debt.

Well, he doesn't, but he also believes in economic growth strategies, and he also believes in drilling our own energy.

Remember what I said earlier about energy is really the global currency.

And so so long as you actually are the global leader on energy output,

then you're already in control of the game because that's what it's truly about, especially when you're going against adversaries who have a 1.4, 1.5 billion population that they can't feed and that they can't financially handle as a burden.

I mean, look, I go back to the creation of COVID, and I'm going to go on tangent just for a moment.

But one of the things that China realized is that their growing elderly population and a 1.4 billion population was a financial drain.

The release of COVID to eliminate the elderly, the release of COVID to be the PPE and leader in pharmaceuticals, which they are through the world, which is an economic growth.

And the idea that if they wouldn't have gotten caught, and it was Donald Trump who called it the China vaccine, but if they wouldn't have gotten caught, they would have been looking like they're the angels coming to the rescue, donating all this PPE and all this.

And all they want is just to put Hanwha as your communications provider.

Oh, wait a second.

Hanhua is controlled by the CCP, which is also the biggest spy communication platforms.

You see the game unfold, but Donald Trump understands that energy is the global currency that we must focus upon.

And if you get the taxes down on our, look, people say he took down the 1% of the largest owners out there and they're making tax-free money.

They're not.

We have more tax revenue as a result of the tax reform President Trump put in place at over $5 trillion than ever in our history.

Why?

More businesses are able to invest in the personnel.

More people are going back to jobs, which are paying more taxes.

More taxes are leading to the revenue buildup here in America.

He's a businessman who understood economic growth is a bigger portion because we can't cut our way to prosperity.

Just like a business owner will tell you, ask any business owner, can I cut my way to profitability?

No, I have to win more contracts, drive more revenue.

So when President Trump talks about debt, he talks about it in the idea that my economic growth strategy is going to exceed the growth rate of my debt, and therefore I'm going to start bringing down that deficit.

That is a real leader and a real solution.

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You serve in the Trump administration.

You run for Congress.

And then

you just start.

Really not smart.

Yeah.

Amen.

And then you just start.

I mean, the first time I think I hear of you is maybe Afghanistan, where I hear this congressman from Florida just got on a plane and just went and he's in rescuing people.

And I'm like, what?

Who is this guy?

Tell me about that.

First, let's start with Afghanistan.

Was that the first time?

Afghanistan?

Yeah, that was the first time.

We had actually,

Ronnie Jackson out of Texas had called me, Congressman out there, a good friend of mine and said, listen, I've got a woman and three children.

Her name's Miriam, who's born and raised in Amarillo, Texas, who is trapped in Afghanistan.

And he called the State Department.

He called the Department of Defense, keeping in mind, this is a sitting congressman and a former rear admiral.

And he couldn't get any help, none at all.

He said this on many of the shows that he called for support and couldn't get it.

And he called me and said, I don't know what to do.

And I sat and I thought on it for a moment, Glenn.

And then I was like, you know what?

I know some of the most amazing men.

that I've ever met who I know can pull this off.

And if I've got them on my team, I believe we can do this.

I said, Ronnie, give me three days.

I called the guys, we came together, we whiteboarded a concept of operations that we might be able to do, did a little bit of a train up for about a day and a half there at my facility.

And I called Ronnie back and said, you know, Ronnie, I think we can do this and I'm not going to leave until I do.

And I every day kept him updated.

You know, we had, as you encountered as well, Glenn, you know this all too well.

I was there when your planes got grounded, which could have rescued over 100 plus Americans who were manifested at the airport ready to fly.

I think they were on the plane.

The Taliban had already cleared it.

The DOB had cleared it.

The state had cleared it.

And the state came back and said, Well, I need to review the manifest one more.

Pissed off the Taliban.

Malawi Hamza actually confiscated the aircraft, shut the airport down, and entrapped another 100-plus Americans that you and Mercury One were getting out.

Yeah, we,

if I remember right, those all those documents were given to the Taliban, so now they knew who everybody was, and we had to put all hundred-plus people into hiding.

It was horrific.

Horrific.

Yes.

Why did they do that?

That's exactly what took place.

And then I ended up having to do a ground evacuation.

So we conducted successfully the very first overland rescue that had been done out of Afghanistan.

And we had to go from Kabul to Mazara Sharif, you know, 13 hours, Mazara Sharif to Kanduz over again, looking at different areas.

And meanwhile, our team had been hopping around.

You know, we tried to come straight into Afghanistan.

Then we went into Azerbaijan to look at different ways to restrategize, re-strategize, split the team in half, half in UAE.

I went with one other person into Tajikistan, and then we did a border trek in the Vadakhshan and all the other areas.

And there's a whole story behind that on how we did all this, convincing the taxicab driver that we were tourists, looking at the river layouts, and that, you know, going through this whole rigamorand, utilizing sat phones to talk to the Taliban leader so that we could actually get her across and the kids because we convinced them we were part of the Qatari negotiation.

Because here's the thing about sat phones.

It's not like with your cell phone where when you call it automatically adds a plus one.

With a sat phone, whatever the first number is, it pulls it over as the country code.

So we had some 808 sat phones that would come over as a plus eight, and we had a guy named Yusuf who spoke fluent Tajik, Pashtu, Dari.

And so we convinced them that it was part of the negotiation.

I was the husband of the woman, Maryam, and that those were my kids.

And I'd remembered their passport numbers, when they were born, their dates, things like that, in case I was questioned when we went across to actually get the family to get them out.

But this is zero government support and help, as you saw, they were working against us because they knew what was going on.

And now, look what's happened, Glenn.

David Fox, who was an American trapped in Kabul, had said he had gotten sent a blank visa that had no name, no barcode, and no actual scan on a serial number on it.

That a thousand other Afghans had gotten as well that were then being photocopied for this great American operational airlift, where they had thousands upon thousands upon thousands who had never been vetted, never had SIV, anything.

Oh, wait a second.

There's a terrorist plot by an individual brought over on that for the elections that we didn't vet properly?

What did we think was going to happen?

Open borders and thousands of Afghans that we bring over with, we don't know what the ties are?

I mean, you want to talk about a Kamala Harris administration?

Economic collapse, no money in your pocket, open borders, amnesty.

abortion on demand.

This is what we're talking about.

We're talking about an America that we don't recognize.

Yeah, we are.

We are.

So were you part of, I remember at one point, somebody said, you've got to call the prime minister of Pakistan.

And I'm like,

what are you talking about?

For some reason, I don't know.

I have no idea why he even knew who I was, but I had to contact him and then he wrote back.

And what the hell was that all about?

Were you part of that?

Well, one of the things I was doing was when I realized that the Torque and Border Crossing was an available asset and that I could sponsor visas for Afghan and Americans through my SECP license there.

Then what we did was we started running them through the Torquem border.

The reason why is because Karachi actually had the ability to do the biometrics, the medical and the security reviews.

And that was being run by one of the state excuse me, State Department agents named Zach Zittel, who I knew from my time in northern Iraq, who he was the regional security officer.

So I was able to get people into Islamabad to then be processed who were our allies and working with people like Chad Broicho and others to be able to make sure that we can help those in need.

And so that was really how that opened up.

And again, Glenn, the thing about it is, and you've seen this,

I don't always have.

the perfect solution or the perfect plan, but God opens doors for me in some ways.

And that wasn't even what we thought about originally.

We thought that was going to be a completely closed border because of the fight that goes on between North, South Waziristan and what occurs in Afghanistan.

And that became one of the avenues after we had gotten through Pione and gotten back to Duchamp for the very first rescue and started getting Americans that way.

So it's like anything, whether it was the Israel rescues, whether it was the Haiti rescues, whether it's what we did in Western North Carolina or here, get on the ground and figure it out.

Get on the ground, look at the solutions, look at the assessments, and then just make it happen.

I tell you, that is the thing that

gives me so much hope that,

and it may be the reason, you know,

we gave Afghanistan back to the bad guys.

And that has got to be something if I fought over in Afghanistan, I'd be like,

what was all that loss of life for?

I think there's a possibility.

Our suicide rates spiked immediately, by the way,

as a result of that.

I mean, people fail to understand how that impacted so many of our brave veterans, but I'm the first to tell every single combat veteran out there: if you served in Afghanistan or you served in Iraq, you did it honorably and you can hold your head proud because this wasn't the boots who failed.

This is the suits who failed.

Yeah.

And I tell you,

I have a theory after watching all of the people who were helping in Asheville, that was

mainly vets.

And they knew how to assemble.

They knew how to make a makeshift airport.

All the stuff I wouldn't have known and most of us wouldn't know.

I think this could turn out to be a blessing that we have all of these vets who fought in war, that when things go nuts, they're not fighting.

They're helping people.

They're rescuing people.

They're doing things that the average American couldn't do.

Well, and because it's all a veterans-based understanding of find a solution, understand leadership, and then guaranteeing that you can make things happen because you're unwilling to fail the operation or the mission at hand.

And that applies regardless of combat or helping those in need.

And again, we are blessed.

The one thing America has that the rest of the nation wants is is that we have a non-commissioned officer corps within our military of solution-driven, you know, enlisted men.

And we have veterans, largest volunteer, strongest volunteer force in the world who understands what it is to serve its country, to serve the people of America.

And that's all we do when we're in the military.

We're there to serve the country, not serve any political agenda or anyone who sits at 1600.

And these are the veterans who are going to step up.

And this is the Army.

When me and you were talking, when we were in Western North Carolina, and you said it wasn't about one individual any long.

When we're talking about Billy Graham, it's about an army.

This is the army that we see before us of Americans helping Americans.

And this isn't the first time in Western North Carolina.

We saw it in Haiti.

We saw it in Israel.

We saw it in Afghanistan.

These were veteran solutions and Americans.

These weren't our federal governments.

All right,

let's go back to Haiti.

Tell people what happened in Haiti.

So as we all know, Jimmy Chavier, who is known as barbecued, ran something called the GS9 gangs.

He was very, very strong to the former president who was assassinated and was actually part of the national police there in Haiti.

He led an attempted coup, which was successful in ousting the power that was within Haiti and formulating all these gangs who terrorized the entire country.

I mean, this is an individual who was so barbaric in his way of trying to terrorize that he would carve individuals up in the middle of the street and leave their bodies there.

There was pictures and videos of cannibalism in an attempt to try and, you know, essentially threaten and scare and terrorize those who are around the country.

And so what happened was, is that I looked once again, what is the country going to do?

I watched the failure in Afghanistan and we shamed them into doing something.

I watched the failures in Israel where we pulled out 255 Americans before the federal government did anything and we shamed them into doing it.

Certainly, they're going to do something now.

Well, the response from the State Department was, We have no plan and or intent of rescuing Americans from Haiti as we've been warning them that it's a level four threat country to begin with.

Hey, sorry, America, those taxpayer dollars, sorry, the take care clause of the Constitution by our executive branch.

We don't feel we need to take care of you.

That was the answer by the federal government.

So once again, I called veterans and I called partners of mine and said, we have to do something.

And we started calling every office.

And let me tell you, every single individual I've ever rescued, Glenn, whether it was Afghanistan, Israel, Haiti, or people I've helped in Florida or North Carolina, wherever, I never knew them until the moment that I met them in person.

I didn't care what their political political affiliation was or who they voted for.

I didn't care what state or for which constituents they are of which district.

I cared they were Americans of need.

And so we flew over there and actually did night operations in Haiti, out of the Dominican Republic, out of Puerto Plata, and out of Santo Domingo.

And we rescued 13 on the very first rescue, landing in a 100 by 100 backyard, spending about 62 seconds on the ground before we were able to get them out in about 3 a.m.

And then the next day, we ended up rescuing another 13 out of or 10 the first time another 13 the second time out of a church where they were hiding these are missionaries these are people who run orphanages these are people who are there to try and help others who are now being left behind and we were able to get them out and then the best part After getting the 23 Americans out, the federal government started to step up and wanted to do things to try and then help opening up Cap Haiti and opening up the World Gas Program, things like this.

And Governor DeSantis stepped up.

But then I partnered with Tim Tebow and the Sentinel Foundation.

We were able to get 59 and Mercury One, 59 children who were mentally and physically disabled in Haiti, who the gangs didn't feel that they were good enough to shoot, so they would take their medications and they would take their food, and they were going to let them just stay there and starve and die from either malnutrition or infection.

And we were able to get them into Haiti or into Jamaica to resettle.

And every one of them survived and are doing better now than they were originally.

Captain America, take me to the

to Israel.

So Israel was, again, October 7th, we had one of the most horrendous barbaric incidents that took the lives of over 1,200 people.

And these aren't just Israelis.

These are Americans.

These are Germans.

These are people from all over the nations.

And I waited a couple of days.

And I remember I was sitting on the house floor, standing next to Byron Donalds, one of my Florida man colleagues.

And I said, you know, Byron, I can't sit here any longer and do nothing.

This is on October 10th.

And I said, something's got to be done because there's people over there and they're going to die.

And I said, these are Americans.

So once again, we called.

I had my chief of staff in my office start calling every office.

Do you have constituents stuck over there?

Where are they at?

Do you have contact numbers?

Do you know the hotels they're staying in?

Do you know if they have medical issues?

And we're putting together these Excel spreadsheets.

And I immediately just went right to the airport and I said, I know I can fly into Jordan.

Again, being an Arabic speaker, this is a benefit.

And I'd spent time in Jordan.

And so I said, I know I can fly into Jordan and I can get across the Jordan River and hopefully conduct ground evacuations.

And I called two of the guys who was with me on the Afghan rescue and I said, guys, jump on the first plane.

I know you're not going to catch me, but get over there as soon as possible.

They were about four hours behind me on the flight.

I land October 11th.

I go down to the border and there's multiple bridges.

You have the Sheikh Hussein Bridge, the King Hussein Bridge, the Al-Arabi Bridge, you know, you name it, you name it.

And I told the team that was on the other side in Israel, I said, listen, I'm going to meet you at the Sheikh Hussein Bridge.

We're going to go into Tiberias first, then Nazareth, then Haifa.

we're going to get people out of that northern area there because that's going to be hit by hezbollah and we know that the sea of galilee and that area there in the golan heights is going to end up increasing its intensity so we coordinated everything i get to the bridge and i text the guys and i said hey guys i'm at the sheikh hussein bridge and they're like cool i'm right across the bridge i'm like perfect we get across and it's just me by myself with a backpack i'm looking for this car and i can't see anything and so i text again hey can you give me a pid which is a positive ID?

They said, yeah, as soon as you get across the King Hussein Bridge, you're going to see us off on the left.

And you read it again and you read it again.

And you almost are like, military humor, law enforcement humor, first responding humor is very dark.

We're not wired, right?

We don't stand out.

And so I'm like, very funny guys, JK, LOL, Smiley Face, what the heck is going on, right?

And they're like, yeah, we're at the King Hussein.

Now, King Hussein is about an hour and a half drive.

So now I've got a choice to make.

Do I go back to the hotel and Amman, wait for my team to refit?

We can get a better plan in place tomorrow and I'll be safe.

And then you're stuck with that decision though, Glenn, where it's like, I have that opportunity.

But what about the tomorrows of every single person that's there?

What happens if I go back to that hotel?

And they launch one of the anti-tank missiles that Hezbollah was firing that hits that hotel where these people are waiting for me.

and then they don't have there tomorrow.

And I remember that I saw a bunch of taxi cabs that was there, and I remember I went over to some of the taxi cabs, and you're kind of looking like, all right, this guy's paying way too much attention to me, I'm too interesting, I don't like that.

You know, this guy's on his phone playing angry birds, he's probably less of a threat.

Like, you know, you're going through the scenario and you find a car.

And I went over there, and this guy was thinking he could speak.

A lot of people speak Hebrew and Arabic.

I went over there, and I'm thinking I'm going to get lucky.

And, you know, he spoke that much Arabic.

I spoke that much Hebrew, and we had that much conversation.

And, but like, I became the greatest champion gold medal standard pictionary.

You know, I'm like three words, drive this way, turn that down.

I'm not getting the back.

I'm right here.

Go over there.

You're doing great.

Like, you know, and hey, thanks again.

So, you know, I get to, I remember I told the team, I said, look, just meet me in Nazareth.

I get to Tiberias.

And this is where courage is contagious.

This is what motivates me.

People want to say, what motivates you?

Yes, it's the American people.

Yes, it's my son.

Yes, it's my faith.

But what motivates me is what I saw when this young lady named Silver Prout, who was there on a missionary trip, was sitting in the lobby with the rest of the people.

They all got their luggage there.

And I walk in

and I'm like, hey, you know, my name is Congressman Mills.

I know I told you guys that we're going to have our security team here in multiple vehicles, but yeah, it's me and I've got taxi cabs outside.

And, you know, you see people are kind of like, wait a second, what?

This young lady sitting in a roundback swivel chair in the lobby next to the cafe stands up and she said,

I know who you are.

And I used to work previously in Senator Murkowski's office.

I was like, Oh, it's great to meet you.

And she said, I know what you did in Afghanistan.

If you tell me it's safe, I'll come with you.

And I said, I'll do everything to keep you safe and get you home.

And the minute that she said, Okay, I'll go, you see that courage is contagious.

You see, other people go, I'll go.

I'll go.

I'll go.

By the time we got to to Nazareth, my team was there.

We had consolidated individuals.

We had people out of Haifa.

We had the buses all ready.

And it was like clockwork.

Like everything just came together, but I had to take that first step.

And that day on October 11th, only days after the horrendic incident that occurred by the terrorist organization of Hamas, we rescued the first 32 Americans and got them out of Israel.

One minute away to the final chapter with Corey Mills.

It was just a great conversation.

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You know, the one thing that

when I first, when we were going into Afghanistan or raising funds to help with any of these kinds of things,

when Afghanistan happened,

I thought we have to do something.

I called our guys at Mercury One.

How much is it going to take?

I can't remember what they said, $25 million.

And I'm like, I can't raise $25 million.

It has to happen now.

We raised it in a week.

And I thought,

this is what the government should be doing.

I can't believe a guy who, you know, I'm an alcoholic DJ.

What do I know?

Why am I doing this?

I have no idea how to do any of this.

And I think

it is what the government should do for American citizens.

That's right.

But it's also our responsibility.

I mean, I think we have grown to depend on the government for absolutely everything.

And we had been trained, I think until Afghanistan, we had been trained that you can't do that.

No.

We didn't know if we were even going to go to jail because we were going to do it.

We had no idea.

Is this legal, illegal?

We don't know.

No, I was told, you were told the same thing as I was, which is that, you know,

you're involving yourself in foreign government.

And, you know, this could be interference.

This could be this.

This could be this.

And you don't know what all the legalities are around it.

So you just try to do your best to run it through legal and run it.

Is can we do this?

Can we do that?

Does that violate host nation laws?

Is it U.S.

law?

Yeah, I remember that exact feeling.

Yeah.

And so you look at all of this stuff that's happening now.

I think little by little, Americans are rediscovering their responsibility and our rights,

the rights.

to be able to step in and do things and why it's important to be able to speak, speak.

Why, you know,

petition the government.

They're telling us now

we can't question them.

That's misinformation when we question them.

No, that is my First Amendment right to petition the government.

What are you doing?

Right?

Our Constitution is we the people, not we the government.

And we have to remind that the power grab that goes on, and you and I shared this.

We love this because Wilson really destroyed America with the 17th Amendment in 1913.

And it was an entire intention to disenfranchise the American people

by stealing their money.

Explain the 17th Amendment.

Explain exactly so if people don't know.

So for everyone, I just want to be clear.

While I've been a retro-Republican my entire life, I'm a constitutional conservative.

That's what I really identify as.

I'm a seven article, 27th Amendment constitutionalist who believes in physical responsibility, limited government, and more American rights.

The 17th Amendment, two things happened in 1913.

And one was the 16th Amendment, which is federal income tax, which they justified in helping to build roads and schools and bridges and a strong military, as if we didn't have that previously, by the way.

But what the real nefarious cause is when you pair the 16th and 17th together.

A lot of people don't know that our United States senators used to be elected by our state legislators.

The brilliance of this is that it guaranteed the protection of our 10th Amendment, which is one of my absolute most important, I'm an absolutist when it comes to the 10th Amendment, which is your state and individual rights and freedoms.

What they realized is that back then, if the federal government was going to pass a bill that disenfranchised or minimized the amount of freedoms and rights and liberties under the 10th Amendment, the state legislator would pick up the phone and call the senator and say, hey, senator, do you like your job?

Because if you vote for this, you're not going to have it.

Well,

politicians who are very slippery-tongued individuals said, why should politicians elect politicians?

That should be the role of the American people.

And when you hear this, it's very convincing as an argument.

But what we failed to understand is that that was our only real state and federal check and balance that we had with that 10th Amendment.

Now, why did they do that together with the 16th and 17th?

Well, here's the actual real reason.

Not only am I going to disenfranchise our individual states and our individual American citizens, but I'm going to use your money to fund our power grab agenda.

So now it was about this was the pivotal turning point of DC's power greed grab.

It was under Wilson in 1913 to steal your money to feed their power and agenda while disenfranchising your state legislators and your individual rights, our God-given and

rights, not our government-privileged and provided rights.

That's what our first 10 true amendments were about.

And so the 17th Amendment, in my opinion, was the pivotal turning point of the swamp.

You had me at Woodrow Wilson.

But,

you know, it's funny because the reason why congressmen have to be re-elected all the time, it feels like you must feel like you're always running,

is to control the purse.

Congress is supposed to be the one that holds the money.

And our founders said

if they have to answer every two years to people back home, they're not going to let out of control spending happen because the people will say enough is enough.

But if they do

okay some money, then there has to be another check because it might give the government too much power and reduce.

And so what they did is they took all the senators out.

It was a brilliant system.

It still is.

It was.

But it is.

Brilliant.

Well, but if you think about it, and this is why I always remind people about the brilliance of our Constitution.

You know, Article 1, 2, and 3 is our legislative, executive, and judicial branch roles, responsibilities.

Article 1 is the largest one.

It's twice the size of the second and three times the size of the third.

Why?

Because voters can touch those elected officials in the legislative branch more often.

They have more

ability to touch them because they live in their state, in their district, et cetera.

Article 2, which our executive branch, is half the size of the first and twice as much as the third.

Why?

Because you get to touch that individual, thanks to the 22nd Amendment, every four years.

And so then you look at what their limited roles responsibilities are, which has been abused by the executive privileges, as we know, or executive orders, I should say.

But then you got the third, which is the fewest responsibilities, roles, and authorities under the judiciary branch because it's a lifetime appointment.

The brilliance and what our founding fathers have put together is what we're trying to protect here because it's our God-given rights.

It's our American citizens' freedoms, liberties, but it's also protection of our Constitution.

And again, I want to remind people, Article 4, Section 4 sets it out very clearly that we are a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

A democracy is what the left wants with mob rule.

What we are governed by is the rule of law.

And so, but we've continued to abdicate our roles and responsibilities under Article I so much, Glenn.

I mean, you look at these authorized use of military force, this carte blanche warfare that we have these AUMFs from 1957, 1991, 01, and 02, which are still in existence, but don't serve their intended purposes other than presidential authority to declare war.

That's an abdication of Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 through 13 of the legislative branch's war power authorities, or even the 1973 war power authorities.

And so we continue to abdicate.

We continue to give power to the executive branch.

We continue under things like the 17th Amendment to disenfranchise our state individual rights.

And then we wonder, where's the America that we once recognized?

Where's the citizens who would revolt over a one-cent tea tax, who's okay with 60% going to foreign nations and criminal migrants?

We're just not the America we used to be.

And that's what I fight to try and get back.

And that's why I do these types of things.

One, because it's right, but two, I want to bring confidence back in government to the American people that we're not all like this.

Let me go, since we're talking about spending, let me go back to where we started really with FEMA.

Let me read FEMA's response to people saying they diverted funds to migrant resettlements.

Quote, no money is being diverted from disaster response needs.

FEMA's disaster response efforts and individual assistance is funded through the Disaster Relief Fund, which is a dedicated fund for disaster efforts.

Disaster relief fund money has not been diverted to any non-disaster-related efforts.

That's an interestingly worded game.

Your response?

Well, that's the legal and political response, which is that, no, no, no, no, no.

We didn't touch that tranche of money.

We just sold all of your other taxpayers' money to resettle the immigrants.

But no, no, no, no.

We still kept that little tranche.

But remember, this is the same individual, Glenn, Secretary Mayorkis, who, one, has kept our borders open with tens of millions of people has come across.

But also, this is the guy who said, we have no more money left in FEMA.

Then when organizations like yours and others started stepping up and that veteran community started stepping up, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, actually, no, we have $22 billion now all of a sudden that we can spend to try and help out.

It's like, so wait a second, we understand that the DOD hasn't passed an audit internally since the administration that's in place has taken over.

But now we got the Secretary of Homeland Security who said we don't have any money, we need immediate spend up.

Oh, wait a second.

Now I have $22 billion.

I mean, look, you're asking for an audit of

stupid, right?

100% I am.

I want a complete audit.

I want the OIG to go in and do a complete review.

I want everything, whether it's FEMA, whether it's CBP, whether it's our State Department and their utilization of our money.

By the way, some of the U.S.

aid and State Department funding that our taxpayers have was going towards things like studying anti-just just the idea of the idea that we should be studying anti-Christian ideology and that we should be supporting the idea of this I mean that we were doing genders 25 million dollars of gender study review for Pakistan this is how the American people want their money so what I want to look at is simple I think that we should cut if you want to find the problem of overspending the first place you have to look is DC Let's look at the departments the agencies and the bureaus that are there that no longer serve the American people or their intended purpose and eliminate them.

Let's take the Department of Education, get rid of it, and return it to the states.

Let's get rid of EPA and allow us to actually not be over-regulated and over-permitted so that our private sector can thrive and we have economic growth.

Get rid of the spying and prying on the American people when you talk about things like FISA 702 Title I that was abused 287,000 times by the FBI that they admitted to.

Think about Patriot Act stuff.

Think about how do we build our nation.

So if you want to cut funding, let's cut out 60% of DC,

return powers to the state and individuals, and start helping an economic growth strategy by looking at energy as our global currency.

That's my solution.

Close our borders and get back to a sovereign nation.

I tell you, I've wanted Donald Trump to say,

you know, look, I've been in the real estate business.

I know real estate.

If you're living in the

DC Beltway area, you should put your house up for sale now because after I'm elected,

your price of your home is going to plummet because I'm firing so many of these people.

I mean, and I hope he does that.

I hope he actually.

I think that he will, Glenn.

I truly believe that, especially when he talks about Elon and especially when I look at he learned so much in his first term about the deep state, the admin state and the nanny state.

And let me tell you, be just as scared about the nanny state as we are of the deep state and admin.

And why do I say that?

I've watched, and there was a bill.

I got to point this bill out.

There was a bill that was going to be a federal mandate for companies who make baby wipes or toiletry wipes or things like this, that they had to change all of their packaging to say do not flush on the packaging.

Now, tell me where that is a federal government responsibility to tell private sectors that

you shouldn't put this into your toilets.

Why is that a law that any American should be okay with?

We shouldn't even have to be voting on things like that.

And by the way, that wasn't a Democrat bill.

That was a Republican bill.

So we have just as much finger pointing that we need to be doing on the internal as we do on the external.

But I can tell you that you're 100% right.

And I think President Trump learned enough about it.

We will eliminate and do massive cuts.

Because the solution for the federal government is that if this individual fails, we should just hire five more individuals to do his job.

When they fail, we hire 10 more individuals, but we can't fire them because they're failing.

That's not America.

That's not how it is.

That's why we had the Accountability Act under President Trump, which says that if you do something wrong, I can fire you from the VA.

We need that across all of government, that if you don't do your job, that you can be removed.

And it needs to be the same thing as Florida and Virginia, where it's an at-will termination.

Yeah.

You know, Malay is a very good example of what's going on.

I mean, Argentina was in real trouble.

and pretty quickly he has turned that around

yes he has and what did he do he started cutting government and everyone said oh my god the entire country is going to collapse they're in an economic rebound yeah i know right now i know they are and then you look at what el salvador did they're taking the same pages out of the donald trump america first you know book to the el salvador first book and it's thriving for them This is the thing.

Everyone who's utilized the American playbook of America First is now advancing themselves.

Everyone who has eliminated bureaucracy and more federal government, because I've said this a long time ago, more government, and I'm going to say this slowly for everyone, more government is not better governance.

What we have to understand is that Ronald Reagan many times had told us the scariest words, I'm from the federal government and I'm here to help.

Correct.

We don't need federal government as we're proving time and time again to solve everything because a lot of times they're the problem and then they set the solution solution for their own problem and pat themselves on the back at the expense of the American taxpayer.

You need less federal governments.

Let me,

because

I know you're not Donald Trump and I know you're not Joe Biden, so you must be a lot like

Kamala Harris.

What is if you're re-elected, which looks like it's going to happen, if you're re-elected, what's your number one focus?

To continue doing what I'm doing right now, which is that be a statesman, be a representative, don't be a politician.

Politicians say what you want to hear and do the would have, could have, should haves, and they go ahead and placate the American people as if they were actually going to make a true stand for them.

Where a statesman and a representative, they get their hands dirty.

They go out and they get things done.

They're willing to go ahead and say, you know what, work as hard as the soldier so you don't recognize the general.

It's time for our elected officials to be encouraged to do what is right.

And I try to be not shaming them into doing what's right, but being able to be loud and vocal enough where they see what I'm doing.

And I hope that it encourages them to do the same.

Look, we wouldn't need term limits on Congress if people did their job and worked as hard as they were supposed to, because you would burn yourself out and want to hand the torch over.

But the reality is, is that the same way that women's sports has become a plan B for failed male athletes is the same way that the federal government has become a plan B for failed entrepreneurs.

People are making more money in federal government than they'd make in the private sector.

And that's why I proposed two things that I thought would have been very good, Glenn.

And it's not popular on either side.

The two things I proposed is that we need to get into control of campaign finance reform where it's not about how much you spend, but about meritocracy and the best candidates.

And so how we do that is that we actually make it to where you can only raise funds within your own district.

The second thing is this.

Love that.

We don't need a blanketed $174,900 to every member of Congress.

What your salary should be determined upon is every member of Congress and senators should be paid on the family median income of the people you represent so that when you make a decision that impacts your pocketbook, it impacts the people you represent as well.

Amen.

Amen.

One last thing.

We were flying,

rescuing an old woman, and you and I were talking, and I said, you're running a campaign right now.

Your staff must be beside themselves.

You're in another state.

And you said, well, my district right now, this is before Milton.

My district is fine.

I made sure first.

And I said, yeah, but you could lose this campaign.

And what did you say?

That I would rather lose my seat than lose this republic.

It's about trying to do what's right.

Look, people don't know this because of my voting record.

I have one of the most constitutionally conservative voting records in Congress.

But I'm the third lowest Republican seat in all the state of Florida.

I'm an R4.

This was a flip seat last time from Stephanie Murphy.

But I believe in the fact that one, out of 28 congressional districts in the state of Florida, with much more senior individuals than myself, I lead the entire state, my team does, in constituent services and money brought back from the federal government bureaucracies that's been held for weeks and months and years, SSI, VA, disability, treasury, FEMA, IRS, et cetera.

I believe that if we truly believe in meritocracy and we continue continue to utilize that as our narrative, then let's live it by doing what is right and saying, you know what, I'm not out there to campaign and tell you what I'm going to do or what I would have done.

I'm showing it through action.

And I hope that you're proud enough of what I'm doing that you would be proud to have me as your representative.

And I hope that you see what I fight for you for so that you can actually vote me back in.

But if they don't, at the end of the day, Glenn,

I can be a CEO.

I can be a sergeant, non-commissioned officer of the military.

I can be a U.S.

Congressman.

I can be a Secretary of Defense Advisor.

I already carry the best title that I'll ever hold in my life, which is dad.

I have a 10-year-old boy, and that's what matters, and that's my why.

And so when I look at what matters most to me, whenever, and I told you this, I said, whenever I die, God's not going to look at me and say, you know, you should have ran a better campaign.

But what he will say is, is that a C.S.

Lewis used to talk about your talents.

He's going to talk about the fact with the talents that I I gave you, here's what you've been able to do with it.

Here's how many lives that you touched.

Here's how many people that you saved.

Here's how many people you encouraged to get involved and do more.

That's what matters the most.

And so for me, I donate.

I'm the only member of Congress who donates 100% of my salary to a woman child veteran charity in my district.

I don't buy, sell, and trade stocks, and I won't.

I'm not looking at book deals so I can try and make money off of the position and doing the right things.

I'm just going to keep doing my job, Lynn.

If that's not enough to get re-elected, then it's not meant for me and God will find a new door.

God bless you.

Corey, thank you very much.

Thank you, Glenn.

I still am.

I really appreciate you.

And thanks for all your help.

You bet.

You've been amazing.

What you've done in Afghanistan, what you've done in Israel, what you've done in Haiti, what you did for Western North Carolina, and what you did for my district.

I don't think anyone can ever thank you enough for what you and JP Decker and all of your team has done.

I mean, even the folks at Blaze have been so amazing, whether it was Jill or Huli or any of the others, just covering the story and getting the facts out.

You're greatly appreciated, and I consider you a true friend.

And so, I'm here anytime you need me, Glenn.

Well, I'm going to need you soon as I keep looking at that ocean behind you.

Thanks a lot, Corey.

Bring the wife and joy.

God bless.

Thank you.

God bless.

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