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we discuss here on this program. In fact, I've got something in the stack of stuff that I want to get to that kind of qualifies for that type of thing anyhow, So I encourage you to do that, and it's good to be here today. A couple of things I want to get to first, you know, I think first what I want to talk about. I make a lot of these decisions are game time decisions here, but I really want to start with what I heard Adam Kinsinger say on CNN. Now
I want to be clear here, Adam Kinsinger is a such. There are fringe elements of both parties. There's the radical left in the Democrat Party. They've hijacked that party. They've taken control of that party in many ways, not completely. In fact, if you want to see an area that they haven't completely, well, an example of how they haven't taken over yet is
look at the response to Hamas and to the conflict in Israel. Now, I will tell you that there's a course that doesn't mean that everything that's happening in Congress is still good. I mean, we need to be smart here. We don't want to sign up for a new war, right Biden supposedly, he just wanted credit here for what two about two and a half years ago, a little over two years ago, he wanted credit for getting us
out of Afghanistan. Remember, leaving in a complete tizzy, leaving weapons, seven billion dollars worth of weapons in Afghanistan, people clinging to aircraft trying to escape Afghanistan. We left fifteen thousand, I think was the initial report. Initially we left fifteen thousand Americans in Afghanistan. We abandoned some of those folks that helped us throughout the course of the war. And of course now we find those weapons being used by Hamas and other places around the world. So
we ended that war, forced the end to at least a presence. I'm not saying an active war so much as a presence there. We forced it prematurely so that Biden could get his headlines. And now we're on the cusp of another one. We're on the cusp of another one, and of course there's tons of lessons to be had here as far as that goes in fact. We'll get into that as the program comes together today. But I want to stick with the differences between the parties and how Kinsinger his place, I
guess in the Republican Party. So there's of course disagreements between there's factions between inside of both parties. Kensinger. So on the Democrat Party you've got the well in DC you don't really have moderates, but in rank and file America you do. So there's moderates all the way up to liberals, all the way up to the extreme godless radical left. That is one party. And so there's fringes, right, there's fringes, and there's people who really kind
of agree in the middle. It's kind of like a bell curve, but there's a fringe on on kind of both sides of the party. The same thing is true in the Republican Party. We have conservatives, we have rhinos, and we have liberal Republicans who I don't know why they're Republicans other than
they just want to create havoc within the Republican Party. There are people that in the Republican Party, like Liz Cheney, like Adam Kinsinger, the only two who were involved in the January sixth show performance that committee and so forth, And so there's the French and Kinsinger in no way, shape, manner, or form, represents the bulk of the Republican Party. He's not. He's represents a very very small, tiny portion of the Republican Party. And
so he has come out and this is not going to surprise you. It shouldn't surprise you anyway. And I'm not telling you to surprise you. I want you to hear. I just want you to hear what he says. I want you to understand his Well, I say perspective, but I don't know that it's really perspective. I think it's more a lot of this stuff is virtue signaling. It's signaling to the people in the community that you want to connect with. That says, hey, I'm really not one of those
guys, right, That really isn't me. Those people don't align with me. I'm trying to save the party. Those folks are a danger to the party. Now, I've made it clear that the people in the Republican Party do not always represent fact. They often don't represent what I think. What I think of asked majority of the people think. A lot of times they play a lip service a lot of times they play games with the political games.
A lot of time times they do it for again virtue signaling purposes, to get applause, to get some fundraising dollars in that sort of thing. But one pushed comes the shove. A lot of these guys are just whimps at the core, pure whimps. So they don't always represent me, and I'm guessing a vast majority of you as well, are a large percentage of you anyway. But that doesn't mean that I, look, we have to find a way to still work with folks. I mean, we cannot go
scorched earth. I can stand on principle, understand the reality of the situation, understand where just where we are politically except that you know, and and work around those areas where we have agreement to try to pull this country back in the right direction. And it's going to be a process. I think
we have to view it as such. Doesn't mean that the people who are moderate right I knows, or even liberal Republicans, we should not try to find ways to find more conservative candidates the next time they're up for reelection and so forth. But nonetheless, I don't view myself at war with the Republican Party. I think the war, the cultural war, the political war, if you will, it's a cultural war. It's a worldview war that's being
fought in the world of politics. But I think that war is between different different groups of people who still revere and love this country versus the radical left. And there's a wide range of people that are in this group. I think we agree in principle on a lot of things. I've said this extensively. That's why I say eighty percent of Americans agree with eighty percent of the things I say on this program. I do believe that I do believe that
they've sometimes been tricked into believing that they don't. They've been coerced into believing some narrative that isn't true. They've been coaxed into believing a lie. But if you talk or they've been polarized, right, they hate Trump or they hate some other politician, they hate anybody who claims to be a fill in the blank libertarian, conservative, Republican, whatever, and they can't see past that sometimes, and we got to deal with that. That's something altogether different.
But as Kensinger is here, Kensinger wants us to think he's trying to save the Republican Party, but he's gonna do so by voting for Joseph Robin at Biden. Apparently if Trump is the Republican nominee, which the only reason to think Trump wouldn't be would be if something like one of these indictments somehow, and I don't even know how it could at this point, one of
these indictments somehow prevented him from getting on a ballot. We know what's happening in Colorado, for example, trying to keep him off the ballot due to the fourteenth Amendment. Because of course, as the narrative goes, and there's some stuff, some stuff in the stack of stuff today on the website if you want to read that. But there's a fight. Those fights are going on. But unless something crazy happens, Trump's the nominee, Biden is the
Democrats nominee. And Kensinger says, Hey, I'm riding with Biden, and so here's what I want you to hear. This short clip he's on with Anderson Cooper a couple of days ago, and of course he's he's doing a little bit of virtue signaling. Or remember the people that Kinsinger runs with, they are liberal sometimes they are leftist. He's inside the political bubble. He lives at CNN now, so just by virtue of being at CNN, I mean, there's a certain type of behavior, a certain type of expected response
to questions like this position on issues. He can't really say he's a Republican and being good standing at CNN today, So instead he does something like this when asked about basically what he's going to do his position. And I love how serious this is taken. He's sitting here all serious as though he's he's the one that's going to save the Republican Party from Donald Trump. I mean, it's crazy. I remember this guy, this guy crying crocodile tears during
the January sixth hearing. He and Liz Channey the only two that were involved in that sideshow circus political prosecution of Trump. These are the same folks. And by the way, new Speaker Mike Johnson, I'm looking forward to seeing the release of all of the January sixth footage because it is clear. Remember the January sixth commission or committee, whatever that silly little group was called,
they got rid of all the records. There's no records of anything. It disbanded and everything that they were working on poof disappeared, kind of like a lot of the video evidence they didn't want us to see, and so now that's going to be released. Kensinger of course was a part of that. Kensinger was a part of that, probably saying things like this to try to get out in front of potential blowback of video that he didn't let us see. Now, granted, he was in the Minority Party, but they were
a uni party. They wouldn't take any other Republicans besides Liz Cheney and Adam Kinsinger, and then there were a there was a gaggle of other radical leftists in there. But anyway, I want you to listen to this exchange because this does represent a fringe element of the Republican Party. It's small, it's small. I don't know how many of these folks can be Kensinger can't be. I don't know how many folks can be convinced that Trump is the better
alternative. Maybe a percent or two of these folks. But this is part of the reality of the political world that we live in, and for fortunately it represents just a fringe. But here's Kensinger explaining a little bit of that to Anderson Cooper on CNN all right here now having problems with the audio Republicans. So it's a tough question. Ask him at first, do you still consider your selfer Republican? All right, sorry about that, here we go,
Do you still consider yourself a Republican? So it's a it's a tough question. I do only in that because I don't want to give up on that fight. And this country needs two healthy parties, a healthy Democratic Party and a healthy Republican So I'm not going to give up that title. A country needs a good conservative and a good liberal movement at any time in their lives. It's crazy. So I still have the title. But I voted
Democratic last election cycle. If it's Trump against Joe Biden, I'll vote Democratic this coming one because Anderson, I really believe it's down to one issue on the ballot, Not taxes, not even abortion, nothing. The one issue is do you do you believe in democracy? Or do you believe in authoritarianism? And I think that's the only thing we should be voting on. Absurd take absurd, delusional take here to Kenzinger, it all comes down to one
issue. Do you believe in authoritarianism? Excuse me? Or do you believe in democracy? That's what it comes down to. Who cares, Kenzinger says, If we're killing babies, who cares? If we're bankrupting the nation? Says Kensinger, doesn't matter, None of that matters. What matters is whether or not you believe in democracy or if you're an authoritarian. Now, of course, I ironically, it's just it's incredible to think about. It's incredible
to think about. I gotta take a break here. But if you look at this and you think about what Kenzinger is saying, of course, the way he means it is, Trump's the authoritarian. We have people who staged a coup to overthrow this nation. What am I supposed to do? I don't want to give up on the Republican Party. I'm too principled for that, America too principled for that. I'm here to stand as the final, you know, this final push to save America's democracy. All serious look on
his face and everything else doesn't matter. For killing babies, he says, doesn't matter. If we bankrupt the nation, doesn't matter, if we get in World War III, doesn't matter, if terrorists come oozing across the southern border. None of that matters. Stuff on that as the program unfolds as well, None of that matters to Kensinger. All the matters to Kinsinger is whether or not you vote for Trump, and that means you're an authoritarian in
the world of Kinsinger delusional thinking. By the way, and if you vote for Biden, of course you believe in democracy, which is absurd if you think about it. The left is the ones the left, the political left, which has made its home in the Democrat Party today. Who are the ones who are the ones that are working with social media companies to censor what is said? We know this. It's the Biden administration, the Democrat Party. Who are the ones, my friends, Who are the ones that want
to limit your Second Amendment rights? Who are the ones, my friends, who want to raise your taxes, who want to tell you that, no matter what we're spending, it's not enough in this country, you got to pay your fair share. Who are the ones, my friends, whose economic policies led to inflation, historically high inflation numbers making it virtually impossible for some families to afford food, a roof over their head, and everything else.
I mean, friends, The American dream the dream of whatever you think about having the house and all that sort of stuff. But that version of the American dream has been beaten to a bloody pulp by this administration, by this political party. Who are the ones that are encouraging policies that open a border that put this nation at risk from real Islamo fascists. Who are the ones that do that. Who are the ones who are more likely to call a
Trump supporter someone who considered themselves a maga Republican. Who are the ones who are more likely to call that group fascist, that group terrorist than the real terrorist, than the real fascists that are running parts of the Middle East, who are exporting terrorism around the world. Who are the ones that are doing this? People like Adam Kinzinger. I know he's a Republican, but he's a Rhino Republican in name only. Doesn't want to give up on that title
yet, because oh, he's so principal. He's very principal, so principled in the fact that he's willing to fight to the bitter end to make sure that American does not embrace authoritarianism. It's pure lunacy, it is absolute sophistry. And I've got to take a time out. List sitting here, my friend, it's a conservative not bitter talk. I am your host, Todtuff back in a minute. Welcome back, my friends. So I'm gonna shift gears here just a little bit. I want to talk a little bit.
There's two things I want to get to and of course we have limited times, so I'm going to do my best here. I want to talk here about what has happened. There was a hearing hearing on Tuesday, I believe FBI Director Chris Ray, which, of course that's a a whole world of problems just with that in and of itself, the FBI in today's world, what they've become, the bureaucratic state within that, You've got the text messages back in the day about trying to stop Trump from winning the election, remember
that back and forth with Lisa Page and so forth. This was I mean, the FBI upper level, upper level leadership positions has proven itself to be very very concerning, as do most of the agencies within our federal government. Again, as I've said before, this is the nature of humanity. The nature of humanity is to grow things, is to grow things. And when
you have a government that our founders understood. They understood this well. They studied history, so they saw what happened when governments got out of control. They understood intrinsically, I should say intuitively. They understated intuitively the intrinsic problems that come within a government that has no limits, or who whose limits are not enforced. That's why they set our government up as they did. Our job, our job, as the well the folks who carry the torch of
liberty, those who are amongst the citizenry that are self governed. Our job is to keep a constant pressure on that government from growing. It left to its own devices, is going to grow. It's going to grow, and they're going to promise a lot of great things, so that the people who are on the outside who are supposed to be keeping force on that government from growing downward, force pressing in from all sides. If the government says, hey, if you just let us inch out a little bit more in this
area, we can bring economic stability to your community. We can bring fill in the blank, right, some sort of peace, some sort of prosperity, some sort of benefit. Hey man, you don't need to work anymore. Just let us do this. Just a little bit more, and that's captivating and tempting to some people, and they take their hands. Of course, the truth is a lot of folks never had their hands on the metaphorical exterior of the government anyway, applying inward pressure to keep it from growing.
They were out walking through the tulips or something and not even realizing they had a government because they've been educated in the public education system or some such thing. It's not all there's a lot of problems. By the way, you see, homeschooling is the fastest growing form homes of schooling in America. Education in America today might have some words on that another day. Something that I think more people should look into. We've done it here, I should say,
my wife's done it here, and occasionally have to act principle. But there's a lot of benefit and it's not I think what some people believe it is, and it's not a fit for everyone. I believe in individual choice, and we've all got priorities and all this sort of thing. That's totally fine, but I think more people, more people should look into that anyway. So the American people, we've taken our hands and off of the exterior of the government. We've let it grow to some massive, out of control
situation and it becomes corrupt, right, it becomes corrupt. And then it's almost like, well, what are you gonna do to stop it? We're so big, we're so massive, nothing you can do about us. We'll show up to Congress, We'll say what we want to say. We'll sit before the Senate, we'll sit before the House. It doesn't matter who we sit before. If we don't want to talk about something, we won't. My Orcus was before Congress. Recently it got a little tense. Christopher Ray
is before Congress. Here, Senate, I believe gets a little intense. But again, and it's almost like try us, you know, we'll tell we'll tell the we'll tell the legislative branch. Well, we'll do what we want. What are you gonna do about it? I'm gonna sit here and answer these questions of the way that I want, or not answer them anyway. It's it's it's a massive problem, is the point. So FBI is out of control. We know that FBI, like it or not, believe
it's constitutional or not. All it's right. Now. That's what we've got. We've got a corrupt FBI. And but they have a job. They have a job, and it's an important job, a job that someone needs to be doing, a job that someone needs to be doing. Of course they don't do then they're not enforcing the border. But you know, they're
in charge of federal law enforcement. And so they are in charge of keeping Americans safe, right and in a certain sense, protecting the American people from those that are coming across the border or those who are domestically you know, just Americans here and so forth. But they have a job to protect the American people. But he was, he was before the Senate asking, or I should say, answering answering questions about terrorism, answering questions about the real
dangers that we face in this country today. And he was asked about the dangers that we face from terrorists coming across the southern southern border. And I just want you to listen to this. Now we know this, none of this is surprising, but it's quite something to hear it coming from the mouth of the FBI director, the risk of attacks on our own soil. Again, what should be fresh in our mind is October seventh in Israel. What
should be fresh in our mind is what we're seeing unfold. Terrorists attacking and being fought against by the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces. Middle East tensions, you know, the war chants are being sung around the world, people sending aircraft carriers and everything else to the Middle East. Missiles being shot. US bases have been attacked twenty three times in the past two weeks. In the Middle East. Tensions are high, fights over who's responsible for civilian casualties
in Gaza. These are things that are on the other side of the globe. But my friend, we have been importing some of this. It's been documented that there have been terrorists across our southern borders. There have been more terrorists that had been encountered along the southern border in this past year than ever before, dramatically, So if you go back two or three years, it's something like three terrorists I think it worth three five is single digits terrorists that
we had encountered along the southern border this year. It was our last fiscal year, it was like one hundred and fifty or one hundred and seventy something like that. I don't have it in front of me, but I've read that, and of course the people on the internet. Trolls will say, well, look we're doing a better job, we're catching more of them. That's not how that works. You catch a percentage of them. You catch a percentage of these folks, and if you're catching high numbers, the percentages
that you're catching. Unless there's a specific campaign, which we know this administration is not running. Unless there's a specific attempt to tighten up security and to improve somewhere, that's not how you just explain this. You explain this by
saying we caught more because there were more coming across. So anyway, in light of all of that, here's Christopher Ray telling Congress, telling the legislative branch the reality of the danger that we face today here in this great But, as I said a few moments ago, on top of the homegrown violent extremists and domestic violent extremist threat, we also cannot and do not discount the possibility that HAMAS or another foreign terrorist organization may exploit the current conflict to conduct
attacks here on our own soil. We have kept our sites on HAMAS and have multiple ongoing investigations into individuals affiliated with that foreign terrorist organization. The only thing I would say here is that they're not looking I mean, to take advantage of what's happening over there. They are who they are, they're not looking to take advantage. They might be inspired, so to speak, bad
bad, that that's what inspires them. But some of them might be inspired by the violence in the Mid East and Israel and so forth in Gaza. But the real thing that they're trying to exploit if they are to carry out a terrorist attack is the complete unwillingness of this administration to secure our border. They would be exploiting an open border. That is what they would be exploiting,
not exploiting circumstances over there, exploiting this porous open southern border. It's a real threat, my friends, and that is the thing that we should keep our eyes on most here domestically when we think about this war on terrorism, which is still which is still being fought, my friends, Quick time
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tweet. In fact, here's what Rick Scott's tweet of this SoundBite says. It says this, I asked FBI Director Ray a simple question. Is the US safer today than it was before Joe Biden took office? After nearly ten seconds of silence, which you will hear in this clip. It's not edited. It's the real time video clip. If you're watching it, you're gonna hear it, of course as an audio clip, and after nearly ten seconds of silence, he finally admitted what we all know, the terror threats have
been elevated demonstrably true. Of course it's true. We know that it's true, and iasionally get messages from people on social media proof you know. I we go through evidence. I don't. That's another thing. It's it's evidence, you know. I don't know if people understand the difference between evidence and proof. But there's evidence. I respect the individual to interpret the evidence. We give evidence, We give evidence. Someone has to make an individual has
to make their own verdict. But some of the evidence is so overwhelmingly powerful that it makes the that it almost clearly clearly exceeds any burden of proof in a reasonable sense, eclipsing all reasonable doubt. But it's still up to the individual. That's the beauty of this country. We have as individuals, we're casting our own verdicts. But to me, we've presented so much evidence that
the verdict is, I mean, completely obvious. This nation is in every measurable way, my friends, and I mean this, in every measurable way, this nation is dramatically worse off than it was before Biden came into office. There is tell me how it's not tell me, give me, give me an example. We've We've given multiple examples of the ways that it is worse. I've explained why, and I've even been fair. I've said not all of this is directly Biden's fault, but those things that he has,
well, he's done things proactively that have made situations worse. He has responded to things sometimes that he can't control, and the response has not made things any better. The response has actually helped make things worse. I mean, I don't know what else to say to folks, but I want you to listen to this, and I want you to go back in your memory bank and say, with these things happening prior to Biden opening the border, well
Todd, he didn't open the border, folks. He's not enforcing existing law. He's also changed several of Trump's policies, including the remain in Mexico policy. He has made Folks coming to the southern border will say that they are there. I've seen it on video. They are there because they're appealing to Biden to let him in. He is providing a pathway for people to come to this country, to go in to be given a court date. Years in advance that many of them never show up for and they are allowed to
just go into the country. I don't know catch and release is exactly what is going on, and I'm not sure how much catching is going on. We've still stopped. With that being said, more terrorists than we have ever coming across the Southern Board. I don't know what else to say to people who who don't see this, who don't want to see this anyway. Here's
Rick Scott's twenty four second clip. Half of this is almost silence, but here is his question to FBI Director Christopher Ray and the delay and silence in his response, and then finally a little bit of response coming from ray isself. But here it is the United States safer from foreign terror threats? Today? Are we safer than when Joe Biden took office? From the day he took office? What I would say to you is that the terror threats have
elevated. But I also think there are a lot of things the country has done throughout law enforcement to be better prepared to deal with them. Oh you think so what part of that? What defunding the police? You think that's made the law enforcement in this country better equipped to respond to terror tax. Pray, tell Christopher Ray what has been done, What has been done by liberal politicians, the president of the United States, mayors and governors of blue
states. Pray, tell what they've done to strengthen law enforcement. I mean, it wasn't that long ago when all law enforcement and they still are. I don't but I mean, it was a heated period of time in the wake of the George Floyd death. In the wake of his death, there was tremendous amount of tension between law enforcement and people in this country, and it still exists. I'm not saying we're just completely through it, but what
part of it? What part has been made better in law enforcement? And in a sane world, my friends, if the terror threat has increased, then we are, by death, not safer. I mean, do we have to connect those dots too, Instead of saying, yes, we're we're more at risk now than we were before. He pauses for seven or eight seconds I counted. Then he says, the terror threat has raised, but but we're better equipped. Law enforcement's better equipped to handle those threats. Really,
is it better to let the threat's in? Does that seem to make sense? Does any of this make sense to you? Because it doesn't to the rational people I know in the world today, Quick time out back in just a minute on back with my friends. We're going to set a record here. I don't think we've done this before. Played a third clip. This is John Kirby talking with the media. Administration official here talking with the media, and he's asked by Peter Doocy. He's asked by Peter Doocy what
seems to be a very love question. And I want you to listen to this answer this exchange. We don't have a lot of time left, but I want you to hear this. Is it possible that somebody who wants to commit a terrorist attack during a time of elevated threat across the southern border into the United States? Fall right? I couldn't possibly answer that question, Peter. All I can do is tell you that we have remain vigilant to that
potential threat. So he can't possibly answer that question. The question was, is it possible? Is it possible, mister Kirby, that someone has already crossed our border who has intentions of conducting a terrorist attack? Is that possible? You know that we've detained, We've encountered one hundred and fifty whatever it was in fiscal year twenty twenty three. Is it possible? How is it not possible? How could Kirby say what the straight face can't possibly answer that
question? You absolutely can. The only reason you can't is because you've been instructed not to, or it's gonna have some negative political consequence for your president. But it is not because you can't logic demands that the answer is quite simple. Yes, it's quite possible. Fact, it's very in fact, it's likely that there are people that have come across this border that want to inflict harm on this country. Time out, my friends, back in just
a minute. Welcome back, my friends. Not a lot of time left here today. But I will tell you this. I will tell you this. This country, without question, is in a much worse position than it was prior to Biden taking office. Now, I don't say that as a doom and gloom sort of situation. I say that as someone who believes that we have the power to change that. We have the power to change that,
and it's a gradual thing. And for those who think that we should just be able to snap our fingers and fix this problem, I think you're in for a route awakening. But I do believe. I do believe that if you understand that this is a continual, ongoing march towards defending our liberty and freedom, that you will see some good things down the horizon if we just stay in the fight. My friends, gotta go, SDG