Radio Show Hour 1 – 02/11/2025

[00:00:13] Broadcasting live from atop the Rocky Mountains, the crossroads of the West. You are listening to the Liberty Roundtable Radio Talk Show. All right. Happy to have you along, my fellow Americans. Sam Bushman live on your radio. Hard-hitting news the network refused to use no doubt starts now. This is the broadcast for February the 11th in the year of our Lord 2025. This is Hour 1 of 2 and the goal always to protect life, liberty, and property

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[00:01:11] Welcome back, sir. Thank you very much, Sam. It's great to be with you this beautiful Tuesday morning. It is a beautiful morning, sir, but you're not going to be super happy, though. Your mood's going to go sour when I tell you this next headline. FEMA. Yeah, FEMA. They don't care about the people in Florida and Carolina and all that kind of stuff. But FEMA spent $59 million, according to Doge, to house illegal immigrants this last week in New York City alone.

[00:01:42] $59 million, one-week luxury hotels in New York City. Now, some are saying, well, hey, Elon over at Doge is just, you know, making this up. It's alleged expenditures. He's just looking at the information and seeing what he sees. Even the leaders of New York City are saying, yeah, we've got $81 million in two different parts and da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. How does this even happen, Sheriff?

[00:02:11] Yeah, and how is it continuing to happen under the Trump administration? I thought this was already stuff they were trying to block. I know he's only been in there about two weeks, maybe pushing three now. But you would think that would have already been terminated and those guys and the people therein shipped out of here.

[00:02:38] But I noticed that the Department of Justice is coming to Mayor Adams, the New York City mayor. They're coming to his aid and canceling any criminal investigations against him. So what are they waiting for in regards to stopping this sort of expenditure that is actually illegal? And so here we have funding continuing.

[00:03:07] And I thought they were really getting that this administration was really getting after FEMA for not taking care of California and North Carolina. So what are they waiting on? And why are we still spending taxpayer dollars on that? Or is it taxpayer dollars? Or do they just print the money and keep going? Well, no matter what, it's taxpayer dollars or taxpayer debt. Either way, it's a serious problem indeed. And the problem that I have with this is on one hand, you want to blame Trump and blame the administration.

[00:03:37] Why is this still happening? They've had three weeks to get it together. In their defense, they've got their arms full. There's too many things to work on. Everything that they've tried to do gets shut down or brought to the courts or whatever. You've got these robe-thugged judges saying, hey, you know, by executive order, you can't do this. You can't do that. You can't do that. And a lot of that I agree with the executive orders. I don't believe they're constitutional for the most part.

[00:04:01] But in Trump and Elon Musk's defense, they're doing the very best they can to stop all kinds of things. But they just simply run into a buzzsaw at every turn. And my real question to you is this. Hey, Trump's come out of the gate swinging. And for the most part, the American people love what Trump's doing. He's got well over 50 percent support for his first days in office. Elon Musk has been doing a good job. So I've got to give a lot of them credit.

[00:04:28] Now, many of them are claiming it's not a control extreme power grab by the president. There are certain things where he's doing that I'm concerned are going to backfire. We'll get into that as the broadcast unfolds today. But here's the question in my mind. Where's Congress in all this? Okay. Congress started out on, what, 4th of January? So they've been there for over a month, like five weeks now.

[00:04:50] And besides getting a few appointees approved, and besides passing this one Lincoln-Riley Act or whatever else, which I commend them for, don't get me wrong, I haven't really heard of anything valuable they've done at all. No, Congress really has a history of that as well. It doesn't matter which party's in charge. They just really don't get much done there except talk.

[00:05:16] So yell back and forth across the aisle is something they're really good at. But since Trump's been in, the Trump derangement syndrome has gone sky high. And, I mean, I cannot help myself. Every time Elizabeth Warren opens her mouth, I just cringe and just keep saying, what an idiot.

[00:05:41] And there's so many of them, McTean Waters and Charles Schumer. And even – oh, who's the comedian that now is quite the political pundit? Stewart? Anyway, one of the real famous ones, and he used to have his own show on TV, and I'm not sure he does anymore.

[00:06:04] But he even told the Democrats, can you guys please stop putting Charles Schumer out in front? Every time he opens his mouth, it's just more idiocy. He's saying that, and he's a Democrat apologist.

[00:06:21] So I – yeah, I don't think there's any government entity that has had worse public relations and worse poll ratings than Congress the past 50 years. I remember once it was down to 9% approval rating, and I remember commenting, but we still reelect them all. You know? 90% of the incumbents get reelected. And so I don't know where it's at.

[00:06:51] I don't know if that's another sign of election fraud. But – because I don't believe that Pelosi can keep getting reelected like that so easily, and she's so stupid. And Maxine Waters, same thing. And it just keeps going on and on. And to me, that's one of the greatest signs of election fraud there is because we just keep reelecting these incompetent, stupid, spendthrift, crazy people.

[00:07:20] Well, and I don't understand this whole thing. I look up – literally, I type into Google. I say, hey, what has Congress done since they started in 2025? It comes back. Is Trump overreaching? Hey, is Trump breaking the law? Hey, Trump's executive orders. Hey, here's what Trump's done since – da-da-da. Look, you've got 435 members in the House that represent every single state in the union. And their job – listen to me carefully, ladies and gentlemen – their job is to control the purse strings.

[00:07:51] That's the House. The Senate can't spend any money without the House's approval, people. Okay? And so when all funding bills are supposed to originate in the House, if Trump's trying to reduce spending and if the courts are saying, no, no, Donald, you can't restrict this money. No, you can't do that. No, no, no, no, no, no. The courts can say that if they want to, if that's what they believe the law really is. Because here's the point.

[00:08:15] Where's Congress to come back and say, listen, we in the House, Republican-controlled, we in the Senate, Republican-controlled, we have passed a bill. And the bill says that the president can do this, or we actually mirror the executive order, legislatively speaking. Now you've got two branches of government that are absolutely in lockstep to reduce spending. Where's Congress? What are they even doing? I haven't heard a word about these clans.

[00:08:39] Once in a while, Mike Johnson pops up, and we're supporting Donald, and we're going to put together this omnibus spending bill that we're going to pass in March. And what on earth are they doing? Why would we go with that same pattern that's failed us every single solid time we discuss it? Why not pass piecemeal little legislative pieces that fund the constitutional proper rule of government?

[00:09:02] And what about backing, mirroring Donald Trump's efforts and Elon Musk's efforts over at Doge to reduce spending? You know, they could say, well, Doge can't do this because the president can't say that. And how can the president appoint this? Now, all Congress has to do is create a clarifying resolution. Says, hey, you know what? We support the decrease in spending. Somebody's got to have common sense here. But Congress is completely derelict in their duty here.

[00:09:27] To me, they're the missing component when the Democrats sit on the sidelines and babble about how wrong Trump is and how law-breaking Trump is. And the Republicans sit there, and then the courts shut down Trump, and the Trump tries to overrule the courts. And don't we have a legislative missing in action scenario here, Sheriff? Yeah, I think so. Because, first of all, even on the tariffs, does the president have unilateral authority? No.

[00:09:57] No. To increase tariffs? No. Or to initiate tariffs? No. I don't think he does either. Okay, but here's the problem. What they want us to do is attack Donald and go against Donald to shut down everything Donald's trying to accomplish. Now, is he right that he completely controls tariffs, and should he be just laterally doing all these things? No, he shouldn't. His problem is that Congress is so derelict in their duty he either does something or he's a non-starter president. He can't get anything done.

[00:10:27] Yeah. You know, it's kind of going back to, well, I'm glad he's doing what he's doing, even if he doesn't have the authority. You know, I can't go there. I really can't go there. No, I agree. So we're not glad he's doing what he's doing. We're glad that these things are being brought up because they're necessary to resolve. What we really want is to go about it the right way, and that's what I'm talking about. Where is Congress? What is Mike Johnson doing every day?

[00:10:56] And I'll tell you what I do know. When they started out, they rolled in at like noon, and they've been doing that literally every day since for the most part. But, I mean, let's still look, though. You know, we're talking about spending on illegal aliens staying in the real nice hotels in New York City, but they haven't done anything about defunding Planned Parenthood. In fact, I haven't even seen that made the list yet from Elon Musk.

[00:11:25] And yet that's $500 million a year. Probably a little over that now. $500 million, a half billion dollars a year for us to fund a non-government organization that has nothing to do with government. Yeah. Yeah. So where are you, Mike Johnson? You know? And during the campaign, he was the only one that brought that up, that they were going to do it.

[00:11:53] And now they're back in session and crickets regarding something that I thought was something that Mike Johnson was very dedicated to. So, I don't know. Look, I'm not criticizing Trump. I'm really not. I'm defending Trump and saying, hey, he's maybe pushing the executive branch a little too far in terms of authority and power. I agree with that.

[00:12:22] However, what do you expect him to do when he got a mandate for the American people to make these changes? Congress is absolutely, completely derelict in their duty. I don't see a single thing they're doing that's really productive. Okay? And I see Trump doing his very best in spite of it all. Isn't this what he fought the first go-round in his first stint or whatever you want to call it as president? It's like, hey, he did his very best to build a border wall, to shut down the border.

[00:12:50] He got his own Republicans that really undid 90% of what he tried to accomplish. Now we see the same thing happening now. What is Congress doing? I can't even find out from Google or anywhere what Congress is doing. And what are they even doing? Yeah. And another news story, it shows that Trump wants to get rid of the penny. Well. Some people say that makes no sense. And I think it makes complete sense.

[00:13:19] It's a great idea. He should shut it down. It costs 3.7 cents to create every single penny. Yeah, but I don't – but me, I think he's got a few other more important things to do. Well, I agree 100%. Yeah. Yeah. Just get – I don't care about the penny. Let's get on with saving our country and, I know, make America great again.

[00:13:46] I just really want to focus on the key issues, and they're not. And what have they done to really bring in the IRS? He talks about external revenue service. Does that mean they're going to get rid of the internal one, the infernal one, this organization that has been abusing and terrorizing the American people for the last 100 years?

[00:14:14] 110 years? I just – I can't believe that they're not really focusing on, you know, let's prioritize what we really should do to save the American people. And good grief. Let's go. Well, I don't even see. They say this. The GOP majority begins the 119th Congress with a lengthy list of legislative priorities.

[00:14:45] What are they and what are they even accomplishing? There's articles all over the internet right now that say Republicans sit sidelined while Donald Trump and Elon Musk bring controversial issue after controversial issue to the table. I don't even understand this. We're going nowhere. We're going nowhere fast. And the reason we are is because if everything is done by executive order, understand that everything can be reversed that fast by executive order.

[00:15:14] And what it will be is a battle of the presidents who can put out more executive orders faster every time. Oh, my gosh. Trump did 300 first day. Now, the next guy is going to be like, I did 600 first day. In fact, I deputized signers for me, and I got 21 signers that signed on my behalf. You can't do that. Yes, I can. Well, let's go to court and debate, and Congress sits on the sidelines, and we're just creating a clown show out of the United States government, and the Constitution is hanging by a thread, Sheriff.

[00:15:43] Yeah, and that's still the issue. I mean, okay, so Trump has done. He's declared an emergency at the border. He's tried to get national energy moving. Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement. Good. Established DOGE.

[00:16:13] And then Protected Women's Sports said that – and that was by executive order as well. That's right. That's what I mean. Where the heck is Congress? You may trump the chief legislator, and Mike Johnson and clowns 435 in the House and 100 in the Senate, settling idly by. What are they even doing? And then this is another one, Sam. This is something that really bothers people, but why is it on the list at all at this point?

[00:16:43] Eliminated paper straws. And California is still going to do paper straws. So is Disney, you know? And so, man, make a list of the priorities and work down from there because most of these – Well, my biggest priority would be to shut down the IRS and shut down funding for Planned Parenthood if it were me. Well, of course.

[00:17:10] Yeah, we've said that hundreds of times just since the campaign started, you know, just since summer. You know, so I – man, I – you know. They're not shutting down the IRS. Trump has basically put tariffs on all kind of things unilaterally. I don't think that the president has the right to do that. I think Congress has the responsibility for taxation and tariffs.

[00:17:36] And we need to bring the, you know, Congress into this discussion. But the headline says this, DHS, that's the Department of Homeland Security, which I think, again, is a creation of the Republicans in modern times. It's unconstitutional. It should be shut down too. However, the DHS, the Department of Homeland Security, seeks to deputize IRS officers now to help with the deportation effort. And at first you might applaud it.

[00:18:04] You say, yeah, let's stick the IRS on somebody else for a change. I get it. I understand that view. I also understand that it will backfire spectacularly when a new Joe Biden or whatever you want to call it equivalent comes into office. He'll just turn the IRS to it on whoever he wants to. They say this, tax collecting agency has thousands of special agents in its, quote, criminal investigation division, Wall Street Journal with this piece.

[00:18:33] So now they want to take the IRS and turn it against, you know, the deportation effort. I understand that. But I don't want to arm IRS agents. I don't think the IRS is constitutional. You know, I appreciate that we want to get USAID employees gone. But why don't we get IRS employees gone? You know, Joe Biden hired 87,000 of them. We had a big old to do about that. Now we're just going to turn them to the, you know, deportation effort, which sounds good temporarily. Where are they going to be turned next?

[00:19:01] And if we deputize them and arm them, we're really advancing the IRS if we're not very careful, Sheriff. Yeah, that's a fear I had also. And look, Sam, we've said this before. If the IRS code wasn't this hundreds of thousands of pages convoluted mess that really just allows them to do anything they want because nobody understands it and there's too many of it.

[00:19:30] There's too much of it to take it to court and ruling on one aspect at a time is not going to help one iota. And most of the federal judges are on the side of the IRS because that's where they all get their money. And so they're not going to attack their own money source. But if they would just make it simple and even during the campaigns, I remember Rand Paul and I think Ted Cruz both said it.

[00:19:58] The IRS should be your requirement to pay your your 1040 form or whatever it is should fit on the size of a postcard. And you look at what you earned and you send in the corresponding percentage. That's it. You're done. Nobody pays over 10 percent. And the lower brackets, of course, only pay a half percent or one percent or whatever. And maybe even some don't even pay any. I don't care how they work that out.

[00:20:28] I don't care. But it should be worked out. And if if this president, this president's administration cannot address the simplicity factor that the that we all deserve in this, I'm going to be totally shocked because the fluff needs to stop. And the serious issues have got to get on the top of the list. Amen to that. Congress needs to do this.

[00:20:55] And what Congress needs to do is they need to create the shutdown, the IRS and crank up the Tariffs Act of 2025. So listen carefully. In the U.S. Constitution, ladies and gentlemen, the power to levy tariffs is primarily granted to Congress.

[00:21:10] Go look at Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, which states that the Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excites and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States. That doesn't mean the welfare program. That means just make sure there's a level, stable playing field. Right. This sectional essentially gives Congress the ability to impose tariffs and other forms of taxation.

[00:21:36] Additionally, Article 1, Section 10 makes it clear the states don't have the power to impose tariffs without consent of Congress. Tariffs are a form of taxation and are an essential part of Congress's power to regulate commerce with foreign nations. Also outlined in Article 1, Section 8. Now listen.

[00:21:59] While Congress holds the constitutional authority to set tariffs over time, they've delegated some of this authority to the president and the executive branch through various trade acts and legislation, allowing the president to, quote, adjust tariffs under certain conditions.

[00:22:17] However, the foundational power still rests with Congress, which can set legislation regarding tariffs and has the ability to, quote, redefine or reclaim the definition of tariff setting powers. The ability to, quote, redefine or reclaim these powers. Of course, they can do so if they choose so. Well, so here's the problem.

[00:22:45] When I appreciate Trump saying, hey, they've given me a little window to adjust tariffs, to show our intentions, to have other countries pay, to be involved in the greatest economy the world's ever known, to level the playing field when these communist countries dump product on their people, etc., etc. Or on we the people. I get the imports and the necessity of the tariffs. The problem that I have is even if President Trump does it, it should be minimal and temporary.

[00:23:13] Congress needs to come back and back what President Trump is doing. And right now I see they're doing nothing. Nada. And so now we're saying the Department of Homeland Security wants to move the IRS entirely to do this other job? It's disaster. Now, Democrats, while the Republicans sit idly by, are on the march. They're telling me that everything Donald Trump does is against the law. Some of what they say may have some facts to them. I don't pick sides.

[00:23:42] I just tell you how it is constitutionally. But now Democrats say they're open to shutting down the government to oppose Trump if we have to. USAtoday.com. They're saying, hey, you know, the big, big deadline's coming in March. And we're going to shut down government if we have to because Trump's off the rails going crazy doing everything. Mike Johnson says he's working on a big, they call it a big, beautiful bill. A big, omnibus spending bill.

[00:24:09] And he hopes that's going to pass and he can hold everybody together. It's going to be a failure. I'm telling you right now. Every time they've done that, it's a failure. The only way you get it through is you get single issue vote up, straight up and down vote bills that relate to a single issue where you know where people stand and you know what's going on. Well, they're failing and they're wasting time. I'm telling you, they're going to lose in the midterms if they don't get this together and fast. We predicted this would happen because we've seen it before, the Republican revolution of the freshman back in 96.

[00:24:40] And we're seeing the same. They're paralyzed. Hang tight. What do we do? You're listening to Liberty News Radio. News this hour from townhall.com. I'm Rich Thomason.

[00:25:04] At the global AI gathering in Paris, the U.S. takes a stand for free speech. Vice President J.D. Vance has told the Summit on Artificial Intelligence that the Trump administration would never restrict its citizens' rights to free speech. We feel very strongly that AI must remain free from ideological bias and that American AI will not be co-opted into a tool for authoritarian censorship.

[00:25:28] He also used his speech to world leaders, tech bosses and researchers to repeatedly push back against what he called excessive regulation. I'm Karen Chama. Sounds like President Trump is running out of patience with Hamas, which has announced it's delaying the next hostage release, accusing Israel of ceasefire violations. Mr. Trump says it's unacceptable.

[00:25:47] I would say this, and I'm going to let that because that's Israel's decision, but as far as I'm concerned, if all of the hostages aren't returned by Saturday at 12 o'clock, I think it's an appropriate time. I would say cancel it and all bets are off. The president says cancel the Gaza ceasefire, let the chips fall where they may. Mr. Trump making good on his threat to slap 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. Shares of American steelmakers surged as a result.

[00:26:16] Paper or plastic. When it comes to drinking straws, the president says paper simply doesn't work, and he is repealing a Biden directive that ended federal purchases of single-use plastics, and that includes straws. A lot of people on Weather Watch this morning waiting, watching for the snow. Wintry mess heading into the lower Ohio Valley, central Appalachians on into the mid-Atlantic region. The forecast of heavy snow and ice, a lot of schools letting out early today or are closed altogether.

[00:26:45] On Wall Street, stocks are in the red. The Dow down about 78 points. The NASDAQ is off 37. The S&P trading 10 points lower. More on these stories at townhall.com.

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[00:30:26] Headline says in Super Bowl interview. So I don't know if y'all know this, but Donald Trump did a big old interview before the Super Bowl on Sunday. And in the big Super Bowl interview, Trump says he wants Canada to be the 51st state. And so at first you think, well, that's old news, Sam. What are you talking about? They've kind of babbled that. That's already gone. You know. No, no, no, no. Trump's keeping it up, and it's a big deal. Okay. Do you want Canada to be the 51st state is the question? Now, listen.

[00:30:55] Trump says his wish for Canada to be America's 51st state is a real thing. He says here's the problem. We lose $200 billion a year in subsidies to Canada, and I'm not going to let that continue. He says if it became the 51st state, I wouldn't have a problem with it. But as it stands, I've got a big problem spending $200 million in subsidies to Canada every year. Sheriff?

[00:31:21] Well, I mean, I thought it was kind of funny when it first came up, and I don't see too much traction from anybody in Canada wanting to do it. In fact, quite the opposite. I just did an interview last night from, in fact, an hour and a half from a group in Canada, and it's a non-issue to them. No one really sees any traction out of this except Trump bringing it up every now and again.

[00:31:49] And why he thinks it's an issue and that it's viable and feasible, I just don't see it. Well, here's his point. I don't know if he really thinks it's feasible. He says he thinks it's real. Whether he really believes that or not, I don't know. To me, Canada is way too big to be a single state anyway, even if it were to join. Canada's fractionalized as well. I mean, you've got some of the eastern portion that speaks French and everything else. And, you know, so there's a big old divide internally in Canada, and they've got all kinds of different provinces and everything else.

[00:32:17] And no matter what, I don't see Canada joining as one state necessarily. It would be the biggest state in the union, by the way, and have more representation if they were a full-fledged state than anybody. So, you know, at this point, that's a clown discussion to some degree. However, here's the point. Trump always states out the extreme in an effort to then come back more to the center and negotiate. And that's kind of part of the art of the deal. So what he's saying is, hey, let's take them over. Everybody's like, no, no, no, you're crazy. And his response is, okay, well, we're spending $200 billion.

[00:32:47] $200 billion every year on Canada. Do you want to keep spending that, Sheriff? And did you say $200 billion? Yes, sir. Holy moly. So now, see, so Trump backs into these discussions to try to get your attention, and then the discussions become real. So the real discussion is $200 billion. He says, we're just not going to let that continue. So what do we want to do? Do you want to become part of the United States? Do you want us to quit spending the $200 billion? How do you want to go about this, right? Yeah.

[00:33:18] Just another time, Sam, that we learned about foreign aid that I didn't think even existed. Exactly. Agreed. Yeah, I didn't even know that one existed. But I said, when I ran for Congress in 2017, I said, stop all foreign aid. I said, what is this friendship fees? What is it trying to buy support, buy loyalty? It doesn't work. It hasn't worked.

[00:33:45] And we send foreign aid just about to every Latin American country south of the border and others, east, Dominican Republic and all the others. It's absurd, Sam. And this whole thing that we have an obligation to help fund the world, and most of these countries we send foreign aid to don't even like us.

[00:34:12] And they don't support us at the United Nations, which we should get out of anyway. So no, I don't get that. And so if he's saying this, well, if we're going to keep paying you $200 billion a year, you might as well become our 51st state because you get more foreign aid than our own country does. You get more aid, I should say, instead of foreign aid. But now you have to say we do foreign aid within the country because of all the money that we spend on illegal aliens.

[00:34:40] And yes, Sam, I will say illegal aliens. I don't give a hoot who wants me to be politically correct in that terminology. So no, this is absolutely absurd spending. And why don't they give us foreign aid, especially with what's going on in California and North Carolina? So this has all got to stop.

[00:35:05] And instead of trying to be flippant about making them a 51st state, which has no backing inside Canada, why don't we just stop the foreign aid to Canada? You know, and good grief. And I know that it's hard just to stop welfare programs. You don't just stop them cold turkey and leave people out to dry.

[00:35:33] But this is one that definitely could come really close to just stopping the whole thing. And where does the money go when it gets there, Sam? Is there any accountability of the monies that we send to foreign nations? No, there isn't. I mean, Doge virtually proved this just now over the last week and a half. The Democrats are riding. The Republicans are strangely silent.

[00:36:00] And, you know, Donald and Elon are duking it out with, what, the deep state, I guess? I mean, that's what we're seeing.

[00:36:13] I just – I know that stopping all the funding to even, you know, welfare within the United States and trying to, quote, help people and everything that we give the poor, which has been about $20 trillion since we started that under LBJ, the war on poverty. It didn't get rid of poverty.

[00:36:39] It just created addictions and dependence instead of doing what you said earlier, making it a level playing field for everyone. That's government's role. But just to hand out money, that's not government's role. And we did a much better job of taking care of the poor when the churches were in charge instead of government.

[00:37:07] And all government did was create bureaucracies for it and people who make lots of money that dish out our money to anybody they want. And, again, there's not much follow-up and accountability with that either. So, man, we got a lot of work to do, Sam. Well, we do. And Trump then said he was going to put a bunch of tariffs on Canada and on Mexico, and then he already suspended them for a month.

[00:37:34] But understand that Canada, their biggest trading partner is the United States. So this is kind of an interesting discussion when you really start to dig into the details of Trump's proposal. You say, oh, Trump wants to just take over Canada. Oh, clown show crazy. Then when you find out that, hey, we're subsidizing them to the tune of a couple of hundred billion every year, we're their biggest trading partner. I don't know that they got a lot of mojo to dictate the terms.

[00:38:03] The United States was Canada's biggest trading partner in 2022, for instance. So the game changes the more you understand this discussion and you kind of go, hmm, what should we do? Yeah. Well, anyway. Again, we got to prioritize all the lists on spending. I agree with that.

[00:38:29] That's what Musk is doing, then that's what we should be doing. Hold on. That's what the House of Representatives should be doing. I appreciate Elon Musk single-handedly with his crack team of computer guys and everything else going in there and doing that. Hey, I mean, if the president has the authority to audit it any way he thinks, if he wants a third-party review, that's fine. But where are the 435 clowns in the House? That's their whole job, isn't it? Right. It is.

[00:38:57] And, Sam, look at what Musk uncovered. Millions and millions of dollars to left-wing news outlets, the media, Politico, New York Times. But do you know who gave the money for all that? Well, I'm sure it was Biden. No. Congress. Congress just gave it to him? Yeah.

[00:39:25] Congress is the one that funds all spending. Yeah. Okay. Right. Without that, the president can't spend a penny if you want to get literal. Well, yeah. But Biden even disobeyed the United States Supreme Court. Well, then why is he in prison? Put that clown in prison. Yeah. All right. So do you want Canada to be the 51st state, Sheriff? What do you think? If you were to take a vote? No? No. I don't. All right.

[00:39:54] And I don't want Washington, D.C. To be 51st state either, which is absolutely absurd. But it's just the Democrats trying. What are they trying to do? Get a monopoly on political power. That's all it is. And I'm so fed up with those crooks and traitors that I can't even see straight. And the Republicans keep trying to be like them. And so I'm getting fed up with them, too. All right. Two strange normally opponents are teaming up.

[00:40:23] Sheriff, this is what Congress is doing. It's a waste of time, but it's what they're doing. Senators Sanders and Hawley, two unlikely people, right? That's true. All right. Well, they're teaming up now. They put a bill in the hopper. They introduce bills to cap credit card interest rates at 10%.

[00:40:46] Now, here's my problem with this. Where do they get authority to cap interest rates on credit cards? They have none. So while I'm criticizing Congress for being sidelined and wasting time, now you've got Sanders and Hawley together trying to mandate by federal force

[00:41:12] interest rates to be locked at 10% for credit cards. None of their dang business. Now, do I think credit card interest rates are too high? Absolutely. Yes. For sure. But all you have to do is pay it off each month, and you pay zero. That's right. Or the other way you could go about it is just say, hey, you know, you could, as the president, speak out about this and create public service

[00:41:39] announcements to say, hey, interest is too high, and we're working on, you know, reigning in inflation, and we want our partners to help in the private sector. And there's a lot you could do by word and deed, but Congress is just off on this clown show now. That's what they're spending their time on right now. But do you know why? Or do you know what the response will be from credit card companies? They're just going to simply say fly a kite? Yeah, that's one.

[00:42:08] The other one is we have to have the interest rates that high because we have so many bankruptcies and people don't pay anything, and we end up holding the bag. But the thing of it is... So it's a risk-reward analysis, you're saying? Yeah, it is. But even there, then you can go into do the credit card companies really put out money? Do they put up credit? They extend credit. And does that really cost them?

[00:42:36] Because they didn't put up any money in the first place. All they did is extend credit. Well, it was fractionalized fake credit in the first place, right? Well, yeah. Yeah, that's part of the point. But... Now, I want you to tell me... So let's be real clear here. Let's be real clear. The United States government has no authority over these private companies. Period. You're right. That's a fact. But there you go. So that's what they're working on. Now, I don't know if you know this, though.

[00:43:02] But the nation's credit card balance reached what number in the fourth quarter of 2024? Oh, no. The third quarter of 2024. Any idea? Probably a trillion something. 1.17 trillion. You're so close. You're only 0.17 trillion... Yeah, 1.7 trillion... Wow. You're only 0.2 trillion off almost. But you're close. I mean, think about it.

[00:43:30] When you say a trillion and it's 1.7 or 1.17 trillion, that number, I admit, is staggering. But I would submit to you that who's... Look, you're telling me Congress that's allowed us to rack up 35-plus trillion in federal government debt? They're going to go ahead and deal with this $1 trillion credit card interest rate deal? That's what they're going to spend their time on? Yeah. Well, none of these people make any sense. It gets worse.

[00:43:59] Scott Turner. I don't know if you know, but he's Trump's, quote, Secretary of HUD, Housing and Urban Development, or whatever you call that thing, right? Mortgage giants may go private. Yeah, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, they're working on taking them private again. You know, they were controlled by the government for 17 years after the 2008 scandal. But now the mortgage giants may go private again, they say.

[00:44:25] Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac were bailed out by the government during the housing crisis nearly 17 years ago. The Trump administration is considering taking them private again. Yeah. What do you think about that? Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't surprise me.

[00:44:46] You know, the whole thing boils down to can we just please follow the rules and the laws and can we just get back to the Constitution? Article 1. Well, if we did that, hold on. If we did that, there'd be no such thing as HUD. Oh, good. Yeah. So that's my question. Why are we trying to appoint some guy to lead HUD?

[00:45:11] We're debating if these government agencies that are kind of half private, half public, they're fascist or they're socialist or they're whatever you want to call it, depending on the way we spin it. When they're private, they're fascist because they're controlled by the government, privately owned by these big corporate banking cartels. When they're government, then they're literally socialist in nature. Anyway, you look at it, why does the government think it has to be involved in our housing and or lend money for housing and everything else? You had Ben Carson in charge of that first go round. Now you got this other gentleman.

[00:45:41] And I'm kind of let's see. Scott Turner is his name. Now we got this guy in charge of it. Why are we even why don't we just shut that down? Then no one would ever have a house sheriff. Everybody would be homeless. See? Yeah. See, isn't that the way they play it? It's like that. It's like, oh, we can't shut that down. My gosh. We can't have everybody homeless. Maybe we can stay in the hotels with the illegals. They have nicer hotels when they go to D.C. and New York than I have when I go.

[00:46:12] Yeah. Right? Yeah. I don't know, Sam. Like I said before, and I say this on just about every interview I do. If you want a solution to the problems going on in America today, it's not going to be found if we move forward. We've got to go back to those basic fundamental principles that America was founded upon, and that is our United States Constitution.

[00:46:40] If we keep thinking that programs and politics is going to solve the problems we have, then we are out to lunch, and we are way off base because we have gone way far away from our Constitution. That's the reality, and President Trump is just doing all within his power, and he's even exceeding his power in many cases to try to put things on track. And 90 percent of what Trump is doing right now I support and believe in.

[00:47:06] I don't know that I like the way it's going down because I think Congress is a serious missing constitutional component to the proper rule of government. They seem to be MIA on this, but let me give you one example to make the point. Elon Musk is now demanding impeachment of a, quote, corrupt Obama judge for blocking access to Doge's access to the – they call it the key treasury payment system.

[00:47:36] So Elon Musk is getting access to this payment system. They're crying foul and saying he can't have that. How dare them? It's national security. It's classified. It's this. It's that. And how dare they let private sector people get at this. It's, hey, you can't do that. And now Elon Musk is saying this judge who blocked me as a clown impeached this judge. Well, where the heck is Congress, man? And what do we do? Do we impeach the judge? I think so.

[00:48:01] Where does he single-handedly get authority to say, wait a minute, I'm going to block access by the president and his appointees to access the spending of our government? Look, who's supposed to control the spending? I mean, the president's supposed to carry out – or he's the executive, executor. He's supposed to carry out, right?

[00:48:21] And if he's literally saying, I'm going to carry this out, but I'm going to review every expenditure to make sure that it's appropriate as Congress intended first, he has that authority and right. Right. But a single judge stopped it, Sheriff. Well, there's so many judges that need to be fired or impeached or whatever you want to call it. They just need to be fired. Some of them need to be brought up on charges. But, I mean, look at the many, many judges that have continued to support the IRS.

[00:48:49] The judge in Sam Gerard's predicament and court case, Danny C. Reeves, Chris Ann Hall and I were there listening to him give the reasons why Sam Gerard should have to serve six years in prison, ruining this man and his family and his business. And, yeah, he never gave once. One thing of the three reasons, he never gave one that had a lawful premise.

[00:49:20] None of them. And yet he's probably getting promoted. He's probably going to be a district court chief or in a circuit court very soon, you know. He's a federal judge. And I don't care who appointed him. It doesn't matter. I'm sure it was a Republican president somewhere. But I am so fed up with these judges that they literally think they can do anything instead of keep their oath of office, follow the Constitution, follow the law.

[00:49:49] They follow bureaucracies and they follow the money. And that's it. It is so corrupt. And judges have this power to completely control people's liberty and put them away for such ridiculous and innocuous things that don't really make a bit of difference. Did America better off because Sam Gerard went to prison?

[00:50:15] No, we're worse off because we had to spend a bunch of money on tax dollars to keep him there just so you know it costs the average of about $30,000 to $60,000 per year. So $45,000 a year on the average to keep a prisoner there. Political prisoners oftentimes are more because you've got to protect them from the general population and everything else. So we basically put Sam Gerard there. How many years did he serve? Four and a half. All right.

[00:50:37] So you literally have 45 times four, $180,000 and a half, you'll say $200,000 to keep him away from his family and not pay taxes because he's not paying any taxes while he's there. So the turnarounds, you know, I don't know, well over a quarter million dollars at least. And then when his Amish family went there to visit him, they wouldn't let him in because many of them didn't have identification. Why do you got to have an ID?

[00:51:06] Yeah, good question. Speaking of ID, real ID is rolling right now. I don't know where Trump is on this thing, but Trump needs to abolish real ID. I just got an email. If you're going on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and, you know, you want to fly to get to your mission, then you've got to have a real ID card. And if you don't, you're not going. Well, how about just using your passport? Well, you can use your passport. Yeah, that counts as real ID.

[00:51:37] Yeah, but what I'm saying is I thought we were fighting against real ID 25 years ago. I thought we were the whole time. Yeah. Oh, so we lost that battle already. Now we have real ID and that's just the way it is. Something else. All the people that were crying foul or just seemed to be disappeared into the ether. Hey, just so you know, for next hour, I've got a huge story out of Congress from Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina. We'll talk about it.

[00:52:31] It's not personal for her how she did this. But it says that the – this is it right here. Nancy Mace drops jaws with surprise rape claims on the House floor. And so – and she names these sexual predators, and I've never heard of any of them. I've never heard of any of them. We'll get to the bottom of it next hour, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah.

[00:52:59] We'll see if we can't play this and deal with this. I want to talk about that big story next hour. And I also want to talk about Planned Parenthood next hour. If there's one thing we need to abolish in the government – I appreciate shutting down USAID, and I agree 100%. I want to shut down the IRS. I want to shut down Homeland Security. I want to shut down the FBI and a lot of these criminal organizations. But, man, if there's one thing that we could take significant credit for, it would be stopping murder medications across state lines.

[00:53:28] It would be stopping the taxpayer dollars going to Planned Parenthood. We have got to really do something about that too. So we'll come back next hour and talk about these two stories because in many ways they're related, Sheriff. Oh, of course. Absolutely. The bottom line is, Sam, we've got a new administration. They've been working their tails off, and we've got so much more work to do.

[00:53:57] Everybody's covering this Nancy Mays story, though. We'll have a different take than most of them, though. Well, even NBC News covering it, everybody covering it. She was on the House floor. It's incredible. We'll talk about it with the sheriff, Richard Mack. What should happen? How do we deal with this? What about these allegations? Will they go anywhere? Or will it just be like the deep states, too above the American people? What about the abuse charges, sexual charges against Joe Biden? What about those? Clown Joe, he's been a pervert for a long time. Where does that go?

[00:54:26] What about all the ties to Jeffrey Epstein no one's ever uncovered, huh? I mean, wow. All right, hang tight. Hour one of the caret. Hour two coming up. The good sheriff's with me. Become a member of the CSPOA today. Become part of the posse. That means you're part of the solution. CSPOA.org. God save the republic.