PM Show Hr 1 | Republicans Need Their Own House in Order

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is on the air. Since you brought up the declassification report that was put out by Chuck Grassley today, I'm glad you brought it up because this should be a story. Every outlet in this room should be covering. This is further evidence that Hillary Clinton approved the Russia hoax against President Trump. Her campaign financed it. Again, she approved it. And the FBI and the CIA were both weaponized to, as our director of CIA has said, accelerate this hoax against then candidates and former President Trump. This has come from the highest levels of the Russian government, clearly from Vladimir Putin himself in an effort as 17 of our intelligence agencies have confirmed to influence our election. So I actually think the most important question of this evening, Chris, is finally will Donald Trump admit and condemn that the Russians are doing this? And make it clear that he will not have the help of Vladimir Putin in this election. There is no denying that the Russians interfered in the election. Whether or not they had willing or unwitting help from the Trump team. They interfered and they did so to help him and hurt me. Vladimir Putin's principal interests relating to the 2016 election were to undermine faith in the U.S. democratic process, not show any preference of a certain candidate. This report shows Vladimir Putin held back from leaking compromising material on Hillary Clinton prior to the election. Instead, planning to release it after the election to weaken what Moscow viewed as an inevitable Clinton president. I'm 55 years old. I've already lived a year longer than my brother who passed a few years ago, who was only 54. He was the police officer. So I feel like I'm on borrowed time. And a lot of people don't know how long we're going to live. And so you're really grateful for every day. When I see someone who does amazing things and dies young and their life is worth study, I think to myself, wow. What if he'd had more time? Charlie Kirk was 31 when he passed. He was a month shy of his 32nd birthday. Unlike a musician or an athlete or an actor, the field in which he excelled is not a young man's game. He came to national notoriety in his late teens, went stratospheric in his 20s, built something special into his 31st year, unheard of. These are the things you do in your 40s, 50s, 60s. He was so, so impressive for so young before he was assassinated. And it's amazing to me that in such a short period of time, he could leave so many crumbs for us to pick through. He had a very strong opinion about a lot of things. But he had a very strong opinion about a Republican senator, the senior Republican senator from my state, Texas, John Cornyn, who was in a runoff.

Against Ken Paxton, who's a MAGA guy, and John Cornyn, who is a Mitch McConnell, Thom Tillis, Lindsey Graham, Susan Collins, swamp creature. It's fascinating to see his words after his passing because obviously we don't have anything else of him. But he saw... So much, so early, this was Charlie Kirk talking about John Cornyn. It is simply and purely shocking. He doesn't care about you. He doesn't care about his voters. Any decent person that gets booed by their voters. Any decent person that all of a sudden gets rebuked by the very people that gave them political power would stop and say, maybe I'm heading in the wrong direction. And they'd back off. Instead, John Cornyn gets in front of the entire Texas Republican convention and gets booed. And then he goes back to D.C. and says, I'm going to show those people. I'm going to show the deplorables. I'm in charge. Not you. I'm the senator. Not you. I'm in charge. I have never, in my 10 years of doing this, seen such an intentional, brazen, and defiant mode of action as what I have just seen from John Corning. I'm not saying it's the worst bill I've ever seen. That's not true. I'm not saying that it's the worst vote I've ever seen. That's not the point. The point I'm making is I've never seen in my 10 years of doing this, someone so openly rebuked by their voters, and then so quickly turning 180 degrees around and saying, I don't care. I've never seen it. Usually, when you show up to a town hall and you confront them, they say, okay, I'm done, I'm going to change my vote. John Cornyn doesn't like you. Any jokes about it, actually. John Cornyn hates you. He knows he'll still get money from his corporate donors. He knows that. Instead of being allied with his voters, he'd be like, maybe there's something I could learn here. He pokes him in the eye. And says, no, no, no, no. I'm the senator. You, you're the serf. You're not a citizen. I'm in charge. Charlie is talking about there the Republican convention that had just been completed in 2022, where for 14 straight minutes, the grassroots booed John Cornyn. for the horrible things he has done. The establishment almost talked Donald Trump into endorsing John Cornyn in our state runoff and pushing Ken Paxton out. But as you'll learn on today's show, that plan's not going to work anymore. So our theme today is we've got to clean up our own house. Republican voters...

are constantly asked to do more, be more engaged, work harder, get more people to vote, give more money, to what has essentially become an industry. When Donald Trump came on the scene in 2016 and he talked about the swamp, he wasn't talking about the Democrats. We're not appealing to the Democrats. We have something of a civil war going on in our party. And unfortunately, it's necessary. And anybody who tells you they don't want it is somebody who has a government contract or is in government or lobbying or on and on and on. And they don't want to fix the problem. They don't want to solve. You know, in Houston this past weekend, we had people, we have two airports. Our original airport, which is our smaller airport, hobby, and our bigger airport, which is intercontinental, now known as George H.W. Bush Airport. And there were people who were left trying to get through TSA for four hours and longer because of the government shutdown. And that is infuriating. Because there's a different government shutdown every couple of months. Your business doesn't operate that way. Your house doesn't operate that way. Our government shouldn't operate it. This isn't some third world country. And then you realize that there is a uniparty that is running D.C. And the only people calling it out are people who get targeted because they're not playing the game the way the game is supposed to be played. So just to reset, we had our primaries in Texas last week. John Cornyn, the 24-year senior senator from Texas, very unpopular, works hard against Trump. He's part of the Thom Tillis, John Thune, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Gramnesty crowd. And we've had it with these folks. We've had it, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski. We have had it with these folks. And so now there's a runoff between John Cornyn and our very popular Attorney General Ken Paxton, who Trump loves. But Trump got some bad advice, which he has now backed away from. He said, look, we don't want to battle this thing for 10 more weeks, which is how long our runoff is. And then we have to go against the Democrats who've already chosen their nominee with a wounded nominee. So the establishment told Trump, well, Ken Paxton, the guy who the base wants, that guy, he had a messy divorce. He can't win in November. He's not electable. We'll come back to that because John Cornyn fought against Donald Trump in 2024 being the nominee because Trump wasn't electable. So let's explore this race, and then we're going to talk to Carolyn Wren in the next hour, who has a lot of experience with Ken Paxton and plenty of experience with John Cornyn. That is the focus of the show today. Ken Paxton, our attorney general, says John Cornyn, the swamp creature senator, is going back to the bash Trump playbook, except this time instead of bashing Trump, he's bashing Ken Paxton.

My sources say that the argument John Cornyn's camp is using against you with President Trump is an electability argument. They say he's more electable than you are. Do you find any irony in the fact that it was, in fact, John Cornyn who told the Houston Chronicle that Donald Trump wasn't electable in May of 2023? It's amazing. Everything that he's saying about me, he said about Donald Trump, both in 2016 and 2024. It is rather ironic that he's using the exact same arguments about me as he has Donald Trump. And the reality is I actually think we've got a problem with John Cornyn getting elected because there are many maggot conservatives that will not go out in the general election and vote for him. So he's going to lose votes in the general election. I think he'll pick up a few independents, but there'll be more mega conservatives who will not go out and vote for John Cornyn. So I think we're at a net loss if John Cornyn is the nominee. That is exactly right. And let me give you an example. After January 6th, we saw the real split. Trump was out, January 6th, 2021. We knew, Trump knew, that election had been stolen. And we were supposed to take it and move on down the road. Because John Cornyn and John Thune and Gramnesty and Susan Collins and Thom Tillis and Lisa Murkowski, they'd frankly rather deal with Biden than Trump. They operate better. So when folks walked through the Capitol, that was the chance to finish off. That was the chance to finish off the Trump folks. Here's what Republican from Texas Senator John Cornyn said at the time. Like what happened on 9-11 would occur, but that was a failure to imagine it. And it strikes me that the events of January the 6th share something in common with 9-11 in the sense that seemed like there was a failure of imagination. That's not to point the finger at anybody to blame, but merely to try to describe. what I think may have occurred. So I think you've told us that these extremists are not monolithic. Is that correct? That's correct. Well, I've heard the expression that here in Washington, whoever has the best narrative wins. And so sometimes I think the narrative is created and then try to search for facts that might... bolster that narrative. These extremists he's talking about? That's you. That's you. That's Trump supporters. These extremist groups are not monolithic. So that's, I think, an important part of understanding the threat. I've heard them described, some of these folks described as white supremacists, domestic terrorists, insurrectionists, rioters, seditionists, anarchists. The list goes on and on. But I note that you said there is no federal crime described as domestic terrorism per se, correct? That's correct. And as I look at the range of charges that the FBI and the Department of Justice have...

have made against the people that have been investigated for the events of January the 6th. I read a list of assaulting federal officers tampering with documents or proceedings, unlawful entry, disorderly conduct, conspiracy, theft of government property. Do you think the current laws are adequate to deal with this threat? It strikes me, these are a lot of different tools that are available, but don't really get to the whole heart of domestic terrorism. Our little podcast is the podcast that could, the little engine that could. You know, when we started, it was just a simple rebroadcast of our show, and they would take it over and put it on this new podcast platform. I didn't think anything of it. Before long, we started hearing from people all over the country where we don't air on the radio in the town where they are. And I would say, well, how are you hearing us? Did you find us online? And they say, no, I was on a podcast. Or, as happens for more than anything else, somebody sent me an email and say, hey, check out this podcast. He's from Houston, talks a lot about Texas, but talks about national stuff, and I think you'll like him. And that's how our little podcast grew to be one of the top in the country. It's pretty cool. And so we have show sponsors on the radio. We have show sponsors on the podcast. One of them's a good buddy of mine. His name is Ray Breyers. And he owns the Pipeyard Inc. And what he does on his cell phone is people call and go, hey, I got a 118 mile pipeline going through Louisiana into Mississippi. And he says, all right, let me go check it out. He goes out. He rips that pipe out of the ground all the way. And he goes off and sells that to somebody else who needs the pipe. It's a beautiful process. And people call him all from our show, from our podcast, all over the country. Thepipeyard, inc.com. 409-788 pipe. 409-78 pipe. Talk to Ray, the pipe man, my good buddy. Turns out, at least according to my urologist, that all that talk about taking testosterone is bad for your prostate. That was based on one study that's been debunked. But you know what? Don't trust me. Do your own reading. Cross-reference. Learn more. Go to fixmylowt.com. That's synergenics. That's who I use for my testosterone replacement. It makes me energetic. It makes me happy. I lost some belly fat out of it, which was really nice. And yes, it does that too. Fixmylote.com. You paid your insurance premiums, hoping that you would never get fire, smoke, damage, water damage, hail damage, hell, we have so many. storms and hurricanes come through here. And the national carrier now doesn't want you, doesn't want to pay you. Chad T. Wilson law firm fights so that you do. He is the lawyer that will fight to get you covered. Go to claimdenied.com or email me and I'll connect you. Claimdenied.com. Unfortunately, if you listen to the entirety of today's show, especially if you listened this morning as well, It's a little bit depressing, and I'm not happy about that. I like to have an optimistic view of civic involvement. I'd like to be able to tell you that engaging in the political process for people who have nothing.

to gain financially, personally. I mean, you're not trying to sell products to the government. You're not trying to get hired by the government. You're not trying to accumulate any power. You just, like the Homeowners Association or the local metropolitan utility district, you know, for your water supply or, you know, the PTA at your kid's school, you just want it done right. And you're seeing how much money is being squandered. You're seeing things that are done that harm your interests. You're seeing these things. And what the swamp wants you to believe is you blame the Democrats, and then they tell the Democrats, you blame Trump. And we're always at each other's throats. It was called divide and conquer when the British did it in India. The British would turn one community against another community and have them battle it out, further weakening both of them. The United States has used this strategy a number of times. In the 80s, we funded... Iraq against Iran in a forever war between the two of them that lasted almost a decade to keep both of them in a weaker state. And that's what the swamp wants you to do. And unfortunately, we have to expose what the Republican leadership is doing and how they have to be replaced as hard as that is to do. Or you'll never see any change. Texas is leading the charge in that. We've got a 24-year senator who has stabbed Trump in the back and stabbed you in the back multiple times. Now he's up for re-election. He's in a runoff. He knows he's not going to win because he has already said that if he loses, it's because the radicals showed up to vote. You know who the radicals are? You and me? So now he's claiming he's best friends with Donald Trump, except when he took a step back as he pushed the bogus Russian collusion hoax. Remember that? Remember the Russia collusion hoax? He pushed that on the Senate floor. This guy who claims he's the right-hand man of Trump, he's not. Listen to what he said in his own words. Mr. President, I was listening with interest to our friend and colleague from Minnesota talk about the Russian investigation, and I agree with her 100%, that it is our responsibility to get to the bottom of what exactly happened due to Russian involvement in our elections. Much as they got involved in the elections in France, using a combined process known commonly as active measures. It's a combination of cyber espionage. propaganda. It's a use of social media through paid trolls who can actually then try to raise the visibility of some of this propaganda such that it then becomes part of the mainstream media and becomes accepted and part of the debate in democratic societies. I believe that we do share a bipartisan and universal commitment to get to the bottom of what happened in our last election. Senator Feinstein has said recently that there is

Obviously, this is a tough setting for any witness, but I thought it went as well as you could expect. It's essentially, I think what we heard is an articulation of what we already saw in her letter. Senator, you handle the vote counts around here based on what was said this morning by her in any sense yet of whether you have what you need? I think we need to hear from the judge. His reputation is on the... line his career as well. This needs to be a fair process to both Dr. Ford and to Brett Kavanaugh. Did any of you have it? Did you personally find her to be credible? I found no reason to find her not credible. There are obviously gaps in her story. Obviously we know people who are traumatized have those sort of gaps. But again, I regret that she finds herself in this circus-like setting. It's Ramon, the king of ding. And this other guy, Michael Barry. 20 years of doing this, I've come to learn after 20 years that a lot of our people don't want to hear you criticize Republicans, and I understand that. And some folks will quote Ronald Reagan's 11th Amendment. Hey, Reagan said, don't criticize other Republicans. Here's the problem. That's exactly what they did to Reagan. And it's the same people who did it to Reagan and did it to Trump. And now they're doing it again, this time Ken Paxton. But they do this again and again and again. What happens is, so Reagan was an outsider. By the way, the parallels are uncanny. Reagan's motto was Make America Great Again. So, 1976, Reagan's going, Reagan runs for the Republican nomination. The White House is led, well, the person in the White House is Cheryl Ford. the accidental president. He hadn't been elected to anything beyond Congress. He was brought in to be vice president when Spiro Tiagnu resigned in the middle of the timber scandal. And then when Nixon stepped down, Ford, as vice president becomes president. And the Republican establishment just wanted to keep things going the way they were. they could control Ford. And Reagan knew that there was brewing in America a lot of anger and discontent over this forced integration, over affirmative action, over economic policies that were leaving a lot of Americans out. And so Reagan mounted a challenge. And the establishment went after him. I mean hard. So Ford manages to win at the last minute against the very establishmentarian Republican wing of the party. And what Reagan represented...

was a lot of what came to be known in 1980 when he would run and win because remember Carter beats Ford. So Ford was the electable guy. That's what we were told. Gerald Ford was electable in 76. He should be the nominee. Reagan's not electable. He's too radical. These themes will come up again and again and you'll see them constantly. So Republican voters were told in the 76 Republican primary. I know you want Reagan. I know he has a great record as governor of California, which at that time he did. I know he's a guy who better represents your values. I know Ford is a milk-toast establishment guy who's been cutting deals on the floor of the house for years. He's a company man. He's a guy who ties his tie right and keeps his shoes. He's kind of like a Mike Pence kind of guy. He's, you know, that's who and what he is. And I know you want Reagan over Ford, but Reagan can't win in November. Ford can. And the logic goes, you know, your views are out of touch. The American public is more center-left. So if you elect your guy who's more to the right, You'll win the nomination, but you'll never win in November. So you've got to vote for a guy that you really don't want because he's going to pick up a bunch of Democrats. Well, that didn't happen. And the base doesn't show up to vote. Well, in 1980, we've got it all over again. This time George H.W. Bush is the Gerald Ford candidate. He's the establishment guy. He's been at CIA. He's been the head of the Republican National Committee. He is the establishment guy. And Reagan this time runs a campaign that looks a lot like Donald Trump 2016. And they said, Reagan can't win. Well, Reagan did win the nomination. And he did win overwhelmingly in November. And he would get reelected in, in 1984. They told you Trump couldn't win in 16. Told you he couldn't get reelected in 20. He did. They cheated. And then in 2024, John Cornyn in the Republican establishment said, don't support him. He's tarnished. We'll lose, we'll end up with another Biden administration. Well, Trump won the voter's choice and ended up, of course, winning in a landslide. The fact you have to remember that the left doesn't want you to know is that you are the center. The swamp is not. More Americans are where you are politically than are with Mitch McConnell or Susan Collins or Lisa Murkowski. See, most Americans own guns and believe Americans should own guns. If you look at the number one selling vehicle, in most states, it's a truck.

If you look at how Americans view the SAVE Act, it's probably the most popular potential piece of legislation you could pass. And yet, the Republican Senate can't get it through. And in order to get John Cornyn, to keep John Cornyn as a senator, Tom John Thune, the Republican leader, goes to Donald Trump. and says, we'll give you the Save Act, which would secure our elections, if you will endorse John Cornyn and tell Ken Paxton to get out of the race. And then all these Texans were emailing me, hey, what if we cut a deal here, we put Ken Paxton over here, we put Cruz over here, we put Wesleyan over here, and then John Cornyn goes back, wait a second. Wait a second. Do you realize what you're doing? You're playing chess. with a democratic process. So you're telling the baker and the candlestick maker and the butcher and the small business owner, the police officer and the fireman and the farmer and the housewife, you're telling them, y'all don't get to vote. We'll pick who to put where. And this wasn't D.C. doing it. This was listeners who got caught up in this. This is a fantasy football. You're not trading. Derek Carr for, to get a better, no. You let the people decide. And if every voter voted their conscience and not who they were told is most likely to win in November, we wouldn't have Thom Tillis and Lindsey Graham and John Thune and John Cornyn and Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski and Mitch McConnell. Just vote. how you think you should vote. Because we've got a lot of these cases coming up cross country. And don't let the swamp talk you out of your vote.

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