Congressman Glenn Grothman on Tracking Down Unaccompanied Minors and Border Security

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Always grateful that you make time in your busy day for the conversation we try to have here. We've got a lot of important news for you. And I also want to point out that while the Democrats believed that they have shut down the Homeland Security Department, they haven't. Remember what we were telling you for the last couple of weeks that ICE was funded for five years in the big, beautiful bill? So it means that ICE is working even when the rest of Homeland Security is technically on shutdown. though, as you know, TSA is working, CPB is working. These people are working without pay, which tells you something pretty special about them. In a second, I'm going to tell you what happened on President's Day. A federal holiday in the middle of a Homeland Security shut down by the Democrats, some really bad dudes, some really bad hombres got rolled up because our men and women in ICE, our men and women in Homeland Security, our men and women in law enforcement do their job. I'm going to get that in a second. First, let me get you a quick heads up for what we got in the lineup here. We got a great, great show for you today. Congressman Glenn Grothman, the man who first exposed the fact that the Biden administration lost track of tens of thousands of unaccompanied minor migrant children, illegal alien children that came here without their parents, often at the behest of the drug cartels and other traffickers. And they get here and then the government accepts them and then they lose track of them. Congressman Glenn Grothman, chairman of one of the important House Oversight subcommittees, expose that. And he is very grateful that Tom Holman and the new administration has been tracking down those young children, about 140,000 now accounted for. Still more to go, but big strides made. We're going to talk to him about that, about ICE, about the better job that Republicans and conservatives can do, messaging on what's one of the most important conversations of our lifetime. immigration and border security. In the second block of the show, the former Deputy National Security Advisor of Trump won. Steve Yates is going to join us. He has some thoughts about what the government can do to yank, pull the tax-exempt status of groups that were involved in fomenting violence, fomenting obstruction of ICE proceedings, coordinating or collaborating with China or other major foreign entities that potentially put America's security at risk. Steve Yates is going to weigh in on that. He's got some big thoughts on that. And then I'm going to introduce you to one of many of the new candidates for Congress. A lot of open seats in Congress, about three, four dozen open seats in Congress when you put the House and the Senate together. Amir Hassan, he is a Republican running for a House seat in Michigan. He's going to weigh in on why he jumped into the race as a former military man. and what he is seeing and hearing from the people in one of the most bellwether battleground states in America, the great state of Michigan, which has got a Republican legislature, but a Democratic governor. That's our show. I'm really looking forward to it and a lot of fun things going. I want to shout out a couple of quick stories I think are important to the American public. Then I want to get you to that holiday on ICE. I've noticed that play in words there, ICE as an Immigration Customs Enforcement. Perhaps the most important story of the day, the State Department has revoked over 100,000 travel visas from foreign nationals who are convicted or arrested of crimes. They got into the country in the Biden era. They just waved people like this in. One of the people that was waved in and had a visa, a foreign national convicted of sexually assaulting, not one, not two, but three women. I'm not making it up. It's just crazy. So the State Department announced that today. That was a significant success, and a lot of very important players in that world are talking to you about that's really important. Similarly, a lot of people talking about all of them. We came out with a list. It's a listicle, but I think it's very important. While there's not been a lot of accountability from the Justice Department the last two decades over Jeffrey Epstein and his sex ring, there has been a significant accounting in the public square. A large number of corporate elites and political elites and NGO elites from former White House councils to major players in the Olympics and others all losing their power, selling their companies, being forced to face a public shame and humiliation and loss of financial well-being. They've lost their power in their positions by a large number in the Epstein scandal. That list is getting a lot of attention. In fact, the number one story of the day on Just the News. Also very important, the suspected gunman. A man carrying a gun in a tactical vest was arrested, heading towards the Capitol today. Capitol Police doing their job. Good job, men and women of law enforcement. That was a big one. A story that doesn't get a lot of attention, but Michael Wiley was talking about it here on our show a couple weeks ago. Democrats in North Carolina are losing their voter registration by large amounts. Democrats just peeling out of the Democratic Party in what used to be a battleground state, now becoming much more red state, though, in fairness, it's had two consecutive Democratic governors, which we've got to keep an eye on. That's interesting. So, all right, that is just a little bit of the important stuff. And then a good friend of the show, the Assistant Secretary for Homeland Security for Public Affairs and Congressional Affairs, Trisha McLaughlin, been one of the big counterpunters against the media's false reporting. She is leaving the Trump administration. That's a sad day for those of us who like the fact that she's accessible. She helps Get us information. You have to track down stuff. And we're always grateful for people who do that. All right. I promised you a little bit of holiday on ice. Yep. President's Day was yesterday. The Homeland Security Department was shut down. But that didn't stop ICE and Homeland Security investigations and their partners from rolling up a large number of criminal illegal aliens. Tricia McLaughlin, the very woman I just talked about, said, while Americans celebrated President's Day, the heroic men and women of ICE law enforcement arrested more convicted criminals from our communities. They included gang members, rapists, violent offenders, not a holiday, not a shutdown will slow the Trump administration down. Nearly 70 percent of vice arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime on U.S. soil. It's pretty amazing. Some of the people out in Los Angeles, a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador and an 18th Street gang member who was convicted for false imprisonment and felon attic possession of a firearm. He was picked off yesterday. A criminal illegal alien from Dominican Republic convicted for fourth degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a child in Connecticut, Danbury, Connecticut. He was arrested yesterday. A criminal illegal alien from Venezuela who had been convicted of assault, battery and strangulation in Albemarle, Virginia. He was arrested yesterday. A criminal illegal alien from the Bahamas convicted of malicious wounding in South Charleston, West Virginia. He was picked up yesterday. A criminal legal alien from Cuba convicted of alien smuggling and illegal entry into the United States in Texas. He was arrested yesterday. These are the sort of people on a daily basis. Ice and homeland are rolling up. These are bad hombres who almost certainly would have created more havoc on the streets were they not rolled up in this large immigration enforcement system that Tom Homan and Secretary Nome and others are doing. It's pretty important. Very important. All right. We've got that show for you. I want to get right to Congressman Glenn Grothman in a second. Before we do, just a quick shout out to one of the many great partners we have here at Just the News. They are a newcomer. Just a few months. I bought a ghost bed a few months ago, and I just can't stop raving about it. My whole family loves it. In fact, everyone tries to get in and use the bed now. It's kind of interesting. 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That's HomeTidalLock.com, promo code JTN. All right, I want to turn right away. We've got a great opening guest today. He represents the state of Wisconsin. He was the man that helped us understand how many tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children were lost by the Biden administration, literally. Weren't tracked. They were trafficked by the cartels and then lost track of in the United States. Tom Holman, of course, getting a beat on. Of course, I'm talking about Congressman Glenn Grothman. He joins us right now. Congressman, great to have you back on the show. Well, glad to be on the show, as always. Lots to talk about. I want to start with something that you were so instrumental on. You don't get a lot of credit for it, but you were the person who shined a very powerful light on the failure of the Biden administration to follow up and check on the welfare and maintain the welfare of all those migrant children that came here without their parents or unaccompanied. They were lost. Many of them were later found with sex traffickers and others. Bad actors clearly are swooping them up. Tom Homan has been rounding them up, getting them back to safety. Your thoughts on the effort by Tom Homan, the Homeland Security Department, and the continuing factors that we now learn about the Biden administration. Oh, they did a horrible job on immigration. And I don't think the Republicans have done an adequate job of explaining what's going on in our country. And that, you know, the immigration story is a great success story for Donald Trump. And we have nothing to be embarrassed about. As I get around my district, I am finding people who are under the impression that, you know, it's very difficult to get in here and we're being mean to people from abroad. First of all, you've got to remember that on average, every year, about 800,000 people are naturalized in this country. In other words, in the midst of this crisis where everybody says we're mean or the Democrats saying we're being so mean, 800,000 people every year approximately are being sworn in as new American citizens. That's nothing to apologize for. Then, in addition to that, we have put ourselves in a position in which about 16% of our current population has been born abroad. That's the highest it's been since at least the 1880s as far as the huge number of people who we let in here were born abroad. Record amounts. And I don't think the Republicans talk about that anywhere near as much as they should. And like I said, it is not that impossible to become an American citizen here, enter here. But the problem is, rather than 800,000 a year, which, by the way, is about six times the number of people who are sworn in every year as were sworn in when I was a child. So we're being very generous historically and compared to other countries. And I don't think the Republicans have done a good job of getting that out. So what do we do with people in addition to the record number? Well, if we're going to have an immigration law, we have to remove them from this country, which is what Tom Homan is trying to do. Yeah, so very important. Those statistics are stunning, and they're important. And you're right, they don't get talked about enough. We all need to do a better job educating the public a little bit. I want to talk a little bit about the synergy we're now seeing with some of these illegal immigrants and bad actors. We have some Chinese illegal aliens that were running bio labs that were uncovered in very unsafe locations in California and Nevada. We've got these immigrant Somalis who defrauded the government to the tune of $18 billion, potentially. And then we have others who are tied to the Taliban or in sex trafficking to the cartels. The collaboration is not only amongst their foreign countries now, but they seem to be working with a lot of people on our soil that want them to do bad things or certainly keep them from being arrested for doing bad things. How do we break that cycle? How do we particularly stop those nonprofits from collaborating with foreign bad actors on our soil? Well, just more research and we need more collaboration with ICE, educating the American public. I think the lack of education is one of the big problems. Look at what happened in Minnesota here and the degree to which people are not being arrested who shouldn't be arrested. What's wrong in Minnesota? We have not explained the type of people who are getting away. And because we don't explain it, ICE does not get anywhere near the credit they do for the work they do. I mean, and as a result, many Democrats are saying, let's shut down ICE, which is close to one of the demands that they have and one of the reasons why we still haven't closed out last year's budget, why given parts of the government are shutting down. You have Democrats, including the governor from Minnesota, right, which used to be a relatively level-headed state, all of these people are attacking ICE. We have no immigration law in this country if ICE does not exist. It's like saying we're going to cut down on crime, but we're going to lay off all the police. That is the position of too many Democrats right now. The public has to be aware of it as they prepare for the November election. Right now, the position of the Democrat Party is we do not want ICE, which is the agency which is charged of enforcing your immigration laws. Right? No ICE, no immigration law enforcement. And you have all this human trafficking, right, that is going to be uncovered by ICE. as they poke around, remove people from this country, but also as they poke around, find more and more things. We heard a rumor that that happened in Wisconsin, in which it hasn't been prosecuted yet, but we may have found people who were human trafficking off of farms, which was just a general ice operation, a general removal operation, but instead we found criminal activity. You mentioned the blue states and their governors, Tim Walts, $18 billion fraud scheme, state officials, state workers, whistleblowers telling our Congress that they tried to warn him he didn't want to listen. You've got Gavin Newsom who goes to Germany while his state's got a $25, $30 billion budget deficit in a severe fiscal crisis. And then Governor Wes Moore was on CBS during a town hall getting national attention last night while his state has been unable now for three weeks to stop this massive raw sewage leak that goes into the Potomac River. The issue of competence seems to be a big vulnerability for Democrats right now. Are Republicans prepared to zero in on that coming ahead to the 2026 elections? Well, we'll continue to have hearings on the thing, continue to educate the American public. But the big takeaway to me is, particularly with regard to dealing with foreigners and laws they are breaking, is the Democrat Party right now does not care about people illegally in this country. Not only do they care about the person just working on a farm, they don't care about people stealing billions of dollars. They don't care about people who are human trafficking. Otherwise, they would be focusing on these issues. Part of the problem, too, by the way, and I hope Mike Johnson and the crew do something along this, is right now too many welfare payments are paid for 100% or close to 100% by state governments. I was in state government for a long period of time. And I can tell you even responsible state legislators do not focus on money being spent that's federal money. It doesn't affect your state budget, it just affects your national budget. The U.S. Congress ought to crack down and say at least 20 or 30 percent of welfare payments, including things like SNAP benefits, have to be paid for by local governments. They're in a lot better fiscal shape right now than the national government. And if we do that, maybe some of these state governments will pay attention to what is going with the variety of welfare benefits, so many right now which are subject to fraud. And of course, part of the reason there's suffrage of fraud is the Democrats really don't seem to care if people who are in this country illegally are making millions of extra dollars. Yeah, making bank at our expense. It's just remarkable. I want to turn to one other subject before we let you go, sir. There is a looking glass phenomenon. We can look at Great Britain and say that is what the Democrats and the left would like to do here in America. to rescind free speech, punish those, prosecute those for thought crimes, prosecute those for jokes and memes It actually something that already been underway here at some of the local levels but how concerned should we be about what going on in Great Britain free speech debate and how close are we to being the next target of the far left and its erosion of freedom We should be concerned on two levels. First of all, when it comes to Internet platforms, insofar as those platforms are dealing with speech coming out of Europe, restrictions in Europe can affect those platforms in the United States. So there's an immediate concern there. But the longer concern is frequently when bad things happen in Europe, it winds up coming on our shores another 15 or 20 years later. Right now, you cannot tell jokes about immigration in Great Britain. Think about that. There's a woman right now in the Finnish parliament who is facing severe sanctions for quoting the Bible. I mean, we can't talk about that enough. Is this coming to the United States? I don't know why it wouldn't come to the United States as things continue to decline, unless we keep the Republicans around here. Are we headed to the time where some bureaucrats say, this part of the Bible is hate speech, so we're going to ban you from quoting this part of the Bible, just as we are banning comedians in Great Britain for talking about making fun of the illegal immigration? That's what's going on. Really even more important than the economic issues. Donald Trump's doing a good job of the economic issues. But I think our voters and your listeners have to focus a little bit more on the freedom issues and the fact that freedom of speech is disappearing in Europe. And it's only a small amount of time before those same restrictions are suggested by the Democrats. You remember, Joe Biden tried to have a new commission. He did? The Disinformation Commission. The Disinformation Commission. That's what Joe Biden wanted him to do. Just because there are a few common-sense Democrats now doesn't mean if they ever get back in there, that Disinformation Commission is going to come right back, and they're going to restrict Americans from talking about things that the powers that be want to suppress. But it's going on in Europe right now. They keep track of it. All right, folks, we got another good one right around the corner. Important conversation about how Americans can crack down on the very nonprofit groups that are fomenting unrest in America. The former deputy national security advisor to President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. Steve Yates, really trusted guy, up next right after these messages. The Pod Millennial with Libby Emmons. Libby Emmons isn't just commenting on culture. She's lived it. A former playwright deeply embedded in the theater and arts world, she built her career in storytelling, creativity, and the arts. From the stage to the newsroom, she's seen how art, media, and politics collide. 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AOC particularly stumbled on a question involving protecting Taiwan from Chinese aggression. to make sense for all of it, is a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He's also the former White House Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President, Steve Yates. Steve, great to have you back on the show again. Thanks so much for having me. So I thought there were two extraordinary kind of storylines. One is that I thought Rubio put the America first Trump foreign policy doctrine in a very clear terms as it relates to Europe. But that mostly got overshadowed by all the Democratic elites yammering about things that often made them, I think, look silly back home. What's your takeaway from the Munich conference so far? Well, I give a lot of credit to Secretary Rubio for getting a standing ovation in a room after declaring that they were wrong for going after the climate cult. That is a threshold turn of the universe. Now, I don't know that they were giving him the standing ovation for that. He was, I think, very expert at speaking to an audience where they are in order to drag them, whether they know it or like it, in his direction. And he spoke in such clear and common sense terms, I think it was very hard for them to disagree. And he spoke eloquently about the deep arteries of common culture that we share. Those are undeniable. And yet, for the globalist era, they have exactly been denying those arteries of common culture. He talked about Christianity. He talked about the actual movement of people that were his ancestors and other people's ancestors coming across. And there's so much that was there in common. So there just are very few serious people that have been able to go to Europe and say that unfiltered and unapologetically. It's basically been Donald Trump, J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio that have stood out the most. But, you know, Dems gave their version of things. But really, all they wanted to say was Trump bad, Trump bad. And I think Europe sort of agrees they don't like President Trump, but that's because that's all they consume. And they aren't terribly impressed by what the alternatives are that the Democrats are trying to present. Yeah, that was really, really clear. I mean, if you're Gavin Newsom, you're leaving behind a state with $30 billion of debt in a fiscal crisis. I'm sorry, $30 budget deficit, a trillion dollars of debt, and a population that wants to get out of California quicker than it was coming in. If you're AOC, you can't even answer the fundamental question of where America stands on Taiwan. And if you're Hillary Clinton, well, you get booed by some of your own people because you've just flip-flopped on immigration again, and now you're saying maybe we should have done a better job getting rid of illegal aliens. It did seem like the Democrats had a pretty bumpy display at Munich. Yeah, I don't know if they were trying to market test different things, if this was accidental or on purpose. But the net effect was this did not come across as smart. There were not serious policy ideas engaged. And Europe is sort of at a tipping point themselves. Well, they might have bought the dream and they're not with the America First movement in terms of just the media cycles that they've been in endlessly. But a lot of their countries are under severe strain because of unfettered immigration. And there's a lot of Europe that actually is faithful. It just has stopped going to church for a while and they're trying to figure out what the future holds. And if the future is going to be dominated by recent additions to their country, that scares a lot of them. And that's that I think is a tension that the Trump administration is able to tap into with understanding and give a vision for the future that says, look, we're not here to tear you down. We're here to encourage you to wake up and sort of man up and be ready for the future. And if we can do that together, we've got a great chance of overcoming what Russia, China and Iran want to put out into the world. Such a great point. Well, where Democrats are these days, you often find the Chinese as well, and the Chinese were all over Munich. But it is sort of interesting. I think Donald Trump, with his actions over the last several months, has made China look a little bit less like a superpower. Couldn't stop or protect Venezuela, couldn't protect Iran from the nuclear attack, seems to be losing a grip in our hemisphere. Has China gone down a peg, a notch on the board right now with Donald Trump's sort of Monroe Doctrine? Well, I think that with President Trump, there is this what is said and what is done dichotomy. And people tend to get really, really distracted with what is said. So he'll say some very, very flattering things about Xi Jinping. Not my favorite thing to listen to. I really intensely dislike Xi Jinping. But what President Trump does is he says those things and he pulls them in close for negotiations. But all that he's doing to revive the American economy, all that he's doing to get right on energy and resources, all that he's doing to right-size this hemisphere. He's just really pushing button after button. And America is making a difference in the world. And the world might fuss about the way and how it sounds, but they can't deny there's only one leader in the world that has the potential to bring peace and prosperity to the broader Middle East, have a prayer at trying to get Europe to wake up and have a revival and maybe do better by its own neighbors. And there's no one else that anyone in the world thinks they can turn to, to try to stem the rise that has been the Chinese Communist Party's rise. And I distinguish that from China. It isn't really China's rise that's a concern. It's the Communist Party and all the ill that comes with it. That, I think, has rattled a lot of cages. And whether the world likes it or not, there's only one Trump. And so far, he's the only genie keeping the pork in the bottle. Yeah, yeah, there's no doubt about it. I want to look in our hemisphere for a second. Venezuela seems to be providing a lot of useful intelligence to the United States beyond the oil. We seem to know a lot more about the shadow fleets and that's strangling Russia, Iran, and Cuba's energy trade. How dire are things in Cuba and could we see regime change in Cuba still this year? Well, I do think that the pressure is pretty intense. And with the new administration, I think that their strategy is still to sort of ratchet up the pressure so that organically a transition is occurring inside. I think it's also been part of the strategy in Venezuela and maybe in other areas, too, that whoever the alternative leader that is that arises not appear to be chosen by President Trump or the United States, not because I think that would be a bad thing. And I think it's one of the lessons that we painfully learned in Iraq and Afghanistan that if you have a war or other activity that topples that leadership and you have someone who openly looks like America's choice, it's hard for them to settle in and reform and govern. And so I think all those things are at play at once. Really, there couldn't be a team more historically prepared and focused on this. I mean, really, Marco Rubio has lived this issue his entire life. And President Trump is someone who came of age in an era where we did think about Cuba a lot. So I think it's one of those historical legacies that could be on the cusp. But I think they going to gradually ratchet up the pressure and hopefully push for a change without having to do much more than what happened with Venezuela Yeah that very important to keep an eye on Before we let you go Steve the Chinese have made extraordinary inroads in the United States We see it with those illicit bioweapons labs, with the researchers and their pathogens, with all of the infiltration into our academic institutions, our corporate institutions. But now it seems as though there's much more open partnerships between Chinese communists and and people like the Sing Network and other places where people on our own sort are openly collaborating with China to destabilize America. Code Pink running Red China trips, something we had in our news site this morning. How do we break that tie between Americans who get a tax break from our system and the Chinese who want to use that tax break and those people to do us harm? Well, John, I think this has been going on for a long time, And it's really only because of investigative journalists who really in recent years have taken a huge dive into this and pulled these stories from obscurity and made people have to pay attention to them. And you've been among those that have been pushing this kind of investigative journalism out. There are a few other colleagues around in the business that have been doing it. And basically that has been a godsend to getting people to say, wait a minute, we're allowing what to happen. And we just made it easy for the Chinese Communist Party for the longest time. And we're just at the cusp of starting to let common sense make it a little harder for our enemies to come in and destabilize, divide, much less threaten us. But it's really I give all the credit to the people who've actually found these stories and brought the evidence to the floor because it's been happening for decades. It's gradually cooked the frog and it's happening in a lot of different cities. And so we're just starting now to see stories that pop up in California, in Missouri, in Michigan, and then all over New York, D.C., all of it. And so we're starting to get state activity and national activity. and people are sort of seeing with their own eyes. And hopefully that's the point of no return and we get some common sense about not let the CCP do in our country what Americans are not even closely allowed to do in theirs. If you're advising the president, would you ask him to maybe or have the IRS take a look at some of these tax exemptions and make sure they're really creating public good here? I would. I mean, my threshold is if the fruits of the 501c3 are violence, disruption, and attacking other Americans. That is the fruit of a poison tree from my point of view. If the fruits of the 5.1c3 are to write more white papers and long discourses about cultural issues or whatever, then I say let a thousand flowers bloom, and I like our odds. But these nonprofits are clearly tied in with neo-Marxist, radical, violent activities, and that, I think, needs new statute and needs to be shut down. All right. I'm going to introduce you to a new figure in politics. He served in the military today. He's running for a Michigan House seat, U.S. House seat in Michigan. Amir Hassan. Got a great story. You're going to love him. He's next right after these messages. Welcome back, everybody. I love this part of the job, getting to meet new candidates, fresh faces on the campaign trail, people who are entering into politics to make this country better. We got one from the great state of Michigan joining us now. Congressional candidate from Michigan, Amir Hassan. Amir, great to have you on the show. Yes, sir. Thank you for having me. I'm blessed to be here. Thank you. Yeah, we're blessed to have you. And I loved our conversation in the commercial break because you're a dad. You're running for Congress. You're doing all sorts of extraordinary things, even sliding in a karate practice for the kids in between coming on air. But tell us what tempted you to get into the political fray here and make a difference in America. Well, you know, essentially I'm born and raised in Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors, the birthplace of the middle class, a place that's been represented by Democratic leadership for the last 50 plus years. And we've seen nothing but decline in this area, no matter how hard the people of this district, the blue collar industrial Americans are working. They just can't seem to get ahead because we've had a lack of innovation, lack of insight from the Democratic Party. And now they're taking it a step further. not only are they not representing our best interests, bringing new industries to the district. Now they're pushing radical ideologies on our children. And then they're using the people that are responsible for them being in office, really the community in which I come from, the black community, and blaming them for why illegal immigrants deserve to vote in our process by saying that, well, black people can't get voter IDs or they can't get passports as if we don't travel or we don't have the same opportunities. And I'm pushing back on the narrative. No longer are we going to be the scapegoat. for the Democratic Party bringing this country down or bringing this district down. We're fighting back, and I'm a representation of them. I have to remind everybody the great water crisis that occurred in Flint, which was a great example of bad governments and bad oversight. You're running against a Democrat, Kristen McDonald, pretty liberal, big fan of the Green New Deal, which drove up our energy prices and destabilized our grid. How do people connect with you as you start to talk about these issues? Do they realize that those policies are what's hurting them at the dinner table at the gas pump? Absolutely. Without questioning. When I'm in her hometown of Bay City, they bring up two things. They bring up the Green New Deal and how it's going to raise the prices of energy, how it's unsustainable for wind and solar when we know we need to unleash energy in our district. We are a competitive district when it comes to all the industrial times. But she's trying to limit those opportunities. On top of it, I'll tell you a quick story. in Bay City, there are cities surrounded by bridges. She brought a toll bridge to her hometown to the point where every time you cross the bridge is $5.50. So I'm in a place that people are making money stretch, like everyday Americans working, budgeting. Imagine that you have to give up whatever luxury you have, whether that's a Starbucks cup of coffee. Every single time you cross the bridge, you're losing $10 round trip or $11 round trip. That's the lack of representation. This is what we have to fight for here. We have to bring back common sense legislation that has the everyday American in mind. That is what we're fighting for. That is what I'm fighting for. That's what I'm seeing firsthand. Yeah, it's important. And you are giving voice to those folks. You have an extraordinary career. Before you did this, tell us a little bit about yourself. your service, and some of the issues that matter most to you? Well, I always say I was raised in Flint, but I became a man in the U.S. Navy. I did almost eight years in the U.S. Navy as a military police officer and as intelligence analyst. I've served from the Horn of Africa chasing pirates or fighting pirates to chasing submarines from Japan and Asia to serving in Guatamano Bay, locking up terrorists and detainees. detainees. So I have a varied experience in the military. Also, I'm a retired federal law enforcement officer. And so the protests we're seeing, the things that are going on in Minnesota when they're talking about abolishing ICE, making it dangerous for law enforcement officers to keep our country safe, to get rid of people that have already broken the law, and then using it as a rallying cry for their party as to why Republicans are terrorists and Gestapo, even though they're the ones who's actually getting funded by Nazi sympathizers. They call us Gestapo, but my opponent is taking money directly from somebody who is a proven Nazi sympathizer. See, the thing is, the left, they try to attack us and our message, even though we're the ones actually fighting for America. As a law enforcement officer from the Black community in which they say they're affected, or the minority community, I can probably say that we are supporting law enforcement because they are keeping these streets clean for American citizens, those who care about America. That is what we represent. That's what I'm pushing for. And I'll continue to fight for. I've had almost 20 years of law enforcement and military experience. And this is just another step to represent our country as I have for the last two decades. So very important. And in just one year, crime way down in America, inflation way down in America, the economy itself and job creation starting to grow very quickly. The amount of money going back into people's pockets and not into the government still has gone in with the Trump tax cuts. How do people view the economy during this moment of transition from Biden to the Trump economy? They're optimistic. We're seeing it. We see it at the gas pumps. You know, last year, all we heard about was the price of milk, the price of bread, the price of eggs. Well, those have went down. The gas is here in Michigan is $279 a gallon. So you're saving $30, $40 a month just off gas. And they blame President Trump. They said all these negative things were going to happen, but it's been just the opposite. We are reaping the rewards of an administration that actually cares about the average person, the average citizen. That's what this president represents. He has real tangible results that have benefited us all. It's time we focus on the results and not just hope and promise. Left hopes, they give us hope and promise and rah-rah and great rallying cries. And people get behind that not knowing they're being bamboozied. Look at the real facts. Look at the real stats. Your life has improved under this administration. Don't fall for the lies and the slant. I have advice, Amir, for people watching tape, they want to get involved with your campaign or learn more about you. What's the best way to do that? please visit me at flip the eighth flip the number eight th we're going to flip the eighth district listen we have a great chance in the state of michigan to have true representation from the governorship senator congressional and even the state level we have a great chance this my race allow me to say this please i have one of the races that president trump won during his cycle we can win at this cycle it's the most inexpensive race in the nation with support and a unified party, we will bring representation for the country, representation for the district and the state of Michigan. People don't understand what they're missing out on until it comes back. That's why we're going to win it. I'm the candidate here in the eighth, and I'm going to fight to the tooth and nail to the very last day to bring representation to those who have not received it. All right, folks, that wraps up our Tuesday edition of John Solomon Reports, the podcast from Justinews. 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