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Speaker Johnson Joins the Morning Show with Mike & McCarty
Speaker Johnson Joins the Morning Show with Mike & McCarty
Speaker Mike Johnson
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Thomas, uh, House Speaker Mike Johnson.
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Good morning, sir.
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>> Hey, Aaron and, uh, Thomas. Great to
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hear both both your voices this morning.
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>> We're going to talk about, uh, September
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11th in just a minute, but I want to
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talk about, um, when's my check in the
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mail, the $5,000 check the president
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promised me the other night.
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Well, um, let me just say, look, the the
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president and and I can tell you every
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Republican in Congress, we're the only
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party in making life more affordable for
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American citizens. I talked about that
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in my speech at the convention
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yesterday. Um, this is just another
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idea, proposal the president has to
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continue on that theme. it it's a topic
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I'm just going to tell you Congress will
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obviously debate and discuss this in the
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weeks and months ahead but we also have
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to stay mindful of the cost in our
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country's fiscal uh you know situation
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and so that's all part of the discussion
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and and uh I talked to the president
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about it uh after his speech when he uh
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revealed the big idea and uh again
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yesterday and um we'll see we'll see uh
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if it has legs in Congress.
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>> He promised us a doge check and a tariff
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check. I'm still waiting on those. Can
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we really believe that we're going to
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get a check? Do you really believe
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that's going to happen?
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>> Well, I tell you what the president has
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done is he's put more money in every
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American's pockets. I mean, you know, we
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gave the largest tax cut in US history
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and cut tax on tips and overtime, social
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security, and all the rest. And in
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Louisiana, the average tax cut is
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$2,915.
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That's that's $243 a month for the just
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the average Louisian. And and by the
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way, take-home pays increase $6,600 to
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$9,200. That's that's the state average
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for take-home pay just because of our
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policy. So, he is putting more money in
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Americans checks and and you're having
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to send less to Uncle Sam in Washington.
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But the more we do, you know, we doubled
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the job tax credit. We uh gave an
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enhanced tax credit for seniors. We
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we're doing that every single day in our
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policies. And these are just new ideas
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to do more of the same. Do you
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anticipate that um the Democrats are
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going to rail him, which I've seen some
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of it already, that he's buying votes,
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uh that this is an attempt to buy votes?
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How do you answer that?
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>> Well, it's kind of silly for Democrats
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to say that when they're the ones that
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orchestrated the COVID subsidies and
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payouts. This is not an unprecedented
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thing. Americans have gotten checks
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before for different reasons. He's not
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buying votes because his proposal on its
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face obviously says every American would
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get a check regardless of how you vote.
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So, um that that's that's how he
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presented it. That's what he means by
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that. He's not this is not a vote buying
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uh uh you know proposal. He he's trying
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to say that America is back. Uh and and
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in his mind, because the president is a
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business guy, right? He thinks of it in
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terms of a business. And if if your your
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your company or corporation is is has
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big earnings, you get a dividend check.
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In his mind, that's how this works. So
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that's what he's talking about.
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>> Speaker Mike Johnson. I almost called
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you Mike. I'm so sorry. You're so You're
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so important now.
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>> She called you Mikey earlier, so we're
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going to make sure that she goes with
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something more official.
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>> He he know he knows I've called him
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Mikey before. Um he's my kick my
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kickball captain. But anyway,
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I I have to ask you a question with
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regard to um I'll give you my 5,000
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back. Pay down the debt. Speaker
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Johnson. We owe $40 trillion.
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I you you used to tell me all the time,
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we have to take care of this debt. We
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have to take care of this debt. We got
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to we got to at some point do that.
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>> No, we do. And I say it and I do it,
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Erin. And what what the media doesn't uh
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tell everybody, and I I mentioned this
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in my speech yesterday at the convention
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as well. Do you know that we cut $1.6
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trillion just in the big beautiful bill
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alone in July of last year? $1.6 6
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trillion in wasteful government
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spending. And ours is the team that goes
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in every day to carve that up. Now,
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here's the real problem, of course, that
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76% of federal spending is on autopilot.
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It's it's mandatory spending. And so, we
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need bipartisan solutions to look at
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that problem and and uh and address it
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with program integrity uh changes and
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provisions and revisions. And we have
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ideas to do that going forward. But it's
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a a step-by-step process. We didn't get
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in this situation overnight. Uh it takes
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a while to turn an aircraft carrier
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which is the ship of state and we're
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doing that. I mean I've got my hand
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turning that wheel as hard as it'll go
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but it doesn't happen overnight. So it's
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a gradual process. We're working on
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steps to fiscal sanity as I call it. So
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just in this Congress by way of example
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okay we did recisions bills which is for
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sending wasteful spending about 10 to 12
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billion in that category. We did the
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reconciliation bills which is 1.6
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trillion in cuts and more on the way. We
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we also got back to the regular
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appropriations process. Instead of doing
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Christmas omnibus crazy spending bills
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at the end of the year, I forced the
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muscle memory back to Congress for the
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first time in almost two decades to do
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individual 12 individual appropriations
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bills to spend uh the taxpayers money as
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better stewards. So there's more of this
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on the way, more to go, but we got to
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keep this this trend going in the right
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direction.
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>> All with a fourperson majority. We
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appreciate the work you're doing, Mike,
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and uh really appreciate your your
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leadership on on the House side. Um it's
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it's tremendous. As we shift gears a
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little bit, today is 911. Uh can you
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tell us a little bit about where you
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were on 911, what you recall 25 years
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ago, uh and how our world has shifted
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since that time?
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>> Yeah, thanks Thomas. Uh it is a a somber
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day. I'm sitting in my motorcade uh
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right behind the the uh the Boer
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municipal complex. I'm going to do the
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911 remembrance ceremony here in about
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15 10 15 minutes. But uh 25 years ago, I
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mean, we obviously we witnessed the most
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devastating deadly attack ever carried
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out on American soil. And all of us, of
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course, uh remember that are old enough
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remember that day vividly. I was in my
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my in in Louisiana working in my law
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office and I heard a commotion down the
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hall and I stepped into the reception
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area of our firm and I saw the entire
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legal staff huddled around our lobby's
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little television there and they were
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watching the the stunning morning news
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coverage of that first plane crash, the
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World Trade Center. And and of course,
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no one everybody was trying to make
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sense of what it meant. And then right
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before our eyes, the second plane hit.
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And we suddenly knew America was under
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attack. Nothing's ever been the same
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since. And we couldn't know in that
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moment, of course, what would transpire
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in the days to come. But we knew that
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our country and the world had somehow
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changed forever. And u I tell you what
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though, you know, for America, the
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darkness in 9/11 revealed the light of
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unity. And that's what we celebrate on
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this day. how people came together,
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neighbors stood with neighbors, and we
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had brave service members who answered
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the call of duty, and we're still
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dealing with the aftermath of that
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today.
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>> Could Could it happen again? Could this
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happen again?
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>> Well, I tell you what, by God's grace,
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it hasn't. And that's because we took
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very seriously our national security. We
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tightened up the intelligence agencies
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and how they coordinate, communicate
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together. I mean, it's been a remarkable
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thing that we've not had a large-scale
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attack again. And we have to be vigilant
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every day. That's why our servicemen and
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women and those in our intelligence
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agencies and everybody in the in that
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whole apparatus who protect us have to
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be properly funded and supported by the
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people. And I look I not to tie this
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into politics but you really have two
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different visions for that right now.
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And the the team that I lead is is in
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favor of national security and and
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vigorous funding of those defense
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efforts. And the other team, as you
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said, their proposals, the Democrat
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party, the DSA, they want to defund the
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Pentagon. They want to defund the
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Department of War. It's madness and
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we've got to make sure we have steady
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hands at the wheel.
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>> No doubt. No doubt. Mike, one of the
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things that that Aaron and I talked
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about earlier is the remarkable bravery
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of of so many uh men and women that ran
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into burning towers. You obviously have
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personal experience with with your
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father being a firefighter who um was
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was injured on the job. Can you talk
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about that bravery and and how we
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continue to see it in so many uh
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remarkable individuals throughout our
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country?
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>> Well, yeah, it's so important to to talk
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about that and focus on it today. I
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mean, we we're a people who serve our
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nation with duty calls and just so many
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did that bravely after the tragedy of
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9/11, enlisting in the military and
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serving in so many ways, first
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responders, of course, thousands of
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Louisiana's own sons and daughters have
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done that. Um, in fact, Thomas, later
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today, I'll have a chance to honor two
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brave Louisianans who are Navy Seals who
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gave their lives in the ensuing war on
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terror. Jonas Kelsall and Robert Ree.
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Just from here, I'm going to their
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moderate kettle high to do a little
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service in their honor. We just look, we
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can never forget these heroes and the
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tens of thousands who made the ultimate
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sacrifice in the years that have
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followed. We're losing them every day to
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cancer from the dust at the at the at
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ground zero and all the rest. is just an
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unspeakable tragedy. But we honor them
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today and we do that by working to
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maintain America's greatness and hope
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and opportunity. And we resolve to do
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that with clarity and conviction in the
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days to come. That's the best way to to
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honor their memory.
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>> United we stand.
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>> One last thing before we let you go. I
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know you're busy. Speaker Mike Johnson,
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your message today to all the military,
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particularly Barksdale, all the
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Barksdale airmen and women and our all
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our first responders. What is your
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message to them today?
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We're so profoundly grateful for their
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their service and sacrifice. It cannot
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be forgotten. It should be highlighted
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on on on tragic remembrances like today
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that that those who are willing to stand
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on that that line and defend freedom and
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defend everyone else so that we can
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enjoy the blessings of liberty. It's
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it's just an incredible thing. We're a
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we're a volunteer service, you know, and
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uh it takes a special person to do that.
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And we're we we uphold them and we
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respect them and we honor them,
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especially on a day like today. House
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Speaker Mike Johnson. I can't thank you
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enough for your time today and for
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carving out a piece of it. Thanks so
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much, sir. Appreciate it.
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>> Hey, Erin, the AM radio bill is on the
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floor on Tuesday for a House vote.
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Finally getting it done.
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>> All right, I'm going to tell the bosses
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about that. Get that passed for us.
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>> Bosses. You got it.
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>> You bet. Thank you, my friend. I
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appreciate it.
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>> Thanks, Mike.
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>> God bless.
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>> What a day we have had. Senator Thomas
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Presley. Incredible.
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>> This was awesome. Thank you so much for
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the opportunity to to join you this
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morning.
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>> Yeah. Yeah. I hope you're doing
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