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Congressman Eli Crane says we have $33T in national debt, we bring in $5T in taxes but spend $7T. It’s really a $3T deficit because $1T goes to paying interest on our debt. Those in Congress fighting to cut spending to get the woke and the weaponized out of the budget, are considered “legislative terrorists” by the majority in the House. Crane says he didn’t come to Congress to fall in line. The Republican Party is not his chain of command. He says his chain of command is the 2nd District of Arizona. That makes him unpopular for not falling into line with party leadership. Crane says so far they’ve passed one Appropriations bill out of the House and they’re working on four more. But he expects McCarthy to bring a Continuing Resolution (CR) to the floor on Friday and Crane believes he has the votes to pass it. Crane says it doesn’t make sense that Congress is up against the September 30th deadline before the govt. runs out of money. It doesn’t make sense to him that Republicans are pushing for a Continuing Resolution. It doesn’t make sense that McCarthy and 149 other Republicans voted this year to increase the debt ceiling by $4T. And it doesn’t make sense to him that Republicans aren’t willing to impeach Joe Biden or Sec. Mayorkas.




GUEST: REP. ELI CRANE, ARIZONA, 2nd DISTRICT

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Former FBI Agent Steve Friend was fired for making protected Whistleblower disclosures about phony domestic terrorism cases. The FBI got around the Whistleblower Protection Act by suspending his security clearance. In his testimony before the Weaponization Select Committee, Friend revealed that the FBI was manipulating its statistics on domestic terrorism using J6 cases spread across the country to make it look like we faced a greater risk of domestic terrorism. The FBI no longer sees themselves as case agents investigating then taking someone to jail. Now the FBI default option for making arrests is the SWAT Team, an unnecessary risk to everyone. Friend says the FBI is perversely incentivized to boost numbers to justify an ever expanding budget. Executives within the FBI actually get compensated when quota numbers are hit, more when agents use wiretaps. Friend thinks the FBI needs to be broken into a thousand pieces and scattered to the wind. If Congress lacks the appetite to actually defund the entire FBI Agency, they should at the very least defund the armed Special Agent position and make it unarmed. Force them to work with local Sherriff Offices to do investigations and use local personnel to provide armed law enforcement for arrests.  




GUEST: STEVE FRIEND, FBI WHISTLEBLOWER

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It took a Biden blockade and a federal lawsuit but Kash Patel’s new book is finally released, “Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy.” When Kash was leading the investigation for the House Intel Committee, AG Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Chris Wray threatened both Kash and Chairman Devin Nunes with subpoenas because they had uncovered corruption at the FBI and DOJ. Four years later, Google told Patel the DOJ had subpoenaed and collected all his records for five years. Patel filed a a lawsuit a week ago and looks forward to discovery for the American people to see. Patel says we are actually funding government institutions that have weaponized justice, rigged elections and censored free speech all in the name of getting Donald Trump.  Patel says Congress must shut down funding immediately for agencies that have violated Congressional subpoenas. Why are we funding their weaponization efforts? Patel says we need to impeach federal judges who have weaponized courts and rubber stamped Merrick Garland’s efforts.  




GUEST: AUTHOR KASH PATEL, “Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy”

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