October 7, 2024 • 22 mins
In this episode, Lisa talks about the federal government's slow response to Hurricane Helene. Hung Cao, a retired Navy captain running for the U.S. Senate in Virginia, shares his views on leadership, immigration, and foreign policy. He emphasizes the need for prioritizing American citizens and discusses his motivations for running for office. The Truth with Lisa Boothe is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network - new episodes debut every Monday & Thursday.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
The death toll from Hurricane Heleen is still rising, killing
more than two hundred people. Entire towns have been wiped out,
thousands are still without power or drinkable water. Rescue crews
are still finding people, still searching for people who are missing,
and many people are asking, well, where's the federal.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Government in all of this? We know that George W.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Bush was slammed for waiting three days to visit, Yet
it took this administration. It took Joe Biden days before
activating up to one thousand soldiers to finally support in
the delivery of food, water, and medicine to some of
these isolated communities. And when asked about it shortly after,
Joe Biden said, well, you know, I was on the
(00:46):
phone for two hours talking to FEMA. Kamala Harris was
out fundraising and campaigning.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
These people were left to die.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
But I mean, is that a surprise after Joe Biden
left Americans to die in Afghanistan? Does this administration does
even care.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
About American citizens?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Does Kamala Harris even care about American citizens? We know
that it's being reported that FEMA has spent around one
point four billion dollars on migrants over the past couple
of years. Sexuary Maierka says that FEMA doesn't have the
money for the rest of hurricane season, but FEMA's had
the money to spend one point four billion dollars on migrants.
(01:23):
The New York Posts out with a cover story called
con Before the Storm, slamming this administration for lacking the
money to help hurricane victims, yet having all this money
to help illegal aliens who shouldn't be here in the
first place. That Biden Harris administration spent two hundred and
thirty million to build a peer in Gaza that lasted
for twenty days. We've given tens of billions, I think
(01:46):
close to two hundred billion dollars to Ukraine to fight
what looks like in endless war without any idea of
how it's going to end up. So this administration seems
to be able to find money, seems to be able
to be willing to do whatever it needs to do
for illegal aliens and for foreign nations, but not American citizens.
So we're going to talk to someone who knows a
(02:07):
thing or two about leadership. His name is hunk How
He's running for Senate in Virginia against the incumbent there,
Tim Kaine. He's a retired Navy captain and he served
with special operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia as well.
He's a Naval Academy graduate, so he knows a thing
or two about leadership. Or we're going to talk to
him about this disastrous government response, what it says about
(02:32):
not only Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, but also Democrats
and his opponent that he is running against. And if
Americans don't wake up now in the face of all this,
when will they ever wake up?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
We'll talk to Hon Kow.
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back on the show.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
You know, you're your friend of the show and uh, well,
first of all, congratulations. It looks like you're coming off
a big win with your debate against him Kine, So
congratulations on that.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Oh, thank you so much for having me back on Lisa.
This is it's been a wild week. I mean I
was very nervous going in there, and I thought I
was going to throw up on stage. But you know,
he opened up for a lot of hits on him.
I mean, this is a guy that's been in office
for thirty years and he's saying, now give me until
the year twenty thirty, and I promise I'll fix everything
screwed up.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
According to some pulling, you know, WRIIC found that seventy
five percent you know, that basically people are saying that
you're you're the winner of the debate. Do you think
people are tired at this point of sort of these
you know, career politicians who have been there forever just
looking at all of the mess that we're seeing in
the country right now. Do you think it's finally clicking
(04:39):
that maybe we should send some new leadership to Washington,
d C.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
No, You're right, they are seeing it. They see when
they go to the gas pumps, they see when they
go to the grocery store, they see when they try
to buy a house. And right now, the big tragedy
right now, Lisa, is that we're paying a billion dollars
a day to feed in house illegal aliens. And now
you're only giving seven hundred and fifty people dollars for
people that were, you know, impacted by this hurricane. And
(05:07):
what we need to be doing is metavacing these Americans
off of their roofs into a four star hotel, kick
out the illegal aliens that they've housed in there that
are using you know, room service and everything else. We
have to take care of Americans first.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Well, and what's I think so troubling about our government's
response is that. You know, it took days for Biden
to finally activate up to one thousand soldiers to support
you know, delivery of food, water, and medicine to some
of these Southeastern communities.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I mean, George W.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Bush was slammed after Katrina, but within hours, you know,
they had the mobilization of thousands of troops. This took
days from the Biden administration. I guess, why do you
what do you think the response has been so slow
and so mismanaged.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I mean, how could it possibly be that bad?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Well, I called them out on stage. Notice, I said,
where's the leadership? I'll tell you where it is. Joe
Biden was on the beach, Kamala Harris was at a
fundraiser with billionaires, and Tim Kaine was at a pig roast.
Like for crying out loud. You know, I spent an
entire career waiting to jump into the fire when something happened.
As a diver, I was waiting if a plane crash
(06:22):
or something like that, we would be out there and
we would recover the victims immediately. If there was a bomb,
I would run into the building and diffuse the bomb.
That's what we do. We answer the call when it's there.
I mean, that's why we have emergency preparedness. In fact,
you know, that's what FEMA stands for, Federal Emergency Management,
you know, and they can't they literally can't do their jobs.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I have to imagine, you know, I'm hoping the message.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
You know, you look at the cover of the New
York Post and you're they're calling out the Bride administration
for failing our fellow Americans and giving as you mentioned,
you know, over you know, one point four billion dollars
to migrant So over the past couple of years FEMA
has and this administration, do you think it's.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Reaching enough people?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Because you would think on this issue alone, you know,
just leaving our fellow Americans to die in the Southeast
as this administration has the slow response to even act
like they care, and then you know, spending all this
money on people who shouldn't be here, and now Mayerica
is saying, well, we don't even have enough money for
the rest of hurricane season.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I mean, this issue.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Alone, you would hope, would be disqualifying in the eyes
of voters.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I hope.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
So, I really really pray so, because look, we just
gave all this money into Ukraine. In fact, we gave
to Ukraine the equivalent of the entire annual budget for
the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps combined.
That's wrong. I mean, we're paying for their government pension plans.
When my mom, you know, who's on Social Security, is
being told, hey, you know, in a few years you
(07:53):
won't have social Security more, and we're paying for their
social security. I mean, they're, they're, they're, I can't. I'm
so angry, right And I was like, you, your compassion
is for the wrong people, and I just don't understand it.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
How do you get to that point?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
You know, I mean this is an administration who you know,
left Americans behind in Afghanistan, who has now left Americans
behind in the Southeast. You know, there are a ton
of really troubling reports about you know, FEMA just not
really doing what they're supposed to be doing, not doing
their job, not trying to reach these people, you know,
essentially leaving these these poor Americans stranded. And to your point,
(08:30):
I mean, this administration seems to be able to figure
it out when they want to. You know, they spent
two hundred and thirty million dollars to build a peer
in Gaza that lasted twenty days. You know, we've given
so much money to Ukraine, so much money to these
illegal aliens, but they can't seem to get the job
done for our fellow Americans.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Now again, this is where they'll call me a bigot
or racist, and I say, let's take care of Americans first.
But you know, I came to this country as a
refugee from Vietnam. You know, I I grabbed onto the
American dream. But I paid back every single dime with
that American dream with twenty five years of service as
a Navy Special Operations officer. I fought in Iraq, Afghanistan,
and Somalia because I love this country so much. And
(09:10):
for them to just kind of, you know, spitting our
faces like this, this is why I'm running for office, Lisa.
Somebody has to stand up and someone has to say enough.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Well, you know that's the league with the issue of immigration,
you know alone, as you pointed out, I mean it
shows that this administration, the Kamala Harris Biden administration, you know,
their Americans last. I mean, you even look at some
of these reports. You know, the House Judiciary found the
other day that this administration has led in at least
one point seven million potential national security.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Threats across the border. That was the report.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Recently about the ICE non detained docket, including something like
four hundred and twenty five thousand immigrants with criminal convictions
and including thirteen thousand immigrants convicted of homicide.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
So it's not even just you know, Americans.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Last, which it is, but it's actually putting Americans in
harm's way absolutely.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
And you know, I mean they'll say, oh, those numbers
aren't right, right, thirteen convicted murderers and sixteen convicted rapists. Well,
you know one is too many. I mean, ask Lincoln Ridley,
ask her family, let's ask Jocelyn Hungary. I mean, it's
just not right. We have to protect our people and
that's the main job of the federal government to provide
(10:21):
for the common defense, and they're not doing it. And
the most damning words in the Navy is when a
commanding officer gets fired and they say, we've lost our
confidence in your ability to lead, and those are very
damning words, and that's what it is. We've lost our
confidence or in your ability to lead this nation. So
you need to step aside.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, the AIST non detained doc is thirteen thousand immigrants
convicted of homicide. You know, it's also just I think
one of the best points that gd Vans made during
the vice presidential debate is and I think that this
is this extends beyond just President Trump with you and
so many of the individuals who are running for Senate
as Republicans. He had mentioned the fact that, you know,
(11:03):
Donald Trump governs on common sense, and it seems that
that is the biggest thing missing, you know, from government,
you know, even you know, staying on the issue of
immigration before we move beyond that, beyond that, you know,
even looking at Springfield, Ohio, for instance, it doesn't take
a rocket scientist to realize that when you have a
city of fifty eight thousand people, if you have twelve
thousand to twenty thousand migrants coming into that city, that
(11:27):
that's going to put that city at a massive disadvantage financially,
that's going to disrupt the city. That's going to set
a city of only fifty eight thousand people in chaos.
Yet so many in the media and so many in
our government, with the Bide adminstration, can't seem to wrap
their heads around why that doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Why that lacks common sense.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
It hits every town, even the rural towns in Virginia,
for example, I had a sit down with all the
sheriffs and they said, you know, when we arrest an
illegal or you know, someone that doesn't speak the English language,
we have to spend about four hundred to one thousand
dollars out of pocket to hire a translator. So what
(12:07):
do cities like New York City do They prioritize illegal
aliens first in the ers so that they don't have
to pay for overtime between you know, after the hours
of nine am or you know, and five pm. That's
where the work time is, so they don't have to
pay overtime for translators. So they're prioritizing illegal aliens over Americans.
(12:29):
And you know, this is exactly what we don't need
in this country. We need people to come here, assimilate
and do the right thing. And like you said, they're
putting a huge burden on our economy, on our small towns.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
You've got more with Hong Kow.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
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what's going on in the Middle East right now as well,
you know, with sort of an increased escalation in the
Middle East, kind of what concerns do you have on
a foreign policy you know, standpoint, I worry that some
(14:12):
of these bad actors are going to try to continue
to take advantage, you know, even if Donald Trump wins,
just when this interim period of time before we get
a new sheriff in town talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I'm scared to death, Lisa. I've been in endless wars,
and you know, I see World War three on the
brink right now. When you're talking about Hesbo La Samas
or the Houthis, they're just proxies Iran, and Iran is
actually a proxy of Russia, and so this they're all
working in cahoots. And of course Russia is best buds
with China, so all all of them are working together
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to really destabilize the world, to destroy the American you know, supremacy.
And I just don't want our kids to go into
endless wars like I did. I mean, you know, this
is the lack of leadership we see in the White House,
and they see Kamala Harris, who you know, she says,
she was the last person in the room before the
(15:06):
with Jawl in Afghanistan, and you saw how that went.
She was the last person to talk to uh Zelensky
and then three days later Putin invades, you know, Ukraine.
So she is showing weakness around the world. I mean,
just her cackling and everything else is just just just
emboldens the Iranians. It emboldens Putin and embolden's jijiping.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Well, I think one thing we've learned too in these
last three and a half years that good government governance matters,
and in leadership matters. I mean, leadership is everything. And
we've seen what a leadership void looks like in the
past three and a half years, when a lot of
Americans are asking themselves, you know, who's even in charge
right now? When you know you have a vice president
(15:50):
on the campaign trail and you've a president who clearly
is not mentally with us.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yeah, you're right. The country is yearning for leadership. And
that's why people are turning to Donald Trump. They said,
you know what, I may not like the guy, but
we were better off. And that's why I tell people like, look,
you don't have to like him. Only Milania needs to
like him. You just need to like the policies, the
policies that made us free, the policies that made us
prosper as the country, and the policies that brought peace
(16:14):
to the world. I mean, the Abraham Accords brought peace
to the Middle East for the first time in my
adult life.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Do you think Virginia is in play for President Trump?
You know, how are you feeling on the ground right now?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Oh? Absolutely not. I wouldn't be in this race if
I didn't think this was winnable. We have a lot
of internal polling that has this very close to Tim Kaine.
And look, my numbers are tied to President Trump's numbers,
and you know they're excited for him. And don't forget
I ran for Congress in twenty twenty two in one
of the most difficult districts for a Republican. It's an
(16:46):
area where Joe Biden won by nineteen percent, and I
took it down to six percent on my own without
any help from the NRCC or anything else. I did
it on my own. And so that's why they asked
me to run for US Senate because I overperformed in
Northern Virginia, and if southern part of Virginia comes out,
we were winning this race, and so absolutely it's in play.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Why'd you decide to run for Senate?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Well, I want to run for office. Well, first of all,
I never really wanted to run for office, to be
honest with you. I wanted to stay in the Navies
for as long as I can. But I left Afghanistan
in January twenty twenty one. And when we left there,
we left a stable country that was about to stand
on its own two feet, and Joe Biden came in
and caused everything to fall apart. And watching mothers hand
(17:30):
babies to marines just reminded me what happened in Vietnam
when my mom was like sewing notes into our clothes, saying,
this is my son, Please take care of them, because
there was a possibility she'd have to throw me into
a helicopter. I mean, they're just repeating the sins of
the past. And that's why I said I can't keep
serving and for and allowing this thing to happen to
(17:51):
our military and our service members.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
And you've lived the American dream, as you know you're
talking about now. You've served this country as well, well,
you know a lot of Americans right now feel like
the American dreams out of grass and are worried if
it's ever going to be attainable again.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
No, it's there.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
We just have to fight for it. The American dreams there. Look,
I came here with nothing. I didn't learn speak English,
so I was twelve. I went to the top high
school in the country, you know, Thomas Jefferson in high
school for sunset technology. I went to United States Naval
Academy with the Bachelor's Engineering. I have Masters of Physics.
I had fellowships at Harvard and MIT. But you know what,
you just have to pay back and I paid back
in full with interest to this country by fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan,
(18:32):
and Somalia for twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
What do you think it's going to take to get
the country back on track.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
It's going to take the will of people to go
out and vote. I mean half of our country votes
right now, and it's I think that's a that's criminal.
I mean, Arlington National Cemetery has four hundred thousand tombstones
of young men and women who gave their lives for
our right to vote. And I think it's criminal when
you don't go out to vote. You have to have
your voice heard. You have to step up and say enough,
(18:59):
and you have to care enough to fight for this country,
and you fight at the ballot box.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
It is pretty remarkable that in this current state of
the country that people wouldn't feel mobilized to go vote
when you know you have inflation, you know, just so
many Americans suffering from inflation. You have you know, the
open southern border border invasion underway right now and has been,
you know, for their last three and a half years,
(19:26):
where you have a potential World War three brewing in
the Middle East and elsewhere, and you know war in
Europe as well. It's like, what does what is it
going to take? You know, if this doesn't mobilize you,
you know, what is it going to take?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Well, I'm telling you right now it's mobilized. Because the
first day of early voting was three weeks ago today
in Virginia. I mean they have forty five days because
that's how the Democrats wanted it. Well, there's twenty thousand
people more that voted on the first day than there
were in twenty twenty, the twenty twenty election, and back
then it was leaning about forty percent Democrat, and on
(20:02):
that first day leans sixteen percent, So we close the
GAT up by twenty four percent. Then the next day
of voting usually it drops down drastically, but it actually
doubled and it's been increasing ever since, and the margin
is about twelve to fourteen percent every single day that
leans Democrat, where in the past it was leaning forty
percent Democrats. So people are getting mobilized, people are getting mad,
(20:25):
they're stepping out there and voting. And that's why we're
asking for everybody to come out and vote and help
and for campaigns like mine. Go to hung forva dot
com because you can support me because my vote in
the US Senate, no matter where you live, will help you.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Well that's ray, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I mean, hopefully Donald Trump wins, and when he does,
he's going to need reinforcement in Congress. And then if
God forbid, we get Kamala Harris, we need Republicans in
the Senate to check her and to check you know,
some of the radical things that she'd.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Like to do. You know, before we go, is there
anything else you'd like to leave us with?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Look, the same people that got us sent in this
mess are saying, hey, give me a few more years,
and I promise, you know, I'll get us out. And
this is this is where we can't we can't buy
this lie anymore. You know. They called me all sorts
of stuff. They called me a racist, a bigot, a
white adjacent supremacist. I mean, it's just insane. But at
the end of the day, I've taken worse shots, right,
(21:18):
I've been shot out, I've been blown up. There's nothing
they can do for me. I'll keep fighting for you, guys,
just I need your help and I need your support
so I can have the ammunition to fight back.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Well, we hopefully people give you that, and hopefully we
see you in the Senate and hopefully the next time
I interview you it's as either US Senate elect or
as a United States Senator. So hunk aw, We appreciate you,
appreciate what you're doing, and thanks so much for joining
the show.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Thank you, Lisa.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
That was hung Cow.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
He's running for Senate in Virginia against the incumbent there,
Senator Tim Kaine, who's a Democrat. Appreciate you guys at
home for listening every Monday and Thursday. But you can
listen throughout the week. I want to thank John, Cassie,
and my producer for putting the show together.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Until next time,
The death toll from Hurricane Heleen is still rising, killing
more than two hundred people. Entire towns have been wiped out,
thousands are still without power or drinkable water. Rescue crews
are still finding people, still searching for people who are missing,
and many people are asking, well, where's the federal.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Government in all of this? We know that George W.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Bush was slammed for waiting three days to visit, Yet
it took this administration. It took Joe Biden days before
activating up to one thousand soldiers to finally support in
the delivery of food, water, and medicine to some of
these isolated communities. And when asked about it shortly after,
Joe Biden said, well, you know, I was on the
(00:46):
phone for two hours talking to FEMA. Kamala Harris was
out fundraising and campaigning.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
These people were left to die.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
But I mean, is that a surprise after Joe Biden
left Americans to die in Afghanistan? Does this administration does
even care.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
About American citizens?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Does Kamala Harris even care about American citizens? We know
that it's being reported that FEMA has spent around one
point four billion dollars on migrants over the past couple
of years. Sexuary Maierka says that FEMA doesn't have the
money for the rest of hurricane season, but FEMA's had
the money to spend one point four billion dollars on migrants.
(01:23):
The New York Posts out with a cover story called
con Before the Storm, slamming this administration for lacking the
money to help hurricane victims, yet having all this money
to help illegal aliens who shouldn't be here in the
first place. That Biden Harris administration spent two hundred and
thirty million to build a peer in Gaza that lasted
for twenty days. We've given tens of billions, I think
(01:46):
close to two hundred billion dollars to Ukraine to fight
what looks like in endless war without any idea of
how it's going to end up. So this administration seems
to be able to find money, seems to be able
to be willing to do whatever it needs to do
for illegal aliens and for foreign nations, but not American citizens.
So we're going to talk to someone who knows a
(02:07):
thing or two about leadership. His name is hunk How
He's running for Senate in Virginia against the incumbent there,
Tim Kaine. He's a retired Navy captain and he served
with special operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia as well.
He's a Naval Academy graduate, so he knows a thing
or two about leadership. Or we're going to talk to
him about this disastrous government response, what it says about
(02:32):
not only Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, but also Democrats
and his opponent that he is running against. And if
Americans don't wake up now in the face of all this,
when will they ever wake up?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
We'll talk to Hon Kow.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
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forty percent more shots than the other brands for superior
(03:08):
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Speaker 2 (03:21):
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back on the show.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
You know, you're your friend of the show and uh, well,
first of all, congratulations. It looks like you're coming off
a big win with your debate against him Kine, So
congratulations on that.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Oh, thank you so much for having me back on Lisa.
This is it's been a wild week. I mean I
was very nervous going in there, and I thought I
was going to throw up on stage. But you know,
he opened up for a lot of hits on him.
I mean, this is a guy that's been in office
for thirty years and he's saying, now give me until
the year twenty thirty, and I promise I'll fix everything
screwed up.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
According to some pulling, you know, WRIIC found that seventy
five percent you know, that basically people are saying that
you're you're the winner of the debate. Do you think
people are tired at this point of sort of these
you know, career politicians who have been there forever just
looking at all of the mess that we're seeing in
the country right now. Do you think it's finally clicking
(04:39):
that maybe we should send some new leadership to Washington,
d C.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
No, You're right, they are seeing it. They see when
they go to the gas pumps, they see when they
go to the grocery store, they see when they try
to buy a house. And right now, the big tragedy
right now, Lisa, is that we're paying a billion dollars
a day to feed in house illegal aliens. And now
you're only giving seven hundred and fifty people dollars for
people that were, you know, impacted by this hurricane. And
(05:07):
what we need to be doing is metavacing these Americans
off of their roofs into a four star hotel, kick
out the illegal aliens that they've housed in there that
are using you know, room service and everything else. We
have to take care of Americans first.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Well, and what's I think so troubling about our government's
response is that. You know, it took days for Biden
to finally activate up to one thousand soldiers to support
you know, delivery of food, water, and medicine to some
of these Southeastern communities.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I mean, George W.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Bush was slammed after Katrina, but within hours, you know,
they had the mobilization of thousands of troops. This took
days from the Biden administration. I guess, why do you
what do you think the response has been so slow
and so mismanaged.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I mean, how could it possibly be that bad?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Well, I called them out on stage. Notice, I said,
where's the leadership? I'll tell you where it is. Joe
Biden was on the beach, Kamala Harris was at a
fundraiser with billionaires, and Tim Kaine was at a pig roast.
Like for crying out loud. You know, I spent an
entire career waiting to jump into the fire when something happened.
As a diver, I was waiting if a plane crash
(06:22):
or something like that, we would be out there and
we would recover the victims immediately. If there was a bomb,
I would run into the building and diffuse the bomb.
That's what we do. We answer the call when it's there.
I mean, that's why we have emergency preparedness. In fact,
you know, that's what FEMA stands for, Federal Emergency Management,
you know, and they can't they literally can't do their jobs.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I have to imagine, you know, I'm hoping the message.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
You know, you look at the cover of the New
York Post and you're they're calling out the Bride administration
for failing our fellow Americans and giving as you mentioned,
you know, over you know, one point four billion dollars
to migrant So over the past couple of years FEMA
has and this administration, do you think it's.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Reaching enough people?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Because you would think on this issue alone, you know,
just leaving our fellow Americans to die in the Southeast
as this administration has the slow response to even act
like they care, and then you know, spending all this
money on people who shouldn't be here, and now Mayerica
is saying, well, we don't even have enough money for
the rest of hurricane season.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I mean, this issue.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Alone, you would hope, would be disqualifying in the eyes
of voters.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I hope.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
So, I really really pray so, because look, we just
gave all this money into Ukraine. In fact, we gave
to Ukraine the equivalent of the entire annual budget for
the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps combined.
That's wrong. I mean, we're paying for their government pension plans.
When my mom, you know, who's on Social Security, is
being told, hey, you know, in a few years you
(07:53):
won't have social Security more, and we're paying for their
social security. I mean, they're, they're, they're, I can't. I'm
so angry, right And I was like, you, your compassion
is for the wrong people, and I just don't understand it.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
How do you get to that point?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
You know, I mean this is an administration who you know,
left Americans behind in Afghanistan, who has now left Americans
behind in the Southeast. You know, there are a ton
of really troubling reports about you know, FEMA just not
really doing what they're supposed to be doing, not doing
their job, not trying to reach these people, you know,
essentially leaving these these poor Americans stranded. And to your point,
(08:30):
I mean, this administration seems to be able to figure
it out when they want to. You know, they spent
two hundred and thirty million dollars to build a peer
in Gaza that lasted twenty days. You know, we've given
so much money to Ukraine, so much money to these
illegal aliens, but they can't seem to get the job
done for our fellow Americans.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Now again, this is where they'll call me a bigot
or racist, and I say, let's take care of Americans first.
But you know, I came to this country as a
refugee from Vietnam. You know, I I grabbed onto the
American dream. But I paid back every single dime with
that American dream with twenty five years of service as
a Navy Special Operations officer. I fought in Iraq, Afghanistan,
and Somalia because I love this country so much. And
(09:10):
for them to just kind of, you know, spitting our
faces like this, this is why I'm running for office, Lisa.
Somebody has to stand up and someone has to say enough.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Well, you know that's the league with the issue of immigration,
you know alone, as you pointed out, I mean it
shows that this administration, the Kamala Harris Biden administration, you know,
their Americans last. I mean, you even look at some
of these reports. You know, the House Judiciary found the
other day that this administration has led in at least
one point seven million potential national security.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Threats across the border. That was the report.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Recently about the ICE non detained docket, including something like
four hundred and twenty five thousand immigrants with criminal convictions
and including thirteen thousand immigrants convicted of homicide.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
So it's not even just you know, Americans.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Last, which it is, but it's actually putting Americans in
harm's way absolutely.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
And you know, I mean they'll say, oh, those numbers
aren't right, right, thirteen convicted murderers and sixteen convicted rapists. Well,
you know one is too many. I mean, ask Lincoln Ridley,
ask her family, let's ask Jocelyn Hungary. I mean, it's
just not right. We have to protect our people and
that's the main job of the federal government to provide
(10:21):
for the common defense, and they're not doing it. And
the most damning words in the Navy is when a
commanding officer gets fired and they say, we've lost our
confidence in your ability to lead, and those are very
damning words, and that's what it is. We've lost our
confidence or in your ability to lead this nation. So
you need to step aside.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, the AIST non detained doc is thirteen thousand immigrants
convicted of homicide. You know, it's also just I think
one of the best points that gd Vans made during
the vice presidential debate is and I think that this
is this extends beyond just President Trump with you and
so many of the individuals who are running for Senate
as Republicans. He had mentioned the fact that, you know,
(11:03):
Donald Trump governs on common sense, and it seems that
that is the biggest thing missing, you know, from government,
you know, even you know, staying on the issue of
immigration before we move beyond that, beyond that, you know,
even looking at Springfield, Ohio, for instance, it doesn't take
a rocket scientist to realize that when you have a
city of fifty eight thousand people, if you have twelve
thousand to twenty thousand migrants coming into that city, that
(11:27):
that's going to put that city at a massive disadvantage financially,
that's going to disrupt the city. That's going to set
a city of only fifty eight thousand people in chaos.
Yet so many in the media and so many in
our government, with the Bide adminstration, can't seem to wrap
their heads around why that doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Why that lacks common sense.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
It hits every town, even the rural towns in Virginia,
for example, I had a sit down with all the
sheriffs and they said, you know, when we arrest an
illegal or you know, someone that doesn't speak the English language,
we have to spend about four hundred to one thousand
dollars out of pocket to hire a translator. So what
(12:07):
do cities like New York City do They prioritize illegal
aliens first in the ers so that they don't have
to pay for overtime between you know, after the hours
of nine am or you know, and five pm. That's
where the work time is, so they don't have to
pay overtime for translators. So they're prioritizing illegal aliens over Americans.
(12:29):
And you know, this is exactly what we don't need
in this country. We need people to come here, assimilate
and do the right thing. And like you said, they're
putting a huge burden on our economy, on our small towns.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
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what's going on in the Middle East right now as well,
you know, with sort of an increased escalation in the
Middle East, kind of what concerns do you have on
a foreign policy you know, standpoint, I worry that some
(14:12):
of these bad actors are going to try to continue
to take advantage, you know, even if Donald Trump wins,
just when this interim period of time before we get
a new sheriff in town talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I'm scared to death, Lisa. I've been in endless wars,
and you know, I see World War three on the
brink right now. When you're talking about Hesbo La Samas
or the Houthis, they're just proxies Iran, and Iran is
actually a proxy of Russia, and so this they're all
working in cahoots. And of course Russia is best buds
with China, so all all of them are working together
(14:46):
to really destabilize the world, to destroy the American you know, supremacy.
And I just don't want our kids to go into
endless wars like I did. I mean, you know, this
is the lack of leadership we see in the White House,
and they see Kamala Harris, who you know, she says,
she was the last person in the room before the
(15:06):
with Jawl in Afghanistan, and you saw how that went.
She was the last person to talk to uh Zelensky
and then three days later Putin invades, you know, Ukraine.
So she is showing weakness around the world. I mean,
just her cackling and everything else is just just just
emboldens the Iranians. It emboldens Putin and embolden's jijiping.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Well, I think one thing we've learned too in these
last three and a half years that good government governance matters,
and in leadership matters. I mean, leadership is everything. And
we've seen what a leadership void looks like in the
past three and a half years, when a lot of
Americans are asking themselves, you know, who's even in charge
right now? When you know you have a vice president
(15:50):
on the campaign trail and you've a president who clearly
is not mentally with us.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yeah, you're right. The country is yearning for leadership. And
that's why people are turning to Donald Trump. They said,
you know what, I may not like the guy, but
we were better off. And that's why I tell people like, look,
you don't have to like him. Only Milania needs to
like him. You just need to like the policies, the
policies that made us free, the policies that made us
prosper as the country, and the policies that brought peace
(16:14):
to the world. I mean, the Abraham Accords brought peace
to the Middle East for the first time in my
adult life.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Do you think Virginia is in play for President Trump?
You know, how are you feeling on the ground right now?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Oh? Absolutely not. I wouldn't be in this race if
I didn't think this was winnable. We have a lot
of internal polling that has this very close to Tim Kaine.
And look, my numbers are tied to President Trump's numbers,
and you know they're excited for him. And don't forget
I ran for Congress in twenty twenty two in one
of the most difficult districts for a Republican. It's an
(16:46):
area where Joe Biden won by nineteen percent, and I
took it down to six percent on my own without
any help from the NRCC or anything else. I did
it on my own. And so that's why they asked
me to run for US Senate because I overperformed in
Northern Virginia, and if southern part of Virginia comes out,
we were winning this race, and so absolutely it's in play.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Why'd you decide to run for Senate?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Well, I want to run for office. Well, first of all,
I never really wanted to run for office, to be
honest with you. I wanted to stay in the Navies
for as long as I can. But I left Afghanistan
in January twenty twenty one. And when we left there,
we left a stable country that was about to stand
on its own two feet, and Joe Biden came in
and caused everything to fall apart. And watching mothers hand
(17:30):
babies to marines just reminded me what happened in Vietnam
when my mom was like sewing notes into our clothes, saying,
this is my son, Please take care of them, because
there was a possibility she'd have to throw me into
a helicopter. I mean, they're just repeating the sins of
the past. And that's why I said I can't keep
serving and for and allowing this thing to happen to
(17:51):
our military and our service members.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
And you've lived the American dream, as you know you're
talking about now. You've served this country as well, well,
you know a lot of Americans right now feel like
the American dreams out of grass and are worried if
it's ever going to be attainable again.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
No, it's there.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
We just have to fight for it. The American dreams there. Look,
I came here with nothing. I didn't learn speak English,
so I was twelve. I went to the top high
school in the country, you know, Thomas Jefferson in high
school for sunset technology. I went to United States Naval
Academy with the Bachelor's Engineering. I have Masters of Physics.
I had fellowships at Harvard and MIT. But you know what,
you just have to pay back and I paid back
in full with interest to this country by fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan,
(18:32):
and Somalia for twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
What do you think it's going to take to get
the country back on track.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
It's going to take the will of people to go
out and vote. I mean half of our country votes
right now, and it's I think that's a that's criminal.
I mean, Arlington National Cemetery has four hundred thousand tombstones
of young men and women who gave their lives for
our right to vote. And I think it's criminal when
you don't go out to vote. You have to have
your voice heard. You have to step up and say enough,
(18:59):
and you have to care enough to fight for this country,
and you fight at the ballot box.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
It is pretty remarkable that in this current state of
the country that people wouldn't feel mobilized to go vote
when you know you have inflation, you know, just so
many Americans suffering from inflation. You have you know, the
open southern border border invasion underway right now and has been,
you know, for their last three and a half years,
(19:26):
where you have a potential World War three brewing in
the Middle East and elsewhere, and you know war in
Europe as well. It's like, what does what is it
going to take? You know, if this doesn't mobilize you,
you know, what is it going to take?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Well, I'm telling you right now it's mobilized. Because the
first day of early voting was three weeks ago today
in Virginia. I mean they have forty five days because
that's how the Democrats wanted it. Well, there's twenty thousand
people more that voted on the first day than there
were in twenty twenty, the twenty twenty election, and back
then it was leaning about forty percent Democrat, and on
(20:02):
that first day leans sixteen percent, So we close the
GAT up by twenty four percent. Then the next day
of voting usually it drops down drastically, but it actually
doubled and it's been increasing ever since, and the margin
is about twelve to fourteen percent every single day that
leans Democrat, where in the past it was leaning forty
percent Democrats. So people are getting mobilized, people are getting mad,
(20:25):
they're stepping out there and voting. And that's why we're
asking for everybody to come out and vote and help
and for campaigns like mine. Go to hung forva dot
com because you can support me because my vote in
the US Senate, no matter where you live, will help you.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Well that's ray, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I mean, hopefully Donald Trump wins, and when he does,
he's going to need reinforcement in Congress. And then if
God forbid, we get Kamala Harris, we need Republicans in
the Senate to check her and to check you know,
some of the radical things that she'd.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Like to do. You know, before we go, is there
anything else you'd like to leave us with?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Look, the same people that got us sent in this
mess are saying, hey, give me a few more years,
and I promise, you know, I'll get us out. And
this is this is where we can't we can't buy
this lie anymore. You know. They called me all sorts
of stuff. They called me a racist, a bigot, a
white adjacent supremacist. I mean, it's just insane. But at
the end of the day, I've taken worse shots, right,
(21:18):
I've been shot out, I've been blown up. There's nothing
they can do for me. I'll keep fighting for you, guys,
just I need your help and I need your support
so I can have the ammunition to fight back.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Well, we hopefully people give you that, and hopefully we
see you in the Senate and hopefully the next time
I interview you it's as either US Senate elect or
as a United States Senator. So hunk aw, We appreciate you,
appreciate what you're doing, and thanks so much for joining
the show.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Thank you, Lisa.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
That was hung Cow.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
He's running for Senate in Virginia against the incumbent there,
Senator Tim Kaine, who's a Democrat. Appreciate you guys at
home for listening every Monday and Thursday. But you can
listen throughout the week. I want to thank John, Cassie,
and my producer for putting the show together.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
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