April 25, 2024 • 22 mins
In this episode, Congressman Wesley Hunt discusses the troubling rise of anti-Semitism on college campuses, the divisions in Congress, and the foreign policy implications of the Biden administration's actions. He criticizes the lack of response to anti-American sentiments and the wavering stance of Joe Biden, contrasting it with the clarity of Donald Trump. Hunt also addresses the weaponization of government agencies and the potential for change in the upcoming 2024 election, expressing hope for Donald Trump's return to bring stability. 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 (00:00):
We've all seen the disgusting and reprehensible anti semitism around
the country, particularly on college and university campuses across the country.
At Columbia University, PROGRAMA students have taken over the university.
So what does this mean for the future of the
country When our future judges, prosecutors, and doctors are cheering
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on terrorism, what are the foreign policy implications? As Joe
Biden seems to be more concerned about winning over dearborn
Michigan than standing with Israel. We're going to talk to
Congressman Wesley Hunt, who represents the thirty eighth Congressional District
in Texas. After West point E went on to serve
eight years in the Army as an aviation branch officer
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and helicopter pilot. He also serves as a co chair
of the Black Jewish Caucus, so he's the perfect person
to get into all of this with. He also serves
on the Judiciary Committee, so we're going to talk to
him about just the weaponization of government and this New
York City Trump trial as well. So I hope you
enjoy the conversation with Congressman Wesley Hunt, a patriot and
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someone who's standing up for the Truth. Well, Congressman Hunt,
it's an honor to have you on the show. It's
the first time having you on, so i really appreciate
you making the time and I'm looking forward to hearing
your perspective.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Ye, of course, thank you for having me on. I
mean that, thank you, sir.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You serve as the co chair of the Black Jewish Caucus.
You know, right now we're seeing rampant anti Semitism in
the country and particularly on you know, college and university
campuses across the country. Why was that important to you
to join that caucus and to serve as a co chair.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
So it's really important to me because I have a
lot of Jewish American friends that I've grown up with
in middle school and in high school. And then also
when I went to Cornell University for grad school, my
best friends were actually from Israel, and they took me
to Israel twice two years in a row during Passover
while I was getting my advanced degrees. And so when
I saw the culture, the people understand that that is our.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Only true ally in that region.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
And as somebody that's like myself, that's a combatant, that's
a combat veteran, I spent two years in Saudi Arabia,
I spent a year in Iraq.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I understand the region very well.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
What I know is that our allegiance to Israel must
be unflappable. So what I'm seeing right now in the
country is actually a derelictive duty for what is our
greatest ally in that region and has been our ally
for decades. So the indoctrination that we're seeing on these campuses,
even Cornell, like my alma mater, I was actually the
first person in the country to send the president of
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Cornell a letter a few months back asking these questions
as to what are they teaching our children, why do
these Jewish American students feel unsafe while being on campus,
and what are you going to do about it? I
also applaud the efforts of my colleague, at least to
find it. She's done a great job in pointing out
the hypocrisy of the left and how they don't want
to protect Jewish American students and the rise of anti Semitism,
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not just on college campuses.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
But in this country.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
So this is an issue that's near and dear of
my heart because of my friends and people that I
consider family that are Jewish Americans that live in my district,
that I grew up with, that I am friends with,
and I studied with, and I went to West Point with.
And if we don't stand by them, then we stand
for nothing.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I totally agree, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
And so we're saying chants from you know, Columbia University
calling for her mosque to make them proud, to take
another soldier out to burn Tel Aviv to the ground.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
And what's concerning?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I mean, these are the future generation of our country,
you know, doctors, prosecutors, and judges who are openly cheering
for terrorists. I guess how did we get here as
a country where you know, we have young people cheering
for terrorists.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And they're also channing death to Americans. And I would
say something else is even more concerning than what you
just asked me. I have colleagues, Democrat colleagues that won't
even say anything about these students channing death to America.
They won't dissociate themselves from it. Mom is the word
to these people. So how are you possibly serving this country,
defending our republic, our constitutional republic if you can't even
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disavow the nasty words of death to America and death
to our allies and down with Tel Aviv. It's absolutely ridiculous.
How with God here, ma'am, it's very easy. This is
how Marxism and communism works. It rears his ugly head
about every forty years in this country. And this is
an effort to divide this country not just along anti
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Semitic lines, but also racial lines that we are seeing
every single day. And right now it's up to brave,
freedom loving Americans to say, we are all in this
boat together. We have to band together, come together, and
hate has no place in this country, especially anti Semitism.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
And look, we're on this boat together.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
And if we don't figure out how we as Americans,
not Black Americans, White Americans, Jewish Americans, Hispanic Americans, we
as Americans can stand together and stand against hate, that
we're going to have a problem. But the good thing is, ma'am,
that people like you, there's people like me that will
fight against us every single day. And trust me, we're
to be okay. But now the Left is exposing who
they really are, and I really am glad the country.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Is seeing it has that impacted sort of you know,
the Halls of Congress, you know, point out some of
your colleagues, you know, elan Omar's daughter, you know, for instance,
you know was involved in some of this. I believe
it was at you know, Columbia University. You've got like
Rashida Tualib, you know, sort of refusing to condemn a
lot of this, and not only that, but you know,
saying chance, like you know, from the river to the sea,
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you know, trying to essentially eliminate Israel from this earth.
Has that like been weird in like the halls of Congress?
I mean have you sort of seen those divisions play out?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I mean I see it play out every single day.
And the weirder thing about it is the left won't
report on this. You know, you can imagine this. The
last year has been kind of an interesting year for
the Republican Party. We were on our second speaker. We
now have a one or two seat majority, a very
slim margin. And I tell you what, we as Republicans
can argue in bicker over who should be our leader.
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But let me tell you what makes for a really
uncomfortable Thanksgiving dinner. You are a Jewish Democrat and you
have people in your own caucus that are behaving this
way that basically want you gone.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I can't imagine what that feels like.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I would much rather be voting for a new speaker
to try to figure out rather or not the river
to the sea is acceptable to say in the halls
of Congress. And so I hope the left sees how
crazy and how radical the far left faction is. And
it is the Jamal moments. It is Rashita to leave,
it is elan Omar, it is AOC, it is the Squad,
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It's Corey Bush, it is all of them. And by
the way, by the way, it's not just a squad,
it's the squad plus a few more as well. What
I can say as a Republican is that as a caucus,
we stand in unity with Israel. Every single person in
the Republican Party stands with Israel. The questions that we
offer is if we're going to give aid to other countries,
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we can't continue to deficit spend.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
And that's where the issue comes with some of my colleagues.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
But the issue was not an ideological conversation as to
rather or not we should I shouldn't support Israel because
our party does unequivkally, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
But then you've got, you know, Joe Biden paling around with,
you know, sort of the squad, right. I mean AOC
is a has been a surrogate for for him, So
I guess you know, how does he sort of?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I mean he's part of that now, is he? Is
he not?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Joe Biden is a part of a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Man. I'm about to tell you one thing. I'm not
quite sure he has any idea what's going on or
even if he knows who AOC is at this point,
because he has really big problems. You see, he has
problems with that faction of the Democrat Party that far left,
the squad, those liberals that are that I call them
the Hamas squad. He has problems with them, but also
by supporting them, he also has problems with Jewish Democrats.
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So how do you how do you square that if
you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.
This guy has no spine, He has no true north.
And the good thing that I could say about us
is we.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Stand with Israel. Next question.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
But now he's trying to play foot seats with both sides,
and in November he's gone a problem with both of them.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
We've got to take a quick commercial break more with
Congressman Hunt on the other side, you know.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
And it's frustrating too.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I mean, he launched his candidacy off of Charlottesville in
twenty twenty. I mean he said it was about the
soul of our nation, about the core values of our nation.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I mean, at this point, you know, what are Joe
Biden's core values as he sort of refuses to give
a full throated denouncement of what we've seen, I mean, his.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
His core values.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I mean, I mean, I don't know chopolship ice cream.
I mean, I don't know. Man, this guy, this guy
has no true north. My dad used the word jellyback.
This guy will do anything to do whatever it takes
to playcate whoever is in the room at that moment.
And so when you have a weak, feckless leader like
this that stands for nothing, this is the reason why
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our standing in the world is what it is. This
is why we don't have any respect. This is why
we're on the verge of World War three. And by
the way, a couple of years ago, when President Trump
was in office, we weren't having these conversations. And while
some people may disagree what the stances that President Trump,
that President Trump took here or there. What you did
know is you knew exactly where he stood and you
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can respect that because he stood for something, and he
stood for America first. So Joe Biden, as I said earlier,
is going to have a real problem on his hand.
He's going he's gonna have a real turnout problem here
in November, because you're going to have Jewish Americans that
have traditionally put a Democrat are going to look at
this and they're going to say, you're not standing for Israel.
And then you're going to have the Hamas caucusat saying, well,
you're not standing for Palestine. And then he's going to
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be stuck in the middle. And I tell you what,
you don't want to be clowns and are left and
clowns on the right with this guy, because he is
going to be fighting for these votes in November. And
guess what, I think this is going to bode very
well for us on November of the fifth, because again,
you got to kick aside, you got to stand with it,
and you have to show that you believe and standing
for the American people and the American values regardless of
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their race, religion, color, or creed.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
It's sort of astonishing, you know, the anti Semitism that
is seemingly allowed in the country. You know this This
Jewish n y U Stern School business professor Scott Galloway
was on MSNBC recently and he said, I can tell
you if I went into the n y U Square
with a white hood on and said lynch the blacks
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or burned the gaze, my idea would be shut off
by that night.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
So what do you make of that statement?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
And why is you know, hatred seemingly allowed when you know,
to direct it at the Jewish people.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Well, that's actually what I talked about in my judiciary
hearing in the letter that I sent to UH to
a Cornell UH.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And that's you know, I've been I've been black for
my entire life.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
So I'm sitting here watching this and I think to myself,
Oh my gosh, what if this would What if this
would be happened to the black community there, everybody would
would turn their social media profiles to.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
A black dot.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Everyone will be freaking out, and everyone will be writing
and looting in the in the industries to to defend
black people. So that liberal rules can just spurnt off
how they think they feel about black people and tell
us how to think and all this kind of stuff,
instead of just looking back and saying, you know, hatred
is hatred. You don't get to behave this way just
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because somebody is black.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
You don't get to.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Chant anti Semitic stuff because there are a lighter hue
than black people. Hatred is hatred, no matter what. We
have always in this country tried our best to defend
the minority to the best of our ability, especially over.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
The last few decades.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
So why would anti Semitism be any different just because
they have a lighter hue than me. What I want
to see is every single American treated fairly.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
At all times.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I'm done with the virtue signaling we are all in
this boat together, and that means that Jewish Americans get
treated just like Black Americans on campus.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
You know, as you mentioned, you're a combat veteran. You know,
right now the Bia administration, or at least reportedly, is
looking to cut aid to IDF Battalion. Yet before the
October seventh terror attacks, the administration unfroze six billion to
Iran announced it on September eleventh, and then even after
the terror attacks, the administrations waived certain sanctions for Iran.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
So I mean, it seems to me that this.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Administration is putting our country at risk, putting Israel at risk,
putting the world at risk, so.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
He can win some votes in Dearborn, Michigan. Is that
how you read it?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Make make no mistake about it. Joe Biden funded this attack.
Joe Biden in his administration funded this attack. When President
Trump was president, Iran was broke. They couldn't afford attack
like this anymore. But when you're released six billion dollars
and then wink wink, you say it's going to be
for humanitarian aid only, we're going to pay attention to that. Okay,
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So hesblo and homos is going to enduere to that.
What are you smoking? And So this is why I
always tell, especially people in my district, just how important
the next the next six months are. If you want
to see the end of all of the turmoil going
on in the world today, please vote accordingly. If you
want the Abraham Accords back, if you want to see
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acts like us moving the embassy to Jerusalem, if you
want to see Iran not have a path to nuclear weapons.
And then also if you don't want to see palace
of cash being dropped off to them so that they
can fund terror If you want to see all of
this stop, you have to vote for President Trump in November.
And Joe Biden is proving what wrong looks like. This
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is an opportunity. We have four years of one guy,
we've had four years of Joe of the other guy,
and this is one of the first times in modern
history that we could compare them and we could say
was the world better off with President Trump or with
the disaster that we have seen for the past few
years with Joe Biden. That's a very easy answer, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
And to your point, I mean that's kind of how
I view foreign policy in the sense of, you know,
it really comes down to sort of human instincts, right,
and when you've got you know, sort of vis authoritarian,
these terrorists looking at Joe Biden, I mean, they just
sniff out weakness, and you know, so the only way
to go back to a stayer, more stabilized world is
having someone who you know, they fear right, and that
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was Trump.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
You are correct, And the phrase, the phrase is peace
through strength, that simple, It's peace through strength. Let me
tell you something, man, we live in the attitude era
of the world right now. I tell you Jijingping he
doesn't really care about anything but China and himself. Vladimir
Putin doesn't care about anything. Anybody's care about any anyone
but himself or Russia. The eye tools and I wrong.
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You know where they're at. The leaders of hesblon Hamas,
you know where they're at. I mean, there are some
real bad dudes. I want to do bad things to
the world. And so when you have a leader like
Joe Biden that these that these strong men don't respect, that's.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Why you're seeing all the turmoil in the world today.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Joe Biden is the weakest president that we have seen
since Jimmy Carter, and he has him beat. And for
the record, our vice president is exponentially worse.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
We are in trouble.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Right now, and so this is why a guy like
President Trump coming back into the fray to insert stability
in the world is what must happen. This is not
even about America wanting this, trust me, believe me. The
world wants President Trump back. And now that we have
a binary choice again, it's up to us as a
country to choose wisely.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
I wholeheartedly agree with everything you just said.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I also want to get you know, you serve on
the Judiciary Committee, and we have seen just the weaponization
of government aimed directly at Donald Trump. I mean, he's
standing trial right now in New York City, you know,
facing numerous charges throughout the country. What have you learned
through your time on the Judiciary Committee and sort of
what concerns you the most about, you know, this direction
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that we are heading in.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
What concerns me the most is the weaponization of these
three letter agencies against our fellow Americans. You know, I
had the privilege of rioting with President Trump on this
playing a few months back, and he says something to
me that I will never forget. He said, Wesley, they
are not coming after me, They're coming after you. I'm
just standing in their way. And no truer words have
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ever been spoken. Looking at what's happening in New York
right now with this Alvin Bragg case and Alvin Bragg
in general.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
It's just a complete joke.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I mean, these are leftist judges that have hijacked our
judicial system and weaponizing it against a former president of
the United States of America and the current case that
he's going through right now is actually known as the
ghost case because no one wanted to take it up.
But why are they taking it up now? Well, I
have the answer for that, because the election is six
months away and they are trying to hamstring this man
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and not allow him to campaign across this country to
get our country back because they're trying to keep him
held up in court. They won't even let him go
to his son's high school graduation. If America doesn't understand
what's going on, and if they could do this to
a former president, imagine what they can do to us.
And So sitting on the House of this Year and
Committee with Jim Jordan, for me, has been an eye
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opening experience. And we're talking about the ATF, and we're
talking about the FBI, and we're talking about the DOJ.
It is terrifying to see what's happening. What I love
about what's happening, though, on the flip side is again
Americans are seeing what's happening to President Trump. We all
know this is a bunch of craft, and they're like,
you know what, I absolutely cannot continue to support this.
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The persecution of a former president of this country and
even taking away his presidential immunity. What are we talking
about here. We are behaving like a banana republic. So
the left crazies, they're not going to vote for us.
But I tell you what, the independence that I've talked to,
they're paying very close attention to this and seeing what's
happening with President Trump in this case, keeping him in court,
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why he should be campaigning this ridiculous gag order, this
jury selection process. It's been a complete sham. President Trump
will sustain this, and he will be okay. And thank
god he's willing to hang in afraid to do this
because he is going to be the example on the
beacon of light to Americans for the future.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
You've got to take a quick commercial break more with
Congressman Hunt on the other side.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Yeah, it was hurtened to see.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I think it was an AP poll that found only
you know, I think it was like one in three
Americans believe that he did anything wrong, which you know,
it shouldn't even be that much, but you know, it
seems like, particularly with this current trial that he's facing,
you know, people sort of sniff out that it's bs.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Yes, yes, and like and by the way, those one
in three are people that are that are off the reservation.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I mean those are the river to the people, you know,
like you're never going to get them.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
But I'm talking about regular just freedom loving Americans that
they may identify as Democrat, independent, Republican or whatever, but
they look at this and they're saying, this is just
not right.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
You know, where do you think the twenty twenty four
election is heading.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
In terms of the presidency?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, in terms of the presidency and House and Senate
just you know, at large for Republicans.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Well, I think I'm the biggest opportunities are actually with
the on top of the ticket in our Senate. The
Senate maps for us look very good. I think we're
a very good chance of taking back the Senate. If
you're looking at polling right now and swing states at
this juncture, President Trump is doing extraordinarily well. In fact,
he's doing probably the best that we've seen running against
an incumbent and modern history.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
So that actually gives me a lot of hope for
the future.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
And realizing that people are waking up and I think
President Trump is going to be just fine. Also, the
American public realize something that's very important. If Joe Biden
gets back in office, he's going to last about a
year or a year and a half. And Russ assured
Kamala Harris is going to take his place in the
next four years given his cognitive decline and his age
and his ability quite frankly, to not operate and do
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basic tasks like speak. So really, a vote for Joe
Biden is a vote for Kamala Harris. That's an absolute,
unmitigated disaster. So that's the choice that we have here
here in November, and I think we're going to do
just fine, and we'll see what happens in that House.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
This is going to be a turnout conversation.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
I really hope we are able to keep the House
and grow our majority.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
That's what I care the most about.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
But at the end of the day, if we have
two out of the three, that's a win for the
American people.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
We've seen a lot of turmoil in the House, a
lot of leadership changes. Do you think that will impact,
you know, the way people vote and why do you
think there's been so much turmoil in the House between Republicans.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah, of course it's going to impact it and the
American people are watching us. You know, we're on our
second speaker, and even he's now being threatened again with
the emotion of vacate, and quite frankly, for some reasons,
I actually kind of understand why. But when you look
at us only attaining a four seat majority, where we're
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hoping for something way bigger, it makes it very, very.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Difficult to govern. At that point, you're.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Basically looking at a fifty to fifty House, a fifty
to fifty Senate but still leaning Democrat, and Joe Biden
Komlinher's the top of the ticket. So with the four
seat majority, now a two seat majority, and so we
are basically, you know, two members from having a back
is the food poisoning one night from not even being
in the majority anymore.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
It just makes it very difficult to govern.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
I don't know the last time that it was like this,
but that really explains that you got to have a
fifteen to twenty seat majority, I think, to be able
to govern the way that passed houses have governed. But
with they want two seat majority, it just makes it
very difficult.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
No, I agree with that, you know, Star, I've really
enjoyed this interview.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Before we go. Is there anything you'd like to leave
us with.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
I want to leave you with some hope here, and
thank you so much for having me on. I am
very optimistic about the future of the country. I know
it seems like this is a complete mess, but the
day is always darkest before the dawn. This country has
been through way worse, and I can assure you that
when President Trump comes back here in November, we're going
to start reversing the course of this country. We have
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been governing, unfortunately through executive fiat for the past few decades,
and so what we do need for President Trump is
to come in on day one signed as many executive
orders as possible to reverse course and get our country back.
And I think that's what's going to happen, and I
need everybody to fight tirelessly to make sure that we
do do just that so we can have a future
for our kids and our grandkids and the lead this
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country better than we.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Found in Well, we'll leave it at that, Congressman Wesley Hunt,
it's been honor.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
I really appreciate you taking the time, sir.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Thank you for having me, you too, really appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
That was Congressman Wesley Hunt appreciate him making the time.
Appreciate you guys at home for listening every Monday and Thursday,
but you can listen.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Throughout the week.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I want to think John Cassio and my producer for
putting the show together.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Until next time.
We've all seen the disgusting and reprehensible anti semitism around
the country, particularly on college and university campuses across the country.
At Columbia University, PROGRAMA students have taken over the university.
So what does this mean for the future of the
country When our future judges, prosecutors, and doctors are cheering
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on terrorism, what are the foreign policy implications? As Joe
Biden seems to be more concerned about winning over dearborn
Michigan than standing with Israel. We're going to talk to
Congressman Wesley Hunt, who represents the thirty eighth Congressional District
in Texas. After West point E went on to serve
eight years in the Army as an aviation branch officer
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and helicopter pilot. He also serves as a co chair
of the Black Jewish Caucus, so he's the perfect person
to get into all of this with. He also serves
on the Judiciary Committee, so we're going to talk to
him about just the weaponization of government and this New
York City Trump trial as well. So I hope you
enjoy the conversation with Congressman Wesley Hunt, a patriot and
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someone who's standing up for the Truth. Well, Congressman Hunt,
it's an honor to have you on the show. It's
the first time having you on, so i really appreciate
you making the time and I'm looking forward to hearing
your perspective.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Ye, of course, thank you for having me on. I
mean that, thank you, sir.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You serve as the co chair of the Black Jewish Caucus.
You know, right now we're seeing rampant anti Semitism in
the country and particularly on you know, college and university
campuses across the country. Why was that important to you
to join that caucus and to serve as a co chair.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
So it's really important to me because I have a
lot of Jewish American friends that I've grown up with
in middle school and in high school. And then also
when I went to Cornell University for grad school, my
best friends were actually from Israel, and they took me
to Israel twice two years in a row during Passover
while I was getting my advanced degrees. And so when
I saw the culture, the people understand that that is our.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Only true ally in that region.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
And as somebody that's like myself, that's a combatant, that's
a combat veteran, I spent two years in Saudi Arabia,
I spent a year in Iraq.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I understand the region very well.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
What I know is that our allegiance to Israel must
be unflappable. So what I'm seeing right now in the
country is actually a derelictive duty for what is our
greatest ally in that region and has been our ally
for decades. So the indoctrination that we're seeing on these campuses,
even Cornell, like my alma mater, I was actually the
first person in the country to send the president of
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Cornell a letter a few months back asking these questions
as to what are they teaching our children, why do
these Jewish American students feel unsafe while being on campus,
and what are you going to do about it? I
also applaud the efforts of my colleague, at least to
find it. She's done a great job in pointing out
the hypocrisy of the left and how they don't want
to protect Jewish American students and the rise of anti Semitism,
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not just on college campuses.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
But in this country.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
So this is an issue that's near and dear of
my heart because of my friends and people that I
consider family that are Jewish Americans that live in my district,
that I grew up with, that I am friends with,
and I studied with, and I went to West Point with.
And if we don't stand by them, then we stand
for nothing.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I totally agree, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
And so we're saying chants from you know, Columbia University
calling for her mosque to make them proud, to take
another soldier out to burn Tel Aviv to the ground.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
And what's concerning?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I mean, these are the future generation of our country,
you know, doctors, prosecutors, and judges who are openly cheering
for terrorists. I guess how did we get here as
a country where you know, we have young people cheering
for terrorists.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And they're also channing death to Americans. And I would
say something else is even more concerning than what you
just asked me. I have colleagues, Democrat colleagues that won't
even say anything about these students channing death to America.
They won't dissociate themselves from it. Mom is the word
to these people. So how are you possibly serving this country,
defending our republic, our constitutional republic if you can't even
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disavow the nasty words of death to America and death
to our allies and down with Tel Aviv. It's absolutely ridiculous.
How with God here, ma'am, it's very easy. This is
how Marxism and communism works. It rears his ugly head
about every forty years in this country. And this is
an effort to divide this country not just along anti
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Semitic lines, but also racial lines that we are seeing
every single day. And right now it's up to brave,
freedom loving Americans to say, we are all in this
boat together. We have to band together, come together, and
hate has no place in this country, especially anti Semitism.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
And look, we're on this boat together.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
And if we don't figure out how we as Americans,
not Black Americans, White Americans, Jewish Americans, Hispanic Americans, we
as Americans can stand together and stand against hate, that
we're going to have a problem. But the good thing is, ma'am,
that people like you, there's people like me that will
fight against us every single day. And trust me, we're
to be okay. But now the Left is exposing who
they really are, and I really am glad the country.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Is seeing it has that impacted sort of you know,
the Halls of Congress, you know, point out some of
your colleagues, you know, elan Omar's daughter, you know, for instance,
you know was involved in some of this. I believe
it was at you know, Columbia University. You've got like
Rashida Tualib, you know, sort of refusing to condemn a
lot of this, and not only that, but you know,
saying chance, like you know, from the river to the sea,
(05:25):
you know, trying to essentially eliminate Israel from this earth.
Has that like been weird in like the halls of Congress?
I mean have you sort of seen those divisions play out?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I mean I see it play out every single day.
And the weirder thing about it is the left won't
report on this. You know, you can imagine this. The
last year has been kind of an interesting year for
the Republican Party. We were on our second speaker. We
now have a one or two seat majority, a very
slim margin. And I tell you what, we as Republicans
can argue in bicker over who should be our leader.
(05:56):
But let me tell you what makes for a really
uncomfortable Thanksgiving dinner. You are a Jewish Democrat and you
have people in your own caucus that are behaving this
way that basically want you gone.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I can't imagine what that feels like.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I would much rather be voting for a new speaker
to try to figure out rather or not the river
to the sea is acceptable to say in the halls
of Congress. And so I hope the left sees how
crazy and how radical the far left faction is. And
it is the Jamal moments. It is Rashita to leave,
it is elan Omar, it is AOC, it is the Squad,
(06:28):
It's Corey Bush, it is all of them. And by
the way, by the way, it's not just a squad,
it's the squad plus a few more as well. What
I can say as a Republican is that as a caucus,
we stand in unity with Israel. Every single person in
the Republican Party stands with Israel. The questions that we
offer is if we're going to give aid to other countries,
(06:49):
we can't continue to deficit spend.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
And that's where the issue comes with some of my colleagues.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
But the issue was not an ideological conversation as to
rather or not we should I shouldn't support Israel because
our party does unequivkally, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
But then you've got, you know, Joe Biden paling around with,
you know, sort of the squad, right. I mean AOC
is a has been a surrogate for for him, So
I guess you know, how does he sort of?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I mean he's part of that now, is he? Is
he not?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Joe Biden is a part of a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Man. I'm about to tell you one thing. I'm not
quite sure he has any idea what's going on or
even if he knows who AOC is at this point,
because he has really big problems. You see, he has
problems with that faction of the Democrat Party that far left,
the squad, those liberals that are that I call them
the Hamas squad. He has problems with them, but also
by supporting them, he also has problems with Jewish Democrats.
(07:43):
So how do you how do you square that if
you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.
This guy has no spine, He has no true north.
And the good thing that I could say about us
is we.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Stand with Israel. Next question.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
But now he's trying to play foot seats with both sides,
and in November he's gone a problem with both of them.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
We've got to take a quick commercial break more with
Congressman Hunt on the other side, you know.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
And it's frustrating too.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I mean, he launched his candidacy off of Charlottesville in
twenty twenty. I mean he said it was about the
soul of our nation, about the core values of our nation.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I mean, at this point, you know, what are Joe
Biden's core values as he sort of refuses to give
a full throated denouncement of what we've seen, I mean, his.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
His core values.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I mean, I mean, I don't know chopolship ice cream.
I mean, I don't know. Man, this guy, this guy
has no true north. My dad used the word jellyback.
This guy will do anything to do whatever it takes
to playcate whoever is in the room at that moment.
And so when you have a weak, feckless leader like
this that stands for nothing, this is the reason why
(08:53):
our standing in the world is what it is. This
is why we don't have any respect. This is why
we're on the verge of World War three. And by
the way, a couple of years ago, when President Trump
was in office, we weren't having these conversations. And while
some people may disagree what the stances that President Trump,
that President Trump took here or there. What you did
know is you knew exactly where he stood and you
(09:13):
can respect that because he stood for something, and he
stood for America first. So Joe Biden, as I said earlier,
is going to have a real problem on his hand.
He's going he's gonna have a real turnout problem here
in November, because you're going to have Jewish Americans that
have traditionally put a Democrat are going to look at
this and they're going to say, you're not standing for Israel.
And then you're going to have the Hamas caucusat saying, well,
you're not standing for Palestine. And then he's going to
(09:34):
be stuck in the middle. And I tell you what,
you don't want to be clowns and are left and
clowns on the right with this guy, because he is
going to be fighting for these votes in November. And
guess what, I think this is going to bode very
well for us on November of the fifth, because again,
you got to kick aside, you got to stand with it,
and you have to show that you believe and standing
for the American people and the American values regardless of
(09:56):
their race, religion, color, or creed.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
It's sort of astonishing, you know, the anti Semitism that
is seemingly allowed in the country. You know this This
Jewish n y U Stern School business professor Scott Galloway
was on MSNBC recently and he said, I can tell
you if I went into the n y U Square
with a white hood on and said lynch the blacks
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or burned the gaze, my idea would be shut off
by that night.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
So what do you make of that statement?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
And why is you know, hatred seemingly allowed when you know,
to direct it at the Jewish people.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Well, that's actually what I talked about in my judiciary
hearing in the letter that I sent to UH to
a Cornell UH.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And that's you know, I've been I've been black for
my entire life.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
So I'm sitting here watching this and I think to myself,
Oh my gosh, what if this would What if this
would be happened to the black community there, everybody would
would turn their social media profiles to.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
A black dot.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Everyone will be freaking out, and everyone will be writing
and looting in the in the industries to to defend
black people. So that liberal rules can just spurnt off
how they think they feel about black people and tell
us how to think and all this kind of stuff,
instead of just looking back and saying, you know, hatred
is hatred. You don't get to behave this way just
(11:14):
because somebody is black.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
You don't get to.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Chant anti Semitic stuff because there are a lighter hue
than black people. Hatred is hatred, no matter what. We
have always in this country tried our best to defend
the minority to the best of our ability, especially over.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
The last few decades.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
So why would anti Semitism be any different just because
they have a lighter hue than me. What I want
to see is every single American treated fairly.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
At all times.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I'm done with the virtue signaling we are all in
this boat together, and that means that Jewish Americans get
treated just like Black Americans on campus.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
You know, as you mentioned, you're a combat veteran. You know,
right now the Bia administration, or at least reportedly, is
looking to cut aid to IDF Battalion. Yet before the
October seventh terror attacks, the administration unfroze six billion to
Iran announced it on September eleventh, and then even after
the terror attacks, the administrations waived certain sanctions for Iran.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
So I mean, it seems to me that this.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Administration is putting our country at risk, putting Israel at risk,
putting the world at risk, so.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
He can win some votes in Dearborn, Michigan. Is that
how you read it?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Make make no mistake about it. Joe Biden funded this attack.
Joe Biden in his administration funded this attack. When President
Trump was president, Iran was broke. They couldn't afford attack
like this anymore. But when you're released six billion dollars
and then wink wink, you say it's going to be
for humanitarian aid only, we're going to pay attention to that. Okay,
(12:48):
So hesblo and homos is going to enduere to that.
What are you smoking? And So this is why I
always tell, especially people in my district, just how important
the next the next six months are. If you want
to see the end of all of the turmoil going
on in the world today, please vote accordingly. If you
want the Abraham Accords back, if you want to see
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acts like us moving the embassy to Jerusalem, if you
want to see Iran not have a path to nuclear weapons.
And then also if you don't want to see palace
of cash being dropped off to them so that they
can fund terror If you want to see all of
this stop, you have to vote for President Trump in November.
And Joe Biden is proving what wrong looks like. This
(13:33):
is an opportunity. We have four years of one guy,
we've had four years of Joe of the other guy,
and this is one of the first times in modern
history that we could compare them and we could say
was the world better off with President Trump or with
the disaster that we have seen for the past few
years with Joe Biden. That's a very easy answer, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
And to your point, I mean that's kind of how
I view foreign policy in the sense of, you know,
it really comes down to sort of human instincts, right,
and when you've got you know, sort of vis authoritarian,
these terrorists looking at Joe Biden, I mean, they just
sniff out weakness, and you know, so the only way
to go back to a stayer, more stabilized world is
having someone who you know, they fear right, and that
(14:14):
was Trump.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
You are correct, And the phrase, the phrase is peace
through strength, that simple, It's peace through strength. Let me
tell you something, man, we live in the attitude era
of the world right now. I tell you Jijingping he
doesn't really care about anything but China and himself. Vladimir
Putin doesn't care about anything. Anybody's care about any anyone
but himself or Russia. The eye tools and I wrong.
(14:35):
You know where they're at. The leaders of hesblon Hamas,
you know where they're at. I mean, there are some
real bad dudes. I want to do bad things to
the world. And so when you have a leader like
Joe Biden that these that these strong men don't respect, that's.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Why you're seeing all the turmoil in the world today.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Joe Biden is the weakest president that we have seen
since Jimmy Carter, and he has him beat. And for
the record, our vice president is exponentially worse.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
We are in trouble.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Right now, and so this is why a guy like
President Trump coming back into the fray to insert stability
in the world is what must happen. This is not
even about America wanting this, trust me, believe me. The
world wants President Trump back. And now that we have
a binary choice again, it's up to us as a
country to choose wisely.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
I wholeheartedly agree with everything you just said.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I also want to get you know, you serve on
the Judiciary Committee, and we have seen just the weaponization
of government aimed directly at Donald Trump. I mean, he's
standing trial right now in New York City, you know,
facing numerous charges throughout the country. What have you learned
through your time on the Judiciary Committee and sort of
what concerns you the most about, you know, this direction
(15:47):
that we are heading in.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
What concerns me the most is the weaponization of these
three letter agencies against our fellow Americans. You know, I
had the privilege of rioting with President Trump on this
playing a few months back, and he says something to
me that I will never forget. He said, Wesley, they
are not coming after me, They're coming after you. I'm
just standing in their way. And no truer words have
(16:09):
ever been spoken. Looking at what's happening in New York
right now with this Alvin Bragg case and Alvin Bragg
in general.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
It's just a complete joke.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I mean, these are leftist judges that have hijacked our
judicial system and weaponizing it against a former president of
the United States of America and the current case that
he's going through right now is actually known as the
ghost case because no one wanted to take it up.
But why are they taking it up now? Well, I
have the answer for that, because the election is six
months away and they are trying to hamstring this man
(16:38):
and not allow him to campaign across this country to
get our country back because they're trying to keep him
held up in court. They won't even let him go
to his son's high school graduation. If America doesn't understand
what's going on, and if they could do this to
a former president, imagine what they can do to us.
And So sitting on the House of this Year and
Committee with Jim Jordan, for me, has been an eye
(17:01):
opening experience. And we're talking about the ATF, and we're
talking about the FBI, and we're talking about the DOJ.
It is terrifying to see what's happening. What I love
about what's happening, though, on the flip side is again
Americans are seeing what's happening to President Trump. We all
know this is a bunch of craft, and they're like,
you know what, I absolutely cannot continue to support this.
(17:22):
The persecution of a former president of this country and
even taking away his presidential immunity. What are we talking
about here. We are behaving like a banana republic. So
the left crazies, they're not going to vote for us.
But I tell you what, the independence that I've talked to,
they're paying very close attention to this and seeing what's
happening with President Trump in this case, keeping him in court,
(17:44):
why he should be campaigning this ridiculous gag order, this
jury selection process. It's been a complete sham. President Trump
will sustain this, and he will be okay. And thank
god he's willing to hang in afraid to do this
because he is going to be the example on the
beacon of light to Americans for the future.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
You've got to take a quick commercial break more with
Congressman Hunt on the other side.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Yeah, it was hurtened to see.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I think it was an AP poll that found only
you know, I think it was like one in three
Americans believe that he did anything wrong, which you know,
it shouldn't even be that much, but you know, it
seems like, particularly with this current trial that he's facing,
you know, people sort of sniff out that it's bs.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Yes, yes, and like and by the way, those one
in three are people that are that are off the reservation.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I mean those are the river to the people, you know,
like you're never going to get them.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
But I'm talking about regular just freedom loving Americans that
they may identify as Democrat, independent, Republican or whatever, but
they look at this and they're saying, this is just
not right.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
You know, where do you think the twenty twenty four
election is heading.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
In terms of the presidency?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, in terms of the presidency and House and Senate
just you know, at large for Republicans.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Well, I think I'm the biggest opportunities are actually with
the on top of the ticket in our Senate. The
Senate maps for us look very good. I think we're
a very good chance of taking back the Senate. If
you're looking at polling right now and swing states at
this juncture, President Trump is doing extraordinarily well. In fact,
he's doing probably the best that we've seen running against
an incumbent and modern history.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
So that actually gives me a lot of hope for
the future.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
And realizing that people are waking up and I think
President Trump is going to be just fine. Also, the
American public realize something that's very important. If Joe Biden
gets back in office, he's going to last about a
year or a year and a half. And Russ assured
Kamala Harris is going to take his place in the
next four years given his cognitive decline and his age
and his ability quite frankly, to not operate and do
(19:44):
basic tasks like speak. So really, a vote for Joe
Biden is a vote for Kamala Harris. That's an absolute,
unmitigated disaster. So that's the choice that we have here
here in November, and I think we're going to do
just fine, and we'll see what happens in that House.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
This is going to be a turnout conversation.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
I really hope we are able to keep the House
and grow our majority.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
That's what I care the most about.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
But at the end of the day, if we have
two out of the three, that's a win for the
American people.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
We've seen a lot of turmoil in the House, a
lot of leadership changes. Do you think that will impact,
you know, the way people vote and why do you
think there's been so much turmoil in the House between Republicans.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah, of course it's going to impact it and the
American people are watching us. You know, we're on our
second speaker, and even he's now being threatened again with
the emotion of vacate, and quite frankly, for some reasons,
I actually kind of understand why. But when you look
at us only attaining a four seat majority, where we're
(20:47):
hoping for something way bigger, it makes it very, very.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Difficult to govern. At that point, you're.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Basically looking at a fifty to fifty House, a fifty
to fifty Senate but still leaning Democrat, and Joe Biden
Komlinher's the top of the ticket. So with the four
seat majority, now a two seat majority, and so we
are basically, you know, two members from having a back
is the food poisoning one night from not even being
in the majority anymore.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
It just makes it very difficult to govern.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
I don't know the last time that it was like this,
but that really explains that you got to have a
fifteen to twenty seat majority, I think, to be able
to govern the way that passed houses have governed. But
with they want two seat majority, it just makes it
very difficult.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
No, I agree with that, you know, Star, I've really
enjoyed this interview.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Before we go. Is there anything you'd like to leave
us with.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
I want to leave you with some hope here, and
thank you so much for having me on. I am
very optimistic about the future of the country. I know
it seems like this is a complete mess, but the
day is always darkest before the dawn. This country has
been through way worse, and I can assure you that
when President Trump comes back here in November, we're going
to start reversing the course of this country. We have
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been governing, unfortunately through executive fiat for the past few decades,
and so what we do need for President Trump is
to come in on day one signed as many executive
orders as possible to reverse course and get our country back.
And I think that's what's going to happen, and I
need everybody to fight tirelessly to make sure that we
do do just that so we can have a future
for our kids and our grandkids and the lead this
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country better than we.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Found in Well, we'll leave it at that, Congressman Wesley Hunt,
it's been honor.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
I really appreciate you taking the time, sir.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Thank you for having me, you too, really appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
That was Congressman Wesley Hunt appreciate him making the time.
Appreciate you guys at home for listening every Monday and Thursday,
but you can listen.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Throughout the week.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I want to think John Cassio and my producer for
putting the show together.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Until next time.
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