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January 20, 2025 8 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, the Lieutenant Governor the great State of Texas
is in Washington, d C. For the inauguration where the
temperature high is going to be about twenty six degrees
for the high temperature today, of course it's going to
be indoorsed, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, Welcome to Houston's Morning News.
On a scale of one to ten, how glad are
you that this is going to be an indoor ceremony today?

Speaker 2 (00:22):
You know, to be honest with you, I sent a
note to the President and sent a text to him.
I guess it was Thursday, and I said, this President,
thousands of Texas, myself will be there no matter how
cold it gets.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
So we would have been there. I've been.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
This is my third inauguration. One back in five with
George W. Bush his last year, and there was so
much snow on the ground. There were no cars, you
couldn't get anywhere, you had to walk everywhere. It was
I don't know foot of snow. And then the last
time on inauguration day in sixteen it was forty eight degrees.
Wasn't bad, little rainy. This would have been cold, but
we would have endured it. But you have to put

(00:59):
in consider all the police officers, all the maintenance people
that have to work, everything that has to be done
for them to be out in this super cold temperature
for that long wouldn't have been and it wouldn't have
been good.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
For a lot of the people.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
So I think he'd made the right decision and we
totally respect that.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
But we'd have been there if need be.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, I think too that, don't you that having it
indoors probably makes people a lot very much relieve that
it's indoors. From a security standpoint, it's a lot easier
to secure the capital rotunda than it is to secure
the area outside the Capitol.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Well, there's about thirty miles of fencing in and around
the city, and you have in the bubble and outside
the bubble. And you know, I've seen this, you know,
at other inaugurations and when we have the Republican conventions
in Tampa and Cleveland, and I'm trying to think of.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
The other one I went to. But you always have
this type of security.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Obviously it's higher now for what's happened this year and
the loan, you know, the lone Wolf actors.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
But I feel very safe and.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
It's been you know, the traffic is tough, and you
just can't You could see your hotel, Jimmy, and you
just can't maybe get there because you have to go
two or three blocks to.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Find an opening, you know, a gate in the fence
where they stand you.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
So that's to protect not only the president and everyone
involved with the inauguration, but the people. So they've done
a good job here and and it's you know, it
was the right, It was the right, It was the
right call to make.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
For sure.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Of course, President Trump will be taking over around eleven
thirty when he's sworn in office. There'll be a lot
of executive orders coming out today and we're hearing that
quite a few of them will involve the border absolutely.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
And you're going to see this president do what he
did in his first term, uh, and that was to
make sure the border is closed down and as safe
as it's ever been. That last year that he was
in office, Jimmy was the best the border has ever
been in terms of people.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Coming across the border. You have to put in a comparison.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
In his last term it was somewhere around four hundred
thousand over the course of the year, and Joe Biden
it was between two and a half and three million.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
So that's the number. You know.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
When I in twenty fifteen, when Governor Abat and I
were elected, we put in about eight hundred million a
year on border security in a budget four hundred million year.
Let me correct that four hundred million year, eight hundred
million in the budget, and this last couple of budgets
in this budget it's four billion because Biden didn't do
the job. Now we have that in our budget now

(03:23):
to work with the president. But hopefully we won't have
to spend all of that money, but we're going to
be there and do everything we can to help. I
also had a great conversation a meeting with Elon Musk yesterday,
who loves being in Texas, and we talked about a lot.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Of issues how he can help us on the on.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
The grid issue, the hyper the hyperlink, which is you
know the loop that goes under the cities for transportation.
The neurolink is I have this bill that we're going
to pass that is for dementia, to put a significant
investment in dementia, and he has neurotechnology technology that he
is I said that wrong for you, and as we're

(04:01):
working on that and to do a doze four Texas
after he finishes with the federal government. So had a
really good conversation with Elon Musk yesterday and that so
that was that was It was a really good meeting. Meanwhile,
you're missing all the fun here in Houston. We're gonna
get like maybe three or three or four inches of snow.
They're gonna shut down the airports tonight. Are you worried

(04:21):
about getting back?

Speaker 3 (04:23):
No, I'm actually going to stay over.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
I have a meeting in Washington tomorrow, so I was
I was going to stay here for that, and I
believe Governorrabbit is coming back in the morning his schedule.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
And you know, I've lived in Texas.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Now, I came here in nineteen seventy nine, and I
think I've seen maybe five snows, but three to five inches.
And I have great grand eight grand kids. I mean
they're great grand kids, but they're not great grand kids,
you know what I mean. I have eight grandkids, and
and I'm going to miss it with them because three
to five inches of snow is like terrific.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Well, kid, if you get back in about forty eight hours,
we'll save some for you.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
How's that?

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, Well, I saw the temperature. I looked at the
weather this morning. I saw the temperature was going to
be fifty nine I think on Thursday or Friday.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
So it won't last long. So get out there and
enjoy it. Make a snowman while you can.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
But look this is we went to the Texas Black
Time Bootsball, which is the hottest ticket in town. There
were about three thousand people there last night, and it's
the one that everybody wants to go to. I remember
in sixteen, Vice President Pence's chief of staff called me
and said, Governor, we understand you have some tickets for
the Black Time and Bootsball.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
Could you spare Somebody said how many do you need?
He said forty? I said forty.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
He said, well, he has a busload of his best
friends coming down from Indiana and that's the only place
they want to go. Everybody wants to go to the
Texas Ball. So that was last night and it was terrific.
And you know, the people are just so optimistic, they're
so hopeful. And that's how everywhere I go to me
and all over the country, and I think in the

(06:03):
around the world.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
I mean, the president won't be the president for a
few more hours.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
But look what is already happened just by the impact
of him getting elected. So I can only shudder to
think what would have happened I had it gone the
other way.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
I think I think we are good. Say I think
it's like a giant reset button having been hit in
for everybody.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah, it's a reset butt.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
And I'm happy because I talked to the governor, to
the governor, the president on election day. He called me
an election day when I thought he'd be calling other states,
like there were swing states that he called and and
we're just talking about a couple of things.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
We've developed a really nice friendship over ten years.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
And I told him that morning, I said, you're going
to be You're gonna get three hundred and twelve electro votes.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
You're gonna win. And I believe that because they had
a better ground game and just a better game and
all the mistakes Biden had made.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
So I felt comfortable in South Carolina and Georgia, Nevada
and Arizona.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
But I really believe Jimmy that.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
Pennsylvania, at Wisconsin and Michigan, they're all the same voters.
They're the same people, hard working, god, fear and law enforcement, supporting,
you know, strong military support, want of border scared. All
those were the same people, and so I thought if
he won one, he'd win all three, and which he did,
and that got him too three twelve. So I've noticed
the three. Every time I sign a little text to him,

(07:21):
I sign it, you're three twelve guys. But we're working
on some things with the administration and it's going to
be nice. When he was president, Governor Abbott, myself and
Ken Paxton, others, we were here a lot in the
White House. We're in the Executive Office building working with
his team, and we had zero communication with the Biden administration.
And so to be able for a state as big

(07:41):
as we are, the eighth largest economy in the world,
if we were a country, we'd be the fiftieth in
population and we'd be the thirty ninth in land size,
I mean, we are a nation state, and to have
a relationship with the president where we can literally the
governor myself that we could pick up the phone and
we're always polite and respectful. Right calling cold, We're going
to call it staff and ask if they're free. But

(08:04):
if we call, he'll return the call. I mean as
soon as possible. And if you won't be wasting, you
won't be wasting your breath. We've got to run, sir,
but enjoy your day in Washington, d C. Thank you
so much.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
It's a great day.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Enjoy the snow, stay safe everybody, and God bless it catches,
God Bless America.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
That's Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick at seven thirty
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