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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm not predicting a riot in Harris County, Los Angeles.
Yes here I doubted seven twenty two our time here
in Houston's morning News. I don't think our next guest
is predicting a rite either, although he did make a
very generous offer that was turned down by the city
in Harris County to send some federal help if week
Wealth we needed it. Congressman Wesley Hunt joince this good morning. Congressman,
(00:21):
good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
How are you? Thank you for having me on?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
You bet a pleasure to have you on. So when
you offered the help, what kind of a response did
you get from Houston and Harris County.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Well, keep in mind, I want everyone to know that
I have full faith and Mayor Witmyer that he is
going to take care of business and that we're going
to have a safe and peaceful protest in Houston, because
quite frankly, that is the Houston way. But I am
concerned about what I have seen in other major cities
in the past, from the Summer of Love a few
years ago and what just transpired in LA for the
(00:51):
last week, and so I want to keep Houston safe.
The number one role of the federal government is to
keep Houston safe. I'm offering my help just in case
it's needed. Now, Lena head Doggo's office resetch out to
us and said, no, we don't want your help, and
that's totally fine. I understand that. But now we know
that if she responds to me from Paris wherever she
(01:14):
is right now, I want them to know that we
did offer, and I have full faith that we're going
to be okay. But again, the offer is there if needed,
because we want to keep our citizens safe. We don't
want to see rioting. We don't want to see vehicles
burning in our streets. We don't want to see our
businesses pillage.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
That's all I want, I understand. But for the sake
of argument, let's say that things do go so out,
they do go wrong, how quickly could additional help arrive
if additional help was needed, as quickly as necessary.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I think that's actually an excellent question. That things do
get out of hand, I can assure you it's not
going to precipitate for four or five six days like
we're seeing in LA. This is also Texas, so we
handle pace quite differently. And I have already been in
contact with the White House. They are aware of the
concerns that we are expressing in all these major cities,
and again they will be able to set assistance swiftly.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
You know, I couldn't agree with you more by the way,
about Texans and how Texans protests versus the rest of
the country. It's the outside agitators that you have to
worry about. And this No King's protest is highly organized.
You've got the American Federation of Teachers Union involved in this,
You've got you know, several United States Communist Party involved
(02:32):
with this. I mean, I know there's been a lot
of talking in Congress about following the money of who
the organizers are of these protests, Who do you think
is responsible for these protests and what can be done
in the future to cut off the money source from
these things.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well, of course it's extreme liberal organizations as individuals like
George Soros, and again they are sitting outside agitators, and
you are correct, it is our job to stop them
from agitating. And what I also want to bring to
the attention of a lot of people is that a
lot of people forget that George Floyd was from Houston. Now,
if you notice an en George Floyd protest we had
(03:10):
the Lake of Sevester Turner Man he rest in peace,
did come out in our press conference and he did
say that we are not going to destroy our city.
And lo and behold, we did not destroy our city.
So you are correct. It's up to us to identify
where the money comes from, where it's going, and it's
usually not the citizens that live within the region. It's
usually outside agitators, which some participation from some extreme individuals
(03:33):
that do.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Live in the city.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
So again, it's our job to stop the agitators from
agitating so that we could have peaceful protests and the
ability for people to express their First Amendment rights, the
rights that somebody like me fought for us to have,
and do it in a very peaceful way.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
And thank you again for your service, sir, the Congressman
Wesley Hunters. Will this one last question for you, and
that has to do with, I guess the future of
these these types of events and these types of protests.
What do you think the goal is here? Is the
end goal to create enough chaos to try to overturn
capitalism or is it is it just to try to
make Trump look as bad as possible. In other words,
(04:09):
blame the rioting on President Trump and then have people
be upset at President Trump for what's going on.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Well, our personally believe that a lot of this is
politically motivated, because you've noticed the left is no longer
talking about what's happening at the border because the border
is fixed. No one's talking about inflation because inflation is fixed.
No one's talking about gas prices because gas prices are down.
And what's talking about eggs because eggs are now down.
And so now the only thing left is to call
President Trump an authoritarian. That's what this whole thing is about.
(04:36):
Is politically motivated. And then the undertones of this are
always the idea of ending capitalism and ending the American way.
And this happens about every forty years. You see this
uptick in, this upswing of communism, Marxism, all the isms
that you could possibly imagine wearing their ugly head to
try to destroy this country from within. And that's why
(04:57):
it's up to us to fight every generation to ensure
that that doesn't happen. But again, a lot of this
is politically motivated because President Trump is actually doing pretty well,
and he is doing what seventy seven million people voted
for him to do, and the frustration now is what
do we do because liberals have no leader and they
are absolutely rudderless, So all we could do now is
(05:19):
just bland.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Trump Congressman, Thanks as always, sir, appreciate your time. Bless
you appreciate what thank you you bet that is United
States Representative Wesley Hunt
I'm not predicting a riot in Harris County, Los Angeles.
Yes here I doubted seven twenty two our time here
in Houston's morning News. I don't think our next guest
is predicting a rite either, although he did make a
very generous offer that was turned down by the city
in Harris County to send some federal help if week
Wealth we needed it. Congressman Wesley Hunt joince this good morning. Congressman,
(00:21):
good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
How are you? Thank you for having me on?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
You bet a pleasure to have you on. So when
you offered the help, what kind of a response did
you get from Houston and Harris County.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Well, keep in mind, I want everyone to know that
I have full faith and Mayor Witmyer that he is
going to take care of business and that we're going
to have a safe and peaceful protest in Houston, because
quite frankly, that is the Houston way. But I am
concerned about what I have seen in other major cities
in the past, from the Summer of Love a few
years ago and what just transpired in LA for the
(00:51):
last week, and so I want to keep Houston safe.
The number one role of the federal government is to
keep Houston safe. I'm offering my help just in case
it's needed. Now, Lena head Doggo's office resetch out to
us and said, no, we don't want your help, and
that's totally fine. I understand that. But now we know
that if she responds to me from Paris wherever she
(01:14):
is right now, I want them to know that we
did offer, and I have full faith that we're going
to be okay. But again, the offer is there if needed,
because we want to keep our citizens safe. We don't
want to see rioting. We don't want to see vehicles
burning in our streets. We don't want to see our
businesses pillage.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
That's all I want, I understand. But for the sake
of argument, let's say that things do go so out,
they do go wrong, how quickly could additional help arrive
if additional help was needed, as quickly as necessary.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I think that's actually an excellent question. That things do
get out of hand, I can assure you it's not
going to precipitate for four or five six days like
we're seeing in LA. This is also Texas, so we
handle pace quite differently. And I have already been in
contact with the White House. They are aware of the
concerns that we are expressing in all these major cities,
and again they will be able to set assistance swiftly.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
You know, I couldn't agree with you more by the way,
about Texans and how Texans protests versus the rest of
the country. It's the outside agitators that you have to
worry about. And this No King's protest is highly organized.
You've got the American Federation of Teachers Union involved in this,
You've got you know, several United States Communist Party involved
(02:32):
with this. I mean, I know there's been a lot
of talking in Congress about following the money of who
the organizers are of these protests, Who do you think
is responsible for these protests and what can be done
in the future to cut off the money source from
these things.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well, of course it's extreme liberal organizations as individuals like
George Soros, and again they are sitting outside agitators, and
you are correct, it is our job to stop them
from agitating. And what I also want to bring to
the attention of a lot of people is that a
lot of people forget that George Floyd was from Houston. Now,
if you notice an en George Floyd protest we had
(03:10):
the Lake of Sevester Turner Man he rest in peace,
did come out in our press conference and he did
say that we are not going to destroy our city.
And lo and behold, we did not destroy our city.
So you are correct. It's up to us to identify
where the money comes from, where it's going, and it's
usually not the citizens that live within the region. It's
usually outside agitators, which some participation from some extreme individuals
(03:33):
that do.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Live in the city.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
So again, it's our job to stop the agitators from
agitating so that we could have peaceful protests and the
ability for people to express their First Amendment rights, the
rights that somebody like me fought for us to have,
and do it in a very peaceful way.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
And thank you again for your service, sir, the Congressman
Wesley Hunters. Will this one last question for you, and
that has to do with, I guess the future of
these these types of events and these types of protests.
What do you think the goal is here? Is the
end goal to create enough chaos to try to overturn
capitalism or is it is it just to try to
make Trump look as bad as possible. In other words,
(04:09):
blame the rioting on President Trump and then have people
be upset at President Trump for what's going on.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Well, our personally believe that a lot of this is
politically motivated, because you've noticed the left is no longer
talking about what's happening at the border because the border
is fixed. No one's talking about inflation because inflation is fixed.
No one's talking about gas prices because gas prices are down.
And what's talking about eggs because eggs are now down.
And so now the only thing left is to call
President Trump an authoritarian. That's what this whole thing is about.
(04:36):
Is politically motivated. And then the undertones of this are
always the idea of ending capitalism and ending the American way.
And this happens about every forty years. You see this
uptick in, this upswing of communism, Marxism, all the isms
that you could possibly imagine wearing their ugly head to
try to destroy this country from within. And that's why
(04:57):
it's up to us to fight every generation to ensure
that that doesn't happen. But again, a lot of this
is politically motivated because President Trump is actually doing pretty well,
and he is doing what seventy seven million people voted
for him to do, and the frustration now is what
do we do because liberals have no leader and they
are absolutely rudderless, So all we could do now is
(05:19):
just bland.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Trump Congressman, Thanks as always, sir, appreciate your time. Bless
you appreciate what thank you you bet that is United
States Representative Wesley Hunt
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