October 14, 2025 • 34 mins
On this Salcedo Storm Podcast:
Ken Paxton, Texas Attorney General.
Ken Paxton, Texas Attorney General.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hello, I am you happy people.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Neil Smith and old Buck Buddy. Are you hearing Neil?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Neil?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I miss you.
Speaker 4 (00:10):
Man Donnes, I have a question respect for.
Speaker 5 (00:13):
Me down by breaking a major story, Chris, congratulations.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Score podcast.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
So it came out last week that the Democrats had
once again illegally and ethically targeted Republicans with their weaponization
of government. Uh. It was revealed that the FBI director
under under Beijing Biden and inquisitor Jack Smith, Christopher Ray
and inquisitor Jack Smith had targeted sitting US senators, eight
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of them for surveillance. Here's Senator Bill Haggerty.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Senator Haggerty, thank you.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
Senator Johnson and Chairman Grassley, thank you for your leadership
in making this happen. This is an extraordinary revelation that
just took place this afternoon. My colleagues and I found
out all of US Republicans by the way, that we
were placed under investigation by this FBI, under the Joe
Biden FBI that was led I presume by Jack Smith
and his predecessors.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Yeah, with no probable cause. What crime were they accused
of committing? That's not that the kosh Pttel said. We
could find no underlying crime. You were just surveilled. Here's
Senator Marshall Blackburn.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Listen, what we know is this that the FBI under
Joe Biden and under Barack Obama, is that they exercised
activity that they had no authority to exercise. And as
Senator Haggardy mentioned, we know what they did in twenty
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sixteen to the Trump transition team. And now we find
out that after the mar Lago raid, after the indictment
of President Trump, they surveil US people who support President Trump,
members who are all Republicans. But it shows you how
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out of control and rotten to the core and politicized
the FBI had become, and how they had absolutely no
problem at all whatsoever with political weaponization. We appreciate the
information we've gotten today. We look forward to further investigation
(02:55):
on this.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
What further investigation? Any more investigations do we need? You
heard them list a laundry list decades long of Democrats
since the occupation of the oval office of Barack with
sin Obama, Democrats coming after Republicans, not me saying it.
Here's Senator Kennedy.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Okay, if civil suits are filed against the perpetrators, at
the FBI. Will that facilitate your investigation? Well, what's the
question again? If they eight senators who were spied upon,
Throe the hell out of the Department of Justice and
the perpetrators involved, will that facilitate their investigation and or yours.
(03:43):
I guess what I'm getting to is, I don't understand
why we don't have a separate hearing. I find this breasttaking.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
It's just been twenty four hours since the FBI investigated
on it.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Please give me an opportunity to soart through all that.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Fair enough, I just don't want to wait twenty four
years to get an answer.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Yeah, well, if passes prologue, Senator Kennedy, you're gonna be
waiting one hundred and twenty four years. Because every single
time these Democrats are caught red handed, it seems there
are air quotes Republicans who were there to, hey, let's
launch another investigation so we can drag it out for
years and years and years. Then the public loses interest
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and the Democrats get off scott free for doing the unthinkable,
weaponizing government against our people. Folks, I'm sick of this.
I'm sick and tired of the Democrats getting away with
what they're getting away with. And Senator Kennedy took his
time when he was talking with the Attorney General Pam Bondy,
he had a full eight minutes. I'm not going to
play all eight minutes for you. But Senator Kennedy seems
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to me something else is different here. Something else is
different because Senator Kennedy he wants he wants his pound
of flesh. He wants these individuals who did awful things
things to this country. He wants them to go to jail.
He wants them to hurt the way they have hurt us.
Listen to this general welcome.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I'm not suppose that I'm appointed special counsel at the
Department of Justice, and I go to the to the
telecommunication companies, the phone companies. Let's let's let's let's single
out AT and T and I say, look, I know
you're busy, but I want to see a copy of
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the phone records of the city United States. Senator.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
They're not going to just give them to me.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Are they no, Senator, of course not.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
In fact, they're probably going to ask me what planet
I just perish you who did from? Aren't they?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Yes, Senator, They're.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Gonna tell me to come back with a subpoena, aren't they?
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Yes, Senator, Okay, What do I have to show when
that subpoena to get those phone records of a sitting
did I mission it was a.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Sitting United States Senator? I can't remember. What do I
have to show to get the phone records of a
sitting United States senator? Yeh?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Senator there were actually eight sitting United States and you would.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Have to have cause? I'm sorry, what do I have
to show?
Speaker 8 (06:23):
You would have to have cause to get this cause
from probable cause? Probable cause, okay, and probable calls or if.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
It's a subpoena, duces take them good calls to show
what you.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Would need good calls for a subpoena ducas tiakam. Then
what you would have to show is that you believed
a crime had been committed or there was a possibility
of a crime or that could lead to other crimes.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Right, you would have to demonstrate that there actual was
criminal activity actually happening with these eight senators to get
their phone records, which, by the way, folks, according to
what kysh Buttel released, there was no evidence whatsoever of a.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Crime we requently in criminal enterprises.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
By the city United States Senator.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Senator, they would have to have believed you were part
of a criminal conspiracy, is my understanding.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
What would a judge have to sign off on it.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
On the on the subpoena, yes, Senator, Well, for a
subpoena duca stiacum, Jock Smith probably took it straight to
the judge.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Now, the phone companies, particularly their general council, if they're
worried about civil liability, even with a subpoena to get
the phone wrecords of the sitting United States Senator, Did
I mention it was a sitting United.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
States Yes, Senator, the general.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Council for that phone company. But he gonna say at
and T they have the right to seek toquash that subpoena,
don't they?
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Phone companies frequently do that.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, and and a smart general council for that phone
company is going to call the city United States Senator
and say, would you like to weigh in on this?
Would you like me to cush the subpoena? U We're
talking about invading someone's privacy here by a sitting United
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States Senator could could the general council for the phone
company do that.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Well, Senator, if they believe that a crime could have
been committed, they could not tip off the person who
committed the crime. Again, I can't comment on details of this.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah, in particular case, I'm just asking you theoretically, I've
never seen you commit a crime. But let's suppose Okay,
they couldn't they didn't want to tip off the sitting
United States senators. But the phone company and the general
council for the phone company are companies. If there were
more than one involved, could say, you know, this is
this is serious as an aneurism, this is serious as
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for auto tax and a stroke. This is a city
United States Senator, So general counsel would likely advise the CEO,
you need to file a motion to quash. The telephone
companies could have contested those subpoenas, could they not.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Hypothetically, Yes, they can't talk about the facts in particular.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Okay, we're talking hypothetical.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Yeah, we're talking hypothetical here, folks. They're not, but they
have to. As you all know, certain companies phone companies
didn't quash, didn't seek to protect the personal data of
sitting US senators or American citizens for that matter, And
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they just hand it over. We had that over these
records to individuals who were using the information. It is
alleged for partisan attacks against their political opponents. Now, some
would say that it was the left wing CEOs of
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these telecom companies who don't like conservatives, don't like Republicans
very much, don't like President Trump very much, who were
all too eager to turn these over. So what what
Senator Kennedy's driving.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
At Nader Seppoenas are issued all the time through phone
companies working with the General Counsel.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
But they can file.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
They could, yes, in any case.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
And if they should have filed emotion to quash, and
a reasonable person would have filed emotion to quash because
this is a city United States senator and they didn't
file emotion to quash, they would incurse civil liability, wouldn't they?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Oh yeah, they would incurse civil liability. Can you imagine, folks,
Each one of these Republican senators who had their data
breached could sue whichever telecom company cooperated with Beijing, Biden
and left wing Marxists that have infected our government. Can
you imagine the lawsuit that could be in the billions
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Speaker 5 (15:14):
My next guest, you know, usually I bring him on
and we're talking. Usually it's me complaining about breaches of
law that have gone unaddressed. Usually it's about the legislature.
And you know, I'm gonna do something a little different
with my next guest. I'm going to talk pure politics
because my next guest is aiming to try to be
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the second conservative senator to serve in Washington for US
here in Texas, because I believe we deserve in Texas
two conservative senators, not just the one that we have.
Ken Paxton is the most effective conservative attorney general in
this country. He's running for US Senate to ensure again
that Finally, Texas has two conservative senators.
Speaker 9 (15:57):
Sir, welcome back, Hey Chris, thanks for having me back on.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Pleasures all mind sir, and look before you even get started,
because you and I are usually talking business. I've never
even said it publicly or on the air, hell even
in private. Thank you. Thank you for defending me in mind.
That is my criteria for sentence vote for congressional votes
for dog catcher. How well have you protected me in mine?
(16:24):
That's how I'm going to be making my vote come
the primaries. And I just want to thank you because
you fit that criteria. You have protected me and mine
from left wing extremists for years now, and that's what
I'm recommending everybody do. Any commentary on on your outlook politically,
how you vote, how what metrics you use.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
Yeah, because I'm first of all thank you for that.
It's been an honor for me, a little joy to
serve Texas for the last eleven years than the as
attorney general. There's no better state to serve, and we
certainly had opportunities to fight the fedtle government. It was
Joe Biden or Barack Obama or big companies that were
abusing their power. So I look at it very similarly.
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I'm looking out for my family. I have six grandchildren
now four children, and I want a country that's free.
I want a country where there's opportunity. I want a
country where the government doesn't control everything or the media,
and where my kids and my grandchildren have the opportunity
to do what they want to do based on their
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own abilities, their own work etiquette, and not be have
it all taken away by the government or controlled by
the government.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Amen to that.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Unlet's you and I have a discussion about the job
that you're seeking, because you want to be the second
conservative senator from the grace state of Texas to go
to Washington, d C. And right now, the Democrats have
shut down the government, and the Republicans have shut down
the government in the past, but they have done so
on our behalf, on behalf of American citizens, on various issues.
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The Democrats are shutting down government to maintain funding for
illegal alien health care. Your thoughts on.
Speaker 9 (18:06):
This here, It's just hard to believe that that's where
the Democratic Party is gone instead of looking out for Americans,
because they're asking Americans to step up foot the bill
billions trillions of dollars of spending for people that are
not supposed to be here. And look, it would be
great if America had enough money to spend on everybody
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in the world and pay for their education and pay
for their healthcare. So that's what this is all about.
Once you're paying for their healthcare, you're also paying for
their education, you're paying for other costs associated with them
being here. We can't afford that unless America wants to
be all poor and we don't want to take care
of our own children, our own grandchildren. It's just not
going to work. We're already thirty seven point five trillion
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dollars in debt. It's time to be responsible, pay pay
our debts, and stop wasting money.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Indeed, and you know your opponent, Senator John Cornyn, has
been in the Senate forever and forever and forever and
rubber stamping all of this massive, uncontrolled overspending. We are
now at thirty seven zero point five trillion dollars in debt,
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and mister Attorney General, that translates to a trillion dollars
in interest alone, and the federal government only brings in
through taxes about four four and a half trillion dollars
in taxes every year. So right off the bat, twenty
five percent of what Americans are sitting to Washington goes
to debt service. And your opponent has been one of
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the main drivers of massive, uncontrolled debt in this country.
How does that grab you?
Speaker 9 (19:42):
Well, he's then there's this two thousand and two, the
national debt was six point two trillion at that time.
Think about that, from the time of Washington to the
time of George Bush and John Corn coming into office
a US senator six point two trillion debt obviously stole
a lot of money. He is not taking it seriously.
He doesn't complain about it, he doesn't fight it, he
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doesn't stand up for us and say enough. He hasn't
done it. And he's allowed another thirty one trillion to
go on the books under his watch, which has been
for almost twenty four years. And so you're not even
going to speak up on spending and how it affects
Americans or how it's going to affect our economy and
our kids and our grandkids. Then it's time for you
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to come home and do something different.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Correct, And you know what, all the overspending, all this
printing of money does has an effect. It's called inflation.
Inflation isn't some plague, isn't some disease that we just catch,
mister Attorney General. It is government caused. And one of
the individuals who has been one of the instruments Mitch McConnell,
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Lisa mckowski, all the rest of these Charlatans claiming to
be Republicans is your opponent, John Cornyn. And there's got
to be some sort of accounting for that, no pun intended.
Speaker 9 (20:59):
Look, it's pretty incredible that you might expected John Cornan
to represent a more liberal state. Maybe we get lucky
and get him in Illinois, but not Texas, where we
expect our senators to fight for us, to not capitulate
with Joe Biden, which John Corny did on the gun
restrictions and limiting our Second Amendment rights. You'd expect him
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to stand up and fight for the border, which now
he's suddenly advertising and he's been fighting for the border
wall forever, when in reality, for years and years and years,
we have many clips of him saying the border wall
is a bad idea, I don't like Trump's ideas, and
he's also been very critical of President of Trump, not
supporting him thinking he should not run for president either
time that he won, But now that we're in a primary,
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all of that's gone by the wayside, and not acknowledging
his record, and he's not acknowledging the bad things that
he's done or the lack thereof I think he should
have been doing.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Folks were joined now by the Attorney general, the conservative
Attorney General the great State of Texas, Ken Pashion, who
is running for the United States Senate to replace a
rather feckless, ineffective in my opinion, Senator John Cornyn. You
brought this up, and we made a note that we
were going to ask you about this because I got
a call from on an earlier radio show from a
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listener who hears these ads being run by by Senator Cornyan.
By the way, he's spending an awful lot of money
in the primary. One wonders if he's going to have
anything left in a general if he makes it that far.
But anyway, he's spending an awful lot of money trying
to convince Texans that he's somebody he's not. And again,
you're right, he's trying to tell the people of Texas
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that he's been strong on the border but we have
him on tape, and we have him on votes where
he is saying he doesn't believe in border barriers. He
didn't believe in President Trump's border wall. He actually voted
to stop money going to border barriers. That's John Cornan's record.
Speaker 9 (22:55):
No, No, that's absolutely true, and it's pretty disgusting. Been
in the office for over forty years, over four decades.
I was in college when he started in public office.
I'm now sixty two and he's still serving. And instead
of standing by what he has done, he denies it.
He spends three million dollars a week that he's getting
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from Washington, from Washington Pax and lobbyists to keep him
in position to do the very same thing, which is nothing.
And he's had all of this time to accomplish things
that he has not done it. And I've been going
around to State Chris, I've been asking people, so let's
give him the whole forty years of his service. What
remarkable thing has John Cornyn accomplished for the state of
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Sexis or for the country, other than being opposed to
border walls and other being opposed to the Second Amendment,
be other than being opposed to President Trump and other
than being the guy that wrote the robin Hood decision
that created wealthree distribution for our schools, what remarkable thing
has he done? And I have never gotten an answer
in all of my talks with donors, with you know,
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just being out on the campaign trail, I just never
get an answer. And it's kind of amazing that no
one knows anything remarkable that John corn has done. And
he's not advertising anything that he's done. He's just making
up things like I'm for the border wall, which we
now we all know his fault right.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
And on the border, his votes. He took that vote
to defund border wall construction and border barriers. He took
that vote knowing what the massive uncontrolled illegal immigration was
doing under the Biden regime was doing the Latino communities
all along the border. John Cornyan voted to make our communities,
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of the Latino communities along the border less safe. And
I think a lot of people in the Latino community
know that John Cornan is is not their friend. I
want to pivot with you, mister Attorney General, to something
that happened in Washington, d C. This is Pete Hagseth
and the President of the United States in an unprecedented
gathering of top brass in the United States Military and
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told them, among other things, you're gonna have to be
in shape. These requirements from the United States Military are
being restored. We're not going to be woke anymore. Here
here's what Pete Hegseth said to summarize his comments from
the War Department. Listen, and most of all, Lord, please
keep my soldiers safe. He's thanking God. He's invoking God
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in this discussion, while he's saying no more woke bs,
no more dudes and dresses, none of that stuff. What
was your reaction, seeing as you want your aspiring to
be a senator from Texas and you're going to have
votes on funding for the United States Military and making
sure the military is is not woke anymore, that it's
fulfilling its mission. What was your reaction when you heard that,
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finally the US military was kicking woke, diversity, inclusion, equity,
cultural Marxism out of it.
Speaker 9 (25:57):
Thank God for Pete excess, and don't trump. You know,
my father was a beef It's two pilot for twenty
one twenty two years in the United States Air Force.
My daughter served the United States Air Force and went
to Afghanistan twice as a telligence officer serve for a
special forces unit. Two of my sons in law were
in special Forces in the United States Air Force that
were pj's and crows, you know, go into Iraq three times.
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One of them did, and then my other son in
law was a tank commander, and they were all dealing
with the woke issues of the military, struggling with being
forced to get COVID shots when they didn't want to
do it and forced to do crazy, you know, woke classes.
And the reality is we need a military that can perform.
We're going to be We have potential huge enemy of
China and other nations that want us gone, and so
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we need to focus on being the best war machine
we can be to preserve our freedom or we are
going to lose. So it's it's I don't know if
there's many more important things that could be done than
what Pete is doing. Right now.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
We're talking to ken Fashion folks, the conservative Attorney general
here in the great state of Texas, who serve this state,
who has protected me and mine and you and yours
for eleven years by stopping left wing lunacy. Rather than
voting along with it on the campaign trail, because, as
we already alluded to, you're you're interacting with Texans and
you're having a hard time finding anybody who can point
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to anything that John corn has done for us. I'm
wondering because we're you know, this is my job. I
keep track of this stuff. But I'm wondering if if
people on the campaign trail have been coming up to
you saying, hey, I know what John Cornyn did to
us when he sided with Democrats, when he sided with
leftists again, when he sat back and allowed the woke,
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the wokenization, if you can, if that's even a term
of our United States military putting the safety and security
of every man, woman, and child in this country at risk.
What kind of feedback are you getting on the trail.
Speaker 9 (27:51):
I don't know that most people know the extent of
his betrayal for Texas and the lack of production over
a very long period of time, But they all seem
to be aware that they can't think of anything that
he's actually accomplished. I mean, they just whether they're all
pretty educated, and they pretty much primary voters, and yet
they can't think of anything. And I think it speaks
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to them. Why can't I identify John Cornyn with good
and they do know often know about the you know,
the Second Amendment issue where he basically said, Joe Biden
wanted restrictions, so we got them some. We did what
we had to do to pass something. So I think
they are aware of the Second Amendment issue. I don't know.
We're trying to make them aware of the many other
issues that John has not stood with us on, including the.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Spending issue, yeah, overspending, on the Second Amendment, on illegal immigration.
John Cornyn has been on the wrong side of history
as he has sided with his good Democrat friends. Let's
bring Chris.
Speaker 9 (28:48):
These are not little issues. These are big issues. These
are not like, oh, second amendments not no big deal.
You know, I'm not for it. I'm here with Joe Biden.
Joe Biden's congratulating means I feel good about that. I'm
happy about this. Who how do we have a senator
from Texas happy that Joe Biden congratulated him and a
few other sellout Republicans for pushing restrictions on the Second Amendment.
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I don't get how he can last. And Donald Trump
said it at the time he said this guy should
be replaced in the primary, and he is a he's
definitely a liberal.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah, well.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Absolutely, he's one of the last fake Republicans in the
Bush dynasty. And I think, just from my vantage point,
from my purge here, Texans are done with individuals who
are selling us out to play kate, leftists and socialists
who have done so much immeasurable damage to this country.
(29:44):
I want to focus on our state too, because there
are some issues. People forget that. You were also in
the state legislature as a representative, and I want to
get your take on the closing of primaries. I think
it was unconscionable that so called Republicans in the Texas
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House didn't get this done. It went to Matt Shaheen's
committee and he made sure mister Shaheen did that. It
died and now we've got to go and you know
the long road that now the Republican Party, the Conservative
Republican Party of Texas has to go through through a
lawsuit to get this done. In my view, it's unconscionable
that fake Republicans did this to close our primaries. What
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do you think?
Speaker 9 (30:28):
I think it's really hard to believe that a Republican House,
that Matt Shaheenes, who lauded himself when he ran the
first time as a conservative on these types of issues,
that he doesn't have the ability to push it forward
or speak out that we need to close our primaries
to protect our Republican members because we saw what happened
with Day Feel and thousands of Democrats came over in
a Republican primary and got him re elected as the
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Republican nominee. But for those Democrats he would not have
been elected. And that happened over and over all kinds
of races. Why would Republicans want Democrats deciding who are
Republican nominees are going to be for any office? Unless
you thought that was good for your views, but you're
more liberal, and that's what happens. We end up with
more liberal Republicans. Democrats maybe can't win that seat, so
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they move over to help move our party left, even
though they hate our party and they hate our views.
It just makes no sense that it's just wrong that
we've let this happen, and I agree we need to
stop it.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Well, and you know what, it's going to be a
long road to hoe and I and it's sad that
because of these fake Republicans like mister Shaheen, that we
have to go to the lawsuit route, which is going
to take longer and it's probably not going to help
us in the twenty six mid term elections, the one
you're you're going to be running in. And that leads
me to the last point about the censure provisions. As
you know, Rule forty four has been adopted by those
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conservatives who who dominate the Republican Party of Texas, and
it's kind of fraught with some you know, this is
the first foray and actually holding our elected officials accountable
because we're not used to Republicans stabbing us in the
back to the degree that they have had been doing
in the state of Texas. And you're running against a
fake Republican. So this idea of the party being able
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to say, basically worst case scenario, kicking out individuals who
have sullied the Republican brand, who have betrayed their voters.
How essential do you think that is that that be refined, maintained,
and simplified so that so that these officials in the
party know who they work for and it's not for Democrats,
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and it's not for the legislature, and it's not for
Dad Feeling or Dusty Burrows or any of these entrenched interests.
They actually work for the people.
Speaker 9 (32:44):
I think it's really important. I've been you know, I
was in texasiles for twelve years, and then of course
I've been Attorney General for eleven and I have. One
of the most frustrating things that I've had to deal
with is Republicans who get elected who do not care
what our party platform says, or they don't care about
any of it, and they don't help us. They don't
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align with us, they tend to side with the Democrat
and they get away with it because the media doesn't
cover it. I mean, the mainstream media doesn't cover it.
Of course you do, but so few people know which
of that know that their representative is selling them out
because there's so many issues that they're doing it on. So,
if the Republican Party wants to have real Republican leadership
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and they want a vision for our country that's conservative,
it's free, it's not all tied up with what the
Democrats want, we are going to have to be transparent
and talk about the people that are Republicans that are
not doing the job that they were elected to do.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
I want to end the interview where I started.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
In my opinion, you typify the criteria. You exemplify the
criteria that I'm using for my vote. How well has
this person who was asking for my vote defended me
in mind? And I think Ken Paxton is is the
gold standard for defending me and mine, us and ours
folks in the state of Texas from left wing coops, freaks,
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and nuts. That's just one liberty loving Latino's opinion, Ken Paxton,
Thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Hey, thank you.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
Have a great day. Chris
Hello, I am you happy people.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Neil Smith and old Buck Buddy. Are you hearing Neil?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Neil?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I miss you.
Speaker 4 (00:10):
Man Donnes, I have a question respect for.
Speaker 5 (00:13):
Me down by breaking a major story, Chris, congratulations.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Score podcast.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
So it came out last week that the Democrats had
once again illegally and ethically targeted Republicans with their weaponization
of government. Uh. It was revealed that the FBI director
under under Beijing Biden and inquisitor Jack Smith, Christopher Ray
and inquisitor Jack Smith had targeted sitting US senators, eight
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of them for surveillance. Here's Senator Bill Haggerty.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Senator Haggerty, thank you.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
Senator Johnson and Chairman Grassley, thank you for your leadership
in making this happen. This is an extraordinary revelation that
just took place this afternoon. My colleagues and I found
out all of US Republicans by the way, that we
were placed under investigation by this FBI, under the Joe
Biden FBI that was led I presume by Jack Smith
and his predecessors.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Yeah, with no probable cause. What crime were they accused
of committing? That's not that the kosh Pttel said. We
could find no underlying crime. You were just surveilled. Here's
Senator Marshall Blackburn.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Listen, what we know is this that the FBI under
Joe Biden and under Barack Obama, is that they exercised
activity that they had no authority to exercise. And as
Senator Haggardy mentioned, we know what they did in twenty
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sixteen to the Trump transition team. And now we find
out that after the mar Lago raid, after the indictment
of President Trump, they surveil US people who support President Trump,
members who are all Republicans. But it shows you how
(02:32):
out of control and rotten to the core and politicized
the FBI had become, and how they had absolutely no
problem at all whatsoever with political weaponization. We appreciate the
information we've gotten today. We look forward to further investigation
(02:55):
on this.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
What further investigation? Any more investigations do we need? You
heard them list a laundry list decades long of Democrats
since the occupation of the oval office of Barack with
sin Obama, Democrats coming after Republicans, not me saying it.
Here's Senator Kennedy.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Okay, if civil suits are filed against the perpetrators, at
the FBI. Will that facilitate your investigation? Well, what's the
question again? If they eight senators who were spied upon,
Throe the hell out of the Department of Justice and
the perpetrators involved, will that facilitate their investigation and or yours.
(03:43):
I guess what I'm getting to is, I don't understand
why we don't have a separate hearing. I find this breasttaking.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
It's just been twenty four hours since the FBI investigated
on it.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Please give me an opportunity to soart through all that.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Fair enough, I just don't want to wait twenty four
years to get an answer.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Yeah, well, if passes prologue, Senator Kennedy, you're gonna be
waiting one hundred and twenty four years. Because every single
time these Democrats are caught red handed, it seems there
are air quotes Republicans who were there to, hey, let's
launch another investigation so we can drag it out for
years and years and years. Then the public loses interest
(04:23):
and the Democrats get off scott free for doing the unthinkable,
weaponizing government against our people. Folks, I'm sick of this.
I'm sick and tired of the Democrats getting away with
what they're getting away with. And Senator Kennedy took his
time when he was talking with the Attorney General Pam Bondy,
he had a full eight minutes. I'm not going to
play all eight minutes for you. But Senator Kennedy seems
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to me something else is different here. Something else is
different because Senator Kennedy he wants he wants his pound
of flesh. He wants these individuals who did awful things
things to this country. He wants them to go to jail.
He wants them to hurt the way they have hurt us.
Listen to this general welcome.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I'm not suppose that I'm appointed special counsel at the
Department of Justice, and I go to the to the
telecommunication companies, the phone companies. Let's let's let's let's single
out AT and T and I say, look, I know
you're busy, but I want to see a copy of
(05:35):
the phone records of the city United States. Senator.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
They're not going to just give them to me.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Are they no, Senator, of course not.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
In fact, they're probably going to ask me what planet
I just perish you who did from? Aren't they?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Yes, Senator, They're.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Gonna tell me to come back with a subpoena, aren't they?
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Yes, Senator, Okay, What do I have to show when
that subpoena to get those phone records of a sitting
did I mission it was a.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Sitting United States Senator? I can't remember. What do I
have to show to get the phone records of a
sitting United States senator? Yeh?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Senator there were actually eight sitting United States and you would.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Have to have cause? I'm sorry, what do I have
to show?
Speaker 8 (06:23):
You would have to have cause to get this cause
from probable cause? Probable cause, okay, and probable calls or if.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
It's a subpoena, duces take them good calls to show
what you.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Would need good calls for a subpoena ducas tiakam. Then
what you would have to show is that you believed
a crime had been committed or there was a possibility
of a crime or that could lead to other crimes.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Right, you would have to demonstrate that there actual was
criminal activity actually happening with these eight senators to get
their phone records, which, by the way, folks, according to
what kysh Buttel released, there was no evidence whatsoever of a.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Crime we requently in criminal enterprises.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
By the city United States Senator.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Senator, they would have to have believed you were part
of a criminal conspiracy, is my understanding.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
What would a judge have to sign off on it.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
On the on the subpoena, yes, Senator, Well, for a
subpoena duca stiacum, Jock Smith probably took it straight to
the judge.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Now, the phone companies, particularly their general council, if they're
worried about civil liability, even with a subpoena to get
the phone wrecords of the sitting United States Senator, Did
I mention it was a sitting United.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
States Yes, Senator, the general.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Council for that phone company. But he gonna say at
and T they have the right to seek toquash that subpoena,
don't they?
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Phone companies frequently do that.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, and and a smart general council for that phone
company is going to call the city United States Senator
and say, would you like to weigh in on this?
Would you like me to cush the subpoena? U We're
talking about invading someone's privacy here by a sitting United
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States Senator could could the general council for the phone
company do that.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Well, Senator, if they believe that a crime could have
been committed, they could not tip off the person who
committed the crime. Again, I can't comment on details of this.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah, in particular case, I'm just asking you theoretically, I've
never seen you commit a crime. But let's suppose Okay,
they couldn't they didn't want to tip off the sitting
United States senators. But the phone company and the general
council for the phone company are companies. If there were
more than one involved, could say, you know, this is
this is serious as an aneurism, this is serious as
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for auto tax and a stroke. This is a city
United States Senator, So general counsel would likely advise the CEO,
you need to file a motion to quash. The telephone
companies could have contested those subpoenas, could they not.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Hypothetically, Yes, they can't talk about the facts in particular.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Okay, we're talking hypothetical.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Yeah, we're talking hypothetical here, folks. They're not, but they
have to. As you all know, certain companies phone companies
didn't quash, didn't seek to protect the personal data of
sitting US senators or American citizens for that matter, And
(09:58):
they just hand it over. We had that over these
records to individuals who were using the information. It is
alleged for partisan attacks against their political opponents. Now, some
would say that it was the left wing CEOs of
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these telecom companies who don't like conservatives, don't like Republicans
very much, don't like President Trump very much, who were
all too eager to turn these over. So what what
Senator Kennedy's driving.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
At Nader Seppoenas are issued all the time through phone
companies working with the General Counsel.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
But they can file.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
They could, yes, in any case.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
And if they should have filed emotion to quash, and
a reasonable person would have filed emotion to quash because
this is a city United States senator and they didn't
file emotion to quash, they would incurse civil liability, wouldn't they?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Oh yeah, they would incurse civil liability. Can you imagine, folks,
Each one of these Republican senators who had their data
breached could sue whichever telecom company cooperated with Beijing, Biden
and left wing Marxists that have infected our government. Can
you imagine the lawsuit that could be in the billions
(11:25):
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Speaker 5 (15:14):
My next guest, you know, usually I bring him on
and we're talking. Usually it's me complaining about breaches of
law that have gone unaddressed. Usually it's about the legislature.
And you know, I'm gonna do something a little different
with my next guest. I'm going to talk pure politics
because my next guest is aiming to try to be
(15:36):
the second conservative senator to serve in Washington for US
here in Texas, because I believe we deserve in Texas
two conservative senators, not just the one that we have.
Ken Paxton is the most effective conservative attorney general in
this country. He's running for US Senate to ensure again
that Finally, Texas has two conservative senators.
Speaker 9 (15:57):
Sir, welcome back, Hey Chris, thanks for having me back on.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Pleasures all mind sir, and look before you even get started,
because you and I are usually talking business. I've never
even said it publicly or on the air, hell even
in private. Thank you. Thank you for defending me in mind.
That is my criteria for sentence vote for congressional votes
for dog catcher. How well have you protected me in mine?
(16:24):
That's how I'm going to be making my vote come
the primaries. And I just want to thank you because
you fit that criteria. You have protected me and mine
from left wing extremists for years now, and that's what
I'm recommending everybody do. Any commentary on on your outlook politically,
how you vote, how what metrics you use.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
Yeah, because I'm first of all thank you for that.
It's been an honor for me, a little joy to
serve Texas for the last eleven years than the as
attorney general. There's no better state to serve, and we
certainly had opportunities to fight the fedtle government. It was
Joe Biden or Barack Obama or big companies that were
abusing their power. So I look at it very similarly.
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I'm looking out for my family. I have six grandchildren
now four children, and I want a country that's free.
I want a country where there's opportunity. I want a
country where the government doesn't control everything or the media,
and where my kids and my grandchildren have the opportunity
to do what they want to do based on their
(17:30):
own abilities, their own work etiquette, and not be have
it all taken away by the government or controlled by
the government.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Amen to that.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Unlet's you and I have a discussion about the job
that you're seeking, because you want to be the second
conservative senator from the grace state of Texas to go
to Washington, d C. And right now, the Democrats have
shut down the government, and the Republicans have shut down
the government in the past, but they have done so
on our behalf, on behalf of American citizens, on various issues.
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The Democrats are shutting down government to maintain funding for
illegal alien health care. Your thoughts on.
Speaker 9 (18:06):
This here, It's just hard to believe that that's where
the Democratic Party is gone instead of looking out for Americans,
because they're asking Americans to step up foot the bill
billions trillions of dollars of spending for people that are
not supposed to be here. And look, it would be
great if America had enough money to spend on everybody
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in the world and pay for their education and pay
for their healthcare. So that's what this is all about.
Once you're paying for their healthcare, you're also paying for
their education, you're paying for other costs associated with them
being here. We can't afford that unless America wants to
be all poor and we don't want to take care
of our own children, our own grandchildren. It's just not
going to work. We're already thirty seven point five trillion
(18:48):
dollars in debt. It's time to be responsible, pay pay
our debts, and stop wasting money.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Indeed, and you know your opponent, Senator John Cornyn, has
been in the Senate forever and forever and forever and
rubber stamping all of this massive, uncontrolled overspending. We are
now at thirty seven zero point five trillion dollars in debt,
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and mister Attorney General, that translates to a trillion dollars
in interest alone, and the federal government only brings in
through taxes about four four and a half trillion dollars
in taxes every year. So right off the bat, twenty
five percent of what Americans are sitting to Washington goes
to debt service. And your opponent has been one of
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the main drivers of massive, uncontrolled debt in this country.
How does that grab you?
Speaker 9 (19:42):
Well, he's then there's this two thousand and two, the
national debt was six point two trillion at that time.
Think about that, from the time of Washington to the
time of George Bush and John Corn coming into office
a US senator six point two trillion debt obviously stole
a lot of money. He is not taking it seriously.
He doesn't complain about it, he doesn't fight it, he
(20:03):
doesn't stand up for us and say enough. He hasn't
done it. And he's allowed another thirty one trillion to
go on the books under his watch, which has been
for almost twenty four years. And so you're not even
going to speak up on spending and how it affects
Americans or how it's going to affect our economy and
our kids and our grandkids. Then it's time for you
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to come home and do something different.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Correct, And you know what, all the overspending, all this
printing of money does has an effect. It's called inflation.
Inflation isn't some plague, isn't some disease that we just catch,
mister Attorney General. It is government caused. And one of
the individuals who has been one of the instruments Mitch McConnell,
(20:47):
Lisa mckowski, all the rest of these Charlatans claiming to
be Republicans is your opponent, John Cornyn. And there's got
to be some sort of accounting for that, no pun intended.
Speaker 9 (20:59):
Look, it's pretty incredible that you might expected John Cornan
to represent a more liberal state. Maybe we get lucky
and get him in Illinois, but not Texas, where we
expect our senators to fight for us, to not capitulate
with Joe Biden, which John Corny did on the gun
restrictions and limiting our Second Amendment rights. You'd expect him
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to stand up and fight for the border, which now
he's suddenly advertising and he's been fighting for the border
wall forever, when in reality, for years and years and years,
we have many clips of him saying the border wall
is a bad idea, I don't like Trump's ideas, and
he's also been very critical of President of Trump, not
supporting him thinking he should not run for president either
time that he won, But now that we're in a primary,
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all of that's gone by the wayside, and not acknowledging
his record, and he's not acknowledging the bad things that
he's done or the lack thereof I think he should
have been doing.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Folks were joined now by the Attorney general, the conservative
Attorney General the great State of Texas, Ken Pashion, who
is running for the United States Senate to replace a
rather feckless, ineffective in my opinion, Senator John Cornyn. You
brought this up, and we made a note that we
were going to ask you about this because I got
a call from on an earlier radio show from a
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listener who hears these ads being run by by Senator Cornyan.
By the way, he's spending an awful lot of money
in the primary. One wonders if he's going to have
anything left in a general if he makes it that far.
But anyway, he's spending an awful lot of money trying
to convince Texans that he's somebody he's not. And again,
you're right, he's trying to tell the people of Texas
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that he's been strong on the border but we have
him on tape, and we have him on votes where
he is saying he doesn't believe in border barriers. He
didn't believe in President Trump's border wall. He actually voted
to stop money going to border barriers. That's John Cornan's record.
Speaker 9 (22:55):
No, No, that's absolutely true, and it's pretty disgusting. Been
in the office for over forty years, over four decades.
I was in college when he started in public office.
I'm now sixty two and he's still serving. And instead
of standing by what he has done, he denies it.
He spends three million dollars a week that he's getting
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from Washington, from Washington Pax and lobbyists to keep him
in position to do the very same thing, which is nothing.
And he's had all of this time to accomplish things
that he has not done it. And I've been going
around to State Chris, I've been asking people, so let's
give him the whole forty years of his service. What
remarkable thing has John Cornyn accomplished for the state of
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Sexis or for the country, other than being opposed to
border walls and other being opposed to the Second Amendment,
be other than being opposed to President Trump and other
than being the guy that wrote the robin Hood decision
that created wealthree distribution for our schools, what remarkable thing
has he done? And I have never gotten an answer
in all of my talks with donors, with you know,
(24:03):
just being out on the campaign trail, I just never
get an answer. And it's kind of amazing that no
one knows anything remarkable that John corn has done. And
he's not advertising anything that he's done. He's just making
up things like I'm for the border wall, which we
now we all know his fault right.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
And on the border, his votes. He took that vote
to defund border wall construction and border barriers. He took
that vote knowing what the massive uncontrolled illegal immigration was
doing under the Biden regime was doing the Latino communities
all along the border. John Cornyan voted to make our communities,
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of the Latino communities along the border less safe. And
I think a lot of people in the Latino community
know that John Cornan is is not their friend. I
want to pivot with you, mister Attorney General, to something
that happened in Washington, d C. This is Pete Hagseth
and the President of the United States in an unprecedented
gathering of top brass in the United States Military and
(25:02):
told them, among other things, you're gonna have to be
in shape. These requirements from the United States Military are
being restored. We're not going to be woke anymore. Here
here's what Pete Hegseth said to summarize his comments from
the War Department. Listen, and most of all, Lord, please
keep my soldiers safe. He's thanking God. He's invoking God
(25:27):
in this discussion, while he's saying no more woke bs,
no more dudes and dresses, none of that stuff. What
was your reaction, seeing as you want your aspiring to
be a senator from Texas and you're going to have
votes on funding for the United States Military and making
sure the military is is not woke anymore, that it's
fulfilling its mission. What was your reaction when you heard that,
(25:51):
finally the US military was kicking woke, diversity, inclusion, equity,
cultural Marxism out of it.
Speaker 9 (25:57):
Thank God for Pete excess, and don't trump. You know,
my father was a beef It's two pilot for twenty
one twenty two years in the United States Air Force.
My daughter served the United States Air Force and went
to Afghanistan twice as a telligence officer serve for a
special forces unit. Two of my sons in law were
in special Forces in the United States Air Force that
were pj's and crows, you know, go into Iraq three times.
(26:19):
One of them did, and then my other son in
law was a tank commander, and they were all dealing
with the woke issues of the military, struggling with being
forced to get COVID shots when they didn't want to
do it and forced to do crazy, you know, woke classes.
And the reality is we need a military that can perform.
We're going to be We have potential huge enemy of
China and other nations that want us gone, and so
(26:43):
we need to focus on being the best war machine
we can be to preserve our freedom or we are
going to lose. So it's it's I don't know if
there's many more important things that could be done than
what Pete is doing. Right now.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
We're talking to ken Fashion folks, the conservative Attorney general
here in the great state of Texas, who serve this state,
who has protected me and mine and you and yours
for eleven years by stopping left wing lunacy. Rather than
voting along with it on the campaign trail, because, as
we already alluded to, you're you're interacting with Texans and
you're having a hard time finding anybody who can point
(27:17):
to anything that John corn has done for us. I'm
wondering because we're you know, this is my job. I
keep track of this stuff. But I'm wondering if if
people on the campaign trail have been coming up to
you saying, hey, I know what John Cornyn did to
us when he sided with Democrats, when he sided with
leftists again, when he sat back and allowed the woke,
(27:40):
the wokenization, if you can, if that's even a term
of our United States military putting the safety and security
of every man, woman, and child in this country at risk.
What kind of feedback are you getting on the trail.
Speaker 9 (27:51):
I don't know that most people know the extent of
his betrayal for Texas and the lack of production over
a very long period of time, But they all seem
to be aware that they can't think of anything that
he's actually accomplished. I mean, they just whether they're all
pretty educated, and they pretty much primary voters, and yet
they can't think of anything. And I think it speaks
(28:13):
to them. Why can't I identify John Cornyn with good
and they do know often know about the you know,
the Second Amendment issue where he basically said, Joe Biden
wanted restrictions, so we got them some. We did what
we had to do to pass something. So I think
they are aware of the Second Amendment issue. I don't know.
We're trying to make them aware of the many other
issues that John has not stood with us on, including the.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Spending issue, yeah, overspending, on the Second Amendment, on illegal immigration.
John Cornyn has been on the wrong side of history
as he has sided with his good Democrat friends. Let's
bring Chris.
Speaker 9 (28:48):
These are not little issues. These are big issues. These
are not like, oh, second amendments not no big deal.
You know, I'm not for it. I'm here with Joe Biden.
Joe Biden's congratulating means I feel good about that. I'm
happy about this. Who how do we have a senator
from Texas happy that Joe Biden congratulated him and a
few other sellout Republicans for pushing restrictions on the Second Amendment.
(29:10):
I don't get how he can last. And Donald Trump
said it at the time he said this guy should
be replaced in the primary, and he is a he's
definitely a liberal.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah, well.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Absolutely, he's one of the last fake Republicans in the
Bush dynasty. And I think, just from my vantage point,
from my purge here, Texans are done with individuals who
are selling us out to play kate, leftists and socialists
who have done so much immeasurable damage to this country.
(29:44):
I want to focus on our state too, because there
are some issues. People forget that. You were also in
the state legislature as a representative, and I want to
get your take on the closing of primaries. I think
it was unconscionable that so called Republicans in the Texas
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House didn't get this done. It went to Matt Shaheen's
committee and he made sure mister Shaheen did that. It
died and now we've got to go and you know
the long road that now the Republican Party, the Conservative
Republican Party of Texas has to go through through a
lawsuit to get this done. In my view, it's unconscionable
that fake Republicans did this to close our primaries. What
(30:27):
do you think?
Speaker 9 (30:28):
I think it's really hard to believe that a Republican House,
that Matt Shaheenes, who lauded himself when he ran the
first time as a conservative on these types of issues,
that he doesn't have the ability to push it forward
or speak out that we need to close our primaries
to protect our Republican members because we saw what happened
with Day Feel and thousands of Democrats came over in
a Republican primary and got him re elected as the
(30:51):
Republican nominee. But for those Democrats he would not have
been elected. And that happened over and over all kinds
of races. Why would Republicans want Democrats deciding who are
Republican nominees are going to be for any office? Unless
you thought that was good for your views, but you're
more liberal, and that's what happens. We end up with
more liberal Republicans. Democrats maybe can't win that seat, so
(31:15):
they move over to help move our party left, even
though they hate our party and they hate our views.
It just makes no sense that it's just wrong that
we've let this happen, and I agree we need to
stop it.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Well, and you know what, it's going to be a
long road to hoe and I and it's sad that
because of these fake Republicans like mister Shaheen, that we
have to go to the lawsuit route, which is going
to take longer and it's probably not going to help
us in the twenty six mid term elections, the one
you're you're going to be running in. And that leads
me to the last point about the censure provisions. As
you know, Rule forty four has been adopted by those
(31:50):
conservatives who who dominate the Republican Party of Texas, and
it's kind of fraught with some you know, this is
the first foray and actually holding our elected officials accountable
because we're not used to Republicans stabbing us in the
back to the degree that they have had been doing
in the state of Texas. And you're running against a
fake Republican. So this idea of the party being able
(32:15):
to say, basically worst case scenario, kicking out individuals who
have sullied the Republican brand, who have betrayed their voters.
How essential do you think that is that that be refined, maintained,
and simplified so that so that these officials in the
party know who they work for and it's not for Democrats,
(32:36):
and it's not for the legislature, and it's not for
Dad Feeling or Dusty Burrows or any of these entrenched interests.
They actually work for the people.
Speaker 9 (32:44):
I think it's really important. I've been you know, I
was in texasiles for twelve years, and then of course
I've been Attorney General for eleven and I have. One
of the most frustrating things that I've had to deal
with is Republicans who get elected who do not care
what our party platform says, or they don't care about
any of it, and they don't help us. They don't
(33:05):
align with us, they tend to side with the Democrat
and they get away with it because the media doesn't
cover it. I mean, the mainstream media doesn't cover it.
Of course you do, but so few people know which
of that know that their representative is selling them out
because there's so many issues that they're doing it on. So,
if the Republican Party wants to have real Republican leadership
(33:25):
and they want a vision for our country that's conservative,
it's free, it's not all tied up with what the
Democrats want, we are going to have to be transparent
and talk about the people that are Republicans that are
not doing the job that they were elected to do.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
I want to end the interview where I started.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
In my opinion, you typify the criteria. You exemplify the
criteria that I'm using for my vote. How well has
this person who was asking for my vote defended me
in mind? And I think Ken Paxton is is the
gold standard for defending me and mine, us and ours
folks in the state of Texas from left wing coops, freaks,
(34:07):
and nuts. That's just one liberty loving Latino's opinion, Ken Paxton,
Thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Hey, thank you.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
Have a great day. Chris
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