Does that mean the Republicans are concerned that they might lose to Tallarico?

Well, look, I think Texans deserve the truth out of their elected officials, and I am one of those.

So I owe it to my constituents.

I owe it to 30 million Texans to tell them the truth.

And look, the reality is we do have a race on our hands.

A lot of the polling, I think, should concern people.

And it's one of the reasons I'm really excited that President Trump is coming to Texas for a couple of days, because quite frankly, as you and I have discussed many times about the uniparty establishment in Austin, in far too many ways, Texas elected leadership has just been coasting on our reputation for low taxes and low regulations, that sort of thing, instead of living up to it.

Why don't the parties do a better job of serving their voters on both sides of the aisle?

stuff out there.

I think I tried to talk you into pitching once or twice, and that didn't work out.

But, well, thank you for the kind words.

And, yeah, on the hitting side, you know, I've just – I'm fortunate to be around, like, a great network of people, right? It's a whole iron sharpens iron thing, right? The think tanks.

When you're around other people – that are as invested as you and want to study it you just learn from them and you get better and anyways I just think I've gotten better and it's trial by error and unfortunately you know in coaching you know a lot of times you do screw guys up and you learn from that so that you don't do that again so I think the constant pursuit to try and get better on the hitting side is And then the pitching side, what I would say is, as you know, small school, we have limited resources.

And our assistant, Tom DeAngelis, was a hitting guy.

And he was really, really good.

So, you know, what kind of things have played into your ability to keep people, you know, to keep young people for an extended period of time?

How quickly can it be called? When can it take place? And what are the two or three items that Brian Harrison with his hand on the pulse of the grassroots think must be addressed, sir?

People are confused about this.

The governor could call a special session.

It's 9-22 in Texas on the 10th of August.

He could call a special session at 9-23 on the 10th of August.

And long before the month is over, before we get out of the month of August, we could pass bold, conservative, pro-liberty legislation.

And a lot of items I think we need to deal with.

How possibly could the Republicans give this guy the one tiny thing he hangs on to show the world on television ads that he's not a circus freak, sir?

Brian Harrison, the floor is yours.

This is an absolute scandal.

It's an outrage.

I think we've got the Texas government engaged in a cover up at this point.

Let me take you back in time where this all started was with that absolute abomination of a Supreme Court birthright citizenship ruling.

Right.

Everybody remembers this.

Are you telling me that the Texas government under Abbott is paying as has advertising these websites up, advertising how you actually do this and accomplish this to foreigners, sir, that are not U.S. citizens?

What do you say?

Yeah, well, absolutely.

Of course, it would be challenged because every progressive Marxist open borders leftist wants unmitigated and maximum immigration, and especially illegal immigration.

The more illegal, the better.

That's what they want.

So, of course, they would challenge this.

But I think, look, as the state of Texas, we should use every bit of authority we have under the 10th Amendment, under the sovereignty principles that undergirded the Constitution and otherwise.

Remind the people what you and your office did with that.

And you say you think you have a solution to this entire mess, sir?

Well, yeah, I mean, under our constitution, those radicals called our founding fathers understood the states were supposed to be the sovereigns.

It was these United States.

It was the states that created the federal government, not the other way around.

And we're Texas, the eighth largest economy on earth.

We used to be our own republic, for crying out loud.

And I'm sick and tired of the Texas government and the leadership down here, the weak leadership, taking it on the chin when destructive edicts come rolling down from Washington, D.C., people in black robes up there, that have the literal potential to tear apart the very fabric of our republic and destroy what it means to be a United States citizen.

Why don't our people enthusiastic if the political leaders get it? What is it about our established order here that refuses to see where the people's heads and hearts are, sir?

You're on the case of birthright citizenship.

Well, that's exactly right.

Great to join you this morning and look at it in light of, look, let's start with the basics for me on this.

The states under our constitution, it's the states that are sovereign.

Okay.

It is not the federal government.

The federal government was a creation of the states and the states as a proud Texan.

How do you prove that somebody came here for the express purpose of creating an American citizen via a birth? I mean, how do you prove the intent?

Now walk us through your journey prior to BW as a baseball player and then transitioning to a coach.

Oh man.

So, so I'm from Cleveland, Ohio back then when it was, you know, horse and buggy, you know, the recruiting schemes scene was a heck of a lot different than it is now.

I went to three schools, Mike.

I was in the portal before it was cool to be in the portal.

And got done playing at an NEI school down at Shawnee State on the Ohio River, down in Portsmouth.

And we went to the NEI World Series.

So

So how does one, you know, craft that particular section? Right.

Yes.

Well, the problem is with writing a book of this kind, you've got to try and bear in mind the likely opinions of the people who are going to read it and not ignore them.

And I should confess that I'm an enthusiastic European.

I always have been.

And I voted against Brexit.

I thought it was a major mistake.

Why did you call the book Yesterday the title? Is it a Lennon-McCartney reference? Why is the title of the book Yesterday?

Just give folks throughout the country how radical Cornyn and the donors and what they will do to hold their power, sir.

Well, I mean, there's almost no limits to the things they will do.

I mean, I'm a native Texan.

I love this state.

And I had battled the biggest swamp of them all in Washington, D.C. with President Trump in his first term.

When I moved back to Texas and got elected four or five years ago, people had warned me there was a rhino problem in the Texas government.

But it seemed incomprehensible to me because voters give Republicans what they got.

Your thoughts, sir?

How important is it that Ken Paxton win this race for the Senate?

Well, let me talk about what a difference just three short years makes talking about rhinos.

This is, I think, the undertone of your whole story here, Grant, is that voters are sick and tired of voting for Republicans, only for those Republicans, once they get in office, to sell us out time and time again.

The biggest point here is... is that John Cornyn, this primary mess, the fact that he's in a fight for his political life, is a mess of his own creation.

The reason that Ken Paxton is draining on him like this is because John Cornyn has spent his career in the United States Senate being insufficiently conservative on some of the most core republican values like you know red flag laws and the second amendment and border security and let's go back in time just three short years speaking of rhinos i serve in the texas house now i swim in a sea of rhinos and just three years ago the entire republican establishment in texas was going to take ten packs now this whole sham impeachment was almost three years ago maybe to the day i was one of only four keep in mind there's almost 90 republicans in the texas house I was one of only four Republicans that had the courage to go to the floor of the Texas House and speak out against that sham impeachment, which, of course, he was vindicated on.

And now, three years later, he just gets the endorsement of the Republican president of the United States to be the next Republican nominee for U.S.

Senator from the great state of Texas.

I imagine you don't either.

What is your take on speaker boroughs speaking at the convention?

Well, just because we're dealing with a national audience here who may not be as familiar with Texas politics, I feel like I've got to highlight a couple of things you just went over so folks understand what we're dealing with.

After serving as President Trump's chief of staff at the biggest cabinet agency in his first term, I moved back home to Texas, was elected to the Texas legislature, and I was excited to lock arms with all these elected Republicans in Texas because I thought that every elected Republican in Texas was fighting as hard for freedom and liberty of the next generation as those of us in the Trump administration.

And the state of Texas has got this reputation, right, for leading and, you know, small government and low taxes and low regulations and bold conservative leadership.

And Neal Quinton, Nothing could have shocked me or prepared me for this shock of learning after I got elected that basically red Texas, bold conservative Texas, is a myth.

And Texas has just been coasting on that reputation.

And worse, not only are we just coasting on our reputation, the Texas government, in particular the Texas House, has actually allowed and is controlled by the radical progressive Democrat.

So let me ask you about, as we turn our attention to the national level, so what's happening in Texas is happening on the national level with the Senate Republicans refusing to return to the founding fathers vision for the uh... for the uh... filibuster they they think uh... mitch mcconnell and john phone john barasso john corn and they all think that they know better than the founding fathers of this country keeping the zombie filibuster not making the democrats stand and they're denying election integrity ahead of the twenty twenty six midterm in other words keeping the ability for democrats to cheat of the ballot box going strong What is your take on the intransigence of Senate Republicans and not passing the Save America Act?

How is a Democrat, especially one like this, in a leadership position in a Republican-controlled House of Representatives? Can you

tell me? After I worked for President Trump as his chief of staff at the biggest cabinet agency in his first term, nothing could have prepared me for the shock.

when I got elected to the Texas legislature, of learning that radical Democrats control the Republican-dominated Texas House.

And you ask, how is somebody as radical as James Tallarico in House leadership? Well, I'll tell you how.

It's because James Tallarico was part of the coalition, a key part of the coalition, that elected our so-called Republican Speaker.

That's right.

I'm going to say this again.

Brian, I will acknowledge that no one will accuse me of being a preacher man ever, but I'm going to tell you this, he's dead ass wrong on this one.