But as a political consultant, she represented the most radical elements of the Democratic platform, not these modest elements I just listed.

You're 100% correct.

And we had our one and only debate today.

We agreed to do five different debates, and Rebecca Cook would only agree to do one.

And it's interesting because she included one of her staff lied and said that we try to drop out of another debate.

It's just not true.

So I want everybody to pay attention.

Tell me that story, please.

How tough is the environment for Republicans on the tickets?

Well, I mean, you can't deny that gas is too high right now and diesel is too high.

You just can't do that.

You know what I mean? We live in a rural district, and it's raining outside.

It's beautiful.

You've got to acknowledge the environment right now.

But we're going to win this district, and this is why, Manu.

Are you okay with your constituents eating the cost from this war?

Wouldn't a lot of you want to, like, stand up for Hegsley? I won't fucking punch someone in the face for Pete from Hegsley.

Yeah.

He has changed the culture of the Department of War to focus on war.

And anybody that's talking shit about him doesn't know what they're talking about.

Is this really a check that Donald Trump's really even going to be able to write?

Thank you for bringing up Iran.

All right, so about 50 years ago, some radical Muslim mullahs, which you're having a problem with in your country right now, took over our embassy.

took a bunch of Americans, 53 Americans hostage, including Kevin Herman, who is a Wisconsinite.

He's the youngest hostage taken by those savages.

They beat them, tortured them, false executions, everything.

And then they were finally released and Ronald Reagan came into office.

Okay, to final question though, you seem pretty bullish about prospects then

get more reinforcements in the halls

of the House? Well, listen, Wisconsin is not a purple state.

It's not a blue state.

It is a state full of conservatives that don't vote.

So Hunter Nation, we've been working with them for years now, and they're doing a great job.

So as an example, the state of Wisconsin, there's over 100,000 people that consider themselves conservative that have voted only one time in the last 16 years.

Okay, Wisconsin's presidential elections are decided by 25,000 votes.

I mean, that's the way you win an

While we're on that, just sort of tell me where you are with the DSA and how it is playing its role in the Democratic Party right now.

Well, s- I have a copy of the Communist Manifesto on the desktop of my, or on the, uh, the desktop of my computer, and the reason being is I worked to counter Russian and counter Malai- Ir- Iranian malign problem set in Europe for over three years.

Socialism is just the bridge between capitalism and communism.

So Americans who love freedom, Americans who love the ability to choose their way of life, Americans who love to be able to, uh, you know, own firearms and celebrate the Constitution should be very, very concerned about this, this DSA movement because it is a communist movement, and it should really scare the you-know-what out of everybody.

There's over 20 communist lites that have won their primaries across the country, and Francesca Hong is really poised to win the Democrat nomination for the governorship in the state of Wisconsin.

Rebecca Cook espouses all the same policies, including defunding the police, that Francesca Hong does.

She's just not saying it out loud.

Okay.

Mr.

President, yesterday we got to spend about an hour and a half in the Oval Office, and you announced the $50 million that you are sending to the state of Wisconsin for a clean, beautiful coal.

Thank you for that.

Mr.

President, you signed a $50 billion rural health care infrastructure bill.

Of that, over $200 million is coming to the state of Wisconsin to make sure that we have health care in our rural areas.

Thank you for that, sir.

It's a

little

Derek, please.

Mr.

President, yesterday we got to spend about an hour and a half in the Oval Office, and you announced the $50 million that you are sending to the state of Wisconsin for clean, beautiful coal.

Thank you for that.

Mr.

President, you signed a $50 billion rural health care infrastructure bill.

How do you answer that question to people in Wisconsin?

Well, I remind them that I fill up my Ford F-150 with gasoline also.

And that, you know, wh- when I personalize things about my friends, uh, people really understand it.

We're a very giving, um, awesome folks here in Wisconsin, and we also have the long-term view here.

M- meaning, you know, when you plant a crop, it takes a long time, it's on God's time for that crop to be harvested.

So we understand time.

And, uh, it's difficult right now.

I find that insulting to everybody who's also served and gone to war.

Mm-hmm.

And do I wanna see an American citizen killed? Hell no.

I risked my life repeatedly over a period of decades to protect American citizens, so I don't wanna see American citizens die.

This is also what I learned as a senior enlisted person and a combat leader.

Um, it's incredibly difficult to put yourself in the shoes of somebody that's standing there potentially being run over by a vehicle or getting shot at or getting blown up.

So I am not going to, as a professional, and I am a professional, second guess what's going on.

And what I will do is wait until we have a complete and thorough investigation, but it sure as heck looks like this was an act of domestic terrorism by this woman trying to run over a federal agent, and he was acting out of self-defense.

... or one could ask, does that really help the situation? Does it really help? What do you say to that?

What's it like? What was it like in the '90s when you were there? What is it like now?

Oh my gosh.

Well, we were doing counter-narcotics operations, not counter-terrorism operations, to be super clear.

Um, Caracas was...

It was absolutely beautiful.

It was, uh, like Manhattan after Giuliani cleaned that place up.

And then we spent, uh, a month or so going up and down the Orinoco River and all over through the jungle.

Should they, should you have been briefed? Should we have debated this on the Senate and House floor?

uh congressman so i'm looking at some of your colleagues who sit on the house armed services committee and on thursday they're going to get a briefing um relative to that boat strike back in september um that's now questionable and i'm asking you this question because of your military chops because of your military experience what are you hearing or do you have concerns about the way that situation reportedly was carried out and i say reportedly because we of course weren't there we aren't privy to all of the information and so everything that we're going on here in the public is basically through reports uh and and sourcing um what are your thoughts initially based on the information that you've been privy to

when the new york times calls out the washington post for being full of that should say something to you now let me put this in a way that people can readily frame better if you're on the battlefield and you see a tank and you shoot a javelin missile at that tank, and it doesn't destroy the tank completely, regardless if there's members of the crew of the tank hanging off the tank, you'll launch another missile, period.

That's what you do.

Warfare is brutal.

And if there was a seat cushion from that boat still floating, they should have launched another missile, and then another, and another, and another.

These people are responsible for killing more American citizens than all of the combined casualties of every war we have ever fought since the Revolutionary War.

So these are designated terrorists, and they are legitimate military targets.

What are you expecting to hear from this admiral on Thursday? And is there anything that you could hear that potentially would change your perspective on all of this? Or is this a pretty clear cut from your perspective?

Would you, would you tell the audience what you were doing when you were driving down the highway in Wisconsin?

Uh, well, we were in Iowa.

Uh, I do live in Wisconsin, but we were on our way down to, uh, get with family because, uh, this last Tuesday was- is the, uh, second anniversary of our oldest daughter dying from cancer.

And, um, we were gonna go down to meet the family and- and that day, this last Saturday, have a memorial service for her.

So that's the context.

And we're driving on Highway 35 South, just south of Osceola, Iowa, and I noticed a, uh, a semi trailer pulled off on the side of the road in the northbound lane.

So didn't think anything of it until about a second later I heard a m- I heard a massive boom and looked in my rearview mirror and saw a minivan in the process of disintegrating....

You recognized them as fellow, uh, good samaritans.

Gasp!

... unconstitutional.

So, it's just absurd.

And you got to think.

Put aside any type of moral or ethical grounding that you have to, like, make a functioning republic and think solely about, about power, accumulating personal political power.

That's what these people are doing.

And I found it absolutely hilarious that the Democrats from Texas, of all states to congregate in, uh, to protest gerrymandering, would be Illinois.

What's going on in Wisconsin? Because I- I thought you had won the lawsuit and there wouldn't be another reded- redistricting.

And the knucklehead caucus drives me crazy, but I guess they drive you crazier than me.

me.Hey, Hugh? That was a shot over the bow.

I do not work for the Freedom Caucus.

I don't work for the Republican leadership.

I work for the constituents, mine of the Third Congressional District of the State of Wisconsin, and I'm sick and tired of these Freedom Caucus people wasting our country's time.

435 members of Congress wasted an entire day.

Now, take all of those members of Congress, all of their staff, all of the money they're getting, all of the benefits that they're getting, and apply that to a budget.

What is, what about teamwork do they not understand, or do you get it because you were a SEAL for so many years?