Rick Crawford

On October 14th, three House Republican committee leaders sent DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen a letter asking him to strip vessels operated by Chinese state-owned shipper COSCO of their enrollment in the Coast Guard's Qualship 21 program.

What the hell is that? The signers are Chinese Select Committee Chairman John Moolenaar of Michigan, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford of Arkansas, et cetera.

The Qualship 21 Rewards Foreign Commercial Ship program, um, basically says that these companies have strong safety and compliance records with fewer routine inspections at US ports.

The AFIC Time notes enrollment does not exempt ships from security checks or other law enforcement inspections, but it says that they get fewer of them because they've, they've passed them in before.

Really? Joe Biden's Homeland Security team didn't wanna...

They didn't want to investigate that? No, they were too busy ushering in how many millions of people? Now, Benny Johnson has House Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford on, and this guy is...

He's seen all of the details.

He said, "Look, Ilhan Omar [laughs] was the tip of the spear of a criminal enterprise." This is why I believe it has to do with the money and Al-Shabaab.

In fact, the farm my dad hunts and has leased for, I think this will be 45 years, somewhere in the ballpark of 45 years, they farmed 1,000 less acres this year.

Yeah, it's... it's tough um i mean obviously rice acres were down a lot so that's going to lend itself to a much quicker harvest because you can you can really walk through some beans with a combine so that's a lot quicker but it is tough you know farmer and i were having a pretty good gripe session the other day we were talking about you know diesel fuel right now i think i don't know what it is right now i haven't bought it because we haven't watered but uh over well over four dollars a gallon this summer um and we asked him you know what was the cheapest he ever bought a load of fuel and i don't remember his answer it was a little bit lower than mine but i think mine was 79 cents a gallon was the cheapest farm fuel ever bought now you got to keep in mind back then it was actually high sulfur fuel through all the refining and all that we've gone away so what we're using now used to be highway fuel in terms of the low soil floor versus ultra low and anyway without getting on that road but but yeah it's difficult i mean because you look at you know every other input that we use has gone up the same way but our commodity prices have not you know haven't gone up 500 so it's just i mean i've said this before death by a thousand cuts but man it's just got you in a stranglehold right now and it's That was one of the questions I wish I could have gotten to with Congressman Crawford was, you know, at one point you could make the argument that rice saved ducks, right? Like we cleared all these bottom land forests and the ducks adapted to rice production.

But, you know, the question I look at now is can ducks save farming? Can they save rice in this part of the world? pretty bleak.

It's pretty bleak, although rice prices

I mean, you think about all these little towns that don't have just a whole lot of activity in the months outside of duck season.

and then what they become when the season is here.

And, you know, Congressman Crawford referenced it, you know, how the non-resident dollar, how much more it amplifies the economy and the spend.

You know, you take a town, I mean, Hunter is obviously a little bitty spot on the map, Almyra, places like that.

Noor also took in twenty million dollars from USAID as part of her proposed health initiatives by Grit Partners Consulting, which is a group that Noor created.

Meanwhile, Congressman Rick Crawford was on the Benny Johnson podcast talking about what the House Intelligence Committee has found about Omar being a counterterrorism threat.

Crawford is the chairman of this committee.

Oh, let me tell you what I know about, for example, the recruitment of ISIS in the Western Hemisphere.

The other question is, how much of this is being driven by foreign entities? And if that is going on in Minnesota the way I believe it might very well be, I have to think there's a real possibility that it's being aided and abetted by enemies of the United States, not just Somalia, I don't mean Somalia, but even bigger powerful forces that are sort of interfering in our elections from other places who have an agenda that is very much anti-American.

Yeah, the Intel Committee Chairman Rick Crawford from Arkansas called Ilhan Omar a threat to national security and parallel and tangential to some of the terror groups that run Somalia like Boko Haram and ISIS.

And that was pretty startling, saying that there needs to be some pretty firm citizenship tests for who's running for office.

It's crazy that we live in this timeline.

We're gonna celebrate with Liz Cullen, who's an incredible reporter at Alpha News, has been covering this story since day one.

Congressman Rick Crawford and Will Chamberlain from the Article III Project, all of them experts on this.

My name is Benny Johnson and this is The Benny Show.

Uh, October hits different this season, ladies and gentlemen.

All right.

Here we go, ladies and gentlemen.

Uh, we have a maybe potentially former co- [laughs] coworker of Ilhan Omar, uh, who is Rick Crawford, uh, joining.

And I say former because who knows what can happen with Ilhan Omar if she's not an American citizen or if she's committed these crimes.

They say he even chose the date for a mass shooting at the mall, October 24th, a Saturday, busy day, just a couple of weeks from today.

Joining us now is Congressman Rick Crawford, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and member of the Gang of Eight.

Congressman, great to have you back on the show.

This is really a disturbing story about this teenager who apparently the FBI was following for two years.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Congressman Rick Crawford, always great to talk to you.

Thank you so much.

So it affects all four districts.

So Congressman Crawford, Congressman Hill, Congressman Womack, and Congressman Westerman.

This was legislation that came out of the Working for Families tax cut.

I'll just read you a couple of what Senator Bozeman said.